Game objectives?, please.

[DavidVC]

Hello. First... i played this game for some hours, 131 hours... But please, take that the first hours i was with a really bad computer and i didnt enjoy this game to much... But now i have a decent computer and i can play it with no problems. So, thats mean i am like a guy that have played until get a stone house, and materials, with low metal to get a metal house. So i have not experience with metal things, have the industrial grinder, but i use it to make a few things...

Well, that i want to ask its: What its should be me "evolution" path?, or me objectives?. Im actually confused, and its hard to advance on what i am doing, because mabey there its a better way to get resources or i get the wrong idea about what i need now.

Its for that i need a list. Its like in some games, at start the say, "make a work brench", and later "make a campfire", etc... i need the correct order to make the things, or i feel like now, like if i am punching the wall with me head... With no progression.

Im playing solo because i try to understand that by me self before enter on a group and etc. I try to find on google thing like a better place to make a house, because i want a flat land, and... every spot i found its really unlevel. The best stop its to much far away but the worst its that are full of aggressive creatures...

But the real problem, its that i need to know what to do now, i dont know if i need to focus more on a chemistry bench or on a better weapon, do a house for dinos its important?... Im really lost... And youtube videos are really, REALLY, long for this, some times even skip important things... And as i say, in google i found nothing.

Please, can someone tellme how to do all that things?.

[Witski]

Originally posted by Lockhart:

Hello. First... i played this game for some hours, 131 hours... But please, take that the first hours i was with a really bad computer and i didnt enjoy this game to much... But now i have a decent computer and i can play it with no problems. So, thats mean i am like a guy that have played until get a stone house, and materials, with low metal to get a metal house. So i have not experience with metal things, have the industrial grinder, but i use it to make a few things...

Well, that i want to ask its: What its should be me "evolution" path?, or me objectives?. Im actually confused, and its hard to advance on what i am doing, because mabey there its a better way to get resources or i get the wrong idea about what i need now.

Its for that i need a list. Its like in some games, at start the say, "make a work brench", and later "make a campfire", etc... i need the correct order to make the things, or i feel like now, like if i am punching the wall with me head... With no progression.

Im playing solo because i try to understand that by me self before enter on a group and etc. I try to find on google thing like a better place to make a house, because i want a flat land, and... every spot i found its really unlevel. The best stop its to much far away but the worst its that are full of aggressive creatures...

But the real problem, its that i need to know what to do now, i dont know if i need to focus more on a chemistry bench or on a better weapon, do a house for dinos its important?... Im really lost... And youtube videos are really, REALLY, long for this, some times even skip important things... And as i say, in google i found nothing.

Please, can someone tellme how to do all that things?.

Tldr : do what you want in the order you want.

The main objective is retrieve artifacts to enter the boss arena and beat them to unlock the tek arena and ascend.

You could focus on building ( if you play single player,there is no need to build anything with metal ( walls,foundations etc) a stone home and walls around it is sufficient,but if you want ,you can do that with metal or tek).
Make dino armies by breeding and imprinting them for the bosses/general use/farming(you can do it without building a dino house,but if you prefer you can do that).
You can do a mobile base with dino's that have access to platforms such as the Brontosaurus ,Paraceratherium ,Quetzal,Mosasaurus/big turtle (aquatic) etc..
Or you can do nothing from above and tame an army of dino and create havock or without dino's...or play as Bear Grill...
It's really up to you,the game doesn't hold your hands at all.

[DavidVC]

Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by Lockhart:

Hello. First... i played this game for some hours, 131 hours... But please, take that the first hours i was with a really bad computer and i didnt enjoy this game to much... But now i have a decent computer and i can play it with no problems. So, thats mean i am like a guy that have played until get a stone house, and materials, with low metal to get a metal house. So i have not experience with metal things, have the industrial grinder, but i use it to make a few things...

Well, that i want to ask its: What its should be me "evolution" path?, or me objectives?. Im actually confused, and its hard to advance on what i am doing, because mabey there its a better way to get resources or i get the wrong idea about what i need now.

