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Sketchazoid Dec 1, 2020 @ 11:39pm
Crystal Wyvern Nests Not Spawning
Title pretty much says it all. My wife and I are renting a private server and we decided to go grab some eggs but after an hour or more of flying around we haven't found a single nest. Not one.

- Yes we're in the right area. Desert section in the South on Crystal Isles. We even have a video of where all the nests are supposed to be located.

- I have done a dino wipe already.

- We left render range and I sped up time and we waited 10 mins IRL. Came back, still no nests. We even left render range, without speeding up time and waited 2 in-game days. Still not a single nest. Not even empty nests.

- There is plenty of wyverns flying around the area, we've tried killing them and letting others respawn, still no nests.

So my question is, are we just screwed? Is there a solution? Perhaps a mod that fixes the nests. They were bugged when the map was first released officially, but I'd figure by now that it would have got fixed. Perhaps I had too high of hopes.
Last edited by Sketchazoid; Dec 1, 2020 @ 11:40pm
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Saucyminx Dec 2, 2020 @ 9:46am 
I feel your pain!! We have this problem also. We've been getting maybe 1 egg every few hours and the eggs we get are 98% blood wyvern, very low level with crap stats and borning regular colors. We've been playing a few months and have never gotten a tropical egg. Just this week we've been aggressively killing every dragon in that area except the higher level ones for several minutes and now we get about one egg every day/night cycle. They are still usually mid to low level/stats and bland basic colored. All the dragons in the area can be high level ultra cool color combos and we end up hatching a level 11 salmon colored flesh popsicle with horrible stats.
DigginTiger Dec 2, 2020 @ 2:33pm 
The heirs crystal wyverns egg mechanic is almost broken. Yes you can still farm eggs if you spend days and days for it but it's not worth it imo. Your best bet is to tame the passive ones, it's much more reliable but it becomes quite tidious very quickly. i' ve bred some decent crystal wyverns using both methods and all i can advise you is go for the passive ones not the heirs eggs mechanic.
The easiest specie to farm is the tropical wyvern, because they live in large numbers in their own biome and the respawn very very quickly. You will never find a tropical egg in the heirs area by the way, only blood and ember.
The hardest are the ember ones because you can loose track of them fairly easily around the volcano forrest and they are more difficult to spot. beware of the gigas spawns there too.

Good luck my friend ! but imo the crystal wyvern are not worth the effort now that we can breed the original ones.
lol its crystal isles. Map is super unfinished and buggy with most good features removed when it went official.

I agree with others, just passive tame and breed them
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 2:55pm 
Ok so I can passive tame the blood and ember wyverns in other biomes as well? I don't know much about the map so I thought the only way to obtain the others was by stealing eggs.

As far as whether or not Crystal Wyverns are worth it, honestly I just want them cause of their cool colors, blood wyverns sound dope, and they're faster than normal wyverns. Normal Wyverns are still better due to their ability to pick almost anything up and I am pretty sure they outclass Crystal Wyverns in terms of damage. Especially Lightning Wyverns. Still they look cool and I want them. lol
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ok so I can passive tame the blood and ember wyverns in other biomes as well? I don't know much about the map so I thought the only way to obtain the others was by stealing eggs.

As far as whether or not Crystal Wyverns are worth it, honestly I just want them cause of their cool colors, blood wyverns sound dope, and they're faster than normal wyverns. Normal Wyverns are still better due to their ability to pick almost anything up and I am pretty sure they outclass Crystal Wyverns in terms of damage. Especially Lightning Wyverns. Still they look cool and I want them. lol

IIRC it applies to the blood boyos as well.
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 3:08pm 
Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ok so I can passive tame the blood and ember wyverns in other biomes as well? I don't know much about the map so I thought the only way to obtain the others was by stealing eggs.

As far as whether or not Crystal Wyverns are worth it, honestly I just want them cause of their cool colors, blood wyverns sound dope, and they're faster than normal wyverns. Normal Wyverns are still better due to their ability to pick almost anything up and I am pretty sure they outclass Crystal Wyverns in terms of damage. Especially Lightning Wyverns. Still they look cool and I want them. lol

IIRC it applies to the blood boyos as well.
Suppose I'll Google it. Sucks the map is still broken/unfinished after months of release. Feels like one of the major selling points of the map wasn't even tested.
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:

IIRC it applies to the blood boyos as well.
Suppose I'll Google it. Sucks the map is still broken/unfinished after months of release. Feels like one of the major selling points of the map wasn't even tested.

