ARK Except the Ocean is Slowly Rising! - ARK Survival Evolved 

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This is amazing. It would be amazing if the opposite happens where all the water is drained and you can go explore the underwater caves by just walking around

The water is definitely raising waaaaay too fast, but as a proof of concept this is amazing. I remember a while ago watching some survival youtubers play moded Eco where the water raised a meter every game day. Really cool seeing the strategies people came up with to survive. But I never thought is was possible in a game like ark. This video definitely proved me wrong, this is intriging.

The speed at which the ocean rose, holy crap... love the concept of this challenge, though i feel making the water rise in stages incrementally would make it so there'd be time to tame creatures and get some things before the map becomes a volcanic archipelago XD

a map with a flood cycle every so often would be pretty cool to see on an official standing . would add a lot of value to water dinos that are usually completely ignored

Syntac: Jokes about dinosaurs drowning Him seconds later: STARTS DROWNING

All them poor dodos😭😭😭 why didn't you save any, you monster 😭😭

I'd love to see a series with the water rising much slower, if the mod is ever optimized to be consistently stable.

this was a really fun video! I'd love to see more of these "ark except" videos as a series. Another one you could do is "Ark except the temperature is dropping" and the snow starts to spread and you have to keep warm and maybe kill a boss

Dude! What a great idea for a vid! Awesome to both sea this modded and sea you survive it!

I'm imagining all dinos on the island slowly being pushed closer together on the mountaintops...

I'd love to see this in ARK 2, clearly not on the whole map, but certain areas flooding completely depending on the season would be so neat.

I would LOVE to see a survival series with this and the water rises slower. It would be so amazing!!

i would have never thought of an episode like this in my life

"I don't wanna be part of the dodo orgy.. I really don't" -syndaddy 2022

Gotta say, Ark is probably the best game to do the concept with. Because unlike minecraft or other games, the challenge in ark’s waters actually pose significant threats with fanua instead of solely the risk of drowning

This is such a great concept. I’d love Ark 2 to have the dry/wet seasons and maybe even a “flooding” disaster.

10:10 It's an even better idea because it would be paleontologically accurate. Seasonal Floodplains were _the_ dinosaur environment, despite the deserts you usually see them portrayed in. Take the Morrison Formation for example, home of Allo, Diplo and Stego. In the wet season, an almost swamplike environment full of lakes and streams. In the dry season, an almost desert where the remaining carnivores fight over the last watering holes. Other great paleo-environments that should totally be in the game: Yixian Formation (Yuty, Microraptor, Sinomacrops), rolling hills next to a dormant volcan that spits out lakes of toxic gas ever so often. Solnhofen Lagerstätte, an archipelago in shallow seas so full of corals, they cut off sections of the ocean that turn into mini salt lakes. Compy, Archeopterix. Crinoid Rafts, redwood trees carried into the ocean by the frequent storms that form swimming coral reefs. Or crinoid reefs, as it were, since corals hadn't taken off yet. (I have my own map half-planned, but sadly I don't ahve the time. Would also feature a flooded redwood forest like here.)

That is one of the coolest concepts ever!!! Some slight changes to that mod and you could easily make a series (or even a challenge) for ARK players to test their abilities in obtaining 2 of every creature on a giant raft before the water floods the world. Obviously you'll need to stick to certain settings and/or mods in order to avoid cheesing the challenge. Great video Syn!

Regular Tames: "Oh no, were all gonna drown!" Aquatic Tames: "At last, our time has come!"

I swear syntac's thumbnails LOOK SO DAMN GOOD

This was a great idea, very creative! I'd love to see it turned down to like 10/20% and you and other people try to build up and survive ontop of volcano with as many tames as you can

With how fast the water rose, I'm just imagining you only being to possibly tame two random, easy creatures. You bring them to the "Ark" and then it turns into that bit from Family Guy with the elephant and the penguin. "What the hell is this?" Haha

never played ark but stumbled across these vids and now im considering..

Love your content and the very creative ideas you have. Keep it up!

