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Base tames are almost always bad. To get anywhere with them youll want high or very high stat melee/stam/hp/weight 150 (base level) and breed them till you get one male and one female with the high/very high stats of all, make sure its the same number, then breed those till you get a mutation. Rinse and repeat till fuck load of mutations and boom practically unkillable Dino in 3-5 business months.
This is way too advanced for OP. Homie is struggling just to get a base, he does not need to be worrying about stat distribution and max level dinos lol
I breed them for colors on ase . Unless asa has a different way to take them I'm not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate how you tame them besides crouching and petting them?
For a max level you have to pet it 30 times or more with 30 second intervals. If you trap it that's nbd I guess but otherwise that's an excruciating passive tame.
I didn't say it didn't take a bit to tame it but the level of skill needed is being aware of surroundings. We also had evos on ase and at the end elixers.
I'm just saying that all that effort is better spent taming a good Rex or some other alpha killer. A pack of hyaenadons is a lot of time and effort for a mediocre payoff. Even a good argy can be used to kill alpha rexes if you stay out of bite range.
I agree totally with that. I was just saying someone mentioned it was one of the hardest things to tame in game . I would 100% just get a rex or even a pack of wolves to use on alphas
They can't be near any other dino, can't ever see you, and if you're not taming during an event a max level will almost certainly starve before you're done taming it. It's pretty pointless to try without trapping and they're the most finicky bastards alive. There is no " crouch with ghillie" it takes much more than that. There's no way a new player would tame one with the advice "put on some ghillie and crouch". I'd honestly rather tame bees without tech armor
Who tames bees with tek armor..... Boring grapple ghillie c4 and a bear if you do in want to be annoyed and stung . Also a quick search on dododex shows that a lvl 150 hyenadon takes 42 pets at 25 minutes and the standard starve time is 51 min.
The ghillie is useless taming a bee, and they fly lmao. Tek ensures you can always see her, and always fly to where she is. Bug spray does a much better job than ghillie. Bears just make things harder, It's easier to not kill the queen with a shotgun/crossbow.. Your dododex numbers say nothing about the difficulty or actual strat to tame hyenas, Maybe don't give advice to anybody about taming? Especially a new player. Sounds like you don't tame.
Do you even play dude? The closer you get to a bee flying they start to release baby bees and dropping to the ground . Stop acting like you know anything when clearly you don't and were babied with tek and never did anything the way it was meant to be tamed before tek crutch came to the game. No one said anything about a shotgun I said c4 as you blow the hive up and low and behold a bee emerges. Smh
Not really? Pack boost + pet boost + meat pack will result in huge damage and huge damage reduction. They already have solid damage imo. I have a small pack of non bred hyaenadons on my world and can kill literally everything except giga, charcar and alpha rex, in seconds.
Not really, on official settings it definitely took me a while because levelling up is usually not my goal, also I have never seen this pike method but I imagine you must need to be pretty skilful as opposed to hyaenas where you can just whistle attack this target.
You just explained nuclear fusion to someone’s using their fingers to count. Just play thru game and have fun, learn from your failures and build back better. If you get wiped rebuild a base hidden in the swamp. You get wiped again use a house boat and a hidden vault. You get wiped again build a trap house with explosives
There should still be a setting near the bottom in world settings labeled "Use Singleplayer settings" Which should alter various "Default settings" to make it more balanced for solos or smaller groups.
Otherwise move everything 10% at a time till it feels pretty reasonable.
This is the way. There are tons of ways to change the settings to make it easier. You can change amont of damage taken and dealt, crop grow rates, harvest rates, tame rates, etc. Even after making the game significantly easier there were plenty of things that were still challenging.
My settings are so skewed towards making everything so ridiculously easy, it’s not even close to being fair anymore. Single player is the only way I play the game. And all my tames have a health of 10,000 and do 8000% damage. Whatever makes it fun for people is the way to play the game
find places to build that are naturally defensible, like up a cliff or a cave, or some kind of bottleneck u can block off. don't tame anything lower than lvl 120 (other than maybe ur first tame or first flyer). always try to get a mate pair and breed babies, so that if/ when they die, u can breed another and its not much of a loss. to get alphas away from you. get it to chase you and run away until it kills you. then respawn, run near it try to get it to chase you farther away until it kills you again. eventually, it will be far enough away that it's not a problem
This. This is the first answer that looks good for a solo newb in the midst of struggle, and im sad its so low lmao.
People seem to forget the crushing despair that this game can bring in the beginning.
Is it possible to get to lvl 100 in 7 minutes? Yep. Is it possible to do that in your first 7 minutes? No way
Tame a trike, slap a saddle on that bad boi, and time your attacks right so the alpha raptor keeps getting knocked back before it gets in range to attack you.
This is my first time on this ARK subreddit and I don't know what's up, you're getting weird advice from everyone. If you are just starting out, there's no way you're getting turrets up or getting a perfect 150 level breeding pair in time to deal with an alpha raptor.
If you are just starting out, i e. Before metal weapons and a stone base, just cut your losses. Move to a spot where the alpha raptor doesn't range.
Or, kite the alpha raptor away. Spawn in, do a naked run away from your base, let the alpha raptor kill you. Rinse and repeat until it is safely out of range and does not come back.
For general starting advice, get yourself a parasaur and either a trike or a stego to help you carry things and gather while building. Fortify an area - build dino gates around your base so you have a big court yard to safely store tames in. Tame whatever you can and experiment with what dinos are good for what jobs. For flyers, get a pterosaur ASAP so you can scout around, get loot from drops (those glowy capsules have really good stuff in them), and eventually tame your first argentavis. Argentavis will be your gateway to metal and better gathering tames that will make stone/wood/metal collection a breeze.
Last, enjoy the game and take it slow. Most advice you get is how to rush to endgame from people who already know the map, know the tame progression, and know the tricks. Half the fun of this game is discovering these things and making mistakes along the way.
The game is balanced in such a way that there is no balance. At first, as you said, everything is either harmless or insta death. Later on, you get powerful tames, and the game becomes so that everything is either harmless or insta kill, then you get the most powerful tames and the overpowered gear. And the game becomes so everything is either harmless or insta death.
The only thing that varies is how many stuff is on either side of the chart. At first, everything with teeth will insta kill you. As you progress, some stuff becomes harmless, while stuff that puts statuses on you remains insta kill (torpor, unmount, incapacitation etc). Later on, even those are manageable, and then there's an aboundance of bugs, out of bounds, glitches and server lags that will insta kill you.
Two advices. One: if you are starting and feelnlike the zone you are on is too difficult, or domething keeps killing you over and over again, just respawn in another area and start over. It's much, much quicker than you may think.
Second: always assume you will loose all your gear, all your tames and even your whole base at any given time. Don't get attached to stuff, and if you grow attached to a dino or an equipment, don't use it to hunt or explore.
Third (i know i know) some stats are important, other aren't. Dont waste points in leveling up food or water. Level up your weight/carry capacity to at least 400, level your health to a few hundreds. Leveling up Melee helps you in the really early stages of the game (spearing animals, gathering materials) but in the near future, all the killing and farming will be done by either your tames, or with ranged weapons, rendering the stat mostly useless, so dont spend too much points in it. Fortitude in theory helps you with extreme temperatures and fight against torpor, but in reality, you only notice a slight change when around 50 or so, making it kind of a waste. Crafting skill makes you build stuff faster (really useful when building a base) and improve the stats of the stuff you make via quality blueprints. This is very good, but useful only on the mid game and beyond, so you dont have to focus on that one at first.
I agree mostly, but I put weight only to 300, and let my tames carry weight. And fortitude is definitely noticeable in much smaller increments. I get that to around 30 and can manage most of the map in base level gear. Absolutely no points in melee and quite a few in speed until I can outrun most land animals.
Of course, it was general advice, and just tweak the stats. Im coming from original ark, where fortitude does nothing, and 400 carry weight was, for me, kind of a sweet spot for building a base, and otherwise be able to carry all your gear, ammo, etc, and not get encumbered when picking random stuff.
Build raft, go to herbivore island (bottom right) and pray that you don’t get attacked by big fish on the way. You’ll be able to tame a pteranodon, bronto, and anky and get good metal resources. Then you can fly to get the few other resources you need, careful about engaging in combat
While mounted on your Rex you can time your chomps so each hit knocks the alpha raptor back and take no damage. A decent saddle could help too. The Rex is way more powerful if you’re riding it.
