How to Maximize Metal Farming in Ark Survival Ascended | New Metal Nodes Explained 

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Subscribed. Very detailed, thorough explanation and walkthru. Look forward to more

wow, not at all the video i was expecting but the one i needed 😂 well done man

Good job for all the testing !

Nice work, well described and thought out.

I really appreciate the time you spent on this. I subscribed and can only wait for the next one regarding zino or so in detail. Thank you.

Awesome video and love how detailed you approached everything.

Great video! Very informative and well made.

Just stumbled across your video and since I am having trouble with metal I stayed and watched. Nice video. Liked and subscribed.

Great vid and info, thanks for your time on this.

Love this type of video man thank you for this

i noticed some massive gains recently with breed anky vs tamed one. didnt think this much of it. but wow. def gonna be looking into getting better ankys!

Very well researched, thank you

This was so informative and yet hilarious, I don’t know why

Doth went hard on the data! Thank you for this!

Good Job! Thanks for the info

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In ASE Nodes hat a Set max amount you can get. I'm going to assume it's the same in ASA. Melee plays a part in how much of it you will get. I used to raise ankys and once they got to like 500 you were getting the max amount. We kept breeding their melee anyways because people wanted it. *shrug* But we focused on weight mostly. Still once we hit around 500 melee, we saw little to no difference between the 500 vs the 2k one. Both destroyed the node in 1 hit, and both gave roughly the same amount.

U can farm, place everything in a vault and then move it with a rhynio ( be careful with stam since vaults can dissapear). Hope it helps!

Interesting how the base damage is so important. Assuming that this applies across the board it doesn't really change much in how I approach gathering since I typically bring along a beast of burden anyway so adding a mate isn't a big issue.

Wtf, this is such a good video, I can’t imagine the effort put in.

Nice video with data and math, Some more thing to test, (low/high) melle character and (100 vs 755) damage picks, [tek legs for moving - endgame] also idk if there are cave metal nodes, but cave crystal/cave berries are def different than open world

Thank you sir for doing gods work.

Respect for the time put into this vid

Good stuff thx 👍

In ASE there also were 2 node types. 1 was fully golden, the other had some gold but was mostly dark gray

That zoom in and "DFHG" announcement absolutely sent me

all the math!

What a great video I really enjoyed it. Very informative. Did you try increasing any other stats to see it they now affect the harvesting rates. I could imagine weight may play a factor now

Commenting the comment so the comments have more comments

This should have a million views

Great vid, should do all farm dinos

Being dmg I wonder if a yuti buff would improve it too? Would be crazy to see ppl using it to do so but just a thought. I love breeding Ankys so this was helpful and fun to watch 👍

Try the yuty buff as well but it only worked on rich metal rocks on ASE.

This video is so Metal!!!

Doing gods work

There were actually 3 or 4 different level metal nodes in ASE. A video on Dunk farming would be cool

I tamed a Moschops, I always tame those and I use them for harvesting polymer from penguins. I crank the harvest points into just polymer harvesting. On Survival Evolved I got tons of polymer. On ASA I’m getting just as much as I would by using my good pick or my argy. Guess I need to crank the damage a lot more or get another and breed it.

I feel there might be a chance that there's now small/medium/large nodes. Like we had the small nodes (sprinkled gold rocks). And the large nodes (solid gold rocks). Instead of changing rock size or appearance (and to mix up the static of only chasing certain metal nodes). I think there's a chance now that metal nodes could be small node, medium node and large node. Which results in the 50-80. 80-100. 200+ metal from different rocks and why your first test with the triple rocks appeared to not work out. If the small nodes cap out regardless of your dino melee, then it would make more sense. All this would then also mean that only so much melee % would be needed. EXAMPLE: Like 600% with imprint buff and no mate boost OR 500% With mate boost and imprint.

You must've spend alot of time doing this video Nice work

Make a detailed one on the angler please

There's about 3-5 different settings that controls harvest. 1)Harvest amount in general, 2)damage amount on dinos , 3) resource health. 4) player harvesting damage.

You should do dunky testing as well. I heard you can get up to 16k metal in 15 minutes with a dunky if you know the right place. I think I remember them being round rocks (not river rocks)

Playing on a boosted server with friends. The anky seems to be the only Dino that doesn’t get a resource boost. Angler fish with 2300% melee net me with 180 pearls a rock. My theri doesn’t go up that much with wood, but the berry increase is very noticeable. My friends mammoth gets 500+ wood a tree compared to my theri getting 300. It’s funky.

Good video

Would love to see how harvest damage increases affect it

So if you go farming with a friend, you can get the mate buff easily. Single player, much more work. Interesting study overall, thanks.

The only thing that can make metal farming fun again, math

So i base dmg, + additional dmg which is divided in a lower percentage as one, then that is increased by the imprint and boost?

