Everyone if you need too know how to play ark read this it’s my first of 7 world guides this one is about the island ( the next one is for genisis 1 and it will be on manticore boss article)

Day 1. Spawn at any zone but the foot paw is a good starter place grab a stone and hit a tree until you have 10 thatch and 1 wood at least) then craft a stone pickax then hit a rock until you have 1 flint

Then hit a tree until you have 10 thatch and 1 wood at least then learn engram stone hatchet use your lvls too get to level to learn the stone hatchet ,I advise you do then on HP or Weight you should have 1 or 2 levels by now .

Day 2. Learn engrams spear and campfire and if you can cloth clothes . Build a spear or too and find something too hunt like a dodo or dilo or lystro

Gather its hide lvl up until you lvl 10 ( lvl up from doing random things ) , then learn the bola and if you can boomerang then find a sand pile harvest it and build boomerangs and use your hide too build some bolas

Day 3. Time for your first tame!

Learn the wooden club and equip your bolas find a decent lvl parasor (45-90) and bola it use you club too knock it out! Then feed it berries mejoberries are the best berries btw it should tame in 10-35 minutes ,

And when it does go in its inventory and check its stats! They usually have hi (400-600) weight and hi HP (350-900) and low everything else so there good starter tames .now build a saddle it will take 50 fiber 80 hide and 15 wood then equip the saddle and ride your now parasor! I advise you name it Brenard it’s a classic name for a parasor .

Day 4. Time for a base . You should learn thatch base stuff( foundation , wall , doorframe , door and ceiling )

Then use mostly thatch it’s best collected with a pickax

And use wood and use fiber too make some floors (6-12) and make a even shape on a flat place then build some walls and a doorframe and a door and some ceilings(6-12) and build your base eventually upgrade it too wood .

Day 5. Your second tame . You are going too tame a iguionidon they are like less good barryonixes and have good mid game abilities,build a bola and a now club find a decent lvl parasor(35-70) iguinonidon

And bola it they fight back so hit it with the club from behind when it is asleep feed it mejoberries and every once and a while (when the purple line is under half full) feed it narcoberries (20-45) and it has hi speed , HP , weight , torpidity, food, stamina , and fortitude.

So they make great tames there saddles take the same mats ( materials) as a parasor saddle so build one and ride your iguionidon and name it Ivan plz

It can harvest lots of berries and it can turn berries into seeds!

Day 6-7. Now you will enhance your house!.

First get 65 stone and 15 hide then craft a mortar and pestle and place it in your base and then build yourself a bed too respawned on and build a few storage bins

Then fill then with random resources for the future

And put narcoberries and spoiled meat in mortar and pestle and craft narcotics then if your the hi enough lvl learn the tranq arrows and the smithy and the refining forge then build a refining forge and put all your wood in it and then hit rocks with a pickax for a long time too get metal ore cook the metal ore in the forge 2 metal ore = 1 metal inget then build a smithy and use your narcotics in the mortar and pestle too make tranq arrows with arrows and narcotics build arrows with fiber and thatch and flint and make your smithy and make a bow which cost you 15 wood and 50 fiber and equip the tranq arrows and cook all the metal you can find and put the charcoal from the forge in a storage bins Then .

Day 8-10 . You are going to gain lvls!

Learn the raft and kill stuff and harvest wood and fiber and craft rafts they give tons of XP and have at least 45 tranq arrows and a full durability bow , then go to the edge of a swamp at the near middle of the world or just anywhere around the redwoods then at a swamp find a sarco beware swamps are DANGEROUS‼️‼️‼️

So find a sarco and shoot it from ontop your tame from afar with TRANQ arrows and it will then get nocked out and you can feed it raw fish meat or prime fish meat or prime meat and then at lvl 29-46 you can learn the sarco saddle . Then go back too base and make a lot of boats and rake in lvls! Then make the sarco saddle it take 35 cementing paste and make yourself metal tools in smithy and the sarco saddle might be made in smithy and then ride your sarco they move 5 times faster in water and instantly gain stamina so find water loots crates !

Day 11-20 . Use sarco too travel to the top right corner of map at a cove with a cave in the cave enter cave on the sarco and go threw it and kill stuff and find the artifact and grab it and get loot drops on the way!

Then do more caves search the cave locations and get artifacts then tame lots of creatures and lvl then a lot then use artifacts at obilisc to enter boss fights and use 20 tames too win the boss fights .the end