The Island · ARK: Survival Ascended

Crystal locations on The Island

The accepted ASA dataset records 43,673 Crystal resource actors inside the displayed map, grouped into 1,923 map formations. Compare the latitude totals and real GPS samples below, or open the atlas with only Crystal selected.

Open Crystal on the interactive atlas

Crystal can have many tightly packed mesh actors in one formation. The formation count below uses the same fixed 0.05-GPS grouping as the atlas. A formation is a display group, not a separately verified harvest or a cave entrance.

Where to start looking

These are derived latitude thirds of the displayed map, not official biomes.

Northern third (0–33.33 latitude)
32,743 resource actors
Central third (33.33–66.67 latitude)
6,185 resource actors
Southern third (66.67–100 latitude)
4,745 resource actors

Crystal GPS samples

A spread sample of real actor coordinates, anchored on published members of map formations. GPS is displayed to two decimals; the map opens around the original unrounded coordinate.

  1. GPS 6.14 / 98.30

    Elevation: -425 m

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  2. GPS 89.46 / 4.30

    Elevation: -349 m

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  3. GPS 99.08 / 97.56

    Elevation: -415 m

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  4. GPS 2.54 / 6.77

    Elevation: -438 m

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  5. GPS 59.76 / 47.45

    Elevation: -6 m

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  6. GPS 13.51 / 52.29

    Elevation: -328 m

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  7. GPS 46.67 / 99.49

    Elevation: -437 m

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  8. GPS 50.95 / 4.40

    Elevation: -414 m

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  9. GPS 96.01 / 39.00

    Elevation: -394 m

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  10. GPS 1.54 / 75.14

    Elevation: -418 m

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  11. GPS 26.89 / 89.37

    Elevation: -230 m

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  12. GPS 2.28 / 33.59

    Elevation: -409 m

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Confidence, conditions and access

These locations come from accepted official ASA DevKit resource actors. Several actors can occupy one formation; the atlas groups them on a 0.05-GPS grid. Neither count predicts harvested units. Server changes, structures and respawn rules can affect what is present when you arrive. Elevation does not identify a surface, cave entrance or underwater route.

Check terrain and hazards in the atlas before travelling. The map can help inspect nearby features and save your own path; it does not verify a safe or optimized farming route.

This page covers ARK: Survival Ascended. ASE players should use the separate ARK: Survival Evolved community map; this pilot does not verify the ASA coordinates for ASE.

Dataset source and verification

Accepted official ASA DevKit build 91.6.285.824280; dataset verified 2026-08-24. This page summarizes only the published Island V4 projection.

Source lock: 8072b68ac34f1c2cb94dfe8fc70e53dbc8186f45ec60833c20e068edd4700287
Published manifest hash: 09adc30a519ccec1e94070f020455107a382c2512d16256c89cbf33dff15df6f