Tek Hatchframe
This composite Tek ceiling has a hole in it for trapdoors.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 437
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Hatchframe guides
How to craft Tek Hatchframe
Tek Hatchframe is crafted from 4 ingredients. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 18 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw 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 Hatchframe
Tek Hatchframe 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 Hatchframe — Detailed Guide
A Tek ceiling with an opening
Among the Tek building pieces of ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended is the Tek Hatchframe. Its in-game text: "This composite Tek ceiling has a hole in it for trapdoors." The ARK Wiki calls it the last hatchframe available. It acts as a ceiling, shielding what is below from the elements and adding to hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation, while the hole lets survivors pass in and out.
Placement and trapdoors
It can be set on a Wall, a Foundation or Fence Foundation, another hatchframe, or a ceiling other than the Thatch Roof. A Trapdoor fits the hole and can be locked, keeping others out while you and your tribemates still get through. The hatchframe needs support from a foundation or pillar nearby: it reaches up to 2 ceilings out along the x or y axis and 1 ceiling diagonally from a wall or a ceiling standing directly over a connected foundation or pillar, and the pieces at the far ends of such a span cannot hold walls.
What can damage it
As a Tek structure it takes damage only from these sources: titans and bosses, Corrupted and Enraged Creatures, the 
Titanosaur, 
Arthropluera and 
DodoRex, the 
Tek Rifle and Tek Saddles, and explosives. If it is destroyed, every piece resting on it is destroyed too, and demolishing it refunds nothing for those extra pieces. The wiki adds that hatchframes leave a house's insulation unchanged whether the trapdoor is open, shut or missing.
Tekgram, recipe and loot
According to the wiki, the Tekgram comes from defeating the 
Megapithecus on easy difficulty. The wiki names the 
Exo-Mek as a place to craft it; a craft takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 18 XP. Ingredients:
- 50
Metal Ingot (or 
Scrap Metal Ingot) - 25
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work) - 10
Crystal (or 
Primal Crystal) - 1
Element (or 
Red Element)
Each hatchframe weighs 4 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 20 crate types that can contain it, among them the Genesis Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Purple and Red crates on Genesis Part 2.