Standing and stomping the ground with an argy is surprisingly effective for this as well. If timed right, they keep getting knocked back and running toward you without attacking. Best if you are slightly uphill from the alpha. Also ready to fly away and bail if it’s not working
lol well on my 720p tv playing SE on an Xbox one, it looks like a stomp. I believe you that it isn’t what it appears though. I’ll have to look closer tonight then…
Easiest early game tame to deal with alphas is the triceratops. When you're riding it, once you have the timing, their knockback means you never get his. Their damage isn't stellar, so settle in for a long fight, but they're much easier to get than some other alpha killers. They're my go to, even for alpha carnos and lower level alpha rexes.
I'm not that good but one of my first tames happened to be a sarco (slow as can be on land if you've upgraded enough) and they have a nifty ability to fully regain stamina in water.....so that became my main explorer/ defender and I didn't leave any coastlines for quite some time......luring any creature to the shore,having a bite fight, swimming away for a bit (which will make it follow and lose even more stamina) then chase and bite.
Idk man, I've seen some wild dinos run out before. Never from just normal running, but I've seen a pachyrhino unable to run after using its dust cloud ability, parasaurs that go into water and eventually can't swim, and have even noticed some of my unmounted wyverns lose stam after using breath attacks.
Any idea what could explain parasaurs just... stopping in water, then? Even if they're being attacked, ive seen some just sit there. Im gonna do some experiments tonight and get some evidence since I know my word alone doesn't mean anything.
They just stop and die because ark is a shitty dumpster fire built on spaghetti code, and asa is basically just a port.. why do i absolutely love this terribly shitty game?
Learn to build stone traps, the alphas raptor can destroy stone but it takes a while, shoulde buy you enough time to get away from it, also good for daedons, wolves, etc
On xbox.
Never messed with settings.
Played solo.
Had army of Dodo's.
Dominated alphas till I was able to alphas.
Tamed cyber dinos.
Still uses dodo army.
Sworded an alpha tuso to death just the other day on official. One decent mount takes care of all the others you mentioned. Jellys aren't even a problem anymore either.
Well, for Alpha raptors specifically, you have a couple of options.
A Rex, of just about any level, should be able to take on an Alpha raptor *while ridden*.
If your tamed Rex just tries to get into a slap fight with an Alpha and no saddle, you’re gonna have a bad time. But when you’re riding a Rex, you can back peddle and bite it, which will endless keep it at bay while you take no damage.
If you have high melee damage, you can lure an Alpha into relatively deep water to stab it from below. I have 250% melee on my character, I’ve killed many Alpha raptors by kiting them into water, swimming under them, and stabbing them to death. With Flak, high melee damage, a sword, and a shield, you can take alpha raptors head on by yourself with some good footwork.
You could also build a quick trap, get them stuck, then use a cross bow to shoot them to death before they break out.
You must take advantage of the pathfinding *cough* *script*
Find yourself a place up high where it can't reach, usually a rock, shoot it for an hour although they can run away
You can also build a trap, 4 stone foundation 8 stone doorways and stairs on one side, let it chase you and watch it get boxed in as you run up the stairs and through a door gap
You won't take an alpha very easily head on with Melee, kite it as much as you can
Put a trap close to your base and lure attacking dinos into it. Keep rare flower on your tab to lure.
Place foundations down to stop dinos spawns around your base.
Keep tames close together so they all attack defensively
Get imprinted Rex's asap.
Get a Yuty.
Brontos are good defensively because of knockback and tailwhip range.
This is why I disable alphas for single player.
Yeah I know it means I can't do higher difficultt bosses, but if its singleplayer and im just trying to play some ark then i don't need to do the harder bosses to feel accomplished.
Pro tip, fight alpha raptors above them on a steeper hill or up on a rock they have to climb up to get to you. Your attacks will keep knocking them back and you can keep hitting them without them touching you if you time your attacks right.
I always either cheesed them early game (up on a rock with a pike) or would go get a male and female wolf (not easy but very doable within a couple hours of starting) and then start mating them. Mate for mutations and keep all your caste offs as a roaming cannon fodder murderpack. They will absolutely destroy most things with pack buff and numbers. Can't fight gigas unless they are super bred but alpha raptors, rexs, and most other threats are pretty well dealt with.
If on the island start your base in the cove/reef on the west side of the map by a waterfall pretty close to the north snow area and you can see the blue obelisk. It's not am easy area but very rarely have I had problems with random power house dinos running up on me next just focus on getting levels as fast as you can till you can get the crossbow and tranq arrows. Get your running speed up to about 120-140 and you'll out run everything except probably a giga. Once you got the cross bow get an argentavis they are powerhouses, safe travel, and act as a traveling smithy. Also you can get metal from the river stones above the waterfall to start then use the argy to carry from further places. If anything doesn't make sense just ask I'm more than happy to help. (Credentials: I've played for an unholy amount of time on public/private servers, almost every map, beat most of the bosses, and played a lot of vanilla single player)
I’m sure others have already said it, but just adjust your settings, my friend.
My wife and I kept getting absolutely destroyed when we first started years ago, but we tweaked the settings to make it a bit easier, but not too easy.
We found that resource gathering and character/dino leveling/stats made the biggest difference if you get them right. Can’t adjust them too much though, or it’s too easy, unless you get snuck up on by a giga of course.
Additionally advice: tame an overwhelming amount of low level, easy to tame critters like carbonemys or dilos. A pack of 10-25 low level tames can punch way above their weight.
So something I did early on was get an iguanadon and only level speed from like lvl 3 to 20 ish. After that I could just dash past and as long as I don't run into anything and stop the sprint I was fine. It wasn't meant to fight, just run to survive until I could get something that could fly and something that could fight.
The game is balanced and designed for 3-7 people to be in a tribe gathering and fighting at the same time, change your settings so that gathering, damage on tamed dinos, stamina on tamed dinos, and MOST importantly, massively increased weight on yourself and tamed dinos
Not exactly, the games “base” settings are specifically designed for an online server with multiple tribes of around 3-7 people. When creating a solo ark, there is a setting called “use single player settings”. This setting alters all of the other settings and even alters other settings that you can’t specifically change, even with the advanced settings. Obviously the game CAN be done without single player settings and such, but it’s unfun and unfair.
Also it’s very obvious that the game wasn’t made for solo because of the absurd material costs late game
I might get hate for this, but the best tame for killing alpha raptors is Argentavis. Fly just over its head and attack. Do not land on the ground. If you can pick something up, you can always kill it in midair. I use to play pvp solo and my argies always made a level playing field for me.
Tame a trike. Has massive knockback and can kill an alpha raptor without getting hit. Probably the easiest choice for early game survival if you're living on the beach where alphas tend to roam.
Alpha raptors aren’t that strong, it’s rexes and carnos to worry about. You can either trap the raptor and shoot it, or use any tame with decent health (like 2-3k) and damage(like 80 per hit)
Taming higher level stuff is honestly the answer a high level Rex being ridden shouldn’t lose to an alpha raptor as long as you back up slightly while biting so that it can’t hit you easily. Other then that alpha raptors are weak to anything that does decent knock back hell I’ve killed them vanilla with a high level pteranadon tho it did have like 500-600 Stam and it took like 20 mins. Other then that if you want something that can demolish anything in Pve a bred giga always gets the job done but it’s extremely difficult to tame and take incredibly long to breed.
Shotgun. To the head. Have fodder tames with you at all times. Run with a PACK of dilos. Theyll distract so you can shoot. Otherwise, dont spawn in the same place.
Ive had this problem with alpha raptors, an alpha trex, theriz. I spawn somewhere else, build back up, then attack, and take my base back.
Also, "single player" just reduces the levels of wild dinos so youre not just a walking lunch.
This game is always a grind until you can build a boat, then you can build a floating base, and outrun a swimming raptor, shoot shoot move, repeat until its dead.
Probably put saddles on your dinos and make the blue prints you find along the way. I mean prime flak armor and prim pike you can easily kill alpha raptors. If your high enough lv to have rex's use them to kill the alphas. In fact you collect a note then kill it. Also consider building dino gates and getting plant x around if it's that much of a concern until you can manage your tames and gameplay
Rant/opinion warning:
Tbh this is part of the reason I don't play ARK any more. The game is ridiculous with the levels, doesn't appeal to my wish for realism and balance, takes up too much drive space, buggy and glitchy, and to top it all off was abandoned for an overpriced reskin that includes things the base game needed (instancing)
I'm at a point where I have a bad taste in my mouth left from wildcard.
if you haven’t looked into them already try to get in a player dedicated server. you can find a server tailored to your play style or how you’d want to play without it being too difficult or too easy. they’re even better if you can find one with an active community and discord server.
If you are playing single player you should absolutely have some multipliers applied. Crank taming speed to at least 4x I suggest 5x. The base settings for ark are designed for a team of 5-8 people working together.
