Wooden Double Doorframe

A doorway for double doors

The Wooden Double Doorframe is a wall piece with an opening, found in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, and the ARK Wiki calls it the first double doorframe you can unlock. The game describes it as "A wooden wall that provides entrance to a structure." It behaves like a wall, closing off an area and holding up the building, while leaving a gap to walk through.

Placing it and adding a door

It can go on any Foundation or Fence Foundation, on top of another wall, or on a ceiling other than the Thatch Roof. A Double Door fits in the gap and can be locked, which keeps outsiders out while you and your tribe still pass. As support, a doorframe lets the build above it reach out up to 2 ceilings along the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally when the frame stands right on a foundation.

Crafting, weight and loot

The engram unlocks at level 18 for 6 engram points, and the frame is crafted in your inventory from 30 Wood (Fungal Wood works too), 8 Thatch and 6 Fiber. A craft takes 3 seconds and gives 2.112 XP. Each frame weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list 44 crate types that can contain one, including the Genesis Blue, Genesis Red and Genesis Purple crates on Genesis Part 2.

Damage and demolishing

As a wooden structure it cannot be harmed by bare hands, stone weapons or ranged attacks that do not explode. The ARK Wiki also lists many aggressive creatures that cannot damage it, such as the Raptor, Direwolf, Sabertooth, Titanoboa and Kaprosuchus. If the frame is destroyed, every piece resting on it for support goes too, and when that happens through demolishing, those extra pieces give back no resources. Doorframes have no effect on a house's insulation, whether the door is open, shut or missing.