Metal Dinosaur Gate
Metal gate door.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 71 crates
- Item ID
- 262
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 52
- Engram points
- 8
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Dinosaur Gate guides
How to craft Metal Dinosaur Gate
Metal Dinosaur Gate is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 52, costs 8 engram points, takes 0 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 Dinosaur Gate
Metal Dinosaur Gate is found in 71 loot crates.
Loot crates
71 crates
- Aberration PurpleAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- 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 Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow 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 RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA / ASE
- 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 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 / ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
Metal Dinosaur Gate — Detailed Guide
Closing a metal gateway
Bases in ARK: Survival Evolved use the Metal Dinosaur Gate to shut a Gateway that tames pass through. According to the ARK Wiki it keeps most dinosaurs in or out, and it comes third in the line of gates. It can only be placed in a Gateway; once there it can be locked or unlocked, letting the owner restrict access while they and their dinosaurs still get through.
Engram, station and recipe
The engram needs level 52 and 8 engram points, and our data lists the 
Dinosaur Gate and the 
Metal Dinosaur Gateway as prerequisites. The gate is crafted in a 
Smithy, and the wiki also names the 
Argentavis Saddle. Each craft gives 16 XP and uses:
- 35
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 10
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste)
How hard it is to break
As a metal structure it only takes damage from explosives, Bosses, Titans, the 
DodoRex, the 
Tek Rifle and Tek Saddles, as well as the 
Titanosaur, the 
Arthropluera, and Corrupted and Enraged Creatures. The wiki puts the cost of destroying one at any one of these:
C4 Charge
GrenadeWeight, loot and maps
A gate weighs 4 and stacks to 100, and a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 71 crate types that can contain one, for example Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Red together with their bonus versions. The gate is listed on 12 maps, among them The Island, Genesis Part 2 and Fjordur.