TOP 10 PVE BASE LOCATIONS | THE ISLAND | Beginners Guide | ARK: Survival Evolved 2022 [S1 E4] 

1 - Weather top 1:29 2 - Redwoods Forest 2:50 3- The west coast 5:15 4 - Fars peak iceburg 7:18 5 - The Maw 9:12 6 - Smugglers pass 11:05 7 - The hidden lake 13:40 8 - The green Obelisk 15:35 9 - The Southern Islets 17:45 10 - Herbivore Island 20:15

Big fan of the big flat rock outcropping across from the redwood forest at 48/48. Sure there are some big bad dinos in the area but is real easy to wall off a big spot for your base because you can use the cliffs so you only need two walls. You're tight against the river so there is easy water access to build your greenhouse. While the land there is most barren, you are dead center of the map making for short trips for obsidian/crystal, metal and a jump across the river for honey and sap. The river is loaded with fish and the banks are full of easy kills for meat and hide. Also there's the added bonus that you don't get any shadows in your base (other than your own wall) so your lighted hours are extended a bit.

Very good advice. Thank you!

Must admit i have always wanted to do something at the Redwoods lake. Very detailed guide, enjoyed it very much, subbed and liked.

You know the map well with the location names good video :)

A very accommodating pteranodony thing is extremely useful.

I needed this Guide 3 Years ago ^^

11:25 is my favorite location PVE, only downside is no 'water' deep enough for Breeding Sea Creatures. As a result the Red Obelisk when doing single player when I'm on my own is often one of my choices.

You forgot micro raptors and purlovia. I can avoid Thylacoleo if I’m watching the trees, or on a Parasaur. If I’m not on a Para, watching the trees, it’s the bloody other two that dismount and stun me. I am a fan of bringing wolves or raptors with me, to either meat shield or do something if they feel inclined. Lmao. Redwoods is Death.

*pushes imaginary glasses* Actually Thylas are not cats but marsupials, i do still prefer the nickname cuddle kitty tho.

Nice video i subd, I have about 2000 hours in ark pvp but pve seems alot more chill since I dont have alot of time anymore.

Thanks helped I've never got to end game before cos I get bored after a while with the locations I pick.

I'd like to see you build at the Redwoods Lake, I'd love to see how somebody other than me would build it. I built my base on the center Island & built walkways to all the different sides where I put dino storage & breeding , Greenhouse, & even tree platforms to keep some of my flyers. It turned out really amazing & the lake has a few areas where I was actually able to breed Megs & Basilosaurus... Just be careful because if you start killing/harvesting fish piranhas will spawn in, I always kept a couple Baryonyx on neutral just in case👍

Miss Vadams, doing RU-vid stuff, very nice 👌 👍 👏 😀, ( Sharkyman ) I like the water fall locations. That's where I always build.

I build around the scenery I like...waterfalls, beach area, but also the dinos I'm looking for...equus 46.0x50.7, thyla 61.1x33.8. I have a base on 29.2x54.6 peninsula, so there is a building with dino and behemoth gates and home base.

mad respect for going to ice berg without fur armor while in survival mode, Mad respect!

Leedsichthys would actually be a filter feeder

Thank you for the Herbivore Island location it's safer peaceful and a great area for a base

Herbivore Island is my favorite place to build as well. I never understood why the devs don't make it a choice to spawn at. It would give you a "stranded in a desert island" sort of feel for your start.

The Hidden Lake is easily my favorite base location on the Island.

I'd love to see what you built around the waterfalls!

I stopped building on 3 because alphas like to spawn pretty close (in the triangle of doom but right above the waterfall) to this amd the last time a did an alpha rex wiped all my dinos bred and tamed

I'd be keen to see what you can do with that west coast location. I built on herbivore island and then went all the way there by raft to tame an argy. I ended up with 3 argies, a rex, a raptor and a sabretooth - it was a crowded raft home even with the argies following. Initially I was drawn to the double waterfall near the red obelisk which has some plateaus, but the noise of the waterfalls was driving me mad so I relocated to herby island, where a bronto fell in my pen and I then aggro'd it and it stepped easily over my base and squished some tames behind - the only brontos left now are tamed. I have obviously led a charmed life, I have travelled a lot by raft and only been attacked once and managed to outrun whatever it was! (JimKayaker)

can you do the best locations for wind power base

I like building a few bases on the outer beaches called "shelters," each one with their own farming dinos for said area. That way, I can essentially go in any direction and find a place to go. For the most part, I keep them primitive and simple aside from maybe a generator for cryo storage. Because they're meant as temporary hideaways to do what you need to and move on. Aside from those, I have 2 main bases that are centralized, one being the Redwoods Lake Treehouse as a lot of my favorite dinos spawn there and I it's relatively easy to find. The other is by the mountain on the top right. For some reason, I have really good luck finding quetzel here, which is my personal platform mount of choice. Not only that, every resource is just in range from me here, and being by carnivore island cave is always a plus. Let me know what you think of my shelters, though. I'm curious to know if I'm the only one who does it

I went to hidden lake and omg it was chaos. Never again. I will never find somewhere safe for my babies 😔

i think the southern peninsula is great. it may spawn raptors but it's easy pretty much. not too close to any good resources or caves tho

I vote location #2 - The Redwood Forest Lake :P

How do you go about building on that ridge in Smugglers Pass? I cant seem to place anything up there with it just saying "Can't place on floor"

18:18 I can see my base from here!

11:50 is there limitation in building here? i cant add storage box in my base even though my base have space to place it

It's like you're selling me a vacation spot 😂

if a map has a snow biome, im going to settle there. the island, extinction, and genesis 1. but if only other places could compare, especially on the island. but each biome on genesis 1 are as great as each other, besides the marsh biome

I would move to the Maw but here on console the spot is glitched af you can’t see the pathways there is a giant ceiling shadow from genesis pt2 and grass keeps disappearing and re appearing😞

Biggest negative of herbivore island is that there are no carnivores and if u manage to tame one on the island. Its gonna be hell to transport it. I built my base on herbi island... early game was smooth af but nw that im around level 40. This area is just as good as it looks. Also there are no high level dinos here ._.

Have you played the Fjodur map? Because I could use the best locations for it

I love Herbivore Island. 😁 I build there as soon as I can, tbh.

Honestly I think that herbivore island is my fav. The thing I dislike the most about Ark is the carnos, they always jump me at the wrong times. Another thing that I do to connect herbivore island to the rest of the map is use rafts to make a bridge, it takes less resources although I just use them because I’m lazy.

You sound like an old teammate of mine.. did you use to play with an American named travinator?

Redwoods Lake. Violent hugs for free!

At 2 thre are spawning Spinos

20:20 How to get dinos there?

I like to have access to water in my base

Number 6 i cant place foundation ;

It doesn’t let me build on this top one 11:24

To herbivore island and spare not the horses…

22:48 its a fish not a dino

Top 1 is the best ?

Iceberg? really? PREPARE TO BE WIPED OUT IMMEDIATLY for blocking spawn points