Tek Pillar

The Tek tier pillar

At the top end of building in ARK: Survival Evolved sits the Tek Pillar, the end-game pillar of the Tek Tier building set. In-game it is described as "This composite Tek pillar adds structural integrity to the area it is build under. Can also act as stilts for buildings on inclines." A pillar works like a foundation that can be stacked.

Placement and support

The pillar stands on flat or slightly uneven ground and can also be placed above or below foundations, ceilings and other pillars. Once the first one is down, further pillars snap onto its top or bottom if there is enough space. A pillar, or a column of them, that touches the ground and carries a ceiling acts as a foundation, and other structures can then be built on it. From a single pillar, a structure can spread 2 ceilings outward along the x and y axes and 1 ceiling diagonally, leaving out the center ceiling; the wiki's diagram shows 13 ceilings held up this way. The ceilings at the far end cannot hold walls unless something supports them from below.

Tekgram and crafting

The ARK Wiki says the Tekgram comes from defeating Broodmother Lysrix on medium difficulty. The pillar is crafted in a Tek Replicator or an Exo-Mek. One craft takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes), gives 60 XP according to the wiki, and yields 2 pillars according to our records. The recipe:

• 60 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 14 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 10 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 1 Element or Red Element

Each pillar weighs 4 and they stack to 100, for a full-stack weight of 400. Our records list it on 12 maps and count 20 crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue and Genesis Red crates on Genesis Part 2.

What can damage it

As a Tek structure it only takes damage from explosives, the Tek Rifle and Tek Saddles, Titans and bosses, the Arthropluera and the Titanosaur, Corrupted or Enraged Creatures, and the DodoRex.