So what did you do in ARK today?

[DodoRaptor]

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Edited February 16 by DodoRaptor

[WarpSpasm]

2 minutes ago, DodoRaptor said:

I think that golem variants are still broken, but the other two are definitely fixed.

Thanks, I think I will move all my dinos from story maps onto Valguero then for now and then wipe the story maps and start again. I love the early game grind but don't want to lose my colour event tames.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Hunted beacons, raised a velonasaur to juvenile, lost full set of riot armor (the one I dyed, with rex skull helmet) and a mastercraft pick because when I was trying to get a beacon, game froze, I fell and died, and "take all" function glitched when I was retrieving stuff from my corpse, so armor and pick disappeared. At least everything else, including my shotgun, didn't vanish. Also, the fat that the message for death by falling is "You killed yourself!" is very annoying, since usually it happens from the game crashing when the player is flying. Like, the game can't stay stable when I'm in a situation where a crash would lead to my death, but somehow I'm the one to blame! Yeah, right.

Hatched 5 tek rex eggs, 7 deinon eggs, 2 velona, 1 owl. Tek rex and deinons all killed because no mutations. Velona 1 killed because male, other podded because female, but then I lost the pod. Owl unknown, died and disappeared while I was trying to get back into the game after killing it in task manager because it froze.  Bred gachas, baby didn't have anything new and exciting in its production, so I killed it. Got two cakes from candy corn beacons, tamed two ovis, both wild level 140, male white, female green. Bred them, the baby was male, green. Gonna keep and raise him. With full imprint, just for fun. Maybe start a battle sheep line, though they probably won't be able to take anything stronger than a raptor.

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Also, plans for today: take my Scorched Earth survivor that I no longer need there because no more SE base and transfer him to some Aberration server and make a side-base there. Will take much more effort than my other side-bases before it becomes useful, sure, but it's a challenge and I'm up for it.... Err, for trying it and maybe not giving up right away.

(Official, Scorched Earth -> Official, Aberration) Transfer successful. The rest? Not so much. Lags, lags, lags. Game freezes before I can even create a tribe. Running away from threats is, of course, out of question: speed is useless when you can't move at all.

(Official, Aberration) Was able to set up tribe name. Placed some foundations and sleeping bags. Got killed by some Nameless. I don't think I like it at all. I'll keep a survivor there just in case, but pretty sure that I'll keep relying on my Crystal Isles one for all things Aberrant, be it dinos, items or resources.

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Or maybe once I get a new melee or health mutation on my tek rexes, I'll move the former SE-current Ab survivor back to SE, make a rex saddle, and send the former breeder rex there to use for obtaining deathworm horns, seeing that announcement of mantises becoming breedable in the future. Probably will do exactly that.

Edited October 25, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Kodking194]

On 10/22/2020 at 3:18 PM, namewasstolenstresslevel said:

wow so much stuff done in 2 days... i am still trying to figure out how mutation works and how to breed for superior race dinos. But dont know what to do, a Therizinosaurus killed my other Parasaur so only the level 50 female was left and a level 7 Sabertooth. There is a huge snake around my base right now and cant go out...

when you have done as much breeding as i have it become as easy as taming something. also since i was on single player i done what i usually do to make it as fast as breeding on servers. i used slomo and players only. ik it sounds like cheating but when you play offline it gets annoying.

[Cymas]

Well, after about a two month break I'm back in Ark mode with a vengeance. I have to say, sometimes taking a break is more motivating than grinding straight through. I've had a very busy week with a huge amount of progress.

I finally got my nanny up and was able to raise my high level lightning wyvern, which I swiftly used to hunt and tame a pair of thylas. Bred them, raised the baby, then went rex hunting. Tamed a pair of those and bred an entire army up. 

While the army was growing, I got more wyvern eggs, although I only ended up with 1 more good lightning and 1 good poison. Still need a fire.

Speaking of fire, I watched a recent taming video from nooblets and went out and tested it myself. Success! I tamed my dream creature, the blue event colored phoenix that I've been watching on the map for ages. The cage and oil jar method worked beautifully.

And since that wasn't enough, I also started running caves. I have 6 artifacts and just need to run the ruins of Nosti for 3 of those. Side note I hate rubble golems.

