15:30 dunno if ASA still got it, but the most used and most flexible kind of structure to make a pen is the fence foundation. you can lay out an area with those and snap walls, doors and gates to them. So you can easily make an outdoor pen, where your dinos dont have to stand on foundations. They snap even on uneven terrain to make the best seal to the ground possible.

I like what you made! But it's probably the size of a workshop and you need to really supersize for a dino pen :)

Small tip, carry your gatherers (anklyo, doed) with the argy, it will auto harvest up to like 70% inventory weight on the gatherer

@MegaMacX

7 ай бұрын

oh really? The mod "Better Dinos" got implemented into ASA?

@LabratOfficial

7 ай бұрын

They do this in ASE as well as part of the base game

Tip for PVE players and log term fun. Create multiple armies instead of just rexes. Use megatheriums to fight spider, rexes to fight money, therys to fight dragons... Put the points in the dinos' name, that way you can easily track their original stats FYI carbonemys are very good to tame Tusos (Giant squid), give it a good saddle, every point in hp, and you're good to go

@SeanSR

7 ай бұрын

Spell check is a powerful tool before you post. 😅

@Papeladas

7 ай бұрын

good catch 😂🤣

If no one has mentioned yet, you can pick up many of the small and smallish medium Dinos with the Argentavis. Comes in real handy when taming. Make a 2x6 or 3x6 pin 2 window high walls and just carry and drop whatever you want to tame (within reasonable size) into the pin. BTW: a nice way to tame one of the best creatures on Ark (the Thylacoleo) is, snipe them with a tranq dart (not arrow)when they are still in a tree. They will drop down. Once on the ground go pick them up with your Agry and drop them in a near by trap/pin. Trap should be close because they will beat the daylights out of your Argy on the way. To find one relatively safely, just circle the Redwoods and look at the outer tree's 1/3 to 1/2 way up the bare bark. I've had good luck finding them on the Southern portion where the river comes out by swamp on ASE. Thyla's like cooked meats the best and their torpor goes down REAlly fast when taming. BTW they can climb vertically if you hold down the jump button. Ya, Thyla's rock.

@twinbladeshugo

7 ай бұрын

At 1:29 you can see him carrying one with it

Carbos make GREAT water tanks. Not that they hold water, but they're tanky and can breathe under water.

You need a hatchery. Just a little ENCLOSED space with a bunch of Air Conditioners. Enclosure it so you don't have to chase the faster babies.

The building montage music was beautiful.

If you replace every second foundation with these quarter ceilings, you get new snappoints and can place the railings with 1,5 foundation distance.

Holding pen looks good, Tem. Only suggestion I have for it is to put a wall torch on either side of the outward face of the gate. This would have two aesthetic effects, I think. First, it'd give some external lighting to the base and let you spot the gate if you happen to be working in the nearby forest at night. And second, it'd give a full Jurassic Park feel. Think of the gate that they go through at the start of the original JP movie. As for penning in the Rexes, you could just do a perimeter fence around the area you want to keep them. Nothing too fancy until you have an area with enough flat terrain to make a proper pen for them. That way, your Rexes won't look like they're just some 'relatives visiting for the holidays'.

The turtles make great refrigerators. They keep your food fresh much much longer.

You need an oviraptor it will collect eggs your Dino’s drop and if you put it in a 1x1 and put it on wander it will increase egg production. Awesome vid, love the free content!

Love the design. I've always been bad about building for function rather than design, but you've really inspired me to try and design better when I next play. Turtles are useful as literal bait for the giant squids, which are, in my opinion, one of the most fun rideable dinos. If you get a beefy turtle and pump hp, you can get a squid relatively easily

you can use an Oviraptor to gather up the eggs and a dimetrodon to help with the temp. Pump Melee damage to increase their effects

if you set the doedicorus to wandering, it harvests stone until it is full, problem with that is finding him again :D

@Martin-et9pu

7 ай бұрын

or you could hatch eggs in a room with enough AC :D

@MrNajsman

7 ай бұрын

In ASA you can track any tame at any time

@Martin-et9pu

7 ай бұрын

@@MrNajsman yeah, it was much more fun when you had no idea what was going on and be always in fear of loosing it :D

Should be able to craft Cryopods by now. They should last until you can unlock the Cryofridge. Only having out the essentials DRASTICALLY cuts down on all the headaches of keeping animals unfrozen.

