Ark: Crafting gear and how to get better quality equipment

Why it asks me for only one of each material for the blueprints?

Theres a lot of misinformation in this video

any mods to make it so there are higher quality than acendant

By the way I got an ascendant sword from a purple drop

So i can only get blueprints from boss fights and drops? And its always random?

great vid a cool vid would be snap points explained why does some stuf snap and sometimes not why can i take the exact same wall higher insections but not in others etc

How many points does it take to get to 300% crafting? Come it think of it, all of your stats appeared to be OP.

Getting the blueprints and all required resources is not a problem but inventory space in almost all my craft benches is a huge problem if gotten ascendant blueprints for nearly all tools and weapons with crafting costs in the tens of thousands for all needed resources any solutions to that problem would be great

Know it's an old video and while you mentioned the basics, and what end game players did to get the best they could, the boost is random and you forgot to mention numbers of the modifier players should be aiming for. Long neck for example is 200% good or 2000% what's the max number they should try to get close to

This was one of the most helpful videos I've seen for ARK

I can’t fit all the materials in the fabricator for the ascendant shotgun I want

My ascendant pike broke and it cost 18k metal, 18k wood, and 5k hide I could barely fit the ingots in the smithy wtf

If you only use a longneck to tranq- do I want a higher quality with greater damage?

I’m on ps4 and all the rarities are the same stats as primitive anyone have a fix?

What would be better a mastercraft bow or a normal longneck

my mans recording ark at 3p

How can I get them from crates? I just get trash and useless engrams from drops

Wow, first time I ever heard about the quality of the gear based on the percentage in the Crafting Stat.
Thought it was only improving the crafting time, lol.
Thanks! :)

I watched this whole video thinking you were going to tell me about the level of crafting skill you have. RIP my time.

Any mod for red quality items? Or up %1200???

Ascendant long neck rifles do not increase the effectiveness of tranq darts. When taming you want to use a primitive rifle as it does less damage to the Dino you are trying to knock out. Better quality rifles are only better to use if you’re using them for damage, not knocking out.

Focal chili also gives u additional crafting bonus I believe

How do I craft a rlly expensive item if the items I need to craft it don’t all fit in the fabricator?

Another thing to add, is keep all you BP’s and compare them to existing ones as the crafting requirements will vary and you can find some that are lower in quality and yet have higher stats to them and vice versa. I have gotten master crafts that are better than ascendant. As well as same value ascendant with lower crafting requirements. Durability seems to be a factor in crafting requirements as well. Higher durability = higher crafting requirements. Though its not always the case.

This whole Time I thought mastercraft was the best forehead smack

Pve bob 😂😂

Pro gamer tip: never go into the snow cave with primitive gear

Few things that are wrong in here. First of all the color of the drop does not indicate the quality of the items in it as described here. Each color drop has its own drop table, and that drop table can drop items ranging from primitive to ascendant, though higher quality items are more likely to come from drops with halos around them. Rather the color of drop indicates the types of items they can contain. For example green drops may drop raptor saddles and blueprints, while red might drop rex saddles and blueprints.

It is also worth noting ascendant is not necessarily, not even very often, the best. As you increase in quality the items stats do increase, however so to do their materials and repair costs, also there is a cap on weapon damage and armor rating for every item. With a crafting character you can get significant bonuses on the quality of items crafted from a blueprint, and the repair costs are half of the crafting cost of an item. Many ascendant items are already at or very near their respective caps, and likewise have very high material costs, which translates to very high repair costs. The only real positive to them is they also have very high durability, and durability is not capped like damage and armor, and that durability is also affected by the crafting bonus.

It is often better to craft items from a high quality mastercraft blueprint, as you can often, with good crafting skill, cap the damage or armor while retaining lower repair costs, making the item just as effective, but simultaneously much easier to maintain, as well as cheaper to produce in bulk. On particularly rare occasions you might even find journeyman blueprints high enough to be capped this way, while having even lower material costs. A journeyman BP like this is truly a rarity, and extremely valuable. Some items are notably expensive to craft and use, yet extremely useful, such as the tek bow, which makes it a prime candidate to go for a journeyman over a mastercraft or ascendant even if it means not reaching the damage cap, simply because its cost is so high that it makes the journeyman more reasonable for persistent use.

It is also worth noting that when it comes to armor, durability is much more important than the armor rating. This is because the amount of durability loss is directly tied to how much damage the armor is negating. While the armor value is important, higher armor values have a diminishing return on how much more damage they negate. Since you can carry lots of med brews, it is better to have your armor last longer, to make you more survivable for a long drawn out battle.

What you smokin with those stats

So, without a blueprint, i cant craft better than primitive? That sucks man because i want to make an AR with a durability higher than 40, but i cant find any AR blueprints :*(

Very well explained

How does your smithy have 300 inventory slots

My man’s character looks like a sumo wrestler

For me my drop loot won't give me anything like ram shackle or better I've opened plenty of red green yellows and so on

This was probably the best description video I have ever watched. Amazing.

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I found ascendant gear but the damage was on 100% still but the cost was 1 material for everything such as 1 metal how do I switch is to it had more damage and more cost

hey comunity i playing ragnarok and i never found better item quality than pritive, can you help me please ?

this was the exact video i was looking for thanks

What about the armor values how much better is a piece of armor of 200 vs a piece of armor of 25? And I’m not talking about the durability.

How do you get it

So that’s what I use a bookshelf for

Super informative video. The best tier I have been getting from red and yellow drops are ramshackle and mostly primitive bp’s. Is there a setting where I can turn the drop quality up?

Super useful video literally told me EXACTLY what I wanted to know, only thing I’d like to know is say for example it takes 10 metal to repair a primitive item, would it take 10 metal to repair the ascendant variant of that weapon or would that also have increased requirements like the blueprint does?

Wait but what about the BP that cost one of each material

Great video mate! Cleared a lot up for me - I had been wondering why the heck I should go fishing.

i know ark has lots of information to explain, but could you also cover the difference between Armor value and durability value of crafted gear?

Thanks I’m a noob and had no idea what this was :D