Metal Stairs
Metal-plated concrete stairs for travelling up or down levels. Can be switched to a ramp variant.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 66 crates
- Item ID
- 475
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 47
- Engram points
- 12
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Stairs guides
How to craft Metal Stairs
Metal Stairs is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 47, costs 12 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 16 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
80Stone
70Metal
40Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×35, Cementing Paste ×10.
How to get Metal Stairs
Metal Stairs is found in 66 loot crates.
Loot crates
66 crates
- Aberration RedAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Red BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Surface RedAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Red BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface YellowAberration · ASA
- Aberration Surface Yellow BonusAberration · ASA
- Aberration YellowAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Yellow BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos Desert RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Yellow BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 66 crates
- Astraeos RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos YellowAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Yellow BonusAstraeos · 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 RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · 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 Buried BlueThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Buried GreenThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched RedScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Red BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero PurpleValguero · ASA
- Valguero Purple BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Stairs — Detailed Guide
Climbing between floors in metal
This metal structure goes by two names: Metal Roof, Ramp & Stairs in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Metal Stairs in ARK: Survival Evolved. It is an inclined piece for getting from one level to another, and the game notes that it can be switched to a ramp: "Metal-plated concrete stairs for travelling up or down levels. Can be switched to a ramp variant." One piece covers the footprint of 1 foundation and rises the height of 1 wall.
Crafting and engram
The engram unlocks at level 47 for 12 engram points, and the stairs are crafted in a 
Smithy or an 
Exo-Mek from:
- 35
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 10
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
Each craft gives 16 XP. Our ASE record lists a crafting time of 5 seconds, while the ASA record gives a different value.
Weight, loot and maps
One piece weighs 4 and a stack holds 100, so a full stack weighs 400. 66 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow crates. Our records list it on 14 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Lost Island and Fjordur.
Placement, defense and rafts
The wiki suggests placing stairs from the top down: the extra length then usually passes through the floor, while building upward tends to leave the end jutting out over the surface you want to reach. As a metal structure it can be damaged only by explosives and a few other sources, namely the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, bosses, the 
DodoRex, a 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, and corrupted or enraged creatures. On tall rafts, the stairs can also act as a screen or window for whoever steers, giving cover from most creatures and projectiles; standing too near them can still let creatures, a 
Dodo for example, target that survivor or their tames.