TEK Doorframe
A composite Tek wall that provides entrance to a structure.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 445
Video guides: search YouTube for TEK Doorframe guides
How to craft Tek Doorframe
Tek Doorframe is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 11 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
240Stone
120Chitin/Keratin
60Metal
30ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×30, Cementing Paste ×30, Polymer ×15.
How to get Tek Doorframe
Tek Doorframe 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 Doorframe — Detailed Guide
The last doorframe to unlock
The ARK Wiki calls this the final doorframe you can unlock, and it belongs to the Tek Tier building set. ARK: Survival Evolved names it Tek Doorframe, while ARK: Survival Ascended spells it TEK Doorframe. The game describes it as "A composite Tek wall that provides entrance to a structure." Like any doorframe, it acts as a wall that gives a building structure and closes it in, with an opening to walk through.
Tekgram and recipe
According to the wiki, the Tekgram comes from beating 
Megapithecus on medium difficulty, and the doorframe is crafted in a 
Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek. One takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) to craft and gives 11 XP. The ingredients:
- 30
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 15
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work) - 5
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 1
Element (or 
Red Element)
Placement and support
It can stand on any foundation, fence foundation or ceiling, the Thatch Roof excepted, or on top of another wall. A door fits the opening and can be locked, keeping others out while you and your tribemates still get through. From a doorframe standing directly above a foundation, pieces built on top can reach up to 2 ceilings out in each direction along the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally.
Doorframes do not change a house's insulation, with the door open, shut or gone. When a frame is destroyed, every piece that leaned on it for support is destroyed too, and if it was demolished, those extra pieces refund nothing.
Damage, weight and loot
Being a Tek structure, it takes damage only from explosives, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle, Titans, bosses, the 
Titanosaur, the 
Arthropluera, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, and the 
DodoRex. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 20 crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2.