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What is a good starter din in scorched earth? Hey I wanna get started on scorched earth and I was wondering what is the best starter dino? I plan to live near the green ob so maybe a kapro for easy fish meat or a terror bird sabertooth or a thorny dragon (I do planning to tame them all but what is the best tame for taming other creatures)

Consumables Trying my luck with making custom consumables, just not to sure how it works. I get the idea of it, but what do I have to do with the note? Do I have to write on it? How can I make my own recipes? How do you know how much of your ingredients to use? (Crops, meat, etc). Any insight would be great as I just learned this is a thing. Also being that I just learned this new info, no my crafting skill is not the best lol.

The Story of Ark (Refreshed) Hi all, I have decided to remake my old theory from 2 years ago since it was made before extinction. Please post anything you notice is wrong about this theory or any feedback in the comments because I'm sure lots of things are wrong. The Base Story: So, in the first game we spawn on an island with three high-tech looking obelisks and random supply crates falling out of the sky it soon becomes clear that the island can't be natural and after you defeat the bosses you can go in the control centre. You see what appears to be humans, dinosaurs and supply drops being put on the island. You also look upon the island, a dead Earth and lots of other Arks through the window. After a while you fight the Overseer and go to scorched earth. Now the console in the control centre was written in a different language but it was no created my aliens which was officially stated by Wild Card on twitter (well not stated but it was a pretty obvious hint). So, in scorched earth it's again the same story, you survive, fight the manticore boss and then go to Abberation. You survive yet again through abboreration but this time, the ark is damaged. According to the explorer notes, a tribe of survivors with tech equipment detonated a tech nuke inside the control centre of aberration. You survive in the caves because the shield does not work to protect the ark from solar radiation and at some point you fight the boss, Sir Edumund Rockwell who was an author of the explorer notes who had injected himself with element and turned into a mutated beast. After you defeat him you ascend to Earth and speed past other Arks and see a destroyed moon. The moon being destroyed was one of two single most important parts of why the arks were created. When we go to earth we appear in an artificial environment that is obviously quite old since the shield fails moments after you get there which suggests a maybe temporary loss of power after it used some energy to materialise you the player. As soon as the shield dissapears you see a burned planet with fire. (Then Extinction happens but ill go into that in the theory) The Theory: First thing to note here is that the moon is destroyed. This makes complete sense since at the end of abberation you see a lava planet but in extinction you see an ice planet. If the moon was destroyed it would mess up the Earth's gravity (thus the compass in the extinction trailer btw) and one side of the earth would be on fire and the other would be very cold. Now this story happens maybe thousands of years into the future when mankind discover a new material from space, element. They start replacing all of their technology with element and even started to make biological weapons of war, the titans although some are a bit sceptical of this technology and how safe it was. This completely backfires when, they start replacing their planetary defences, satellites and sensors. A meteor they didn't detect smashes into the earth and destroys the moon, altering the planetary rotation and turning the planet into half hell and half ice. To make matters worse most of the waste from their element technology started to infect the land. With all this chaos there was only one thing to do. Another earth-like planet had not been found so they ripped up land and using the new element technology they managed to create safe artificial environments for the best minds and warriors of humanity to inhabit. Their consciousnesses were inserted into a gem that was inserted into every one of the new homo deus bodies. A few of the homo sapiens did oversee the arks in the first years and they used many of the holograms like the ones we see in aborretion to keep track of their species and that of the homo deus. The military assets created for war from element had gotten loose in the chaos and the humans didn't have the military capabilities to kill them. They configured the arks to let humans to teleport between them and when they were considered worthy they would go down to the earth and try their best to get rid of the titan creatures. When the arks detected that the titans were all gone they would all land at the same time and drain the element. There was nothing they could do about the moon being destroyed but they could go and try to repopulate the planet. Eventually the homo sapiens had to accept their species was dying out and they were going to all die before one or more of the homo deus passed the test, got down to planet earth and killed the titans. They created the overseers which were semi-mechanical biological creatures which had instructions to keep the arks operational and the humans alive. Dinosaurs were chosen because they were tough and they would pose a huge challenge to survivors and help the chances they could kill the titans. There were a lot more predators on the island for this reason. However if they detected advanced technology and that someone had discovered element they would destroy it, the last thing they needed was the arks getting corrupted too. When the survivors destroyed the control room in aberration the overseer was killed and he could no longer stop the corruption. It corrupted the land and the ark lost it's protective shield which protected the ark from radiation. You the player managed to get through a lot of arks and got down to earth. When you killed all the titans you and Helena Walker (author of the survival notes) watch the arks descend and start purging the element from the earth. With their survival skills in different environments, the people of the arks would know how to adapt to the messed up conditions on earth. The overseers most likely deactivated themselves or died at this moment because their purpose was complete. The arks were deactivated after their purpose and the cleansing was complete and humanity got a fresh start on the earth, having enough survival skills to be able to live on this ruined planet and rebuild a once great civilisation. Sadly, the aberration ark cant land properly and it breaks apart as soon as it lands probably killing everyone on it and all the creatures, probably for the better. In time this ark was also purified of element by the other arks. At the end of the cutscene we hear the distinctive roar of Rockwell, who will stop at nothing to cause more chaos. We don't know if the arks are powerful enough to cleanse the element from rockwell but if they are not then he will most likely return. The ark most likely respawned him like it respawns the player character. (This really isn't important and obvious but I find it so cool that the rebuilding program on earth scans our gem thing on our arm and identifies who we are and what ark we came from lol). Final thing i wanted to touch upon is Ark: Genesis. Rockwell has returned, he hacked into the simulation and started corrupting the humans. He then grabbed you with a tenticle at the end. We know almost nothing about genisis but ill keep an eye on this and make a theory about it when part 2 comes out. Thank you very much for reading, please give me feedback and tell me if there is anything wrong with this theory or if I've overlooked anything! Edit: When you see the flashing red light in the first game around the island ark on the hologram indicating the overseer is dead you do not see that aberrations overseer is also dead because the ark thinks rockwell is the overseer thus the hologram and the flashing red light we see around aberration's ark when we kill rockwell. It makes sense because both rockwell and the overseers are (in my opinion) biological creatures which have been very extensively modified by element.

