Ark Survival Ascended Tips from a Veteran Player

wrong button hey how's it going everybody Welcome to Arc ascended I'm flinger and today we're going to be discussing a whole bunch of different tips and tricks that'll help you out in playing Arc ascended uh these are a lot of these are carryovers from Arc survival evolved but a lot of them have actually changed so because I mean a lot of the things in the game have actually changed coming from Arc survival evolved to Arc survival ascended well now today we're going to talk about a few of them now the first one I want to talk about early game animal packs like Raptors uh direwolves stuff like that Raptors because they are really easy and low level to be able to go craft their Saddles and direwolves because you just don't even need to craft a saddle these guys right here will actually put you ahead really really fast in the power level when they don't get stuck on rocks but yeah these guys they are really really good good oh you weren't even stuck on a rock you were stuck on a bush all right Raptors we need to talk I'm just saying all right but yeah these guys they are actually really really good because um in order to craft the Raptor saddle honestly it is super low level level 18 and you can have a bunch of these Raptor settles up and going you need meat early you need hide early you just need to be able to beat the living crap out of parasaur all right I'm not going back to find them I'm just saying we're going to talk about Raptors they're good when they're F they made it hey all right nice all right but yeah these guys they are really good for uh boosting your power level early game uh it's really really effective now if you do have access to direwolves I would recommend getting them because they're a little bit tougher than actually they're a lot tougher than Raptors but Raptors will make short work of just about anything they will make things seriously just melt it is that simple yeah I could be talking over this right now explaining what they're doing but they're making men me of just everything right there yeah I think that was rather self explanatory and plus they get hide they get meat they get levels they get all sorts of stuff that helps out early game it's really effective really easy so yeah all right the next one I want to discuss is early game when you are trying to get a whole bunch of metal now the easiest way is to go up and find a bit of metal you know metal Rock a harvest that but if you don't have access to that and chances are you're not going to when you're still living in your Beach Bob days what you want to do is you want to come find go to any River and look for these little round rocks these rocks have a much higher percentage of metal in them than just a regular Rock now the regular rocks if you go up to it and uh you harvest those with a regular Stone pick which you're generally going to have when you're first starting out is you're going to get maybe one some time two pieces of metal for a whole lot of harvesting we don't want that we don't want to conern ourselves with that grab your stone pick come down here get a just enough metal from these so where you can actually come back while you can go craft your Smithy and then you can craft your first metal pick that's all you need it's 12 metal to um 12 raw metal to craft a metal pick that's it once you have 12 raw metal come back here with your metal pick and just start going to town metal piics are great on these and it works out really well that one is not a river rock this one is not even a rock all right but uh yeah this one over here and granted I am using a Mastercraft one be just because I don't have a regular one for uh demonstration purposes but they pretty much work the same and it is very very effective and efficient so come down here metal rocks yeah this is where you get your metal pretty good 17 just off that not bad all right now another one we're going to discuss all right so say if you want to take a look at your map well here if you press uh your map button you can you have a map where you can actually see your character you can flip around you can see your relation to where you are in the island you know you can kind of get your general bearings as to where you are but if you close that up and you double click it you now are able to move it you are now able to put way points uh track dinos look at other players look at your last death uh create different uh points of interest or pois and then generally just have full control over everything that you can see here I mean you can uh take and you can put pings down on the map you can do all sorts of cool stuff all right and yeah this right here is just by clicking your double M button it's really good or whichever button you use for your map just double click it it'll change your life it is really good all right when you are crafting stuff you can actually go into your crafting say we want to uh Harvest up a whole bunch of wood walls you can actually go like this you could track it it'll appear over here on the right side and also it will over track which is good so any of those three resources that you need you are constantly tracking them now exactly yeah and it'll go over above and beyond exactly what you need so if you want to craft a whole bunch you can just keep tracking you can see exactly just how many you have in your inventory at any one given time granted you can go and you can right click on any um resource in your inventory and you can manually track just that and you can add it to it but I mean that is a cool little thing that you can do but another thing is I mean and which is good for metal and stuff like that but if you're going to be crafting up a whole bunch just go ahead go uh open this up and it'll show you just how much and it goes Way Beyond what the resource is required for just that so you know exactly how many of those you can craft at any given time granted right now we can craft zero because we don't have any fiber but let me go get some Fiber here really quick just so I can demonstrate this all right now we can craft four of them and it shows you it breaks down it does the math for us while we're doing that which is absolutely awesome all right now let's talk about building a little bit building in this game is so much better than its predecessor it is absolutely amazing there are few little hiccups that I have to deal with every once in a while but I am coming to terms with those but granted compared to arsv evolved the building in this game is absolutely Superior uh you will notice that this um place right here even though we've got a couple pillars the pillars aren't the primary um structure here those foundations