Thatch Door
Enough sticks budled together work as a simple door. Can be locked for security, but is not very strong.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 2 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 79
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 4
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch Door guides
How to craft Thatch Door
Thatch Door is crafted from 2 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 4, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.43 XP.
How to get Thatch Door
Thatch Door 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
Show all 54 crates
- 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 Door — Detailed Guide
The simplest door in the game
ARK: Survival Evolved lists this structure as the 
Thatch Door, and ARK: Survival Ascended names it Thatch Doors & Window. The ARK Wiki calls the Thatch Door the most basic door available. Its in-game text describes a simple door of bundled sticks that can be locked but is not very strong. A door closes off the entrance of a structure, keeps the elements outside and lets you decide who gets in.
Fitting and locking it
The door goes only into a Doorframe. Once placed, it can be locked or unlocked, keeping outsiders out while you and your tribemates still get through. Our records name the 
Thatch Doorframe as its prerequisite. A house keeps the same insulation with the door open, shut or gone.
Making one
The engram unlocks at level 4 for 3 engram points. The door is crafted in the inventory from:
Thatch
FiberEach craft yields one door and gives 0.43 XP; in ASE it takes 5 seconds. A door weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400.
How much punishment it takes
The ARK Wiki notes that this door gives little protection and breaks easily, and that thatch structures in general are weak and offer little defense when dinosaurs or other players attack. It counts as a thatch structure: only non-explosive ranged attacks leave it unharmed, and every other kind of attack can damage it. The wiki advises upgrading to a 
Wooden Door and keeping the thatch version for short-term bases. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 54 crate types can contain it, including Aberration Green, Aberration White and Genesis Blue.