ARK For Dummies - Gachas

[@Syntac]

Hopefully this video will help you better understand Gachas! Let me know if there is anything I missed! Check out Mutations for Dummies ➜ kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4evf3iirdJoldU

[@goofyahhvalstraxproductions]

Finally, thx

[@farkom_official]

maye there should be a part for infromation, how to raise them. Just for completion xD

[@bob-tu5qr]

When 100 day's?

[@justinrorick3665]

Best explanation out honestly. Quite thorough and thank you for the side by sides of tiers. Makes way more sense now

[@justinrorick3665]

@@farkom_official Raising is fairly easy. Drop owls in front of baby or keep close to mom and it feeds like that. Could also use maewing for added security and maybe have a deaodon on passive heal. All great ways to raise gacha babies 😊

[@Synthia17]

Pro tip for the upcoming winter wonderland! Gacha Claus needs to be around berry bushes in order to trade you its items and continue eating coal and mistletoe. Also it does need 1 of each and not 10 or more so don't waste them!

[@badmonkey2468]

Thx

[@fadedfalcon7280]

Can they be tamed rn? All have Santa hats on.

[@Synthia17]

@@fadedfalcon7280 They can't but you can access their inventory and place the mistletoe and coal inside for instant crystal with either random armor/tool or skin/chibi

[@Daddys_Odyssey_For_Milk]

Thank you kindly!

[@razvancraciunescu1936]

Things you forgot or did not know (they are not mentioned in the video): 1. you can also use owl pellets to tame gachas (it's my favorite method, i don't want to waste tek foundations or take an eternity using stone or other resources) 2. low lvl gachas are preferred by most people because they are easier to clone. Then you just pump the crafting skill to 160% (most people that use gachas have lvl 1 or lvl 5 originals that they clone afterwards) 3. you said that for tamed gachas, you need to feed them Snow owl Pellets + some other garbage in order to start their production. This garbage can be war maps, or stone... But some of the better "garbage" items that you did not mention are: Fiber (because it stacks to 300 and it's much lighter) or hide/thatch (because you end up having too much anyway while you farm, and they are light) My favorite food for tamed gachas is ----> use a bronto to get thousands of berries at once. Move the berries to an iguanodon inventory. Interact with the iguanodon and tell it to seed the berries. Then use these seeds as gacha food (same as Fiber, they are light, easy to get and can stack a lot) PS: Another important note: you said gachas wander and gather resources. Same goes for using a saddle and mounting it. Gachas were the first dino to be able to harvest anything as a herbivore (followed later by magmasaurs and tek stryders): stone, flint, thatch, wood, etc. Another important note: you said that 2 gachas of the same gender next to each other are sad. You forgot to mention that a couple of the 2 different genders next to each other increase happiness. Another important note: Gachas stats are pretty weak, keep them protected. Most lvl 150 gachas in the wild can't even defend themselves from a couple of mediocre raptors. Another important note: X-mas gachas cannot be tamed. MOST IMPORTANT NOTE: Gachas are the only way you can PICK UP a Tusoteuthis Egg! Just use a tamed gacha, put a saddle on it, go in the water next to the tuso egg and press C (on PC) to pick up items from its front. (WARNING: make sure the gacha has other stuff in its inventory before picking up the egg, or it WILL eat it)

[@ArkBobOp]

Dude thank you for your super informative comment! If you happen to play on Xbox pvp let me play with you lmaoo

[@razvancraciunescu1936]

@@ArkBobOp no worries. I learned most dino hidden abilities and information by playing on official. Few things surprise me now. However I used to play on PC and PVE (i dont own any console, i am a PC peasant :D )

[@Zijn3]

If I use pellets what would the effectiveness be like?

[@seefucan9004]

What a legend. Best comment ive seen on youtube ever!

