17:14 I laughed so much at the accidental taming of the Pegomastax and then killing it because he didn't know. Poor thing just sat there and took its master's beating.
Oh he knew. He just didn't want it. I swear those things are so annoying, I really don't know why they added them. They did not enhance the gameplay at all other than adding in some cheap laughs for videos.
@@Bossnation69 Well yes... but what kind of dinosaur would have hands that could steal things from human beings that didn't exist at the same time? I don't see that as a reasonable excuse for adding in something to an already frustrating game where death is often just a few meters away.
Ahhhh yes early ark. You die about 45 times before you get established. I'd recommend getting a pteranodon and flying around the map. There are some really good spots to build. In the middle there's a volcano then next to it metal mountain. Tons of resources. Also those explorer notes give you experience boost. If you are on a mount and hit then the mount gets it too. Easy way to level up. Also early on with mounts if you just hit trees with them it will level the dino up fast. Great video. Excited for the next one.
agreed, but pteranodons have such poor weight and stamina....one must pump those stats to stay aloft longer...and generally have an idea of where your next landing spot is gonna be....ahead of time....i've been forced to ground in the middle of the swamp and died to snakes far too often.
Same here. Pteras are generally my first mount, and Argies are my second. I like Argies because by leveling up their stamina and weight, they're great for getting to metal, crystal, etc. early in the game.
@@RaisinBran-ir4iq Yeaaaah, you're really not playin' the game till you've got a decent level Argie. and maybe a Rex, or spino. and not a shitty super low level one that's gonna get slapped around.
Dealing with the Leeds (big fish) is straightforward. Don't take the raft to the deep waters. Hug the coast in shallows and don't make a run across deep water without having a look around. It's actually quite well balanced no need to remove it. Just don't raft on the deep ocean. It's meant to deter you from doing so
The Leed was a fix for the problem when people had 100 rafts at the edge of the map, blocking Dino spawns. It still works as intended but people found other ways to lag out the servers :D
@Ripdric Screw the "deter you from doing so", just shut them off, no need for them in a single player game or a game with friends. It is totally unfair that they even destroy metal boats.
Watching him confidently sail in deeper water on a tiny raft with *ALL* of his storage on it KILLED my inner ARK intuition.. 😂 Guess you gotta learn somehow tho..
Yeah, same. I feel it is a wimp move though to simply remove a dino from the game because you don't like it. I rather see people adapt and strategize rather than play god and be like "Nope, that's gone". Where is the challenge in removing anything that causes you pain? This would be like a souls game where a boss beats you every time preventing you from progressing, so instead of learning how to handle it or getting better, you just remove it. Feels cheap to me.
@@Bancheis I think the whole reason the Leeds was added was bc of people flooding official servers with tons of rafts to effectively DDoS them, and so the Leeds cleared em out. It was something I commonly saw in the early days and it caused an extreme amount of lag. Good for official, bad for single player.
@@sithknight7740 I mean.. it is definitely one way to solve the problem. But it feels a bit like a performance issue caused by mobile bases bobbing up and down in the water rather than simply too many rafts. Server having to keep updating where it is at while chunks are loaded. That is the kind of problem that needs a proper engineering solution rather than a cheap "Well.. just destroy them all. Problem solved." solution lol. They could very well program it so it does not spawn if there are less than 2 or 3 rafts in an area, or even in a server. Feels like a lazy solution to me.
There's basically two ways of playing Ark, 1) die a lot, or 2) take it very slow and steady, and scale up from tame to tame. I'm not sure there's a middle way. And the natural progression with the carnivores is more raptor to carnosaur to allosaur to therizinosaur, not raptor direct to theri. Some of the herbivorous dinos and mammalian creatures can be very tanky and keep you relatively safe while you're trying to take down the big carnivores. You can get to Herbivore Island with minimal exposure to Leedsichthys attack, stay in the shallows until you're directly opposite, pop underwater to check there's no Leeds in the area, then head straight across. There's a fairly small area of deep water in the middle of the channel where the Leeds can get to you, and not enough time for it to reach it as long as you don't dawdle.
Herbi island can have some great tames early on, you can build a second raft if you have your whole life on the first one. It's also good place to set up an early game metal smelting outpost.
After seeing the intro, I figured I should tell you that it's usually a good idea to only farm with stone tools until you get the metal to make metal tools. You get fewer resources with stone tools, so you should always try to rush metal tools early game until you can tame good harvesting dinos.
Unless in a pack raptors are weak in dangerous areas and you found some dangerous areas, that section of river is an 8 on the danger scale. Going out at night is a bad idea early game, player is squishy all the time not just at night. This is not a game you can bull your way through on foot, sometimes you will prevail but your power and wealth is in your tames.
tips, baby dinos give alot of prime meat, Pressing T transfers items between containers. Picks on rocks give more metal and Flint where as an Axe on rocks with give more stone, applies to Trees as well
One major thing you need to learn to do is drop sleeping bags or beds as you go along the map. Second, carry lots of Bolas and last don't carry all your best stuff on a raft then sail into the deep parts, stay along the coastline. Ark and its dinosaurs doesn't give two poops about you or your stuff!
When you level dinos it is important to put points into hp as you level them. Not just damage. The whales only attack boats in deep water though removing them in understandable. Metal harvesting tools gather more, and last longer. Some rocks in the water where you first spawned should let you get a small amount if metal. They will look different not the usual relish brown. Hope that helps
I used to build house boats 3 stories high using pillars with ceilings on top which let me build outward a few tiles in each direction. I was able to build big enough to store several dinos on the first floor, have a crafting floor, and keep flyers and a feeding troth on the roof. One design I had a large trap door on the roof and would park an Argie and a Ptera inside using the hatch to fly in and out. The raft at the bottom I just put a standing torch, a storage box, and a campfire on. When I need to make a swift exit not having to search for the exposed spot on the raft is helpful.