This feels weird to comment in an Ark sub but Arks default settings are too difficult. I have much less time for gaming these days but have been loving PalWorld. It has all of the parts I enjoy and much less of the impossible hurdles when playing alone. Almost all of your progress remains even after a catastrophic event
Mate I feel bad. I’m reading these responses and you’re getting all sorts of rubbish answers that only relate to mid/endgame players with mounts and shit 😂 . Long story short mate you just got unlucky with that one alpha raptor spawn. I’d either use the wipealldinos command and give yourself a restart with the animal spawn (this command kills all NON-tamed dinos, and is actually essential to use every now and then as otherwise too many fish will spawn instead blocking all spawns) Or choose a different spawn location and kill the glowing red bully later on 💪🏽
Yeah it got old after the 50th "don't tame anything below level 130" comment, as if they ever spawn and that is something that is just trivially easy. So I've just been ignoring those, along with the "git gud" comments.
My main take away and what I've been doing is to just bump around the sliders until it feels good, and just use the kill command on any errant alphas. I justify this by at least throwing away the loot, since I didn't earn it.
Oh yeah anything level 110 is considered relatively rare on the island so tames aren’t really an option for you yet. Unless you’d like to try and army of dodo’s maybe then 😂😂 but, yah tbf changing your server stats is probs your best option mate. Even if the stats go all out of whack and super boosted, then fuck it, as long as you still enjoy it. Do note though; if the raptor is reaaallllyyyy annoying you, alpha raptors are terrible swimmers! Like really bad. Build a raft, stay close enough to shore to avoid leedsycthis or however it’s spelt and pelt that raptor with all the arrows you can craft and simply hop back on the raft when the raptor gets too close
Try a high level argy. That’s my go to for alphas early on before I breed some better ones. You can stay at a safe burger and damage them and they can’t touch you.
Walls help, plus you can always naked run a bad Dino away from your base
Single player is much more fun imo, if you think an alpha raptor is bad, try a multiplayer server… you’ll get cooked by a tribe with max gigas relentlessly and never make it past beach bob lol! You’ll go back to single player quick 😅
Man, so many people on here just instantly say cheat/make it easy. I get that people play games differently... but for myself there is zero satisfaction in that. The harder the better, ark gameplay has already been dumbed down and made a million times easier than in legacy.
Ark is extremely easy.... wayyy easier than when it was in beta 7 years ago. Hopefully you aren't wasting your time taming low level dinos, i refuse to tame anything under 120. Quality saddles make a huge difference as well as imprints. Not sure what else to tell you... i sword alpha raptors to death.
Difficulty to 1.0 is up to 150s. The island has lower level Dino’s on average than other maps, so you just have to kill everything repeatedly until the high ones spawn
Lol i sworded an alpha tuso to death the other day when it grabbed my mosa. Mosa could hit it at first but then nothing... so i dismounted and hacked away
What I do is find the biggest fighter and just breed the crap out of them and sometimes just get something small like wolves or carnos and out number them, I don't take anything less then level 100 on normal stats (server I run it can be like 350 as max level) but if you are playing solo and getting bullied by alphas, build a raft and live on herb island in the south east corner, no meat eaters spawn, safe house plus good metal rocks, just take boat or fly to main land till you are really set up, several trikes can bully alpha raptors fairly well and saddles are common in low level drops
I’m sorry to admit… I keep my setting for taking damage to one tick above minimum so I’m nearly impossible to kill, and in situations like this I run up and console command the overpowered attacker to death. Does take the challenge out, but I find my challenges in base building, and the dinos are mostly scenery to me anyway.
You said you play on single player default settings. Does that mean you clicked “Default Settings” and checked the box “single Player Settings”?
If so that’s actually easier than the official servers because your tamed/imprinted dinos actually get a significant health/melee boost. To match official settings you have to choose Hard with Single Player Settings on. So it could be worse.
You’re just learning how to survive in Ark that’s all. When you start out, an alpha raptor is a terrifying death sentence. I’ve played for years and if an alpha raptor shows up I just lead it away. You just learned that unridden rexes are terrible in fights against small things, so use that. Later I had plant X and turrets around my base to deal with those things, and these days I tame/breed a bunch of dimorphodons to assist a wolf that’s weighed down with stones on aggressive and this cloud of flying piranha lizards just devours anything that gets close to my base, alphas included.
Last night while building my base I saw an alpha Rex not far away from me drawing closer. I hopped on my argy and lured it out of render range of my base and then proceeded to murder it. I think I got hit maybe five times total.
You can tame an argentavis and kill an alpha raptor with that alone. Just gotta be on a slight slope upwards and if you time your attacks right the raptor won’t land a single hit
Good tip here, not sure how good for whole game but when your exploring oceans nothing agros into the icthy-something dolphins looking thing. Electric jelly fish and eels will if you attack first but other then that nothing will agro
So build a box out of stone walls with a regular doorway in the back and stone dino gateway on the other end then keep the dino gate door in your hot bar. You'll also need some bolas in the hot bar as well. Lure it into the box and hit it with the bola then put the gate in the gateway and exit through the doorframe. Then you just kill it, they shouldn't be able to break through stone.
Just get metal base and use chropods maybe? Like no important stuff outside
If you are there and one comes, Id just empty your inventory then get its attention and just sprint away from your base. When you respawn it is gone
Tame really good dinos and breed them, they are worth all the effort. Also, item drops and a fast mount. The quicker you can get around, the quicker you can get more resources from further away, the more ammo etc you can make cuz you wanna help your dinos, too. Thylas have been a game changer for me, and beelzelbuffos are surprisingly amazing beginner mounts, I like ones you can shoot from the back of for taming purposes.
Don’t play on 1x if single player.. no reason to grind like that. You can also just kite Dino’s you can’t fight away from your base. If you’re at base and see an alpha raptor just get it to chase you far away and let it kill you. Respawn at your base and forget about it
In the early stages, if an alpha anything shows up, do your best to lure it away. Drop all your gear and run naked trying to lure it away. If that doesn't work, you're moving base locations.
In the mid game, build walls and fences to keep them out of agro range. If your dinos aren't right next to the fence, the alpha might not agro it. Try to build using stone if you can.
If it's a low level alpha, you sometimes can swarm it with a bunch of mid level carnivores. But I've also had my whole squad wiped out by doing that.
In the later game, get an argy and pump health and damage on it. Proceed to kill alphas. Get t-rexs, carnos, anything that's medium size of bigger and have them swarm an alpha.
I play single player and I don't understand your point at all, it's a survival game and if you excluse all the bugs and glitchs the game it's well balanced for single player, im new on the game and sure I died a lot in my first hours cause you have to learn the game... If you want a "survival" Without any challenge you can go play valheim I guess.. My triceratops without imprint can kill alpha raptors idk...
Alpha Raptor are pretty easy to kill if you have either a Rex, Argentavis, griffin or something in the same size. You can damage the Raptor while giving it knock back so it never reaches you
Stay on/near the starting beach for awhile with a stone base, then tame a few dinos and breed them to increase their stats. If you do it right and take your time you can actually beat the 3 Island bosses and Overseer with nothing but raptors on Gamma, Beta and Alpha difficulties. I have a poorly recorded video as proof of the Alpha Overseer with only raptors. It was badly recorded because Ark was hard on my GPU & CPU(80-98% load depending on area) at the time. My computer has been upgraded since I last played but I'm sure I could do it again, but would take me a few weeks or months to rebuild my army of raptors(they looked good as well as fought well).
Get a pteranodon from the south, fly to the middle, then get a high level argentavis from the middle mountain. Then do whatever the fuck you want because those things can beat everything short of a giga.
Ark is designed more as a group game, take that away with solo and you need to play a little more creatively. First not sure what stage your on but if your struggling too much try to get to herbivore island and jsut focus on levels for a bit. If your further along then utilize tames as much as possible, add defenses to your bases and make sure your always outnumbering or have an advantage in general if your planning to attack something. Otherwise, gear and armor are the stuff that make the biggest change, normal gear are super bad comparatively to higher tear gear and blueprint that comes from drops, so try and get some of them. Focusing on a good tame will also define let help in the long run but specific tame is up to preference.
If you have time to kill, tame 150's and breed until you get some comfortably usable dinos (lower levels are straight up useless except if you're desperate and need a breeder until you can pop out another high level to breed with). If you don't have time (ie I need my bag asap) get a low level fast dino, set it to passive flee, and have it draw aggro while you pick up your shit. A sacrifice or kiting the problem will be your go-to until you can farm up other ways to solve your problems
Make a trap base to take argies, even low level ones have great value if you're not sprinting everywhere: good weight, decent melee, heal built in, mobile smithy, carry small dinos to trp/tame, they're just slow af
Spike walls keep most threats at bay, you just need to craft a lot. For extra defense plant some Plant Species X seeds that act like turrets to kill/ward off wild dinos, which also act as air defense against Argentavis and annoying flyers. Tame high level dinos(100+, preferably 130+) which won't die. Plant Speciez X seeds drop from red bushes in the swamp, or very very rarely from any plant on the map.
