What engrams? (Single Player)

[Wattsy]

I'm interested in what engrams ppl go for on single player. There is an increasing amount and only a certain amount of points currently available. Also more specifically what saddles do u select? I must admit I have only gotten to around 35-40 level, and have been perhaps overly careful with my engram points.

I skipped the first few saddles and went for the trike saddle because it is good collecting berries. Then I went for the raptor and carno saddles.

[Ultimate Fury]

You want to only buy saddles for the mounts you actually want to ride.

Raptor, (I usually wait for tranq arrows before going after raptors as 2 good shots can take down most raptors) trike, (early game berry harvesting) scorpion, (for easier tranqing of tougher dinos) and argentavis, (air transport with decent carry weight) are all good mounts that you will want to have a saddle for, for various reasons.

a rex or spino, (or both) for high damage mount for farming meat.

the plesio and megalodon saddle, and possibly the dolphin saddle for water transit.

If you can find a good area to set up a base, (midway up western beach for me) you can settle for thatch structures as no big carnivores would spawn to pose a threat.

Then just give some serious thought to what you actually want to use. Set points aside for all of the crafting stations and any prerequisites for recipes you want to learn.

also note that blueprints spawn in the drops so if you save your points in the late game you may find a BP for something that you need and be able to spend the points on something else.

My suggestions

Bed and structures and storage
Compass and spyglass (shows level of dino when looking through it, helpful on taming runs)
blood draw kit for healing packs for emergencies if you want. (I never use them)
Bow/Crossbow
Arrows/Tranq arrows (mortar pestle, and narcotics obviously as well)
whatever armor you feel safe wearing, (never go above chitin on my sp)
full metal tool set, (Pick, Axe, Pike, Sickle,)
Waterskin/jar/canteen ( if you are comfortable with the skin stick with that)

Late game stuff would be generator, fridge, grill, multi directional lamp, turret, (if in an area where extra protection is desired) and preferably the assault rifle.

[wyldmage]

I would recommend starting out with just Thatch structures and campfire, alongside the obvious axe and spear.
This is because a nice thatch hut on the beach serves you for a long time. And can be abandoned, expanded, or upgraded at your convenience. I end up with TONS of fiber as the game goes on (due to relying on harvesting for narc berries until you get a major farm set up).

After that, you can 'slow-play' your engrams. Tame a raptor ASAP (easier to tame them than Parasaurs due to them not running away), which really requires a slingshot, so that's a priority. The raptor will give you a good way to travel, as well as some pretty good stats for fighting dinos (a level 15 raptor leveled up to 30 is more than a match for taking on trikes and turtles to keep a meat supply going). Travel allows you to harvest white/green beacons, which should get you a lot of materials and blueprints.

Similarly, cloth and hide armor are priorities, so you aren't reliant on having a blueprint in your inventory for field repairs.

Don't bother learning engrams if they aren't something you feel is absolutely needed, or is something you need to know when not at your base (allowing you to leave blueprints at your base where they are safe).

As far as saddles, Raptor and Trike are the main 2. The rest, I'd wait to find as blueprints 100%, except potentially T-Rex once you tame one.

[Turtlewing]

The general rule of thumb is to only unlock the engram when you are going to actually craft the thing.

Additionally you can easily do without:
Signs/Flags/Notes
Standing Torches
Blood bags

And will get little benefit from upgrading beyond:
stone for pipes
medium for crop plots
stone for structures (really wood/thatch will do for most needs but you need to go to stone to get a behemoth gate)

And absent other players you'll find these are probably not worth their cost:
bear traps
most guns
turrets

For saddles the real question is what dinos do you want to tame?
I've found that an Ankylosaur is a pretty good pick (gathers berries, flint, metal, and thatch), as is an Ichthyosaur (get you to the pearls and oil). A Argrevatis is also a good pick (flyer).

There aren't any dinos you absolutely have to tame to play, and you can get saddles and their blueprints from supply drops.

[Mutare]

just add item , ID code, quan, qual to make the items you dont wish to spend the engrams on in singleplayer. Think of it as making uo for a clanmate who you can trade with. I use it for things like beds, water skins, bookcases etc

[Greystar]

I modified my game.ini so I'll level up enough to get all the engrams.

[raymazoida]

I've done a fair bit of SP.... as others say only get saddles of what you tame you need to ride, you don't need them all, thougy you'll have your own preferences for what you'd like, you may not want to do dolphins for example, or you may pick that as your only sea mount to go get pearls.