I said it before in another of your 7DtD series but having someone as a cameraman and doing montages with that simply makes the experience of watching your videos and series so much more interesting and fhrilling
The Beavers help with wood harvesting, the large Armedillos help with stone, Anklosaurus helps with metal/flint, most herbivores help with berry/fiber collection and Carnivores help with meat collection! Frogs gives you cementing paste when they eat the small swarming bugs and the Berionyx (know i butchered that name) is amphibious with a wide area aoe attack underwater, perfect for if you're getting swarmed by piranhas! The Argentavus is your heavy flyer who can pick things up and set them down!
Glad to see you sticking with it, early game Ark is very unforgiving and frustrating so definitely good to tune the settings to your liking. I'll be looking forward to more episodes!
The great part about ark is you can play it a hundred different ways! Play this game how YOU want to play it. I’m loving the series so far and can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!!🎉
this is great stuff - just like the first time (pre alpha for me). Lets face it, we take morbid joy in players just "getting Arked"! The giant fish is fine if you stick to the shoreline. If I were you , I would be spawning on, or trying to get to Herbivore Island, far south east, to get yourself started and (as you in the US would say) "situated". Having said that, I expect you have already recorded lots more - looking forward to the rest of this series - please stick with it, it is worth it :)
A hatch-ceiling will give you a hole to access the raft through...A metal pick would get you more metal a lot easier than a stone pick...The carno baby would've been a better mount/animal harvester than another raptor...you definitely want to harvest everything with a tame...seapking of which, your first raptor probably had chitin in him from eating those ants...I was kind of expecting there to be a leedsycthis based on the title (only sea creature that will attack a raft...stay away froim the open water...amphibious land critters will attack you or tames on a raft...stay away from the swamp until you've met everyone there on land).
🎉 I love this series!! One thing, though, and it's pretty important. 🎯 Do NOT tame anything using the crossbow. 🎯 1, it does a LOT of damage. You run the risk of killing your tame before you tame it. 2. It is slow to reload, and while you reload, your movement speed is drastically slowed down. You can not run when you are reloading your crossbow. When every second counts, you want and need something a lot more responsive that you can fix and reload on the fly. Reloading an arrow into your bow does not slow you down. You can rapid-fire arrows using your bow. You can also repair your bow on the fly with fiber, wood, and thatch. The crossbow can only be repaired in the smithy. And yes, some of the beasts in this game at high levels require you to even have two rifles to use because you will break one during the taming process and will need a backup. I actually never make the crossbow. It's just not worth it unless you want a weapon to kill things with. I usually run around with 2 bows, stuff to repair them with on the fly, and tranq arrows. If I have to kill anything, I go with melee weapons if I don't have a Dino nearby. Your bow and arrow, as primitive as they are, are absolutely the best until you can craft tranq darts and the long barrel rifle. You do not want to use the crossbow. It's a hindrance and a weapon that's meant to kill, not tame. When you can make the rifle and tranq darts, you will want 2 rifles. That's all I will say. I hope you see this before you learn the hard way that crossbows suck for taming. 😅😅😅 Much love.
Torpor scales with damage and not many creatures require darts (direbear for one), those can die from a crossbow with tranq arrows. If the crossbow is killing with tranq arrows, the creature was damaged beforehand or it had a super low health stat...that is very rare.
Some tips, Press and hold H to see buff descriptions. Shift click items to move them to another inventory you are viewing, Press F to access your dinos inventory while you are on it, or looking at it. Press O to drop things from your inventory.
Build traps for taming. 3x3 stone trap, 2-3 window-walls high, ramp on one side, door on opposite side (for you to run out). Trap will work for most any med-large ground dino up to a T-Rex. Also, you should increase gather rates a bit more and decrease taming time a lot. Grinding and waiting around is a waste of your time and sucks the fun out of ARK.
It's best to find a really safe place to build your first base in the beginning. Don't take too much stuff on a raft as the Leedsichthys will go after your boats. Or stay closer to the land in the shallows where it can't get to you. As you know you will die a lot beginning game. You need stronger tames, armor and weapons. When you can, get a grappling hook so you can grapple up high if possible and get away from predators. Then shoot down at them. EDIT: Lol, I don't blame you for taking the Leedsichthys out of the game. They are a real pain and a menace in the beginning game.
This is definitely the type of game that's more enjoyable once you know what you're doing. I feel like it was developed to cater toward the people with hundreds of hours as opposed to new players
You can keep the foundation in the back, take the foundation in the middle out and replace with a hatch frame ceiling, you can drop down into it and click the raft to drive it.
That was a proper Ark welcome .. Rafts are kinda safe, but everyone who was not guided and even many who recieved guidance make this exact experience rather early on..^^' Glad to see that you are trying regardless of that little accident worth 4-8 hours.
Gotta be honest man, this episode was epic. Had me laughing my ass off as I remembered all the times I got wrecked on Ark as a low level without an established base and dinos.
Yeah Ark can be a bit of a death loop in the early game if you are not prepared enough with Dino's (Used to be movement speed). Just a quick heads up with the Leedsichthys, they only want to hug your rafts as you saw but can be avoided if going over shallow waters. If you are ever planning to fight the Alpha versions of the bosses you will need a drop from them so be advised about that.
He's a very, very long ways away from fighting bosses. By the time he'll need an Alpha Leedsichthys, he should already have a good underwater tame/squad to get through the underwater caves.
