The Definitive Gacha Guide: Taming, Breeding, Feeding & More for Ark Ascended!

[@sarahvys]

I rarely comment on youtube videos but this guide is probably the best Ark guide I have ever seen, everything about it is amazingly well done. It is beautifully edited, the shots are amazing, it's very in-depth, very well explained, lots of data, numbers, tests and really good information. I have played Ark for years and still learned a lot from this video. The timestamps are a great help too. I wish you all the success your channel deserves :) Also love the games you play, Ark and 7D are 2 of my favourite games, and I have been looking to get into Empyrion because it seems exactly like the type of game I'll fall in love with. Happy new years!

[@serekaisurvives]

Happy Nee Years! Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. I absolutely adore making the videos just as much as playing the game really, so that is a huge compliment all around! I hope to carve out my niche with a sprinkle of variety in the coming year, as these are all great games in their own way.

[@daltonseymour2605]

At this point, over the years, I have watched hundreds of Ark YT videos, and this is the first time I felt like I literally needed to look no further. This is probably one of the best Ark videos I have seen, period. Thank you so much for the time and testing you put into this video, it has made a world of difference.

[@serekaisurvives]

I really appreciate your kind words. I am glad you found it helpful!

[@REALZ11]

Excellent tutorial and love the base! Keep up the great content!

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you very much! I am already working on showcasing the base build as well, so keep an eye out for that one.

[@derekmesecher1445]

Omg this video is great you went through everything I was just looking up last night on how to take care of the baby's couldn't find anything tysm!!!!

[@serekaisurvives]

You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help!

[@garganrose]

If wildcard ever starts merchandising ark the first two things they should make are plushy‘s of the gacha and ferrox.

[@serekaisurvives]

Oh my gosh yes!! I would go for a big old Gacha plushie. A weighted one with beans in the bum. 🤣 But honestly, I think collectible plushies and figurines would do well.

[@garganrose]

@ yeah personally what I would like to see is maybe they could make action figures of all the character characters in the Survivor notes. Maybe each character could come with assorted weapons and maybe even a Dino. For example, I can imagine the Helena Walker figure coming with a modern assault rifle and a Jiboa maybe the Rockwell figure could come with a crossbow and a bulb dog. And to top it off, they could probably take a note from toy lines like Marvel legends in DC universe, Classics, and have each character come with a build, a figure part to create a boss character.

[@serekaisurvives]

That would be absolutely amazing! I am a total nerd for collecting things, so that is right up my alley too.

[@garganrose]

@@serekaisurvives my alley too.

[@kinroga]

What they should have done instead of more pay walls

[@michaelburnett7407]

I appreciate this thoughtful summary so I dont have to go digging through Wikipedia to find all the info

[@serekaisurvives]

My pleasure! I am glad you found something that resonated with you - if nothing else, at least I tried to make the Gacha fun to look at for 20minutes 🤣 and had a great time while doing so.

[@SILVERSURFING514]

Love gachas my fav dino from ase.good video

[@usualcanine8003]

Love this vid very help full would love too see more

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you so much! Your wish is my command! Stick around, and you will see a lot more of me this year!

[@itsusatst20]

Hi. great vid thanks very helpful :) can i ask what the dung beetle is doing in your farm, does he not try and pick up the pellets too ?

[@serekaisurvives]

He does yes, but the owls make so many pellets that he is quickly black boxed and then it is just fertilizer all the way! He is also super low level, so the original idea was that he only picked up the Pego poop and maybe some from tiny tames up top, but afterwards I realized he could just make fertilizer off the owl pellets as well and it still left more than enough for the Gacha with the 30 Owls around.

[@itsusatst20]

@@serekaisurvives thanks for the reply :)

[@CoffieRaptorStudios]

4:40 actually, the same thing happens if you try to tame any other wild baby Dino. I knocked out a baby allosaurus one time to tame it (I was taming the parent and I was in a dicey spot, so I wanted to try koing the baby too) I knocked the baby out and started feeding it but it too gained 0 levels in taming like if I were to just claim it when the parent was tamed.

