Tell me about it. Shit is so frustrating because I know so many players take those videos to heart and build in those locations thinking they won’t get raided. Hopefully this video helps people out! Thanks for the comment!
Correct, once the foundations gets snapped to the world border you can float them wherever you want down there. Border then acts as if the foundations were on ground.
Uhh, honestly not sure if I had tried it anywhere else. I guess you can always try it somewhere that can place a cliff plat near the world border. For some reason I feel like I did test this and it only worked in the valg underworld lol.
Honestly couldn’t tell you, I don’t have ASE downloaded anymore so I can’t test it for you. When you test just make sure structure collision is off then build it the same way I did.
I could do it, yeah! However my motto for solo/smalls bases is always always always go to single player mode and scout for a rathole on your own. Once you do, scour UA-cam to see if has been showed before. If not, you’re good. Make sure to never keep your player sleeping there or Dino’s out, cause some people scout with a Parasaur. And like the video said, sometimes it’s never worth building up with turrets, cause people scout using the turret cap method to scout. But if you want a video I gotchu, it can be more informational about how to build solo/smalls
Great video, really helpful and has good information for someone like me who hasn't played ark in a whale and wants to get back to it. Also I have a question about the Emerald forest valg border ceiling base. I'm going to be playing on a server without genesis maps and extinction so there won't be skiffs and gasbags to raid the base with. Is there any other way to raid or its a good spot for a duo
Glad it is a video that helped out quite a bit! So the good thing about Valg Emerald Forest is that even on official Skiffs aren’t allowed down there. But when it comes to raiding, you can technically use a Quetzal to raid down there. I’ve seen bases down there raided (not just a ceiling base) by whistling a hatched up Quetzal. However as long as you have decent turret coverage that isn’t an issue. Other than that, that ceiling base is actually insanely strong, especially without Gen 1/2 and Extinction. If the server you are playing has a pick up gun make sure you pick up the foundations you use to get yourself out to where you want to build, that way it doesn’t show a big line of foundations leading yo your base lol.
Glad you enjoyed the video! So there are a bunch of different scenarios to how that question can be answered. Honestly depends on how the base is built. If you can ride a Stego, they are your best bet to soak both. As long as they don’t have Tek turrets placed high to where it will splash and hit you riding. The best scenario is not soaking anything, especially Tek Turrets. One person soaking with a stego, push up to Tek Rex/Tapey the tek turrets. Then you can just rocket rush the base once Teks are gone. It’ll be wayyy to long of a message for me to list out every possible solution. But the best one is: Stego/Tek Rex/Tapejera Combo Or Soak all tamed creature turrets with Carbo’s, then c4 bomb the wall with the Carbo’s. But your all around best soaker is Stego. Make sure it 100% imprinted and mate boosted. If you have extra people, bring a Yuty. With all those buffs, and a capped saddle, heavies do like 8 dmg a shot. Kinda dumb
Definitely depends on a few different factors. Are you playing official or unofficial? - If official, it is riddled with cheaters, so you’re experience will probably be limited to surging a few weeks in a rathole before you get ESP’d. Doesn’t really matter where you build. But if you do go official, I HIGHLY recommend finding a spot that YOU found on single player and search UA-cam to see if has been exposed, if not, you’ll last longer… by like a week =] I’ve always gravitated to underwater bases because 95% of the OP shit in this game can’t be used underwater lol. - If unofficial, definitely your best bet, QoL changes, sometimes ORP, benefits to solo players, no damn collision lol. There are quite a few good ratholes I would go with. Ceiling Ab is always a good choice since no flyers are allowed, but as before. Find your own spot only you know about. There are TONS of undiscovered spots out there. Hope that helped a little bit. Always remember, if you are trying to stay hidden, build hidden, don’t put gen range high so they can see particles, don’t put turrets outside. If the spot is on UA-cam, you aren’t hidden lol.
No problem, was about to head to bed and your comment popped up lol. My honest opinion is go unofficial, a bunch of good clusters out there that will give you such a better experience than official. If you want to search single player and find a spot, feel free to shoot me a DM on discord (FatCat Ark#1405) and I can give my honest opinion on if it’s worth building/help you with a build on it too. Pros/cons
Facts Hah, I mean, unfortunately, that is what this game boils down to. If you are on Official, good luck. It forces you to play with people from different time zones so all times are covered and it turns into a full time job with how sweaty some people are. I recommend playing Unofficial servers. Best route to go down. Glad you liked the video though!