@Fingle_Fleetfoot

7 ай бұрын

No cryopods in this version bro ... Sadly 😞

@richardsnyder5901

7 ай бұрын

@@Fingle_Fleetfoot Interesting... That makes the game WAY more difficult.

Nice ascendant saddles! I especially like the daeodons for cave excursions. They also have an aoe healing ability that uses up their food.

Great episode, GNS! Really enjoying your Ark journey! Helpful bit of advice, as far as your character either freezing or overheating, perhaps an otter would help? If you tame an otter, it can ride your shoulder. Leveling it's melee damage upgrades it's insulation properties ... around 75-82 hypothermic insulation and 34-38 hyperthermic insulation per 100% melee damage . Stats on the wiki

Something you might like, at least in the old ark. In the obelisks you can craft cryopods(gotta learn the engram) which work like pokeballs for your tamed creatures. It helps with transferring dinos that you just tamed or if you wanna move bases.

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

No cryopods in ASA yet, we may have to wait for the ASA Extinction DLC. But there are mods now.

I love me, some early morning GNS! Not because I'm an early-bird, but because I'm a night-owl 😁Good stuff!

Sabretooth is one of my all-time favorite tames in this game!

Pick up a wild Dimetron , these dino you can find in the swamp. They are airco's that can hatch your eggs. Tame 2 or 3 , place them next to eaxh other and trow the egg in the middle. Best place to find them is in the swamp on the east side of the map , they some times wander on banks of the swamp.

get some wall torches and standing torches and it should look steller at night.

here is a tip for when your dinos fall threw the mesh. whistle them to follow and walk away, they will pop right up.

Hit H, that will show temperature. You should be able hatch argy eggs at night, if not dimetrodons, kairuku or an air conditioner. AC has both heat and cold resistance, they snap into window walls now. Some eggs are too cold, you could use campfires or standing torches. Torches are more fuel efficient but i prefer fires for the charcoal production.

For me, the thylo is the tops ground mount. They can jump, they are vicious killers and durable.

Hey mate if you pick up anky and doedic with argy and clip them into rocks they'll auto harvest until they are 75% full. Can make grinding a bit quicker/easier. Love the content bud!

Picking up that Daeodon schematic was huge. Pigs are great for big brawls because they can heal your tanky and damage-based dinos. And they're not that difficult to tame. The hardest part is making sure you have enough fortitude/good enough clothing to deal with the cold areas they tend to spawn in.

you can use cielings in place of foundations on hilly areas to fill in space a foundation wont and it looks exactly the same, hope this helps.

Ark bases always need to be 4 times the size you initially think they need to be. Also ... Most tames you need are often found in the north. I always go for a more central base. Maybe consider a move before you grow too big.

@SaintLuke832

7 ай бұрын

See, I adopted that view point... now I always end up with WAY more space then needed 😂

@Fingle_Fleetfoot

7 ай бұрын

@@SaintLuke832 haha yeah well that can happen too ... its that I have to be able park my giga next to my forge mentality, 😁

@SaintLuke832

7 ай бұрын

@Fingle_Fleetfoot guilty as charged, but it is secure due to Dino transportation being required.

Love the design elements you added to the pen! Watching the harvesting was like viewing clay-mation. Again, just brilliant editing.

You can right click anything you want to make and click track and have the list of what you need while you gather it up to craft

I'm soooo glad you decided to do an ARK series Tem! I haven't played in forever; between the release of ascended and your amazing cinematic style content I'm really excited to get back into it.

