Vote here for where I should build the permanent base!

@GunsNerdsandSteel

8 ай бұрын

Thumbs up for OCEANSIDE BASE!

@GunsNerdsandSteel

8 ай бұрын

Thumbs up for RIVERSIDE BASE!

@_MTFA

7 ай бұрын

Option 1 but build a wall and get an argy

@faceplant950

7 ай бұрын

Option #1, ocean access.

@stalkingtoastranger

7 ай бұрын

Oceanside base is more scenic so that has my vote.

You need to learn the shortcut commands for the whistles. Specifically the passive and neutral ones that way you can just put them on passive when you put them on the boat so he doesn't aggro to anything

@TheViaderko

7 ай бұрын

It hurts...

@1EyedWizard

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree! He has obviously got a lot to learn and it honestly hurts watching him play this as I'm an experienced ark player but I really do enjoy his production quality and he is a really good gaming channel! I love his videos and appreciate the painful learning curve 😂

@SirBlmp

7 ай бұрын

@@1EyedWizard I'm the same way, I hope he sticks with it, it's a rough one to pickup but once you get it down it's so enjoyable

@1EyedWizard

7 ай бұрын

@SirBlmp I honestly hated the game when I started I thought it was way to hard and to many things to learn but it eventually won me over because I do believe it's one of the best games ever made! It has its ups and downs but when you adjust the game settings to make things a bit easier it's worth the while

@Pcwarmachine

7 ай бұрын

And hey if you fall off your mount at high enough altitude knowing the "come to me" whistle will save your life.

I think something a few people are missing, is that it’s OK to change settings for first-timers. He has his 7DTD play throughs on the hardest settings because he’s good at THAT game. I started ark because of this series, and I absolutely changed stuff to let me experience Ark at its best

@stillton5592

7 ай бұрын

Yeah same. When I did play Ark I used a mod that allowed you to keep your inventory after death. The worst part of Ark for me is the feeling of desperation after getting killed in the redwoods and being unable to get your stuff back just for it to be gone after you get there.

@GoodBoyGoneDad

7 ай бұрын

It's ok to change settings for any-timers. You're playing a game for fun. You should do anything you want that will make the game more fun.

@dylanwilson3363

7 ай бұрын

​@@GoodBoyGoneDadthis is the way. Love Ark but it can be an asshole, playing with default settings is insane, everyone customizes the settings so there is no right or wrong way to play it.

@ChristopherDenneySeedy

7 ай бұрын

@@dylanwilson3363 Yeah, I drop the dinos that steal stuff and the whale guy. I started playing ARK way in the beginning, and all the funky dinos they added and weird mechanics just kind of made me tired so I stopped playing for a few years. Been getting back into it, and am trying to determine if getting this "new" version is worth it.

@death299

7 ай бұрын

for ark specifically it's fine anytime. some of the choices make sense for the PvP and multi aspect, but things like resource gather rates and tame times are soooooo bad, on default settings some tames can take literal days, not in game days..actual days

MASSIVE TIP > When using tranq arrows space them apart 5 secs they are slow release torpor and some tames will die cause HP is to low if you spam it. Tranq darts do less damage but alot more torpor and you can spam them its instant torpor.

@ronaldraasch4253

7 ай бұрын

Tranq darts for the rifle should be you next engram, it will told level up your taming. Also split your near stacks up to spoil more meat for narcotics production. The spikes will not great for big dinosaurs it will keep the low level mobs off you and your taming dinosaurs long enough for you to shoot them.

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

So true with tranq arrows, spamming those can kill. Darts do a bit more damage but you don't notice it because the tame KO's so much faster on a per projectile basis vs arrows.

Proly one of the most important things is learning the whistle command hot keys and the pick for meat

@death299

7 ай бұрын

literally any carnivore and most omnivores are better than doing it by hand with a pick. the efficiency is lower, but they can gather faster and don't consume other resources to repair, and since you'll typically be riding them, you don't have to dismount, harvest, remount repeatedly by far the best tame early on is the moschop, if you get lucky it is a quick, easy passive tame that is a great fighter (only if ridden, which can be done from jump)

Just a tip if u turned off leed spawns you'll have to do a dino wipe to remove ones on map. When u remove spawns it just stops that dino from respawning it doesn't get rid of ones currently spawned in map. :)

@bladeofphoenix

7 ай бұрын

But also, don't turn off any spawns when you're new and learning the game. No matter how much you hate jellyfish...

