Where to go from starting off on Herbivore Island?

[GrimBot]

I was going to start off in the North for fun but judging by the replies to that idea on another discussion, I think I won't for now.
I will start on Herb Island (Excuse me if i said it wrong or if I didn't use the right name) and I'm curious what any tips are? I heard it isn't too hard?
Though, for VERY quick progression, what would be the tips?
To being able to travel quicker with fair armor, etc, and a good base and all. Like to be able to quicken the time it takes to have a sucessful start + run.
Recommendations as to what steps to do?
Any tips would be great! Detail especially!
Sorry If this seems like spam and if i annoy anyone. I actually posted a question like this but for the North-Region a few hours earlier.

[MortVent]

On herbie island, build the base buildings on the outer rim of the lagoon away from the metal spawns and the valley. (check my screenshots for a couple of my old base)

Level up as normal, crafting narcotics and work your way up to the point you got the tools to tame some nasty dinos (and get the raft!)

Stone is the key for building so you can make a floating base/tame pen for dinos. You will use the raft a bit to travel at first to the swamp and then farther.

when you can tame an argie the whole map becomes open, the petra just lacks the carry capacity to really be as useful

[Sistermatic™]

Originally posted by MortVent:

Level up as normal, crafting narcotics and work your way up to the point you got the tools to tame some nasty dinos (and get the raft!)

Respectfully Sir, just quickly, how's he going to get to herbi island without a raft? I didn't think you could spawn on it and the megas are not particularly friendly.

[di eshor ribly]

There are no predators on herbivore island for one. Your first order of business living on HI is to build a raft to ferry your dinos to and from the island. It doesn't have to be fancy, a 5x5 with ramps will do just fine. You may want to build a second 3x5 raft that's an enclosed base. Bed, preserving bin, smithy/forge, mortar & pestle, campfire, and storage. This will be a temporary starting base.

Import a carnivore, anything capable of killing brontos will be fine. Murder everything on the island to feed the carnivore and yourself. Set your mount on passive so when you kill something you can hop off and hatchet the corpse to get more hide than meat.

For quick levels, what you will be doing besides the murder spree is building the marina walls. It's possible to make a bridge to the two smaller islands. You can either use stone pillars and walls to seal it off, with at least a stone behemoth gate on one side, or you can use foundations and double up on the walls to create bridges like I did, I'll edit this post and show you a screenshot later.

With a secure marina you'll be able to safely store your aquatic creatures. At one point I had a dozen ichthyosaurs, a dozen sharks, 4 plesiosaurs, and a mosasaur inside. While it was cramped, there was still room to move around.

After that, you can build walls closing off the little culvert on the island. Again, I used foundations to make sure everything was straight and even, but you can use fence foundations if you want. I built a 10x10 arena/base inside the culvert, complete with a 5x10 fighting area, a 4x4 metal prison cell, and a workshop (forges, smithy, fabricator, mortars), a kitchen (grill, cooker, fridge, generator, preserving bins), a storage room up stairs (24 large storage boxes), and a bedroom (three beds, more large storage). I have a secondary base built on a large stone pillar to the north, only accessible by flying.

My base at HI still has room for all of my current dinos (1 carno, 1 sarco, 1 trike, 1 frog, 1 terror bird, 1 doedi, 2 beavers, a mesopithecus, a gigantopithecus, an argentavis, 4 quetzals, a dung beetle, and a phiomia). I have plans to tame a mosasaurus for myself with quetz kibble to replace my dead shark. At the moment, I'm a solo tribe on a private server.

[MortVent]

Originally posted by Sista:

Originally posted by MortVent:

Level up as normal, crafting narcotics and work your way up to the point you got the tools to tame some nasty dinos (and get the raft!)

Respectfully Sir, just quickly, how's he going to get to herbi island without a raft? I didn't think you could spawn on it and the megas are not particularly friendly.

not that hard, tame a couple dilos... use them as bait for the sharkies. Or if you get lucky and loot an icthy saddle tame one of them.

Done it a couple times just swimming without help

If you just swim over from east 1 you don't lose nothing starting out if you fail

[Sistermatic™]

Originally posted by MortVent:

Originally posted by Sista:

Respectfully Sir, just quickly, how's he going to get to herbi island without a raft? I didn't think you could spawn on it and the megas are not particularly friendly.

not that hard, tame a couple dilos... use them as bait for the sharkies. Or if you get lucky and loot an icthy saddle tame one of them.

Done it a couple times just swimming without help

If you just swim over from east 1 you don't lose nothing starting out if you fail

Fair enough. Would suggest I've just been unlucky. Never got to herbi as a new char swimming yet. Always built a raft then headed over.

[di eshor ribly]

Popped in to take a few screenshots.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665663383

That's my 10x10x4 arena base. The three behemoth gates separate the back holding pen from the front yard, and keeps wandering critters out. The spikes up top also keep them out. I lost about 1/3 of the metal spawns with this build, but if you have access to mining facilities at the volcano you could always fly out and harvest a few hundred (thousands if you have a quetz).

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665663229

This is the outer marina walls. I used foundations for the most part to line them up and keep them even. Again, since I'm on a private pve server and was building this place as a tribe warzone, I built it up a bit more than normal. You can see the 3 wide bridge to Fort <Redacted>, the 5 wide dock I built for visiting rafts, the lighthouse which was just a pet project, and a 1-wide wall with a stone behemoth gate for entrance. Each foundation piece was double layered just because I felt like it, and I think it looks pretty good. Total pain to do though.

