So with the changes to the new map i thought i'd cover the top 10 new and old base spots on Ark Survival Ascended The Island. What do you guys think did i miss any?
The server I play on doesn't allow building in caves or resource-rich areas (so iceberg is out because of the oil, for example). If that's fairly common, my request is a video covering base spots that work with those rules? I didn't ever really play the Island because I got into the game around Gen 2, so I'm not super familiar with it yet.
Haven't played ark in years but first server was 323 ragnorock 2018. I purchased the game because earlier it looked like a game with tons of potential for the future. Then I found your channel and started to learn solo with you videos.
@2:50 your a goat for this single clip alone not because your showing how to mesh, well yes that but most people will say a spot is easily meshed without showing the ways (usually meaning they use the mesh method themselves and don’t want more people finding out) which is bad for the overall community since we know it can be meshed but not how and it also makes it harder for the devs to know what needs patching so thank you for bringing that to light
People cried and whined about them and literally in the discord people were crying for them back lol. They should make a Dino upload station that connects to the incubator and lore wise the cryos will be the mobile version
The 'small' pearl cave isn't very small for a solo on an unofficial server. With noclip on you can fit an entire tech setup in there, use chambers to block the entrance and build up all around the outside of it. Now, it's even better. I see a lot of ways to make those caves very hard to touch. At official rates it'd be hard to hold but if you coud get a squid to move your dinos you're fine.
Basils absolutely own all underwater caves. Pearl caves on island are especially easy since you're always you can keep your character in the mesh while in soaking range in basi.
By the way HOD, the Latitude & Longitude *is* off by 5 or so degrees like you said in your last stream. If you look at both maps, you'll see the lines are not in the same places.
I don't play pvp and/or official, but I'm really curious: how does anybody get tek if all the artifact caves are occupied by opposing tribes? I would have thought those would be off limits and blocked for building.
You trade, everyone need artifacts, so being in any artifact cave is a big advantage... People will either have to move into one, have good connections or get outprogressed.
I'd recommend that spot down south of south cave, as at the left of it after exiting the mini canyon you'll be greeted by Stonehenge and a nice building spot over to the left, with a nice metal spot over at the left of that two islands across. Beware of raptors! You can also get a rex or carno early in the game up north of the cave by the swamp.
Hod consider doing a vid on the console commands. They are so OP. Its literally INI on steroids. You can fully turn off water anytime and most textures. I dont think people understand how many players quit Ark ASE because of INI
My girl and I are gonna be playing pve because pvp is too taxing on our mental health but I still wanna build in a pvp style spot because it just feels better
Hard to find time to play pvp. And pvp just not as fun if ur not fully invested. Me and my gf quit the game for this reason. I tryd pve but it gets boring real fast
The fact that mesh is still a factor on where you should build your base, is probably the most fucking disappointing thing in the world. So many years of the bullshit just for it to continue on on a whole new everything. This is the only reason why I’m truly reconsidering buying the game when it drops for console. Wildcard needs to get a grip
single pillar location wont let me build their in single or online official it says cant place foundation to closes to supply drop location. So u must have the overide collision thing in effect
@HOD obviously I appreciate the vid but everyone is mainly focused on pvp spots. I'd like to see what's changed for PVE spots as I don't do PVP and being a console player I can't look myself unfortunately. There's one spit I hope is still there but no kne is showing it and was ine of the top PVE spots. Would also like to see if there's any new pve spots 🤔. The spot I liked alot was 77.0 by 35.0. A nice big fairly flat plateau. But no idea if it's still there. Time will tell I guess 🤷🏼
even with the teleporter the caves are going to be a liability for the tames and getting trapped in them. The tribe will have to have a teleporter out in the world and defended or at least hidden to get the tames in and out. Once that teleporter is taken out at the cave entrance the tribe will be mostly trapped inside defending from the inside only. If they manage to hide a teleporter some distance away as a back up it wouldn't be too hard to find it, just keep an eye out for the general direction of any tames coming to defend the cave entrance and you should be able to track down the teleporter. Give and takes with these caves. I just don't see how rat holes are worth anything now besides a foot hold starter base location. not having cryo pods you are limited to very small tames and only a few probably pteras.
