Adobe Double Doorframe

An adobe wall with an entrance

A Double Door fits into the opening of the Adobe Double Doorframe, an adobe building piece recorded for both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game line reads "A adobe wall that provides entrance to a structure." The ARK Wiki says it came with Scorched Earth and lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 2, Crystal Isles, Valguero and Ragnarok as well.

Placing it and adding a door

Like other doorframes, it works as a wall that adds structure to a building and closes off an area, with an opening for coming and going. It can stand on a Foundation, a Fence Foundation, another wall or a Ceiling, though a Thatch Roof will not take it. Once the Double Door is in the gap, lock it to control who gets in, while you and your tribe still have a way through.

Support for what sits above

A doorframe also holds up what is built on it: from there the structure can extend as far as 2 ceilings in every direction along the x and y axes, and as far as 1 ceiling diagonally when the doorframe is placed directly over a foundation. That support has a downside. If the doorframe is destroyed, every piece resting on it for support is destroyed too, and when the doorframe was taken down with the demolish option, those extra pieces give no resources back. Doorframes do not change a house's insulation, whether the door is open, closed or gone.

Crafting, weight and loot

The engram unlocks at level 22 and costs 6 engram points, and the crafting level requirement is also 22. It is made in the inventory from:

• 30 Clay
• 15 Wood (or Fungal Wood)
• 8 Thatch
• 8 Fiber

A craft takes 3 seconds and gives 3.1 XP. Each doorframe weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 44 loot crate types that can contain it, such as Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Red on Genesis Part 2.