the best location with water very close are the underwater doms. its a very flat area and easy to handle for huge structures. The Eastern Trench is located along the entire eastern edge of the map. UNDERWATER CAVE ENTRANCES. Underwater tek base location Hello I’m relatively new to ark, just started playing back in November of 2019 (roughly 5ish months) I’m playing on unofficial 6 man tribe server. If you can get enough dust gachas or you can run the center bosses often enough, you can set your main base as an underwater chamber base, with 1-2 tek gens covering a huge area, way bigger than the same amount of resources in regular tek would cover. Top 10 Base Locations in Ark: Survival Evolved 10. For locations of resource nodes, see Resource Map (The Center) . another good location is the northwest of lavaisland. For a while i had a small base near the swamps in a place where most people dont go since my tribe got betrayed and stopped playing when an admin joined the alpha tribe and raided us and if they did they would have to go far enough down into the canyon for my stone home to actually load in, and i still felt so paranoid everytime i logged off. (Thank you to reddit user PitschiPitschiPopo for pointing out the final cave!) Ark: Survival Evolved v256 brings underwater bases to the game, but the process of building one isn’t really explained.In this guide, we’ll cover the basics to get you started. Underwater caves can be found by looking for rising air bubbles. This article is about locations of explorer notes, caves, artifacts, and beacons on The Center. These air bubbles are right next to the entrances to the caves. People with a Megalodon should be able to reach them with 100 max oxygen. I just posted this on Reddit, but for people who dont read that, here are the location of the 6 confirmed Major Caves and 12 underwater caves in Ark! jungle north and south got good metalnodes. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=482997500 The caves themselves contain oil and pearls (A lot of them) but can be tricky to reach! (For the explorers out there, DO NOT look at the images. Overview [edit | edit source]. The Eastern Trench or Dark Depths is a location in the DLC: The Center that was added as a small trench in the southeast in PC patch 245.0 and later expanded in PC patch 257.0.. Island to the northeast of the blue obelisk. you can just take a part of the beach. The only worry about maintaining a water base is the element. ARK Survival Evolved has an equally evolving community as it has content. Mobile App users need to view this page in a browser to use the map fully. they have rich metalnotes too. This is a very dangerous place to venture as visibility is near-zero and pitch-black. I’m looking to have a pretty big base underwater that way I can house gigas and other tames. The images below show you their location and entrances. This location is on the original map, the island, as far as base locations go this is on the top 10 because it is near all of the major resources.