The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life.
I just want to mention for people, brawlers bay is also good because it offers a lot more resources than you think. On the shore of the snow biome to the north, there are oil rocks where you can get all the oil you need without going underwater. Also, silica pearls in abundance! That is all right in the beginning of the snow biome with only dire wolves and the very rare Yuty guarding it. I actually built my own base a little further to the north and found it be the one of the best spots for resources.
Im no expert but this vid seemed well thought out and planned. Great vid! To anyone reading this, check out coordinates Lat- 46.0 Lon- 58.5 There is a natural crevis surrounding an incline on 2 or 3 sides which i use for my taming pens. There is a forest on the other side of the crevis so easy wood/thatch/chitin with none of the forest danger because of the space between and TONS of water and regular rocks for your metal/stone/flint needs. There is a river in front for easy access to water and fish/prime fish meat, mountains and a volcano within short flying distance rich on either side with metal, crystal, and obsidian, two resource drops nearby, and easy access to prime meat through large herbivores that spawn nearby. There are three drawbacks to this location however. 1 being that it is not near any large bodies of water so no shark tames here. 2 this incline CAN be tough to build on, though i managed a pretty large base. 3 it is a little far away from the oil rich part of the winter biome. My solution to these problems was to build small outposts to make up for this bases short-comings. One outpost near the winter biome continuously making gasoline and polymer. An outpost near the sea for easy access to aquatic tames and resources. A third at the peak of a metal rich mountain near the base for one of the three nearby sources of metal, crystal, and obsidian. These small outposts are almost continuously burning while im away to make gasoline, organic polymer, spark powder, and metal ingots.
The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life.
Very good list dude, the music the nice calm pace as well as easy to follow information, I can see you getting very big as a channel and skilled content creator
Great video. As an alternative to "the center" spot, I like the bare rocky spot along the river at about 47,47 - overlooks redwoods but the river keeps out the riff raff, sits between volcano, redwood mtn, other mtn, smaller number of predators roams near, easy water access. Scenic, great resources, great spawns, almost direct center of the map.
I've spent close to 100 hours on this, it was very grueling, but finally. FINALLY! I've found a video about base locations that actually mentions ressources. Thumbs up for that.
It might not be a best location, but one of my favorite locations to setup is near the river at the southwest part of the map near the red obelisk. Under the red obelisk is a great natural holding water pen for water creatures, it has access to the ocean and I did check that it is deep enough for them to swim into there. Plus, I'm almost positive that on occasion a Quetzal would fly around the red obelisk area at times, so it would be a good spot to keep a look out for it to tame. Also it might not be as close to the snow biome as Brawler's Bay, but you still can take a raft north along the coast to get to the snow biome. But yeah, great suggestions on base locations. Even if The Island is a basic map that the game started off with, it is still one of my favorite maps, because I think it has some of the best water access with oceans encircling the whole map, and rivers spread out through the map. It also has a good variety of different biomes.
This video is super helpful, hands down the most helpful and descriptive while also not being too long! Bringing out the resource map was super helpful as well!
Great video!Calming voice, chill music that suits the Real Estate Review mood, logical and easy to understand explanations of locale advantages and notes regarding your own experiences. Phenomenal work. Thank you!
A place I’ve always enjoyed building at is directly under the green obelisk. It has several levels of large, flat, high up areas right by each other with tons of building space, plus you’ll never get lost!
I would also add Penguin Island in the north-west of the map to this list. It's a big iceberg out in the snowy area, but it's a huge area with plenty of space to build on, and it has the BEST natural water dino storage area on the entire map! One behemoth gate closes it off and you've got a huge pool inside your base to store large water dinos in, with underwater access straight out into the sea. Like Herb Island it's (largely) peaceful (you may get the odd argy flying over), but you will have to deal with the constant cold, so it's best to prep before going over there to set up camp (get a set of furs and a bed built over there just in case you die as there's no random spawn point nearby, so if you respawn and try to make it back there on foot, you'll probably die before you can even get close to it). It's also at the bottom of blue obi mountain, which has huge amounts of metal, obsidian and crystal on it, not to mention there's tons of silica pearls and oil nearby too. The snow area is also a good place to find high level dinos like Rexes, Yutys, Carnos, Mammoths, Wolves and more (just be wary of Badgers jumping out of the ground on the mainland, they are a nightmare if they take you off your tame, especially if there's a pack of wolves around!)
I just started and I am confuse on where to build my station home. So with this information you suggested it’s very useful. I just hope it will be smooth for me to go check these areas. Thank you again very helpful👍
I can't express enough how much I appreciate your pacing and calmness when you speak. I'm so sick of trying to learn about this game through videos that constantly open with a overly energetic, needlessly loud and lengthy intro that tangents off every 30 seconds. Thank you James.
Wow, thank you! but some of my intros are almost 3mins long lol. 1 of theses days my videos will end up being 1 long intro and yes I know what you mean. But even if I was enegitic or tried to be diffrent and overly upbeat it would show through as fulse. Im not like that and I guess thats why i also didnt pick a name for the channel and just ran with my own name with the goal of fiishing what i started so I will not abandon a play list no matter how long it takes me. I do the odd epersode on the communaty sever that dossent have a puropse for completion but I mostley stick to the goal of completeing a game or challenge. Thanks agine for the kind words
@@CompleteGamesWithJames Anytime. I really do appreciate all of the effort that goes into your content. I'm still watching random bits here and there but I intend to go back and properly watch through your completing the ark series.
