TOP 5 FARMING DINOS | THE ISLAND | Beginners Guide | ARK: Survival Evolved 2022 [S1 E5]

A beginners guide to ARK: Survival Evolved; Top 5 PVE Beginner Farming Dinos on The Island! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comments or you can find me on:
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[@insanecuckooman8342]

the refeneces to keralis, sl1pg8r... nostalgia trip. love your style, very chill commenting, subbed.

[@vincentbruno246]

Your videos are so super helpful!!! Thank you so much for doing this. I forgot I bought all the season passes but then got overwhelmed. I’m trying to gear up for Ark 2 and you are making the path much smoother!! Thanks again!!!

[@namanhlehoang9999]

For early game and mid game (maybe late game) wood source, you just need to lure or grab a Castroide or 2 into a trap/ enclosure that has size of 4x1 or 3x1 stone foundation or stone fence foundations with stone window walls. Castroides will automatically create beaver dam, you can just havest a whole, just remember to place a large storage nearby since you will be encumbered. Just stay out of render sign, they will eventually create beaver dam.

[@djdomain]

One of my early tames is a beezlebuffo AKA big toad. Pretty decent as a scout as its jumping and swimming speed can avoid most aggro dinos, but it's great for hunting dragonflies and ants as you also gain cement paste when it kills bugs.

[@MissVadams10]

Beezlebufo is one of my favourite dinosaurs 😄

[@NaturalCauzes]

Awesome! Now I know what dinos to tame on the island if I want to harvest something!

[@MissVadams10]

I am amazed that you have got this far without harvesting anything 😂

[@pineapple1374]

Found your videos whilst trying to find a nice place to settle on the island and decided to watch the while series, only to find that one of my favorite minecraft youtubers keralis is also plays ark

[@MissVadams10]

Keralis playing on the pooping evolved server is what got me into Ark in the first place

[@ttt-rq3vs]

What got me was when a Moschops wanted Polymer... I didn’t know they were secret Gachas! 😂 Silliest beasties I’ve yet to see.

[@RoundSeal]

Kind of late here, but I was recommended your 'crops and honey' video and enjoyed it so much I decided to watch all if them. I'm not a beginner at Ark (I'd consider myself a journeyman!) but love watching videos like this because there's always something to learn. I have a ton of love for plain ol' utility dinos, especially Doedis: their little level-up dance and honk is so cute. 💚 You have a really engaging way of speaking and are great and going over these topics thoroughly without bogging down the video too much, I hope you make more of these in the future!

[@MissVadams10]

Thank you for the kind feedback! I plan on continuing with guides once ASA comes out in August, and until then I'll be focussing on a modded Ark lets play with The Monarky :)

[@RoundSeal]

@@MissVadams10 I look forward to it, and will have fun checking out the modded videos in the meantime! 🦖

[@axelandrade4227]

Love the videos. They helped my brother and I a lot, and you made us laugh so much, too.😂

[@dylansearcy3966]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="352">5:52</a> you don’t have to attack it to get it to aggro you. You just have to be near it

[@natrinsbarrow]

I'm currently basing at the hidden lake on my server. I failed quite spectacularly trying to get my early tames there. I ended up losing all of them and everything I owned (RIP Delilah).😢😂 In the end, I just spawned nearby and started fresh. Totally worth it! All the metal one could want is just a short Ptera ride away! Thank you so much for this series! Your guide has been incredibly helpful and very well done.

[@neilatherton4290]

I'm new to the game, but have 800+ hours in Valheim. Figured I'd try Ark for something different. I'm only around the 10 hour mark, and these videos made me realise the role of dinos in the game. I figured it was surviving despite the dinos, not using them to farm etc. With that in mind, I figured I'd go tame an Argie as per the trap advice. I've not been able to find higher level dinos to tame, but have like a mid-40s trike and I managed to get a Pteranadon that was around 100 when tamed. I took Pterry to get the Argie, which took a while and lots of stamina stops on the way. We got there, set up the trap, and found the highest Argie on the island. I pulled him, got aggro from two lower level Argies, got knocked off Pterry, who then proceeded to fight in the air where I couldn't help and died. So I'm on the island, literally as far from my base as I can be, with three giant birds really angry with me. I ran to my trap and locked myself in, which kept me alive but the birds started to attack from both sides, so I was taking hits. I figured I'd try and tranq the bird I'd been after. When he started to fly away, I jumped out, shot him a couple more times, and then jumped in. I figured I'd lost him, killed the other two, and then left the trap to take stock. That's when I saw the first, higher level bird in the water, and sure enough he was asleep! I tamed him, then had to hunt around for the mats to make a saddle, and rode him home. Thank god for trilobites and their chitin otherwise I would've been in trouble. :)

[@MissVadams10]

That sounds like quite the adventure!

[@alexpaige3725]

I've never heard anybody mention this before, I only realized it myself a couple days ago, but when you have a low stamina, but decent speed flyer, you can actually fly without losing any stamina if you don't sprint fly if that makes sense. It can be especially helpful if you're in a dangerous area and can't find a safe place to land. May not be helpful in the particular case with the argents, but hopefully might help at some point.

