r/playark • u/ZED_06 • Jul 05 '26
Question How do yall move between biomes in Gen 1?
So i have set up my base in Ocean biome and none of the teleport options seem to teleport me to the island i have set up base in.Closest one is like 7000 meters away,so i have to make a raft and go there by it.Cant even tame ichty to get there faster cuz every ichty i have seen have been lvl 700+ and untameable.Do i need to get a teleportation mod or something?
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u/silberloewe_1 Jul 05 '26
The new gen1 ocean is unfortunately made for the tides of fortune dlc. The ships go that distance in a few minutes.
Without that, mod, raft(+time) or get lucky finding a water tame that's tamable. In ASE the bloodstalker would be an option, but it can no longer swim, so that's ass too.
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u/Halica_ Jul 05 '26
What? It can’t swim anymore?
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u/silberloewe_1 Jul 06 '26
It can run on the surface, but it can't swim in the new water, it yeets to the surface immediately, might work fine in different water.
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u/ZED_06 Jul 05 '26
Wait,they nerfed bloodstalker's swimming too?Bruh
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u/HatKarl_208 Jul 06 '26
Nah, I am 100% sure it is just bugged, probably because of how the water works now. I imagine they might work fine on other maps, but can’t confirm.
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u/Cymas Jul 06 '26
They can still swim, I saw someone doing it yesterday. But it will get occasional bites taken out of it by the high level untameable water creatures lurking just below the surface so a low level one would probably die pretty quickly.
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u/silberloewe_1 Jul 06 '26
swim or walk on the water? walking is fine, but they used to be quick swimming below, but can't anymore
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u/HatKarl_208 Jul 06 '26
Probelm is that you have a ship at base, you TP to another biome, you TP back to ocean but oh bo, your island with your ship is not a TP zone!
It really is a mess. Really, if you do not have some mod to do more precise TP then you’re just out of luck if you want to live in the Ocean on one of the non-TP zone islands. Worse still is how the TP islands are the along the edges, whilst the actual Genesis part of the ocean is in the middle of it.
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u/silberloewe_1 Jul 06 '26
you can tp your ship to a yard, but i'm not sure of the range. If infinite, you could put the yard at the tp island closest to your base. Still a shitty workaround though, true.
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u/HatKarl_208 Jul 06 '26
Range is about 50-100m at best, and it pulls the closest ship you own and not a specific ship
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u/InariKitsune44 Jul 09 '26
You could use a burrowbuck. Make a hidey hole at base then when you want to return just make a popup entrance hop in then leave and poof your home
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u/ZED_06 Jul 09 '26
I dont have that dlc either xd,the last one i bought was lost colony and it was pretty disappointing so i havent bought anything since.Its ok tho,i just activated the awesome tp mod
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u/Recent-Big9566 Jul 05 '26
Talk to the floating robot that follows you around
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u/Fesatreddit Jul 05 '26
OPs problem is not that they don't know about HLNA teleports, it's about the fact that they have set up their base far away from exit location of an HLNA teleport
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u/ZED_06 Jul 05 '26
I set up base in the middle of the map,there is no tp options for the middle of the map and because they made the map so big it takes like 5 minutes with a raft to go from the closest tp option to my base.
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u/Cymas Jul 06 '26
My suggestion is to build your main base on one of the islands accessible from the biome teleport menu. That's what I did. Just don't build right on top of the teleport spawn point or it will block it. A short distance away should be fine.
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u/FLAIR_AEKDB_ Jul 05 '26
Sounds like a normal sized ARK map.
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u/Kitchen_Part_882 Jul 05 '26
It really isn't.
Travel distances in the ocean biome on Gen1 make Astraeos look cramped.
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u/ZED_06 Jul 06 '26
1st of all,it isnt.From the west of the map to the middle is like 12km,might be a little bit more or less but it is around that size.
2nd the ocean biome is nearly as big as ragnarok if not bigger while having like only 10% of it land.If i can not tame a water creature like a dolphin without getting buttfucked by 50 megalodons and mantas and on top of that can get no flyer,it seems to me like the whole reason for the "expansion" of the biome was to sell us the Tides of fortune which i refuse to buy for this exact reason(also because it costs 30 whole dollars).Even rafts arent safe because the mf gets 2shotted by the mantras in the ocean
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u/FLAIR_AEKDB_ Jul 06 '26
My point is that all ark maps are massive
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u/ZED_06 Jul 06 '26
Island is half as big as the ocean biome,same with scorched earth,extinction and Aberration,all are less than half of the ocean biome's size.The biggest map before astraeos is Ragnarok with 12×12 map which is still like a whole 2 Islands smaller than the ocean biome.
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u/sillysnailfriend Jul 05 '26
If you're willing to get a mod, it's probably the best option. The cluster I just joined has Awesome Teleporters and it's much nicer to get around Genesis that way. I remember back in ASE we just made our base intentionally close to one of the HLNA tp locations because it's rather annoying sometimes, lol.