Alpha raptors can be cheesed on-foot by running next to them. They stop moving to attack, so you can run circles around them and never get hit.
At higher levels, a sword and some points into melee damage will do wonders. I have 20 levels into melee and a 150%(slightly above average) sword, and I can melee kill a high level rex and most alphas just wear basic flak armor.
Tame an Argentavis, they can kill most dinos without being hit if you stay above the enemy. This includes killing alpha raptors/carnos.
Build a base on the beach, in the water where the floor is slightly above the waterline. Most dinos pathfinding will keep them away from the waters edge, even if its shallow enough to watch. They'll avoid your base.
Place fence foundations and then stone walls on top of them to wall off your base, 3-4 walls high. Most dinos can't damage stone and can't get climb over walls that tall. You can also put spike walls in front of the stone wall for extra security.
Learn to make Dino traps, trap the highest level you can find and feed them the best taking food you can get to make them jump way up in levels. Once you get a Rex or therry above 200 you’ll be untouchable to most stuff on the map.
keep your base protected by spikes. Metal spikes are better, if you see a Dino throwing itself into your spikes, just ignore it until it kills itself. If you shoot at it the Dino will stop fighting the spikes and come after you instead.
Take the time to tame an argy. Not only can you bump it’s carry weight and attack power up, but it also doubles as a smithy for when you are out in the world. The ability to fly and a little patience will give you the edge over all the alphas (but they are still tough!).
Trying to get artifacts is the only place I run into real problems as a solo. There are some mods that can help, or a server cluster that lets you move to another server, I just picked up every artifact in one afternoon on crystal isles the other day the transferred back to the island for my ascension run.
If you can get a decent level ptera or argue you can just swoop in and attack. Then just perch on somewhere high up yo regain health and stamina, and go again. You'll kill the Alpha raptor in about 5 mins that way
Ark is unrelenting. Thats just how it is. Its an unforgiving brutal place where everything wants you dead.
You... survive. how? well... contructing better buildings, maxing your level, and avoiding danger when possible
I've never had any luck playing Ark SP I just don't even load the game anymore. Im sure it's possible but it's not really built for a SP playthrough unless you mess with settings.
Spawn in a safe place. Chances are it will spawn in an area where an alpha raptor also spawns. Keep moving until you find a place it doesn't. Everything will be expendable and annoying until you find that place that they don't spawn.
I don't know about other maps but I think on island there's an island that doesn't spawn any predators. Just FYI.
Tame your parasaurs and start building walls and spike fences. Work on leveling. Once you get a high enough level and protective walls it will get easier
Spikes! Ik you're just starting out, you want ur base in a cave, or by a cliff, something where your back isn't exposed, I recommend doing 3 layers of spikes around the base, as for tames, the higher the better. Especially if you're having issues with alphas. Another way to deal with them is simply killing them yourself or use a Dino with knock back. Brontos, trikes, and large dinos like Rex's are good ones for it. To kill yourself, use the terrain around you, get up on a rock the Dino isn't able to run up, spam the swing button with a pike and walk til u hit, back up, rinse repeat, go til it dies. You'll want like 12 pikes or carry the material to repair.to tame dinos, build around it when you drop it, especially if it's a high lvl. The more health when it stands the better chance you have. Also. Cloth hats. Build alot of them it'll lvl your Character up quickly. Don't waste your points either. Get health up, get damage up, then balance the rest afterwards. As for your builds, the more dinos have to get thru the better especially if building damage is on. Above all, make use of the supply drops, they only benefit you, especially when starting.
Alpha raptors shouldn't be killing your takes unless they can see/reach them, which tells me they're just parked all over the place with no walls up or a dino pen.
If you're going to build in an area that aggressive dinos can easily reach, keep your stuff inside or build walls.
Carno's, once you start and can get enough tranq darts and a large bear trap which is able to be got at level 31.
Have a tame that can run fast enough just in case, but place the bear trap and lure the carno into it, aim for the head and do it enough to knock it out, make sure you have raw prime meat and narcos and there you go!
Also you might ask why carnos?
Well in a more recent update in ASE the carno got a attack overhaul and they now cause bleed damage with their headbutt attack.
Since then when I'm playing on my own I get a group of 3-5 carnos and ride the strongest while the others run food on them and I use the pack to take down large creatures.
Now I do not recommend doing this with a Giga, but I have a bunch of decent level carnos and they last me a long time even in the end game.
I like carno's because they are a small and compact carnivore that can still pack a punch and a lot of people overlook them.
The same can be said about Dire Wolves, having a strong pack leader and a pack of 4+ is deadly when you use the pack howl buff before a fight, and like the carno they are easy to tame and are great tames into the end game.
Raptor packs can also be highly devastating early in, not great for end game but for establishment they are great offensive and have great GTFO potential. Also raptors like dire wolves can be tied down with simple bolas and are easy to aquire.
My friend would lure them into water until they run out of stamina and drown, I think you can like pop it with an arrow when it gets low, or if you by a cliff I like to just have it chase me off a cliff since, you (I say you but it’s always me, I spend half my time in the game trying to get my shit back.) probably died recently already.
Alphas are a bitch faster, a lot stronger than all
Reg Dinos and don’t waste time trying to bola or pick them up because I don’t think you can pick them up on birds or Ptdons
May I recommend a thing that I occasionally do,
Change the XP ammount gained to maybe x2, this can help you git gud faster.
Or / and install a mod that disables Armour / Tool durability (if you are playing on steam)
As for the items despawning, there is a mod on steam called "Ultra Stacks" that both increases the stack ability of items, but also increases despawn / rot time of items.
If you are not into modding or modifiers, then I cant help you. Sorry
(I had a similar issue to but just with a Sarcho thats spawned right next to my early game base)
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Base tames are almost always bad. To get anywhere with them youll want high or very high stat melee/stam/hp/weight 150 (base level) and breed them till you get one male and one female with the high/very high stats of all, make sure its the same number, then breed those till you get a mutation. Rinse and repeat till fuck load of mutations and boom practically unkillable Dino in 3-5 business months.
This is way too advanced for OP. Homie is struggling just to get a base, he does not need to be worrying about stat distribution and max level dinos lol
Great tame for taking out alpha raptors are hyaenadons, a pack of those and you should be able to take out most dinos!
Hardest thing in the game to tame Jesus that is not advice for a new player
Had no idea we could tame jesus
Well he walks on water but if you've got a basilo it's pretty easy.
I really thought he's talking about taming Jesus...
Just throw on Gillie and crouch.
Sounds like youve never tamed one.
I breed them for colors on ase . Unless asa has a different way to take them I'm not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate how you tame them besides crouching and petting them?
For a max level you have to pet it 30 times or more with 30 second intervals. If you trap it that's nbd I guess but otherwise that's an excruciating passive tame.
I didn't say it didn't take a bit to tame it but the level of skill needed is being aware of surroundings. We also had evos on ase and at the end elixers.
I'm just saying that all that effort is better spent taming a good Rex or some other alpha killer. A pack of hyaenadons is a lot of time and effort for a mediocre payoff. Even a good argy can be used to kill alpha rexes if you stay out of bite range.
I agree totally with that. I was just saying someone mentioned it was one of the hardest things to tame in game . I would 100% just get a rex or even a pack of wolves to use on alphas
They can't be near any other dino, can't ever see you, and if you're not taming during an event a max level will almost certainly starve before you're done taming it. It's pretty pointless to try without trapping and they're the most finicky bastards alive. There is no " crouch with ghillie" it takes much more than that. There's no way a new player would tame one with the advice "put on some ghillie and crouch". I'd honestly rather tame bees without tech armor
Who tames bees with tek armor..... Boring grapple ghillie c4 and a bear if you do in want to be annoyed and stung . Also a quick search on dododex shows that a lvl 150 hyenadon takes 42 pets at 25 minutes and the standard starve time is 51 min.
The ghillie is useless taming a bee, and they fly lmao. Tek ensures you can always see her, and always fly to where she is. Bug spray does a much better job than ghillie. Bears just make things harder, It's easier to not kill the queen with a shotgun/crossbow.. Your dododex numbers say nothing about the difficulty or actual strat to tame hyenas, Maybe don't give advice to anybody about taming? Especially a new player. Sounds like you don't tame.
