This is for newer players so please don’t downvote because your Quetz and anky can get more. Step one make a raft with a bed and some storage and if you want to you can put a furnace down. Step two if you have an anky get them on the raft with some ramps and roofs. Step 3 look at the ark wiki and find the nearest metal rocks (the gold ones). Step four Christopher Columbus your a$$ over there. Step five for longer stays make a little house nothing fancy even 2 foundations a bed and storage with some backup gear will do. Step six get that metal. Also bring way more than you think you ever will, 1900 metal ore will only make 10 longneck rifles. Thank you for reading this, if I knew you read this it would make my day, now have a lovely rest of your day……

Can we have a moment for our amazing ankys…

Gas bag+mining drill= more metal than you know what to do with!

Make it point to the sky if this helped!!!

Argy + Anky

Loads of metal :)

If ur on mobile just go to the top of the volcano and there will be all the metal, obsidian, and crystal u will ever need with ZERO things that want to kill u.

P.S is it just me or does everything I type have a 12 second delay

Poor people use a stone pick. Crazy people use a metal pick . Normal people use a anky rich people use a magmasour

Tame an anky and argy pick up the anky with an argy go to metal mountain then hit metal rocks with your anky and boom you have a metal making machine

Forget the anky+argy or magmasaur, just get a rhyniognatha and pick up a vault, cryo an anky and go to any metal spawn, put down the vault and harvest the metal with the anky and put the metal in the vault, then cryo the anky, pick up the vault and off you go to the next metal spawns. The metal in the vault does not weigh anything to the rhynio so you can collect an entire vaults worth with the rhiniognatha

Leave Anky Melee at 800 that’s cap adding more Melee does not get you more metal use the rest of the points on weight and health

Herbivore island has a bunch of metal rocks and there are no predators there

You can get a decent amount of metal from piles of rocks with a pick if you cant find shiny yellow rocks

Nobody is talking about the dunkleo. Same harvest amount as anky, but you don't need a flyer and ocean metal nodes are more abundant and give more metal. I got 100k in 10 minutes on 10x harvesting

If you are having trouble getting metal and don’t have anky, go for the small piles of rocks you should get 2-3 per pile

On ASA metal takes about 1 hour to respawn.

Guy who said ro build raft-base and mine iron with ankylo

I hope you had good day too :)

I hope world will have more people like you.

- Blood_Hunter (PyThOn's Empire Legion Leader)

The rocks that are full gold give tons of metal, just head over to the volcano and ur all set.

Holding a mining drill makes the metal weight reduced by 75% and its really good aswell a

I recommend go for industrial forge first,it need a lot of grinding,but it worth it,smelt 20 metal per 20 second,after that,metal are no longer a problem

Best way to get this item for early game on The Island.

Head to Red Peak (check map if unfamiliar) and there should be just a little bit of metal at theta to get you started. I’d recommend a flight tame but beware for thyla’s as they perch up in the redwood trees so fly above the forest to counter them or they will knock you off your saddle. Hope this helps, happy gaming!

It takes 50 minutes to cook a full stack of 300 metal in a stone forge.

A 3x3x3 metal box costs 11.1 stacks of metal ore.

Vault = 3.33 stacks

Heavy turret = 5.4 stacks

Cryofridge + 17 pods (ASA) = 1 stack

Indy forge = 16.66 stacks

Motorboat = 8 stacks

Hope this helps!