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.

[007..]

Build a boat. Sail around gathering bps from treasure spawns to build better gear and tools. Build a bigger boat and this time arm it with canons mercilesly sinking sotd taking their loot and upgrading your crew from rescued sailors. Slowly build your posession to the level where you can take on end game content. Have lots of fun in process. Also, please dont play it like ark, live to your fullest potential and become a seasoned sailor who despises those land hermits

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If you guys use brig/galleon as a base, then this game can be played WITHOUT a base on land then ???

So even if the pve official server is full because people already occupy all islands to the point there is no land to claim anymore, I can still play on official using BRIG/GALLEON as a base ?

Which one is better for base brig or galleon ? I havent touched the game since making this thread, still occupied with something else, but one of these days I will get back to it, coz I actually prefer this kind of game instead of a story based one, because once it ends I will have to find another game.

I always like it on my raft when playing Ark, it has everything from smithy to fabricator and fridge. So if I can make a ship as a base then wow that's awesome.

[ZorTheCruel]

I dont play on official PVE, but yes, you can easily have a Galleon be your mobile base.(if you like hoarding resources) or a Brig if you can live a little leaner to have a faster ship. Both can fit all the crafting stations below deck and still have room for lots of storage. Weight is the only issue there. When building the ship you can hit the toggle when placing a deck to make it the "empty" version instead of full, and then you get to decide where the holes are and how big, using ceilings.

EDIT: you can buy a sloop from the freeport town to get off of freeport without building anything. But you do need to be able to build a shipyard to get the bigger ships, thats the only thing you have to have a small bit of land for.

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I see, I managed to build a small shipyard near the crowded shore though on official pve server the other day, building shipyard doesn't seem to need to claim a land first but dunno about the bigger one.

[BIT Bear]

on PvE server
Passive Play:
If you manage to make a (lawless) base(s) somewhere; use Schooners for most basic stuff like transporting, trading etc and going inbetween islands, picking up new crew etc.

Active Play:
You will need 1 starter base to build yourself a brig (galleon is for bigger groups imo) and use that to travel the world and kill most in your path. My advice is to either stack cannons to 1 side (most people prefer back because they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) or choose a side and even better if you put them on a high pillar floor with some NPC's. That way you can outrange most SotD ships and whales.

Long story short if u want to play from 1 platform and ur a small group or solo I advice Brig.
The biggest reason for this is the less grind involved especially when bugs or "unfortunate" situations occur and you lose your vessel entirely.

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Publicado originalmente por BIT Bear:

on PvE server
Passive Play:
If you manage to make a (lawless) base(s) somewhere; use Schooners for most basic stuff like transporting, trading etc and going inbetween islands, picking up new crew etc.

Active Play:
You will need 1 starter base to build yourself a brig (galleon is for bigger groups imo) and use that to travel the world and kill most in your path. My advice is to either stack cannons to 1 side (most people prefer back because they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) or choose a side and even better if you put them on a high pillar floor with some NPC's. That way you can outrange most SotD ships and whales.

Long story short if u want to play from 1 platform and ur a small group or solo I advice Brig.
The biggest reason for this is the less grind involved especially when bugs or "unfortunate" situations occur and you lose your vessel entirely.

I play solo and still new to the game, I just understood yesterday that there are several types of island, with 2 inhabitable by players, claimable, and UNCLAIMABLE, and lawless is an unclaimable type lol I thought it's already too occupied like Ark because instead of placing floors I always tried placing flag which of course can't, because it is unclaimable. While the others are for endgame stuffs.

Claimable is usually for big company, need at least 5ppl or cmiiw, while if we play with less ppl or solo, turns out I don't need a dedicated island, just any small spot on lawless island will do like you said.

And yes I agree, I just encountered a bug yesterday, my raft collided with a shipyard and got stuck, even my char was also stuck, I had to wait till my char died to get out, as for the raft I had to set its flag to 0 degree then man it, luckily I was out. Bug can be a nightmare.

Anyway I havent experienced sailing, fighting, pirating etc using big ship with manned crew, still using raft to go to another island. I hv a question : if I want to hire crews, do I have to sail to freeport ? Because I had to go out from freeport after lv 8. What's the smallest ship for solo (not raft) and manageable without any crew ?

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I just made a small shipyard, what should be my first ship ? Schooner or Sloop ? How much money shld I farm to hire crew, how many crews ?

[007..]

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Publicado originalmente por BIT Bear:

on PvE server
Passive Play:
If you manage to make a (lawless) base(s) somewhere; use Schooners for most basic stuff like transporting, trading etc and going inbetween islands, picking up new crew etc.

