Ark: Building Tips & Tricks

This video will show you some useful Tips & Tricks to help you improve your building in Ark!.
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Tips & Tricks
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Creating fences using fence foundations
1:53 Stacking Water Reservoirs
3:37 Stacking foundations
4:43 Placing hatch frames correctly (Ladder orientation)
6:22 Offsetting foundations
8:24 How to intersect walls
10:32 Decorative pillar designs
12:56 Double wall technique (Using Sloped walls)
15:50 Concealing water pipes & taps
17:27 Bonus Tip (Large crop plots)
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🎮🕹 Controls

Flip Wall
XBOX (Y Button)
PS4 (Triangle Button)
PC (E Key)

Snap Point Cycle
XBOX (RB)
PS4 (R1)
PC (Q or Z Key)

Painting
PC - Hold alt-fire (default: Right Mousebutton) and use the number keys (1-6) to select which colour regions you wish to paint
Xbox - LT+ Up, Down, Left or Right on DPad (for region 1-4) and Xbox: LT+LB+ X or Y (for region 5 and 6)
PS4 - L2 + Up, Down, Left or Right on DPad (for region 1-4) and L2 + L1+ Square or X (for region 5 and 6)
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♫Music Credit♫

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📢 Social Media

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[Kojouro]

I'm convinced that advanced building in ark is actual black magic.

[tinanassar]

I would love to see more building on uneven ground.

[lucienmed]

I like how I’m barely surviving* and this guy is creating masterpiece😂😂

[Ihavenocluewhatthisis]

Also the person that disliked this video is jealous of how good Aaron longstaffs buildings are

[grumpyref]

Just a personal preference type of thing...
When doing a greenhouse, I prefer having an overhead hanging grid of pipes and taps. It has a more realistic look.

However, I like the technique of hiding the pipes, so that I can then hide the incoming pipes and running it from floor, up the wall, then across the ceiling.

Great tips!

[Zamnek]

I never thought that buildings like those shown at the end were possible in Ark! They're incredible!
Building in Ark is a ridiculously complex endeavor.

[purpleknight]

Anyone else think that he is the gamer version of bob ross?

[nakanoghost]

OMG loved your 10th tip! I'm definitely gonna use it! Keep this series alive! Your tips are so good

The "Concealing water pipes & taps" tip using stairs was new for me, thank you !

[ZeBum]

My jaw dropped at the crop plots one, had no idea that was a thing. Great video and definitely helpful for future building!

[CrazyRespawn]

This was a great video!! Actually learned a few tips and tricks! Can't wait for the next one!

[MindFiend]

Mr Longstaff, thank you so much for making this building tips series. I've been battling those darn hatch frame and ladders in all my builds and never once got the ladder in the place I wanted it. Tonight after watching this video I finally managed it. I'm truly grateful. Thank you.

[MoonlitBeauty]

So many hours into this game and I had no idea about the large crop plot providing its own irrigation or that they were stackable! 😅 My my, thank you so much for this!!

[jenningsmoberly]

Man the amount of time and energy to learn all these tricks must have been crazy for you. Thank you so much for having the drive to learn all this then teach us noobs how to make something I’m happy to actually live in in ark haha.

[decembermirakel]

Just for anyone struggling like I did:
The bay windows will (sometimes?) only place on the left or right side of the very first foundation piece you place. I had to redo my entire house because of this 🙃

[kimbrown]

Hiding the irrigation network is revolutionary. So clean looking!!!

[tanj]

Is it strange, the only part of the video that made me feel excitement/relief was the using the stairs to adjust the height of a free placed pipe? making good/hidden piping/wiring has always been the biggest frustration to me

[arcana]

That water pipe trick is amazing, definitely going to use that in my next playthrough

[SuperRabbit]

I just want to say THANK YOU! Your tips in this video are incredibly useful and have helped make my pve base look fantastic!

[creakycorvid]

These are actually really useful. I don't consider myself much of a builder in many games, but I've gotten really into building in Ark largely because of your channel, so thanks man!