I always build on the Southern Shores Eastern area. Most of the PVE servers had the other spots taken, but the Southern Shores is generally ignored, or people build there to start but eventually move out. I usually build in the area just south of the Swamps, but far enough away that none of the swamp spawns will wander into my base. I build in an Eastern area just above the shore and onto a hill that backs up against a high cliff. A lot of the time, I will have a neighbour that backs up against my base onto the other side, but as long as you make friends easily, the space can be shared evenly. It works out really nice because you can build a really big water pen just a couple metres away from your main base, and the spawns for dinos are generally not dangerous (usually the most dangerous things are carnos & therinzinos). The thing you will most have to worry about are the occasional Titanos (but you can build to block them out) or people trying to encroach on your base for space (you can discourage this by offering to help them build in an area on the otherside of the cliff nearby).
Nice video, and very informative! I have built at most of these locations, and enjoyed them all! I think brawler beach was where I tamed my first Rex, and Argy! Keep up the good work, James!
Yer brawlers beach is where I tamed my first Bronto and then lost it to a shark after a half-hour walk and a short swim back to the starting area. I remember waiting all night to tame it and I was so tired when I got back. It died in front of my base and done a rag doll so it was looking at me when I logged out.
better production quality and audio than most of the base builds that have 500k+ views. This video should ahve more. There's literally just cellphone microphone potato quality videos with a million views. Would recommend a popfilter for the microphone though.
Thank you! I just started a couple of days ago and was trying to scout out best locations on my own (lol). I finally realized I was either going to invest resources in building a base I'd later abandon or keep dying looking for the perfect one. Now I have a direction to aim in. (Ooh, and I just saw you do Subnautica videos as well. Haven't played it yet but my brother keeps telling me I'd like it. I'll be back for those at some point).
My friends and I built our PvE base at the giant rock to the left as seen at 9:33. We walled off a huge area with stone behemoth gates. It's been a fine location. Mining base at blue obelisk, penguins for polymer, easy access to taming wooly rhinos, argies, rexes, even the occasional giga. The bay with ice floating in it was our water pen. Even with all the aggressive dinos on land none go in water and aggro on water creatures if they're deep enough. You only get cold if you're up against the shore of the bay so keep your main buildings slightly south if fur doesn't interest you. The little pool of water inland also spawns lots of fish to farm fish meat or do some fishing. Do recommend turrets/Plant Species X since wild Argies will fly in occasionally and attack stuff. Also there's a supply drop location next to the big rock. If you're restricted then you can't build there but its handy for transfering/going to boss fights.
Just started this game, holy shit the quality of this guide is 12/10. The presentation and in detailed resource explantion are superb. Im building my raft now and going to the hidden lake. Just hope i dont die. Im currently at the most bottom left, default spawning island. Its a long journey hahaha..im worried
@@gameplayxtreme3389 got there but its surround by alpha dino and i got destroyed. My hours of plan go wasted. Started a new game on ragnarok. In 2 weeks and i have a giga now and a bunch of rexes.
As you were talking about the redwood lake all I kept thinking was "he's going to get yeeted by one of those cat bear things" I'm never flying in there again, eff that place.
I love the Redwoods Lake. Imo it's the best position in the game, and you can set up a base early with a decent Trike mount to carry your stuff and guard you. You're within easy walking distance of some of the best mounts on the Island, and you'll have more wood and metal than you know what to do with. Farm Dire Bears for fur, tame one up as a war mount, and you'll have everything you need to set up a FOB in the snow biome for whatever you need it for.
The Mini Mountains and the surrounding area is my favorite place in the island in general I’m glad that it’s actually a good building spot. In my curent play through I’m building by the lake that’s nearby it
I'm building on Herbie right now for the first time, and it does have some serious drawbacks. First of all, it's not ideal for keeping your land based tames, unless you spend tons of metal to build a bridge to the mainland. Second, it's far away from the good beacons, as well as sources of obsidian and crystal. Transporting those from the mountains is all but impossible until the end game when you have a high level quetzal. Third, LEEDSICHTHYS spawn all around the island and prevent the effective usage of rafts. If you sail straight for the mainland and then hug the shallowest part of the coast, you might survive. And last but not least, the distance from pretty much everything lore related makes it a pain to transport your battle tames to caves and the like. You would have to have a separate pen in the central plains, making the Herbie base kind of pointless. I would only recommend it for very early game isolationist gameplay, or very late game when the logistics issues can be overcome by your tech progression.
Use an Argie with points pumped into weight to transport goods to Herbie Island.Cryopods to transport larger dinos. Or just have a kill squad of sharks escort them while they swim to the mainland.Every issue you had has a solution.
