Adobe Triangle Foundation
Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 485
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 15
- Engram points
- 6
Maps
Found on 4 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Adobe Triangle Foundation guides
How to craft Adobe Triangle Foundation
Adobe Triangle Foundation is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 15, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 5 XP.
How to get Adobe Triangle Foundation
Adobe Triangle Foundation is found in 54 loot crates.
Loot crates
54 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 54 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
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Adobe Triangle Foundation — Detailed Guide
A triangle foundation made with clay
This adobe foundation carries two names: 
Adobe Triangle Foundation in ARK: Survival Evolved and Adobe Triangle & Quarter Foundation in ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game text: "Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped." The ARK Wiki calls it the earliest triangle foundation you can unlock, and foundations are the base that any housing or storage structure has to stand on.
Maps and loot
The foundation arrived with Scorched Earth. The wiki also lists it for Fjordur, Lost Island, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Ragnarok and Genesis: Part 2, and our records also list Astraeos. Loot is a second source: 54 crate types can contain it, among them Astraeos Desert Blue, Astraeos Desert Purple and the Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2.
Recipe and costs
The engram unlocks at level 15 for 6 engram points, and the foundation is crafted in your own inventory from:
- 40
Clay - 20
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood) - 10
Thatch - 8
Fiber
Each craft gives 5 XP. Our ASE record lists a crafting time of 5 seconds, while the ASA record shows 0. A foundation weighs 2 and stacks to 100, which puts a full stack at 200.
Placing it and what it supports
It sits on flat or slightly uneven ground, and further triangle foundations snap along the first one when there is enough room and ground. Walls, ceilings and similar pieces count it as support only when it is right below them. Ceilings can reach out two pieces along either straight axis and one piece diagonally, but walls cannot rest on the outermost ceiling. When the foundation is destroyed, every piece that relies on it goes with it, and if you used demolish, those extra pieces give no resources back.