Metal Sign

Metal Sign

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A small metal sign for landmark navigation or relaying messages.

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Structure

Type

Building

Health

1,000

Decay time

8d

Item

Weight

4.0

Stack size

100

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 214 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Metal/PrimalItemStructure_MetalSign.PrimalItemStructure_MetalSign'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 50

Engram points

10 EP

Crafting XP

10.4 XP

Prerequisites

•  Wooden Sign

Unlocks

•  Metal Billboard
•  Metal Wall Sign

Crafted in

•  Smithy
•  Argentavis Saddle
•  Castoroides Saddle
•  Thorny Dragon Saddle
•  Tek Replicator
•  Exo-Mek

Required stations

Refining Forge

Ingredients

5 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

3 × Cementing Paste or Achatina Paste

The Metal Sign lets players display a short message to other players. If more space for a message is needed, the Metal Billboard can be used. Edit the text as many times as needed with the use key (E, , , ).

Construction

The Metal Sign does not require a foundation for placement, and as such does not interfere with the spawning of natural resources. It does not snap to other structures.

Notes

• Despite being a metal object, the Metal Sign takes damage as if it were wood

• The Metal Sign is treated as a wooden structure and can not be damaged by hands, stone weapons, or non-explosive ranged attacks.
• The following aggressive creatures can not damage the Metal Sign:

•  Araneo
•  Archaeopteryx
•  Basilisk
•  Beelzebufo
•  Carbonemys
•  Cnidaria
•  Compy
•  Dilophosaur
•  Dimorphodon
•  Diplodocus
•  Direwolf
•  Dung Beetle
•  Equus
•  Eurypterid
•  Ferox
•  Giant Bee
•  Ichthyornis
•  Insect Swarm
•  Kaprosuchus
•  Lamprey
•  Leech
•  Meganeura
•  Microraptor
•  Nameless
•  Onyc
•  Pachy
•  Piranha
•  Pulmonoscorpius
•  Raptor
•  Sabertooth
•  Sabertooth Salmon
•  Terror Bird
•  Thylacoleo
•  Titanoboa
•  Titanomyrma
•  Velonasaur
•  Vulture

Painting and Color Regions

In addition to its preset paint regions, you can doodle on the Metal Sign by "attacking" it with a  Paintbrush, which will open the "Apply Paint" Menu. Then, click and drag your cursor over the 3D model (like a paintbrush) to draw anything you want. See Painting for more information on doodling.

For more information on Paint Regions and how to use them, please view the Dye,  Paintbrush, or  Spray Painter pages.

Region 1:
Background

Region 2:
Support Post

Region 3 is not used
for this Object.

Region 4 is not used
for this Object.

Region 5:
Screw-heads

Region 6:
Screw Thread

Loading and Saving Custom Images

To load Ark PNT files into a Metal Sign, the file name must be suffixed with _Sign_Small_Metal_C.pnt. The resolution is 128x128, and the aspect ratio in-game is 2.5:1. Also see Painting.

Changelog

Patch	ASE Changes
180.0	Can't build signs near enemy foundations anymore.
321.14	Fixed a bug that caused Billboards & Signs to have a 24 character limit.