Metal Trapdoor
This metal-plated concrete slab can be used to secure hatches.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 48 crates
- Item ID
- 175
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 48
- Engram points
- 14
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Trapdoor guides
How to craft Metal Trapdoor
Metal Trapdoor is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 48, costs 14 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 2.88 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
32Stone
20Metal
16Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×10, Cementing Paste ×4.
How to get Metal Trapdoor
Metal Trapdoor 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 Trapdoor — Detailed Guide
A lockable cover for a hatchframe
The Metal Trapdoor is a metal building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended for locking the way into a structure. The game describes it in one line: "This metal-plated concrete slab can be used to secure hatches." The ARK Wiki counts it as the fourth trapdoor that can be unlocked.
Fitting and locking it
A Metal Trapdoor can only go into a Hatchframe. Once in place it can be locked or unlocked, which restricts access to the structure while you and your tribemates still have a way through. The wiki also notes that trapdoors do not change a house's insulation at all, whether they stand open, are shut or are missing.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 48 for 14 engram points. The trapdoor is crafted in a 
Smithy or on an 
Argentavis Saddle; a craft takes 3 seconds and gives 2.8 XP. It costs:
- 10
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 4
Cementing Paste (or 
Achatina Paste)
Each trapdoor weighs 4, and with 100 to a stack a full stack weighs 400.
What can damage it
The game treats the trapdoor as a metal structure. The ARK Wiki limits the damage to this list: Tek Saddles and the 
Tek Rifle, explosives, the 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera and 
DodoRex, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, titans and bosses.
Finding one in crates
Our records count 48 crate types that can contain a Metal Trapdoor, among them the Aberration Blue, Purple and Red crates and their bonus versions on Aberration, Valguero and Crystal Isles.