Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
A great way to get some of this early game is to use your pick, walk near your base and mine the small piles of rocks on the ground, they usually give a bit more metal than the large rocks.
Large rocks with metal pick> 2 metal. Small piles on the ground>4-6
Go find rocks by the sea or a river they give you up to 2-4 metal or find shiny rocks at mountains or turn your harvest multipler up in menu
Best metal strat
-Harvest metal with magmasaur
-Store it in a gasbags
-Pick it up with a wyvern, and for some reason the wyvern is barely weighted down.
I encumbered a gasbags using this it’s so busted
If you're using a strider to gather metal, try putting it in the transfer section of the transmitter on its back so it doesn't weigh you down and you don't have to walk all the way home with it.
Build you base at volcano if you are on mobile
Tame an Anky and find the gold rocks and destroy them you get about 10-30 metal per rock.
The Island: All over mountains, use argy carrying an anky for the best metal runs.
Scorched Earth: Same method as the island, find an argy/anky and fly to the top of mountains.
Abberation: Loads of metal in the blue zone, a crab carrying an anky is the best method.
Get an Anky and argi have your friend get on the anky and you pick him up with the argi and you will get more Weight therefore more Metal and ur mobile.
On the island if you are starting off build a raft an head to herbivore (south east island) once you arrive knock out an anky and make a saddle use him to excavate some metal and load it onto your raft herbivore has no predators and lots of metal making it ideal for new tribes or tribes with low metal needs also if your lucky a basilo (a slender type of whale) will spawn in the bay these are good for the arctic and provide oil happy hunting!
Extinction finding tip:
Go near the Trench side and go up to the Wasteland you'll find shiny rocks :>
(Tysm for reading my tip)
Anky + argy name a better duo (Magmasaur doesn't count)
If your just starting the rocks by the rivers or the shore whatever you want to call it have alot of rocks the small ones in the water have the most specially with a metal pickaxe
Dont use dunkleosteus in ark mobile ocean cause stones in ocean dont drop metal just stones and oil.
Get a paracer, and put as big of a platform on top via foundations and add a ramp that goes down. This can be done with one person but the more the smoother. Get as MANY ankys on the paracers back as possible pump weight in all except one pump that anky with melee. Also keep an argy on top. Use the argy to move your one melee anky. Get metal, go back to paracer and load all of the ankys on its back with metal. Since ankys have weight reduction and don't add to the paracers weight you can carry much more metal at a time. This can be scaled up infinitely, only problem is sometimes the ankys can fall but keeping an argent will help load them back on the paracer
Mags are good for defense and farming
Okay, so you know those tiny crumbled up rock deposits at the Footpaw? Use a pickaxe (preferably metal) and you will get (not much) a good amount. (Not like 100 or smth.) Hope this helped! Like so new people can see this.
If you’re returning to ark like me then don’t waste time on an anky in single player or unofficial, just get yourself a magma and collect 1000’s of metal with just one hit
Idk why this thing is only .1 higher rating when it gathers 1.5x more
If u want metal tame an argentavis with a saddle then get an ankylosouros or a dodicoros set whichever one you want on wonder carry the one you want with an argentavis then go to stone to get metal or go to somewhere with gold rocks for even more metal if u want gold rocks go to a volcano you can get a lot of metal and that’s how you get a lot of metal hope that helped
Magmasaurs are the best at gathering metal
Anky wait reduction is somewhat glitched in ark mobile. The weight reduction does not work some times remember SOMETIMES