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Tips & Strategies

What are tips for black pearl? Tips and strategies for black pearl in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Valgero, take an itchy to to the underwater ocean, there is a ledge just past the entrance with heaps of black clams/pearls ripe for taking. Sometimes megas everywhere, sometimes clear.
My favorite way to get these is an Gen 1 in the ocean. I kill as many ammonites as I can on a sarco or bary, then run into one of the vaccum chambers and wait it out. Not efficient, but I'm scared of the volcano lol
ASA Astraeos
(Starter/Easy) Go to the center of volcano on Therokis, and follow the path of the lava. You’ll find black pearls you can grab on foot alongside the lava river and inside the volcano.
(Endgame/Hard) Go into the water near the Clams under Phokintos. You’ll want to use a water tame like an angler.
- Can be obtained from gifts (50)
- Alpha mosas give 100 after death
- Weight ~ 2
- Used to craft tek saddles and other advanced items
- Used to tame the Tusoteuthis (50 per bite)
- Can be obtained by an otter, killing trilobites, eurypterids and other deep sea creatures
- Can be used to craft consumables through cooking pots
- Recommended for end game
Use an icthy to kill scorpions. They don't gain torpor
Eurypterids give terrible amounts of black pearls and are very hard to find (On the island at least). Take a Basilosaurus (It doesn’t have to be great, mine was level 60 when I found it) and kill tusotuethis, Alpha Tusotuethis and Alpha mosasaurs. Alpha mosasaurs give 100 black pearls and normal tusos give around 30-50. Alpha Tusos give around 80. So, best thing is alpha mosasaurs, followed by alpha tusos, then normal tusos. OPTIONAL: Bring a dunkleosteus as a pack mule as they reduce weight of black pearls by 50%, so you can carry more and your basilo won’t be slowed down to a snails pace.
Black Pearls can be found in the volcano on genesis. They are located at a few pools of lava (don't know where but you should be able to find them). You can simply bring a bloodstalker or a flyer if your server allows it, since magmasaurs do not spawn in the area. You may also find purple crystals in the area, these give element shards. Just make sure you don't stay in there when the volcano starts to erupt and you get good amounts of lategame materials easily!
on the mobile you have just kill tuso and take impalt and revived tuso again it cost Amber's but you can unlimited black perls 😁
Just send your otter into the megapiranhas. I think you get one (I know it's a small amount but it's an easy way if you're a newbie) black pearl for each of them. But it must be the otter that kills it and harvest it.
Kill tusos sea scorpions nautilus and alpha mosa and tuso
You can collect these on Gen prt 2 with a mining drill on the asteroids. Gathers not too bad an amount, better than hand picking that's for sure.
Put a Therizino into a kryopod and go with a shark into the deep till you see some ammonites throw the Therizino out and kill them and you will get more pearls as using an anglerfish
You can find these easily in the space biome on Genesis 2. Wait until the biome has dark grey/black asteroids with big light green/pink balls floating around (ignore the colour bit cos I kinda forgot what colour they are, but you get the idea) . You should find some little balls on the ground, which you pick up. They will give mostly black pearls and sometimes mutagel.
When it comes to a black pearl, a gacha is your best freind
On crystal isles go to the elderich isles and youll c some giant watery orbs. U can actually go inside them and swim around. Youll c some black clam/oyster lookin things. If u pick those up like u would to berries from a bush youll get black pearls. Just be careful as eels and other annoying things can spawn in the orbs.
On Ragnarok you can farm blackpearls, silicate pearls and chitin by using a crossbow near the shipwreck at wiking bay. You just kill all the eupterix and use the chainsaw to get chitin
Ragnarok in Viking Bay around the sunken ship in the middle of the bay and also at 10 90. There’s a tiny tip of a Boulder to land a flyer out there. The water is shallower in that area. Another sunken ship there with lots of lobsters to kill.
Aberration down in the red hazard zone. They can be picked up off the ground down there.
Genesis in the volcano biome. Down in the Magmasaur pit they can be picked up off the ground there too.
If you want to kill Tusos for BPs, tame a Basilo. They can’t be grabbed by the Tuso and still do decent damage
For the safest but NOT the most efficient way of getting black pearls is to tame a bunch of otters, and order them to kill a fish in the water. They will usually collect silica pearls, but can sometimes collect black pearls.
If u play at Ragnarok just get to the ship in vicking bay and farm a lot of black pearls