Looking for cool people to play with! i am currently looking for someone to play with that can have fun and enjoy playing i am from sweden and im 16 years old, if you are intrested add me on discord discord name: Norman#0816

Snow Biome Snow Biome I've been reading through some things and just need some clarification on the air conditioner. If I put a few inside my home in the snow biome will that help to keep us warm? So far we've been using standing torches, fireplaces, our forges and full fur suits, but wondered if there was another way or something I'm missing. I've also read about people using the Kairuku, which is another option I'm open to just don't know how it works. Any insight would be great, thank you!

ARK SURVIVAL XBOX/WINDOWS PVE COMMUNITY https://discord.gg/Mh6T8kU Looking for some fun? For action, maybe tranquility... or maybe for a new friend, well whatever you’re looking for WE, GOT, IT! You are, like us a gamer, a Ark player, and you’re looking for a good community? Then what are you waiting for? Join us, we’re waiting for you. The Great Arch is a new and friendly gaming community, more precisely, we are a Ark survival evolved community, we’ve got PvE boosted servers. This community has been created the 10 March 2020 we have PvE servers, we'd like you to grow this family with us because we eventually have big plans for this community and we’ll eventually have more servers. Once again, what are you waiting for, join us now!!! like we say more we are more fun we have.... no? ———— PvE servers: Island Rag •Custom recipe skill level: x4 •Fishing quality: x5 •Supply drop quality: x5 •Stack x5. •Taming: x6 •Gathering: x5 •XP multiplier: x3.2 •Generic xp: x2.2 •Kill xp: x3 •Harvest xp: x2.5 •Craft xp: x3 More on the discord!

Foritude on scorched earth Hey does any of you guys know how much fortitude you have to have for surviving regular scorched earth?(that does not include heatwaves and sandstorms) also if you want to ware flak or riot (because hey got a negative heat protection)

Ovis and Eerie Doedicurus So hey Wardrum! @WarDrumBecca @WarDrumJordan @WarDrumKeys Do you guys have any plans on adding the ovis to mobile? Would be really great to have a better alternate other than prime meat to tame carnivores whenever you don't have kibble! Especially since prime meat spoils ridiculously fast. Also, is the doedicurus going to get an eerie variant? The new Doedicurus Vastus boss gave me some hope!