Haha yeah, it is very very hard to stay alive on honestly any server, without 24 hour rotation. You will have a TON more fun living out of a rathole that YOU find on single player and find do-able raid targets that you can cheese to get yourself started. Eliminate the grind and let other people do it for you =] haha. I was searching on Center the other day because when I make videos for some reason I ALWAYS get sidetracked and just start searching the map for new spots lol. And I found one underwater that is decent, good amount of space, small entrance and hidden. I feel they made a change to the map and forgot to add mesh back to it hah
Lol I hear ya. It definitely is time consuming, but I’d rather spend 30 minutes looking for a decent spot than spending hours upon hours farming and building up for 2 weeks then get wiped lol! But there ya go, hope it goes well!
Absolutely! I didn’t go too deep into the caves because on official servers, unless you have 24 hour coverage and close to a full tribe, caves are useless to build in. I was planning on doing a separate video for the caves anyway. Just ran out of time on this video. Stay tuned!
@@FatCatArk I am so glad that you can. I didnt go to much in detail but i am on unofficial 3 man and we are built on lost island abbertiation cave just if you can give us some pointers on that thanks.
Oh okay gotcha, unfortunately the holiday has been super busy for me so I haven’t been able to download and check out Lost Island. It honestly depends on what the unofficial settings are. 3 man may be tough to defend, especially if the cave your talking about is high traffic and popular. -Spam - Since it’s a cave, you only have 1 entrance/exit. So don’t get turret locked in by the raiding tribe to where you can’t leave your cave. Have a TP, or secondary hidden spawn point outside your cave so you can potentially flank the people raiding with a giga. -Defensive measures against cheese (ptera diving, chicken diving, stego rushing, etc.) - Parasaur - huge advantage knowing where the enemy is. But yeah much more you can do, but I’ll save it for the video. Hope that helps a bit. Those two are honestly the biggest things for caves.
Great question! It depends a ton on your play style. Me personally. I just like rushing a fab to get c4 and rockets, get me a rathole that I’ve found on single player that no one knows of. And just raid people constantly. I’m working on a video now and found two mesh holes on the island. Use single player, it’s your friend when finding locations. For a larger tribe, if you have 24/7 coverage and want PvP, get yourself a cave (shoot for snow cave on island, pearl cave or snow north on center) or tube on gen2. Jumping puzzle mesh spot is my personal favorite (the one in my 4 OP base location video). Practically impossible to raid. Just be careful doing it on official.
Honestly forgot about that, I mean it is definitely a decent way to store some loot to be somewhat hidden. The issue is that most UA-camrs have A LOT of Sky Quetz hunting videos so it has become a little bit popular. It also got a ton easier to scout with the release of the Astrodelphis, since that thing zooms. I would recommend it for sure if you can't find any ratholes on single player to use. Also, don't put all of your eggs in one Quetzal. Spread your wealth out, that way if one Quetzal gets found, you don't lose everything and quit lol. Maybe mix it up with a Sky Quetz, buried Reaper and Basilisk? haha
@@FatCatArk Yeah, I agree. i think the astrodelphis has made it hard unfortunately. And the huge downside is you sky quetzals are not defendeble at all. A bob on an argy can kill your quetzal. I had a 3 quetzal base in the arctic region on gen 1 where you can't mount fliers other than the astro at all and it lasted 2 1/2 weeks before it was found which is similar to my timeline experience with hidden rat holes.
Yeah it was A LOT more time consuming using a wyvern lol. And very true, you can’t really defend a sky Quetz. So, since the release of their newest patch. They made Astro’s unable to use their star fighter mode unless you have the engram unlocked which is 120, so that’s actually huge. That cuts out a lot of people scouting. Lol yeah, timelines are very short on Ark if you are solo/duo without 24 hour rotation.
So the summary is that you will become raided if you cannot be online for 24 H . Rule 1 for ARK . Simply don't be mad if you are getting raided .Some no life virgin would be able to play more than you . This is the part of the game .. Enjoy the process of building and that's all.
Hah essentially…unfortunately that is the state of the game, unless you have 24 H rotation. Unofficial servers alleviate that bullshit but it’s still there. I think the best part is just finding a rathole, building a fabricator and only building rockets and C4 and just finding raids. Let other people do the work for you. But other than that, good summary! Lol
The rat hole one best if u can find your own my tribe mate found a rat hole and for the past month we have been there no one had found us yet and it’s because he found it on his own and its not on yt yet
@@FatCatArk fr you should make more vids like this you’re great at explaining things straight forward no bs easy to understand and ive played ark for a long time now since release of the game on console and i still learned a few things you earned a sub
Glad you enjoyed the video, or whatever you could understand 😂. Going to use google translate for this next part lol. si mira en la aplicación UA-cam Mobile, haga clic en los tres puntos en la esquina superior derecha, haga clic en subtítulos y luego traduzca automáticamente. elige tu idioma y obtendrás subtítulos en español. That could either be on point or wayyyy off lol. Hope that helps hah. Good luck!