built right up there inside of the uh wall or inside of the natural little Mesa are the absolute foundations They carried over a bunch of the building from Genesis where you can build up hills and all sorts of stuff now if also while you're building if you want to uh if something is like hey let's put that there and let's snap Auto snap to there well you can click you can hold control and then you can snap to just about anything it doesn't obey or not control q and that will it will uh snap to just about other things and it will undo the the force snap spot yeah and then also if you want you can build right up a mountain that see that uh Mesa right there no problem we could build right up the side of that no problem we could have a base that intertwines all the way around that so yeah you are no longer confined to placing foundations on on the ground and then having to deal with a weird shaped base down below you can actually go all the way around this and incorporate that into a really cool build matter of fact that's giving me good ideas right now while I'm thinking about it so hey there you go I'm giving you a free idea let's see some pictures that'd be cool Link in the Discord down below all right say you're ready to go into the cave say you want to go into the caves but you don't want to uh well you just want to take the best Dyno that there is well the best in slot for the caves is in this order uh if a tho will fit atha is the best if a bionic if the Tho won't fit a bionx is the best literally as simple as that I mean that's the way it gets if uh the bionx won't fit then yeah all right but uh the only three that this does not apply to is the Cave of the strong and the two underwater caves the Cave of the strong the best is a uteran is just because it's really hard for things to hit you on the back of the saddle and then also you can fear Roar so a uterus is the best inside the Cave of the strong and the underwater uh caves a basilosaurus is the best just to where things won't knock you off the saddle that's that's caves in a nutshell uh caves are very intimidating when you're first getting into them but after a while uh you will start being able to run them just yeah extremely easy and also which ties very closely into our next hint or our next tip all right the next tip is loot uh honestly I would I would recommend going through the caves uh the cave loot in Arc ascended is so much better than the cave Loot and Arc survival evolved ever was it is absolutely amazing um and just the regular loot drops in Ark survival evolved are just absolutely amazing so I would recommend that if you live close to a cave keep that thing on Farm every once in a while get your bionx run through it grab a whole bunch of free loot come hey that's your loot run done you got some free uh loot you got some really good blueprints you got some other cool stuff it's really effective and it helps out quite a bit if you have a Pteranodon early game I behoove you go around fly around spend probably you know four five 6 8 hours depending on your play time and just go get some loot drops um that is actually where all of my stuff comes from now this stuff is so much better than just regular because this right here this has has 187% damage this does 1.8% 1.8 of the damage that a regular uh pick does yeah it takes a little bit more to repair but also the durability it's going to last longer it's going to hit harder it's going to harvest more it's just better and you get these just from regular loot drops spend some time go out get your loot it really helps out quite a bit all right the next tip uh baby dinosaurs they are absolutely really good while they're not a really reliable source of being able to find highle dinos but every once in a while you will find a uh nice highle adult that has a nice highle baby with it what you do is you kill the uh uh the parent and then you take the dyo once you uh kill the dyo uh the parent you can actually just claim the dyo walking up to it and clicking e on it but also baby dinos they are an amazing source of prime meat look at that they are absolutely amazing extremely good early game prime meat if you can find a baby dyo these things will actually help you with taming stuff really good now I'd love to show you a little bit more my screen but adillo decided no but yeah just out of that mean here hold on we got so much prime meat yeah and that's just from harvesting babies really quick so yeah you need early game uh prime meat go find a parent yeah it it's it is a sad as it sounds but yeah like this right here AB but yeah if uh you need early game prime meat go find a parent take it out take out the baby there you go Harvest it up and voila really cheap easy Prim meat all right and Arc survival ex sended it is very important to actually have a whole bunch of shoulder pets on hand one because you're probably going to die but also shoulder pets have a really vast amounts of uses my favorite is the mesopithecus just because it snares things when it throws a poop at it so it's really amazing but also um another thing that is you know used to be uh limited to the somoma crops is now actually on all shoulder pets ever which is amazing you just hold R and you can use them as a backpack you can open up their inventory you can carry a whole bunch of uh your extra armor sets in them and a whole bunch of extra taming equipment in them it's really easy and you don't even have to throw them down anymore you can just access their inventory off their back it's really great uh now also all shoulder pets now have a uh amount of weight reduction so pump up that weight pump up that health and they're good they're golden these things are great all right so you just started the game you're still a beach Bob Down Below on the beaches or you find a nice spot that you want to go to well one of the things that you never want to get caught with is getting to a spot where all of a sudden you're ready to do a bunch of stuff and you're ready to heart you're ready to uh go uh do some new content some higher level stuff but you don't have the crops crops are very vital especially for making kibble for uh the next step for measure berries up when taming things uh crops are very important also for making uh um antidotes for making uh bug repellant different things don't get caught with your crops down seriously as soon as you can early game make sure you go and you plant your CR it doesn't have to be something super fancy just get them planted all right throw some poop in there go gather things from uh hyena on or whatever just wild things that are wandering about get the um poop throw it in there and yeah it just get those crops planted really really early like