Metal Window
Metal plates on hinges that cover windows to provide protection from projectiles and spying.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 1 ingredient
- Loot crates
- 49 crates
- Item ID
- 179
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 46
- Engram points
- 18
Video guides: search YouTube for Metal Window guides
How to craft Metal Window
Metal Window is crafted from 1 ingredient. The engram unlocks at level 46, costs 18 engram points, takes 2 seconds, gives 0.48 XP.
Smithy
14MetalHow to get Metal Window
Metal Window 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
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- 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 Window — Detailed Guide
Metal shutters for a window frame
The Metal Window is a hinged metal cover for a Windowframe in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Its description reads: "Metal plates on hinges that cover windows to provide protection from projectiles and spying." The ARK Wiki counts it as the third window you can unlock. A window has no effect on a building's insulation, whether it is open, shut or missing.
Unlocking and crafting
The engram becomes available at level 46 and costs 18 engram points. A window needs 7 
Metal Ingot (
Scrap Metal Ingot is accepted as well) and takes 2 seconds to craft. It is made in a 
Smithy, and the ARK Wiki also names the 
Argentavis Saddle as a place to craft it.
What can break it
The window is treated as a metal structure. The ARK Wiki limits the things that can damage it to the 
DodoRex, Titans, Bosses, the 
Titanosaur and the 
Arthropluera, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles and explosives.
Weight and crate drops
A window weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400. As loot, 49 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Yellow crates on Aberration, Valguero and Crystal Isles.