Even before the true desert biome gets released there are several locations to get cactus sap on Ragnarok Map. It is great that Ragnarok has all the Scorched Earth resources. The cactus sap is currently not found in the tall tree-like cactuses you see on Scorched Earth, but little aloe like plants growing low to the ground. These you harvest by hand, just as you do for berries, fiber, etc. Now you can make propellant and adobe in Ragnarok!
Aloe-like plants you harvest by hand for Cactus Sap on Ragnarok
There are more locations now. When I made this video I knew of only one. Of course, since I made this video, what feels like a million years ago now, they released the desert biome, which has plenty of cactuses to harvest from.
Ragnarok Cactus Sap Locations
Beach
Lat 15.7 Lon 26.3
Central Canyon
Lat 35.8 Lon 44.3
Lat 36.8 Lon 40.2
The new otter in Ark Survival Evolved is a real game
changer, for me at least.This little
critter has some interesting and a few unique abilities.First there is the obvious, the otter gets
fish, no big deal, it is super easy to get fish.The second thing that it does is collect
silica pearls from the fish it catches.That’s very nice, but not huge there are oyster shells located in
shallow water.The third thing is that
with every fish it catches, there is a chance to get a black pearl!Black pearls are hard to get at nearly any
survivor level.It requires going into
the deep ocean, and/or taking on some tough creatures in the water, which I
hate because I usually end up dead.The
fourth thing that a tame otter will do for you is keep you warm in the mountains,
ice caves and snow biomes.
Keeping you warm is an amazing thing.Even with fur armor and a few points put into
fortitude in the mountains of Ragnarok I usually end up freezing to death in a
couple of minutes.Now with the otter
wrapped around my neck I can move about in the snowy areas and ice caves with
no fear of freezing to death, although there are plenty of other things that
want to kill me.
Be sure to put a nice helmet on your otter’s head, as the
extra armor will keep it safer.Otters
have low HP to start out.Then you can
add a skin to its armor and make it even cuter, if that is possible.
How to Tame an Otter
Otters are a real help and they are easy to tame provided
there is not a spino or some hostile creatures nearby.The big problem with otters is, depending on
the map, they can be rather rare.Anyway,
the otter is a passive tame.Basically
kill a fish, don’t harvest it, but drag its body over to a wild otter.It might be hard to chase them down because
they swim quickly and erratically.The
otter will take the fish, eat it.Then
you will have to repeat the process until it is tame.After its tame you can pick the otter up and
it will act like insulation from the cold.You can also toss it off your shoulder to get it to capture fish meat,
silica pearls and black pearls for you.
Farming Otters?
I tried farming otters in Ark Survival Evolved, and what I
mean by that is having a bunch of otters on wander in a beaver pond.Some creatures like the moshcops and beavers
will wander around and collect resources.You can check on these guys every once and while and take what they have
harvested.I tried it with the otters
hoping they would be gathering up silica pearls and black pearls, but they did
not.It would be kind of over powered if
they were able to.
If it is one thing that the Center Map has going for it in terms of resources, it is Beaver Dams. There are plenty of places to raid the Castoroides dams for cementing paste, silica pearls, rare mushrooms, and of course, tons and tons of wood. Of course, these are the places to find and tame beavers to do your own wood harvesting with. Castoroides are one of the best harvesters of wood in Ark Survival Evolved because the weight of wood is reduced while in a beaver's inventory.
Beaver Dam locations on the Center Map: Ark Survival Evolved
Beaver Dam Locations on Center Map
Redwood Biome
Lat Lon
The best place to find, Castoroidies, or Giant Beavers on Ragnarok, is a place called Beavertopia, which is located near Viking Bay. The beavers and their dams are located in two ponds connected by a river in the Great Plateaus region. Beavers dams can also be found in the Redwoods, and south of the Green Obelisk. Beaver dams come in three styles on the Ragnarok map, so be sure to check them all out to get all that free cementing paste and wood.
Beaver Dam Location
Beavertopia 24.5 42.5
Pond near Beavertopia 28.3 41.9
Redwoods 39.7 78.5
Near Green Obelisk 62.7 35.8
Some beaver dams look different on Ragnarok, some are huge doughnut-like structures,
some actually look like a beaver dam!
