Highbinder

To get the most out of your sails, I believe it’s best to use up as much of your allotted sail points as possible with whatever configuration you use. For example if you have 4 points available, and use a large which takes up 2.7 if I recall and small for 1, you’re totaling 3.7 overall. You could use 4 small sails for max, but do you want to use that space and use that much crew, assuming you’re putting crew on the sails. The rest is deciding weight, speed, or handling.

I would like some clarification here too.

Yeah, I’ve figured out those, but never having played ARK and joining a bunch a friends who had the initial buildings done, I never needed much stone. Started building something yesterday I recalled something a read in patch notes awhile back and gave the axe a try. To my surprise it was better than the pick for stone. Still seems chopping rocks with an axe is a bit counterintuitive, but good to know since it’s entirely likely there are others who may not have realized this.

I found it interesting to learn while making a stone building that hatchets counterintuitively yield more stone when farming rocks than picks do. Too much flint with a pick and not enough stone.

Lol, the weight on his boat for that much gold...might have sucked getting it home.

This is a good post without the troll. Trolls gotta be trolls though.

You’ll want to sail out of a lawless zone if you want a real claim. Found out the squares north, south, east, and set of freeports are lawless. You have to go beyond those to put down a flag.

So my crew has been having an issue with beds. Two days ago we were able to use them, but all day yesterday and the evening before, they were unusable and said they were in cool down. The trouble is, the timer is blended over the next tab and I can’t read it. I would have thought the cool down would have expired sooner. So do they have a bug, or does anyone know what the cool down timer is or if there’s a specific mechanic regarding the number of uses?

Yeah, you just have to remember it’s early access and has a lot of work to be done. A couple decent points though.

You can build a new raft if you craft a Tiny Shipyard. They can be built from those. Honestly, if you don’t have much to lose and haven’t claimed anything, it may be a lot easier to spawn at a Freeport and get one from the box again. It’s a lot cheaper. I’d only build a new one if you are far out and have land claimed.

Thanks for the clear answers. This will save my crew some time.

So is there a specific number of squares away from the freeports that you have to travel? I thought everything other than a freeport was lawless.

I'm trying to figure out how to claim territory. We've sailed to multiple lawless islands only to get the message that you can't claim territory in a lawless region....so you can't claim territory in a freeport region obviously, but not a lawless region either??? Am I missing something here?

Not sure, I thought the idea was to get to a lawless zone, plant a flag, and begin base. So far I can't place a flag in a lawless region....

Same issue here NA PVP L12. Been dead forever. I was on L11 and selected L12 when I died and haven't been able to connect since. Been playing on NA PVE L12...now it looks dead too. ffs fix this or let us choose a reroll prior server selection.