So what did you do in ARK today?

[Sausagedog85]

Sat here refreshing the session list screen all day waiting for my server to come back, for the 10th+ time, for the 4th day in a row.

[Stretch11]

We are still building up to the Gamma Dragon boss.  I think that we are going to go with Therizinosaurs loaded with sweet vegetable cake, a Yuty and a doctor pig.  While our Theris are maturing, we decided to go for a romp on our Thylas to look for better Rex breeding stock.  Our Rex line has topped out at around 203 after hatching and it was really questionable the last time that we attempted (unsuccessfully) the snow cave to get  the artifact for the dragon boss.

Flont had decided to expand his presence on YouTube, so here is a short (8 min) video of us searching for a better Rex on The Island.

We plan on more of these including some "instructional" videos, so I hope you enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/Ypu6qMlJX_Q

[Mistey]

Logged in and started working on upgrading my Wooden base to Stone, then went to do a Dodobunny run and hope for a Direwolf Chibi.

[AllOfTheAllos]

Hatched a mutated tek rex. Not a melee mutation (or a second health one), but the color is black on the accents, so I froze him for later to use just for the color after I achieve the stats I want (which are... Well, better than the ones I have. I don't have an idea of exact numbers, just that it should be more).

Edited April 14, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Crymric]

Accidently transfered to aberratin with 120k dust in my inventory and with a cryod quetz. 

[Cordiste]

6 hours ago, Crymric said:

Accidently transfered to aberratin with 120k dust in my inventory and with a cryod quetz. 

Does that mean you lose those items? I’ve never transferred anything. 
 

Today, I made a small taming pen raft so I can get a good sabertooth with my argy for doing my first cave! I’ve been too nervous to try caves till now

[Stretch11]

50 minutes ago, Cordiste said:

Does that mean you lose those items? I’ve never transferred anything. 
 

Today, I made a small taming pen raft so I can get a good sabertooth with my argy for doing my first cave! I’ve been too nervous to try caves till now

Depending on the cave, a sabertooth may or may not be the best choice.  If the cave contains lots of bugs (spiders, scorpions, centipedes, etc.), I would recommend a Megatherium.  They get incredible bonuses whenever they kill bugs.  Megatheriums are larger than sabertooths (saberteeth?) and will not fit in small spaces.  Turtles are good for distractions.  They have good defense so attacking dinos chew on them for a while before they die.  This can give you the opportunity to get away or open up on the attacking dinos with distance weapons like bows, crossbows, or spears.  Turtles are in the size range between sabertooths and Megatherium, but they are very easy to tame by running backwards on a beach (no obstacles to run into) shooting them with tranq arrows until they drop.

I had only done three caves before I discovered the wonder of cryopods that will let you take larger dinos through smaller areas and release them into the larger areas on the far side of constrictions.  I could not make cryopods at the time, but I got some from drops during the Christmas event.  If you are not high enough level to make them yourself you may just have to wait or perhaps trade with other people .  Some caves are very difficult without big dinos, but big dinos cannot fit through the entrance.

There are lots of good things to get out of caves.  Good luck!

[MrGerge]

Well I'm yet to play today but yesterday I flew with my argy to the snow planning to get a yuty or 2, on the way I found a thyla in a perfect place to set up a trap so I did. I got it in the trap and was taming it when a compy army came over, and my argy killed them and also hit the thyla ( my argy does well over 1000 damage so it died right away luckily it was a low level ) so I tamed a lvl 92 Rex instead. then I went to the snow and got myself a lv 108 yuty ( idk what it was after tame and I was using cryopods to hold the already tamed dinos ) I came across a female yuty the 108 was a Male so I tried to tame it but I KOed in the water and drowned when I was killing a bary that was in the way. One the way home I tamed a Male rex to breed with the 92 female. Today imma take them out of their cryopods and maybe do some rex breeding. Then go on a rampage with my spinos to get them leveled up for the broodmother.

[Crymric]

16 hours ago, Cordiste said:

Does that mean you lose those items? I’ve never transferred anything. 

Yep, I lost all of it. 

[muayt]

Today had a chill day and farmed element dust with 4 gachas while studying for my Finance final!!

