How to Make Beer in Ark Survival Evolved and Ascended

 To craft beer for taming a Deinotherium or Chalicotherium, you will first need a beer barrel.  You need to be level 36 to learn the beer barrel engram. The beer barrel is crafted in the smithy and will require water to work.  In ASA water is pipeless, so you will need to be within range of a tap or reservoir.  In ASE you will have to place the beer barrel on an active pipe. Once you placed the beer barrel you will need to fill its inventory with berries and thatch.  It takes 40 thatch, 50 berries and 6 hours to craft one liquid beer.  After you add empty water jars to the barrel, the liquid beer becomes a beer jar.   

 

After consuming beer you will become intoxicated for two minute

Ark Survival Beer Effect

·         Increase insulation

·         Damage Resistance

·         Melee damage 40%

·         Reduce water consumption

·         Blurred vision

·         Stamina drops

 

Beer Barrel Inventory

It comes with a big cost though.  At the end of the two minutes you will be completely out of stamina.  You will be in a hangover period for one minute in which time you will not regen stamina, or be able to eat any other soups and stews.

Beaver Dam Locations on Crystal Isles

 Where to find the Beaver Dams on the Crystal Isles map of Ark Survival Evolved. Crystal Isles doesn't seem to have as many beaver dams as other Ark maps, but they are spread around nicely. Castseroides dams are great for harvesting cementing paste, wood, and a few silica pearls.

Locations shown in the video: Lat Lon 21.0 45.1 38.1 48.5 30.9 39.9 30.8 22.1 28.6 26.6 42.3 39.7 35.9 29.7 56.2 76.3 63.7 68.8 68.6 59.0 77.6 60.0 72.7 26.9 Other casteroides spawn locations (rough estimate): lat long 39 47 53 46 66 58 68 80

Looting a beaver dam on Crystal Isles. 

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Ark Survival Ascended The Island Artifact Cave Locations

There are ten artifact caves on The Island map of Ark Survival Ascended.  You will need to explore each of these caves and retrieve the artifacts to summon the bosses.  I have grouped the caves below by bosses.  Here are the same Island Cave Locations for ASE

Cave Name, Artifact, Lat, Lon

Broodmother

Central Cave (Chitin) – Clever 41.5 47.0

Lava Cave - Massive 70.6 86.1

Lower South Cave - Hunter 80.2 53.6

 

Megapithecus

North East Cave (Carno) – Devourer 14.8 85.4

Upper South Cave - Pack 68.2  56.1

The Caverns of Lost Faith (Easy Underwater) - Brute 53.7 10.5

 

Dragon

The Caverns of Lost Hope (Hard Underwater) - Cunning 46.1 89.7

Swamp Cave (Bug) - Immune 62.6 37.2

North West Cave (easy snow) - Skylord 19.2 19.0

Snow Cave - Strong 29.4 32.0 

How to Display FPS on Ark Survival Ascended

Right now Ark Survival Ascended is not well optimized and to help you understand what effects your ASA graphics settings are actually doing, you can tell the game to display the fps with console commands.

Ark Survival Ascended in-game FPS display counter

To enter a command on pc hit the tilde key (~), which is in the key above the tab and to the left of the 1 key.  Then type Stat FPS and hit enter.  The fps will now be displayed on the right side of the ASA screen.  To get the fps to stop displaying simply type the command again.  It will also stop displaying when you log out, and it will have to be reentered every time you start the game. The same command works for ASE.

If you are on pc and want a less obtrusive frame counter overlay, that is always there and can do it through your Steam account.  

Steam overlay FPS display.

Go to the Steam app.  At the top steam drop down menu go into Steam Settings.  From there go to the In Game menue and turn on the In-game FPS counter.  You can change what part of the screen you want the counter to be in.  This will now be in all your Steam games when you play.  

Steam App menu to add FPS counter overlay.

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How to get Polymer in Ark Survival Evolved

 To get polymer in Ark Survival Evolved, you can either make polymer, or harvest organic polymer.  To make regular polymer, you will need to be level 48, learn the engram, and have a fabricator.  One polymer is crafted with 2 obsidian, and 2 cementing paste.  Once those resources are in the fabricator, you will need to have gasoline in it, and turn it on.  If your inventory is set up into folders, you will find polymer in the composite folder.

Organic Polymer can be substituted one for one with regular polymer when crafting.  It can be collected by harvesting the corpses from a number of creatures including kairuku (penguins), hesperonis, mantis, and karkinos.  A club is best to use when harvesting organic polymer by hand.  A leveled-up moshcops is great for harvesting with a dino, and is probably the best way to go.  The problem with organic polymer is that is spoils fairly quickly, and it only stacks to 20.  Sometimes you can have a great blueprint and not be able to get enough organic polymer into the crafting station to craft the item.  

Organic polymer (left) and regular polymer (right) in Ark Survival Evolved inventory.

Ragnarok Vegie Locations

Ragnarok was the first map to offer up free vegetables in Ark Survival Evolved.  These vegetables growing in the Highlands of Ragnarok are great for early taming of herbivores, and a good snack.  Ragnarok only has two kind of vegetables though, Savoroot and Rockarrot.  If you want the other two, you will have to grow them yourself.  To collect the wild ones, just pick them by hand.  

Ragnarok Veg Location

Lat Lon

Savoroot and Rockarrot

19.8   80.5

19.9   82.9

Ragnarok Savoroot 

Savoroot

17.0   74.9

22.7   85.5

24.6   85.3

24.4   85.5

22.8   85.6

20.1   84.8

21.7   75.1

22.0   73.6

16.7   68.5

Ragnarok Rockarrot

Rockarrot

18.1   79.2

24.8   78.6

24.0   76.3

21.8   73.6

21.3   72.2

19.1   73.3

16.9   74.5

14.8   75.3

24.8   82.7

23.6   84.0

22.1   84.5

20.9   83.4

19.9   84.4

21.2   76.7

19.9   79.1