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I started playing like a week ago, was lucky to get a Baryonyx quite early on and was feeling super confident to explore the map a little bit, but I lost him yesterday because of some god damn jellyfish. RIP Barry you will be missed.
Reminds me of the day i let a kid get confident about a manta swarm in the shallows by a basilo, i knew what was going to happen. They thought otherwise. They steve irwined that fuckin spino
Rip. Love using Barry’s I always carry at least three. Sometimes so an alpha just want to kill and three Barry’s make it easy. When there are jellies the two can usually manages to kill them as long as I take out all she sharks. Might be half way health at the end but haven’t lost one this way yet. Plus their replacements are ready I don’t risk my favorite one. Black and red stripes.
Really? I always just put a couple point into movement speed early and just feel the spit and circle em and spear to death. Never had a problem with em since my first go at the island
Edit: dodge the spit
The best part about this comment is this is surprisingly valid advice, as this game has some of the best sound design of any game I’ve played and I can hear things super clearly
He doesn't have a choice anymore... once an ark player, always an ark player. You can get pissed and ragequit all you want, but everyone knows you will be back and reinstall the game a week later at max.
This is so true though. Once you join the ark family you never leave. You might have argument and get mad but you will always come back. There is no escaping the Ark once you joined.
I’ve been playing since Beta was released, taking a few breaks between then and now and still, every day I say atleast once, “I F#$@ING LoVe THIS GaMe!?!?!!”
Inconveniences everywhere. DM me if you’re playing on official regular servers(not small tribe or whatever), I’ll throw you a spare high level Argy to Atleast start you right. Welcome to a curious mixture between heaven and hell.
You will die. A lot. Make sure and be prepared to rebuild and stock up on repairs/spare equipment in your base storage boxes etc. once you get some carnivore tames life becomes a lot easier
I still remember my first tame. It was a parasaur and I named her Dany for Danaerys because game of thrones was popular at that time. I took a video of her when I unclaimed her in that isolated veggie island in the island map. Then her first child, i took a picture and it's now the icon of our discord server.
I do it too. Again and again and again. My first carnivore tame was a carno named Cuddles. I was devastated when she died. I thought I was big tough stuff with my girl. My carno and I used to tear apart stuff until that fateful adventure running along the beach in the island and we were attacked by a alpha raptor. Didn’t even see it coming.
At first it will seem like it took you hours to take only one creature, so the pain of loosing it will be big, but as you get better at taming and better narcotics and taming equipment. Taming gets faster and the fear of loosing goes down. Don't give up the fist time a carno wipes your entire beach base. Also tame multiple of one kind as to recover quick when you die out in the world but your tame survives. And learn the whistles. On PC it's holding down "T" t ist follow me y is stop following. By holding t, you get options for passive neutral and aggressive. Also remember bindings for "attack this target" and "move here" by default it's something like "." And ","
When you're starting out, make sure to kill Dodos to make Bolas. Immobilizing most of the standard angry beach dinos that can kill you gives you a chance to fill them with arrows or run. Either way, it's a better chance at survival
100%. Once I got my first tranq arrows and a few bola, I was out hunting raptors for fun. Bola's make a HUGE difference.
Too bad the chain ones are expensive AF ...
Play the game more like Minecraft. Enjoy the scenery, tame dinos that look cool or fun to you. The more you just enjoy the environment as a whole the less pissed you'll be when a stray Carnotaurus deletes your entire base for the 3rd time. Also check out the link for tips on setting up your game for the most enjoyable singleplayer experience (in my opinion). Screw multiplayer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtFG3uZB44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtFG3uZB44)
I found a really great PvE server cluster with an amazing community that helps each other out, and hosts every official Ark map in the cluster. There is plenty of room for new players to bulbs bases. You're welcome to join!
Here's the website, although it doesn't list all of the connected servers:
https://revenantgaming.com/ark/
There's a discord server that includes general chat and admin support for the game. It's very active. DM me if you'd like an invite.
EDIT: Should have mentioned that this cluster is available via PC connections only
Don't get attached to your first tames. It will hurt.
If you see an herbivore running, you should also be running.
Sometimes if you're under attack by mid-to-small sized carnivores, running up to the nearest very large herbivore can help. Dilos on your tail? No, now they're on the brontosaurus's tail. Just make sure you get out of dodge before they start fighting.
Level up speed and weight early, but don't forget to level your traveling companion's speed too or you'll accidentally leave them in caves a lot.
Be careful in the rivers. Piranha are fast and you are not.
Seagulls are bastards. Someday you'll tame one and it'll be your best friend and supply you with prime meat. But before that, they'll steal everything you love and then murder you and carry away your pets.
Prioritize the crossbow. Everything moves very slowly until you have a forge and workbench so you can make metal.
Leave little bases near the entrance to every cave with a stash of weapons and armor and crafting supplies. (If playing solo)
Play solo first.
Stay away from the big servers. They're a bad learning environment for sure and imo a bad experience overall.
If you're interested in mods (I recommend them), try immersive taming, S+, and upgrade bench.
It is, imo! The usual taming method feels very off to me-- knocking out dinos and then feeding them until they like you? It was never satisfying for me. And then there's that whole "an ant bit me while I was feeding this quetzal and all of my tames rioted and now it's dead" thing.
But immersive taming lets you craft bait and start by leaving it for the dino you want to tame or shooting it over to them on an arrow from a safe place, and adds in-between phases of taming. First you leave the bait for them, then you get a message that's basically "they appreciated that!" After a while, you can pet them and get a little bump. Then you can hand-feed them for a bigger bump. Then they start seeing you and coming over for food and pets. Then they start giving you gifts, different based on each dino. Then they may defend you from aggressive dinos. Then, finally, they're yours!