yeah, really is a shame. The biggest DOH is how neutered the Eldritch isles is compared to the workshop version. Much darker and way, way more brutal and detailed. Believe the broodmother also spawned there naturally as well. I only got to play on the old version for a few hours but it was so much better.
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 7:11pm 
Originally posted by PghDave420:
random luck also its cause you want the wyvern eggs lol.if i had a dime every time i see a max lv dino when im not looking for them id be rich .i been playing on a cluster and there crystal isles has plenty of eggs.sometimes with all low eggs and sometimes get lucky with some high lv eggs.but it is a busy cluster and people prob loot alot so new eggs always there.hopefully you figure it out cause i always see eggs there
I am on a server with just my wife and I, so no one is looting the eggs. It's just bugged so I've abandoned my search until it's fixed.
retsam1 Dec 2, 2020 @ 8:05pm 
This is how you get the nests to respawn:

The nests(like beavers dams) are tied to specific wyverns that spawn(this holds true on the other maps too.

If you do not kill or cause the wyverns to despawn after grabbing an egg, then it takes much longer for them to respawn.

Best method I've found for crystal isles is to be on a really good stam and fast flier that can out run wyverns. Grab an egg, and stay around to where you grab aggro from as many wyverns as possible then lure them -across- the griffin trench going relatively north(not along the trench).

Fly semi close to the ground if your flier isnt super fast nor lose render of them if your flier is too fast. Your goal is to have them:

1. Leave the nesting area's render distance.
2. Have them aggro other creatures on the ground instead of you(they seem to do this if you are not super close to the wyverns but still in render distance.

You'll have to tweek this method and practice a bit but if doing this, 1 nest should respawn almost every time.

If you cannot find a nest respawn of an egg, then it means there was another wyvern either in or around the dome that was connected to it so you'll just need to lure another set across the trench again or so.

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

I am on a server with just my wife and I, so no one is looting the eggs. It's just bugged so I've abandoned my search until it's fixed.

You'll be waiting a considerably long if not indefinite period of time.

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

Suppose I'll Google it. Sucks the map is still broken/unfinished after months of release. Feels like one of the major selling points of the map wasn't even tested.

Something to point out but the map is essentially finished. The areas that are unpopulated that look like they should have more dinos etc are because -before- it was bought out and made an official map, the mod version had those areas populated with more dinos from a variety of dlc's. Devs made the decision to cut them out because the didn't want to remove all justifications for buying those others dlc's. That of course makes sense.

You can always opt to use modded content to add all manner of dinos to the map as you please from any expansion of course and especially because you're running it as a server on your own.
Last edited by retsam1; Dec 2, 2020 @ 8:09pm
Saucyminx Dec 2, 2020 @ 9:41pm 
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ok so I can passive tame the blood and ember wyverns in other biomes as well? I don't know much about the map so I thought the only way to obtain the others was by stealing eggs.

As far as whether or not Crystal Wyverns are worth it, honestly I just want them cause of their cool colors, blood wyverns sound dope, and they're faster than normal wyverns. Normal Wyverns are still better due to their ability to pick almost anything up and I am pretty sure they outclass Crystal Wyverns in terms of damage. Especially Lightning Wyverns. Still they look cool and I want them. lol

If you just want really cool colors then passive tame and breeding is the best!!! You'll need to tranq a wyvern then use E to take it's primal crystals, then go find a dragon you want to tame. It can be done with regular crystal but will take longer and not be as good stat-wise. You'll need the primal crystals to feed the babies. We usually go around and kill off all the low level or ugly wyverns until better ones spawn which is usually very quick.

The blood wyverns are usually salmon/charcoal colored, and are found by the big red crystal formations kinda near the tropical zone. The ember ones are usually just shades of orange/yellow, and can be found all around the red forrest volcano area. The tropical really have some amazing colors!! Through breeding we have several that have very vibrant stained glass/oil slick wings!!! Have fun taming and breeding, hope this helped!
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 9:44pm 
Originally posted by Saucyminx:
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ok so I can passive tame the blood and ember wyverns in other biomes as well? I don't know much about the map so I thought the only way to obtain the others was by stealing eggs.

As far as whether or not Crystal Wyverns are worth it, honestly I just want them cause of their cool colors, blood wyverns sound dope, and they're faster than normal wyverns. Normal Wyverns are still better due to their ability to pick almost anything up and I am pretty sure they outclass Crystal Wyverns in terms of damage. Especially Lightning Wyverns. Still they look cool and I want them. lol

If you just want really cool colors then passive tame and breeding is the best!!! You'll need to tranq a wyvern then use E to take it's primal crystals, then go find a dragon you want to tame. It can be done with regular crystal but will take longer and not be as good stat-wise. You'll need the primal crystals to feed the babies. We usually go around and kill off all the low level or ugly wyverns until better ones spawn which is usually very quick.

