TIPS EVERY ARK PLAYER SHOULD KNOW in 2023 

With the torches you can also attach them to your dinos saddle by putting them in the dino inventory then equipping it to the saddle :)

Commentary: Don't be afraid to use a lot of dinos for every different thing. Some of them have rather niche, but still quite useful, abilities. Even if they just sit in your base, they're gaining passive XP anyway to slowly level up and if they die it might save one of your more valuable tames. Some that have abilities which don't seem that useful, but really can be if used well: Iguanadon rapidly converts berries to seeds. Seeds don't rot, so if you gather tons of berries with something larger and don't really need to keep tons of berries, turn them into seeds. A stack of 100 seeds weighs almost nothing but will fill your food. So I like to keep a stack of seeds on me just in case I screw up and my meat rots or something, or if I want to travel really light. Ichthyornis, if you can tame one early especially, is very handy for getting raw prime fish meat. It's usually a while before you're able to access raw prime meat consistently, but using raw prime fish meat gives you better early tames and who doesn't love a prime slice of fish? Once you get bolas, try to bag one of these and keep it on your shoulder as you can also command it to pick up something small like a dodo or dilo and have a chance to get raw prime meat. Besides, these thieving birds are annoying and it's better to get rid of them or tame them around your area. The golden fish it brings back also help with taming an otter, so it never hurts to get at least one of these. Dimetrodon has a function like an air conditioner, which can make it pretty ideal for your base and for incubating eggs when you begin breeding. A high level dimetrodon is about as good or maybe slightly more than an air conditioner that runs on gas, while the dimetrodon only requires food and provides poop and extra eggs. You can make kibble out of the eggs, for a non-spoiling source of food or for use in taming other dinos that like it. Dimetrodon can also be taken into a cave, I've done caves while riding it and ordering my pack of hyenadon to do all the killing while remaining nice and comfy. Taming Dimetrodon, as well as even finding one, can be pretty painful though, as it is pretty easy to kill one with a crossbow so spread your shots out. Longneck + shock tranq is best, but that's much higher level. Bring extra narcotics. Look in the swamp around the middle of the map on the east side of the island. Icthyosaurus is very easy to tame, and makes covering distance in the water so much faster and easier. Highly recommend having one as an early taxi. Hyenadon are an interesting one, and I have a bloodline of them just because I wanted it. A hyenadon pack is stupidly fast, and with a little effort in breeding and mutation, absolutely destroy things so fast it's sickening. Their meatpack also keeps the meat even better than on a normal dino if you throw salt into it. They're great base defenders along with anything else that gets a pack bonus like raptors or direwolves, as if you have enough of them and/or they're mutated, even a wandering rex will just die. The hyenadon in particular heals very fast though, so if you sick your pack on something big and let them gnaw on it then back them off you can send them right back in without much risk of losing one. I've killed gigas with mine, doing exactly that, and found it very amusing. There are 2 dinos that you can get which get better harvesting rates for particular things, the moschops and the therazino. Both of them are quite good to have, and the theri is actually very well suited for a particular boss fight on the island. Prime meat isn't that hard to get really, and in my opinion it's better to get a moschops to focus on things like organic polymer. Carry it out to the frozen islands with the kairuku and get even more than you would with a club or sword. Handy little guys, and very very good early game tames if you get lucky that it only wants some cooked meat or mejoberries. The theri is a really good thatch and a pretty good hide gatherer, they do a lot of damage and are pretty decently tanky as well. Excellent tame, and very popular. Not many people use sarcos, but they are really really good in the water especially as an early game underwater tame. They are swift and pretty agile, while doing a healthy amount of damage. Just mind the Cnidaria, as the only dino which is immune to their shock is the basilosaurus (that I know of, anyway). Sarco is pretty great for getting early oil underwater, getting pearls, and exploring while still being able to fight back.

