Starting Out [PvE]

A brief guide on starting out as a fresh, new player. This is not meant to be a technical guide for players with more than 50 hours, it's only meant to be used by fresh faces to the Ark. Most of these tips are meant for low-pop, private servers with fewer than 10 active players, as more populated and official servers will be so littered with pillars and other bases that you won't be able to be as selective when doing things like basing or trapping.

Friendly Tips (Optional)

The following are optional tips and can be come back to later, navigate to other sections of the guide with the Guide Index bar on the right.

• Download the Free DLC - Ragnarok, Valguero, The Center, Crystal Isles and Primitive Plus are all Wildcard-Sponsored mods that were retroactively made free DLC. Ragnarok is the best map in my opinion and is the best for starting out, so please try and at least get that. Rag and Val also have dino's you can't get on other maps (unless you get the paid DLC).
  
  
• Turn the "Show Floating Damage Text" option on if you're playing Singleplayer - It's in Advanced Settings near the bottom.
  
  
• If you are playing singleplayer offline, it's advised that you don't make a tribe. There are issues with some of the admin commands allowing you to re-join a tribe you may have accidentally left for whatever reason, which would lock you out of all of your structures and make all of your dino's unusable. The lack of a tribe log isn't worth everything you have when you're not getting raided or playing with other people.
  
  
• If you are brand-new to PvE or Ark in general - Please consider glossing over my guide on Etiquette, as it contains a lot of information you might not find indexed in the way I have it.
  
  
• Never put any of you or your Dino's skill points into food, oxygen, or water - They're useless stats to put levels into except in rare cases.
  
  
• Don't research everything! - There are a limited amount of engram points you will be able to accrue, and there is a level cap. It can change from server to server but in vanilla, the cap is 105, and the later endgame stuff costs a lot to learn, typically you'll find some armor and saddles in loot drops that's way better anyways.
  
  
• Don't assume somethings friendly just because it's an herbivore - See: Therizinosaurus[ark.gamepedia.com].
  
  
• Don't spend your points as soon as you get them - You might not know what something does, it looks really cool and then you later find out it's completely useless or is already outclassed by something only a few levels down. Research what you want, find out what it does, and remember it for the next time you start out, because I can almost promise you your first character will be trashed after about three days.
  
  
• Don't be afraid to explore! - On the Ark, you're immortal. Your items might not be but you will always respawn and will never suffer any stat debuffs or lose engrams because you died. Fill in that map and check out all the cool places!
  
  
• Avoid basing in the Redwoods, Desert, Snowpeaks or Caves - Unless you're experienced in the game, just avoid these places and base on the beach somewhere to start. Preferably near a natural respawn point. You can base in caves but everyone will think you're a jerk.
  
  
• The most commonly used informational websites for Ark are the wiki[ark.gamepedia.com], and the Dododex[www.dododex.com]. The Dododex is more useful for taming and breeding info, the wiki is useful for a wider array of information like its coloration, the lore of the animal and useful information about its utility and stats. Dododex has a fairly useful android and iOS app, but contains no additional information that cannot be found on the PC website.
  
  
• Bad PC? Windowed Potato Mode - Turn them gfx all the way down to low, play in 1280x720 windowed (if you want to be able to tab out during a crash or loading screen) and start the game up in the DX10 mode. Get ready for some really bad textures.
  
  
• Pressing and holding "H" will bring up some more technical stats about the environment and yourself, giving you exact numbers of what your health and food stats are. You can turn this option to toggle this overlay on or off in the Options menu of the pause window.

Common Phrases

Bob/Beach Bob/Naked/Jane/Joe - New Player, typically defined by not wearing clothes and hanging out near the beach or running around grabbing explorer notes.

Dino - Obvious, but can confuse new players. This refers to literally any animal in Ark that is not a human. (Even things that are emphatically not Dinosaurs, like the Argentavis or Icthyosaur.)

Drop/Airdrop - The Large shafts of colored light being emitted from a diamond-shaped supply crate that comes out of the sky. (Color indicates quality.)

Alpha Tribe - Large, successful tribe that dominates the server, denoted by its physical size or notoriety.

Engram - The skill points and blueprints you accrue when you level up.

Tekgram - Special Engram earned by defeating Ark Bosses.

Abberation/Extinction/Scorched Earth/Genesis - DLC for the game.

SOTF - Acronym for Survival of the Fittest, the Ark Battle Royale mode that comes free with the base game.