Its nice early game since you can farm stone, wood, and metal in relative peace. (The worst thing I've personally seen near it is a meg, and i can make the direct swim easily and have been extensively using rafts) My primary issue is the isolation, it takes way too long to sail from Herbivore Island to anywhere important enough to sail to. (It has all the basics, but nothing more. I don't even have wild dinos to hunt anymore despite keeping to 1 corner of the island. I am currently looking for a much more centrally located base to simplify logistics, but i can't seem to find any place truly safe, flat, easy to get dinos to, and close to major resources. (Really annoyed with a spot i found just west of the redwoods that was perfect, except for the incredibly uneven ground once i landed)
@jasonreed7522 the hill known as Weathertop is flat enough for a medium sized base building, and a wall around the area to keep a large amount of dinos. Crystal and a few metal rocks are found a short distance away on a southern mountain/hill. More metal can be found on the redwood mountain (fly above the forest!). Obsidian is still far away unless you are going into the caves, but that's true for most of the map
The spot i tend to build at, though it might be a bit more material intensive if you decide to build 'up' is in the redwoods on the far eastern end, just before hitting the swamp, and in fact can have some swamp dinos spawn on th most eastern hill of it. On the resource map, its the stretch of area that looks like it might be sand, with deep green on the left, light green on the right, and brown above it, with the southern stretch leading straight into the swamp. Its a valley like area with a low river running through it that works perfectly for farming, and a particular spot in it is large enough to easily match Herbivore island in size, and are some good spots for platforms with natural walls to reduce the cost of walling in an area without needing any more than spike walls. Its also quite central to the whole map, has water access, a metal rich mountain right next to you and is picturesque if you know how to build properly and not just make metal boxes.
I love setting bases up at brawlers bay, although I set it up closer to the snow biome, around 40/ 20 coordinates, next to a small lake or pond.
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Thanks for taking the time to make great content. I’ve just started Ark and I found the little island just east of the the southern coast (it’s got a huge A shaped rock) on it to be a brilliant starting location. There’s a beaver dam right close and I’m a short hike a way from a cave!
honestly the first spot really helped, the grind is actually real in PvE even though there isnt much competition its still super hard to even get a decent amount of hide and metal.
The flattest piece of ground on the whole island is the river bottom just north of 50,50. I built a mansion there with a giant stone courtyard and even put a big octagonal fountain in the middle. It's my favorite place to build because you are never more than half the map from your base, and there is plenty of room to get creative. If you are playing solo and have plenty of time for construction, you might want to give it a shot.
Thanks for this! Started playing the other day and the video helped me a lot. I ended up setting up my first base at Redwood Lake, but I'll definitely keep these other locations in mind!
I made mine on the stony isle, it was amazing, those top cliffs were so good for keeping safe and if you got x plants to defend your bassically raid proof since the only way to get up was a ladder or a flyer.
Great video. I've set up in the valley between mini mountains and on the river south of them. Now I'm looking at brawlers bay. First time I've seen that one.
A few things to point out for each of the main areas - - The Center has no water, it's actually pretty far away from it - Herbie is a pain to get crystal and obsidian to - Redwood Lake is full of nasties and anytime you take fliers through, expect microraptors and thylos to dismount you - Waterfall area is not all that close to metal, crystal and obsidian but you're close to oil rock formations on the edge of the snow area; you're also close to good water locations, like the cave, pearl pools and tuso/basil spawn points Note to the Single Players, you might want to tweak your settings if you're going to build next to or on top of resource nodes, or else they won't spawn anymore. I usually just ignore all of the other locations. My usual place is where the marsh meets the two river branches just south east of the bottom of the red woods. You have literally everything around you except for organic polymer.
I'm new to ark and been looking for a place to set up my home and the center looks like such a good area to be in, you have access direct to snow mountains, volcano, redwoods, and even more importantly access to a huge metal spawn location surrounded by carnivores, perfect for resource and level grinding!!!
it really is. i play with 3 friends on a non-dedicated session where i'm the host and center is perfect in all respects. we've had a titanosaur wander in and somehow got him triggered and he ended up killing everything. after that i built a wall of dinosaur gates with a couple of behemoth gates around the base so no wild dinos wander in. just remember that titanosaurs might turn up there and it's also not far from giga spawns. but if you got walls and good tames, you can hold the position well. and the proximity to pretty much everything on the map is something i wouldn't want to give up
@@LachNetSoDumm Yes it has happened to me that gigas have spawn in the same mountain two times already! What I've noticed tho is that Gigas don't move that much, they either stay in place or go downhill but almost never go uphill or sideways so what I do is locate a giga, bait it to follow me to the other side of the mountain and that way he won't even bother me hehehe
@@lukasadventures3438 thanks, that's a good call. i've recently seen a giga at the south eastern of the three mountains near the center. guess i'll bait it away then, just to be sure. don't want to test my base defense rexes with a giga ^^
Another place I like is north to the hidden lake on the beach side because it’s flat, about 3 supply drop spawns are there, lots of trees and bushes and is not to far from carnivore island or a highly dense resource mountain
I killed my first alpha rex in your first location. Then had his two alpha raptor backup dancers to deal with too... o_O never had so much prime meat in my life... my poor argy.
On Herbivore Island I built gates into the water to prevent entry into the bay, the reason for this was an Alpha Megalodon dismantling my "floating" house.
I moved from the beach to the hidden lake with a friend of mine today. It took the whole day to move there because our dinos got stuck on every tree and stone or were to slow to follow us. We lost some good friends today because they either died or just got stuck somewhere. We successfully made it to the point and will build our base there tomorrow. F for the dinos that didn‘t make it.
Im here on this video because i wanna setup a new base cuz im getting the tek stuff. also my current base is just little north-east of the rock island, the one with a gap of a tall unfarmable rock.
bro herbivore island is amazing, me and my tribe formed a island gang and OH MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING, we started trading with other tribes bc we cant get certain materials
I was going to the herbie island and got attacked by an alpha leedsichthys.... watch out. So disappointed, lost all my Dino’s and everything. Still gonna figure out a way to get there. Any tips? How’d you get there safely?? Love the vid, thanks for the tips.
