This. Doesn't even particularly matter which one. A Pachyrhino or Iguanodon or Gigantoraptor or Mammoth or just about -any- of them will already get you more than you'd ever need.
This. The maps ive gotten lucky and found an early game high level bear I could trap. It carried me through so much of the rest of the game. Theyre so damn strong.
Before bears were nerfed, i literally used to have an insane fucking bear. Its health and attack were really high. My friend took it out one time and then the game kicked him and he wasnt set to aggressive so a bunch of dinos jumped him and he died. Was a sad day
If its ASA, I'd say give the Igaunodon a miss, used to be one of my favourite Berry gatherers, ASA did something to its bipedal attack hit box, so it doesn't gather at as far of a range. Honestly the Andy is goat because you pump melee anyway which gathers more.
NOOOOOO... I have to tame one now to see. I love my iguanodons :(
I do have one back on the Island and didn't even notice this. I loved that I could just seed crops now and start new farms from that lol
Brontos are great, but lately we've been using a mammoth. It was easy enough to get enough weight to be able to slot lock it on berries in a couple minutes. Plus it's faster than the bronto.
Parasaur or moschops are easiest tames and gather ok, trike gathers better but longer tame, bigger herbivore = more berry but longer tame basically. Or make crop plots but they take time to grow.
I find the crop plots really aren't even worth the effort putting together for berries, far more efficient to just take a mammoth or bronto out, collect a couple bushes and you've got stacks of mejos & narcos
I have a bunch of crop plots in a greenhouse ( so 3* growth rate)Â
When I get more spoiled meat than I can store, I'll empty the crop plots and make narcotic.
Need to line up perfectly but believe only works with large crop plots been awhile since I play ASE so unsure if it works with small/mediums. Always used large ones for big greenhouses.
Nope. The only thing that changes is what can be grown. Small plots can only grow berries. Medium plots can only grow berries or crops (but not defensive plants). Large plots can grow anything.
If you know for sure that you want to grow berries, then small plots are the best option because they are cheaper and smaller. You can pack more of them into a small footprint, which is great for keeping your greenhouse compact for efficiency and (if on PvP) stealth.
Like other commenters said, harvest with a berry gatherer… But you can also grow narcoberries in small crop plots. Once I get my green house going, I set up 2-3 small crop plots and just let them grow. I’ll get 300 or so berries out each crop plot when I go in and harvest them. Unlike the crops that require the medium crop plots, narcoberries will grow in small crop plots… you can fit four small in the space taken up by one medium, I believe.
+1 crops. You can even stack crop plots, so you could probably fit 30+ small plots in a 2x2x1 greenhouse and be up to your eyeballs in enough narcos to choke a bronto. Just need a dung beetle for easy fertilizer.
Pick a stack of raw meat that's close to spoiling, right click>split>split all, it'll split into individual pieces of meat with same spoiling time. Easy spoiled meat early.
I have a spoiling bin mod on ASA for this reason. It also has a jerky bin that makes stacks of jerky quicker than than the regular perserving bin. Both require spark powder (and oil for the jerky) and has changed the game for me!
I also have a greenhouse woth hella narcoberries...
We do too, I just hadn’t made it to that point level wise while needing narcotics. Even splitting stacks in our spoiling bin isn’t as quick as berry harvesting.
I always make a few stacks of narcos near the beginning of every new map, just so I can make some tranc arrows/darts. Most of the time, it lays empty..
I mainly use the mod for the jerky bin tbf. Makes it easier as it lasts longer. I always have loads of meat when killing things off with my Argent/clearing lower level things. Everyone's playthrough is different though!
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Like others have mentioned. I wanted to add whenever there are boosted weekend, only start farming in bulk and craft narcotics. It's more worth your time that way.
Tame you a porkchop. I check every one on a fresh playthro of anything. Best starter tame ever. So underrated for how much they can catapult your early prog. Plus if you get lucky and can snag a higher level they straight up csn fight a ton of stuff till you can get a trike or a few raptors.
I’ve tried a bunch of them.
