So what did you do in ARK today?

[MtnDrew]

Spotted a 150 griffin.  

Built a fatdog trap and got him.  

Pelted him with arrows and nearly killed him, had to whip up a sleeping bag and dump my gear and let him eat me.

I had brought an ovis in a cryopod, so got a perfect tame.  224 Griffin FTW, time to get him back to the base and feed him some baby allos.

Leveled a bunch into melee so I could one hit the baby allos.  Happened to notice my argys were just breeding away and their eggs hatch at room temp.  Cool, more free XP.  

Nope.  Unclaimed 200+ lvl argys swarmed and killed my perfect griffin.  I felt like such a tool.

 

But then, later....

My tribemate and I went to the plain on the edge of the trench to start drawing out the wyverns.  I've got a gun emplacement set up facing the trap so we can kill them off before egg collecting.  Got nekkid and hopped on my good ptera and went to it while my tribemate manned the turrets.  I'd agro something and head back and he would watch thru a spyglass and tell me what was about to kill me.

 

Got a 180 lightning egg almost immediately, got my ptera killed, went back and hatched up another, leveled him up, went back and found ANOTHER 180 lightning egg.  So I'm flapping balls back to the trap hollering at my partner

"what's following me?!?!"

It's a lvl whatever poison

"Male or female??"

Female!  

"Turn off the guns, turn off the guns!!"

 

We got the milk, and raised the 180s and life is gooooood 😁

 

I'm using halfslabbacons hatch and raise settings since my buddy and I are grown men with wives and jobs, so 5 milk got two raised and imprinted no prob.

 

Like ark do, the day had some low lows and sky high peaks.

[Cordiste]

SP, The Island

Bear with me here.

My gameplay had been riddled with heartbreaking loss lately. After a dino death it’s hard to stay positive in order to fix whatever just happened. In my last episode, I explained how I was levelling my caving bary while looking for my first basilo to tame. I spent quite a few days doing this without any real drama. Betty (the bary) had gotten pretty strong and I was starting to feel really good about caving with her after the basilo was found. We would get overburdened with good resources/loot, ditch it onto the argy nearby and go out for more adventuring... so fun! I saw my first Leeds from the perspective of someone NOT on a raft 🤣😂 and also my first mosa and plesi. Got chased by a plesi, lol. I know what these look like already but it’s always cool when you find a new dino in the wild. 
 

Then, as always, my own recklessness cost the team one of its MVPs.  I was fighting an alpha megalodon amongst a few other things when the jellyfish started to come in. I did a stun attack in order to get all the stun-able creatures but it also gave the getaway a bit of a delay and the jellyfish struck. I had been pretty good up until now, but I let them get just that extra little bit closer and it was all over. I lost Betty and a single empty crypod, amongst other items not worth mentioning. 
 

this was almost as bad as when I let Zero (argy) die in the mountains because I wasn’t keeping an eye on stam. Oh it hurts so much when it’s your own fault! 😂

I am now back at my Redwoods outpost so I can find another bary 🙄 constantly 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Such is the life of an ARK player. I did feel like I had unfinished business in this area anyway, Betty (bless her soul) was never a good level to begin with so now I have the opportunity to look for the perfect one. 
 

In this episode I learned to look for silver linings. 

[MtnDrew]

That's why it's so important to breed dinos.  We've all been there.

 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Bred tek rexes (to Nightshade, because I remembered that he is also a non-mutated male, and therefore perfectly suitable for production of a replacement breeder female), bred deinons, bred featherlights, did a nice big metal run, realized that I can just throw out all metal and whip it into my inventory instead of taking out two stacks, putting them in the forge and repeating it about 10 times because big metal runs now. Made a 229 damage, 110 durability whip specifically for that purpose. And now I'm just waiting for the featherlight egg to hatch because I don't have any idea what else to do that won't take more time than it takes for the egg to hatch.

