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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for crystal? Tips and strategies for crystal in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Caves have access to this, and Crystal Wyverns drop
Primary Crystal and this, so good luck finding this!
Where is the minding drill cause that’s probably the best way even tho it’s later in the garme
On Ragnorok there is a little ice cave area before you enter the Ice Queen cave that has a ton of crystal as well as oil. It has 5 to 6 Direbears that kinda roam around. Bring an Anky to gather and an Argy with decent melee to deal with the bears and carry your crystal back to base.
First get yourself a decent pteranodon then get an argentavis a high level one for better, because that argentavis can carry a Ankylo and the Ankylo get A LOT OF METAL and has it weight reduction
Mags are awesome for this
I recommend taking a bronto to the lunar biome on genesis 1 there are tons of flowers that also give crystal
There is a lot at the mountain at 60 60
Hi if you are a mobile player the volcano is AMAZING for crystal and obsidian and metal!!!!
If you take a stryder to gen 1 space zone then you can easily get dedis full on the left side of the space zone
In aberration is a pretty easy to find in early game you just have to spawn at the portal run out of the portal jump into the lake and go to the little island and there are a few crystals there (it’s also a good base spot)
Magmasour is better than mantis with metal picks
I saw one person comment that volcano is better than caves, I would have to disagree on one cave in particular. As I play mobile as well, the first cave is mobile players get sent to for the pursuits. But as I also play on PS4, we console players don’t have pursuits, the cave I’m talking about is roughly 80 lat 50 lon. Now for mobile, I haven’t seen any creatures spawn in the beginning part, only pasted the dossier area. So there are a few crystals, some you need to jump to get, but you should be completely safe. Key word: SHOULD. I might just be lucky, idk.
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!
The beat place for crystal in my opinion is on the Mountain east of the volcano, there are bunches of 200+ crystals worth there.
Put it this way crystal can be found in small to large quantities in any area that could probably kill a lightly armed beach bob, areas such as Arctic, caves, mountains ect.
Try using a mining drill on crystals if you don't have a Magmasaur or Mantis. Works much better than a metal pick until you get a better dino.
Soooo the dex says you get more crystal from using the pickaxes, I have an ascendant one on mobile, and from MY experience, my level 100 anky collects more crystal than I do. But that's with me, I don't know about anyone esle.
Use a bronto or theri or racer to harvest the crystal bushes in lunar biome
Use high melee Doedi on lampposts in Extinction, one hit gives around 200 crystal as well as element dust.
JUST USE A MAGMASAUR!!! YOU'RE WELCOME