50 STUPID MISTAKES I ALWAYS MAKE in Ark: Survival Evolved 

Do you make any of these mistakes frequently?

Should be "Mistakes WE make" 😂 great vid dude

Accidentally hitting E and jumping off my Argy is so common that I always have parachutes in my toolbar. Though sometimes I’ll hit the wrong button again and, instead of parachuting safely, I whip out the spyglass and get a closer view of the ground rushing up to kill me.

In ark, minor mistakes can rapidly compound into an unmitigated disaster without warning.

One thing I've figured out to reduce accidental "Whistle All" incidents is to set a whistle group up for a dino you can easily keep track of, and whenever you're in the base, make sure to stay on that group unless you are traveling with a group of dinos you personally like to use. With a single group, any dino that is not in the group, will not respond to whistles unless you select "clear taming group" or directly whistled at. You can also set your personal tame to ignore group whistles so tribemates won't accidentally whistle all them. Also, a great tip to avoid excessive food spoilage for carnivores is to actually cook the meat before to place it in their inventory or a feeding trough. It lasts much longer than if it were left raw, and dinos will still eat it just fine. It makes raising babies much easier since you don't have to worry about spoiled meat taking up their inventory. Another great thing about cooking meat before placing in a trough is that cooked meat stacks to 50 a stack as opposed to 40 if it's left raw. This means you can actually pack a trough with more food if you only take the time to cook it beforehand, ergo less hurried meat runs when you suddenly realize everybody is starving to death.

I thought that baby rex in the beginning was just going to die behind you 😂 I tend to forget to feed the baby dinos sometimes... All the pain in this video though, omg

I tamed my first chalicotherium and took him for a spin. Threw rocks at a pack of wolves, got pinned and killed so fast 😅😂

Your first mistake was thinking the mafia are untouchable… ❤️ make sure you are recording next time you log on. With love. Kiah, Crabby and Dave

Absolutely love this, because these mistakes are all the reasons I play single player and have it heavily modded with... basically everything that counters these moments. Leave a Dino in a cave, pray I didn’t forget to throw an awesome Dino tracker on said Dino and pull it back to me if it’s not dead. If it died I can either pull an older version of it - or revive it via another mod. 😂 I’m not kidding when I say my Ark is modded to counteract Ark and my own Dumbarsery. If anything my issues are now forgetting to put down my sinks and then dying of dehydration, because I’ve used those mats for a building I didn’t need quite then. 🤦🏼‍♀️ *Cough-* Almost forgot: Automated Trough has a baby trough that if powered and left on, will feed and even initial imprint babies. So you never have to worry about a baby again, if you have power.

ive seen a million "mistakes i make" or "things i wish i knew before playing" guides on games and IMO this is prolly the best one i ever seen. weirdly underrated!

Thank you! Using these tips in my new play through. Would love you to watch!

3:07 no bro, picking up the wrong and demolishing the ocean platform is the worst...

Awesome video, glad I found your channel! I am new at Ark, and this is very informative!

Awesome content keep up the good work thank you for bringing joy to our day

I did not expect a Mumbo Jumbo reference in a non-minecraft video. This was a nice surprice :D

Lol.... awesome, was crackingup bro... refreshed my memories :)

Use cactus broth and bug repellent while wearing a ghillie suit on land or cactus broth and diving suit when under water and you will be invisible to everything and nothing will aggro on you. So you can just walk, swim into caves or steal eggs with nothing even looking at you.

Ptera: [I have] One mana. One. *You will be destroyed.* Yeah, he's pissed about it. 😂😂😂

Seeing your mistakes is like looking at myself... and all the crazy things I tend to make. :D

13:29 "And you're not near any water sources" he says while it is literally raining which means you can will up waterskins or similar storage options with water pretty much anywhere lol

Halfway through the video, you reminded me my Meawing needed to be feed.. Thank you!

Great video and honestly genius video idea too!

I think the "not killing low level" one is literally everyone though, i know i don't often do it lol

as someone who hits up beaver dams often, Open > hover over wood and press "O" to drop it > click transfer all > resist urge to press esc to back out because it being destroyed will back out.

gotta love the ol' hit the E key while midair trick.