@bladeofphoenix

7 ай бұрын

@@666Daheretic Same, but I also hate how they railroad you into using only certain underwater tames. I don't think I've ever disabled the spawn of a creature just because I found it annoying, though. Really think Tem should keep the Leeds in, there are counters to it.

I really appreciate the in game time spent per episode. So many Tubers nowadays milk every second and show every tedious grinding moment. Only for the episode to be 10 min long. You skip the BS, grind behind the scenes, show all good stuff and the episode is still 42 freaking min long. It shows us that you really like what you do and that you are super committed. Cheers.

When trying to tame, the dino gets hungry while unconcious. So if you leave it without food, the hunger goes down and it eats a lot all at once when you put food in its inventory. So if you dont have enough food to tame with dont put any food at all in their inventory but just let them starve out and come back with food and they will tame very quickly. You can also kind of cheese a tame this way. If you get far enough away, it unloads the dino and the dinos surrounding it so it's not in danger. But it still starves out. So you can be safe, the dino can be safe, then run back when it has starved out a lot and it'll tame instantly instead of needing to babysit it. Just make sure to watch the torpor. This is particularly effective if you have a bird... just fly off then come back. It's also beneficial because if the dino takes damage but hasn't eaten anything yet, it wont harm its taming effectiveness (like if another dino comes along and tries to eat it). Speaking of torpor, always bring regular narcotics with you. Some things will need more narcotics while asleep, and if you hit them with arrows while unnconvious it ruins their taming effectiveness (the extra levels they get). So you need to put narcotics in their inventory and force feed them the narcotics to keep up the torpor. Gigas for example require literally hundreds of extra narcotics after they are already knocked out. But in genearl, just keep a stack with you at all times. It will come in handy, trust me.

It’s worth learning the hotkeys for controlling your tames through whistles. Eg passive is “;” and neutral is “-“. They are in the controls. Whistling your tames is the key to controlling them quickly and under pressure.

@dominikmeril1720

7 ай бұрын

do they work well in ascended at least? it stopped working in survival evolved every time

@frostimusprime

7 ай бұрын

@@dominikmeril1720 Yeah I've been using them fine in ascended. I use 3 or 4 of them all the time (memorized) but the ones I only use sometimes I hold down "T" and use the wheel. Whistle flyer land for example. If you try to get them to follow you but they are in a fight because they weren't on passive, they won't always follow you because they also have the command to attack the thing that's attacking them, so it feels like the command isn't working. I'm not sure if that's what you mean or not?

@dominikmeril1720

7 ай бұрын

@@frostimusprime more or less. They stopped working completely on the server. I could whistle everything but had no effect on any dino🤔

@frostimusprime

7 ай бұрын

@@dominikmeril1720 Oh that's a bummer. It's actually a really integral part of the game.

A few tips: Most creatures have a secondary and sometimes tertiary attack/ability. For example, raptors have a leap that can be used to grapple smaller creatures and a sort of battle cry when in a group of 3 or more which raises attack and defense for a duration. The secondary can be used with the RMB and the tertiary can be used with C. Tranqs should generally be spaced out to allow the narcotics to set in before shooting again, there is an instant amount of torpor dealt and a debuff that raises the torpor further. For some reason, not all creatures have head hitboxes and generally only smaller creatures will take critical damage to the head. Some creatures also have armor in certain zones. Triceratopses will take less damage to the face because of the bony endoskeleton. Traps are an easy and relatively cheap way to tame creatures effectively. These can be as simple as a foundation with walls made completely out of single doorframes and a ramp that leads seamlessly up into the top. These allow you to KO the creature safely and prevent them from fleeing when high on torpor. Certain whistles, like passive, follow, or stay, can be bound to keys for on the fly commands. This can help you control where your creatures go and pull them out of danger.

The Giant Deer is awesome at getting wood. It wouldn't be a bad tame. The little alcove area is really pretty but its also the butt end of the map so going anywhere will take a bit more time.