They are some tips I have from my time of playing Ark. Though I should point out they are from Ark Survival Evolved. I am in the process of finding out if they still hold true for Ascended. When you level up your character. Invest points in Fortitude. It will increase your characters resistance to things like poison and other debuffs. It also has the added bonus of making you harder to freeze during colder weather changes and heatwaves. I would also suggest you invest in flak armour. The metal armour set if you are ever going up against Troodons. Even the basic set should keep you alive when the poison their bite knocks you out with, and will allow you to endure the running and biting attacks they; do when you are unconcious. Long enough to get back up and dispatch them. However your fortitude level will determine how much Torpor you can take before falling unconcious. Otherwise Stimberries are a good source for reducing the Torpor Meter. It should look like a bunch of stars on right handside of your sceen when it pops up. Just make sure you have a source of water on hand as the berries tend to dehydrate you fast. And pop a point into food and water and as while it may not look like much in the menu. It makes a difference in how long you can go without requiring food or water.
Don't know how much backseating you want... but big pro-tip that has helped me, you can right click when you have your torch out to put it on your belt for hands-free light at night! Enjoying the series so far, keep going!
Yeah, that giant ass fish really cost me the first time too. I also had a similar experience with the Allos and the T-rex and the Raptors by that river, lol.
You can build the raft out more by placing a flat roof piece so it extends out. Place a foundation beneath it, pick up the roof piece and the foundation will remain and be level.
NGL, the second you said building a raft, hub and I both looked at each other and said "Alpha Leeds".... LOL. I had that happen with a raft, was about a body length from herbivore island (that beginner island) when it got demolished by a leeds. They don't bother canoes however.... so if you want a good water experience, throw one of those together real quick. Just prepare to outrun the sharks XD I know I tend to be petrified of going into the water... at least until i get a grapple hook and scuba tank, or a pelagornis. They work as an aquatic bird, don't throw you off when you touch down on the water. They float, can instant eat the stuff they chomp when they kill it, and can gain back stamina to fly off again just by floating along. Also a good way to lure sharks into a trap to tame them for your underwater mounts ^_^ Pelis are amazing
If you’re looking for greener pastures to settle on I recommend the western peninsula. Very few carnivores there and it’s got a neat rock front right by the ocean
See the lead sickness. If you build foundations out of metal or even get a metal boat which is the motorboat, it cannot destroy it. It will still attack it but it cannot destroy metal. Just a heads up lol and lead sicknesses are technically a rarer spawn and you actually need the alpha lead sickness to actually pursue further into the game for a boss fight I believe
Yeah raft buildings OK for temp use or travelling, but keep the important stuff in a base. Stay in the shallows and get a pterodactyl for surveying the land fast.
I know early Ark is tough, but I enjoyed watching someone play who doesn't have 1,000 hours already in game. Professionals are predictable, but amateurs, you never know what they will do.
Super unlucky you got the Alpha Leed, those guys are rough. If it was a normal Leed, you may have been able to get to the shore in time. Either way, loving the series. I'd like to recommend the follow settings: Taming/Breeding/Maturing 20x and everything else 3-5x. Truly, there will still be plenty of farming you'll have to do. But waiting for literally 8 hours for a Giga to tame on stock settings is obnoxious.
Agree with power up of resource gathering and the such. Will let you know there are dinos that are only viable at night so that may not be the best. Was gonna say though, that's the perfect example of don't put all your eggs in one basket. I always have 2 bases after reaching level 60 or so.
Fair enough changing the harvest settings .. but deleting whales when you are surprised that something attacks yours raft in the deep ocean? Whats next, delete each dino that beats you. Early ark is tough bro .. its meant to be, its even part of the overall back story of Ark. Coast hugging gets you everywhere you you need to be in a raft. With a few short risky hops over deep water. Equally thanks for the laughs reminded me of my first few times playing. The content was generally good as always. DON'T GIVE UP!! Just get smart ;)
Great series so far! I never played Ark so I'm learning a lot while the game is installing. It looks fantastic and also really fun. Can't wait to try it out.
Right after you built the raft. you can use stairs/ramps from the extended ceiling back to the foundation to make them look tapered and avoid the floating
Getting to Herbivore island is the first true test of a new Ark player, and getting your raft munched by a Leedsichthys on the way might as well be a right of passage.
Stay strong and don't tilt. you can beat this game easy even if there are some frustrating parts along the way. And remember, you are the one who tries again.
Ark is very much a game where they give you settings that you can change for a reason. You -need- the Leeds to fight the bosses (They have a trophy you need to spawn in the boss) But you can console command the trophy in, and set your own cost for it (I'll drop out 5 stacks of Obsidian, or whatever and let it despawn) and get through it that way. Ark is also a game where your progress doesn't -need- to be a huge burst of progress to create content. The process is part of the journey. Build a base somewhere central. Work on getting dinos, and using them to help expand your resource collection and processing. Ark is -difficult- without using dinos for stuff. The raft is neat. It's mobile. But if you can get to where you can get a bronto, and get a platform saddle, along with some other dinos for defense (Or offense. Stuff can't eat you if it gets eaten first.) that's still highly mobile ("Highly") and can serve as a mobile forward base for whatever you need.
Ark is brutal, I think it knows when you're doing something like taming and it throws all the nasty it can at you to stop you...we call that getting ARKed lol
As much as I love your 7 days content I think I prefer your alternate game content lately. You aren't an expert at these games and it makes it so much better.
What happened is just what I figured happened when I saw the title for your video. I said I believe the whale destroyed his boat. Lol little did I know it was his home.
A very good tip in this game is to tame one called Parasur because it can scan the area and if there is something wrong, red dots will appear on the screen where the wrong thing is.
