Improvised Explosive Device

Improvised Explosive Device
Place two of these near each other to create an explosive trap.
Weapon
Type	Explosive
Explosive damage	250 (4 meter radius)
Item
Weight	0.5
Stack Size	10
Single use	Yes
Spawn Command cheat giveitemnum 46 1 0 0 or cheat GFI Tripwire 1 0 0 or cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponTripwireC4.PrimalItem_WeaponTripwireC4'" 1 0 0
Crafting
Required level	Level 44
Engram Points	30 EP
Crafting XP	38.1 XP
Crafting Time	5s
Prerequisites	Grenade
Unlocks	C4 Charge Homing Underwater Mine
Crafted in	Smithy Argentavis Saddle Castoroides Saddle Thorny Dragon Saddle  Tek Replicator
Required Stations	Refining Forge Mortar and Pestle Campfire
Ingredients
Resources breakdown [Expand] 50 × Gunpowder 50 × Sparkpowder 25 × Stone 50 × Flint 50 × Charcoal 50 × Wood or Fungal Wood 10 × Crystal 35 × Fiber 5 × Hide 10 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot 1 × Wood or Fungal Wood Total Base Ingredients 10 × Crystal 10 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot 50 × Flint 5 × Hide 25 × Stone 35 × Fiber 51 × Wood or Fungal Wood

The Improvised Explosive Device is one of the explosives in ARK: Survival Evolved. Unlike the thrown Grenade, it can be placed in pairs to create traps.

The IED can be triggered by anyone crossing the tripwire, including the creator and tribe members. The creator and tribe members can however unwire a paired device from the radial options menu. Unwired devices can be picked up and replaced.

Damage

It appears dinos take no damage from the IEDs.

List of explosive damage versus various materials as of Patch 257:

Weapon/Structure	Thatch	Wood	Stone	Metal	Tek
C4 Charge	*	11813	*	3544	788
Grenade	788	788	1838	237	53
Improvised Explosive Device (pair)	*	7875	**	**	**
Rocket Propelled Grenade	*	7350	*	2205	596
Tek Rifle	1260	536	294	29	185
Tek Grenade	2625	1115	612	59	385
Cannon	*	*	3446	355	40

^* The damage is greater than the health-points of structures of that material
^** IEDs are currently just about impossible to place on stone, metal, or Tek structures.

Mobile

List of explosive damage versus various materials on ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile:

Weapon/Structure	Thatch	Wood	Stone	Metal
C4 Charge	*	10238	11944	1280
Grenade	788	788	1838	237
Improvised Explosive Device (pair)	*	7875	**	**
Rocket Propelled Grenade	*	*	*	1969

^* The damage is greater than the health-points of structures of that material
^** IEDs are currently just about impossible to place on stone or metal.

Notes

• The IED can be triggered by tribemates. Be careful.
• The Improvised Explosive Device is known as C4 Tripwire and Trip Wire C4 in the game files.
• There is a bug that allows you to damage and destroy structures of any type with the IED without consuming the IED. This makes offline raids on unprotected bases extremly easy and cheap.