New creature coming to cystal isles? Hey everyone yeah I know I already have placed this but still.. it is a good idea don’t you think (for the people that haven’t seen it) I had this idea for a new crystal isles or genesis part 2... an new creature you can’t tame but you have to get it something like a reaper, but instead of riding it you can TRANSFORM into it. Isn’t that cool that you could just jump of a mountain transform and fly away (leave what you thought of this down below or how it should look like) also upvote so Wildcard can see

Budingen creatures I was wondering if i could get a griffin or a wyvern i only own the island but is it possible to but a griffin even if you don’t own Ragnarok

Ark agro structures I was wandering if carnivores such as a rex attack buildings even if they are not agro’t on you or your tames or if the rex only attacks stuctures if hé is agro’t on you or you tames.

A new Ark begin My server tot recently a wipe (or something like that i am a big ark noob) so i startend at the begin again and i got Some stuff and a stego from someone and i wanted to tame a iguanodon next or should i tame something else like a raptor or a carnotosaurus or a trike.

I need help So I have a computer at my moms house and my dads house. I spend most of my time playing ark on my desktop at my moms. I am trying to play the same world save at my moms here at my dads on a different computer but it is not syncing my games together. I've looked up many videos and tried reaching out to wild card but nothings working. Can someone help me?

FINALLY THE NOCTIS IS MINE!!! Something I had been wanting to do for a very long time! A creature that I had not even personally met at all ever since now in Ark! I finally tamed the rare, mysterious, dark, unique, beautiful Noctis! It is way bigger than I thought, especially compared to my equus AsspAiN (don't ask why he's named that, all you need to know is that he was troublesome and annoying to tame). But yeah, this was on my medium single player server! I actually consider that dungeon run very lucky, as not only did I get out with a Noctis! I came out with an ascendant ptera saddle with over 350 armor and a tek teleporter blueprint! Here I'ma post some pictures of my beautiful Noctis. Unfortunately they are kinda blurry because I had to crop them a lot due to the stupid size limitations, so you won't be able to see it to it's full beauty . But here you go...

Another Darn Delay So, maybe some of you might of not heard the news, but unfortunatley, Genesis' release date got pushed back another month Very disappointed. I was so happy and excited that when I heard the news, I got mad. Seriously, when December finally rolled along, I couldn't wait! I was so happy that we finally could be able to play on the long time announced new map! When I heard about the delay, I got bummed out. That was another long month of waiting. Now, it's January 25. This morning, I was very excited! I couldn't believe that we where at most 3 days away from Genesis' release! But now, as I read the news here in the SurvivetheArk website, I don't even know what to think. ANOTHER FREAKIN' MONTH OF WAITING . Hopefully they use the time to improve details and other stuff on Genesis. They did mention that they would give us a great Valentine's Day event though that they where planning to skip due to Genesis' release! Looking forwards to that! But yeah, for those of you who didn't know, Genesis Part 1 won't come out until next month. At least they mentioned an exact date this time though. According to WildCard, it's new release will now be February 25! Won't get to hyped when February 24th rolls in most likely though. We all know WildCard, they aren't the best at keeping up with release dates. This isn't the only map that has gotten delayed several times now. So don't get your hopes high when the 24th rolls in! Don't wanna get too disappointed if that gets delayed as well. Anyways, have a nice day and have fun playing Ark!

Pursuits, Their Details, And the Rewards: ARK Mobile So hey wassup guys! Pursuits are amazing! They are fun and some have great rewards including weapons, saddles, amber, and XP! They are also a great way to spend the time when waiting on your baby animal's next imprint or when you really have nothing to do. So I decided to post this in order for people who would like to know or are just curious on what each pursuit is about and what rewards they give. I am going to set a link that goes to the wiki because there are just to many for me to put in pictures here. In the future I might spend the time to actually type them out on another post, but for now this should do.... https://ark.gamepedia.com/Pursuits_(Mobile) So yeah! Hope you find this post helpful! I wish you a happy day and have fun playing Ark!

IT'S FINALLY DECEMBER!!! It's finally December! Who's excited for Genesis? What are you most excited for? I for one am excited for the Ferox and the space whale (Astrocetus). I'm also excited for the new skins that they're gonna give to some animals according to their biomes. Even though the tapejara (my fav animal in the game) kinda looks like a butterfly. (sorry if this is an over-asked question, I usually spend all my time on the mobile forum) But yeah, have a nice day and have fun playing Ark!

My Birds Fly Straight in a Line As you can see in the picture, my three birds aligned themselves perfectly in a line while flying from the swamp cave to my volcano base! Just thought I could share this because it looks cool! And if you haven't noticed him, there's also my ugly araneo on the quetzal's claws! I don't think my quetzal was having a good time though cause my ptera kept shoving it's beak into it's bottom But yeah, pretty nice picture in my opinion! Have a nice day and have fun playing Ark!