[@almustagog4806]

Even thought Gachas were nerfed, I have found that if my gacha gets to over 200% on crafting skill I get quite a bit of decent Mastercraft items and I still do get an occasional ascendant item. On default settings in SP.

[@Pmack448]

YAY more ark for dummies, I still remember when the first one came out and the quality was amazing. Looking forward to more things like this!

[@InternetVR]

Pog!

[@sebastianchodorski7462]

Another thing to feed gachas are berry seeds. Simply gather a load of Berry’s either through farm or berry gatherer, convert them with the iguanodon into seeds, and item cap the Gacha. They will need to eat a little bit more than they would for stone however, I find berry seeds much easier to get in vast abundance than stone. Hope this helps anyone

[@woodsmire]

if you use the dino storage mod, you can keep an iguanadon in it and load the berries in. it will auto seed them all in a few seconds. I feed my Gachas this way

[@richardridings3336]

I use this system with 2 owls per gacha and it's flawless!

[@starsabergaming]

I just farm a few million metal and feed em that

[@democratsaretrash9366]

Well I use a gacha to produce stone. It makes more stone than it eats so I basically have a never ending source for stone. So I feed them stone.

[@lordnox69]

i used owl pellets and it kept the taming at 100%

[@t-chan4640]

"I just use stones." Thank you! Everyone always judge when I use stones. It's easy to get with doedic and Gachas still gives me a nice loot. I don't feel so bad about feeding stones to my Gachas anymore.

[@vlg_gaming8380]

Shit I feed stones to mine on pve offical always have since extinction I now have an all tek base farmed from gachas using stone and owl pellets lol

[@t-chan4640]

@@vlg_gaming8380 I feel even better. I've been playing pve unofficial servers which are from community and I've been hearing a lot about plant y. I still think stone is easier because I don't have to wait those plant y to grow up, I can just go outside my base, destroy couple rocks and that's it. But yeah, owl pellets are must. I also have all my owls next to gachas. Doesn't look good but I don't mind, :'D

[@TDILMAN100]

What about seeds? Are they less efficient?

[@addisonlund3414]

Fantastic break down of the Gachas Syn. it’s always nice to hear quantifiable advice and suggestions to be able to better our play styles. Appreciate it as always and look forward to your next ark for dummies video, always helpful!

[@zigh352]

Ark for dummies is by far the best Educational Ark Series, I always linked the first one to my friends when they would ask "so how do mutations work, how do I get different color dinos" And now I have another one to link for Gacha's

[@HacheSp]

Hey syntac, I’ve been making mods for raasclark and his friends and I would love to make you something

[@harryswanson2530]

A syntac gally boss?

[@steelslide9601]

Rework some "useless" dinos?

[@NightRyder19]

Make the brute spino the original spino.

[@DracoJ]

@@NightRyder19 ?

[@HacheSp]

@@harryswanson2530 oooo that sounds cool

[@bacd-nn2lg]

Best creature in ARK it saves up your time on mining rare resources. Honestly Syntac should showcase additionally how to set up a Gacha farm in this video.

[@hecbir6620]

Another tip about the Gacha is to use it as a achatina paste farm. Just place them over some tamed achatinas, and it will gather the paste. If you have enough achatinas, the gacha wont have time to make crystals because its picking up paste. One of my primary uses for the gacha

[@hecbir6620]

How to collect: I make a 2×2×1 frame, with catwalks ontop. Achatinas inside the pen, and gachas ontop

[@ArcDraws]

I like using Plant Z and Plant Y traps to feed them. I usually tame a lot of Dung Beetles for Oil and I get a lot of fertilizers passively. So by adding Plant Z and Plant Y to feed the Gachas, it balances the economy of my base. Not to mention the aesthetic it brings.

[@misplaymishaps5202]

I feel like i knew most of this stuff but a refresher course is always nice

[@GamerKayARK]

Loved the smile that ha ha had when he had syntac all to himself! 😆 super cute!

