So what did you do in ARK today?

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Did a big metal run, took Phobos to Redwoods for some hunting (2 alpha carnos), tried chomping the broodmother, but there were two, mate boosted, so had to retreat (Phobos wasn't hurt much, but he was hurt visibly, and that's never a good sign). Returned home, fed the dinos, logged off.

[Penguin73]

Woke up today to a wind storm and flickering power at the house.  Didn't want to take any risks.  Logged in, fed dinos, set the therizinos to mate and collected a pair of eggs.  Put eggs in fridge then I DC'ed when the power flickered again.  That was my exciting day. lol.

[Austria]

On 1/9/2021 at 1:42 AM, HenryManson said:

invented the Tek Tent

Hi, work this also on xbox official or is this a Mod? Thx

[d1nk]

On 1/12/2021 at 9:17 AM, Dinobros2000 said:

Haven’t posted on here awhile so I’ve got a rather large one... 

 

Ive started on a new mod map called Glacius... It’s not filled with new content or anything, but, it is super difficult to survive. You spawn in a region called fall hills, it’s basicly a bunch of orange red green brown trees. First 10 minuets was me respawning and trying to build campfires and torches enough to keep me warm. Then I started to lay out the basics, a Para, stone tools, a foundation, mortar and pestle, a Jerboa(there are weather events) and hide clothing, by now, I was watching a Allo pack slowly inch closer, wandering over from the ice area. They soon found my small little camp, and decided it was yummy, I escaped, but soon perished to the “Freezing” debuff. I soon came back as the allos wandered away, and rebuilt what I had before, and started making some spike walls towards the snow biome. I realized what pets I had weren’t very effective against anything but harvesting nodes, so I grabbed a bow, 50 tanq arrows, 10 bolas and lots of meat. My first two prey were a lone dire wolf(level 85) and a saber(15) I promptly rode them back. Then I finally built up to a smithy, and had everything I needed for fur armor except.... pelt. Soon it was to the frezing arctic again to bola kill some wolves, which I some how did with a pack.. and then another till I had enough. I made fur armor, and when combined with a torch, I could have no cold debuff at night as long as there were no weather events active. I soon tamed 3 more wolves. Lvls 10 and two more around 85. I went out to get a few dinos(turtles, trikes and such) to guard the base, when I came back, I saw a pack of allos ambushing my little base. I ran in, and defeated the pack, with the loss of the saber and almost the level 10. Soon I built more spike walls and dino gates, and set my paras on detect. Then I tamed a few peligornus as I was approaching saddle level. (No Ptdons on the map and no argys in the area according to dev)  on another pelt run to repair my armor, the level ten wolf died in the hunt. I soon decided it might be a good idea to breed them.  My female and male were the highest levels after all. I missed the imprint by 1 secound, so it was just another wolf, but it was still strong, and me not settings my settings right, have to wait like 10 hours for it to reset. (This is SP) now armered with metal tools, 2 crossbows,,  full fur armor, and like 1999 tranq arrows and some sleeping bags, I head out for A lake far away. On the way I hope to tame a mix of Doeds, beavers, otters, and carnos. I’m also taking my wolves and not the flyer cus it’s low stam. I soon find a pretty colored raptor(named toffee cuz that’s what it looks like) , two carnos, and a beaver. Which I tame. I also find like 4 doeds, and an otter, the doed at some point curled up, and the otter seamed to disappear soon as I had a fish, and I had to give up after the cold water was killing me. Then I made it back home.

Is this Darkholis' map? I tried to tag him forever wasn't working ..

[Dinobros2000]

25 minutes ago, d1nk said:

Is this Darkholis' map? I tried to tag him forever wasn't working ..

Yes it is. Why you wanna contact him? Also @Darkholis D1nk wants you..

[Darkholis]

Im here, what's up?

[d1nk]

2 hours ago, Dinobros2000 said:

Yes it is. Why you wanna contact him? Also @Darkholis D1nk wants you..

 

49 minutes ago, Darkholis said:

Im here, what's up?

I dont - I was just asking if he was playing your map is all. I remembered your talkings of it over the time you've been developing it, seemed familiar.

