Giant Metal Hatchframe
This giant metal-plated concrete ceiling has a hole in it for trapdoors.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 32 crates
- Item ID
- 316
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 54
- Engram points
- 30
Video guides: search YouTube for Giant Metal Hatchframe guides
How to craft Giant Metal Hatchframe
Giant Metal Hatchframe is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 54, costs 30 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 8.16 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
512Stone
480Metal
256Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×240, Cementing Paste ×64.
How to get Giant Metal Hatchframe
Giant Metal Hatchframe is found in 32 loot crates.
Loot crates
32 crates
- 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
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 32 crates
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Giant Metal Hatchframe — Detailed Guide
A ceiling with a giant opening
The Giant Metal Hatchframe is a large metal ceiling piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended with a hole meant for a trapdoor. In the game's words: "This giant metal-plated concrete ceiling has a hole in it for trapdoors." The opening takes a 
Giant Metal Trapdoor, which can be locked to restrict access to an area while you and your creatures can still get through.
Size and which flyers fit
According to the ARK Wiki, the frame measures 2 walls by 2 walls and serves as a horizontal gateway, mostly for flying creatures. Flyers it lists as fitting through include the 
Quetzal, 
Argentavis, 
Pteranodon, 
Tapejara, 
Pelagornis, 
Griffin and 
Lymantria. The 
Wyvern does not fit.
Crafting the hatchframe
The engram unlocks at level 54 for 30 engram points, and level 54 is also the crafting level requirement. The wiki names the 
Smithy and the 
Argentavis Saddle as places to craft it. One frame takes:
- 240
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 64
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 8.16 XP.
Weight, loot and damage
A hatchframe weighs 4 and stacks to 5, so a full stack weighs 20. Our records count 32 crate types that can contain it, such as Genesis Blue and Genesis Red on Genesis Part 2. As a metal structure it takes damage only from the sources the wiki names: explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, the 
Titanosaur, the 
Arthropluera and the 
DodoRex.