As of December 21st 2023 Cryo Pods are in the game. However on official servers you can only throw out cryo within range of a cryo fridge so the information in this video is still relevant. On unofficial servers you can change it so you can throw cryo pods outside the range of a cryofridge or have access to mods. These are the codes unofficial server owners can use to change cryo pod settings. Cryopod configurable settings: ◦ GameUserSettings.ini under [ServerSettings] DisableCryopodEnemyCheck=True - will ignore the enemy player/structure/dino checks AllowCryoFridgeOnSaddle=True - will allow Cryofridge to be placed on rafts/saddles DisableCryopodFridgeRequirement=True - will disable the Cryofridge requirement for releasing cryopodded dinos
Hey don’t underestimate them. I saw an alpha Rex and panicked until I realized it was getting ganked by I’d guess 10 or so dimorphodons and it couldn’t turn fast enough to hit any of them so it just got shredded to death
@@mishaaldawnak5373 I wish. It just slowly turned and walked in circles but kept getting stuck on rocks and it couldn’t do anything about it. I don’t think a single one of the dimorphs died
Update: Baryonyx is able to fit inside the cave of the Immune. Thank you to classicfluffy for pointing this out to me. This is a reupload, due to at the time of first recording the Baryonyx could not fit inside the redwoods cave but now does. I did not want false information in my video. Baryonyx is now one of my top recommendations for cave tames where before I could not recommend it. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Immune 1:29 Strong 1:57 Not covering 2:10 Clever 2:33 Hunter 2:56 Pack 3:58 Massive 4:28 Devourer 4:49 Base Stats 6:42 Recap 7:35 Thanks For Watching Small Tames with links to their Dododex sites. Arthropluera - www.dododex.com/taming/arthropluera Araneo - www.dododex.com/taming/araneo Sabertooth - www.dododex.com/taming/sabertooth Gigantopithecus - www.dododex.com/taming/gigantopithecus Dire Wolf - www.dododex.com/taming/direwolf Terror Bird - www.dododex.com/taming/terrorbird Moschops - www.dododex.com/taming/moschops Megaloceros - www.dododex.com/taming/megaloceros Beelzebufo - www.dododex.com/taming/beelzebufo Raptor - www.dododex.com/taming/raptor Kaprosuchus - www.dododex.com/taming/kaprosuchus Equus - www.dododex.com/taming/equus Big Tames I also mentioned. Thylacoleo - www.dododex.com/taming/thylacoleo Baryonyx - www.dododex.com/taming/baryonyx Megatherium - www.dododex.com/taming/megatherium
In the redwood cave, the arthropleura will not break your gas mask if you only wear the gas mask and remove all other armor. This is the best option when going in with the frog to get cementing paste.
But those WILL be destroyed by the arthropleura, so a pointless comment in relation to the topic. But it is a good tip for those who want to survive inside@@robertcall8877
Awesome cave guide video :) at 3:54 - The beelzebufo is too wide to fit out if coming back out the normal way. However, I found that it can still make it out in the open drop part by jumping up the branches and walls of the cave. It takes a bit of practice but it is possible!
You deserve thousands of views this was more helpful than 20 videos ive watched about these caves. Strsight to the point explaining what dinosaurs can get in/out og each cave and whats recommend plus showing some stats.
I haven't tested all the caves yet, but thought I'd add that the carnotaurus fits through the entrances of Clever, Hunter, Massive, and Pack. I was quite surprised it could fit in caves that a thyla couldn't as it looks so much bigger.
Baryonyx hands down one of the best tames in ark. Fast runner and swimmer, can jump, good dps and stun attack underwater. Can't go wrong with barys. 10/10 video btw
I love barys! They got so much better with ASA too now that they don't have oxygen or movement speed stats, got 49 melee off of a 110. Thank you for watching, so glad you enjoyed it!
The bary is a god. Mine at just over a hundred going into the Swamp Cave discovered level 450 plus spiders galore and ate them like they were candy. Came out around 175. I'm pretty sure anything else would have been dead in seconds, but those things are beasts.
To be fair it is a decently fast tame with a capability to jump. And most things that would give you problems in the water can be stunned, just not all.