Dead/Carno island is the best place to get decent Argentavis IMO. The high turnaround and high spawn rate is the reasoning there. You need a good ptera to be effective there, as soon as you see a good argy it needs to be kited up and away or it will usually get killed. The small island NE where there are no creature spawns is a great place to setup traps, safe there as long as you don't attract attention...maybe an occasional wandering argy to deal with. I have fatdogs argy trap and a 2x2 foundation doorway/ramp trap for rex there, single high works for rex but not all creatures will climb the ramp....some refuse to do that and go around.

A couple other quick tips, hold "H" to see a quick time, temp other things, top left corner of your screen. Quick transfer of items, hover over the item with your mouse and hit "T", left shift "T" will do half the stack. Keep up the great work

If you keep up this work, your channel is never gonna stop growing. Your editing style is supreme.

03:00 whenever dinos grow up, they just "grow in size", not changing their centerpoint. so when the legs and necks get longer, they never change their position relative to the world. Since some dino species are super small when babies, they simply grow into the ground like a veg. simply whistle them to follow and let them do a few steps and they will plop out of the ground. whenever dinos stand on foundations, it sometimes even happen that they will completely sink into the foundation, so beware of that when breeding. mammals even give birth into the foundation from the start, so never breed them on foundations, unless you are ready to "save" the newborn. For me, it was never good to let the dinos mate uncontrolled, because the babies need care from the start unless their hunger-stat is high enough to get above 10% to feed from the trough, like your raptors i guess.

TIP: you can target things with your looking glass and issue attack commands to your tames...such as a small army of raptors. Works great for leveling runs up the river banks.

Good stuff, I like how quickly you can accumulate dinos, normally I end up naming about 10 dolphins after my wife

You building skills are so awsome! Much more intresting to see then you other gameplay in this game! :D

Your land seems quite safe, but you might want to play with the plant species x for space/arial defense?

7:26 Bigfoot?!

NGL.. I think I could watch a full video of your resource harvesting montage to 80s inspired synth music lol

Wow, the base is a master work. Well done my friend

That's quite the herd you've got! Impressive!

love the cinematic camera.. cool

I'ma subscribe only bc you did like an 80s montage thing with the whole rolling with the dinosaur. I love seeing vintage things like that people doing weird stuff like that keep it up

@xWickedxGamingx

2 ай бұрын

Already subscribed but I like the video

5:30 What I did in my Ark time was create folders (you can in any inventory) in the freshly tamed dino, with a folder for each important stat. You could also name the dino, and then snap a screenshot =)

@richardsnyder5901

7 ай бұрын

ARK Smart Breeder still reigns supreme.

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

I used to keep records when i was on official servers (never again) and am not a fan of external programs, i like to stay in game when possible. Super spyglass works out best for me, is see what i need to see without going into creature inventories multiple times and the points system is easier to use.

Make yourself multiple refined forges and start smelting a lot of metal. You will need a lot for industrial forge (dont know how much in ascended version but in evolved it was 2500 metal ingots). Gather at least 6000+ metal to start with. Dont forget to make chemistry bench as it is way faster than mortar and pestle.

If a dino is stuck in the ground. Try picking it up with argie. Or whistle it to follow you.

First episode was like my first time in Ark which is why put it down and never picked it back up. But watching GNS stick through it makes want to buy this and give it another try.

"Dinos growling and pooping" Me with severe ADHD who plays the game listen to music and decides to ignore all the literal shit on the grounded 😊

its Ark u need to build bigger and food troughs might need to be everywhere. U need a garden with a dung beetle they can make fertilizer and pick up all the poo around. I think the pin needs to be behemoth sized or at least able to have rex's or spino's inside. u should make a sea gate in the bay so u can tame up some water dino's and have them protected. I know ur nowhere close to tek stuff but dedicated storage can be pulled from and u don't need them super close but they do stack on each other.

Another great vid bud keep em coming

The pen looks amazing!!!

So all the building stuff you don't need place them then destroy them. You will get resources back. For boss dinos rex are number one. For brood mother megatheriums are super strong. For dragon therizs and rhinos are good mix with rex. The daedon you got the saddle for can heal your dinos but eats a ton of meat.

