small tribes ark что это

Small tribes ark что это

A guide for small tribes trying to survive Official PVP Servers in ARK: Survival Evolved.

From starting out to a turreted metal base, including farming and taming information along the way. This guide is intended for people somewhat familiar with ARK or those who are experiencing issues surviving in the face of overwhelming odds in PVP. It contains tips and tricks for fast resource gathering and getting over hurdles that I’ve found many tribes don’t know and get stuck behind, as well as advice on useful dinos to tame for these purposes.

This guide is being constructed as a quick set of notes to the new, small, time-limited ARK PVP hopefuls, but should contain information useful to just about anyone as I address each key point of getting established.

This is NOT a guide for players looking to spend upwards of 7 hours per day playing ARK, those looking to join or become an Alpha tribe, or for players seeking to tame the largest tames. The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate what can be done in a 1-3 man tribe, playing intelligently with reasonable goals on Official Servers. The guide will assume you have at least a basic understanding of how ARK and Survival games work in general.

Note: Based on the comments, I suppose I should re-iterate here that this guide will in no way make you raid-proof or otherwise invincible, as a small group, you should be realistic and expect that even upon completion of this guide, you will still get raided and reset from time to time. That’s Survival PVP. It gives you something to do, and the major benefit of doing this is it results in you gaining many levels and learning a great deal about ARK.

So, in order to Get Started, There will be 3 major steps:

Selecting an appropriate official server is a very important step. If this is your first time really experiencing ARK, I highly recommend a server running The Island (signified in the name). Zero population is fine to learn on, but I actually recommend starting with a low to moderately populated server, just so you get a realistic feel for how server population will impact your gameplay.

Ping should be as far below 100 as possible, while still having the words Official and The Island in the title. If you are comfortable with ARK and want to experience more challenge, you may choose a Center, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, or Aberration server, but, each comes with its own difficulties not expressly covered in this guide (though we will mention excursions later).

In the first few hours of play, pay attention to the global chat to look for problematic players or news of other tribal developments to get a feel for how busy the server is. If things seem too intimidating or an alpha tribe has a formidable presence, now is the time to choose a different server before becoming too invested.

Your immediate concern should be acquiring engrams by leveling up quickly. Do the usual ARK start by punching some trees until you have wood, gathering some loose stones from the beach, and crafting the basic tools as well as 3-4 spears. Use these to lay waste to beach animals while you gather an inventory full of basics. You may choose to make a small hut or wander, but, I highly recommend meeting up with friends and at the very least laying down sleeping bags in the same general area close to one of the spawns. A bed doesn’t take long, but should be an early objective. Some people like to tame a raptor or other mount at this point, but, I generally recommend holding off on tames until you are established.

How do you choose a location for your base? I’ll primarily be using the Island as an example, but, most of these ideas hold true.

Because of these requirements, I recommend living slightly up a mountain, almost to where it becomes very cold, either in view or very close to in view of a river or beach. This should put you somewhat close to metal nodes, give you a reasonable proximity to more advanced things like obsidian and crystal, keep you off the PVP-dangerous beach, and, should work as a platform for moving into the next phase of the game, getting established.

Now, if you’ve followed this guide, you have a base in a decent location, and are ready to move on.

This would be a good place to discuss:

Why did they do this?! I didn’t have anything worth taking. This is so unfair, I quit!

Let me just stop you right there. You just experienced a part of the game. PVP. From where you are now, it is a horrible thing that wastes your time. Maybe the reason you are reading this guide is because this happened to you, and you thought you had done something wrong, or bad. I’m here to tell you, you haven’t done anything wrong. ARK PVP is very hard on small tribes and solo players. Very hard. You really might be raided nightly for a week, even twice in the same day, the instant that you’ve rebuilt.

A large part of the reason that this happens is because people on servers with alpha tribes get bored and bring over a couple of stacks of C4 to grief your server with. It’s just something to do for them because they’ve done everything else, and is low-hanging fruit for streaming and making youtube videos. Sometimes, a tribe that lives on your server will want you killed off as well. In any event, here’s the big key:

Finish up with your crying. Dust yourself off. Get up. Rebuild. Rebuild knowing that it’s going to happen tomorrow. Laugh it off.