I have a question regarding raiding so I understand you can place torrents almost anywhere my question is with no ammo boxes refilling turrets in weird spots might be tricky ? Maybe but other then that how do you truly Raid especially with saddle durability ? Curious
Why is there a subsection of human beings that not only think turrets have a N they call them “torrents”. It’s like a nerdy speech impediment has gained ground on the human language only in ark. Truly incredible.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on new turret placement? It kind of sucks that caves will still be so OP cause running them will be so hard. Ark is more fun on land not in caves
Yea but keep in mind that since cryo pods and titans are temporarily gone people will build on land more often especially since there aren't many caves in ASA since there is only 1 map right now so most people will be building on open land.
New idea for cryos potentially could be to make different size cryos that fit small medium and large dinos. have the medium and large cost a bit more and the medium and large cryos have a longer cryo time.
@@HOD now you are making me feel crazy for thinking that, but it seemed like the way some sentences connected just sound weird, if im wrong dont mind me lmao i might be trippin
It's insane to me that people think they would.. How have so many people not realized it's just some beautification and a wipe, with new sparkling features to distract?
So out of curiosity would a pearl underwater cave that has turrets on the dry part of the cave ceiling above the only surfacing spot of the cave be unraidable? The turrets would shoot you before you could see them while your still underwater right?
@@HOD just some of the pvp advice, theres only two good place to build cave artifact cave wise now. thats hunter & hard uw. Yea you cant get a stego in there but you can probably get trike and carbos in there to soak
@@WowTeh showing locations is great... but a lot more goes into great base locations... if this was a guide and walk through of arks new caves that would be fine, but this was titled "top ten new base locations". A guide on base location should be more critical then 11 mins of "hey guys... caves"... I'm not trying to be a dick here, but simply walking around in every cave in the game and placing turrets doesn't equate to why the location is good other then control of a access point. What are the local resources? what are the average spawning predators of that location? On top of the fact that on every server I've been on... if someone has been dumb enough to placed themselves in one of the larger caves they're gonna get dug out as it the same as building at a obelisk or metal spawn... it kills a server and everyone hates those people.
I got a refund was fed up of trying to get in servers when there not full. I'll get in when some fixes are done etc I int in any rush I'll watch people play it.
See this another problem I wish they would make it so you coukjdnt build in caves,no disrespect but that's more or the the same list from ark the island.cave building is boring and needed to be taken out so everyone would build on land.plus how are we doing the boss if people are in the caves?same game same problems not learning
To be fair to game its realy not werth it its on game pass xbox soon as its that bad we give this game way to muthch credit all games need to be tested be for releas lazy companies use us for free to fix games i want paying im not slave labour we need to stop devs doing this they make a lot out of us
advising people to use the artifact caves as base locations hinders anyone else from getting full gameplay. you're literally limiting what others can do and how far they can progress. Thats pretty messed up. all this video is doing is adding to the issue. way to be the problem...
With bot net you can mesh all these base spots guys stay of pc stick to console I’m telling you guys because we have the cheats on pc and we don’t like it
So with the changes to the new map i thought i'd cover the top 10 new and old base spots on Ark Survival Ascended The Island. What do you guys think did i miss any?
The server I play on doesn't allow building in caves or resource-rich areas (so iceberg is out because of the oil, for example). If that's fairly common, my request is a video covering base spots that work with those rules? I didn't ever really play the Island because I got into the game around Gen 2, so I'm not super familiar with it yet.
you need to do new dino abilities, like the dung beetle and oviraptor can now auto collect poop and eggs
Good to know I'll look into it
Thats really cool. Do you know uf carchas spawn?
@@TheRealOnee12 carchars share the giga spawn
Sounds like a shitty omelette
@@TheRealOnee12they do but because sever is always restarting the wild Dino pool restarts
Haven't played ark in years but first server was 323 ragnorock 2018. I purchased the game because earlier it looked like a game with tons of potential for the future. Then I found your channel and started to learn solo with you videos.
@2:50 your a goat for this single clip alone not because your showing how to mesh, well yes that but most people will say a spot is easily meshed without showing the ways (usually meaning they use the mesh method themselves and don’t want more people finding out) which is bad for the overall community since we know it can be meshed but not how and it also makes it harder for the devs to know what needs patching so thank you for bringing that to light
Yeah mate, favourite thing by far of ASA is cave meta GONE..... love being able to build land bases like its 2016 again :)
Well u mean 2014 cause thats when us ogs started
Cave meta isn’t gone lol
@@tgcluits just not as viable is all tho since no cryos its really refreshing seeing land bases and behemoth gate bases again
Can we please stop talking about cryos? If we pretend they don't exist, they can't hurt you
ahahhaahahah ok :D
People cried and whined about them and literally in the discord people were crying for them back lol. They should make a Dino upload station that connects to the incubator and lore wise the cryos will be the mobile version
Doesn't effect me tbf lol I was playing g like it was my life since beta. I'm used to setting alarms every few hours just to raise babies 😂
Well they do sooooo
@Dino2GunZ didn't when he commented this over 2 months ago tho tbf lol
The 'small' pearl cave isn't very small for a solo on an unofficial server.
