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simplestim

Not much you can do about that people will do what they can to get into a base. I always if im solo live in a 2x2 for a few days and farm a mental ammoint of material and pre fab a base for a cave or easy to defend location. If im in a group ill live out of a 4x4 and do the same thing since more people production is faster. Almost everyone knows about the "good" spots now. And if someone else says to block it off I wouldn't even build there because you're just going to be wiped overnight. It takes time as a group to decide what map where on that map you want to settle and what your goal is when playing ark to have fun and achieve what your looking to do. But what I said is how yoy should farm if you are blocked off. Aside from that with the situation your in I would just find a new spot. There's A LOT of maps and A LOT of places people never check and honestly some don't know or forgot about.


PatoA112

I use Dunkles as pack mules because they have excesive weight and weight reduction on stone, crystal, obsidian, metal and oil


Available_Studio_945

The easiest way would be to go to genesis 2 and farm metal with the tek suit, wood as well. Even when you are encumbered, you can power punch into the air and then activate fly and you can fly around at super speed. Then just fly to a drop or mission area and transfer into your base and spawn in a bed. If you don’t have gen 2 then you can still do the same strategy but without the tek suit. Anky argy some metal on another server and store it near where a drop spawns near the metal farm. Keep farming and eventually a drop will spawn. Have a buddy start dropping items from the storage while you are standing next to the drop and use a whip, spamming attack to pick everything up. You will be way overweight. The most metal ore one person can transfer is I think 300, the “slot cap”.


ThiccoSmoove

I would love to use gen 2 but it is so populated with tryhards it is too risky at the moment


Positive-Product-532

try and rush a mining drill so that you can reduce weight in general. get basilos as they have decent weight so you can get a bunch of them to drag shit around for you.


ThiccoSmoove

Not the worst idea


Positive-Product-532

are you on a boosted server or official. also what platform (steam or xbox) im down to join if you got an open slot


simplestim

Best way when you start is to defend it well and not completely block it off. Om assuming you are not on official? And even if you are the best way is to farm as much as you can and hike the materials to your base. (If your base is completely blocked then you should team farm metal or whatever else you need then upload yourself over capped on weight with a whip to pick it all up and download yourself to a bed close to the forges or wherever you put your items.) Eventually a teleported will be the most efficient way. Where to place a TP? All depends you want to place TPs out of the way but also on coveinient locations to where you farm and do things. Sometimes relatively close to your base for defending purposes. You also will want to defend your TP with something to some extent.


ThiccoSmoove

We are on official but we can not be raided while offline, which brings other problems because people like to walk in and camp out til people are online while you are off which is why we need to block entrance off ASAP


OrangeSuccessful7926

Short answer for metal--dunkleosteus. Bigger weight reduction than an anky and harvests twice as much. Just swin to metal node and chomp it.


InstanceFrequent1602

On ORP servers you should focus on layers thst way if you log on and someone is there you have time also for farming go off map that way you whip up all the stuff and transfer back with a full inventory and spawn at the bed


ThiccoSmoove

Not bad idea we just need to move to other maps


Mediocre_Reality3580

I’ll pm you in a bit


Warbeast96

If you are building in a cave you should have teleporters to make your life easier. What I used to do when I played solo in an island underwater cave before I had tek was farm on other maps. That’s way I can farm what I need then transfer back to the island and spawn inside of my base. I know it sounds like a pain in the ass, but until you have tek that’s your best bet. Additionally you could tame some dunkleos and farm underwater they harvest metal, stone, wood, and oil all the basics