Ranking All 12 Maps Easiest To Hardest In Ark!

Ranking all the maps in Ark survival evolved from easiest to hardest!
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[@bacd-nn2lg]

What makes the genesis part 1 map the hardest is that the game devs didn't balanced the missions properly, and tested out them for bugs. The actual Corrupted Master Controller boss fight on alfa is not that hard but grinding out all of those missions to fight him is insane, so you need to resort to cheats. Personally I think that the best balance maps for early/endgame are Aberration, Fjordur, and Lost Island.

[@u-gr5mg]

It's missions are meant for MULTIPLAYER they are unbalanced when it comes to Single Player

[@snakemaster254]

@@u-gr5mgyeah half of them don’t work in single player so hopefully it gets fixed in ascended if we get to that point.

[@Butter1510]

Phase pistol and forcefield go brr

[@Nick_th3k1ng]

Real

[@CosmicDragonApocalypse]

i would agree gen 1 and two are the hardest. gen 1 because you cant build anything without affecting the missions

[@varsinious477]

Another thing to add to extinction being as hard as it is; it's one of the few maps that mathematically is stacked against you. The highest tier of OSD drop pods have creatures and alphas 3x over the level cap for all waves if i remember right. As a solo player I remember doing them with 12 gigas and a snow owl on standby and still haven't around a 50% fatality rate on those gigas for the purple drops

[@collinweeks6322]

Make an alt account and make a new tribe. Transfer metal Dino gates from your main to your alt and build fences around the ODS drops. Then log out of your alt account and get back on your main account. When the drop comes down all the corrupt dinos will not be able to destroy the gates because of the offline damage prevented. You can take all the time you need to heal and go to whatever wave you would like.

[@PBST_RAIDZ]

Plus trying not to bite the drop if playing pvp

[@funnyguppygaming2012]

@@collinweeks6322 what a boring ass way to do it, just use carchars

[@Quthology]

Well with the recent carchar add it makes it significantly easier. That 100 blood rage stack enhances damage so much not to mention that insane self healing mechanic

[@mrwashere9565]

4x level. The biggest problem with OSD in single player is that it basically forces you to use destroywilddinos sometimes because pathfinding in ark is so ass

[@mochiboot6502]

The early game on Scorched is extremely rough, but the sheer amount of objectives required to complete the Island's end game should def bump it higher on the list--I'd argue higher than Aberration tbh

[@davidivaskovic]

That seems like kind of a stretch

[@RowanFox77]

The island isn’t harder in my opinion per say, I’d just say it’s significantly grindy-er

[@Grundlepimp]

@@davidivaskovic The Island is way harder than Scorched Earth that it is not even funny.

[@kush2023]

don tthink so, the dinos on the island are all weak asf and are known for low levels

[@mhmd._.sai.zen.]

The island is harder than scorched earth. sure the early game on scorched is rough, but the sheer grind and caves and stuff you gotta do to beat the island makes it harder imo

[@Snellythedog]

Island under Scorched is WILD. Bosses and caves alone makes it harder. The only thing even remotely hard about scorched is the early game can be unfriendly. Scorched is way easier than the island after about 6 hours of play time.

[@mikoto7693]

Suddenly I don’t feel so bad about finding Artefact gathering in the Island rather difficult as a new player?

[@Snellythedog]

@@mikoto7693 It has some of the hardest caves and artifacts in the game.

[@mikoto7693]

@@Snellythedog Oh good lol. I was starting to have serious doubts about my ability to get far in Ark if the Island was the easiest map meant for new players to get to grips with the game. The first cave wasn’t too bad. My pack of trained raptors was quite good at wiping out the hordes of trash mobs in my way although I lost a couple of them and had to wait for them to wake up a couple of times but I successfully got the artifact of the Hunter. Unfortunately I was utterly unprepared for the second cave to be a lava cave. My first attempt was an absolute disaster. It’s taken me several hours to breed replacements for the heavy losses I took. I have a lot more water, a ghilly suit, and an Argy in a cryopod because I’m playing single player and plan to force allow flying in caves. I’m not a platformer and refuse to do it if I don’t have to. I don’t know how I’m going to do any of this on my multiplayer character. I guess I’ll have to try to tame a terror bird and use its flapping ability to overcome my aversion to jumping puzzles.

[@GEK0dev]

I’d argue Gen2 is not the easiest simply due to the fetch missions💀 Past that there is a no tek suit mod on steam and I highly recommend it, Makes the map incredibly harder, Outside of that Gen2 is just a lengthly but easy map

[@iamjoshl]

Nice work. Will wait to see the ASA version of this map once all the maps are released.

[@jasonhernandez600]

Nice to see your subscriber count going up keep up the good work

[@LeoTheYuty]

Correction: It's level 70 to tame a crystal wyvern. Mostly agreed though, except for Extinction (Carchar speedrun to win), and good video.