Notice how this guide doesn’t have you taming a bunch of pets before here? The rate that you will be getting raided at this point is likely too high to worry about large tames. We’ll get to taming soon. Hopefully, you haven’t lost too many tames to this raiding yet (you will, you’ll lose everything a lot, and that’s okay, because you’re going to dust yourself off and do it all over again without complaining, right?).

Now, for the purposes of leveling up and expanding, it’s probably time to spread out a little, and begin working towards a metal base and having some tames.

You are likely still being raided frequently, but, we discussed how you just get back up and continue working after that happens, so, from here on out, I’ll just be assuming that this happens to you from time to time until we up our defenses, which is later.

Now, let’s discuss moving up. It’s time for a dino pen.

It’s time to gain the capability to store some tames. I recommend starting with a stone pen, fully enclosed, with a stone dino gate. This doesn’t take too long to build (a couple of hours with a friend), and once done, you will be able to expand it and begin reaping the benefits of tames. See the screenshot for an idea of a base with an attached dino garage, or, make your own free-standing one if you’d like. The size of the pens I make are usually related to the amount of playtime I perceive myself to have at the beginning of the real-world day in which I decide to construct one.

If you have all day to play, now might be a good time to give yourself room for a couple of flyers, an ankylo, and more. If you aren’t playing for long, just make an enclosure and gate big enough to hold a pteranodon. Give yourself room to expand this later.

One of the most important capabilities in ARK is flight. Being able to quickly get a view of territory, scout for resources or dinosaurs, or even carry material from place to place is absolutely crucial for moving forward.

I like to build a stone pen or shelter for a pteranodon BEFORE I capture it, but, you can decide whether you want to do that before your first ptera tame, or after.

You should start with a quick pteranodon tame, without worrying too much about level. Here’s what you’ll need:

Use your newly acquired pteranodon to explore, and maybe grab some drops. Remember that this pteranodon will likely be killed by players when you log off. That’s no big deal. You can do all of this again, and better next time.

Your next objective should be to highly protect some of your assets. Though it may not seem like it, having a metal base will reduce the amount of raiding that you experience by some amount. You will still be raided, but, likely with reduced frequency and success.

Begin by replacing your original 2×2 with metal. You can do this by using a pickaxe on nearby metal nodes until you have enough metal, but, what about that cementing paste?

The next couple of sections will detail how to advance to the next, difficult part of ARK.

Firstly, you are going to need metal. You will always need metal. It is a great idea to have metal cooking as often as possible. I recommend 2-3 furnaces burning at once, with at least a stack of 200 metal or so in each. This will give you enough metal to enclose your original base in metal relatively soon. Just find the metal nodes, pick them until your inventory is heavy, drop enough to move at around full speed, and take the metal back and dump it in a furnace. Do this about 10 times or until you cannot find any more metal in a reasonable range.

If you are having trouble finding enough metal to keep your cook going, you may have chosen a poor location. This is why I emphasized metal in the earlier section of the guide. It is probably the most important resource to be able to quickly obtain, along with the wood to smelt it.

Here’s how to get over that. It’s called, The Beaver Run. Remember how I had you train a pteranodon in the prior section? This is the main reason.

Unbeknownst to many ARK players, Beavers (Castoroides) (see picture), create dams and fill them with an amazing amount of cementing paste, silica pearls (see more on these later), rare flowers, and wood. Anywhere beavers are found (consult with the wiki for a map), they are likely to produce these dams that you can access and steal from (gaining aggro from the fairly stout beavers, so be careful to grab and run).

Use your pteranodon to find and rob a few dams of paste. Use that paste to build your metal base.

Note: When you find a dam and take the paste, be sure to also throw everything else out of the dam so that the beavers will make and fill a new one. They WILL NOT refill or rebuild a robbed dam, so, if you don’t do this, next time you need paste, you will be out of luck. It is also courteous to do this for your neighbors and other tribes, so they may have paste, too.

