Genesis Part 1 mission loot for ARK: Survival Ascended, extracted from the ASA DevKit. ASA live drops can be retuned, so confirm important farms in game.
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Search an item like Stego Saddle or Tek Sword and the finder returns every Genesis Part 1 mission that can drop it, grouped by mission and led by a Best pick card with the highest-value farm.
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Gamma, Beta and Alpha sit side by side with drop-rate meters and estimated rarity tiers derived from the DevKit quality ranges.
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Official game dataExtracted from the ARK: Survival Ascended DevKit build 91.6.285.824280 by Studio Wildcard. ASA can retune live drops, so confirm high-value farms in game.
Genesis Part 1 mission loot only matters when it answers one question: which mission do I run for the item I want? This finder holds the complete 25,892-row ASA DevKit extraction in one searchable tool that groups duplicate reward paths and puts the best farm on top. ASA can retune live drops, so confirm expensive farms in game.
Drop rate is the expected item yield per mission completion, computed from the DevKit reward draws, weights and give chance. The meter next to each rate is scaled against the best rate in your current results.
Quality is different. The finder converts each DevKit-derived quality range into an estimated rarity tier using the colors you already know from the game. On Genesis Part 1 that lands almost entirely in Apprentice, Mastercraft and Ascendant - the lower tiers exist on the scale but no mission entry reaches them - and consumables and structures carry no quality roll at all, so they show no tier. The Gamma, Beta and Alpha cells use the boss-difficulty colors (green, gold, red).
Special rows (gold) are mission-specific table entries - usually the whole reason to farm that mission. The Tek Sword on The Rhino 500 is the clean example.
Common rows come from a wide pool shared across many missions. Not bad, but compare rate, difficulty and route speed before treating one mission as the only farm.
Tier chips are estimated from the entry's maximum quality roll. Ranges straddle tiers, so read the chip as the ceiling for that difficulty, not a guaranteed roll.
One Tough Moeder (the Moeder boss fight) rewards do not scale by Gamma/Beta/Alpha in this baseline.
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Tek Sword
The Rhino 500, 9.175% special drop
Best if Tek Sword is unlocked from Nunatak
Stego Saddle
Rip It, Roll It, and Punch It! appears as the highest-rate special result in the baseline
Ocean Escort, so bring real water-route control
Rex Saddle
Use item search, then compare rate, difficulty and quality range
Check whether the route is easier than the raw percentage suggests
Flak
Search Flak to compare armor pieces across common pools
Good rebuild target, but not always a mission-specific drop
Mining Drill
Search by the exact item name and compare mission buckets
Useful for utility farming, especially if the route is repeatable
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Loot bucket meaning
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Special
Mission-specific or standout table entry
Usually the first place to check for targeted farming
Common
Shared pool entry across many missions
Compare quality, difficulty and completion speed before farming
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Best Genesis mission to farm each target
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Best mission
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Flak Helmet
Cheaper by the Pack
Raptor tracking Hunt at 25.645%, the best single armor rate in the Bog
Flak Chestpiece
Bog Beatdown
On-foot Gauntlet at 15.326%; also the best Tek Helmet source
Flak Gauntlets
A Captain's Conquest
Lunar Hunt at 37.992%, well clear of Who Hid the Squid? at 25.758%
Flak Leggings
Home Is Where the Pouch Is
Arctic Procoptodon escort at 25.113%
Flak Boots
We Will Rock You
X Rock Elemental hunt at 19.395%; also drops Basilisk and Karkinos saddles
Tek Helmet
Bog Beatdown
Same Gauntlet as the Flak Chestpiece farm, 14.681%
Tek Chestpiece
This Little Light of Mine
Lunar glowtail escort at 21.667%; bring Hazard gear
Tek Gauntlets
The Mosa Proposal
Brute Mosasaurus hunt at 15%
Tek Leggings
Magma Medley Melee
18.351%, and a solid secondary Mining Drill farm
Tek Boots
Don't Fear the Reaper King
Long scan-and-kill fight at 18.75%; bring a bleed creature
Tek Rifle
Hunting by Moonlight
18.75%; kill the Giga at the end
Tek Sword
The Rhino 500
Woolly Rhino race at 9.175%; the classic first Tek farm
Mining Drill
Dodoball Shot Clock
13.75%, more than three times It's a Bug Hunt or Magma Medley Melee at 3.84%
Fabricated Sniper Rifle
Built Fjord Tough
18.996%, and it rolls from a separate pool so you keep the Gauntlet loot too
Pump-Action Shotgun
Out of the Frying Pan...
No-combat rift collection at 25.645%
Compound Bow
Just a Hop, Skip, and a Jump Away
Bog frog escort and the highest rate in this table at 33.145%
Sword
"King of Swing" Grand Prix
Bloodstalker race at 12.823%
Riot Shield
Mound Over Matter
Arctic retrieval at 25.113%
Acrocanthosaurus Saddle
Along Came Pollen
Bog pollen retrieve at 18.351%, the only mission-specific Acro saddle source
Hazard Suit set
Dodoball Shot Clock
The only mission that rolls all five pieces, but just 1.875% each - for one piece go to Mammoths on Parade (hat), The Teeth Underneath (gloves), Hunting by Moonlight (pants) or The Mosa Proposal (shirt)
Biome decides how safely you can repeat a farm, which matters more than a fraction of a percent of drop rate. The colored chips in the finder match this list.
