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WHEN YOU BREAK OBSIDIAN WITH TO DOEDIC YOU ONLY GET STONE
DONT USE DOED!! Ankylo or Phoenix is the best by far, this is from personal experience. Doed gets you only stone from MOST the obsidian around, on some maps there is another kind which has metal too, that is the ONLY kind a doed can even harvest at all.
PHOENIX IS BADASS!! mine was 37 b4 tame, and now has replaced my quetz cause it has a weight over 1200, and it can harvest all the same stuff as an Ankylo, not as good, but not much worse tbh.
I’m ragnarok coordinates near 21 65. There’s a huge natural bridge that leads through a small cave and opening on the other side. Throughout that entire cave there’s obsidian bring an argy with a high weight and an anky. You will have more than you know what to do with
This for mobile go to the artic and you’ll find obsidian all over and tp a paracer with a plat form saddle with wood storage box’s and it’ll stay when you go back to base and tp the thing back
Have tried anky mantis and dunkle. Tested on land and water for both mantis and anky and dunkle is by far better on official. Island hunter cave dunkle I get 5k a run on 1x. Barely 2k with the other 2. Put dunkle on top as best gatherer please.
Obsidian rock is a pretty common ressource on the grand hills, just bring your argy on top of the mountain and there are alot of rexes on the grand hill but there are no enemies on the very top. Once you are done gathering obsidian you can get rid of any unwanted ressources to get rid of the extra weight and make sure to give the obsidian to your argy for the way back for the 50% weight reduction
To farm the most obsidian in the game take a god dunkleosteus in the water above volcano on rag and look for a ravine it’s filled with soo much obsidian and dunke has the most gathering efficiency and weight reduction it’s by far best method out apart from stryders -T8
There are two type of obsidian rocks. Search the one who also drop metal. That's the kind that you should break if you're using a doedicurus. If you break the type that doesn't also drop metal the doedicurus will only harvest stone.
Ankh level up weight and melee damage= best metal and obsidian havest
On Rag use a dunk in the obsidian trench north of the volcano underwater. Absolutely insane amounts of metal and Obsidian
On mobile doedic gets more obsidian than anky
DO NOT USE THE DOEDIC ID say take your ank
What I have found to be the best is using magmasaurs. Getting about 150 per rock instead of 30 to 60 with anky. (On official)
In the island. Find it in snow biome or inside cave, u will find lot of it. if u see very black and shining stone, thats an obsidian. Dont need to climb a high mountain or going to far volcano, (well its fine if u had argentav). Just be ware with the wild creatures
I’ve experienced that if your anky isn’t a high lvl just use a good pick and you’ll get more and it’s more efficient
The ones that don’t yield metal give more obsidian
Find in mountains. Better at volcano but that is dangerous, go north to the snowy mountains for better not carnivores.
How do you get obsidian in the Extinction Map? I have been using my Ankylo and it only gives me flint stone and metal. I am using my ankylo on the stones tha don’t usually give metal. Any tips?
Getting obsidian with Tek stryder is the easiest way to get it. Just link the stryder to the dedicated storage box and go to any obsidian spawn
Ankylo is best for haevesting Obsidian, bit it does not cut the carrying weight for it down at all. So harvest with the Ankylo, but use the Argentavis to carry it