@dalebullock201

7 ай бұрын

It's not great for wood, beaver or theri is way better. But thatch is what it's best at.

@lostsoulsqueen2440

7 ай бұрын

its thatch specialty

When you are in the inventory menus, hover over the item with the mouse and press T, it will transfer that stack between inventories. Saves a ton of time lol

Great job getting the big face-eater! If you tame another baryonyx for your water mount, use its second attack in the water. It's a spin move that stuns everything around it. It will take out a pack of sharks in no time!

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

@@666Daheretic Love barys, the only downside i can think of is the thing where all your other carnivores eat the fish meat first often leaving piscivores and their offspring with no food. I have to have all my fish eaters on their own trough some distance away.

Some suggestions and hopefully life saving details! 1. Make a feeding trough. it can show you the area dinos will be fed in. You MIGHT want to fence the area off to keep them safe and to stop them wandering off if they protect themselves. Just dump the correct type of food for everything in the covered area. Set it and forget it basically. (on that note tame a bronto and you will have MOUNTAINS of fruit ... and wood, with pretty much every tail swing) NOTE: You CAN put a trough in the water to feed aquatic tames! 2. If you intend to do anything in the water, get a Meg. Actually get multiple. This lead in to tip 3. 3. Dino packs! Multiple dinos working together is ALWAYS preferable. Try to get multiple of the same kind for this. (just make sure they are set to follow you. tracking them down is sometimes freaking impossible.) 4. There is really only one flying dino that can carry a lot of weight. Its pretty big. You'll know it when you see it. The Redwood area is pretty good for a perm base location since its more or less a central location. However that means you wont have easy access to oil. Be ready to set up at least one satellite base for fuel refining/usage if you do set up in the redwood area.

A tip in regards to tranqs. Tranw arrows are easy to craft but will do more damage per hit then torpar compared to tranq bullets that will often do more torpidity then damage per hit.

@ApexPredatorsGaming

7 ай бұрын

also make sure you space out the tranq arrow shots about 5secs per shot, but tranq darts are instant.

I'm sure someone's already said it, but the Diplodocus doesn't do damage when it bonks you with its head. They're just really friendly and trying to play, and it doesn't realize how obnoxious it's being. Also, having a spare trike to carry extra crap for you when you're coming back from a harvest and don't want your primary trike to be super weighed down and slow to return to your base. The chalicotherium can be a sort of mobile artillery, hurling boulders at your target, but they take barrels of beer to tame. Edit: Also, I would vote for the place you ended the day at for being the best base location, at least on the grounds of convenience. It's the central-most option, with less travel time to go in any direction, and there seems to be plenty of room on that hilltop to build what you want. With the right walls and spikes thrown down, the local spawns shouldn't be anything your tames can't handle. The other spots are a bit easier on the eyes for having a good view, but I'd take practicality over a pretty scene any day of the week. (Yes, I'm totally fun at parties. Who said otherwise?)

The frogs are fun to tame, they also give you cementing paste when you eat bigs with him! (The little ones that swarm you)

That rifle was a great find with 177 damage, torpor scales with weapon damage so darts will be even more effective and you will need less of them. Charcoal is usually the limiting factor on ammo, 6 campfires will yield 12 charcoal per minute.

Never hit a trik in the head, that's where they have the most armour :D

I started watching a few other creators for Ark after your first episode. They really can't touch your production and entertainment quality. Thanks for the work you put in!

@Metalgarn

7 ай бұрын

Definitely high quality production/entertainment here... the only place on par (and arguably even better) that I know of is Neebs Gaming.

Your Anky can be great for gathering berries in a pinch, just use the right click attack on bushes! Also, good luck learning all the tricks to this game, Tem. It’s a daunting task, took me hundreds of hours.

The one in the fork of the river is where my clan and i had our base for over 2 years. Perfect place for a base.

‼‼Handy tip that has saved me a few times whilst flying, in case you unintentionally hit E and dismount at altitude. Have a crossbow/grapple in hotbar, preferably equipped before mounting. Then if you altitude-dismount, you have one or two tries to grapple to your flyer before SPLAT! ;)

I'm laughing so hard at, "I've lost every dinosaur that has ever loved me." My poor cat is having to ride it out on my stomach. So dramatic, I love it.