Honestly the only shoulder pet I personally use is the otter. 1: because they're adorable, 2: because they can carry multiple copies of each artifact, and 3: they give insane insulation, allowing me to wear pretty much any armor in any biome with little worry for hyper / hypothermia

Been plying ark for 4 years now but still just learned about weight reduction on shoulder pets!! Thanks for this vid 😁

1. pegomastix and ichthyornis cannot steal from shoulder pets. 2. moschops harvest corpse from whistle attack my target (must be dismounted) will yeild TONS of prime meat. 3. Ghillie is the strongest armor that you can repair while still in cave (must bring organic polymer with you)

Good video, I do have a couple things I'd like to add though: - vultures are the one shoulder pet that won't work for weight reduction, because the only thing you can actually put in their inventory is spoiled meat. They do have other uses though. - i might be wrong, but from anecdotal experience wolves and sabertooth seem to get similar rates of hide for me. Thylos and most of the lizards tend to get me more meat. - dung beetles also produce a little bit of incidental oil when making fertilizer. Not a huge amount, but if you can get 2-3 and keep them fed most of the time it's usually enough to make enough gas to keep the generators running with a little bit left over for making jerky. which leads into... - when setting up the crops, it's also a good to start making jerky as well if you've got some oil. That stuff takes forever, so you want to get started on it before you actually need it. - Equus is also the only creature with a weight reduction on sand. Which usually isn't all that relevant... unless you want or need to build with adobe, which you almost have to do on scorched earth.

Only been playing four days, single player, and decided that playing blind might be harder than expected. Lots of great info in this video, thanks!

I never done cave runs until I watched u doing them, ty for the tips over the last 2 year's, you've been an awesome help

Took me a very long time before learning you could attach a torch to a saddle like a skin.

I would say that one of the biggest mistake I made with Ark in the beginning was to underestimate gathering ability and weight reductions of mounts, especially Doedicurus, Ankylosaurus and Beelzebufos, they gather so much in so little time and they can carry so many resources that it will instantly transform a normal game into an absolute titan of building and crafting even in solo. It may be a well known thing, but I can't stress enough how much the game changes after doing it, and they're also so easy to tame.

quick tip for metal gathering and smelting is to pick up your anky with a high weight flier to each node to collect and when you go to smelt the immense amount of individual metal stacks, just drop all of them from the anky in front of the refining forge and pick up all in the area and transfer all into the forge to skip going back and forth with metal from anky to yourself to the forge.

Ah the Moschops. Theyy're like the larval form of the Theri ,literally do all the same stuff. Also my easy tip is with any carnivore =beat up trees for some early levels to add to weight and stam especially with your pteranadons. It's faster and safer

Just FYI, Moschops aren't the only Dino you can change what they harvest best. Therizinos have the level up harvesting stuff option also. 😄

Great vid! Early game Moschops is how I knew you knew your stuff haha. My #1 tip is keep spiked walls on your hotbar--I almost never die anymore since I started doing that to drop them down in an emergency.

This is an excellent guide phlinger, while I do some of these things unconsciously while playing ark, this is really something for some of the newer people who may not understand how to be efficient at ark and find some of the pacing slow and difficult. It’s funny you mention early game horses because that’s exactly what happens on my scorched earth playthroughs, really good stuff. Keep at it man!

This is great! I've been playing ark for a bit on and off since 2017 and a lot of these tips I didn't even think about, thanks for a great video!

Combine lazarus chowders with your scuba tank and it lasts a whole lot longer. Take the chowder and only equip the tank when you run out of air then unequip it. It's basically the equivalent of having a diplocaulus w/o having a diplocaulus.

Another useful tip: if you are trying to transfer metal into a forge from you heavy lifter (argies or other) do this to get it done faster. Instead of transferring from the argie to your inventory (you can normally only hold two stacks at a time then you cant move), land your argie close-ish to the forge then open the argie's inventory and throw out (O key on PC, not the drop all) all of the metal stacks toward the forge. Then jump off and get to within reach of the forge then if you pick up all (F key on the PC) and you can pick up all of the stacks on the floor and into your inventory. You'll get all of the stacks within the area your weight stats won't matter.