[AllOfTheAllos]

Cracked over 60 bunny eggs, got a karkinos chibi, a reaper one, and a really cool "white sail edge-black everything else" spino chibi. The rest was fairly unremarkable.

Lost my main argy. Like, it's just gone. Nothing in the log. I looked for it for a bit, then saddled and put levels into one of my blue ones.

Found some random dude sleeping in my allo trap. Dragged him out, placed safely on a low-enough-to-jump off-but-tall-enough-not-to-get-attacked-by-wild-dinos cliff. Could have just unlocked the door in the trap's side for him, but it's my trap and I don't want to unlock it. Even temporarily.

Edited April 16, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Cordiste]

On 4/15/2020 at 11:01 AM, Stretch11 said:

Depending on the cave, a sabertooth may or may not be the best choice.  If the cave contains lots of bugs (spiders, scorpions, centipedes, etc.), I would recommend a Megatherium.  They get incredible bonuses whenever they kill bugs.  Megatheriums are larger than sabertooths (saberteeth?) and will not fit in small spaces.  Turtles are good for distractions.  They have good defense so attacking dinos chew on them for a while before they die.  This can give you the opportunity to get away or open up on the attacking dinos with distance weapons like bows, crossbows, or spears.  Turtles are in the size range between sabertooths and Megatherium, but they are very easy to tame by running backwards on a beach (no obstacles to run into) shooting them with tranq arrows until they drop.

I had only done three caves before I discovered the wonder of cryopods that will let you take larger dinos through smaller areas and release them into the larger areas on the far side of constrictions.  I could not make cryopods at the time, but I got some from drops during the Christmas event.  If you are not high enough level to make them yourself you may just have to wait or perhaps trade with other people .  Some caves are very difficult without big dinos, but big dinos cannot fit through the entrance.

There are lots of good things to get out of caves.  Good luck!

Soooo today I used the above information and changed my small Dino taming raft to a medium Dino one for the megatharium. After looking it up, it makes so much more sense for me ‘cause I also needs lots of chitin. 
 

I scoped out some megas but I have low fortitude and can’t handle the snow biome. where I found them. Off to find some sheep!

[sjskdjkfa]

Waited for 2 hours to get onto my main server. Gave up cause it's just dead. Played on a secondary server for an hour. Checked my main 10 more times, played on a third server for a few min, got booted. Yep it's still Easter madness.

[Xerus]

Went on farmed a lot of metal and rock drake eggseven got 2 190

[AllOfTheAllos]

Today: hatched four argent eggs (none worthy of keeping).

Found a slightly better than basic bronto saddle.

Put all points of my breeding bronto pair in speed because I wanted to put them somewhere, but not anywhere important.

Rode one of the now-200% speed brontos around my base (she fast).

Hatched more bunny eggs (two pteranodon chibies. Their names are Pteranodo and Pteranodon't)

Made a lot of sparkpowder and charcoal because I run out of them with the speed of light, thanks to all the unworthy baby killing I do.

That's all.

[HenryManson]

successfully hid in this tiny hole from an alpha raptor, on my way to an obi!

he kept running over me, attacking air & eventually just ran off, bored

[Cordiste]

Whatever you do, never log in to Ark for that hour before work when you think you can get something done so when you sit down I’m the evening you have less to do. Things always go bad at that time...

I lost an argy while looking for sheep, got knocked off by a thyla and died on the opposite side of the map from my base. 
 

poor argy  I hope I can find it when I log in later 

I’ve been to all the ovis spawn points and haven’t found any. such a hard creature to find when you need it

Edited April 18, 2020 by Cordiste

[muayt]

Logged in today, just doing the usual crop farming and meat run only to get rolled back again!! 

 

[Stretch11]

On 4/16/2020 at 7:12 PM, Cordiste said:

Soooo today I used the above information and changed my small Dino taming raft to a medium Dino one for the megatharium. After looking it up, it makes so much more sense for me ‘cause I also needs lots of chitin. 
 

I scoped out some megas but I have low fortitude and can’t handle the snow biome. where I found them. Off to find some sheep!

