

Keep an eye on your oxygen levels at all times to avoid drowning. Harvesting resources in Ark can be almost hypnotizing. There are also usually oil deposits in the cave as well, although they tend to not give as much oil as the open water deposits. There are many scattered in the ocean around the island. Underwater caves can hold large amounts of pearls.Ichthyosaurs and Megalodons make great underwater mounts and will drastically sped up your travel time under the water. They are also good for underwater combat, especially since many of the resource rich areas will also be swarming with Megalodons. Underwater Mounts are great for getting to the good farming grounds quickly and then getting out.Just remember to keep an eye on the meter. Try to have your oxygen stat be at least 200 to have a decent amount of time underwater.

Your default oxygen levels will not last long enough to get to the prime oil grounds, especially if you’re not using a mount. To be able to farm oil seriously you’ll want to put some points into your oxygen stat.Each clam will usually hold around 3 – 5 pearls. When you’ve found the Pearls, they can be gathered with your bare hands, just move over to them and press ‘E’. Try searching under rocks and in underwater caves where they can often be found in large groups. The clams that hold them are very bright and sparkly, making it easy to spot them from a distance. One of the main ingredients when creating electronics, Silica Pearls are found deep on the ocean floor and in underwater caves. From most rocks you can get around 3 – 10 oil, with the ones in the open ocean tending to produce more. When you’ve found a source of oil, use your pick to farm it (weird). It’s also pretty obvious to spot, just look for the large black rocks with the oily residue streaming out of them. Oil can be found in most parts of the ocean, and even in some of the deeper bays.
#SILICA PEARLS TRIAL#
But through trial and error and more than a few survivors lost, we now know that the it’s in those depths that you’ll have to go if you want to get your hands on Oil and Silica Pearls, two extremely important materials used in almost all of the modern equipment you’ll be manufacturing, especially electronics.
#SILICA PEARLS HOW TO#
Learning how to gather Silica Pearls and Oil took a while for the early adopters of Ark: Survival Evolved because up to that point everything they’d ever needed was on land, and there appeared to be no way of easily navigating the depths of the ocean.
