Metal Hatchframe
Metal ceiling with a hatch opening.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 48 crates
- Item ID
- 166
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 48
- Engram points
- 18
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Hatchframe guides
How to craft Metal Hatchframe
Metal Hatchframe is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 48, costs 18 engram points, takes 0 seconds, gives 8.16 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
64Stone
60Metal
32Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×30, Cementing Paste ×8.
How to get Metal Hatchframe
Metal Hatchframe is found in 48 loot crates.
Loot crates
48 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, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Red BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration YellowAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration, Valguero, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Fjordur PurpleFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Purple BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
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- 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
- 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 PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASE
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASE
Metal Hatchframe — Detailed Guide
A metal ceiling with an opening
In ARK: Survival Ascended this piece is the Metal Hatch Frame; ARK: Survival Evolved calls it 
Metal Hatchframe. It is a ceiling of metal-plated concrete with a hole left for a trapdoor, and the ARK Wiki counts it as the third hatchframe available. Like a ceiling, it keeps the elements out and adds hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation, while the opening lets players pass in and out.
Placement and support
A hatchframe can sit on any foundation, fence foundation, wall or other hatchframe, and on any ceiling except the Thatch Roof. It needs support from a nearby foundation or pillar. The wiki gives the reach: at most 2 ceilings out along the x or y axis, and 1 ceiling diagonally, measured from a wall or ceiling that sits directly over a connected foundation or pillar. Hatchframes at the far ends of such a span cannot hold up walls.
The trapdoor and other rules
Fit a trapdoor into the hole and lock it, and outsiders are kept out while you and your tribemates can still go through. Whether that trapdoor is open, closed or missing, the house keeps the same insulation. Destroying a hatchframe also destroys every building piece it supports, and when it is removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Damage it can take
Counted as a metal structure, it can only be harmed by explosives and by a set group the wiki lists: the 
DodoRex, Titans, Bosses, the 
Titanosaur and 
Arthropluera, Corrupted Creatures and Enraged Creatures, and the 
Tek Rifle and Tek Saddles.
Engram and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 48 for 18 engram points. A hatchframe gives 8.2 XP and is made in a 
Smithy from 30 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 8 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste; the wiki also lists the 
Tek Replicator, the 
Exo-Mek, the 
Thorny Dragon Saddle, the 
Castoroides Saddle and the 
Argentavis Saddle for crafting it. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 48 crate types that can contain it, among them the Aberration Blue, Aberration Purple and Aberration Red crates and their bonus versions.