Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Cave in the south on the island (first caving quest) in the little valley has many easy bugs to kill. Bring stimberries and water bottles. Axes best way to get chitin from corpses. Cave in the south also easy way to get small amount of crystal for newbies as some crystals appear before you actually need to fight. I got 50+ crystals which is enough for earlygame crafts. You can run cave naked with a lil stimberries or none if you are willing to die some times. If you speedrun it i suggest placing bed by enterence if you die. Watch out, river by the entrance has spinos sometimes.
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A good way I found to get chitin is farming the scorpions with a axe you get like 120 -140 each
Works as a smithy but you can’t repair things in it
I tamed one before I got a saddle and I waited so long to ride it
Do missions if you’re not the exact level or you can get loot drops you have a 1% of getting it or it just random. Hope it helps
Kill trillobits and you will get a lot of chitin
If you’re on mobile, sabers are good for harvesting chitin. Go into the south cave (the easiest one) and you’ll come out with thousands of chitin.
Kill bugs to get the most chitin
Can also be used as a mobile smithy. Pretty handy, right?
just get a direwolf and go cave exploring or getting the artifact for a soothing balm before you tame an argy
got a crap ton of chitin from a single cave run with luna the direwolf
Tame a saber and cave or look for bugs they get around 40 chitin per kill