[@jimb.628]

Instead of the second gate on your Argent trap place 3 pillars slightly off center. This will allow you to fly your pteranadon through the trap.

[@tedbourchert5986]

Argies and Beavers are probably my favorite 2. Though T do love ankys as well.

[@jdizzle5507]

Great video Vic! My youngest kid was really into all the dinos and wanted to name the ankylosaurus bumps.

[@CALJH07]

You should name the argentavis goldie because of the spot on his head

[@greatgruff1442]

Had to rewind on that beaver, you were looking at an 85. Suppose one beaver looks very much like any other 🤨. And you still don't have anything in your '0' slot as default. Sea gulls help you get prime from fish or dodo, can be handy early game

[@MissVadams10]

Yeah I got my beavers back to front! It turned out to be good enough for a starter tame. There's always things for us to learn in Ark, I'm terrible for remembering to put something useless in my 0 slot

[@marcosbasano]

"a lv 55 beaver is better than no beaver" tuest true ever true

[@glugging]

hi missvadams! i love these videos so much they are so entertaining :) what exactly are your settings because id like to setup my server to be the same as yours; also how did you get the dinos to spawn only in level increments of 5? tysm for making these! i wish you carried on making them but i understand why u wanted to wait for the major update which is happening soon apparently

[@MissVadams10]

My main settings for this single player playthrough: x2 XP and Harvest x5 Taming x20 Breeding For max Dino level 150 increments of 5 levels: OverrideOfficialDificulty=5 DifficultyOffset=1.25 There's a lot of different settings to bare in mind when setting up an Ark server, so here's a link to a video I would recommend to help you get set up :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZS8e5Von5uYoacsi=C-CaNQPFQUHKTANr

[@glugging]

@@MissVadams10 hi, ty for the help! the dino max level increments of 5 levels commands arent working for me :( im on xbox and im typing them into the admin command bar but it isnt doing anything. ive tried DestroyWIldDinos multiple times and they still dont spawn in increments of 5

[@photonkicks]

@@glugging I’m on playstation and I just put the general difficulty maxed out and it seems to have done something ! the lowest creatures I’ve seen are level 5

[@DucNguyen-Dalexa]

​@@MissVadams10hi miss, I am messing around with the settings as a newbie, and in advanced settings or in INI file I couldn't find 'breeding' stat. Can you specify where I can put *20 breeding as you commented earlier? And again thank you for your guide series

[@travissetsfire]

Hey! I just saw your base locations video pop up on my home page and I really enjoyed it. I absolutely love ark. I have all over 8k hours invested in it lol. Once I get a new motherboard, I wanna get back into making videos. I've been looking for another small creator to collab with in ark 😊 I like using mods though lol

[@dylansearcy3966]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="144">2:24</a> its similar to an Andean condor

[@truebella123]

Omg I love watching keralis especially the hermitcraft episodes

[@MissVadams10]

Keralis is one of ny favourite creators! Watching him in the pooping evolved playthroughs was how I got into Ark :D

[@JimKayaker]

Awesome info! I had worked out some of the dinos from googling stuff and already have a Doediceurus, Ankylosaurus, Moschops and Argentavis but have been using a Stegosaurus for wood, and more recently a Therazinasaur (noobs do research before tackling one of them, they are mean!), but the Casteroides looks much better, and has been on my list of tames to try for a while so will be getting one later! I also need to finish raiding the dam I found because I think I left wood in it when the beaver was killing me. The other really important thing I hadn't found out about was the autoharvesting behaviour whilst being carried, that is going to be so useful as the metal nodes I've found don't seem to be very safe for ambling around on the ground! A couple of questions come to mind: - It looks like the Argy stamina halves when I pick up a dino - is that right, and is it always half or does it depend on the dino it picks up? - Should I be leaving some food in one of my tames inventory slots or do they only feed from troughs? I usually do, but I notice you seem to aim to give them just enough to tame? Or is that just because you want to save mejoberries for taming? I struggle to name my own Dinos :) how about 'Metal Mickey' for the Anky?

[@MissVadams10]

The Theri is a fantastic farmer of fiber, hide and rare flowers; I usually wait to tame one of those once I have kibble as they take ages to tame with Mejo berries. Mammoths are also good for wood but a little harder to tame for a beginner, as on the Island they spawn in the snow biome. I'm not 100% sure about the Argy stamina, I think it has to do with the heavier it is, the quicker the stamina falls. So the stamina not lasting as long when picking up a farming dino makes sense. Keeping food in troughs is usually enough, but if you are going out on long farming runs, it can be wise to be a stack of food in your dinos inventories. Especially the Argy as it will go through stamina quick.

[@Dino2GunZ]

Great vid big help for a beginner like me

[@benchaffin6412]

Just started playing, thank you for the info.

