Bar in Ark:Survival evolved

I looked at Wes and Flynn’s attempts to build a bar and wondered if it is possible to build a bar in Ark: Survival Evolved, where to do it and what is needed for it.

Threat post – second attempt. The first was understood as self-promotion.
Just in case, this is not self-promotion, not self-PR, and not even an attempt to attack the skills of the guys who played Ark a hundred years ago.

Okay, not a hundred.
Here’s the actual stream. Enjoy the moment almost two hours into the game. 1:40 something where streamers meet a schoolboy.
(Why, by the way, does this stream have so few views?! It’s gorgeous)

Brief summary of the stream. They didn’t build a bar.

What am I talking about there?. Oh yes. I love playing to all sorts of leisurely discussions of smart people on YouTube. This is roughly how I was transferred from the History of the series to this stream itself, when I was playing Ark.
KKKKKKOMBO.

Therefore, here are approximate instructions on how and what to do.

Step 1. Choose a normal server.

Basically, you should choose unofficial servers, PVE groups.

This is due to the fact that the official servers will, as a rule, be filled with crowds of professional nolifers, who will, at best, interfere, and at worst, will clog all convenient and picturesque points with their bases.

Do you want hardcore? Take a PVP server, fighting off competitors and forming alliances, you will build your bar in a constantly paranoid environment of F@@holism and anticipation of a raid.

Note: when building a bar in pvp, immediately open all storage facilities and devices and do not keep anything valuable there. Out of principle they will not be broken as often as out of a desire to look inside.

Note #2.
Some unofficial servers have increased resource drops, stacks and kits. Whether to get involved with this method to make your life easier – decide for yourself.

Being a patented rogue, I chose Ragnarok.

Reasons for choice:
An abundance of resources, picturesque places for bars, convenient starting points, containers with loot that do not require any special restrictions to get normal equipment even on a default map.

I can recommend Valguero.
Other maps except (Islands, Center and Crystal Islands) are paid.
The island isn’t the most scenic map, and on the Crystal Islands, scenic spots often have unpleasant neighbors.

I don’t know the center and Crystal Islands well enough to build bars there.

From personal experience they are usually fuller than Ragnarok and Island. But the Island is tight with picturesque places.

So the gist is this:
Ankylosaurus farms metal and flint well.
Castoroides beaver farms berries and wood well.
Thylacine, sabertooth – farm chitin and keratin well.
Megatherium is a must-have for farming chitin.
Dedicus only farms stone, but in such enormous quantities that you will forget about the shortage of this resource throughout your life.
Quetzalcoatlus and Argentauris help transport the well-farmed.

Got it?
Great. Then remember. You start looking for all of the above no earlier than level thirty, because if you are not a patented arcade wanker with three years of beta testing, it will be difficult to catch them.

Raft – to sail away.
Dodo – https://slotsnogamstop.co.uk/review/golden-pharaoh-casino/ to get eggs.
Parasaurolophus – for large eggs, because it is the first available mount and because it farms berries.
Phiomia – for some shit. Shit becomes better and of higher quality if you feed fiomia with white berries (steamberry).
Pteranodon – the first available flying mount with a couple of good tricks.
Wyvern – easy to obtain, raising and removing a sane mount from her is extremely low pleasure. To raise it without milk you will need a pet growth boost on the server and a predatory pig with healing – deodon.
Plant X to HOLD MY GROUND, PROTECT PRIVATE PROPERTY in the face of competition with local flora, fauna and other bar builders.
Scarab lives in dangerous places, but you’ll love these guys. They are a top must have, processing some crap into useful fertilizers, and rotten meat into useful oil.

Achatina snail It doesn’t happen that often, but if you see one, tame it. Requires a hard to craft vegetable cake, but it yields organic polymer and cement paste.

Ovis – gives wool, tasty and healthy meat, but is tamed through difficult crafting.

Are you a bar owner or something??
Remember – you need to learn to count, if you want to build a normal bar, learn to count.
What you need to count? Levels and resources that you need to spend, the number of blocks in the building you will make and the mounts (saddles for them) that you will need.

Got it yeah? This is exactly what they prepared you for in algebra classes at school, but in general a normal tablet with formulas will do. Here’s an example:

I’ll take the most labor-intensive building in the blocks.
This is a big metal wall.
It is the most durable, but the construction of one block costs 28 units of cement paste and 100 ingots.
Here’s our calculation:
Number of walls – 65

And this my friend is the most fun.
The fact is that the more advanced type of block you choose, the more secondary resources you will need.
Let me explain.
To produce one unit of steel you need 2 units of metal ore.
To produce one unit of cement paste you need 8 units of stone and 4 units of Chitin/keratin.
Let me keep silent about the fact that to produce steel at normal speed you need saltpeter or a smelter.
So what’s up with our sixty-five walls??
It’s simple. You multiply the secondary resource in the amount required to produce one unit by the number of units of the primary resource that you need to build the final block.