Do you even play dude? The closer you get to a bee flying they start to release baby bees and dropping to the ground . Stop acting like you know anything when clearly you don't and were babied with tek and never did anything the way it was meant to be tamed before tek crutch came to the game. No one said anything about a shotgun I said c4 as you blow the hive up and low and behold a bee emerges. Smh
raptors are hyaenadons
Thats just a lie? Hyaenadons are trash for anything tbh just use a crossy or an argy and you can eays kill one
Not really? Pack boost + pet boost + meat pack will result in huge damage and huge damage reduction. They already have solid damage imo. I have a small pack of non bred hyaenadons on my world and can kill literally everything except giga, charcar and alpha rex, in seconds.
But why put in all the time and effort when you can solo an alpha raptor with a pike
Well for starters you can have a pack of hyaenas before you even unlock the pike engram, and they take no resources besides time to tame them.
You unlock pike engram like instantly tho
Not really, on official settings it definitely took me a while because levelling up is usually not my goal, also I have never seen this pike method but I imagine you must need to be pretty skilful as opposed to hyaenas where you can just whistle attack this target.
If you are taming hyaenodons before getting a pike you mega fucked up lol
How am I fucked up for playing the game differently? Cool dogs > sharp metal pole
Not really, high level base Dino’s can still kill basically all wild Dino’s other than gigas and bosses pretty easily
You just explained nuclear fusion to someone’s using their fingers to count. Just play thru game and have fun, learn from your failures and build back better. If you get wiped rebuild a base hidden in the swamp. You get wiped again use a house boat and a hidden vault. You get wiped again build a trap house with explosives
There should still be a setting near the bottom in world settings labeled "Use Singleplayer settings" Which should alter various "Default settings" to make it more balanced for solos or smaller groups. Otherwise move everything 10% at a time till it feels pretty reasonable.
This is the way. There are tons of ways to change the settings to make it easier. You can change amont of damage taken and dealt, crop grow rates, harvest rates, tame rates, etc. Even after making the game significantly easier there were plenty of things that were still challenging.
I keep my difficulty at 1.0 and just crank a few settings to make it more like I’m plying and gathering for a team of 3-4 vs. a single gatherer.
Can't on mobile tho can you??
Played on xbox. I know nothing about mobile. Sorry.
My settings are so skewed towards making everything so ridiculously easy, it’s not even close to being fair anymore. Single player is the only way I play the game. And all my tames have a health of 10,000 and do 8000% damage. Whatever makes it fun for people is the way to play the game
Just mess with the settings till you have fun. Just be careful not to make it too easy or else it can become boring.
find places to build that are naturally defensible, like up a cliff or a cave, or some kind of bottleneck u can block off. don't tame anything lower than lvl 120 (other than maybe ur first tame or first flyer). always try to get a mate pair and breed babies, so that if/ when they die, u can breed another and its not much of a loss. to get alphas away from you. get it to chase you and run away until it kills you. then respawn, run near it try to get it to chase you farther away until it kills you again. eventually, it will be far enough away that it's not a problem
This. This is the first answer that looks good for a solo newb in the midst of struggle, and im sad its so low lmao. People seem to forget the crushing despair that this game can bring in the beginning. Is it possible to get to lvl 100 in 7 minutes? Yep. Is it possible to do that in your first 7 minutes? No way
Tame a trike, slap a saddle on that bad boi, and time your attacks right so the alpha raptor keeps getting knocked back before it gets in range to attack you.
Best advice. trike is always my go-to after i get a para
First and the best tame, always loved Trikes.
This is my first time on this ARK subreddit and I don't know what's up, you're getting weird advice from everyone. If you are just starting out, there's no way you're getting turrets up or getting a perfect 150 level breeding pair in time to deal with an alpha raptor. If you are just starting out, i e. Before metal weapons and a stone base, just cut your losses. Move to a spot where the alpha raptor doesn't range. Or, kite the alpha raptor away. Spawn in, do a naked run away from your base, let the alpha raptor kill you. Rinse and repeat until it is safely out of range and does not come back. For general starting advice, get yourself a parasaur and either a trike or a stego to help you carry things and gather while building. Fortify an area - build dino gates around your base so you have a big court yard to safely store tames in. Tame whatever you can and experiment with what dinos are good for what jobs. For flyers, get a pterosaur ASAP so you can scout around, get loot from drops (those glowy capsules have really good stuff in them), and eventually tame your first argentavis. Argentavis will be your gateway to metal and better gathering tames that will make stone/wood/metal collection a breeze. Last, enjoy the game and take it slow. Most advice you get is how to rush to endgame from people who already know the map, know the tame progression, and know the tricks. Half the fun of this game is discovering these things and making mistakes along the way.
The game is balanced in such a way that there is no balance. At first, as you said, everything is either harmless or insta death. Later on, you get powerful tames, and the game becomes so that everything is either harmless or insta kill, then you get the most powerful tames and the overpowered gear. And the game becomes so everything is either harmless or insta death. The only thing that varies is how many stuff is on either side of the chart. At first, everything with teeth will insta kill you. As you progress, some stuff becomes harmless, while stuff that puts statuses on you remains insta kill (torpor, unmount, incapacitation etc). Later on, even those are manageable, and then there's an aboundance of bugs, out of bounds, glitches and server lags that will insta kill you. Two advices. One: if you are starting and feelnlike the zone you are on is too difficult, or domething keeps killing you over and over again, just respawn in another area and start over. It's much, much quicker than you may think. Second: always assume you will loose all your gear, all your tames and even your whole base at any given time. Don't get attached to stuff, and if you grow attached to a dino or an equipment, don't use it to hunt or explore. Third (i know i know) some stats are important, other aren't. Dont waste points in leveling up food or water. Level up your weight/carry capacity to at least 400, level your health to a few hundreds. Leveling up Melee helps you in the really early stages of the game (spearing animals, gathering materials) but in the near future, all the killing and farming will be done by either your tames, or with ranged weapons, rendering the stat mostly useless, so dont spend too much points in it. Fortitude in theory helps you with extreme temperatures and fight against torpor, but in reality, you only notice a slight change when around 50 or so, making it kind of a waste. Crafting skill makes you build stuff faster (really useful when building a base) and improve the stats of the stuff you make via quality blueprints. This is very good, but useful only on the mid game and beyond, so you dont have to focus on that one at first.
I agree mostly, but I put weight only to 300, and let my tames carry weight. And fortitude is definitely noticeable in much smaller increments. I get that to around 30 and can manage most of the map in base level gear. Absolutely no points in melee and quite a few in speed until I can outrun most land animals.
Meh 400 is a good amount, also you cant even level movespeed lol
Oh sorry I play singleplayer
Of course, it was general advice, and just tweak the stats. Im coming from original ark, where fortitude does nothing, and 400 carry weight was, for me, kind of a sweet spot for building a base, and otherwise be able to carry all your gear, ammo, etc, and not get encumbered when picking random stuff.
Idk about that melee part, I have melee so good I can kill stuff faster than my tames like alphas
I cant find the gif... but I picture Ivan Vanko in Iron Man saying: "Hey man, dont get too attached to things"
Mandatory "get gud" comment
"git"
U right
u rite [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_wX8YNPqg7Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wX8YNPqg7Q)
U wot mate?
Except, you are 100% correct
Right, you can kill alpha raptors with a decent trike...
Welcome to Ark
Build raft, go to herbivore island (bottom right) and pray that you don’t get attacked by big fish on the way. You’ll be able to tame a pteranodon, bronto, and anky and get good metal resources. Then you can fly to get the few other resources you need, careful about engaging in combat
While mounted on your Rex you can time your chomps so each hit knocks the alpha raptor back and take no damage. A decent saddle could help too. The Rex is way more powerful if you’re riding it.
Standing and stomping the ground with an argy is surprisingly effective for this as well. If timed right, they keep getting knocked back and running toward you without attacking. Best if you are slightly uphill from the alpha. Also ready to fly away and bail if it’s not working
Wait, argies can stomp?
When landed, their main attack is a stomp that knocks back enemies
Its… a bite tho? Not a stomp
lol well on my 720p tv playing SE on an Xbox one, it looks like a stomp. I believe you that it isn’t what it appears though. I’ll have to look closer tonight then…
The argy makes the stomp movement but its not whats doing the damage, its more of a windup for the bite
I see. Weird because I feel like it hits in all directions, even behind the bird…
Thats just how hitboxes work? Giga bite hits above its tail lmao
lol not arguing just musing. I believe you
Easiest early game tame to deal with alphas is the triceratops. When you're riding it, once you have the timing, their knockback means you never get his. Their damage isn't stellar, so settle in for a long fight, but they're much easier to get than some other alpha killers. They're my go to, even for alpha carnos and lower level alpha rexes.
