Crystal isles will always be speical in my heart. I beta tested for CI when it was a mod map. Some fun facts about the map for your read: There were plans to add more Crystal wyverns. A jungle type for the great vally, a sky verion for the floating islands and I think there was 1 more but I don't recall what it was going to be. In the underwater part of the bee cave there were small ghost squids that had the power of the full normal squid.... it was scary The shards of Eldridge Isle used to give full on element till the team realized that was a bit much. and lastly the sadest part of all, pretty much all the DLC content was gutted. There were plans to add most of EXT dinos and even more crystal creatues such as a crystal snow owl. That did end up becoming a mod made by Spezz himself. Great video Ned!
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
Wow I didn't know any of that, cool!
@livevilife2 жыл бұрын
Love the concept of the crystal snow owl… Snow owl is one of my fav flyers.
@unluckyluchiano6092 Жыл бұрын
In short: Crystal Isles was supposed to be really cool, but WC gave us a watered down 💩 version with no rock drakes, but then stuck drakes on Fjordur ANYWAY!!
@novablast1695 Жыл бұрын
@@unluckyluchiano6092 I think crystal isles looks better than fjordur, like visually
@lutherloser51222 жыл бұрын
The lore i made up for the eldrich biome is that due to the element being imbued with the place magnitism and water began to go weird and then bubbles but it also would explain the storms and low humming noise coming from the place Also it kills me that you used a pickaxe for mining the element axes give more my man
@chriswandell3570 Жыл бұрын
I imagine the gems in the griffon nest is a nod to the original Griffon myths where they had gold in their nests.
@casperprime2 жыл бұрын
CI is my main map on the cluster I play in. But after having done all artifact caves on the Island (our current rotating map), I really wish the artifacts weren't just plopped down randomly...
@mrarkham44762 жыл бұрын
On official PVP it's a lifesaver lol I see your point
@UpFromTheShadows2 жыл бұрын
Cant wait for the Fjordur evolution guide! Also, great vid!
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
Same!! :D
@perceivedvelocity99142 жыл бұрын
I loved this map when it made it's way to console. I built a base on a tropical island. Unfortunately I fell out of love with the map shortly after that. I got bored pretty quickly. Each biome is beautiful but something is missing.
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
I COULDNT AGREE MORE! It's so big that it feels a bit empty.
@perceivedvelocity99142 жыл бұрын
@@NeddyTheNoodle I've kept a base on CI for the Griffin trench. I like to visit the Griffin trench during holiday's. I've found a lot of great event colors there. CI is definitely not the primary map that I play on though.
@hanneskramer12162 жыл бұрын
Ned: we could only use creatures from this map Next clip: i dont think so, here look at that r-reaper
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
You can get impregnated, then transfer your character. Our allies did that. What was preventing us from taking anything else from other maps was the fact that you couldn't manually upload / download dinos to or from the server at the time
@epicsheep4962 жыл бұрын
"I'm pretty sure this area made me realize I have a fear of bubbles" Haha that's awesome! Great vid btw
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 😁
@s05150332 жыл бұрын
Crystal isles is a good cluster map if you want to farm or get specific stuff or artifacts easy. Seems the only purpose. Not much actual content challenges.
@einherjar81472 жыл бұрын
The artifacts may be laughable, but what makes CI's boss arena a pain, imo, is the relatively high primal crystal tribute requirement coupled with said item's spoil timer.
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
yeeaahh..
@cartoonvideos52 жыл бұрын
I really like these guides
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
I really like you 😎
@draconian39052 жыл бұрын
Rip rock drakes wildcard better keep them in fjdöur
@LEONDAS-2 жыл бұрын
You know they won’t …. Think about it if you implement rockdrakes to a free map what would be the purpose of buying aberration?, just nameless and 15 extra levels.
@draconian39052 жыл бұрын
@@LEONDAS- true but a man can dream
@tobydaepicgamer51842 жыл бұрын
Fire as always Ned!
@calamityarmityle30862 жыл бұрын
Please do Guides for the Caves and how to get artifacts on the story maps! I'd watch the hell out of that series!
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
I don't remember the extent to which I covered caves on the story maps, but I've made evolution guides for every ARK map up until Fjordur which I'm working on soon
@patcris89232 жыл бұрын
Crystal isles is really good for lazy pve players. The element is so easy to get. You can farm like 100 and hour on official settings. I know genesis 1 and 2 is better but Crystal isles is free.
@ttt-rq3vs Жыл бұрын
“WhY aRe ThErE GeMs?!?!” Because Crystal Griffins. 👀 “Crystal Isles Additions” is a great mod if you want the full CI experience.
@Fusion_Maus2 жыл бұрын
Hi Neddy, I really like the videos you make, it teaches me places I didn't know, but I was wondering how you manage to film areas without us seeing your hands and taking inventory? Thanks in advance for the answer!
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks :) I use enablespectator to be a camera
@Fusion_Maus2 жыл бұрын
@@NeddyTheNoodle thanks ! :)
@GreenArc2 жыл бұрын
Another amazing video, KEEP IT UP!!!
@cyruswhite15852 жыл бұрын
i play crystal isles a lot and most the time i live in the white shoals
@mdb454242 жыл бұрын
That's where the metal is.
@StrayedGuy2 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering if the players can make an unofficial map that have asian dragons and mythology
@sannakuusela36935 ай бұрын
Just started chose norteast but there isnt enyliving creatures there. Is there some game broplem?
@Balteraxe2 жыл бұрын
good job :P
@Xres-belmont2 жыл бұрын
I love the look but on PS4 the lag is real. Been living in gen 1 for two weeks had less trouble there than crystal isles is
@NeddyTheNoodle2 жыл бұрын
Makes sense, its huge! :(
@lionfishlion32992 жыл бұрын
Truuue
@shayurramsunder58642 жыл бұрын
My third favorite behind Ragnarok and Lost Island
@landenriley844224 күн бұрын
I don't see your guide on Ark Fjourdr
@ponosnioboanin74492 жыл бұрын
Can somebody tell me a good base location for Pve
@einherjar81472 жыл бұрын
The plateau west of red obelisk. Water vein on the top, easily walled with a single behemoth gate. Lower level has golem spawns and plenty of metal.
@ponosnioboanin74492 жыл бұрын
@@einherjar8147 Thank you
@joyboy_GOAT2 жыл бұрын
Hello
@Emma.422 жыл бұрын
They prob removed the nests because they don’t want you to get rock drakes without buying their dlc 😏
@NecroNomad2 жыл бұрын
first
@Insectomane2 жыл бұрын
i do not belive
@PaintedSavages2 жыл бұрын
Crystal Isles is why I can't trust WC to NOT eff up Fjordur. They ruined this map.
@s05150332 жыл бұрын
They did. But they did a good job with lost island Even with all the gutting of ci it still had no dungeon or cave content.
@jeufejdjj6355 Жыл бұрын
As far as ark maps goes, it‘s really bland, like genesis 1, but actually bad. Or like lost island except lost island is slight worse because most of the map is forest. The snow biome is nice but the rest of the map is desert. Great
@unluckyluchiano6092 Жыл бұрын
You know if you go to the wyvern nest and keep killing wyverns the alpha will spawn eventually right? Me and my tribe killed 3 in one night that way