Guilty of a lot of these mistakes. Breeding, taming, relocating, being speedy, and one I can only hope I'm not alone on this. I always forget that I have Hardcore Mode on when progressing through other maps. Trying to keep certain runs separate from each other. I've lost a lot of progress with a few characters cause of this.

Got back into Ark recently, last time I played was 2015-2016ish, and the amount of times I’ve yeeted myself off my ptera in the last week should be a cardinal sin! It’s gotten so bad I’ve started carrying parachutes 🥴

I like to build up high so I'm always waking up in the morning and yeeting myself off my base forgetting my sino jumps off my back when a log out.

Happy to have stumbled upon the Ark community here! I'm new here but have been playing all day everyday for the past week & a half 😭

Lol very relatable basically every thing I make mistakes in this vid bruhhh

Great video

Got a killer saddle tn for one of my pteras and made the mistake of swapping it wayyyy up in the sky. Had about a ten second fall straight to death lol

I am cursed to have a combination of these every freaking time. Flying mount not on follow but accidentally on aggressive, press E high up, no parachute, no backup flyer, no gps tracker, no idea where it went and of course I came back to get all of my stuff with no armour, tools, weapons, food or water and oh, that's a wild Argy... Yeah, I feel your pain...

The flyer running into the giga was relatable lmao

Thanks for the video I needed the laugh, I just got my roommate to start the game a few weeks ago for the first time after all these years. I warned him about building so close in the beginning Beach and even on a server of three people, someone came in with one powerful team and wiped out all 10 of his loved ones, now he's renting his own server and I'm going to try to find some more people to play on steam with us, he's trying to learn the game and the Ragnarok map up and down before we go back to the official servers. Hopefully I can find a few more people because he loves to build and this is definitely his type of game.

I think this one of your funnesist videos!

some people set the difficulty higher, others just play like pterafier^^

Ptera, have you been spying on me? This is so hilarious because we ALL do this stuff. And then we blame it on Ark. XD We even make a verb out of it. Yup, got myself Arked yesterday.

since this will be my first time playing ark on console (ive played only on mobile pvp) should i start by playing on a solo world or jump straight into pvp any tips?

I dismount flyers so often that it's muscle memory now to flick left while spamming E. 90% of the time I recatch the flyer. Helps also when you run out of stamina and do the slow fly down. You can cancel out of being ejected by immediately recatching the bird

The best is when you’re flying over the ocean (Fjodur specifically) and the server or game glitches, you get kicked, and then log back in to you in the ocean next to thousands of all of the horrible ocean critters. Instant death.

im playing ark for the first time and i feel like i know what to do but I don't know where to start, all the stuff I've seen seems so overwhelming i don't know where to begin, I've made some guns and tamed some good dinos but i still fear new areas thinking I'll lose all the dinos and it kinda prevents me from progressing

I have almost 10 characters in all my single player worlds. Been playing since the game came out on pc. You're telling me the thousands of whip drops or blueprints I've dropped not knowing you can lash items back to you.... I feel like a moron hahahahahahahaha

This never gets old :P Especially the pickax durability or press E to enter F yepp thats a regular XD

3:03 JESUS CHRIST THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

4:30 me but everything I literally make something to bring it to somewhere but I always forget it

Unlike in real life, I like having all things ordered in Ark, which is why we often have like 10 vaults. Off the top of my head: 1. Weapons 2. Armor 3. Tools 4. Saddles 5. Building 6. Artifacts 7. Skins ---- 8. Resources The resources vault is always next to the fabricator, smithy and chemical bench, which is why it's separated.

im starting on ark and im saving all my charcoal, not for an specific reason i just thought it might be useful in the future, even I don't know what to do with it yet

Couple tips: If your falling off a dino quickly press tab and type reconnect this will cause you to log out instantly - or have 500 hp When pvping go into 3rd person and aim for there legs as it breaks them faster Wooden billboards are a substitute for metal but only if the dino isn't a giga or a rex For taming the rule of thumb is 10-40-100 ie for differing sizes of dinos and if you do somehow run out just use a boomerrang Whips are for children and by performing a crouch glitch you can force multiple caps of loot into an area that you can move in 1.2 seconds(crouch drop a bag of something you don't care about and then popcorn into it/drop all your stuff into by pressing O)

I don't know about "accidentally" but I have a real bad habit about deleting older save files in a lot of my games. Especially ones like Skyrim, Fallout 4, even ARK. If I go too long without playing them, I just end up resetting my save file and starting over, no matter how far along I was in that save.