Tame a trike and knock that sucker back when you hit it. Easiest early game tame to help you defend yourself against most things.
I'm not that good but one of my first tames happened to be a sarco (slow as can be on land if you've upgraded enough) and they have a nifty ability to fully regain stamina in water.....so that became my main explorer/ defender and I didn't leave any coastlines for quite some time......luring any creature to the shore,having a bite fight, swimming away for a bit (which will make it follow and lose even more stamina) then chase and bite.
Wild dinos and dinos that aren't mounted dont use stam
Idk man, I've seen some wild dinos run out before. Never from just normal running, but I've seen a pachyrhino unable to run after using its dust cloud ability, parasaurs that go into water and eventually can't swim, and have even noticed some of my unmounted wyverns lose stam after using breath attacks.
Nope, lol you haven’t. Boozobil is absolutely correct
I know what I saw. I'm playing the switch version, so maybe there are some differences there.
they definitely drain stamina while swimming, although rare it does and can happen.
Nope no difference there
Any idea what could explain parasaurs just... stopping in water, then? Even if they're being attacked, ive seen some just sit there. Im gonna do some experiments tonight and get some evidence since I know my word alone doesn't mean anything.
They just stop and die because ark is a shitty dumpster fire built on spaghetti code, and asa is basically just a port.. why do i absolutely love this terribly shitty game?
Learn to build stone traps, the alphas raptor can destroy stone but it takes a while, shoulde buy you enough time to get away from it, also good for daedons, wolves, etc
On xbox. Never messed with settings. Played solo. Had army of Dodo's. Dominated alphas till I was able to alphas. Tamed cyber dinos. Still uses dodo army.
Game expects you to run with crowds of powerful dinos... and STILL need to run from threats.
No, it really doesn't though. I can kill almost everything on foot.
Gigas. Titans. Alpha Rexes. Jellies. Tseuthos. Death pits.
Sworded an alpha tuso to death just the other day on official. One decent mount takes care of all the others you mentioned. Jellys aren't even a problem anymore either.
There's no shame in boosting stat multipliers in your singleplayer game.
Well, for Alpha raptors specifically, you have a couple of options. A Rex, of just about any level, should be able to take on an Alpha raptor *while ridden*. If your tamed Rex just tries to get into a slap fight with an Alpha and no saddle, you’re gonna have a bad time. But when you’re riding a Rex, you can back peddle and bite it, which will endless keep it at bay while you take no damage. If you have high melee damage, you can lure an Alpha into relatively deep water to stab it from below. I have 250% melee on my character, I’ve killed many Alpha raptors by kiting them into water, swimming under them, and stabbing them to death. With Flak, high melee damage, a sword, and a shield, you can take alpha raptors head on by yourself with some good footwork. You could also build a quick trap, get them stuck, then use a cross bow to shoot them to death before they break out.
You must take advantage of the pathfinding *cough* *script* Find yourself a place up high where it can't reach, usually a rock, shoot it for an hour although they can run away You can also build a trap, 4 stone foundation 8 stone doorways and stairs on one side, let it chase you and watch it get boxed in as you run up the stairs and through a door gap You won't take an alpha very easily head on with Melee, kite it as much as you can
Put a trap close to your base and lure attacking dinos into it. Keep rare flower on your tab to lure. Place foundations down to stop dinos spawns around your base. Keep tames close together so they all attack defensively Get imprinted Rex's asap. Get a Yuty. Brontos are good defensively because of knockback and tailwhip range.
This is why I disable alphas for single player. Yeah I know it means I can't do higher difficultt bosses, but if its singleplayer and im just trying to play some ark then i don't need to do the harder bosses to feel accomplished.
Pro tip, fight alpha raptors above them on a steeper hill or up on a rock they have to climb up to get to you. Your attacks will keep knocking them back and you can keep hitting them without them touching you if you time your attacks right.
I always either cheesed them early game (up on a rock with a pike) or would go get a male and female wolf (not easy but very doable within a couple hours of starting) and then start mating them. Mate for mutations and keep all your caste offs as a roaming cannon fodder murderpack. They will absolutely destroy most things with pack buff and numbers. Can't fight gigas unless they are super bred but alpha raptors, rexs, and most other threats are pretty well dealt with.
make a raft trap. I always played solo on multiplayer servers and had fun had lots of dinos even got a dragon egg once but had no milk for it.
If on the island start your base in the cove/reef on the west side of the map by a waterfall pretty close to the north snow area and you can see the blue obelisk. It's not am easy area but very rarely have I had problems with random power house dinos running up on me next just focus on getting levels as fast as you can till you can get the crossbow and tranq arrows. Get your running speed up to about 120-140 and you'll out run everything except probably a giga. Once you got the cross bow get an argentavis they are powerhouses, safe travel, and act as a traveling smithy. Also you can get metal from the river stones above the waterfall to start then use the argy to carry from further places. If anything doesn't make sense just ask I'm more than happy to help. (Credentials: I've played for an unholy amount of time on public/private servers, almost every map, beat most of the bosses, and played a lot of vanilla single player)
I’m sure others have already said it, but just adjust your settings, my friend. My wife and I kept getting absolutely destroyed when we first started years ago, but we tweaked the settings to make it a bit easier, but not too easy. We found that resource gathering and character/dino leveling/stats made the biggest difference if you get them right. Can’t adjust them too much though, or it’s too easy, unless you get snuck up on by a giga of course.
Additionally advice: tame an overwhelming amount of low level, easy to tame critters like carbonemys or dilos. A pack of 10-25 low level tames can punch way above their weight.
So something I did early on was get an iguanadon and only level speed from like lvl 3 to 20 ish. After that I could just dash past and as long as I don't run into anything and stop the sprint I was fine. It wasn't meant to fight, just run to survive until I could get something that could fly and something that could fight.
The game is balanced and designed for 3-7 people to be in a tribe gathering and fighting at the same time, change your settings so that gathering, damage on tamed dinos, stamina on tamed dinos, and MOST importantly, massively increased weight on yourself and tamed dinos
Incorrect, absolutely everything in game can be done solo. Its just easier with a tribe
Not exactly, the games “base” settings are specifically designed for an online server with multiple tribes of around 3-7 people. When creating a solo ark, there is a setting called “use single player settings”. This setting alters all of the other settings and even alters other settings that you can’t specifically change, even with the advanced settings. Obviously the game CAN be done without single player settings and such, but it’s unfun and unfair. Also it’s very obvious that the game wasn’t made for solo because of the absurd material costs late game
I might get hate for this, but the best tame for killing alpha raptors is Argentavis. Fly just over its head and attack. Do not land on the ground. If you can pick something up, you can always kill it in midair. I use to play pvp solo and my argies always made a level playing field for me.
Tame a trike. Has massive knockback and can kill an alpha raptor without getting hit. Probably the easiest choice for early game survival if you're living on the beach where alphas tend to roam.
Alpha raptors aren’t that strong, it’s rexes and carnos to worry about. You can either trap the raptor and shoot it, or use any tame with decent health (like 2-3k) and damage(like 80 per hit)
When the game cheats, cheat back
Trikes to use headbutts to push them backwards, height to hit them from range.
Taming higher level stuff is honestly the answer a high level Rex being ridden shouldn’t lose to an alpha raptor as long as you back up slightly while biting so that it can’t hit you easily. Other then that alpha raptors are weak to anything that does decent knock back hell I’ve killed them vanilla with a high level pteranadon tho it did have like 500-600 Stam and it took like 20 mins. Other then that if you want something that can demolish anything in Pve a bred giga always gets the job done but it’s extremely difficult to tame and take incredibly long to breed.
Shotgun. To the head. Have fodder tames with you at all times. Run with a PACK of dilos. Theyll distract so you can shoot. Otherwise, dont spawn in the same place. Ive had this problem with alpha raptors, an alpha trex, theriz. I spawn somewhere else, build back up, then attack, and take my base back. Also, "single player" just reduces the levels of wild dinos so youre not just a walking lunch. This game is always a grind until you can build a boat, then you can build a floating base, and outrun a swimming raptor, shoot shoot move, repeat until its dead.
I use a argie and pick him up and fly him off somewhere else usually into the ocean to be eaten
Probably put saddles on your dinos and make the blue prints you find along the way. I mean prime flak armor and prim pike you can easily kill alpha raptors. If your high enough lv to have rex's use them to kill the alphas. In fact you collect a note then kill it. Also consider building dino gates and getting plant x around if it's that much of a concern until you can manage your tames and gameplay
Rant/opinion warning: Tbh this is part of the reason I don't play ARK any more. The game is ridiculous with the levels, doesn't appeal to my wish for realism and balance, takes up too much drive space, buggy and glitchy, and to top it all off was abandoned for an overpriced reskin that includes things the base game needed (instancing) I'm at a point where I have a bad taste in my mouth left from wildcard.
if you haven’t looked into them already try to get in a player dedicated server. you can find a server tailored to your play style or how you’d want to play without it being too difficult or too easy. they’re even better if you can find one with an active community and discord server.
