Thatch Wall
A simple wall made of bundled sticks, and stablized by a wooden frame. Fairly fragile, but better than nothing.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 81
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 4
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Thatch Wall guides
How to craft Thatch Wall
Thatch Wall is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 4, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.84 XP.
How to get Thatch Wall
Thatch Wall 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 Wall — Detailed Guide
A wall of bundled thatch
According to the ARK Wiki, the 
Thatch Wall is the most basic option among walls. It carries the name Thatch Wall in ARK: Survival Evolved and Thatch Wall & Doorway in ARK: Survival Ascended. The game describes it as bundled sticks held steady by a wooden frame, fairly fragile yet better than nothing. Like other walls, it gives a building structure and encloses an area.
Placement and support
The wall can stand on any Foundation, a Fence Foundation, another wall, or a ceiling other than the Thatch Roof. The use key (E) flips the wall's placement view. Walls also hold up what is built on them: pieces resting on a wall may reach out as far as 2 ceilings in each direction on the x and y axes, or 1 ceiling diagonally when the wall stands directly above a foundation.
How fragile it is
Thatch structures are weak and offer little defense against attacks from dinosaurs or other players; only non-explosive ranged attacks fail to damage this wall. When a wall is destroyed, every piece that relies on it for support goes down with it, and if the wall was removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Crafting cost
The engram unlocks at level 4 for 3 engram points, and crafting also requires level 4. A wall takes:
- 10
Thatch - 7
Fiber - 2
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood)
Each craft gives 0.8 XP, and in ASE it takes 5 seconds. A wall weighs 2 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 200. Our records list it on 14 maps and count 54 crate types that can contain it, for example the Aberration Green and Aberration White crates on Aberration and Valguero and the Genesis Blue and Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2.