Don't ever ask yourself if you need two when playing Ark; you always do. The first rule of Ark is that if you have one, you have none.

You should get some food for them. Also, it's always good to hold onto things you don't want to use, there's a machine you can get later to tear them apart for resources!

Set up a small raft FOB at herbivore island that has lots of smelters for easy metal production, then you can come back when you need metal as long as you have a flyer.

Good tip for searching for high level dinos is to kill every dino in the area and when they respawn they will have a chance to spawn higher level.

@GunsNerdsandSteel

7 ай бұрын

Time to take the rexes out for a test drive! 😈

@droopstone6594

7 ай бұрын

little correction: kill everyone and leave the area. They will respawn when someone returns to the area. this is how the spawn system works in this game

@insidethelyrics

7 ай бұрын

Or if it's single player just use the mod "Better levels".

@Tibor716

7 ай бұрын

@insidethelyrics Yeah, but mods like that kinda ruin the experience of a natural play through.

@gregorskiff

7 ай бұрын

@@insidethelyrics No mods in ASA.....yet.

Option 3 - Defo! Great videos, and thanks to you, and whoever does your editing (especially the audio)

I'm just gonna update as I watch. Excess tames are extremely neccessary in Ark. If you don't want a dino, still keep it. The trike and ankylo are 2 blocks wide so they will not fit through that opening in the boat. If you bring in a ton of resources like with the narcoberries, they will only stack to a certain size so click again to check cuz that will make about 20 more with what you had. Another thing, speed and stamina are important for your character for situations like retrieving your stuff and running from dinos. Everything has massively increased spoil timers when they're in dinos. The chalicos are good for beer and berries. You NEED to change every dinos attack priority when you tame them cuz it will auto attack anything that attacks you or your stuff. Also, learning the shortcuts for ALL passive/attack aggressors helps a lot. Check your boat for damage, and the blocks attached bc they have definitely taken damage. I like allosaurs way way way more than T-rexs but T-rexs are of course the OG. Allo's have a massive buff when together and bleed opponents.

Option #2. More aesthetically pleasing. Good raft access, and good dino parking lot.

resources are everything. river base is closer to more metal, lumber from the redwoods . mountain in the redwoods is resource rich and lots of high lvl wild life including argentavis

In the redwood forest is a small pond with a small island in middle. It’s centered almost in middle of map and by iron. 67.3, 35.6

The way you change your voice sound when you go under water or in a cave is genius and hilarious loll

Man, thank you so much for struggling with this! When I watch you play 7dtd I am awed, it's comforting to see you struggle as I do!

Go for a breeding base near the green obelisk. When you have the dinos ready for boss fights, you're going to have a shorter travel distance to the obelisk, which is going to come in very handy. Trying to lead 19 dinos on a long land trip will be incredibly annoying.

God bless for these videos... I'm brand new to Ark and you have no idea how much I've enjoyed watching this series. This is my 2nd time watching them and I've learned so much from you!

30:40 * managed to pause and read his info panel while bary was fighting sharks and he was still on attacking target. I think bary may have been set to seek food, he killed a fish first thing.....or he was bugged. The attacking target disposition would not make him attack unless something attacked you or your raft first or you attacked something. All the individual whistle commands are not easy to remember but you can remember apostrophe and that brings up a whistle command wheel. In that kind of situation whistle passive then follow and your tame will return to you if you are quick enough.....practice helps for speedy commands.

Living in the southern half of the map is peaceful but a long haul for getting loads of metal and eventually walking your armies to the obelisks for boss fights

The Caldera?... I always just called that South Central. One of the most docile places on The Island. Built my first real base there in ASE and it still stands there today. Biggest threats are the Ichthyornis, Pegomastax and Dilophosaur, with the occasional Sarco. Once, someone unintentionally kited an Alpha Carno over and once there was an Alpha Raptor. Besides that, twice we had a Titanosaur try to make love to our fortress. But you run that risk everywhere but The Tower (best base location on The Island).

baryonx have a unique feature, where they will seek out fish if they are on low health. You jumped off when he was low so he ran straight in to kill the piranhas, then retaliated against sharks

I have to admit, pretty persistent deaths in your series. Amazing how patient you are all things considered. But I'm also glad to see I'm not the only one dying a lot! :p Gratz on the Trex family!