[@TheDutchGameCrewNL]

personally i recommend taming an iguanadon and using it ability to convert berries into seeds to feed the gacha`s. 1 berry run and you are pretty much settled for weeks. Great video!

[@iCore7Gaming]

This was good when berries didn't spoil and could go in dedis lol. but maybe it is still better than stone. Maybe fibre would be better?

[@piratekit3941]

@@iCore7Gaming I don't think fiber is as good as stone, but if you had a high level gacha with points in production I don't think it matters as much. Def matters for low level gacha.

[@user-ki9iw8om7u]

Herbivores: I only eat plants carnivores: I only eat meat gachas: yes

[@george_3252]

Thank you for this video. Been trying to build a sustainable crystal farm and now I know how.

[@zentriixx]

An important note, if you have a tamed male and tamed female that do not produce the resources you want them to, you can simply breed them together. Each new baby gotcha will have completely randomized resource production, allowing you to have easy access to their rare resources.

[@kajunvirgo]

This ARK for Dummies series is soooo helpful. I have almost 3k hours in the game and STILL am learning from you. Keep up the amazing work, Syn!

[@justinlowery6767]

The Gacha is the best overall resource gatherer in the game. Can gather meat, fiber, wood, thatch, flint, and especially stone in high amounts. Also has insane weight and weight reduction for wood and stone.

[@justinlowery6767]

I got 600 meat off one snake with a Gacha. Also Gacha destroys armor

[@pirusaogostoso741]

The advantage of using plant y traps is that gachas will prefer to eat materials < weapons < armor < structures, the game recognizes plant y traps as structures and you dont need to craft them, they produce passively

[@Fallenangel69_69]

Awwwwww the precious babies. It makes me sad that they get sad

[@full8497]

About the only thing I would mention is press E when you are putting the saddle on the gacha. If you move it to its inventory first, there's a chance it will just eat it.

[@PosiFwd]

Our Gachas give us Ascended armor and weapons. Not giving us any fur, but we get ascended RIOT gear outfits and ascended FLAK along with all ascended tools and weapons. We have 3 couples and they are wonderful!

[@bubblesistrouble6113]

Thank you Syntac! Had trouble figuring them out myself and never knew they could be sad. Very helpful ☺️

[@chahyun-soo292]

When Extinction was released and the Gachas legit gave the sickest ascendet loot possible. It was the best christmas I've ever had 🥺

[@ArthurGamerBR03]

As a new player I really wish you made more ark for dummies, lol It's helping me a lot!

[@typhonplume9374]

FInally a video that notes when tamed you can feed them what you want even if it's just stone. You'd be suprised how many servers I ran in to where folks don't realize this, and try to force there ideas down someones throat.

[@huemungus9966]

God I love Gachas, they’re just so dopey

[@vide0radio]

I know I'm late but it's worth noting that the gacha will eat *EVERYTHING* you put into its inv, including armor, weapons, and cryopods whether empty or if they contain dinos. Second- what I do is put a doed on wander around my gated base as long as I'll be physically there, and allow for him to gather stone while I'm building or breeding or whatever. They'll gather enough stone for you to keep your gachas going.

[@thefailure7789]

I've been playing this long and didn't know about the happy/sad mechanic. These things are adorable

[@megarostar2277]

Hahahah the way the gatchas face changes at 5:01

[@Kris_M89]

Also you have to pay for the DLC on which a Gacha spawns to be able to do any of the other things you have mentioned. As the great Eli Drake would say Dummy yeah, yeah!

[@mjisurdad]

It spawns on free dlc maps too.

[@phoenixflamingstar]

One time, I accidentally gave one of my cryopods to one of my Gachas. (I was going through my inventory too quickly.) The cryopod had a Gacha in it... T_T Since then, I've made sure to never have cryopods in my inventory while interacting with my Gachas.

[@lizzy1802]

Thanks! I was so excited for that video. You are doing amazing, keep up the good work!

