Hey guys, I was a massive Bob with the last tip not riding the Diplocaulus, I didn't feel like my original 25th tip was good enough so went for this as I knew they gave oxygen and never even thought to try and ride it in the water! My apologies, but in other news, thank you so much for all your support on the video and channel, you guys are amazing!
Another good thing to add is that the dimetrodon is a best friend of people who are breeding. When you upgrade a dimetrodons melee and put an egg next to it it acts like an air conditioner and high level ones can also easily hatch wyvern eggs so no need for a lot of fires or air conditioners
Only problem with that is dimetrodon's are cancer tames. They wake up so fast and have low torpor, so you can't even cheese the buffer. Plus besides that, they're really no good for anything else. I used to have to tame them every new server I went on, just for eggs (because their kibble was one of the imprinting food choices).
one more tip about the diplocaulus- you can actually ride them and they are really fast, they also act as a permanent oxygen source while you ride them (as long as their oxygen supplies last). To ride them you have to select it in the gear wheel though so it's a little clunky at times
Easily best way to get oil as low level without scuba unlocked on the Island, trilobites barely give any and snow region is too hostile and cold at first. Just don't try to engage anything by any means.
@@cmshottie62 no, it's rare to find anyone that opens the wheel and looks to see what dinos can do. So nobody even tames diplocaulus on any server I've ever been on.
I wish they would fix the ride mechanic for the diplocaulus. They need to pick a different key-bind to get oxygen from it and retain "E" (or whatever your normal "Ride" button is) as the "Ride" button. They also need to make it so you can mount one as long as you're within something like 20 meters of the water. It's often too hard to tell if you're in water deep enough to ride on. I love diplocaulus, but they can be difficult to use just because of the interaction mechanics.
Upgrade to the achatina paste farm: achatinas also drop paste on the ground passively so tame a minimum of 8 achatinas and place them on wandering in a 2x2 cage next to a gacha. The gacha will pick up the paste the snails drop on the ground and as long as you have a 8 or more snails, they will produce paste faster than the gacha can eat it. If you have 10-15 snails you'll have more paste than you'll ever be able to use. Couple weeks after building my base I had 3 dedis full of paste and eventually just disbanded the farm completely as I didn't need it anymore
Can't do that unless you get a gatcha and the production needed to feed sweetcakes to the snails is nit worth, use them for storage for organic polymer and have a trough with sweetcakes or put two in inventory and pump weight and food amounts, boom stores buttloads of organic polymer and increases the expire time as well.
@@andrewvarcoe4741 the gacha thing I already mentioned in my post. And you don't have to feed the snails all the often. Once a week maybe. And if you already have veggies going then cakes are extremely easy to make. You can make a couple hundred cakes in like 10 minutes
@@hankhasemeier6887 ya noticed after the comment so figured I'd leave it, never really noticed the speed snails eat, makes it a bit easier. On ark being ark, the mammoth water hose lol a winter animal thats good for desert areas, why not eh. Shows how many people PLAYED the game, they discovered fun stuff like you did, heh the lasoo is usable in pvp and if I'm right, I do pve because of issues lately and someone who has been bullying and bothering me a lot lately, the person lives where I live and they creep on facebook pages and bother in online games a lot. Oh good tip for honey, if you use bug repellant or are wesring a tek suit, you shoukdn't be harmed by bees.....also you get buttloads of honey if you catch a bee and make your own hive, filled one with 60 rareflowers and got about 45 or more honey from it full. Too bad the game is dying, would love to be able to keep playing with new maps or cool adds and fixes, sigh as long as my ps4 lasts I suppose.
@@andrewvarcoe4741 bee hives are good for honey but the best place to farm honey is the bee cave on crystal isles. Can come honey with a slot cap of honey in about 5 minutes no problem as well as a shit load of soft poly if you want to make a couple trips
@@hankhasemeier6887 na, I got two hives and a fjordur hawk teleportal bed lol fjordur honey caves are packed full and reall easy to get to, tons of polymers,chitin and clay.....wicked cave.
@@seven-dh3vw I think he means explained or going into context of newer or older features in the game that most daily ark content creators rarely do because it’s already been covered before as well as content that has been updated or changed, it wouldn’t be a very useful video if the tips were from 4 years ago and the topics have been altered in the game
11:00 Pro tip, carry one of these while riding a pteranodon and once the pteranodon runs out of stamina jump of, make it follow you and wait for a little bit for it to regen its stamina while you fall slowly and then ride it again
A tip for people that didn't knew. You can actually pick up Gasbags with a Wyvern and it reduces the weight a lot! Which is huge if you are farming resources.
A few things to add: 1) Sickles are great for prime fish meat harvesting, and 2) you can ride the Diplocaulus but you have to be in the water to do so (cannot ride on land)
Sickles are great for prime fish meat unless you are harvesting a megalodon corpse; in this case use a metal pick and you will get tons of prime fish meat
I've been playing ark for 4 years and I didn't know some of these. Definitely a change from the usual tip videos. Normally they are like "did you know people die when killed"
One more thing about the Spino's water buff: It also increases their health regen and their turning radius. Although the latter is not that relevant since you can turn on a dime if you have to using bipedal stance.