At this point, you have metal tools, metal cooking, a 2×2 metal core with some stone structures around it, probably a dino pen, and are now accruing a lot of resources. It’s time to expand that metal base, and put many small chambers inside your base as you go. Each wall takes 3 C4 to destroy, and each door 2 C4. Think in terms of how many walls and doors must be destroyed to get at each bit of loot.

I recommend forcing raiders to use the maximum amount of C4 to gain the minimum amount of loot. I do this by honeycombing my base.

At this point, I recommend looking at some youtube videos about frugal and well defended base designs. We’ll get to turrets in a bit.

Don’t get stuck expanding and honeycombing your base forever. It will still be raided. Get yourself a reasonable layout with at least a little bit of deceptive storage here and there, maybe make yourself another small stone base elsewhere as a backup spawn and stash, and get ready to move on, because as a small group or solo PVPer, you’ve got to move fast.

The next thing to do is begin work on setting up turrets. Turrets will GREATLY reduce the amount of raiding that you must endure. For me, it is generally a get raided every night to two nights until I place my first 3-4 turrets, and then it calms down to once or twice per week, if even that. This is because turrets on official servers are actually quite effective (don’t think you are invincible though, you’re still getting raided after this section, just get used to it. ).

Once you have a metal base, you are ready to really up the defenses on it, but, we’ve got a couple of problems to address first. You’re going to need a fabricator, gasoline, a generator, wiring, and outlets. Let’s talk about that.

Building a fabricator sucks. The footprint of the thing is huge, and it’s not cheap on resources, either. Just because of its size, I tend to build a fabricator BEFORE I can enclose the room it is in entirely in metal. I recommend doing this as it will save you many hours, but eventually, you want everything enclosed in metal.

Go ahead and build one of these at your smithy and make yourself a decent place to put it that you can later enclose in metal, and get it in place.

You’ll need to dive for some oil, and cook it with hide in a furnace to get gasoline. At this point, I’m sure you’re capable of that, but a quick tip for the island would be that there’s a fairly easily accessible «oil shelf» in the South just off shore, and many other locations where you can get oil. You just need 40 or 50 oil right now, so, a few nodes will do.

You’ve probably taken the engram for Generator and realized that it requires electronics, which require silica pearls. Even from beaver dams, these are still very rare and take a very long time to get enough for turret production. This is the second problem resource after cementing paste, and, I have a solution for this one, too.

Scorched Earth. On the scorched Earth server, the Red Obelisk (and other places) has hundreds of silica pearls scattered around it. Transfer a character there, gather your pearls, and use the red obelisk to transfer back. REMEMBER: You can transfer from ANY DROP as well as the obelisks. This is why I said find a drop near your base earlier :). You will likely need to do a «Silica Pearl Run» every few days to keep up with turret production. A note about this process: There is a timer upon which things must be transferred that seems to reset approximately every 30 minutes or so. Please set aside 30 minutes to one hour for each Silica Pearl Scorched Earth run, and remember that you only have 24 hours to pick up the silica pearls back at your base.

By now you should have a place to store some tames. Let’s talk about two useful land-based tames that you should consider, as well as the argentavis.

1) Ankylosaurus
Taming a decent level Ankylo and leveling up its weight and melee damage will allow you to gather metal at an appropriate rate for finishing your base and making turrets. The ankylo is a long tame, but it is worth it if you put in the time grinding metal with it. I highly recommend this tame for base finishing and turret mass production. Also, the ankylo gathers a large amount of flint, which is crucial for sparkpowder->gunpowder production.

2) Doedicurus
The amount of stone that you can acquire with one of these is ludicrous. If you are building large walls and enclosing spaces out of stone, this is a must-have pet and is not too difficult to acquire. The stone is also crucial to sparkpowder->gunpowder production.

3) Argentavis
The argentavis is a long tame, but has enough carry weight that obtaining some crystal and obsidian from up the mountain becomes reasonable to do. You should have one of these whenever possible.