Featherlight hatched, female, mother's stats. Not mutated, but keeping one wouldn't make things laggier (especially since that update made things amazingly non-laggy - I mean, before it I wasn't able to play Extinction at all, because the City as the most unique location was the most interesting, and due to lots of non-player structures, unbelievably laggy even in singleplayer, and now I can just move around there, fly by huge bases with only a  bit of stuttering... Okay, I'm shutting up). So, point is, I'm keeping that bird, I'm raising it. Gonna be my second breeding female, for better chances on mutations. Because I want mutations.

Rexes hatched (a while ago), kept one female, killed the rest. Deinons hatched, no mutations, killed all. Did a meatrun just to be safe and logged off Valguero.

(Official, Extinction) Moved the base. Lost my enforcer to a carno. Killed a slightly better enforcer for its BP, got some obsidian, gathered dust and crystal, raided a beaver dam for paste (destroyed  the dam afterwards, of course. I'm a civilized player), went to the public crafting place I mentioned in an earlier post and made polymer, went to the terminal where I left the metal and crystal before, it was still there, timer before stuff becomes transferable was running out and by the time I was done crafting the new enforcer it was just a minute, so I took the resources and uploaded them after all. The few pieces of cementing paste I had left from the polymer making went there too. Returned to the base on my brand new enforcer, spent several hours building it (at first I used stone, but then I started getting tired of building so the second floor is wood + thatch, I'll replace it with stone later. And the fence is just metal spikes. No gate, since I only needed to make it safe to log off for now, and the next time I play there I'll build a proper one.

(Official, Valguero again) Picked up the giga egg because only five hours left on it. Deimos has 30 minutes until imprint, 70% imprinted, and if I counted right, I can actually leave him out while I sleep without risking to mess up the time and miss the last imprint when the time for it comes, so once I get the one I'm waiting for now, I'll put a bit more meat in the troughs, give him some kibble just in case, and got to sleep without podding him.

(technically it's the next day, but making a second post with nobody else's posts in between feels rude, so: Official, Valguero) Logged in and Deimos still had an hour to next imprint. I waited for that, imprinted him, did a meatrun, made a rex saddle, leveled Jotunn and equipped him with it, podded Jotunn, uploaded him, returned to the base and logged off Valguero to enter-

-(official, Extinction) Retrieved Jotunn and used him to get some mats and, more importantly, EXP. Reached the level I needed for owl saddle, made two, uploaded them and the cryopod, killed a bunch more things (got an enforcer BP that's quite good AND manageable resource-wise with no need to get any from the main base!), altered the base to be a bit bigger, added a gate, got rid of the spikes on the parts where noting would be able to approach even without them and logged off.

(Back on official Valguero) Retrieved the saddles and the pod, took the now-grown owl (named Frozen Lime) for a ride - pretty fun! Strong, too. Unpodded the female owl and the future replacement rex breeder, raising them now.

Edited October 4, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

Separate post time now! Because important news: I almost have a gacha pair now! And I don't mean "almost have" like the last time, when I had to abandon them because no way to the terminal. So:

Since my owly boy Frozen Lime on (Official, Valguero) is adult and puking that undigested bone goodness now, I decided that getting a gacha would be neat. First I though to maybe buy one, but took a look at the goods I have and... Well, maybe they'd be enough, but better not make myself look like a bigger idiot than I am, so no. No trading for that specific thing. So I have that wyvern, remember? Rose. Blood crystal. Too pink to use as one of my main rides. But leveled in stam, and she's a good luck wyvern - 2 outta three giga tamings I used her for were successful! So I took Rose in a pod and I took another pod, empty one. And an extra canteen. Uploaded them. And some owl puke (didn't do me any good, though).