Its for that i need a list. Its like in some games, at start the say, "make a work brench", and later "make a campfire", etc... i need the correct order to make the things, or i feel like now, like if i am punching the wall with me head... With no progression.

Im playing solo because i try to understand that by me self before enter on a group and etc. I try to find on google thing like a better place to make a house, because i want a flat land, and... every spot i found its really unlevel. The best stop its to much far away but the worst its that are full of aggressive creatures...

But the real problem, its that i need to know what to do now, i dont know if i need to focus more on a chemistry bench or on a better weapon, do a house for dinos its important?... Im really lost... And youtube videos are really, REALLY, long for this, some times even skip important things... And as i say, in google i found nothing.

Please, can someone tellme how to do all that things?.

Tldr : do what you want in the order you want.

The main objective is retrieve artifacts to enter the boss arena and beat them to unlock the tek arena and ascend.

You could focus on building ( if you play single player,there is no need to build anything with metal ( walls,foundations etc) a stone home and walls around it is sufficient,but if you want ,you can do that with metal or tek).
Make dino armies by breeding and imprinting them for the bosses/general use/farming(you can do it without building a dino house,but if you prefer you can do that).
You can do a mobile base with dino's that have access to platforms such as the Brontosaurus ,Paraceratherium ,Quetzal,Mosasaurus/big turtle (aquatic) etc..
Or you can do nothing from above and tame an army of dino and create havock or without dino's...
It's really up to you,the game doesn't hold your hands at all.

I didnt know that there are a "artifacts"!, thanks, i think im gona invest that first.

[Captpickles]

Which map did you start on?

[DavidVC]

Originally posted by Captpickles:

Which map did you start on?

On the first map, i have the scorched earth too, but as i say, i want to full know how game its, before go multiplayer and etc. I still trying to find a quetzal, found a video on how to get get one alone but... I still found no one :/

BTW, wall are really not a need in solo mode?, i think wild dinos can devour me tamed dinos (or me). And i saw some dinos try to destroy me walls...

[MackMack]

Originally posted by Lockhart:

Originally posted by Captpickles:

Which map did you start on?

On the first map, i have the scorched earth too, but as i say, i want to full know how game its, before go multiplayer and etc. I still trying to find a quetzal, found a video on how to get get one alone but... I still found no one :/

BTW, wall are really not a need in solo mode?, i think wild dinos can devour me tamed dinos (or me). And i saw some dinos try to destroy me walls...

I would advice to play with more experienced players right from start.

Ark is a huge game with much tricks and quirks - and probably way too much for a single player to learn it all.

i.e.
solo tame a quetz is easy peasy - when you know how to

There is a lot of friendly players out there - not only toxic ones...

Go check out unofficial servers (official servers aren't for beginners - you'll get yourself trolled within the first minutes of play)

[Lori37]

if you didn't enjoy the game too much then, you probably won't enjoy it now

[wickeddelight]

Did you get a flying mount + saddle for it? Being able to fly is usually my next landmark after making metal tools.

[Astraea]

for me my to do list is:
Hatch, Spear, Campfire, Cloth gear (head pants shirt boots gloves), waterskin, get meat

Now that i have armor, weapons, food water i can explore and find a spot for a base/house

Thatch (walls, floors, ceiling, doorframe, door), morter, spark powder, narcotics, Simple bed

Have simple house/base and work towards lvling to wood and replace everything with wood.
snag stimulant (incase i wanna reset stats) cementing paste(will need later) gunpowder, hide armor set (replace cloth with it) large storage box, perserving bin (remember to put sparkpowder in it to keep stuff freash), feeding trough. For me if not on a server with bonus times exp its a boring bit but still.

Finally the good stuff starts, metal hatchet, metal pick, smithy, refining forge. I go nuts and stock pile wood, stone, thatch, fiber, and start working on getting more metal than is sane.
I also pick up fur armor incase i have to go north but usually don't go there yet.

