TEK Trapdoor
This composite Tek slab can be used to secure hatches.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 20 crates
- Item ID
- 443
Video guides: search YouTube for TEK Trapdoor guides
How to craft Tek Trapdoor
Tek Trapdoor is crafted from 3 ingredients, and one craft makes 4. The engram unlocks by tekgram (boss reward), costs 0 engram points, takes 90 seconds, gives 6 XP.
Tek ReplicatorRaw materials
If you craft every ingredient yourself
256Stone
128Chitin/Keratin
32ObsidianCrafted along the way: Cementing Paste ×32, Polymer ×16.
How to get Tek Trapdoor
Tek Trapdoor 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 Trapdoor — Detailed Guide
Locking a hatch with Tek
The TEK Trapdoor, spelled Tek Trapdoor in ARK: Survival Evolved, is the last trapdoor survivors can unlock, and our records hold it for both ARK: Survival Ascended and ASE. It goes inside a Hatchframe, the only place it can be placed, and once fitted it can be locked or unlocked. That way a tribe can shut others out of a building while its own members still get through. The in-game text: "This composite Tek slab can be used to secure hatches."
The ARK Wiki adds that trapdoors leave a house's insulation unchanged, whether they are open, closed or not there at all.
Tekgram and recipe
It is unlocked through a Tekgram, which the wiki says is earned by defeating 
Megapithecus on easy difficulty. One craft produces 4 trapdoors from:
- 40
Crystal (
Primal Crystal also works) - 16
Polymer (
Organic Polymer or 
Corrupted Nodule also work) - 1
Element (or 
Red Element)
Crafting takes 90 seconds, or 1.5 minutes, and gives 6 XP. The wiki lists the 
Exo-Mek as one place to craft it.
What can damage it
It counts as a Tek structure and takes damage only from certain sources. According to the wiki, these are Titans, bosses, the 
DodoRex, a 
Titanosaur, an 
Arthropluera, Tek Saddles, the 
Tek Rifle, explosives, Corrupted Creatures and Enraged Creatures.
Weight and loot
Each trapdoor weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records count 20 crate types that can contain it, among them the Genesis Blue, Genesis Red and Genesis Purple crates of Genesis Part 2. The version that added it is 255.0.