Starter Guide

# General Survival Tips

These are some things that I recommend you always carry, *just in case*.

* Bolas. I don’t leave the house with less than 10 of these. For survivors and dinos alike, immobilization often means victory.
* Climbing picks, grappling hooks, and parachutes. Much of the Typhon's Reach pit you against gravity. These tools can help you move, up, down, or over a great deal of challenging bits.
* Flares. Lost in the dark? Pop a flare. Pleading for aid and friends can’t find you? Pop a flare. Trojan horsed yourself inside an enemy’s base and need to signal the attack? Pop a flare.
* Sleeping Bags. You never know when disaster could strike and it’s always a good idea to have respawn points. You can pick them up with a demo gun if you feel all safe and secure.
* Spiked walls. Two will suffice, and you can pick them up with a demo gun. Just place ‘em between you and the nasty beast bitin’ at your heels and watch nature take its course. Think of it as the caltrops of ARK.
* Finally, the N+ Omni Tool. If you’ve died and your body bag is out of reach, you can use this tool to pull items from that cache.

## Tips and Tricks

* Pressing P lets you place a marker on your map using LON and LAT. You use this function to set destinations for the delivery crates as well.
* If you use the 'drop all' button to drop all of a resource that you've searched for, you can then use the S+ Pull feature on containers to quickly move heavy items.
* Blood is used in many recipes and it can be hard to come by. Stockpiling with the Blood Extraction Syringe to craft or sell is a good idea.
* Hitching a dino to a hitching post keeps it from moving, even when set to wander. This is great for breeding.
* You don't always need tranqs to knock a dino unconscious. Try a club, your fists, or a boomerang will often do the trick.
* Killing wild dinos gives great experience and hunting them for trophies is a great way to earn coins or titles.
* Don't lock all of your storage containers. If somebody breaks in, they'll likely break a table or two to get what they're after. If they can just access the table, it could save you a great deal of time and resources. Robbing people blind is against the rules anyways.
* When in doubt, fight back. Can't outrun an enemy? It's better to go down fighting than to just give up your meat.
* You can breed your dinos with an ally's by putting them both on wander. Collaborative breeding is a great way to make the most of the Apex limits.

## Discord Tips

* #map is a detailed map of settlements in Typhon's Reach
* #land-claims is where you submit land claims for settlements. See the pinned messages for a quick tutorial.
* #rp-stories contains the server’s background story and information about the setting. Start from the top to see everything that’s been posted so far.
* #event-announcements is how the admin team communicates with the community about events, server updates, and changes to the settings.
* #server-suggestions is the perfect place to voice your ideas about changes to the server’s settings.
* #trading-post is our trading channel. The pinned messages have some tutorial information.
* #support-tickets  is where the @Helpers can be reached for help.
* Every channel has a description at the top with some information for you.

## The Mysteries of In Character (IC) Knowledge

Tips that new and veteran RP players can all appreciate

### Your character knows:

* Your character desperately values their life.
* You are aware that reincarnation works, but not all the time.
* Permanent character deaths are encouraged as a result of story lines or solid RP PVP.
* Death is not pleasant. Character should not seek death unless they intend on rerolling.
* How and where to find Braxia.
* Anything posted in #trading-post after having visited Braxia at least once.
* The channel is considered an in character chronical and the information can be learned/overheard from NPCs.
* Anything learned or overheard in character.

Your character does not know:

* Anything they haven't learned or been told in character.
* Anything overheard while unconscious.
* Who killed them from a distance without warning.
* Who killed them indirectly; ie: with a trap.
* How reincarnation works.

Your character can identify the following at a distance:

* A character's race.
* A character's tribe if tribe colors are worn .
* Your character can not identify the following at a distance:
* A dinosaur's owner unless uniquely colored or painted.
* A character's name, unless wearing a very specific armor appearance.

Your character can identify the following up close:

* A character's race.
* A character's tribe if tribe colors are worn .
* A character's name, after meeting them at least once.
* A dinosaur's owner if saddled or uniquely colored or painted.

Your character can not identify the following up close:

* A character's name if they haven't met before.
* A character's tribe if not wearing tribe colors and they haven't met before.

## Things to Avoid in RP

* Using ANY out of character information to determine your character's actions.
* Playing deceptive characters or ‘liars’ should be avoided.
* If you want to play a "crazy" character, act the part.
* Anything 'in your character's head' is simply inaccessible to other characters and you will grow frustrated that others aren't reacting to your character like you hoped.
* Reclusive characters should be avoided. This is a roleplaying server; you are strongly encouraged to interact with other players. You will get bored playing alone much faster than with others.
* Most of the players on this server use microphones to communicate in game. You won't be judged based on your voice, so don't be nervous. You're free to use a voice modulator to make better suit your character (increasing bass to sound more masculine, for example).
* Playing with a death wish.
* Your character values their life. Don't run around trolling other characters and baiting a fight that you can't handle.
* Playing supremacist characters.
* Being violent towards other characters based on their race will quickly isolate your character.
* Being pretentious is one thing, but killing others for no other reason is discouraged.
* Playing a pacifist. Typhon's Reach is a violent place.
* Choosing to not participate in PVP events is discouraged. You'll often find yourself alone and left out. Most events are PVP events.

## RP Prohibitions

* Child characters are prohibited.
* ERP is prohibited.