Giant Reinforced 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
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 86 crates
- Item ID
- 252
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 30
- Engram points
- 20
Maps
Found on 12 maps
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How to craft Giant Reinforced Trapdoor
Giant Reinforced Trapdoor is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 30, costs 20 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 2.28 XP.
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Giant Reinforced Trapdoor is found in 86 loot crates.
Loot crates
86 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
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- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow 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
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- 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 Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Giant Reinforced Trapdoor — Detailed Guide
A lockable gate in the ceiling
This large ceiling gate goes by two names: Stone Reinforced Large Cellar Door in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Giant Reinforced Trapdoor in ARK: Survival Evolved. Its description pairs it with a Gateway for keeping most dinosaurs in or out. The ARK Wiki calls it the first ceiling gate you can get; it protects a base and lets your tamed creatures come and go.
Placing and locking it
The wiki says it can only be placed inside a Giant Hatchframe. There it can be locked or unlocked, so you can shut a structure to others while you and your tribemates still have a way through. Large trapdoors like this are useful for flying in and out of a base, the wiki adds.
Crafting requirements
The engram unlocks at level 30 for 20 engram points, and level 30 is also needed to craft it. One trapdoor takes:
- 300
Stone - 210
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 120
Thatch
A craft takes 3 seconds and gives 2.28 XP. Each weighs 4 and they stack to 5, so a full stack weighs 20.
What can break it
Although it is wooden, the wiki ranks it with stone structures and treats it as one. The wiki explains that stone structures match the durability of their wooden versions yet suffer less damage from any source. Only certain attackers can hurt it, for example:
- metal weapons (5%) and the
Tek Sword (about 218%) - explosives (150%), the
Cannon (about 137%) and the 
Ballista Turret (40%) - Alpha creatures and bosses (10% each), titans, and the
Titanosaur (about 462%) - the
DodoRex and 
Dodo Wyvern (300%) - creatures such as the
Chalicotherium, 
Deathworm, 
Magmasaur, 
Roll Rat and 
Dunkleosteus (15%)
Loot and maps
Our records count 86 crate types that can contain it, for example Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Surface Blue, and they list it on 14 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Crystal Isles, Lost Island and Fjordur. The wiki dates it to version 246.0.