Explorer's Guide To Ark // S1E1 // Beginner's Guide for Starting out in Ark Survival Evolved in 2020
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Welcome everyone, my name is Meza and this is the first episode in the Ark: Survival Evolved series.
Today we'll cover how to start your Ark adventure in 2020. What to set up and how to survive your first day.
If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments above and if you know someone who's struggling with the game, point them to this series.
For your benefit, here's quick markers to the different topics.
00:00 - Explorer's Guide To Ark - A Beginners Guide in 2020
00:30 - Important information about installing Ark
00:46 - Explaining the main menu
01:01 - How to join a multiplayer server
01:22 - A bit about official servers
01:38 - Joining friends and private servers
01:52 - Joining password protected servers
02:10 - Starting a Single Player world
02:51 - Selecting the correct ark to play
03:31 - Setting Ark Rules
03:43 - Ark Rules: Difficulty level
03:47 - Ark Rules: Use singleplayer settings
04:12 - Ark Rules: Taming speed
04:15 - Ark Rules: Harvest amount
04:20 - Ark Rules: Day/night cycle
04:48 - Character creation
06:42 - Zone selection
07:28 - Spawn
07:49 - Basic controls
08:30 - Accessing 3rd person camera
08:39 - Free Camera Mode
09:04 - Basic UI
09:09 - Accessing your inventory
09:35 - Explaining the main inventory screen
10:09 - Explaining the XP Bar
10:32 - Explaining the Health stat
10:37 - Explaining the Stamina stat
10:52 - Explaining the Oxygen stat
10:55 - Explaining the Food stat
10:57 - Explaining the Water stat
10:59 - Explaining the Weight stat
11:01 - Explaining the Melee stat
11:07 - Explaining the Movement Speed stat
11:10 - Explaining the Crafting Skill stat
11:21 - Explaining the Fortitude stat
11:33 - Trying to explain the Torpidity stat
12:03 - Early game leveling strategies
12:30 - Explaining the screen indicators
12:46 - How to level up
13:05 - Explaining the Engrams screen
13:45 - Explaining the Tribe Manager
14:07 - Explaining the Tame Groups screen
14:16 - Explaining the Explorer Notes screen
14:43 - Starting the gameplay
15:05 - Explaining the view modifier buttons on the inventory screen
15:38 - Crafting a pick
15:49 - How to get stone
16:31 - How to get wood
17:01 - How to craft
17:53 - Explaining the light beams from the sky
18:29 - How to get flint
19:05 - Crafting the hatchet
19:09 - Crafting a campfire
19:22 - Explaining basic gathering mechanics
20:24 - Getting fiber
20:43 - Crafting spears
21:18 - killing the first dodo
21:32 - Harvesting corpses
22:07 - Explaining placing objects
22:29 - How to cancel a build
22:47 - Accessing inventories of other things
24:02 - Making food
24:12 - Making basic armor
24:33 - How to drink water
25:00 - Making pants
25:21 - Dealing with weight
25:47 - Being overweight / Encumbered
26:37 - Making a storage box
26:44 - How to rotate objects
28:03 - How to transfer items between inventories
28:13 - How to transfer half a stack
28:45 - Explaining the Spoil Time
29:16 - Talking berries
29:48 - Stimberry and Narcoberry
30:33 - How to counter torpidity
31:13 - Using the extended HUD
31:39 - Encountering a Dilophosaurus
33:48 - Leveling by collecting wood
35:07 - Leveling with crafting foundations
38:10 - A bit about dying repeatedly
38:53 - Outro
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