Wooden Ceiling
A stable wooden ceiling that insulates the inside from the outside, and doubles as a floor for higher levels.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 56 crates
- Item ID
- 84
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 11
- Engram points
- 6
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Wooden Ceiling guides
How to craft Wooden Ceiling
Wooden Ceiling is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 11, costs 6 engram points, takes 4 seconds, gives 5.56 XP.
How to get Wooden Ceiling
Wooden Ceiling is found in 56 loot crates.
Loot crates
56 crates
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos 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 GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Wooden Ceiling — Detailed Guide
A ceiling that is also a floor
In ARK: Survival Ascended this building piece is called the Wood Ceiling & Hatchframe, while ARK: Survival Evolved lists it as the 
Wooden Ceiling. The in-game description: "A stable wooden ceiling that insulates the inside from the outside, and doubles as a floor for higher levels." According to the ARK Wiki, a ceiling shields you from the elements and improves both hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation, and this wooden version is the second ceiling you can unlock.
Crafting the Wood Ceiling & Hatchframe
The engram unlocks at level 11 for 6 engram points, and crafting it also requires level 11. Each ceiling is made in the inventory from:
- 60
Wood (the ARK Wiki notes that 
Fungal Wood works too) - 15
Thatch - 10
Fiber
A craft takes 4 seconds, produces one ceiling and gives 5.5 XP. Ceilings weigh 4 each and stack to 100, which puts a full stack at 400.
Placement and support
A ceiling has to sit on a wall, a pillar, a foundation or another ceiling. Once the first one is down, further ceilings snap into line beside it as long as there is room. Support must come from a foundation or pillar nearby: the ARK Wiki allows a reach of up to 2 ceilings out on the x or y axis and 1 ceiling diagonally, counted from a wall or ceiling that sits directly over a connected foundation or pillar. Ceilings at the outer ends of such a layout cannot carry walls.
What can and cannot damage it
The game treats it as a wooden structure: fists, stone weapons and ranged attacks without explosives do no damage to it. The ARK Wiki also names a long list of aggressive creatures that cannot harm it, for example the 
Raptor, 
Sabertooth, 
Direwolf, 
Titanoboa, 
Kaprosuchus and 
Pulmonoscorpius. Losing a ceiling brings down every piece that depends on it for support, and when the ceiling was removed with the demolish option, those extra pieces refund no resources.
Maps and loot crates
Our records list it on 14 maps, including The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Ragnarok and Fjordur. It can also come from loot: 56 crate types can contain it, for example Aberration Green (Aberration and Valguero), Astraeos Blue and Fjordur Green.