Here’s a trick I found: baryonyx is definitely your best bet but a pain to tame because of the swamp critters. I recommend knocking it out in a trap AND surrounding it in wooden spikes then demolishing them when your done
I can confirm gigantopithecus CAN get out of the Upper South Cave(PACK). Took about 30 seconds of jumping around to get past the first bottleneck on the way out, and maybe 4 minutes for the tree root on my first journey. Can probably find the sweet spots eventually.
6:00 Primitive 25 armor saddles give a 20% damage reduction, not 50%. Meaning the raptor would have 240 effective hit points and the terror bird would have 324 effective hit points. The wolf also gets more hp per level. This means the wolf is still the best option hp wise assuming you don't have a good saddle.
You are right about the wolf hp. It does scale a lot faster then most other dinos, and can compete relatively well assuming you don't have good saddles yet. Saddle armor is a bit complicated. Against explosives and alphas the damage reduction is 20% however against most dinos the reduction is 50%. There is a helpful graph on the ark wiki about this, about halfway down. Being that this video was about caves, any creature you find in there should be at the damage reduction of the regular dinos range. Here is the link to the ark wiki. ark.fandom.com/wiki/Saddles
I use a single imprinted wolf for most of these caves; it does take a lot more damage with no saddle (especially with headshots counting in melee) but of the smaller creatures that 'just fit' it's got the best DPS and dead enemies deal no damage so it gets through pretty good. Only one I haven't tried yet is snow (strong) cave - theorycrafting says they'd be good for sniffing out the buried purlovia, but not sure if they can handle the damage output from the high level spawns in there.
The snow cave/artifact of the strong has also been glitchy for me i was raising direwolves in the cave on my single player but after logging of and coming back on half of them were glitched under ground and i couldn't get them back
Im on official and I tamed a 150 Pulmonoscorpius. It was stuck in the south east cave on the main island until i finakky git a cryopod. But after iy was maxxed it handles the cave bo problem. A few of them together in a cave could be fun lol.
Hey, typically hp is the more valuable stat from my testing. It has more of an impact on you surviving an encounter then melee does. My recommendation would be to pump hp if you are struggling to beat something and to pump melee to just speed it up a little bit.
@@TheLordIvel I have done the cave on ASA with a Thyla. You have to spam jump through the entrance. Once you get to a choke point where seem like you can't spam jump, you just need get along the right wall and angle your self 45 degrees ish towards the left and spam jump through.
I have also used a thyla in the carno island cave on ASA. I didn't spam jump. I just harvested all Crystal at the front of the cave and it allows the thyla to get through. Spam jumping would be far quicker.
When doing the raptor DPS did you take into account the attack speed buff when you do that pack boost? Apparently it works with just you riding your raptor.
Unless they changed something, it can get all of the way to the short tunnel where the artifact is, which is usually clear anyway. I used to use it all of the time to farm the red drops.
Cryo pods weren't in the game or announced to be coming at the time of upload. They are as of December 21st 2023 in the game on official servers. However on official servers you can only throw out cryo within range of a cryo fridge so the information in this video is still relevant. On unofficial servers you can change it so you can throw cryo pods outside the range of a cryofridge or have access to mods.
Megalania was unable to fit inside the redwoods cave. I did try though, I just couldn't go over each dino for every cave otherwise this video would be way to long.
It's a solid option for sure. My goal was to get the overall best tame and still talk about some other options, I did not go over every possible tame for each cave. Thanks for the comment!
It can yes, but you are high enough to where you can avoid it if you position your barrys head toward the arthro, then the spit will hit the barry instead.
@@TheLordIvel I was in swamp cave on a barry and the arthro even broke my shotgun. I went to the easy south cave and an arthro killed me while I was on a frog. I've never had this happen in ASE
Bro, is sabertooth larger than Dire wolf 🤔 cause you didn't compare it dire wolf, raptor and Terror bird, does it not fit in the same size slot as those ?
