Top 10 Best Base Locations on Fjordur - The Best PVE and PVP Base Locations on Ark Fjordur Official

What are the best base locations on the Fjordur Official Map? This guide will show you the top 10 best PVP base locations, the best PVE base locations, and the best Alpha base locations on Fjordur. We will give you map and GPS coordinates, and give a full tour of all the best base spots on the new Fjordur Official Ark map.
Chapters:
Intro - (0:00)
1 Dwarf Lava Kingdom - (0:35)
2 Helms Deep Castle - (2:41)
3 Yellow Crystal Caverns - (4:26)
4 Caverns of Time (Lunar) - (6:14)
5 Mines of Moria - (9:00)
6 Waterfall Castle - (11:25)
7 Snow Castle - (13:33)
8 Gold Mountain - (15:21)
9 Underwater Crystal Cave - (16:28)
10 Swamp Castle - (17:52)
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[@mrcrow7914]

Tip for anyone with a bad computer: Don't make your base in a cave like the dwarf lava kingdom. Whenever you exit or enter , the game will have to render the inside of the cave and then the outside which might result in the game freezing or crashing. I made my base in the location I mentioned and my game crashed once because I entered and exited the cave too often in a small amount of time.

[@jrinc6467]

As a LOTR fan this map is incredible adding so many cool locations from the movies. They aren't even trying to hide it

[@squallystan2048]

Exactly what I thought

[@markusbaker1161]

It’s a players made-map. The devs of ark didn’t design it.

[@RG02_Rookie]

I think you’re the only thorough base location video I’ve seen from any of the maps. I love how you actually showed where everything was not just “this is a good spot for metal just over there”

[@alu9652]

This map has a ton of really cool places. Thanks for showing them up!

[@barbent1204]

I saw gold mountain since day one and have been living there and it’s an amazing spot to live because as soon as you get a maewing you can get all the resources you need and very very easy honey nodes on top the cliff plateaus between the waterfall castle and the mountain that are unguarded

[@firepit8765]

Anyone else thinks the fjordur is the best map ever?

[@AntonioRivas-fh4qu]

Agreed

[@Just-Michael-NL]

Yes it is

[@Kenny10137]

Me!! 🥳🥳🥳

[@noahdv9965]

yes

[@Nougat_Nugget_]

It has every single dino that you need

[@FrasierOfficial]

There is also a cave behind the waterfall that falls from the castle, its big enough to fit a bronto and can be accessed by walking or swimming

[@VsroYT]

The helms deep castle?

[@hurrikan6048]

Omgg thank you for locations✨

[@petrus1102]

There is actually a second floor in the main hall of helm’s deep. You can fill it up and have a secret area there.

[@whoskamo_]

I try to go there but there is a random border how do I get there

[@Nemesis_OnTop9907]

How do u get past the border

[@motzartzpianobyear2814]

Playing single player and I think Hilltop will be my go to. Thanks for the vid. Base location had just about everything I was looking for.

[@atiabi8409]

Hilltop has only few maps and admins are too bad, they're stealing your hundered hours work cuz of little mistake. They closed even some of ascension maps like aberration and you cant unlock s+ tek forge engram cuz of that.

[@Batwaz]

personally helms deeo castle feels like is my favorite, it just looks so secure and safe

[@Foozlewrap]

This map is amazing. Great guide; I'd only seen a few of these and can't wait to check the others out personally!

[@ytaberrant]

I live in the mine and let me tell you it's nice there's a Desmodus spawn at the top of the aberrant cave, and across from the tribute room there's a bunch of insects where the metal is.

[@Andy_1777]

In the second one, if you stop just before entering the cave enterence you’ll find that in that room there’s secret storage in the ceiling. A lot of people already know that for PvP but if you have any resources or small dinos u want out of sight that’s a nice place to store them.

[@ReinventingTheSteve]

already claimed the helms castle and pretty underwater cave :)

[@Neluv]

Really cool! But I like to always have beachside on my main base (PVE) because I like to have my big water dinos close by, would love some recommendations for beachside bases in this map, right now I'm thinking of going with one as close as I can to the teleporters so it's fast to go to the other regions of this awesome map.

[@captnblackmarrow]

Little late to the party here. But you can at any time, bring up a menu built-in for Fjordur to teleport to all the different locations - rather than manually going to the portal room every time. I believe you hold R (or whatever you have your 'Reload' set as) to bring up the menu.

