Thatch Doorframe
This thatch wall has an entrance in it, but requires more wood to stay stable.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 48 crates
- Item ID
- 82
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 4
- Engram points
- 3
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch Doorframe guides
How to craft Thatch Doorframe
Thatch Doorframe is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 4, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.72 XP.
How to get Thatch Doorframe
Thatch Doorframe is found in 48 loot crates.
Loot crates
48 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
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' HardGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 48 crates
- 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 · ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASE
Thatch Doorframe — Detailed Guide
The simplest doorframe
The Thatch Doorframe is the entry-level doorframe of ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended: a wall piece with an opening for a door. The description notes: "This thatch wall has an entrance in it, but requires more wood to stay stable."
Building with it
It can stand on any Foundation, on a Fence Foundation, on another wall or on a Ceiling, though not on a Thatch Roof. Fit a Door into the opening and lock it to keep others out while you and your tribemates still get through. The frame also carries what is built on top: the structure can reach out 2 ceilings in any direction along the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally when the doorframe stands right above a foundation. According to the ARK Wiki, doorframes do not change a house's insulation, whether the door is open, shut or missing.
Engram and recipe
The engram unlocks at level 4 for 3 engram points. You craft the doorframe in your inventory from 8 
Thatch, 6 
Wood (
Fungal Wood also works, per the wiki) and 6 
Fiber; a craft takes 5 seconds and gives 0.7 XP. Each one weighs 6 and they stack to 100, so a full stack weighs 600. Loot can supply them as well: 48 crate types can contain one, Genesis Blue and Genesis Cyan among them.
A weak wall
Thatch offers little defense against creatures or other players, and the wiki notes that this doorframe can be damaged by anything except ranged attacks that do not explode. If it is destroyed, the pieces that depend on it for support go with it, and demolishing it refunds nothing for those extra pieces.