Metal Tree Platform
Attaches to a large tree, enabling you to build on it!
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 48 crates
- Item ID
- 365
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 59
- Engram points
- 55
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Tree Platform guides
How to craft Metal Tree Platform
Metal Tree Platform is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 59, costs 55 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 0.5 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
11,200Stone
5,600Chitin/Keratin
3,600MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×1,800, Cementing Paste ×1,400.
How to get Metal Tree Platform
Metal Tree Platform is found in 48 loot crates.
Loot crates
48 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 RedAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Red BonusAstraeos · ASA
Show all 48 crates
- Astral Pulmonoscorpius RoyaltyThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Astral Rock DrakeThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Lost Colony, The Center, Astraeos, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island RedThe Island, The Center, and Ragnarok · ASA
- Island Red BonusThe Island and Ragnarok · ASA
- Lost Colony City RedLost 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 Buried BlueThe 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
- The Center RedThe Center · ASA
- The Center Red BonusThe Center · ASA
- Valguero RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Tree Platform — Detailed Guide
Building in the redwoods
The Metal Tree Platform is a metal building piece for ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended that lets you build up in the trees: "Attaches to a large tree, enabling you to build on it!" The ARK Wiki places its use in the Redwood Forest biome, and only on the very large trees there.
How building on it works
- Foundation first: walls such as the
Stone Wall or 
Wooden Wall cannot go straight onto the platform. Place a foundation, for instance a 
Stone Foundation or 
Wooden Foundation, and build on top of it. - Edges: walls do not snap to the platform's edge, and the rim has no snap points for ladders or walls. A Fence Foundation lets you put walls along the edge.
- Two levels: tree platforms snap to two positions on a Redwood tree. With both in use, the upper platform serves as a ceiling for the lower one.
- Crafting stations: Smithies, Forges and similar crafting structures can sit directly on the platform.
Unlocking and crafting
The engram unlocks at level 59 for 55 engram points. 
Wooden Tree Platform, 
Metal Foundation and 
Metal Ceiling are among the prerequisites in our records. Build it in a 
Smithy, a 
Tek Replicator, with an 
Exo-Mek or on an 
Argentavis Saddle, 
Castoroides Saddle or 
Thorny Dragon Saddle, using:
- 1800
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 1400
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste - 600
Fiber
A craft takes 3 seconds and gives 0.498 XP.
Weight and loot
The platform weighs 90 and does not stack. Loot crates can hold it as well: 48 crate types, including Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow. Our records list it on 14 maps.