Metal Sign
A small metal sign for landmark navigation or relaying messages.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 57 crates
- Item ID
- 214
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 50
- Engram points
- 10
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Sign guides
How to craft Metal Sign
Metal Sign is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 50, costs 10 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2.6 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
24Stone
12Chitin/Keratin
10MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×5, Cementing Paste ×3.
How to get Metal Sign
Metal Sign is found in 57 loot crates.
Loot crates
57 crates
- Aberration BlueAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Blue BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration PurpleAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Purple BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface BlueAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Blue BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface PurpleAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Purple BonusAberration · ASA
- Astraeos Desert PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
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- Fjordur BlueFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Blue 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 BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island PurpleThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Purple BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Lost Colony City YellowLost Colony · 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 BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Buried WhiteThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched PurpleScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Purple BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Metal Sign — Detailed Guide
Leaving messages in metal
The 
Metal Sign displays a short message for other players in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended; in ASA it is listed as Metal Sign & Wall Sign. Its text can be edited as many times as you like with the use key, and when a message needs more space, the 
Metal Billboard can be used instead. The game describes it as "A small metal sign for landmark navigation or relaying messages."
Unlocking and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 50 for 10 engram points, with the 
Wooden Sign as prerequisite. It is made in a 
Smithy or on an 
Argentavis Saddle from 5 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 3 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste. A craft gives 2.6 XP, and in ASE it takes 5 seconds.
Placement and damage
The sign needs no foundation, so placing it does not get in the way of natural resources spawning. It does not snap to other structures. Although it is made of metal, it takes damage as wood does and counts as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks cannot harm it. Many aggressive creatures cannot damage it either, among them the 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Titanoboa and 
Pulmonoscorpius.
Custom images
An ARK painting file in PNT format can be loaded onto the sign when its file name carries the suffix for this sign. Images are 128x128, shown in game at a 2.5:1 aspect ratio.
Weight, crates and maps
Each sign weighs 4 and stacks to 100, or 400 for a full stack. Loot is another source: 57 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple. Our records list it on 14 maps, including Lost Colony, Astraeos and Crystal Isles.