So what did you do in ARK today?

[Helios1]

waiting for the server to come back on after a 15 min update, 6 hours and counting now

[DonaldDuck]

A few days ago I started anew on Genesis server, after a long break, fresh entering the server as a lv1 because my lv 102 character was gone for unknown reason. I lived in Bog area, and as usual, PILLARS everywhere, but I managed to find a little piece of land,  quite little can only put in 3x4 base, 3x2 trap, and maybe 2 smallgate x 2 smallgate area for dinoes. I found that life was so difficult here in Genesis and  I moved to CrystalIsles but didn't like it there coz the area is too empty while the map is too big, it was even so hard to find a dino around when I needed hides, then I decided to move back to my previous small base on Genesis. 

I tamed a low level carno the other day lv 50 iirc, but died killed by sarco and kapro tandem, after that 1 day after, tamed a lv 55 sarco, DIED again, killed by kapro and baryonyx tandem,  I couldn't make their saddles yet tho, so they all dead unmounted.

This morning, when I was about to sleep, saw a frog near my trap, I usually never interested with frog but after reading that it produces cementing paste and chitin well, I wanted one, after a while halfway taming, a PARASAUR spawned near my base, DAMN how happy I was to see a peaceful herbivore, easy to tame, in front of my small base, without further ado, taming it too, then go to sleep.

This afternoon, SAW a lv 135 Dung Beetle, now tamed. 

Actually playing it like this, small base, hard environment, small progress everyday, is also VERY fun compared to living large having all complete kibble farm with hundreds of dinoes, I don't even care anymore losing a lv 102 char. Whatever difficulties I may have is part of the game, it's a sandbox, there is no goal, no competition, just living it. Ark is like an alternate world to live in for a time period until bored.

Problem is always with pillars, even when the place still looks so empty around, I can't put anything in anymore, this big is probably max I can get from this area, until I am ready to move when I have strong dinoes to escort me and my weaker dinoes. I have to scout other areas later on coz bog has so little resources only metal and crystal. 

 

Tamed a lv 135 Raptor, now dead because I forgot to change it from passive to neutral, got ambushed by a lv 90 kapro and a lv 50 baryonyx, I was too busy tanking and trying to kill  the baryonyx, didn't see my raptor was probably just doing nothing coz on passive. Currently in process taming a lv 140 Sarco and a lv 150 Bary already more than halfway, and I thought about farming hides using that little raptor lol, need 230 hides for sarco saddle, only have 101. There should be a setting for auto set stance to neutral / passive depending on location because a simple mistake like this can be very fatal when using important dino.

Edited August 14, 2020 by DonaldDuck

[Penguin73]

Moved my therizino army from the red obelisk to my old (but still active) base on the west coast.  Since I am now going to focus on building a rex army for the tek cave at my main base, I thought it might be best to have the therizinos out of the way for now.  When I got there I discovered I did not have much room there either.  Lots of my older and early game tames are hanging out over there.  So I decided to spend today just cleaning house, so to speak.  I flew back to my main base and made a couple of cryo fridges and a bunch of pods.  Left one fridge at the main base, then flew back to the coastal base and podded many of the dinos and stuck them in the fridge.  I kept the therizinos and a few other utility dinos out for now because I am actually thinking of using the dragon team in the tek cave.  Nonetheless, they are hanging out on the beach and relaxing after the dragon. They have earned a little R and R.

I then spent some time at the old base refreshing the feeding troughs and fertilizing the garden.  Made some kibble while I was at it.  

Returned to my main base and looked for a project, then remembered I was planning to make an industrial grinder.  So I spent today gathering all the stuff and now I have one.  I then went through the cabinets and pulled out all the stuff I will never use and shoved it in the machine.  I was able to get back some good materials but am a little disappointed I got back organic polymer instead of the good stuff. Oh well.

[AllOfTheAllos]

On Valguero: logged on to find myself dead. Picked up the giga egg from the hatchery. Fed the dinos. Logged off.