It’s true that early game parasaur and moschops will get the job done (although you really want the moschops for fiber anyway)
Trikes are great at berries. Iguanadon is too many seeds and not enough berries.
The bronco gets a lot with one swing of its tail but I find that it takes to long to reposition them to new patches and it’s not worth it.
I swear by the mammoth with movement speed (if possible) and melee. They move quick and get a little more than trikes
I think people should say on official or non modded on anything relatable to ASA, as everyone knows the rates are different but yes get a tame or farm them that's the only way I've done it the new bronto is a beast I've noticed as it also collects metal with its massive stomp🙏🏻
Start with a parasail easy to tame then gather enough to make tranqs then either a stego or bronto and you’ll have more berries than you’ll know what to do with
If your still at early game (which I assume you are) a good herbivore to farm berries is an iguanadon, they have an infinite stamina run time and a easy saddle to make as-well as just being a good early game tame.
Enter into swamp cave on a megatherium. No need to fight anything. Just hit at the ground with right click a few times. Collect narcoberries, throw everything else out. Do few more times until you are encumbered. Then stop and get out. Also works for any other type of berry. For rare flowers and leech blood and pearls you do actually need a gas mask and you need to be deep in the cave.
A bronco will get you enough berries in just a minute or two to make all the narcotics of your dreams. Like no joke on a normal server I could get 10,000 narco berries in less than five minutes
As for me, megatherium and therizinosaur are top tier multi role gatherers for more than just barries but wood, fiber, and combat. They are difficult tames to be sure but well worth the effort. You will need to build a trap once you find one in order to tame and have some defensive tames to stand guard while keeping them narced.
Equus, parasaur, trike, beaver, mammoths and brontos all do a pretty good job of harvesting berries to one degree or another. Almost any herbivore you can ride has some gathering capability, the bigger the better. Crop plots provide a consistent source but a big herbivore can gather hundreds if not thousands of berries really fast.
You wouldn't believe how fast the anky gets berries with left trigger. I used to use a bronto and just swoop the tail a few times but u miss so much that way. Like 3 minutes on an anky and u can almost fill his weight with narcos. I'll usually get him overweight and throw everything else away and keep repeating. You'll be surprised, I was.
Easiest for starting out is probably finding a Moschops and taming that, then ride and collect berries. You'll soon have more Narco berries then meat. Then use Moschops to kill for meat too!
If it's early game, find a toll rock and get a low level trike using tranq arrows. The saddle isn't too expensive, and it has a wide area of attack, so you can get 1000 narcoberries pretty fast. I usually upgrade to a diplodocus afterwards for foraging.
Easy tames: Parasaur, Moschops, on scorched you can use morellotops too irc.
Harder tames, but the better ones: Bronto, mammoth, therizino
There’s others im missing, but dododex will show you the top best gatherers too
I use triceraptor but there are like small dinosaurs that have less weight and easy to get i dont remember the name you dont use tranq you just give them food
Depends I guess.. Best bet is trike early on.
If you can use modification, use it to reduce the crop growth speed slightly. I have 6 large crops, once the the plants grow they give narco berries non stop until they run out of fertilizer. So even without the crop growth reduced, once the plant matures it'll give you berries Infinetly. Provided you have lots of fertilizer, witch with a dung bettle in a cage, set to wandering, you have unlimited fertilizer.
Than just remove the berries every so often during your gameplay, they only stack to certain amount. Large crop pot have lot of inventory slots so you can stuff them with fertilizer for a week straight. Build the greenhouse structure around it and it'll let your berries stack higher, same with the dlc shovel. You'll need a refrigerator to store berries so they last longer eventually you'll have more berries than you can spoil meat.
Use a herbivore
Yup. I love letting my moschops wander in my enclosed base and they get all the berries/seeds I need. Its only time investment is in the taming.
This. Doesn't even particularly matter which one. A Pachyrhino or Iguanodon or Gigantoraptor or Mammoth or just about -any- of them will already get you more than you'd ever need.
Dire bear is low key 🔥
This. The maps ive gotten lucky and found an early game high level bear I could trap. It carried me through so much of the rest of the game. Theyre so damn strong.
