Thatch Foundation
A foundation is required to build structures. This one is a wooden frame with some smooth bundles of sticks that act as a floor.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 80
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 4
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 14 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch Foundation guides
How to craft Thatch Foundation
Thatch Foundation is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 4, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 1.5 XP.
How to get Thatch Foundation
Thatch Foundation 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 Foundation — Detailed Guide
The floor under a thatch base
The Thatch Foundation is the simplest foundation in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. Every kind of housing structure requires a foundation, and the game describes this one as "a wooden frame with some smooth bundles of sticks that act as a floor."
Engram and materials
It unlocks at level 4 for 3 engram points and takes 5 seconds to craft from:
- 20
Thatch - 6
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 15
Fiber
Each craft yields one foundation and 1.5 XP. A foundation weighs 6 and they stack to 100, for 600 in a full stack. Our records list it on 14 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok and Astraeos, and 54 crate types can contain it, for example the Aberration Green and Aberration White crates and the Genesis Cyan crates.
Placing and snapping
It goes down on flat or slightly uneven ground. Once the first one is in place, more Thatch Foundations snap alongside it so the row lines up, as long as there is enough space and ground. Walls, ceilings and similar pieces are only supported by a foundation that sits right below them. A foundation can also hold up to two ceilings outward along the x and y axes and one ceiling diagonally, but walls cannot rest on the outermost of those ceilings.
How sturdy it is
Thatch offers little protection from creature or player attacks, and anything except non-explosive ranged attacks can damage it. When a foundation is destroyed, the pieces that depend on it go down too; if it was removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces refund nothing.