[@Vipersgameplay]

snowowl pellets and iguanadon to make berries into seeds as other food source quick easy and can stockpile tons of seeds works great.

[@RonnieRjbj]

How much element per hour?

[@maatdiy3126]

Am I the only one who didnt know about the "sad face" ? XD I love Gachas, they're so cute. Very helpful video - thanks a lot !

[@tuckmasterg]

Fresh tames also have harvesting off for some reason(meaning you hitting a tree won't give you anything) so remember to turn that back on

[@jbbwiie6703]

cool

[@hinatahyuga9636]

Why are gachas so freaking cute? Like I'm sorry shinehorn who? 😂😂😭

[@theshijin]

Syntac I remember one of the videos I watched when I found out about you was Ultimate Ark and Ark for Dummies, I was so waiting for the next parts back then because there were some actual confusing stuff but eventually I found them out myself just through playing lmao, hopefully more people gets drawn with this though

[@DDRmccormick]

Str8 to the point, well organized, easy to follow. Thanks for the excellent video!

[@erikalwomack6684]

how i know I'm a ark dummy syntac: today we are doing gachas for dummies me: whats a gacha?

[@shadexdemarr]

I saw this title and thought they seriously put gacha mechanics into ARK? Like you have to collect lower level rexes and merge them for a chance at a higher star. Unless you want to buy shards for the premium Predator Eggs with a chance for a 7 star rex! Just $49.99! Then I realized the state of the gaming industry and that we honestly are not too far off from this actually happening.

[@PaulCzerwonka]

Feeding a gache stone is actually pretty quick. I can tame a dozen in 15 minutes with just an axe.

[@Zamnek]

I've been feeding them all the low quality armour and tool drops from creatures. I don't throw anything away anymore. Unwanted higher quality items go in a grinder or are shared with tribe mates. I didn't know about the owl pellets. That's very helpful!

[@phitsf5475]

>Accidentally storing a bunch of cryopods in a gacha when sorting your inventory 😢

[@juanpablogiraldo7859]

Bullet points, pro tips all over, cute Gachas faces... This video has everything!

[@hagesaur5517]

CONGRATS ON 1M!!! love your content and obviously a million others do aswell. A massive milestone for an amazing youtuber

[@theblazinfoxx4631]

I didn't even know gachas had moods that's kinda cool

[@steelrarebit7387]

Gachas are a monetary trap. Gacha is formed when you mix the words got and you. It's a Japanese form of marketing that made you buy some gaudy doodad for no reason and they want to rub it in your face by naming it Gacha. Then they add Christmas lights.

[@d.grab_ski1300]

I’ve been playing ark since it came out and still find this useful lmao

[@vexiot]

Im so happy that theres good turtorials about ark, thank you for my full mutation armry

[@ameliadriscoll8634]

This is a great guide, it will be so much handier to refer to this than linking the gacha page on the wiki. I look forward to more ARK for dummies episodes!

[@Captain-vc2qh]

YAY ANOTHER ARK FOR DUMMIES!!!

[@TomyAllen]

Loved the guide Syntac! Well produced/edited. I didn't really know about the levels so thank you!

[@noahm6782]

Congratulations... you reached 969 thousand subscribers👏👏👏👏👏

[@SupremoMancoSama]

great video! my question here would be, is it better to have ALOT of sad gachas for production? (like 100 gachas, exageration but it's just a number for example) or 20-25 happy gachas? what would give more resources? or do sad gachas stop producing after a certain point because of being sad?

[@SnoGryphon]

Sad gachas don't produce anything.

[@SupremoMancoSama]

@@SnoGryphon but didn't it say it still produce it just won't pick up anything and would give less resources? usually what i do i put seeds inside of them anyway to their inventory instead of letting them pick it up, but i think im going to have to do a test because i never had them really close to each other.