You estimate the number of hours of play required to accumulate the required amount of resources and protect the accumulated resources, and then to produce ready-made blocks.
You estimate the weight of the final resources and the carrying capacity of your mounts.
Somewhere at this moment you can decide to fucking drop the game, and I won’t raise my hand to judge you, you came to play, not complex mathematics, and that’s all.

Do you think it’s difficult?
Entering the formula is the easiest thing. Then just plug in the numbers. All the difficulties are yet to come.
I’m pretty sure there are a ton of resource calculator sites out there, but that’s not the way to go for a real responsible bar owner. So go ahead yourself.

The very first and simplest step here is to select a point for the bar. Depending on what you want to do, a small tavern in a cold zone, a super disco on the beach, a pub on the top of a cliff – you find a point and start building it up.

Then the harsh calculations begin again.

Decide on materials for the bar.

If you want to build a really good bar, you should understand how certain materials look in certain conditions, how they are combined with each other, and how these combinations look in the conditions that you have chosen for your bar.
From right to left – metal, wood, straw, greenhouse.

Remember I talked about metal walls for a bar??
Forget it, in most conditions and landscapes metal walls look extremely shitty.
Instead of a warm and cozy place where you would like to spend time, it turns out to be complete crap, the combination of metal and snow looks especially bad, no matter how many fireplaces and smelters you build, this place will look bad.

Straw looks quite organic on the beaches, is cheap and will allow you to build a tropical tavern relatively quickly. Main problems – no strength. While building a straw bar, I encountered a curious problem when the damn ichthyornis on the beach broke one of the load-bearing walls and broke the roof. Although this material will look good in some places, keep this in mind. In particular, because there is a category of vandals who sleep and see how to raid your base.

Stone is a material in itself; it looks organic on gray rocks in combination with straw or wood. It does not always look organic in dark areas and low lighting.
((May the console commands gamma 4 and gamma 5 be with you, enter via TAB))

The greenhouse looks quite interesting, but is one of the labor-intensive materials and is constantly limited by a lack of resources and time for production.

Adobe is a simple composite material that requires a relatively low level for production, but is not available on all maps, and one of the resources for its production – clay, requires resources for its own production.

The tree is relatively pleasant in appearance in most conditions, but ultimately make the final decision yourself, look at the calculations and figure it out.

Decide on the ergonomics of the space.

Are you building a bar for yourself or for people??
In both cases, consider the following features:

Climate.
One way or another you will have to deal with climate control. There are different methods. Specifically, I recommend investing in air conditioners and fireplaces. The first ones look good, the second ones work well. Or vice versa. Not the point. The bottom line is that they are one of the best climate control tools. Keep in mind that building a fireplace in an area where everyone suffers from overheating is a route to a Darwin Award.

Resources for production
So, my friend, do you want to know what it is to produce clay or cement in an area where there are no insects or turtles and in an area where there is no sand or cactus??
You really want it? This means spending fifteen minutes every day transporting resources from point A to point B. According to the most conservative estimates and assuming normal cargo capacity of the mount.
This also includes supplying the bar with gasoline and resources for producing food (types of meat) and beer (straw with berries). The most progressive way to build a farm within the bar or nearby, which will be populated and seeded with useful creatures. A properly built farm regulates itself – herbivores produce manure and breed, predators regulate the number of herbivores and lay eggs, scarabs process manure and rotten meat, fertilized beds replenish the feeder for herbivores.

Furnishings
Think about places and areas for storing things (yours and others). Isolation of the zone.
For example: kitchen area, small production area, technical area, small hall, meeting room, conference room for large gatherings, second floor and open areas (see.example in my video)
Hallway – cabinets or safes. Better cabinets, safes look lame.
Kitchen area – refrigerators and grill, industrial kitchen and kettles.
Small production area – mortar and pestle, chemical table.
Technical area – bar power plants and air conditioners.
Take the time to think about where and how you will place the latrine.
What do you mean it’s not necessary, that customers are allowed to shit in the bar??
Try to move the latrine away from water sources or pools if you have any. Don’t forget to install the doors and unlock them, otherwise excesses may occur on the basis of which the Obsidian studio scriptwriters will write a story about one of the technicians on the Pathfinder.

