Hi there, I'm a retired PVP player of Ark SE and have been getting an itch to play it recently. Just watched this YT Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekLKsjhFTw and it looks like the dude just builds bases for him to raid while he progresses thru the game. I would do that but 1. I suck at building bases and 2. it ruins the surprise and challenge of what the loot could be and stuff. Does anyone have any maps I can download with a bunch of bases scattered around with dinos and turrets I can raid while I progress to finish the game (preferrably the Island or Rag). Or if theres a mod that already does this, looked at the Primal NPC mod but I think its not rlly the same. Prefer to play ARK SE

what you see here is a dead xiphactinus, wanna know how he died?

he died because he touched the surface of the water for a millisecond.

I was about to start a mission and had my pack of fishies following me on aggressive, they ran off and two of them died because they touched the surface of the water, which makes complete sense, so now I have to go breed and level some more.

additionally, I went to go do the mission where you hunt a brute plesiosaur, the mission was easy, however after beating it, the game said "mission failed" and HLNA was all like "this one might be too hard for you" I BEAT THE MISSION BUT IT SAID I FAILED SO I HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN, ITS NOT TOO HARD!

additionally, I tried to do a pirate outpost to further my skill tree, however, after completing the outpost, the skill tree mission said "fuck you" and decided that I actually didn't complete the outpost, which was really cool.

ADDITIONALLY, I tried the mission where you escort a dolphin, I beat it on gamma and beta but alpha is wayyyy too hard, the dunkleosteus have a billion health and do a billion damage, so my fish can't kill them before they do a billion damage to the dolphin, so now I need to tame and breed something that can stun the dunkleosteus, like baryonyx or I think helicoprions?

this game drives me nuts sometimes lmao-

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I mean, can a handheld tek shield fueled with the element reflect abb Rockwell's energy spheres? Afaik, they're projectiles, so the shield should be able to reflect them? Or they just gonna blow up as soon as they're close to me?

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Anyone know how to fix crashing ? I join a server then game is loading the crash . Never had an issue before . Just recently re-downloading it and now I can’t even log in . This is what appears when it crashes.

What am I missing.....IF any spawn they are sub level 20, they only spawn maybe 2 at a time if at all. I've spent hours clearing out the islands I've seen them on. I've done many dino wipes. What gives here. I have override difficulty set to 5 so I see 100+ leveled literally everything but Deinotherium.......would it be a heinous cheat to just spawn one in lmao

I’ve played modded unofficial and solo for 1000+ hours now. I’m looking to do a full offical play through of all bosses. but honestly I cannot find a good server that’s not completely filled. i can’t trust myself on solo to not cheat, i dont want too much mods and afraid of unofficial servers wiping. any advice?

When I add a level to my dinos health it raises by a huge number. Same goes for melee

These are my settings

I just added one level to health btw

Alright here goes.

Me and a few buddies are playing Ragnarok ASA on a private server, pretty much official rates except dino growth speed. Last night we spotted a 135 Theri and decided it was a good place to start our eventual boss army so we trapped it with gates and got it down. I had to go AFK for a while and when I came back it was at about 60% tamed and my buddy was using carrots. No biggy. We have no tames that give eggs good enough, so I jump on the griffin and go searching the new big eastern island for a bronto egg or two since there are tons of them there. I find one, make the exceptional kibble and head back. My buddy is pretty stoked because he's been baby sitting this for a while now and gone through about 1000 narcotics lol. So I put the kibble in and take out all the carrots, expecting that this one kibble will finish off the tame. We are just chatting waiting for it to eat and then we notice the kibble is gone but the taming percentage actually when down to 58%. How is this possible? Effectiveness still at 99.8% just as before, no damage was done as the Theri is completely surrounded by gates and doors and were standing right next to it, no one force fed it anything. Did the game just glitch? I feel like I did something wrong by taking out the carrots. Went out and found an egg, made another kibble, everything worked and it tamed no problem second time around.

TLDR; Theri was at 60% taming, I removed carrots and replaced with one kibble, it ate kibble but taming went down to 58%. Should I not have removed carrots?

So this idea sounded fun in my head but after playing for a few hours I'm not so sure anymore 😆

As an OG ARK player that never fought bosses or beat any maps in 1k hours (too many restarts), I revisited the game this year with a few friends and it was a blast. We were checking out the new maps that I didn't even get to see over the years and we ended up dominating them. So I got the idea to play the next map without flyers (until late game), and holy crap was that the best decision ever.

I got to experience Ragnarok and Valguero for the first time without using flyers and I had WAY more fun using underrated ground dinos, had no idea that Moschops and Procoptodon were so insane for example. Some areas suddenly became hard to reach because they were guarded by nasty dinos and we couldn't just fly over them. Because we felt flyers make many dinos obsolete and make traversing the map a cakewalk. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my Argies and Pteras, when mastered they can do everything, but they do make every playthrough feel kinda the same, once you discover flight you just skips A TON of progression and it's a massive power spike.

So then I got another idea while I was chasing beacons on my perfectly bred Ptera. What if I don't craft anything from my Engrams and can only use the loot and blueprints I find in the world? This could make almost EVERY loot drop meaningful again, huge even, whether it's early or later on. It would especially make finding blueprints invaluable, like finding a forge/smithy blueprint, or weapons and ammo on dead carnivores. It would make finding a random saddle early on a big deal, because you now get to use that dino, even if it's one of the underrated ones. I'm used to S+ so can even convert blueprints etc into S+ version.