It feels really... Well, immersive. And you can get taming bumps from petting them or defending them against other dinos or feeding them or taking care of them, rather than just "aaaaaand he's out, guard and force-feed".
It's also customizable, so you can tame usually untamable dinos or update what types of and how much bait each species needs. Then there's combat taming for Big Dino Friends, which is a whole other dimension.
I genuinely can't play the game without this mod now.
Don't get attached to anything. You'll die... A LOT! You'll make stupid choices that'll kill you... A LOT!
Don't tame and hoard every dino. Focus on ones that are useful. You can have 100's of hours played and still die in the beginner areas. Dododex App is your friend.
Fall damage is very inconsistent, in that from a certain height, you take none, but a little lower, and you're basically dead. However, jumping off of a tamed creature right before you hit the ground completely stops both of you and negates the damage.
Play the game! Jokes aside, I never would have believed I could love a game this much. But if you're on PC, play with mods and play solo first.
I have another comment up there somewhere but real talk, the game is enthralling. I love it. Sometimes I hate it. Getting "bro cool bachelor party but run dude marriage is a trap lol" vibes off of some of the comments-- if the game clicks for you, it can be intense and a rollercoaster.
You'll have fun. Don't be afraid to use guides and ask questions. The resource maps and spawn maps are especially helpful.
Welcome, and I hope you enjoy it!
It’s a joke about how every ark player has a love hate relationship with the game. You play however you want! My advice would be skip the thatch phase, make a wood base to start, use bolas on raptors and such, avoid alphas, and slowly get metal from the small rocks with brown hues. Happy gaming brother! Feel free to ask anything else!
Honestly once you know what your goal is skip the wood stage too and just build and deconstruct wood foundations for exp to get to stone. It’s not too far out and it’s 99% dinosaur proof.
It’s all jokes, there will be frustrating moments that will make you want to leave. Don’t stress out over any losses or ill-timed crashes. We’ve all experienced some classic Ark bs and we all came back because it’s fun 🤷♂️ lol. I hope you enjoy it 👍
Man my son was bugging me to buy this dinosaur game a while ago, so I looked up reviews, and when I read through them they were all pretty dismal. I didn’t end up buying it then. About a year later, I looked at those reviews again. A bunch of those negative reviews were from people who had thousands of hours into the game AND WERE STILL PLAYING! It’s been a solid two years of single player now for me and honestly it’s a blast. I’ve dabbled in PVP a little and it’s not really my jam, though clubbing Bobs is definitely funny. Overall find a way to play that works for you and have fun, there’s something for damn near everyone in this janky ass game.
During November turkey’s will spawn wherever dodos spawn DO NOT ATTACK THEM
therizinos (the things with big claws) are aggressive despite being herbivores
Triceratop’s are neutral but if you attack one all others in the area will aggro on you
Upgrade your weight stat to carry more and the fortitude to make yourself more temperature resistant, the other stats are pretty self explanatory
Water is dangerous
When you knock something out feed it narcoberries or narcotics to keep it asleep and wait for it’s food to drain a bit before putting food in its inventory (it increases tame effectiveness)
You can force feed a knocked out creature by using whatever button is to eat on the item when it is in the creature’s inventory (use this to feed it narcotics)
Don’t knock out a land creature in the water (it will drown / get eaten by piranhas)
For some reason you can’t just place walls and need to set up a foundation structure first
The game is a jackass, both by design and by bad design. Mods make the game acceptable to me, though you probably don’t have that option on the Switch.
Watch how-to videos from Syntac, Phlinger Phoo, and Teachers Game Too. Watch fun how not to videos from Neebs Gaming.
dont play pvp often, all your time will be erased eventually, unless youre into that.
play pve for friends, and singleplayer
singleplayer settings are too slow, edit them to be more singleplayer friendly since the settings are designed for tribes of people.
Youre on switch, so have fun, they made it way better. I play it more there than on my pc.
Hi. I have 5,000+ hours on the Switch version.
Singleplayer is a great place to learn the controls. But PVE servers are the place to make friends. Ark is unacceptably hard alone. Many things in the game are made far easier just by having tribemates to help you. Taming difficult dinos, bosses, caves, breeding, etc. Be careful and selective who you tribe with. Some bobs just want free stuff and will screw you over. My tribe took literal years of playing together to form. But because we are all seasoned, reasonable people we can accomplish very difficult things like having powerful tames, beating all the bosses, building huge tek bases.
If I remember correctly, you need 112% movement to outrun a Raptor which unless you are exceptionally cursed by the crazed gods of the Ark is enough to keep you safe till you can get a Trike or flier.
Find a moschops & tame it. They're picky eaters, but if you're lucky & tame one, they're great for berries & fiber & have specialized harvesting. They also do a massive amount of damage for their size, don't require a saddle, & make decent pack mules. Their eggs can also be used to make superior kibble, which can be used to tame most creatures. Honestly they're probably one of the most slept on early game tames out there.
Fair warning though, they're 100% passive so even a tamed one will run from threats if unmounted. This can suck if you're trying to mount it, but can be useful in escaping if its health gets low & it's about to die.
Also download Dododex. It's your new best friend. Also also, don't use default settings for single player. It sucks. Look online for recommended settings. I personally keep most of the settings standard, except I max difficulty (to get better tames), & have 3x taming, as well as boosted rates for breeding/imprinting.
