Wooden Triangle Foundation
Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped.
Details
- Category
- Structure
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Recipe
- 3 ingredients
- Loot crates
- 54 crates
- Item ID
- 489
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- 11
- Engram points
- 6
Learn these first
Maps
Found on 12 maps
Video guides: search YouTube for Wooden Triangle Foundation guides
How to craft Wooden Triangle Foundation
Wooden Triangle Foundation is crafted from 3 ingredients. The engram unlocks at level 11, costs 6 engram points, takes 5 seconds, gives 4.5 XP.
How to get Wooden Triangle Foundation
Wooden Triangle Foundation is found in 54 loot crates.
Loot crates
54 crates
- Aberration GreenAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Aberration Green BonusAberration and Valguero · ASA
- Astraeos BlueAstraeos · ASA
- Astraeos Blue BonusAstraeos · ASA
- 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
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- 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
- Island Green BonusThe Island, The Center, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- 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
- Scorched GreenScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
- Scorched Green BonusScorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero · ASA
Wooden Triangle Foundation — Detailed Guide
The first triangle foundation
In ARK: Survival Ascended this building piece is the Wood Triangle & Quarter Foundation; ARK: Survival Evolved names it the 
Wooden Triangle Foundation. Its description: "Required to build structures in an area. Triangle shaped." The ARK Wiki calls it the first triangle foundation you can unlock, and foundations are the base that any housing or storage structure needs.
Engram and materials
The engram opens at level 11 for 6 engram points, with level 11 also needed to craft it, and our records list the 
Thatch Foundation as its prerequisite. It is made in your inventory from:
- 40
Wood or 
Fungal Wood - 10
Thatch - 8
Fiber
Each craft gives 4.5 XP; in ASE it takes 5 seconds.
Placement and support
It sits on flat or slightly uneven ground. After the first one is down, more can snap into line alongside it as long as there is enough space and ground. Walls, ceilings and similar pieces get support from a foundation only when it lies right below them. Beyond that it carries ceilings up to two pieces out along the x and y axes and one piece diagonally, though walls cannot stand on the outermost of those ceilings.
What can and cannot break it
If the foundation is destroyed, everything relying on it for support goes too, and demolishing it gives no refund for those extra pieces. As a wooden structure it shrugs off bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that are not explosive. Several aggressive creatures cannot hurt it, according to the wiki, including the 
Direwolf, 
Raptor, 
Sabertooth, 
Terror Bird and 
Titanoboa.
Weight and loot
A foundation weighs 2 and stacks to 100, 200 for a full stack. Our records list it on 14 maps, and 54 crate types can contain it, such as Aberration Green, Astraeos Blue and their bonus versions.