So to (Official, Extinction) I went. Took Rose, took empty pod, didn't leave the pellets and the canteen laying there in the nothingness of being uploaded either. Double-checked the Explorer map and to the Sunken Forest I went. First gacha I found pretty quickly, level 20 female. Gave her pellets - not enough. Thatch structures (stone too slow to make) - not enough. Straight up rocks - not enough. So I got that idea. A smart one as it turned out. I had a sickle, so I gathered fiber. Tons of fiber. And made cloth armor. Tons. And fed her that. And it was fine! Sure, effectiveness plummeted, but I don't really care. It worked and it wasn't too slow. I named her Schedraya (which is just female form of the Russian word for "generous", but "generous" doesn't really work as a name for a female dino), podded her, slot-capped myself with cloth hats and boots, and went looking for a male. 3 hours. 3. Hours. I spent looking for a nice, LOW-LEVEL male gacha. Killed a bunch of stuff. And finally found him! Level 35. Spent a lot of time taming him, had to use up not just the clothes I prepared, but also ones off my own back. And my metal hatchet. And all the meat Rose had in her inventory. And some thatch. Well, mostly I used it all to give him something to eat while I get more fiber and make more hats. But in the end I tamed him. He got the name Generous, because it works for a male, and fits the theme. So I podded him, went back to The City, nothing happened at all, no meteors, no corrupted flyers, found a terminal, uploaded them ,just gotta retrieve them back on Valguero now.

(Official, Valguero) Gachas obtained and producing! Schedraya is making oil, can make metal and fragmented green gems, but I enjoy metal runs and don't need gems. Generous is making obsidian, can make blue crystallized sap. Got some quality crystals from them already, but no good loot yet. But anyway, I'm very happy about my new (first ever!) gachas.

Edited October 5, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Slvr]

(Official ORP PVP, Ragnarok) Last time, I wrote about how I finished gathering all artifacts needed to summon the bosses. This time, I tell you that I have been hard at work breeding and raising boss fighters for said boss fight. Alpha Dragon and Manticore, I'm coming for you!

I also have been hard at work trying to find gigas. Bullets and building the base better is great and all, but I need teeth, to use and to breed. Finding high levels has sucked. There is nothing else to describe it with. I decided to forfeit that venture and asked around for people selling or trading any. I didn't want anything spectacular to breed with, honestly, anything with 30+ points in melee or health would have been fantastic. Ended up scoring one with a fantastic melee instead. I had to work for it for sure, and the giga in question was a baby, but it was totally worth it. Only 1 mutation, it's mainly red, and fantastic melee stat. However, I decided that I really didn't want to risk losing this baby. So...

I decided that instead of feeding berries and raw meat to my important babies, I wanted to try upgrading to just using basic kibble. So I went on a dodo taming mission. Then another. Then another. Long story short, I've got way too many dodos to count now, and they make eggs like crazy. I also got some dilophosaurs since I had been meaning to start breeding those anyway to stand guard in the base. I have been gathering eggs a lot and making basic kibble as I go and using that to feed the giga baby. I haven't been raising anything else from tiny baby stage in the meantime, everything else is juvenile and above, so that's been that. 

Once the giga can be left alone for 4+ hours, I am going to go to Extinction to grind some more Element so I can get some more tek dedicated storages going, which will make bullet farming way easier since I'll actually have somewhere to keep stuff. Vaults seem so cumbersome and just... not worth having imo. They're so big and bulky for how (in my opinion, the humble packrat I am) little they hold. I tested in SP with where I wanted these new tek dedis to go for optimum bullet farming potential and liked it. I may also try to farm more materials to expand the greenhouse... berry farming near my base isn't fantastic and I want to get some mejoberry and narcoberry crops going. I theoretically could just take some argies and travel farther from my base to where there are denser populations of bushes, but I think it might be more beneficial for someone who does so much breeding like me to use crop plots, since they passively gain berries over time, constantly.

While I have been waiting on giga baby to grow, I did breed a bunch of tames. Cryo'd babies or picked up the eggs of them all just before they hatched so that once I have bigger basic kibble reserves I can use it to raise them out of baby stages. Thinking I need more dodos..., and a bigger kibble farming ramp thing. I just have one layer of ramping right now and have run out of space, so I may make another layer with more dodos on that. 