Active Play:
You will need 1 starter base to build yourself a brig (galleon is for bigger groups imo) and use that to travel the world and kill most in your path. My advice is to either stack cannons to 1 side (most people prefer back because they're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) or choose a side and even better if you put them on a high pillar floor with some NPC's. That way you can outrange most SotD ships and whales.

Long story short if u want to play from 1 platform and ur a small group or solo I advice Brig.
The biggest reason for this is the less grind involved especially when bugs or "unfortunate" situations occur and you lose your vessel entirely.

I play solo and still new to the game, I just understood yesterday that there are several types of island, with 2 inhabitable by players, claimable, and UNCLAIMABLE, and lawless is an unclaimable type lol I thought it's already too occupied like Ark because instead of placing floors I always tried placing flag which of course can't, because it is unclaimable. While the others are for endgame stuffs.

Claimable is usually for big company, need at least 5ppl or cmiiw, while if we play with less ppl or solo, turns out I don't need a dedicated island, just any small spot on lawless island will do like you said.

And yes I agree, I just encountered a bug yesterday, my raft collided with a shipyard and got stuck, even my char was also stuck, I had to wait till my char died to get out, as for the raft I had to set its flag to 0 degree then man it, luckily I was out. Bug can be a nightmare.

Anyway I havent experienced sailing, fighting, pirating etc using big ship with manned crew, still using raft to go to another island. I hv a question : if I want to hire crews, do I have to sail to freeport ? Because I had to go out from freeport after lv 8. What's the smallest ship for solo (not raft) and manageable without any crew ?

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I just made a small shipyard, what should be my first ship ? Schooner or Sloop ? How much money shld I farm to hire crew, how many crews ?

One crew per canon. Hire as many crewmen as you wann have cannons plus one crew per sail on your ship. Add few extra as they easily die of no reason due to glitches and bugs. Also watch your ship max capacity. You count, your crewmen count, animals, large and even the smallest.
Build your first ship the largest you can build right now choosing from those two options.They dont require a lot of gold. In fact, when you hire them there are two paying rates for them, slower rate when anchored and faster rate when sailing. Get few hundred gold from sunken ships to start buying a crew. When you save more money, just buy a couple of good bears to get land treaures using maps you can find on the shores of the islands. You can also kill whales
they are worth 1k gold. You need few balistas and lots of balista arrows to do that. But beware, they will break your ship if they manage to get close.

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One crew per canon. Hire as many crewmen as you wann have cannons plus one crew per sail on your ship. Add few extra as they easily die of no reason due to glitches and bugs. Also watch your ship max capacity. You count, your crewmen count, animals, large and even the smallest.
Build your first ship the largest you can build right now choosing from those two options.They dont require a lot of gold. In fact, when you hire them there are two paying rates for them, slower rate when anchored and faster rate when sailing. Get few hundred gold from sunken ships to start buying a crew. When you save more money, just buy a couple of good bears to get land treaures using maps you can find on the shores of the islands. You can also kill whales
they are worth 1k gold. You need few balistas and lots of balista arrows to do that. But beware, they will break your ship if they manage to get close.

Ok thx I'll try

[ZorTheCruel]

If you want a sailing ship (not raft) that is small and able to manned just by yourself, the Sloop can work. If you put the biggest sail you can on it, and put the captains wheel right up against the sail as close as you can, you can activate the options wheel for the mast by exiting the wheel control and looking up. It is a little annoying to get used to, since you can only control either the sail or rudder at once, but you can do it easy. You just make occasional sail adjustments when needed and stay on the wheel most of the time. And its way better than a raft. The Sloop is the fastest, but also the smallest, you will outgrow it quickly. You can also get some starter gold just from fishing with a fishing rod.(gives you fish meat and gold on most catches)

Crew are easy, they cost 5 gold to hire at freeport. you can easily maintain paying them by picking up flotsam along your sailing routes.(you get more gold from recovering sunken treasure or from treasure maps, but flotsam gold requires almost no effort) The alternative way to hire crew is if you can sink the Ships of the Damned (SotD) they always drop one or more slave crew into the water next to the floating treasure they drop. You can swim up and hire them for free.(free at the time of rescuing them, they then just join you and get paid slowly over time like your other crew) So for crew, you have to get your first ones from freeport, and later when you can sink SotD, you can just pick up more crew anywhere.

