How To Get Black Pearls, Ark Survival Evolved

In this video I show you the best methods to get/harvest Black Pearls in Ark Survival Evolved. I show you the six best methods to harvest Black Pearls that work for new and experienced players.

In this video I test which creatures and tools are the best at gathering the Black Peal because for each map and creature there is a different method tool or dinosaur that works best.

Black Pearls are used to create many late game and tek items.

00:00 Intro
00:08 Creatures that drop black pearls (How to get on Island and Scorched)
04:21 Best Beginner Spot - Lost Island
05:29 Crystal Isles - Clams
08:17 Mining Drill - Aberration
10:56 Ragnarock
13:16 Gacha

Testing was done on a single player server with official settings enabled so 1x harvesting.

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Game description:

Ark: Survival Evolved is a sandbox survival game where players are stranded on strange lands inhabited by dinosaurs and other creatures. Gather, hunt, and build to survive the unforgiving wilderness. Compete with other players for precious resources and tame dinosaurs to ride and protect you.

[thewinteragendadraganclove]

Thanks for cutting through all the nonsense and making this easy to understand.

[ysharros]

Your resource videos are always a godsend. I forget literally everything about what I can get where in the months between playing jags, especially things like poly and pearls, and you're my go-to for reminders. <3

[FluffyB_B]

By far the best guide out there! I love how you give us all the options for harvesting, and difficulty. I didnt know about the diplodude. Worth taming one for sure! If i might add, taming a gacha with y-traps will give you a 98% taming effectiveness and taming is way faster than stone ( my patience could never lol ) and feeding them those will give the most crystals as well imo.

[imythikosi]

Thank you for this. I just started my boss fight grind in the ark worlds and trying to make tek stuff for the first time. Ive played ark for a while but never gone for boss battles or anything. But now i am and also going for all the achievements before ark 2 comes out.

[TheBrinkofDestruction]

this is the only video/article that actually shows where it is, the rest just give coordinates and say good luck like the map isnt 3 miles tall. Thank you <3

[BillyGreenlee]

Excellent guide Crabby. Very useful information on some maps I haven’t played yet.

[Dinoguy]

Appreciate how thorough yet concise all of the information is.
The spot on Rag is always my go to. Especially if I'm starting fresh on that map and looking to get resources for a motorboat base. Haven't had a chance to try a Strider yet, but now I know that they can be very handy there!

[JudasCrusader]

In Fjordur. In the Lava Island there is a trench with Wyvens which leads to the an area with those lava dinos, bats and bugs. Fly through that and left to the end of the cave. At the back there is a pillar made of crystal. There is a safe enough spot behind that to build a metal base. Using the Personal head stone mod and a bed you can spawn in there. It really helps if you dumped points into health, stamina and speed. The Bridge in that lava dino nest area is more or less safe too. This nesting area spawns in 200 black pearls minimum and they spawn on the floor quickly and this involves a lot of dodging and jumping around. I'm currently at 5k black pearls. This area also gives you access to those huge lava dino eggs. Which you can use to tame basilisks.

To acquire infinite basilisks, built a metal cage boat with a ramp on it leading up into the cage, about 2 or 3 high just smash it into beachs on lava island and get those snakes to chase you into it, but be aware of the lava dinos who can shred your metal boat. Dump your now easily gotten apex predator eggs into the cage boat and get basilisks to chase you. I own 9 high level Basilisks. The biggest dangers in the lava nest are the Bats and Fire elemental giant dudes. Once you get the pattern down Black Pearls are no longer rare.

[extremebonsai]

Wow! Your guide is SUPER comprehensive! Another great addition to the Crabby Science library!

[BigBoyNowYT]

Great job Crabby. Another good spot is the ab cave on lost island. Easy pick. Or stryder on gen 2 space biom(but you have to wait for the proper space wave) but angler on ci is best

[VladsMadness]

a lot more info than i thought would have been in this guide. awesome work keep it up

[NorthAdventures]

Great guide, Thanks crabby ! Enjoying the crown series hah

[Epic-soek]

damn your channel is insanely underrated

[lowercrown]

This was EXACTLY what I needed, thank you.

[racherae]

Thank you for the info!! I didn't see the phoenix though. I know they drop both silica and black pearls..

[puredingo]

For gachas on Vanaheim if you wait in the area for about 5 minutes they will start dropping crystals, go around and pick up the crystals until you find a crystal that has the resource that you want to make sure you check the level that dropped the crystal before you pick them up. Once you get the resource you want then find the gacha with the same level and tame it.

[MaxxAvicii]

Brilliant video, thanks for goin to the effort of making it it really did help me as a noob to ark 😊

[A_K]

This was really helpful, thanks crabby :)

[alphabetsoup]

I've been searching the ocean for about three days farming 5-20 pearls at a time(full run) from those little fart crabs in the ocean and there's a dang lake! Haha thanks for the help!

[jaredmccain]

Anyone else watch this just because her voice is so relaxing? haha thanks for the tips too!