I said don't get caught with your crops down all right and then also another thing if you are um early game and you need to uh be able to spoil a whole bunch of meat a toilet will spoil a whole bunch of meat really quickly for it open up your inventory throw your meat in here and then you sit down on it and then you poop now how you can tell if you need to poop is over on the far right your uh food will change a different bright lighter color and all of a sudden you need to poop you're going to poop within the next minute if you don't just click the poop button well if you come and then you sit down on the uh toilet I don't need to poop right now which is unfortunate for demonstration purposes demonstration purposes only I swear all right but um granted I I may have pooped on camera a few times but that's neither here nor there your friendly hyon can watch you while you're doing this it's great all right but you come in here you poop and then when you get up you can just pop around and then you can flush once you flush all of a sudden everything inside of there is now spoiled very very easy a very quick way of getting a ton of spoiled meat it works it's really good all right another tip that I would like to explain here is cryopods the newest add well that is not a cryopod that's a cryopod uh cryopods are one of the newest additions to Ark as of the point of me making this video um as of me making this video but yeah uh so cryopods they are really really good for breeding um now say if you are breeding a dyo and you're trying to get the imprints and all of a sudden it says it wants extraordinary kibble and you don't have any extraordinary kibble well if you don't have a cryopod you're kind of screwed time to move on to the next Dyno and hopefully you get 100% imprint but if you have a cryopod cryopod that sucker throw it out it's going to reset that Dyno and it's also going to give you a new imprint food that it wants sometimes it'll just want to cuddle other times it'll want to walk sometimes it'll just be a berry but if it keeps giving you it to you as something that you don't have pick it back up and then just throw it back out now also this works for every other dyo in the game as well if it's tamed now say if you're having some sort of uh issue and also granted this game is still in Early Access so I would expect this trick to come in a lot more handy than the imprint say if your dyo is just bugged it's not acting right it stamina won't re uh it won't regenerate it stamina anything of the sort you're having a problem getting it to eat anything of the sort sort um say if you got him clipped into a rock or into a wall or something like that cryopod that sucker it will reset it and then you can throw it back out and yeah cryopods they're kind of like the reset tool for Tame dinos it's really good so yeah if you're having a problem with a dinosaur the first step in troubleshooting cryopod it throw it back out if it doesn't fix it then you need to start progressing but chances are that's going to fix your problem unless of course it's dead and then that's there's no cure for that sorry all right now another thing I would like to explain is you can while you're taming a dino say if uh you're taming this dire bear and dire bears are notoriously finicky when it comes to things say it's they they have notoriously low health and then they have really high torpor which means that in order to knock these out you either have to use Tran darts or you have to feed them Midway so that's what you do is actually you take something and you can even strip yourself down uh to nothing put all your stuff say on like a tho that you're writing when you're taming the dire bear and then come over and just let it eat You Now by it harvesting you it will actually regenerate its Health it'll heal up and then you can continue to Pummel it with whichever weapon you got um also I would recommend using a magnifying glass a magnifying glass just so where you have um a perfect idea of just how it is now magnifying glasses you have to get up rather close but you know if they're running or if you've got you're on the back of a Dyno you can generally magnifying glass them pretty easily and pretty efficiently and effectively so yeah uh make sure that you pay very close attention to the health of the dinosaurs as you're knocking them out cu a lot of times you know you go up you got your great amazing crossbow and you're like you know we can knock this thing out and you end up killing it instead well your great amazing crossbow was too amazing and that's kind of the thick of it that's what it is it was just it was too good for that dyo all right so it's going to end up killing it one of the easiest things is to go grab something pick it up drag it uh how you drag something is you go up to it you Mouse over it and then it'll give you the option to drag it if it's dead and especially if you have it um if you are able to carry its drag weight now every d in the game actually has a drag weight which is dependent on your weight stat so um say right now we can carry anything that has a 500 or lesser drag weight uh we can pick it up we can drag it and then we can just take it over to the dinosaur and if it's carnivore it'll heal it if it's an herbivore well it's not going to do that but if you're taming a carnivore it will absolutely work and like I said if you don't have anything that you can drag and just put down a sleeping bag right next to whatever Diner you're r and throw all your stuff on the dyo charge at the thing that's uh going it's getting damaged let it kill and harvest you it's going to heal up spawn back at your sleeping bag hop on your dinosaur put it back on all your gear and you can continue to knock that sucker out it's really easy and it works quite a bit and I cannot count how many times those T-Rexes have pooped in the last 5 minutes just by me doing this stuff all right but anyway that's a bunch of tips I hope they help help you out in your AR ascended uh playthrough and just having some Arc ascended fun I hope it helped you out if uh you haven't already make sure you click that like button I really appreciate it if you're new around here subscribe and until next time this is flinger and take it easy also if you have any uh um questions anything of the sort link to the Discord down below we have a massive amount of people in there that are just always willing to help also sometimes I pop in there and I help people out as well it is absolutely amazing so hey um like I said I hope the video helps you out and happy arcing

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Length: 21min 33sec (1293 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 11 2024