Meshing - A term on PvP servers to describe someone abusing the mesh physics in a way that wasn't intended by the developers. Can also be used to describe anything that is under/inside of the Mesh on PvE.

Tek (Dino) - A dinosaur that doesn't drop meat and can have a natural level much higher than the normal level cap. Think of this like a less rare "Shiny" pokemon that has useful applications because of its stats. They are denoted by their mechanical appearance.

Natural Level (Wild Level) - The level of a Dinosaur before taming. (While it's still wild)

Tamed Level - The level of a dinosaur after taming, or directly after birth. The level boost you receive upon successfully taming a wild dinosaur will be considered its new natural level and will pass that level onto offspring. Note: Any levels accrued after taming/birth will not be passed onto offspring.

Vanilla/Primitive (Item) - An item that has not been crafted from a Rare Blueprint, or an item with unaltered stats. This refers to the blueprints you learn through leveling up, not those you would find in Drops or on Alpha Dinosaurs.

Tame - Shorthand for "Tamed Animal", referring to any player-owned dino.

Spam - Much more common on PvP or high-pop maps in general, just refers to the pillars, foundations, etc that are used to essentially claim land and territory. If you see a single foundation (sometimes with a pillar and ladder on it) it's probably spam.

Pokeball - Used in place of "Cryopod" because of how they function.

123 - Name used to hide from chinese people in massive servers so you're not harassed or stalked between servers.

DLC Slang:
Abb/Ext/(Sco/SE)/Val/Rag/Isl/CI/GenOne/GenTwo

Abb - Abberation
Ext - Extinction
Sco/SE - Scorched Earth
Val - Valguero
Rag - Ragnarok
Isl/TI - The Island
CI - Crystal Isles
GenOne - The first Genesis DLC Map.
GenTwo - The second Genesis DLC Map.

List will be updated as new information reveals itself.

Starting Out

Dying is okay.

Death is almost inevitable when you start out, don't let that discourage you. It takes a long time to level up in vanilla and if you don't start on a map with Explorer notes and your server isn't clustered, (connected to other servers that host different maps) then you're kinda left to hitting rocks and trees, killing Dodo's and if you're in a tribe, leeching off your tribemates.

Step One: Find your Safe Space

You've spawned in, made your all black female character with all the sliders turned down and named yourself 123, you're now ready for Ark. Your first job is to go and explore. I recommend you start out on "The Island", as it has the fewest and least powerful dino's on the beach, which is where you will be spending most of your lower levels. Hit trees, make a pickaxe, hit trees again. Focus on getting yourself clothed and put a few points into health, weight, stamina and fortitude so the weather isn't so bad on you. Everyone has their own method of stat leveling so I'll leave it up to you to figure out where to allocate those points. My personal favorite place to base in Singleplayer is the crescent island in the southeast of The Island map or anywhere in the Highlands on the Ragnarok map, wherever you chose to base, make sure there are little to no hostile animals around. This is where the dying comes in.

Step Two: Familiarization

Familiarize yourself with the HUD, mess with the advanced settings, bind your whistles to appropriate keys/mouse buttons and generally get used to playing the game. If you need a good guide on Keybinds, there's a very good one here. The most important keys to bind and familiarize yourself with are the Dino whistle commands. Figuring out how to command your dino's is key and often the bottleneck of most new players. Get used to whistle groups, organize everyone nicely and you'll never have a point where you accidentally whistle all your dino's in your massive complex to follow all at the same time. For simplicity's sake, learn the commands by pressing and holding "T" (vanilla) and using the radial menu to select the proper whistle before binding them to specific keys. Pressing (without holding) "T" while hovering the crosshairs on a dino will order that specific Dino to follow you. "Y" will have him stop following.

Last Step: Tame a Dino

Without going into a huge amount of detail, basically animals in Ark fall into one of two categories for taming: Passive and Active. There are other methods that are used for specific dino's like the Pegomastax[ark.gamepedia.com], and others you're unable to tame at all, but you will find out about them if you wind up needing the dino. For passive taming, just put whatever food the tame requires into the last item slot in your toolbelt and interract with the Dino, (by pressing "E") this is often made much more difficult by the dino in question being hostile to players so there may be some sneaking involved. Usually it's berries/crops, Rare Flowers, Rare Mushrooms or some kind of Meat. There are a few dino's that take rarer/stranger resources but you'll find out who those are later. Active taming is a little different, you'll end up having to knock out the target dino (through a method called "Torpidity taming") by using a weapon that causes their "Torpidity" to go up but not let their health fall below 1 HP. I'd recommend you start out by taming a Dodo for practice. (Tiny dog-sized bipeds that look like fat chickens.) They are peaceful and will not attack you if provoked, preferring to run away. An argument could be made to tame a mount or larger herbivore first, and those arguments are valid, you should always think about the utility of the dino before taming it and ask yourself if you think you could use a dino that does X.

