TIPS and TRICKS to SURVIVING in ABERRATION

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Hello out there fellow Arkians as some of you may have noticed the new map is defiently harder to survive in so here's a few tricks and tips to help you along.

1.) The easiest spawn point "The Portal" does not contain water! Instead if you follow the bridge (platform) you will come to a drop off with a lake below it! (Getting back up takes some progression so be sure you are ready to jump!)

2.) Grab a Bulbdog (or Frog Dog as I call em) they tame faster with cooked meat than raw and are your literal best friend (EDIT: Community says they tame fastest with Aquatic Mushrooms!). They don't recharge fast but glow bugs do that for you! Raise it's charge capacity, charge emission (increases the light radius), and weight (they act like a backpack too!!!)

3.) A lot of dinos wanna eat you so follow the 3 major rules of ark! 1* carry Bolas (lots of em) 2* look before you leap (seriously look below you before you jump down ledges!!!) Very few carnivores glow in the dark!!! 3* always bring spare armor (this seems basic but many people I'm seeing carry 1 set of armor rather than 3)

Weapons don't seem to do as much to the new creatures in aberration so be very careful! The first thing I did was tame a Bulbdog and a Stego Bodyguard (slow but meaty enough to last against some stuff once a saddle was on)

4.) Taming a Ravager should be a top priority! These guys are good to have and can be tamed with the Bola & Tranq method (or club just be careful)! Just watch out cause they roam in packs and have a very nasty bleed effect that will wear you and any dinos you have down fast! [Sidenote: these guys can walk on the vine ropes and Zip lines you see on the map like a tightrope! And make it very easy to travel up and down the ark!]

5.) Metal is scarce at first. The lakes have a bit and so do some of the cliffs(getting up to them is a chore) as well as a few pockets along the bridge pillars that run thru the ark. The real hauls of metal are inside the crater of the ark in the bio-luminecent cavern and lower just make sure you can get back out and bring a Light Pet!!


If you guys have any other tricks and tips post them here! Have fun in Aberration!!!

[The Waffle that Lurks]

A few more Tips I just remembered.

6.) The climbing hooks wear down very fast so don't expect them to get you out of a deep hole. I literally started to carry 5 sets of them because they broke soo much!!!

7.) The Nameless will never stop spawning unless you have a charge light! Luckily they only spawn in the giant cavern and lower. (Also on the surface but that's a different story entirely with its own threats)

[Vesuvius]

*you dont need to run faster then a Reaper.... you just need to run faster then your tribe buddies*

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

*you dont need to run faster then a Reaper.... you just need to run faster then your tribe buddies*

Lol or drop a Flashbang Fruit (Species Z Fruit)

[BT]

I believed bulbdog tame faster with mushrooms than meats... and I also feel saver with multiple raptors with saddles along my side at the startibg area.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by BT:

I believed bulbdog tame faster with mushrooms than meats... and I also feel saver with multiple raptors with saddles along my side at the startibg area.

I was unaware it could eat mushrooms thanks for the advice!

[Pink Gek]

Bulbdogs LOVE the Aqua Mushrooms! Try those instead of meat!

[Zhaedri]

Instead of going for the broken bridge, turn right and go through the little side cave (its before the tunnel part)... an easy way down and back up without having to take the plunge into waters writhing with hungry aberrant fauna.

You cannot build in the portal area, so you need to move on from there. Gather enough to get your bulbdog (it likes the aqua mushrooms) and tame one off to the side where the raptors and the basilisks aren't roaming about.

Don't wander around at night without a light. Really. If not for non-glowy predators, there are patches of red mushrooms with little white spots on them. Walk through a patch of those and you be trippin', man. Suffocating and get the squits too.

If you haven't seen the dino, don't get the saddle engram. It still allows a bunch of the Island dino saddles to be learned even though those dinos dont spawn on Aberration. I'm sure this is for populations travelling cross-ark.

There is no rain, just quakes that drop some resources from above. The lack of rain makes having a base high up or away from water a questionable decision (esp if you want to grow crops). Do you want to make and lay a bazillion pipes? If not, settle next to or a reasonable distance from water.

[dogface]

no rain and quakes wait for some reason for me there have been no quakes for the 2 or so hours i've played aberration for and the same rain cycle as the other maps

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by dogface_badjack:

no rain and quakes wait for some reason for me there have been no quakes for the 2 or so hours i've played aberration for and the same rain cycle as the other maps

That's weird I get a quake almost every 20 minutes

[Zaphod4th]

Classic stats distribution works also for Abe

- Put most points on speed
- Put some points on stamina
- Put some points on weight

at least until lvl 40

[Kruxis]

I found a perfect spot with water, caves, lotsa metal, trees and everything you could need. 1 meter away a big hole down to the depth. Im redownloading the game Atm so coords are following

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by V.Lions Kruxis:

I found a perfect spot with water, caves, lotsa metal, trees and everything you could need. 1 meter away a big hole down to the depth. Im redownloading the game Atm so coords are following

bit late to the party necromancer lol ... numerous youtube vids to brows through

[Grok 3]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

*you dont need to run faster then a Reaper.... you just need to run faster then your tribe buddies*

enough said lmaoo