Mid Game Items You Need TODAY | Survival Handbook Ep.14: MidGame Tips | Ark: Survival Evolved

The shotgun and fabricated sniper are just a few things you'll need during your time in the mid game, and if you don't have them, you're definitely missing out. We talk about 9 items you honestly can't live without while you're surviving the ark.

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[rairarku]

Something you missed with the forge is you can also burn wood for a stupid amount of charcoal, so good for gunpowder making

[sedrickmongwarr]

The Chemistry Bench also grants 50% extra materials when crafting, for example: when crafting Narcotic in a mortar, the recipe calls for 1 spoiled meat and 5 narcoberries which gives you 1 Narcotic. In the Chem Bench the recipe calls for 4 spoiled meat and 20 narcoberries, so you would expect for 4 narcotic to be crafted at a time but it instead gives 6... so you basically get two free narcotic per craft. Same goes for everything else in a chem bench. Sparkpowder, gunpowder, propellant, cementing paste, etc..

[nooty]

Ive been playing ark scince launch and these guides always end up teaching me something

[noahm]

Who else already knows everything about ark and just watches these videos cause they are entertaining?

[johnnybrown]

This channel is so great, it came from nowhere. Props pterifier

[mikesdynasty]

i personally split ark into FOUR different sections: beginning, mediocre, advanced, and god tier.

beginning is when you don't have a smithy, just a stone base and one or two fliers.

mediocre is when you get a smithy and refining forge and start moving to a metal base and flak armor. You also might have basic resource collectors, like the anky and doedicurus.

advanced is where the fabricator comes in, making turrets and better weapons. you probably have good hunting and resource collecting mounts by now.

then theres god tier. you have a tek base, tek suit, even tek weapons and dinos such as rexes, gigas, and griffons at your disposal.

fun fact: i've never gotten to god tier on official :/

[shadowlugia]

An item I'd personally add, but may be considered more late game, is Genesis's Mining Drill. It's main draw back is the requirement of black pearls in crafting it, but it's great at collecting metal. Basically, if the chainsaw is the gas-powered axe, the mining drill is it's matching pickaxe. Just about anything a chainsaw can't get you, a mining drill can. It also reduces the weight of things like metal, stone, and crystal while holding it, and you can hold (but not use) it while mounted on most creatures.

[sterking]

I have just started playing ark recently again and saw how much the industrial forge cost and didn’t think I was ever going to get it until I watched this video, never knew how good it actually was!

[Evinarak]

Gosh remember how hard everything was without cryo pods XD

[fitz_husband]

Thanks man, I’ve been playing ark for around a year now and have defeated bosses on pvp cross ark severs and then get raided,
This has happened around 4 times now and these videos help me pick the game back up and say
“ no this can’t happen again, I just have to be more stealthy and sometimes overprotective of my base”
Thanks

[dogeyboi]

When Pterafier says that you need a pump shotgun but with your 2k hours in ARK have never found a pump shotgun or a blueprint either. Anyway great video. I always learn something from each of them.

[gumgumgumgumgumgum]

I’ve been playing since the game preview hit Xbox before the game even launched fully and I know all this stuff but I still enjoy watching these vids for some reason lol. Keep it up man

[Clashlord-gkrw]

This guy really does deserve more subscribers he is so good at teaching and yet entertaining at the same time

[patrickrocheleau]

The chainsaw is also really good at getting pearls from those horseshoe crab things and black pearls from sea scorpions, back when i played the center i would hit "viking bay" lure a couple scorps from the water and walk away with a good handful of pearls+chitin for cement

[dangehret]

Just an FYI: cryo sickness only lasts 5 minutes, regardless of the torpor timer.

[SirLittleKnight]

I have just started playing ark and been binge-watching your content, honestly so freaking helpful!

[Zlowky]

I also recommend bringing some parachutes and grappiling hooks, they are really cheap and super useful

[jonstone]

I just started playing a few days ago and wow dude you're so helpful . Awesome work. I know stuff like this isn't easy and alot of time and effort goes into these videos

[sharkeater]

Dude I’m just saying I started ark a couple weeks ago and your videos are the only thing that has helped me

[yaga]

Thanks, i'll keep it in mind


I still suck at ark until now