Thatch Ceiling
A thatched ceiling to protect you from the elements. Not stable enough to build on.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 78
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 4
- Engram points
- 3
- How to unlock
- Manual
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch Ceiling guides
How to craft Thatch Ceiling
Thatch Ceiling is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 4, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.35 XP.
How to get Thatch Ceiling
Thatch Ceiling is found in 54 loot crates.
Loot crates
54 crates
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration WhiteAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration White BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- 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
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- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Circuit Chase' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Ferox Cull' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Maewing Poach' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Paracer Roundup' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Shadowmane Prowl' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slide and Glide' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Slipstream Sweep' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Starwing Strike' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Team Downriver Run' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Velonasaur Stalk' MediumGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Scorched WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Thatch Ceiling — Detailed Guide
The simplest roof you can place
No ceiling in ARK: Survival Evolved is simpler than the Thatch Ceiling. The game describes it plainly: "A thatched ceiling to protect you from the elements. Not stable enough to build on." Like any ceiling, it enables the Home status buff, worth +112 hypothermic and +56 hyperthermic insulation, and that bonus stays the same whatever material the home is made of.
Placement and support
It can be set on a Foundation, Pillar, Wall or another ceiling, and further thatch ceilings snap along the first one when there is space. Support has to come from a foundation or pillar nearby: a ceiling can reach up to 2 ceilings out along either axis, and 1 diagonally, from a wall or ceiling sitting right above a connected foundation or pillar. The outermost pieces of such a layout cannot hold walls.
Unlike other ceilings, it cannot serve as a second floor: walls cannot go on top of it. Placeable items such as 
Hide Sleeping Bags and 
Storage Boxes can still be set on it.
Crafting, weight and loot
The engram unlocks at level 4 for 3 engram points. One ceiling takes 15 
Thatch, 10 
Fiber and 4 
Wood (
Fungal Wood works too), and crafting takes 5 seconds. A ceiling weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400. White beacons can hold it, and our records count 54 crate types that can contain it, among them the Aberration Green, Aberration White and Genesis Blue crates. Our records list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and Fjordur.
How sturdy it is
Thatch is a weak material that gives little protection against attacks from dinosaurs or other players. As a thatch structure it takes damage from everything except non-explosive ranged attacks. If a ceiling is destroyed, the pieces that depend on it for support collapse as well, and when the ceiling was demolished, those extra pieces refund no resources.