[@coltonmorrison4616]

The gold Mountain, around 47, 57 is next to the beach. Build there. There is a cave in that mountain, there you will find a portal room that leads to the other realms, such as Asgard.

[@coxnathan06]

The castle in number 8 or 9 is helms deep from the two towers in lotr! I am currently building there on my server

[@Seamonkey.]

This is the only video I’ve seen that actually has good bases spots

[@gameagerr]

You are missing out on a multi-million dollar career as a Real Estate agent! haha great job! You sold me on each spot. Ty for the vid.

[@Nbdy1829]

consider turning brightness up when showing the inside of caves. couldn't see anything between the entrance and the cavern of spot #2

[@warzIbanez]

I mean that's just Ark and UE4 for you- dark by default.

[@XAKU_KSA]

Oh, man, you're awesome

[@ryanstars2298]

w vid it just changed my life

[@dynamiteskye9007]

I set up a quick base in the same cave you guys used in the early monarky episodes. To build up, then I plan to move out, i miss seeing the sky. Lol

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

LOL yeah that cave is an EPIC starter base (if you can deal with the rexes outside) but I definitely was looking for something prettier very quickly myself.

[@DEATH-_-WISH97]

In the castle with all the waterfalls if you follow the waterfall that is connected to the castle by the eggs, it opens up and you can build a base in the waterfall

[@a.hammer5598]

Nice video

[@shawnsimonis8126]

Settled on one of the islands....now I'm moving to Helms Deep!

[@witheredgods]

This map is crazy

[@seannishimura3190]

I built a base near the castle, it’s a valley with very shallow creeks. It has metal Along the creeks silica in a shallow lake within walking distance oil and crystal close and argy ably and deinonychus spawns nearby

[@Viper-eo6xf]

how do you actually build in the Helms Deep Castle as it dosent let me

[@johnherron8482]

I can not see the coordinates in the discription or chapter links. What happened? Great video and thank you very much! I downloaded it for easy access when I am looking for these locations

[@braxyzp5506]

Yellow crystal cave is very nice

[@bradlane3503]

Great video ! Did they change the snow castle from the mod ?

[@namelessking6761]

Bro the second location is the home of the rohirim like in lotr it is exactly the same city even with the cave were the woman hide love it

[@forCatharsis]

I am having trouble stopping spawns in the 1st location, the dwarven kingdom. Any suggestions as the spiders and bats are getting quite tiresome. I already built many foundations throughout, with at least 2 together at each spot. Do I just need to fill the place with foundations completely, cuz that could get expensive?

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

That's a great question, Nathan. So each foundation you place blocks spawns in a circle for about the distance of 10 foundations away from it. Even Thatch will work, but Stone can't be destroyed by anything but Alphas. I'd recommend starting with a small area then working your way out from there. Or setting up plantX turrets can shoot them down pretty well.

[@timvandusen8280]

I covered the area with foundations and cliff plats and still get spawns. Ended up just setting up tek turrets and now have unlimited chitin for cementing paste so that worked. If you're early game plant species X like Survival Guide said will work just fine.

[@lucasnmk2209]

Build the top of the cave. The Bads spawn on the "roof" from the cave

[@damljanovic_86_]

​@@lucasnmk2209I just moved in that base location and have big problems with spawns, can you help me?

[@frankieorlando2335]

I wish there was a brightness auto adjuster added bc when it's day and my gamma is all the way up it blinds Me and when it's dark after I turn down the gamma it's too dark.

[@lukrezialaval2406]

nice video! i arrived on fjodur yesterday in singleplayer and i am absolutly overwhelmed where to build my base, so many options, so many lovely spots. and it's absolut beyond me why they choose to make the swamp so damn hideous... look at the swamp on the island or crystal island, they are so pretty. but naw... 🙄

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

LOL yeah, I get that they wanted to make the swamp island super creepy, but I LOVE how beautiful the swamp is on Crystal Isles. That's such a beautiful map.

[@AdisiTaliWaya]

I play single player on my Xbox Series X and was wondering if you could do a video of all the best buildable caves? I want to build a military style base with a cave behind it for Andrewsarchus. So the entrance to the cave looks like a military bunker. With the base built infront outside of the cave with a landing pad and pillboxes that have machine gun turrets. So basically i'm looking for a large cave that is big enough to hold 7 Andrewsarchus and also has large flat land outside of it.

