If you decide you want a kick butt dragon, be prepared for a new taming experience.Using a Morrellatops to gather berries will make you embrace veggie mode 100x faster. Not to mention, you’ll likely want to feed your dinosaurs that valuable meat to keep their stamina replenished. Berries last longer than meat in your inventory, and it is much easier to carry 200 berries than adequate meat. But sorry – at this point you can’t put salts in feeding troughs, so be prepared for dinner hunting on a regular basis for your crew. You can even have your dinos carry preserving salts to extend the timer on meat. Learn to make salt vessels and preserving salts (when your level allows) to make meat gathering easier. Meat and berries spoil a lot faster than they do on the Island.Your only sure source of an inventory item to quench your thirst is a canteen. Water flasks lose water at an alarming rate and the contents of a glass jar will evaporate during a heatwave.So no matter how high those walls you built are, be prepared for the possibility that your false sense of security can be easily breached by a fire/poison/lightning spitting wyvern. You’ll want plenty of warning before that awesome sandstorm, and since these little fluff balls can ride around on your shoulder, you’ll always have a personal weather alert. So bash that cutie over the head with your boomerang and tame away with some berries.

Jerboas are adorable, and they also warn of incoming weather events.They must have water in their tank in order for you to drink, and it is possible to drink from an unconscious creature if you aren’t intent on taming. They can also collect water from the very rare rainstorms. Be aware, though, that they can only drink from a true watering hole, not a vein. Morrellatops are like camels and can hold water for you to drink.Kibble chains only exist for exclusive Scorched Earth creatures – meaning if you plan to tame any of the existing dines from the island, you either get to use meat/berries or transfer dinos to gather the eggs you need.They must be full of water (their abdomen will be big and round), and you can simply walk behind them and press “Y” to take a drink. The giant, blue bugs (aptly called jug bugs) can be drank from.That weird reflection that you may or may not be mistaking for a visual glitch is probably a life saving location of a drink of water. This list though, applies specifically to the Scorched Earth expansion. This are additional things to accompany my previous list for Ark’s ‘Wish I had known’ series.

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