This is a small video showing you where to get the starting materials. This video will also show you how to make your first weapons/tools because I don't really consider them weapons if they don't do a lot of damage.

These are the two major tools that help you at your starting point of playing ark. This items are consider more tools, then weapons because they don't really do good damage when trying to fight another player/human. As seen in the image the Stone Pick is best used to gather Thatch, Raw meat, and Flint. The Stone Axe/Hatchet is best used to gather Hide, Wood, and Stone. You can get Thatch from tress, Raw meat from dead dinosaurs or humans, and Flint from large or small rocks. You can gather Hide from dead dinosaurs, wood from trees, and stone from large or small rocks.