I'm Dying a Lot!

Sometimes it's hard to manage all your stats, collect resources and keep an eye out for things that want to eat you, some of which you might not be able to recognize right away as a threat. The best thing to do is relax and not panic, if you're at the stage where a death means losing everything you have: you don't have anything anyways.

Once you find yourself with enough resources for a Smithy, you can focus on building a base. Before then, if you lose any items that aren't made out of metal, it's usually not worth it to go and get them back. Same goes for resources, unless you have metal tools its not enough to warrant you pointlessly dying a few more times.

• "I spawned into a safe/easy area and got some tools made, but died to something big and now I can't get to my corpse. Should I keep trying to get to it?"

No, not always. Depending on your items and level, it might be wiser to simply cut your losses, pick a new spawn point and look to base elsewhere, as it will be a decent amount of time before you're able to deal with threats in any significant way. Focus on finding a good, safe, resource rich area to build in before doubling down on tools, clothes and weapons.

• "Raptors keep chasing me down!"

You can escape a Raptor Pounce by spamming Jump as they're attacking you. An icon will appear next to your stats as a prompt to tell you when to press it. Successfully escaping will cancel the pounce and will keep the Raptor from being able to pounce again for a short time. If you still find you're having trouble dealing with Raptors (or any predator for that matter), consider putting more points into running speed, I usually aim for around 140% minimum.

• "I keep getting killed in the water!"

The water is probably the most hostile place for you as a naked, but sometimes there is no alternative to crossing a river or deep ravine. If you cannot find a dry route around water, or it's too dangerous to go on land, you can tame and use an aggressive dodo (or another quick, small tame) to draw the attention away from yourself for a short period of time while you cross the water. In general, you want to avoid deep water and never try to retrieve corpses underwater, it will only continue to blend you.

Putting Down Roots

Basing is very important, it's basically the entire game.

Step One: A Good Spot

Your first base isn't very important. You're going to move out very soon after its made and if you're experienced enough, you won't need a first base. You can just start on your Main right away. Typically though, you only need access to three things: Wood, Stone and Water. Though, some will tell you the water is optional, especially on Ragnarok where it rains all the time.

What I like to look for is access to something that will let me tame things faster, like Prime meat or Vegetables. Find a place that spawns Stegosaurus[ark.gamepedia.com], or Bronto's [ark.gamepedia.com]if you're feeling strong. Collect enough to craft a few thatch foundations, a bed, a storage box and a Mortar and Pestle. Place them down somewhere convenient. (Near a rock cluster, tree cluster or Dino spawn cluster.) You need a bed to be able to respawn in places that aren't initial spawn points, you can use sleeping bags but they're generally regarded as useless unless you don't have enough hide for a full bed, need to place a respawn point in tight/out-of-the-way places, or need to be able to respawn on-the-fly. (while trapping or taming for instance) They're much more common on PvP and in larger servers where real estate is a little less common and raids are possible.

Step Two: Mounts

Almost universally people will tame the Parasaur [ark.gamepedia.com]before anything else, as it is an incredibly versatile, useful and relatively easy creature to tame in the very early game. The saddle only requires the player to be lvl 9 to make and is incredibly cheap at 80 Hide, 50 Fiber and 15 Wood. If you're playing on vanilla difficulty (x1) you should be looking for a Parasaur that is around level 75-100, (the Parasaur in the pic was the highest level I could find on the little island I was basing on, sometimes you might not find a very high level, and will have to make due with whatever you can find) any higher and you'll likely not have enough resources to tame it, any lower and its really not worth your time. The method I use is the Bola + Club method, and its is considerably cheaper and less time-consuming than the Bola + Tranquilizer Arrow method, however it is much less reliable and more prone to losing the tame, especially if the level is too high or low. Basically, you simply throw a bola at the animal and start beating it with the club (it's usually smart to craft 4-5 clubs and 7-10 bolas, as clubs break and bola's miss) until it passes out, then you can put the taming food in and wait for it to tame out. A very important note: The taming effectiveness drops significantly if the animal is damaged at ALL after its been knocked unconscious. It does not have to be damaged from the player taming it, it can be damaged from literally anything and the effectiveness will instantly drop. You can tell what the current taming effectiveness of your taming method by watching the (%XX.X) bar next to the taming meter. It will drop gradually as you are taming the creature but it should never really drop below around 90% for most animals, higher if you're using kibble or the animals most preferred food. A great taming resource is the Dododex[www.dododex.com], it can tell you what any given animals favorite food is, other survivors' experiences with the animal and tips for taming. Extremely useful resource.