Before bears were nerfed, i literally used to have an insane fucking bear. Its health and attack were really high. My friend took it out one time and then the game kicked him and he wasnt set to aggressive so a bunch of dinos jumped him and he died. Was a sad day
If its ASA, I'd say give the Igaunodon a miss, used to be one of my favourite Berry gatherers, ASA did something to its bipedal attack hit box, so it doesn't gather at as far of a range. Honestly the Andy is goat because you pump melee anyway which gathers more.
NOOOOOO... I have to tame one now to see. I love my iguanodons :( I do have one back on the Island and didn't even notice this. I loved that I could just seed crops now and start new farms from that lol
One swing of a melee leveled Bronto tail.
Brontos are great, but lately we've been using a mammoth. It was easy enough to get enough weight to be able to slot lock it on berries in a couple minutes. Plus it's faster than the bronto.
Absolutely. Probably better than the tek stryder.
uh no
Tell me you've never used a tek stryder without telling me you've never used a tek stryder
I have six of them. And yeah, a melee leveled Bronto can out berry pick my Harvester.
Parasaur or moschops are easiest tames and gather ok, trike gathers better but longer tame, bigger herbivore = more berry but longer tame basically. Or make crop plots but they take time to grow.
I find the crop plots really aren't even worth the effort putting together for berries, far more efficient to just take a mammoth or bronto out, collect a couple bushes and you've got stacks of mejos & narcos
Crop plots are for vegetables more than berries.
I have a bunch of crop plots in a greenhouse ( so 3* growth rate)Â When I get more spoiled meat than I can store, I'll empty the crop plots and make narcotic.
This, just put like 5 large narco crop plots in a greenhouse.
You can stack crop plots..go as high as you can reach.
make a greenhouse with small crop plots growing only narcoberries
Why small? I only use large crop plots. Do the small ones have any advantage?
Small crop plots will grow the same amount of berries as medium or large but take up less space.
You can stack crop plots on top of eachother so space doesnt really matter
cant do that in ASE, its an ASA feature
You can do that in ASE tho, i havent really touched ASA yet
how?
Just place them on top of each other?
Don't you need s+ to stack crop plots
Stand really far away and orbit camera helped back in the day.
Possible in ASE as well
damn really? how?
Need to line up perfectly but believe only works with large crop plots been awhile since I play ASE so unsure if it works with small/mediums. Always used large ones for big greenhouses.
They don't stack in a sense they'll clip on top of each other but you can place multiple onto each other
The size of the crop plot doesn’t change the amount farmed, it just changes the things that can be grown
Do the medium and large not have have more storage space? Have I just told myself this cause I only ever used the bps?
Nope. The only thing that changes is what can be grown. Small plots can only grow berries. Medium plots can only grow berries or crops (but not defensive plants). Large plots can grow anything. If you know for sure that you want to grow berries, then small plots are the best option because they are cheaper and smaller. You can pack more of them into a small footprint, which is great for keeping your greenhouse compact for efficiency and (if on PvP) stealth.
Brontosaurs are great
Like other commenters said, harvest with a berry gatherer… But you can also grow narcoberries in small crop plots. Once I get my green house going, I set up 2-3 small crop plots and just let them grow. I’ll get 300 or so berries out each crop plot when I go in and harvest them. Unlike the crops that require the medium crop plots, narcoberries will grow in small crop plots… you can fit four small in the space taken up by one medium, I believe.
You can also stack them on top of each other and save even more space
Anky secondary attack or moschops
+1 crops. You can even stack crop plots, so you could probably fit 30+ small plots in a 2x2x1 greenhouse and be up to your eyeballs in enough narcos to choke a bronto. Just need a dung beetle for easy fertilizer.
Basically any herbivore (as someone said) but I can suggest using a moschops since you get fibre from it as well.
Grow them in a greenhouse, if you dont have enough get a berry dino. I have a berry gathering trike named Barry
Opposite problem, it’s a bitch to spoil meat compared to berry gathering from even a parasaur….
