Obelisk (2024)

Obelisks are the massive, floating towers that emit light in ARK: Survival Evolved. They are also referred to as pillars, towers, arks, spires, or mega-beacons. At the beginning of your journey, no matter where you spawn, chances are high you'll spot them right away by simply looking around.

Currently, there are 3 Obelisk towers on each of the official maps except for Genesis: Part 1:

• Red Obelisk
• Green Obelisk
• Blue Obelisk

It should be noted however that the Obelisks on Extinction have no Terminal under them. Genesis: Part 2 only has half-broken Obelisks in the Survive the ARK mission.

In addition, The Island, Aberration and Extinction all contain extra Terminals, namely the Tek Cave Terminal, Rockwell Terminal, and Forest, Ice, Desert, and King Titan Terminals respectively.

Location[]

The picture to the right shows the location of the Obelisks.

Locations on The Island

The x, y, z-coordinates in the chart above are for the use of the "Set Player Position" command (setplayerpos <x> <y> <z>).

Summoning Bosses[]

One of the main functions of Obelisk Terminals is to summon bosses available on a map.

In singleplayer, you cannot summon bosses at every terminal, but sometimes need specific points. For example, on The Island, you can only summon Broodmother Lysrix at the Green Obelisk, Megapithecus at the Blue Obelisk, and the Dragon at the Red Obelisk, and on Aberration, Rockwell can only be summoned at his own Terminal.

On servers however, bosses, with the exception of Titans, can be summoned at all valid Terminals, including Supply Crates.

Crafting[]

A cryopod and a Tek replicator can be crafted in this inventory or in a supply crate. The items used to craft one will take the entire inventory of the beacon.

Server Traveling[]

One of the features of the Obelisk is the Character Data Transmission. By saving your character data, you'll be able to transfer your character to a different server, or send items and dinos across different servers.

How To Transfer[]

To transfer your data, approach the console located right under the Obelisk Tower.

Once you activate the console (default E, , ), you'll be prompted with a UI.

At the top right side, you'll see a button "TRANSMIT ARK DATA". Press the button to get the options for the data transmission (see screenshot), so that you can upload your character data.

Once you've uploaded your character data, you can join a different server and during the character creation, you'll now be able to load in the character that you've uploaded. Currently characters can only be downloaded from the same types of servers, i.e. PVP character to another PVP server, PVE to another PVE server.

Note: The process has been simplified even further. Survivors only need to place items in the ARK DATA inventory, and log off their current map. The game will do the rest for you

Repairing[]

Servers that have lost their interactive obelisk terminals can spawn them back in with these commands while looking at the terminal:

• Red Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Red.TributeTerminal_Red'" 160 0 0
• Blue Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Blue.TributeTerminal_Blue'" 160 0 0
• Green Terminal: spawnactor "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Structures/TributeTerminal_Green.TributeTerminal_Green'" 160 0 0

Notes/Trivia[]

• Since patch 246.0, upload of items is limited to 50 stacks and upload of dinos is limited to 20.
• The Green Obelisk used to be where the red one is, the red where the blue one is, and the blue where the green one is.
• In Extinction Chronicles, one of the notes say that the Obelisks in Extinction are prototypes and in general Obelisks are energy sources.
• In Aberration, it’s show that despite the enormous size of the Obelisks, they appear to be only the most visible part of a much larger corresponding structure outside the ARK, which is hidden on other maps, revealed when that ARK was damaged.
• In singlelayer, when uploading spoilable items, including those not refrigerable (like Leech Blood or Organic Polymer) and taking them out again, the spoil timer will refresh. As such, and obelisk is a very cheap alternative of a refrigerator.
  • You can transfer to another server and anything in character inventory will refresh spoil timers.

Changelog[]

Gallery[]

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  Panorama of all three Obelisks as seen from the Cragg's Island, as seen before update v. 216.0

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  Bottom of the Green Obelisk

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  Side of the Green Obelisk in Southern Jungle, before v. 216.0

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  Red obelisk with a Supply Crate marker to scale, as seen before v. 216.0

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  Obelisk Concept Art. The 4th concept appearing the closest to the ingame obelisk.

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References[]

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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 Basket • Tree Sap Tap • Water Well Irrigation Metal Irrigation Pipe (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 Artifact Pedestal • Crystal Wyvern Queen Flag • Dragon Flag • Gorilla Flag • Gravestone • Hide Sleeping Bag • King Titan Flag (Mecha) • Manticore Flag • Mirror • Moeder Flag • Multi-Panel Flag • Painting Canvas • Pressure Plate • Rockwell Final Form Flag • Rockwell Flag • Shag Rug • Simple Bed • Single Panel Flag • Spider Flag • Standing Torch • Stone Fireplace • Taxidermy Base (Small • Medium • Large) • Tent • Toilet • Training Dummy • Trophy Wall-Mount • VR Boss Flag • Wall Torch • War Map • Wardrums • Wooden Bench • Wooden Chair • Wooden Table Weaponry Ballista Turret • Cannon • Catapult Turret • Plant Species X Elevator Wood Elevator Top Switch • Wood Elevator Track • 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 Electrical 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 • Elevator Platform (Small, Medium, Large) Vehicles Motorboat
Tek	Crafting Tek Replicator Production Cloning Chamber • Tek Trough Power Tek Generator Storage Cryofridge • Tek Dedicated Storage Furniture Tek Bridge • 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 Charge Node • City Terminal • Mission Dispatcher • Obelisk Loot Deep Sea Loot Crate • Giant Beaver Dam • Loot Crate • Orbital Supply Drop • Supply Crate • Treasure Chest Veins Element Node • Flower • Gas Vein • Oil Vein • Poison Tree • Water Vein Nests Deinonychus Nest • Magmasaur Nest • Rock Drake Nest • Wyvern Nest Events ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake • Birthday Cake • Bunny Egg • Fossil Pile • Gift Box • Holiday Lights • Holiday Stocking • Holiday Tree • Pumpkin • Scarecrow • Snowman • Stolen Headstone • Wreath