You can also find the old-school Castoroidies dams too.
Ragnarok has some
great features, and some great resources to harvest.Here and in the accompanying video we look at
the locations of the metal, crystal, oil, and obsidian resources on the Ragnarok
Ark Survival Evolved Map.The video and
post cover most of the major deposits.If you have a favorite spot I didn’t mention, put it in the comments. I finally made a part 2 video as well that covers a few spots I missed in the first one. It includes maybe the best spot for metal on the map. That part of the map was not there when I made the first video.
Huge metal deposits the Bone Islands.The perfect place to set up a metal farm operation
Lat 14.9 Long 40.6
Huge crystal deposits in the Cursed
Plains
Lat 32.3 Long 56.1
Obsidian next to the crystal deposits
above
Lat 31.3 Long 55.1
Sulfur and Obsidian in the Volcano
Lat 23.3 Long 62.7
Wyvern Trench (north end) Lat 21.2 Long 68.3
Little
hidden crystal cave in Highland
Lat 19.9 Long 78.1
Redwood base
and metal
Lat 41.1 Long 68.7
Highland
Gardens – Savoroot and Rockarrot
Lat 17 Long 77 (around this
area)
Beached “Whales”
oil, spoiled meat, keratin, hide
Lat 15.3 Long 69.1 - The just added more Lat 14.6 Lon 75.6
Ice Cave – Huge oil deposits plus crystal and
organic polymer
Ark Survival Evolved has several useful soups, stews, and
other recipes that are very useful in the game whether you are playing PVE or
PVP.They can be used in combination
with one another, although some of the effects will cancel each other
out. For crafting purposes, the recipes
all have two things in common they all require water and must be crafted in
a cooking pot or industrial cooker.You
don’t need to learn engrams for any of these or find the recipes. Just put the
right ingredients in the cooker, automatically make the stew, etc.
They all spoil within 5hours in your inventory, but their
shelf life can be greatly extended in the preserving bin and refrigerator.Their effects last 15 minutes (900 seconds), except for Lazarus Chowder, which lasts only 10 minutes (600
seconds).
Many wonder what the difference between the Bandage Pouch
and the Medical Crate is in Battlefield 1.At first it would seem that the med crate must be better because you
have to pay for it with war bonds in BF1 and gain XP to unlock it in BF4.I would argue that for most situations the
bandage pouch is better than the med crate, while both have their plusses and
minuses.
The med pouches are great because they can heal you and your
teammates on the run, you don’t have to wait until you have some place to hide
and wait for the crate to do its work.As soon as you walk over a med pouch it you sort of it up and begin
healing.Now you can run to new cover or
new objective and heal all the way.If
you are out in the open and get shot, toss a bandage pouch in front of you and
begin healing on the run.If you take
any amount a damage the healing process will halt and you’ll have to throw a
new pouch.Likewise on the run you can
toss a bandage pouch to your teammates and they can heal on the run or in cover
if they choose.All you have to do is
point the cross hair at your team mate and hit the spot button or what every
key or button you are using for that accessory.The pouch will go flying a considerable distance to hit the teammate.One of the problems using the med pouch is
that you throw it, so if you want to use it, you have to run after it, or toss
it up against a wall, so it will drop at your feet.
Hiding by a medical crate to heal myself in Battlefield 1
The medical crate is great because it can heal yourself and other teammates with the push of one button, but you have to hang around the
med crate and order to do that and that isn’t always a safe place to be.If grenades are being thrown nearby they can
destroy the crate as well.The med
crate is great for healing lots of teammates at choke points like the canyons
in the Argonne Forest or one of the fortresses, the crate is also good if you are
traveling around in a group and capturing a flag and everyone has to stand
nearby anyway.Dropping the med crate
in these situations is also a great way to get lots of XP in the game, just be
sure to check every now and then to make sure it hasn’t been destroyed by
grenade spam.Unlike the bandage pouch
the med crate won’t heal you if you are being suppressed.
