Brick Pillar
Adds structural integrity to the area it is build on. Can also act as stilts for buildings on inclines.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 25
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 1 map
Video guides: search YouTube for Brick Pillar guides
How to craft Brick Pillar (Primitive Plus)
Brick Pillar (Primitive Plus) is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram unlocks at level 25, costs 8 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 3 XP.
Ingredients
For one craft
Brick Pillar — Detailed Guide
A cement pillar from Primitive Plus
The Brick Pillar is a building piece from the Primitive Plus DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. It strengthens a structure and lets you build on slopes, as the in-game text puts it: "Adds structural integrity to the area it is build on. Can also act as stilts for buildings on inclines." Until v1.5 it was called the Concrete Pillar.
Making a Brick Pillar
The engram unlocks at level 25 for 8 engram points. Each pillar costs 5 Fresh Cement, takes 3 seconds to craft and gives 3 XP. A pillar weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400.
Placing pillars
According to the ARK Wiki, a pillar can go on level or slightly uneven ground, and it can also sit above or below foundations, ceilings and other pillars. Once one is in place, further pillars snap above or below it if there is space. A column of pillars that touches the ground and carries a ceiling acts as a foundation, letting structures go up on top of it.
How far a pillar supports
One pillar lets ceilings extend 2 places in each direction along the x and y axes and 1 place diagonally, not counting the ceiling in the centre; the wiki's diagram shows 13 ceilings held up by a single pillar. The ceilings at the far ends of that pattern cannot carry walls unless something else supports them from below.