I didn't know about the Magmasaur breeding but i knew the rest. Really good list for newer players, good mix of early and late game stuff. Also i hate how much people dismiss the Icthyornis just because the wild ones are annoying. Its the best early game shoulder mount imo especially on pve.
They are good for regular kibble farms, small size and lay a good amount of eggs, however, I don't think they are that useful in official pve, in single player and unofficial, they are useful.
1. Raw Fish also heals Baryonyx more, 7.5 heath per fish as opposed to Raw Meat healing carnivores 5 health 2. Glowing fish obtained by the Ichthy bird will give higher taming effectiveness than normal fish when taming Otters and Hesperornis.
The Baryonyx heals a significant percentage of its health just by eating a living fish (like a Coelacanth or something) in the water. Much faster than manually feeding them fish, if you have some nearby.
Wow, I actually didn't know about the Fire Wyvern/Magmasaur thing, or the Mammoth water spray thing! Those are really cool to know, thanks for the tips! :)
Past early game a Pela is insanely good for polymer from penguins, it attacks and harvests in one hit. Also harvesting non-adult penguins yields significantly more polymer.
Definitely good tips. I didn't know that you could use a Fire Wyvern instead of lava. That's great. I would like to add onto what you said about Rare Flowers. If you want to tame a Tapejara you need Rare Flowers. If you use them the Tappy will follow you right into a trap.
Yeah, also if you can sneak up on them a Bola works wonders. Since like a Pteranodon they can be bound up, but since they are very skiddish that can be tough. So the Rare Flower trick you just said, or even just going "Metal Gear" with the Gullie Armor can make it much easier.
A Bola and Ghillie will work great, but it requires the Tapejara to be on or near the ground. That also means you are stuck with taming it where it is with whatever dangers there are nearby. I prefer using a flier on passive to get close enough, consume a rare flower, then kite the Tapejara to a nearby cliff or other safe spot of my choosing. I then jump off and bola it. You can, of course, use a trap, but the bola works fine. This is especially useful when they are flying at an altitude halfway to the moon with no intent of coming down any time soon because something frightened them earlier.
The agility of the archeopteryx makes it perfect for gliding down the volcano in genesis to get ur first magmasaur eggs. Will definitely be using him now since I don't have a magmasaur and I'm not good with a bloodstalker
I was kinda expecting another one of the vids that say “10 [insert whatever] that you’ve never heard of” but I only got about 14/25. Congratulations, think your the first TH-cam video in a while to exceed my expectations of it lol
I Appreciate your videos. You're one of the few ARK YTers who isn't breaking their neck spouting annoying catch phases and constantly asking for people to like, comment and subscribe.
I knew most of them except the magmasaur breeding, that one that actually surprised me! Here's some more hidden features to dinos that appeared in the video: - Dunkleosteus can harvest oil and metal rocks, pretty much an underwater anky! - Archaeopteryx when set on wandering in the redwoods or near the joshua trees on scorched earth will start passively collecting tree sap in it's inventory from every tree it lands on - Diplocaulus 1-shots trilobites and harvests them with the same single bite. That makes them amazing chitin/silica/oil harvesters in early game, especially that a pteranodon can carry them.
I did not know Sarcos don't draw agro from piranha, I also didn't know you could lasso an unconscious dino, so thanks for that. All your points are great tips for new players. And evidently 2 of them for more seasoned ones as well.
Here’s a tip for all players! Iguanadon, when on all fours, it has infinite stamina! Although it’s a while before you get the saddle. It’s worth it! Especially for long travels. Up its weight and health and your all set to go. Unless you want to use it for fighting.
N.24 What I recently learned was that I needed to hold down E and open a wheel to select "ride dinosaur". I always thought riding it was a feature that had been removed at the time i started playing the game.
Just to add, with an archaeopteryx, if you spam exit and enter your inventory (B glitch) you can increase in altitude while flying. This can even be done while both the player and tame are over encumbered
I prefer to lay down a sleeping bag near the beavers and let them kill me. Then respawn and take the paste from your corpse without them attacking you.
Always good to see another Ark vid, this game has been so frustratingly fun for so many years. Definitely has soaked up a heck of a lot of my evenings!
The fire wyvern-magmasaur tip blew my mind. On the other hand, I main Spinosaurus and know that thing better than the back of my hand. A very interesting mix of tips, some I knew some I didn't!
Some of these blew my mind. Also Alphas can't eat a kill. Kill other predators, drop off a prey animal it will attack. While it's busy shoot until it's low then take your dino in to finish it off for XP. If you attack and eat the kill the alpha is free to attack you.
Also with the diplocaulus # 24 when you both are swimming you can assess the wheel and ride the diplocaulus also receiveing constant oxygen supply, I usuly lvl speed, some oxygen and health into this awesome tame
I have been playing Ark since it was released but it was only offline to avoid pvp toxicity. I have started playing on pvp and even there my tribe has been having trouble with troublemakers bringing wild dinos to destroy our base. But Ark is a wonderful game. I won't stop playing and trying to build amazing bases. Your video is very helpful, thanks for the tips. Thumbs up.
