Metal Dinosaur Gateway
A large metal gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 95 crates
- Item ID
- 261
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 52
- Engram points
- 12
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Dinosaur Gateway guides
How to craft Metal Dinosaur Gateway
Metal Dinosaur Gateway is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 52, costs 12 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 23.4 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
400Stone
340Metal
200Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×170, Cementing Paste ×50.
How to get Metal Dinosaur Gateway
Metal Dinosaur Gateway is found in 95 loot crates.
Loot crates
95 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 Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · 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
- 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
- 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 Gateway — Detailed Guide
A metal frame for a creature gate
The Metal Dinosaur Gateway in ARK: Survival Evolved is a large metal frame that holds a 
Metal Dinosaur Gate. With a gate placed in the opening and locked, you control who gets into an area, while you and your creatures can still pass through. The game describes it as "A large metal gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out."
Placing the gateway
No foundation is needed: the gateway can go straight onto the ground. It does not snap to regular foundations or existing walls, but it does snap to fence foundations. It stands 4 wall panels high and 2 wide, and it fits a 2x4 hole exactly.
Creatures too big for it
The ARK Wiki lists the creatures that cannot fit through, among them the 
Rex, 
Giganotosaurus, 
Spino, 
Mammoth, 
Quetzal, 
Wyvern, 
Brontosaurus, 
Titanosaur, 
Mosasaurus, 
Megalodon and 
Paraceratherium. The 
Managarmr and 
Morellatops are an exception: they can pass through while no gate is fitted.
What can damage it
As a metal structure, it only takes damage from the 
Tek Rifle, explosives, Tek Saddles, the 
DodoRex, the Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, titans, bosses, and corrupted or enraged creatures. The wiki also points out that a Giganotosaurus can neither destroy it nor walk over it, and calls it a fairly cheap and effective way to giga-proof a base if built correctly.
Engram, recipe and loot
The engram unlocks at level 52 for 12 engram points; our records list the 
Metal Doorframe and the 
Stone Dinosaur Gateway as prerequisites. It is crafted in a 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle in 3 seconds and gives 23.4 XP. Ingredients:
- 170
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 50
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
Each gateway weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Loot crates can hold it as well: 95 crate types, including the Aberration Purple and Aberration Red crates. Our records list it on 12 maps, such as The Island, Extinction, Genesis Part 1 and Fjordur.