[@ArchieBl3h]

whats a carchar speedrun for extinction? ive been playing all the maps in order, and im about to start extinction soon. i dont have a carchar and i dont know much about extinction

[@LeoTheYuty]

@@ArchieBl3h Just find the carchars on the map and tame them as soon as possible. They're passive tames so although very annoying, you can tame them pretty early on. Even without a saddle, they're great help for most early/mid-game tasks, and you can start breeding them for later use on the titans and tougher osds. Made Extinction a walk in the park.

[@l4r5hack8]

Amazing ark content! suprised u dont have more subs.

[@agoogleuser1570]

My tribemates waiting for lost island. He gonna wait a bit😂

[@stephenwayman8533]

You have to be lvl 65 or 66 to tame a crystal wyvern on crystal isles

[@00knightwolf00]

Granty took 200 days to finish The Island while he needed less than 100 days to finish Scorched Earth.. Those two are probably swapable keeping in mind that You already have a lot of Engrams in the beginning of scorched as everyone plays it after the Island

[@rorywalters1614]

The Ragnorok desert labyrinth cave is ridiculously hard. I know Fjordur have a similar cave but couldn’t play it since I’m on Switch.

[@Butter1510]

Labyrinth of life isnt hard just farm ice worm for 300% + shotties and go on the rock for the last room its easy af

[@alternative8914]

​@@Butter1510 don't even need to do that lol

[@Butter1510]

@@alternative8914 Yeah but its recommended Howd you do it?

[@alternative8914]

@@Butter1510 rock method as well. But no need to farm ice worm first. Can do it in prim lol

[@corstiaan_tempel]

pretty good videos im big fan

[@Grundlepimp]

No way he says Scorched Earth is harder than The Island. I ascended off of The Island on gamma on day 217, meanwhile I ascended off of Scorched Earth on gamma on day 37.

[@mikoto7693]

Wait, The Island is really difficult? I started on that Island. No wonder I’m struggling.

[@daversal7239]

​@@mikoto7693 the island isnt really that difficult

[@mikoto7693]

@@daversal7239 😆 All of the tames that died in the lava cave disagree with you. Seriously though, yeah the Island itself isn’t very difficult and in truth I seldom die during normal play. But caving for the artifacts is a different beast entirely. It might be just the learning curve as I figure out how to do caving effectively but I find it quite difficult.

[@AnkleMuncher]

Genesis 1 is one of my favourites for that reason plus hard to raid spots

[@OneRuto-pl2rt]

Primal fear laughing in the corner

[@user-bq9eq1pt9j]

one thing that makes me say that the island is one of the most difficult would definetely be that the final boss is the most difficult i would say, due to how difficult it is to even get your creatures in to begin with, all the others are just immediatly spawn a boss infront of you or go into a set arena or you have a safe walkway to the boss, on the island for the overseer, you have to get all your creatures in tek cave in 5 minutes, and they are so genuinely dumbfound stupid, that often they will not try to avoid the lava, and then you also have to get through a horde of enemies weakening your dinos but thats beside the point

[@agoogleuser1570]

Barely managed to do gen 2 missions for beta boss. And gamma on gen 1

[@alexciesielski1840]

You have to be level 65 to feed crystal wyverns

[@Iceball320]

although I respect your opinion on extinction and aberation, from experience playing single player worlds on both exclusively on those maps, I do have to say that extinction overall for me was way easier. Although Ive never fought the alpha king titan, the overall experience for aberration was harder with the spinos, carnos, raptors, ravagers, karkanos and it just took me forever to start off plus getting a reaper took me forever and I lost so much in the blue and red zones that I still get scared of them

[@mrwashere9565]

Beta king titan is the hardest because you can just use a mega Mek for alpha who can solo the king titan with the other titans

[@zrakonthekrakon494]

I subscroobied👍 I like arky arkers

[@Quthology]

Scorched is not harder than anything under it. Not to mention it’s one of the two only maps that u can do alpha boss fight that doesn’t need mutated Dino’s to beat it. You don’t need to farm any loot. The caves are quite mediocre, a simple high level thyla post tame gets every cave done. Despite the alphas being hard, you don’t even need to kill them. The only difficult part about scorched is well, the early game. That’s really it. Also lost island being under the center is quite unfair. I’d say lost island is AS difficult as fjordur. The only key difference is that fjordur has way more bosses. Which makes it harder

[@martinuvits]

never normally write on videos but.. scorched earth... is by far...easiest map to do... early game is rough but if you know the map its easy as hell - did alpha boss on day 5 on ASA with character naked no dinos - from The Island, but slowest from level 1 has been day 11 - try doing that on any other map... caves are a joke and as soon as you get a tarpa or argentdavis you can get wyverns - and you win - Manticore is a joke snoozefest. Plus getting Rex army is easy since they forcespawn like the islands carnivore island some places.

