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ARK: Survival Evolved Experience Points Guide & Leveling Up Fast
INTRODUCTION TO ARK EXPERIENCE POINTS
Entering a new exploration into the world of ARK: SE, vast worlds full of mystery and excitement bring you the ultimate challenges as you craft, build, and fight to survive with others. With such an adventure awaiting, knowing how to quickly level up and earn ARK experience enhances your journey and enables you and your friends to grow strong!
Whether you’re looking to unlock the best crafting recipes for your team or rushing to craft a saddle for a tame you’re wanting, there are many great methods to get your level up fast from collecting, gathering, fighting, and grinding that you can use to achieve your goals. Follow us into the ARKs as we guide you on how to earn ARK experience with speed to get you and your friends prepared for the epic quests ahead on your ARK: Survival Evolved server!
GET STARTED WITH LEVELING UP
To begin our adventure, it’s essential to know exactly what methods you can use to get many ARK experience points in the fastest way possible. Each method offers different challenges, from simply harvesting and crafting to taking on dangerous battles against difficult dinosaurs. We will begin with the simplest methods of earning ARK experience and will cover each route you can use to optimize your approaches to leveling up fast!
COLLECT AND CRAFT EARLY IN ARK
Starting out in your ARK adventure, one of the most effective methods to level up early on is through the use of gathering and making new crafting recipes that you unlock. Gather as many basic resources as possible including wood, thatch, stone, fiber, and flint to ready yourself for crafting.
Once you have plenty of resources, you’ll also need to unlock the crafting recipes using your engram points. Early on, we recommend unlocking recipes such as thatch foundation, torches, or spark powered as these are easy to craft and require little resources. Open your crafting menu by accessing your inventory and clicking the “Crafting” tab and proceed to craft large numbers of any of those recipes. As they are crafted, you will earn a large amount of XP for each item quickly boosting you and your friends to level 10+.
Crafting thatch and wooden foundations in particular on your ARK server also comes with the added benefit of being able to break those objects to get part of your resources back. This helps to continue with crafting the foundations, placing them, breaking them, and then creating more foundations to earn as much ARK experience early on as possible.
SHARE XP WITH AN ARK TRIBE
When it comes to earning ARK experience, earning the XP alone can prove to be a challenge, especially with the deadly dangers that often await around every turn. To help you in your journey, creating a tribe and inviting others is a fantastic way to share experiences gained throughout your adventure with other members of your tribe. In turn, your tribe members will also share that XP back with you ensuring that all tribe players can level up fast!
INVITING MEMBERS TO YOUR ARK TRIBE
- Create a tribe for you and your friends.
- Get near the player you’d like to invite to your tribe and hold “E” on them.
- Press the “Invite to Tribe” option on the wheel.
- That player will now need to hold “E” on your character and then press accept.
- You and your fellow ARK friends will now be in a tribe together!
TAME AND BATTLE DINOSAURS
In the dino-filled lands of ARK, taming and battling creatures is a great way to not only improve your ability to fight but also to earn plenty of ARK experience along the way! While taming on its own does not give much experience, the creatures you do tame will benefit you in taking on the stronger dinosaurs of these ARKs to make for a fast method of not only earning XP but also becoming much stronger in your quest.
Taming dinosaurs such as Raptor is a great start to progressing forward, as once you have a Raptor you can fight creatures such as Stegosaurus and Parasaurs to earn you plenty of experience for leveling up and unlocking more crafting recipes, better weapons, and saddles for taming even larger dinos. Repeat this process and before you know it, you’ll have a T-Rex by your side helping to wipe out any threats that get in your way!
GATHER ARK COLLECTABLES
In your expedition across ARKs, certain ARK maps including The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis I, and Genesis II contain explorer notes from past ARK survivors that contain useful information about the creatures, areas, and lore of those worlds. Not only are the notes great for their knowledge, but they also offer a quick way to earn plenty of ARK experience offering 100 XP for each pickup and a double-experience effect lasting 10 minutes that can be stacked making for instant level boosts for you and your friends!
The advantages of Explorer Notes allow them to be useful whether you’re a new player or a veteran of ARK. While Explorer Notes can provide new players with speedy level-ups, for veteran players these can be utilized later in the game when it is difficult to get above level 80. Using the double-experience boost earned with each Explorer Note, you can gather multiple of these for a large boost and then take on difficult dinosaurs and crafting recipes to earn you a large amount of ARK experience very quickly to help you get to those higher challenging levels.
USE GRINDERS FOR ARK EXPERIENCE
Playing long-term, it’s vital to be able to earn a steady flow of experience to advance to some of the highest levels to get the best tames and take on the bosses that await in ARK. To help you reach the experience needed, one very useful method involves the use of an Industrial Grinder on your ARK:SE server.
By grinding your extra wood and stone materials in ARK, you can earn 4 experience points for each which can quickly add up to a lot of experience if you have hundreds or thousands of that ingredient. A late-game method of earning a large amount of experience, Grinders will require a lot of ingredients to be crafted before you can use this strategy and we’ll show you exactly what you’ll need to gather!
START EARNING ARK EXPERIENCE WITH FRIENDS
To have the best time when you’re enjoying ARK, knowing how to earn ARK experience quickly is a great way of getting the equipment, items, and structures you need to survive! Alone, or with friends in a tribe, the many methods of earning experience from harvesting, crafting, fighting, and collecting offers a fun journey for all who adventure into the great ARKs. Forge your own path towards achieving the top level and conquering the dinosaur-engulfed lands on your own ARK: Survival Evolved game server!
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