The blood wyverns are usually salmon/charcoal colored, and are found by the big red crystal formations kinda near the tropical zone. The ember ones are usually just shades of orange/yellow, and can be found all around the red forrest volcano area. The tropical really have some amazing colors!! Through breeding we have several that have very vibrant stained glass/oil slick wings!!! Have fun taming and breeding, hope this helped!
I've tamed a couple passive tamed Tropical Wyverns. They're cool, but I can't be an edge lord without the Blood Wyvern. I want to ride one in the sky with my pet Onyc and scream Fallout Boy lyrics while complaining that my mother never loved me. lol jk So it is possible to passive tame blood wyverns? Ember wyverns are meh. Just puny fire wyverns or am I missing something?
retsam1 Dec 2, 2020 @ 10:55pm 
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ah retsam1 we meet again, Oh how I missed your condescending know it all BS. Tell me, how has the royal taint licker position been going for you? Last I heard it was voluntary. A pity, someone with your prowess in such a position should be paid well. I'm sure the Ark Gods will smile upon thee one day and acknowledge your dedication to the taint licking arts.

Forgive me Lord Powerbottom, my sarcasm stems from you completely missing your mark and still coming off as a condescending douche. Feel free to re-read my issue since you clearly failed to see my problem. I know how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wyvern nests work. THERE IS NONE SPAWNING PERIOD. You'd know that if you didn't have your chin pointing towards the sky.


to those that are confused I got a little history, if you will, with retsam1


I've a prediction for you....

And with your inane churlishness beside, I understood they were not spawning for you. I was suggesting to you how to resolve that problem (especially since often people do not clear/lure out the ones inside the dome as well) but clearly you seem to think that doesn't help, so good luck to you otherwise.
Last edited by retsam1; Dec 2, 2020 @ 11:00pm
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 11:09pm 
Originally posted by retsam1:
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Ah retsam1 we meet again, Oh how I missed your condescending know it all BS. Tell me, how has the royal taint licker position been going for you? Last I heard it was voluntary. A pity, someone with your prowess in such a position should be paid well. I'm sure the Ark Gods will smile upon thee one day and acknowledge your dedication to the taint licking arts.

Forgive me Lord Powerbottom, my sarcasm stems from you completely missing your mark and still coming off as a condescending douche. Feel free to re-read my issue since you clearly failed to see my problem. I know how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wyvern nests work. THERE IS NONE SPAWNING PERIOD. You'd know that if you didn't have your chin pointing towards the sky.


to those that are confused I got a little history, if you will, with retsam1


I've a prediction for you....

And with your inane churlishness beside, I understood they were not spawning for you. I was suggesting to you how to resolve that problem (especially since often people do not clear/lure out the ones inside the dome as well) but clearly you seem to think that doesn't help, so good luck to you otherwise.
Doesn't help BECAUSE THERE IS NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NESTS TO CLEAR OUT you illiterate douche canoe.

Your name from this point forward will no longer be retsam1.

It will be Sam, The Tainted One.
retsam1 Dec 2, 2020 @ 11:14pm 
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Originally posted by retsam1:


I've a prediction for you....

And with your inane churlishness beside, I understood they were not spawning for you. I was suggesting to you how to resolve that problem (especially since often people do not clear/lure out the ones inside the dome as well) but clearly you seem to think that doesn't help, so good luck to you otherwise.
Doesn't help BECAUSE THERE IS NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NESTS TO CLEAR OUT you illiterate douche canoe.

Your name from this point forward will no longer be retsam1.

It will be Sam, The Tainted One.

Again, if they're not respawning, it can be again because you're missing the specific wyverns tied to them (again inside or outside the dome). Also you were not explicit in saying that you knew where all the locations were on the outside of the dome that a next can potentially spawn. For now I'll assume from your silliness that you perhaps do at least know that.

Also have you checked your respawn timers, as if you have them set very low that can also cause issues.

Also if you have certain modded content it can be conflicting with spawns too. Really depends.
Last edited by retsam1; Dec 2, 2020 @ 11:16pm
Sketchazoid Dec 2, 2020 @ 11:27pm 
Originally posted by retsam1:
Originally posted by Sketchazoid:
Doesn't help BECAUSE THERE IS NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NESTS TO CLEAR OUT you illiterate douche canoe.

Your name from this point forward will no longer be retsam1.

It will be Sam, The Tainted One.

Again, if they're not respawning, it can be again because you're missing the specific wyverns tied to them (again inside or outside the dome). Also you were not explicit in saying that you knew where all the locations were on the outside of the dome that a next can potentially spawn. For now I'll assume from your silliness that you perhaps do at least know that.

Also have you checked your respawn timers, as if you have them set very low that can also cause issues.

Also if you have certain modded content it can be conflicting with spawns too. Really depends.

I...I just can't with you. I swear. I give up. I wave the white flag.
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