Metal Fence Support
Acts as a foundation so you can build on fence walls. Doesn't follow ground so can build level fences.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 32 crates
- Item ID
- 463
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 48
- Engram points
- 12
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Fence Support guides
How to craft Metal Fence Support
Metal Fence Support 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 Support
Metal Fence Support is found in 32 loot crates.
Loot crates
32 crates
- 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
Show all 32 crates
- 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
Metal Fence Support — Detailed Guide
A base for level fences
In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the Metal Fence Support serves as the base for fence walls. The in-game text explains: "Acts as a foundation so you can build on fence walls. Doesn't follow ground so can build level fences." The ARK Wiki mentions walls around an area, for example a pen for dinos, as one use.
Placing the supports
Supports go straight onto the ground and snap to foundations and to other fence supports, and they can be snapped at 45 degree angles. Fence Foundations follow the terrain, but these supports do not, which lets structures sit at level heights. Anything that rests on a support for its stability is destroyed along with it, and if the support was removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces return no resources.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 48 for 12 engram points. A support is crafted in a 
Smithy or an 
Exo-Mek from 5 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 2 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste, taking 5 seconds and giving 2.4 XP.
Weight, damage and loot
Each support weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400. As a metal structure it takes damage only from explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, the 
DodoRex, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, an 
Arthropluera or a 
Titanosaur, according to the wiki. Our records count 32 crate types that can contain it, such as the Genesis Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Purple and Red crates of Genesis Part 2.