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I Had No Idea They Were This Good! - ARK The Center [E16]
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[@Syntac]

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[@jurassicninja6574]

Syntac, if you want metal, go for the deep ocean, dunk is like 10x better then that anky

[@everythinginone1413]

their are metal nods in the ocean that give you thousands with one bite

[@stephandraco2527]

for sure deep ocean if you want metal and he is much better than an anky

[@DodoKing21]

I just bring 3 dunkleo's and some xiphactinus for defending me. Head to the deep ocean, and harvest the hundreds of metal rocks down there.

[@TragikDino]

In whatever strange case there isn’t another comment on it, the paleo rex does replace the original spawns. Same with the giga. With it installed I believe there’s no way to get vanilla rexs (other than spawning them in of course) and if installed after you tamed vanilla rexs you can then convert them to the paleo versions

[@jacobwest8476]

TURN THAT FOG OFF!!

[@redcreeper1003]

yo calm down😦 but i agree

[@DracoJ]

Why do people hate the ocean looks an ocean?

[@BreeDragoness]

@@DracoJ I think it’d be most accurate to turn the fog down by a lot, but not necessarily off

[@dimanthadileeparanasinghe550]

​​@@BreeDragoness ya man turning it low doesn't make it that unreal

[@BreeDragoness]

@@dimanthadileeparanasinghe550 I need to check if there’s a way to do that with commands. Probably is.

[@RaulGarcia-vw7zb]

I'm in full support of no fog. Not only does it help see better in game but is just more visually pleasing as a viewer

[@TheMarek213]

I agree

[@Heeroneko]

I disagree. I'm not here to see the ocean in Ark, I'm here to watch this man get scared shitless by a giant whale ruining his day. I think the updated scuba goggles are a decent compromise tho.

[@mademobster1115]

I would say your here to see his content not your revised concept if it

[@Heeroneko]

@@mademobster1115 ....which is essentially what I said?

[@willmcclard206]

i like how scary the ocean gets in this game when you can’t see, especially during the night…

[@theukon-dos7271]

Syn, it needs to be stressed that The Center's ocean has so much metal that it's comparable to Aberration's bio-luminessent area. Most of it is localized at the bottom of the trench on the side of the map. But there is some easier stuff to access and in boatloads too. Bring a raft out there with you that you can dump all the metal on sense it doesn't have weight. The first time I did a metal run with my dunkles I got nearly 30,000 raw metal on a single trip.

[@user-qm3uw6xl7j]

he's got mods now, why not a stacking mod? half of his issue when harvesting is the stack size/weight.

[@kyorinyasha6421]

@@user-qm3uw6xl7j Storage cheat, probably against what he wants to go for

[@scath_mac_tire2735]

tottaly same, i got s dissapointed when he said that anky is better and like.....no!

[@hurracaynedre]

​@@scath_mac_tire2735yeah I was like swim down with it

[@KFADavis1]

@@user-qm3uw6xl7j ItemStackSizeMultiplier= still works, and doesn't screw up crafting recipes like stack mods can/do. Although it doesn't give the same weight savings as mods can, I prefer it because of the crafting thing.

[@liambland2153]

deep ocean center is insane for metal

[@stephandraco2527]

yes if you want to find metal go there you get insane amount of metal down there

[@beastakillz93]

Dunkle is definitely better than an anky when it comes to respurce gathering for metal/crystal/oil I say anky is for early to mid game, then for mid and late game you need a dunky

[@TragikDino]

@@beastakillz93 I agree, hopefully the new maps will follow the trend that kinda started with gen 1 ocean and fjordur where the ocean has a ton of metal and other resources

[@YourLawyer27]

@@beastakillz93I’ve always used the anky late game I get lazy to use 80+ tranq arrows on a dunkle😅

[@beastakillz93]

@YourLawyer27 that's what you need blueprints for better equipment. Once I get my base established and get my core tames for early to mid game I start going for blueprints for longneck and harpoon gun. I've never understood why people want to sit there and use 80+ tranq for a tame that's so tedious. I go on supply drop runs, cave runs amd fishing it never takes too long to get a good harpoon gun. I end up only using 15-20 tranq bolts for my first 145 dunk. It's so worth it getting better BP than sticking with crossbow