Yeah, you want to breed above the terrain. ARK has always had an issue with babies spawning in the ground. Building a breeding center with a "crawlspace" can save you some headaches.

for breeding, if 150 is max lvl setting on your server, dont bother taming anything below 145 if you wannt to combine stats, as breeding for mutations can be a really time consuming effort with several 100 babies to hatch, also depending on your settings. Also cute to see this initial porch pen. Imagine playing for longer, wanting to have every creature in a bread ready stat. meaning male and female verstions with good stats. you need a multi story pen bigger then your little mountaintop. its easy to have over 1000 tames in ark, specialy when you try to get the most beautifull breed possible :) and ofc its ark, so if something is planed in your mind, expect it to go completely off sometimes. i can remember when on one of our first worlds i wanted to make a dilo pet zoo park kind of thing. so i was breading dilos left right and center, as it was a server of some mates, i kindly asked to increase the breading and maturing speed a bit so it wont take weaks of doing that. well it got overboard quite quickly, when you have like 1000 dilos all mating with each other and poping out babies fastern then you can kill them, it was desaster. admin was gone off to sleep and we cound not wipe them, so we sat there for hours shooting the dilos in fear that the server would crash any moment due to the lag. but thats just ark, these are the moments you will never forget about.

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

I played on a server that had a guy who thought a monkey island would be cool, the monkeys lived and bred....all was well until some jerk started moving a bunch of them to the mainland. The crashes resulting from thousands of multiplying turd tossers was the end of the server...admin closed the server soon after🤣

That Carno is not a Fighter. It is Food!!!

Watched someone else playing this once who got the tiny predator ones and bred like a hundred of them and just had them swarm everything, it was pretty cool. You made me think about it when you mentioned having ten raptors following you.

Just wanted to let you know that we appreciate your content and how much work you put into them, these ark episodes really make my day man. Appreciate you for putting effort into all your vids🙏🏼💯

@GunsNerdsandSteel

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

TF😂 is that ghillie suit..😂😂

@Temreki save yourself a lot of time and frustration and make a handful of cryopods

Magazine magazine, thought it was a clip but it’s a magazine.

Love the videos. How do you get those cinematic shots?

@daniel4647

7 ай бұрын

Probably the same way he does it on 7 Days, he used a secondary camera character on those. He's even featured in some of he episodes, Tem-Cam I think, when he almost accidentally gets killed while filming or something lol. Anyway, if you want to do it yourself, since these are online multiplayer games you can set it up like a server then run a second instance of the game and make another character and basically play multiplayer with yourself.

@Tem I think your Rex babies are not maintaining higher levels is because the eggs aren’t being incubated properly. Just a thought.

@Splappa09Gaming

7 ай бұрын

No. The babies take the stats of their parents BEFORE they were leveled up. That's why you want to tame high level dinos only for breeding.

@thompsoncawley203

7 ай бұрын

Oh gotcha. I thought maybe the eggs lost effectiveness if not incubated with proper tech. Makes sense though.

🤭 I like how you complained for a couple videos about the noise and lack of Dino pen and then you build a way too small pen right beside your base house. The walls are not noise dampening, my man. You should have just made a nice covered breezeway over to your giant Dino Yard.

i really enjoy ur ark series like everything u doin! when can we watch ur content on netflix? xD

It’s a rex hydra!

just take a screenshot of the creature stats before levelling.

There are Pokéballs in ark for your dinosaura

Today's word of the day is: deforestation.

If only a wild Neebs could appear to micromanage your buiding and criticize your butchery so I could hear you yell at him in your best Appsro impersonation.

🥃👏

Thanks for the videos. You should look into getting an oviraptor. They tame using eggs. Dont need a high level one. Will pick up fertilized and normal eggs disregarding their carrying capacity. No more unwanted births but you will still havr the eggs for kibble making. You should start a greenhouse with a dung beeltle for fertilizer and veggies. Same as oviraptor, dung beetle will pick up poop and convert it by itself, no high level needed. Good luck

You can either do roofs over foundations or roofs on pillars to even out the terrain. Aesthetically roofs over pillars but you have to lay the roof as far as it will go and then snap a pillar under it. A lot of times you will have a void under the roof of some kind as either half walls or walls won't cover some janky areas. I just skip most foundations at this point and raise the base at lease 1 block over the highest point. You used to be able to snap a foundation on a foundation but not anymore.