I find the bandage pouch much more flexible than the crate,
so I almost always run with them vs the crate.The same goes for the ammo pouch when playing support, although it isn’t
as crucial when playing that class.Everyone has their own play style so the crate may be better suited to you
while playing the medic class in Battlefield 1, but if you haven’t used the
pouch in the while, you may want to revisit.
The flyer nerf for the new patch for Ark Survival Evolved is
upon us!There was much speculation in
the community as to just how the nerf would affect flyers.Many thought it might be damage models,
stamina, speed, platform saddles, and pretty much every other aspect of the
Pteranodon, Tapejara, Quetzal, Argentavis, and Wyvern.However, the nerf seems to affect speed the
most.On vanilla servers, and single
player games with regular settings, speed is capped as follows
100%
Argentavis Wyvern Lymantria
136.5%
Pteranodon Tapejara Quetzal Pelagornis
The speed caps make these flyers painfully slow in Ark if
you buffed the speed of your tames.I
flew around much of the center map on my newly nerfed Argentavis and it took
forever.The flight speed was very slow
and I had to make frequent stops to regain stamina.I even had to stop to get extra food for the
Argie.I have the dino food drain set
high to increase taming speed, so it burned through hundreds of raw meat to
make it around the map.I’ve never had
that problem before.
Stamina of all the flyers really suck Another problem I
noticed is the Quetzal
This nerf really sucks and its going to make me rethink how
I play my single player PvE game, and maybe that’s not a bad thing.I think I might be better off have a number
of small base throughout the island to keep land based dinos like the new
Iguanodon.I was planning on doing that
anyway, but now I am going to forced to do it very soon.At those bases I can make taming pens and
keep a Quetzal, which are really, really slow now.
What do you guys think, how is it going to change your gameplay?
There are two things you can do to increase the number of
eggs your dinos lay in Ark Survival Evolved.On my kibble farms, I use both of these.
First, have at least one male.This gives the female a mate boost and will
not only help her in a fight, but will make her drop more eggs.The male will have an effect on multiple
females, but only within a certain range.You can tell if your creature is mate boosted by the little heart
floating above their name.If you have a
ton of any one species, you may need more
than one male.If all you are using the male for is the egg
laying boost there is no need to worry about what level it is.Some people say that have two males is more
effective on a larger number of females, but I haven’t tested it.
A solid heart above a tame's name shows that it is mate boosted.
Oviraptors can help increase egg laying of tame dinos.
The second involves more steps but isn’t that tricky.Use an oviraptor to get an egg laying
boost.Tame an oviraptor by knocking it
out and feeding it eggs, Rex eggs are supposed to be the best. Oviraptors take
a long time to tame, so search for a low-level one.After you have the little bugger tamed bring
it to where you have your dinos.Pack
its inventory with rocks or wood until it becomes overburdened and cannot
move.Then set it to wander.You will notice that all creatures will have
an egg floating over their name and stats, this means they are now egg boosted
and will lay more eggs.Creatures that
don’t lay eggs will still have the little egg symbol.Like the mate boost, the egg boost from the
oviraptor only works within a certain range, so you may need more than one
oviraptor, if your kibble farm is large.
The Ovis is a type of sheep in Ark Survival Evolved.These beasts are very rare, probably for two
reasons.The first is they don’t spawn
very often, I have only seen one so far.The second is that they are useless in a fight.Pretty much any predator can kill an Ovis,
and I’m guessing the stupid creatures are killed by wild dinos within a couple
of minutes of spawning.The first one I
tamed, tamed out at 92 and was terribly wounded by a compy or two and then
finished off by some stupid titian bugs, more on that later.
The Ovis is really only good for two things.The first is probably the only thing that it
should be used for and that is for growing wool.Wool can be used to craft a number of things,
and I am assuming the developers will be adding more.Wool is harvested with scissors you craft in
the smithy.Like a real sheep the ovis
will grow more wool to harvest later.
