Don't forget that the Pelagornis also has weight reduction for Organic Polymer. Weight reduction of 80%, Very useful for flying out, grabbing a bird full, and brining it home safely and quickly.
Imo best way to get polymer is to tame to penguins bread up a small colony and gather a bunch of eggs with an ovi, and when I need polymer I hatch a bunch and kill them with and use a ascended bat
Male Megaloceros deserves an honorable mention for thatch as they are the fastest and most efficient time wise compared to the other 3 larger slow creatures. I have one named Jim and he’s the best at gathering a lot of thatch quickly
The Dung Beetle produces a bigger amount of oil passively then the Basilosaurus and it doesn't spoil because its black oil. Not the purple-ish. I recommend him more because He is easy to tame and get and has a Double use with the fertilizer it produces.
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It's worth remembering that the actual gathering efficiency is just one factor to consider. Depending on how you plan to harvest, Other stats like melee damage, stamina and carry weight are just as relevant. Yes, beavers may be the most efficient but they won't ever level as much in weight as a mammoth so can bring home less. Also their torp drain is so high that getting a good one is a real challenge whereas mammoths are comparatively easier. You can even use beavers like doedis with an argy, or whistle attack trees to harvest before you can craft a saddle. Still, my first wood and thatch harvester is always a stego. Easy tame and super handy. Pelagornis and bears are good for poly but both are sketchy to take into the cold zone whereas your carc will shred through the whole north zone and come back with much more poly in a shorter period of time and not care if theres a yuti, purlovia or wolfpack nearby. Point is that don't just go by harvesting effectiveness as the only factor.
My current go to source of wood is a bronto on Herbivore Island, its carry weight is just so high, especially if i craft my final wood products while riding it to constantly compact it. Just throw out all the junk berries and thatch. And if i specifically needed wood it still can fit the most total wood to carry back to base. Trees are everywhere so its not like harvest efficiency matters that much. My therizino harvests 1 tree for wood and can nolonger walk, and in singleplayer its annoying to get a pack dino to follow and transfer wood between them. I would rather just ride 1 dino capable of carrying more wood even if i need to harvest more trees.
Mammoth has completely resolved any wood issues for me and I have an ascended saddle and he was easy to kibble tame using my moschops farm and I'm doing this all as a solo on pvp on 1x rates as I'm not playing small tribes.
For stone, the doedicurus may be the "best" on land, however, the dunkleostus is 1000% the best tame for stone hands down. My server is a 2x server, and easily get 50k stone in a matter of minutes.
that was really interesting. I know the theri gets insane amounts of wood in the swamp areas, but did not know about the diplocaulus and pearls from trilobites. i used my chainsaw which got insane amounts of pearls from trilobites :D
Some trivia notes: 1. the megaloceros is actually a fun way to gather lots of thatch. Just go riding and jumping through the forest hitting attack. The AOE radius is big enough to hit multiple trees at once, and thatch is light enough that a good elk can collect a bunch before needing to offload it. 2. Not sure about ASA, but in ASE the saber gets lots of hide (even per its journal entry). And it's also fun to ride as it can speed-jump, and when jumping it changes direction instantly to where the camera is pointed. So in early game you can go tearing around beaches committing dilocide (always gratifying) and culling anything else low level and getting tons of hide for it. 3. The beelzebufo is able to get black pearls from euryptids (sea scorpions) and also chitin, oil and meat. This is really useful early game on ASE Ragnarok as you can go farm Viking Bay with a frog the moment you get tranq arrows and build up usable amounts of these resources right off. (and you can hit the pearl tunnel while you're there for silica pearls).
12:03 - So this is probably something new with ASA, but it seems that putting Archaeopteryx near Tree Taps speeds up the production of the taps themselves. Although I haven't tested it fully. What I did do however, is cage a Archaeopteryx & set it to wander inside the cage on a tree platform /w Tree taps. The tree taps produce sap a lot faster than my other 2 tree platforms that don't have an Archaeopterx on/near them.
I feel like you overlooked the stego for wood, As an old school player this one was a surprise to me recently, but they are amazing wood gatheres, if you put them in the right mode (forget if its heavy def or atk)
Its the defensive mode (plates all the way up). Also i like brontos for wood because of their super high carry weight, and the fact you can just chuck out all the berries and thatch you don't need. (Especially if you are after something like wood ceilings that you can craft in bulk while riding it.)
never give up the rocketiddies Solo for wood, I take a ticklechicken with its heavy harvesting boosted and have a weight mammoth on follow for the weight reduction, does well in a loner situation.
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It's nice because it doesn't gather berries, just thatch and a little wood. That's how it was on ASE at least. Even though other dinos might gather more thatch per tree I think it's more efficient because you don't have to stop and drop berries plus it's fast.
@@austinn5877 I think I've only tamed one or two brontos all the years I've played Ark. Maybe it's because I mostly play single player but I never found much use for them.
I dont know if its the same on asa to ase but otters used to attack while on your shoulder too you also forgot to mention that dire bear can harvest loads of organic Polly from bee hives and doesn’t agro the bees
I have never had the Doed gather metal for me. Is this a new feature for ASA? I often take them to hit metal rocks as they give more stone than normal rocks but I've never had them return metal to me.