Can’t place a foundation at the mini mountain location. It works on the one with the stone and metal but not the one with two levels. Good vid btw. Thanks
“Hope you got your cup of tea ready, and that your relaxed,” *London Fog, lad* Also, on Herbivore Island, there’s about 13 Metal Rocks, but... once again they do have to respawn.
There is also a place to build in the SW area. There is lots of metal and two spots the build . First spot is on the beach be low the hill. The second spot is the hill it self. There is tons of forst on the hill and lots of berries to be harvest on the hill.
Hey bro, I can hear you´re British and I totally dig your accent, but I am Czech and here tea is only for ill people. We only drink it if we must, we drink coffee and we also hate the instant stuff, so cheers and thanks for all the info.
This video helped so much, so far I have built a thatch shack on a beach and no good dinos come near so I’ve been thinking to relocate to somewhere closer to the middle for better and higher level dinos. Also, if I increase my difficulty level (I’m on PS4) from 0.2 to 1 will it automatically make all the dinos higher level or will it only make the dinos I haven’t found a higher level?
Personally I find hte top of redwood mountain to be an even better place, there's plenty of fiber over there and you get a wide variety of dinos to tame in the neighbourhood. not to mention with enough flying mounts its both an easy to find landmark and easy to transport to and from location.
Me and a friend built on brawlers bay. I forgot how nice it looks with trees and rocks. We have harvested almost every resource in the area and it's pretty bare mow haha.
there is a location liked when playing solo and its on the edge of the redwood forest at the door of the volcano there is a huge sandpit there takes a lot of resource to build a pen but its worth it.
I'd say herbivore island is really only interesting in a multiplayer server since it's very defensible, in a single-player game you're just too far away from critical resources and you'll spend 50% of your game time travelling.
I don't play PVP because I'm a scared as hell of other people- but these basic are good ideas for people who know what they are doing (I don't but still XD )
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I like that you were thorough with why the areas were good and showed the resources. Thanks also for not making this excessively long. Subscribed.
The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life.
@@poweroftruth9258 who the fuck asked
@NoisyBastion actually I do. Don’t disrespect the lord
@Power of Truth ✝️ stfu stop preaching this is an ark video
I agree
I just want to mention for people, brawlers bay is also good because it offers a lot more resources than you think. On the shore of the snow biome to the north, there are oil rocks where you can get all the oil you need without going underwater. Also, silica pearls in abundance! That is all right in the beginning of the snow biome with only dire wolves and the very rare Yuty guarding it. I actually built my own base a little further to the north and found it be the one of the best spots for resources.
Im no expert but this vid seemed well thought out and planned. Great vid!
To anyone reading this, check out coordinates Lat- 46.0 Lon- 58.5
There is a natural crevis surrounding an incline on 2 or 3 sides which i use for my taming pens. There is a forest on the other side of the crevis so easy wood/thatch/chitin with none of the forest danger because of the space between and TONS of water and regular rocks for your metal/stone/flint needs. There is a river in front for easy access to water and fish/prime fish meat, mountains and a volcano within short flying distance rich on either side with metal, crystal, and obsidian, two resource drops nearby, and easy access to prime meat through large herbivores that spawn nearby.
There are three drawbacks to this location however. 1 being that it is not near any large bodies of water so no shark tames here. 2 this incline CAN be tough to build on, though i managed a pretty large base. 3 it is a little far away from the oil rich part of the winter biome.
My solution to these problems was to build small outposts to make up for this bases short-comings. One outpost near the winter biome continuously making gasoline and polymer. An outpost near the sea for easy access to aquatic tames and resources. A third at the peak of a metal rich mountain near the base for one of the three nearby sources of metal, crystal, and obsidian. These small outposts are almost continuously burning while im away to make gasoline, organic polymer, spark powder, and metal ingots.
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The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life.
@@poweroftruth9258 and what does that have to do with this video or comment?
@@poweroftruth9258 Bruh will I go to heaven if I rob a bank and kill everyobe inside in christianity, if it is like that it is stupid.
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Very good list dude, the music the nice calm pace as well as easy to follow information, I can see you getting very big as a channel and skilled content creator
same
I like how calm your voice is. No unnecessary hype and excitement. Just relaxed vibes.
Great video. As an alternative to "the center" spot, I like the bare rocky spot along the river at about 47,47 - overlooks redwoods but the river keeps out the riff raff, sits between volcano, redwood mtn, other mtn, smaller number of predators roams near, easy water access. Scenic, great resources, great spawns, almost direct center of the map.
I have had to ban myself from building on herbivore island in my current play through, it is just too tempting and convenient.
how did you get your land animals to land when you needed to?because i'm thinking of setting up base there.
@@forrestgump8717 small ones with raft or cryopod... Big ones can swim :D Even thylacoleo can swim...
!oops did not mean to send that. Thank you!
Is there a way to stop the 4 diplos from continually respawning? I find the shaky stomping really annoying.
@@Ginjitzu put foundation at where they spawn ?
holy heck your voice is so calming
Ever heard of nooblets xD
DOSEofSONIC he is god
His voice is noice tho
DOSEofSONIC Yeah
I'm from Zimbabwe and British accent is so heavenly.
