Metal Billboard
A large metal billboard for landmark navigation or relaying messages.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 66 crates
- Item ID
- 239
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 46
- Engram points
- 15
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Billboard guides
How to craft Metal Billboard
Metal Billboard is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 46, costs 15 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 16 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80Stone
70Metal
40Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×35, Cementing Paste ×10.
How to get Metal Billboard
Metal Billboard is found in 66 loot crates.
Loot crates
66 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration RedAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
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- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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 PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost Island · 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
- 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
- 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, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASE
Metal Billboard — Detailed Guide
A large sign for messages and landmarks
The Metal Billboard is a big display structure in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended: "A large metal billboard for landmark navigation or relaying messages." Other players can read a brief message on it; the billboard is noticeably larger than the 
Metal Sign, and its text can be changed as often as needed with the use key (E).
Setting it up
It needs no foundation, and the ARK Wiki notes that it therefore does not interfere with natural resources spawning. It does not snap to other structures. With careful placement, two or more billboards can stand side by side as one wider display, and on servers whose config allows noclipping, the legs can be hidden inside a wall so that only the face shows.
Engram and recipe
The engram needs level 46 and costs 15 engram points; our records list the 
Wooden Billboard and the Metal Sign as its prerequisites. A billboard is made in a 
Smithy or on an 
Argentavis Saddle from 35 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 10 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 16 XP.
Weight, loot and damage
The ARK Wiki and our ASA record give a billboard a weight of 8; it stacks to 100, and a full ASA stack weighs 800. Our records count 66 loot crate types that can contain one, such as the Aberration Blue and Aberration Red crates, and list it on 14 maps. As a metal structure it can only be hurt by a set list of attackers, among them explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, the 
Titanosaur and the 
DodoRex.
Putting your own image on it
Images can be loaded from PNT files whose names end in _Sign_Large_Metal_C. The image resolution is 256x256, and in game it is shown at an aspect ratio of 2.5:1.