With noclip on you can fit an entire tech setup in there, use chambers to block the entrance and build up all around the outside of it.
Now, it's even better. I see a lot of ways to make those caves very hard to touch. At official rates it'd be hard to hold but if you coud get a squid to move your dinos you're fine.
Basils absolutely own all underwater caves. Pearl caves on island are especially easy since you're always you can keep your character in the mesh while in soaking range in basi.
By the way HOD, the Latitude & Longitude *is* off by 5 or so degrees like you said in your last stream.
If you look at both maps, you'll see the lines are not in the same places.
yeah very interesting i was hoping someone would do a new map for it already haha
I don't play pvp and/or official, but I'm really curious: how does anybody get tek if all the artifact caves are occupied by opposing tribes? I would have thought those would be off limits and blocked for building.
Yeah they should be off limits it will be very hard to progress tek
Only way is to raid it
You trade, everyone need artifacts, so being in any artifact cave is a big advantage... People will either have to move into one, have good connections or get outprogressed.
Love the hardwork hod realy fun informative
Thanks mojo glad it was a grind getting it together but worth it
I'd recommend that spot down south of south cave, as at the left of it after exiting the mini canyon you'll be greeted by Stonehenge and a nice building spot over to the left, with a nice metal spot over at the left of that two islands across. Beware of raptors! You can also get a rex or carno early in the game up north of the cave by the swamp.
Mate I had forgotten so many of these spots, now Im hyped to head inland 😁👍🏼
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Note on single pillar: There is an explorer's note on the north side blocking building on 99% of the Pillar.
Is there any way to actually build there then?
Hod consider doing a vid on the console commands. They are so OP. Its literally INI on steroids. You can fully turn off water anytime and most textures. I dont think people understand how many players quit Ark ASE because of INI
Yep this is a very good idea
I can’t believe messing is still a thing, out of everything they fixed meshing should have been at the top.
I thought I had this update figured out, but the second I see you placing turrets upside down my jaw fucking dropped
Damn. H.O.D sounds so drained compared to the past haha. Ark really do be draining if covering it for many many years
Haha really I was trying to sound enthusiastic too lol 😂
Heyy how does green ob spiral moumtain look in ark ascended ? Is it good
it can be good if you can farm ele on island. if enemy come and soak your tower everyday, it will be hell
My girl and I are gonna be playing pve because pvp is too taxing on our mental health but I still wanna build in a pvp style spot because it just feels better
Hard to find time to play pvp. And pvp just not as fun if ur not fully invested. Me and my gf quit the game for this reason. I tryd pve but it gets boring real fast
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I thought cryo’s weren’t Comin out, did they change it? Or when extinction releases?
Extinction
As a solo player, lower south cave is ok? There's is water inside?
The fact that mesh is still a factor on where you should build your base, is probably the most fucking disappointing thing in the world. So many years of the bullshit just for it to continue on on a whole new everything. This is the only reason why I’m truly reconsidering buying the game when it drops for console. Wildcard needs to get a grip
Cry I’m selling asa methods already
single pillar location wont let me build their in single or online official it says cant place foundation to closes to supply drop location. So u must have the overide collision thing in effect
That is very strange it must be a new setting they have just added for pve. But single player it should work for sure very odd
i was hoping to see more outside spots but it was mostly caves
Personally hate people building in caves stopping others from collecting the artifacts, SO I'm watching this looking for possible raid spots
Do we think green on spiral will be fine ?
Spiral is probably decent if you have a large tribe
Spiral precryo+pre abb is all dependant on how you build it. Can be great. Can be terrible.
