Wooden Doorframe

A wall with an entrance

The Wooden Doorframe is a building piece in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended: "A wooden wall that provides entrance to a structure." The ARK Wiki calls it the second doorframe players can unlock. It works as a wall, giving a building its structure and closing off an area, while leaving a gap people can walk through.

Placing it and fitting a door

It can stand on any Foundation or Fence Foundation, on a ceiling (the Thatch Roof is the exception) or on top of another wall. A door set into the opening can be locked, so your tribe can still pass while others stay out. For support, the wiki says a doorframe holds pieces built out up to 2 ceilings along either axis, and up to 1 ceiling diagonally when the doorframe sits directly above a foundation.

Two cautions from the wiki: if a doorframe is destroyed, every piece that relies on it for support goes down too, and demolishing it gives no refund for those extra pieces. Doorframes have no effect on a house's insulation, with the door open, shut or missing altogether.

Crafting from the inventory

The engram unlocks at level 11 for 6 engram points, and the wiki lists the player inventory as the crafting place. One doorframe takes:

• 30 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 8 Thatch
• 6 Fiber

Our records give a crafting time of 3 seconds. A doorframe weighs 4 and up to 100 stack together, so a full stack weighs 400. In loot, 50 crate types can contain it, Fjordur Green and Genesis Blue among them.

What can and cannot break it

As a wooden structure it shrugs off bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that do not explode. The wiki also lists aggressive creatures that cannot damage it, including the Raptor, Sabertooth, Direwolf, Titanoboa, Ferox and Thylacoleo.