Did it? I’m going to have to go back and check, no one has said anything about that issue so I have no clue. That is really weird! Hope it eventually worked out for you, sorry about that! Just checked and it worked okay for me, on all quality settings. Not sure what happened!
I much rather enjoy being established and raid who I please, when I want. Opposed to slaving away, constantly getting raided and starting over =] to each their own!
Haha 50% of it is shitty mic, 50% my son is sleeping. I got a new mic so that should be better for the next overview video I do. I appreciate the comment!! Hope the video helped!
Some nice practical considerations, I do get tired of seeing all the "unraidable" stuff that you'd totally get raided before you could ever finish.
Tell me about it. Shit is so frustrating because I know so many players take those videos to heart and build in those locations thinking they won’t get raided. Hopefully this video helps people out! Thanks for the comment!
Like Reapers lol
One of the best building tips video out there ! Huge props to you brother !
I appreciate it! It pains me seeing so many people build in the worst spots possible
Lol.
finally a video that teaches me something that actually matters.
thank you!
Glad it has helped you!! I felt like people needed to know this, hurts my head seeing so many people built out in the open lol.
Awesome video man. No click bait BS. Pure info.
10/10
I appreciate it!
You just got a new sub my guy. Nothing but facts in this video. Go from a Bob to a pro in this video no cap
Thanks boss! Glad the video did it's job! Always throwing facts out there!
Every vid has been very helpful please keep up the work
Glad they have helped you out!
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16:00 i take it, removing those pillars will not break the foundations, right?
Correct, once the foundations gets snapped to the world border you can float them wherever you want down there. Border then acts as if the foundations were on ground.
@@FatCatArk erm does that work on all maps or only valguero in their aberation biom?
Uhh, honestly not sure if I had tried it anywhere else. I guess you can always try it somewhere that can place a cliff plat near the world border. For some reason I feel like I did test this and it only worked in the valg underworld lol.
@@FatCatArk if it would work, areas like Lunar/bog bioms gen 1, Aberration, Fjordur worldtree area all could be great.
Honestly couldn’t tell you, I don’t have ASE downloaded anymore so I can’t test it for you.
When you test just make sure structure collision is off then build it the same way I did.
Also! Best base option for solo/ small tribes. That'd be a dope video. Thanks again. Good stuff
I could do it, yeah! However my motto for solo/smalls bases is always always always go to single player mode and scout for a rathole on your own. Once you do, scour UA-cam to see if has been showed before. If not, you’re good.
Make sure to never keep your player sleeping there or Dino’s out, cause some people scout with a Parasaur. And like the video said, sometimes it’s never worth building up with turrets, cause people scout using the turret cap method to scout.
But if you want a video I gotchu, it can be more informational about how to build solo/smalls
Worth the wait.
Always appreciate it!
Great video, really helpful and has good information for someone like me who hasn't played ark in a whale and wants to get back to it. Also I have a question about the Emerald forest valg border ceiling base. I'm going to be playing on a server without genesis maps and extinction so there won't be skiffs and gasbags to raid the base with. Is there any other way to raid or its a good spot for a duo
Glad it is a video that helped out quite a bit! So the good thing about Valg Emerald Forest is that even on official Skiffs aren’t allowed down there.
But when it comes to raiding, you can technically use a Quetzal to raid down there. I’ve seen bases down there raided (not just a ceiling base) by whistling a hatched up Quetzal. However as long as you have decent turret coverage that isn’t an issue.
Other than that, that ceiling base is actually insanely strong, especially without Gen 1/2 and Extinction. If the server you are playing has a pick up gun make sure you pick up the foundations you use to get yourself out to where you want to build, that way it doesn’t show a big line of foundations leading yo your base lol.
Why would you wanna get back in a whale lol?
This was a great guide and tips loved it
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
wow good editing
Thanks! Legit have never edited anything in my life until I started this channel hah!
Like the video, what's the best way to soak tek turrets and heavy turrets
Glad you enjoyed the video! So there are a bunch of different scenarios to how that question can be answered. Honestly depends on how the base is built.
If you can ride a Stego, they are your best bet to soak both. As long as they don’t have Tek turrets placed high to where it will splash and hit you riding.
