TEK Fence Foundation
This composite Tek foundation is used to build walls around an area.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 465
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 Fence Foundation guides
How to craft Tek Fence Foundation
Tek Fence Foundation is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 5 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
16Stone
10Metal
8Chitin/KeratinCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×5, Cementing Paste ×2.
How to get Tek Fence Foundation
Tek Fence Foundation 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 Fence Foundation — Detailed Guide
A Tek base for single walls
The Tek Fence Foundation & Support is a Tek building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended; the ASE row names it TEK Fence Foundation. Its in-game text says: "This composite Tek foundation is used to build walls around an area." In practice it carries a perimeter that is one wall thick, for example a pen for tamed creatures: the fence foundation goes down first, then a wall section is set on top of it.
It sits directly on the ground, snaps to foundations and to other fence foundations, and can be snapped at 45 degree angles.
Tekgram and recipe
The engram comes from a Tekgram, a boss reward. The ARK Wiki says the Tekgram is earned by defeating 
Broodmother Lysrix or the 
Crystal Wyvern Queen on medium difficulty. Crafting takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 5 XP, and the wiki lists the 
Exo-Mek as a place to craft it. One foundation costs:
- 25
Element Shard or 
Red Element Shard - 5
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 2
Cementing Paste or 
Achatina Paste
The wiki gives 255.0 as the version that added it.
What can break it
As a Tek structure it only takes damage from a set list of sources: explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, Titans, Bosses, Corrupted Creatures, Enraged Creatures, the 
DodoRex, an 
Arthropluera or a 
Titanosaur. Losing a foundation also takes down every piece that depends on it for support, and when the foundation is removed with the demolish option those extra pieces refund nothing.
Weight, loot and maps
Each foundation weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list 20 loot crate types that can contain it, such as the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2, and place it on 14 maps, including The Island, Astraeos, Crystal Isles and Fjordur.