Wooden Pillar
Wooden pillar.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 60 crates
- Item ID
- 89
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 12
- Engram points
- 9
- How to unlock
- Manual
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Wooden Pillar guides
How to craft Wooden Pillar
Wooden Pillar is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 12, costs 9 engram points, takes 3 seconds, gives 2.78 XP.
How to get Wooden Pillar
Wooden Pillar is found in 60 loot crates.
Loot crates
60 crates
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Orbital EasyAstraeos · ASA
- Extinction Orbital EasyExtinction · 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
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- Genesis PurpleGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis RedGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- 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
- Orbital Drop EasyExtinction · ASE
- Raptor Claus GiftThe Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis Part 1, Genesis Part 2, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, and Fjordur · ASE
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Wooden Pillar — Detailed Guide
Wooden supports for a base
Among the pillars in ARK: Survival Evolved, the Wooden Pillar is the most basic option. A pillar works as a foundation you can stack, and foundations are what any housing or storage structure needs before it can be built. The in-game description: "Adds structural integrity to the area it is built on. Can also act as stilts for buildings on inclines."
Placing pillars
It stands on level or slightly uneven ground, and it also fits on the top or underside of foundations, ceilings and other pillars. More pillars snap above or below the first one when there is room. A column whose bottom reaches the ground and that carries a ceiling on top acts as a foundation: it gives support and lets structures be built on it.
A single pillar holds ceilings up to 2 out along the x and y axes and 1 out diagonally, not counting the center one, for 13 ceilings in total. The ceilings at the far edge of that area cannot carry a wall unless there is extra support underneath.
Crafting the Wooden Pillar
The engram unlocks at level 12 for 9 engram points, and our records list the 
Wooden Foundation as its prerequisite. It is crafted in the inventory from:
- 40
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood) - 10
Thatch - 7
Fiber
Crafting takes 3 seconds. A pillar weighs 4 and they stack to 100, a full stack weighing 400. Our records count 60 crate types that can contain it, such as the Aberration Green crates and the Extinction Orbital Easy drop, and list it on 12 maps, including The Island, Ragnarok, Valguero and Fjordur.
What can and cannot damage it
As a wooden structure it is safe from bare hands, stone weapons and non-explosive ranged attacks. Many aggressive creatures cannot hurt it either; the ARK Wiki names among them the 
Titanoboa, 
Raptor, 
Direwolf, 
Sabertooth, 
Kaprosuchus, 
Thylacoleo and 
Piranha.