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WHEN YOU BREAK OBSIDIAN WITH TO DOEDIC YOU ONLY GET STONE
If on island use Anky with argy on the volcano
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
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.
If you are struggling to find obsidian, just go to the volcano
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
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
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.
On Rag use a dunk in the obsidian trench north of the volcano underwater. Absolutely insane amounts of metal and Obsidian
Ankh level up weight and melee damage= best metal and obsidian havest
The only reason to get this is for polymer.
You only gather this cause organic polymer only can stack 10,if it has inf stack you will just go massacre penguin
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)
The ones that don’t yield metal give more obsidian
For mobile make a base and bring a doedIcurus to the Volcano I get 86 to 98 pr one i I’m on hard-core so I get double you can Bring a Aakylosaurus with you and he keen keep the metal you get it is a glitch for mobile only in the volcano.
Find in mountains. Better at volcano but that is dangerous, go north to the snowy mountains for better not carnivores.
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