The second thing you can use an ovis for is climbing cliffs,
and this virtual creature can climb them as well as any mountain goat.The main problem with that is you might get
your Ovis killed, like I did, on your way to a cliff.I think it would be best to leave the Ovis
back at base.If you are one of those
that like having the challenge of not using fliers, this sheep might be a good
way to get at resources high up in the mountains, as long as there is nothing
dangerous nearby.
The Ovis is a passive tame and requires sweet vegetable cakes,
which you can make in a cooking pot, or industrial cooker.
Ovis can be harvested for mutton!
My Tame Ovis my Dead Ovis
Me and my tame Ovis - Ark Survival Evolved
As I said I tamed the first Ovis I saw. I was able to rescue
one from the harsh reality of Ark Survival Evolved.I dropped her off in my T-rex taming pen and
passively tamed her in no time.Shortly after I decided to take her to a nearby cliff to test out those
climbing skills.She was at 100% health,
but that didn’t last long.We were
attacked by a couple of compies and they did mad damage to her.I tried to fight back, but the Ovis is so
slow, has a terrible turn radius, and barely any stamina, so I couldn’t get any
hits on the damn compies with her.I
jumped off and started to stab at my feet with my pike to avoid hitting the
Ovis.When I saw that she was extremely
bloody I whistled for her to follow and I thought we’d make a mad dash back to
base, but in my panic, I didn’t whistle passive so the dumb sheep was killed by
some bugs seconds later while her dumb tamer watched in horror and then began
harvesting mutton.
The Ovis is super cute, and as soon as I can I am going to
tame another one, but when I do it is not leaving the barnyard!
One thing you can't live without in Ark Survival Evolved is a fixed spawn point. For one of those you need a hide sleeping bag, simple bed, or bunk bed. Without they you will have to spawn in a random location of a region, which could be far from you resources and very close to danger, which is something you definitely don't want when you have weapons and armor. All of these items can be named so they are easy to identify on the respawn screen. In addition to using beds as spawn points you can use them to fast travel to any point on the map where you have another bed. The main drawback of this is that you have to take off all your armor and deposit your entire inventory before you travel, so you had better have a spare set of weapons and armor waiting for you by the other bed.
Hide Sleeping Bag
This is simple to craft and the engram is available to learn at level 5. The main problem with them is they only work once. However you can put them down anywhere there are no obstructions. They are great on an adventure to a dangerous cave or near an enemy base when your tribe is going on a raid.
25 - hide
15 - fiber
Simple Bed
This is the best of the three for general use. It must be placed on a foundation and has a cool down time so if you die shortly after respawning you won't be able to use it for awhile. That problem is easily solved by putting down multiple beds. The nice thing is you can place them right on top of one another.
15 - wood
80 - thatch
30 - fiber
40 - hide
Simple Bed
Bunk Bed
Bunk Beds look really cool, but they are super expensive to craft for what you get out of them. Their only advantage over the simple bed is they have half the cool down time. It is much cheaper to craft multiple simple beds and place them all in the same spot, save your 320 metal ingots for something important.
80 - polymer
200 - pelt, wool, or hair
320 - metal ingot
280 - fiber
120 - hide
Bunk Bed
Note: since publishing this post the devs have introduced the Ark Canoe, which can also be used as a spawn point/
Sometimes you just want to tame something to test it out in Ark Survival Evolved, or perhaps to help control wild dino spawn, whatever the reason there are a couple of console commands that you can use to make it happen.
forcetame
The first is forcetame you type this in while you are looking at the wild creature and boom you have a tame dino. The new tame will wander around a few seconds and then stop. The dino will gain extra levels via 100% taming effectiveness. There will be no sound or naming screen when the tame works. It can be hard to move from console to game screen on a moving target, so be careful of using this command with dangerous creatures.
dotame
If you want the regular taming experience where you get the naming option extra then you can use thedotame command.
When you are first starting out in Ark Survival Evolved
single player you have a number of options with sliders in which to choose
from.The first thing you need to do when looking at all these options is to ask yourself how much time you are going to put into this game.Ark, like most survival games, can be very grindy.It can take forever to gather resources and level up your character.You can put hundreds of hours into the game and not reach max level on single player on standard settings.If you are going to be a casual player you are going to want to be liberal with the settings. For most settings you the slider or type in a higher number.
