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Best Ways To Defend Your Base In Ark: Survival Ascended

We must protect this house!

In any survival game that requires base building, there are always going to be key strategies players will have to use to survive.

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This is the case in Ark: Survival Ascended, as there are a variety of ways you can defend oncoming hordes of dinosaurs and tribes. We’ve detailed them below.

Ark: Survival Ascended – Best Ways To Defend Your Base

While the premise of any Ark title is simply going to be to survive, there are a million different ways this can be interpreted. Whether it’s taming some of the dinosaurs early on within the game, or gathering enough materials to craft some Hide armor.

Base defending however is going to be just as important as it is in other survival titles such as Rust, mainly due to the fact that this could be the only form of shelter you have in the wild.

In Survival Ascended, there are going to be some methods and items players should craft and set up along the outskirts of their base.

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Automated Defensives in Ark Survival Ascended

While you can just sit around and fend off the dinosaurs and oncoming attacks yourself, it’s much easier to just build the following items and hope they don’t break.

  • Turrets
    • These can be automated or manually operated, and they’re going to be extremely helpful to fend off enemies.
  • Spike Walls
    • Speaking of walls, taking advantage of the wooden or metal spike walls is going to further ensure you don’t have any pesky creatures having an easy way over the top of your base.
  • Tripwire Traps
    • The handy tripwire traps are a classic way to catch dinosaurs off guard, since, depending on your base location, you can set these up along the outskirts and hope they stumble in.

These three methods are going to be the surefire ways for players to defend their base.

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Nick Farrell
Having worked in the games industry for half a decade now, Nick has rediscovered his passion for covering games after having dabbled in PR. Favorite games include World of Warcraft, Overwatch and the Yakuza franchise.