Wooden Windowframe

A wall with a view

The Wooden Windowframe is the simplest windowframe in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended, the ARK Wiki notes. The in-game text: "A wooden wall with a hole for a window." It does the job of a wall, giving a building its structure and closing off space, and its opening lets those inside look out.

Building with it

Any Foundation, Fence Foundation or Ceiling will hold it, and so will another wall. Fit a Window into the opening to look outside when it is open and to stop projectiles when it is closed. Insulation stays the same with the window open, closed or missing.

A windowframe also supports what is built on it: a structure can reach 2 ceilings out in every direction along the x and y axes, and 1 ceiling diagonally, from a windowframe that stands directly above a foundation. Take care when one comes down, though. Pieces resting on it are destroyed with it, and if it was demolished, those extra pieces refund no resources.

Creatures and damage

An open frame lets wild creatures see the player inside, and they go on the attack; small flying ones, the Titanomyrma and the Giant Bee for example, can even pass through the gap. It is treated as a wooden structure: bare hands, stone weapons and ranged attacks that do not explode cannot hurt it. The wiki also lists aggressive creatures that cannot damage it, among them the Raptor, Sabertooth, Direwolf, Titanoboa, Terror Bird and Pulmonoscorpius.

Crafting and storage

The engram unlocks at level 14 for 9 engram points. A frame is crafted in the inventory from 36 Wood (or Fungal Wood), 9 Thatch and 6 Fiber; crafting takes 3 seconds and gives 2.5 XP. It weighs 4 and stacks to 100, a full stack weighing 400. Our records count 50 crate types that can contain one, such as the Fjordur Green crate on Fjordur and the Genesis Blue and Cyan crates on Genesis Part 2.