Element Explained and 6 Ways to Farm it | Ark: Survival Evolved | SH Ep. 20

This video explains the different forms of element, as well as 6 ways to farm element. Element dust and element shards are an impressive way to horde whole element, as long as you have a tek replicator or farm element on Extinction. I include ways to farm element with and without Extinction, and explain how to farm element on any map.

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[richardlinehan]

Fjiordour map has the fire wyvern trench and a cave at the end of it. Element shards can be mined near the magmasaurs at the bottom

[Biggi]

In Genesis Part 2, I mostly use the federation armor fist punch attack on the blue crystals to harvest the most whole elements because you usually get a good amount, it’d say about 3-10 pieces of whole element

[merctrey]

ive actually been wondering this for when i do get ark and i get the tek so that i can farm element easily

[despacitosoon-too-die]

The best way to farm element is a hostile take over of the server, force a tax on everyone of 5 element per ingame day, failure to comply you get wiped.

[nnja.monky]

U can get shards from the fly trap plants around Rockwell’s garden or in his innards there are other plants that will give them once harvested

[thomasdevlin]

The bosses really need to do more than just drop element, obviously you need to fight them to unlock the tekgrams they give you, but at this point farming them just seems pointless if you have access to other maps where element literally grows on trees. I would love to see the bosses drop tek blueprints of the engrams they give you, as well as some high end gear for your troubles, if you had a chance at getting a blueprint for a tek mosa saddle with 100+ armor when you fought the alpha broodmother then you'd really have a reason to go after the bosses

[candypaint]

I really like how challenging collecting element is and i was a bit turned off on how super easy it is to collect element and shards in gen 2

[charlescarner]

As has probubly been said, you get an absolute metric ton of element using a tek strider with mining drill on gen2 when the blue crystal meteors are up, literally hundreds of element, tens to hundreds of thousands of shards.

[alkirk]

You can also occasionally get element dust from harvesting Tek Dinos. Ergo instead of taming them, harvest them.

[cdoggo]

On Gen2

Get aTek Strider with the Excavation Rig and the Saddle Bags, farm element for an entire in-game day on the space islands that contain element.
Here’s some tips for it:
1. Have a tek teleporter on the bridge so you can easily go over there with the strider on vanilla (with mods you CAN cryo them)
2. (If you own one) link element shards to a Tek Dedicated storage system. You’ll get a lot of them so I recommend linking the shards, not the normal element so you don’t run out of inventory space.
3. Get the mission buffs. So the resource health, spawn frequency and the better tier space biome buff. These will help you a lot.
4. Carry the best weapons (and maybe even a spare set or 2 of armor, since VoidWyrms delete armor dura fast), in the event that said VoidWyrms or Astrodelphis show up.

[shadowlugia]

It should be noted that not only can you gather shards from blue crystal asteroids on Genesis 2, but you can get blue dust pile asteroids that yield dust to picking by hand or with a whip. While not as fast as shard asteroids, it's there if you don't yet have a Replicator, or are just getting unlucky with the ship cycles.

[unexpectedguest]

Thanks! I wasn't sure what to do with all of my element dust. I have a huge tek parasuar farm that I use for scrap metal and electronics, but I didn't know what to use the dust for. 👍

[ybgripie]

On Gen 2. If you go into Rockwell inners. You get shards from the round plants aswell. Hit them with an axe or pick

[AlexLeftHisMark]

I’ve watched all your survival guide videos up till this in a row so I figured you deserve a subscribe and notification for the info you’ve given me :)

[thesovietpika]

Thanks for making these guides im about a month in and still trying to accomplish mid game feats like caves fabricatir electricity and element stuff. Its mostlt been making a farm with my grilfriend and these guids help with the knowlege i dont habe yet

[themexicantarzan]

Thank you for not stretching you videos for 30 mins like other youtuber “bam” “ljk”

[TheBeardedOG]

I know this was made before Fjordur but just farm Beyla. 30 element per hour. Also lots of the red crystal in easy artifact of the immune cave as well as magamasaur cave.

[scottgardener]

Gen 2 blue crystals on meteors during purple drops: bring a magmasaur that's leveled up in carrying capacity. You'll toss stone out throughout the process, but you'll be able to fill up the magmasaur to max carrying capacity at least once and possibly twice in a single Ark day. On 1x Official, you'll come out with more whole Element than you would after a boss fight anywhere else, plus easily 40, 000+ shards. On 2x and 3x event days, the whole element is insane. It's so efficient, that you'll dump every other method. It's easier to convert these gains to dust and back to element at a substantial loss to jump servers than it is to farm natively in most places.

[TURBOMIKEIFY]

So THATS what I was defending! I really destroyed those element nodes whilst doing the mission. I didn't know what I was doing, and the hordes just KEPT. ON. COMING.

[deniswaimer]

On gen2 there can come Asteroids with pure Element powder Just to Pick up. Best way to farm Element dust to Transfer it to other maps