The best scenario is not soaking anything, especially Tek Turrets. One person soaking with a stego, push up to Tek Rex/Tapey the tek turrets. Then you can just rocket rush the base once Teks are gone.
It’ll be wayyy to long of a message for me to list out every possible solution. But the best one is:
Stego/Tek Rex/Tapejera Combo
Or
Soak all tamed creature turrets with Carbo’s, then c4 bomb the wall with the Carbo’s.
But your all around best soaker is Stego. Make sure it 100% imprinted and mate boosted. If you have extra people, bring a Yuty. With all those buffs, and a capped saddle, heavies do like 8 dmg a shot. Kinda dumb
what or where should i build as a solo?
Definitely depends on a few different factors.
Are you playing official or unofficial?
- If official, it is riddled with cheaters, so you’re experience will probably be limited to surging a few weeks in a rathole before you get ESP’d. Doesn’t really matter where you build. But if you do go official, I HIGHLY recommend finding a spot that YOU found on single player and search UA-cam to see if has been exposed, if not, you’ll last longer… by like a week =] I’ve always gravitated to underwater bases because 95% of the OP shit in this game can’t be used underwater lol.
- If unofficial, definitely your best bet, QoL changes, sometimes ORP, benefits to solo players, no damn collision lol. There are quite a few good ratholes I would go with. Ceiling Ab is always a good choice since no flyers are allowed, but as before. Find your own spot only you know about. There are TONS of undiscovered spots out there.
Hope that helped a little bit. Always remember, if you are trying to stay hidden, build hidden, don’t put gen range high so they can see particles, don’t put turrets outside. If the spot is on UA-cam, you aren’t hidden lol.
@@FatCatArk thanks bro , i wasnt expecting a reply that fast
No problem, was about to head to bed and your comment popped up lol.
My honest opinion is go unofficial, a bunch of good clusters out there that will give you such a better experience than official.
If you want to search single player and find a spot, feel free to shoot me a DM on discord (FatCat Ark#1405) and I can give my honest opinion on if it’s worth building/help you with a build on it too. Pros/cons
@@FatCatArk bettt , thanks i will man
Conclusion: Your base is gonna get raided no matter what
Good video though it explains a lot.
Facts
Hah, I mean, unfortunately, that is what this game boils down to. If you are on Official, good luck. It forces you to play with people from different time zones so all times are covered and it turns into a full time job with how sweaty some people are. I recommend playing Unofficial servers. Best route to go down. Glad you liked the video though!
It takes me ages to find a good base spot and when I I don't last longer then two days lol
Haha yeah, it is very very hard to stay alive on honestly any server, without 24 hour rotation. You will have a TON more fun living out of a rathole that YOU find on single player and find do-able raid targets that you can cheese to get yourself started. Eliminate the grind and let other people do it for you =] haha.
I was searching on Center the other day because when I make videos for some reason I ALWAYS get sidetracked and just start searching the map for new spots lol. And I found one underwater that is decent, good amount of space, small entrance and hidden. I feel they made a change to the map and forgot to add mesh back to it hah
@@FatCatArk lol I don't have the time to look for rat holes lol. I finally got an active tribe so we will see how it goes
Lol I hear ya. It definitely is time consuming, but I’d rather spend 30 minutes looking for a decent spot than spending hours upon hours farming and building up for 2 weeks then get wiped lol!
But there ya go, hope it goes well!
Yo u sound like the terminator lol. New subscriber here.
Hahah, can’t go wrong with that lol. Appreciate ya!
underated
are u able to go more in depth for the cave bases?
Absolutely! I didn’t go too deep into the caves because on official servers, unless you have 24 hour coverage and close to a full tribe, caves are useless to build in. I was planning on doing a separate video for the caves anyway. Just ran out of time on this video. Stay tuned!
@@FatCatArk I am so glad that you can. I didnt go to much in detail but i am on unofficial 3 man and we are built on lost island abbertiation cave just if you can give us some pointers on that thanks.
Oh okay gotcha, unfortunately the holiday has been super busy for me so I haven’t been able to download and check out Lost Island. It honestly depends on what the unofficial settings are. 3 man may be tough to defend, especially if the cave your talking about is high traffic and popular.
-Spam - Since it’s a cave, you only have 1 entrance/exit. So don’t get turret locked in by the raiding tribe to where you can’t leave your cave. Have a TP, or secondary hidden spawn point outside your cave so you can potentially flank the people raiding with a giga.
-Defensive measures against cheese (ptera diving, chicken diving, stego rushing, etc.)
- Parasaur - huge advantage knowing where the enemy is.