[@barbent1204]

At the top of my head the gold mountain cave seems like a good fit but I think there is a cave close to what your talking about

[@galaxyalpha1828]

is it posible in a non-delicate server? because i constantly being tp to the host

[@squallystan2048]

I started a new world with my brother yesterday (I'm a lotr fan) and OMG THERE'S A MINE OF MORIA I know where ima live

[@xokk2335]

that lunar base is jaw dropping

[@Berkybot]

0:59 - Dwarven City 2:44 - Helms Deep Castle 4:35 - Autumn Hills Cave 6:23 - Zero G Cavern 9:02 - Mines of Moria 11:27 - Hilltop Castle w/ Waterfall 13:47 - Snow Castle 15:29 - Eastern Island 16:36 - Eastern Underwater Cavern 17:53 - Swamp Castle

[@Reivbv]

The 2nd one looks like helmsdeep :O

[@goldsm1th92]

how do you put the doors on the prebuilt structures i wanted a catch and a bed in moria cause our house is right outside but it wouldnt let me place doors on them

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

Great question! You can snap a fence foundation across the doorway, then put a doorframe and door on that. It takes a little while to line it properly but looks great when you're finished. A foundation might also work, but you might have to duck to get in and out of your house if you use one.

[@kaoreocookie______________8220]

What are the cords to the swamp castle

[@Cotto_01]

the snow castle itself is not good but the cave area before the bridge is amazing for defense

[@LuciferMufin]

The snow castle is a great base location if you put time into building on it it will look awesome and with turrets or basilisks it has good defense.

[@niekhoogendoorn7386]

Do the bats respawn in the dwarf lava kingdom?

[@dogma13gaming]

Question: how do you unlock the snow owl saddle in fjordur? It says it is only for extinction. That's not the only saddle like this. Are we not supposed to tame these creatures?

[@barbent1204]

Idk how to fix what you have but are you on official? If not then I think a way to fix it may have to use the giveengrams command

[@timvandusen8280]

It might get patched. Until then you'll have to transfer to Extinction or Lost Island if you don't have the dlc maps. You might be able to find them in drops too

[@WeAre1Legion]

my guess is its BP Locked, so you'd need to do fishing and get the BPs for them, but other than that yeah I dont know, I know there are snow owls but the saddles locked which is kind of annoying

[@harrisos3]

Switch maps and unlock it then Switch back?

[@tfkoincognito]

Theres alot another underwater cave , i cant remember the corbs but its like a geode cave. Would be nice for eaither pvp or pve. Not rich in rss but its a sweet cave.

[@lusorexponent382]

19:47 is that erebor, also on Fjordur ?

[@yassienE4935]

It’s the dwarven city

[@KeyhaneBishomar]

This map looks cool it would be very fun to play PVP if canon was the latest weapon you could get in the engrams, imagine tribes raiding would be like if people had to bring paracer and brontos with canons on top to raid bases at those mountain castle bases. they made this beautiful medieval style map where people could have tons of fun without any advanced weapons, it is kinda pointless to have this map and all the technology engrams at same time.

[@craftykid9804]

Just a quick warning the yellow crystal caverns have dire bears

[@xxscourgexx6916]

Quick question! How do you stop spawns in a specific area? Do you just need to build a bunch?

[@biffin4633]

Ya

[@cowboy_levi6283]

Platforms

[@stainingchunk2687]

Foundations and pillars stop spawning animals and resources in their range

[@VeryGoodFrog]

You need to make the area your claim aka putting foundations everywere.

[@idkrandomweebgamer693]

Yea basically, just spread out a bunch of thatch foundation to stop the dinos spawing

[@RasmusFrey]

Second one is helms keep from lord of the rings. Almost exact copy

[@redeye248]

Him-“I don’t think that in all of ark any one cave has as much as that one does” -Aberration has joined the chat 💬

[@jortharob3406]

Anyone know where the swamp castle is on the map

[@dylansearcy3966]

What about the abandoned village in vardiland?

[@goobgaming564]

How many entrances does the mines of moria have?

[@techlink7369]

2 i believe

[@tonycastello4839]

At 4:56, are there any bats there that'll give you rabies?