I knew all 25, but then again ive got over 8k hours under my belt since the early alpha days all those years ago, so dont think it really counts lol The Ichthyornis used to be the very first thing i aimed to tame after it was first introduced. It used to give ONLY prime whenever you sent it out, so it was incredibly invaluable until you could get into the mid-late game.
I have recently come back after a small bit of playing when ARK first was released, and giving it a real true attempt now that I have a PC that can run it. Great advice for a noob like myself, thanks!
Great vid, just you said spinosaurs don’t turn as fast on 2 legs but that’s as it can 360 spin so it’s not right. Edit: also you can ride diplocaulus underwater.
I saw the thing about the Moschops being able to harvest organic polymer in one of your videos, not sure which, so I'm just commenting here: thank you! I live about as far from the snow biome as you can get, so I don't usually repair ghillie suits; I just wear 'em 'till they break and make more. And until recently, I had basically only gotten pieces or blueprints for ghillie suits from Raptor Claus. Anywho, I flew my first Moschops out there after spending his harvest levels, killed and harvested some penguins, and my Argie - stocked specifically for the occasion - actually RAN OUT of fiber and hide before my Moschops ran out of organic polymer. I was stunned. Thanks again!
And here i clicked on this thinking "I'm an experienced ark player. I won't learn anything." Did not know about the magmasaur trick! So good on you and a few additions. Addition to point 11: Use a pelagornis to harvest penguins. The most efficent method by far. Addition to point 24: You can ride the diplocaulus as noted by others....but it has ANOTHER trick. It will instantly kill and harvest trilobytes for large quantities of chitin.
A lot of people are saying you can ride the diplocaulus which is entirely true but your all forgetting they do an insane amount of increased damage to trilobites and will get more of their respective resources (oil, chitin, silica pearls) than you will with a metal hatchet, also for players just starting out a new game, hesperornis will give you a respectable amount of organic polymer so long as you have a club (they can be found swimming in the waters of the south, east, and most commonly west zones)
I played ark for a VERY long time with my brother but quit it bc my pc wasn't good enough to even install ark. Now I'm going to be back soon so I need to refresh my skills and experience. Thanks for ur help😉
Another tipp of mine for megalosaurus : If you have megalosaurus and they are sleeping because its day and you want a fertilized egg from them, you can activate enable mating while they are sleeping, then wake them up shortly and they will instant drop an fertilized egg instead of waiting to 100 % . After this they go normaly from itself sleep again.
If you're near or in the swamp with the frog you can kill a Dino and leave it there and the bug's will just keep coming in stand out of range so you don't accidentally harvest the body and just go for it until your encumbered with cementing paste from the bug's Edit also for taming giant bee clear out an area and destroy the nest you can use a rare flower to get the queen to come back to you if she flies off and if you put honey in the taming slot in the hotbar you can throw it on the ground and she'll come to eat it makes her Soo easy to tame
moschops is honestly a must have early game for me, its my favorite raw prime harvester bc of the harvesting levels for it, make taming my first bunch of "fuck em up" dinos much easier
You can equip mantis with weapons like a sword, pick, or axe. Arthropleura can damage any kind of structure, and are hard to spot at night. Sarco don't get attacked by piranha and are insanely fast in the water making them amazing for gathering silica pearls and general surface water taming, or even swamp navigation. Otters can carry multiple artifacts. And ballista turrets can be placed on dinosaur platform saddles making even the large and slow land dinos with them useful for taming frustrating argies and rexes that keep wanting to run straight for water just before passing out. I personally like having a boat with a couple ballista turrets just for whale issues while moving to a new home. Really helps keep your mind at ease knowing they do insane damage and fire surprisingly fast, securing your great many resources saved up for the big move. Bonus points if you manage to make it large enough to tote your dinos too in one trip.
Best tip i could use when i started is, if you press+hold H you can actually see what each buff/debuff is doing.. I played whole year while guessing what those icons represent..
This was GREAT. I didn't know about the squid making oil or the mammoth water trunk. But you left out some of thier abilities and uses. Maybe because they were doing a list. I would love a video with just all of the abilities and their usefulness. The itchyornis can steal from other players, as can the pegomastyx. This is underutilized. And the troodon can scout people and hidden crates. The dire wolf can sniff blood bodies and notes. Hyenas get a defensive buff when pet and gather meat with packs it starts fresh and they make great pvp tames. Dimetrodon, otter, kariku can incubate eggs. Mammoth gives a buff. Vultures stack prime and mutton and go for the Rider. Microwraptores dismount. There's more. ....
Thanks a lot man, yeah it was because I was doing a list. There are some great ideas there though! Id love to do each dino and give every bit of information about each one, I'm just struggling for time at the moment:)
for the snail hack thing, i used a pteradon to pick up a snail and i brought it to my house without taming it, so you get the snail paste stuff without wasting time taming one!