I also don't bother with any of the farming stuff... you can work around almost all of it in SP. As others have said you don't need a lot of the weapons, particularly the high end high cost ones - rocket launchers, c4 etc. and aviod the "make my stuff look nice flags" till you actually have a bas you want to... make look nice lol

[Mutare]

I use singleplayer mode to test out stuff before I place it in our server. Like the piping for irrigation.

[Greystar]

Originally posted by Lady Mutare:

I use singleplayer mode to test out stuff before I place it in our server. Like the piping for irrigation.

I also use SP to decide where I want to put my bases, then look on the server I play on to see if those locations are available then I'll stick an outpost there (on the server) while I build it in single player to see what resources I'll need. (I am clanless on the server I play on).

[Mutare]

I am clanless as well, but a few of the others on the server I use trade with me.

[Gulch]

Go for as many crate drops as you can, you can get a lot of blueprints from them and this way you won't waste an engram point. But sometimes you have no choice because of pre-requisites.

[Skeldarkday]

Originally posted by Ultimate Fury:

You want to only buy saddles for the mounts you actually want to ride.

Raptor, (I usually wait for tranq arrows before going after raptors as 2 good shots can take down most raptors) trike, (early game berry harvesting) scorpion, (for easier tranqing of tougher dinos) and argentavis, (air transport with decent carry weight) are all good mounts that you will want to have a saddle for, for various reasons.

a rex or spino, (or both) for high damage mount for farming meat.

the plesio and megalodon saddle, and possibly the dolphin saddle for water transit.

If you can find a good area to set up a base, (midway up western beach for me) you can settle for thatch structures as no big carnivores would spawn to pose a threat.

Then just give some serious thought to what you actually want to use. Set points aside for all of the crafting stations and any prerequisites for recipes you want to learn.

also note that blueprints spawn in the drops so if you save your points in the late game you may find a BP for something that you need and be able to spend the points on something else.

My suggestions

Bed and structures and storage
Compass and spyglass (shows level of dino when looking through it, helpful on taming runs)
blood draw kit for healing packs for emergencies if you want. (I never use them)
Bow/Crossbow
Arrows/Tranq arrows (mortar pestle, and narcotics obviously as well)
whatever armor you feel safe wearing, (never go above chitin on my sp)
full metal tool set, (Pick, Axe, Pike, Sickle,)
Waterskin/jar/canteen ( if you are comfortable with the skin stick with that)



Late game stuff would be generator, fridge, grill, multi directional lamp, turret, (if in an area where extra protection is desired) and preferably the assault rifle.

Pretty much agree with all you quoted here. The only thing is the assault rifle. Single player you don't need that as you don't make enough damage on Dinos to be worth using engrams on. Also you get the behemoth gate the lowest tier you can get and I think it's stone because some of the bigger Dinos won't fit in the regular Dino gate and neither the megaladon would fit for your water pen.

[Romen]

Thre are lots of blueprints that will drop. You will eventually get most of the saddles, chiten, metal building, and they will be better than the engram ones anyway. Also you will get so many water jar, medium crop plot and compass blueprints you will get really annoyed :)

I mainly focus on learning those things I need to make in the field, and critical stuff in the early game. For saddles you might want to get a couple early on just so you can ride a raptor or something else before you find a blueprint of actual saddle drop.

If you are careful about what you learn you shouldn't have any problem running out of points.

[Wattsy]

Some really good tips here guys, thanks. Seems I have really overlooked the supply crates? All the ones I have come across have basic stuff. There seems to be enough engram points to basically get everything I want. Its just a case of me thinking things like "There will eventually be a mosasaurus saddle, hold back on spending points".

[Dragorin]

My advice.. get what you want to get now and don't worry to much about it. Collect supply drops for blueprints. Wait until you get to level cap, collect more blueprints. Then wait for Devs to add in the respec. Then respec and only get stuff you don't have blueprints for.. you should be able to get most everything.

[raymazoida]

Originally posted by Wattsy:

Some really good tips here guys, thanks. Seems I have really overlooked the supply crates? All the ones I have come across have basic stuff. There seems to be enough engram points to basically get everything I want. Its just a case of me thinking things like "There will eventually be a mosasaurus saddle, hold back on spending points".

I have had the same SP experiance with the drops... they seem so much worse than when i was on an offical server.