Stone Cliff Platform

Building out from a cliff face

In ARK: Survival Evolved, the Stone Cliff Platform is a large platform that attaches to vertical surfaces and gives a base somewhere to start on a cliff. The in-game text puts it this way: "A Cliff Platform is required to build structures extending from a cliff. This one is made from heavy stone."

Placing it and building on top

• While hanging on a vertical surface, you can set the platform down beneath you.
• Walls such as the Stone Wall or Wooden Wall cannot go straight onto it. Lay a foundation first, for example a Stone Foundation or Wooden Foundation, and build the rest on that.
• Walls do not snap to the platform's edge on their own; a Fence Foundation placed there gives them an anchor.

The ARK Wiki compares its behaviour with that of Tree Platforms.

Crafting and weight

The engram sits at level 37 and costs 28 engram points. One platform needs:

• 1200 Stone
• 800 Fungal Wood
• 600 Fiber
• 250 Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

The wiki names the Smithy and the Argentavis Saddle as crafting stations. Crafting takes 5 seconds and earns 55 XP. Each platform weighs 90 and the stack size is 3, for a full stack of 270.

Maps, loot and defence

It came with Aberration in version 275.0, and the wiki lists Fjordur, Lost Island, Genesis: Part 2, Crystal Isles and Valguero as well; its infobox adds Aquatica. In loot, 58 crate types can contain it, such as the Aberration Blue, Aberration Green and Aberration Purple crates and their bonus versions.

The name says stone, yet the game handles it as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that do not explode cannot hurt it. The wiki's list of aggressive creatures unable to damage it includes the Basilisk, Ferox, Giant Bee, Pulmonoscorpius, Terror Bird and Araneo.