OpenTube

Ark: Building Tips & Tricks

Aaron Longstaff

934,346 views

This video will show you some useful Tips & Tricks to help you improve your building in Ark!.
Join this channel to get access to perks:
@aaronlongstaff
Join my Discord: Discord: discord

Tips & Tricks
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Creating fences using fence foundations
1:53 Stacking Water Reservoirs
3:37 Stacking foundations
4:43 Placing hatch frames correctly (Ladder orientation)
6:22 Offsetting foundations
8:24 How to intersect walls
10:32 Decorative pillar designs
12:56 Double wall technique (Using Sloped walls)
15:50 Concealing water pipes & taps
17:27 Bonus Tip (Large crop plots)
__________________________________________________________________________

🎮🕹 Controls

Flip Wall
XBOX (Y Button)
PS4 (Triangle Button)
PC (E Key)

Snap Point Cycle
XBOX (RB)
PS4 (R1)
PC (Q or Z Key)

Painting
PC - Hold alt-fire (default: Right Mousebutton) and use the number keys (1-6) to select which colour regions you wish to paint
Xbox - LT+ Up, Down, Left or Right on DPad (for region 1-4) and Xbox: LT+LB+ X or Y (for region 5 and 6)
PS4 - L2 + Up, Down, Left or Right on DPad (for region 1-4) and L2 + L1+ Square or X (for region 5 and 6)
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

♫Music Credit♫

All music used in this video by Stream Beats https://www.streambeats.com

☆ OUTRO - Echo3zDown - Like Nothing Felt Before - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kohX7... • Echo3zDown SoundCloud: echo3zdown
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

📢 Social Media

Follow Me On Instagram: Instagram: aaronlongst..
Follow Me On Twitter: Twitter: aaronlongstaff
Support Me On Patreon: Patreon: Aaronlongstaff
Join my Discord Discord: discord
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

🤝 Partners:

▶︎ Quzo UK - Buy a top Gaming Desk By Arozzi https://www.quzo.net/products/gaming-...
▶︎ Nitrado - Get your own Nitrado server Here https://nitra.do/AaronLongstaff
▶︎ Elgato - What I Stream With http://e.lga.to/AaronLongstaff
▶︎ Nitro Concepts - Buy a chair in the UK - https://goo.gl/eGkPYD
Buy In Europe - Caseking https://goo.gl/iN5vL5

#arkcrystalisles #aaronlongstaff #howtobuildinark #Crystalisles

20 Comments

@Kojouro 5 years ago

I'm convinced that advanced building in ark is actual black magic.

@purpleknight6054 5 years ago

Anyone else think that he is the gamer version of bob ross?

@lucienmed4554 3 years ago (edited)

I like how I’m barely surviving* and this guy is creating masterpiece😂😂

@tckats 5 years ago

I would love to see more building on uneven ground.

@tanj600 5 years ago

Is it strange, the only part of the video that made me feel excitement/relief was the using the stairs to adjust the height of a free placed pipe? making good/hidden piping/wiring has always been the biggest frustration to me

@decembermirakel 5 years ago

Just for anyone struggling like I did:
The bay windows will (sometimes?) only place on the left or right side of the very first foundation piece you place. I had to redo my entire house because of this 🙃

@mgcarrigan 5 years ago

Dear Wildcard, use this guy as a building tutorial for building available on the menu page. I'm going to use these video as just that. Playing next to me while playing.

@Zamnek 5 years ago

I never thought that buildings like those shown at the end were possible in Ark! They're incredible!
Building in Ark is a ridiculously complex endeavor.

@TheJacjac129 5 years ago

8:20 gave me serious "Courage the Cowardly Dog" Vibes

@grumpyref 5 years ago

Just a personal preference type of thing...
When doing a greenhouse, I prefer having an overhead hanging grid of pipes and taps. It has a more realistic look.

However, I like the technique of hiding the pipes, so that I can then hide the incoming pipes and running it from floor, up the wall, then across the ceiling.

Great tips!

@jenningsmoberly8777 5 years ago

Man the amount of time and energy to learn all these tricks must have been crazy for you. Thank you so much for having the drive to learn all this then teach us noobs how to make something I’m happy to actually live in in ark haha.

@johnnyr2646 4 years ago

Going through all that effort just to stack water towers ontop of one another is one of the most Ark things I've ever seen 😂.

@Elgar-c3c 5 years ago

The "Concealing water pipes & taps" tip using stairs was new for me, thank you !

@ZeBum 5 years ago

My jaw dropped at the crop plots one, had no idea that was a thing. Great video and definitely helpful for future building!

@mazen7844 5 months ago

Hiding the water pipes is gold
Also the windows are really nice but I'm following your other tips for triple walls since it will make it look nice on the inside too

@Zbucket 5 months ago

5Years later, still useful

@achillesof8639 2 years ago

What a great form you used in this video leaving no real questions.

@statixsc3013 4 years ago

i didnt skip a single second. what the hell is this actual quality content

@waveclaw 5 years ago

This could almost double as the 'platform saddle build Tips & Tricks' video.

Can electrical cabling also use the free-placement-level method from stairs that was used for water pipes?

The offset snap points from pillars on foundations are super useful for vanilla platform saddle bases. Hanging ceilings like to snap 1 'level' higher than lowered foundations (see Ark: Building Trips & Tricks video 1) and this can correct that error.

Platform saddles cannot have pipes installed so large crop plots tricks are a must for mobile bases that don't want to waste time on filling water containers and using them from the plot's inventory.

Now if we just had a method of making the ladder trick useful on platform saddles to line things up correctly.