Starving

Some people deliberately wait for the tame to starve to the point that its "food" bar is completely empty before inserting their taming food. This method is used to ensure that the taming food doesn't go to waste if the animal is attacked during the taming process or to prevent the food from being stolen by another player while you're not looking. It's generally not useful to do this for low-level tames or tames you don't intend on keeping for long, as it's very time-consuming and requires more Narcotics to keep the animal sedated. If you're willing to wait for the higher level tames, it can be a good strategy just in case things go south during taming.

Mounts (Cont.)

Mounts perform a variety of different services depending on what animal they are and what skills they possess, some may get a carry weight bonus to specific kinds of items, have a higher harvest rate for specific materials, give you passive benefits like more EXP or attack rating, and so much more. The Parasaur specifically has a unique skill, allowing players to non-visually detect hostile players, dinos and tames in a certain radius (it's fairly large) by putting the animal into "Turret Mode" through the Hold Menu. When an enemy is detected, it will send out an audible warning as well as a visual cue on your screen that tells you who or what was detected. The Parasaur also has the ability to harvest Berries, thatch, wood and crop seeds at a much higher rate than your bare hands (though the thatch and wood rates are considerably lower than the ax and pickax harvest rates) and can move much faster than you for much longer bursts. They will typically have a carry weight much higher than you do to start out and are generally the most useful naked tame. You can activate their Turret-Mode detection while riding them as well, though you will only get the red notification orbs and audio alert, you will not get the blue overlay text.

Note: I've been talking a lot about Parasaurs, but they are not the only option for rideable work mounts, nor are they even the best option (in some peoples opinion) but for early game, they are incredibly useful, even if they are quickly made obsolete. You might also try a Triceratops[ark.gamepedia.com].

Step Three: Main Base Design

This is the more creative and subjective area of the game, you won't find a single consensus on what the "perfect" base is, especially since perfection is very contextual for this game. More or less, (and it goes without saying, this is for PvE only) you want to focus on getting about 4 Forges, a smithy, a campfire, a cooking pot, around 2-3 mortar and pestle (depends on if you want to make gunpowder at this point, you don't really need to) and anywhere from 3-6 storage containers. Personally I use the s+ workbenches for storage as they hold 300 slots, are stackable, and can have mortar and pestle placed on top of them. It's going to boil down to what your preferences are, everybody bases differently and you might find that you need something else for your base, the point is to experiment and find out what works best for you.

Animal Barns/Pens

Typically people will make an exterior living space exclusively for their Dinos, so they aren't attacked or killed by wild dinos and other players. These buildings are typically quite bare or are integrated into the main base itself and have little to no clutter that isn't against a wall or elevated off the ground. These pens ensure that your dinos are where you left them when you logged off, though if you're playing offline single player, you generally don't need these, however it still might be smart to build some kind of protection for your idle dinos while you are away from your base. A decent starter design would be a 4x4x4 (The barn in the image is a 3x2x4) with a Dinosaur gateway being the exit/entrance and perhaps a few ramps for the tinier dino's like the Doedicurus[ark.gamepedia.com]. Animal pens also provide a safe place to lay eggs and raise baby dinos.

Flying

Every server has the classic fliers mod.

Step One: Pteranodon[ark.gamepedia.com]

This is a rare case of actual consensus. Every single survivor will tame one of these in their life, provided they are not playing on a modded server. The Pteranodon is one of the most critical first pieces to your time on the Ark, being the easiest, cheapest, fastest and most readily available flier on pretty much all the maps. While its carry weight is considerably low, it more than makes up for it in speed and combat agility, having one of the highest, vanilla base speeds for fliers. These are generally used for scouting and catching small prey like Dodo's[ark.gamepedia.com] and Microraptors[ark.gamepedia.com], and sometimes for transporting a small amount of cargo if it received a couple dozen points into carry weight.

