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……

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

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

Can we have a moment for our amazing ankys…

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)

What does weight reduction do? Up if the anky can carry more of this item than others,down if it doesn’t do anything.or if you don’t know then you don’t have to do either.

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

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

If you’re returning to ark like me then don’t waste time on an anky in single player or unofficial, just get yourself a magma and collect 1000’s of metal with just one hit

Idk why this thing is only .1 higher rating when it gathers 1.5x more

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

Anky wait reduction is somewhat glitched in ark mobile. The weight reduction does not work some times remember SOMETIMES

Go to gen 2 and smash rocks with the super punch. Easy metal and can travel encumbered

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

Okay, so you know those tiny crumbled up rock deposits at the Footpaw? Use a pickaxe (preferably metal) and you will get (not much) a good amount. (Not like 100 or smth.) Hope this helped! Like so new people can see this.

Argy+mantis=more metal than you will need in the whole game

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

For you early/mid game players just take a raft and go too herbivore island. Lost of metal in a safe area

+ You can take yourself a anky while your there

Why is a iron pick beter then a fric***g mining drill?

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

I know it says anky is the best which i used to believe until i tried magmasaurs , my magmasaur ls level 200 with 350% damage ( not even leveled ) gets 750 from the small nodes and like 1300 from the big ones , my harvest rating is x2 but anky at x2 gives 250 to 330 from the smaller ones and 800 at most from the big ones , on any map that has magmasaurs just get any level 90+ , imprint it and level up damage and weight , if you wanna be smart with it you don’t have to level up weight on the magmasaur , you can tame an argy anky and magmasaur , collect metal with the magmasaur , put it in the anky and pick it up with an argy then go home , that compensates for the fact that you can’t pick up a magmasaur and he doesn’t have weight reductions on metal