Ptera is a great tame, first rule of flying in ARK: have spares....rule two: always have a chute on your hotbar and learn to use it. Even later game for taming, trapping and scouting use. But it's one creature you need to hunt for a high level, high level dinos have a larger pool of points they can RNG stats from giving them much better weight and stam stats.

Oh! A cool thing, the higher the damage of the tool the more resources it harvests, the iron tools being always superior to the stone. The barionix is a really good dino, but it only eats exclusively fish meat, and only fish, it also rapidly regens life if you force it to consume fish meat, btw, you can force feed all tamed carnivores to make them regen hp

Over by red obelisk is a series of waterfalls that make a nice base location.

so one of the things for whistling dinos to follow, is if you mount a dino, and then whistle follow, then they will follow the DINO not you. so you can do some fun caravans, and packs. like...your main Rex you ride, and a pack of subordinate rexes and allos, who stay with your rex, while you do other things.

For the most part I know a few shortcut whistle commands: (T) follow u and on a Dino is follow that dino, (Y) stop following, (J) all tames in whistle range follow you/riding dino, (:;) passive dino. I think if u hold one of these keys u can get a wheel to use and select one type of passive called ‘passive flee’ and this is good if u get knocked off they will not fight and get away from danger if they can. Also pump weight and health on ur dinos health is almost like armor for them and u should put a poo collector and dino feeder on ur mobile base since u made it easy mode with no Leeds.

Just a couple suggestions after watching your inventory management at the start of the video: You can access dino and crafting station inventories quickly by targeting them and pressing 'F'. No need to use the radial menu if you don't want to. Instead of dragging and dropping from one inventory to another, you can hover your cursor over an item and press 'T' to instantly transfer said item. Holding Shift or CTRL before hitting 'T' will adjust how many items of a stack are transferred (and also works if you hold them before dragging and dropping). I'll add more shortcuts if I remember them. Edit: You get more meat with a pickaxe than a hatchet. Useful for taming food before you get up to kibble.

@GunsNerdsandSteel

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm getting familiar with the controls but it's taking some getting used-to. I'm so used to shift-click and control-click to move inventory items in Icarus and 7 Days and the radial menu for opening vehicle inventory in 7 Days... It's a hard habit to break!

@bladeofphoenix

7 ай бұрын

​@@GunsNerdsandSteel Yeah, there are a ton of little shortcuts that the game doesn't really tell you about explicitly. Loving your playthrough, BTW, it's just really funny seeing you struggle through the early game like we all used to on ASE. Best of luck to you on your travels!

Oh my goodness! The love and loss with the tames! What an adventure.

Definitely worth the time to learn the passive whistle at the very least. That will help with the issue of your dinos running off to fight.

as a man that has to many hours in OG ark to admit... its nice to see you bring something different to ark as in youtube side. i like how you do your 7dtd vids (somewhat like a movie sometimes) so very excited to see what you do with a game franc that i consider one of the best... dont pay attention to the flaws as past experience they never get fixed lol.

Use T to transfer items between your inventory and the crafting station or the storage boxes. Use the shift T to transfer a half.

@lorenlgray

7 ай бұрын

Use the O key to drop things from your inventory. Check out the keyboard shortcuts they’re very helpful.

Quick note about removing Dinos, once you edit the game file, you do need to "DestroyWildDinos" command. That will remove all wild Dino’s in the world and it repopulates minus the Dinos edited out. A lot of ASE commands work on ASA for reference.

SW side of the redwood forest, you will be close to redwoods, swamp and the volcano for some great resources

Spark powder and oil in the preserving bin will turn meat into beef jerky after awhile

Puts a big smile on y face seeing you ride your first Rex😊

I don't know if it's one of the things that changed, but I believe the Anky had a secondary attack for harvesting berries. Several of the tames have alternate attacks and abilities.

There is a configuration option "Use Singleplayer Settings" in the General tab of the Host/Local dialog.