[@imstilllandon2922]

It’s easy because you transferred a carchar from the island and it’s easy? Makes sense

[@martinuvits]

@@imstilllandon2922 no naked with 0 dinos and 0 items - was on single player hardest differculty btw

[@funnyguppygaming2012]

@@martinuvits uh...carchar cant be used on boss fight bro what

[@martinuvits]

@@funnyguppygaming2012 char is short for character lol - edited it - so no misunderstandings :D

[@joestewart3647]

Gen 2 has missions that are next to impossible to beat solo. It’s easily a top 5 map for difficulty.

[@jimmynguyen4559]

5:37 "Finger yourself or whatever" Love it LOL

[@lyria261]

Crystal isles is the hardest map for me because my computer can't handle it. It's such a beautiful map but god, the amount of lag i get💀

[@jaymckeown7601]

I don't think the Overseer fight is hard at all, the cave on the way is where the challenge is

[@dazeddust8469]

Why is scorched earth that high, once you get past the early early game of being camped it’s so easy especially compared to the island and the Nordic one (I can’t spell the name)

[@seanzaucha6575]

Aberration is my favorite map

[@sambothefate3462]

Lost island early game is brutal and when people say Ab was hard I gave it a go I just did Ab by it's self except catus broth and I figgerd out a tip that no other youtuber has figgerd out even today and that tip is tame a spino for fuck's sake they are fast they are srong they spawn in the green zone they are imune to radiation perfect for getting drake eggs and can even take on reapers aswell

[@Rob-Ross]

For the crystal wyverns you need to be lvl 95

[@trustnoghost2699]

I refuse to die to terror birds

[@Andrey-td2wl]

For me lost island should be 1 or2 places harder cause that shit has 8 spawn for gigas/ carchas, you can easily find a giga on the beach :'v

[@pufferekd8549]

if i do any boss i always go to crystal to get all artifacts

[@zrakonthekrakon494]

I’m surprised scorched earth wasn’t the easiest one, it’s so easy it makes me queasy

[@foxdudesgamin9696]

This guy

[@CosmicDragonApocalypse]

Gen 2 is the easiest map?! i beg to fricking differ. 1. Striders: You need to play a total of like 60 mini games to tame one which a majority of them you can not do alone. you need mutagel which is very hard to get by harvesting it from the ZG zone or rockwells gets getting past reapers and summoners. 2. The tools: The gen 2 tools suck. tek pistol doesn't do much, net projectile is great i'll give you that. what else? minigun...over heats and has same effect as submachine gun, Exo-mek....cant get until you beat rockwell which you have to play all the mini games to do as well as it having no real combat abilities. which is ridiculous.....the mini games should be optional to get resources and boost stats. 3. it not that easy even with an tek suit. what are you gonna do? super punch everything? the suit itself doesn't provide much armor and you will have to fight. the only real safe place is the section between the eden ring/garden ring and space zone.

[@kyliemoore9013]

What are you talking about? That map is so easy. It takes 50 mission for a level 150 stryder. If you just do the gamma missions can get a lvl 55 easy. Not the best level but it beats harvesting by hand. And yeah the exo-suit makes it extremely easy. If you're attacked all you do is just fly/hover or the power sprint thing and run away. The punch is ok not the best but its enough to take care of raptors, mantis on the Rockwell side, and argentavis when you accidentally agro them. If you want good weapons and armor go to a drop and you'll get god tier stuff. If you need any rare resource you go into space. If you need exp theres alphas everywhere so farming it is no challenge. This map literally hands you everything. You can even get a reaper a level 1 if wanted to. Its that easy.

[@kyliemoore9013]

Btw you craft mutagel from mutagen. Mutagen can be harvested in space either or found in drops. Use a stryder and youll get stacks in no time. Generator, chemistry benches, wiring, and gas are all common items in drops. Every you need can be found in drops on both sides.

[@CosmicDragonApocalypse]

@kyliemoore9013 id agree if the mission weren't there. They are pointless and stupid. What was wc thinking? Mini games are not fun especially when they are required to beat the game. They should keep them and their bonuses but separate them from the final boss

[@CosmicDragonApocalypse]

@kyliemoore9013 1. The asteroids where you harvest element and mutagel is very rare. 2. The only other place to aquire mutagen is in rockwells bowels which fills with acid and the overwhelming force of reapers and summoners. 3. Striders can only be tamed if you play the minigames which you cant win on your own without other people and the right gear. Even on unofficial with extremely boosted stats and rates i couldn't beat the games alone. Not even the races.