If you are talking about getting out of the pack cave I did try it and it doesn't fit. The difference I believe is that it couldn't jump as high as the dire wolf. Have you been able to get the Sabertooth to fit?
the whole process is o.k on one hand and super "what do you want from me" on the other. playing first time on server settings, what is i do, and you stuck. What do the developers want from me? play easy? The Game is fun - it should not kick your but at the end in the way it does. so i do cave building and fuck the rest.
Cryopods came, and got nerfed so you can't throw anything in the caves (unless you can build in it.) They do work for getting Barys back out of the Pack cave though.
Just use cryopods to transfer stronger dinos for those caves runs. One good Megatherium will clear Swamp Cave without any problems. Ps. You can either use a mod or wait for extinction dlc for the cryopods.
I'll save you from watching the long ass video. If you can fit a megatherium into the cave, bring that. If you can't fit a megatherium, bring the Frog. The end, yw.
As of December 21st 2023 Cryo Pods are in the game. However on official servers you can only throw out cryo within range of a cryo fridge so the information in this video is still relevant. On unofficial servers you can change it so you can throw cryo pods outside the range of a cryofridge or have access to mods. These are the codes unofficial server owners can use to change cryo pod settings.
Cryopod configurable settings:
◦ GameUserSettings.ini under [ServerSettings]
DisableCryopodEnemyCheck=True - will ignore the enemy player/structure/dino checks
AllowCryoFridgeOnSaddle=True - will allow Cryofridge to be placed on rafts/saddles
DisableCryopodFridgeRequirement=True - will disable the Cryofridge requirement for releasing cryopodded dinos
If you're a chad you just do every cave with a swarm of 15 dimorphodons
I have health and melee mutated Onycs. 6k health and almost 350 damage per hit. Its a breeze to do all but the swamp and snow cave.
Hey don’t underestimate them. I saw an alpha Rex and panicked until I realized it was getting ganked by I’d guess 10 or so dimorphodons and it couldn’t turn fast enough to hit any of them so it just got shredded to death
@@Ryan2K900 lmao did the alpha rex turn into a Beyblade
@@mishaaldawnak5373 I wish. It just slowly turned and walked in circles but kept getting stuck on rocks and it couldn’t do anything about it. I don’t think a single one of the dimorphs died
thats actually next level big brain shit lmao ima try that
Update: Baryonyx is able to fit inside the cave of the Immune. Thank you to classicfluffy for pointing this out to me. This is a reupload, due to at the time of first recording the Baryonyx could not fit inside the redwoods cave but now does. I did not want false information in my video. Baryonyx is now one of my top recommendations for cave tames where before I could not recommend it.
0:00 Intro
0:14 Immune
1:29 Strong
1:57 Not covering
2:10 Clever
2:33 Hunter
2:56 Pack
3:58 Massive
4:28 Devourer
4:49 Base Stats
6:42 Recap
7:35 Thanks For Watching
Small Tames with links to their Dododex sites.
Arthropluera - www.dododex.com/taming/arthropluera
Araneo - www.dododex.com/taming/araneo
Sabertooth - www.dododex.com/taming/sabertooth
Gigantopithecus - www.dododex.com/taming/gigantopithecus
Dire Wolf - www.dododex.com/taming/direwolf
Terror Bird - www.dododex.com/taming/terrorbird
Moschops - www.dododex.com/taming/moschops
Megaloceros - www.dododex.com/taming/megaloceros
Beelzebufo - www.dododex.com/taming/beelzebufo
Raptor - www.dododex.com/taming/raptor
Kaprosuchus - www.dododex.com/taming/kaprosuchus
Equus - www.dododex.com/taming/equus
Big Tames I also mentioned.
Thylacoleo - www.dododex.com/taming/thylacoleo
Baryonyx - www.dododex.com/taming/baryonyx
Megatherium - www.dododex.com/taming/megatherium
In the redwood cave, the arthropleura will not break your gas mask if you only wear the gas mask and remove all other armor. This is the best option when going in with the frog to get cementing paste.
This is an amazing tip! Thank you for sharing, I tested this and can confirm.