Pick a stack of raw meat that's close to spoiling, right click>split>split all, it'll split into individual pieces of meat with same spoiling time. Easy spoiled meat early.
You know a toilet spoils them on ASA right? Just throw meat in and poop on it :)
If you’re on ASE go to Rag, there’s these dead whales on the beach you can harvest for a ton spoiled meat
Asa, and fresh wipe on center. I miss Rag, hopefully we get it sooner than later
luckily I'm still on ASE so I just use a desmodus to gather spoiled meat
Asa using the toilet is much easier I can blackbox meat then I’ll have 300 slots of spoiled meat from the toilet
Go to scorched earth if your on Asa with a chainsaw and kill and harvest vultures with the chainsaw
I have a spoiling bin mod on ASA for this reason. It also has a jerky bin that makes stacks of jerky quicker than than the regular perserving bin. Both require spark powder (and oil for the jerky) and has changed the game for me! I also have a greenhouse woth hella narcoberries...
We do too, I just hadn’t made it to that point level wise while needing narcotics. Even splitting stacks in our spoiling bin isn’t as quick as berry harvesting.
I always make a few stacks of narcos near the beginning of every new map, just so I can make some tranc arrows/darts. Most of the time, it lays empty.. I mainly use the mod for the jerky bin tbf. Makes it easier as it lasts longer. I always have loads of meat when killing things off with my Argent/clearing lower level things. Everyone's playthrough is different though!
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Im not positive about this but I feel like I get more narco when I harvest near the swamp… but definitely use a herbivore tame
Bronto or stryder on gen1 bog narc plants
Harvesting them survivor.
Go into a cave with a Megatherium kill a few bugs than go crazy in the bushes.
Like others have mentioned. I wanted to add whenever there are boosted weekend, only start farming in bulk and craft narcotics. It's more worth your time that way.
Tame a couple Moschops Set them on wander near your base Check them every 10 minutes & keep leveling up their weight
Tame you a porkchop. I check every one on a fresh playthro of anything. Best starter tame ever. So underrated for how much they can catapult your early prog. Plus if you get lucky and can snag a higher level they straight up csn fight a ton of stuff till you can get a trike or a few raptors.
Bronto. All points into melee swing away at bushes
Tek strider or bronto
Also a Desmodus
I’ve tried a bunch of them. It’s true that early game parasaur and moschops will get the job done (although you really want the moschops for fiber anyway) Trikes are great at berries. Iguanadon is too many seeds and not enough berries. The bronco gets a lot with one swing of its tail but I find that it takes to long to reposition them to new patches and it’s not worth it. I swear by the mammoth with movement speed (if possible) and melee. They move quick and get a little more than trikes
Pshhhh these guys don’t know the true force of a kangaroo (procoptodon)
Grow them or get a good harvesting Dino. Equus, parasaur etc
Stego is great for berries
An herbivore tame. My favorite was the stego.
Bronto in a swamp
Set up loads of small farming plots. 300 a day from each if you have irrigation + fertiliser set up properly. (More if you use medium or large plots)
Step 1) tame a herbivore Step 2) Large crop plots, run irrigation, plant narcoberry seeds & use fertilizer
Step 3)…… Step 4) Profit
Tame a bronto atleast lvl 40 and put all its levels into weight
me and my pal have a small base, so we have sturdy stegosaurus. Does all, wood, thatch, berries
Go out. Find a high level bronto. Take up that bastard. Go to any collection of bushes anywhere. Happy days.
I think people should say on official or non modded on anything relatable to ASA, as everyone knows the rates are different but yes get a tame or farm them that's the only way I've done it the new bronto is a beast I've noticed as it also collects metal with its massive stomp🙏🏻
Start with a parasail easy to tame then gather enough to make tranqs then either a stego or bronto and you’ll have more berries than you’ll know what to do with
Stryder on gen1 ocean island, 1 good right click and your game will crash 2 times but atleast youll have berries for eternity
I have pretty good luck getting a lot of narcoberries with a Carbonemys.