Here's a excerpt from Helena's dossier on Diplocaulus to show how the ability works: "There are only a few uses for tamed Diplocaulus. It is primarily kept for the (rather disgusting) practice of employing a Diplocaulus as an oxygen bag. Diplocaulus stores air in the bladders of its head, and divers can suck from these bladders to take deep breaths while submerged, supporting long-term underwater exploration without the use of external gear. Surprisingly, Diplocaulus is also extremely efficient when it comes to hunting Trilobites."
I never knew this!! How does your comment not have 1000's of likes? I have close to 10k hrs in Ark with Aberration being my favourite map, I feel like a complete idiot now! You made my next play through so much better!!
1. Might be wrong, but it always felt like fish heals faster compared to meat healing on other dinos. Also deals bonus damage to aquatic creatures like spinos and sarcos. 2. Also melee leveling increases resources gotten anyway, so get a high level moschops if u go for it 3. Its not just speed and attack damage, health regen is 25% faster aswell (wiki) 7. This works with feeding throughs aswell, so if u have multiple dinos who are hungry this might be faster 8. Also cryopod resets the asked food of babys, so u can shuffle the imprint requirements.
Hidden benefit of this video: I knew almost all of these, but I forgot most of them. The only benefit isn't learning, remembering is another benefit this vid gives
Hey guys, I was a massive Bob with the last tip not riding the Diplocaulus, I didn't feel like my original 25th tip was good enough so went for this as I knew they gave oxygen and never even thought to try and ride it in the water! My apologies, but in other news, thank you so much for all your support on the video and channel, you guys are amazing!
Good video
I was about to say lol
I new them all
@@massivediamond1807 You don't know how to spell.
No hehe
Another good thing to add is that the dimetrodon is a best friend of people who are breeding. When you upgrade a dimetrodons melee and put an egg next to it it acts like an air conditioner and high level ones can also easily hatch wyvern eggs so no need for a lot of fires or air conditioners
you do have to baby sit its torpor for like an hour tho and give it a ton of narcos
@@thesuperninja2291 right?? Little drug addicts lol
@Topsey Crets I’ve never tried that.....I’ll have to give it a shot
thats huge man
Only problem with that is dimetrodon's are cancer tames. They wake up so fast and have low torpor, so you can't even cheese the buffer. Plus besides that, they're really no good for anything else. I used to have to tame them every new server I went on, just for eggs (because their kibble was one of the imprinting food choices).
I actually didn’t know some of these most of these types of videos go “DiD yOu KnOw YoU cAn RiDe TaMeD pArAsAuRs”
Wait you can I didn’t know that
Wait you can I didn’t know that
Fun fact: Ark starts with the letter A
WHAT
@@QuartzGhost omg 🤯
one more tip about the diplocaulus- you can actually ride them and they are really fast, they also act as a permanent oxygen source while you ride them (as long as their oxygen supplies last). To ride them you have to select it in the gear wheel though so it's a little clunky at times
Easily best way to get oil as low level without scuba unlocked on the Island, trilobites barely give any and snow region is too hostile and cold at first. Just don't try to engage anything by any means.
Isnt this a tip that everyone knows? Like it's the description of the dino?😂🤦🏽♂️
@@cmshottie62 no, it's rare to find anyone that opens the wheel and looks to see what dinos can do. So nobody even tames diplocaulus on any server I've ever been on.
Diplocaulus can also swim backwards. Good luck finding other swimmers that can do that.
I wish they would fix the ride mechanic for the diplocaulus.
They need to pick a different key-bind to get oxygen from it and retain "E" (or whatever your normal "Ride" button is) as the "Ride" button.
They also need to make it so you can mount one as long as you're within something like 20 meters of the water. It's often too hard to tell if you're in water deep enough to ride on.
I love diplocaulus, but they can be difficult to use just because of the interaction mechanics.
Upgrade to the achatina paste farm: achatinas also drop paste on the ground passively so tame a minimum of 8 achatinas and place them on wandering in a 2x2 cage next to a gacha. The gacha will pick up the paste the snails drop on the ground and as long as you have a 8 or more snails, they will produce paste faster than the gacha can eat it. If you have 10-15 snails you'll have more paste than you'll ever be able to use. Couple weeks after building my base I had 3 dedis full of paste and eventually just disbanded the farm completely as I didn't need it anymore
Can't do that unless you get a gatcha and the production needed to feed sweetcakes to the snails is nit worth, use them for storage for organic polymer and have a trough with sweetcakes or put two in inventory and pump weight and food amounts, boom stores buttloads of organic polymer and increases the expire time as well.
@@andrewvarcoe4741 the gacha thing I already mentioned in my post. And you don't have to feed the snails all the often. Once a week maybe. And if you already have veggies going then cakes are extremely easy to make. You can make a couple hundred cakes in like 10 minutes
@@hankhasemeier6887 ya noticed after the comment so figured I'd leave it, never really noticed the speed snails eat, makes it a bit easier.
