Metal Railing
A metal-plated concrete railing that acts as a simple barrier to prevent people from falling.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 32 crates
- Item ID
- 224
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 46
- Engram points
- 7
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Railing guides
How to craft Metal Railing
Metal Railing is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 46, costs 7 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2.16 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
24Metal
24Stone
12Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×12, Cementing Paste ×3.
How to get Metal Railing
Metal Railing 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 Railing — Detailed Guide
A railing in metal
ARK: Survival Ascended calls this piece Metal Quarter Wall & Railing, and ARK: Survival Evolved lists it as 
Metal Railing. The in-game text describes it as "A metal-plated concrete railing that acts as a simple barrier to prevent people from falling." On the ARK Wiki it is the third railing that can be unlocked, and it dates back to patch 220.0.
Engram and recipe
The engram needs level 46 and 7 engram points, and our records list the 
Stone Railing and the 
Metal Wall as its prerequisites. A 
Smithy or an 
Argentavis Saddle crafts one railing in 5 seconds for 2.16 XP, using:
- 12
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 3
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste)
Building with it
Any Foundation or Fence Foundation can hold a Metal Railing. Railings can also be stacked one above another, which turns them into taller barriers or even cages.
What can damage it
It counts as a metal structure, and only these can hurt it: the 
DodoRex, Titans, Bosses, Enraged and Corrupted Creatures, the 
Arthropluera and 
Titanosaur, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles and explosives.
Carrying and finding railings
Each railing weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. 32 crate types can contain it, among them the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Purple crates of Genesis Part 2. Our records list it on 14 maps, including Aberration, Extinction, Crystal Isles and Fjordur.