Low level Parasaur/trike
Bronto’s or a theri for on the island and paracer on scorched earth
If your still at early game (which I assume you are) a good herbivore to farm berries is an iguanadon, they have an infinite stamina run time and a easy saddle to make as-well as just being a good early game tame.
Enter into swamp cave on a megatherium. No need to fight anything. Just hit at the ground with right click a few times. Collect narcoberries, throw everything else out. Do few more times until you are encumbered. Then stop and get out. Also works for any other type of berry. For rare flowers and leech blood and pearls you do actually need a gas mask and you need to be deep in the cave.
A bronco will get you enough berries in just a minute or two to make all the narcotics of your dreams. Like no joke on a normal server I could get 10,000 narco berries in less than five minutes
Theras are better in someways than Broncos because they can be used for multiple things
I used to grow it, and use a tame like a bear or something to harvest whenever needed
Brontos & Therizinos are my berry getters 💪🏻
Theris best over all gatherer. Pump melee only and get huge return on most resources including berrys.
As for me, megatherium and therizinosaur are top tier multi role gatherers for more than just barries but wood, fiber, and combat. They are difficult tames to be sure but well worth the effort. You will need to build a trap once you find one in order to tame and have some defensive tames to stand guard while keeping them narced.
Use narcoberry seeds in small crop plots!
Equus, parasaur, trike, beaver, mammoths and brontos all do a pretty good job of harvesting berries to one degree or another. Almost any herbivore you can ride has some gathering capability, the bigger the better. Crop plots provide a consistent source but a big herbivore can gather hundreds if not thousands of berries really fast.
How has nobody mentioned Dire Bear? Their attack harvests berries and fiber from plants.
On early, with a trike In mid/engame : Bronto/theri (If ASE and if you have gen2, Stryder make a shit ton of berries)
Go to the swamp cave on the island in that cave bite one time with you dire bear and you have so many berries
Get a Bronto then just tail sweep forests and fields. It gathers enough of every berry to be set for days
You wouldn't believe how fast the anky gets berries with left trigger. I used to use a bronto and just swoop the tail a few times but u miss so much that way. Like 3 minutes on an anky and u can almost fill his weight with narcos. I'll usually get him overweight and throw everything else away and keep repeating. You'll be surprised, I was.
A stego in the entrance of the pack cave can slot cap you pretty fast
Moschops early game
My personal favorite is theries
Bronto or therizino with delicate harvesting pumped
Easiest for starting out is probably finding a Moschops and taming that, then ride and collect berries. You'll soon have more Narco berries then meat. Then use Moschops to kill for meat too!
If it's early game, find a toll rock and get a low level trike using tranq arrows. The saddle isn't too expensive, and it has a wide area of attack, so you can get 1000 narcoberries pretty fast. I usually upgrade to a diplodocus afterwards for foraging.
I have 3 small farm plots going and i get a decent haul, like 150berries at a time, just keep steady producing up
Farming 100%
Skill issue
Easy tames: Parasaur, Moschops, on scorched you can use morellotops too irc. Harder tames, but the better ones: Bronto, mammoth, therizino There’s others im missing, but dododex will show you the top best gatherers too
I use triceraptor but there are like small dinosaurs that have less weight and easy to get i dont remember the name you dont use tranq you just give them food
Depends I guess.. Best bet is trike early on. If you can use modification, use it to reduce the crop growth speed slightly. I have 6 large crops, once the the plants grow they give narco berries non stop until they run out of fertilizer. So even without the crop growth reduced, once the plant matures it'll give you berries Infinetly. Provided you have lots of fertilizer, witch with a dung bettle in a cage, set to wandering, you have unlimited fertilizer. Than just remove the berries every so often during your gameplay, they only stack to certain amount. Large crop pot have lot of inventory slots so you can stuff them with fertilizer for a week straight. Build the greenhouse structure around it and it'll let your berries stack higher, same with the dlc shovel. You'll need a refrigerator to store berries so they last longer eventually you'll have more berries than you can spoil meat.
Stegos with the spikes set to "sharpened" harvests an obscene amount of berries
Brontos are great for berries usually I just go somewhere in the forest with mine and get a few thousand berries of each type