There are ten artifact caves on The Island map of Ark Survival Ascended. You will need to explore each of these caves and retrieve the artifacts to summon the bosses. I have grouped the caves below by bosses. Here are the same Island Cave Locations for ASE
Cave Name, Artifact, Lat, Lon
Broodmother
Central Cave (Chitin) – Clever 41.5 47.0
Lava Cave - Massive 70.6 86.1
Lower South Cave - Hunter 80.2 53.6
Megapithecus
North East Cave (Carno) – Devourer 14.8 85.4
Upper South Cave - Pack 68.2 56.1
The Caverns of Lost Faith (Easy Underwater) - Brute
53.7 10.5
Dragon
The Caverns of Lost Hope (Hard Underwater) - Cunning 46.1
89.7
Right now Ark Survival Ascended is not well optimized and to help you understand what effects your ASA graphics settings are actually doing, you can tell the game to display the fps with console commands.
Ark Survival Ascended in-game FPS display counter
To enter a command on pc hit the tilde key (~), which is in the key above the tab and to the left of the 1 key. Then type Stat FPS and hit enter. The fps will now be displayed on the right side of the ASA screen. To get the fps to stop displaying simply type the command again. It will also stop displaying when you log out, and it will have to be reentered every time you start the game. The same command works for ASE.
If you are on pc and want a less obtrusive frame counter overlay, that is always there and can do it through your Steam account.
Steam overlay FPS display.
Go to the Steam app. At the top steam drop down menu go into Steam Settings. From there go to the In Game menue and turn on the In-game FPS counter. You can change what part of the screen you want the counter to be in. This will now be in all your Steam games when you play.
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To get polymer in Ark Survival Evolved, you can either make polymer, or harvest organic polymer. To make regular polymer, you will need to be level 48, learn the engram, and have a fabricator. One polymer is crafted with 2 obsidian, and 2 cementing paste. Once those resources are in the fabricator, you will need to have gasoline in it, and turn it on. If your inventory is set up into folders, you will find polymer in the composite folder.
Organic Polymer can be substituted one for one with regular polymer when crafting. It can be collected by harvesting the corpses from a number of creatures including kairuku (penguins), hesperonis, mantis, and karkinos. A club is best to use when harvesting organic polymer by hand. A leveled-up moshcops is great for harvesting with a dino, and is probably the best way to go. The problem with organic polymer is that is spoils fairly quickly, and it only stacks to 20. Sometimes you can have a great blueprint and not be able to get enough organic polymer into the crafting station to craft the item.
Organic polymer (left) and regular polymer (right) in Ark Survival Evolved inventory.
Ragnarok was the first map to offer up free vegetables in Ark Survival Evolved. These vegetables growing in the Highlands of Ragnarok are great for early taming of herbivores, and a good snack. Ragnarok only has two kind of vegetables though, Savoroot and Rockarrot. If you want the other two, you will have to grow them yourself. To collect the wild ones, just pick them by hand.
The Ragnarok map of Ark Survival Evolved has clay available that can be collected by had the same way stones and berries are picked up. Clay comes in two different visual forms, a pile of clay and brown rocks.
When you first encounter a Tapejara in Ark Survival Evolved, you realize that these flying reptiles are the most skittish creatures in the game. Luckily Tapejara can be ensnared by bolas, the problem is getting close enough to one. Sometimes you can get lucky and surprise one, or scare it into the side of a cliff where it will get stuck, but the following method works much better.
One cool mechanic in Ark is when you eat a rare flower. Eating a rare flower near almost any creature will cause them to aggro on you. This even works with completely passive creatures like dodos, Pteranodons, parasaurs etc. Put some rare flowers in your hot bar, get fairly close to a Tapejar, then eat a rare flower. The Tapejare will turn on you an attack for a short duration of time. When it does that you can hit it with a bola and start knocking it out with crossbow, longneck rifle, or whatever you have. A harpoon launcher with a net projectile will also work, but I like the bola because there can be a lot of other creatures that attack you at the same time, and many can be quickly with a bola, which are cheap and faster to use then the net. Before all of this check for dinos that you are not going to be able to handle, like brontos, for example, because they are going to end your Tapejara taming for sure. The bola trap is only going to hold for a minute, and there is a cool-down before you can use another one on the same creature.
If you find a high-level Tapejar you may want to lure it to a trap, this is probably going to take a number of rare flowers, and you are bound to get hurt doing it. I just tame them out in the open, you risk a lot that way too. Good luck taming a Tapejar. They are really cool creatures, and are probably the best for flying around with a friend.
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