Metal Triangle Ceiling
A stable metal-plated concrete ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 64 crates
- Item ID
- 481
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 45
- Engram points
- 15
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Triangle Ceiling guides
How to craft Metal Triangle Ceiling
Metal Triangle Ceiling is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 45, costs 15 engram points, takes 4 seconds, gives 12.8 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
40Stone
36Metal
20Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×18, Cementing Paste ×5.
How to get Metal Triangle Ceiling
Metal Triangle Ceiling is found in 64 loot crates.
Loot crates
64 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 64 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 RedValguero · ASA
- Valguero Red BonusValguero · ASA
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASA
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASA
Metal Triangle Ceiling — Detailed Guide
A triangular metal ceiling
In ARK: Survival Ascended this piece is called the Metal Quarter & Triangle Ceiling; in ARK: Survival Evolved its name is 
Metal Triangle Ceiling. It is a metal-plated concrete ceiling that also serves as the floor of the level above, and the ARK Wiki counts it as the third triangle ceiling a player can unlock. A ceiling shelters you from the elements and adds to both hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation.
Placing and supporting it
It must be placed on a Foundation, a Pillar, a Wall or another ceiling. After the first one is down, more of them snap along it and line up, as long as there is room. Support comes from a foundation or pillar nearby: a ceiling can reach at most 2 ceilings out along the x or y axis and 1 ceiling out on a diagonal, counted from a wall or ceiling that sits directly over a connected foundation or pillar. The ceilings at the outer ends of such a span cannot hold walls.
When a ceiling is destroyed, the pieces that lean on it for support collapse with it. If it was removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Recipe and engram
The engram unlocks at level 45 and costs 15 engram points. The ceiling is crafted in the 
Smithy or the 
Exo-Mek from 18 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 5 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste. Crafting takes 4 seconds and gives 12.8 XP. Each ceiling weighs 2 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 200.
Who can damage it, and where it drops
As a metal structure it can only be hurt by the 
DodoRex, Titans, Bosses, Enraged Creatures, Corrupted Creatures, the 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, explosives, the 
Tek Rifle or Tek Saddles.
In loot, 64 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow crates. Our records list it on 14 maps, including The Island, Fjordur, Astraeos and Genesis Part 2. The wiki says it was added in patch 293.100.