Metal Triangle Foundation
Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 64 crates
- Item ID
- 486
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 45
- Engram points
- 24
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Triangle Foundation guides
How to craft Metal Triangle Foundation
Metal Triangle Foundation is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 45, costs 24 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 11 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
64Stone
50Metal
32Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×25, Cementing Paste ×8.
How to get Metal Triangle Foundation
Metal Triangle Foundation 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 Foundation — Detailed Guide
The metal triangle foundation
This foundation is named Metal Triangle & Quarter Foundation in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Metal Triangle Foundation in ARK: Survival Evolved. The ARK Wiki counts it as the third triangle foundation a player can unlock, and foundations are what any housing or storage structure has to stand on. In-game it is described as "Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped."
Unlocking and crafting
The engram sits at level 45 and costs 24 engram points; our records list the 
Stone Triangle Foundation as its prerequisite, and crafting also requires level 45. The wiki names the 
Smithy and the 
Exo-Mek as crafting places. Each foundation takes:
Metal Ingot
Scrap Metal Ingot
Cementing Paste
Achatina PasteCrafting gives 11 XP, and in ASE it takes 5 seconds.
Placing it and what it supports
It can be set down on level or slightly uneven ground. Further foundations of the same kind snap to the first one, as long as there is enough room and ground. Walls, ceilings and similar pieces only draw support from a foundation lying directly under them. Beyond its edges, a foundation carries up to two ceilings in each direction along the x and y axes and one diagonally, but walls cannot rest on the outermost of those ceilings.
If a foundation is destroyed, every building piece that leans on it for support goes with it, and when the cause was the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Damage, weight and loot
As a metal structure it can only be damaged by Titans, Bosses, the 
DodoRex, the 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, explosives, Tek Saddles or the 
Tek Rifle. One foundation weighs 2 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 200. Our records count 64 crate types that can contain it, such as Aberration Red and Aberration Surface Yellow, and list it on 14 maps.