Taming

The best and most typically utilized method for capturing and taming a Ptera is the Bola + Tranq Arrow method, however there is no taming method that, when used properly, has any chance of killing these creatures, as their Torpidity bars are usually, laughably low. Clubbing isn't advised, since the number of hits required to bring it down is far too many for the amount of time the creature will stay Bola'd after being downed. Prepare 2-3 Bola's and upwards of 10 Tranq arrows. (provided your bow is a normal, Primitive Bow) Be sure to have some kind of Meat to tame it with, their preferred meat is Mutton and their preferred Kibble is Regular Kibble. Sneak up to one without attacking it, throw a bola around it and hit it in the head until it falls unconscious. This will likely only take around 3-4 arrows, even on higher level Pteranodons. (never ever tame a lvl 16 Ptera btw, anything below 50 is virtually functionless. I went on to tame something slightly higher a bit later) The Pteranodon is very good at farming meat and hide from Dodo's and Phiomia[ark.gamepedia.com], able to keep up with the faster creatures that would be able to run away from you on foot.

Step Two: Okay, Next?

The Ptera is good, it gets the job done but it's the starter flier. Where do you go next? Well some people will say you should try and capture a Tapejara[ark.gamepedia.com] or possibly a Pelagornis[ark.gamepedia.com], depending on what you need to do, but I typically never tame these and jump directly to the Argentavis[ark.gamepedia.com]. Its carry weight is pretty decent, with most level 140+ having around 500-600 Carry Weight and an astounding 750-850 stamina, making it by far the more preferred travel animal. With a small group of these, you can transfer a huge amount of ore or wood, the animals getting a carry weight reduction on most materials put into its inventory. They also have a great base combat of around 200% giving them a distinct advantage when hunting or fighting, combined with its ability to lift a large amount of animals up compared to most other fliers aside from the Quetzal[ark.gamepedia.com], it is a fierce combat mount. It is also very useful in taming, able to carry larger dinosaurs than the Ptera or most other animals in its weight class, and throw them into a taming pen or cage.

Taming

I find taming the Argents one of the easier tames in the game, anything you can put in a cage with relative ease is going to be a pretty easy tame. Far and away the most used tactic for knocking out an Argent is to capture it in a Gateway Cage, (pictured to the right) and then hitting it with Tranq Arrows until it goes down. To build a cage like this, craft 4 gateways (they can also be stone, but don't necessarily need to be) 2 gateway doors and it would be smart to have a bed nearby, far enough away from the cage that the animal will not be able to reach through and strike you while you're spawning. To get the bird into the cage, simply fly up to the one you want (a spyglass helps in this situation, but is not necessary) with a Ptera, or shoot at it with a crossbow if you're on foot, get it to try and attack you by getting close and then lead it into the cage. A trick I've learned is to go slowly when you're getting closer to the cage, get the bird to start an attack animation, and then book it to the other side of the cage and sit in front of the door. (If you're using S+, make sure the doors are set to manual) Dismount and shut the door to the cage and then begin hitting it with the tranq's. It's important you don't hit it too many times with tranquilizers before it gets locked in the cage, as after a certain amount of torpidity, the animal will begin to flee from the player attacking it. This is true for a great deal of dino's, not just the Argent.

The preferred meat of the Argent is Mutton and the preferred Kibble is Superior Kibble, it generally takes a very long time to get the bird to eat, so I would recommend keeping it in the cage and perhaps putting down some wooden spikes around it just to make sure it isn't hit by a passing raptor or another Argentavis by accident. Argentavis will not directly aggro onto each other, but are capable of striking each other with the AoE of their swipe attack. After taming out, the saddle is moderately expensive, requiring 150 Chitin/Keratin and unfortunately requires a player level of 62, so this won't be something you are able to get very early on in a vanilla server, but is certainly worth it with a little perseverance. Argent's are somewhat rarer than Pteras and typically live in higher-elevation areas like mountain tops and volcanoes. If you are having trouble finding a spawn area, check up high and I'm sure you'll find one, if all else fails you can check the Wiki[ark.gamepedia.com]

Conclusion and General Advice

General tips for the budding Survivor.
These are tips that are more heavily opinionated, and not necessarily something objective and factually true. Things that I've learned through playing the game and meeting other players.

It took me a while to understand a lot of the mechanics of the game, for instance:
• In combat, aiming for the head of animals and players is generally going to confer more damage onto the target. If you are in a scenario where you're fighting a human player or are trying to tame an animal, aim for the head and you will likely do more damage and apply more torpidity. This doesn't work for every single animal, as some animals do not take critical damage from heashots, but for the vast majority of creatures and players, headshots deal more damage. This generally only works for projectiles and not melee weapons.
  