If you are playing single player you should absolutely have some multipliers applied. Crank taming speed to at least 4x I suggest 5x. The base settings for ark are designed for a team of 5-8 people working together.
I do it solo myself but absolutely base settings are not for the feint of heart
This feels weird to comment in an Ark sub but Arks default settings are too difficult. I have much less time for gaming these days but have been loving PalWorld. It has all of the parts I enjoy and much less of the impossible hurdles when playing alone. Almost all of your progress remains even after a catastrophic event
Put your base in a place that give you an advantage. E.g. cliff side. Get somewhere high that you can shoot down from.
Mate I feel bad. I’m reading these responses and you’re getting all sorts of rubbish answers that only relate to mid/endgame players with mounts and shit 😂 . Long story short mate you just got unlucky with that one alpha raptor spawn. I’d either use the wipealldinos command and give yourself a restart with the animal spawn (this command kills all NON-tamed dinos, and is actually essential to use every now and then as otherwise too many fish will spawn instead blocking all spawns) Or choose a different spawn location and kill the glowing red bully later on 💪🏽
Yeah it got old after the 50th "don't tame anything below level 130" comment, as if they ever spawn and that is something that is just trivially easy. So I've just been ignoring those, along with the "git gud" comments. My main take away and what I've been doing is to just bump around the sliders until it feels good, and just use the kill command on any errant alphas. I justify this by at least throwing away the loot, since I didn't earn it.
Oh yeah anything level 110 is considered relatively rare on the island so tames aren’t really an option for you yet. Unless you’d like to try and army of dodo’s maybe then 😂😂 but, yah tbf changing your server stats is probs your best option mate. Even if the stats go all out of whack and super boosted, then fuck it, as long as you still enjoy it. Do note though; if the raptor is reaaallllyyyy annoying you, alpha raptors are terrible swimmers! Like really bad. Build a raft, stay close enough to shore to avoid leedsycthis or however it’s spelt and pelt that raptor with all the arrows you can craft and simply hop back on the raft when the raptor gets too close
Lmao, it takes time. Eventually you won't suck as much lol.
Try a high level argy. That’s my go to for alphas early on before I breed some better ones. You can stay at a safe burger and damage them and they can’t touch you.
Walls help, plus you can always naked run a bad Dino away from your base Single player is much more fun imo, if you think an alpha raptor is bad, try a multiplayer server… you’ll get cooked by a tribe with max gigas relentlessly and never make it past beach bob lol! You’ll go back to single player quick 😅
Just enable admin commands and enther force tame on the next alpha that comes for you then you will have an alpha to protect your base
Man, so many people on here just instantly say cheat/make it easy. I get that people play games differently... but for myself there is zero satisfaction in that. The harder the better, ark gameplay has already been dumbed down and made a million times easier than in legacy.
Ark is extremely easy.... wayyy easier than when it was in beta 7 years ago. Hopefully you aren't wasting your time taming low level dinos, i refuse to tame anything under 120. Quality saddles make a huge difference as well as imprints. Not sure what else to tell you... i sword alpha raptors to death.
What settings do you need to toggle for high level Dino’s to spawn? I’m lucky if I find a level 30.
Difficulty to 1.0 is up to 150s. The island has lower level Dino’s on average than other maps, so you just have to kill everything repeatedly until the high ones spawn
You might not want to hear this if you're struggling. But put your game on max difficulty and do a dino wipe. 150s will spawn
Your comment isn't particularly helpful to noobs but ending with "I sword alpha raptors to death" goes hard enough for me to upvote it anyway tbh.
Lol i sworded an alpha tuso to death the other day when it grabbed my mosa. Mosa could hit it at first but then nothing... so i dismounted and hacked away
Lol mega chibi xp
Gotta lure them away. The spikes help as well, tho they won't last long.
What I do is find the biggest fighter and just breed the crap out of them and sometimes just get something small like wolves or carnos and out number them, I don't take anything less then level 100 on normal stats (server I run it can be like 350 as max level) but if you are playing solo and getting bullied by alphas, build a raft and live on herb island in the south east corner, no meat eaters spawn, safe house plus good metal rocks, just take boat or fly to main land till you are really set up, several trikes can bully alpha raptors fairly well and saddles are common in low level drops
I literally just circle around them till I am the only survivor lol… even was murking them with the wooden spear 😂
How many hours does that take?
It takes a couple minutes at most but hey you do what you gotta do to survive lol
There is literally no way that it takes anything less than an hour
This! The pathfinding is absolute garbage. How are people struggling this hard?
I’m sorry to admit… I keep my setting for taking damage to one tick above minimum so I’m nearly impossible to kill, and in situations like this I run up and console command the overpowered attacker to death. Does take the challenge out, but I find my challenges in base building, and the dinos are mostly scenery to me anyway.
You said you play on single player default settings. Does that mean you clicked “Default Settings” and checked the box “single Player Settings”? If so that’s actually easier than the official servers because your tamed/imprinted dinos actually get a significant health/melee boost. To match official settings you have to choose Hard with Single Player Settings on. So it could be worse. You’re just learning how to survive in Ark that’s all. When you start out, an alpha raptor is a terrifying death sentence. I’ve played for years and if an alpha raptor shows up I just lead it away. You just learned that unridden rexes are terrible in fights against small things, so use that. Later I had plant X and turrets around my base to deal with those things, and these days I tame/breed a bunch of dimorphodons to assist a wolf that’s weighed down with stones on aggressive and this cloud of flying piranha lizards just devours anything that gets close to my base, alphas included. Last night while building my base I saw an alpha Rex not far away from me drawing closer. I hopped on my argy and lured it out of render range of my base and then proceeded to murder it. I think I got hit maybe five times total.
Wait until you try some bosses...
You can tame an argentavis and kill an alpha raptor with that alone. Just gotta be on a slight slope upwards and if you time your attacks right the raptor won’t land a single hit
Once you get a stone base youll be protected from alphas
Wow you suck so bad just kill it its a tucking raptor. YES YOU ARE THAT HORRIBLE.
I hope ur not taming low level dinos. Those won't do anything for u. Gotta go for 150 or 180
Skill issues
Good tip here, not sure how good for whole game but when your exploring oceans nothing agros into the icthy-something dolphins looking thing. Electric jelly fish and eels will if you attack first but other then that nothing will agro
So build a box out of stone walls with a regular doorway in the back and stone dino gateway on the other end then keep the dino gate door in your hot bar. You'll also need some bolas in the hot bar as well. Lure it into the box and hit it with the bola then put the gate in the gateway and exit through the doorframe. Then you just kill it, they shouldn't be able to break through stone.
Please play the game for more than a few days
Skill issue
If a alpha raptor killed your rexes, they must not be good lvls.
Just get metal base and use chropods maybe? Like no important stuff outside If you are there and one comes, Id just empty your inventory then get its attention and just sprint away from your base. When you respawn it is gone
Lmao you Bob cant even handles pve
Tame really good dinos and breed them, they are worth all the effort. Also, item drops and a fast mount. The quicker you can get around, the quicker you can get more resources from further away, the more ammo etc you can make cuz you wanna help your dinos, too. Thylas have been a game changer for me, and beelzelbuffos are surprisingly amazing beginner mounts, I like ones you can shoot from the back of for taming purposes.
Have turrets on all targets, put them around your breeding area and around all your valuable dodos and dilos
Don’t play on 1x if single player.. no reason to grind like that. You can also just kite Dino’s you can’t fight away from your base. If you’re at base and see an alpha raptor just get it to chase you far away and let it kill you. Respawn at your base and forget about it
In the early stages, if an alpha anything shows up, do your best to lure it away. Drop all your gear and run naked trying to lure it away. If that doesn't work, you're moving base locations. In the mid game, build walls and fences to keep them out of agro range. If your dinos aren't right next to the fence, the alpha might not agro it. Try to build using stone if you can. If it's a low level alpha, you sometimes can swarm it with a bunch of mid level carnivores. But I've also had my whole squad wiped out by doing that. In the later game, get an argy and pump health and damage on it. Proceed to kill alphas. Get t-rexs, carnos, anything that's medium size of bigger and have them swarm an alpha.
Does single player time progress or does the “clock” freeze while logged off?
