Starting The Game|Taming Dinosaurs|Loot Drops|Later In The Game|Unlocking Tek

Ark Survival Evolved

When Starting The Game

When you start in Ark, you will spawn somewhere in the map that correlates to were you chose your spawn point, you will look at the crystal in your arm and then have control over your character, or survivor. In order to survive you will need to start farming resources to craft items, in the beginning of the game you can do this by punching trees to harvest wood and thatch, picking up stones from the ground, or harvesting berries and fiber from bushes. After doing that you can craft a stone pick in your inventory, to use it equip in to your hop bar, and click the corresponding button to pull it out. A stone pick will allow you to harvest large rocks for lots of flint and some stone, and let you harvest lots of thatch and some wood from trees, in addition if you use it to harvest body of dead dinosaur you will get lots of meat and a little hide. Once you have flint you will be able to craft a hatchet, a bow and arrows and more(hatchets have the opposite effect of pick axes, for example you get more stone less flint and more wood but less thatch). During all of this you will be receiving levels that help make your survivor stronger and let you unlock more engrams that let you craft more things, you can access these levels from your inventory.

Taming Dinosaurs

Once you have a mortar and pestle you can use it to craft narcotics using rotten meat and narcotic berries. You can use the narcotic to craft tranquilizer arrows which are used to knock out dinosaur. Once you knock out a dinosaur it will tell you to put food into its inventory, and after a while it will be tamed. Before knocking a dinosaur out you should keep in mind that some dinosaur are passive tames which mean they must be awake in order to be tamed, if you are ever unsure you can check dododecks.com, it has information on every dinosaur. It can tell you how to tame it, and what food it eats. Latter in the game you will also have other forms of knocking out dinosaur, for example you can use a long-neck rifle to shoot tranquilizer darts.

Loot Drops

Throughout the game you will see beacons of different colors spawning all around the map. Those beacons contain good loot, anything from good items to blueprints to craft items. There are 6 different color drops that can spawn, white/rainbow, green, blue, purple, yellow and red, each has a different level requirement to be opened. In order to open white/rainbow crates you need to be level 3, level 15 for green, 25 for blue, 35 for purple, 45 for yellow and level 60 for red. The higher the level you need to be, the better loot you will get. In addition the loot you get from these drops can have increased damage, for example you could get a pump action shot gun that does 200% damage, or even a blueprint for one with 200% damage so you can always craft them.

Later In The Game

Later in the game you will be able to tame dinosaurs that can make farming materials easier. Some of the best dinosaurs for farming basic resources are:

• Ankylosaurus for metal and flint
• Castoroides for wood
• Doedicurus for stone
• Brontosaurus for thatch
• Therizinosaurus for fiber

You will also be able to craft new structures that can fake crating faster and more cost efficient. A few examples of this are industrial forges and chemistry benches. Although they can be very hard to craft because of the resources they require, industrial forges and chemistry benches will eventually replace your refining forges and mortar and pestles. Industrial forges are a much faster alternative to making metal rather than using a refining forge, and chemistry benches allow you to craft items you would normally craft in a mortar and pestle with much less cost and much less time. If you want more information on what dinosaurs are good at farming what resources, check out dododex.com

Unlocking Tek

Unlocking tek tier items is one of the last things you will do in the game, to unlock tek engrams you must kill a boss, their are many bosses and they all unlock different tek engrams when you kill them. When doing a boss fight you are only allowed to bring 20 tames in with you, so you want them all to have fairly good stats to hae the best chance of killing a boss. Most people bring a yutyrannus along with 19 or so rexes. The yutyrannus has an ability thatlets your other tames do more damgage, so it will increase the damage of all your rexes when in the fight. After killing the boss you will receive some element, and unlock the tek engrams, element is used to craft and power tek items.

I suggest you check out the game as it is very fun and if you want to know more about the game check out my other post on ark here.