On my singleplayer Crystal Isles save: tamed a carno (young one), an ovis, and two aurochs. Had to break my "no cheating after the base is built" rule a little bit to alter the carno's colors, because initially he was a Shiny! Holographic one, but I had to exit to adjust the thrown item decay time and he became normal, just high-level and unnaturally green, and I don't want my normal dinos to have weird colors, only special ones can have that. Reached level 17. Unlocked and built upgrade station and both of its addons. Tamed two human NPCs, both male, they were from the same tribe the rest of which was destroyed by raptors, so I put them in the same house.

[DonaldDuck]

Lost everything today I lose the will to play, all dinoes dead because of stupid AI. 

So I was walking around with my lv 60 beelzebufo, saw a lv 140 raptor, I had my Sarco guarding outside of base on neutral, it engaged and fought, I dismounted beelzebufo tried to mount sarco, trying to hit this 140 raptor but raptor kept hitting beelzebufo and it died, now raptor engaged to sarco, trying to aim it but it kept charging onto my sarco's body , got hurt 1/2hp and ran away to water to lure it away, to my surprise raptor kept chasing, and my croc couldnt outspeed it unless the water was deep enough to let my sarco swim faster, so I tried to attack but fail, I dismounted to let the AI fight for me, no it couldnt, so I mounted sarco again and escaped back to my base, managed to go thru deeper water so my croc can outspeed raptor and I ran back to base, luckily my base has a hidden space to hide behind the wall, so I dissmounted and gpt on my barryonyx lv 175 to kill the lv 140 raptor. Succeeded and then go home.

A few moment had passed, I went to fish with barryonyx lv 175, got ambushed by a barryonyx 50 and raptor 90, I got lagged and suddenly dismounted, and I tried to mount but I couldn't coz of the server freeze, so my barry was fighting this 50 barry and 90 raptor, wild barryonyx lv 50 died, then I also died, so spawned back at base, mounted my sarco now already healed to around half hp, so i ran back to save my barryonyx, my barryonyx seemed to have a hard time killing this raptor 90, I saw my barry kept being charged on its back couldnt fight back until it died. Then a kapro appeared out of nowhere attacking me on my sarco and knocked me off mount till I die then I respawned, BUT BLACKSCREEN HAPPENED. I tried a few minutes trying to log back in, after I was in, I rushed back to my sarco on foot, I saw it's circling around fighting something, I ignored it and tried to get my stuffs back, then I saw a message my sarco got killed by kapro lv 25. 

Those were supposed to be strongest dinoes/carnivores in the swamp, and they're tamed from high level wild, wild barry 150 tamed 159 leveled to 175 and wild sarco 140 tamed 179 leveled to 189. ALL DEAD, barryonyx was killed by supposed to be weak AND SMALL TYPE DINO, A RAPTOR !! and not too high level only lv 90, the other one sarco was killed by a kapro with LOW LEVEL ONLY 25. 

Why do they love Raptor so damn much and making it too op, before that, the pounding attack was too op even more op than even a rex because it targets the rider, now its kinda nerfed i never been pounded by raptor that often, but the way it attacks its charging way too fast like a bull on steroid, and sarco, the AI is too stupid it's so hard to aim with sarco on manual I almost dead the other day fighting a titanomyrma or whatever its called, the ant type dino, got tired and hard to aim this ants. the ground one I can kill them ez while moving backward, but the flying one is really hard to aim. Sarco AI even had a hard time killing a low lv kapro only lv 25, it kept on circling it unable to attack.

 Some screenshots

this is when my sarco was almost dead vs a 140 raptor

 

 

Sarco lv 189 got killed by a kapro low level 25, LOL, coz of stupid AI, i saw it keep turning in place probably cannot hit the kapro.

 

This is nightmare screen, when game freezes in black screen after clicking respawn.

 

I tamed them yesterday tho, both at once. Barry 150 got stucked in my ramp.

 

-edit- Sept 2, 2020

Now i know why I got dismounted suddenly, coz baryonyx can stun, damn I killed lots of it and only found out now I wont engage bary so casually now.

Edited September 2, 2020 by DonaldDuck

[DodoRaptor]

Wow, this thread's been active lately! It's fun to read what everyone else is doing. Today I didn't do much, but yesterday I had an awful incident. On The Center I had gotten bored, and decided that the map just looks a bit ugly, and the the abundance of high-levels isn't worth staying on a weird looking map. Plus, I get lag spikes constantly. I moved my char to Crystal Isles, and decided to start doing more stuff there; after I lost so much, I'd been leaving it alone. I was pulling my stuff out of the green obelisk (it's a painfully slow process, one thing at a time), since I have a bed next to it, and I'd transferred in my high-level thyla.