My preferred Ark Single Player Settings
Under General Tab
Difficulty: 1
XP multiplier: 2
Taming Speed: 5
Harvest Amount: 3
Water Drain: 0.5
Show Player Map Location (check box)
Under Advanced Tab
Allow Cave Building
(check box)
Allow Cave Flyer
(check box)
Non-permanent Diseases
(check box)
Egg Laying Interval:
0.25
Egg Hatching Speed: 3 to 6
Resource Respawn Interval: 0.25
Night Time Speed: 3.0
Crop Growth Speed: 4 to 6
Tamed Dino Stats
- Stamina: 3
- Weight: 3
Player Stats Per Level
- Stamina: 3
- Weight: 3
Show Floating Text Damage (check box)
The trick is to not be too liberal, or you will end up
making the game boring.Luckily all
these settings can be changed each time you load the game!The only things that will really last is the
XP multiplier and the difficulty level you set.The difficultly level determines what max level the dions spawn in as, so
if you had a low setting when you first launch and later change it to a higher
difficulty all the original low-level dinos will still be there, but over time
higher level dinos will spawn in.You
can kill off all the wild creatures using the destroywilddinos command to make
the change to lower or high-level dinos in a matter of minutes.
In the accompanying video, I explain my favorite settings on the
first page on PC, which is very similar to console.At a later date, I think I’ll do a video on
the other tabs.
What are your favorite Ark Survival Evolved single player
settings?Leave a comment!
In my quest to add to my egg production at the farm I went
out looking for some of the newer dinos to add to my collection and the first
one I found was the Baryonyx.The
Baryonyx are mostly aquatic creatures like the Sarco and the Kaprosuchus in Ark
Survival Evolved.I found about five
Baryonyx spread out along the northern river of the Center Map.
I wasn’t looking for a high level one to start out with, I just wanted them for the eggs, but I eventually found a respectable level 90 and decided to try it out. I found them to me much like carnos, which are my favorite land dinos.They aren’t extremely powerful, but they are easy to maneuver, and better in the water.However I wouldn’t use them specifically for the water because they are very slow.Unlike carnos they can also jump, which can come in handy when you need to escape in a hurry.I recommend you give them a try.
How to tame a
Baryonyx?
You can tame a Baryonyx
from thee the ground.Try to get to a
cliff or tall rock where the creature can’t leap up and get you.Then simply rain tranq arrows or darts down
on it.Unfortunately, it will eventually
try and run away, so you’ll likely have to pursue it on foot.In the video I grabbed mine and dropped them
in a taming pen.
To tame theBaryonyx
you will need to feed it Pachyrhinosaurus kibble, raw prime fish meat, or fish
meat.Tame or wild they will not eat
regular raw meats.
Say that in your Ark Survival Evolved single player game you
want to play around with the new dinos, but you can’t find them, or you want to
see just want to have an island populated with 300 T-Rexes, there is a console
command you can use to make that happen.
To bring up the console on PC use the tab key.On Xbox and PS4 you get the option for admin commands
in the pause menu.
The first command spawns in a random dino based on your
difficulty setting, so if it is set to 3 on the center map, the highest a dino
will spawn in is 150, and on the island map it would be 120.With the following command you will get
completely random stats and sex of the dino. We’ll use Carbonemys as an example
look in the Ark Wiki for individual creature spawn codes:
summon Turtle_Character_BP_C
If you want to get more specific about the level of the
creature and the location of a spawn you can use a much longer console command:
The last numbers are the important part of the code.In the above example the 500 refers to the
distance that the creature will spawn from you.500 is only a couple of foundations distant from you, so this is a very
dangerous thing to be doing if you are spawning in a highly aggressive dino
like a Giga.
The next two numbers 0 0 are not as important have to do
with the location of the spawn.When
using this cheat code the creature will spawn in the direction you are looking,
so if you are looking straight up they will spawn in the air and if you’re
looking down they will be glitched into the ground, and maybe fall through the
map.