[@serekaisurvives]

This is amazing! I never tried knocking one out before. But I had a good laugh when baby Gacha started eating mama's food! 🤣

[@CoffieRaptorStudios]

I was certainly intrigued when I did that and saw it did nothing different

[@AmirSohrabi]

Appreciate you

[@chris-lx5xw]

Awesome! Thank you ❤

[@kipsgaming8920]

Excellent guide, can you do a build tutorial for the farm please..

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you very much! I have already started looking into how to do a build tutorial. I promise to have it up asap!

[@trizi3981]

If you own bobs tales, you can make paper for 6 fiber, and it counts as a structure

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you for the tip! That is something I didn't think to try out.

[@SirFievelsAdventures]

Very nice video. 🎉

[@serekaisurvives]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@madshouseofcrazy1013]

Great video!!! For element dust, do you know if it matters, the lvl of the gacha? I’ve bread my 8 so far, and have gone through about 150 babies so far, and no element dust 😢

[@serekaisurvives]

The level makes absolutely no change to the outcome of the baby's production and it is totally random. My element gacha was a level 5 that I accidentally tamed! So far, even with all of my mated pairs breeding, I am yet to reproduce one by breeding myself. So I currently just clone the original and place a opposite gender mate down in every spot. Element dust is really ultra rare!

[@madshouseofcrazy1013]

@serekaisurvives thanks!!! Happy New Year

[@Tesserat]

Well done thanks

[@mochiboot6502]

Just discovered your channel! GREAT quality video, instant sub. Also, YOUR ACCENT IS WONDERFUL!!!!

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you so much! I never realised I had much of an accent until I listened to myself on a recording - I really do pronounce every R in a word! Some of them even twice! 🤣

[@mochiboot6502]

@@serekaisurvives As an American, it all just sounds amazing to me!

[@MonkProp]

Thx for this magnus opus !!! - looking forward to more of your excellent work !

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you very much! I am super happy that you found my Gacha deep dive insightful.

[@7flairplays870]

What should I feed them when they are juvenile and how much do they eat?

[@serekaisurvives]

Nothing at all, as long as you keep them in render. But if you really want to leave them, feed them raw meat by the bucket full. They eat much less than a baby, but still eat a LOT compared to other dinos. I would just pod them up and throw them back out when I am around base again.

[@itsusatst20]

can i ask what keeping them in render does ? @@serekaisurvives

[@serekaisurvives]

As long as the babies are in render, they keep gaining health and food every few seconds. But as soon as they are not rendered anymore, this does not happen and the baby starves to death. Open your baby Gacha's inventory and keep an eye on the food & health stats and they will jump up from time to time. This is what keeps them alive even though no food is actually being given. If they sit down and eat, it takes a while before this gets replenished again, and that is usually when the baby starves.

[@itsusatst20]

@@serekaisurvives thanks a bunch for the help , I will try and raise some 👍 managed to find a black pearl one today , so will now try for an element one

[@gsnowak0w0w]

I love you too.

[@Carlos-le3vb]

What’s the point of having the dung beetle in the middle? Just curious because I thought the gachas picked up the pellets on their own

[@serekaisurvives]

The dung beetle picks up the poop from the Pego and some of the pellets and keeps making fertilizer for my Plant Species Y that I feed to the Gacha.

[@lashae8762]

is there anyways we can see a vid of the building, or atleast a floorplan?

[@serekaisurvives]

I am already working on it! But it is a whole new method of filming and editing than I have been doing, so please bear with me while I figure things out. ;-)

[@lashae8762]

@@serekaisurvives im like just like ahhh waiting. looks so much better then my little towers i got goin

[@serekaisurvives]

Thanks for the compliment! The new one has been built and filmed, resources counted and now just to finish the editing - the new format is kicking my butt a little bit, but I am making progress! Next time I have a build for a video, I will make sure to film it the first time around... Learned my lesson!