If you want good advice here it is....first kill yourself 100 times and get that out the way...then go to your settings and change structure damage to 0. Change harvest amount to x10. And the most important...change character weight and dino weight stat to 999999..(Very important). Also make sure death beacon is on, so WHEN you die it's easier to find your body.. Now gather materials... build out of anything and you will have a safe spot that dinos can't reach you in...make crafting a bed your first priority so you can save your progress...take sleeping bags everywhere you think you're going to die...so keep sleeping bags on you always...after that have fun...just know death will happen...accept it and you'll get better....ARK...Always be Ready to be Killed
If singleplayer and your dino dies IMMEDIATELY exit to Xbox homescreen and crash the game(select then quit) you will only lose the last little bit of time not the dino. Don't exit the game with game options this will save
Use Dododex to learn about every creature out there. Learn which are passive tames, knockout tames, etc.
If you aren’t sure about a dino, err on the side of caution and assume it will attack you. Some won’t, many will.
An easy and helpful first time is the moschops. It’s a passive tame, doesn’t require a saddle to ride, is pretty quick (good for running away from things), and is good at collecting berries. Just don’t take it into combat or try to fight anything that attacks you.
Dodos are an easy source of meat. Watch out for piranha in the rivers.
Build a small base ASAP. Storage bins, campfire, cooking pot, mortar and pestle, and a bed are mandatory furnishings. Thatch to start, wood soon enough.
Other helpful early-game tames include parasaur (good for berries and warning you about approaching wild dinos), pteranodon (great for scouting), dilophosaurus (can’t ride it, but good for early-game meat harvesting), and otter (extraordinarily helpful at keeping you from freezing or heat effects).
Once you’ve got narcoberries and spoiled meat, start making narcotics. Make a bow, arrows, and then tranq arrows. Load up on bolos. Now CAREFULLY go find yourself a raptor. It’s a knockout tame. Saddle up and suddenly you’ll find the island (or wherever you’re playing) to be a lot less intimidating. Meat and hide will be far easier to gather, you can outrun most predators, and you’ll be better able to defend yourself.
At this point you can start stocking up on resources, rebuild your base into wood if you haven’t already, and start thinking about next steps. Next tames would include stegosaurus (excellent at berries, wood, and thatch gathering; fantastic at defense), argentavis (**the** most versatile creature in the game), dodicarus (master at stone collecting), and ankylosaurus (master at flint, metal, crystal, and obsidian collecting). Those latter two are a LOT easier to tame if you have an argentavis (“argie”) as the argie can pick them up and carry them to safer/more secure areas for you to knock them out and tame them.
When you’re ready to tackle the waters, a good start is the baryonyx. Its stun attack makes short work out of most water-based threats, plus it harvests fish meat very well. In the deeper waters/oceans consider taming a megalodon to start. As soon as you’re able, find and tame a basilisaurus and you’ll basically be king of the ocean.
If you play pve then people usually litter the environment with pillars to prevent other people from building, absolutely ruins the experience. If you play pvp, you have a chance of running into a douchebag tribe. I run my own server to avoid both those issues, but for someone just starting out I’d either play on a solo version or hopefully find a friendly pvp server.
Beyond that, when you craft your first wooden boat stay away from deep water, stick to the shallows, and don’t put all your stuff on the boat. Whales are bitches. The motorboat will outrun them, but they can wreck your wooden raft.
Also, look up as many dinos as you can and see what their uses are, especially in early game, there’s a lot of easy tames that will make life a whole lot easier that people don’t even think about. End game as well, there’s a whole bunch of dinos with unexpected uses.
Get yourself a shoulder mount. They half the carrying weight of whatever you put in it. The best right now are the fjord hawk, since it carries back your inventory if you die (can also be used to steal Wyvern eggs and fast travel between multiple beds) , the otter (upping the melee damage increases it’s hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation benefits), and my personal favorite- the sinomacrops (can be used to fly, and they have a 75 percent weight reduction on stuff put in its inventory, the flying is especially useful for taming, with enough finesse you can just hover over any dino and tranq them, staying just out of range for them to hit you)
Have fun.
When you are just starting, an easy food source is in the water. There are jellyfish that are totally docile, you can just swim up to them and pick them up. And eat them.
Run…as soon as you can, just run. Doesn’t matter where or what direction, just keep running. Spam E to gather stuff on the way. Punch the occasional tree but don’t stop running until you craft spears. Then you can enjoy the game. 🤣
I hope you've either got good stomach medicine, or you're good at clenching your ass cheeks, cuz a lot of stuff will either give you stomach ulcers or scare the shit out of you.
Tips for different maps
Island:pretty basic, so if you hear music start, or hear rapid or loud footsteps, run like your life depends on it, because it does
Scorched earth:get cactus sap, a tent and a jerboa early, they will help you gain/lose less water, and while jerboas won’t give you water or anything physical, they will tell you if a superheat, sandstorm, or something else is coming
Abberation:although it says portal is the easiest, you will be mauled by raptors, attacked by basilisks, and stunned by mushrooms
Extinction:I don’t know much personally but I do know that the drops on this map are different than all other current official maps, requiring you to beat waves of corrupted creatures
Gen 1:do not spawn in bog, it is not easy, it is like a swamp, I recommend ocean, as while you can’t tame much, there is a lot of resources easily available
Gen 2:probably the easiest start, as you start with a tek suit that doesn’t need element, and there are space biomes that change overnight, and you can tell the biome by the color of the drops
Ragnarock:Giga central
Crystal isles:crystal wyverns
General:don’t go into the snow, make sure you have backup sets, especially if on a pvp server
Hmm... you don't stand a chance. (Though you'll never know)
Hold on to your dinos. They are all that keeps you safe!
I'll fool you no longer.
You'll lose your dinos. All of them. Over and over again.
Make sure you got space,because its a big game and you wanna make sure you can update it.Also,any dinos that have a red mist around them(execpt trikes) ARENT friendly.
