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After months of playing and thinking I finally got this game figured out, a lvl 140 alpha rex turned up outside my base, soaked up all my ammo, chewed its way through my stone dino gates and destroyed everything. I mean everything lol.

I gave up on pvp servers because I couldn’t cope with being zeroed weekly. Now it turns out that there’s no escape in any event lol.

Just out of interest, has anyone any idea how much health that Alpha would have had? I know it’s likely a random but will still be level based. I literally broke three rifles on it and around 300 rounds, plus two crossbows and all the arrows I had. It didn’t even flinch, happily trotted over my spikes and got busy on the base.

Oh well. Here we go again lol

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45 minutes ago, Zoglet said:

Just out of interest, has anyone any idea how much health that Alpha would have had?

I think at least 30-40k hp. 50 if you're unlucky.

 

UPD: According to Ark Wiki, Alpha Rex has 17 500 base hp with increase 3 500 per level. Let's assume it spent equal amount of points in every stat. So 140/7=20 points in health. 20*3500+17500=87500, damn, that's sick.

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I later realised I coulda saved myself by switching to creative mode and using the blink rifle. I went out to find its respawn to get an idea. was a lvl80 with 70000HP. Still, it explains why I couldn’t even touch a lvl140 lol. Lesson learned, even stone dino gates won’t protect you if the Ark gods get angry. I really couldn’t believe I didn’t have enough defense and resource to take it out. Be warned all. Pick your base location REALLY well, use terrain as best you can and set up metal spikes a good distance away. Saying that, I did all this and it didn’t help so best of luck XD

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Once again I was breeding Owls. No mutations yet sadly. I decided to add breeding my featherlight into the mix as well. I can see me becoming an Avian specialist this play through.

Ive focused on bugs before and lizards, birds seems a good way to go this time round. 

Also went over to my tribemates hut and finished his roof for him, whilst delivering a featherlight to keep those dark dark nights away. 

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So, I ground out a new set of Steampunk armor . . . . Whew, I don't want to have to do that again, heh.

Aside from that, I've been doing the sea cave looking for saddle bps, but no luck. I've done a few loops around the Island looking for deep sea crates, which I've never really done before. I got an ascendant Bronto platform saddle BP from one, which I gave to the people that gave me a Quetz. So that worked out. Otherwise, nothing special so far. 

The admin turned flyer pickup back on, so I took the Quetz out and got a high level Theri. Now, I need to find a female one. Oh, and since the tribes are pretty small, they added a mod to craft element. You need black pearls, a random artifact, and several other things to make 30 element per craft. I like it! For the first time ever, I have a Tek Transmitter. This thing is so cool. (The server also has an auto-engram unlocker type mod.) I might work on the armor next, since I've never owned a set. Or it looks like we might even be able to craft Meks. As you can see, I'm currently going in six different directions with what I want to do. 

I bred my Rexes and finally got a male with the same stats as the female. I also bred my otters, and then went out to sea, and forgot, and came home to a little tiny otter that was alive until I claimed him. Starvation.... *Sigh* This is why I don't have pets IRL.  

Some people were talking about doing cave runs later today, so we'll see how it goes. 

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i apoligise if my seeling is not good, i must rush these as i type them at school so i am limited to when i can type. anyway i finish breeding tek quetzals on extinction. i found one with 14k health. holy drap is it good. anyway i have a fleet of them kitted out for the titan fight tomorrow. we restarted the entire server. we are doin a titan fight tommorrow. everyone will be on the quetzals using turrets and weapons to kill it. we relised u can succesfully kill all four titans just by using a fleet of quetzals with turrets loaded with ammo on them. it gonna be really fun. i done a purple drop with riley and five others yesterday. a wild giga aggro onto a ptera and came over to us. we got to wave 30 something in the end. we got a really good pump. made 10 of them for our tribe. i also made really good tek armour. we have an army of megalos for the OSDs. for somereason they never fall asleep on our server. they always have night time buff aswell. makes them great mounts on the map. i have 50 eggs stocked for a raid we doin against an allied tribe for fun.

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Well, today was a grind. No one way to describe it. I got started early, ready to tame and do lots of prep.