[Dinobros2000]

Hu.. ok.

[Darkholis]

Still working on it, I'm just very focused and don't play the game much these days. Here's a few shots of the first cave (not 100% finished)

[Dinobros2000]

Me debating wether to say wow cool, at the risk of sounding stupid cuz I’ve seen the pic before.

[HenryManson]

@Austria im pretty sure it works on console!

all i do can be done on official without mods!, otherwise whats the point, really

[Noa]

So what i did today?

I discovered that with latest patch for PC PC Patch Notes: Client v321.1 - Server: v321.1  disabled dino tracking for currently not in taming process tames.

With that we lost best function in game ever in my opinion.

I posted it in general section as Did ve lost best function in game with last patch?

And got message that my thread was moved.

After search i got that my post is now in Workshop section moved by Joebl0w13 .

So today i was probably Workshopping.

 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Went to the mountains near Beaver Lake to take a look at carno's new textures because I don't own any carnos but still curious, saw a wild 55 giga (way closer to the lake than they ever normally go), noped the hell outta there as fast as Phobos' legs (and his normal for a giga stamina, which is crappy) could carry me. Did find a carno to look at, though - they're a lot nicer now! Might even tame one some day. Fed the dinos, bred rexes, put eggs in the fridge.

(Official, Extinction) Fed the dinos.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base.

[Penguin73]

Yesterday, Island PVE official.  Hatched 4 more therizino eggs.  One was twins and I had 2 from before so that gives me 7 babies altogether.  I let them all out of their pods for a few minutes, fed them berries and mulled over their stats.  And frankly, I am a little disappointed.  Only 2 out of the 7 got the better health, and only 1 got the better melee.  I know I said before that I was not going to be picky... But... I changed my mind.  I want the best stats.  I know, I know! That is crazy, right.  I'm sure I'm the only one on ark wanting the best stats for their boss fighters. LOL.  And, with that said... I have set aside the rest of them to be sacrificed to the volcano in the near future. I need to wait a little more than a day now before mating them again.  So I will wait.  Rome was not built in a day, right?  My army won't be either, apparently.

Filled in the rest of the day with normal stuff like gathering metal, obsidian, and meat.  Pull the junior rexes out for a couple hours and hunted down some alphas on my thyla. They are so much fun.  Then ARK announced its update. Logged off and updated.

When I logged back in last night it was pretty late and I wasn't planning on doing much.  However, there were only two people on the server and as best I could tell, the server was running without lag.  It was wonderful, like stepping out of the cold dark and into the warm light and basking in the glow.  How could I pass that up?

So I grabbed my scuba and megatherium and flew to the swamp / gas cave.  For some reason I had this feeling that something good was going to happen.  So I fought my way into the cave.  Normally I go right at the first water to grab the blue drop in the back room (usually blue for me anyway), but instead I turned left this time.  I soon came to a yellow loot drop.  It had an apprentice fur chest piece BP.  Very cool.  It is much better than the primitive fur I have been wearing, and I will need good fur for the two ice caves.  I will likely need better than apprentice though.

Further into the cave I came upon a red drop down in the water behind the cob webs.  It had a mastercraft crossbow bp.  eh, not bad, but I have better.  So I continued on to grab the artifact and come back to the second red drop (same room as first red drop but up on the back pathway.  Like so many other loot drops, I don't like to spend too much time off my mount so I do it very quickly... open loot drop, grab all, spin and climb back on my mount before anything eats me. Often I don't even know what I grab until later.  However, this time I opened the drop and I think time froze a little.  I couldn't believe my eyes.  And staring back at me was a beautiful Mastercraft Therizino BP.  

When I played on single player I think it took me more than 50 trips into the swamp cave to find such a thing.  This was only my 6th trip.  Wow.  A bit of luck on my side I think.  

So, I hustled out of the cave.  The only thing on my mind was to get back to base before something stupid and horrifying happens (and we all know it can).  But, luck was still on my side.  I made it home without incident and put it in the vault.  Logged off and went to bed happy.

......