Can you make a video about melee in farming tames pls?

In ase the farming Dino's cap at a certain %. That's why the super high anky didn't get super high metal. I think it was 700 Mel or something

Soooo does this mean that there’s no point in going past that 1300 something melee? Like if I get an anky with 1400 melee just start breeding/leveling weight?

You are funny man 😂 good info too

These videos are some good shit

I have dyscalculia and dyslexia. Thumbs up and applause for just doing the numbers...

Look at the graph in the ase ark tested vid, there’s a minimum at 1200% because that the minimum melee to one shot node

and flint harvesting seems to go up 3 times as fast as stone with melee increase.

Rainex ankys would love it here.

i feel like you were the guy that loved doing labs in chemistry

Pardon my ignorance, I'm somewhat new to Ark. What is a mate buff?

My only thought of this video is the breeding changes and how mutations are now. I understand that you can get lucky and find a max melee stat anky but with how they changed breeding to cap out at 20 points (tracked in their own separate category) your plan of pumping up to 1.3k MD might not work to my understanding?

Does argentavis and anky auto farm work? still

I’ve always thought this was the case?? Even on ASE, the more melee the more resources.

I'm convinced this is actually Nathan Fielder's secret channel.

Same nodes, just more health on some nodes 👍

You may want to try letting him farm by himself (without you riding it). Just like the Moshops, they farm better while wandering and not you riding them. I must say, i never tryed it like that with an Anky, but why should this dino work diffrent then the others right?

Can we leave a like for this guy who is sciencing the hell out of ark for us?

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So if i carry my imprinted anky with my rhynio yhe imprinted buff doesn't work? So is it even worth imprinting one if i carry my anky when farming?

Pretty sure this is happening with the doedic/stone and castoroides/wood as well.

is this the same for Doedic boss? Good info

scientific method coming in hot in this vid

I do miss the mutation testing tough, i wonder how it works if ur anky haves the max mutation melee stat. Would it be the same as the ''giga'' anky you spawned in? we didnt saw the stats on that giga anky so i cant tell from your video. would be nice to know if breeding anky for melee mutations is worth it.

Science!

entonces lo maximo de daño que hay que subir al ankylo es 1040% daño??

How where you flying on your anky been trying to figure out how to do that

As for fiber, it looks like the grasses in the river area and dried bushes give you way more than actual bushes/plants.

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I'm so confused as to what is "newly" discovered in this video. ASE has a cap, so it makes sense the "giga" anky didn't scale how you would assume he would. Also, we knew from ASE it was all about melee, again, this is not new information. Very informative video however, but I'm failing to see anything in this video that wasn't a recap of things the community discovered in ASE. However, I do appreciate the info about the northwestern part of the map being nerfed in regards to metal. Either way, nice video.

use you imprinted/mate boosted anki's, 2 or more of each build a raft, make a big wide platform at the front (only wide, not deep, so like 1x10 foundation and ceilings place anki's on these 2 big wings drive round all the rivers and shallows of the map ignore/sail past any river monsters, have anki on passive probably optimal number and arrangement is 5 anki, f m f m f compare that to flying up and down mountains ignore/sail past any river monsters, have anki on passive not entirely my idea, im just stitching this one, with 2 others cant give credit, ive no idea who i learned from

At one point my anky stops swinging. Probably because he is overweight. How do i get it to continue swinging while noy leveling the weight?

Ok, move over rexes, time to start mutating dem ankies

The pure metal nodes actually look LESS metal in appearance and tend to be rounder. They are hard to tell though, not at all simple like in ASE

Has not always been like that the more melee an anky has the more metal you get?

Have they done something with the stat’s because I’ve seen many tames coming out with bad stats.

ill have to double check, but I notice hand farm with max melee and cap pic under a argie = waaaaaay more efficient. It made me sad, because the anky has been my metal buddy for....well. forever.

In ase you wanted an imprinted, 500dmg anky.

yeah it looks like every gathering node has a max hp value and you cannot gather aboove that value. even if you have 6million mele damage the formula is lesserOf(.3x anky damage, node hp)

what is the respawn time on rocks

Console player enjoying this game through you

I'm pretty sure that official is 0.5x I'm not 100% sure though

lol I just wish I had an anky

So achieving this md, then harvesting on 2x or 3x, would give us like... 300-750 metal per node? If so.... oh man anky is a line im starting asap lol

Y’all Doth is DIALED! Subbing so I don’t miss a vid. This ASA info is CRUCIAL !

Koo Kooo now how do I stop them from botting me and meshing me

until you have harvest resource clamp on server enabled

I ark 1 there was half gold half gray metal rock (normal metal rock) and full gold ones on top of mountains (rich metal rock)

There are color differences in the nodes

What if you bring yuty

I think they patched the creative mode glitch in official you cant do this anky flying anymore

Basingaaaa