Suddenly, a crash hit. I thought: "Oh well, I'll have to pull it all out again," and I went back to spawn my char in, since I thought it had probably forgotten everything I did after leaving the main menu. The first thing I noticed was that it said respawn at bed, instead of spawn at bed. I spawned in, and found that everything I had pulled out, and my thyla were gone. I'm honestly considering spawning it back in. Only thing is, I don't remember the level or stats. I know it was wild 130, average stats, got to about 180 post-tame, and was leveled in health about seven times, and melee about seven times. I don't want to take my non-story char anywhere near CI for a while. That place has brought me nothing but grief. Sad, because my base there is really nice.

Today I just looked for rexes and megatheirium on The Island. I think I'll spend more time with my story char, Scorched won't unlock itself. And I'm aware it doesn't have to be unlocked, but I want to do them in order. I also have ton of low-level dinos I've acquired over time, and they take of a lot of space in my already small base. I'm thinking about making a "Site B" to store them all, and I'll keep my good dinos back at my real base. I could just kill them, but even the most useless 50-something kapro brings back memories.

[Kaoru]

just transfered to genesis for the first time, started an alpha mission with my boss rex and lose him in 30 seconds

[DonaldDuck]

I used HLNA teleport from INSIDE MY BASE DILO, now ALL MY DINOES and me are OUTSIDE somewhere, so scary, how do I cancel teleportation after using it ??? just in case there's next time. Geez, and I just started building my farms, if my dung beetle died it would be hard to get another one coz it's kinda rare to have it spawned near my base.

 

I immediately  exit the game, I hope they will be ok in 10 minutes until offline protection active, I'll deal with it later. Damn, mistake after mistake every damn day.

 

 

 

-UPDATE-

Ok, all my tames ARE DEAD because of this teleportation accident !! Since my base is located in bog SE, I teleported back to bog SE and it's actually quite near to my base, but Ark has 1001 ways to fk us sideways so no surprise, the moment I started to walk, one kapro appeared, all my tames managed to kill it, but the AI was so stupid I set them all to NEUTRAL, but they seemed to start attacking any nearby creature and Sarco kapro and barry ran so damn fast in water to the point they angered a paracer and a stego. This paracer single handedly butchered all my tames. I think I have to tame one, this guy seems king of the bog than all those reptiles.

But I'm cool with all my tames being dead now, I'm not getting too attached to pixels, I take it as everyday life in ARK now  

But here's the thing, to prove my claim that SARCO AI IS SO DAMN STUPID. There's ONE creature that came out alive from this accident, DUNG BEETLE !

Because it walked slow, and got ambushed by a sarco lv 50 on the way, and WON. See how buggy a Sarco is ? even a wild sarco can't beat a dung beetle, because of aim problem. I hope they will fix Sarco's weakness. This is authentic proof the devs need to know. SARCO IS SHI1T, sorry for the language but it is. SARCO LV 50 dead vs a dung beetle lol, no more proof is needed. Even if it is a high lv, 210, the base damage is only 5 it has 248.6% melee dmg, so dmg output is 12.43, compared to a sarco with base dmg 35.

 

Here's a proof, dung beetle with only 12.43 total dmg output killing a lv 50 Sarco with base dmg 35. What does that tell  you, SARCO IS A BUGGY DINO that deserves a 2nd TLC.

 

 

Edited August 16, 2020 by DonaldDuck

[Eleusius]

Hey all,

didn't play much (as opposed to my intention), so I have only a small episode to report today. Anyways - this game never fails to surprise me. Read on

As foretold, I crafted the saddle for my Ptera and set out to finish my taming pen. I parked the Ptera on a larger stone nearby and went on to harvesting other stones for resources. Only Herbies around, so I thought I'd be safe and the Ptera hopefully unreachable anyways. In case of trouble I could always try to withdraw into the mostly ready pen or fly off. Among the herbies around was also a Therezino, albeit low-level (just 20), but those guys are so cool I was already aiming at luring it into my pen once it was finished. And being a herbie, it's easy to maintain (yes, meat is still an issue, though not that much... but I don't want to farm dinos for meat - at least not yet).