[@trainershade1937]

28:30 Funny thing about Diplodocus and their inability to damage things: it's ONCE AGAIN an issue of dossier vs gameplay. The dossier states that the Diplo is a creature that's "very thick headed and trusting", and that it doesn't flee or fight back against a predator unless it has been attacked repeatedly. Additionally, it's stated that they're only supposed to never attack humans. So if they actually designed them to be dossier-accurate, they should become dangerous after a few hits. If Wild Card ever rebalanced them, I'm almost inclined to say that the Diplodocus should have a "rage mechanic" similar to the Giga. With the caveat that they only do damage when "enraged". Damage-wise, they should actually be quite menacing. One of the popular theories for the purpose of its long tail, was a defensive one, potentially functioning as an oversized whip that would even produce a cracking sound.

[@Aquabryn]

Indeed. They should have at least a tail whip like the Bronto.

[@rittsinc]

I haven't used one in a while but I remember the dunkly gathering mass amounts of metal when you actually hit metal nodes, like better than an anky. I used to have a little dock with an Indy forge on it that I could pull right up to and it was more efficient than using an anky.

[@PurpleFlame46]

When you face your fear and go deep into the ocean...you will see the true power of the Dunkly

[@kinggodzilla874]

21:19 yep, the original ark rex and giga are replaced by paleo rex and giga.

[@glamourandgloom]

yeah wish it came with a config option to keep the vanilla dinos and have the EVOs as a chance variant spawn instead.

[@svenyswag5209]

There is one Option at least on PC, i dont know if you van change it on console too. So you can change the percentage for a normal Rex getting spawned as a Paleo Rex. It is mentioned in the mod-discription i think. @@glamourandgloom

[@therexyogaming]

@@glamourandgloom It would be nice, especially for compatibility with other mods that partially replace Rex spawns or modify them

[@glamourandgloom]

@@therexyogaming yeah I been trying out configuration toolkit mod. I got normal rexes back, and some paleo rexes to spawn, but no tyrannosaurs, or alpha Rexes of either kind. I also have S-Dinos mod, but no S-Rexes spawn either. I also wanted vanilla Gigas but so far have yet to see any. I sure do miss Simple Spawners.

[@Kerosiin]

I want to see Syntac go an entire video without starving or being dehydrated once

[@oldtimergaming9514]

Nah, he's too yappy for that, can't hear the sound effects.

[@wildlordlucky9628]

I'd wager my life savings we'll never see that...

[@yarriddevogelaere2005]

I want to be a millionaire.

[@aidanwhite5631]

@@yarriddevogelaere2005???? why mention that here?

[@bakedpotato7201]

​@@aidanwhite5631hes saying something thats never going to happen just like the fact we are never going to watch an ep where syntac does not go hungry

[@user-ui9wo1mi4k]

Can’t wait for the aberration series!

[@leggzz2793]

Me toooooooo ab is just THAT MAP

[@FUJIII____44]

I hope the mods stayyy!!!

[@Watermoccassiongaming]

Imagine the colors on the rock drakes and reapers

[@KalaniAbrahao]

@@FUJIII____44fr

[@user-ui9wo1mi4k]

The colors of the terrain will be insane

[@prestonshahshah7138]

Turrrrrn the fog off for fuug sake 😂

[@Jyxxie]

For fog's sake xD

[@hobobill08]

The spiders are all over the place in the redwoods. I've seen packs of them walking around in there

[@hemlocksword1216]

I used to play ark back in 2016-19, and I used to watch you back then! No idea what reminded me of your videos but I was really happy see you are still out here and doing well for yourself. I work nightshifts and found myself bingeing this whole series over the last couple of shifts, thank you!

[@griffinhoward3788]

I think adding some piers that don’t stretch the full length of your water pen would work well functionally to reach creatures without having to swim as well as section off breeding and whatnot

[@greendan01]

Piers to pull water creatures up to is visually quite appealing. Like boats in their own docking bays.

