If you are early to mid game then I suggest going up the volcano on the island

(I play ark mobile) as on top it has all the obsidian,metal and crystal you want. The volcanoe is much better than caves to get crystal I think because you dont have to think about all the possible threats as once on top off the volcano I found that there were no dangerous animals. I could suggest building a base their because off all the crystal and material but it would probably be late game

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Ankylo is better than metal pick

The funny thing is that it says that the metal pick gets more crystal than the Ankylosaurus. But the Ankylosaurus harvested more than double than my metal pick harvested.

Never will understand all of the recommendations for the mining laser.

Testing on single player with an Ascendant +295% mining laser (which is better than anyone is going to ever find on official servers) vs my +300% melee damage character using a +700% metal pick vs my 300th level Anky with most of her levels spent on Weight (she's +488% melee damage). Results of hitting a single crystal node:

Mining Laser: 64 crystal

Metal Pick: 55 crystal

Anky: 160 crystal

And that's every time, day in day out. The mining laser is truly mediocre considering it weighs so much, takes two hands to weild, and uses up gasoline like mad.

Anky is far more effective than the mining laser, and frankly the metal pick will easily generate all of the 100 pound stacks of crystal you can carry *anyway*.

The difficulty isn't finding or mining crystal. It's in transport, same as with Obsidian, metal, even stone and wood.

Collecting thousands at once is easy. Getting even a good fraction of that to your base? Good luck.

Use an anky with high melee to maximize crystal

On the island, there is a little mountain near the footpaw I think that has a few small crystal nodes. It isn’t much, but in the early game it’s the easiest source of crystal for spyglasses and water jars

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I find it funny that a pick is th best

Use an anky and level it up in melee. Melee damage gets more material. Use with an argentavise for best efect

Use an anky or just get a good mining drill which is 10x better than a anky

Magma is much better. Takes a lot more than anky. Trust me. I trust what dododex say until a friend told me to prove a magma and there is a huge difference. much much better

If u are wondering why is pick the best option is because they use base melee as a reference, so thats why...

Wrong.....pick doesn't get much crystal, use anky for crystal to get in the heaven of crystals!

On ragnarok, there’s a little cave type thing in the desert at 77.8 / 78.3. Bunch of crystals and pretty safe, just watch for mantis.

Go extintion with Doedic and hit the lampost u get much more than all this ways of farming.

In valguero, there is an easy place to get these. In the chalk hills spawn 2 (i think) the place where there is an island surrounded by rocks and a moat of water. If you go up, you will see land above that place, and a lake on the top connected to there. Right underneath the land brige of the lake, you can find lots of crystal and obsidian, all outside on a little hill. No dangers, maybe a few raptors or so (rarely)

I want crystal more please 1999

Mantis and pick is a solid combo for crystal farming. Use around 300 melee minimum for mantis and 250+ pick and you can get a good amount easily. Make sure you have a good quetzal and/or argent or ravager (more is better) for carrying all of it back!

You can find them on volcanoes or high cliffs you get a lot for a metal pick thing is it has a lot of weight on it!

Lots of crystals hidden in between rocks in snowy area, especially in frozen maw cave, also easyer to see at night as they glow.

Lots of crystals hidden in between rocks in snowy area, especially in frozen maw cave, also easyer to see at night as they glow.