I wouldn't think it would matter what type of material you build on the raft out of, since the beasties will be attacking the raft underneath it. When you get attacked on your dino hop off it so you can add your dps to its, and also it is better at targeting things in the dark. Sometimes you just have to stop and think about whether what was on your corpse was worth going back for (it usually isn't). The open ocean is supposed to be dangerous. If you want to travel the seas relatively unmolested you would need water tames to protect your raft. (If you start removing things just because they are problematic you will be left with a very boring no danger video.)
Yeah...Leeds are not generally liked because they were basically only introduced to punish people that like the rafts. They're punishing, not fun. As to those allosaurs you saw, they're actually a great tame, but I think you need to be level 80-something to craft the saddle. They're pack creatures, usually found in groups of three, but several of them together as tames are a powerful team. They can nearly match a rex in direct damage output, and their debuff (assuming they still have the bleed DoT debuff in Ascension) puts them at least on par with a rex, and they have the highest sprinting speed of any creature on the island. They're a bit more fragile, though.
I really enjoyed my time with Ark, but it can be extremely stressful early game when you are first learning the ropes. It can be incredibly heart breaking at times as well.
In ASE the fence foundation/pillar trick became more popular than the multiple foundation stepping operations. In ASA, no matter how low the foundation is you can not access the raft tiller/controls. In ASA, by leaving a tiny gap (half a wall thickness) between foundations you can access that way.
Oh man... I am only 8 min in but I just realized I meant to leave a comment for last video. You MUST MUST MUST put your tames on 'passive' whenever going over water or they will freak out and attack the water-life and I think their agro will attract the water-life as well vs. not when you are on the rudder and they are passive. Learn the whistle command it's very valuable.
Ouch... that was rough. My recommendation would be to go for a flyer. A leveled Pteranodon is generally the best means of traveling the map early game. Also don't waste your time with Raptors... too weak. Just level to a Carno saddle an then you can even take on T-Rex's if they are leveled enough.
back in old ASE for raft a hatch frame with trapdoor worked well over rudder when expanding I built pillars to support a 2nd floor with a ramp on one side straight down to ground/water and I parked dinos up top as when rocks clipped through raft it would push dinos around and even off the raft. for full mobile base I had a 3 story setup first floor was all open so I could see where I was going 2nd floor was a cabin/workshop then dino parking on roof surrounded with fences to keep them from sliding off. You used to be able to sink foundation into the raft floor to better protect core boat from damage not sure if it still works though
And also a good advice as was in original ark, look through settings, there was an option to tame max level creatures 150 lvl. After you upgrade 150 leve creature to max, you can breed them and get more levels for next gen creatures. I was starting first from taming low level pter, flying creature gives lots opportunities to scout
First high-level potential tame gets ban-hammered by a pair of Rex and an Allosaurus. Then the initial raft gets obliterated by an Alpha Leedsicthys... a normal Leeds is bad enough, as it's meant to be a primary deterrent to test subjects, keeping them trapped within the Arks. But an *ALPHA* as your first Leeds encounter isn't bad luck, it's the game kicking your teeth in when you're already bed-ridden in the ICU. Talk about a rough day, right? After re-watching the footage... this Alpha Leeds encounter is even more of a "kick him when he's down" moment, because the gigantic bastard was only *LEVEL ONE!*
in normal arc there's round river rocks that have a much much higher porportion of metal to the craggy land rocks. I'm inclined to belive this is still true. so it's advised you clear out the nearby rivers to get more metal faster.
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My man is on a dinosaur infested island worrying about interior decoration and contrasting design details.
That’s the Tamreki we know and love!
Dying with style.
Sounda like simon😂😂😂
Hardcore!! Lol.. Love this channel
Lol yep! That’s how he rolls😂
17:14 I laughed so much at the accidental taming of the Pegomastax and then killing it because he didn't know. Poor thing just sat there and took its master's beating.
-I Thought So 😅
Oh he knew. He just didn't want it. I swear those things are so annoying, I really don't know why they added them. They did not enhance the gameplay at all other than adding in some cheap laughs for videos.
@@Bancheisprobably because it’s a dinosaur
@@Bossnation69 Well yes... but what kind of dinosaur would have hands that could steal things from human beings that didn't exist at the same time? I don't see that as a reasonable excuse for adding in something to an already frustrating game where death is often just a few meters away.
@@Bancheis yeah I get your point I was just trying to be a little bit of a jackass lol
Ahhhh yes early ark. You die about 45 times before you get established. I'd recommend getting a pteranodon and flying around the map. There are some really good spots to build. In the middle there's a volcano then next to it metal mountain. Tons of resources. Also those explorer notes give you experience boost. If you are on a mount and hit then the mount gets it too. Easy way to level up. Also early on with mounts if you just hit trees with them it will level the dino up fast. Great video. Excited for the next one.
agreed, but pteranodons have such poor weight and stamina....one must pump those stats to stay aloft longer...and generally have an idea of where your next landing spot is gonna be....ahead of time....i've been forced to ground in the middle of the swamp and died to snakes far too often.
Same here. Pteras are generally my first mount, and Argies are my second. I like Argies because by leveling up their stamina and weight, they're great for getting to metal, crystal, etc. early in the game.
@@RaisinBran-ir4iq Yeaaaah, you're really not playin' the game till you've got a decent level Argie. and maybe a Rex, or spino. and not a shitty super low level one that's gonna get slapped around.
