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ARK: Survival Evolved Companion

Tips & Strategies

Just use a pickaxe on a tree. That simple. Or you could use your fists and slowly die. You choose
More Thatch Tips
How is Metal pick rated #1 and not Mantis? Equip a mantis with highest quality metal pick an much faster gathering. Put this as #1!
People, don’t use trikes or even brontos. Take a mining drill to a single tree and you could get over 1000 thatch
i don't get why nobody is mentioning the trike's charge move; i could rack up thousands of thatch with just a couple charges around a forest and the weight is decent enough to carry it all home
Some trees in the red wood, the largest ones that can be harvested and not the huge ones, can be harvested with a mining drill to collect over 4000 thatch per tree, WITH OFFICIAL STATS.
The best way to get thatch is definitely the mining drill. You can get 1000 thatch from one tree in a second.
If possible get a bronto into a large dense forest so that way you can get the most thatch out of a tail swing.
Don't believe in these rating
Trike is best because of its secondary attack
The stego and the mammoth should be up higher after they got the tlc
The absolute beast that is the Megaloceros even a low level like the one I’m currently using has 300 weight and if your just gathering thatch you can sprint jump around like a mad man collecting hundreds of thatch
The absolute beast that is the Megaloceros even a low level like the one I’m currently using has 300 weight and if your just gathering thatch you can sprint jump around like a mad man collecting hundreds of thatch