Stone unlocks and i replace everything with stone and grab a sword so i won't be scared of dinos anymore also grabbing behemoth dino gateway and railing to keep my dinos that i will be getting in and in pvp/pve i begin dino gating me a space. those stock piles empty fast here.
Grab ghillie stuff for later, simple rifle ammor for later, longneck rifle for later,

Metal everything unlcoks grab stuff to build a house but i keep stockpiling and smelting metal i usually don't begin building it til i can get industrial forge. grab fabricator, electrical outlet, straight and flexable cables, generator, industrial grill, cryopod, flak gear, and start working toward it. frigerator, air conditioner c4 for raiding.

and finally tranquilizer darts. I usually don't get dinos til this but i usually play on 5x-10x servers. if i was on official i might tranq arrow stuff but doubt it. Now i basically create a zoo and have fun with my horde of dinos and forget what i was doing alot.
generally tho beaver(wood), doedicurus(stone) ankylosaurus(metal), megatherium(chitin) and a argentavis are my base team. with them i can collect anything fast. mostly the argentavis.

for engrams basically auto turret, vault, industrial forge, scuba gear, chemistry bench, cryfridge, idustrial cooker, riot shield, riot gear, heavy auto turret. is the main ones i get.

After having all that and my pets i start doing caves and bosses to get the tek stuff if i care to if not i just colonize and explorer collecting the dinos like i'm filling a pokedex.

I feel like its the basic usual for most people especially on 5x-10x. they might get dinos/caves sooner but i'm a gatherer/builder mostly making stupidly big bases for no reason xD

[DavidVC]

Originally posted by Lori37:

if you didn't enjoy the game too much then, you probably won't enjoy it now

I didnt enjoy because me OLD computer, geting me game freezing a lot of times, with all at minimun, removing manually a lot of things like sky, etc... even that, i get a lot of low fps... Oh and the textures making me confused of what i am looking, sometimes was thinking a wall its a door...

Originally posted by MackMack:

I would advice to play with more experienced players right from start.

Ark is a huge game with much tricks and quirks - and probably way too much for a single player to learn it all.

i.e.
solo tame a quetz is easy peasy - when you know how to

There is a lot of friendly players out there - not only toxic ones...

Go check out unofficial servers (official servers aren't for beginners - you'll get yourself trolled within the first minutes of play)

In past, (with the old computer) i play on a great pve server, the people was really nice, they gift me an "Argentavis" at very start, but on servers are really low to get resources and in solo can up more the resources i can get (but with moderation), so i can faster get what i need and build it, so i can experiment with the thing i craft. And i was with problems on the server, i mean, those people are really good guys but... i am really bad learning, and... the players i found, seems do not know how to explain the things...

Allyareus, i read this over 3 or 4 times, i am bad learning hehehe... But i understand, thanks, i found about that caves, i NEVER enter in one, seems are in the island, hiden... But ok, im gona use your info to try me best and advance.

THANKS, a lot for all here, im happy just about that i get answer. Im gona follow almost all advices, but i dont feel good about enter on a server... i want play more games, and i play this over an hour at day, mabey two, and dont want leave me "save game" on a server, i prefer to stay on me computer.

[Liralen]

Allyareus has a lot of good advice. One thing I would add, I only stay in my starter hut until I can make a raft. Once you have a raft built, it becomes safer to explore, as long as you stay out of deep water (there is a very large creature in deep water that hates rafts).

I then will use the raft to find a good location to build a stone house, with a yard surrounded by stone fencing, at least 4 walls high, to keep my dinos from harm. I choose the location for easy access to metal at least, using a map like this one: https://ark.gamepedia.com/Resource_Map_(The_Island)

My preferred location is around the hill at 76, 48, near the river east of it, but that may be a bit difficult for new players. There is an island in the far southeast corner (about 84, 84) that has no dangerous dinos on it, where you can level up and learn without much difficulty. You can get there using a raft, staying close to shore most of the way until the end, where you will have to cross deep water. I've never been attacked by the raft-eating fish, but I guess it could happen.

