Wooden Billboard
A large wooden billboard for landmark navigation or relaying messages.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 58 crates
- Item ID
- 217
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 19
- Engram points
- 4
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Wooden Billboard guides
How to craft Wooden Billboard
Wooden Billboard is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 19, costs 4 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 6.95 XP.
How to get Wooden Billboard
Wooden Billboard is found in 58 loot crates.
Loot crates
58 crates
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Desert Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Fjordur GreenFjordur · ASE
- Fjordur Green BonusFjordur · ASE
- 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
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- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island BlueThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island Blue BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Island GreenThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island Green BonusThe Island, 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 BlueScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Blue BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Wooden Billboard — Detailed Guide
A big board for messages and landmarks
This structure is named Wood Billboard in ARK: Survival Ascended and 
Wooden Billboard in ARK: Survival Evolved. The game describes it as "A large wooden billboard for landmark navigation or relaying messages." The ARK Wiki adds that it is larger than a 
Wooden Sign and that its text can be changed as often as you like with the use key (E).
Putting a custom image on it
A billboard can also carry a loaded image. According to the wiki, an ARK PNT file needs the suffix _Sign_Large_Wood_C in its file name before it loads onto this board. The image resolution is 256x256, and in the game it is shown at an aspect ratio of 2.5:1.
Damage it ignores
It counts as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives do not damage it. The wiki also names aggressive creatures that cannot harm it, for example the 
Titanomyrma, 
Onyc, 
Microraptor, 
Equus, 
Ferox and 
Vulture.
Crafting and storage
The engram unlocks at level 19 for 4 engram points, which is also the level needed to craft it. A billboard is made in your inventory from 60 
Wood or 
Fungal Wood, 15 
Thatch and 10 
Fiber, and in ASE a craft takes 5 seconds. Each billboard weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records name 58 crate types that can contain one, such as Astraeos Blue, Astraeos Desert Blue and Fjordur Green, each with its bonus version, and list it on 14 maps, among them The Center, Valguero, Lost Colony and Crystal Isles.