On ark being ark, the mammoth water hose lol a winter animal thats good for desert areas, why not eh. Shows how many people PLAYED the game, they discovered fun stuff like you did, heh the lasoo is usable in pvp and if I'm right, I do pve because of issues lately and someone who has been bullying and bothering me a lot lately, the person lives where I live and they creep on facebook pages and bother in online games a lot. Oh good tip for honey, if you use bug repellant or are wesring a tek suit, you shoukdn't be harmed by bees.....also you get buttloads of honey if you catch a bee and make your own hive, filled one with 60 rareflowers and got about 45 or more honey from it full. Too bad the game is dying, would love to be able to keep playing with new maps or cool adds and fixes, sigh as long as my ps4 lasts I suppose.
@@andrewvarcoe4741 bee hives are good for honey but the best place to farm honey is the bee cave on crystal isles. Can come honey with a slot cap of honey in about 5 minutes no problem as well as a shit load of soft poly if you want to make a couple trips
@@hankhasemeier6887 na, I got two hives and a fjordur hawk teleportal bed lol fjordur honey caves are packed full and reall easy to get to, tons of polymers,chitin and clay.....wicked cave.
Holy crap! A ark video not made 4 years ago!! Subscribing purely because of that (and, ya know, good content lol)
Thanks a lot man!
Dang but does he still read his comments 4 Months Later
theres 1000s of new ark videos wdym dude
literally like 10 or more video every few hours come out for ark
@@seven-dh3vw I think he means explained or going into context of newer or older features in the game that most daily ark content creators rarely do because it’s already been covered before as well as content that has been updated or changed, it wouldn’t be a very useful video if the tips were from 4 years ago and the topics have been altered in the game
lol 4 years ago ark was slightly differnt
11:00 Pro tip, carry one of these while riding a pteranodon and once the pteranodon runs out of stamina jump of, make it follow you and wait for a little bit for it to regen its stamina while you fall slowly and then ride it again
Who knew we'd be getting a better version
Why?
A tip for people that didn't knew. You can actually pick up Gasbags with a Wyvern and it reduces the weight a lot! Which is huge if you are farming resources.
A few things to add: 1) Sickles are great for prime fish meat harvesting, and 2) you can ride the Diplocaulus but you have to be in the water to do so (cannot ride on land)
What ok I’m taming one
@@lcfishing859 They are basically a scuba tank + flippers
That diplocal thing i didnt know
Sickles are great for prime fish meat unless you are harvesting a megalodon corpse; in this case use a metal pick and you will get tons of prime fish meat
I've been playing ark for 4 years and I didn't know some of these. Definitely a change from the usual tip videos. Normally they are like "did you know people die when killed"
One more thing about the Spino's water buff: It also increases their health regen and their turning radius. Although the latter is not that relevant since you can turn on a dime if you have to using bipedal stance.
I didn't know about the Magmasaur breeding but i knew the rest. Really good list for newer players, good mix of early and late game stuff. Also i hate how much people dismiss the Icthyornis just because the wild ones are annoying. Its the best early game shoulder mount imo especially on pve.
It really is but the fact that they eat most of the stuff they steal from you.....makes me wanna kill ‘em all lol
@@LokiGodOfTime oh yeah, i hate them all except my one haha
@@LokiGodOfTime if it just would be "Most" of the stuff.. they eat just everything
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They are good for regular kibble farms, small size and lay a good amount of eggs, however, I don't think they are that useful in official pve, in single player and unofficial, they are useful.
1. Raw Fish also heals Baryonyx more, 7.5 heath per fish as opposed to Raw Meat healing carnivores 5 health
2. Glowing fish obtained by the Ichthy bird will give higher taming effectiveness than normal fish when taming Otters and Hesperornis.
The Baryonyx heals a significant percentage of its health just by eating a living fish (like a Coelacanth or something) in the water. Much faster than manually feeding them fish, if you have some nearby.
I just discovered your channel, I love you're pretty much the only person with good tips videos. Also noice intro. How'd you only have 1.4K?
Thanks a lot man, means a lot! Were growing! :D
But Kiddas is better
@Anton Thaci yeah I like him too ^^ but it's just that so many things just don't have any videos on them.
DUDE. These a great tips. I've played ark for years and you still threw a ton of info my way.
Good tips for beginners. An old hand, such as myself, should already know most all of these.
Unless, like me, the noobs wiki everything they see ^^ I'm not joking the most useful tool in ark is... the wiki.
@Velocity Wdym?
Wow, I actually didn't know about the Fire Wyvern/Magmasaur thing, or the Mammoth water spray thing! Those are really cool to know, thanks for the tips! :)
Past early game a Pela is insanely good for polymer from penguins, it attacks and harvests in one hit. Also harvesting non-adult penguins yields significantly more polymer.
How much polymer do they get?
Definitely good tips. I didn't know that you could use a Fire Wyvern instead of lava. That's great.
I would like to add onto what you said about Rare Flowers. If you want to tame a Tapejara you need Rare Flowers. If you use them the Tappy will follow you right into a trap.
Yeah, also if you can sneak up on them a Bola works wonders. Since like a Pteranodon they can be bound up, but since they are very skiddish that can be tough. So the Rare Flower trick you just said, or even just going "Metal Gear" with the Gullie Armor can make it much easier.
@@astralguardian5930 I'm going to use the term "Going Metal Gear" for the rest of my life now.
