On the normal materials present in the base game, Fiber is super easy to come by in large quantities from the foliage on the ground, while Flint is easily available by hitting any of the rocks with a stone pick.
Sulfur meanwhile is usually found in the mountainous regions from yellowed stones. Silk can be acquired in very large quantities, very quickly, by harvesting from the purple flowers while you have a sickle equipped or from dead moths.īesides water and cactus sap, cacti also yield the critically important Thatch – and deal less damage to you when hitting with your fists than trees do, making it easier to get a stone pick faster at the start of a game. For instance, you don't usually get sand from grabbing at obvious sand patches, but rather from grabbing at rocks and flowers on the ground, or even from harvesting large rock formations. Some of the new materials are harvested from multiple sources, and they aren't always super intuitive. These are the new Scorched Earth material additions: In addition to all the base materials, there are actually several new items to be found while harvesting from foliage. How could you bring yourself to hurt something this cute? Scorched Earth Materials And Structures While you can kill and harvest these doe-eyed wonders, taming one immediately should be a top priority, as its weight reduction ability means you can carry more around in the desert. Much less awe-inspiring but perhaps even more important is the adorable little jerboa. This engram is available after you pick the Large Storage Box engram, and it requires 30 Thatch, 20 Fiber, 15 Cementing Paste, 50 Stones, and 10 Flint to build.Īside from the environmental differences, Scorched Earth features a bevy of new creatures, including the wyvern, which lets you fly around and just generally wreak devastation on anything that doesn't flee before your airborne wrath - if you can tame one. When you get tired of tracking down cacti and water jug bugs, it's time for a more long-term solution: building your own water well. Notice all the giant cacti dotting the landscape? Your water level actually goes up when harvesting from these large cacti (the small ones on the ground level do nothing in terms of water). Harvesting from cacti also yields cactus sap, which oddly only raises your food level and not your water level, despite what the text might imply. The water jug bug is just one option, and there are more for staying hydrated. This guy will be your friend until you find a more stable water supply These creatures can be found in large swarms in the MIdlands area, or even traveling singly across the entire map. There are some key ways to get around this, but the easiest when you have no weapons or resources is the water jug bug, which you can drink from once before it flies away. It also makes your water level drop significantly faster than in the vanilla game. The heat of Scorched Earth doesn't just make your food spoil faster, either. You either need to harvest more often, or instead you can preserve your food for longer periods with salt, a new kind of material introduced in this DLC. Changes From The Base Gameįirst and foremost, all food - whether meat or plant - spoils much more quickly in Scorched Earth than in the base game.
Several times I've been immediately attacked by high level killer ants that can't beat with fists and won't ever stop following you, so I recommend starting somewhere else before you get the hang of the DLC's new content. Even though it shows as "easy," I've found the Midlands 4 area to be immediately deadly more often than not.Ĭlearly there are some kinks to be worked out still, as once I spawned being eaten by a dire wolf as soon I appeared with no option to do anything but die. Next up is choosing a spawn region, and there's a tactical choice to be made here when first starting out before you've learned the areas. Welcome to an arid wasteland where water is scarce!
To actually play the new content, you first have to switch over to the “Scorched Earth” or “Ark + Scorched Earth” servers using those tiny little gray buttons under the "Session List" heading, which isn't immediately apparent. For the moment we'll avoid the ethical questions about releasing paid DLC for an unfinished, un-optimized game and instead focus on staying alive in the inhospitable desert conditions of Scorched Earth.
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