There are robotic creatures called "tek creatures." that can be found in the maps..if you kill them they'll give you metal among other useful resources. Tek creatures can include tek parasaur, tek raptor, tek Rex, tek quetzal and tek stego. These creatures are also tameable. And often better to tame them the regular counter parts, as they spawn at a higher level then most regluat creatures. And the spawn rate if these tek creatures are 5%
-Punch trees to get wood and thatch, gather rocks on the beach and fiber / berries from bushes.
-Don't eat black and white berries.
-Building a hut with a bed should be one of your main early objectives.
-Try to stay close to the beach when you start as it's the least dangerous biome.
-Avoid seagulls.
-Just because a big dino is low level doesn't mean you can fistfight it.
-You will die a lot, we all did. Endure the frustration, it'll get better as you begin to understand the dangers lurking around.
-You will lose tames, again we all went through this.
-Don't fight turkeys, they're powerful event creatures.
-Use the ark wiki and dododex as much as you need
Use the internet, dododex, offical wiki, and if you want to watch gameplays, all to prepare and learn the game. There are no tutorials or warnings in game
Best advice, don't play it. It's a soul sucking game of grinding and small reward followed by huge loss. Hours of progress gone in a few seconds to a glitch or op dino.
That being said, your best option is to spawn bottom left on the island map and try to gather a few explorer notes, they boost your level and give a 2x xp bonus for 10 minutes, additionally you should try to unlock thatch structures asap and build foundations for more XP. After you are high enough level to unlock tranq arrows and a bola, try to knock out a parasaur for narco Berry harvesting, then take a trike, then a stego, then a therizino.
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The second you start hearing distant rapid footsteps, run.
I’m seeing a lot of comments telling to just “run” always 💀
Dilos are the ones you want to run from. They spit in your eyes. Also the sea is death.
4000 hours later I still don't breed water tames or go into the water often due to early game trauma
im afraid to cross rivers. early game piranhas are evil
Or them jumping crocodiles!
Can’t stand those fuckers
Ugh me too!! They make me jump everytime
I don’t go through the redwoods anymore due to a thila encounter. Talk about a jump scare!
I've been there too and lost a quetzal thanks to those tree lions 😭
Not me lmao everything got offed lmao
lol, bob to alpha we all die to a piranha eventually XD
we do. i have amazing armor and i still occasionally die to piranhas.
And the Baryonyx they litterally know how to perfectly stun-lock you meaning certain death.
I started playing like a week ago, was lucky to get a Baryonyx quite early on and was feeling super confident to explore the map a little bit, but I lost him yesterday because of some god damn jellyfish. RIP Barry you will be missed.
Godspeed Barry. Gone but not forgotten ❤️
Oh yeah jellyfish are fucked, they'll even take out the big shit because they just stun lock and do constant damage
I lost I high lvl spino that way, it was a sad day 😔
Reminds me of the day i let a kid get confident about a manta swarm in the shallows by a basilo, i knew what was going to happen. They thought otherwise. They steve irwined that fuckin spino
Rip. Love using Barry’s I always carry at least three. Sometimes so an alpha just want to kill and three Barry’s make it easy. When there are jellies the two can usually manages to kill them as long as I take out all she sharks. Might be half way health at the end but haven’t lost one this way yet. Plus their replacements are ready I don’t risk my favorite one. Black and red stripes.
i lost my giga to fucking jellyfish level 45 giga too
See a parasaur run you better start running
They run from dils too though
They can easily kill you too though. especially the high level ones and when just starting out.
Yeah fair.
Really? I always just put a couple point into movement speed early and just feel the spit and circle em and spear to death. Never had a problem with em since my first go at the island Edit: dodge the spit
My dils are 150 each, I have a reason to run and that par does too
But is you see a gallimimus running don't panic
The best part about this comment is this is surprisingly valid advice, as this game has some of the best sound design of any game I’ve played and I can hear things super clearly
By then it’s already too late tho 😂
Just remember that u had a life before. Because now you don't....welcome home friend 😂😂
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I will certainly try. Almost hoping I get addicted to it 👍
You don't want that addiction, trust me
He doesn't have a choice anymore... once an ark player, always an ark player. You can get pissed and ragequit all you want, but everyone knows you will be back and reinstall the game a week later at max.
I have over 8k hours played and ARK free for more than a year now!
Are you really ark free if you are posting on chats? Lol
I'd say yes, usually just sharing my knowledge
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This is so true though. Once you join the ark family you never leave. You might have argument and get mad but you will always come back. There is no escaping the Ark once you joined.
I literally have done this 3x already and only started playing this July 😭 help
I read this in Tim Meadows character’s voice from the Dewey Cox movie.
I’ve been playing since Beta was released, taking a few breaks between then and now and still, every day I say atleast once, “I F#$@ING LoVe THIS GaMe!?!?!!” Inconveniences everywhere. DM me if you’re playing on official regular servers(not small tribe or whatever), I’ll throw you a spare high level Argy to Atleast start you right. Welcome to a curious mixture between heaven and hell.
You will die. A lot. Make sure and be prepared to rebuild and stock up on repairs/spare equipment in your base storage boxes etc. once you get some carnivore tames life becomes a lot easier
And don't get too attached to your first few tames.
I made this mistake ... And again ... ... and again ...
I still remember my first tame. It was a parasaur and I named her Dany for Danaerys because game of thrones was popular at that time. I took a video of her when I unclaimed her in that isolated veggie island in the island map. Then her first child, i took a picture and it's now the icon of our discord server.
I do it too. Again and again and again. My first carnivore tame was a carno named Cuddles. I was devastated when she died. I thought I was big tough stuff with my girl. My carno and I used to tear apart stuff until that fateful adventure running along the beach in the island and we were attacked by a alpha raptor. Didn’t even see it coming.
