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How to Get Primal Crystal In ARK Survival Ascended

Primal Crystal is an essential resource to raise, tame, or summon Wyverns in ARK Survival Ascended.
How to Get Primal Crystal In ARK Survival Ascended
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Primal Crystals in ARK Survival Ascended serve multiple purposes, giving players multiple reasons to find them. Finding resources in any survival game is essential for gaining an advantage, and obtaining the Primal Crystals will give you these abilities:

  • Allow you to raise baby crystal Wyverns 
  • Tame adult crystal Wyverns 
  • Summon the Crystal Wyvern Queen

The Primal Crystals on ARK Survival Ascended obtain quite a high level of relevancy, leading players to quest far and wide to find these crystals. Despite being quite the hassle to obtain, raising baby crystal wyverns makes the grind worthy, and hence, here is a guide on how to get Primal Crystals in the game.

ARK Survival Asceneded: How to Get Primal Crystals

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Wyverns become agitated once they spot you, so stay hidden and trap them when possible. (Image: Studio Wildcard)

Obtaining Primal Crystal in ARK Survival Ascended will be slightly difficult, as you will need to knock out wild crystal wyverns or their heirs. Once knocking them out stone cold, you can loot the crystals from their bodies by getting close to them and pressing "E." 

To knock out a crystal wyvern, you will need to trap and tranquilize it with an arrow or dart. On the contrary, if you're confident enough with your arrows and darts, you don't need to trap the crystal wyvern. You will need to obtain approximately 150-200 tranquilizer arrows or 75-125 darts to successfully knock a crystal wyvern out (missed shots accounted for).

You can obtain the Primal Crystal by defeating an Alpha Bloo; however, killing one of these is significantly more difficult than simply knocking out a crystal wyvern and looting it. However, defeating the Alpha Blood Wyvern will result in a high reward, leading to a total of 20-30 primal crystals, which is exactly what you're looking for! 

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Wyverns can make the most of air attacks once agitated, so stay concealed if they're alerted (Image: Studio Wildcard)

Please keep in mind Primal Crystals can spoil and render useless after a certain amount of time; therefore, once you obtain them, make sure you optimize their usage quickly. If the crystals spoil, head back to the same location where you found the previous crystal; wyverns and more will have spawned, allowing you to farm some more.