[@HoneyShep]

If you get to the drop off towards the deep ocean there are around 50 heavy metal nodes. There's also a pillar out there with a small cave on top with roughly 100 crystal nodes. There's even obsidian down in the deep ocean. There are a few spots in the deeper area around your base with metal nodes. Happy hunting!

[@kitchengun1175]

ALL HAIL THE DUNK, KING OF METAL

[@ellisthomson7320]

Where has this guy gone???

[@JS-mh9uu]

Can't you use Fish Prime to tame fish? Name the Sarco Berries because he has every berry color on it. Go into the deep ocean for metal there is so much 1 or 2 trips with a raft as storage and you are done. Just put a cabinet or 2 on the raft and literally fill them up. Use the Anky to move from the fish to the base. Also i still think putting the industrial forge or the industrial cooking pot in the middle of your rotunda would look great.

[@greendan01]

Prime fish is worse than prime meat. Not really worth it due to the drop in taming efficiency, when you can get prime from other sources nearby.

[@Aquabryn]

You are right. Prime fish should also help. The cooking pot in the middle would look nice indeed. Instead of the anky I would use a Moschop. Sarco: Candy

[@emperortethysusdacertified8175]

The Paleo ARK Apex Predators mod does, in fact, completely replace the Rex and Giga with their Evo forms. Evos are meant to be regarded as full-on TLCs rather than variants like they were back in ASE. EDIT: Oh also, the other Evos the team has cooking up as of now (that have been publicly shown off) are Mosa, Elasmo (Plesi), Anky, Theri, Para, Bronto, Megaloceros, and Smilodon. While for new species there's Cryptoclidus (small stealthy early-game plesiosaur), Corythosaurus (meant to fill the role of vanilla Para since the Evo will be bumped up to a high mid-tier tame), Ledumahadi (Big bulky desert pro-sauropod who chooses violence at all times and has a rivalry with-) and Empirosaurus (A love letter to the superpredator spinosaurus of the late 90s-2000s, like the one from JP3, and absolute brawler of a beast who claims the desert oasises as its turf).

[@Mortivore05]

I've loved Dunky since I was like 6 years old. I was so excited when they added them to ark

[@ShubhsGamingHub]

Yeah, dunky and anky. My beloved creatures.

[@KalaniAbrahao]

@@ShubhsGamingHubfr

[@yarriddevogelaere2005]

There are indeed large caves on the center but the problem is mainly their insane amount of creatures. The game loads all of those in when you are in proximity of the caves and performance goes through the toilet as a result. Sometimes they even glitch through the ceilings and you come across packs of snakes and spiders in seemingly random locations. At least that was the case on evolved.

[@nicolasbeachy4862]

Oh keep em coming, I wanna see at least 2000 episodes more in this series

[@nickgib5441]

Yeah the fog is an eyesore. It looks like a bunch of sand and dirt got kicked up from the ocean floor. You should keep it off permanently honestly.

[@Hemperorjoans]

I love the dunky, I had one that I named "Dunk yo Toes" and it made it so much easier to farm on Center.

[@MariaSky7579]

23:03-23:17 that large drop was both trippy and terrifying😅

[@LinneaJones-cf6zd]

Im gonna drop a dodo down there😂

[@tavariblake4864]

@Syntac do not get rid of the old vids anytime I've felt down and out i go back and rewatch all your vids I binge watch you as relaxation cause I quit Ark but seeing the good old times I enjoy it. Alot so i appreciate the old and new from you I'm sure we all do. 😊😅❤❤ love your content, loved how you've grown it's just great on your channel.

[@user-qe9jv8ie8v]

Call the sarco blueberry faygo

[@faraaziqbal8302]

No one outside the midwest knows what a faygo is

[@DeoxTew]

Mmm, now I want some Blackcherry Faygo.