So I was building on my Pen when I noticed the Therezino went aggro on my Ptera and had actually managed to climb the stone I had set it on. I tried to draw it's attention to me, since I was in a good position on my taming pen such that I might even be able to lure it in despite the ramp not being full width. Unfortunately it just ignored my arrows and focused on my Ptera. That scared the poop out of me. I had worked so hard to get a flyer and now it was fighting one of the most dangerous creatures I knew ... around my base at least. And also whistling didn't make it stop fighting. I just wanted it to be safe and fly out of trouble, but it just didn't do. No way to move into close range combat without proper armor with this guy, so I just kept firing a few bolts from the unfinished ramp/stairs of my pen. Then, suddenly - just after my last shot, the Therezino went down. I was baffled. Moving in, I found that the creature was dead, not unconscious, but I couldn't help to congratulate my Ptera on this deed. Arguably being just a little above lvl 100 is a big difference (more than 5 times the level), but still the Therezino is an opponent to be feared. I was very happy to find my Ptera alive and almost well. The meat from the Therezino would do all the healing needed and more. So we went on harvesting the corpse and I continued to finish my ramp/stairs. That was looking very promising. Hopefully I'll find another Therezino some time soon.

I also killed a Phiomia while riding my Ptera - and yes, I admit I was not going by my own rules, since that kill was a pure harvest. But inspired by the fighting capabilities of my Ptera I wanted to find out more of it's abilities and practice. Of course, the Phiomia was not an opponent at all, since those guys don't fight back. But the meat was appreciated (that Ptera is really really hungry) and the practice necessary. While harvesting the corpse, two stupid dilos came around to snatch our meal. Well, I decided to take them on from flight rather than ground and thus let them have a bite in order to take off. They were very fast with the rest of the Phiomia - I didn't get another byte. But then, I (umm... sorry, the Ptera) was soon munching on two Dilos. I think that's an equal trade.

Another little bit of this Episode shows how bad I am in handling flyers. I still don't know what happened here, but after I was finished with the Dilos and wanted to resume my work on the pen, the Ptera took flight and went off. I was shocked - please not another flyer lost to nowhere. I was having Deja-Vu's there and then. And it's been such a promising guy. I ran after it. It was for some reason flying straight to my base. I haven't seen any "go home" command, yet, though I had been searching for some. Would be nice if the "lost" Dinos would eventually decide to go home on their own and hopefully - if they're making the way - arrive there safely eventually. Would make for a few nice surprises, really :). Ok... so the Ptera took flight towards my base and I was running after it, whistling like crazy. Nothing worked. Then, when above the middle of my base, it just stopped. No reason whatsoever. So I eventually caught up and whistled it to land. Now it was obeying. Maybe it was just homesick? Anyways - you probably can imagine how much of a relief it was to get that creature back. I know I'll eventually get better ones - especially when I get around to an Argy, I'll probably ignore the Ptera for most of the rest of the game. But now, it's probably my second most valuable creature, counting my Unicorn at number one - not for usability, but for rarity.

Soon later, the taming pen was finished. Also there was a Carno in the area that started to show some interest in me and my Ptera. When I signed off, he was dozing off in my taming pen and I'm wondering if I'd just kill it or keep it. It'll require a whole lot of meat to maintain and it's just low-level, so I really don't know what to do about that guy. Are Carnos cool tames? I haven't heard much talk about them (as opposed to many other creatures). It seems most survivors just consider them either victims or leave them be for other reasons. Well, I'll have to make up my mind and hopefully when I sign on next time, it'll still be in my taming pen (remember: It's my own server and it is NOT running atm, so things are frozen).

Well, that sums it up for today.
Have a nice sunday and a good start into the week.

Eleusius.

 

Edited August 16, 2020 by Eleusius

[Cordiste]

So I just attempted the lava cave for the first time with my brand new saber. I wish I had practised killing stuff with it before - cause we got totally s*** rocked by the very first onycs. I wasn’t used to shooting from a riding position ( I usually use flyers) and couldn’t get out of the seated weapon view (Xbox). Lost my saber, otter and all my stuff due to my own stupitidy. Such a hard pill to swallow! Tried to go back for my gear and the saddle but I died again and decided to abandon. 
 

im on a mission, though, and I’ll be back with my better dire wolf and better weapons. 

