Once you ve made it through your first few minutes on the island without dying (congrats!), you ll want to consider building a base. A well-designed base will protect you from the elements, keep your gathered resources and supplies secure, provide a place to keep your crafting, cooking and farming equipment, and – most importantly – protect you and your creatures from the island s hostile forces.
Whenever you log out of ARK: Survival Evolved s servers, your body remains exactly where you left it, susceptible to attack from predators and, if you re on a PvP server, other players. As such, a secure base is an absolute must if you don t want to log back on to discover that you ve become a glum-faced corpse, stripped of your hard-earned spoils.