I've spent close to 100 hours on this, it was very grueling, but finally. FINALLY! I've found a video about base locations that actually mentions ressources. Thumbs up for that.
It might not be a best location, but one of my favorite locations to setup is near the river at the southwest part of the map near the red obelisk. Under the red obelisk is a great natural holding water pen for water creatures, it has access to the ocean and I did check that it is deep enough for them to swim into there. Plus, I'm almost positive that on occasion a Quetzal would fly around the red obelisk area at times, so it would be a good spot to keep a look out for it to tame. Also it might not be as close to the snow biome as Brawler's Bay, but you still can take a raft north along the coast to get to the snow biome. But yeah, great suggestions on base locations. Even if The Island is a basic map that the game started off with, it is still one of my favorite maps, because I think it has some of the best water access with oceans encircling the whole map, and rivers spread out through the map. It also has a good variety of different biomes.
This video is super helpful, hands down the most helpful and descriptive while also not being too long! Bringing out the resource map was super helpful as well!
Great video!Calming voice, chill music that suits the Real Estate Review mood, logical and easy to understand explanations of locale advantages and notes regarding your own experiences. Phenomenal work. Thank you!
A place I’ve always enjoyed building at is directly under the green obelisk. It has several levels of large, flat, high up areas right by each other with tons of building space, plus you’ll never get lost!
Why is this your voice so relaxing, it’s like asmr lmao
Cuz he is British lmao
I would also add Penguin Island in the north-west of the map to this list. It's a big iceberg out in the snowy area, but it's a huge area with plenty of space to build on, and it has the BEST natural water dino storage area on the entire map! One behemoth gate closes it off and you've got a huge pool inside your base to store large water dinos in, with underwater access straight out into the sea.
Like Herb Island it's (largely) peaceful (you may get the odd argy flying over), but you will have to deal with the constant cold, so it's best to prep before going over there to set up camp (get a set of furs and a bed built over there just in case you die as there's no random spawn point nearby, so if you respawn and try to make it back there on foot, you'll probably die before you can even get close to it).
It's also at the bottom of blue obi mountain, which has huge amounts of metal, obsidian and crystal on it, not to mention there's tons of silica pearls and oil nearby too. The snow area is also a good place to find high level dinos like Rexes, Yutys, Carnos, Mammoths, Wolves and more (just be wary of Badgers jumping out of the ground on the mainland, they are a nightmare if they take you off your tame, especially if there's a pack of wolves around!)
i like your opinion
But it would be hard to put your tames in there
I just started and I am confuse on where to build my station home. So with this information you suggested it’s very useful. I just hope it will be smooth for me to go check these areas. Thank you again very helpful👍
First base I ever had was up the river just west of the stone Isles, the hill west of that river has good amounts of metal and crystal too
I can't express enough how much I appreciate your pacing and calmness when you speak. I'm so sick of trying to learn about this game through videos that constantly open with a overly energetic, needlessly loud and lengthy intro that tangents off every 30 seconds. Thank you James.
Wow, thank you! but some of my intros are almost 3mins long lol. 1 of theses days my videos will end up being 1 long intro and yes I know what you mean. But even if I was enegitic or tried to be diffrent and overly upbeat it would show through as fulse. Im not like that and I guess thats why i also didnt pick a name for the channel and just ran with my own name with the goal of fiishing what i started so I will not abandon a play list no matter how long it takes me. I do the odd epersode on the communaty sever that dossent have a puropse for completion but I mostley stick to the goal of completeing a game or challenge. Thanks agine for the kind words
@@CompleteGamesWithJames Anytime. I really do appreciate all of the effort that goes into your content. I'm still watching random bits here and there but I intend to go back and properly watch through your completing the ark series.
I always build on the Southern Shores Eastern area. Most of the PVE servers had the other spots taken, but the Southern Shores is generally ignored, or people build there to start but eventually move out. I usually build in the area just south of the Swamps, but far enough away that none of the swamp spawns will wander into my base. I build in an Eastern area just above the shore and onto a hill that backs up against a high cliff. A lot of the time, I will have a neighbour that backs up against my base onto the other side, but as long as you make friends easily, the space can be shared evenly. It works out really nice because you can build a really big water pen just a couple metres away from your main base, and the spawns for dinos are generally not dangerous (usually the most dangerous things are carnos & therinzinos). The thing you will most have to worry about are the occasional Titanos (but you can build to block them out) or people trying to encroach on your base for space (you can discourage this by offering to help them build in an area on the otherside of the cliff nearby).
The Hidden Lake is where im gonna build my base its a perfect location!
Have fun in the redwood biome lol, you definitely wont run into any other players there.
@@broccolisalad9556 he isn’t talking about the redwood lake
@@broccolisalad9556 he never said he's gonna play on a server
The video is pretty beneficial and easy to understand I watched this alot for your nice and calming voice
Love from London ❤️
Thank you and pleased it helped
You're the best dude
Nice video, and very informative! I have built at most of these locations, and enjoyed them all!
I think brawler beach was where I tamed my first Rex, and Argy!
Keep up the good work, James!
Yer brawlers beach is where I tamed my first Bronto and then lost it to a shark after a half-hour walk and a short swim back to the starting area. I remember waiting all night to tame it and I was so tired when I got back. It died in front of my base and done a rag doll so it was looking at me when I logged out.
