Ark Tips

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Please note that the following tips are just from my own experiences.

General
Unlock sparkpowder asap.
Don't lay on regular beds and log off. You'll get stuck when you log back on... Tek sleeping pods are ok, but regular beds, no.

Tools
Hatchet: Gathers more wood, stone, hide, and sand
Pickaxe: Gathers more Thatch, flint, and meat

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Resources

*I'm doing what I feel are the most common resources

Keratin
Harvest Tools: Metal Hatchet, Chainsaw
Best Harvest Tool: Chainsaw
Best Tame to Gather This With: Shadowmane
One of the Best Dinos to harvest it from: Allosaurus

Metal
Harvest Tools: Stone Pick, Metal Pick, Mining Drill
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Magmasaur
One of the Best Dinos to harvest it from: Rock Elemental

Stone
Harvest Tools: Stone Pick, Metal Pick, Stone Hatchet, Metal Hatchet, Mining Drill,
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Hatchet
Best Tame to Gather This With: Doedicurus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Rock Elemental

Flint
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Ankylosaurus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Wood
Harvest Tools: Chainsaw, Metal Hatchet, Stone Hatchet, Metal Pick, Stone Pick, Wooden Club
Best Harvest Tool: Chainsaw
Best Tame to Gather This With: Castoroides
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Thatch
Harvest Tools: Mining Drill, Chainsaw, Metal Pick, Stone Pick, Wooden Club
Best Harvest Tool: Mining Drill
Best Tame to Gather This With: Brontosaurus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None (unless you count the Forest Titan)

Black Pearls
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Gacha (their crystals)
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Ammonite

Bio Toxin
Harvest Tools: Chainsaw
Best Harvest Tool: Chainsaw
Best Tame to Gather This With: Tusoteuthis
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Cnidaria

Cementing Paste
Harvest Tools: None
Best Harvest Tool: None
Best Tame to Gather This With: Beelzebufo (kill bugs)
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Glowbug (Beaver Dams are the best place to get Cementing Paste from)

Chitin
Harvest Tools: Metal Hatchet, Chainsaw,
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Hatchet
Best Tame to Gather This With: Megatherium
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Achatina (or any bugs)

Blue Gems
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Doedicurus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Red Gems
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Ankylosaurus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Green Gems
Harvest Tools: None? (Might be the same as blue and red gems)
Best Harvest Tool: None? (Might be the same as blue and red gems)
Best Tame to Gather This With: None
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Fiber
Harvest Tools: Metal Sickle, Mining Drill
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Sickle
Best Tame to Gather This With: Moschops
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Sap
Harvest Tools: None
Best Harvest Tool: None
Best Tame to Gather This With: Archaeopteryx
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: None

Oil
Harvest Tools: Chainsaw, Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Chainsaw
Best Tame to Gather This With: Gacha (crystals)
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Ammonite

Obsidian
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Dunkleosteus (Magmasaur for land)
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Rock Elemental

Silk
Harvest Tools: Metal Sickle
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Sickle
Best Tame to Gather This With: Gacha (crystals)
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Lymantria

Silica Pearls
Harvest Tools: Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Pick
Best Tame to Gather This With: Angler Fish
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Ammonite (or you can find them in shallow water and gather by hand)

Organic Polymer
Harvest Tools: Sword, Wooden Club, Chainsaw
Best Harvest Tool: Sword
Best Tame to Gather This With: Direbear
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Deathworm

Hide
Harvest Tools: Chainsaw, Metal Hatchet, Stone Hatchet, Sword, Metal Pick, Stone Pick
Best Harvest Tool: Chainsaw
Best Tame to Gather This With: Giganotosaurus (I'd also recommend the direwolf due to that being much easier to tame! )
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Allosaurus

Pelt
Harvest Tools: Metal Hatchet
Best Harvest Tool: Metal Hatchet
Best Tame to Gather This With: Andrewsarchus
One of the best Dinos to harvest it from: Castoroides

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*Video's were not made by me. I take no credit for them.

Taming Tips
Make sure you're prepared. (it's a lot of time and work as you level up, but this is worth it)

• Tame some jerboa's (just punch them until they get knocked out, then feed them berries) and Dodo's so they can start giving you poop
• Take that poop and go tame a dung beetle.
• Tame a Phiomia (When tamed, feed them stimberries and they're super poopers! But make sure they have food too!)
• Make yourself a garden, preferably within a green house. (I personally make my green house big enough to house my Phiomia and I let my dung beetle roam around in it too.)
• grow narcoberries and at least 1 of the four fruits. (I personally grow all berries and fruits in my garden)
• Make 100+ Narcopots
• make one longneck rifle,
• make double the ammo (tranq arrows/tranq darts) of what Dododex says you need, because you will miss or the shot won't count sometimes.
• Build the proper trap that's away from your base (search youtube for trap ideas, different trap builds work for different dinos)
• craft the saddle of the dino you want to tame before you go.

Feeding 25 narcopots to a potential tame, will give them 1,000 torpor (keeps them asleep)

One narcopot gives about 40 torpor.

One narcoberry gives about 7 points of torpor over 3 seconds.

After knocking out a tame, starve them (watch their food get low) while keeping their torpor high. When their food gets low, feed them. They'll tame up quick! Do not let their food run out or they will die!