Once there (Herbivore Island) tame an anklyosaurus first, because they can harvest more metal than you can. Good luck!

[Witski]

All good advices but you guys kinda spoil the fun of exploring the game and learn it.

[Old Musty Fiddle]

There are some very good youtube channels that have plenty of how to videos and "episodic" videos. Those will help you immensely get a much better feel for this massive game.

[Monarch]

I understand you're looking for the "to do" list but if you march on ticking boxes you wont enjoy it. Your goal on the Ark is to ascend off the Ark. And to do that you must defeat the Ark's guardians and it's overlord. How and how long it takes is entirely up to you. So grab some berries, some meat and your favorite dodo, sit by a fire and watch the sunset over the sea and remember: "The Ark giveth and The Ark taketh away"

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Lockhart:

Hello. First... i played this game for some hours, 131 hours... But please, take that the first hours i was with a really bad computer and i didnt enjoy this game to much... But now i have a decent computer and i can play it with no problems. So, thats mean i am like a guy that have played until get a stone house, and materials, with low metal to get a metal house. So i have not experience with metal things, have the industrial grinder, but i use it to make a few things...

Well, that i want to ask its: What its should be me "evolution" path?, or me objectives?. Im actually confused, and its hard to advance on what i am doing, because mabey there its a better way to get resources or i get the wrong idea about what i need now.

Its for that i need a list. Its like in some games, at start the say, "make a work brench", and later "make a campfire", etc... i need the correct order to make the things, or i feel like now, like if i am punching the wall with me head... With no progression.

Im playing solo because i try to understand that by me self before enter on a group and etc. I try to find on google thing like a better place to make a house, because i want a flat land, and... every spot i found its really unlevel. The best stop its to much far away but the worst its that are full of aggressive creatures...

But the real problem, its that i need to know what to do now, i dont know if i need to focus more on a chemistry bench or on a better weapon, do a house for dinos its important?... Im really lost... And youtube videos are really, REALLY, long for this, some times even skip important things... And as i say, in google i found nothing.

Please, can someone tellme how to do all that things?.

How you want to play ark is up to you. There are some players with hundreds or even thousands if hours who do not or have not followed the story canon nor beat bosses because they prefer to build tame explore and or play modded content.

If story goals and content are your goals then you start on the island map, level up tame breed. Then you cave explore for artifacts and kill other powerful creature for materials to access bosses to then gather more of the same for harder bosses and then the same for the final boss of the map 3 times.

Then you can move on to the scortched earth aberration extiction and genesis 1 and later this year genesis 2 maps in that order.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Witski:

All good advices but you guys kinda spoil the fun of exploring the game and learn it.

The OP specifically requested it and it's clear they aren't used to sandbox games, but rather expected a guided tour.

That's actually an interesting subject since my husband and I both fell in love with Minecraft immediately when it was in early access. It was perplexing that other adults to whom we recommended Minecraft (mostly old school MMO players, like Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies, both of which could be considered sandboxes by today's MMO standards), only a few of them "got it", whereas all of the children loved Minecraft immediately, without exception (as if they enjoyed a place to play where there were no rules and no one telling them what they had to do. Go figure).

And so I don't take it for granted that most gamers will like a sandbox game at first, especially ones that require a much better PC to run than Minecraft. I would like it if more game developers could improve upon Ark, and so far, Valheim is the only one that remotely interests me (I am so sick and tired of killing zombies and not interested in PvP at all).

I haven't tried Valheim yet, only because we're back to playing themepark MMO's again, after several years of playing Ark. But I prefer sandbox games.

So I still keep an eye on the Ark forums, and try to help people who struggle with Ark's sandbox aspects. Yeah, I know, it's sad that they need rules and someone telling them what to do, but I've accepted that it is what it is.