PixARK – 23 Tips You Should Know Before Starting

by Falagar / Articles, PixARK / 04 Apr 2018

To get started:

1. Punch a tree to get wood. Pick thatch from the grass and fiber from the berry bushes.

2. Craft a wood pick and hatchet. Cut trees with the hatchet and mine the ground with the pick.

3. Dig a hole somewhere for a temporary shelter until you can build something stronger.

4. It takes a lot of crafting to make foundations, walls, and ceilings. Fortunately, you can mostly use harvested blocks of dirt, clay, or stone to build your first structures. Crafting building blocks use mostly one of something. Doors and windows will require more material. Some structural items may need foundations to build or place crafting items on them.

5. Mine flint from the special rocks you see in the area. Dig down to rock to get a stone to craft a spear.

6. As soon as you level up for them, get and craft a stone pick and hatchet. Mining will go much faster—store extra items in a chest.

7. All herbivores appear to be passive tames. What you can tame is limited to what level you are at. I would suggest that you get a firefly right away. They make a good flashlight when it gets dark out or for working inside of your mines and caves.

8. Beware that Phenomas will attack you if you attack them. Only the Dodos will run off crying when you attack it.

9. Tamed creatures can be stored as a Pokemon ball and carried in your inventory.

10. If you are killed, you lose your inventory but retain everything on your hot bar. Expect to be killed a lot until you can better protect yourself from spitters and raptors.

11. If you stray from the safe zone, things get a lot more dangerous, especially in the pits and caves. However, that’s where the better stuff can be found.

12. With no tools in your hand, the right mouse button activates your scanner that can be used to examine items, much like the spotting scope.

13. There is no Bola in the game. Fortunately, one “Sleepy Arrow” to the head of a Pteradon will knock it out for taming. The inventory of creatures is in the lower middle left, not the boxes on the right. To get a raptor, dig a pit so that it can fall into it to be trapped. They are a lot harder to capture and knock out.

14. Crafting stations work a lot different from Ark. For a fire, place fuel in the slot, light it, then select what you want to craft on the left. The items will automatically transfer from your inventory and storage to process. It is similar to how the Structure Plus crafting option works.

15. Selection of objects for learning the engram and crafting uses an index icon system on the left. If you don’t see what you need, click through it until you find that item. Some of the saddles are hiding in those different categories. They won’t show if you select all.

16. Copper is a rare resource found buried in the ground near flint. So is coal. As soon as you can, craft copper tools to replace the pick and ax. A copper pick will mine stone for building so much faster.

17. The game is not fully balanced as of yet; expect things and gameplay to change as the update are made. Be aware of using your tames in combat for now. Like you, they will be attacked by the wild predators, even more so. The good news, a high-level pteradon will tear up the pesky bats gathering lots of raw meat and hide from them.

18. Like Ark, you can build a raft. You will have to be completely in the water to launch it. Have the ax handy to deal with the predator fish when you launch your raft.

19. When you kill something, it will usually drop a box that you harvest with a pick or hatchet. You may also get a loot chest.

20. There are quests available at the Quest Station. When completed, you will get a loot chest as a reward.

21. Be careful of punching a hole in the dam or breaking through the river while mining. You will start a flood. Fortunately, you can repair the break with dirt, clay, stone, etc. The water will eventually dry up and may create a lot of clay from the dirt inside.

22. This game allows for the use of multiple maps and characters in a single player. Don’t be afraid to experiment until you find a map and character that you like. You can always delete the bad ones from the game when you start.

23. Like Ark, you can archive your single-player game save by making a copy of the Saved folder and placing that somewhere else. Revert the game back to your old save at the risk of corrupting your save. Delete the save, then copy the archived one back. Again at your own risk. You have been warned.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.
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