Try looking for Megatheriums around the Redwoods.  Then again, you won't be able to get there in a raft.  I use 4-6 dino gate frames (once built, they are fairly light) and fill all but one with doors.  Place the dino gates far enough apart that you can slip through, but not so far apart that a dino like a Megatherium can fit.  Lure the dino in through the frame without a door and you slip out between a couple of the other frames and run around and place the door on the open frame.  If you are quick you can lure it with yourself.   If you are not fast enough or do not want to risk taking a hit or two, you can fly through the gate with an Argy or even a Pteranodon and leave through the open top.  Then just shoot tranq arrows through the gaps until the dino drops.  This also protects your unconscious dino from being attacked by large dinos that cannot fit through the cracks.  It won't help against small dinos like Raptors and if your captive dino falls a lot outside of the walls, you may want to move some of them to protect it.  You probably want to build the dino gates from stone, but wooden ones might last long enough to tranq it.

Edited April 19, 2020 by Stretch11
typo

[Stretch11]

Flont and I continue our hunt for the perfect Rex, but this time on Argys.  Rated R for violence.  No Dodos were harmed during the filming except a couple that we accidentlly killed.

 

Edited April 19, 2020 by Stretch11
typo

[Cordiste]

12 hours ago, Stretch11 said:

Try looking for Megatheriums around the Redwoods.  Then again, you won't be able to get there in a raft.  I use 4-6 dino gate frames (once built, they are fairly light) and fill all but one with doors.  Place the dino gates far enough apart that you can slip through, but not so far apart that a dino like a Megatherium can fit.  Lure the dino in through the frame without a door and you slip out between a couple of the other frames and run around and place the door on the open frame.  If you are quick you can lure it with yourself.   If you are not fast enough or do not want to risk taking a hit or two, you can fly through the gate with an Argy or even a Pteranodon and leave through the open top.  Then just shoot tranq arrows through the gaps until the dino drops.  This also protects your unconscious dino from being attacked by large dinos that cannot fit through the cracks.  It won't help against small dinos like Raptors and if your captive dino falls a lot outside of the walls, you may want to move some of them to protect it.  You probably want to build the dino gates from stone, but wooden ones might last long enough to tranq it.

So I read this a little late, I ended up making a taming pen on a raft, 3x4 footprint with 2 rows of window frames tall. Put a big f-off ramp on the front, ram in onto the beach, kite the mega over the ramp and falls into the pen then sail away before the wolves wise up and start chasing

it went well! I called it Meg. Lol. Shut up, Meg. 
 

btw yesterday my argy died but I managed to get my gear off my corpse so it wasn’t a total loss. 

[AllOfTheAllos]

Today I decided to breed argies, only to realize that I forgot to turn breeding off on the male after the last time, so he was mating with all the females all the time since the last breeding, so they aren't ready yet. Oops!

Edited April 20, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[XxsidwinderxX]

I tamed 2 ferox in the cave that was interesting then breed them had fun trying to get them to stay still. 

Me and my buddy went and did the missions in the volcano area to finished the night while my wife tamed a colored thorny dragon.

 He was kinda restless with breeding and taming so he popped out a Mek i used me Tek rex. going to do them on a higher lvl in a few hours.

[Freespirit]

I completed my Island base, after over a month of planning & grinding
AND
I got the Perfect Explorer Achievement getting 100% all the explorer notes & dossiers on Island. Yes, I am a OCD completionist.

Form meets Function & my Island base is located IMO in the best place on the map, close to all resource spawns & important dinos, just over the East Water Cave. A fully colored, fully functional base whose design I think can be used as example for PvE Solo, PvE Small tribes, Singleplayer. 

I made this video of my achievement, which explain in detail, the who/what/why of all tames I have, the base design, my color philosophy etc all of which serves as a tutorial for completing Island map with no stress.

The hard thing was doing without any admin commands which I feel proud about, searching for all the explorer notes & grinding resources.
 

Now, I will finally move to Scorched Earth  .

[AllOfTheAllos]

Today I finally tamed an equus. Brown and gray, male, 142 post-tame. Gonna get a mare for him later and start breeding.

Also, saw a unicorn yesterday and a different one today. Thought about taming, but... Naw. Regular equus are better - at least I can always get another one if I lose them. Plus colors.