[@kyliemoore9013]

@@CosmicDragonApocalypse 1. All you have to do is power punch or use an anky on the element rocks. Youll get enough to tame a low lvl styder. Then you just use that. Because long youll have stacks. 2. Flying can help you dodge everything in the Rockwell cave easily. You just gotta keep moving. Plus turn on the exo-suit helmet so you can the outline of creatures. 3. Ill agree the mission are annoying because you need them for the boss fight but they aren't hard. Sounds like you're just not that good at the game. I was a solo tribe on a official and got all the beta missions before i needed help from others.

[@andrewjessop6054]

Bro misspelt like 1/2 the map names

[@sharkvince]

You misspelled misspelled 💀

[@ashtonyounger8955]

Yikes buddy better take a lesson too💀🙏

[@sharkvince]

@@ashtonyounger8955 r u retarded lil vro

[@adriandiaz4624]

​@@ashtonyounger8955misspelt is correct as well 😂

[@rhettbutler5397]

I get that overall Gen 2 is easy but come on man, not even going to mention the missions? I could complete majority of maps on this list before I finish Gen2 because of those missions. Also the reason why people complained about Aberration when it launched was because nameless could spawn in the green zone. If you were an official player and finally got into a ab server, it would usually be 85% night time and a bunch of new players literally couldn't do anything or have time to get a light pet

[@2quikforya]

abberation is the hardest by far, extinction is a close second enxt to scorched earth

[@2quikforya]

genesis 1 is only hard early game

[@dogsbreakfast4952]

Agreed

[@PinkiePi]

Once you're experienced with it Aberration is not that hard. The map anyways. Rockwell Alpha solo is pretty tough no matter what.

[@mantk1123]

Los Island Early Game = Dinopithecus

[@NonHuman69]

asa better changes whole genesis

[@fakeAratPrime]

Genesis 1 only needs to nerf some missions and reduce the ammount of missions needed to do the boss. Genesis 2 needs a federation suit rework and less missions to summon the boss.

[@NonHuman69]

@@fakeAratPrime I don’t like gen2 that you spawn with tek that is what I would add to your list

[@fakeAratPrime]

@@NonHuman69 it's on the list, federation suit rework. That could be done in a lot of ways, not sure how right now but still.

[@snakemaster254]

@@fakeAratPrimemaybe instead just make genesis 1 a requirement to play gen 2. After all Gen 2 is more or less meant to be your character from gen 1 leaving the simulation and now using the tek suit for one last hurrah as you save the ship. Gen 2 felt like it was meant for players who have already gone through the struggle of building from the ground up on every other map, so that this time they get a head start for the final challenge. So like I said just make Gen 1 completion a requirement for playing Gen 2, there may be some issues with this idea, but it does at least mean that by that point you would have basically already earned the tek suit, and that it’s not something that can be done starting from scratch.

[@dogsbreakfast4952]

Abberation is the hardest for sure

[@gamerkingkong0022]

no way scorched earth is harder then the island

[@user-er5jf6sh6c]

Scorched earth has the hardest early game and the easiest late game

[@andersjackson5078]

crystel wyvern is lv 65 im petty sure

[@InfamousInvestments]

Wish I could play ase on ps5... I can buy the other maps

[@cat-anchovy]

ext harder than aber ? someone didn't play em at start, with no wiki info(i know how on day 1 of this dlc, we try to find metal, not die from packs of ravegers, and easy become alpha tribe of cluster cuz not every person found out how to tame reapers, where to get rock drakes, best loot, and where the f is metal), aberration was hardest map ever(super hard tames, basilisk who u don't understand how to tame and if it is tamable, reapers, karkinos who mostly die when u try to tame due to bad hitbox of legs) , while ext is super easy, u start at green or se, and abuse osds, get insane loot, after aberration i was surprised why new map is so easy

[@Harald815]

Sadly aberration will be ruined with the new creature and blimp

[@daviraael1059]

What is the new creature?

[@adylynemahaffey4449]

Lmao there adding a blimp? I knew about the yi ling but that’s ridiculous

[@TGC1775]

Lmao. Why is everyone complaining. If you want the game to be hard. Don’t use the stuff.

[@adylynemahaffey4449]

@@TGC1775 because the entire concept of aberration is that there is no flyers except the rock drake kind of. By adding all of this other shit there ruining the concept. The blimps the worst because at least the rockdrake and yi ling glide while the blimp literally flies lol. It’s just stupid

[@Butter1510]

Why would yi ling ruin abb?

[@ashtonyounger8955]

I think people forget this is an opinion 😔

[@jakeparkens3690]

Ab early game is suffocating

[@raptorgaming-zj3tx]

im looking for people to play withj :D

[@Yourlocalweirdo767]

Gen part 1 isn't that hard ngl

[@JumboTron735]

First comment!

[@phantomfox16]

True

[@paaaawel1]

Third comment

[@dinosontv8095]

Do not let this man cook at all these takes are absolutely trash

[@Artin-zt8dl]

Extinction is the easiest

[@Bite_me01]

I love aberration it’s the best map