I have also, however, met a new friend on the server. We have been helping one another out a lot and trading often and I am really liking them a lot. I think I may have a real unofficial alliance in this tribe... which has been an odd experience for me. My people skills can be a little lacking and I tend to keep to my hermit bubble in the desert so I don't have to deal with them, but I have been talking a little more and being kinder to people to try to earn myself some allies and it has clearly worked out in my favor. However, the old alpha of this CA's Ragnarok recently returned, and has also been interesting... In fact, it seems like quite a few old players recently returned. I may not be super involved in the politics of this cluster all the time, but I am very curious to see how this turns out.

[Ventia003]

3 hours ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

Separate post time now! Because important news: I almost have a gacha pair now! And I don't mean "almost have" like the last time, when I had to abandon them because no way to the terminal. So:

Since my owly boy Frozen Lime on (Official, Valguero) is adult and puking that undigested bone goodness now, I decided that getting a gacha would be neat. First I though to maybe buy one, but took a look at the goods I have and... Well, maybe they'd be enough, but better not make myself look like a bigger idiot than I am, so no. No trading for that specific thing. So I have that wyvern, remember? Rose. Blood crystal. Too pink to use as one of my main rides. But leveled in stam, and she's a good luck wyvern - 2 outta three giga tamings I used her for were successful! So I took Rose in a pod and I took another pod, empty one. And an extra canteen. Uploaded them. And some owl puke (didn't do me any good, though).

So to (Official, Extinction) I went. Took Rose, took empty pod, didn't leave the pellets and the canteen laying there in the nothingness of being uploaded either. Double-checked the Explorer map and to the Sunken Forest I went. First gacha I found pretty quickly, level 20 female. Gave her pellets - not enough. Thatch structures (stone too slow to make) - not enough. Straight up rocks - not enough. So I got that idea. A smart one as it turned out. I had a sickle, so I gathered fiber. Tons of fiber. And made cloth armor. Tons. And fed her that. And it was fine! Sure, effectiveness plummeted, but I don't really care. It worked and it wasn't too slow. I named her Schedraya (which is just female form of the Russian word for "generous", but "generous" doesn't really work as a name for a female dino), podded her, slot-capped myself with cloth hats and boots, and went looking for a male. 3 hours. 3. Hours. I spent looking for a nice, LOW-LEVEL male gacha. Killed a bunch of stuff. And finally found him! Level 35. Spent a lot of time taming him, had to use up not just the astroworld merch clothes I prepared, but also ones off my own back. And my metal hatchet. And all the meat Rose had in her inventory. And some thatch. Well, mostly I used it all to give him something to eat while I get more fiber and make more hats. But in the end I tamed him. He got the name Generous, because it works for a male, and fits the theme. So I podded him, went back to The City, nothing happened at all, no meteors, no corrupted flyers, found a terminal, uploaded them ,just gotta retrieve them back on Valguero now.

(Official, Valguero) Gachas obtained and producing! Schedraya is making oil, can make metal and fragmented green gems, but I enjoy metal runs and don't need gems. Generous is making obsidian, can make blue crystallized sap. Got some quality crystals from them already, but no good loot yet. But anyway, I'm very happy about my new (first ever!) gachas.

I agree with you.

[DodoRaptor]

The past few days, I've done a lot, with both The Island and on the non-stories. For my first char, I've been running the Swamp Cave and easy underwater cave over and over. I want to get a good rex/theri saddle BP, so I can start a new boss army.

I was nervous to start the easy cave, but with a basilosaurus, it's no sweat. I've gotten a LOT of loot. Some of the highlights include, a journeyman megalosaurus saddle blueprint with seventy-something armor (useless on this map, but when I make it to Aberration, it'll be amazingly helpful), a journeyman compound bow, a mastercraft longneck blueprint (I have the metal to make it, but I'm holding off, since I think I could find better), and a journeyman pump shotgun blueprint. Very good!

