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ARK: Survival Ascended - Valguero Map Guide: Biomes, Creatures, and New Features!This video provides a comprehensive overview of the Valguero map in ARK: Survival Ascended, covering its various biomes, unique locations, returning creatures like the Deinonychus, and exciting new additions such as the Megaraptor and Elderclaw. It's a must-watch for players preparing for the map's release.
1. 📅 Valguero Ascended Release & New Boss Teaser
- ✅ Valguero Ascended is set to release around September 30th.
- ✅ The original map creator, NATO, is involved in the remaster.
- ⚠️ A new Valguero boss is hinted to be coming with the remaster.
00:01 - 00:39
1. 📅 Valguero Ascended Release & New Boss Teaser
- ✅ Valguero Ascended is set to release around September 30th.
- ✅ The original map creator, NATO, is involved in the remaster.
- ⚠️ A new Valguero boss is hinted to be coming with the remaster.
00:40 - 07:44
2. 🗺️ Exploring Valguero's Diverse Biomes: Jungles, White Cliffs, Redwoods, Tundra, Snow Biome & Central River
- ✅ Jungles: Located in the eastern part of the map, featuring dense rainforests, canyons, and hidden buildable caves. Home to the green obelisk.
- ✅ White Cliffs: In the southeast, known for open grasslands and tall white cliffs. A popular starting area with metal nodes and dangerous predators like the Deinonychus.
- ✅ Redwoods: Found in the southwest, offering giant redwood trees, rivers, and pre-built bridges. Contains a roaming mini-boss, the wild broodmother, guarding a swamp-like cave with multiple artifacts.
- ✅ Tundra: Located in the west, similar to snow biomes but warmer. Features rivers, waterfalls with hidden assets, and the oil cave.
- ✅ Snow Biome: In the northern section, rich with oil, metal, and crystal. Home to the first ice wyvern trench in Ark Ascended, leading to a fiery tunnel with other wyvern variants and the artifact of the sky lord.
- ✅ Central River: Runs through the middle of the map, bordered by white cliffs and dense jungles. Offers pretty base locations with lakes, waterfalls, and rivers.
07:45 - 09:36
3. 🏞️ Unique Hidden Regions: The Abyss & Aberration Zone
- ✅ The Abyss: An underwater tunnel leading to a massive underground ocean with deep-sea creatures.
- ✅ Aberration Zone: Features the emerald forest (green zone) with aberration features, resources, and creatures. Includes an area called the unknown, requiring a hazard suit due to radiation damage.
09:37 - 10:27
4. 📍 Artifact Caves on Valguero: Crag Cave & Lost Temple
- ✅ Artifact of the Crag Cave: Located in the central forest, a small cave with a few loot crates.
- ✅ Lost Temple: A hidden entrance in the furthest east jungle, leading to a dark cave system with underwater sections, nasty creatures, and loot crates. Holds the Artifact of the Brute and Artifact of the Devourer.
10:28 - 10:53
5. ⚔️ Boss Arena & Potential New Boss
- ✅ The boss arena previously featured the Dragon, Manticore, and Megapithecus.
- ⚠️ The devs are hinting at a new boss, potentially meaning a new arena as well.
10:54 - 12:05
6. 🦖 Returning Creature Spotlight: The Deinonychus
- ✅ The Deinonychus is a medium-sized carnivorous dinosaur known for its bleed-inducing attacks, climbing abilities, and ability to latch onto larger creatures.
- ✅ It's a popular traversal mount and one of the few creatures whose bleed effects work against bosses.
12:06 - 14:21
7. 🐾 New Creature: The Megaraptor - Abilities & Taming
- ✅ The Megaraptor was the community-voted creature winner for Valguero.
- ✅ Designed by Garuga, known for creating top-quality modded creatures.
- ✅ The dossier suggests it has a fear ability to scare away allies and a unique taming method involving claiming its 'gristly altar of carcasses' and keeping it at bay with fire.
- ✅ It hunts alone and is uncomfortable around its own kind, potentially receiving a debuff when near other Megaraptors.
14:22 - 16:55
8. 🌿 New Fantastic Tame: The Elderclaw - Abilities & Taming
- ✅ The Elderclaw is a fantasy-themed bear-like creature.
- ✅ It controls nearby vegetation for protection and can entangle aggressors.
- ✅ It summons a spirit echo to weaken threats and invigorate allies. The spirit echo can explode, creating a cloud of charged spores that burn aggressors and close wounds of allies.
- ✅ Adult Elderclaws are not tameable via standard methods; instead, players must propagate their own from cubs or shrubs, raising them like crops. Once grown, it becomes a protective forest warden that can harvest trees with its roots.
- ✅ Included with the Lost Colony DLC pass.