Scuba tank works wearing gillie boots and gloves with a set of Scuba. Lasts longer and is cheaper to craft
But those WILL be destroyed by the arthropleura, so a pointless comment in relation to the topic. But it is a good tip for those who want to survive inside@@robertcall8877
@@robertcall8877 I tried this and the arthropleura break the gear as soon as I encounter them
Awesome cave guide video :)
at 3:54 - The beelzebufo is too wide to fit out if coming back out the normal way. However, I found that it can still make it out in the open drop part by jumping up the branches and walls of the cave. It takes a bit of practice but it is possible!
I didn't think about that, Thanks for the tip I'd like to give that a try some day!
Yes, that's how we done it back on legacy in ASE. Also the Thyla does fit in and out of carno. There's one bit that's tight but it fits!
You deserve thousands of views this was more helpful than 20 videos ive watched about these caves. Strsight to the point explaining what dinosaurs can get in/out og each cave and whats recommend plus showing some stats.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that.
fun fact, if you wear your gasmask without armor on, the artherospleura will not be able to destroy it.
I haven't tested all the caves yet, but thought I'd add that the carnotaurus fits through the entrances of Clever, Hunter, Massive, and Pack. I was quite surprised it could fit in caves that a thyla couldn't as it looks so much bigger.
It's probably less wide
I appreciate your sciencing of Ark caves.
It'll justify my need to breed the Ultimate Bird of Terror!
Absolutely breed the Ultimate Bird of Terror! That will be awesome!
Baryonyx hands down one of the best tames in ark. Fast runner and swimmer, can jump, good dps and stun attack underwater. Can't go wrong with barys. 10/10 video btw
I love barys! They got so much better with ASA too now that they don't have oxygen or movement speed stats, got 49 melee off of a 110. Thank you for watching, so glad you enjoyed it!
The bary is a god. Mine at just over a hundred going into the Swamp Cave discovered level 450 plus spiders galore and ate them like they were candy. Came out around 175. I'm pretty sure anything else would have been dead in seconds, but those things are beasts.
used to use megalania most caves on ASE
what about megalania?
a Thyla can actually fit in and out of the Devourer cave, if you break some rocks keeping it from getting through, and do some jumping.
The bary is great but can't be carried by an argy so transporting it around is difficult.
To be fair it is a decently fast tame with a capability to jump. And most things that would give you problems in the water can be stunned, just not all.
@phantom_boii yes but as I mentioned transporting it around is difficult
Here’s a trick I found: baryonyx is definitely your best bet but a pain to tame because of the swamp critters. I recommend knocking it out in a trap AND surrounding it in wooden spikes then demolishing them when your done
This is a very throughly thought out and well made video, thank you.
Thyla DOES fit in carno cave on ASA and ASE. It is a little annoying to get it into carno on ASA but it goes in and out!!!!!
I can confirm gigantopithecus CAN get out of the Upper South Cave(PACK). Took about 30 seconds of jumping around to get past the first bottleneck on the way out, and maybe 4 minutes for the tree root on my first journey. Can probably find the sweet spots eventually.
Good to know, I'll have to give that a try sometime! Save me from breeding an extra one each time.
The daedon fits in most caves I haven't tried the swamp yet but the carno the lava and the hunter cave it fits in no problem
Managed to get a Thyla in and out of Carno cave, smashing all the crystal and jump glitching it in areas. Was it wort it? No. :D
6:00 Primitive 25 armor saddles give a 20% damage reduction, not 50%. Meaning the raptor would have 240 effective hit points and the terror bird would have 324 effective hit points. The wolf also gets more hp per level. This means the wolf is still the best option hp wise assuming you don't have a good saddle.
You are right about the wolf hp. It does scale a lot faster then most other dinos, and can compete relatively well assuming you don't have good saddles yet. Saddle armor is a bit complicated. Against explosives and alphas the damage reduction is 20% however against most dinos the reduction is 50%. There is a helpful graph on the ark wiki about this, about halfway down. Being that this video was about caves, any creature you find in there should be at the damage reduction of the regular dinos range.
Here is the link to the ark wiki. ark.fandom.com/wiki/Saddles
@@TheLordIvel Had no idea there were different damage types for saddles, I stand corrected.
Clear concise information. Thank you!
You can enter the devourer cave with a thylo by repeatedly pressing space at the chokepoint
This is awesome! Tyvm. I've been looking for a video like this!