Just stumbled across your channel whilst getting back in to ARK after a couple of years off. Really love your energy man, I'll check out some more videos

When traveling long distances by air or ground, Opening the global or tribe chat widow will let you auto-pilot. Also, when caving it’s a good idea to bring your backup kit. Ark happens and especially in caves. It really sucks losing all your best gear because the server crashed

i started playing abt 3 weeks ago and i must say your abc videos helped me out a ton!! this video is also amazing. appreciate you Phoo🙈

Came for tips, stayed for serieses

I just love watching your ark videos as I play along on ark some of the tips have been so useful

Doing a fresh vanilla play through and your videos help out a lot after being gone for a couple of years! Keep it up my guy!

I wish there was a quick little update for all shoulder pets to have the sinomacrops inventory button also a little addon to the equus advice, you can actually lasso unconscious creatures as well :)

Added this to my Beach Bob Academy channel in my ARK cluster discord. Thank you this is a great video!

Another awesome video Phlinger! All your vids are a great help to me!!! Keep up the great work, love all your Ark videos!!!

Great video just wanted to add tbough, force feeding a baryonyx is the worst way to heal them, use the bary to kill groups of fish w the spin attack and watch as every time you do it they heal tremendous amounts of health in moments. It’s the killing and consuming that heals them. It’s 10x faster than trying to force feed them.

Thanks for the Tips and Tricks. I feel like I learn something new in this game every time I play it.

Thank you for this video mate was a huge help for me love what you do and love your videos

What I love about Ark: you are always learning new things....just found out yesterday that if you puts Hesperornis eggs in a cooker (like to make kibble) they turn in oil not kibble.

I've been playing this game 3 years and still learn things from you that make this game enjoyable. Thanks for what you do!

Another good thing to know, if you have food that spoils soon, you can stack the food to have a longer spoil time if you have more fresh food. Drop the spoiling food, pick up the fresh food, then pick up the spoiling food again. It will stack on top of what you have in your inv. Also I just discovered that if you attach honey to a fishing pole regardless of the amount of time left, it resets the spoil time back to 20 mins 😅.. Been playing this game for 6 years!

Love the videos man you've been my go to guide for ark for longest time now. Thank you!!!

Longtime watcher, so most I knew from your other videos; however, the parry on an argy trick I had never seen. Pretty cool.

Tip 1 get a thylo. Tip 2 get a thylo. Tip 3 get a thylo.

Love it!!! I’m always looking forward to your new videos, especially videos like this 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

maybe a random comment but I absolutely love what you do and I owe a lot to you as I learned so much from you. as conceptually you go with series, they are hard to just jump in when I see you upload. I can't really keep up with your content a lot but I love that you keep doing it and whenever I have more time to watch stuff I find myself here so yeah have a good day I guess :)

Pro tip; Reload your shotgun in third person (don't have to let the animation finish, just be in 3rd when pressing R). It reloads 6x faster.

Ok, for each cave the strat is: Baryonyx rush most Cave of the brute with thyla Aquatic ones with a basilo (or icty/cactus broth + lazarus chowder rush, tbh I prefer icty) And the 2 snow caves, one is pick the cactus broth and hope you can rush it with a ascendant pump And the one you can use dinos is basically rushing with a deinonychus if possible unless you have a dino who can tank all the bears, yetis and wolfs I’m not that good with caves but this is most of basics

Eat Rare flowers as a great way to get fast passive / fleeing types of Dinos to chase you into pens for taming. Dimorphs are great companions in caves to shred things while you sit back and watch.

Thank you for the tips, I’m just getting back into this game after a 5 year break. I’ll go check out some of your taming pens

Great video. Been playing ARK on enough for a year but still did not know most of these tips and tricks

Great video I didn't know about the moschops being able to put points into specific harvesting skills. Also love an equus early game if I can find one.

