Wooden Sign
A simple wooden sign for landmark navigation or relaying messages.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 49 crates
- Item ID
- 96
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 5
- Engram points
- 3
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Wooden Sign guides
How to craft Wooden Sign
Wooden Sign is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 5, costs 3 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 0.8 XP.
How to get Wooden Sign
Wooden Sign is found in 49 loot crates.
Loot crates
49 crates
- 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
- Genesis WhiteGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Genesis YellowGenesis Part 2 · ASE
- Island WhiteThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Island White BonusThe Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Lost Colony City BlueLost Colony · ASA
- Mission 'Bulbdog Fetch' EasyGenesis Part 2 · ASE
Show all 49 crates
- 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 WhiteScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
- Scorched White BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA / ASE
Wooden Sign — Detailed Guide
A sign for short messages
Known as the Wood Sign & Wall Sign in ARK: Survival Ascended and as the 
Wooden Sign in ARK: Survival Evolved, this structure shows a brief text to other players. The game's description: "A simple wooden sign for landmark navigation or relaying messages." The text can be changed as often as you like with the use key, and the 
Wooden Billboard is the option when a message needs more room.
Where it can stand
The sign needs no foundation and does not get in the way of natural resources spawning. It also does not snap to other structures.
Recipe and weight
The engram unlocks at level 5 for 3 engram points. One sign takes 5 
Wood (or 
Fungal Wood), 3 
Thatch and 4 
Fiber and gives 0.8 XP; our ASE record gives a crafting time of 5 seconds. A sign weighs 4 and stacks to 100, so a full stack weighs 400. Our records list it on 14 maps and in 49 crate types that can contain it, for example the Genesis Blue, Genesis Cyan and Genesis Purple crates.
How sturdy it is
Though made of wood, the sign takes damage the way a thatch structure does. The ARK Wiki notes that anything apart from non-explosive ranged attacks can hurt it.
Putting your own image on it
PNT files can be loaded onto the sign when the file name ends in _Sign_Small_Wood_C.pnt. The image resolution is 128x128, and in game it shows at an aspect ratio of 2.5:1.