[@francisweller839]

I love seeing you tame all of these creatures you traditionally ignore! The center is so different from any other map, and it’s great to see that the series will be unique as well

[@juliajabonksa8753]

Perfect timing my guy! I was just about to eat dinner and watch something and BOUM your video came out

[@1999worldjacob]

Hey syntax, you will probably want at least 1 of your gates on your water pen to be a behemoth gate instead of a regular gate. I know Dino depot means you can pick up a large Dino like a mosa and place it outside the pen, but still might as well add one behemoth gate for ease of access

[@steelas481]

the goggles help so muchhh

[@DelilahEve722]

I confirmed with Cyrus just now the spider icon issue seems to be that the server needs a restart after an update to get the icons working again. He says it's a strange issue he's encountered a fair bit. I'm also going to add in a placeholder icon for when a dino's icon can't be resolved :)

[@shanebacon2433]

Tons of metal nodes in the ocean. Dunky is amazing

[@kristiangines1486]

i do like the water fog because it makes the ocean feel more real and it gives that spooky dangerous vibe.

[@bshorty2510]

The underwater goggles are great. The sense of nostalgia they give me for the days of 480p video is priceless! Look fantastic on my big 4k TV (Money well spent). hope I've been subtle enough so as not to causing any hurt feelings. (Yes, I'm joking, or am I?).

[@SquanchThisJob]

Visual Storage Mod has a Crane feature you can use to pick up all of the resources from your Dunkly. One of my favorite mods so far and it doesn't dramatically change from the vanilla experience.

[@tyguy5570]

He fought three different creatures with babies that he didn’t eat.

[@crazydogmom5149]

Yes Syntac, the paleo rex and giga mod completely replaces the vanilla rex and giga. Can confirm because I have the mod as well

[@lucashead6142]

Dunno if anyone has mentioned it, but with a water tank, you can remotely fill waterskin/jar/canteen from your inventory. Accidentally discovered it trying to drink within range of one.

[@wildlordlucky9628]

You have called it's colors funky twice now! Just call it Funky omg.

[@PhlippinPhil]

Syn, the paleo rex does indeed completely replace the regular rex. It says so in the description.... ;)

[@Watertodd]

I like to see & watch you fight in the ocean swamp River pawn cave, I like to see things inside the oceans and stuff what's going on that's why I like watching it, thanks Syntac doing a great job 👍🏻 I like your color alligator 🐊 I enjoyed all your videos over the years

[@MLove1991]

Fog off?? absolutely!

[@erika5763]

My 2 cents: I think goggles is a nice balance and it means if they break and you're in the middle of the ocean without spares you're blind. The ocean is scary BECAUSE the visibility is so low. If you can just easily skirt around everything dangerous then it's just like having a flyer on land.

[@beastakillz93]

When my game lagged one time i asked the same question, "what is my game loading." To answer the question your game might be loading in an absorbantant amount of something, because when i investigated my lag issue, i guess spawn glitched and overspawned for me but my dino finder told me there was a total of 877 kairikus in this area... and the number was still growing. Needless to say i killed them until the game stopped lagging so much i dropped the number down to 443, i had 5000+polymer 😂😂

[@laminatedsamurai]

Pyromane trap: 3x3 at the edge of the water. I have a large cellar door as the roof so I can just drop them in. 2 walls tall. Gateway on the shore side to get it out quickly when ready to tame, bottom wall next to it are just 2 quarter walls to give me a spot to poke it with a pike.

[@user-nv1nc1um6d]

Name the Sarco bubble gum after the Baso you had on the island

[@DracoJ]

There are metal nodes in the deep ocean. The dunk gets TONS from them.

[@prestonshahshah7138]

lmao the second i heard old video i went liked and commented syntac was stoked about level 8 rhino but we've come a long way lmao

[@bromattyb]

Such awesome work. Love the content

[@darklordofsword]

Dunkleosteus is from the Devonian. Of the animals in Ark, I think only the Trilobites and Sea Scorpions (and now Anomalocaris) are older.

[@michamikekit]

You can go all the way down those Cliffs on the side of the map and even swim in the ocean down there. I find a lot of Angy's on the cliff side lake area with the ice ruins. There is also a relic there too. With the Ocean area I have swam a bit in with my Ichthyosaruus, but I don't have scuba yet so I did swim to the bottom. If anything that area is a big waste of protentional. There is more then enough area to put some island and maybe even a cave to put an artifact in.