Bog (green): the densest mission board - Races, Hunts, Escorts. Kaprosuchus and snake aggro punish ground travel, so Races are the safe first completions.
Arctic (ice blue): home of The Rhino 500 Race and several Hunt chains. Bring fur or fria curry; the X-creatures hit harder than their Island versions.
Ocean (blue): Escorts like Rip It, Roll It, and Punch It! demand real water mobility. A Basilosaurus or Tuso line turns these from a death trap into a loop.
Volcanic (orange): Hunts and Gauntlets with heavy burst damage. Flak plus a pump-action is the practical floor for Beta and up.
Lunar (violet): low gravity, Tek-tier enemies, TEKnological Terrors Gauntlet. The strongest late-game farms, but bring a kit you can afford to lose.
Tek Sword should show The Rhino 500. In the baseline table, The Rhino 500 has a Tek Sword special drop at 9.175% on Gamma, Beta and Alpha, which is why that Race is such a good first farm if you already unlocked Tek Sword through Nunatak.
Stego Saddle should show the real missions where it appears instead of a guessed answer. In the current baseline, Rip It, Roll It, and Punch It! appears as the highest-rate special result at 19.395%, with Ocean, Escort and all three difficulties listed. Use the finder to compare the rest of the Stego Saddle rows before committing to a route.
The finder holds the complete drop data; the table below is the shortlist for a specific target, taken straight from the highest bucket-weighted rate in the same DevKit extraction the finder searches. The useful surprise on Genesis is that even Gamma already drops usable versions of most of these, with quality climbing on Beta and Alpha, so you do not have to clear Alpha to start kitting out. Confirm live drops on your server, since ASA can retune them.
A few notes that save time: tracking Hunts want a bleed creature, a Deinosuchus on land or a Helicoprion for the underwater ones; the Lunar missions need a full Hazard set before you start; and no single Genesis mission is a good Hazard farm - Dodoball Shot Clock is the only one that rolls all five pieces, at just 1.875% each, so chase the pieces individually.
The best mission is not always the mission with the largest single drop rate. If you fail it repeatedly, need expensive repairs or spend too long travelling, a slightly worse loot row can be the better farm. Start with the loot target, then check whether the mission fits your gear tier.
For no-loot starts, the mission walkthrough explains why Races are the safe first completions. For economy planning, the Hexagon guide compares Race, Escort, Hunt, Retrieve and Gauntlet payouts. Use this page to choose what you want to drop, then those guides to decide how safely you can farm it. The other half of a repeatable farm is not walking back for repairs. A storage and repair point in the biome you are running beats a fraction of a percent of drop rate, and our free small build templates place one in a couple of minutes, each listing every structure in the build and its exact count.
Where do the Genesis 1 mission loot numbers come from?
They are computed from the official Genesis Part 1 reward assets extracted from the ARK: Survival Ascended DevKit. ASA can retune live drops, so confirm important farms in game.
Why are item and mission names in English on the Spanish page?
Because the game, wiki pages and most loot searches use the official English names. Keeping names like Stego Saddle, Tek Sword and The Rhino 500 in English makes the finder easier to match against real source data.
Does Alpha always mean better loot?
Alpha usually has stronger quality ranges when the source lists quality, but the drop rate can be the same across Gamma, Beta and Alpha for some special entries. Higher difficulty is not automatically better if it makes the farm inconsistent.
What is the best mission for Stego Saddle?
In the verified baseline, Rip It, Roll It, and Punch It! is the standout special result shown by the finder at 19.395%. Use the live filters to compare every Stego Saddle row before picking a route.
What do the rarity tier colors mean?
The finder reads each entry's maximum quality roll and maps it to the closest ARK tier, in the same colors the game uses. On Genesis Part 1 practically every entry lands in Apprentice, Mastercraft or Ascendant; the lower tiers never come up, and consumables and structures show no tier because they carry no quality roll. Ranges often straddle two tiers, so treat the chip as the ceiling for that difficulty, not a guaranteed roll.
What is the best mission to farm Flak on Genesis 1?
There is no single mission for the whole set. Cheaper by the Pack is best for the helmet at 25.645%, Bog Beatdown for the chestpiece at 15.326%, A Captain's Conquest for the gauntlets at 37.992%, Home Is Where the Pouch Is for the leggings at 25.113% and We Will Rock You for the boots at 19.395%. Even Gamma already drops usable armor ratings.
Where do you get Tek gear on Genesis Part 1?
Bog Beatdown drops the Tek Helmet, This Little Light of Mine the chestpiece, The Mosa Proposal the gauntlets, Magma Medley Melee the leggings and Don't Fear the Reaper King the boots. The Rhino 500 race is the go-to Tek Sword farm at 9.175%, and Hunting by Moonlight drops Tek Rifles at 18.75%.
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Special rows (gold) are mission-specific table entries - usually the whole reason to farm that mission. The Tek Sword on The Rhino 500 is the clean example.
Arctic (ice blue): home of The Rhino 500 Race and several Hunt chains. Bring fur or fria curry; the X-creatures hit harder than their Island versions.
Ocean (blue): Escorts like Rip It, Roll It, and Punch It! demand real water mobility. A Basilosaurus or Tuso line turns these from a death trap into a loop.