Metal Cliff Platform
A Cliff Platform is required to build structures extending from a cliff. This one is made from shiny metal.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Aberration
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 65 crates
- Item ID
- 480
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 51
- Engram points
- 48
Maps
Found on 9 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Cliff Platform guides
How to craft Metal Cliff Platform
Metal Cliff Platform is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 51, costs 48 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 65 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
6,400Stone
3,200Chitin/Keratin
2,400MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×1,200, Cementing Paste ×800.
How to get Metal Cliff Platform
Metal Cliff Platform is found in 65 loot crates.
Loot crates
65 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
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- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · 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
- 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
- Orbital Drop HardExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop LegendaryExtinction · ASE
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
Metal Cliff Platform — Detailed Guide
A metal base on a cliff face
The Metal Cliff Platform lets a base in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended start from a vertical wall: it is a big platform that you attach to the rock face and then build on. The description says: "A Cliff Platform is required to build structures extending from a cliff. This one is made from shiny metal." The structure arrived with Aberration, and the ARK Wiki also lists it on Fjordur, Lost Island, Crystal Isles, Genesis: Part 2 and Valguero.
Placing the platform
There are two ways to set it down: while climbing a wall with 
Climbing Picks, a 
Grappling Hook or a 
Rock Drake, or while standing and looking down at a cliff. When you hang on a vertical surface, it is placed below you. The ARK Wiki says it behaves a lot like 
Tree Platforms.
Walls such as the 
Wooden Wall or 
Stone Wall cannot go straight onto it. Lay a foundation first, for example a 
Wooden Foundation or 
Stone Foundation, and build up from there. Walls also do not snap to its edge, but a Fence Foundation placed there lets you line the edge with walls.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 51 for 48 engram points, and level 51 is also needed to craft it. Build it in a 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle from:
- 1200
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 800
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 200
Blue Gem or 
Blue Crystalized Sap
Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 65 XP.
Weight, loot and damage
A platform weighs 90 and they stack to 3, so a full stack weighs 270. Our records count 65 crate types that can contain it, among them Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow. As a metal structure it can be damaged only by explosives, Titans, Bosses, the 
DodoRex, Enraged Creatures, Corrupted Creatures, a 
Titanosaur, an 
Arthropluera, Tek Saddles and the 
Tek Rifle.