How to make metal ingot ark

Metal Ingots are a resource used for almost all high level weapons and construction. 1 Metal Ingot is created by smelting 2 Metal in the Refining Forge or Industrial Forge. The fastest way to produce Metal Ingots is in the Industrial Forge, which smelts 40 Metal into 20 Metal Ingots at once in 20 seconds. Both Metal and Metal Ingots have a weight of one, so it is more efficient to smelt the metal before transporting it. Unless using an argentavis carrying ankylosaurus, in which case carrying raw metal is more effective. The argentavis gets a 50% reduction and the ankylosaurus gets a 75% reduction.

1 Metal Ingot is combined with 3 Silica Pearls in the Fabricator to produce Electronics.

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Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 73 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi MetalIngot 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Resources/PrimalItemResource_MetalIngot.PrimalItemResource_MetalIngot'" 1 0 0

Hexagons

Purchase yields

50 pieces

The Metal Ingot is a resource in ARK: Survival Evolved. It's an essential ingredient for most mid-game and late-game equipment.

The Industrial Forge can produce up to 40 Metal Ingots at once if enough raw materials are available.

Crafting

To craft metal ingots you will need to put

Quantity	Refining Time  Refining Forge	Refining Time  Industrial Forge	Refining Time  Phoenix	Refining Time  Magmasaur
1 ×   Metal Ingot	20s	1.3s	5s	10s
15 ×   Metal Ingot	5m	20s	about 1m 15s	2m 30s
100 ×   Metal Ingot	33m 20s	2m 13s	about 8m 33s	16m 40s

Metal Ingots are used to craft a lot of items, including:

Full list of items crafted with Metal Ingot

Gathering

Weight Reduction

The following creatures reduce the weight of Metal Ingot by the listed amount while it is in their inventory:

Creature	Reduction
Magmasaur	75%
Argentavis	50%

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