Single Player Guide and Tips

[AlwaysHungry815]

I wanted to make a discussion with tips hopeing others will add on.

The best stratigies I learned for single player near vanilla wrong is not to settle till you have a proper amount of dinos to protect yourself. Place Hide beds and storage boxes as you progress as good save points. Ignore armor and level up speed and health as everything will kill you quickly regardless. Start at the beach and try to tame a trike in order to gather fast narco berries. Personally I tame every Dilo I find in the beginning. an army of Dilos watching you back can help you if your every knocked on concious or if you get targeted by a large Dino. There easy to tame and are deadly in a group.

Please add any tips or stratigies you found helpful also any settings you found fair but not too easy.

Edit - Also Level up health constatly for your attack Dilos.

[AlwaysHungry815]

Also I play with the annukai gensis mod. The passive taming added makes getting a flying creature faster.

[Dr. Eggnog]

Dodos.
Ignore everything, gather dodos, level attack.
Become the birdman, watch a swarm of dodos end life as we know it.
With enough Dodos, you can surpass god, and become the true master of the Island.

[AlwaysHungry815]

Originally posted by Dr. Eggnog:

Dodos.
Ignore everything, gather dodos, level attack.
Become the birdman, watch a swarm of dodos end life as we know it.
With enough Dodos, you can surpass god, and become the true master of the Island.

lol jokes aside I have tried a dodo army. 60 dodos could take on a mate boosted sarco. XD

[Dr. Eggnog]

Originally posted by Zero_Dawn:

Originally posted by Dr. Eggnog:

Dodos.
Ignore everything, gather dodos, level attack.
Become the birdman, watch a swarm of dodos end life as we know it.
With enough Dodos, you can surpass god, and become the true master of the Island.

lol jokes aside I have tried a dodo army. 60 dodos could take on a mate boosted sarco. XD

You need more Dodos. 60 is not enough.
Triple it, make the dodo legion, Ave Dodo.

On a serious note: If you play S.E., Rush thatch, don't build wood, don't build stone (except for a perimiter wall.) It'll cook you alive. Rifles are great, but the simple handgun can carry you for a while. To make enough charcoal to feed your gunpowder addiction that you will develop at this point, make ten to twenty campfires, put them a little ways away from your base, stock them full of wood, light it up, and go do something else while you wait on two thousand or so charcoal.
The Canyon has a good amount of metal, build on the cliffs near one of the water pools.

Extra thing I just remembered:
Build five or so beds at your main base, no need to worry about cooldowns for respawning.
Also keep around two copies or so of your current equipment if you can afford it, and keep it at base. Quite a bit of help when you go out looking for crystal or metal, and run into a carno. It's not as big of a loss then.

[AlwaysHungry815]

a raft can also be your friend. when taming a high level dino. if on a raft just take a shot at the dino float on the raft, pause shoot another tranq arrow, ride away, rinse and repeat. This had allowed me to get a bronto and a spino early. Becareful when in the water you dont want pirahnas to eat you knocked out dino.

[AlwaysHungry815]

anymore?

[Dr. Eggnog]

Originally posted by Zero_Dawn:

anymore?

Don't poke the rex.

[AlwaysHungry815]

Originally posted by Dr. Eggnog:

Originally posted by Zero_Dawn:

anymore?

Don't poke the rex.

Hey poking the Rex is important for research!

[MrGreenfly]

Only spend engrams points on the things you are literally about to make/need. Dont just start spending them all willy nilly.