Wooden Double Door

The first double door

In ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the Wooden Double Door is the earliest double door available. It is wider than a regular door, letting larger things through, and like any door it locks the entrance to a structure and keeps the elements out. The game describes it as a stable wooden door for entering structures, one you can lock for security.

Fitting and locking it

The door only fits into a Double Doorframe. Once it is in place you can lock or unlock it, keeping others out while you and your tribemates can still get through. Open, closed or missing, a door does not change a house's insulation.

Crafting the door

The engram unlocks at level 18 and costs 4 engram points. The door is crafted in your inventory in 5 seconds and gives 1.458 XP. You need:

• 40 Wood or Fungal Wood
• 14 Thatch
• 8 Fiber

Each door weighs 4 and they stack to 100, for a full-stack weight of 400. They also turn up in loot, where 44 crate types can contain one, such as the Genesis Orange, Purple and Red crates of Genesis Part 2.

Attacks that do not hurt it

Being a wooden structure, the door cannot be damaged by fists, by stone weapons or by ranged attacks that do not explode. The ARK Wiki also lists a long row of aggressive creatures that cannot damage it, such as the Dilophosaur, Compy, Terror Bird, Velonasaur, Pulmonoscorpius and Microraptor.