2 spots that weren't a cave. I'd like to see someone do a video on best base locations for PVE players who don't want or need a cave 😔
3* I tried to do as many outside as possible sadly there just isn't too many on island
But for pve herbivore island is good down south
@HOD obviously I appreciate the vid but everyone is mainly focused on pvp spots. I'd like to see what's changed for PVE spots as I don't do PVP and being a console player I can't look myself unfortunately. There's one spit I hope is still there but no kne is showing it and was ine of the top PVE spots. Would also like to see if there's any new pve spots 🤔.
The spot I liked alot was 77.0 by 35.0. A nice big fairly flat plateau. But no idea if it's still there. Time will tell I guess 🤷🏼
felt like this was just showing us all the caves
even with the teleporter the caves are going to be a liability for the tames and getting trapped in them. The tribe will have to have a teleporter out in the world and defended or at least hidden to get the tames in and out. Once that teleporter is taken out at the cave entrance the tribe will be mostly trapped inside defending from the inside only. If they manage to hide a teleporter some distance away as a back up it wouldn't be too hard to find it, just keep an eye out for the general direction of any tames coming to defend the cave entrance and you should be able to track down the teleporter. Give and takes with these caves. I just don't see how rat holes are worth anything now besides a foot hold starter base location. not having cryo pods you are limited to very small tames and only a few probably pteras.
If maewings are available, can't you use them to get your tames into most of the small locations that you can not walk large tames into?
Unfortunately, maewings are not an island creature. And due to that, they will not be released until gen2, lost, or fjordur.
@@dmystic thank you for the information
Lol am i the only one who gets Spyro the Dragon 1 intro interview flashbacks when people say the silent G in Rhyniognatha?
I have a question regarding raiding so I understand you can place torrents almost anywhere my question is with no ammo boxes refilling turrets in weird spots might be tricky ? Maybe but other then that how do you truly Raid especially with saddle durability ? Curious
Why is there a subsection of human beings that not only think turrets have a N they call them “torrents”. It’s like a nerdy speech impediment has gained ground on the human language only in ark. Truly incredible.
@@nathanielallenoo9978 bro is asking the real questions here
Grapples to fill
@@ConnorC12344 in the middle of a raid not to sure about that you’ll get shot for sure
Pretty sad that carno cave is meshable all ready , I hope the other caves don’t have the same issue.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on new turret placement? It kind of sucks that caves will still be so OP cause running them will be so hard. Ark is more fun on land not in caves
Yea but keep in mind that since cryo pods and titans are temporarily gone people will build on land more often especially since there aren't many caves in ASA since there is only 1 map right now so most people will be building on open land.
You know anything about the Unetconnection error and if there is a fix can’t join any server, been days nothing from devs.
Sucks for consoles we dont to discover these, but if i dont watch i wont know what spots people will know about faster
New idea for cryos potentially could be to make different size cryos that fit small medium and large dinos. have the medium and large cost a bit more and the medium and large cryos have a longer cryo time.
Same
Can you do one for pve spots on island
please
The spots where you said you can’t get stegos in well could always breed super turtles with big health
People used to use Pachy's with as much health as possible as well. I hate cryo pods. Hope they dont come back
Keep these coming
Hoping you are enjoying ASA
How do you prevent meshing at carno cave?
Place turrets everywhere in the cave. Or build on top of the cave but than u aare building dubble.
how can you get urs tames there????
Bro im convinced he is ai generating his voice for these last videos
thats crazy what is it that makes you think that :D i might have to start at this rate haha
@@HOD now you are making me feel crazy for thinking that, but it seemed like the way some sentences connected just sound weird, if im wrong dont mind me lmao i might be trippin
can i build in official pvp server?
4:50 turtles
You’re telling me they didn’t fix meshing 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The gate method was ptched
It's insane to me that people think they would.. How have so many people not realized it's just some beautification and a wipe, with new sparkling features to distract?
How do you remaster a game on a new engine and not at least have a kill zone underneath
💀💀
have you seen the ice caverns?
well Ark was hacked day 1 on release, is this game on Console yet OR is this Video off of a Steam/Ark game?
You need to change the title to "Best caves to build a base"
So out of curiosity would a pearl underwater cave that has turrets on the dry part of the cave ceiling above the only surfacing spot of the cave be unraidable? The turrets would shoot you before you could see them while your still underwater right?
The number one rule of ark PvP is that nothing is unraidable
Really hope they dont bring cryos back. The game balance suck so bad once extinction comes out.
