Adobe Doorframe

An adobe wall with a way through

In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the Adobe Doorframe is one of the adobe building pieces. It does the work of a wall, giving a building structure and closing off an area, but it leaves an opening that survivors can walk through. Its in-game text reads: "A adobe wall that provides entrance to a structure." The ARK Wiki says the piece arrived with Scorched Earth and can also be built on Fjordur, Lost Island, Valguero, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles and Genesis: Part 2.

Unlocking and building it

The engram costs 6 engram points. It unlocks at level 30 in ASA and at level 15 in ASE. One doorframe is crafted in the inventory from:

• 30 Clay
• 15 Wood (the wiki accepts Fungal Wood as well)
• 8 Thatch
• 8 Fiber

Each craft takes 3 seconds, makes one doorframe and gives 3.1 XP. A doorframe weighs 4 and up to 100 fit in one stack, which adds up to 400 for a full stack.

Where it can go

According to the wiki, the doorframe can sit on any Foundation or Fence Foundation, on top of another wall, or on a Ceiling, with the Thatch Roof as the one exception. A Door fits into the opening and can be locked, which keeps outsiders away while you and your tribe still pass through. The doorframe also gives support to pieces built on top of it: from a doorframe, a structure can reach out up to 2 ceilings in any direction along the x and y axes, and up to 1 ceiling diagonally when the doorframe stands directly over a foundation.

Insulation, collapse and loot

Doorframes do not change a house's insulation, and that holds with the door open, shut or not there at all. If the doorframe is destroyed, every building piece that leans on it for support goes down with it; when that happens through the demolish option, those extra pieces return no resources. In loot, 54 crate types can contain an Adobe Doorframe, among them the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Red crates of Genesis Part 2.