Tek Ladder
A composite Tek ladder used to climb up or down tall structures. Can also be used to extend existing ladders.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 440
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Default
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Tek Ladder guides
How to craft Tek Ladder
Tek Ladder is crafted from 4 ingredients, and one craft makes 4. The engram unlocks by default, costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 3 XP.
Raw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
320Stone
160Chitin/Keratin
56Metal
40ObsidianCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×40, Metal Ingot ×28, Polymer ×20.
How to get Tek Ladder
Tek Ladder 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 Ladder — Detailed Guide
A Tek-tier way up
The Tek Ladder belongs to the Tek tier building set of ARK: Survival Evolved and lets survivors reach higher spots, much like the 
Tek Staircase. In the game's words: "A composite Tek ladder used to climb up or down tall structures. Can also be used to extend existing ladders."
Placing and climbing
A ladder can go against the side of a structure, under a Hatchframe or along natural terrain. The ARK Wiki adds that one fixed to the side of a Platform Saddle makes it easy to climb aboard. Facing the front of the ladder and pressing use starts the climb; from the back, the only option is to demolish it. Ladders can be buggy, and players sometimes struggle to climb or get off; combining them with trapdoors can also cause trouble when getting off.
Unlocking and crafting
It comes as a Tekgram, which the wiki ties to a win over 
Broodmother Lysrix on medium difficulty. One craft yields 4 ladders and uses:
- 28
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 20
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer, or 
Corrupted Nodule - 8
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 1
Element or 
Red Element
It is crafted in a 
Tek Replicator or an 
Exo-Mek. A craft takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 3 XP.
Weight, toughness and loot
Each ladder weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. It has 50 durability, and as a Tek structure only a short list can hurt it: the 
DodoRex, bosses, Titans, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle, explosives, a 
Titanosaur or an 
Arthropluera, plus corrupted and enraged creatures. 20 crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Green crates on Genesis Part 2. Our records list it on 14 maps.