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269 points   Aug 28, 2020   Report

Go to either the black forest on val or the red forest on crys isles and use a wyvs/crystal wyvs wing flap attack and youll get tons of charcoal. U can also burn a ton of wood in an indus forge

199 points   Aug 26, 2020   Report

Burn wood in industrial forge for fast charcoal

32 points   Dec 29, 2023   Report

Go to gen 1 volcano with a trusty Dino and a megatherium that took you ages to find and hit all the trees and you should get some charcoal (u[p so more people can see)

60 points   Feb 2, 2022   Report

Use more than 100 campfire and put 100 woods for each

Now you make air pollution for ark

13 points   Aug 14, 2024   Report

Burn wood for a few hours and you'll get it in ark mobile too

49 points   Sep 28, 2021   Report

Don't discard in early game. Later on it can be used for many things, including gunpowder.

42 points   Jan 25, 2021   Report

If you are on Rag then go break the trees in the volcano area and bam you have several thousand charcoal

20 points   Jan 7, 2023   Report

Go to the red forest on Crystal isles, or any charcoal forest and use the stryder on the trees, you get 6k-9k charcoal per tree

24 points   Oct 28, 2020   Report

Best way to farm this late game is use tek gauntlets on the charcoal trees on crystal I was getting 600+ per hit on smalls

6 points   Nov 18, 2023   Report

If there is a part of the map that is charred or a lava area there are trees that drop charcoal

14 points   Dec 12, 2021   Report

I wish when I was new that I knew that u shouldn’t get rid of charcoal. I can remember dispensing multiple full stacks…..

5 points   Oct 20, 2023   Report

For ragnarok go to the volcano and gather charcoal from the burnt trees

6 points   Jul 28, 2021   Report

Get a ton of campfires and wood and boom! You got a easy charcoal farm!

4 points   Jul 1, 2022   Report

Mammoth gets a good bit but left clicking.

Better than wyverns

4 points   Apr 2, 2021   Report

Put 20 camp fires fill them with wood if you don’t have a industrial forge and leave them overnight

4 points   Mar 1, 2021   Report

Always use wood when cooking/smelting things in the early/mid game and you'll build up a decent amount of charcoal.

3 points   Mar 12, 2021   Report

Best way for charcoal on the center before you obtain an industrial forge is harvesting the trees at lava island. While wyverns might give more, all I know is that any dino with an attack can harvest them. Because of this, using fast dinos with good melee and attack speed, like thylas or allos, are great for quickly destroying the trees. Make sure your mount is cabable of running away or fighting the carnivores there.

0 points   Jul 14, 2022   Report

Ik it seems annoying to have early game, but keep it around. TRUST ME! In mid game you will need it for ammo and other things. To grind to get ammo u need a TON of charcoal so again, so trust.

0 points   Jul 11, 2022   Report

Just use mining drill.You will get 1000+ charcoal with one tree.

0 points   Sep 3, 2021   Report

Tip. put metal in a forge then any quantity of wood u want (i recommend 200) light it up, forget about it and boom

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