Stone Windowframe

A stone wall with a window opening

The Stone Windowframe is a building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The game describes it as "A brick-and-mortar wall with a hole for a window." It does the job of a wall, holding up a building and closing off a space, but leaves a small opening so the people inside can see out. The ARK Wiki calls it the second windowframe available to players and dates it to version 182.0.

Unlocking and crafting

The engram unlocks at level 26 and costs 11 engram points. The windowframe is crafted right in the survivor's inventory from:

• 35 Stone
• 18 Wood (Fungal Wood also works)
• 12 Thatch

Each craft takes 3 seconds. A windowframe weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400. Loot is another source: 44 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Red and Genesis Purple crates of Genesis Part 2.

Placement and support

It can stand on a Foundation, a Fence Foundation, a Ceiling or on top of another wall. Fitting a Window into the opening gives a view when it is open and blocks projectiles when it is shut. Pieces built on the windowframe can reach out up to 2 ceilings along the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally when the windowframe sits straight above a foundation. An open, shut or empty window frame does not reduce the insulation a house gives.

Damage and demolition

Stone pieces have as much durability as the wooden versions, yet take significantly less damage from any source. Only certain attacks hurt this one: metal weapons (5%), explosives (150%), the Tek Sword (~218%), the Cannon (~137%) and the Ballista Turret (40%), plus creatures such as the Dunkleosteus (15%), Magmasaur, Roll Rat, Deathworm and Titans, while Alpha Creatures and bosses deal 10%. A Giganotosaurus (15%) and the Tek Rifle (~50%) can hurt it as well. If the windowframe is destroyed, pieces that depend on it for support collapse with it, and demolishing it refunds nothing for those extra pieces.