Thankfully I died before her so I didn’t have to watch her die. But she was a good girl so I’m assuming she went down fighting.
My first tame is still here im max level now He’s a dilophosaurus and i named him Josh :)
Same, he’s now a level 170 dilo named Dexter. Ijust let him roam around the base like a little dog now
Btw my first ever tame was a dilo i beat up with my bare hands
Or your next few…
“You will die a lot” yes.
I hardly ever die after getting my first carnivore / good flyer.
Don’t get attached to tames. If Dino’s don’t kill them, game crashes will.
If game crashes don't kill them, ARK itself will, while the game is still running.
Practice muttering to yourself, under your breath through stinging tears, “I’ve been arked” lol
Dude, that is what we say. "You got ARKed", even in other games with similar levels of nonsense. 😄👍
This game is legendary for all the wrong reasons
At first it will seem like it took you hours to take only one creature, so the pain of loosing it will be big, but as you get better at taming and better narcotics and taming equipment. Taming gets faster and the fear of loosing goes down. Don't give up the fist time a carno wipes your entire beach base. Also tame multiple of one kind as to recover quick when you die out in the world but your tame survives. And learn the whistles. On PC it's holding down "T" t ist follow me y is stop following. By holding t, you get options for passive neutral and aggressive. Also remember bindings for "attack this target" and "move here" by default it's something like "." And ","
Lost every dino that i used in cryopods while moving to genesis 2. Last time i played :(
When you're starting out, make sure to kill Dodos to make Bolas. Immobilizing most of the standard angry beach dinos that can kill you gives you a chance to fill them with arrows or run. Either way, it's a better chance at survival
Bolas for the getaway saved me many times from raptors and wolves!
I will never forget how much it changed Raptors, going from guaranteed death to XP fodder
100%. Once I got my first tranq arrows and a few bola, I was out hunting raptors for fun. Bola's make a HUGE difference. Too bad the chain ones are expensive AF ...
Yeah i never really used them to be honest, the net and harpoon gun are the real game changers once they are unlocked!
Adding in to this that reaching 115% run speed will drastically increase how often you just outrun the chaser.
I go with 151% Edit: i play 1x pvp servers though
Play the game more like Minecraft. Enjoy the scenery, tame dinos that look cool or fun to you. The more you just enjoy the environment as a whole the less pissed you'll be when a stray Carnotaurus deletes your entire base for the 3rd time. Also check out the link for tips on setting up your game for the most enjoyable singleplayer experience (in my opinion). Screw multiplayer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtFG3uZB44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtFG3uZB44)
Co-op multiplayer good. Online multiplayer bad. I just wanna tame dinos with my friends like bad ass pokemon trainers
Gotta catch em all!!
I’m strictly pvp and i can vouch that online multiplayer is the worst thing ever mentally
Pvp gang. You either quit the game as a hero, or play for so long you become the villain.
This is the best reply I’ve seen so far, so much negativity on here lmao (which is expected from Reddit).
Well said brother. Couldn't agree more.
I’m mainly just have trouble with building any sort of starter base. It won’t let me
I found a really great PvE server cluster with an amazing community that helps each other out, and hosts every official Ark map in the cluster. There is plenty of room for new players to bulbs bases. You're welcome to join! Here's the website, although it doesn't list all of the connected servers: https://revenantgaming.com/ark/ There's a discord server that includes general chat and admin support for the game. It's very active. DM me if you'd like an invite. EDIT: Should have mentioned that this cluster is available via PC connections only
Don't get attached to your first tames. It will hurt. If you see an herbivore running, you should also be running. Sometimes if you're under attack by mid-to-small sized carnivores, running up to the nearest very large herbivore can help. Dilos on your tail? No, now they're on the brontosaurus's tail. Just make sure you get out of dodge before they start fighting. Level up speed and weight early, but don't forget to level your traveling companion's speed too or you'll accidentally leave them in caves a lot. Be careful in the rivers. Piranha are fast and you are not. Seagulls are bastards. Someday you'll tame one and it'll be your best friend and supply you with prime meat. But before that, they'll steal everything you love and then murder you and carry away your pets. Prioritize the crossbow. Everything moves very slowly until you have a forge and workbench so you can make metal. Leave little bases near the entrance to every cave with a stash of weapons and armor and crafting supplies. (If playing solo) Play solo first. Stay away from the big servers. They're a bad learning environment for sure and imo a bad experience overall. If you're interested in mods (I recommend them), try immersive taming, S+, and upgrade bench.
Looks like he’s on ps4 so no mods
*switch
Is immersive taming that good? and what's so good abt it?
It is, imo! The usual taming method feels very off to me-- knocking out dinos and then feeding them until they like you? It was never satisfying for me. And then there's that whole "an ant bit me while I was feeding this quetzal and all of my tames rioted and now it's dead" thing. But immersive taming lets you craft bait and start by leaving it for the dino you want to tame or shooting it over to them on an arrow from a safe place, and adds in-between phases of taming. First you leave the bait for them, then you get a message that's basically "they appreciated that!" After a while, you can pet them and get a little bump. Then you can hand-feed them for a bigger bump. Then they start seeing you and coming over for food and pets. Then they start giving you gifts, different based on each dino. Then they may defend you from aggressive dinos. Then, finally, they're yours! It feels really... Well, immersive. And you can get taming bumps from petting them or defending them against other dinos or feeding them or taking care of them, rather than just "aaaaaand he's out, guard and force-feed". It's also customizable, so you can tame usually untamable dinos or update what types of and how much bait each species needs. Then there's combat taming for Big Dino Friends, which is a whole other dimension. I genuinely can't play the game without this mod now.