Easy Otter Taming *You need a Tamed Argy for this. Will NOT work in Asgard (Fjordur) because you can't mount flyers in Asgard.

• Hop on your Argy and find a wild Otter.
• Pick up the wild Otter in the Argy's beak. (C on PC)
• Feed the Otter fish to tame it like you normally would.

Boy I feel dumb for not knowing this one.

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Wells are NOT a reliable source of water for your garden! Best just do it the old fashioned way. Put the irrigation pipe in a lake, ocean, or river.

I'm frusterated.....

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Armor Quality Tiers *lowest to highest
Primitive
Ramshackle
Apprentice
Journeyman
Mastercraft (Mastercraft)
Ascendant (Ascendant)

*Journeyman or better.

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Crystal Wyverns can't seem to pick up Megatherium. Use skiff or the scorched earth dragons instead.

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Storage Labels

• Armor
• Weapons & Ammo
• Tools
• Resources
• Building Pieces & Craft Items*
• Saddles
• Blueprints
• Recipes
• Skins & Costumes
• Trophies ("This trophy proves your worth as a hunter.")
• Chibis
• Miscellaneous

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*Craft Items means Smithys, Forges, campfires, (the items that help you craft, NOT resources). Building Pieces means walls, ceilings, doors, windows, foundations, standing torches, etc...

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Note to self:

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Get tames' health up to 10,000.
Their weight should at the very least match yours.

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Ok, Ark does not like it when a flying creature has 220% movement speed!

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Drop (aka supply crates) Level Requirement (Based on the Island)
White - Level 3
Green - Level 15
Blue - Level 25
Purple - Level 35
Yellow - Level 45
Red - Level 60

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Crystal wyverns eat crystal. If you are gathering crystal, do NOT put it in the wyverns' inventory! They'll eat it. (Again, this is based on my experience.)

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Variants

Tamed X & R Creatures	Aberrant Creatures	Tek Creatures
+5% Damage	+6% Damage	can only breed with other Tek creatures
-3% Health	-4% Health	5% chance to spawn
	can only breed with other Aberrant creatures	Spawn at 20% higher levels
	glows in the dark

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Hover Skiff *PC controls
Land: X
Toggle Headlights: N
Descend: C
Right click: Enable/Disable Tractor beam

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Baby Crystal Rock Drakes eat Prime Crystal from the mod: Crystal Isles Dino Addition. They're crafted on the Crystal Crafter workbench.

Why do I have to join your discord server to learn that, and why is that important information not on the mod page???

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On Ragnarok, the Ice wyvern nests are at... ((These are not hovering above them or anything like that. These are directly on the nest.))
(Lat. & Long)

1. 33.59 and 68.81
2. 44.42 and 58.92
3. 42.87 and 55.27
4. 47.09 and 51.76

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Don't cook all your meat. Leave some raw stuff for taming.

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When doing a jump on a Deinonychus, TAP the jump button. DO NOT HOLD IT! (these things are so frustrating)

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Wild creatures levels 130 or better:
Stats that are

• below 20 are meh.
• 20 is average.
• 25 is good
• above 25 is best!

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During a taming, MAKE SURE YOUR MOUNT IS PASSIVE BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF IT! Otherwise your mount will go after your potential tame and kill it! (Lost a 150 argy )

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Craft all these time savers as soon as possible!

*everything below needs gas to run. Putting gas in the Electrical Generator will remove the need for gas in the other items.

• Fabricator (level 48) *needs gas until you can craft an Electrical Generator
• Electrical Generator (level 49) *needs gas
• Industrial Grill (level 50)
• Industrial Grinder (level 64)
• Industrial Forge (level 80) *this item is more efficient than the Refining forge
• Chemistry Bench (level 82) *this item is more efficient than the Mortar and Pestle
• Industrial Cooker (level 89) *this item is more efficient than the Cooking Pot

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Getting a Gacha for:

Resources - Level doesn't matter. Tame with stone.

Loot - Higher level Gachas give better loot. Tame according to Dododex (Gacha)

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When going for a beaver dam, take out the beavers FIRST, then go raid their dams! (Based on my experience.)

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Sinomacrops Controls:
*Sinomacrops must be on your shoulder

Button	Function
Hold Space	Fly straight up	<- don't press while gliding
C	Enable/Disable Glide
X	Enable/Disable Parachute
Hold R	Inventory

When taming one of these, DON'T have a flying mount near you. Sino's get scared away by them. It's best to either cryo the flyer or don't have one with you.

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Keep an eye on your tamed Dung Beetles. They can get stuck inside foundations. I'd recommend not putting them on foundations at all. Just download this thing and keep them in there: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... htext=soul

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*from lowest to highest
**Some names are in white so it's easier to read.
Kibble

• Basic
• Simple
• Regular
• Superior
• Exceptional
• Extraordinary

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Easy Prime Fish
Kill Sabertooth Salmon and harvest them with a Sickle.
*will not work on Piranha.

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When raising a baby and they want walks, make sure they follow YOU, not your tame. If they follow your tame, the walk doesn't count.

Also, if the baby wants a walk, pick it up with an Argy and fly for a bit. It should count.

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Grab small dinos in an Argy's beak: C on PC

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For gathering dinos (Doedicarus, Casteroides, etc..) Level up their Melee Damage until their inventory fills up quickly, then level up weight to "slow down" their weight gain speed. Repeat as needed.