Metal Spike Wall
These incredibly sharp metal spikes are dangerous to any that touch them. Larger creatures take more damage.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 75 crates
- Item ID
- 292
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 29
- Engram points
- 11
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Spike Wall guides
How to craft Metal Spike Wall
Metal Spike Wall is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 29, costs 11 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 4.75 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
50MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×25.
How to get Metal Spike Wall
Metal Spike Wall is found in 75 loot crates.
Loot crates
75 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 Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · ASA
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- Astraeos PurpleAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Purple BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital HardExtinction · ASA
- Extinction Orbital LegendaryExtinction · ASA
- 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, 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
- Orbital Drop HardExtinction · ASE
- Orbital Drop LegendaryExtinction · ASE
- Outpost: Breeding Pits EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Breeding Pits MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Gladiator's Keep MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Lost Resource Cache MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Marksman's Hold MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Molten Works MediumLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense EasyLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense HardLost Colony · ASA
- Outpost: Outpost Defense MediumLost Colony · ASA
- 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 Spike Wall — Detailed Guide
Spikes that hit back
Touching a Metal Spike Wall hurts: in ARK: Survival Evolved it damages any survivor or creature in contact with it and knocks the attacker back, a defense against melee attacks. The game's warning: "These incredibly sharp metal spikes are dangerous to any that touch them." Larger creatures take more damage, the description adds. The ARK Wiki describes it as an upgrade over the 
Wooden Spike Wall.
By default the spikes leave wild creatures alone on contact and only wound wild ones that attack them. Setting bPassiveDefensesDamageRiderlessDinos to true in Game.ini makes riderless creatures take contact damage too.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 29 for 11 engram points. The ARK Wiki gives the 
Smithy and the 
Argentavis Saddle as crafting stations, and its station list also includes the 
Tek Replicator, 
Exo-Mek, 
Thorny Dragon Saddle and 
Castoroides Saddle. Each wall takes 5 seconds and needs:
- 25
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 20
Hide - 30
Fiber
How it takes damage
Although it is made of metal, the game handles it as a stone structure. Examples from the wiki's damage list: metal weapons deal 5%, the 
Ballista Turret 40%, the 
Cannon about 137%, explosives 150% and the 
Tek Sword about 218%. Alpha creatures and bosses deal 10%, while the 
DodoRex and 
Dodo Wyvern deal 300%. The wiki also notes that an 
Arthropluera damages spike walls when it dies, with thorns damage as the suspected cause.
Weight and loot
A wall weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 75 crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Blue and Aberration Purple crates, and list it on 12 maps, among them The Island, Scorched Earth, Crystal Isles, Lost Island and Fjordur.