Stranded on a desert island, having to tame and raise dinosaurs for a living, is a perfect dream experience provided by Ark: Ascended Survival. A redesigned and remastered version of the 2017 hit, Ascended Survival provides more in-depth exploration, tribe development, and even more dinosaurs. Various dinosaurs inside ARK: Ascended Survival They are perfect for beginning players to start building bases and stocks of materials. Glittering waters and misty jungles are ideal places to explore the realms of dinosaur breeding and make your farming dreams come true.
Players are deposited on an idyllic beach with the world at their fingertips when starting a new save – at least on the vanilla map The Island. The biggest problem for many players, however, is where to start. These dinosaurs are the ones that every player should try to find as quickly as possible due to its benefits in gathering materials, providing transportation, or defensive abilities.
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Moschops
A perfect first dinosaur choice for many players
Although a little intimidating due to its size, Moschops is the perfect first dinosaur choice for many players. They excel at early harvesting of fiber and fruit to help tame other dinosaurs or to start a base. They have an autonomous harvesting ability that allows for efficient harvesting of fiber that is used in many starter recipes without making a scythe.
Although a little intimidating due to its size, Moschops is the perfect first dinosaur choice for many players.
Moschops resemble a primitive Komodo dragon and can be ridden bareback, making them extremely useful. They can be found in the starting beach areas and are passively tamed. Due to their autonomous foraging, Moschops are also excellent at finding rare fruit. This is one of the most underrated dinosaurs in the world WINGas he is normally seen as a big coward. He has a considerable amount of health and combat potential, making him a great starting dinosaur.
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Ichthyosaur
The easiest aquatic dinosaur to tame and looks like a dolphin
The Ichthyosaurus is the easiest aquatic dinosaur to tame and resembles a dolphin. As a passive domesticate, the easiest way to capture an ichthyosaur is to collect meat and hand-feed it. For players interested in exploring the underwater area, this is the best way to do so outside of Beelzebufo as nothing can attack the player while riding the ichthyosaur. An interesting tactic surrounding these dinosaurs allows you to defeat a megalodon early as long as you master about eight of them.
It may take some finesse to tame an ichthyosaur, as they may congregate near mantas or megalodons. They are very easy to tame and provide a quick way to explore underwater areas. It can only take three in-game days to make a full circle around the map, compared to some of the slower methods.
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Triceratops
This dinosaur offers great resistance to damage
While this may not be the easiest dinosaur to tame at first, it is worth the effort required. It would be best to first tame another dinosaur that has the ability to pick fruit, as you will need several narcoberries to make tranquilizer arrows. Once domesticated, however, This dinosaur offers great damage resistance and can be a good early game beater.
Triceratops is not only excellent for defensive and berry-picking abilities, but it can also chop down trees for straw and small amounts of wood. Triceratops are excellent early game base defenders, as the only thing stronger than them for most early gamers is Ark: Ascended Survivalalpha creatures. When searching for Triceratops in the wild, however, players should be aware that their heads glow red when there is a larger predator lurking in the nearby shadows.
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Pteranodon
These easily tamed beasts are full of surprises
This is one of the best flying dinosaurs that can be tamed at the start of the game, let alone one of the most useful tames at the start of any game. Higher levels are obviously better because your resistance is greater, but these easily tamed beasts are full of surprises. Pteranodons do not require clubs or damage to be tamedas they have an incredibly small health pool. Tranquilizer arrows are made from narcoberries that can be found in swamp caves.
One of the biggest components to keeping a Pteranodon useful is keeping an eye on its stamina bars. If the dinosaur runs out of stamina while in the air, it will unfortunately fall from the sky. Many friends have been lost this way, so stay tuned.
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Lystrosaurus
A cute addition to the list
A surprisingly cute addition to the list, Lystrosaurus is reminiscent of that animal companion everyone becomes strangely attached to at the end of a movie. While not the best for most things, this excellent dinosaur companion provides benefits to the group in the form of an experience boost for all other dinosaurs near the player. Lystrosaurus is incredibly easy to tame, as the passively tamed creature only requires basic fruit.
For players interested in player versus player techniques, Lystrosaurus provides valuable experience boosts for leveling up dinosaurs to reach Diplodocus and eventually Allosaurus. Otherwise, the harvestable Lystrosaurus eggs are good ways to get lots of basic feed early in the game to tame some of the more useful harvesting dinosaurs.