Fencing
Depending on how many floors you have and at what elevation you placed the bar, you should think about the fact that customers could fall from a height, hurt themselves, or fall into the mouth of the local fauna. Can’t build a railing? Improvise. Build everything that will prevent the client from flying from a height.
Again, you should have places in the bar where the client is not allowed to enter. It doesn’t matter for what reason, the blatant unsanitary conditions of your kitchen where there is fresh meat, feces and rotten meat mixed in the refrigerators and cabinets, or a poorly behaved scarab beetle guarding the generator. Think these rooms through and LOCK THE FUCK UP.

Energy
By this I mean not only the banal supply of gasoline to the bar. Firstly, there are windmills and you can save on gasoline, although not in all conditions. Make sure that the bar buildings do not block the windmill.
Further. You want to build a simple bar at a low level? Consider supplying it with fuel.
Wall torches or standing torches require fuel.
Fireplaces and fires require fuel.
The gas generator needs fuel.
Lanterns require generators and sockets, and it is better to place the latter so that they do not interfere with the aesthetic appearance of the bar.
This also includes water supply, the presence of a permanent source of water or a developed water supply system that supplies the beds, kitchen, taps and toilet.

Parking.
Get your clientele right. You will need platforms to receive flying or roaming mounts. Mounts shit a lot. You will need compost bins. All this looks and sounds unaesthetic – we need to hide it from the eyes of the main clients who want to rest on a chair and watch the sunset while restoring their stamina.

Entertainment.
Just sitting at a bar is boring. Just drinking is a reason for drunken showdowns with shooting and stabbing. Or a reason to start breaking the bar. Think about what to do for your clients.
My advice is to choose boomerangs, glow sticks, spyglasses, fireworks-flare guns, sparklers-skins for a torch. There is an opportunity – organize a zone with fishing rods, a crafting-cooking zone.

The easiest part. Once you have an idea of ​​what you want to create, the process doesn’t take much time. In the most ideal situation, you simply place already created elements. The pitfalls that you may encounter here are treacherous terrain and calculated spatial errors. From personal experience, I recommend storing the most consumable items in double or triple reserve. You can try to turn some elements into features from a bug.
Go ahead, fantasize and do it.

Check the accessibility of the main zones, the inability to turn around and take damage, the strength of key elements, the inaccessibility of closed zones, the passivity or aggressiveness of the required mounts, the security of key structures. Don’t get me wrong: if you find yourself in a difficult situation with a wall and stairs, you can solve it faster and easier than the client. In the most difficult case, the solution to the situation on the part of a visitor to your bar will be resolved through an abundance of C4, which will literally fuck up the hours or days of your work.

The following principles are important here:

try to find like-minded people, even building a superbarotel skyscraper is easier and faster if you break down tasks and coordinate actions as a team

try to convey to all the players what you are doing, some of them may help you out of curiosity, others, having noticed what you are doing, simply will not bother you (yes, you won’t believe how many problems can be solved with a simple dialogue)

when the bar is built, try to notify the server public about it. There are different ways, the simplest is to drop items you don’t need into cabinets and invite novice players to pick up the freebies. Fertilized eggs, drawings you studied, leftovers and surplus resources will please them. Some of them will be interested in adopting the techniques you used in construction.
If the server’s society is not toxic, then believe me, your construction will be appreciated.

Step 9. Make a video about your bar, edit it poorly, upload it to YouTube, then think about posting it on blogs, screw it up, get a remark. Give it another try.

No comments. Watching is strictly optional.

Okay just kidding. Comments will be.
After briefly looking at the efforts of Wes and Flynn, I started thinking about creating my own bar. One of the options, due to the fact that in general it looked more picturesque than many others, I present in this video in the format of a humorous advertisement. That’s actually all there is.

Well now a little about what I built, how I built it, etc.d.
There will be no calculations in the materials here, it makes no sense.
I built the main structures of the bar from adobe and wood; due to the convenient location, I decorated the secondary ones with the help of greenhouse elements and lighting. Placed tables, chairs and jugs, railings.
I chose adobe because in the original conditions it looked quite aesthetically pleasing, is well lit and generally creates a warm atmosphere that attracts people more. Greenhouse decoration allows you to put pressure on the aesthetic feature of the bar; most of the environment can be viewed in detail from inside the bar without contact with the external environment.

The open areas were equipped with cooking pots. After the video, I threw up some carpets because I had to teleport to another cluster map to get the material for them.
I built a duplicate gas generator + wind turbine installation, next to it I built a multi-level greenhouse farm, which I planted mainly with crops that are impossible or difficult to farm.
There are a couple of farms nearby for eggs and honey, so it’s not difficult to supply the entire bar with resources for its sane functionality.
But let me clarify right away that the server has certain boosts and whales.
I tried to use them to a minimum, but that’s a completely different story.