[@ThatMooreBoy5.3]

i have an amazing helms deep base

[@Ratheartz]

first lol. also great vid as always

[@reapinghorror2204]

What is the swamps castle cords

[@DSSWAT]

What’s the swamp coordinates

[@nebbygetinthebag7263]

6:14 I wanna like this cave and while it's good for resources, it's...really terrible for carrying dinosaurs considering they all float. Even land dinosaurs. Even dinosaurs that cannot jump and are on totally flat terrain. If you are willing to tolerate that, I'd go for this but yeah...sadly it's not as good. It is however, the most beautiful

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

LOL as a fellow Pokemon fan I love your name ;) You will love Episode 4 of my Monarky series when that comes out! We had an Ark Pokemon tournament. Living in the lunar cave has certainly had its challenges that I've had to learn to adapt to, but I love living there as my main base in the Monarky. Aside from a couple spots where dinos can glitch and drown above the water, it's the safest place on the map, with infinite resources that you can gather 24/7 since it's always light out. And breeding is way easier when you can stack dinos up in the air lol

[@forgottenmemoriesofthepast]

4:20 is based on a real cave that has a entire forest on it it is 660 feet high and spans 490 feet wide.

[@dylansearcy3966]

Can we have more than one base?

[@lupevences2089]

In the server I’m in they put pillers so nobody can have there base there

[@isakgamingpro7302]

I have never ever gotten raided in lunar cave

[@ryman9741]

Ok when I get on ark map I’m making my base in the 2nd one

[@bigboibubba6911]

Is there a reason why it won't let me build inside the castle of helms deep

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

Hmm, I think there is a setting that allows building in caves which might be turned off on your game or server. If you find the setting and make sure it's enabled, it should let you build there.

[@dagiraffe2670]

I can Confirm jellyfish do spawn in that underwater crystal cave

[@squallystan2048]

9:19 A MINE!!

[@coolbreeze76]

30 by 63. That is where it shall be built

[@dylansearcy3966]

Which locations are pve?

[@arseao]

Should I live at the swamp castle or waterfall castle?

[@barbent1204]

I would say waterfall castle cause there’s a more abundant of resources there

[@thebutterfluffman6855]

The real estate agent be like

[@dylansearcy3966]

Which ones are for pve and which ones are for pvp?

[@Juu835]

Im building on the 2 spot

[@dylansearcy3966]

12:36 or raise deinonychus of your own

[@wynnevir1440]

all these cool spots are bot buildable for me:( is ti a server setting? I play on an unofficial cluster

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

Oh man sorry to hear that! You're the only person who has said they can't be built in so far, so I'm thinking you might have a server setting on your unofficial cluster that's preventing it.

[@seannishimura3190]

Never forget you can teleport in fjordur

[@xym929]

thanks daddy

[@lukapejazic7199]

Does vegetables in village respawn

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

They actually respawn VERY quickly. On our server you can harvest them several times per day.

[@lukapejazic7199]

Thanks mate

[@dylansearcy3966]

What about vardiland

[@PtwinkSt]

Can't read the GPS, it's blurry af

[@nielsvandewal8969]

ok

[@nathanb2718]

THERE'S A SPACE CAVERN ON FJORDUR ??!!

[@a.hammer5598]

Where is the swamp.

[@dustinhelgestad3783]

I was wondering the same thing. He forgot the coordinates.

[@barbent1204]

It’s the island being covered by the 40/50 on the map

[@dougsxoom616]

Approximately 40, 06

[@combattfish]

Far left of the map there's a island

[@poseidon3292]

helms deep ? lol

[@sagenrage8399]

Bruh where's the swamp, my main map is lost island

[@ArkSurvivalGuide]

The Swamp is the entire small island on the far East side of the map between the North and South continents. You can see it from really far away.

[@Snow_Empress]

"and they call it a mine" I could call ark a first person shooter game but that doesn't make it a first person shooter and the same thing applies here. the place that they call the mines of moria is nowhere near close enough to looking like moria to actually be called the mines of moria. I know this because I've been working on recreating the mines of moria in minecraft so I've done a ton of research into what it looks like and this ain't it.

[@warzIbanez]

I dunno, the depiction might not be 100% accurate to the Peter Jackson films, but they could still be faithful to the actual books.

[@Vziql]

U didn’t even show swamp cave lmao