@@CompleteGamesWithJames big oof
Video about bases on the Island map; first one is "The Centre"... wait what? XD
He means the center of the map
scooter yeah that’s, that’s the joke
Haha you got me
He means the centre of the mountain
Wait is this a joke?
If it is it’s not very funny
better production quality and audio than most of the base builds that have 500k+ views. This video should ahve more. There's literally just cellphone microphone potato quality videos with a million views.
Would recommend a popfilter for the microphone though.
Thank you! I just started a couple of days ago and was trying to scout out best locations on my own (lol). I finally realized I was either going to invest resources in building a base I'd later abandon or keep dying looking for the perfect one. Now I have a direction to aim in.
(Ooh, and I just saw you do Subnautica videos as well. Haven't played it yet but my brother keeps telling me I'd like it. I'll be back for those at some point).
My friends and I built our PvE base at the giant rock to the left as seen at 9:33. We walled off a huge area with stone behemoth gates. It's been a fine location. Mining base at blue obelisk, penguins for polymer, easy access to taming wooly rhinos, argies, rexes, even the occasional giga. The bay with ice floating in it was our water pen. Even with all the aggressive dinos on land none go in water and aggro on water creatures if they're deep enough. You only get cold if you're up against the shore of the bay so keep your main buildings slightly south if fur doesn't interest you. The little pool of water inland also spawns lots of fish to farm fish meat or do some fishing.
Do recommend turrets/Plant Species X since wild Argies will fly in occasionally and attack stuff. Also there's a supply drop location next to the big rock. If you're restricted then you can't build there but its handy for transfering/going to boss fights.
I keep coming back to this video because this is what TH-cam should be 😭😭😭 love it so much
Just started this game, holy shit the quality of this guide is 12/10. The presentation and in detailed resource explantion are superb. Im building my raft now and going to the hidden lake. Just hope i dont die. Im currently at the most bottom left, default spawning island. Its a long journey hahaha..im worried
How did it go?
@@gameplayxtreme3389 got there but its surround by alpha dino and i got destroyed. My hours of plan go wasted.
Started a new game on ragnarok. In 2 weeks and i have a giga now and a bunch of rexes.
@@rinreborn7364 Great! Progress report?
Seisang Changsan i got the strongest dino, Giga and reach endgame. I quited lol, nothing else to do
Penis nah, knowing my gigas army and rex army will destroy then so i didnt bother lol
As you were talking about the redwood lake all I kept thinking was "he's going to get yeeted by one of those cat bear things" I'm never flying in there again, eff that place.
"Mom, can we have the spiffing brit?"
"We have the spiffing brit on the island"
The spiffing brit on the island:
I was going to say that like that's exact
Idk whats funny
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Thank you it was really helpful, i ended up on the herbievore island. I subbed and liked looking forwoard to new vids. Keep up great work👍👍
Please respond I need help how’d you get there?? I got destroyed by a alpha Leedsichthys and lost EVERYTHING... including my only dinos.
I love the Redwoods Lake. Imo it's the best position in the game, and you can set up a base early with a decent Trike mount to carry your stuff and guard you. You're within easy walking distance of some of the best mounts on the Island, and you'll have more wood and metal than you know what to do with. Farm Dire Bears for fur, tame one up as a war mount, and you'll have everything you need to set up a FOB in the snow biome for whatever you need it for.
I like how you made it easy to understand even for new players you motivated me to beat the island you deserve more subs
Thanks, @cat and good luck with your playthrough
The Mini Mountains and the surrounding area is my favorite place in the island in general I’m glad that it’s actually a good building spot. In my curent play through I’m building by the lake that’s nearby it
how do you build on it, game won't let me
This much info in only 11 minutes. Great intro and it’s not extremely long. Also good showcasing. Subscribed
I'm building on Herbie right now for the first time, and it does have some serious drawbacks. First of all, it's not ideal for keeping your land based tames, unless you spend tons of metal to build a bridge to the mainland. Second, it's far away from the good beacons, as well as sources of obsidian and crystal. Transporting those from the mountains is all but impossible until the end game when you have a high level quetzal. Third, LEEDSICHTHYS spawn all around the island and prevent the effective usage of rafts. If you sail straight for the mainland and then hug the shallowest part of the coast, you might survive. And last but not least, the distance from pretty much everything lore related makes it a pain to transport your battle tames to caves and the like. You would have to have a separate pen in the central plains, making the Herbie base kind of pointless. I would only recommend it for very early game isolationist gameplay, or very late game when the logistics issues can be overcome by your tech progression.
Use an Argie with points pumped into weight to transport goods to Herbie Island.Cryopods to transport larger dinos. Or just have a kill squad of sharks escort them while they swim to the mainland.Every issue you had has a solution.
Its nice early game since you can farm stone, wood, and metal in relative peace. (The worst thing I've personally seen near it is a meg, and i can make the direct swim easily and have been extensively using rafts)
My primary issue is the isolation, it takes way too long to sail from Herbivore Island to anywhere important enough to sail to. (It has all the basics, but nothing more. I don't even have wild dinos to hunt anymore despite keeping to 1 corner of the island.