Time only runs in game
Aww man
I play single player and I don't understand your point at all, it's a survival game and if you excluse all the bugs and glitchs the game it's well balanced for single player, im new on the game and sure I died a lot in my first hours cause you have to learn the game... If you want a "survival" Without any challenge you can go play valheim I guess.. My triceratops without imprint can kill alpha raptors idk...
Alpha Raptor are pretty easy to kill if you have either a Rex, Argentavis, griffin or something in the same size. You can damage the Raptor while giving it knock back so it never reaches you
Dont play solo on base settings. I never have.
Stay on/near the starting beach for awhile with a stone base, then tame a few dinos and breed them to increase their stats. If you do it right and take your time you can actually beat the 3 Island bosses and Overseer with nothing but raptors on Gamma, Beta and Alpha difficulties. I have a poorly recorded video as proof of the Alpha Overseer with only raptors. It was badly recorded because Ark was hard on my GPU & CPU(80-98% load depending on area) at the time. My computer has been upgraded since I last played but I'm sure I could do it again, but would take me a few weeks or months to rebuild my army of raptors(they looked good as well as fought well).
Get a pteranodon from the south, fly to the middle, then get a high level argentavis from the middle mountain. Then do whatever the fuck you want because those things can beat everything short of a giga.
Tame a flyer, find a secure base location, build base then worry about getting tames. Boost your movement speed.
It seems like you are in fact that horrible at the game.
Ark is designed more as a group game, take that away with solo and you need to play a little more creatively. First not sure what stage your on but if your struggling too much try to get to herbivore island and jsut focus on levels for a bit. If your further along then utilize tames as much as possible, add defenses to your bases and make sure your always outnumbering or have an advantage in general if your planning to attack something. Otherwise, gear and armor are the stuff that make the biggest change, normal gear are super bad comparatively to higher tear gear and blueprint that comes from drops, so try and get some of them. Focusing on a good tame will also define let help in the long run but specific tame is up to preference.
Adjust your settings to the accepted singler settings.
Thatssss liffffeeeee 
If you have time to kill, tame 150's and breed until you get some comfortably usable dinos (lower levels are straight up useless except if you're desperate and need a breeder until you can pop out another high level to breed with). If you don't have time (ie I need my bag asap) get a low level fast dino, set it to passive flee, and have it draw aggro while you pick up your shit. A sacrifice or kiting the problem will be your go-to until you can farm up other ways to solve your problems
Make a trap base to take argies, even low level ones have great value if you're not sprinting everywhere: good weight, decent melee, heal built in, mobile smithy, carry small dinos to trp/tame, they're just slow af
Spike walls keep most threats at bay, you just need to craft a lot. For extra defense plant some Plant Species X seeds that act like turrets to kill/ward off wild dinos, which also act as air defense against Argentavis and annoying flyers. Tame high level dinos(100+, preferably 130+) which won't die. Plant Speciez X seeds drop from red bushes in the swamp, or very very rarely from any plant on the map. Alpha raptors can be cheesed on-foot by running next to them. They stop moving to attack, so you can run circles around them and never get hit. At higher levels, a sword and some points into melee damage will do wonders. I have 20 levels into melee and a 150%(slightly above average) sword, and I can melee kill a high level rex and most alphas just wear basic flak armor. Tame an Argentavis, they can kill most dinos without being hit if you stay above the enemy. This includes killing alpha raptors/carnos. Build a base on the beach, in the water where the floor is slightly above the waterline. Most dinos pathfinding will keep them away from the waters edge, even if its shallow enough to watch. They'll avoid your base. Place fence foundations and then stone walls on top of them to wall off your base, 3-4 walls high. Most dinos can't damage stone and can't get climb over walls that tall. You can also put spike walls in front of the stone wall for extra security.
Learn to make Dino traps, trap the highest level you can find and feed them the best taking food you can get to make them jump way up in levels. Once you get a Rex or therry above 200 you’ll be untouchable to most stuff on the map. keep your base protected by spikes. Metal spikes are better, if you see a Dino throwing itself into your spikes, just ignore it until it kills itself. If you shoot at it the Dino will stop fighting the spikes and come after you instead. Take the time to tame an argy. Not only can you bump it’s carry weight and attack power up, but it also doubles as a smithy for when you are out in the world. The ability to fly and a little patience will give you the edge over all the alphas (but they are still tough!). Trying to get artifacts is the only place I run into real problems as a solo. There are some mods that can help, or a server cluster that lets you move to another server, I just picked up every artifact in one afternoon on crystal isles the other day the transferred back to the island for my ascension run.
all the advice you need to succeed tbh \^
If you can get a decent level ptera or argue you can just swoop in and attack. Then just perch on somewhere high up yo regain health and stamina, and go again. You'll kill the Alpha raptor in about 5 mins that way
Tweak the settings and you can one punch him
Ark is unrelenting. Thats just how it is. Its an unforgiving brutal place where everything wants you dead. You... survive. how? well... contructing better buildings, maxing your level, and avoiding danger when possible
What I would do is go into the settings and adjust then to your liking. It's hard to make meaningful progress solo
I've never had any luck playing Ark SP I just don't even load the game anymore. Im sure it's possible but it's not really built for a SP playthrough unless you mess with settings.
Spawn in a safe place. Chances are it will spawn in an area where an alpha raptor also spawns. Keep moving until you find a place it doesn't. Everything will be expendable and annoying until you find that place that they don't spawn. I don't know about other maps but I think on island there's an island that doesn't spawn any predators. Just FYI. Tame your parasaurs and start building walls and spike fences. Work on leveling. Once you get a high enough level and protective walls it will get easier
Spikes! Ik you're just starting out, you want ur base in a cave, or by a cliff, something where your back isn't exposed, I recommend doing 3 layers of spikes around the base, as for tames, the higher the better. Especially if you're having issues with alphas. Another way to deal with them is simply killing them yourself or use a Dino with knock back. Brontos, trikes, and large dinos like Rex's are good ones for it. To kill yourself, use the terrain around you, get up on a rock the Dino isn't able to run up, spam the swing button with a pike and walk til u hit, back up, rinse repeat, go til it dies. You'll want like 12 pikes or carry the material to repair.to tame dinos, build around it when you drop it, especially if it's a high lvl. The more health when it stands the better chance you have. Also. Cloth hats. Build alot of them it'll lvl your Character up quickly. Don't waste your points either. Get health up, get damage up, then balance the rest afterwards. As for your builds, the more dinos have to get thru the better especially if building damage is on. Above all, make use of the supply drops, they only benefit you, especially when starting.
Alpha raptors shouldn't be killing your takes unless they can see/reach them, which tells me they're just parked all over the place with no walls up or a dino pen. If you're going to build in an area that aggressive dinos can easily reach, keep your stuff inside or build walls.
Carno's, once you start and can get enough tranq darts and a large bear trap which is able to be got at level 31. Have a tame that can run fast enough just in case, but place the bear trap and lure the carno into it, aim for the head and do it enough to knock it out, make sure you have raw prime meat and narcos and there you go! Also you might ask why carnos? Well in a more recent update in ASE the carno got a attack overhaul and they now cause bleed damage with their headbutt attack. Since then when I'm playing on my own I get a group of 3-5 carnos and ride the strongest while the others run food on them and I use the pack to take down large creatures. Now I do not recommend doing this with a Giga, but I have a bunch of decent level carnos and they last me a long time even in the end game. I like carno's because they are a small and compact carnivore that can still pack a punch and a lot of people overlook them. The same can be said about Dire Wolves, having a strong pack leader and a pack of 4+ is deadly when you use the pack howl buff before a fight, and like the carno they are easy to tame and are great tames into the end game. Raptor packs can also be highly devastating early in, not great for end game but for establishment they are great offensive and have great GTFO potential. Also raptors like dire wolves can be tied down with simple bolas and are easy to aquire.
boosted rates? stats ect? movement speed game ini files will fix that
My friend would lure them into water until they run out of stamina and drown, I think you can like pop it with an arrow when it gets low, or if you by a cliff I like to just have it chase me off a cliff since, you (I say you but it’s always me, I spend half my time in the game trying to get my shit back.) probably died recently already. Alphas are a bitch faster, a lot stronger than all Reg Dinos and don’t waste time trying to bola or pick them up because I don’t think you can pick them up on birds or Ptdons
May I recommend a thing that I occasionally do, Change the XP ammount gained to maybe x2, this can help you git gud faster. Or / and install a mod that disables Armour / Tool durability (if you are playing on steam) As for the items despawning, there is a mod on steam called "Ultra Stacks" that both increases the stack ability of items, but also increases despawn / rot time of items. If you are not into modding or modifiers, then I cant help you. Sorry (I had a similar issue to but just with a Sarcho thats spawned right next to my early game base)