2 quick facts about turrets: 1) They are expensive, 2) They do not make you unraidable, just much less so. There’s not much you can do about an alpha tribe bringing over perfectly bred, insanely saddled, top-level stegos/armored mounts to suck up all your bullets and then raid you as normal. Just know that they USUALLY won’t bother, and that you are awesome enough to rebuild even after they do.

With a requirement of 70 electronics and 140 metal apiece, and more, you will need a steady, fast income of metal. See the taming portion above for some input regarding that.

Get your fabricator going and aim for crafting a generator, outlets, wires, and 4 turrets to start with, with 25-50 bullets each to guard each corner of your base (your base will now be more secure as you add more bullets, dedicate time to this)

Put your generator somewhere safe, away from walls that are likely to be attacked first, and hopefully enclosed in its own nice little room. Build your wires out to put outlets where they can reach good turret positions (look up youtube guides for turret placement and wiring functionality).

Make sure not to give potential raiders a lot of cover with your other structures or natural spawns from your turrets.

Congratulations, if you made it this far, you are officially established. You might have gotten raided a lot, but, now, that should decrease in frequency! From here, you have a good platform to do what you want with ARK, without worrying TOO much about nightly raids. If you go a few days without being raided, expand. If not, add MORE TURRETS.

Now, you might want to check your tribe log each day to see who your turrets murdered while you were sleeping, and make sure to replenish spent bullets each day.

You are now well established, with a metal base, turrets, and some decent utility dinos. Hopefully, you have a couple of flying tames, and the knowledge of how to get back on your feet post-raid.

I’ve given you some tips and tricks for solving cementing paste and silica pearl problems, as well as a step by step guide to making sanity out of small-tribe PVP life. Now, let’s improve the quality of that life with farms, kibble, and rafts.

First, decide if you’re going to enclose it in a greenhouse or not. This decision should be directly influenced by how easily you can get crystal, because greenhouse parts are crystal-expensive. If you can get a lot, easily, the greenhouse enclosure is definitely worthwhile. Look up some youTube tutorials for how to get 300% bonus in your greenhouse.

Secondly, let’s talk about crop-plots and sizes. The only advantage that I know of for large plots is that they hold more water, which means you’ll need less irrigation, and your plants can potentially survive between rainstorms. The yield in larger plots is the same, so, build according to your space and needs. I generally do 4-8 medium plots, and then another 4-8 small plots, using large plots only for species x and species y (defensive turrets, you should research these later, too, as they are advanced for this guide). You can build whatever you’d like though, it all works.

I recommend 6-10 composting bins with 100 thatch and 6 poop in each, always being checked on and refilled as you go through the day. This is why I recommend the phiomia and the stimberry poop trick. You can spend 5 minutes two or three times a day and have enough fertilizer for your farm plus a little stockpiling. The stimberries from one plot should be enough to keep you with enough poop for 7 or 8 more plots, permanently. The other option is to randomly collect poop all day and from your dodos. This is not as fun.

Put over 150,000 fertilizer in each plant box, regardless of size, if you want it to survive through tomorrow.

Okay, so, you have a small farm now and access to the veggies, what to use them for? The most universal and useful thing would be kibble. Kibble is made by combining some meat, fiber, a dino egg of some sort, some water, etc, in a cooking pot (or industrial cooker if you’re rich). So build one of those, and, let’s figure out some easy and useful kibble to have on hand.

So, where to get eggs? Females. Females will pretty much always lay eggs, and you can collect them and cook them into various kibbles. Look up the recipes on the wiki. I almost always have a small dodo area of tamed or untamed dodos. I recommend you just grab them with your pteranodon and drop them into a pen. If you tame them you can keep them for longer, and it only takes a couple of minutes each. With about 6 female dodos, you’ll have 10 eggs in no time. Once you have those, hit your garden for the rest of the stuff (rockarrots in this example), cook up some meat if it needs that, and cook away. Kibble keeps for a very long time in the fridge, so, it’s a good idea to go ahead and make kibble when you find a useful egg.

