Metal Fence Foundation
This very strong, narrow foundation is used to build walls around an area.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 76 crates
- Item ID
- 168
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 48
- Engram points
- 12
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Fence Foundation guides
How to craft Metal Fence Foundation
Metal Fence Foundation is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 48, costs 12 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2.4 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
16Stone
10Metal
8Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×5, Cementing Paste ×2.
How to get Metal Fence Foundation
Metal Fence Foundation is found in 76 loot crates.
Loot crates
76 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- 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
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- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple 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 PurpleThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, 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 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 PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- 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 PurpleValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA / ASE
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Fence Foundation — Detailed Guide
A narrow metal base for walls
Called Metal Fence Foundation & Support in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Metal Fence Foundation in ARK: Survival Evolved, this slim foundation carries single-thickness walls around an area, for example a pen for your dinos. The in-game text: "This very strong, narrow foundation is used to build walls around an area."
Placing fence foundations
Lay the fence foundation first, then put a wall section on top of it. It can sit directly on the ground, snaps to regular foundations as well as to other fence foundations, and can be snapped at 45 degree angles. The wiki adds a caution: destroying a foundation also destroys the building pieces it supports, and when that happens through the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 48 for 12 engram points, with 
Stone Fence Foundation and 
Metal Foundation as prerequisites. Each piece takes 5 
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) and 2 
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste) and gives 2.4 XP; in ASE a craft lasts 5 seconds. The wiki lists the 
Smithy, the 
Exo-Mek and the 
Tek Replicator as crafting stations, along with the 
Castoroides Saddle, 
Thorny Dragon Saddle and 
Argentavis Saddle.
Damage, weight and loot
It counts as a metal structure. Only titans, bosses, the 
DodoRex, a 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, corrupted and enraged creatures, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle and explosives can damage it. Each piece weighs 4 and a stack holds 100, 400 in all. In loot, 76 crate types can contain it, Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Red among them, and our records place it on 14 maps.