I am currently looking for a much more centrally located base to simplify logistics, but i can't seem to find any place truly safe, flat, easy to get dinos to, and close to major resources. (Really annoyed with a spot i found just west of the redwoods that was perfect, except for the incredibly uneven ground once i landed)
@jasonreed7522 the hill known as Weathertop is flat enough for a medium sized base building, and a wall around the area to keep a large amount of dinos. Crystal and a few metal rocks are found a short distance away on a southern mountain/hill. More metal can be found on the redwood mountain (fly above the forest!). Obsidian is still far away unless you are going into the caves, but that's true for most of the map
Hated this video bro, great job can’t wait to see more!
Bro you need WAY MORE SUBS this is some of the best Ark content I’ve seen. Great editing style keep it up!
The spot i tend to build at, though it might be a bit more material intensive if you decide to build 'up' is in the redwoods on the far eastern end, just before hitting the swamp, and in fact can have some swamp dinos spawn on th most eastern hill of it. On the resource map, its the stretch of area that looks like it might be sand, with deep green on the left, light green on the right, and brown above it, with the southern stretch leading straight into the swamp. Its a valley like area with a low river running through it that works perfectly for farming, and a particular spot in it is large enough to easily match Herbivore island in size, and are some good spots for platforms with natural walls to reduce the cost of walling in an area without needing any more than spike walls. Its also quite central to the whole map, has water access, a metal rich mountain right next to you and is picturesque if you know how to build properly and not just make metal boxes.
I wish all TH-camrs spoke like you!
Genuinely helpful video man, liked and subbed!!!
I love setting bases up at brawlers bay, although I set it up closer to the snow biome, around 40/ 20 coordinates, next to a small lake or pond.
Thanks for taking the time to make great content. I’ve just started Ark and I found the little island just east of the the southern coast (it’s got a huge A shaped rock) on it to be a brilliant starting location. There’s a beaver dam right close and I’m a short hike a way from a cave!
honestly the first spot really helped, the grind is actually real in PvE even though there isnt much competition its still super hard to even get a decent amount of hide and metal.
The flattest piece of ground on the whole island is the river bottom just north of 50,50. I built a mansion there with a giant stone courtyard and even put a big octagonal fountain in the middle. It's my favorite place to build because you are never more than half the map from your base, and there is plenty of room to get creative. If you are playing solo and have plenty of time for construction, you might want to give it a shot.
Thanks for this! Started playing the other day and the video helped me a lot. I ended up setting up my first base at Redwood Lake, but I'll definitely keep these other locations in mind!
Glad it helped!
Thank you for this it’s so hard to find a resource rich place that is safe. Gonna be setting up at herby island.
I made mine on the stony isle, it was amazing, those top cliffs were so good for keeping safe and if you got x plants to defend your bassically raid proof since the only way to get up was a ladder or a flyer.
Great video. I've set up in the valley between mini mountains and on the river south of them. Now I'm looking at brawlers bay. First time I've seen that one.
I really appreciate this video it was very informative and gave me some great inspiration so thanks
found this video as it's my first time really playing ark I know it's late but oh well but is it just be or is this person voice really really nice
Love the content! Trying to start a series of the island play through myself. Thank you for the help!
Probably the best video on this topic right now. Ty :)
Great video, I subscribed! One minor complaint though- at certain points, your voice got a bit quieter. Not a big deal though. Keep up the good work!
A few things to point out for each of the main areas -
- The Center has no water, it's actually pretty far away from it
- Herbie is a pain to get crystal and obsidian to
- Redwood Lake is full of nasties and anytime you take fliers through, expect microraptors and thylos to dismount you
- Waterfall area is not all that close to metal, crystal and obsidian but you're close to oil rock formations on the edge of the snow area; you're also close to good water locations, like the cave, pearl pools and tuso/basil spawn points
Note to the Single Players, you might want to tweak your settings if you're going to build next to or on top of resource nodes, or else they won't spawn anymore.
I usually just ignore all of the other locations.
My usual place is where the marsh meets the two river branches just south east of the bottom of the red woods. You have literally everything around you except for organic polymer.
Yeah I noticed the center didn’t have any water witches sucked😢
I love your commentary dude you're my favorite
Quite the spiffy British intro you got there. Cheers!
Would be awesome if Ark 2 allowed terraforming or digging like in 7days... you could dredge the shallow pools and make them bigger.
Ha! The intro to this video is right where im parked currently in my pve
Queen elizabeth is gonna be jealous of this one
Lmao!! I laughed so hard.
I'm new to ark and been looking for a place to set up my home and the center looks like such a good area to be in, you have access direct to snow mountains, volcano, redwoods, and even more importantly access to a huge metal spawn location surrounded by carnivores, perfect for resource and level grinding!!!
it really is. i play with 3 friends on a non-dedicated session where i'm the host and center is perfect in all respects. we've had a titanosaur wander in and somehow got him triggered and he ended up killing everything. after that i built a wall of dinosaur gates with a couple of behemoth gates around the base so no wild dinos wander in. just remember that titanosaurs might turn up there and it's also not far from giga spawns. but if you got walls and good tames, you can hold the position well. and the proximity to pretty much everything on the map is something i wouldn't want to give up
@@LachNetSoDumm Yes it has happened to me that gigas have spawn in the same mountain two times already!
