TEK Windowframe

A Tek wall with a window opening

ARK: Survival Ascended calls this piece the TEK Windowframe, and ARK: Survival Evolved the Tek Windowframe. In-game it is "A composite Tek wall, with a hole for a window." The ARK Wiki ranks it as the last windowframe you can get. It does the job of a wall, giving a building its structure and closing off an area, while the gap lets the people inside look out.

Tekgram and recipe

The wiki says the Tekgram is earned by defeating the Megapithecus or the Crystal Wyvern Queen on easy difficulty. One windowframe needs:

• 30 Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot
• 15 Polymer, Organic Polymer or Corrupted Nodule
• 5 Crystal or Primal Crystal
• 1 Element or Red Element

A craft takes 90 seconds, or 1.5 minutes, and gives 11 XP. The wiki names the Tek Replicator and the Exo-Mek as crafting stations, and a Tek Replicator turns out four windowframes per craft.

Placing it and what it holds up

A windowframe can go on any foundation, a fence foundation, a ceiling other than the Thatch Roof, or on another wall. A Window fits in the opening: open, it gives a view outside; closed, it blocks projectiles. The frame also supports building above it, reaching up to 2 ceilings out along the x and y axes and 1 ceiling diagonally when the frame stands directly over a foundation. Windowframes do not lower a house's insulation, whatever state the window is in.

Damage and collapse

As a Tek structure it can only be hurt by the Tek Rifle, explosives, Tek Saddles, Titans, bosses, the DodoRex, the Arthropluera, the Titanosaur and Corrupted or Enraged creatures. If the frame is destroyed, every piece resting on it is lost as well, and when that happens through demolishing, those extra pieces refund nothing. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100 (400 for a full stack). Loot holds it too: 20 crate types can contain it, Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan among them.