@@roserichards1460 I mean Metal Gear is probably one of the most well known stealth games. So comparing a stealth option in a game to it is fair.
He said exactly what you saying lol
A Bola and Ghillie will work great, but it requires the Tapejara to be on or near the ground. That also means you are stuck with taming it where it is with whatever dangers there are nearby. I prefer using a flier on passive to get close enough, consume a rare flower, then kite the Tapejara to a nearby cliff or other safe spot of my choosing. I then jump off and bola it. You can, of course, use a trap, but the bola works fine.
This is especially useful when they are flying at an altitude halfway to the moon with no intent of coming down any time soon because something frightened them earlier.
The agility of the archeopteryx makes it perfect for gliding down the volcano in genesis to get ur first magmasaur eggs. Will definitely be using him now since I don't have a magmasaur and I'm not good with a bloodstalker
worth mentioning is the kangaroo needs a mate boost for the pouch to work this way
he mentioned it
I was kinda expecting another one of the vids that say “10 [insert whatever] that you’ve never heard of” but I only got about 14/25. Congratulations, think your the first TH-cam video in a while to exceed my expectations of it lol
This game is so complex, I only knew a few of these, great work!
I Appreciate your videos. You're one of the few ARK YTers who isn't breaking their neck spouting annoying catch phases and constantly asking for people to like, comment and subscribe.
I knew most of them except the magmasaur breeding, that one that actually surprised me!
Here's some more hidden features to dinos that appeared in the video:
- Dunkleosteus can harvest oil and metal rocks, pretty much an underwater anky!
- Archaeopteryx when set on wandering in the redwoods or near the joshua trees on scorched earth will start passively collecting tree sap in it's inventory from every tree it lands on
- Diplocaulus 1-shots trilobites and harvests them with the same single bite. That makes them amazing chitin/silica/oil harvesters in early game, especially that a pteranodon can carry them.
The magmas tip was the only one I wasn’t aware of but BOY IS THAT A LIFESAVER
I did not know Sarcos don't draw agro from piranha, I also didn't know you could lasso an unconscious dino, so thanks for that. All your points are great tips for new players. And evidently 2 of them for more seasoned ones as well.
This video was actually really really good. I've got 3700 hours in Ark and I didn't know most of these. Lmao. Good job mate.
Here’s a tip for all players! Iguanadon, when on all fours, it has infinite stamina! Although it’s a while before you get the saddle. It’s worth it! Especially for long travels. Up its weight and health and your all set to go. Unless you want to use it for fighting.
N.24 What I recently learned was that I needed to hold down E and open a wheel to select "ride dinosaur". I always thought riding it was a feature that had been removed at the time i started playing the game.
Lots of good info I didn’t know. Appreciate the work you put into this.
Thanks a lot man, means a lot!
I've seen someone doing an overseer solo run using the archeopteryx to go down in the tek cave. it's cheesy, but seems to work
If you have access to a wing suit (chestpiece enhancement from aberration) that does the trick as well.
Just to add, with an archaeopteryx, if you spam exit and enter your inventory (B glitch) you can increase in altitude while flying. This can even be done while both the player and tame are over encumbered
To farm cement: steal from the beaver houses, they will attack you instantly but if you have an argentavis, it's very easy and helpful
Or almost any carnivor
@@Garakuda45 nah, i dont kill beavers they are swag
Well I do
I kill them to
I prefer to lay down a sleeping bag near the beavers and let them kill me. Then respawn and take the paste from your corpse without them attacking you.
If you cryo a growing creature that wants comfort food that you can’t get, it will change to another type of care
Some of these are really dope tips, I’m impressed. (Some of them are the main functions of the Dino, though.)
Always good to see another Ark vid, this game has been so frustratingly fun for so many years. Definitely has soaked up a heck of a lot of my evenings!
The fire wyvern-magmasaur tip blew my mind. On the other hand, I main Spinosaurus and know that thing better than the back of my hand. A very interesting mix of tips, some I knew some I didn't!
Tip 1 can be improved. Cooked meat of the right variety works slightly better for both healing and raising hunger (i.e. daedons)
The magmasaur one was incredible NICE!
I didn't know 16 of them.
Very interesting love the vid!
Some of these blew my mind. Also Alphas can't eat a kill. Kill other predators, drop off a prey animal it will attack. While it's busy shoot until it's low then take your dino in to finish it off for XP. If you attack and eat the kill the alpha is free to attack you.
This is the first tips and tricks video that I've actually learnt something new for a long time.
Also with the diplocaulus # 24 when you both are swimming you can assess the wheel and ride the diplocaulus also receiveing constant oxygen supply, I usuly lvl speed, some oxygen and health into this awesome tame
I was actually just about to breed some magmasaurs for basilisk taming, glad I saw this video first!
Great tips, i only knew a few of these...and yes alpha raptors are the psychopaths of ark lol..they were a pain in the ass early game.
Thanks. Been playing this game for years. Did not know about #4, #5, #6, #16, #23
Pelagornis also is pretty good for polymer and has 80% weight reduction
That equus lasso trick & mortar/pestle saddle info is definitely news to me!
