Ark: Survival Evolved has progressed a lot from its initial release in 2017. The game now has 4 expansions, with a 5th one on the way, and an upcoming Ark: Survival Evolved animated series. The series has grown to titanic proportions.
Like most survival games, Ark: Survival Evolved is a game about progress and growth. Players are dropped into a prehistoric setting, and Ark gives them the tools to build towering futuristic bases, and the tech to tame seemingly untamable creatures.
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The contrast between the prehistoric creatures and futuristic technology has become the game's trademark aesthetic, and it's one with a lasting appeal, considering that Ark: Survival Evolved has sold well over 1 million copies. But technological progress is easier said than done. If players want to climb the tech tree, they'll need fuel, and a lot of the game's equipment requires gasoline.
How to Get Gasoline in ARK
Ark: Survival Evolved plays fast and loose with scientific accuracy. In real life, gasoline production involves the decomposition of dinosaur remains deep underground. Aside from the impracticality of mining, Ark's dinosaurs are still very much alive. Ark's method for getting Gasoline is a bit more abstract.
First, players need a forge, either the refining forge or the industrial forge. They also need fuel for that forge. The industrial forge needs gasoline, but the refining forge can use thatch, wood, sparkpowder, or anglergel. The thatch is the least effective fuel, while the anglergel is the most effective.
How to Get Oil
Players first need standard oil. There are a few ways to get this. It can be mined from dark oil rocks, found underwater near ocean oil patches, or found along oil deposits in whitesky mountains. Players can also chance upon oil by killing enemies like trilobites, leeches, and the basilsaurus.
How to Get Hide
Players then need Hide. This one is easier, it's found when harvesting the corpses of most animals, with obvious exceptions like fish. Players will likely get an abundance of hide playing normally.
Once players have the forge, the fuel, the oil, and the hide, then they can make Gasoline. They can do so by placing 6 units of oil and 5 units of hide in the forge and burning it for 30 seconds. Once that is done, the player receives 5 units of gasoline.
Note that each unit of fuel burns for a different amount of time in the refining forge. A single unit of thatch will only burn for 7.5 seconds, while a single unit of wood will burn for 30 seconds, the exact minimum needed. The sparkpowder and anglergel burn for 1 minute and 4 minutes respectively.
Ark: Survival Evolved is available now for Android, iOS, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, and Xbox One.