Good morning, Tem. You might want to contemplate experimenting with fence foundations. They’ll give you more flexibility when it comes to walling in the dino pen in uneven terrain. Loving the series, my friend.

is anybody else having issues with dinos not responding to whistles? I whistled all passive 4 times and my anklyo never did switch to passive, had to jump on it and ride it away from my tame and manually switch

what mods are you using?

Tem, please head over to a terminal under of of the large crystals float in the sky and craft a Cyropod. It will save so much time getting large tames back to your base.

@s0rd3z

7 ай бұрын

There are no cryopods in ASA right now. There is a mod I think but no vanilla cryopods

@ImmenseJarl374

7 ай бұрын

They don't have cryos in the base game yet. He'd have to download the mod. Which is out

Bruh… build a temp wall around your tames so nothing comes by and ruins the taming effectiveness. Feel me?

I had to build an air conditioner to hatch my Argentavis eggs.

It hurts watching you opening drops. Landing, opening the drop, drinking a cup of tea, talking about the weather, analyzing it's items, .... in the swamp, during night, not having secured the area... God damn, open the drop, take all, fly away. Then when you are in the air and save, look in your inventory what you got from the drop. It's only a question of time when something bad will happen, like getting hit by a troodon and having not seen the raptor pack next to the drop.

Hello 👋

the major weakness of ark is finding high lvl tames for boss fights, it can take literally real life weeks to find anything worth taming, they should have added a dino finder to the game, one a roughly lvl 50 that pinpoints a high level within 1000M radius another at 75ish that lowers the radius to say 500M and one at 100 that either lowers that radius to 250 oe 100M or tells you exactly were the dino is. flying for hours upon hours just to find rexes, yutys and theras high enough to breed to fight the bosses is boring and tedious

@bethanymay3056

7 ай бұрын

There is a mod that does this. I can't remember the name of it, though. Dino tracker? You can track yours and wild ones. It is awesome.

@richardsnyder5901

7 ай бұрын

Though it doesn't help much without a hive to hop, but the Charge Pets have a max level Dino radar.

@daniel4647

7 ай бұрын

Well, it's supposed to be an MMO of sorts which is why things are so rare and takes forever. If everyone could just find the best of the best all the time it would take away a big part of the whole MMO thing. Same with bosses and the elites and stuff, killing them by yourself takes tons of ammo and time, to the point where you'll start thinking they're practically immortal. I think that if you're playing it single player you should really go into the setting file for the server and adjust everything to be more of a single player friendly experience otherwise it's going to get real boring real quick in my opinion.

@richardsnyder5901

7 ай бұрын

Also, pretty sure it's supposed to be tough to find a good set of breeders. You CAN breed mediocre tames to get usable battle tames. It's just for the alpha bosses that you need to find all of the 140+ tames with high stats to breed. You shouldn't even need to breed for mutations unless you're playing PvP and feel the need to be the apex tribe.

@Justanothervegandude

7 ай бұрын

just go to carno island and kill everything until a high lvl spawn. it doesnt take that long

building sim again... dam

I love this game but i'm kinda upset its telling me I have to rebuy the game to get the new updates. even though i already i have the game and all the expansions. so i will live vicariously through Tem until ARK 2 comes out

@Brinton_Callahan

7 ай бұрын

I won’t be buying this until it gets out of alpha and goes on sale. Inplayed the orignal and one of the custom (fan made) maps. When they started releasing the new dlc maps. I couldn’t play them. Crashed no matter what. Chalked it up to my pc built being old. Tried again when i built my new pc. Still crashed. Probably won’t play Ark II either. They turned it into a money grab and be damned with optimization. I shouldn’t have to do their work for them and tinker with a bunch of settings in order to play,