I actually nearly died and lost my basi in the underwater cave, even though it's not too hard normally. I had dismounted and walked onto a land portion to grab some loot, when several electrophorus that had been hiding attacked. The zapping drained about half my measly human health. I whistled my basi neutral in panic. I then watched ARK's terrible AI send my basi swimming around pathetically. She got some hits in on them, but they were doing a lot of damage. I whistled follow as my basi disappeared. The fight was getting bad and shark had gotten involved. My basi had killed a few of the original swarm, but my basilosaurus was in real danger. Finally, I got her to come to me. I managed to mount and kill them all. She lost close to a quarter of her health in what would have been an easy fight. All's well that ends well.

I'll just keep up the loot farming until I get the right saddle blueprint. Finding a rex or therizino is also a priority. I've found a high-level theri, but it was male, which I already have. ARK's just been mocking me with rexes. Since I tamed my high-level female, I've found no less than four high-level rexes, but they were all female as well.

On the non-stories (just Rag lately) I had some fun at the wyvern trench. I found a 170 poison egg, and my crystal wyvern let me leave the regulars behind. Unfortunately, I got greedy. I stole another egg (95 lightning, just stole it to clear spawns). I landed to rest, not realizing there was a wyvern in render. It was fire and it burned away a ton of health. I fled, but I was too slow thanks to the two eggs. I knew we couldn't both make it out. I dismounted and jumped into the water, while my mount was killed. She was low-level, but it was still sad. I began to try to head home on foot, but ended up dying to hyenadons. Probably for the best, walking the whole way would have been borderline impossible.

I also tamed a new thylacoleo there, since my old one had died in a transfer. I used cooked mutton and went to the savannah. I chose a 135 male, who tamed up easily. Now I have thyla power again! 

With so much going on with both, I don't know if I should choose The Island or non-stories for today.

Edited October 5, 2020 by DodoRaptor

[Cordiste]

Nice! Everyone’s been up to quite a bit since I last checked. I love it, since I read the forums on days that I can’t play so I get my fill of ARK-ness. 
 

SP, Island

 

After the death of my caving bary, I decided to take a step back. Here I am trying to start my boss army when I don’t even have proper kibble to tame anything or haven’t built the latest technology to craft more effeciently. I’ve been trying to rush my way to a broodmother army because I’m excited, but obviously having already cut some corners.
 

SO... I’ve committed myself to starting a proper kibble farm. I lose a lot of tames because I have to keep it safe for 2Hrs while it eats whatever terrible taming food I brought. No wonder I haven’t got that far into breeding yet! I’ve made it such a chore. I’m currently looking for all the low lvl female Iguanodons for medium eggs. I think they’re the only ones of that size that can get both picked up by the argy as well as bola’d, making it the easiest to tame in my mind. I’ve got a pair so far so I can get the mate boost, so now I just need a small herd of females and an oviraptor. 
 

Oh also, I’m pretty bad at video games in general so when I started playing back in January, I brought the difficulty level way down. I felt I was ready to take on more danger so I brought it back up a bit. Getting better loot is pretty nice although I’m getting pretty nervous about fighting things now. 

[martinmk003]

On 8/14/2020 at 5:19 PM, Cordiste said:

I finally found a good saber for the lava cave ? so I got my otter and supplies and staged myself near the lava cave entrance, ready for my next login.

Oo! And I made a nice display inside my house for all the artifacts, under 10000 watches, made an extra pedestal for the future lava cave artifact. 

if any of you have the time, can you throw up some pics of how you’ve got your artifact pedestals laid out? I’m interested to see how everybody else displays these ?

thats really nice!

[sjskdjkfa]

On 10/3/2020 at 7:22 AM, MtnDrew said:

Happened to notice my argys were just breeding away and their eggs hatch at room temp.  Cool, more free XP.  

Nope.  Unclaimed 200+ lvl argys swarmed and killed my perfect griffin.  I felt like such a tool.

 

What!? So I've killed a few babies for xp but never noticed them fighting back... what? Sad day anyways poor griffin.

[Slvr]

7 hours ago, sjskdjkfa said:

What!? So I've killed a few babies for xp but never noticed them fighting back... what? Sad day anyways poor griffin.