Thank you verry much. I just put my spare armour and my spare munition into my sholder pet. And the trick with the argy and the Parasaur was also new for me. Really good video. You are the best. Greetings from Germany. 👋

Sinomacrops get a 50% weight reduction to items in their inventory, AND shoulder pets get a 50% weight reduction when carried.. in total the sino reduces its carried weight by 75%! Also, you can access shoulder pet inventory without dropping them, on PC hold R until the menu ring appears.

Started playing about a week ago. Holy crap this game is addicting.

This guy convinced me to play (with a let's play) 4 years ago and 4 years later I have a lot of advice. Negative advice (what not to do) from experience and positive advice from this guy. Thanks for the supreme content!

I've beaten the island and never once thought to use a Perry's ability as anything but a guard dog. That trick to find thylas in the redwoods safely is ingenious. Thanks for the great videos!

I knew about teh Parasaur alert mode but never thought to use it like that. Also, was vaguely aware of the weight reduction of shoulder pets but again, never thought to use them like that. Thanks! I would like to offer a tid-bit in return. For players riding a mount in dark conditions who need to use a torch for light but also want to use a weapon. Take your torch and put it into your mounts inventory, then drag it from there onto the mounts saddle. The torch will now be attached to the saddle and leave your handies free to weild your weapon of choice. 😁

Great video! Amazing still how much you learn even after playing for years or what you may have forgotten. Only thing I wanted to add is the fertilizer for crop plots, personally I think making a toilet is the best, but I don't remember what level you have to be at so pending that for some, but it's so easy, when ready to poo, you can sit, poo, flush, and repeat for as long as you need. Each flush gives you the fertilizer in your inventory.

Awesome video! For someone who is new to ark I found this video very helpful. Will there be a "for science " series??

Love all your videos keep up the great work

Thank you phlinger really appreciate the tips been playing for a few years and still didn't know about the bary lol

I didn't knew only one of these tips. The shoulder pet weight reduction one!

A quality of life tips n trix vid. Thank you 👍

Biting Dino more meat, slashing Dino more hide… Walking away with such a simple but good tip, priceless!

Long time watcher never commented before. I love your stuff. I'm a single player veteran. Hundred's of hours I even have some of my own tricks I've never seen anyone use. LOL How did never think of carrying a Parry around LOL!

Moschops eggs also are used for superior kibble which i thought topped it off in moschops being op tame in early game. can easily help tame a argy with this

16:39 My best and worst memories of Ark. Because I took my favorite dino into a cave. 🤣

100% Quality! All of it. Every last moment. I have used most.

I always bulks elevated greenhouses. The water works if it's below the crops and makes everything look so much cleaner.

Bro it’s been so long since so watched you. You were the first ark RU-vidr I ever watched it with s4

Dude keep up the amazing vids u are amazing at ark and RU-vid thank u for some of my Inspiration to be amazing at ark and trying to set up my own channel

When u can get a stego they also worth investing in for harvesting as you can change their stance to specialise. And if your building, Castorides and Doed are a must

Didn't know about the mocshops changed my game. Tyyyyy

You are the best man! Love your content!

Dear new players, take it slow, death is a learning experience, and avoid anywhere that remotely looks scary.

Holy hell, I've been playing off and on since beta release and I just learned about shoulder pet weight reduction and the parasaur target feature. 👍

Nice job phlinger! As always! Just one question on the shoulder pet weight reductions. Do certain ones give better weight reductions for different resources?

Wow the tip about Sabertooth vs Direwolf when harvesting meat and hide is pretty cool (I only play very booster single player where every Dino kill gets me 300+ of both)

That was really helpful

you can use the lasso to drag knocked out dinos comes in handy when ya knock a land dino out under water

Im a couple years in now, but still learning. I watch alot of yours. As a single player, I learned the value of my tames early..lol so I jack their melee alot. You' helped me in alot of ways with my Ark world, Id like to know what mods, if any, that you use, and if you plan to do any videos on the better ones.

lol i been addicted to watching yer videos, i need to go play the game some.

