How To Power A Generator In Ark

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A large machine that converts gasoline into electricity.

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Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 186 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Pipes/PrimalItemStructure_PowerGenerator.PrimalItemStructure_PowerGenerator'" 1 0 0

Ingredients

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The Electrical Generator uses Gasoline to create Electricity which it distributes to connected Electrical Cables.

Fuel

The burn down rate of gasoline is 1 every 60 minutes. A fully stocked generator volition run for 33 days and 8 hours. Be conscientious, however, because electrical cables have a disuse timer of 8 days.

Gasoline	Burn down Time
1	1h
100	4d 4h
800	33d 8h

Electrical Items

List of items that requires power from the Electrical Generator to work (through an Electrical Outlet placed nearby those structures):

Painting and Color Regions

The Electrical Generator is not currently pigment-able, nevertheless this object may be re-mapped to include pigment regions in a future update.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to utilise them, delight view the Dye, Paintbrush, or Spray Painter pages.

Scorched Earth

Electrical Generators lose durability while turned on. Placing the Electrical Generator inside an Adobe Edifice with Air Conditioners does not finish this decay. They need to be repaired around every real-time twenty-four hour period or the generator volition be destroyed. A generator placed on the same power filigree as a wind turbine can be set to power on when the turbines shut off.
When beyond rendering distance from whatsoever player, electrical generators lose immovability much more than slowly.
While on an official online server, Electrical Generators volition not lose health and so long equally no tribe member is online and the server has offline harm prevention.

Video Tutorial

Notes

It does non work if submerged.

The Electrical Generator is treated as a wooden structure and can non exist damaged by easily, stone weapons, or not-explosive ranged attacks.
The following aggressive creatures can not damage the Electrical Generator:

Gallery

A simple demonstration of how electricity works in ARK. The cables near the activated generator glow yellow and transmit ability to the outlets. Objects that require electricity nigh the outlet will automatically connect to information technology.

Structures

Primitive

Crafting	Campfire • Cooking Pot • Mortar and Pestle • Refining Forge • Smithy

Production	Bee Hive • Beer Barrel • Compost Bin • Crop Plot (Small, Medium, Large) • Feeding Trough • Fish Handbasket • Tree Sap Tap • H2o Well

Irrigation	Metallic Irrigation Piping (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Tap, Vertical) • Stone Irrigation Pipe (Flexible, Inclined, Intake, Intersection, Straight, Vertical, Tap) • Water Reservoir (Metal)

Storage	Bookshelf • Delivery Crate • Preserving Bin • Storage Box (Large) • Vessel • Wooden Cage

Furniture	Antiquity Pedestal • Crystal Wyvern Queen Flag • Dragon Flag • Gorilla Flag • Gravestone • Hide Sleeping Handbag • King Titan Flag (Mecha) • Manticore Flag • Mirror • Moeder Flag • Multi-Console Flag • Painting Sheet • Pressure Plate • Rockwell Final Class Flag • Rockwell Flag • Shag Carpeting • Unproblematic Bed • Unmarried Panel Flag • Spider Flag • Standing Torch • Rock Fireplace • Taxidermy Base (Modest • Medium • Large) • Tent • Toilet • Training Dummy • Trophy Wall-Mount • VR Dominate Flag • Wall Torch • War Map • Wardrums • Wooden Bench • Wooden Chair • Wooden Table

Weaponry	Ballista Turret • Cannon • Catapult Turret • Constitute Species Ten

Elevator	Woods Elevator Superlative Switch • Wood Elevator Rails • Wood Elevator Platform (Small, Medium, Large)

Vehicles	Wooden Raft

Industrial

Crafting	Chemistry Bench • Fabricator • Industrial Cooker • Industrial Forge • Industrial Grill • Industrial Grinder

Production	Air Conditioner • Dino Leash • Gas Collector • Lamppost (Omnidirectional) • Oil Pump

Power	Electric Cable (Flexible, Inclined, Intersection, Straight, Vertical) • Electrical Generator • Electrical Outlet • Wind Turbine

Storage	Refrigerator • Vault

Furniture	Bunk Bed • Remote Keypad

Weaponry	Auto Turret (Heavy) • Minigun Turret • Rocket Turret

Elevator	Elevator Track • Lift Platform (Small-scale, Medium, Large)

Vehicles	Motorboat

Tek

Crafting	Tek Replicator

Production	Cloning Sleeping accommodation • Tek Trough

Power	Tek Generator

Storage	Cryofridge • Tek Dedicated Storage

Article of furniture	Tek Span • Tek Jump Pad • Tek Light • Tek Remote Camera • Tek Sensor • Tek Sleeping Pod • Tek Surveillance Console • Tek Teleporter • Tek Transmitter

Weaponry	Tek Forcefield • Tek Turret

Vehicles	Tek ATV • Unassembled TEK Hover Skiff

Other

Crafting	Accuse Node • City Concluding • Mission Dispatcher • Obelisk

Loot	Deep Sea Boodle Crate • Giant Beaver Dam • Loot Crate • Orbital Supply Drop • Supply Crate • Treasure Chest

Veins	Element Node • Flower • Gas Vein • Oil Vein • Toxicant Tree • Water Vein

Nests	Deinonychus Nest • Magmasaur Nest • Stone Drake Nest • Wyvern Nest

Events	ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake • Altogether Cake • Bunny Egg • Fossil Pile • Gift Box • Holiday Lights • Vacation Stocking • Vacation Tree • Pumpkin • Scarecrow • Snowman • Stolen Headstone • Wreath