Metal Wall Sign
A simple metal wall sign for basic messages, requires attaching to a wall.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 49 crates
- Item ID
- 265
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 50
- Engram points
- 6
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Wall Sign guides
How to craft Metal Wall Sign
Metal Wall Sign is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 50, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 2.6 XP.
SmithyRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
24Stone
12Chitin/Keratin
10MetalCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×5, Cementing Paste ×3.
How to get Metal Wall Sign
Metal Wall Sign is found in 49 loot crates.
Loot crates
49 crates
- 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 YellowFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Yellow BonusFjordur · ASE
- Genesis BlueGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis CyanGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis GreenGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis OrangeGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 49 crates
- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island Swamp Cave RedThe Island, Ragnarok, Valguero, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Island YellowThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Island Yellow BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Crystal Isles · ASE
- Lost Island YellowLost Island · ASE
- Lost Island Yellow BonusLost 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 YellowScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Scorched Yellow BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Valguero YellowValguero · ASE
- Valguero Yellow BonusValguero · ASE
Metal Wall Sign — Detailed Guide
Leaving a message on a wall
Survivors in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved use the Metal Wall Sign to show a short message to other players. The game describes it as "A simple metal wall sign for basic messages, requires attaching to a wall." Its text can be changed any number of times by pressing the Use key.
Mounting the sign
The sign fixes directly onto the face of a wall and does not snap to other structures. The wiki advises care when placing it, as the wall's texture can show through the sign from behind.
Custom images
A sign can also display a custom image from an Ark PNT file. For that, the file name has to end in _Sign_Wall_Metal_C.pnt. The image resolution is 128x128, and in the game the sign shows it at an aspect ratio of 2.5:1.
Crafting and loot
The engram unlocks at level 50 for 6 engram points. The sign is made in a 
Smithy (the wiki also lists the 
Argentavis Saddle and the 
Tek Replicator) from 5 
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot and 3 
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste. Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 2.6 XP. Each sign weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 49 crate types that can contain it, including the Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Yellow crates.