Giant Metal Trapdoor
A large reinforced ceiling gate that can be used with a Gateway to keep most dinosaurs in or out.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 32 crates
- Item ID
- 317
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 54
- Engram points
- 30
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Giant Metal Trapdoor guides
How to craft Giant Metal Trapdoor
Giant Metal Trapdoor is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 54, costs 30 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 2.88 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
960Stone
720Metal
480Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×360, Cementing Paste ×120.
How to get Giant Metal Trapdoor
Giant Metal Trapdoor 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 Trapdoor — Detailed Guide
A lockable gate for ceilings
The Metal Large Cellar Door is a reinforced ceiling gate known as 
Giant Metal Trapdoor in ARK: Survival Evolved and as Metal Large Cellar Door in ARK: Survival Ascended. Its in-game description: "A large reinforced ceiling gate that can be used with a Gateway to keep most dinosaurs in or out." The ARK Wiki counts it as the second ceiling gate available; it protects a base and lets tamed dinosaurs move into and out of it.
Placing and locking it
The trapdoor only fits into a Giant Hatchframe. Once it sits there, it can be locked or unlocked, which keeps outsiders away while you and your tribemates still have a way through. The wiki notes that giant trapdoors are handy when entering and leaving a base on flyers.
Crafting cost
The engram unlocks at level 54 and costs 30 engram points. One trapdoor takes:
- 360
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 120
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste)
Crafting lasts 3 seconds and gives 2.88 XP. The wiki lists the 
Argentavis Saddle as a place where it can be crafted. Each trapdoor weighs 4 and they stack to 5, a full stack weighing 20.
What can damage it
The wiki treats it as a metal structure that only the following can hurt: explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, the 
DodoRex, a 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, and Corrupted or Enraged Creatures.
Maps and loot
Our records list it on 14 maps in ASE and ASA, among them The Island, Aberration, Fjordur and Astraeos. 32 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2.