Spino actually has a tighter turn radius when bipedal, so it turns faster on two legs not four.
Something I learn today : dire wolves can smell explorer notes and hidden creatures like purlovia
4:30 your crypod fact is cool and all but to expand on that it goes to 8 percent from 5 if u have them in the cryo fridge not just the pod. Cheers
Word of warning though, any exp you have "stored" on a dino in a cryopod will be lost if you transfer it to a new map.
I have been playing Ark since it was released but it was only offline to avoid pvp toxicity. I have started playing on pvp and even there my tribe has been having trouble with troublemakers bringing wild dinos to destroy our base. But Ark is a wonderful game. I won't stop playing and trying to build amazing bases. Your video is very helpful, thanks for the tips. Thumbs up.
You could choose a PVE Server. At least for me that's more like the way to go.
Wow I only knew like 3 of these! Thanks for not being like
“dId YoU kNoW yOu CaN tAmE a TrIcErAtOpS?”
My knowledge of Ark dinos improved dramastically, cheers!
I knew all 25, but then again ive got over 8k hours under my belt since the early alpha days all those years ago, so dont think it really counts lol
The Ichthyornis used to be the very first thing i aimed to tame after it was first introduced. It used to give ONLY prime whenever you sent it out, so it was incredibly invaluable until you could get into the mid-late game.
ive always known about their cool ability but i still hate them and pegos more than any other dino
I have recently come back after a small bit of playing when ARK first was released, and giving it a real true attempt now that I have a PC that can run it. Great advice for a noob like myself, thanks!
Great vid, just you said spinosaurs don’t turn as fast on 2 legs but that’s as it can 360 spin so it’s not right.
Edit: also you can ride diplocaulus underwater.
Knew a lot but some new tips for sure. Thank you. Biggest one to me was the fact you can laso and drag Dino's on an Equis.
Cheers!
I can boast I know all of these. If you can do a veteran version, highly suggest you do. It will be fun
Amrit, you're a pro! Il do some research!
@@kiddas2701 Noice
I saw the thing about the Moschops being able to harvest organic polymer in one of your videos, not sure which, so I'm just commenting here: thank you! I live about as far from the snow biome as you can get, so I don't usually repair ghillie suits; I just wear 'em 'till they break and make more. And until recently, I had basically only gotten pieces or blueprints for ghillie suits from Raptor Claus. Anywho, I flew my first Moschops out there after spending his harvest levels, killed and harvested some penguins, and my Argie - stocked specifically for the occasion - actually RAN OUT of fiber and hide before my Moschops ran out of organic polymer. I was stunned. Thanks again!
Great to hear man, Moschops = god tier!
The real king of the ocean.. the Tuso
Wrong it’s the moeder
@@Jeremy-sh4jt nah shed technically be the queen
No it’s that one oversized Colecanth
@@EpicFailz1 i was saw one i was shocked at how huge it was compared to the typical small ones you see
great tutorial because you didn’t fluff it out and got straight to the points , keep it up your growing
Thanks a lot man!
I knew about the harvesting levels because I wiki everything I see. Sorry to disappoint ^^
Thank you! Using these tips in my new play through. Would love you to watch!
You know youve been playing for too long when you know all of these lol
I've been playing for 7 years
@@chloestrauch6590 i haven't been playing that long, mpre like 4-5 years
@@chloestrauch6590 Don't you mean 6?
The Sarco and piranha thing was a tlc, the piranhas are scared of the scaros coz well it’s a giant crocodile
I linke ur content hope u continue doing it
ive been playing ark for 1200 hours and i didnt know half of these tips this was a really helpful video. keep up the good work
And here i clicked on this thinking "I'm an experienced ark player. I won't learn anything." Did not know about the magmasaur trick! So good on you and a few additions.
Addition to point 11: Use a pelagornis to harvest penguins. The most efficent method by far.
Addition to point 24: You can ride the diplocaulus as noted by others....but it has ANOTHER trick. It will instantly kill and harvest trilobytes for large quantities of chitin.
all this time i never knew the sword was better then a club for penguins
A lot of people are saying you can ride the diplocaulus which is entirely true but your all forgetting they do an insane amount of increased damage to trilobites and will get more of their respective resources (oil, chitin, silica pearls) than you will with a metal hatchet, also for players just starting out a new game, hesperornis will give you a respectable amount of organic polymer so long as you have a club (they can be found swimming in the waters of the south, east, and most commonly west zones)
Meanwhile I just go to the ice river in the north for silica pearls 🤣🤣
I played ark for a VERY long time with my brother but quit it bc my pc wasn't good enough to even install ark. Now I'm going to be back soon so I need to refresh my skills and experience. Thanks for ur help😉
Welcome back dude!
i can confirm i knew 0 of these
Woah can't lie dude I have over 6k hours on Xbox pvp official and I didn't know a few of these. Def subscribing, thx for the info 🤙
Thanks a lot man, glad its helped!