[@user-qm3uw6xl7j]

The ocean down there is pretty much empty, of dinos and resources. Great spot if you need a HUGE water area with no spawns. There's an invisible barrier that keeps you from going very deep. but otherwise it's livable. Several ledges as you go along, even ones under the waterfalls. I just traversed the whole stretch with my Tuso to check it out, saw literally 3 sharks, some manta, coels, one basil, and a few X fish. Very spread out in small spawns.

[@MetalHeadXMR]

Truly enjoy your videos!! 😂 Very informative 👏 👌

[@KT-zb9mz]

I got myself some dunkys back on the island and bred them so they are great for gathering but also great in the caves. Can do great damage and receive half damage; put a decent saddle on and not many things can really harm them. You can get grabbed by tuso though. My main is called Ursala haha

[@conducterbub150]

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH!!!

[@full8497]

The server I play on goes to 180, found 3 174 ankys underneath around the ice castle. Oddly there were no kairuku at the ice castle, although they were found around the pond down the hill a ways.

[@garnet_gamer]

@Syntac Dunno if you're against a pulling mod or not, but I use "pull It" and it's super convenient, no more resource juggling, haha. Great vid man, just tamed a Dunkly myself!

[@FriedEgg101]

If this is a modded series you should check out the QoL+ mod. It adds some old S+ features back into the game, such as specific (better) versions of fridges, forges etc, the ability to pull resources to craft, and also the transfer and dino guns. The only thing it doesn't have that I still miss, is a crafting station where I can queue up the crafting of foundations, walls etc.

[@Forriedude]

I've had success with kiting pyros to the island east of lava Island then shooting with a pump. On official, there are almost no spawns on Lava, but your private server might be OK. Make sure you absorb flames before the timer runs out.

[@theuhhsnoh4276]

Dunks are insane especially on rag, or at least they were in the under water trench where you get crazy polly and metal

[@thornygem04]

Been waiting all night for the new episode

[@taraasher3490]

If you ever need a mammoth you could go to the underground there's a lot its at the water fall you went by to get the anky

[@Blech-23_.-65]

I found an ascended harpoon launcher in a drop, then I found a bunch of harpoons in drops as well. After like 5 hours of grinding later, I finally found an ascended crossbow.

[@full8497]

If you had a feeding trough in your house, then when the anky tamed up it would switch to berries instead of eating your last kibble. Or just put some berries in its inventory along with the kibble to get the same results.

[@aaronisdeadd]

Dunkles are amazing. I love them so much. And theres so much metal underwater on the center its crazy. On official x1 I was able to get like 3.6k ingots(over 7k metal) in less than 5 min. And that wasnt even near half of the metal that I could still get from the cave I was in. That's just what filled up my Dunkle. They're also insane for crystal and stone and obsidian

[@user-qm3uw6xl7j]

Oh dude... go down deeper, As well, actually, there is more metal than you can gather. The Center has CRAZY metal spawns in the water, and dunkys are king for harvesting metal/stone. Actually, as well, you have mods now, why don't you use a stacking mod? Half of your challenge when harvesting is the stack size/weight. Actually, as well.

[@marckyd69]

No more foggin’ around Syntac.

[@mademobster1115]

Clear glass mod is pretty dope BTW could be an addition to the waterpen

[@didzee3720]

You can set the fog to 0.5 or something like that. To make it more bearable to watch, but still keep the immersion

[@robertbuotte1872]

Insane amounts of metal in ocean trench on right side of the map. Filled with clusters of rich nodes

[@dustinthornburg8545]

If your still looking for an anky, there is a small pond at 52.8, 61.2 that tends to have 2 to 4 there

[@TheLordVyper]

Paleo Rex and Giga are both TLCs. As such the original Rex does not spawn. You can convert them back to their original look after you tame them tho.

[@Grim2304]

Dunkies are also good for gathering oil

[@guiick96]

Good video as always Sin. Tip for Pyromane Cross the water to the island in front of the "Volcano" and go for Turtles, their tankier and have a good health, best creature for the Pyro tame.