@@MrMagyar5 Yeah it's a new thing in ASA, before they would ONLY gather stone but they now gather the same amount as before on top of harvesting a little bit of metal.
Btw the therie is 100 percent the best Hyde gather if you use its c ability it gathers hide only form corpses and with buff to delicate harvesting it gets even more
The mammoth is better because of the stomp attack it has. A lot of people forget about this but the stomp gives more wood per tree then anything else, besides chainsaw when it comes out. With the Mammoth's higher base weight and well bread Mammoth verus a well bread Castoroides the Mammoth will will.
You forgot to mention berries, mushrooms and flowers. Also when mentioning stone, you forgot to include the Dunkleostes again, as they actually grab a lot more stone than they do metal for the ocean rocks. As the majority rocks down there aren't actually metal nodes, just rocks. And like with using a pickaxe on a normal rock you have a chance of getting metal from it as well.
@@b4yn Yeah, they are a good source of metal, but they aren't specifically metal nodes. So a dunkleo will still get mostly stone from the river rocks, but also a good amount of metal.
You're not wrong about the utility of the moschops. They're my start of game go to for berries and chitin. I use a few mods (only play single player), one of which is a stacking/weight reduction mod. I can go into the starter cave with a moschops that has been handily leveled by a couple of the nearby explorer notes (there are four in close proximity in the Stonehenge area), dealing 600 points of damage (again, using single player settings) and come out with around 150k chitin. The lack of a saddle makes careful breeding and imprinting a must, and you can never count of them to back you up if you get knocked off them, by say a sarco, but once you're done with the cave, you've gained enough harvesting points to nearly put a theri to shame when it comes to harvesting rare flowers and mushrooms.
@@ZTTINGS The advantage in using the moschops in combat in that, being omnivores, you can force feed them meet if they get too badly hurt. In ASE, use some of the nearby explorer notes to boost their experience (I usually start around Stonehenge), and spend some time harvesting bushes for berries etc, taking out anything they can. By the time I go into the starter cave, they have 5-10k health and can do 500-600 damage, using the typical single player settings.
I always see ppl argue for mammoth a beaver can be carried by argie and that alone I think makes it way better it's also much smaller but if you play without mods or cryos getting a mammoth back to your base could be a huge job you could carry it with other things but if you have that end game stuff wood probably isn't a issue anymore
Get saddles ready and tame a male and female at the same time so you get mate boost protection. I would go up to the north boundaries with a bunch of cheap rexes as backup. No need for end game stuff. Yes I agree the beaver is super handy but very fiddly when carried and will only harvest to half it's carry weight so you have to consider do you level weight or melee damage. I'm not arguing that beavers are no good, just that mammoths aren't that hard to get if you go about it the right way. Also waaay easier to tame than beavers with their torp drain rate.
Early game wood i get from Herbie Island. Use the cliff to tame a bronto, and then the bronto has insane carry weight for wood. Just throw out all the junk you don't want periodically. Additionally you can bring crafting materials and use the thatch and wood as you harvest it to get bulk crafting of stuff like wooden structure blocks done and lowering the weight of the wood. Harvesting efficiency of wood doesn't matter, the island os covered in forests and trees respawn pretty quickly. Just mow down more trees. You can either move the bronto off of Herbivore Island to harvest near your base, or leave it on the safe island and use a raft to move the wood/wood products to your base. (Maybe I'm just lucky but i have yet to see a leeds in my playthrough so rafting seems safe enough)
Therizini is actually the ebest, as your melee double stacks with your special harvest. Their melee also scales MUCH higher than a Moschops in the later game, adding even more to both your specs.
Dunky also harvests more underwater as Underwater metal nodes yield more, theyre also ALOT faster than Ankys. Doedic is also better for harvesting stone.
You forgot the beelzebufo for chitin as well, I believe in either the redwoods cave or the swamp cave they do pretty amazing for chitin and cement paste.
Curious, on the wood gathering, where do the thorny dragons fall? They seemed about the same as the castro, maybe a little better weight and movement ability
great vid,, however my only issue[more of an annoyance and not with you] as that these so called gatherers also gather berries, something i wish you could turn off like victims collection as it hinders the gathering process, yes I know you can empty out the inventory of berries but IMO that wastes time.
Did he just leave Beelzebufo out of chitan gathering entirely? They may not be the absolute best, but still an honerable mention AND they gather cementing paste as well.
mammoth is better than the beaver because it has 75% reduced carry for wood, making each farming round much more efficient if youre not doing that raft in swamp tactic
Can someone give me tips for finding a dunky i want one so bad and ill take like any level i just haven't seen one i did 3 laps around the island doing a dino wipe and then do like 3 more and never seeing a single one like i seen like 4 lilploridon and a million pleasies and moasas and eels pls help
can't the gigantopithecus also cather metal? i mean you can equip a pick on it, can't you? well, it is not worth doing it like that, but i guess technically it's possible :b
Just my opinion but id. Say a mammoth would be better than a bever for solo just becuse they have the weight reduction they can Cary more over all so u can go for longer log runs
I FIGURED OUT THE XBOX SINGLE PLAYER GAME DELETE SAVES: This is super stupid, but its about being connected "online". If you arent connected it wont have the saveWhat you have to do when you load in, try to join a server and if it says you have to be connected then close the game and restart until it doesnt. Then go in to load your single player. Please share.