[DodoRaptor]

2 hours ago, Eleusius said:

Are Carnos cool tames? I haven't heard much talk about them (as opposed to many other creatures). It seems most survivors just consider them either victims or leave them be for other reasons.

Hi @Eleusius! Carnos are basically early-game rexes. Many people didn't like them, since once you got a rex, they became useless. However, they recently got a bleed, so now you can slowly drain an enemy's health. Righ-click (or left trigger on console), wait ten seconds, and the target will have lost 5% of its health. That doesn't seem like much, but if you can do this and get away each time, you can kill even the toughest things in twenty bites (or less, if the regular bite damage is enough to kill it).

[Penguin73]

5 hours ago, Eleusius said:

 

Soon later, the taming pen was finished. Also there was a Carno in the area that started to show some interest in me and my Ptera. When I signed off, he was dozing off in my taming pen and I'm wondering if I'd just kill it or keep it. It'll require a whole lot of meat to maintain and it's just low-level, so I really don't know what to do about that guy. Are Carnos cool tames? I haven't heard much talk about them (as opposed to many other creatures). It seems most survivors just consider them either victims or leave them be for other reasons. Well, I'll have to make up my mind and hopefully when I sign on next time, it'll still be in my taming pen (remember: It's my own server and it is NOT running atm, so things are frozen).

Well, that sums it up for today.
Have a nice sunday and a good start into the week.

Eleusius.

 

Eleusius, there is nothing wrong with practicing and educating yourself, especially in the early-game stages.  I would encourage you to tame it.  Who cares if it is low level right now? Sure, a seasoned veteran would most likely kill it and not think twice about it.  However, I think it is an great way to practice taming.  Later, when a high level one walks into your neighborhood you will know what it takes and have the confidence to do what you have to do.  So, I say, tame it up. Just use some raw meat since you probably don't have kibble, mutton, or prime yet.  Force feed it purple berries to keep the torpor up and you are golden.  Add a few levels and it will help you defend your base against a sarco or therizino that wanders too close.  When you get a saddle and need meat you can ride along the beaches and harvest all the little piggies.  You won't go hungry if you own a carno and live on the beach.  Have fun.

[Penguin73]

My goal, my plan when I started playing about 6 months ago was to play solo for awhile, learn the game basics, and hopefully beat the island map... then move on to play either PVE or PVP.  For the most part I have accomplished that.  The only thing left for me really is the TEK cave.  Over the last couple of days, since defeating the Alpha Dragon, I have been thinking about how hard I want to make this last step.  And I realized I just want to move on. Is that wrong? I am getting bored with playing solo.  I will do the TEK cave but more for a sense of closure than anything else.  I don't want to spend weeks breeding up the perfect army to fight the overseer.  So I will use what I have and do the Gamma for now.  I can always return and do the harder ones later.  I think it would be fun to do the tek cave with a group of people and, if nothing else, doing the gamma solo will give me SOME experience and context for doing it again with new friends.

I have 19 rexes with Mastercraft saddles.  They all have 50k + health and close to 3000 melee.  I will combine them with my 19 therizinos that just defeated the dragon.  And I will ride my yuty.   I will also wear an otter to help with the extreme temperature changes.  That give me a team of 40.  I will most like pod half of them until I get inside the gate just to make the entrance easier.  Too much or too little for gamma? I don't know... never done it before.  I'm just rolling the dice right now.

The last two days I have been doing things like gathering stone and running the cave of the clever for chitin...and I have been using that to make cementing paste.... and farming obsidian to combine with the paste to make polymer... and now I  just need a little more for a complete tek armor set.  Although, I think I will just take my ascendant sets of flak, ghillie, and fur instead.  I don't know if primitive tek armor would be better or not.  I am going to make it and see how I like it before I decide.  

Anyway, my plan is to run the cave in a few days.  Take a short vacation.  Then start anew with the challenges of group play.  I look forward to learning how to survive all over again and finally explore different maps.

