Ark Survival Ascended: Best Creature for Every Resource

Gathering Berries & Seeds

Early on, your best choices for gathering berries will be pretty much any herbivore that you can tame. However, later on, if you really need to get a ton of berries in one go, you may want to get one of the following:

• Brontosaurus
• Stegosaurus

For seeds, you should find an Iguanodon, as these can turn your stacks of berries into seeds if you place them in its inventory.

Wood

For chopping down trees, there are a bunch of options that you can go for. The most ideal ones, however, are the following:

• Mammoth – Has a ton of AoE and can clear forests with ease.
• Castoroides – These giant beavers are particularly good at efficiently farming wood.
• Stegosaurus
• Therizinosaur

Thatch

For thatch, you will want either a Brontosaurus or Triceratops. The Stegosaurus also has a special mode that is dedicated for thatch farming.

Mining Stone

When it comes to mining plain stone, the Doedicurus is almost unmatched when it comes to breaking and carrying a lot of this resource. Combined with a high weight flyer, such as an Argentavis, you can go on some quick and juicy mining runs.

Flint, Metal, Crystal & Obsidian

For these resources, you will first want to get a high weight flying mount as the dinosaurs you will need for this are incredibly slow. The optimal choices are the following:

• Ankylosaurus – For nodes on land.
• Dunkleosteus – For nodes that are underwater.

Fiber

Fiber is one of the earliest resources that you will need in the game and gathering it can be a pain until you level up a bit to tame certain creatures. With that said, the creatures that you will need to efficiently farm fiber are:

• Moschops
• Gigantopithecus
• Therizinosaur

Hide, Pelt & Keratin

The ideal choices for farming hide, pelt, and keratin from other dinosaurs around the map is by taming the following creatures:

• Sabertooth
• Dire Wolf
• Therizinosaur

Bio Toxin

Bio Toxin is gathered from Cnidaria, which are deadly jellyfish that can stun you. In order to safely farm them, a Basilosaurus is necessary as it is immune to their stun. A Spinosaur can also be used if you have one.

Varying Types of Meat

Most carnivorous dinosaurs can be used for gathering meat from other creatures, though if you want to maximize your gains, consider using the following:

• Gigantosaurus
• Carcharodontosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus
• Spinosaur – For fish meat specifically.

Organic Polymer

For farming organic polymer, rather than your typical meat-eating predators, you will want to prioritize taming one of the following instead:

• Sabertooth
• Dire Bear
• Pelagornis

Giant Bee Honey

For giant bee honey, the only ideal option here is the Dire Bear as it greatly increases how much you can get when compared to doing it yourself.

Oil

Oil is something you will eventually need a lot of as you progress further into the tech tree. The best options for gathering this resource are the following:

• Ankylosaurus – Specifically for land nodes.
• Dunkleosteus – Specifically for underwater nodes.
• Dung Beetle – Can turn feces into oil.

Rare Mushrooms & Rare Flowers

For either of these resources, you will most likely want to get a Therizinosaur as it is the best option for gathering both of them within the swamp. Other alternatives include:

• Mammoth
• Ankylosaurus – For rare mushrooms only.
• Moschops – For rare flowers only.

Cementing Paste / Achatina Paste

The Beelzebufo, which is a giant frog,is the absolute best creature for gathering cementing paste as it produces a lot of it when eating bugs.

Alternatively, an Achatina can be tamed as it produces a substitute resource known as Achatina Paste.

Chitin

The Megatherium is the best creature at collecting chitin from insects. Alternatively, you could also try using one of the following:

• Therizinosaur
• Sabertooth

Leech Blood & Silica Pearls

Dire Wolves are pretty much one of the best options for either of these resources. However, if you aren’t gathering silica pearls from dead creatures, you may want to use the Anglerfish instead.

Black Pearls

Black Pearls can only be harvested from certain dead creatures, such as an Alpha Tusoteuthis. Because of this, your best options will likely be something like a Basilosaurus, or an Ichthyosaurus for smaller creatures.

Angler Gel

As the name of the resource implies, Angler Gel is mainly gathered from dead Anglerfish. The best at gathering these are the following creatures:

• Dire Wolves
• Megalodon