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by Sista:

Originally posted by MortVent:

not that hard, tame a couple dilos... use them as bait for the sharkies. Or if you get lucky and loot an icthy saddle tame one of them.

Done it a couple times just swimming without help

If you just swim over from east 1 you don't lose nothing starting out if you fail

Fair enough. Would suggest I've just been unlucky. Never got to herbi as a new char swimming yet. Always built a raft then headed over.

Running into sharks is always a risk when you live on an island. Sometimes you can swim across and not see one, the next day you see thirty of them gnawing on a dead bronto that decided to learn to swim.

You can learn to build the raft at what, level 15? That doesn't take very long even on standard rates. It should be one of the first milestones you push for because it gives you a mobile base, a mobile taming station, a ferry, whatever you want to build. Especially if you're considering living on an island. I just putzed around on the mainland until I could build one and scooted over here as soon as I could.

Other options: taming a decoy flock of dinos to swim along side you if you can't build saddles yet. If you can build saddles; sarcos, ankylos, frogs, and beavers can outswim or outfight any fish that try to get frisky as you cross over.

[HawthornThistleberry]

The hard part at level 15 of building a raft when in the region across from Herbivore Island is getting enough hides. I've recently gone through that on an unofficial-but-open Extinction Event server and it was a lot of three steps forward, three steps back. At low levels even a dilo can be more than you can handle, and you can get raptors and sarcos fairly regularly. More than once I had to strip down to nothing, run out of the house, then run away and lure the sarco away, die somewhere to it, and hope it happened to be far enough that it wouldn't come back and finish destroying the little house. Once we got that raft and made it across... suddenly everything's so much easier. But it sure took a while to get to making it.

[Dracul]

Originally posted by Sista:

Respectfully Sir, just quickly, how's he going to get to herbi island without a raft? I didn't think you could spawn on it and the megas are not particularly friendly.

Spawn, start punching trees picking up rocks whatever you need to level. First five level ups, put them into oxygen. You dont need to be fast enough to outswim sharks, just get a big enough lead before they notice you to reach land - I did this when the extinction servers first started up to establish a quick head start there before anyone else.

[Sistermatic™]

Originally posted by Dracul:

Originally posted by Sista:

Respectfully Sir, just quickly, how's he going to get to herbi island without a raft? I didn't think you could spawn on it and the megas are not particularly friendly.

Spawn, start punching trees picking up rocks whatever you need to level. First five level ups, put them into oxygen. You dont need to be fast enough to outswim sharks, just get a big enough lead before they notice you to reach land - I did this when the extinction servers first started up to establish a quick head start there before anyone else.

What's the old saying?

You don't need to swim faster than the shark... just faster than your mate :)

[❤️️Hukysuky❤]

I lived on herb island once, I tamed a bronto and had planned to beef him up in health and damage and then swim him across the water and build a base on a platform saddle.

[Attila the Hun]

step 1 (lvls 1-25) Don't build any sturctures until wood or stone. I'd make a decent raft and some kinda temporary dino pen there but thats about it. Spend a good amount of time just killing things and leveling up on mainland. During this time you should spend a lot of time taming 1 male and LOTS of females of dodos (kibble for high lvl pteradon), dilo (for high lvl doed and ank), raptors (for mammoth but this optional and you may just want to suffer through a long tame of a low level beaver at first which spawns closer, and scorpions (for rex egg farm a bit later, which in turn allows you to get quetz). All of these but beavers are super easy tames, and if you prepare beforehand you can get quite efficient and tame 3-6 at once that are all in the same area. Just keep loading them onto you're raft and transporting them there.

Optional: tame a trike (without kibble) to use to get berries and transport easier. Later tho the ank can fill this role as well.

Optional: tame a low levels argentivas up north (get good pteradon first from dodo kibble to fly up there), this will allow you to pick up pulm and stick them (multiple) in taming pen to speed up this process of getting you're rex farm set up.

step 2 (lvls 25-45)
Once eggs are flowing get a few medium crop plots stick you're vegetable seeds with some fert to get vegetables going with end product kibble in mind.
Once you get bird fly over mainland in south side 2 there will be an oil node you can pick with you're pick or ank. This can provide you with little bits of oil needed to make kibbles, or alternatively just fly up to snow biome hit some oil nodes carry the oil back. Now you have everything you need to make kibble and get those really good harvesting dinos so you can BUILD.

Step 3, (45-55) You now got all the major harvesting dinos, it is time to set up shop, hopefully b now you found a spot that looks good for a permanent base. With that pulm kibble you both want to find yourself a high level frog in swamp(optional) and start taming those rexes. You're first one should be a medium leveled one, with enough melee to give you decent prime meat (need prime jerky for pulm kibble for more rexes). This will speed up process of making kibble. Set up a rex farm from all that pulm kibble you made, and start saving those rex eggs for you're first qeutz. At some point you need to venture into the cave and find yourself a beetle. This will allow you to mass product fertilizer, making you're garden better and able set up some preliminary defenses for you;re base. By this time you should have high lvl itchy so you can go get them pearls. You should be about ready to start dabbling in the benefits of electricity

Step 4, (60+) By this time or even earlier if possible you ready to get your're first quetz and transition to a all metal base with all the good stuffs. The game is now less about survival and more about a building/ taming simulator but still fun.

[GrimBot]

O god loved all the detail!
Thanks a ton you guys!
Now any tips if I want to move an unconsious friend + A few large dinos, but none bigger than a carno or sarco, across the isle in the raft?
Will anything attack the raft, etc?
+ Is it worth getting a saddle early on for a level 8 Saber or should I save it for the Argent's saddle which i can also get for my Argent?
Which first?