I also did a lot of building, finishing the second and third levels of my base, although I still need the roof. And I finished my infrastructure to have all crafting stations I need.

Overall, I'm in amazing shape compared to just how long I was stuck on The Island.

However, I'm running into two bottlenecks, one of which is a familiar and frustrating problem: rex saddle bp. While I could go back and retrieve my other one, I kind of don't want to, for the same reason I raised an entirely new army instead of importing my super bred rexes: it takes a little too much away from the experience.

The other problem is I need a good yuty. I have a pair of them but crap levels, and I am having such a hard time finding new spawns. Carnos are filling up the desert population and constant culling barely puts a dent in them.

I also still need a good fire wyvern to make farming the talons easier. I need 32 of each, so it's worth it to keep farming for an egg.

All in all though, if I stay super focused and get lucky I could be moving on to Aberration as early as December. Considering it took me an entire year to defeat The Island, this is lightning fast. I know Ab is going to be a challenge but I'm really looking forward to it as I love that map. Can't wait.

[Kodking194]

so the day of reckoning came. whether it was for me and my deino army or the dodorex. i had tamed a quetzal and spent a few hours building a pen that i could carry my deinos on, the maximum was about 30ish. the plan was i would ride on the queztal which also had some turrets on it, whistle the deinos at the dodorex and they would charge off of the platform and attack. well about 10 minutes later and he is already dead. only a few died in the process and the rest were fairly fine, a few were badly hurt, but other than that we were unscathed. i decided to bring a deadon along on the next battle hoping this might make the deinos less likely to die, i also considered bringing a yuty along but that would have been too much of a hassle. after about 10 more nights of killed the dodorex i figured this was getting too easy, the rate at which i was loosing the deinos was much slower than the rate i could produce them at. i was talking to a friend on discord when he suggested i summon in a few dodorexes at once to battle, it seemed that the least amount of deinos i can use and succeed in a battle against the dodorex was 10, so i figured for every 10 deinos i would spawn in one dodorex. so the battle would be 100 deinos against 10 dodorexes. holy sh*t was it an amazing fight. i used whistle groups to whistle each group onto a different dodorex, the deaths were insane, but somehow my deinos won, granted i had lost much more than i had anticipated. but i won. i kept none of the spoils i got from the dodrexes i had spawned in. but now im wondering what i should fight next. maybe a titan or one of the bosses. on a side note after the announcement of bugs being breedable in the upcoming update, i spent  a few hours taming mantis and arthros, hunting for the best stats. i feel like arthros are about to become way more OP than WC had thought they would be.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Spent the day gathering dust (discovered I can use pretty much anything for it, rather than doed or tools only, Jotunn's 611% melee chomps are great for it), oil, corrupted nodules and crystals in order to make a 75 enforcer, only to obtain a 125 one - just a bit more expensive to make! Made that. Tamed a gasbags. Didn't plan to, but red-orange-black! Wild level only 15, but still. Named her Pumpkin. Fed the dinos, uploaded Pumpkin (podded, with saddle), unassembled enforcer, and some dust.

(Official, Valguero) retrieved the uploaded stuff. Tested Pumpkin in the safety of my base (sometimes ending up outside - I haven't fully mastered the art of riding a gasbags yet), assembled enforcer, loaded same cyan patterns onto it as the ones my other one wears, but dyed the enforcer itself white (the other one is dyed black). Nice to have an enforcer that I can actually use. Plus, all those teleportation charges - awesome!

[Kodking194]

4 minutes ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

(Official, Extinction) Spent the day gathering dust (discovered I can use pretty much anything for it, rather than doed or tools only, Jotunn's 611% melee chomps are great for it), oil, corrupted nodules and crystals in order to make a 75 enforcer, only to obtain a 125 one - just a bit more expensive to make! Made that. Tamed a gasbags. Didn't plan to, but red-orange-black! Wild level only 15, but still. Named her Pumpkin. Fed the dinos, uploaded Pumpkin (podded, with saddle), unassembled enforcer, and some dust.

i've heard that the mining tool from gen is good at collecting element dust, but i have not seen heard or tried it myself. from what a friend claims. its the best way to gather element dust from the tables, chairs and what not on extinction.