I tamed an argent. My argent was too heavy carrying my taming pen around and kept the interest of a 145, so I figured why not. It ended up having a decent weight, which is good since my birds have really been struggling to carry my gear. This particular bird I was on was the one I tamed yesterday, much higher melee, hp and stamina than the other birds, but lower weight.

And, well, I was really planning on breeding them or anything, but I ended up having to afk and take care of some other stuff for a couple hours so...

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This is #2. By the time I came back I had close to 40 eggs ready. I got exactly what I wanted on the first hatch...I have a nanny and all that so I raised him and well, we ate all of his would be siblings when he grew up in order to gain levels. He's my main general purpose bird, able to easily handle alphas, fly across the map and carry all of my gear at the same time. This is the second bird I decided to raise at somewhat the last minute, solely for mining and other heavy hauling tasks.

After I had my first bird raised I spent the whole afternoon and evening hunting, even took the rex out to clear yuty spawns since the bird can't do those. Came up completely empty.

On the bright side killing every alpha we saw netted me a whole collection of crossbows.

I'm also high enough level to saddle my yutys and made an industrial forge, which I haven't set up yet because I am considering building a mining outpost on obsidian mountain.

Honestly this "high hide" base design gave me a great idea for a snow biome base. I'm considering building it in creative mode mainly as a test. I'm getting to the point where I'm just tired of the mat grind for the types of bases I like to build, and since I already technically cheated this one in...I mean, I am doing everything else legit. We'll see how I feel about it I guess.

As far as where to go from here I admit I'm a little lost. I can't move forward without good tames, but The Island spawns have always been painful. It's not just finding high level rexes, it's finding any rexes...I remember when they were basically everywhere and now it takes work to find any at all. It is rather frustrating and this is why so many people like the DLC maps...

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well i get u r doin ultimate ark but my game is the same. so i made a little change. if i search for a decent long time and cant find any of the Dino i want i will spawn them in as wild and if they high lvl i will tame them. but if i happen to find that creature and it is a high lvl in the wild i must kill it instead of taming it.

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Joined @SaltyMonkey server last night got myself a basic raft together to set sail got a 150 and 130 mated pair of bulb dogs. I don't even like them. Hubbys choice.

A jerboa who I accidently threw in a fire.. don't want to talk about it. ?

A 145 and a level 50 ptera to help me in my gathering until I have enough resources to get my argies. 

Flew around the map checking out spawns and rested right next to a rock elemental who I swear wasn't even there. He came out of the ground. Scared the day lights out of me.

I always feel jumpy in game when my husband isn't online with me. Hadn't realised I was co dependant lol

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13 hours ago, Cymas said:

Well, today was a grind. No one way to describe it. I got started early, ready to tame and do lots of prep.

I tamed an argent. My argent was too heavy carrying my taming pen around and kept the interest of a 145, so I figured why not. It ended up having a decent weight, which is good since my birds have really been struggling to carry my gear. This particular bird I was on was the one I tamed yesterday, much higher melee, hp and stamina than the other birds, but lower weight.

And, well, I was really planning on breeding them or anything, but I ended up having to afk and take care of some other stuff for a couple hours so...

spbabybird20190623214620_1.thumb.jpg.f650970972be7193102619b22022df02.jpg

This is #2. By the time I came back I had close to 40 eggs ready. I got exactly what I wanted on the first hatch...I have a nanny and all that so I raised him and well, we ate all of his would be siblings when he grew up in order to gain levels. He's my main general purpose bird, able to easily handle alphas, fly across the map and carry all of my gear at the same time. This is the second bird I decided to raise at somewhat the last minute, solely for mining and other heavy hauling tasks.

After I had my first bird raised I spent the whole afternoon and evening hunting, even took the rex out to clear yuty spawns since the bird can't do those. Came up completely empty.

On the bright side killing every alpha we saw netted me a whole collection of crossbows.

I'm also high enough level to saddle my yutys and made an industrial forge, which I haven't set up yet because I am considering building a mining outpost on obsidian mountain.

Honestly this "high hide" base design gave me a great idea for a snow biome base. I'm considering building it in creative mode mainly as a test. I'm getting to the point where I'm just tired of the mat grind for the types of bases I like to build, and since I already technically cheated this one in...I mean, I am doing everything else legit. We'll see how I feel about it I guess.