[@alexpaige3725]

I just tamed my very first and second argys yesterday, the first one was a wild level 20 and didn't get a name because I was just using it to get a higher level. All the ones in my taming area were level 20 and below, but i left the area and when I came back there was a 140. I immediately tamed him up and named him Eragon and he's already been unbelievably helpful.

[@alexpaige3725]

I'm not sure why I chose to share that, but I just started watching you and I will definitely be a frequent visitor to your channel, you're one of the rare unicorns of a female ark creator that I've found and you're so helpful❤. I've been putting your videos on while I play for both background noise and just to have something interesting to watch.

[@MissVadams10]

I really appreciate the kind words, thank you :)

[@lancelusco7448]

i think the barrel roll kills bugs lol

[@larkham1206]

Episode 3 comment: "complains about lack of local fauna drama" Opening seconds of Episode 5: Ahh yes...balance is restored, everything as it should be

[@UNDercover__9966]

I used to have a beaver in ark his name was perry and he could kill what felt like anything in a few hits and he died to 2 raptors cause I had him on passive flee and he ran into a corner and got stuck

[@MissVadams10]

Ark giveth and Ark taketh away. RIP Beaver!

[@DevjKaiser]

Im late, but the beaver you original saw was an 85. I paused it because when you said 55 my brain was like “ wait did we both see it wrong.” lol Nope it was an 85, might have been more beavers in one area than originally thought.

[@MissVadams10]

Yeah it turned out there were 2 in the area and I have a terrible short term memory 😆

[@DevjKaiser]

@@MissVadams10 I just binged watched your videos and it changed my play style for the better 😭💕 I wasn’t having as much fun, but now I’m having so much fun thank you!

[@MissVadams10]

@@DevjKaiser That is so lovely to hear! Glad you are having fun with Ark now 😊

[@DevjKaiser]

⁠​⁠@@MissVadams10I had my moment of “ RECUSE ME TRUSTY DINO “ this morning and I’m still laughing. I was running from a spino and the argentavis came in at the last moment 😂 Right now I’m following your guide on getting a queen bee. I’ve been taming all this morning and I feel like Ace Venture with all of these animals now my friends.😂 Do you have any plans to show base builds or gardening builds? I love your tutorials. Hopefully I can join your twitch, for the Ankylosaurus I was like “ someone please suggest naming it Ankles!” So I named mine Ankles because I feel like every time he swings at a Dino he’s hitting them in the ankles. Sorry for that rant 😂 much coffee this morning much taming.

[@MissVadams10]

@@DevjKaiser I'm doing a playthrough live on Twitch at the moment, I'll next be streaming tomorrow at 2pm GMT. Over the Christmas period I'll start recording a new beginners guide series for ARK Survival Ascended for KZbin :)

[@larkham1206]

Argi name: Longhaul Moschops name: GigaChad

[@Kitttcat]

Name him archie

[@Moteridgerider]

Can I suggest a Dino name for the pteranodon-like creature? How about Varghast?

[@MissVadams10]

The Pteranodons name has already been chosen, she is called 'Penelopy' ☺️

[@MoyuGuy]

i like to tame a bunch of argentavises and go somewhere and fill them wt metal crystal and obsidian this comment was made nine minutes ago on a nine month old video and it got hearted????

[@MissVadams10]

Yeah despite only having a few videos and playthroughs here on KZbin, I'm pretty active across all my socials :)

[@BJTHEOG14]

What level do you need for Argentavis

[@MissVadams10]

You need to be level 62 to unlock the saddle and it will cost you 21 engram points :)

[@Curogrim]

Aberration guide next ;)

[@MissVadams10]

Aberration Beginners Guide: how to find a stone and some water 😂

[@Curogrim]

@@MissVadams10 when I started aberration, I didn't know that I could eat white mushrooms for water 😅 I died so many times 😅

[@oscarsantana2612]

Lol no clue why you don’t find high lv dinos …. When I’m spawn the first time in the game everything was above live 150 and including a T-Rex lv 250 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MissVadams10]

It sounds like your Dino level is boosted way higher than mine. Max level is 150 on my settings (same as official) and on The Island map the Dino level distribution favours lower level Dino's; its much rarer to encounter Max level Dino's. So in the beginning when you're first starting out, you tame what you can get, and work on getting better levels as you progress through the game.

[@oscarsantana2612]

@@MissVadams10 yeah seems that way most of the encounters are very high lv and make it hard to start again…. I was thinking on starting on a new server but the fact of starting all over again from the beginning… makes me thinking about it…. I wish I can fine a Lv 5 to 20 T-Rex like on ur video but not luck all them above lv 90 hard for me at lv 35 try to get the Argentavis but was fully load of Rex and other carnivore dinos…so I leave with out even trying…

[@jamesnorthup1728]

Archie

[@ariesking3288]

Still in shock there is a female ark player

[@MissVadams10]

I know of plenty, if you want any recommendations of female Ark creators I can give you a list :)

[@ariesking3288]

@@MissVadams10 Know any small tribes official pvp girls though? That's a different breed