Dealing with the Leeds (big fish) is straightforward. Don't take the raft to the deep waters. Hug the coast in shallows and don't make a run across deep water without having a look around. It's actually quite well balanced no need to remove it. Just don't raft on the deep ocean. It's meant to deter you from doing so
The Leed was a fix for the problem when people had 100 rafts at the edge of the map, blocking Dino spawns.
It still works as intended but people found other ways to lag out the servers :D
I hate the Leeds. In single player, I always disable them, or make them not attack rafts. Not a good game mechanic IMO.
@Ripdric Screw the "deter you from doing so", just shut them off, no need for them in a single player game or a game with friends. It is totally unfair that they even destroy metal boats.
How do you delete them?
Disabling them removes their trophy item, no? Isn’t that required for a boss fight?
This is why, in the Ark lore, the player is known as "The one who tries again." Ark happens.
Watching him confidently sail in deeper water on a tiny raft with *ALL* of his storage on it KILLED my inner ARK intuition.. 😂 Guess you gotta learn somehow tho..
Yeah, same. I feel it is a wimp move though to simply remove a dino from the game because you don't like it. I rather see people adapt and strategize rather than play god and be like "Nope, that's gone". Where is the challenge in removing anything that causes you pain? This would be like a souls game where a boss beats you every time preventing you from progressing, so instead of learning how to handle it or getting better, you just remove it. Feels cheap to me.
@@Bancheis I think the whole reason the Leeds was added was bc of people flooding official servers with tons of rafts to effectively DDoS them, and so the Leeds cleared em out. It was something I commonly saw in the early days and it caused an extreme amount of lag.
Good for official, bad for single player.
@@sithknight7740 I mean.. it is definitely one way to solve the problem. But it feels a bit like a performance issue caused by mobile bases bobbing up and down in the water rather than simply too many rafts. Server having to keep updating where it is at while chunks are loaded. That is the kind of problem that needs a proper engineering solution rather than a cheap "Well.. just destroy them all. Problem solved." solution lol. They could very well program it so it does not spawn if there are less than 2 or 3 rafts in an area, or even in a server. Feels like a lazy solution to me.
One of the few youtubers I can actually just sit and watch these days without getting bored.
There's basically two ways of playing Ark, 1) die a lot, or 2) take it very slow and steady, and scale up from tame to tame. I'm not sure there's a middle way. And the natural progression with the carnivores is more raptor to carnosaur to allosaur to therizinosaur, not raptor direct to theri. Some of the herbivorous dinos and mammalian creatures can be very tanky and keep you relatively safe while you're trying to take down the big carnivores.
You can get to Herbivore Island with minimal exposure to Leedsichthys attack, stay in the shallows until you're directly opposite, pop underwater to check there's no Leeds in the area, then head straight across. There's a fairly small area of deep water in the middle of the channel where the Leeds can get to you, and not enough time for it to reach it as long as you don't dawdle.
Herbi island can have some great tames early on, you can build a second raft if you have your whole life on the first one.
It's also good place to set up an early game metal smelting outpost.
After seeing the intro, I figured I should tell you that it's usually a good idea to only farm with stone tools until you get the metal to make metal tools. You get fewer resources with stone tools, so you should always try to rush metal tools early game until you can tame good harvesting dinos.
Open the explorer notes while on your Dino. It gives you and your Dino an XP boost with some initial level ups.
Unless in a pack raptors are weak in dangerous areas and you found some dangerous areas, that section of river is an 8 on the danger scale.
Going out at night is a bad idea early game, player is squishy all the time not just at night.
This is not a game you can bull your way through on foot, sometimes you will prevail but your power and wealth is in your tames.
Man this game is literally savage.
tips, baby dinos give alot of prime meat, Pressing T transfers items between containers. Picks on rocks give more metal and Flint where as an Axe on rocks with give more stone, applies to Trees as well
One major thing you need to learn to do is drop sleeping bags or beds as you go along the map. Second, carry lots of Bolas and last don't carry all your best stuff on a raft then sail into the deep parts, stay along the coastline. Ark and its dinosaurs doesn't give two poops about you or your stuff!
When you level dinos it is important to put points into hp as you level them. Not just damage. The whales only attack boats in deep water though removing them in understandable. Metal harvesting tools gather more, and last longer. Some rocks in the water where you first spawned should let you get a small amount if metal. They will look different not the usual relish brown. Hope that helps
I love it when "ark happens". That's the charm of the game. Keep up the videos please!
-Not If He Keep Removing Stuff Every Time “Ark Happens” 😆.
I used to build house boats 3 stories high using pillars with ceilings on top which let me build outward a few tiles in each direction. I was able to build big enough to store several dinos on the first floor, have a crafting floor, and keep flyers and a feeding troth on the roof. One design I had a large trap door on the roof and would park an Argie and a Ptera inside using the hatch to fly in and out. The raft at the bottom I just put a standing torch, a storage box, and a campfire on. When I need to make a swift exit not having to search for the exposed spot on the raft is helpful.
I said it before in another of your 7DtD series but having someone as a cameraman and doing montages with that simply makes the experience of watching your videos and series so much more interesting and fhrilling
The Beavers help with wood harvesting, the large Armedillos help with stone, Anklosaurus helps with metal/flint, most herbivores help with berry/fiber collection and Carnivores help with meat collection! Frogs gives you cementing paste when they eat the small swarming bugs and the Berionyx (know i butchered that name) is amphibious with a wide area aoe attack underwater, perfect for if you're getting swarmed by piranhas! The Argentavus is your heavy flyer who can pick things up and set them down!
Glad to see you sticking with it, early game Ark is very unforgiving and frustrating so definitely good to tune the settings to your liking. I'll be looking forward to more episodes!