  
• If you are looking for a high level dino or a specific breed of dino, find out where it spawns and begin killing anything that isn't the dino you're looking for. Eventually one will spawn and you can take the opportunity to capture it.
  
  
• If you're having trouble finding a suitable base location, simply look for an area around metal nodes. Metal nodes are the gold-colored rocks that can sometime appear more greyish in color, but are always very shiny. Metal, crystal and obsidian almost always "grow" in high elevations or around volcanic activity, and are usually guarded by a number of hostile carnivores and wild creatures, so beware.
  
  
• Don't take gifts. Half the fun of this game is going out and grinding, don't rob yourself of that experience just to get a head-start, especially in PvE. Plus, the gifts always come with strings attached, it's just never a good idea to accept gifts or free tames. If you really want whatever the person is offering, ask to pay for it instead, then go grind a bit of metal and exchange it for whatever, Metal is generally a pretty good unit of currency on any Ark, since its so tedious to collect and refine. Hard Polymer, Organic Polymer, Obsidian, Cementing Paste and Crystals all work as well.
  
  
• If you become successful and/or you're an experienced player reading this, don't offer gifts to new or struggling players. Metal tools can be found in boxes and drops, rare resources can be obtained without any dinos or help from others, there's no reason you can't simply show them how to get a resource/dino rather than being lazy and ultimately unhelpful by just giving them something for free. If they're really struggling or can't seem to do it on their own, feel free to barter for whatever it is you think they need. You can give someone a fishing pole but if they don't know how to use it, what good is it to them?
  
  
• When you're done with a trap, dismantle or unlock it. Don't take up real estate that you're not going to use, especially if it's not a trap that other people can take advantage of like a taming pen or doorframe cage. You can unlock structures by holding the Interact button down and selecting "Unlock".
  
  
• Don't be afraid to use cheats or ask for help. A lot of the time people will lose hours and hours of work to a game crash or server crash, don't be afraid to use console commands to repair the damage or ask an admin for their help, typically most private server admins are more than happy to help someone affected by a crash, especially if it was their fault, lol.
  
  
• The caves aren't as scary as you think, most of the time they're completely benign, empty caves that only have a loot drop or spiders crawling around in them. There are only a handful per map where you can encounter a boss, just make sure you're fully prepped when you do try and run through one. Take it slow, be cautious, be smart and be prepared. For the Ragnarok caves, don't be afraid to look stuff up, some of the puzzles and locations are total bull[ark.gamepedia.com].

This section may grow longer over time as I learn new things and develop new methods for doing them, but overall I'm satisfied with how it turned out. Let me know if there's anything I may have left out that you think should have been included in a noobie guide, or if you have any questions at all.
If you think you're ready for the next step of the journey, you can check out my guide on Building Up to Metal Tier.

I try to maintain all my guides and keep them up-to-date, even older ones, so if anything in this becomes obsolete or outdated, please let me know, thanks!

P.S. - Thanks for everyone's suggestions, keep them coming to make this guide better for the new faces to the Ark!

[side]

Good guide, thanks for the advice!

[Gears]

damn

[Drift]

Sorry, I'd forgotten to remove the link when I shut the servers down. They are no longer active.

[Gears]

Lovely guide, one thing though is that the discord link doesnt seem to work. Not sure whether this was intentional or not but I am interested in your custom ark server

[Titus2]

i have 30 hours so far and i needed some of this

[Dralth]

Pretty well-done guide for noobies of The Ark. I have exactly 681.6 hours in Ark, I'm the Leader of my own Tribe, and I didn't know some of the things you spoke of on here. I'm gonna add this guide to my favorites, so I can share it in the future if I run across anyone new to Ark within the Cluster I play in, but other than this guide, I won't gift them anything else.

[MineKnights]

noob SEAGULL (Pelagornis) Is best start mount get a bow arrow and tranqs then bola the things and knock em out its very valuable for scouting and movement from dangerous areas with some INSANE speed and decent weight and stam I recommend SEAGULL for all starters

[Sambucus]

Nice, Thankyou.

[Drift]

I suppose saying "starve completely" is a little off, I meant how you described. In my mind, "completely" means "until it doesn't need to starve anymore."

I'm also operating on the assumption the common noob isn't going to use Dododex as often as regular players.

[Veeshan]

Nice write-up. One minor issue, you've mistaken starve taming. We dont let the food run totally out and therefore it doesn't take any longer than normal or require any more narcotics. We just wait until the food is low enough to tame all at once is all.