[@Xx7TJD7xX]

why doesn’t my game look like this 😭 what are your settings in the game? i want to pla6 ascended but i don’t cause it looks like trash on mine

[@serekaisurvives]

Aww, I am so sorry - this one isn't a blanket answer! I have been struggling to get the game to both play well and look good too, but sadly it is mostly up to hardware and then finding that sweet spot of settings for your particular system. I have actually dropped some of my settings down a little bit and it has made things look much better - my suggestion would be to sit down and play with every setting and see what works best for you to see if you can find that sweet spot as well.

[@Xx7TJD7xX]

@@serekaisurvives honestly ive played around with my settings and nothing ever seems to change? i dont know if its just me not noticing but like even things like trees look very choppy and see through. i can try again tho and see if i can figure it out

[@cbnm1996]

drop the gacha base building video

[@serekaisurvives]

Give me a few days, let me see what I can pull together!

[@cbnm1996]

@@serekaisurvives thank you im waiting for it

[@JayCapo]

@@serekaisurvives Im looking forward to this video too. Happy New Year

[@warrenjsarah]

PLANT PECIES Y TRAP IS BEST FOOD FOR THEM. JUST GET A ROBOT TO GARDEN AND EZ

[@serekaisurvives]

Absolutely! I just wish I could get my robot to reliably farm though, but it seems that I have a reject model. 🤣

[@ronniedenz7137]

I heard they changed it from 12 foundations to 10 so you know!

[@serekaisurvives]

Ooh, thank you for that one! I originally had my Pego in the very centre, but moved them out roughly to the edge of the 10th foundation ehrn I added the beetle, so I didn't notice the change. I may need to go play around with them a bit more.

[@KirstyHomer-g9b]

It's 9 foundations used to be 12 to 13

[@stevenspangler7587]

How about Gamma 3 or 4 so we can actually see the damn video?

[@serekaisurvives]

Thank you for the feedback. I will keep that in mind for future videos.

[@NLWSLilPorto]

How about you go get your damn eyes checked steven?

[@danieljermaine8782]

You are the David Attenborough of ark

[@serekaisurvives]

That is the sweetest compliment I have ever received! 💝 I grew up on those documentaries and my prized possession as a kid, was my VHS copy of the Lost World documentary about the fossils. Admittedly, I was a strange kid!

[@twiztedworld]

U only need to feed gacha claus 1 coal OR 1 mistle toe not boh

[@serekaisurvives]

Thanks for pointing thay out. I had to listen back to that and I see where I got lost in translation and my meaning didn't come across 100% as intended.

[@serekaisurvives]

How is your Extinction gameplay going? Have you got your Gacha farm up and running yet? And more so, have you managed to find that elusive Element Dust Gacha yet?

[@KirstyHomer-g9b]

Yup 😁

[@mochiboot6502]

Still breeding bulbdogs in green zone idk what to tell ya honey

[@T-REX-MOTOSEGA]

1non ho gacha perché non mi piacciono 2non mi serve una fattoria 3non ho trovato l elemento per il gacha

[@serekaisurvives]

Awesome!!!

[@serekaisurvives]

Ooh, exciting too! I absolutely adore all of the little light pets, so I can relate for sure. 🤩

[@mariabotes1013]

are you afrikaans

[@serekaisurvives]

Ja, ek is Afrikaans. 😅

[@mariabotes1013]

Ek ook tyd om die locals op ark te support ... Kan jy asb n build vir die garchas maak ek sien mense sit crop pots foor hulle met y seeds

[@serekaisurvives]

Baie dankie vir die ondersteuning! :-) Ek werk reeds aan hom, maar dit is 'n nuwe formaat en is bietjie moeiliker om te film. Maar ek maak hom werk!

[@taariqkhanoflegend4622]

You sound South African.

[@serekaisurvives]

I am absolutely South African yes! :-)

[@Lamblah]

No

[@serekaisurvives]

Sending you good element Gacha vibes from across the big pond! May yilour next tame be the one.

[@MachiSupay]

I really hate it when people say there's a SECRET and you show literally nothing. You explained nothing that you can't find through the Wikipedia

[@michaelburnett7407]

A secret by nature, is a secret

[@serekaisurvives]

I am sorry that I could not teach you something new this time. I will try better with the next one. 🌸