Greenhouse Ceiling
A metal-framed, glass ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels. Excellent for growing crops indoors.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 434
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 42
- Engram points
- 30
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Greenhouse Ceiling guides
How to craft Greenhouse Ceiling
Greenhouse Ceiling is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 42, costs 30 engram points, takes 4 seconds, gives 25.6 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80Stone
40Chitin/Keratin
20MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×10, Cementing Paste ×10.
How to get Greenhouse Ceiling
Greenhouse Ceiling is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 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' 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
Greenhouse Ceiling — Detailed Guide
A see-through ceiling for crops
The Greenhouse Ceiling is a building piece for ARK: Survival Evolved that belongs with the greenhouse structures and, per the ARK Wiki, gives advantages for farming. Its in-game text: "A metal-framed, glass ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels. Excellent for growing crops indoors." You can see through it, and as a ceiling it shelters against the elements, adding hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 42 for 30 engram points. The ceiling is crafted in a 
Smithy, and the wiki also names the 
Argentavis Saddle as a place to make it. Each craft takes 4 seconds and gives 25.6 XP. Ingredients, with the alternatives the wiki accepts:
- 35
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 10
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 10
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
Placement and support
A ceiling needs a foundation or pillar nearby to hold it up. The wiki gives the reach as at most 2 ceilings out in a straight line along the x or y axis and at most 1 on a diagonal, counted from a wall or ceiling resting directly over a connected foundation or pillar. Ceilings at the outer ends of such a span cannot hold walls. Once the first piece is in place, further Greenhouse Ceilings snap along it when there is room. If a ceiling is destroyed, the pieces relying on it for support go with it, and demolishing it refunds nothing for those extra pieces.
Weight, loot and damage
Each ceiling weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list 44 loot crates that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Purple and Red crates on Genesis Part 2, and they place it on 14 maps, The Island, Scorched Earth and Aberration among them. The wiki classes it as a greenhouse structure, which anything except non-explosive ranged attacks can damage.