[@bbasevic]

FINALLY ... someone nicely and detailing explaining Gacha

[@stanthijssen3877]

These video’s for dummies are so good

[@joshaaron310]

YES MORE ARK FOR DUMMIES THIS IS WHAT I WANTED. LEERETTTSSS GOO

[@BostonBlues]

most people go for low level gachas and intentionally get the lowest taming effectiveness because of you by chance get the ever elusive element dust gacha you want it to be cheap to clone

[@sambarter2748]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, the second project

[@graphite7473]

If you're playing with S+, you can easily set up an automated gacha facility using plant z fruit and plant y traps as food. I set mine up so stepping on a pressure plate transfers everything around, and the only other interaction I have to do is occasionally hit 'grind all' in the industrial grinder. All the mats end up in dedicated storage, and I do a quick check of the grinder for any items I want to keep. I get all my behemoth gates from gachas. The other incredibly important trick is to look for the absolute lowest level mating pair you can find. When breeding, the babies will get random materials, but once you get one with element dust, or black pearls, or all three gem colors etc, you can clone them as many times as you want to ramp up production. The lower the level at the time of cloning, the cheaper the cost in element shards. Of course once you have element dust gachas, you are producing the fuel to keep cloning things. The reason I use plant z and y as the food is that with owl pellets they produce exactly the same rate of crystals and especially quality ones as with tek structures, but it only costs me poop, and it can be automated with dung beatles and S+ things.

[@graphite7473]

If you add the mod called 'Dino Patrol' you can have the pressure plate set to activate when allied tames walk over it, and set a dino or two walking a looping path that regularly passes the pressure plate.

[@GhosterGames]

When I saw this I was like “I could totally use this I haven’t even tamed a gacha” (yes I have played this game for 6 years and I still haven’t tamed a gacha)

[@yourgay9646]

Same here

[@fazejarvis6078]

What map are gachas on? Cauw I started a month ago and have been playing on the island with my friend and would like to know about gachas and shadow manes

[@yourgay9646]

@@fazejarvis6078 all maps only around December 14th to January 6th but it depends on what ark put in gacha clause or raptor clause

[@GhosterGames]

@@fazejarvis6078 they’re on extinction and genesis 2

[@vst12]

I would love more of this series, this was really helpful and I love your playthroughs.

[@GyZiZ]

One more tip (for officials) when taming use stone because you want as low lvl as possible if you get elemntal dust for the lower cost of cloning :)

[@thefunkadelic9814]

You really don't need a trap. Just throw owl pellets in front of it and you'll have it tamed asap

[@AndriaTheKobold]

idk if this was part of the nerf, or if it's a server setting an admin can do, but gachas no longer eat owl pellets. I can't even force feed it if I wanted to. They just sit in its inventory

[@J0NJONSON]

Mine are as of right now. Might be something on your end.

[@patrickmurray3846]

the best item to tame a gatcha is not building items, but snow owl pellets. that 100 or so foundations you used, would of only taken like 10 pellets.

[@Nil0c0liN]

THE SERIES CONTINUES..

[@squiddad1528]

This is one of those things that make Ark so amazing, how about a Tek suit for dummies, using the helmet and other pieces can be difficult, or knowing what each does.

[@charliemong8913]

Syntac, I fell asleep playing KZbin through headphones last night. One of your videos began to play a older one. It was when you said you were from North Dublin. I had no idea you were Irish and ow I can't unhear the Irish haha

[@Avarial]

One important thing you missed that matters greatly when making Gacha farms. They also do not like having more than one of the opposite gender nearby.

[@blackjoker12]

I use to do seeds. The gacha has to eat more of them but with the iguanadon ability to turn berries into seeds I could easily black box 16 gachas easily. You do get less crystals than stone but super effective time management.

[@michaelthompson2972]

The Gacha was first introduced in Aberration in the underground area primarily.

[@NoahPlayss1]

I love this series, its genuinely very educational and also entertaining well done 👏 Breeding for dummies next?