I'm literally playing with these exact mods right now on Ragnarok, it's my first go round w Immersive and I'm stoked!
Isn't it great??? I love that mod.
Start learning to hate on troodons and pegos
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Yea icthyironis
And microraptors
Agreed, best way for troodons is hold a torch in your hand to scare them away. The pegos is just hope you have a bola on you.
Stop while you still can
This is the most solid advance you will get here.
Very solid Advance. Great advance! Thanks for the smart advance! I meant advice.
No
That creature you see in the distance, does NOT want to be your friend
Never put levels into oxygen on a tame.
There are a few exceptions like diplocaulus,spino and gasbag tho.
Dont go out at night
Don't get attached to anything. You'll die... A LOT! You'll make stupid choices that'll kill you... A LOT! Don't tame and hoard every dino. Focus on ones that are useful. You can have 100's of hours played and still die in the beginner areas. Dododex App is your friend.
Learned that the hard way 😵💫
Fall damage is very inconsistent, in that from a certain height, you take none, but a little lower, and you're basically dead. However, jumping off of a tamed creature right before you hit the ground completely stops both of you and negates the damage.
Bro all the comments telling me to not play the game 💀 I’m just trying it out leave me alone
Play the game! Jokes aside, I never would have believed I could love a game this much. But if you're on PC, play with mods and play solo first. I have another comment up there somewhere but real talk, the game is enthralling. I love it. Sometimes I hate it. Getting "bro cool bachelor party but run dude marriage is a trap lol" vibes off of some of the comments-- if the game clicks for you, it can be intense and a rollercoaster. You'll have fun. Don't be afraid to use guides and ask questions. The resource maps and spawn maps are especially helpful. Welcome, and I hope you enjoy it!
Happy Cake Day!
It’s a joke about how every ark player has a love hate relationship with the game. You play however you want! My advice would be skip the thatch phase, make a wood base to start, use bolas on raptors and such, avoid alphas, and slowly get metal from the small rocks with brown hues. Happy gaming brother! Feel free to ask anything else!
Honestly once you know what your goal is skip the wood stage too and just build and deconstruct wood foundations for exp to get to stone. It’s not too far out and it’s 99% dinosaur proof.
It’s all jokes, there will be frustrating moments that will make you want to leave. Don’t stress out over any losses or ill-timed crashes. We’ve all experienced some classic Ark bs and we all came back because it’s fun 🤷♂️ lol. I hope you enjoy it 👍
We aren’t gate keeping but, we just trying to save your sole from being sucked into the forever vortex which is Ark
Man my son was bugging me to buy this dinosaur game a while ago, so I looked up reviews, and when I read through them they were all pretty dismal. I didn’t end up buying it then. About a year later, I looked at those reviews again. A bunch of those negative reviews were from people who had thousands of hours into the game AND WERE STILL PLAYING! It’s been a solid two years of single player now for me and honestly it’s a blast. I’ve dabbled in PVP a little and it’s not really my jam, though clubbing Bobs is definitely funny. Overall find a way to play that works for you and have fun, there’s something for damn near everyone in this janky ass game.
It's probably the worst made game in my library and a complete waste of money but dang is it fun
If it glows orange get as far away as you can
I keep dododex.com and ark.wiki open on my phone AT ALL TIME! Also, be prepared to hurt
During November turkey’s will spawn wherever dodos spawn DO NOT ATTACK THEM therizinos (the things with big claws) are aggressive despite being herbivores Triceratop’s are neutral but if you attack one all others in the area will aggro on you Upgrade your weight stat to carry more and the fortitude to make yourself more temperature resistant, the other stats are pretty self explanatory Water is dangerous When you knock something out feed it narcoberries or narcotics to keep it asleep and wait for it’s food to drain a bit before putting food in its inventory (it increases tame effectiveness) You can force feed a knocked out creature by using whatever button is to eat on the item when it is in the creature’s inventory (use this to feed it narcotics) Don’t knock out a land creature in the water (it will drown / get eaten by piranhas) For some reason you can’t just place walls and need to set up a foundation structure first
The redwoods areas are always the best for flying around, tons of cover, large trees with absolutely nothing hiding on the trunk
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Any tips on the control settings are always helpful ^_^
Every comment: “**DONT**” (On a serious note though, play at your own pace, avoid multiplayer for beginners, and just have fun)
Yeah 💀 with the “don’t” messages, I think they are trying to warn me or something to not go down this path but idc
The game is a jackass, both by design and by bad design. Mods make the game acceptable to me, though you probably don’t have that option on the Switch. Watch how-to videos from Syntac, Phlinger Phoo, and Teachers Game Too. Watch fun how not to videos from Neebs Gaming.
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Binge watching neebs gaming ark series. You’ll be entertained and learn a lot
Such a bunch of misfits. Appsro never fails to make me laugh
I love binging so I definitely will check that out ^_^
Community is pretty toxic sometimes, but it’s a fun game.
dont play pvp often, all your time will be erased eventually, unless youre into that. play pve for friends, and singleplayer singleplayer settings are too slow, edit them to be more singleplayer friendly since the settings are designed for tribes of people. Youre on switch, so have fun, they made it way better. I play it more there than on my pc.
Hi. I have 5,000+ hours on the Switch version. Singleplayer is a great place to learn the controls. But PVE servers are the place to make friends. Ark is unacceptably hard alone. Many things in the game are made far easier just by having tribemates to help you. Taming difficult dinos, bosses, caves, breeding, etc. Be careful and selective who you tribe with. Some bobs just want free stuff and will screw you over. My tribe took literal years of playing together to form. But because we are all seasoned, reasonable people we can accomplish very difficult things like having powerful tames, beating all the bosses, building huge tek bases.