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Publicado originalmente por ZorTheCruel:

If you want a sailing ship (not raft) that is small and able to manned just by yourself, the Sloop can work. If you put the biggest sail you can on it, and put the captains wheel right up against the sail as close as you can, you can activate the options wheel for the mast by exiting the wheel control and looking up. It is a little annoying to get used to, since you can only control either the sail or rudder at once, but you can do it easy. You just make occasional sail adjustments when needed and stay on the wheel most of the time. And its way better than a raft. The Sloop is the fastest, but also the smallest, you will outgrow it quickly. You can also get some starter gold just from fishing with a fishing rod.(gives you fish meat and gold on most catches)

Crew are easy, they cost 5 gold to hire at freeport. you can easily maintain paying them by picking up flotsam along your sailing routes.(you get more gold from recovering sunken treasure or from treasure maps, but flotsam gold requires almost no effort) The alternative way to hire crew is if you can sink the Ships of the Damned (SotD) they always drop one or more slave crew into the water next to the floating treasure they drop. You can swim up and hire them for free.(free at the time of rescuing them, they then just join you and get paid slowly over time like your other crew) So for crew, you have to get your first ones from freeport, and later when you can sink SotD, you can just pick up more crew anywhere.

ok, how many crews do I need for a sloop to the point I can drive it like a raft (actually raft control is quite good, and I've been used to it from Ark.), not worrying about other things just steering. I think I'll try with sloop first for a start.

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Publicado originalmente por ZorTheCruel:

If you want a sailing ship (not raft) that is small and able to manned just by yourself, the Sloop can work. If you put the biggest sail you can on it, and put the captains wheel right up against the sail as close as you can, you can activate the options wheel for the mast by exiting the wheel control and looking up. It is a little annoying to get used to, since you can only control either the sail or rudder at once, but you can do it easy. You just make occasional sail adjustments when needed and stay on the wheel most of the time. And its way better than a raft. The Sloop is the fastest, but also the smallest, you will outgrow it quickly. You can also get some starter gold just from fishing with a fishing rod.(gives you fish meat and gold on most catches)

Crew are easy, they cost 5 gold to hire at freeport. you can easily maintain paying them by picking up flotsam along your sailing routes.(you get more gold from recovering sunken treasure or from treasure maps, but flotsam gold requires almost no effort) The alternative way to hire crew is if you can sink the Ships of the Damned (SotD) they always drop one or more slave crew into the water next to the floating treasure they drop. You can swim up and hire them for free.(free at the time of rescuing them, they then just join you and get paid slowly over time like your other crew) So for crew, you have to get your first ones from freeport, and later when you can sink SotD, you can just pick up more crew anywhere.

Hiring crew from sunken sotd while sailing and shooting solo is not something new players usually can do easily. I know because thats how I hired my first sailors :D. Way easier is to hire them in freport, and then replace by higher level crewmen by sinking sotd.

[ZorTheCruel]

@nintendo -- For a sloop, you would only need one crew just to work the sail why you steer. you could get started with just 10 gold even. 5 to hire, and 5 to pay their wage for a while while you earn more gold gathering flotsam out at sea.

@007 -- im not suggesting him taking on SotD with little to no crew. He just wants something small and fast and easy for a starter ship. Heck, even if all he uses it for is to go easily gather flotsam loot for gold or just to explore to see what is out there. Sloop works great and is super cheap to make. he can use the speedy sloop to travel back to Freeport to get more crew later when he is ready to upgrade to a ship that can actually do combat.

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@ZorTheCruel ok, I just finished making my sloop using speed build, the person on youtube said it can outrun most enemy ships with it using 2 small sails. I have 20-ish golds from fishing, I'll try hiring crew later on,

[Scourn]

arks ocean on genesis is about 100 times more interesting and detailed than Atlas entire ocean. Atlas has zero sea life hardly and there is little to do but sail and build. Taming consists of the amount of creatures you can count on your fingers. Building is an upgrade compared to Ark though. Ships of the damned are about the only thing fun in pve but that is about as unrewarding as it goes. Pirate camps are bugged and not been addressed since they released them with a lot of the time you cannot even capture their base. Bosses are no where near Ark quality. The kracken is probably the only boss with actual mechanics like Arks. You can easily tell people here never fought Ark bosses before.

[BIT Bear]

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@ZorTheCruel ok, I just finished making my sloop using speed build, the person on youtube said it can outrun most enemy ships with it using 2 small sails. I have 20-ish golds from fishing, I'll try hiring crew later on,

Maybe i'm remembering this wrong but can't you put a single medium sail on a Sloop?
That's way faster than 2 small sails and easier to manage.