Ark: The best tips for survival

"ARK: Survival Evolved" is an early access game in which you have to survive as long as possible. With our best tips this is not a problem: For example, we will show you how to tame and ride dinosaurs and thus survive other players.

Ark Tips: The First Steps to Survival

You should follow these steps after the first spawn in order to be well equipped as quickly as possible. Especially at the beginning, an attacking dinosaur is definitely death:

1. After the spawn you should run to the next tree and hit it with your fists. How to get wood and straw.
2. While walking across the map, you should also press [E] several times. This is how you collect all sorts of useful things such as stones, berries and fiber. You can use that later to build different things.
3. Once you have climbed the level and learned to make a pickaxe and ax, you should use it to fell trees. In this way you will no longer lose life, as if you hit the trees with your fist.
4. Then you should use a pickaxe to hit stones to get flint. You can use it to make a spear and use it to defend yourself against dinosaurs.
5. You should also use the spear to hunt fish. They bring significantly more food than berries and you run no risk of being poisoned.

Ark: Survive with domesticated dinosaurs

Taming dinos is one of the most exciting and important features in Ark. You can then use the dinosaurs as mounts and guard animals.

• You can tame as many dinosaurs as you like. However, you must also be able to feed all dinosaurs.
• Do not start with a large dino, but preferably with a small one like the Dilophosaurus. This should also have the lowest possible level.
• To tame a Dilophosaurus, pack Raw Meat, some Narcoberries, and a Slingshot.
• Use the slingshot to throw a few stones at Dilophosaurus' head until he is passed out.
• Now feed the dino raw meat until the hunger indicator is full.
• If the dino's loss of consciousness falls below 50 percent, you should feed it with Narcoberries. The animal is then tamed and you can use it as you wish.

Ark: More practical tips for survival

• Especially at the beginning, other players with higher levels are often a danger. That is why ARK can also be played locally. In this LAN mode you can choose to play cooperatively with friends or completely without other players. The danger is limited to the dinosaurs.
• Make sure to activate the "Show Player on Map" setting when starting. If you respawn after a death, you will lose your entire inventory. With the setting, however, the body of the previous character is marked on the map. So you can loot his backpack and retrieve your items.
• Stay on the beach at the beginning. In the island's interior and on the open sea there are much stronger opponents that you can only kill later.
• The game does not differentiate between salt and fresh water. You can dive into any water to drink from it.
• The level of the dinosaurs does not reveal the difficulty in the fight, but how difficult it is to tame the dinosaurs. So it shouldn't be a problem at the beginning to kill a level 10 dodo.
• Make clothes as quickly as possible. This not only brings armor bonuses, but also reduces your consumption of water and food.
• Always keep an eye on your surroundings. Dinosaurs wander around and can suddenly appear behind you - even if no dinosaur has been seen far and wide for the past few days.

If Ark is jerky and runs smoothly, you will find the best performance tips for Ark in the next article.