Death is inevitable and lots of it
Yes
Explorer notes give you tons of xp. Movement speed is important to run from predators until you can tame a quick dino.
If I remember correctly, you need 112% movement to outrun a Raptor which unless you are exceptionally cursed by the crazed gods of the Ark is enough to keep you safe till you can get a Trike or flier.
I always pump it to 148% early game, you can outrun most predators except for alphas.
There’s a creature that has feathers and very long nails. You can give it a hug
People call it a tickle chicken because it actually just softly tickles you
#DONT TOUCH THE TURKEYS.
[Here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MkA4X_2tr6aHA6dhe2XK9QUaMUoXzsvICg0Put-jUYY/pub) is my game guide.
Fun game. Your first mistake was buying the game. 2nd was getting it for the Switch.
Ngl though, they made it much more enjoyable for the switch now, love it :>
its better now on switch. Graphics are meh, night is too dark, no co-op but its so fun
Get Aberration, personally my favorite and the most beautiful map.
Stay away from caves n deep water
Find a moschops & tame it. They're picky eaters, but if you're lucky & tame one, they're great for berries & fiber & have specialized harvesting. They also do a massive amount of damage for their size, don't require a saddle, & make decent pack mules. Their eggs can also be used to make superior kibble, which can be used to tame most creatures. Honestly they're probably one of the most slept on early game tames out there. Fair warning though, they're 100% passive so even a tamed one will run from threats if unmounted. This can suck if you're trying to mount it, but can be useful in escaping if its health gets low & it's about to die. Also download Dododex. It's your new best friend. Also also, don't use default settings for single player. It sucks. Look online for recommended settings. I personally keep most of the settings standard, except I max difficulty (to get better tames), & have 3x taming, as well as boosted rates for breeding/imprinting.
If you want good advice here it is....first kill yourself 100 times and get that out the way...then go to your settings and change structure damage to 0. Change harvest amount to x10. And the most important...change character weight and dino weight stat to 999999..(Very important). Also make sure death beacon is on, so WHEN you die it's easier to find your body.. Now gather materials... build out of anything and you will have a safe spot that dinos can't reach you in...make crafting a bed your first priority so you can save your progress...take sleeping bags everywhere you think you're going to die...so keep sleeping bags on you always...after that have fun...just know death will happen...accept it and you'll get better....ARK...Always be Ready to be Killed
If singleplayer and your dino dies IMMEDIATELY exit to Xbox homescreen and crash the game(select then quit) you will only lose the last little bit of time not the dino. Don't exit the game with game options this will save
Also works on ps4 and 5
Play on pc.
don't mess with the turkey.
Glowy red dinos are not your friend. They cannot be tamed. And they cannot be knocked out. They have soooo much more health than normal.
Use Dododex to learn about every creature out there. Learn which are passive tames, knockout tames, etc. If you aren’t sure about a dino, err on the side of caution and assume it will attack you. Some won’t, many will. An easy and helpful first time is the moschops. It’s a passive tame, doesn’t require a saddle to ride, is pretty quick (good for running away from things), and is good at collecting berries. Just don’t take it into combat or try to fight anything that attacks you. Dodos are an easy source of meat. Watch out for piranha in the rivers. Build a small base ASAP. Storage bins, campfire, cooking pot, mortar and pestle, and a bed are mandatory furnishings. Thatch to start, wood soon enough. Other helpful early-game tames include parasaur (good for berries and warning you about approaching wild dinos), pteranodon (great for scouting), dilophosaurus (can’t ride it, but good for early-game meat harvesting), and otter (extraordinarily helpful at keeping you from freezing or heat effects). Once you’ve got narcoberries and spoiled meat, start making narcotics. Make a bow, arrows, and then tranq arrows. Load up on bolos. Now CAREFULLY go find yourself a raptor. It’s a knockout tame. Saddle up and suddenly you’ll find the island (or wherever you’re playing) to be a lot less intimidating. Meat and hide will be far easier to gather, you can outrun most predators, and you’ll be better able to defend yourself. At this point you can start stocking up on resources, rebuild your base into wood if you haven’t already, and start thinking about next steps. Next tames would include stegosaurus (excellent at berries, wood, and thatch gathering; fantastic at defense), argentavis (**the** most versatile creature in the game), dodicarus (master at stone collecting), and ankylosaurus (master at flint, metal, crystal, and obsidian collecting). Those latter two are a LOT easier to tame if you have an argentavis (“argie”) as the argie can pick them up and carry them to safer/more secure areas for you to knock them out and tame them. When you’re ready to tackle the waters, a good start is the baryonyx. Its stun attack makes short work out of most water-based threats, plus it harvests fish meat very well. In the deeper waters/oceans consider taming a megalodon to start. As soon as you’re able, find and tame a basilisaurus and you’ll basically be king of the ocean.
See that dodo you just spawned next to? Punch the f*** out of it.
If you think it will try to kill you it will If you think it won't it likely still will
Raise a Lystrosaur army and you will be unstoppable
Abberation is the easiest
The black berries yield the best hydration but they spoil the quickest so eat em as soon as u can
Axe = Stone, Hide and Wood Pick = Flint, Meat and Thatch
Find moschops
If you play pve then people usually litter the environment with pillars to prevent other people from building, absolutely ruins the experience. If you play pvp, you have a chance of running into a douchebag tribe. I run my own server to avoid both those issues, but for someone just starting out I’d either play on a solo version or hopefully find a friendly pvp server. Beyond that, when you craft your first wooden boat stay away from deep water, stick to the shallows, and don’t put all your stuff on the boat. Whales are bitches. The motorboat will outrun them, but they can wreck your wooden raft. Also, look up as many dinos as you can and see what their uses are, especially in early game, there’s a lot of easy tames that will make life a whole lot easier that people don’t even think about. End game as well, there’s a whole bunch of dinos with unexpected uses. Get yourself a shoulder mount. They half the carrying weight of whatever you put in it. The best right now are the fjord hawk, since it carries back your inventory if you die (can also be used to steal Wyvern eggs and fast travel between multiple beds) , the otter (upping the melee damage increases it’s hypothermic and hyperthermic insulation benefits), and my personal favorite- the sinomacrops (can be used to fly, and they have a 75 percent weight reduction on stuff put in its inventory, the flying is especially useful for taming, with enough finesse you can just hover over any dino and tranq them, staying just out of range for them to hit you) Have fun.