The last number is the one you really want to know (35), and
that is the level it is going to spawn in as.I don’t know what the level cap is, I have used up to level 100000 to
test it out in a cave where too many dinos were spawning and causing fps issues.In order to tame a wild animal with an extremely
high level you will need some mods, or another cheat code forcetame.When you enter
the forcetame code anything you are
looking at will instantly become tamed.They won’t stop instantly like a normal tame, but they will wander for
5-10 seconds before coming to a stop.
These codes will allow you to spawn in any dino you want, even those that aren't available for a specific map like mantis on the Island Map, or Dire Bears in Ark Scorched Earth. I haven't tested it by the forcetame cheat is said to only work for a limited time on some of the high-end creatures like the titianasaur. These cheats and the give item cheat are probably the most useful console commands for the game.
Here is a series of console commands that will allow you to cheat spawn in items and resources in Ark Survival Evolved for single player games and admins. Use this and all cheats with caution, as you may find you have ruined the game for yourself. Here is the command to spawn in metal, for example:
giveitemnum 9 50 1 false
in this case, the number 9 refers to metal, the 50 is the number of metal that will be put into your inventory, and the 1 is the quality of an item (value 1-100), so if it is a metal pick and you type 100 you will get an artifact level pick. False is just always there. The quantity can only go up to the quantity in a stack, so in the case of metal, you can type in 1000, but you will only get 200 at a time. Note: I think it is important to say again that you should be careful with any cheats for Ark Survival Evolved, or any game for that matter, as you may find yourself with a boring, unchallenging game! These codes and the spawn dino console commands are probably the most useful in Ark Survival Evolved.
Use your browser's "find" (Google Chrome) or "find on page" (Microsoft Edge) option to search for the item or resource you want to spawn into your inventory. Bookmark this page to make it easy to come back to.
Grenades can be fun in Ark Survival Evolved and the Ark
Scorched Earth dlc.If you don’t think
you’ll ever need them in PVE you are probably right, and may never want to
bother with learning any of the engrams.Luckily, you’ll probably find a few grenades in the supply beacons or
perhaps dropped by an alpha dino.That
way you’ll still get to play with them, but for those, you want to destroy their
enemies be dinos or players here is what you are going to need to craft them
Grenade
A simple hand grenade you toss at your target and explodes
after a delay.It’s probably the best
grenade in the game, but of very limited use in PVE.I’ve seen some people tear it up with these
grenades in Ark Survival of the fittest.Simple and easy to craft you’re going to need to craft it in a smithy
and these resources:
15- fiber
20 – stone
30 – gunpowder
5 – hide
2 – metal ingot
4 – oil
Cluster Grenade
Throw the
cluster grenade and it explodes sending out six small grenades over a wide
area.I played around with a few of
these I got from supply drops in Scorched Earth.They are pretty ineffective and I would not
bother learning the engram, perhaps they are better in PVP.In Scorched Earth I have found both half a
dozen cluster grenades and blueprints in supply beacons.To craft one of these guys is pretty darn
expensive and your going to need to do it in a fabricator, and because it
requires propellant you’re also going to need a chemistry bench, so this is
high-level stuff.
When you’re first starting out in Ark Survival Evolved you
may not know exactly what all the commands mean.Here is a handy guide to help you out.
Passive
-Tamed creature will not attack no matter
what.If a dino is set to passive and
attacked it will die!This setting is
most often used when taming aggressive creatures, so they will not attack your potential
tame and kill it or reduce taming effectiveness.
Neutral
-Tamed creatures will not attack anything unless they,
or you are attacked.This is a good
setting when leaving your dinos unattended, they will defend themselves and your other nearby tame dinos and structures.
Aggressive
-Tamed creatures will attack everything that is
nearby.
Attack This Target
-Look at the animal or player you want to attack
and select Attack This Target that target will then be marked with a red beam.Your nearby tame dinos will all attack the
target until it, or they are dead.Use
this command when you don’t want to enter the fray.
Attack My Target
-This command is a great one to use when roaming
about the Ark.Your nearby tamed animals
will attack whatever you are attacking.This only works over a relatively short range.If you are shooting something with a ranged
weapon your dinos will stand around
doing nothing until it gets within range.