Couple quick things. Depending on the tame the type of food you use can have better or worse taming effectiveness, more or less levels essentially. If you see an aura on some dinos and its more yellow than red then thats a pairing bonus from bonded dinos so they get big buffs, the allosaurus' for example. As for XP, you're right that you're leveling exceptionally fast. At this point you should normally expect to be in the 20-30s not the 80s but its not that big a deal if you don't care about it. I recommend learning the whistle commands so you can set dino states from a distance. This also allows you to call dinos to you.

@GunsNerdsandSteel

7 ай бұрын

I had no idea about the bonding thing, I'll have to read up some more about that!

@s0rd3z

7 ай бұрын

The settings are taking some getting used to in ASA for me. When I first started I thought I chose medium, wanted to see what changed and I think XP must of been on 2 as it was insanely fast. I tinkered a bit more and 1 xp and mostly hard settings feels right to me though I'm used to a bit slower progression honestly so I might bring it down a bit more. It's definitely different though... I've been trapped in my base on a peninsula for a couple hours with 100+ lvl spino's on either side just wreaking havoc up and down the beach area's lol

@ApexPredatorsGaming

7 ай бұрын

the aura on the allo is the "Alpha" of the pack and gets a buff, same with raptors and wolves.

@Danbotics

7 ай бұрын

@@GunsNerdsandSteel Some animals like Allos and wolves are pack animals and get buffs when they’re near other animals of the same species. The highest level in the pack will get that glow you saw.

@SirBlaze75

7 ай бұрын

without knowing exactly what day Guns is on, i'm not so certain he is leveling extremely fast, he's built 2 rafts he's built and demolished a temporary home , he's done loads of res gathering, tamed and lost several dino's so i think 20-30's is too low, and he's gone and grabbed multiple cache drops, and i'm not sure how many explorer notes he's got which also give a xp bonus over time, but there's been at least once, and then his multiple death spirals which would of taken time to keep doing. all in all that's a fair bit of stuff he's done

baryonyx automatically hunt fish when they are wounded. Your Bary was ridiculously wounded after your run through the jungle so it jumped into the water when you dismounted. You can turn this behavior off in the radial menu, or at least you could, I don't know about ASA. Baryonyx are my favorite mid-tier dino tame. They are sooooo good at so many things.

FYI when dino get's a black weight icon it means it is slot capped so can't get any more loot, best to go in and dump some items.

Not sure my comment posted, but scope out the smaller water location by the Oceanside base on that little peninsula dongle. It used to be a really cool grotto and great for bases. They’ve updated it so I’m sure it’s even better now.

Dang Tem, that was tough. Im glad you stuck with it.

Always keep parachutes on you. You can jump off higher points of the land and use the parachute to drift down as opposed to falling to your death. Loving the series so far brotha! God bless you man!!

The Chalicotheres is a "siege engine". It's really mostly just for PvP because they are effective against structures. You can put torches on the saddle of your mount too, much more effective like that. :) But honestly Tem, Herbivore Island is hands down the best main base location. You don't have to worry about guarding your tames, that valley makes a great Dino Pen, the Lagoon can be secured to make a good pen for aquatic tames. Then you can build satellite bases elsewhere until you get a Quetz to make yourself a great mobile base. :)

@GunsNerdsandSteel

7 ай бұрын

Ah I know, herbivore Island is great! But that's where my base was the last time I played are a couple of years ago so I'd like to change it up! 😊

@coreyperez8817

7 ай бұрын

@@GunsNerdsandSteel I figured that was your plan, so I had already voted! I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of base you build. I'm a fan of your base designs in 7 Days.

If you hold down T you get the whistle options wheel. Ideally you want to whistle passive but remember when doing so all animals around you will go passive, just make sure to whistle passive and not passive flee or they will run away when threatened. Additionally there are hot keys you can see next to actions like pressing A while hovering over crafting recipes will make max count , O when hovering over a selected item will drop on ground, shift and click will transfer 5 per click or CTRL will do 1 each click. If you look at a Dino and press T will call that Dino to follow you and y to call them off while J call all your tames to follow you and U call them all off . When Dino’s are close by and you press period (.) your Dino’s will attack at an animal you re looking at (wild or enemy) I hope this helps on your journey One thing to note when they are on passive all Dino’s stay still even when are attacked so passive is nice when you transporting with boats so they don’t jump off and get killed

Option number 1 is nostalgic for me since it was the first successful pvp location I built on, plenty of room for cool base designs!