Super happy it helped!
Megatherium is really good to raise in the immune cave and the procoptodon can go into any of the caves.
I use a single imprinted wolf for most of these caves; it does take a lot more damage with no saddle (especially with headshots counting in melee) but of the smaller creatures that 'just fit' it's got the best DPS and dead enemies deal no damage so it gets through pretty good. Only one I haven't tried yet is snow (strong) cave - theorycrafting says they'd be good for sniffing out the buried purlovia, but not sure if they can handle the damage output from the high level spawns in there.
It can't. Guaranteed.
The snow cave/artifact of the strong has also been glitchy for me i was raising direwolves in the cave on my single player but after logging of and coming back on half of them were glitched under ground and i couldn't get them back
Im on official and I tamed a 150 Pulmonoscorpius. It was stuck in the south east cave on the main island until i finakky git a cryopod. But after iy was maxxed it handles the cave bo problem. A few of them together in a cave could be fun lol.
Turn off the single-player settings if you want the stats to be closer to the official stats.
Thank you, I will do that next time. I had totally forgot about that.
If u got additions. Deinosuchus best cave mount
Now can you do a review with cryopods?
What about the megalania? It can fit in a bunch of these?
I did a bit of building in pack cave to get the bary in and out. With all the pitahna, no other tame made sense to me.
Bary is my favorite cave tame all around, and is super nice in that cave.
Really good informative video!
Thank you, I appreciate that!
Does values are based on PvP damage to that h structures
You need to divide it by a number to get actual damage output that I have forgot about
Thanks for the info.
What is the best state for a cave running tame I'm planning on using my thylacoleo but not sure what state to upgrade on it
Hey, typically hp is the more valuable stat from my testing. It has more of an impact on you surviving an encounter then melee does. My recommendation would be to pump hp if you are struggling to beat something and to pump melee to just speed it up a little bit.
The Thyla does fit into the carno island cave tho. Its a very close call, but he can get in and out
I couldn't get him to fit. Had to grab the bary.
Can you get thaelocelio?
Thyla will fit inside carno island cave if you break the crystal on the way in
carno cave can fit a thylo, just keep trying and you will work out the easy way to do it.
Have you been able to do it on Ascended? I just tried again and could not get it through. Otherwise that would be a really nice way to do that cave.
@@TheLordIvel I have done the cave on ASA with a Thyla. You have to spam jump through the entrance. Once you get to a choke point where seem like you can't spam jump, you just need get along the right wall and angle your self 45 degrees ish towards the left and spam jump through.
I have also used a thyla in the carno island cave on ASA.
I didn't spam jump. I just harvested all Crystal at the front of the cave and it allows the thyla to get through.
Spam jumping would be far quicker.
@@TruNemesis Ok thank you that's good to know.
@@TheLordIvel yeah, just spam jump, the last bit by the crystals is the hard part, just stay to the right by the crystals
When doing the raptor DPS did you take into account the attack speed buff when you do that pack boost? Apparently it works with just you riding your raptor.
I didn't account for any pack or mate boosts for any tame. But that is interesting, I didn't know that was a thing.
@@TheLordIvel Yeah, the attack speed boost is pretty crazy and you can get good raptor saddles out of drops now too!
Bro mentioned raising thylas in swamp but not raising megatheriums in the cave...the best dino for that cave
Megatherium can not get all the way to the artifact. It can only clear the first big room which if why I didn't mention it.
Unless they changed something, it can get all of the way to the short tunnel where the artifact is, which is usually clear anyway. I used to use it all of the time to farm the red drops.
Cryo pods?
Ill just wait till center comes out, cross server with the artifacts, collect tributes, defeat the alpha boss then never go back.
Carno can get in swamp cave aswell
Pack cave is a weird one, a wolf can fit but not a sabre, even though the sabre is visually smaller than a wolf.
yeah its weird, I think a part of it is that the wolf was able to jump higher which allowed it to get through the choke.
Why no mention of the Sabertooth?
I did mention it at 0:24 and from then on referred it as one of the small creatures.
@TheLordIvel my bad lol missed that 😅
@@jimothy5831 No worries my man, it happens 👍
when were cryo pods removed ? maybe a mod but normal game they still work.