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Dilophosaurus
One of the first venomous dinosaurs available
These frilly creatures make excellent meat-eaters for beginners before getting into the big game. The Dilophosaur is a great dinosaur to have early in the game, as it Its venomous attacks make it a great offensive dinosaur to tame. Dilophosauruses eat meat easily obtained from creatures such as Dodos, Pegomastax, and Lystrosaurus. There are also some methods to turn Dilophosauruses into a tower of sorts, placing them defensively around their base with rocks.
As one of the first venomous dinosaurs available, These frilly friends are a great addition to protecting an early game base. While they can be easily upgraded, they are a necessary step for every new player, so they may not be as useless as people think.
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Doedicurus
Can be used as an automated stone farmer
The Doedicurus is similar to an armadillo and one of the most useful resource gatherers in the early game. This dinosaur can be used as an automated stone farmer for players who want to focus on building bases as she rolls into different rock formations to crush them. The autonomous wandering function also has a built-in permission that causes the Doedicurus to return to the player before being overwhelmed, making it a perfect helper.
This dinosaur is not only cute, but also one of the most essential items for players to make at the beginning of the game. When combined with its spiny cousin, the Ankylosaurus, your wildest basic dreams can come true. Be sure to watch the timing and location of the tranquilizer arrows, as hitting the projectile will not stun the dinosaur.
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Iguanodon
This dinosaur is easily tameable and very fast
The Iguanodon is one of the best ancient dinosaurs that can be tamed and is often seen as a powerful version of the Parasaurus that is available in the same areas. Easily tameable and very fast, the Iguanodon is an incredible fruit picker and even has decent melee skills. In addition to their remarkable seeding ability, their incredibly high stamina and agility make it very easy for them to run up steep hills and mountains, making them a perfect travel companion.
An interesting mechanic allows Iguanodons to turn any fruits placed in their inventory into seeds. This mechanic, when combined with the creature’s other benefits, easily puts it in the top three dinosaurs everyone should tame early in the game.
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Raptor
A small packet of them can be very strong
The Raptor is a pretty infamous dinosaur under normal circumstances, but in ARK: Ascended Survival These creatures are incredibly strong despite their simple taming mechanics. Much like the Ichthyosaurus and Dilophosaurus, the carnivorous creature can be stunned and then fed raw meat or simple chow to tame it. The real benefit of using Raptors, however, is taming flocks of them.
By taming a small army of Raptors and using the pack buff, even high-level creatures like a Rex can be taken down quickly.
By taming a small army of Raptors and using the pack buff, even high level creatures like a Rex can be taken down quickly. The usefulness of Raptors far exceeds many of the other early tames due to how strong a small group of them can be.
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Stegosaurus
Incredibly high health and good damage
One of the most important tames a beginning player can make is the Stegosaurus. With incredibly high health and good damage, the Stegosaurus is an incredibly useful multi-purpose mount. It’s the same taming difficulty as Doedicurus, requiring just a few tranquilizer arrows and a high landmark. Once tamed, the Stegosaurus has three different backplate modes.
Each mode offers different harvesting abilitieswith hardened wood for slab harvesting, straw for heavy slab harvesting, and fruit for sharp slab harvesting. Although the Stegosaurus is extremely slow compared to some of the other mounts, the three board modes prevent riders from being knocked down by Microraptors or any other stun effects.
The area of ​​effect potential is also decent for the Stegosaurus, as it has an impale secondary attack that holds an enemy while draining their health from a respectable range. Being slow and steady is what makes players win the race for survival in Ark: Ascended Survivaland it does it while being cute too.
ARK: Survival Ascended is a reimagined version of the 2017 action-adventure MMORPG from developers Studio Wildcard and Grove Street Games. Built on Unreal Engine 5, players will return to ARK to build tribes, fight and tame dinosaurs, and brave the elements as they fight to survive in a unique sandbox where crafting and resource management are essential.
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ARK
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PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
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October 26, 2023
- Developer(s)
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Studio wild card
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Studio wild card
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer
- Engine
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Unreal Engine 5
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T for Teens due to blood, crude humor, gaming experience may change during online gaming, alcohol use, and violence