002 Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Old server is limited to build anymore platform buildings, so I went to ragnarok try to farm metal but found out there is so little metal nodes on ragnarok map. Anyone has the same situation here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilShadow Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 9 hours ago, 002 said: Old server is limited to build anymore platform buildings, so I went to ragnarok try to farm metal but found out there is so little metal nodes on ragnarok map. Anyone has the same situation here? There is a TON of metal on Rag, you just need to look harder for it. The canyon is the best bet for a long sweep from one side to the other. But Ragnarok did something clever with metal. It is UNDER stone, and in lots of caves.https://ark.gamepedia.com/Resource_Map_(Ragnarok) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goaty Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 The way ragnarok did it's metal is HORRIBLE. You have to fly for hours going around the map using a quetz and anky. Ragnarok is really the worse map for metal. Even scorched earth is better.... The metal placement is also horrible like in viking bay with that metal on the side of the cliff.... Like what? Why? The metal is too spread out to be efficient enough to farm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jognt Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 From what I've gathered about Ragnarok, Shadow and Goaty are right. There's a lot of metal on Ragnarok, it's just not bunched together for easy farming <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pachycephalosaurus Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 There is a metal cave in the snow hills near the redwoods that is big. You need high tier fur armor. The cave is -90F. Still have not gotten there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpicardi1 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Metal is scattered about and fairly well hidden among the rocks. You just have to know where to look for it. There is a lot of it along the Stony Islands. It is just that much of it is hard to get at. Also Obsidian scattered about on the shore. Use a raft for farming. Then sail back to your shoreline base. Just watch out for the Leeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neelix Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Theres metal everywhere dude, you just have to know where to look for it. Theres nodes built into the mountains all around the blue obby side, get yourself a nice imprinted quetzal and fly from rock to rock and get it while in flight. Also under the water near the volcano, tame yourself a nice mosasaur, theres tons of big obsidian looking rocks under the water that give you a lot of both metal and obsidian on the same rock. We've played on the Center, yeah, they have some more concentrated areas of nodes, but I can't complain about metal availability on RAG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oermens38 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 On 30/07/2017 at 2:05 PM, rpicardi1 said: Metal is scattered about and fairly well hidden among the rocks. You just have to know where to look for it. There is a lot of it along the Stony Islands. It is just that much of it is hard to get at. Also Obsidian scattered about on the shore. Use a raft for farming. Then sail back to your shoreline base. Just watch out for the Leeds. Yeah good recommendation. I found this spot also recently with my raft, easily accessible but i do recommend to take a flier with you because lots of nodes cant be reached from your raft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GobboKirk Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 https://ark.gamepedia.com/Resource_Map_(Ragnarok) There is plenty metal if you just look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lepidopterist Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 It's literally everywhere, just not concentrated in single spawn locations (eg the old Volcano on The Island). For example - around the red Obelisk, up into the Redwood you can /easily/ fill a Quetz in 10 minutes or so - but you do have to move around a little bit. We use mantis' with pickaxes and vacuum the entire area super quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionCash08 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I share this experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenessa Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 There is a ton of metal here, there is a lot within close distance from Viking Bay if you start there and go along the waters edge, along with Obsidian. Then start moving/flying towards the canyon areas, it's plentiful all over and we still have a lot to explore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GReusch Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Another option to help gather the metal that's embedded in the cliffs is to tame a komodo and level its weight, since they can climb walls and you can use your pickaxe without getting off of it. The komodos are hard to tame due to fast torpor decrease, but you could find a low level one on the beach where they spawn and carry it to a taming pen with an argent or a griffin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lammaer555 Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 On 7/28/2017 at 0:05 AM, Jognt said: From what I've gathered about Ragnarok, Shadow and Goaty are right. There's a lot of metal on Ragnarok, it's just not bunched together for easy farming <_< Lot of metals spread on a huge map -> more or less useless for farming (hello flyer nerf!) I think from resource farming prospective The Center is the BEST map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeleilol Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 On the canyon, some good spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jainkotzako Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 near 32 46 there's also a quite nice spot to farm without the need of a flyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumDuud Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 On 8/10/2017 at 4:51 AM, lammaer555 said: I think from resource farming prospective The Center is the BEST map. Well center has a resource farming bonus too, doesn't it? (Its what I've always been told as to why people farm there). Personally, I don't have any issue farming on Rag; of course I'm usually solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPTF Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 On 7/28/2017 at 7:52 AM, Goaty said: The way ragnarok did it's metal is HORRIBLE. You have to fly for hours going around the map using a quetz and anky. Ragnarok is really the worse map for metal. Even scorched earth is better.... The metal placement is also horrible like in viking bay with that metal on the side of the cliff.... Like what? Why? The metal is too spread out to be efficient enough to farm. I totally agree. It's yet another major hurdle that noobs will find almost impossible to overcome without joining up to a big tribe. After all, and Quetz platform saddle is something like level 97, and you really need that to get any decent amount of metal at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulie Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 20 hours ago, LPTF said: I totally agree. It's yet another major hurdle that noobs will find almost impossible to overcome without joining up to a big tribe. After all, and Quetz platform saddle is something like level 97, and you really need that to get any decent amount of metal at a time. How much metal are you guys farming for a solo player?? I scouted my general base area and have found a few bunched up alleys/areas and use a wyvern with 2200 weight. 1 run takes maybe 10 minutes and the wyvern is full. I usually do this 2-3 times a day if I need metal. The area I farm though is on the ground and accessible by foot so a flyer isn't needed. Has about 10-15 rich nodes so could just take a high weight ground dino. Don't have coords on me but can post later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPTF Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 2200 weight of ore is only 1100 ignots. Not a lot. Regardless, you're talking about a few small areas on the map, which are probably already taken by large tribes, and may be impossible to reach by foot at all. That's the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 There are tons of metal nodes. The Metal cave at about 35,22 (canyon 2 spawn point) nets you roughly 10k metal and 5k obsidian. There is also a waterfall between this cave and the blue obliesk (first waterfall along the beach you come too heading to the blue obliesk from the metal cave) that has about 5 rich nodes that net you about 4k metal (with an anklyo). Then there is a metal cave off of viking bay (its an underwater cave, and you need to grapple to get most of it) at about 15,2, and you can build there - this video shows you where its at - he goes to the cave at about 9 minutes in: https://youtu.be/5FV0QfrkR1Q?t=559 Then if you tame a Dunkleosteus you can farm the underwater obsidian nodes between 17,66 out to the end of the underwater trench (just follow the hex canyon). One run will usually net you about 30k metal and 40k obsidian. Make sure your dunk has plenty of weight - as the obsidian nodes usually net 300-500 of each resource per bite which is 600-1000 weight per bite. You can easily get encumbered if you don't have much weight leveled on him. I personally exclusively use the hex underwater canyon to farm metal now since getting a dunk - and usually do 2 runs a day and that has me stocked full of metal and obsidian (there is another reason to venture out there, but I will let you explore and find it on your own). More then I could ever use solo. Luckily we have about 5 people in our tribe that use it as well (they seem to have cleaned me out of metal building a wyvern comb trap but below is a picture of this weeks obsidian haul leftovers - keep in mind we use a ton of polymer so add about 30 stacks of obsidian and that's about how much metal we have gotten over the past week just using the dunk). Edit: I also forgot to mention the canyon plateau tops in the canyon at 35, 45. You can haul about 20k from these nodes (most of them are rich) - only part about this is they are spread pretty far apart and need a flyer with a ton of weight to effectively farm this canyon if your base is far. Picture attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulie Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 13 hours ago, yzerman said: There are tons of metal nodes. The Metal cave at about 35,22 (canyon 2 spawn point) nets you roughly 10k metal and 5k obsidian. There is also a waterfall between this cave and the blue obliesk (first waterfall along the beach you come too heading to the blue obliesk from the metal cave) that has about 5 rich nodes that net you about 4k metal (with an anklyo). Then there is a metal cave off of viking bay (its an underwater cave, and you need to grapple to get most of it) at about 15,2, and you can build there - this video shows you where its at - he goes to the cave at about 9 minutes in: https://youtu.be/5FV0QfrkR1Q?t=559 Then if you tame a Dunkleosteus you can farm the underwater obsidian nodes between 17,66 out to the end of the underwater trench (just follow the hex canyon). One run will usually net you about 30k metal and 40k obsidian. Make sure your dunk has plenty of weight - as the obsidian nodes usually net 300-500 of each resource per bite which is 600-1000 weight per bite. You can easily get encumbered if you don't have much weight leveled on him. I personally exclusively use the hex underwater canyon to farm metal now since getting a dunk - and usually do 2 runs a day and that has me stocked full of metal and obsidian (there is another reason to venture out there, but I will let you explore and find it on your own). More then I could ever use solo. Luckily we have about 5 people in our tribe that use it as well (they seem to have cleaned me out of metal building a wyvern comb trap but below is a picture of this weeks obsidian haul leftovers - keep in mind we use a ton of polymer so add about 30 stacks of obsidian and that's about how much metal we have gotten over the past week just using the dunk). Yzer, that's an unofficial server though right? Official server obs only stacks to 100 per slot That's a nice tip about dunkle though, cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzerman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Yes its an unofficial server - the idea wasnt to show you thousands of obs - it was to show you what I have hauled in the past week doing metal runs. The stack size just further illustrates that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatsan Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 i usualy farm metal arround blue obliesk, but need to use quetz and anky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insomniiak Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 So no real convenient way to farm mass metal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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