[AllOfTheAllos]

7 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

i've heard that the mining tool from gen is good at collecting element dust, but i have not seen heard or tried it myself. from what a friend claims. its the best way to gather element dust from the tables, chairs and what not on extinction.

I don't have Genesis or plans to get it, so mining drill isn't an option. Plus, other than making enforcers I don't really have a need for dust - another thing I don't have and don't plan on getting is "defeated a boss" on my list of achievements, so no tek stuff. Mostly I just like to have it, and for that even just what I get from hunting tek dinos is enough (doesn't stop me from trying to get a dust baby from my gacha pair, though).

Edited October 26, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[Eleusius]

On 10/22/2020 at 7:18 AM, namewasstolenstresslevel said:

 There is a huge snake around my base right now and cant go out...

You can actually practice to fight snakes with spears or a pike (that is fight and win). Have some stimulant on you in case something goes wrong. There's also videos on how to do this, because snakes are a great source for hide early game.
Have fun

Eleusius.

[Penguin73]

I started a new character and took a walk on Rag for the first time the other day.  That place is very cool and the NE corner reminds me of Montana. I saw a ton of pillars over the span of about 2 hours and was unable to find anywhere to hang my newbie hat within reasonable walking distance so I transferred to another server.  Same story. Transferred again. Same story.  ugggh! Frustrating, yes. Died many many times...yes.  But I am determined to find a spot somewhere. I will return with determination soon. 

Back on Island (primitive plus) we bred Argy this weekend.  I incubated 2 eggs and gave one to my tribe-mate to hatch. He got twins at level 249 and I got a single at 253 (Powder blue and white). Imprinted to 100% then flew around for an hour + just killing (no explorer notes) and gained another 34 levels in that time.  Found out he is a very capable fighter so I named him Spartacus.

Found a 145 Yuty last night and couldn't resist since I have been looking for a high level one since I started this world.  I knocked it out on the ice, however, when it fell to the ground it slid off the ice and into the water.  So heartbreaking. 

[H0mith]

Wend around and did base resets, filled fertilize and fed up troughs

[2OLEgend]

Island official xbox.

After numerous host timeouts on log in, finally got into my character. Filled troughs and emptied snails and logged out. One wasted hour.

But will be back tomorrow for more of the same lol. ARKddiction.

[Kodking194]

5 hours ago, Penguin73 said:

I started a new character and took a walk on Rag for the first time the other day.  That place is very cool and the NE corner reminds me of Montana. I saw a ton of pillars over the span of about 2 hours and was unable to find anywhere to hang my newbie hat within reasonable walking distance so I transferred to another server.  Same story. Transferred again. Same story.  ugggh! Frustrating, yes. Died many many times...yes.  But I am determined to find a spot somewhere. I will return with determination soon. 

Back on Island (primitive plus) we bred Argy this weekend.  I incubated 2 eggs and gave one to my tribe-mate to hatch. He got twins at level 249 and I got a single at 253 (Powder blue and white). Imprinted to 100% then flew around for an hour + just killing (no explorer notes) and gained another 34 levels in that time.  Found out he is a very capable fighter so I named him Spartacus.

Found a 145 Yuty last night and couldn't resist since I have been looking for a high level one since I started this world.  I knocked it out on the ice, however, when it fell to the ground it slid off the ice and into the water.  So heartbreaking. 

i suggest playing unofficial server, great servers and much better than official ones. however im assuming the pillar issue was because you were playing on official.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Practiced riding gasbags. I think I got fairly okay at it. Made a glider and "walked" my wyverns by gliding with them on follow. Bred tek rexes, velonas, owls and gachas. Rexes, owls and velonas all were wrong: no mutations on velonas and rexes, and wrong colors on owl. Killed them. Gacha hasn't finished gestating yet, so don't know if it's a disappointment or joy. Made a chibi, it was a spino. I was hoping for something rarer, but fine.

Decluttered the base: froze barios, lystros, gally, second ankylo and second argent, moved sheep to the stable, placed all wyverns but one onto a cliff, froze Elisabeth. A lot more free space now!

Gacha done. Twins. One was able to make sulfur, but I don't need sulfur. Killed both. But at least now I know that twin gachas can have different resources!

Edited October 26, 2020 by AllOfTheAllos

[zsenden]

I tried to kill a Bone-Rex with my Griffin. It took forever and did bleed damage so I took out my Tex-Rex to finish it: turned out to be a Bone-Giga!