Tem please don't give up. It's very enjoying to watch this failing videos
The great part about ark is you can play it a hundred different ways! Play this game how YOU want to play it. I’m loving the series so far and can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!!🎉
this is great stuff - just like the first time (pre alpha for me). Lets face it, we take morbid joy in players just "getting Arked"! The giant fish is fine if you stick to the shoreline. If I were you , I would be spawning on, or trying to get to Herbivore Island, far south east, to get yourself started and (as you in the US would say) "situated". Having said that, I expect you have already recorded lots more - looking forward to the rest of this series - please stick with it, it is worth it :)
There is no spawn point on bronto island.
A hatch-ceiling will give you a hole to access the raft through...A metal pick would get you more metal a lot easier than a stone pick...The carno baby would've been a better mount/animal harvester than another raptor...you definitely want to harvest everything with a tame...seapking of which, your first raptor probably had chitin in him from eating those ants...I was kind of expecting there to be a leedsycthis based on the title (only sea creature that will attack a raft...stay away froim the open water...amphibious land critters will attack you or tames on a raft...stay away from the swamp until you've met everyone there on land).
🎉 I love this series!! One thing, though, and it's pretty important. 🎯 Do NOT tame anything using the crossbow. 🎯 1, it does a LOT of damage. You run the risk of killing your tame before you tame it. 2. It is slow to reload, and while you reload, your movement speed is drastically slowed down. You can not run when you are reloading your crossbow.
When every second counts, you want and need something a lot more responsive that you can fix and reload on the fly. Reloading an arrow into your bow does not slow you down. You can rapid-fire arrows using your bow. You can also repair your bow on the fly with fiber, wood, and thatch. The crossbow can only be repaired in the smithy. And yes, some of the beasts in this game at high levels require you to even have two rifles to use because you will break one during the taming process and will need a backup.
I actually never make the crossbow. It's just not worth it unless you want a weapon to kill things with. I usually run around with 2 bows, stuff to repair them with on the fly, and tranq arrows. If I have to kill anything, I go with melee weapons if I don't have a Dino nearby.
Your bow and arrow, as primitive as they are, are absolutely the best until you can craft tranq darts and the long barrel rifle. You do not want to use the crossbow. It's a hindrance and a weapon that's meant to kill, not tame.
When you can make the rifle and tranq darts, you will want 2 rifles. That's all I will say. I hope you see this before you learn the hard way that crossbows suck for taming. 😅😅😅 Much love.
Torpor scales with damage and not many creatures require darts (direbear for one), those can die from a crossbow with tranq arrows.
If the crossbow is killing with tranq arrows, the creature was damaged beforehand or it had a super low health stat...that is very rare.
Some tips, Press and hold H to see buff descriptions. Shift click items to move them to another inventory you are viewing, Press F to access your dinos inventory while you are on it, or looking at it. Press O to drop things from your inventory.
Seriously stoked for how this series will end (hopefully not in catastrophe). Been a huge fan of your 7DTD content but also loved arc. CANT WAIT!!!
Therazinsaur is my favorite daily mount.
Build traps for taming. 3x3 stone trap, 2-3 window-walls high, ramp on one side, door on opposite side (for you to run out). Trap will work for most any med-large ground dino up to a T-Rex. Also, you should increase gather rates a bit more and decrease taming time a lot. Grinding and waiting around is a waste of your time and sucks the fun out of ARK.
Tem, you need to get a spyglass my man!
Man, losing everything to an Alpha Leed is so crushing. It's also just one of those things. Way to rally and get back on the horse!
-I’ve Never Had All My Apples In One Bush 🥴 Outpost & Multiple Storage Points.
Tem "Little nerve-wracking"....welcome to ARK, haha!
Your editing was phenomenal! That foreshadowing was devastating.
It's best to find a really safe place to build your first base in the beginning. Don't take too much stuff on a raft as the Leedsichthys will go after your boats. Or stay closer to the land in the shallows where it can't get to you. As you know you will die a lot beginning game. You need stronger tames, armor and weapons. When you can, get a grappling hook so you can grapple up high if possible and get away from predators. Then shoot down at them.
EDIT: Lol, I don't blame you for taking the Leedsichthys out of the game. They are a real pain and a menace in the beginning game.
I legit love that you're clamoring through this to figure it out. Love it or hate it, you're figuring it out!
This is definitely the type of game that's more enjoyable once you know what you're doing. I feel like it was developed to cater toward the people with hundreds of hours as opposed to new players
HOLY CRUD! when the giant alpha .....water creature attacked i fell outta my chair D:!!!!!
You can keep the foundation in the back, take the foundation in the middle out and replace with a hatch frame ceiling, you can drop down into it and click the raft to drive it.
dont want to west my time ply this game just want to west my time watching this guy ply it love the series
man im starting to giggle when you're planning to go across the seas. cool stuff!
That was a proper Ark welcome ..
Rafts are kinda safe, but everyone who was not guided and even many who recieved guidance make this exact experience rather early on..^^'
Glad to see that you are trying regardless of that little accident worth 4-8 hours.
Gotta be honest man, this episode was epic. Had me laughing my ass off as I remembered all the times I got wrecked on Ark as a low level without an established base and dinos.
Yeah Ark can be a bit of a death loop in the early game if you are not prepared enough with Dino's (Used to be movement speed).
Just a quick heads up with the Leedsichthys, they only want to hug your rafts as you saw but can be avoided if going over shallow waters.
If you are ever planning to fight the Alpha versions of the bosses you will need a drop from them so be advised about that.
He's a very, very long ways away from fighting bosses. By the time he'll need an Alpha Leedsichthys, he should already have a good underwater tame/squad to get through the underwater caves.