[DodoRaptor]

5 hours ago, Penguin73 said:

Force feed it purple berries to keep the torpor up

Wouldn't it be the black berries? I guess they're a bit purple-ish. Also, although @Eleusius is new, he's by no means helpless, and he's likely done it before. Not to try to be rude, or anything.

[Penguin73]

4 minutes ago, DodoRaptor said:

Wouldn't it be the black berries? I guess they're a bit purple-ish. Also, although @Eleusius is new, he's by no means helpless, and he's likely done it before. Not to try to be rude, or anything.

hahahaha.  Yes, the black berry.  Thanks for keeping me on my toes.  

[paialex]

I crash crash crash crash 

I died

[ScoutKnox]

Got a mana max stat in a trade, now i have a male and female to start breeding.

[Eleusius]

Hey guys,

thanks for your replies and the thumbs up. I did indeed tame up the Carno and while it isn't the greatest fighter - for now it has very low health (like 700ish), it's fun to play around with. I'm taking it out for a walk more or less frequently and try to harvest meat as much as I can.

Well, another thing that kicked my butt is Ark mechanics again. Some of you might have read that I've been very very unlucky with flyers so far. Some due to my ignorance or noobidity, but mostly because they just don't do what I think they should do. Right now, I have to revert to an older save-game, loosing some hours of more or less pointless gameplay (camp-management and of course a search-and-rescue mission, since reverting a few hours is always PITA in itself. Why am I so clumsy with flyers? Why can't I handle them or why do they always fly off and get lost?

Well, I'm just restarting the server to see if that helps... but I do expect to revert to an older state loosing several hours of gameplay. Very disappointing.

Any hints appreciated.

Eleusius.

 

[Eleusius]

Ok... I used admin-commands to traverse the area and improve visibility (HUD-Display). That helped, but it made me feel bad, since I don't want to cheat. At this stage, I'm seriously pondering to use the admin-commands to drop GPS-Locators for my more important creatures. So annoying. Also I had a hard time to reverse all the effects I had done with the admin-commands. It's not always clear what you have to do. I also lost all the equipment I was carrying due to using the spectator-mode. If you ever go that route, beware where you store your stuff.

I also figured out that my server settings are inappropriate for carnivores. I had the food-consumption of my dinos set to 5x, because it seemed really silly to me that a Stego or Trike or other big creature consomes just ONE berry every minute or two. That's just silly. However, when you get to carnivores, the 5x rate is impossible to maintain, even if you go havoc on most other creatures. So I've dropped to 2.5 and that seems quite possible and probably the best compromise. We'll see what happens when I step up to Rexes or similar. Or a wolf-pack - I presume those buddies will be hungry.

Now, that Carno really is a fun creature for early gamers like me. At first he was very very weak with the 700ish life and only minor melee damage, so that I had him take out only herbies. However by now he has evolved to be fun, really. He's well over 1000 life and melee has improved seriously, too. Harvested two Diplos with ease and filled up my meat supplies by that. Then later I went out with my entire team (all my trikes, the Carno and myself on the Iguana... yes, when I'm out with ground-based creatures, I prefer to ride on the ground rather than fly. We deliberately attacked two alpha-raptors, both 20ish level, in short sequence (not simultaneously) and it went smooth. No losses. The Carno was a bit worn out after that, but recovered fast. And boy, I was showered in prime-meat. Spent the whole night cooking at my 3 fireplaces... A shame you almost cannot store raw prime meat for future tames. Oh my... and those two alphas... they were carrying good stuff, too. I got a superb axe, a mastercrafted crossbow and a very good pick-axe. So good. Up to now, everything I had was primitive.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I had successfully kited a high-level Trike into my taming-pen, so that's getting better, too. After taming, it's well over lvl 200 and it has amazing stats (compared to my other trikes - I don't really know what is good, yet).

So, once again (as always) a mixed bag with some serious ups

Ttys,
Eleusius.

 

[Cordiste]

After my drama in the lava cave, I decided maybe it was time to set aside all the dangerous tasks for a while and do some grinding. 
 

I made a bunch of gasoline to power my generator for the first time ? we’re steeping out of the stone ages over here!

