Metal Ceiling
A stable metal-plated concrete ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 70 crates
- Item ID
- 165
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 45
- Engram points
- 15
Maps
Found on 7 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Ceiling guides
How to craft Metal Ceiling
Metal Ceiling is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 45, costs 15 engram points, takes 4 seconds, gives 12.8 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 Ceiling
Metal Ceiling is found in 70 loot crates.
Loot crates
70 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue 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 BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- 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 BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Ceiling — Detailed Guide
The fourth ceiling to unlock
Fourth in the line of ceilings a survivor can unlock, the Metal Ceiling is a building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved. Like other ceilings it shields the space below from the weather and raises insulation against both heat and cold, and its upper side becomes the floor of the next level. The description: "A stable metal-plated concrete ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels."
Engram and materials
The engram is learned at level 45 for 15 engram points. One ceiling needs:
- 35
Metal Ingot, or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 10
Cementing Paste, or 
Achatina Paste
It is crafted at a 
Smithy in 4 seconds for 12.8 XP. The wiki also lists a 
Thorny Dragon Saddle, an 
Argentavis Saddle or a 
Castoroides Saddle, as well as the 
Exo-Mek and 
Tek Replicator, as places to make it. Each ceiling weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400.
Placing and supporting it
A Metal Ceiling must rest on another ceiling, a foundation, a pillar or a wall. Once the first one is down, the next ones snap along its edges and line up if there is room. From a wall or ceiling that stands directly over a connected foundation or pillar, ceilings can reach up to 2 pieces out along either axis and 1 piece diagonally. The outermost ceilings of such a span cannot hold walls.
What can break it
As a metal structure it ignores most attacks. Damage comes from explosives and the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, Enraged Creatures, Corrupted Creatures, the 
Arthropluera, the 
Titanosaur and the 
DodoRex. When a ceiling does fall, every piece that relies on it falls too, and if you demolished it yourself those extra pieces refund nothing.
In loot
70 crate types can contain a Metal Ceiling, among them the Aberration Red, Aberration Surface Red and Aberration Surface Yellow crates.