ARK: Survival Ascended Stone Base Templates
Stone is the tier most players actually live in. It is immune to wild creature damage, it is cheap enough to rebuild after a mistake, and it is available long before a metal farm is running.
These builds are sized for that window: real bases with storage and station space, at a cost you can cover in an evening of farming rather than a weekend. Several are mixed builds that use stone for the bulk and metal only where it counts.
On PvP servers treat stone as a delay rather than a defence. It buys time against players; it does not stop them. For anything holding value, move up to the metal and Tek collections.
Template pages publish official crafting costs with visible recipe coverage. Modded pieces and files still awaiting an exact breakdown remain clearly uncosted; their requirements are never estimated.
Stone templates
Argentavis Trap
A six-structure Argentavis trap - the smallest build in this library - in stone, for fast setup and a safe exit while the target sleeps. Six pieces means you can carry the materials on a taming run and put it down wherever the Argy is, instead of luring it home. Fully vanilla, no DLC and no mods, so it works on any PC server.
Viking Lodge
Two complete variants of a large Viking-inspired lodge, 1,997 structures at their biggest, sharing one wood-and-stone silhouette with different interior and exterior detailing. Both are vanilla - no DLC, no mods - so they place on any PC server. Pick a variant rather than importing both: at this size a single copy already fills most of a tribe's structure allowance on official settings.
All-in-One Forest Hut
An 893-structure forest hut in wood and stone, combining residential space, storage and everyday crafting in a single build. All-in-one is accurate - you do not need a second structure for the first stretch of a PvE run. Stone tier means it is affordable well before metal, so it suits an early-to-mid game tribe. Requires Bob's Tall Tales.
Japanese Castle
A 1,600-structure Japanese-inspired castle in wood and stone, with multiple tiers, detailed rooflines and substantial interior space. Entirely vanilla - no DLC and no mods - which makes it one of the larger builds here that will place on any PC server without extra content. Expect the roof detailing to account for a large share of the structure count.
Large Farm
A 989-structure agricultural build in stone with extensive crop plot and utility space for sustained PvE production. The crop plots are what shape the footprint: they are spaced so irrigation and access lines do not fight each other, which is the usual failure of a hand-built farm. Requires Bob's Tall Tales.
Basic Bunkhouse with Greenhouse
A 272-structure bunkhouse in stone with an attached greenhouse, sized for a small PvE tribe. One of the cheapest complete living-plus-growing setups in the library - under 300 structures, so it barely touches a structure allowance. Good as a satellite build on a farming tile rather than as a main base. Requires Bob's Tall Tales.
6x8 Early-Game Base
A 779-structure 6x8 early-game PvE base in stone, with room for crafting, storage and the core progression stations. Fully vanilla. The rectangular footprint is deliberate: 6x8 fits most beach and riverbank flats without terrain smoothing, which is where square designs of this size usually fail to snap.
2×2 Stone Taming Trap
A 16-structure 2x2 stone taming trap that goes up in one trip on stone-tier resources, sized for mid-game land tames. Small enough to build on the spot when you find a target rather than walking it back to a permanent pen, and cheap enough to leave behind afterwards. Fully vanilla - no DLC, no mods. Official crafting costs are shown with visible recipe coverage.
Greek Starter House
A 1,116-structure classical residence in stone with layered rooms, terraces and decorative pieces from the Astraeos Structures mod. Called a starter house, but at over a thousand structures it is a settled home rather than a first-night shelter - build it once you have a stone-tier economy running. Needs the Astraeos Structures mod loaded.
Three-Floor Small Base
A 694-structure three-floor base in stone, using additional structure sets for its floors, roofs, walls and gates. Vertical rather than wide, so it suits a cliff or a cramped tile where you cannot spread out. Requires Bob's Tall Tales plus two mods - Arkitect Structures Remastered and Cyber's Structures - and all three must be loaded or the import fails validation.
Beach Starter Hut
An 849-structure beach starter hut across multiple levels, with room for early crafting, storage and small tames. Wood and stone, and fully vanilla - no DLC, no mods - so it places on any PC server. Sized for a beach tile on The Island or Ragnarok, where vertical space matters more than footprint because the flat ground is contested.
Medium Dino Trap
A 24-structure stone creature trap with two gates and a rear player exit, for controlled mid-game taming. The rear exit is the part homemade traps usually miss: it lets you leave on foot without opening the gate the target came through. Fully vanilla, and cheap enough to abandon after the tame. Official crafting costs are shown with visible recipe coverage.
Common questions
Is stone strong enough for PvE?
Yes. Stone is immune to damage from most wild creatures, which is the only threat model that matters on PvE, so a stone base is a permanent home rather than a stopgap.
How much stone does a base template need?
Every template page lists the full piece breakdown read out of the file itself, so you know exactly which stone, wood and thatch parts the build uses and how many of each before you start farming.
What can break a stone base in PvP?
Explosives and Tek weapons go through stone quickly. It stops early-game raids and buys you response time; it does not survive a prepared attack.
Should I start with stone or go straight to metal?
Start with stone. The time cost of a metal farm early on is usually better spent on tames and map access, and a stone shell can be replaced with a metal template later.
Related collections
- ARK: Survival Ascended Starter House TemplatesStarter houses, huts and lodges for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC. Small builds you can place on day one and expand later, validated and free.
- ARK: Survival Ascended PvE Base TemplatesPvE base templates for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC — workshops, storage wings and breeding rooms, validated and free to copy or download.
- ARK: Survival Ascended Dino Trap TemplatesArgentavis, medium-dino and stone taming traps for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC. Small structure counts, fast to place with Template Hammer.
- Vanilla ARK: Survival Ascended Building TemplatesARK: Survival Ascended templates that need no mods or DLC content. Validated against the file contents, so vanilla here genuinely means vanilla.
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