Can this be a whole series somehow… I wanna see a final episode in a boss fight next to ur underwater base at the top of the volcano!!

this on Ragnarok and with the water rising a little slower would be amazing, or if you had like 5 minutes breaks every 50 meters

This was fun to watch! I think the mod could have been changed to buy you more time for each creature you've tamed on say, a checklist? "Male Dodo tamed! The gods are pleased!"=Delay Flood. Slower flooding would make it playable... Maybe have the weather effects tie into it? It only floods more when it rains? High taming rate would be a requirement or your dino would drown while you're waiting for it to tame up. This could turn into a custom map! Have a favor of the gods counter and make it slowly drains for the first 30 or so Ark days...and then maybe. Have it not flood so high? Or there was some method of lower it (other than a magic toilet..) lol :)

I wonder what would happen if you like take away the mod while your character is on the raft still, would you spawn up in the air and fall down with the raft or will you have a flying raft?

I was waiting for the drowned giga... never happened, also the volcano underwater looked like an amazing island for a custom map

Mix this with a mod that adds a giant sail boat. And actually get two of every animal. Slow rising water so you actually have time to do it lol.

I definitely think this could be fine tuned and a challenge could be done where the water rises EXTREMELY slowly, barely even noticeable, and the player has to tame two of every creature and put them on a boat before the water covers the map We would def need to figure out how to stop the crashing though, maybe have it delete the foliage that’s submerged or something

This kinda reminds me of the game "raft", btw you should play it with Jim and axe, feel like it would be fun

Syntac you never cease to amaze me with these video ideas god damn

Noah must put 2 of each animal on an Ark for safety.

This is one of the most unique things I’ve seen for a video

Apart from this video, I'm genuinely so impressed that you're able to constantly speak through the entire video and have relevancy through it all...it's truly a talent to have. Cheers to this unique video(hopefully it becomes one of your most popular videos to blow up)

I really enjoyed this I really hope syntac can do more stuff like this in the future

The first Spino instantly gave me flashbacks to Jurassic Park 3

Glad I stumbled on your channel. I just got back into ARK after years

This is amazing Personally, I feel like there should be be something where the water raises by 10 meters or so and then a 10 minute break before it starts rising again. Either way, still really cool.

This looks awesome, makes me want a map with high and low tides as its gimmick

I remember watching this last year, being surprised it was posted almost 20 minutes ago. this was the first ever video ive watched of syntacs and ive enjoyed watching him ever since. He encouraged me to buy a good pc, and ark, and I regret nothing. keep up the awesome work syntac

That is amazing 🤩 Would be great to see an entire series based on this and if the water was made to rise slower.

POV: you are the netherlands 2030

“Ark but no water” - vid idea

This mod slowed down with a 100 days series would by awesome !!

Noah got into the Ark one week before the rain started

The Intro just dissed the entirety of Christianity like nothing lmao

Awesome video and cool idea. I think you should do one now of the opposite, a scenario where the entire ocean dries up. And u have to try and build a safe water haven and try to save as many sea creatures as u can :)

Nah this is actually sick, and the the fact that its original is amazing! Keep up the good work work lad.

This is so cool! You should do a small series where the ark is slowly flooded to around half this depth!

I think that if there was more time before the waters rise up, I think this could be a really fun survival challenge, and then if the waters sink back down after a while, that would be cool too. I think an hour before, and 10 hours after could be a good time. Overall this is a cool mod.

Nonfiction*

Syntac:floods the entire map Spinos:This is fine🌊🙂🌊

I’ve been with this channel for at least a year, and somehow you still have magnificent ideas like these

also something like this would be awesome turned into a series with the water rise slowed down so you have time to actually prepare a base/tames at the top of volcano

LOVE THESE HIGH EFFORT ARK VIDEOS! especially from the best ark youtuber 🙌

You should slow down the water rising by a lot and make this a little mini series!! It'd be awesome!

It's pretty crazy. I was into Ark for a long time a while back, and I didn't even understand how big the community was for it until one day this video popped up on my page. This was the first syntax video I’d seen then. Now, I’m a long-time fan and I’m looking to binge more content. Thanks for the vids 🩵

i think if the water raising was like halved you would've been able to get some tames going and stuff. would be interesting to see.