They were likely adults that they unclaimed, since it sounds like it's unofficial. They likely grew before they were noticed and when they attempted to kill with griffin, they fought back since babies grow up automatically set on "attack your target."

(Official ORP PVP, Ragnarok) Worked on raising the new giga baby some more. She can now stay out overnight properly. Spent most of today online just replenishing raw meat/berry reserves. Still need more dodos before I can properly move to basic kibble for baby food. I made a huge batch of fresh cryos so tomorrow, I'm going to gather a bunch of mejos and go on another dodo taming spree. Once that's through, I plan to go to Extinction for element farming as well, since the giga can be left alone for long periods of time now. Tek dedis here I come! I really need to get back onto bullet farming... I also intend to go back into SP some and test out some build ideas.

Honestly I'm at a point where I'm just kind of working on a whole slew of random stuff lol. 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Didn't do much. Only imprinted Deimos (this wasn't, of course, written right when I did it.  Considerably later, in fact), made a few meat runs, and gathered crystals dropped by my gachas. Looks like I'll never need to do another obsidian run in my life - Generous lives up to his name, so I have, like, 15 stacks after opening all the crystals. Schedraya's doing her part too, providing me with tons of oil.

(Official, Scorched Earth) Logged on, fed the dinos, logged off.

(Official, Valguero again) Built a... Well, not exactly a crystal collector, but a crystal limiter of sorts - half a hexagon of wooden railings behind my gachas to prevent the crystals from falling too far. Fed the gachas useless stuff: skins, costumes, excess hide, all the arrows and spears I got from hunting, some blueprints that aren't good enough to use or trade. Got more resources and even a first piece of actually good loot: an apprentice fabricated pistol. Imprinted Deimos again, did another meatrun, logged off.

Edited October 6, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Imprinted Deimos again. 2 imprints left to do, and he's 92% grown, so I podded him to do the next and the final imprints just on time. Built a vault for obsidian because I can't just keep it in the fabricator - there's too much! Set Schedraya's production to metal because I have tons of oil now, and afraid that if she keeps making so much I'll run out of space in the vault. At least metal I'll actually use. By the way, when it comes to gacha food for crystals, arrows are the way to do it: fast, light, more frequent production than when using stone. Well, other stackable crafted stuff works the same, but arrows are the cheapest and most lightweight option.

(Official, Extinction) made saddles for gachas. Uploaded them. Hunted stuff. Uploaded some element dust because with Jotunn, who was leveled to 600% melee, I can easily get as much as I want by killing enforcers and defense units. Thought about taming a gasbags, but decided to wait until a taming even happens because according to Dododex a decent one would take forever. Fed the dinos and logged off.

(Official, Valguero) made a 220-something crossbow, 300 tranq arrows, took that and some kibble to a nearest beacon and uploaded it all.

(Official, Extinction) Downloaded all the stuff, took Rose and went to the desert dome for velonas. Found a level 90 male and a level 80 female - not great, but nothing better was there. Tamed them, uploaded them, returned to the City, made and uploaded saddles.

(Official, Valguero again) retrieved velonas and their saddles. Named the male Gunner and the female Vera. Wrote down their base stats. Decided to try out how good they're in combat (well, how good Gunner is in combat), pretty strong, though two deinons nearly killed Gunner, but it's White Cliffs, so I just jumped onto a low cliff and shot them from where they can't reach me. Gonna start breeding them once Vera's breeding cooldown ends.

Edited October 8, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[DodoRaptor]

Just been finding loot lately, from the easy underwater cave and the Swamp Cave. I actually got a 240 armor, mastercraft, great durability flak leggings blueprint. Most has been kind of trash, but this was a lucky exception. I also got an ascendant quetzal saddle, which sounds good, but only had 59.4 armor. Still, a premade saddle is nice, and it's not like I have better. I wish I had a quetzal to put it on.

I also added a painting to my base, hopefully the first of many, I'm thinking of putting them all over. I downloaded the template off of arktemplates.com, and I kind of like it. I also gave my weight argent a nice paint job, which I also came from there.