Cryo pods weren't in the game or announced to be coming at the time of upload. They are as of December 21st 2023 in the game on official servers. However on official servers you can only throw out cryo within range of a cryo fridge so the information in this video is still relevant. On unofficial servers you can change it so you can throw cryo pods outside the range of a cryofridge or have access to mods.
Baryonyx can run swamp. I dunno why you thought it could only run ice?
The Baryonyx can run every cave but skylord. I mentioned it at every cave.
Thylo best I think especially with cryo pods coming back
Where did you come up with your channel name? It’s a very uncommon name.
My real name is Levi, Ivel is just Levi spelled back words.
1:34 I thought your bary was standing like a human for a second 😅
Carnotaurus for Ice Cave is the best choice there. More health and dps than a Baryonx
very informative thank you !
I found the Gigantopithecus to be a top choice. Didn’t know that Dino until then 😮
Im for a rework of the sabertooth. It should be way better and be able to climb
Nice video and clear video 🙌 gave you a sub bro ✌️✊️
Thank you! I really appreciate that!
I havent even seen a thyla or gigantopithicus in ascended. Lol
I still love to use 2 woves for the caves .. and it works better than in ase causd they dont get stuck as often. 😅
bud you can take an adult thyla into Devourer cave. just pickaxe some of the rocks and crystal on the way in and spam jump on the way out.
My man didn't even mention the Megalania :'(
Megalania was unable to fit inside the redwoods cave. I did try though, I just couldn't go over each dino for every cave otherwise this video would be way to long.
you forgot daeoodon ;)
That’s my favorite choice. Especially when with buddies
It's a solid option for sure. My goal was to get the overall best tame and still talk about some other options, I did not go over every possible tame for each cave. Thanks for the comment!
Only true Bro's remember ark before majority of dinos/TLC and cryopods know Sabers were the only choice.
Arthro spit will in fact break your armour on a barry
It can yes, but you are high enough to where you can avoid it if you position your barrys head toward the arthro, then the spit will hit the barry instead.
@@TheLordIvel I was in swamp cave on a barry and the arthro even broke my shotgun. I went to the easy south cave and an arthro killed me while I was on a frog. I've never had this happen in ASE
Bro, is sabertooth larger than Dire wolf 🤔 cause you didn't compare it dire wolf, raptor and Terror bird, does it not fit in the same size slot as those ?
If you are talking about getting out of the pack cave I did try it and it doesn't fit. The difference I believe is that it couldn't jump as high as the dire wolf. Have you been able to get the Sabertooth to fit?
Guys let me save you time… run all the caves with imprinted frogs…
U get through with carno and jumping with thyla in carno cave. Cmon Dude, it Gott me 2 min. To Test it😂
bary is king...
megalania would be the prince
Monkey is best lol got 20 20 health melee they are fun
use megalania as cheat code
the whole process is o.k on one hand and super "what do you want from me" on the other. playing first time on server settings, what is i do, and you stuck. What do the developers want from me? play easy? The Game is fun - it should not kick your but at the end in the way it does. so i do cave building and fuck the rest.
Epic information and video format. But try to enunciate more and mumble less.
Cryopods are coming. Just wait then u can throw your rexs in the caves
Cryopods came, and got nerfed so you can't throw anything in the caves (unless you can build in it.)
They do work for getting Barys back out of the Pack cave though.
i wish u could put a helmet on the ape. it'd be the non plus ultra cave tame
If you have crypod mod then megatherium..
Yes, megatherium back on Ark: Survival Evolved was my go to.
Thyla bar none
Baryonx is the best tame
Totally agree
Just use cryopods to transfer stronger dinos for those caves runs. One good Megatherium will clear Swamp Cave without any problems.
Ps. You can either use a mod or wait for extinction dlc for the cryopods.
Sorry but try to articulate better please 😢. Its very hard for me to understand what your saying.
I appreciate the feedback! I will try to get better about that.
I'll save you from watching the long ass video. If you can fit a megatherium into the cave, bring that. If you can't fit a megatherium, bring the Frog. The end, yw.
What abt thylas?