Easy Black Peals - Ark Survival Evolved

This is my favorite, and perhaps the easiest way to harvest Black Pearls in Ark Survival Evolved.  Use a frog (Beelzebufo) to attack and harvest Eurypterids from the bottom of the ocean.  The Eurypterids are normally found in some of the deepest areas of water, but on the Ragnarok Map you can find them in the shallow waters of Viking Bay around the shipwreck.  On that map I have built a raft to act as a base for my beelzebufo, and I can swim down eat some eurypterids and quickly return to the surface to escape the terrifying ocean creatures, and store any black pearls that I have collected.  The pearls are very heavy, so it is great to place them in a storage chest, and then dive back down to get some more black pearls.  While the raft strategy works great on Ragnarok, it will also work on other maps where you can reliably find eurypterids.  

Black pearls can be harvested from other creatures too, but the eurypterid is the easiest for me. 

Harvest Black Pearls from these creatures:

• Eurypterid
• Trilobite
• Ammonite
• Tusoteuthis
• Alpha Tusoteuthis
• Alpha Mosasaur 

Happy Black Pearl Harvesting

How and Where to Get Wyvern Eggs in Ark Survival Evolved

There are several ways to get wyvern eggs on the Ragnarok map of Ark Survival Evolved.  Most of these that I am going to discuss concern the trench on Ragnarok.  However, these methods will work for Scorched Earth and Valguero too, but won't be as applicable to the wyvern cave on Ragnarok.  When I discuss methods I am going to focus only on creatures and tools that can be used in the base game maps, so I'm not going to talk about snow owls, and glide suits for example.  

Wyvern Egg Locations

Ragnarok Wyvern Trench East end - lat 26.4 lon 64.9 West end lat 24.0 lon 71.2 Ragnarok Wyvern Cave Area lat 70.9 lon 40.9

Wyvern Cave Entrance  lat 68.8  lon 42.0  (SW Tropics) Valguero Wyvern Trench East end lat 09.0 lon 79.5 West end lat 8.5 lon 80.1 Scorched Earth Wyvern Trench North end lat 30.1 lon 14.9 South end 72.8 lon 21.5

Lost Island Wyvern Locations

Methods (warning don't head straight back to your base even if you think you lost the wyverns!)

1. Grab and Distract

Use a Pteranodon (the best after griffin) or another flier, grab an egg take off, and lead the wyverns to some large wild creature that will distract them long enough to make your escape.  Brontos or mammoths in Ragnarok are good candidates, smaller creatures seem to have less chance to agro the wyverns.  A better variation of this is to have a tame creature or several to sacrifice.   Before you make your egg run set them up along the planned path of escape.  A flier or large creature is the best.  Set your tame to aggressive, so it will attack the wyverns.  If you don't the wyverns may not agro on your tame that is just sitting there. NOTE: I suppose on PvP this could lead to a tribe war if it goes wrong. 

2.  Blast Them! (my favorite)

Set up an array of turrets to distract or destroy the wyverns.  This is a great choice if you are a single player, or on a server with a low population. Set up an array of about 10 plant species X or three auto-turrets.  Plant species x turrets are the cheapest way to go especially if you've got a lot of tames pooping.  This is also a good way to collect wyvern talons.  NOTE: Building an array of turrets might not be advised if there is already a lot of building on a server, or maybe a PvP server. You decide if it is ethical, or if it will get your tribe in trouble.  I usually play single player or on a private server, so I don't know.  

3. Griffin 

The griffin is the one of the best creatures to use to get eggs, but you can only find them on Ragnarok, which is a bit of a shame.   Use the griffin's dive ability to swoop down on a wyvern nest, position the griffin for a quick escape.  Repeating dive and climb is fast enough to eventually lose the attacking wyvern.  Combine the griffin with method 1 or 2 for best results.  

Other methods

I've heard a lot of other methods in the comment section of my YouTube videos on getting wyvern eggs  I haven't tried these myself, but these have been suggested by multiple commenters and seem to make sense, so I think they are legit.  

1) Tame/breed powerful Argentavis(s), and destroy the wyverns and get eggs.   
2) Grab an egg, get killed, and pick up your bag after the wyverns go away.  

Other Tips:  

Pick up low-level eggs and eat them.  This will cause new eggs to spawn which might lead to higher egg levels.  After a time, the eggs spoil in the nest, but remain there forever.  As soon as you pick them up they disappear.  That is another good reason to destroy the low-level eggs.  

Wyvern is pronounced Why - vern :)

Original video where I mispronounce wyvern

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Ragnarok Cactus Sap Locations: Ark Survival Evolved

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

New Desert Islands
Lat   85.9    Lon    25.4

Ragnarok Where to Find Metal, Oil, Crystal and Obsidian

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

                Lat 30.4 Long 33.1

East shore metal

               Lat 46.8 Long 27.4

Central Canyon metal

                Lat 40.2 Long 42.6

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