Metal Doorframe

A metal wall with a way through

The Metal Doorframe is a building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended: "A metal-plated concrete wall that provides entrance to a structure." According to the ARK Wiki it is the fourth doorframe available. It does the job of a wall, carrying the building and closing off a space, while leaving an opening to walk through.

Crafting it

The engram unlocks at level 45 for 24 engram points. A doorframe is made in a Smithy, or on an Argentavis Saddle according to the wiki infobox, takes 3 seconds and needs 20 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot) and 6 Cementing Paste (or Achatina Paste). Each one weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 38 loot crates that can contain it, for example Fjordur Blue on Fjordur and Genesis Blue on Genesis Part 2.

Placement and support

• It goes on any foundation, fence foundation or ceiling, the Thatch Roof excepted, and it can also sit on another wall.
• A door fits into the opening and can be locked, letting the tribe through while keeping others out.
• Standing directly above a foundation, it lets a structure built on top reach 2 ceilings out in each direction along the x and y axes and 1 ceiling diagonally.
• Doorframes do not change a house's insulation, with the door open, shut or gone.
• If the doorframe is destroyed, every piece resting on it for support is destroyed too, and demolishing it refunds nothing for those extra pieces.

What can damage it

It counts as a metal structure, and the wiki lists only these as able to damage it: bosses, titans, the DodoRex, a Titanosaur, Arthropluera, corrupted and enraged creatures, Tek Saddles, the Tek Rifle and explosives.