This search has been a bit dull, but the thrill of spotting a red or yellow drop never gets old. The underwater cave is also really pretty. By the end of the week, I'll hopefully have the saddle I'm searching for. 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Spotted a level 20 alpha rex near my base. Took Gunner, put him on a cliff, shot the rex a lot. The rex ran and fell into a canyon thing with deinons in, I took Gunner again, placed him on a dino-free natural "platform" in the middle of it and shot the rex even more. Killed it. Then found a level 85 one, and, well, it wasn't much harder, just took longer. Then killed a level 25 rock elemental, just because. Then went to the beach and killed some trikes and turtles. And two ichthyos, those are fun to kill with a velo, almost as fun as with a wyvern! Gave gachas a bunch of thatch doors to eat, got a mastecraft miner helmet, two pretty good sickles and a decent sword from them. And a canteen. Plus a bunch of obsidian, like seriously, I have 80 stacks already, good thing I have a vault for that stuff.

Deimos is less than 30 minutes from his last imprint! And only 4 hours until he's fully grown. Can't wait to ride him!

Deimos is fully grown and fully imprinted! Already tried him out and leveled a bit, he's strong! Found an alpha raptor, level 50, dealt with it very quickly. Level 80 bronto takes 10 bites at most. Awesome.

Edited October 9, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Tamed a female mana, level 115 (wild). They really DO float off into the skies if tamed when stuck in the air! Well, it's not like I had a way to transport her safely to a terminal anyway. No big loss. Right now in the process of taming a level 35 female snow owl. She'll be my clean female+source of basic, non-mutated owl colors because while the ones I got from trading are all around awesome, I want a normal-colored one too, and I wanna properly breed them.

(Official, Valguero) Retrieved the owl (named Purity, by the way). Since breeding is on cooldown due to transfer, she is just a pellet-producer for my gachas right now, and having two owls doing it instead of one is a MASSIVE improvement! I really should raise the second baby owl I have, once I feel like doing that - 3 owls will make my gachas extra-awesome!

Edited October 9, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[BlueIris2]

Good Afternoon! I'm SwiftHawk of the tribe, ~The Roost~. I play on a beautiful unofficial PVE cluster called Jurassic Ark. I main on Crystal Isles. I play official and unofficial. Recently I ventured to Genesis to tame a couple of the blue-eyed demons called X-yutyrannus. These guys are much stronger than my line of normal yutyrannus. The first one (140 Female) I led into a trap. She almost murdered my yuty I was riding. I saw that as proof that I for sure needed her and her 145 mate. I had to rest after taming her. My mount, Hawk, had only 1/4 of his health left. After a while I started searching again, all throughout the snow biome on Genesis. I was about to give up after a few hours of searching, but he attacked us from behind in a terrible blizzard. His roar, defiant and proud. I wheeled Hawk around and glimpsed his stark white beauty. He was beautiful and he was strong too. Feeling giddy, Hawk and i raced away out of aggro to set up a basic 4 gate trap. However when I came back, he was no where to be seen. I quickly dashed where I thought he went. I saw a few Procoptodons running away from something behind the trees. We saw him! Aaaand he started running away from me. What the heck, I thought. We chased after him, determined to tame him. Finally he ducked under a rocky overhang...and couldn't move. HA! The feathered idiot got himself stuck. Quickly I dismounted Hawk, and started firing my 200+ crossbow. The blue-eyed demon only fell after 300 arrows. DireWolf lol! Now I am the proud owner of a pair of X-Yutyrannus. I just hope this line cooperates better than my normal yuty line. 😛 Thanks for listening!

