Current best Rare Flower farming method

[Calus]

Wondering if anyone here knows the current best way to farm Rare Flowers. (Or at least their preferred way) I tried searching for it, but all the information seems to be outdated, so I'm wondering if anything changed

The old method was to take an anyklo to a mountain and farm the flowers, but now with Dino rebalancing and swamps and stuff, I'm sure there is another way to farm.

Anyone willing to share? :D

[Gran]

Quetz + highdamage elk + swamp

[Sgt.Morrigahngaming]

Mammuth or trike, go bananas on the trees in the swamp!!
U'll get musrooms and rare flowers like crazy

[leftharted]

ive been away from Ark for a few months, and just now starting to get back in.. So, some recent changes im unaware of may have affected my old ways.

But, I used to just take any decent berry-gatherer to the jungle, and go nuts on the fauna; always seemed to generate an ample supply of flowers...

IMO, anky on a mountain is better for shrooms via crystal nodes. If I recall correctly, the fauna at the mountain tops used to give rare flowers too, but the amount of plants to harvest seemed lackluster compared to doing an herbivore rampage through the jungle.

my 2c.

[Calus]

I've gotten a ton of mushrooms with the mammoth in the swamp when I needed some for the kangaroo, but I don't remember what I would have done with the flowers....

I'd feel so stupid if I got and dropped hundreds before when mushroom farming, and I just don't remember it lol

Do they drop from the trees the same way mushrooms do? Or should I aim for particular plants down there?

[Magic]

The red little plant next to the trees. The same ones that you can find on mountains too.

[The Wonderful Amazing Trashboat]

My level 122 mammoth with 300% damage got around 700 rareflowers and 400 mushrooms in 30mins in the swamp

[Moody1]

A bronto works wonders. My tribe has hundreds from gathering berries to feed our dinos... Anywhere with trees and bushes will do.

[Calus]

Thanks for all the replies! Seems like mammoth in the swamp is the most popular method. Luckily it's also the easiest for me to do, so I'll give it a shot.

[Andminus]

I live over the hill from a swamp, take a quetzal with an ankylo and some guards for said quetzal, the ankylo devours and destroys everything in the swamp without any effort at all, doesn't seem like alphas spawn in the swamp areas too often. I even augmented my CP gathering method with the frog, simply cause the ankylo destroys the bugs easier, then the frog gets to hop around and gather the dead bugs without any problem. The swamp trees provide the mushrooms, the swamp cattails generally provide the flowers, we made off with about 10 stacks of flowers, but mushrooms seem to take a bit more effort to gather; perhaps if I try using a mammoth I might get better results, though I don't know how well a mammoth can handle the bug swarm when it strikes, perhaps I'll do some tests. Maybe I'll slowly meander a bronto over there and turn the swamp area into a wet plains:p

[nicolejackson4481]

Just a note: Be fairly careful when taking mammoths into areas with lots of insects because sometimes a bug will get stuck on it's back and the mammoth can't do anything about it and it gets killed. I suggest bringing a flyer or something else that can reach the mammoth's back in case this happens. It's not normally a problem but it does happen sometimes.

[Andminus]

"Bring a flyer" the guards for my quetzals are dimorphs, kinda similar to a shark and those sucker fish, picking off the parasites and pests on the quetzal's skin:p

But I reconize immidately that the mammoth doesn't quite have the aoe attack of the ankylo, thus would do poorly against a swarm of bugs. The Ankylo is better suited for much of the swamp, since it moves much faster in knee high water, where all those mushroom filled trees like to grow, though the mammoth may gather more mushrooms it's less safe, and requires more manpower(er dino power) to keep it safe in the swamps...

I could pretty much drop the Ankylo in the swamp with a friend on it, and leave em there for a few game days, I wont ever hear my friend say "uh, we got a problem."

[wormburner1980]

Bronto and plants in the swamp. Trees give mushrooms, plants give flowers.

[Deadman]

Yeah just go to the swamp, tons of mushrooms & flowers in there.

[RedRaven]

Mammoth in the swamp is how i get them.

[The Wonderful Amazing Trashboat]

Originally posted by Andminus:

I live over the hill from a swamp, take a quetzal with an ankylo and some guards for said quetzal, the ankylo devours and destroys everything in the swamp without any effort at all, doesn't seem like alphas spawn in the swamp areas too often. I even augmented my CP gathering method with the frog, simply cause the ankylo destroys the bugs easier, then the frog gets to hop around and gather the dead bugs without any problem. The swamp trees provide the mushrooms, the swamp cattails generally provide the flowers, we made off with about 10 stacks of flowers, but mushrooms seem to take a bit more effort to gather; perhaps if I try using a mammoth I might get better results, though I don't know how well a mammoth can handle the bug swarm when it strikes, perhaps I'll do some tests. Maybe I'll slowly meander a bronto over there and turn the swamp area into a wet plains:p

Mammoths have huge guided area attacks and tend to murder every bug in the area I've never had issues with getting bugs stuck on my back but I guess it's a good idea to bring a backup mammoth to kill any back bugs