I also made: a tree sap station, a few more sets of ghillie (‘cause I keep dying and losing it all), an otter-taming pen (‘cause trying to find the little guy to feed it is infuriating to say the least), made a full set of SCUBA armour and extra tanks, and went grinding for basic resources so I could fill my storage chests for future building/crafting needs. 
 

I needed a break from caving, but I still need to go back and get my lonely, loyal dire wolf that’s been waiting for me at the artifact on passive (I died in the lava).

[AllOfTheAllos]

On Valguero: didn't feel like playing, fed the dinos and logged off. On Crystal Isles: also didn't feel like playing, logged on to reset decay of the base, and wyverns have crystals so giving them food wasn't needed.

On singleplayer save: tamed two horses and a direwolf (personality assigned to it by ARK Transcendence mod: lazy), bred the existing pair (the baby wolf is also lazy), fished, installed Eco's Aberration decor and put some more luma trees and glowing crystals in the garden, flied around a lot (I have an arctic gryphon), due to the EXP gain being way too fast with sp settings on and lots of dinos being high-level, adjusted the EXP gain to just 0.05, as even 0.3 was way too much. 0.05 seems to be okay. Tamed two dodos, took some dodo eggs from a wild nest (yet another mod, yeah), hatched them, raised the females, so now I'll have eggs. Some time ago I tamed the dragon I had spawned in the snow mountains, checked on him now - all grown, gave him a couple stacks of meat. Not bringing him to my base yet, though - that would be overpowered, that thing can probably fight a wild giga and win.

Edited August 17, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Penguin73]

finished gathering materials for my first TEK armor set.  Did a mind wipe and put points into crafting hoping for something wonderful.  Crafted the set and got no improvements from the original predictions.  hmmm. Maybe crafting skill doesn't work on tek.  IDK.

Put on new suit of armor and played around for a bit.  It is going to take some getting used to for sure.  I'm not very good a flying yet.

Made some stone foundations and rode the argy up to the volcano.  Placed foundations in a path-like formation across the lava to the tek cave door... a long train of rexes and therizinos is hard enough for one person to control without the lava.  Maybe this will help.  Maybe.  I still think I will need to cryopod some, maybe half and let them out once inside the cave.  From what I read you can release them from the pod insided as long as you don't go too far.

Went home and tried to use tek suit to fly around and gather honey in the redwoods.  Well, ummm,  Let's just say I need more practice and leave it at that.

Gathered honey, the traditional way.  Made some veggie cakes. 

Mid wiped again and put stats back to normal.

Took inventory of best armor (flak, ghillie, fur). Some ghillie pieces need to be repaired before TEK cave.  Put it on my list of things to do.

Found an empty cabinet and started gathering stuff that is going with me to the cave.  I thought it might be good to put these things in one place just in case I am scatter brained on the day of. ?

[ScoutKnox]

Starting a boss rex line so that my tribe mate and i finally can go for some bosses soon

[Shieara]

Hi Everyone!

I'm a relatively new ARK player that is still hanging around The Island on single player. Today I decided to check out Ragnarok and see if I could find a high level male rex to tame so that I can start breeding for bosses. I've not been having much luck finding one on the island, and even though I am trying to do the story maps in order I'm starting to get a little frustrated.  Instead of a rex I came back with two allosaurus so I guess that was kind of a fail, but I have no regrets. I'm still thinking of names for them.

Tomorrow I will probably focus on breeding a few more megatherium. I'm close to having the nineteen I need for the broodmother fight, although only four of them have enough levels for me to feel comfortable. I may go ahead and move them to the obelisk to clear up some space at my base.

[AllOfTheAllos]

Went to the loot cave again. Found a great spino saddle, over 80 armor. Now I just HAVE to find myself a nice spino to tame.

Aside from that didn't do anything other that unpodding Deimos and putting giga eggs back into the hatchery.

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Oldest giga egg hatched. Male, mom's melee, dad's colors. Eugh. The next on has a bit over an hour left, hopefully it'll be better.

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Deimos is finally juvenile! And just four hours away from his fourth imprint.

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Second egg hatched. Mom's melee, dad's colors, female. Picked up all eggs but the newest one, podded Deimos, logged off.

Edited August 18, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos
typo, it was over 80 actually