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

Burn wood in industrial forge for fast charcoal

Use more than 100 campfire and put 100 woods for each

Now you make air pollution for ark

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

I like to strip mine ill set 2 dedi boxs between my indy and chem bench set one for wood one for raw metal and link a strider to one run around n flatten every tree the switch link for raw and do the same all of this is usually on a platform outside of the base, then ill burn n smelt it all down while this is goin on i male another pass not linked for strictly flint and stone usully get around 20k per run then i load the cooked metal into stryder and the char to chem bench n start bulk crafting gunpowder, when that done it gets loaded in stryder as well inside base next to rep i got the rest of the dedis and all i have to do is hit one tab and it all gets shipped. fast, easy, n usully end up with 20 to 40k worth of ammo within the hr biggest hold up is the indyforge but doing this process you can shift mats around easily enough to craft up multiple forges after 1 run

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

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

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

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