My server wont have cryopods. I think tek took away from the experience and i want to keep it simple like the good old days
Know hate hod just facts
How annoying is the thing when you alt look and it tries to change your keyboard language 😂
I thought you weren’t able to build in caves anymore?
You say currently can build outside like we’re not forced and gonna have all our tames sniped 😂😂
bro i cant even get in a lobby lol
Can't believe they did not took the opportunity to need caves
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*He is the one who makes people laugh even they are in depression 💯*
What? Lol
Huh
Do you even play ark???? It just sounds like you clicked a random video and said this 😭
@@nolega75lmao
The fact that you can still build in and block off artifact caves is another reason why PVP in this game is so broken and stupid
found any new ratholes?
Hope they keep nerfing cave bases game is way better without them
I feel like they should just make cave not build able in
This video has such bad advice. Good descriptions tho. Thats all im really here for.
bad advice how? no bad advice at all imo
@@HOD just some of the pvp advice, theres only two good place to build cave artifact cave wise now. thats hunter & hard uw. Yea you cant get a stego in there but you can probably get trike and carbos in there to soak
When you starting stream hod
Not sure in a few hours hopefully
No way mesh is still a thing😂
Same as duping😂
Selling asa methods
Always have internals👍
Video could simply be condensed to 30 seconds...
Best base locations... caves... roll credits
thats why i added 4 external spots to mix it up
no. I like that he shows the locations and how they look like in the new ASA
@@WowTeh showing locations is great... but a lot more goes into great base locations... if this was a guide and walk through of arks new caves that would be fine, but this was titled "top ten new base locations". A guide on base location should be more critical then 11 mins of "hey guys... caves"... I'm not trying to be a dick here, but simply walking around in every cave in the game and placing turrets doesn't equate to why the location is good other then control of a access point. What are the local resources? what are the average spawning predators of that location? On top of the fact that on every server I've been on... if someone has been dumb enough to placed themselves in one of the larger caves they're gonna get dug out as it the same as building at a obelisk or metal spawn... it kills a server and everyone hates those people.
So meshing already possible 😅
Definitely missed herbivore island lol.
yeah i was going to include it but its not great for pvp and this was orientated to pvp i was so close to including though haha
too close to the water, you can bring over a turret raft and do damage easily.
LEGEND 🙌
They really fucked up ice cave
Half of these are no longer a thing. You may want to update this information to stop people wasting thier time.
How i meshing still a thing in a 'brand new' version of the game man...
sorry hod but spam turtles
No cryopods!
Legend on please 😢
I got a refund was fed up of trying to get in servers when there not full. I'll get in when some fixes are done etc I int in any rush I'll watch people play it.
Shame for Carno
I hope they never add cryopods back. Those made the game so stupid
Does anyone here know how to spawn mod dinos?
Why don’t they just not add cryo pods back?
I didn't think wildcard were putting cryo pods in the game
lol meshing still a thing
Gate method patched
Servers down agn hod lolol
Dude, Why would you show how to mesh into the cave? Now everyone will know how to do it.
I show it so they fix it. It's fixed now it's how we get stuff fixed in ark
See this another problem I wish they would make it so you coukjdnt build in caves,no disrespect but that's more or the the same list from ark the island.cave building is boring and needed to be taken out so everyone would build on land.plus how are we doing the boss if people are in the caves?same game same problems not learning
To be fair to game its realy not werth it its on game pass xbox soon as its that bad we give this game way to muthch credit all games need to be tested be for releas lazy companies use us for free to fix games i want paying im not slave labour we need to stop devs doing this they make a lot out of us
yeah i totally agree i think it was rushed out to meet their deadline
Sorry hod know disrespect to you sir surported you long time and allways have responded your view on games
Bro didn’t show a single location
What do you mean?
Why are there so many bots in your comment section? 😂
Saw that meshing...nnnnnn...im done
advising people to use the artifact caves as base locations hinders anyone else from getting full gameplay. you're literally limiting what others can do and how far they can progress. Thats pretty messed up. all this video is doing is adding to the issue. way to be the problem...
I didn't make the game. This is the Meta I didn't design it.
Lmao meshed already smh 🤦♂️
With bot net you can mesh all these base spots guys stay of pc stick to console I’m telling you guys because we have the cheats on pc and we don’t like it
Is anyone kind enough to buy me this game on Steam?
Ark is full of exploits remove the trees the rocks the water and your PC will run fine, and you can see other players Ez use INI Ez Kill in PvP