Tek Stairs
Composite Tek stairs for travelling up or down levels. Can be switched to a ramp variant.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 4 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 477
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 Stairs guides
How to craft Tek Stairs
Tek Stairs is crafted from 4 ingredients, and one craft makes 2. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 32 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
320Stone
160Chitin/Keratin
140Metal
40ObsidianCrafted along the way: Metal Ingot ×70, Cementing Paste ×40, Polymer ×20.
How to get Tek Stairs
Tek Stairs 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 Stairs — Detailed Guide
Tek stairs that switch to a ramp
Called Tek Stairs in ARK: Survival Evolved and Tek Roof, Ramp & Stairs in ARK: Survival Ascended, this structure lets survivors move between the floors of a base. The in-game text: "Composite Tek stairs for travelling up or down levels. Can be switched to a ramp variant."
Each piece takes up 1 foundation in width and 1 in length and stands 1.5 walls tall. The wiki points out that this size can sometimes make planning awkward, and suggests placing stairs from the top downwards: extra length then usually ends up inside the floor, while building upward tends to leave the piece sticking out above the surface it should meet.
Unlocking and crafting
This is a Tekgram rather than a regular engram. The wiki says it comes from defeating the 
Dragon (Beta) or the 
Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta), and that beating the harder versions of these bosses gives it too. One craft produces 2 stairs from:
- 70
Metal Ingot or 
Scrap Metal Ingot - 20
Polymer, 
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule - 20
Crystal or 
Primal Crystal - 1
Element or 
Red Element
Crafting takes 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) and gives 32 XP. The wiki infobox names the 
Exo-Mek as a crafting station for it.
Weight, loot and durability
A single piece weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 20 loot crate types can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Red and Genesis Purple crates of Genesis Part 2. Our ASA row gives it a durability of 50.
The wiki treats it as a Tek structure that only the following attackers can damage: explosives, the 
Tek Rifle, Tek Saddles, titans, bosses, the 
DodoRex, corrupted or enraged creatures, a 
Titanosaur and an 
Arthropluera.