Adobe Foundation
Required to build structures in an area.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Scorched Earth
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 58 crates
- Item ID
- 104
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 15
- Engram points
- 6
Maps
Found on 4 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Adobe Foundation guides
How to craft Adobe Foundation
Adobe Foundation is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 30, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 10.3 XP.
How to get Adobe Foundation
Adobe Foundation is found in 58 loot crates.
Loot crates
58 crates
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 58 crates
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
Adobe Foundation — Detailed Guide
The base of an adobe building
The Adobe Foundation is the bottom piece of adobe construction in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and it was introduced with Scorched Earth. The in-game line is brief: "Required to build structures in an area." Walls, ceilings and similar parts get their support from a foundation, but only when it sits directly below them.
Insulation on Scorched Earth
The ARK Wiki describes the adobe tier as strong and says it gives the insulation needed to survive on Scorched Earth. There, only adobe and the 
Tent insulate; every other material brings an insulation penalty that can drain health quickly. The wiki also warns that adobe is easy to break into and suggests surrounding it with stone or metal.
Placement and support
It goes down on level or slightly uneven ground. After the first one is placed, further foundations snap alongside it so they line up, as long as there is enough room and ground. Each foundation can carry ceilings up to two pieces out along either axis and one piece diagonally, but the outermost ceilings of such a span will not hold walls.
Engram and materials
The engram costs 6 engram points, but the unlock level differs between the games: level 15 in ASA and level 30 in ASE. A foundation takes 5 seconds to craft and gives 10.3 XP. It needs:
- 80
Clay - 40
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 20
Thatch - 15
Fiber
For gathering, the wiki recommends a 
Doedicurus to collect Sand and a 
Stone Hatchet or 
Metal Hatchet for 
Cactus Sap when you plan to build in adobe. Each foundation weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400.
Maps and loot
Besides Scorched Earth, the wiki lists the foundation on Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2, Valguero and Ragnarok. In loot, 58 crate types can contain it, for example the Astraeos Desert Blue and Astraeos Desert Purple crates and the Genesis Blue crate.