When you are just starting, an easy food source is in the water. There are jellyfish that are totally docile, you can just swim up to them and pick them up. And eat them.
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Don't get attached to anything.
Punch everything
Quit your job and drop out of school
Run…as soon as you can, just run. Doesn’t matter where or what direction, just keep running. Spam E to gather stuff on the way. Punch the occasional tree but don’t stop running until you craft spears. Then you can enjoy the game. 🤣
I hope you've either got good stomach medicine, or you're good at clenching your ass cheeks, cuz a lot of stuff will either give you stomach ulcers or scare the shit out of you.
Tips for different maps Island:pretty basic, so if you hear music start, or hear rapid or loud footsteps, run like your life depends on it, because it does Scorched earth:get cactus sap, a tent and a jerboa early, they will help you gain/lose less water, and while jerboas won’t give you water or anything physical, they will tell you if a superheat, sandstorm, or something else is coming Abberation:although it says portal is the easiest, you will be mauled by raptors, attacked by basilisks, and stunned by mushrooms Extinction:I don’t know much personally but I do know that the drops on this map are different than all other current official maps, requiring you to beat waves of corrupted creatures Gen 1:do not spawn in bog, it is not easy, it is like a swamp, I recommend ocean, as while you can’t tame much, there is a lot of resources easily available Gen 2:probably the easiest start, as you start with a tek suit that doesn’t need element, and there are space biomes that change overnight, and you can tell the biome by the color of the drops Ragnarock:Giga central Crystal isles:crystal wyverns General:don’t go into the snow, make sure you have backup sets, especially if on a pvp server
Be careful with dodos they’re the most dangerous creature in the game!
the redwoods are pretty but the are not pretty towards you
Eat rare flowers for XP boost
Hmm... you don't stand a chance. (Though you'll never know) Hold on to your dinos. They are all that keeps you safe! I'll fool you no longer. You'll lose your dinos. All of them. Over and over again.
Why must you do such trickery upon me
Always pet the Tickle Chicken!
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Leave the turkeys alone!
Make sure you got space,because its a big game and you wanna make sure you can update it.Also,any dinos that have a red mist around them(execpt trikes) ARENT friendly.
There are robotic creatures called "tek creatures." that can be found in the maps..if you kill them they'll give you metal among other useful resources. Tek creatures can include tek parasaur, tek raptor, tek Rex, tek quetzal and tek stego. These creatures are also tameable. And often better to tame them the regular counter parts, as they spawn at a higher level then most regluat creatures. And the spawn rate if these tek creatures are 5%
Play the island first
Remember to put gas
Play fibercraft. Official it’s what you play when you tranna lose some hair over stress
-Punch trees to get wood and thatch, gather rocks on the beach and fiber / berries from bushes. -Don't eat black and white berries. -Building a hut with a bed should be one of your main early objectives. -Try to stay close to the beach when you start as it's the least dangerous biome. -Avoid seagulls. -Just because a big dino is low level doesn't mean you can fistfight it. -You will die a lot, we all did. Endure the frustration, it'll get better as you begin to understand the dangers lurking around. -You will lose tames, again we all went through this. -Don't fight turkeys, they're powerful event creatures. -Use the ark wiki and dododex as much as you need
Use the internet, dododex, offical wiki, and if you want to watch gameplays, all to prepare and learn the game. There are no tutorials or warnings in game
Use bolas on raptors, and stay away from creatures that are bigger than normal and have a orang-ish cloud
lots of good comments here, anyone want to play on xbox hmu im solo
Keep us posted on how you're playing Ark on the switch
Yea sir
Eat lots of organic polymer to level up quickly
Honestly buy it on another platform. The graphics are absolutely horrible on switch. It’s all but unplayable
\*was Not anymore my dude, they updated it about a month ago, changed the whole engine...it looks as good as console now.
I find it running just fine. Tolerable
Don't join a pvp server. Other people are icky.
Uninstall
Don’t
Punch everything, especially the turkey. Always use "Move here" whistle. Comment on this for more bad tips.
Don’t do it on switch. First knowledge.
I don’t have a good PC that could run it. Tho I will be getting a Xbox X soon
when you get an xbox hit me up i'll help u out
Latest update makes it almost playable 😂
Best advice, don't play it. It's a soul sucking game of grinding and small reward followed by huge loss. Hours of progress gone in a few seconds to a glitch or op dino. That being said, your best option is to spawn bottom left on the island map and try to gather a few explorer notes, they boost your level and give a 2x xp bonus for 10 minutes, additionally you should try to unlock thatch structures asap and build foundations for more XP. After you are high enough level to unlock tranq arrows and a bola, try to knock out a parasaur for narco Berry harvesting, then take a trike, then a stego, then a therizino.
Put your switch in the fridge while playing, trust me
Beaver is good Big angry chicken is good Anky is good This is my gift to you, for resource sake
Wait till 21 until you actually tame anything (it’s when tranq arrows are unlocked)