Oceanside Base seems the best. The lagoon is great for parking water tames in addition to having plenty of space for the rest of your tames. And there are some amazing commanding views from the cliffs overlooking the area. Plus it means not having to be constantly going to the swamp to go home.

Use a pick instead of a hatchet yo gather meat. The tools are resource specific..hatchet for stone and wood and hide then pick for thatch meat flint and metal. Good to see you playing ark again.

Shift drag will quick split. Shift click will split 5. Also T will whistle dinos to follow you so you can get them to follow and run out of a sticky situation

Might be nice to have made a respawn where you are storing your dino's. Could tame up a few sharks to protect your boat.

#Tip Make your outer wall with big doors instead of Walls to make it more easy to get in/out with dinosaurs. The big gaint doors

I'm glad you took my advice and watched some videos. Ark is not a game to jump in blind... There's a lot of mechanics that are almoust impossible to learn on the go. You should set a goal of taming an Argentavis, this mount is a game changer then you should tame a Baryonix to travel on the sea

@FabioPCarvalho

7 ай бұрын

I though on giving you more advices but I think you need a consultant lol. Take it easy, have at least two of the same dinos before going on a quest. LEVEL UP the dinos please... The ptero had a lot of levels to be given and you didn't spend it on the stamina

When taming you do not have to feed a ko'd tame right away. Some call this starve taming and claim it is faster....that's not true. Once knocked out the food stat always decreases at the same rate depending on dino type. Once it eats any taming food you have to keep food on it throughout the process or you begin losing bonus levels (affinity/effectiveness). Starve taming allows you to find the best quality and enough taming food while the food stat timer is ticking down and also set up a defensive perimeter on a rare or high value tame. Starve taming can also conserve your kibble/mutton/primes if the tame is damaged or killed.

That's a good boy(T-rex) you got there.

"Why is this keep happening?" Simple: You need to learn the controls :3 If you use T to whistle to a dino to follow you, they might disengage battle. Also if its the same keybinding than Ark:SE than you can hold T to get most of the whistles in a radial menu. Just whistle your Dino on passive and follow and he will come out of the water, so there is no need to jump after him. I am not sure why your Bary went down there, i guess something attacked you before you jumped off (which was cut out), so he was still in fighting mode but restrained from being mounted. Some Dinos have the ability to grab you off the saddle, thats what happened when you thought your flyer was dead, the Bary just plucked you from your dino.

Option 1 of teh two you gave though it doesn't really have enough room once you add a dozen or more dinos and everything you need to build. A third option I like to use is if you follow the river further inland towards the obelisak there is a ramp up to a cliff area like yoru first option but almost 3 times as big.

A base by a deep safe water access is nice for having a water Dino pen since they took away cryopods

use the pick to gather meat and the axe for hide the trike has armor on it's head, shoot him in the legs when you try to tame one starve a dino when it's unconscious, that way you can tame him all in one go when you feed him, it's the best way not to loose taming effectiveness

Raft recommendation. On the back get rid of rail and either add ramp or stairs down into water. Dinos walk onto ramp real easy. Also killing alphas will give you nice items in your inventory so kill any you see. You should do a poll for the base location. If you go near the volcano there's a nice cliff area I always build at. I use dino gates as a wall to keep dinos out.

spot #1 is a decent spot metal on both sides if you go into the jungle close by and up the hill there is metal as well down side is the water gonna have to put a lot of piping to run water up to you for a garden my honest opinion is find a place level with water and just put behemoth gates in a circle with base in the center to protect dinos and yourself

Resources are so important. I would always get as close as possible to the metal. I would recommend you get a stego they are great for tree, thatch and berry's.

You may have disabled the Leeds but that doesn't remove ones that were already spawned in. Do a dino wipe to kill all untamed dinos and it should remove them. However, if you can swim out and find a Leeds without using your raft you can scrape it for free Prime fish meat. Trikes are good for berries, but a Stego is much better. It's tail sweep hits a large patch of bushes so its more efficient.

