How to play Atlas ? what's the goal ? what to do ?

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What's the goal here and what to do ? I'm currently playing it like Ark, hoarding stuffs, put them in storage, tame animals etc, I found bottles floating in the ocean containing maps, do I have to farm those first using RAFT ? then build bigger ship and hire crews ? because playing solo in single player would need crews to use bigger ship and to hire crew need money, while money is from treasure hunt. Pls tell an example of step by step things to do in here.

Like in Ark, this is what I usually do after I entered the server as a level 1 :
1. Level up by farming materials, once can make bow, start killing dinoes too.
2. Make small base 3x2 or make mobile base on raft.
3. Once I can make smithy and furnace, upgrade tools to metal.
4. Tame a low level trike/parasaur for farming narcoberries, tame a flyer such as pteranodon for better mobility.
5. Tame core dinoes for thatch/wood/stone/metal gathering
6. Make a bigger base.
7. Continue hoarding dinoes/mats and thrive.

[littlejarofdirt]

Steps to play Atlas
1. Spawn on island and start punching trees and rocks to gather resources
2. Get killed and have all of those resources stolen by players (in PVE have a dev delete your structures and resources. There are quite a few reports containing the exact dev name doing it)
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you realize the reviews weren't lying and give up and go back to playing Ark or literally anything else.

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Originally posted by littlejarofdirt:

Steps to play Atlas
1. Spawn on island and start punching trees and rocks to gather resources
2. Get killed and have all of those resources stolen by players (in PVE have a dev delete your structures and resources. There are quite a few reports containing the exact dev name doing it)
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you realize the reviews weren't lying and give up and go back to playing Ark or literally anything else.

lol thats sad,

I tried pve server but I couldnt find a land to claim, so I play single player. Pvp I won't bother

[Mushu6969]

It's pretty much like Ark PVE. You want to level up, build up and have enough mats for a ship. Where you'll then go and defeat pirate camps to get items and such. You'll want blueprints to build better ships and to level up and outfit your ship. There's mythical creatures in the game who are like the bosses in Ark, so ultimately you're looking to defeat them. You'll earn gold to buy skins, although I would prefer to get those skins you need other items also,instead of just gold for the better ones.

IMO Atlas has the potential to be better than Ark.

Few reasons.

1. The graphics are a upgrade, HUGE ocean to fight sea battles.
2. They appear to be trying to implement an economy system similar to Animal Crossing, where certain regions have certain mats. This will create much diversity and actually would encourage you to have to travel to other regions to get such mats.
3. Tamed creatures aren't overpowered anymore, you can only tame up to level 30 wild creatures. So having them is nice and helps you out, but game is not on easy mode because of it. However their Alpha creatures are a bit broken right now.

There's still some bugs and such, so looks like could do with alot more development but the potential is there.

Solo wouldn't be as dynamic and the original ocean world is too huge IMO for solo, but seems like the new map is better for that.

[Cyberblonde]

the goal is to lagg and glitch around, getting trapped/killed/griefed/captured by 15 year olds and chinese communists

[frogmorian]

Am playing solo, this is what i did:
Collect resource to get ramshackle sloop from freeport vendor.
Build bed and smithy on said sloop
Get grapple hook asap
Set sail and collect flotsam
Hire 1 crew man to help on sloop
Find island and farm to build shipyard, find and tame bear asap to assist
Build and arm brig, use bear to do low level treasure maps and use gold to hire more crew.
Build galleon and outfit it as floating base.
Explore and kill.

Is it a grind, yep but you vary what you do but also finding right island is important.
Is it buggy, yep have had setbacks but most can be worked around
It can be lonely so ideally run a non dedicated server and try to get a mate to join and help.

Would love to go on official servers but am only a casual player so would never progress.

[PaFFoS]

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[big baby bobkitten]

well i like easy kinda im a noob i set difficulty very easy (player resistance 0 (inf)) and this time i set all xp umm down so i wont lvl too fast i only lvl10 with this pathfinder last update changed my spawn so i made a new 1 i fixed that problem but anyway

i was just playing ark but then i found 1 island if u try sail truman show without storm i havent built a ship yet but eh the huge ocean seems nice so im playing it instead of ark

edit oh and they just changed the map a little to smaller (is still ok i think) but umm this was the hardest load game of course my laptop never played it so i got a desktop it barely played it but choop so i did my profile pic there and i had it n chop before the update even with the huge load but now its easier to load for other people so oh well i dont care yet anyway

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Thanks guys for posting the help and input.

Especially @frogmorian , thats what I'm looking for.

About hiring crew, how do I get the money for hiring the very first crew ?

@dragonsieu76 I like the sound of that, where they're trying to put different mats on different island, that should motivate people to explore, but if it is too far then that's also not fun.