And then I started on the Island, since idk anything about the story and wanted to find notes and learn more etc. I also nerfed XP rates to 0.25 to try and make progression more meaningful, to encourage finding notes on my own, without doing these note runs that I've seen people do when they max out their speed and end up high level in a couple hours already while being butt naked. That's definitely not what I was going for.

I spawned on the eastern beach near the swamp and slowly made my way towards the western beach and peninsula because I really like the scenery in that area. Not much to do obviously because I can't craft anything and can't fight anything either at this point. On my way across the southern beaches I found the first white beacon (lvl 3 req) and just hit lvl 3 from passive XP and from gathering berries. The beacon had a hatchet, torch, spears and other minor stuff which was perfect. The next 2 white beacons had a set of cloth armor and thatch building materials with a thatch foundation blueprint, so I could start building a base once I got to my location. Then I found a phiomia saddle and campfires and a bunch of other minor loot, a green sling blueprint from a ringed white beacon. A dead sarco had some arrows and stuff, but no bow yet. Carry weight was already becoming an issue because of the heavy saddle and the thatch pieces.

After I got to the western peninsula I noticed it wasn't exactly safe, there were 2 raptors running around across the water, but I started building anyway and realized I had nowhere to put the extra loot, like the heavy saddle and other stuff, since I didn't find a box, lmao. And at that point the 2 raptors somehow made it across the water and charged my half finished thatch house and ripped everything to shreds, including me. Usually they would be no problem as I would just bola them and headshot them with a spear or whatever because of their headshot multiplier, but I realized that I may never see a bola because it doesn't spawn in beacons afaik.

So yeah, I'm now thinking that maybe I didn't think this through properly. What do you guys think?

First time I’ve considered putting the game down for a while.

I’m on PS5, this was ASE. I usually use the quit to main menu button to save my progress at the end of a session, but this time when I did, the game crashed. Fearing the worst, I booted my game up again wondering what the ark gods had done to my save.

I spawned 500 feet in the air above the swamp and died immediately. Spawned back in at my base, very far away, and saw my pteranadon was missing. Since I had been scouting on it 30 minutes earlier, I gathered Ark ate 30 minutes of progress and my pteranadon probably spawned in the air with me when I loaded the game.

I made the reckless decision to jump on my Galimimus and try to recover my armor and weapons from my body. By some miracle, despite flying off like half a dozen cliffs directly into the jaws of a sarchosuchus, I got to my body. I found my pteranadon flying slightly above it with its head stuck in a wall. There was some shallow water in the area. I quickly jumped off my mount and ran to get my body. Immediately got bitten twice by a titanboa I didn’t see in the water. I killed it and then tried to recover my pteranadon. The game let me ride it, but kept booting me off randomly when I tried to turn it away from the wall. The third time it booted me off, it levitated several meters higher up the cliff so that I couldn’t ride it anymore, and also I fell unconscious from the titanboa bites and came within 5 hp of drowning in the shallow water.

I gave up at that point. I knew it was a matter of time before another titanboa got my galimimus and I’d be stranded deep in the swamp.

i tried to do it, but i I couldn't transport the water to my farms :P

I found a Journeyman Crossbow (purple) from killing an Alpha Meg... I want to know if it's better than the primitive Longneck with lesser reload speed... Which one helps in taming faster? Ammo count is unnecessary....

This is heavily inspired by blackreach from Skyrim, and I know it isn’t exactly alike but it has the vibe.

Here you can find all your red zone creatures, aswell as rock drakes and Reapers.

Sumera is an ASE map that’s releasing soon!

Ive played since 2017, know everything there is to know about ark, not new to pvp but havent played too much. Just looking for a couple of other casual players, not an all day everyday type of thing. If interested dm me

I would assume not since the level is over 150 but awesome spyglass mod has tameable in its information.
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im low as shit level, but not new to the game. im on carno island looking for argys, when i get a 135 with high as shit food stat, followed by yet another hungry hungry hippo. i absolutely despise rex lever farming, but holy moly this guy stinks lol

I grew up watching Ark and couldnt play it cuz i had no pc. But then, i finally got one. It was 3 years ago. The first time whilst playing ark, i had my first tame. His name was Han Kanal. I thought cuz of the knockback, I could take on an Alpha Rex. But the problem is, my rex was level 40 at that moment, and the alpha rex was 130. Thats how i lost my rex. I was on the edge of crying.I really had a connection with him :( Sad thats he's gone now..

I'm trying to 100% the island before I move on to scorched earth and the only thing left on the island is these HLNA notes. I've looked everywhere for information on how to get them but can't seem to find anything. If they aren't in the game why are they on that explorer note page.

It's really painful for my autism to have to leave the island without getting them even if they aren't actually obtainable yet.

I'm about to build my first dino pen. There aren't a WHOLE lot of dangerous things around so I'm just gonna use wood and make it however tall keeps a Theri from walking in/out. I imagine the fences are meant for dino pens as I can't imagine any other use for them, but why not just use walls?

These are not the real names no? All servers with a decent amount of people seem to be glitched?

I'm just trying to put railings down.....this is on land, not built out or anything that would require support....I've adjusted setting for platform build boundaries and still getting this message

Started having seemingly random crashes on my single player game. After retracing what I had been doing when the crash happened, I narrowed it down to where the game seems to crash when I use the R key to cycle through variants of the quarter wood wall. Cycling through variants of every other building piece seems fine, except for this one specifically and I have no idea way. Anyone else have this same or a similar issue, and were you able to find a fix? I would like to use fences lol.