@@bladeofphoenix True true, just a thought though. Think of all the prime fish meet one will be missing out with a sickle though. :D
He got clapped on that boat like I knew he would I was waiting for Big Willy to come out 😅😂 it happens to the best of us
They are some tips I have from my time of playing Ark.
Though I should point out they are from Ark Survival Evolved. I am in the process of finding out if they still hold true for Ascended.
When you level up your character. Invest points in Fortitude.
It will increase your characters resistance to things like poison and other debuffs. It also has the added bonus of making you harder to freeze during colder weather changes and heatwaves.
I would also suggest you invest in flak armour. The metal armour set if you are ever going up against Troodons. Even the basic set should keep you alive when the poison their bite knocks you out with, and will allow you to endure the running and biting attacks they; do when you are unconcious. Long enough to get back up and dispatch them.
However your fortitude level will determine how much Torpor you can take before falling unconcious. Otherwise Stimberries are a good source for reducing the Torpor Meter.
It should look like a bunch of stars on right handside of your sceen when it pops up.
Just make sure you have a source of water on hand as the berries tend to dehydrate you fast.
And pop a point into food and water and as while it may not look like much in the menu. It makes a difference in how long you can go without requiring food or water.
Don't know how much backseating you want... but big pro-tip that has helped me, you can right click when you have your torch out to put it on your belt for hands-free light at night! Enjoying the series so far, keep going!
Yeah, that giant ass fish really cost me the first time too. I also had a similar experience with the Allos and the T-rex and the Raptors by that river, lol.
14:27 the timing on that was perfect 😂
You can build the raft out more by placing a flat roof piece so it extends out. Place a foundation beneath it, pick up the roof piece and the foundation will remain and be level.
Oh yes, I was waiting for it!
NGL, the second you said building a raft, hub and I both looked at each other and said "Alpha Leeds".... LOL. I had that happen with a raft, was about a body length from herbivore island (that beginner island) when it got demolished by a leeds. They don't bother canoes however.... so if you want a good water experience, throw one of those together real quick. Just prepare to outrun the sharks XD I know I tend to be petrified of going into the water... at least until i get a grapple hook and scuba tank, or a pelagornis. They work as an aquatic bird, don't throw you off when you touch down on the water. They float, can instant eat the stuff they chomp when they kill it, and can gain back stamina to fly off again just by floating along. Also a good way to lure sharks into a trap to tame them for your underwater mounts ^_^ Pelis are amazing
If you’re looking for greener pastures to settle on I recommend the western peninsula. Very few carnivores there and it’s got a neat rock front right by the ocean
The term "Full circle" comes to mind. What a vid 🤣
Tem, we’ve all been there man. RIP to the raft. Great intro btw.
I laughed so hard Tem, thanks great episode, you'll get there.
Geez. I have such flashbacks watching this. ARK can really throw ut at you all at once.
See the lead sickness. If you build foundations out of metal or even get a metal boat which is the motorboat, it cannot destroy it. It will still attack it but it cannot destroy metal. Just a heads up lol and lead sicknesses are technically a rarer spawn and you actually need the alpha lead sickness to actually pursue further into the game for a boss fight I believe
Perseverance at its finest,LESSSS GOOOOO! 💪🏻✌🏻❤️
Very well done 👏Till the next episode!
On the raft you can built out beyond the front by placing a ceiling piece and then a foundation beneath it. You can then remove the ceiling piece.
The mighty floating rock floor!
Yeah raft buildings OK for temp use or travelling, but keep the important stuff in a base. Stay in the shallows and get a pterodactyl for surveying the land fast.
I know early Ark is tough, but I enjoyed watching someone play who doesn't have 1,000 hours already in game. Professionals are predictable, but amateurs, you never know what they will do.
Super unlucky you got the Alpha Leed, those guys are rough. If it was a normal Leed, you may have been able to get to the shore in time. Either way, loving the series. I'd like to recommend the follow settings: Taming/Breeding/Maturing 20x and everything else 3-5x. Truly, there will still be plenty of farming you'll have to do. But waiting for literally 8 hours for a Giga to tame on stock settings is obnoxious.
Agree with power up of resource gathering and the such. Will let you know there are dinos that are only viable at night so that may not be the best. Was gonna say though, that's the perfect example of don't put all your eggs in one basket. I always have 2 bases after reaching level 60 or so.
The leeds , hate those things . 😂
"it is what it is, just go again" is what they say 😁
Fair enough changing the harvest settings .. but deleting whales when you are surprised that something attacks yours raft in the deep ocean? Whats next, delete each dino that beats you.
Early ark is tough bro .. its meant to be, its even part of the overall back story of Ark. Coast hugging gets you everywhere you you need to be in a raft. With a few short risky hops over deep water. Equally thanks for the laughs reminded me of my first few times playing. The content was generally good as always. DON'T GIVE UP!! Just get smart ;)
Great series so far! I never played Ark so I'm learning a lot while the game is installing. It looks fantastic and also really fun. Can't wait to try it out.
23:45 priceless clip 🤣🤣
Yup, that’s ARK. 😂
I did warn you in the comments last time. Stay out of the deep water on a raft.
Right after you built the raft. you can use stairs/ramps from the extended ceiling back to the foundation to make them look tapered and avoid the floating
I used to make multi-level rafts with multiple rooms, hidden rooms and hidden storage.
Getting to Herbivore island is the first true test of a new Ark player, and getting your raft munched by a Leedsichthys on the way might as well be a right of passage.
Holy smokes! That felt rough to watch LOL
Stay strong and don't tilt. you can beat this game easy even if there are some frustrating parts along the way. And remember, you are the one who tries again.