[BlueIris2]

Heres what they look like

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Stopped feeding Generous (as in, no personal feeding, trough-only now) because I'm seriously swimming in obsidian now and don't need any more, won't need any more for a long time, in fact. So now only Schedraya gets food put directly in her inventory - metal is always useful, and I go through it pretty quickly. Bred them, just to see what resources the baby will make. Hope for something neat. Bred the velonasaurs, too, the baby is female. Will raise her later. Unpodded Frosty (the second owl) and still-nameless female tek rex to raise them, also, Deimos is an absolute monster of a meatrunner. Podded Diablo because I'm not doing any more giga breeding anytime soon so he doesn't have to occupy space and waste meat right now. Unpodded and killed all the 70% melee giga babies I accumulated. By the way, their hitboxes are kinda weird - I only managed to hit them about half the time despite standing right in front of them. That's all for now.

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Gacha was born. Female, Obsidian/Congealed Gas Balls. Not cool enough. Killed it.

(Official, Extinction) Logged on to check on the dinos, looked at the tribe log, noticed that there isn't anything about that mana that floated off dying, so I made a saddle and grabbed a pod and went to check. And she was there! But I forgot the saddle in the smithy. Went back, then again to the mana, saddled her up, landed, Rose was unable to follow me because too fast, so rode the mana to The City, reched my base, podded mana, took Horus, went back for Rose, and then, finally, uploaded the mana.

(Official, Valguero) Retrieved the mana. Named her Luna. Pretty fun to ride, and it turns out my previous, confusing and extremely laggy, experience of riding a mana (when I was in the passenger seat, being brought back home after my first ever trade) wasn't representative of how it actually goes - a wild-tame with no points put in speed is actually pretty fun!

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Read about manas a bit, saw that their breeding times are manageable, unlike those of some other species that give live birth, so they're actually suitable for me to breed with only minimal missed and starved babies and/or intentionally podded mothers because I just don't feel like that. I mean, 4 hours gestation? I can stay that long in the game with no problem! So I uploaded some kibble, mats for the saddle (don't feel like harvesting them on Ext), and a cryopod and logged off Valguero to instead log on with my side-survivor on...

...(Official, Extinction). I grabbed the stuff, made the saddle (didn't forget to actually take it with me this time!) and went to the ice dome. Spent quite some time searching for an alright level male that's stuck in the air. Killed a bunch of stuff, including inferior manas.

And I found him! Well, he was only level 85, but that's the best I found. Plus he was stuck high enough to be safe from anything non-aerial, but low enough to give me plenty of time to saddle him up once tamed. So I tranqed him, tamed him, saddled him up (first try! ), mounted him (5 or 6 tries. ), landed, podded, got on Rose's back , went to The City, uploaded him at the nearest terminal, returned to the base and logged off. Also, wrote down his base health, melee, stam and weight,  because I didn't write down Luna's so those are extra-important for future breeding.

Edited October 10, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[DodoRaptor]

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Edited February 16 by DodoRaptor

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Owl is adult now, and stands in front of the gachas. Went for a walk in the Redwoods with Deimos, killed two alpha carnos, very easily. He already has a bit over 140% melee - (a tiny bit)more than twice the amount he had at hatch! Bred managarmrs (male, mom's melee and weight which is good, dad's health stamina which is bad but fixsble). Since it is a male, he'll be not for breeding. Instead I'll raise him with full imprint to use as my mount. Also bred gachas, but had to interrupt it because I wasn't sure I'll be back home in time to claim the baby, so I decided it's better to just not have it - probably wouldn't be all that good anyway. And bred velonas too - a male hatched, so I killed it. Don't need males unless melee or stam mutated.

[Fetzen]

We try Genesis Final Test last Weekend stage1-3 run good but after teleport to the last stage all goes wrong some Rex ignores comands or was invisible some Players like me have only a dark screen.

What can we do that this dont happen again?

 

[Zoglet]

Spent a very long time trying to figure out why I couldn't rename my level 49 female tame to F49 😆

[BJay]

On 4/15/2018 at 12:13 PM, BJay said:

I play again since two weeks and a lvl145 theri killed nearly all may dinos as i came online... oh and yes i died today
 

I played abit after that post... but than i turned away from ark. Now over 2 years later, i am back since 2 weeks. This time everything is running very smooth so far,... but oh boy some things had hard changes. Most of them like the cryo i like a lot...

What are you doing?