Painting Canvas
A canvas sheet stretched over a wooden frame. Perfect for painting on.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
- Item ID
- 416
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 21
- Engram points
- 2
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Painting Canvas guides
How to craft Painting Canvas
Painting Canvas is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 21, costs 2 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.6 XP.
How to get Painting Canvas
Painting Canvas is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue 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
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- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Painting Canvas — Detailed Guide
A blank surface for survivor art
The Painting Canvas is a placeable sheet for artwork in ARK: Survival Evolved, described in game as "A canvas sheet stretched over a wooden frame. Perfect for painting on." Together with a 
Paintbrush and Dyes, players use it to show pictures they made themselves or information such as recipes. The ARK Wiki adds that a survivor with a 
Camera can upload a source image or copy someone else's work.
Hanging a canvas
A canvas attaches straight to the face of a wall, a pillar, a vault or a refrigerator, and will not snap onto anything else. Place it with care: on some walls, Stone and Tek walls among them, the wall texture can poke through the painting. The wiki also notes that paintings can be combined with another online player if the timing is right.
Loading your own images
The wiki explains how to put ARK PNT files onto a canvas: the file name needs the suffix _Sign_PaintingCanvas_C. The canvas works at a resolution of 256x256, and the in-game image has a 1:1 aspect ratio.
Crafting and durability
The engram unlocks at level 21 for 2 engram points, with the 
Wooden Wall Sign as its prerequisite. A canvas is crafted in the inventory in 5 seconds for 1.6 XP, from 4 
Fiber, 2 
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood) and 1 
Hide. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, 400 for a full stack. For damage purposes it counts as a thatch structure: only non-explosive ranged attacks leave it unharmed. Crates can contain it too, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2, and the wiki dates the item to patch 215.0.