Tek Ceiling
An incredibly durable composite Tek ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 436
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Tekgram (Boss Reward)
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Ceiling guides
How to craft Tek Ceiling
Tek Ceiling is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 25 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
400Stone
200Chitin/Keratin
100Metal
50ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×50, Cementing Paste ×50, Polymer ×25.
How to get Tek Ceiling
Tek Ceiling is found in 20 loot crates.
Loot crates
20 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' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 20 crates
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Tek Ceiling — Detailed Guide
The last ceiling in the line
ARK: Survival Evolved names it the 
Tek Ceiling, while ARK: Survival Ascended calls it the Tek Ceiling & Hatchframe. The ARK Wiki counts it as the fifth and last ceiling you can unlock. In the game's words it is "An incredibly durable composite Tek ceiling that provides insulation, and doubles as a floor for higher levels." Like any ceiling, it keeps the elements off and improves insulation against both cold and heat (hypothermic and hyperthermic).
Earning the Tekgram
The engram comes as a Tekgram, a boss reward. According to the ARK Wiki, you earn it by beating the 
Crystal Wyvern Queen or 
Broodmother Lysrix at Beta (Medium) difficulty.
Crafting it
A 
Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek crafts it from:
- 50
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 25
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 20
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 1
Element or 
Red Element
Each one takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 25 XP. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Loot is another route: 20 crate types can contain it, for example Genesis Blue, Genesis Purple and Genesis Red on Genesis Part 2.
Placement and support
It can be placed on a Foundation, a Pillar, a Wall or another ceiling, and once the first one is down, more Tek Ceilings snap alongside it where there is room. Support has to come from a foundation or pillar nearby: a ceiling reaches at most 2 ceilings out along either axis, and 1 diagonally, from a wall or another ceiling sitting over a connected foundation or pillar. The outermost ceilings of such a span cannot hold walls. Destroying a ceiling also destroys the pieces it supports, and demolishing it refunds nothing for them.
As a Tek structure it only takes damage from the 
DodoRex, Bosses, Titans, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle, explosives, a 
Titanosaur, an 
Arthropluera, and Corrupted or Enraged Creatures.