That was the main reason why I stopped playing Ark. I get attached to my tames, and this is Ark: you will lose them at some point. My last straw was an snow white Wyvern, with a blue diamond on her forehead. The game random glitched as it always does and kicked me out, when I loaded back in she disappeared into lava 400m from where we actually were before the DC...........

24:27 My Tapejara senses started tingling. I saw it flying above, always a rare find and hard to tame, but absolutely my favorite dino for no real reason other than they look hilarious Also, I'm a T-rex, neat. I sure hope nothing bad happens to me

Love that blue Rex! Hope it doesn't die! LOL I didn't notice if you have a male and female Rex? If so, breed them and take the grown babies out so if you lose one, you'll still have the parents to breed more. In fact breed a few!

Even though you were struggling and getting frustrated, the fact you are keeping with it, is why I'm still here. Keep it up.

For the bigger dinos, you can build a sort of a cage for them. Using stone gate doorframes, you can set up like 5-6 evenly spread to create a sort of cage. And covering the ends with the gate doors. Bait them into the traps and lock the door behind, that way they are trapped inside and you don't have to understand around chasing it and keeping you safe.

My first tame is usually a pteranodon… can fly everywhere. Oh the ways they have died while learning the game many many 1000s of hours ago 😂

With your Pteradon, you should pump mostly stamina, but you want to pump weight to 200 first that way you wont have as much trouble, they're scouting dino's only. You don't really need melee damage at all on your own person since you're not on a PvP server leave that for your dino's fortitude used to be 20 on ASE to not freeze at night but may of been tweaked, Tranq darts from the rifle are probably not at the required level and also need an engram so search in your engrams just to confirm.

The megoloceros is a beast tame. Harvests thatch the best and is great for caving, specially against bats. Very fast scouter. Id also go for a parasaur over a trike for berries.

@dalebullock201

7 ай бұрын

Watch onewing, or nooblets for trap build. Plan out taming, clear predators and foliage. Use spikes or gates to protect tames. Early game can be tricky, but love the vids keep at it.

action packed. I vote for the second location. I like the area where you can pen the dinos and you can always make a staircase from the ridge right down to the beach for your raft. Great location.

oh that pteradon issue, I have almost 7k hours on ark and you have no idea of how many times that has happened to me. Wait until you go to the snow biome or to the red woods lol. Get used to die in ark and don't get attached to your dinos is the best advice I can give you Regarding the base, the most important resource that you'll need is metal. The mountain east of the volcano is known as the metal mountain. You could buil close to make metal runs easier and faster, plus you'll be somewhere in the middle of hte map which in turn will translate in faster travel trips to any corner of the map

Also when killing so many dino on your T-rex make sure you always clean up the meat stack up in the animals inventory otherwise you will be caught off guard and overloaded and unable to move in a fight

recently started watching all your stuff, love this series - super glad you decided to keep the big bad in the deep blue sea :)

I always recommend multiple base hubs. There are always reasons to travel the map. I could recommend the "optimal" base build spots but I think it's more fun to learn where good base spots are that are close to resources, caves, etc. Loving the series!

One other tip is that you can filter inventories with the search bar by typing whatever. It helps for when you want to drop everything that isn’t what you want to keep. For example if you wanted to drop all of your raw meat but nothing else you can filter for that and hit drop all. It can be a good time save when the inventories get more cluttered.

You dont shoot trike in head but in side. Also you can use anky to farm berries so no need for trike. Diplo cant hurt you at all. All it does is push you. Also i am waiting when you come across giga or cracha. Baryonyx went killing fish to heal itself. If not on passive they do that. Also force feed carnivores meat and bary fish to heal them!

40:00 Note the blacked out weight icon upper right of the screen, that means your dino is slot capped. This happens frequently if harvest is set too high, it takes a bit to get your game balanced out.

Go kill a few trilobites, then put the oil in the preserving bin with some meat (prime meat is even better). Wait a bit and you will have jerky (or prime jerky). You will want that for longer trips. Also, as to base location: that peaceful cove area you are considering is a "safe" zone. Occasional roaming sarco and dilos are the only real enemies, but it is sooooo far from everything except the first cave. My personal favorite base location is hidden lake, top right hand quarter of the map, not far from carno island. It has everything you need to succeed, you just have to keep clearing out the riffraff (pronounced occasional raptor or troodon).