Dodo kibble is great for pteranodons and ichthys, which are both things that are great to have on hand. The difference in taming with kibble and without is night and day. You will be able to get a lvl 100+ pteranodon in under an hour, and under 30 minutes on double-tame weekends if you do it with kibble, and since the requirement is just pretty much have a farm and a dodo egg for each kibble, this is one you can passively do with no problem whatsoever.

Dilophosaurs are also easy to tame or capture, and their eggs can be sued for Ankylo and Doed, two dinos I recommended earlier. Scorpions are good for Rex kibble, and so on.

Take a look at ARK Wiki Kibble [ark.gamepedia.com] for an idea of which kibble you’d like to try to keep on hand and which «circle of life» you want to advance through (if any).

I generally just grab up loose eggs and stash them to make kibble later, but I will farm dodos and dilos to get myself going. I recommend a similar approach.

If you’ve done everything else in this guide, congrats, you are at the point in the game that I like to call «well established». Your daily play will now usually be based around your whims and things you actually want to do as opposed to grinding and aiming for some requirement like turrets or metal walls or a farm. This is the best place to be.

Let’s talk about what we do now, with rafts, and expeditions.

Let’s talk about Rafts. Rafts are really affordable, and very empowering tools in ARK. They can function as a mini mobile base and carry large amounts of resources and even tames to distant locations. The only real drawbacks are the size of the raft you can create, and the fact that whales and other mobs can completely destroy them and everything on them.

That being said, there are many configurations of raft that you can make, enjoy, and benefit from by building foundations and structures onto the raft. Please, though, just stay away from the deep water. Rafts can help you with just about any expedition, here are a few ideas with links to video tutorials and other information:

Here I will list some possible fun goals, tames, and expeditions that you can embark upon from your new established base with your fleet of amazing rafts and your great little farm.

This quick section is just some recommendations regarding behaving yourself in a way that will maximize your survival coefficient on an ARK PVP server. Feel free to disregard these pieces of advice at your own peril.

Being super-territorial is a great way to get yourself offline raided to oblivion. When you meet a new group near the edge of your territory, you might initially want to warn them off and be rude to them so they will go away. I recommend against this. If they are too many and will be eating up all of the resources in the area, I recommend either allying or moving. An extended engagement with your neighbor will usually result in both of you being raided into oblivion by an external force soon.

Having allies is good because they might be a better raid target than you, and because other people looking to move nearby will feel crowded out. A good neighbor can instantly get you back on your feet by handing you a couple of forges and a smithy after a raid, or even offer you a place to park a dino in a pinch. Friends are powerful, and, most people want to be at least a bit friendly in ARK.

Two of my most useful alliances in ARK history were formed by helping new players obtain resources like chitin or cementing paste. Helping out with someone else’s tame by clearingout dangerous dinos or watching it for them for a bit sends a great message. People remember this, and later when they see you all desheveled because your boat base just got whaled and you’ve got nothing left, they are very likely to help you out. Doing good turns for others is often rewarded in ARK.

Even if you don’t really need the materials, offering beneficial trades endears you to other survivors. It may have been nothing to you to throw away 100 crystal for 100 chitin, but the process of getting 100 crystal may have been very far out of reach of that other guy. Trade fair and trade often, and before you know it, you’ll have people coming to bat for you when you are raided or in need. People love a good and fair merchant.

Hopefully, this guide has given you some hope and insight into surviving or playing on Official PVP servers in ARK.

Many players will discourage you from even playing ARK if you are not interested in joining a larger tribe. All of the hours I’ve put into ARK have been solo or in a small tribe, and, by learning the way the game works, having a good grasp of diplomacy, and having the willpower to always stand back up no matter how bad a raid is, I’ve had a great deal of fun with this game.

I highly recommend trying this out, but, in full disclosure, there are servers where even these strategies won’t get you incredibly far. The challenge is probably still fun and worth playing, but, I actually enjoy seeing a little bit of progress in ARK.

If nothing else, hopefully this guide has helped you level up a bit and perhaps get a bit of understanding about some of the more difficult or obscure parts of ARK.

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