What I've noticed tho is that Gigas don't move that much, they either stay in place or go downhill but almost never go uphill or sideways so what I do is locate a giga, bait it to follow me to the other side of the mountain and that way he won't even bother me hehehe
@@lukasadventures3438 thanks, that's a good call.
i've recently seen a giga at the south eastern of the three mountains near the center. guess i'll bait it away then, just to be sure. don't want to test my base defense rexes with a giga ^^
Another place I like is north to the hidden lake on the beach side because it’s flat, about 3 supply drop spawns are there, lots of trees and bushes and is not to far from carnivore island or a highly dense resource mountain
Praise the Skittles! May the Science Team's Inner circle, North, West, East South protect you.
thanks for the list I've been planning on doing some raids but i don't know where a lot of bases are
thanks man but the 1st place you shown gigas do spawn up in that mountain and come down they will wump the base and tames asses
I killed my first alpha rex in your first location. Then had his two alpha raptor backup dancers to deal with too... o_O never had so much prime meat in my life... my poor argy.
On Herbivore Island I built gates into the water to prevent entry into the bay, the reason for this was an Alpha Megalodon dismantling my "floating" house.
I litteraly built in the first spot and just happen to be watching this lol
I just started playing Ark on PS4 and this helps so much
The settings r hard on ps4
A1 starting area. Wall off the peninsula & hey presto - huge building space that's within easy reach of pretty much everything.
I used to like setting up on that raised peninsular at 9:32.
I moved from the beach to the hidden lake with a friend of mine today. It took the whole day to move there because our dinos got stuck on every tree and stone or were to slow to follow us. We lost some good friends today because they either died or just got stuck somewhere. We successfully made it to the point and will build our base there tomorrow. F for the dinos that didn‘t make it.
I literally fell asleep to this video, im just now waking up and opening my phone and i was on the video 😂
great base locations with nice clear information on map locations and resources available at each site. well done !!
Im here on this video because i wanna setup a new base cuz im getting the tek stuff. also my current base is just little north-east of the rock island, the one with a gap of a tall unfarmable rock.
Your voice is so relaxing
thank you :)
bro herbivore island is amazing, me and my tribe formed a island gang and OH MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING, we started trading with other tribes bc we cant get certain materials
I built a colony of rafts in the middle of the ocean, I put turrets on some, built a flyer dock, and a giant Tek battle ship with all my stuff
Wow, my brother suggest me the last one. Only thing I need to worry is Therizino falling down from the waterfall
I was going to the herbie island and got attacked by an alpha leedsichthys.... watch out. So disappointed, lost all my Dino’s and everything. Still gonna figure out a way to get there. Any tips? How’d you get there safely?? Love the vid, thanks for the tips.
Superb James! Thanks a lot!
I feel like herbivore island is too good to be true.. apart from having to build a raft to get across it is literally my dream base spot
I hope you did that. Not only is it a great spot, but I personally love rafts as well.
Yeh about that..I kinda swam across😶
Definitely going to build on the hidden lake. Thanks man
Carno Island and hidden lake are my favorite spots
Can’t place a foundation at the mini mountain location. It works on the one with the stone and metal but not the one with two levels. Good vid btw. Thanks
I love the graphic nature of ARK
Are you running mods on this? My game is 4k and 60fps and it's nowehete near as vibrant as yours?!
Up gamma
“Hope you got your cup of tea ready, and that your relaxed,”
*London Fog, lad*
Also, on Herbivore Island, there’s about 13 Metal Rocks, but... once again they do have to respawn.
And 1-2 underwater nodes perfect for a Dunkly to harvest.
@@andrejhofer2007 that’s true!
There is also a place to build in the SW area. There is lots of metal and two spots the build . First spot is on the beach be low the hill. The second spot is the hill it self. There is tons of forst on the hill and lots of berries to be harvest on the hill.
Hey bro, I can hear you´re British and I totally dig your accent, but I am Czech and here tea is only for ill people. We only drink it if we must, we drink coffee and we also hate the instant stuff, so cheers and thanks for all the info.
This video helped so much, so far I have built a thatch shack on a beach and no good dinos come near so I’ve been thinking to relocate to somewhere closer to the middle for better and higher level dinos. Also, if I increase my difficulty level (I’m on PS4) from 0.2 to 1 will it automatically make all the dinos higher level or will it only make the dinos I haven’t found a higher level?
Big tribes with level 220 members: *write that down so we don't forget*
Personally I find hte top of redwood mountain to be an even better place, there's plenty of fiber over there and you get a wide variety of dinos to tame in the neighbourhood. not to mention with enough flying mounts its both an easy to find landmark and easy to transport to and from location.
Me and a friend built on brawlers bay. I forgot how nice it looks with trees and rocks. We have harvested almost every resource in the area and it's pretty bare mow haha.
Your Argy has a beautiful color regions
SetTargetDinoColor - you can modify the colours of dinos, first is the region of the dino second is color.
@@MrWinotu nah i dont do cheats im good with my Argy right now
there is a location liked when playing solo and its on the edge of the redwood forest at the door of the volcano there is a huge sandpit there takes a lot of resource to build a pen but its worth it.
Ha loved the queen joke ha hope you get to a mill
I'd say herbivore island is really only interesting in a multiplayer server since it's very defensible, in a single-player game you're just too far away from critical resources and you'll spend 50% of your game time travelling.
Hi this was a very good vid and your voice is very calming
best location guide for island... using this vid to explore the map
Thanks, I really appreciate it 😁
I don't play PVP because I'm a scared as hell of other people- but these basic are good ideas for people who know what they are doing (I don't but still XD )