Today I knew what I was going to do.... make saddles.  I logged in this morning, made a mind wipe tonic and prepared the workshop by cleaning out the workbench and re-organizing the vaults and cabinets nearby so I have all my materials close.  After taking the tonic I boosted my crafting skill up to 800% and the put the rest into weight so I could still carry a stack of metal (although barely, and only if I strip down to my underwear lol).

The saddle BP only gives an armor value of 85.1.  It is enough to give you a fighting chance in a boss arena, but I wanted more for the peace of mind aspect.  Fortunately, this saddle is not too expensive.  When all the ingredients are laid out it takes up only about 48 item slots in the bench.  As many of you know, some saddles pose serious issues by needing more space for materials than what is available.  This was not the case.

So far I have made 17 therizino saddles today.  The first ten were easy because I already had all the ingredients on site.  Then I ran out of fiber and metal and wood.  Each saddle now requires a special trip for something.  But all is good.  The improved crafting skill has been working nicely.  A few saddles still have armor values in the mid 80s, but most are between 95-100 and I have made a few that are over 105.  It takes 24 hours before I can mindwipe again (I think) so I will probably make about 25 saddles altogether before returning my stats back to normal.  LOL, I broke my leg hopping down from a rex earlier, and I forgot what it is like to have health back down to 100 again.  I Have to remember to be careful.

Oh, crap!  Sorry. This went a little long. Cya later.

 

 

[yeellis]

Yours sounded very nice for one I did,

Tamed a few kaprosuchus' than tamed two tek raptors that have the same colors.

Than one of my raptors died because i was being stupid and walked into a bunch of kaprosuchus

But i then tamed an Argentavis and finished building a huge 3 story adobe house.

[Cordiste]

SP Xbox, The Island

 

Havent posted in a while, let alone play. I haven’t had a lot of time lately and I like to focus when I’m playing, so I’ve just put it off entirely until I can commit myself fully to it. Maybe tonight I’ll get a few hours in. Too many times in the past I wanted to play a quick hour or half hour before work, just to end up making a stupid mistake because I was rushed. I’m sure many of you have experienced this as well  

 

But anyway, I wanted to mention this before I forget on my next post. It’s nothing exciting, but I started building a yuty trap on the coast between the two snow mountains. I noticed most high levels spawn in that valley, so I can kite them towards the water then into my trap. I built it next to a large ice feature, a pillar of sorts from which to shoot down from. I hope to tame my boss mount this way. My first yuty was a lvl 1 female just for eggs. I can finally make exceptional kibble!

 

im not sure why, but hunting yutys really makes me nervous. My heart rate is always high when I’m doing this and I need to take breaks to relax. Anyone else experience this? Maybe it’s cause of their fear roar and other bad things always spawn nearby...

 

sorry for the less interesting post, but it’s nice for me to be back!

[Penguin73]

9 hours ago, Cordiste said:

SP Xbox, The Island

 

im not sure why, but hunting yutys really makes me nervous. My heart rate is always high when I’m doing this and I need to take breaks to relax. Anyone else experience this? Maybe it’s cause of their fear roar and other bad things always spawn nearby...

I love taming yutys.  And when possible I prefer to use a trap too.  I understand the nerves, but that will go away after you tame a few of them.  The key (like many animals in ark) is in the preparation.  

1) Have a plan.  And it sounds like you do.  The trap is set up in a good location and I am guessing you have already picked out the best available path for kiting it there.

2) Use a good strong mount that can take some abuse.  I prefer using argy.  

3) Clear the area of hostile creatures.  That area up north near your trap is crawling with wolves and carnos.  Take them out first before trying to kite.  Kill the carnos with the yuty as well if you can.  But, if that is hard then just let them get trapped with the yuty in your pen and then shoot them like fish in a barrel. 

4) Respect the roar, but don't fear it.  When I am ready to kite, I first rest the argy.  Then I take the argy in low to get the yuty's attention.  If the yuty roars and scares the argy... no big deal.  It will fly out of control for a moment but that is about all.  If your argy was rested and you were not in sprint mode (and you shouldn't be for this), then the argy should have plenty of stamina to stay in flight and out of harms way.  If needed, rest the argy, then try again.  Easy peasy.