Don't give up on Ark! I've been enjoying this so far, not just because of the tragedy/comedy aspect of it 😂
Ark is very much a game where they give you settings that you can change for a reason. You -need- the Leeds to fight the bosses (They have a trophy you need to spawn in the boss) But you can console command the trophy in, and set your own cost for it (I'll drop out 5 stacks of Obsidian, or whatever and let it despawn) and get through it that way.
Ark is also a game where your progress doesn't -need- to be a huge burst of progress to create content. The process is part of the journey. Build a base somewhere central. Work on getting dinos, and using them to help expand your resource collection and processing. Ark is -difficult- without using dinos for stuff. The raft is neat. It's mobile. But if you can get to where you can get a bronto, and get a platform saddle, along with some other dinos for defense (Or offense. Stuff can't eat you if it gets eaten first.) that's still highly mobile ("Highly") and can serve as a mobile forward base for whatever you need.
Ark is brutal, I think it knows when you're doing something like taming and it throws all the nasty it can at you to stop you...we call that getting ARKed lol
As much as I love your 7 days content I think I prefer your alternate game content lately. You aren't an expert at these games and it makes it so much better.
What happened is just what I figured happened when I saw the title for your video. I said I believe the whale destroyed his boat. Lol little did I know it was his home.
A very good tip in this game is to tame one called Parasur because it can scan the area and if there is something wrong, red dots will appear on the screen where the wrong thing is.
Nice work around for the boat. Very cool
I wouldn't think it would matter what type of material you build on the raft out of, since the beasties will be attacking the raft underneath it.
When you get attacked on your dino hop off it so you can add your dps to its, and also it is better at targeting things in the dark.
Sometimes you just have to stop and think about whether what was on your corpse was worth going back for (it usually isn't).
The open ocean is supposed to be dangerous. If you want to travel the seas relatively unmolested you would need water tames to protect your raft. (If you start removing things just because they are problematic you will be left with a very boring no danger video.)
Ahh yes I remember my first time on Ark. Lots of deaths and sadness. But it's a game that probably has the most playtime for me.
Yeah...Leeds are not generally liked because they were basically only introduced to punish people that like the rafts. They're punishing, not fun. As to those allosaurs you saw, they're actually a great tame, but I think you need to be level 80-something to craft the saddle. They're pack creatures, usually found in groups of three, but several of them together as tames are a powerful team. They can nearly match a rex in direct damage output, and their debuff (assuming they still have the bleed DoT debuff in Ascension) puts them at least on par with a rex, and they have the highest sprinting speed of any creature on the island. They're a bit more fragile, though.
Man, I died laughing when your raft was destroyed 😂😂😂
Welcome to Ark Tem. It seems that not much has changed on the island.
I really enjoyed my time with Ark, but it can be extremely stressful early game when you are first learning the ropes. It can be incredibly heart breaking at times as well.
I can relate, I had a raft also with all my stuff on it and that same alpha whale sunk all my stuff, very frustrating
Ark boats: previously you needed pillars and foundations to sink the foundations so you can use the rudder and spread out the floor even further.
In ASE the fence foundation/pillar trick became more popular than the multiple foundation stepping operations.
In ASA, no matter how low the foundation is you can not access the raft tiller/controls.
In ASA, by leaving a tiny gap (half a wall thickness) between foundations you can access that way.
You sunk my battle ship!!
Oh man... I am only 8 min in but I just realized I meant to leave a comment for last video. You MUST MUST MUST put your tames on 'passive' whenever going over water or they will freak out and attack the water-life and I think their agro will attract the water-life as well vs. not when you are on the rudder and they are passive. Learn the whistle command it's very valuable.
Ouch... that was rough. My recommendation would be to go for a flyer. A leveled Pteranodon is generally the best means of traveling the map early game. Also don't waste your time with Raptors... too weak. Just level to a Carno saddle an then you can even take on T-Rex's if they are leveled enough.
back in old ASE for raft a hatch frame with trapdoor worked well over rudder when expanding I built pillars to support a 2nd floor with a ramp on one side straight down to ground/water and I parked dinos up top as when rocks clipped through raft it would push dinos around and even off the raft. for full mobile base I had a 3 story setup first floor was all open so I could see where I was going 2nd floor was a cabin/workshop then dino parking on roof surrounded with fences to keep them from sliding off. You used to be able to sink foundation into the raft floor to better protect core boat from damage not sure if it still works though
Editing skills is awesome, lurv it!
And also a good advice as was in original ark, look through settings, there was an option to tame max level creatures 150 lvl. After you upgrade 150 leve creature to max, you can breed them and get more levels for next gen creatures. I was starting first from taming low level pter, flying creature gives lots opportunities to scout
First high-level potential tame gets ban-hammered by a pair of Rex and an Allosaurus. Then the initial raft gets obliterated by an Alpha Leedsicthys... a normal Leeds is bad enough, as it's meant to be a primary deterrent to test subjects, keeping them trapped within the Arks. But an *ALPHA* as your first Leeds encounter isn't bad luck, it's the game kicking your teeth in when you're already bed-ridden in the ICU. Talk about a rough day, right?
After re-watching the footage... this Alpha Leeds encounter is even more of a "kick him when he's down" moment, because the gigantic bastard was only *LEVEL ONE!*
fair play Tem, if that would have been me I'd have rage quit lol
Tem, Get yourself a Iguanadon. Best balanced early game tame, with infinite stamina for escaping those dicey situations.
in normal arc there's round river rocks that have a much much higher porportion of metal to the craggy land rocks. I'm inclined to belive this is still true. so it's advised you clear out the nearby rivers to get more metal faster.