This is for newer players so please don’t downvote because your Quetz and anky can get more. Step one make a raft with a bed and some storage and if you want to you can put a furnace down. Step two if you have an anky get them on the raft with some ramps and roofs. Step 3 look at the ark wiki and find the nearest metal rocks (the gold ones). Step four Christopher Columbus your a$$ over there. Step five for longer stays make a little house nothing fancy even 2 foundations a bed and storage with some backup gear will do. Step six get that metal. Also bring way more than you think you ever will, 1900 metal ore will only make 10 longneck rifles. Thank you for reading this, if I knew you read this it would make my day, now have a lovely rest of your day……

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

Can we have a moment for our amazing ankys…

Take your argy then go to the nearest mountain drop the ankilo then ride it to a rock mine it then put that sweet iron into your argy then g home cand you got some iron

If you are having trouble getting metal and don’t have anky, go for the small piles of rocks you should get 2-3 per pile

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

Gas bag+mining drill= more metal than you know what to do with!

Make it point to the sky if this helped!!!

If ur on mobile just go to the top of the volcano and there will be all the metal, obsidian, and crystal u will ever need with ZERO things that want to kill u.

P.S is it just me or does everything I type have a 12 second delay

Poor people use a stone pick. Crazy people use a metal pick . Normal people use a anky rich people use a magmasour

Tame an anky and argy pick up the anky with an argy go to metal mountain then hit metal rocks with your anky and boom you have a metal making machine