Good luck.

[Penguin73]

Gathered metal, hide, fiber, and wood.  Made more Therizino saddles this morning.  Now have 22 total.  16 of them have an armor rating of 95 or better.  I was called into work today (which is where I am at now) so I didn't quite make all 25 like I wanted.  But I havn't mindwiped yet either so I can always make more when I get home.

I also mated my Thylas and have a very nice baby female with all of the males good stats.  That will be my new breeding pair when she grows up.  Thylas probably don't have the same market value as other things like theris  or rexes, but maybe I can sell a few to replenish all the empty cabinets I have now. lol.  I will have to test the waters at some point.

 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Bred tek rexes, got distracted, missed the eggs. Oops.

Mindwiped, because I learned the flamethrower fuel engram, but the flamethrower turned out to be pretty meh. Chainsaws are better.

Raised baby ptera some. Marblehoof, too.

Base nearby decayed, so got myself some stuff from there (lots of dead cryopods! Some nice saddles, too).

Podded the ptera and Marblehoof.

Fed basilos.

Now just gonna quickly check on (Official Crystal isles) base and feed the dinos on (Official, Extinction) one, and that's enough ARK for today.

[Penguin73]

Flew to metal mountain with my two best weighted argies.  Filled them up with metal and a little obsidian.  Flew home and tossed metal in Ind. Forge.

Took giga out to collect hide.

Took beaver out to collect wood.

Made one more Theri saddle, but the crafting gods were out to lunch and it was only a little above the BP mark of 85.1.  I will make more later today after work.

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Another survivor on my server said last week that she would be breeding her basilos and would give me one.  I have been waiting for her to contact me but... nothing yet.  I have let her know a few times that I am ready whenever she is, but I don't want to be that annoying person that just waits around for free stuff.  So, I might need to go in a different direction soon.  I really want to get into those underwater caves.

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I have been thinking more and more about Scorched Earth after the Island.  I am not sure if I want to start a new character now and maybe get a base going or if I should wait and ascend with my main character.  I don't know how that works exactly... I know you can't have 2 survivors from the same account on the same Ark at the same time, so if I start a base with a new character on SE then move that survivor somewhere else, then if I move my main survivor to SE, will my main be recognized as me? Would I be able to open doors and ride dinos that my secondary survivor built or tamed?  How do the rest of you do it?

[Penguin73]

I watched some videos last night and I think I was able to answer my own question above (in previous post).  I don't think I will transfer my Island survivor.  Instead, I think I will just start a new survivor on SE and level it up.  That way if anything happens to my island survivor I will have a good backup.

Took out the baby thyla and rexes today for more maturing.  While they were doing their thing I tamed a couple queen bees and now have two hives at the base.  Bees are always a headache for me, and today was no exception.  It never goes as easy as I want... but I will keep it short today and just say I was successful in the end.  Anyway, I am excited that I will have a little easier time making veggie cakes when needed. Another ✅ on my list of things to do.

Made extraordinary kibble with the honey I had collected during the bee hunt.  Honey doesn't last long so I wanted to use it while I had it.  Ha, that that always bothered me... real honey can last on a shelf almost forever while ARK honey spoils very fast.  Why is that?

Edited January 19, 2021 by Penguin73
corrected grammar

[Khruk]

Got a giga today. My Wyvern seems to have taken it under his wing. Hope he doesn't try to teach him to fly...

 

[Joebl0w13]

14 minutes ago, Khruk said:

Got a giga today. My Wyvern seems to have taken it under his wing. Hope he doesn't try to teach him to fly...

 

Or walk away randomly after you dismount it.

[Penguin73]

18 minutes ago, Khruk said:

Got a giga today. My Wyvern seems to have taken it under his wing. Hope he doesn't try to teach him to fly...

 

Khruk, I love the wyvern color.  Looks awesome. 👍

[Khruk]

4 hours ago, Penguin73 said:

Khruk, I love the wyvern color.  Looks awesome. 👍

It was a gift from a friend.

 

4 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said:

Or walk away randomly after you dismount it.

I got tired of my argy doing that.. I built him a landing pad with 4 walls.