I really like Pachycephalosaurus as great early game tames. They have good survivability, their torpor attack is great, and they're easy to tame early on as they don't require veggies (i know equus don't technically require them, but berry taminig an equus is a super chore)

Great video enjoyed every second🧃👍

If I had to give new players a tip folders, making folders in vaults, smitey's, person etc. Can help keep things organized oh and to switch the j hotkey to literally anything else besides whistle all command it sucks to accidentally that button then your spending the next 30 minutes to an hour putting everything back

Great video!!!

Another ark basics noice

Smeghead the Sabertooth...I love a good Red Dwarf reference!

I did not know about the Parasaur being able to find the phoenix's spawn locations, very cool.

There are a lot of things that seem so obvious and yet newer players won't even realize they can do such a thing! After playing almost 300h with my friends, I still have so much stuff to learn! I'm taking things slow though, I'm not in rush :D Useful vid for sure!

Haven't played Ark in a long time and just now restarting fresh for the nostalgia of those early game moments. Great refresher here! My biggest tip for new players? Watch Phlinger's Ark Basics series!

3:44 Im gonna pull out a bow and arrow at my next power point presentation at work tomorrow Lololololol

Using a Parasaur to find Thylas in the redwoods is the tip I needed to hear. I've been wanting to tame one on my current play through, but they're impossible to find until they jump on your face. Then your only option is to kill it and miss out on taming it or letting it eat you.

One thing I noticed about the moschop, if you get a female one early on they have a large egg they produce every once in awhile that's early kibble if you start a garden

Thank you 😊

Yeah, as far as caves go as long as you're going in slow and steady, they're not too much of a problem. the underwater ones are a pain regardless, but as long as you've got the numbers tame wise going in, you're probably going to be fine even in those. I still kinda like to cryopod a megatherium, but if it's a cave where there's platforming to do, i'd rather take a thyla or a baryonyx

I think you made this just for me hahaha jk of course but it was a huge help to keep me moving forward in the game I have only been playing since 3 months ago and have gone leaps and bounds with your videos and with how amazing they have been can't wait for the next one I have to say at this point your my number one favorite ARK content maker your truly amazing 😊😉

Playing the on Scorched Earth right now, the flying parasaur trick is indeed a good way to find phoenixes can confirm

So damn cool I didn't knew some of this tricks man like throwing a damn gate to a taming pen!!! It's awesome!!! I had to destroy the walls every time I needed to get creatures out until I decided to put ramps inside and I only destroy one but man this will improve dramatically!!! I even tamed a lvl 40 bronto at lvl 20 I believe in one of those small pens!!

Useful as we know you phoo 👍

I wonder if you can add tips and tricks for making things? Such as gasoline or jerky or veggie cakes things like that, even how to find the rare resources like sulfur, obsidian, salt, oil, organic polymer etc and also which tamed or wild dinos produce these resources etc. like tips and tricks that ark doesn’t particularly show or tell you so you would have to do research

Get yourself an anky (metal, flint, oil) and doedicurius (stone) as soon as possible makes gathering large quantities of ores in combo with an Argy super easy.

Alot of caves are also prime material farming locations,quite often I'll go in with one or two farming dinos crowd.Have them farm up mats and then leave

Using the toilet creates fertilizer. I'm not sure if it was glitching but I was able to poop in the toilet repetitively until I had enough to fill up all of my crop plots in my entire greenhouse, which was quite large, and it was repeatable

a video on torpidity. like one that explains the best damage to torp ratio when trying to knock out those fragile tames to what does the cave loot guns to do torp when you shoot darts. that would be my thought. you have touched on it a few times in the years we have been watching ya

I have learned so so much from watching your videos. Almost everything in this video I have used and learned from watching your videos. My most recent use was the hyenadon trap. Very useful and now I have 3 decent level hyenadons. You are doing such a great service to the gaming community. Thank you and keep them coming!

Your explanation of every aspect of a survivor knowledge to survive exceeds any other yt out there. Phoo Aho