Has Anyone Else Noticed This Weird Equus Saddle Glitch So yeah, my questions is simple, has anyone noticed that whenever you mount a horse with a saddle and then take the saddle off while on the horse you're character stays floating on top of the horse? And whenever you mount a horse without a saddle and then put the saddle on the horse while mounting it your character is glitched inside of the saddle and his legs kinda disappear inside of it? Just curious to know if anybody else has already tested or seen this, or if I'm the only one.

Another Quetzal With the Switching Seats Tapejara Method! Second Quetzal I knock out using my awesome tapejara! And this one was level 145 (5 levels away from max!) I really love this method! Only missed around 6 shots. I have to say, I like this better than using the griffin, for one, you don't have to be controlling the tapejara as It chases the Quetzal by itself. And with the griffin (not that it's too hard but still) you have to be steering it and flying and aiming at the same time. The only annoying part could be when you switch seats trying to maintain the tapy from flying up or down. But once you've got the hang of it it's really easy! I'm not gonna explain on how I did it again on this post as I have already done that on this one... But I will ask....Have you tryed this method? And if you have what would you rate it out of 10? I would definetly rate it a 10/10 And also I wanted to say thank you to Wardrum for working hard on their game and constantly updating it! Really happy with the new dungeon and that we finally got TROODONS!!! I am excited to see what new creatures you guys will add in the future! And thanks for adding the switching seats on a tapejara! Gives the tapy more worth now! Anyways, thanks guys for reading, have a nice day and have fun playing Ark!

Taming a Quetzal With a Tapejara - ARK Mobile So, about 2 days ago I tried out the recently new quetzal taming method with a tapejara on my medium difficulty solo player server in Ark mobile. It worked perfectly! I really loved it, it is way better than using the grappling to the argy method and now I don't have to wait until I can finally earn the respect of a griffin. The reason for this being.... With the argy method, the first thing I had to worry about was that I was positioned right in front of the quetzal so right when I finally managed to grapple to the argy (which was another hassle of its own) I can whistle the argy to attack the quetzal. Then when I finally got the argy aggroed on the quetzal I hit it with a trank dart. The thing is, my argy was usually really slow, and the quetzal was so fast compared to it that it kept flying so far away that my argy kept losing aggro on it. The only reason that I actually managed to tame one was because the quetzal kept turning to flee into my direction (and because he was low level so the few darts I managed to hit actually managed to knock it down). And then comes the part where you shoot it down. It was extremely hard to actually hit the quetzal because of the fact that my character kept swinging around from side to side, making it difficult to aim. Now I may just suck at aiming (Hey, I'm not Typical Gamer), but I took exactly 40 darts to tame the quetzal (which was only level 2) in the wiki it said a level 1 would take around 8 to knock down. The funny thing was, when I finally knocked it down, I was left with exactly 8 darts, meaning I used up 32. Oof, that's means I missed around 26 darts. Now that's a lot. But at the time, that was the best way to tame quetzal without using a griffin or reviving it at a platform and trapping it. But now we have the option of switching seats on the tapejara. At first every time I tried it the tapejara kept trying to land, but then I figured out that you have to have it on following you in order for it to stay in the air. So now all I have to do is find a quetzal (which is the hardest part). I found a level 90 at the red obelisk (should do for now until I can find one that's 145 and above). So I fly up to the quetzal with my tapy, quickly change to the first seat and whistle target at the quetzal, then the fun begins. My tapy actually can keep up with the quetzal, which is good, it actually flew about the same speed as it. The flight was so smooth that I actually only missed 4 shots, and those where due to the quetzal making sudden turns. And the fact that I had an ascendant rifle with 1005 dps (not the best but decent) helped a lot. I wished I had recorded it, but saddly I didn't. I really love this new method! It's a good thing I actually decided to try it out. Plus you get the tapejara saddle before the argy so that's also awesome! The quetzal didn't fall on the best spot, it landed on the swamp. But I guess I just got lucky because there was nothing around and there where no attacks, so I managed to pull a 100% taming effectiveness with a 10x soothing balm and some kibble. I would of posted a picture but apparently the files to big But thanks Wardrum for this new awesome method I really love it! So what do you guys think of this new method? Have you tried it out? Have a nice day and have fun playing Ark!