All I learned was that you really don’t like to admit stuff 😂 great vid fr tho❤

Wahoo, yay for Mumbo!

I honestly think we’ve all been through these, I never learn then end up stressing the fuck out #savethecharcoal lmao genius ❤️n✌🏻

Yeh, backup creatures is a massive problem for me, I have one tame I always like using, get surrounded or game crashes, I die , I then don’t have another creature to get my old stuff

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that feels like an idiot when playing this game. I was literally raging so hard when I first ever started playing a month ago. Dying to that annoying beach bird

Um hi, I’ve played around 500 hours (so noob) and this is the most relatable video I’ve ever seen. Basically a tutorial for how I’ve played up to this point.

I really like flying around on the Tropeo. At least 25% of the time I take one to a beaver dam, I accidentally use the wing flap attack while trying to land. If you're not familiar, it one shots beaver dams with like, 100k's of damage. RIP my pearls and paste.

Sooooo Truuuu! lols good stuff.

love how a third of these could be prevented if you kept parachutes on your hotbar 😅

I have literally several hundred tames, so I don't have the tame shortage issue. And when I tame, I usually get at least 2-4 dupes just incase, a good example being when I lost my desmodous, and my otter, due to going afk over the fire wyvern trench in fjordur, and my desmo landing in the lava. I had two more desmo. And no spare otters. I was definitely sad. But honestly, playing ark mobile so long before I got on standard ark, I think that's given me enough experience.

Your character looks like Bikes and Beards channel host 😂

skuba gear is best used, primarily the tank, its best to put it on at low oxygen, watch the oxygen bar and take it off when its high enough, like >80%. it saves a lot of durability. also its best to have oxygen to around 250-400, not too high

The biggest mistake I make is getting emotionally attached, to anything, that first lvl 30 PT? Ammillio will be missed, my first base location? Two alpha raptors say hello, my thyla I use as a travel mount with only four melee mutations but I got tired of breeding and he had a cool color? Michael Jackson is now obsolete, that pegomastax you accidentally tamed because you always put food in the last slot for some reason? Picked up and eaten alive by the worlds most agile Ichthyornis while you try your hardest to save him. RIP STIKK you will be missed.

You Said #savethecharcoal... I see the soots from spirited away... lol Forgetting a Hazmat on Extinction.... me.

fun fact for any wyvern egg gathering, get a sacrifice dino to distract any wyverns

Accidentally hitting E and jumping off my bird over a trex is my go to. Just did it earlier today and spent 3 hours getting my stuff back.

the thing i do the most is upload my character. especially when I'm loading in a boss fight. Alpha king titan fight. I loaded him in and then hit upload character and deleted my entire inventory including my high power cryopod tames

What is up with your graphics? (In a good way!) Is it a mod or one of the settings? Hard to explain what I'm seeing...

Pro-tip: put oviraptor on follow and marvel how it loots wyvern, etc eggs without agro

Nice shout out. 👌

Hey man, I'm just getting back into Ark after a few years away, what's the dino you're riding at 7:37?