As far as where to go from here I admit I'm a little lost. I can't move forward without good tames, but The Island spawns have always been painful. It's not just finding high level rexes, it's finding any rexes...I remember when they were basically everywhere and now it takes work to find any at all. It is rather frustrating and this is why so many people like the DLC maps...

I feel your pain I always seem to get the better rexes on the mountain known as far peak on the way down the mountain leading to smugglers pass. South side of far peak is where I always find gigas.

Just to save you finding the names I attached an image in case you didn't know where I meant.

https://images.app.goo.gl/EYUntWGeA6KQqGr89

What do you mean by high hide? Confused a little maybe missed some comments.

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PS4 - The Island - Unofficial

 

So last Thursday night for fun, I jumped on a totally different unofficial server, and started out from scratch. This server has boosted drops, but not crazy boosted, and most of the stuff is for Abberation, even though this The Island map. It also has a good mix of dinos from all maps.

So I played about 4 hours that night, and managed to make a small stone base, and tame up a couple Griffins and a few Pteras and Moschops.

One of the last things I did was make a fabricator. I then spent my last time doing resource runs.

 

So on Saturday morning, I log back onto the server, and I immediately jump on a Griffin, and hit drops and grab resources for a full hour. (The Weight stat for humans and dinos is the only boosted stat, so basically unlimited weight)

So I finally get back to my base, and upon entering it, I start to load my resources into the fabricator. I notice that it is empty.  Hmm that's odd, but maybe I never put anything in it on Thursday.  Then I I check my Smithy, which I know had resources in it.  EMPTY. Every unlockable item in my base was empty. Except for a note from someone saying "Get Raided".

This was a stone foundation, stone wall, and stone roof base. only 2 doors, and both were closed and pin coded.  This is a PvE server.

 

Sooo how does someone get in and steal everything and get out again?   I've never seen this before, and the only thing I can think of is the windows. They somehow got in thru the tiny holes in the stone window walls.  But I didn't think that was possible.

I then spoke to another player that I had befriended on Thursday night, and he said the same thing happened to his base, but his is all metal, and without any windows.

 

At this point I believe it must have been some hack to get the thief thru walls.  Needless to say, I quit the server.  No point in continuing if I can't protect my resources.

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Aushegun said:

PS4 - The Island - Unofficial

 

So last Thursday night for fun, I jumped on a totally different unofficial server, and started out from scratch. This server has boosted drops, but not crazy boosted, and most of the stuff is for Abberation, even though this The Island map. It also has a good mix of dinos from all maps.

So I played about 4 hours that night, and managed to make a small stone base, and tame up a couple Griffins and a few Pteras and Moschops.

One of the last things I did was make a fabricator. I then spent my last time doing resource runs.

 

So on Saturday morning, I log back onto the server, and I immediately jump on a Griffin, and hit drops and grab resources for a full hour. (The Weight stat for humans and dinos is the only boosted stat, so basically unlimited weight)

So I finally get back to my base, and upon entering it, I start to load my resources into the fabricator. I notice that it is empty.  Hmm that's odd, but maybe I never put anything in it on Thursday.  Then I I check my Smithy, which I know had resources in it.  EMPTY. Every unlockable item in my base was empty. Except for a note from someone saying "Get Raided".

This was a stone foundation, stone wall, and stone roof base. only 2 doors, and both were closed and pin coded.  This is a PvE server.

 

Sooo how does someone get in and steal everything and get out again?   I've never seen this before, and the only thing I can think of is the windows. They somehow got in thru the tiny holes in the stone window walls.  But I didn't think that was possible.

I then spoke to another player that I had befriended on Thursday night, and he said the same thing happened to his base, but his is all metal, and without any windows.

 

At this point I believe it must have been some hack to get the thief thru walls.  Needless to say, I quit the server.  No point in continuing if I can't protect my resources.

 

 

Ghost command. I mean that’s a seriously low thing for an admin to do on a PvE server let alone any server, but still.

The worse part is that only an admin would be able to do it so they can’t even blame anyone else.

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FYI you do not need to set pin codes on your things, that actually decreases your security as someone can guess the pin code.

The only reason to ever set a pin code is if you WANT to allow someone outside your tribe access. If you only want for you and your husband, don't pin anything. Everything is default locked, don't unlock it.

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