I like how it is like in Ark, we go somewhere once to get TONS of the item for a long while like salt, oil, sulfur, etc, we don't need to worry about it for a long while until we're thin on stock then we have to travel again, or for taming specific dino in specific region.

And yea I play in Blackwood, its much smaller, but seems like the right size.

[cywizz]

Refer to @frigmorian 's points 3 and 4...you will get gold in flotsam

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Originally posted by cywizz:

Refer to @frigmorian 's points 3 and 4...you will get gold in flotsam

ah ok thx.

[Koma Toast]

I am still on Single Player, too. That is only because I like certain server settings, like in Ark, and certain Quality of Life mods, like in Ark.
As said, a bit of gold and a bear could be your first big goals. I also passive tamed pigs for treasure maps and protection while out and about.
A base may not be a really important thing, like in Ark. The ship is the thing, right? Some people build a base in each biome (or so I've read) for storage. Makes me wonder about transporting goods between bases without day-long ocean voyages.

[BIT Bear]

The goal is to farm and grind resources to make a base, ships etc.

Originally posted by frogmorian:

Am playing solo, this is what i did:
Collect resource to get ramshackle sloop from freeport vendor.
Build bed and smithy on said sloop
Get grapple hook asap
Set sail and collect flotsam
Hire 1 crew man to help on sloop
Find island and farm to build shipyard, find and tame bear asap to assist
Build and arm brig, use bear to do low level treasure maps and use gold to hire more crew.
Build galleon and outfit it as floating base.
Explore and kill.

Is it a grind, yep but you vary what you do but also finding right island is important.
Is it buggy, yep have had setbacks but most can be worked around
It can be lonely so ideally run a non dedicated server and try to get a mate to join and help.

Would love to go on official servers but am only a casual player so would never progress.

This is basically what i've been doing on official servers last wipe. It was (despite all the bugs) very enjoyable experience for a while. Finding land to build on wasn't difficult since there weren't that many players but with the last wipe (and a smaller map) it would be. i'm sure.

The only thing i'd change in your strategy is to stick with Schooners for general transport, travel and Brig as mobile base(s).

[ZorTheCruel]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

About hiring crew, how do I get the money for hiring the very first crew ?

In my opinion the easiest and fastest way to get your first 10 to 20 gold to hire one or two crew for your first ship is actually fishing. It works exactly like it does in ark. Place a chair, sit and equip a fishing pole and bait it with any kind of sugar/sap resource type. Same minigame to reel in the fish. It is boring, but you usually get gold for every fish caught in addition to the fish meat and possibly scales(hide) and fish oil. Because you can bypass the flotsam/grappling hook/sloop initial gold gathering this way, i skip the Sloop and go straight for building a Schooner in SP.

Big tip though for an Ark veteran, don't set the difficulty to max. Leave it on .2 or .25 (i play on .25). If you jack the difficulty way up, the treasure maps become almost impossible to complete, due to the defenders levels being astronomically magnified by the difficulty.

Also, tames carried on a ship count against your total crew limit for your ship, so dont go hog-wild on taming everything in sight because you will end up leaving a lot of it behind. Also, breeding in Atlas is much more difficult than in Ark,(you have to be in the right biome for a creature, or it wont mate at all, let alone the baby's temperature needs which is picky like egg incubation in ark) so don't plan on breeding anything for a while and just tame high level stuff that you find that you need.(on .25 difficulty the max wild level is 41) Bulls and Bears are the most useful mounts in the early/mid game.(think of bulls like a cross between an Equus and a Carno. Fast speed, slow stam drain, and nice attack knockback. Bears are a lot tankier, hit harder, and move slower and gather fiber super-well. Both allow you to use weapons while mounted, so are great for taming other things. I use bulls to explore and bears to gather.) Cows are nice for milking (using a bucket) so you don't have to worry about thirst and always finding fresh water. They stock up milk supply slowly over time, up to 80 max. Pigs are a nice throwaway mount/tame, no saddle needed to ride and are passive tames. Good for taming something better when you are new or as cannon fodder to be a disposable meat shield when clearing treasure maps or pirate camps, or as guards, etc.

Also, for anything with a secondary ability like shoulder pets, cows, and sheep, the speed that they regenerate the items or the strength of the buff they give is tied directly to their current level and nothing else.

[ZorTheCruel]

lol, also when placing a shipyard, put it where the deepest water possible is in the middle under it. When you release a ship after constructing it, it drops down to float in the water and if it isnt deep enough, it takes damage or even instantly sinks.

[frogmorian]

@BIT Bear, yeah I considered that but everything is on my galleon, I travel from biome to biome collecting different mats to as my goal is toimprove brig parts to legendary/mythical so I have no land base to speak of. I just park it centrally and then use brig to explore/fight in nearby grids and return to galleon to rearm and repair when necessary The brig is ok as a fighting ship and once I ve got more crew space I will add more cannons. Happy sailing