Metal Windowframe

A metal wall with a view

The Metal Windowframe works like a wall in ARK: Survival Ascended and ARK: Survival Evolved, adding structure and closing off an area, but it has a small opening so the people inside can look out. Its description calls it "A metal-plated concrete wall, with a hole for a window." The ARK Wiki counts it as the fourth windowframe available.

Building with it

It can go on any foundation, fence foundation or ceiling, or on top of another wall. A Window fits into the opening and can be opened for a view or closed to block projectiles. The frame supports building out as far as 2 ceilings in every direction on the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally when the windowframe stands directly above a foundation. Windowframes do not lower a building's insulation, whether the Window is open, shut or missing. Take care when removing one: pieces that depend on it for support are destroyed with it, and if it is demolished, those extra pieces give no resources back.

Engram and recipe

The engram unlocks at level 46 for 18 engram points, and level 46 is also the crafting requirement. Each frame takes 20 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot and 6 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste; crafting lasts 3 seconds and gives 5.6 XP. The wiki names the Smithy as the station and also lists the Tek Replicator, Argentavis Saddle, Thorny Dragon Saddle and Castoroides Saddle.

Weight, loot and damage

A frame weighs 4, and a full stack of 100 weighs 400. Loot crates can hold it too: 49 crate types can contain it, among them the Aberration Purple, Aberration Red and Aberration Yellow crates. As a metal structure, only the DodoRex, Titans, bosses, a Titanosaur, Arthropluera, corrupted or enraged creatures, the Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles and explosives can damage it.