I can absolutely agree with the backup Dino's. My buddies and I have had the server on Fjordur since it came out (it's our favorite map by far) and I get asked in Discord "Hey Justin can you come with me to get my Dino back?" Everyone knows I have a soul station with 60 different backup dinos. I have the most time out of all of us since I work 7 day shifts so I work 7 straight days and get 7 days off. I get lots of time to play🤣

I totally can relate to thinking I can survive a jump off a cliff lol it usually kills me more then the dinos

Liked and subbed for the Mumbo shoutout :) You have good taste sir.

i dont tame anything till im level 60 or more - harvest everything by hand till that point - need your own lvls up beforehand - tame max lvls only - i live in ghillie armor, unless i would hard freeze - dodge everything - i build on small islands or in caves only - keep your best bps, unless you can give them to another player if they're duplicates

When I build my base I pretend it's a real house. That way the layout makes sense. Kitchen + near greenhouse = easy cooking, all crafting items + dedicated storage = functional warehouse, and so on. That way you already know where to unload all your stuff naturally without much thought.

The raptor at 3:05 gave me a heart attack and flashbacks

There is a program, mainly for single players, that you can use to find high level dinos. On all official maps. Larkator is the name. I use it to locate stuff I would like to tame. Or hunt.

having things all over is somthing i do but i play pve mostly and like to have builds dedicated to something normally ends up with me tribing by myself cause people piss me off when they move stuff somewere else or tear down a wall and replace it with a door cause it's faster to go this way >.> sorry for not wanting to live on 6 foundations while using 100 S+ crafting stations to bug spoil timers...also fall damage caps at 500

I stoped playing ark when extinction came out and it wasn't bc I didn't like the game it was bc all I had was Xbox and bad wifi but now I have over 113 hours in ark in just 2 weeks but anyways thanks for your content really helps to ketch me up

Flyer landing due to low stamina next to a very powerful creature I THANKFULLY learned very early on in the game and got lucky. I wanted to land and suddenly saw a carno. I started flying up and was high enough for the carno not to be aggro but then my pteradon ran out of stamina and slowly landed on the ground and I was just staring at the carno from a distance, and got my stamina back then stares flying away. I made sure to always land when I have a good amount of stamina left. I also ditched the pteradon the moment I could omg their stamina sucks

7:50 oh that's why you did it on stream

lol, my favorite episode so far. all so true

So all the charcoal that I've been stacking up in my campfire is useful later in the game damn now I'm happy that i left all the charcoal there to save inventory space and for thinking every item has its uses 😐😐

The mistake I always make is trusting people no matter how nice they are, it's ALWAYS a trap 🤣 Nothing is sacred, not even the universal double squat, it's just to test to see if you'll be an easy target or not.

how do you get stacks of 5000 metal? mine top out at 300

Starving baby critters? AutoTrough mod FTW. Heals, feeds, speeds up breeding, mating, growth rates, high chance of triplets.... From egg to Adult in under 5 mins

This video spoke directly to my soul…..

Literally every thing. I’m a failure. Getting cocky and losing my only flier is the story of every single new play through.

Made them all,a lot more than i want to admit it. I'm not dumb just like you i get caught up in the game and all the decisions I get in a hurry. I think the one that bothers me the most is whistle my creatures to follow. Me like you have them placed very methodically.

My first wyvern baby hatched. Then promptly wabderd into the campfire I was incubating him in

the velociraptor scared me

I put off resource dinos and farming stuff pretty much indefinitely in every single playthrough, I never tame a doedic, I never tame an anky, I never get a bee hive, I keep telling myself I'm going to do it in my next play session, then the moment I log on I get distracted by something more exciting and forget to do it. In my last world I got deep into tek tier, got bored and started a new world without ever taming an anky or a doedic

This one is second youtuber without idiotic high-pitched voice and doesnt beg for likes and subs, and no longa$$ intro for 5 minutes untile I can get to meat and potatoes. Good job mister. Your kind is rare, almost extinct.

I have literally only once used a trap in taming. On a mantis. Didn't work. I usually just shoot from a mount, or use an equus to kick it out.

2:40 how did you get that map style?

Funny that, i kept the charcoal when i started. I was like “its carbon has to be something i can use it for”. I tossed the rotten meat though……ooops.

And one of these things happen to be falling off cliffs because we have access to b glitching which negates all fall damaged we use it to navigate aberration with ease all the time

Leaving creatures in breeding hasnt worked for me on the oposite end I have food and everything but my megatherium just keep dying as babies if left alone and my raptors take like an hour between every mating cycle

What's backup gear? lol