I had no idea about those beelzebufos. It was very helpful
5:36 if your going in the ocean, your doing it wrong. head over to crystal isles. pink tree's has LOADS xD
Another tipp of mine for megalosaurus :
If you have megalosaurus and they are sleeping because its day and you want a fertilized egg from them, you can activate enable mating while they are sleeping, then wake them up shortly and they will instant drop an fertilized egg instead of waiting to 100 % . After this they go normaly from itself sleep again.
If you're near or in the swamp with the frog you can kill a Dino and leave it there and the bug's will just keep coming in stand out of range so you don't accidentally harvest the body and just go for it until your encumbered with cementing paste from the bug's
Edit also for taming giant bee clear out an area and destroy the nest you can use a rare flower to get the queen to come back to you if she flies off and if you put honey in the taming slot in the hotbar you can throw it on the ground and she'll come to eat it makes her Soo easy to tame
I've been playing ark for years now and I still managed to learn a few things from this video
moschops is honestly a must have early game for me, its my favorite raw prime harvester bc of the harvesting levels for it, make taming my first bunch of "fuck em up" dinos much easier
Thank you for taking your time to share these liked an subbed
Thanks a lot dude!
Trying to learn some new things about ark while I clean. A nice little video thank you.
Sarcos are also useful for having fun when you first start out. Killing fish like mad is entertaining😆
You can equip mantis with weapons like a sword, pick, or axe. Arthropleura can damage any kind of structure, and are hard to spot at night. Sarco don't get attacked by piranha and are insanely fast in the water making them amazing for gathering silica pearls and general surface water taming, or even swamp navigation. Otters can carry multiple artifacts. And ballista turrets can be placed on dinosaur platform saddles making even the large and slow land dinos with them useful for taming frustrating argies and rexes that keep wanting to run straight for water just before passing out. I personally like having a boat with a couple ballista turrets just for whale issues while moving to a new home. Really helps keep your mind at ease knowing they do insane damage and fire surprisingly fast, securing your great many resources saved up for the big move. Bonus points if you manage to make it large enough to tote your dinos too in one trip.
Best tip i could use when i started is, if you press+hold H you can actually see what each buff/debuff is doing..
I played whole year while guessing what those icons represent..
Saving this vid too, for when I'm able to utilize these tips. Solid video
This was GREAT. I didn't know about the squid making oil or the mammoth water trunk.
But you left out some of thier abilities and uses. Maybe because they were doing a list.
I would love a video with just all of the abilities and their usefulness.
The itchyornis can steal from other players, as can the pegomastyx. This is underutilized. And the troodon can scout people and hidden crates.
The dire wolf can sniff blood bodies and notes. Hyenas get a defensive buff when pet and gather meat with packs it starts fresh and they make great pvp tames. Dimetrodon, otter, kariku can incubate eggs. Mammoth gives a buff. Vultures stack prime and mutton and go for the Rider. Microwraptores dismount. There's more. ....
Thanks a lot man, yeah it was because I was doing a list. There are some great ideas there though! Id love to do each dino and give every bit of information about each one, I'm just struggling for time at the moment:)
@@kiddas2701 Yes please do that! That is a awesome idea!
for the snail hack thing, i used a pteradon to pick up a snail and i brought it to my house without taming it, so you get the snail paste stuff without wasting time taming one!
Out of all my hours in ark I never knew the sarco one. Finally a solution to those damn things
Here's a excerpt from Helena's dossier on Diplocaulus to show how the ability works:
"There are only a few uses for tamed Diplocaulus. It is primarily kept for the (rather disgusting) practice of employing a Diplocaulus as an oxygen bag. Diplocaulus stores air in the bladders of its head, and divers can suck from these bladders to take deep breaths while submerged, supporting long-term underwater exploration without the use of external gear. Surprisingly, Diplocaulus is also extremely efficient when it comes to hunting Trilobites."
This with the Flower and the flying dinosaur is 🔥
That was excellent, mate. I only knew two of those, so thanks heaps!
On aberration the frog will be able to get cementing paste from glow bugs just in case it does not seem worth taming.
I never knew this!! How does your comment not have 1000's of likes? I have close to 10k hrs in Ark with Aberration being my favourite map, I feel like a complete idiot now! You made my next play through so much better!!
That magmasaur one is huge. I didnt know about that until this vid and I just seen it now LOL
1. Might be wrong, but it always felt like fish heals faster compared to meat healing on other dinos. Also deals bonus damage to aquatic creatures like spinos and sarcos.
2. Also melee leveling increases resources gotten anyway, so get a high level moschops if u go for it
3. Its not just speed and attack damage, health regen is 25% faster aswell (wiki)
7. This works with feeding throughs aswell, so if u have multiple dinos who are hungry this might be faster
8. Also cryopod resets the asked food of babys, so u can shuffle the imprint requirements.
Thanks for all these tips dude keep up the good work!!😁❤️👍🦖🦕
Instantly noticed the TangoTek intro music as ur intro!! Noice!
Hidden benefit of this video: I knew almost all of these, but I forgot most of them. The only benefit isn't learning, remembering is another benefit this vid gives
First video i saw from you and i must say i like you😌. You really give tips that i didnt kbow at all
Thanks a lot dude!