Best way to get black pearls?

[Great Mighty Poo]

So I dont have any super powered sea tames, but im at mid to late game building and tech, so maybe I can pull it, but whats a good way to get black pearls? I want to try and tame a squid this weekend.

[YEET]

if you have a basilo, they cant be grabbed by squids and can farm black pearls thru killing them with ease... also.. you dont need turtles and friends to tame em, I just use my shark, its gotten me thru 3 high level squid tames

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Alpha Mosasaurus.

[Great Mighty Poo]

Originally posted by prism:

if you have a basilo, they cant be grabbed by squids and can farm black pearls thru killing them with ease... also.. you dont need turtles and friends to tame em, I just use my shark, its gotten me thru 3 high level squid tames

Well I only have a lvl... 30 basil? They are super rare, and theri kibble is hard to get... So I dont want to lose that.

[Great Mighty Poo]

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Alpha Mosasaurus.

Please note where I said I dont have very good sea tames. They seem to be very rare.

[heroicidiot]

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Alpha Mosasaurus.

Please note where I said I dont have very good sea tames. They seem to be very rare.

The only way to get black pearls is through the sea. So get to taming plesis and mosas

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Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Alpha Mosasaurus.

Please note where I said I dont have very good sea tames. They seem to be very rare.

Harpoons and lots of spear bolts.

[Makeithappen]

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

Originally posted by 123:

Please note where I said I dont have very good sea tames. They seem to be very rare.

Harpoons and lots of spear bolts.

and a decent harpoon gun at that.

[VoreX]

Eurypterid spawn rates are being increased by 50% next patch. These are the small scorpian things on the sea floor and they can drop 1-2 black pearls each.
Only way to get them without killing squid / alpha mosa.

[Makeithappen]

Originally posted by VoreX:

Eurypterid spawn rates are being increased by 50% next patch. These are the small scorpian things on the sea floor and they can drop 1-2 black pearls each.
Only way to get them without killing squid / alpha mosa.

and the nice thing is, those are a lot easier to kill. the downside is if you get to close you will be knocked out. So don't hug the sea floor too much. And the black pearl doesn't spawn 100% of the time in the loot table for these. Guaranteed to get black pearls from squids and alpha squids however.
So if you're going to make a motorboat, broth, absorbent substrate, or camera, the Eurypterid is the way to go.

If you are going to make any of the tek tier structures and gear, don't make it harder on yourself. get a high level water tame.

[retsam1]

A recent change(intentional or not it still works) allowing you to farm trilobites for small numbers of black pearls. 3 out of 5 kills harvested can yield 1-3 pearls and better results with higher harvesting rate dinos(theri etc).

[margalus]

Originally posted by retsam1:

A recent change(intentional or not it still works) allowing you to farm trilobites for small numbers of black pearls. 3 out of 5 kills harvested can yield 1-3 pearls and better results with higher harvesting rate dinos(theri etc).

I haven't been having that good of luck. I killed 20 or 30 trilobytes tonight and got 5 black peals. No more than 1 at a time.

[Metalicious]

There is a you tube channel aiming to help. Search "Quick Shots Ark". You will have plenty of black pearls.

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Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by retsam1:

A recent change(intentional or not it still works) allowing you to farm trilobites for small numbers of black pearls. 3 out of 5 kills harvested can yield 1-3 pearls and better results with higher harvesting rate dinos(theri etc).

I haven't been having that good of luck. I killed 20 or 30 trilobytes tonight and got 5 black peals. No more than 1 at a time.

Get a Theri, pump power harvesting and use left (I think) click.