Surface crystal on ragnarok?

[orion winterfire]

Unfortunately, the wiki resource map includes cave crystal, so it is not terribly helpful.
Any advice for crystal gathering near viking bay?

[Derpy]

There is crystal scattered throughout. Eh, near Viking Bay......iirc there are several crystal nodes just East of Blue Obelisk, on the east side of the collaped stone bridge.

[FlyingFish]

The ice caves on the mountain beside the jungle have a decent amount. It also has a lot of oil too. It has many entrances and even early game you can reach it with a good raptor or sabercat. Viking bay is below it and to the right. Just watch out for dire bears. They spawn heavily there.

It is a cave system, but with so many openings and being so near the surface I count it more as the surface. You can fly a wyvern through it. I just take my best anky with a argy with only weight and speed leveled and harvest all the oil and crystal that I can.

[johnim]

Look on the rock bridge closest to the dino ribcage on the beach, also look behind the broken bridge on the floor there is a few

[Ages]

Try this map:
https://allgamemaps.com/maps/ark/ragnarok

Doesn't show surface vs cave, but might still be a bit better.

[The Dark Fae]

On the Western side of Viking Bay, on the large rock arch, there's two nodes on there, and then over those mountains towards the forest area, there's a ridge with lots of crystal and metal nodes. And there's also the water tower; in the grand canyon, one of the small spires of rock has a small-diameter "pond" in the centre, which is relatively deep and has lots of crystal in it. And also where the snowy pond above Viking Bay, the mini-cave/tunnel there has a few crystal nodes.

[orion winterfire]

Thanks! This helps a lot.