Artifact Tributing Loot Tables: ARK Mobile So hey wassup guys! Lately I have actively been going into the caves so I can tribute artifacts and get good blueprints and soothing balms on my new solo player medium difficulty server! I am doing this for those of you who don't know this or really have no clue of what loot you might get. Or even if you just want a picture or an image to see. As many of you might know, each artifact from the different caves has a different loot table. So when you tribute an artifact it will randomly select 3-5 things from the loot table and give them to you. This loot includes a variety of things like really good weapon and armor blueprints and also even things like amber, potent dust, a revival platform, saddles, soothing balms (10x), and even grenades! Each artifact has a different loot table depending on how difficult the cave you got it from was. Here is a picture of all the artifacts and the caves where you get them from and what loot you can get from them...

Everything in primitive+ in normal ark survival evolved mode It would be great if you could add primitive plus items and buildings to the normal evolved mode because I really want to put shelves into my base but I cant because I'm on evolved mode and I'm on console so I cant put s+ items either

What are Dumb Things That You Have Done in Ark? So hey wassup guys! I have played Ark for at least a year now and I still keep messing up. Obviously nobody's perfect but I somehow just keep doing the same mess ups all over again . To keep this post short I'm just gonna say the most recent mess up that I had (which was yeterday). So basically it was like midnight and I was still up with my iPad playing Ark (I faked sleep when my mom came to my room so she wouldn't catch me playing at such a late hour) and just suddenly decided to tame a doedec since I'm moving locations so I can have enough stone to build my base. So I prepared everything (except kibble cause I still don't have a greenhouse to grow vegetables) including mejoberries, narcotics, and trank arrows. I also decided to buy a minor soothing balm just because doedecs take forever to tame with mejos and because it was alreday late and I wanted to go to sleep. So I went out, spent about 30 minutes looking for a good level one, and finally came across a level 28 (I play on an easy server where max wild animal level is 30). So I tranked it and started feeding it mejoberries. Everything was going fine until I noticed I had forgot to do something important....I DIDN'T APPLY THE SOOTHING BALM!!! So immediatley I applied it but by the time it had gone to 93.7% effectiveness and lost 4 levels If I had applied it since the beginning it would had already been tamed (MSB gives 3x taming and it was around 1/3 of the way tamed) and it wouldn't had lost any levels. And the worst case of all I was going to use him for mutations. But yeah, that's only 1 in a million storys that I have. If you have any dumb stuff that you did to share than you can comment below! So have fun playing Ark!

Ark Should Seriously Add the New Kibble System to Mobile I strongly believe this for many reasons, but Ark should seriously add the new (well, the newest. Cause it ain't so new anymore) kibble system to Ark mobile. A big reason is the taming slots. Just in case you didn't know on a PvP server if your playing without tribemates (my case) you can only have 12 tames.....ARE YOU FRICKIN KIDDING ME?!???!? So basically you cannot afford to be taming a bunch of different animals that you don't even want just in order to get the one your aiming (lets say a quetzal) for because by the time you finally get there you already covered at least half of your taming slots. It's true that you can just kill them after you're done with them, but what if the quetzal gets killed while you're out there with it or another tribe decides to raid you while your offline (which is extravagantly annoying and infuriating) and kills it? Then you'll have to tame all those other animals all over again just so you can get their eggs and turn them into kibble. Plus, by the time you have a quetzal, you'll probably already have other stuff too like an anky, an argy, a doedec, possibly a griffin, a ptera, a rex, a tapejara (my fav animal in the game), a beaver/mammoth, and some more. Just right there you already have more than half of your taming slots occupied. So whenever you're late game you'll most likely have to sacrifice some of you're animals in order to tame that really cool giga that you found, or you'll just have to suck it up, take the 7 to 10 hours it takes to tame a high level creature out there with prime meat only to have it tamed at around 70% taming effectiveness. With the new kibble system, you can just have the ptera that is providing you eggs for simple kibble, or if you for some reason need basic kibble just tame a super expandable low level dodo so it gives you its eggs, if you need regular kibble then your anky will be supplying you the eggs. This will for sure help preserve taming slots for mobile players and help a little bit of less pressure when you see that you almost hit your max on animals. Now a lot of you might tell me, well then just join a tribe so your taming slots increase.......personally, I love playing solo on PvP servers for the reason that it's more challenging and you won't have anyone messing up with your stuff while your offline. Plus, solo raiding is extremely fun =D But yeah, what do you guys think? Should Ark add the new system or not? Also, if there is a reason why Ark hasn't added it will you guys please let me know? Anyways, have a great day and have fun playing Ark!