[@surviver9441]

Interesting! Also, the video you made: mutations for dummies finally worked for me! I’m just sooo happy these videos exist!

[@waveclaw]

Excellent editing, quality information delivered in a compact format. What impact does Wool from Ovis have on Gachas? Any plans on covering the S+ structures specific to Gachas (crystal cracker and item aggregator, Gavager, Vivarium) or how Dino Storage v2 interacts with them?

[@greendan01]

Wool is about the same as stone. Raw resource.

[@xaku7331]

I’ve never heard of this Dino before and when I heard it gets sad when you punch it, it made me sad because poor guy looked so sad. I can’t it being sad omg 😭😭😭😭

[@latiostheinkling8250]

So THAT'S why my gachas are sad 😂 tysm, please continue this series thing 💖💖💖

[@bigscoop91]

For loot use Y traps, for resources use stone and war maps.

[@talontalent]

An unnecessary missile launcher always gets a like.

[@wantedsin9578]

I'm a bit late, but if you feed a gacha stone and owl pellets it make more stone than it eats.

[@ArchaeaChasma]

As someone who hasn’t played with Gachas much this has been so helpful

[@OGDommyMommy]

How you know i needed help with understanding Gachas Syntac? hmm you spying on me??

[@rogerstalder7184]

Remembre when Extiontion came out. i did start in the Sunken forest, and totaly ignored them ^^ seamed usless for me back then 😂

[@ChiefDirtyBird]

I feed my gachas raw metal, works the best in my opinion.

[@greendan01]

Needs a gacha's for dummies part 2, showcasing basic gacha farm builds. Preferably one with and one without s+.

[@Grick__rimes]

Gacha are great for organic since the crystals can be stored until you need the poly along with items that can be ground down into poly You can do the same with black pearls when taming a squid to cut down on all that weight…stockpile unopened crystals and just pull them out as you need Another note is you never have to touch the ocean floor again with both pearls being covered Also Gacha auto harvest drops even when tamed so you can pull your stone gatherer right up to them and popcorn it slowly and they will pick it up without all that ‘take all’ nonsense Raising them is super easy and complicated at the same time. Babies require no food if they are near adult gacha as long as you stay in render. once you leave render they will wipe every trough you have in range in what feels like minutes killing themselves and any baby relying on those troughs Cryo when leaving base or logging off and they are free raise. Babies have random productions so with a bit of time you could have them all covered with one pair of parents. Lower the level the better to clone For owl pellets park a mating pair of gacha in front of 10-15 snow owls and they will auto harvest them whenever you are in render. I suggest stacking food on owls and gacha since they drop fast.

[@xjinglesx7810]

I love your for dummies videos would love to see one for S+

[@txcinsta5176]

It was the gallimimus all along and I knew it, great video syntax, loved it all :)

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Finding this video after being on the new map has been a lifesaver thank you

[@somerandomgame86]

MORE DUMMIES VIDEOS AND MORE 100 DAYS

[@Shades_salmon]

Gacha=metal=metal ingot=rifle=good So gacha=good

[@simonritchie5911]

Feed it Arrows. Easy to obtain resources and can craft a lot quickly.

[@drakesingh9845]

Gachas are also on fjordur vannaland realm

[@fahrenheit016]

I never got into Ark myself but I'm definitely considering to get it after watching your videos. You are super cool btw, keep it up!

[@mjisurdad]

Stay away from pvp on official servers at first. Play solo or pve to get the basics. PvP first will have you quitting fast.

[@tucker8071]

@@mjisurdad if you do go str8 to pvp then just build.a tiny base and hide until you find a tribe. Remember, everyone wants your loot and your base to be destroyed.

[@futurecrow4581]

You forgot to talk about raising baby gachas. You can place baby gachas around an adult and feed them nothing and they will raise themselves. The only problem is you must stay in render or they will starve instantly.