Dinosaur Gateway
A large wood and stone gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 26 crates
- Item ID
- 142
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 18
- Engram points
- 7
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Dinosaur Gateway guides
How to craft Dinosaur Gateway
Dinosaur Gateway is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 18, costs 7 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 12.15 XP.
How to get Dinosaur Gateway
Dinosaur Gateway is found in 26 loot crates.
Loot crates
26 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 26 crates
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · ASA
- Fjordur BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue BonusFjordur · ASE
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Orbital Drop EasyExtinction · ASE
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Dinosaur Gateway — Detailed Guide
The frame for a Dinosaur Gate
In ARK: Survival Evolved, the Dinosaur Gateway is the frame that a 
Dinosaur Gate fits into. The in-game description: "A large wood and stone gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out." Paired with its gate, it shields an enclosure from the outside world and keeps dinosaurs inside.
Placing the gateway
No foundation is needed: it goes straight onto the ground. It does not snap to regular foundations or to walls already in place, but it does snap to fence foundations. Watch which way you face while placing it, as a gate fitted into it opens in the direction opposite to the one you faced; the wiki therefore suggests placing it from outside the wall. If a fence foundation attaches it to a structure, that foundation decides the facing instead, and the gate opens toward the left of whoever laid the foundation. The frame is 4 wall panels tall and 2 wide and fits a 2x4 hole exactly. A gate placed in the opening can be locked, which restricts access while you and your dinosaurs can still pass through.
Creatures that will not fit
Some creatures are too large for the opening, among them the 
Rex, 
Giganotosaurus, 
Spino, 
Quetzal, 
Mammoth, 
Wyvern, 
Megalodon and 
Mosasaurus. The 
Managarmr, 
Morellatops and 
Woolly Rhino are a special case: they get through as long as no gate is fitted. The wiki notes that the Stone Dinosaur Gateway and the Metal Dinosaur Gateway behave differently on this point.
What can and cannot damage it
It is treated as a wooden structure: hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks do no damage to it. A long list of aggressive creatures cannot hurt it either; the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Thylacoleo, 
Kaprosuchus and 
Titanoboa are some of them.
Unlocking and building it
The engram unlocks at level 18 for 7 engram points, with the 
Wooden Doorframe as its prerequisite. The gateway is crafted in your inventory in 3 seconds from:
- 280
Wood (
Fungal Wood also works) - 80
Stone - 70
Thatch - 25
Fiber
One gateway weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400. Our records count 26 crate types that can contain it, such as Aberration Blue, Aberration Green and Aberration Purple, and list it on 12 maps.