ARK: Survival Ascended Tek Base Templates
Tek structures are the top building tier and the most expensive thing you can place. Element, boss access for the engrams and per-tile limits all bind before the layout does, so these builds assume you already have a Tek farm running.
Most Tek builds here are mixed rather than pure. Tek where the raid damage lands, metal behind it, and conventional pieces for interiors — a full Tek shell is usually a statement rather than an optimisation.
Check the engram requirements as well as the resources. Placing a Tek template needs the corresponding engrams unlocked, which means the relevant boss kills, not just the element in your inventory.
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.
Tek templates
Behemoth Tek Base
A 2,000-structure Tek base laid out around a Behemoth Gateway footprint, sitting exactly on the per-template structure cap. Tek tier means every piece needs the boss-defeat engrams and Element to craft, so this is an endgame PvP build rather than a starter shell - plan the Element budget before you place it. The Behemoth footprint is what makes the count worth spending: gateways that size let a fully grown Rex or Giga walk in without a second door line.
92-Turret Heavy & Tek Tower
A 173-structure turret tower packing 92 Heavy Auto Turrets and Tek Turrets into a single metal-and-Tek footprint, built for PvP offline-protection windows. Mixing the two tiers matters under a soak: they draw different ammunition, so a raider who brought only one counter still has the other tier firing. Fully vanilla - no DLC and no mods. Official crafting costs are shown with visible recipe coverage.
Ultimate Gacha Farm
A three-part Gacha farm totalling 2,206 structures: the main production hall, a compact cubby section, and a centre support pillar so the whole thing snaps together on uneven ground. Built in metal and Tek for a PvE tribe running Gachas at scale. Each part imports separately, so you can place the hall first and extend later instead of committing to the full footprint on day one.
PvE Lookout Base
A 1,129-structure elevated PvE base with broad sightlines and enough internal room for core crafting and storage. Height is the design: an elevated platform keeps wild spawns out of your crafting floor and gives flyers a clean landing approach. Requires the Sci-Fi Tech mod for its structure set, so confirm it is loaded before importing.
Christmas 13x13 Defense Base
A 1,913-structure 13x13 defensive base in metal and Tek with a seasonal exterior theme. The 13x13 footprint is the practical part: an odd-numbered square gives you a true centre tile for the vault core and symmetrical turret coverage on all four faces. Requires Bob's Tall Tales. At nearly 2,000 structures it will use most of a tile's allowance on official PvP settings.
Underwater Turret Platform
A 1,684-structure underwater PvP platform shipped in two parts: the submerged base and the tower that snaps on top of it. Sixty-four Tek turrets sit in the design, and the bulk of the piece count is doubledoorframe and doorframe layering — the standard way of stacking hitboxes on a structure that cannot be approached on foot. Build your vacuum chambers to the height you want first, snap the base to the lowest one, then remove the chambers running to the seabed.
Functional HQ with Lowered Floor
A 1,987-structure metal and Tek headquarters shipped with a separate twelve-foundation part for aligning a lowered storage floor. The alignment part is the point - a flush lowered floor is fiddly to snap by hand, and this gives you the exact foundation grid. Requires Bob's Tall Tales and the Arkitect's Paradise mod, so check both are loaded before importing.
Automated Medical Brew Farm
A 62-structure medical brew farm sized for volume rather than for fitting in a corner: fourteen Tek troughs feed three industrial cooking pots inside a metal shell. It is laid out so the harvesting tame does not wedge itself on the return path, which is the failure mode that makes hand-built brew farms stop producing overnight. Vanilla, and it needs a berry cart connected to run.
Simple Turret Tower
A 175-structure defensive turret tower in metal and Tek, shipped as a native Template Hammer file for one-shot placement. Simple is the selling point: no variants to reconcile, just a tower that goes up in a single import when you need coverage on a new tile quickly. Requires Bob's Tall Tales. Official crafting costs are shown with visible recipe coverage.
Vault Dropped Generator
A nine-structure module that drops a Tek generator into a vault so the generator sits protected instead of exposed on a floor. The thatch ceiling in the file is sacrificial scaffolding — destroy it by hand once the vault has settled and the generator stays where the template put it. Vanilla, and small enough to place inside a base that is already built.
Common questions
Do I need boss kills to place a Tek template?
Yes. Tek structure engrams unlock from specific bosses, and Template Hammer respects engram requirements. Without the unlock the pieces will not place.
How much element does a Tek build cost?
Each template page lists every Tek piece in the build and its exact count, read out of the file itself, so you can price the element against the pieces you actually have to place.
Are Tek walls worth the cost over metal?
For raw durability, yes, but the multiplier is smaller than the cost multiplier. Most competitive tribes use Tek selectively — check the piece breakdown to see how a given build spends it.
Can I mix Tek and metal in one template?
Most of these already do. The material tags on each card show every tier present in the build, and the piece breakdown shows the exact split.
Related collections
- ARK: Survival Ascended Mega Base TemplatesMega builds for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC — 1,500 to 2,000 structures, from Tek fortresses to castles, validated piece by piece.
- ARK: Survival Ascended Metal Base TemplatesMetal base templates for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC. Raid-relevant durability and validated files with an exact metal piece count.
- ARK: Survival Ascended PvP Base TemplatesValidated PvP base templates for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC. Turret coverage, layered walls and vault rooms, ready to import with Template Hammer.
- ARK: Survival Ascended Turret Tower TemplatesTurret towers, anti-tank snaps and defensive shells for ARK: Survival Ascended on PC. Validated builds with exact turret and structure counts.
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