Wouldn't have dared it if I'd new that!

[Cymas]

Much more productive day than expected. Got home from work a bit later than expected so while dinner was looking I flew around on my wyvern checking for yuty spawns. Found a few low levels, nothing to write home about...until I got to the back of the wyvern trench and found an event colored 130 running amok precariously close to the edge.

Flew home, loaded up my taming trap and supplies and headed back out. It was probably one of the more tense tames I've ever done. If it managed to get out of the trap while torpor running it would fall into the trench. And several wyverns were flying close enough to potentially aggro. So that was fun.

Got it home and enjoyed dinner while breeding her as I do have a pair I tamed previously for eggs. The very first egg I popped was almost perfect, missing only melee. But the colors are great and who melees on a yuty anyway so I'm spending my evening raising her. While I do have a nanny, I'm raising her by hand. I like to do that sometimes, I just feel like I get more attached to the dinos I actively raise myself. I use the nanny mostly for mass army raising and for things like wyverns because I'm too lazy to build a trap and go wyvern milking.

So that's my entire evening, pretty much. Now, I do know the 130 stats aren't the best, but it's definitely good enough. It helps that i have an ascendant saddle too, which is more than I could say for my poor dead yutys on The Island who had to run all bosses with primitive saddles as I never found one in drops.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Tamed a second gasbags. Male, wild level 20 (didn't find any better close to The City, and didn't want to stick too long far from it, so had to settle for that). Made 2 saddles, 1 for him to wear and a spare one. Named him Pillow and uploaded him, spare saddle, and leftover kibble.

(Official, Valguero) Retrieved Pillow and other stuff. Bred gasbags, bred velonas, bred rexes, bred gachas. Rexes: no new mutations. Velonas: no mutations. Gachas: twins, black pearls on one, but I don't like pearls enough to keep it alive. No dust. Gasbags: 1 baby, male, full dad's stats and colors, will raise, but likely won't keep.

[Stretch11]

On 10/24/2020 at 2:34 AM, AllOfTheAllos said:

Or maybe once I get a new melee or health mutation on my tek rexes, I'll move the former SE-current Ab survivor back to SE, make a rex saddle, and send the former breeder rex there to use for obtaining deathworm horns, seeing that announcement of mantises becoming breedable in the future. Probably will do exactly that.

I found on SE that a Megatherium is unstoppable in the desert.  Deathworms are bugs.  If you kill a beetle or Mantis first, you will be able to plow through Deathworms all day.

[Dinobros2000]

And bettles and mantis are bugs... and jug bugs are bugs, and SE basically I’d bugs

[Fresiki]

Crafted about 360,000 gunpowder. 

[Penguin73]

On 10/26/2020 at 3:49 AM, Kodking194 said:

i suggest playing unofficial server, great servers and much better than official ones. however im assuming the pillar issue was because you were playing on official.

Yes, I was on official.  I am thinking of trying Primitive Plus Rag since there are less people on P+, and I have a character on the island P+ so it would make some sense to stick with that mode.  However, after this latest gaff... leaving our world in a scramble without wild dinos I might have to consider unofficial next.

[nairda2k9]

So after a bad start to FE4 I found a great 150 Rhino Male the new real black with white face and feet was so happy stats were semi ok too, then on way back to base found another new real black 150 Female with a cream face and feet, stats not as good but so happy

[AllOfTheAllos]

8 hours ago, Stretch11 said:

I found on SE that a Megatherium is unstoppable in the desert.  Deathworms are bugs.  If you kill a beetle or Mantis first, you will be able to plow through Deathworms all day.

But I'd have to tame a megatherium, and probably do some breeding to get a decent one (and I HATE breeding mammals, since there is no way to pause the gestation and continue tomorrow). And the rex is already there, with his 370-something melee and 9900 health - just gotta put into stats all the levels he accumulated by existing. 

[Joebl0w13]

This thread has been fun, light-hearted and one of the longest running mostly due to the upbeat posts from everyone about daily Ark life.

Over the years I've removed and will continue to remove posts that are little more than bug reports or complaints about the temporary state of the game on any given platform.  Those things do exist and there are plenty of other threads in which to carry on that conversation.

I hope everyone here understands.