Rope Ladder
A simple rope ladder used to climb up or down tall structures. Can also be used to extend existing ladders.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 44 crates
- Item ID
- 61
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 16
- Engram points
- 5
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Rope Ladder guides
How to craft Rope Ladder
Rope Ladder is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 16, costs 5 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 0.5 XP.
How to get Rope Ladder
Rope Ladder is found in 44 loot crates.
Loot crates
44 crates
- 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
- 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
Show all 44 crates
- 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
Rope Ladder — Detailed Guide
A ladder that rolls up
The Rope Ladder gives survivors in ARK: Survival Evolved a way up to higher areas. Its description: "A simple rope ladder used to climb up or down tall structures. Can also be used to extend existing ladders." Climbing it works the same way as on the 
Wooden Ladder; what sets it apart, the ARK Wiki says, is that it can be retracted and let down again.
Where it goes and how to retract it
It is placed like a normal ladder: below a hatchframe, against the side of a structure, or along a spot in the natural environment. To roll it up, stand at the top, hold E, open the radial menu and choose Hold to Retract Ladder; a rolled-up ladder cannot be climbed in either direction. The Hold to Extend Ladder option, reached with E, lowers it again.
Recipe and health
The engram unlocks at level 16 for 5 engram points. A ladder is crafted in the inventory in 3 seconds for 0.498 XP, from:
- 180
Fiber - 140
Thatch - 15
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood)
The wiki notes that rope ladders have significantly fewer health points than Wooden Ladders, and it dates the item to patch 243.0.
Weight, maps and crates
Each piece weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list it on 14 maps, including The Island, Aberration, Genesis Part 2 and Fjordur, and count 44 crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Cyan and Purple crates on Genesis Part 2.