I've been working on a similar mod. I assume this only works on singleplayer at the moment, based on my experience. I got it to mostly work on MP, but had a lot of issues with rafts and ocean platforms. Still working on it in the meantime of course, though it's intended to be more of a tides mod rather than just a rising ocean. I'd love to get in touch with your buddy if you could maybe arrange that.

Such a fun experiment. I think a good sequel would be reversing it, so the water goes down from this point to completely empty (drain the oceans!) and see if that changes anything.

Noah’s Ark was a real thing. They found his Ark.

looks fun but the water is waaaay too fast! make it like 20x slower and you could really have fun with it

It wasn't just one man. Noah had a family of 8, including him. He also had a bunch of evil people who were likely willing to work for him and his family, since they were still holy according to God. Not only did Noah have a family of 8, and a lot of people that may work for him, he also had ~100 years to build the raft.

This mod makes better lake environments than vanilla.

Syn if you use explorer notes and make cooking pots you can get LOADS of xp

I love this idea of a mod. Suggestion from me would maybe have the water rise slower so you can actually prepare for it and build a raft and get dinos

The most annoying creatures are in the ocean

I wanted to see something like this for a long time, thanks! :)

It would actually be really interesting to do an "Aqua-Syn" video, where you play a modded Ark where you have either no Oxygen stat, or it lowers as slowly as food/water and can be refilled with a semi-easy-to-acquire resource, and you have your entire adventure under the water, focusing purely on water tames and having a more three-dimensional experience from the start, even without flyers. Probably also make sure movement speed increases swim speed more, to reduce the necessity of having the materials and levels to craft flippers.

true story Jesus is alive

Yes love this the rain thing would be dope and I’ve been wanting to see like a tornado mod or severe thunderstorm mod

Man, Subnautica 3 looks amazing!

“The story of The Ark is loosely based on the fictional story of Noah’s Ark.” *me who has heard the Noah’s Ark story referred to by both names and spent a minute deciphering what he said.*

I may not have know him personally, but I figure God would disapprove is Noah decided to get “involved” with the animals he saved on his Ark.

This new Subnautica update is wild😂😂😂

The whole time I'm screaming "make a chest! Grab trees while you can"

Keep up the crazy good content syntac

I would love to see this as a full series. Like slow down the water and you need to get 2 of each creatures and store them in cryopods as fast as possible before the world floods

wow man to believe this actually happened in this world thousands of years ago is insane!

“I don’t wanna be a part of the dodo orgy” neither do I pal, neither do I

Hey Syntac, have you heard the news a the carcharodontosaurus being added in 2022! This has been my favorite dinosaurs for years and I would absouluty love for my favorite youtuber to make some videos about it. Watching yuo mutate these beasts would be insane. I can't wait

Such a cool concept, love your vids!

man, I'm glad I found this channel recently

Brilliant mate!! Great idea!! Loved it

this would be crazy as a 100 days challenge but the water was a bit slower

My computer always has a stroke playing Ark but man I love it SOOOOO much! This looks super fun!

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

"repopulate the world with dodos" "he's the only human around" *realization*

ok, that was pretty fun to watch. Thank you Syntac.

this might be the coolest ark video i've ever watched. Would be really cool to see some sort of survival challenge or something done with this mod. I know it probably isn't practical due to crashing but i think it would be awesome to see someone actually exploring the island underwater using scuba and water creatures.

Am I the only one who missed the "if you find yourself enjoying this video.." part of the intro? Great video btw keep it up man

This is such a banger

“i dont want to be apart of the dodo orgy..” got me dying

I was scared the whole time ! This is freaking me out so much 😂 I would HATE a situation like that. The Flooded Island lol

It would be awesome if you could continue content like this, eg every minute a random hostile dino spawns near you, that would be great. Love the vids man keep it up ❤️

One of the best Ark streamers ever

This is amazing lol but would be cool to see the oceans drain out over time too