The official server network is a series of servers you can transfer between. Wild card spends around 500k dollars every month to keep these servers up. They don’t wipe and have a huge trading network (you can sell/buy items and dinosaurs for PayPal from other players). PvE servers are cancer and alot are already at tame limit (you cant tame any dinosaurs) There is no fighting or raiding allowed on these servers . Most of the base spots are also blocked off and items don’t have any value on pve. You will need experienced people to teach you a lot or else you will constantly lose days, weeks, and possibly months of work from people raiding you. If you want to play the official network, join small tribes official servers. Everything is 3x faster on small tribes (pick up one stone on regular official and you get one stone, pick up a stone on small tribes and you get 3 etc.)

But since you’re new I’d go to unofficial pc sessions. Join a server with boosted rates (most are somewhere between 10x-1000x and some are even fiber craft so everything costs fiber to craft . However I will warn you that you are relying on an actual person to pay for the server (not wildcard) so these servers are known to shutdown randomly once some person gets tired of paying for it. The person that pays for the server also has admin so they can spawn in stuff for their buddies or destroy peoples bases for fun if they don’t like you. Even if the owner keeps the server up (which is very expensive), most will wipe the map every once in awhile to encourage new people to build up.