[@dfunz1555]

Pyromane tips ( I may have spelled that wrong) Anyway what I did was build a stone 2x6 open rectangle some where close to the pyro I want. Across from the lava island theres’s island filled with herbivores that a Argy can carry. Dropped them in the pen (hopefully your pyro is close by) lead the pyro to the water do your damage, ride them to the pen jump in and eat everything!

[@gaf199]

They must have upgraded the scuba goggles. I don’t remember them working that well either but the fog wasn’t as bad so maybe they just work better now that it’s really bad down there lol

[@livingwiththepets]

I enjoy the fog on. However with your scuba goggles its a good comprimise. I enjoy the "spook" factor of you not being able to see miles away

[@devintaylor8865]

When moving stone from the dunk, drop your actual inventory away from the stone and metal. Then with an empty inv, pickup all stone and metal, drop inventory bag, walk 5 or 10 feet away, pickup bagged stone and metal. Rinse and repeat. Much faster than dropping everything 1 by 1

[@Aquabryn]

The Dunky does the job really good. Just need some way to bring the resources to the vaults. I would make a cage with a few wild Dinos (turtles)and have the Pharo attack them from outside the cage for taming

[@raphaeljoseph1645]

The paleo creatures have fully replaced the vanilla versions cause they’re not meant as variants in asa but as full on tlcs that’s why the names are also tyrannosaurus and Gigantosaurus and not evo or paleo ark…

[@gNetkamiko]

"That is like the whole point of a diplo: to have a bus". Well.... it has a reason why I call them "Derp-lodo-bus". :P

[@trippytex2953]

The water pen in sections would almost exactly resemble The Hunger Games 2 arena 😂👌

[@Chireiya]

Go for that Pyromane! They're really fun. For an easy time, just go there when it's raining. For an even easier time, trap some dinos beforehand for a nice buffet. x)

[@Devdor]

Super structures plus mod has the S+ pull functions do recommend

[@heatherwallaert5165]

I really love the Dunky and the Plesiosaur, but it's because those are two of my favorite prehistoric creatures of all time. I mostly tame them cause I love them and less because I use them XD

[@saa_shady780]

Bro it is your game do what you want! No matter what you do we will always enjoy your videos ✌️

[@traceantonacci2495]

Syntac: Is this Living Leedsicthys the one that I killed eariler? Probably not.

[@UniversalKhaosOG]

Im looking forward to the cluster series. WC needs to get those map releases lol. Anyway i prefer to see to creatures in the water so i run with the fog off myself

[@lynknight21]

Great video again 😃

[@bornagain_cynic]

Base is looking good!

[@ashley-dantesalmon8175]

make sure to have REALLY good flak armor. bring tones of bed or sleeping bags, have a high quality pump action shotgun, and target mostly rexes. the creatures that takes the longest to kill the better because you can keep healing your flame kitty and have that taming increase faster. so rexes and maybe carnos, raptors gives some but not as much as rexes, brontos and sometimes carnos.

[@andrewcarberry5753]

I always used the gas mask underwater on ase , that removed the water effect altogether not played Asa yet so don’t know if that has been patched

[@tomhilker7676]

Dunky name suggestion "Edmund RockWhale"

[@jessychristine6790]

Tips for pyromane taming: bring med brews and a decently good gun. I used even a ramshackle fab pistol and it only took about 3 clips I believe to make a 130+ roar while dosed. (most probably know this but you cannot hit alphas while riding a wild pyromane)

[@Rubenvalente20]

honestly, it looks WAAAY beautifull with no fog.

[@jordyparker8697]

You should make an Outpost in one of the underwater bubbles

[@JoshFaber-sb2em]

Syntac! Call the anky Bumpy!

[@ddw34]

I feel like the ocean looks more impressive without the fog I can appreciate the scale of it more with it being clear as compared to before when it was clouded

[@OPSavage2000]

If anyone needs a good metal/crystal location for the center check out this spot. South jungle Lat:56.7 Long:53.4 it has some huge crystals and plenty of metal nodes around.