Tek Dinosaur Gateway
A large composite Tek gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 22 crates
- Item ID
- 433
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 Dinosaur Gateway guides
How to craft Tek Dinosaur Gateway
Tek Dinosaur Gateway is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 120 seconds, gives 47 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
800Stone
400Chitin/Keratin
340Metal
100ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×170, Cementing Paste ×100, Polymer ×50.
How to get Tek Dinosaur Gateway
Tek Dinosaur Gateway is found in 22 loot crates.
Loot crates
22 crates
- Astraeos Orbital HardAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital LegendaryAstraeos · 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
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 22 crates
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- 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 Dinosaur Gateway — Detailed Guide
A Tek frame for a creature gate
This large Tek frame goes by two names: Tek Gateway in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Tek Dinosaur Gateway in ARK: Survival Evolved. In-game it reads: "A large composite Tek gateway that can be used with a Gate to keep most dinosaurs in or out." The ARK Wiki pairs it with the 
Tek Dinosaur Gate; with both in place, an area is shielded from the outside and creatures stay contained within it.
Tekgram and crafting
The gateway is a boss reward: the wiki says its Tekgram comes from defeating 
Megapithecus on medium difficulty. The wiki names the 
Exo-Mek as a crafting station, and the recipe is:
- 170
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 50
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 30
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 2
Element or 
Red Element
Crafting takes 120 seconds (2 minutes) and gives 47 XP. It arrived in patch 255.0.
Placing the gateway
No foundation is needed: it goes straight onto the ground. It will not snap to regular foundations or walls, but it does snap to fence foundations. The frame stands 4 wall panels tall and 2 wide, a perfect fit for a 2x4 opening. Put a Gate in the opening and lock it to control who passes while you and your creatures can still get through.
Creatures too big to pass
Some creatures cannot fit through. The ARK Wiki lists, among others, the 
Rex, 
Spino, 
Giganotosaurus, 
Brontosaurus, 
Diplodocus, 
Quetzal, 
Wyvern, 
Mammoth, 
Woolly Rhino, 
Megalodon, 
Mosasaurus and 
Titanosaur.
Durability, weight and loot
As a Tek structure, it can only be hurt by Bosses, Titans, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, an 
Arthropluera, a Titanosaur, the 
DodoRex, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle and explosives. Our ASA row gives it 50 durability. Each gateway weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. 22 crate types can contain one, for example Astraeos Orbital Hard and Astraeos Orbital Legendary on Astraeos and Genesis Blue on Genesis Part 2. Our records list it on 14 maps.