But yeah much more you can do, but I’ll save it for the video. Hope that helps a bit. Those two are honestly the biggest things for caves.
but where should you build yourself now?
Great question! It depends a ton on your play style. Me personally. I just like rushing a fab to get c4 and rockets, get me a rathole that I’ve found on single player that no one knows of. And just raid people constantly. I’m working on a video now and found two mesh holes on the island. Use single player, it’s your friend when finding locations.
For a larger tribe, if you have 24/7 coverage and want PvP, get yourself a cave (shoot for snow cave on island, pearl cave or snow north on center) or tube on gen2.
Jumping puzzle mesh spot is my personal favorite (the one in my 4 OP base location video). Practically impossible to raid. Just be careful doing it on official.
mesh ofc, the deeper u go in the harder it is to find u
Hah facts. But straight up blows getting globally banned/HWID banned lol.
How about quetzal sky bases?
Honestly forgot about that, I mean it is definitely a decent way to store some loot to be somewhat hidden. The issue is that most UA-camrs have A LOT of Sky Quetz hunting videos so it has become a little bit popular. It also got a ton easier to scout with the release of the Astrodelphis, since that thing zooms. I would recommend it for sure if you can't find any ratholes on single player to use. Also, don't put all of your eggs in one Quetzal. Spread your wealth out, that way if one Quetzal gets found, you don't lose everything and quit lol. Maybe mix it up with a Sky Quetz, buried Reaper and Basilisk? haha
@@FatCatArk Yeah, I agree. i think the astrodelphis has made it hard unfortunately. And the huge downside is you sky quetzals are not defendeble at all. A bob on an argy can kill your quetzal. I had a 3 quetzal base in the arctic region on gen 1 where you can't mount fliers other than the astro at all and it lasted 2 1/2 weeks before it was found which is similar to my timeline experience with hidden rat holes.
Yeah it was A LOT more time consuming using a wyvern lol. And very true, you can’t really defend a sky Quetz. So, since the release of their newest patch. They made Astro’s unable to use their star fighter mode unless you have the engram unlocked which is 120, so that’s actually huge. That cuts out a lot of people scouting.
Lol yeah, timelines are very short on Ark if you are solo/duo without 24 hour rotation.
So the summary is that you will become raided if you cannot be online for 24 H . Rule 1 for ARK . Simply don't be mad if you are getting raided .Some no life virgin would be able to play more than you . This is the part of the game .. Enjoy the process of building and that's all.
Hah essentially…unfortunately that is the state of the game, unless you have 24 H rotation. Unofficial servers alleviate that bullshit but it’s still there. I think the best part is just finding a rathole, building a fabricator and only building rockets and C4 and just finding raids. Let other people do the work for you. But other than that, good summary! Lol
The rat hole one best if u can find your own my tribe mate found a rat hole and for the past month we have been there no one had found us yet and it’s because he found it on his own and its not on yt yet
100%! Good on your Tribe Mate! Single player is your best friend!
@@FatCatArk fr you should make more vids like this you’re great at explaining things straight forward no bs easy to understand and ive played ark for a long time now since release of the game on console and i still learned a few things you earned a sub
Thanks man! Even if one thing has helped you out that’s a win for me!
no se ingles pero imaginare que le entiendo ,es buen video lo necesito en español jssjjssj
Glad you enjoyed the video, or whatever you could understand 😂.
Going to use google translate for this next part lol.
si mira en la aplicación UA-cam Mobile, haga clic en los tres puntos en la esquina superior derecha, haga clic en subtítulos y luego traduzca automáticamente. elige tu idioma y obtendrás subtítulos en español.
That could either be on point or wayyyy off lol. Hope that helps hah. Good luck!
Ok, video is completely distorted, unwatchable. Did it get corrupted or something? Ok, it is the 720p version for some reason.
Did it? I’m going to have to go back and check, no one has said anything about that issue so I have no clue. That is really weird! Hope it eventually worked out for you, sorry about that!
Just checked and it worked okay for me, on all quality settings. Not sure what happened!
My man just said end game was fun hahahahahaha.
I much rather enjoy being established and raid who I please, when I want. Opposed to slaving away, constantly getting raided and starting over =] to each their own!
Why do you sound like you just woke up and are trying to be quiet enough not to wake your mom? Dude just speak in a normal volume. Nice advice tho 👍
Haha 50% of it is shitty mic, 50% my son is sleeping. I got a new mic so that should be better for the next overview video I do. I appreciate the comment!! Hope the video helped!
Screw that guy, he can turn the volume up. Great video