farming resources easily ark

[Razzard_12]

i need a bit of help i live on the island map around the middle next to the redwood biome just to the right. and i need to gather loads of wood and thatch very easy. in order to make a bunch of behemoth gateways to defend the area.
any tips you can give is appreciated
(i heard about getting a mammoth but i don't have to gear to go to the snow biome yet)

[Liralen]

It depends upon your level and whatever other needs you have. I'm also assuming you mean a behemoth stone dinosaur gateway, in which case a doedicurus will be of tremendous use to gather stone, and is pretty good at thatch too. They can be found in the redwood forests, among other places.

Moschops are easy to tame, excellent for new players needing to gathering plants of all types, but are not good at fighting. When playing a new toon, I usually pair them with Stegosaurus, which are better fighters and better at gathering wood.

In the area you are in (swamps are nearby, where paraceratherium tend to hang out, but generally a pretty dangerous area for new players). Paraceratherium are nice utility dinos, which I kind of consider as smaller versions of brontos and diplodocus, but without the hassles of dealing with large dinos, and a pair of them can pretty much handle anything in the swamps.

Therizinosaurs are by far my favorite for gathering wood and because most mobs will not attack you when riding them, as well as being great fighters. But they are hard to tame, primarily because it takes a lot of hits of whatever you are using to knock them out and keep them tranquilized while taming.

Edited Note: Treat therizins as you would a rex that can move and turn fast. Although for some reason, they are easily trapped because wild ones won't back up. I used pillars to trap them, as well as terrain obstacles, like trees (which Is ironic, since tamed therizins will auto-harvest trees) until I obtained flyers, such as quetzals, big enough to pick them up and put them where I want them.

[operator_rat5]

you can cut down the smaller redwood trees, beavers are amazing wood gatherers and they reduce the weight of wood in there inventory, therizinos are good wood gatherers and they can also gather fiber, and for stone, a doedic gathers stone and reduces the weight of stone in there inventorys.

[esthergray]

I agree with therizinos They gather loads of wood thatch, berries, hide, and a whole slough of other resources.

[Razzard_12]

i planing to get a therizino as i have 2 at my other base but they don't gather thatch well enough for this.
(yes there behemoth gateways)

[retsam1]

Originally posted by tanker:

i planing to get a therizino as i have 2 at my other base but they don't gather thatch well enough for this.
(yes there behemoth gateways)

If you are in single player, you can also opt to change the harvest rate and harvest health settings to give you more and save you both time and resource plundering.

Also, there are spots where its not quite the snow biome that mammoth can occasionally be found around. Dangers abound though.

Megaloceros(male deer version) were the old way for gathering thatch quickly before theriz came around too.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by tanker:

i planing to get a therizino as i have 2 at my other base but they don't gather thatch well enough for this.
(yes there behemoth gateways)

If you've already got therizins, then all you really need is doedicurus, which are crucial for stone gathering, and as a side benefit, gather thatch as well, although not as well as some other dinos. But in my experience, the two of them are sufficient, for making stone anything.

Edited Note: However, as fond as I am of doeds (rolly polly!) I do have to say that ankylosaurus, whose expertise is harvesting metal, at high levels make doeds obsolete, since they can harvest metal, stone, and thatch. Plus obsidian and crystal.

[King Doom]

castoroides are absolute legends at farming wood. For Thatch, a wooly rhino will get you more than you can ever use in one dash through the bushes. For stone you want a doedicurus, the armordillo looking dudes. Sabertooth are good at harvesting hide and ankylosaurs are the ones you want to harvest metal nodes.

[RequiemsRose]

In your area there are tons of beavers, which would cover the need for wood. Doedicurus is a godsend for stone. For thatch dinos without heading into snow, the doed can actually work as well, or a trike if you already happen to have one, it is a pretty common early tame. The deer running around can also be a good option, pretty easy to tame and the males can be decently combat effective as well but they are also somewhat niche in use and may not be worth it if you have any concerns about reaching tame limits. If you wanted to take the overkill approach then there is also the option of getting a bronto. They may not actually be the best as far as efficiency in gathering wood, but they are great at gathering thatch as well and they have such a generous range on their tail swing that a jaunt through the redwoods swinging your tail will get you mass amounts of thatch, berries, and a good amount of wood anyway. Plus a bronto with a platform can be a very useful thing later on, besides the obvious mobile base potential they are just the right height to reach many of the beehives in the redwoods when you get far enough to be concerned about that to.

Overall getting a doed and a beaver is probably your easiest and most beneficial options. Beavers can't really be beat when it comes to wood gathering on island and with the weight reduction they get for it they can gather a large amount of it each trip, plus they hit pretty dang hard for their size in those moments you need to defend yourself. Doed's main claim to fame is their similar claim for rock farming, which you will always need (if not the actual stone, it will be useful later when you need cementing paste all the time as well) but when they farm trees they aren't horrible for thatch gathering either.