So what did you do in ARK today?

[Penguin73]

SP Scorched Earth

I bred the yuty some more.  Hatched two eggs last night.  Got a single female in one and twins ( M / F) with the other.  However all three had dad's bad color and mom's bad melee.  I sacrificed them to the desert.

Then this morning I hatched another egg before work and it is Female with mom's good color and dad's good melee. Woohoo!  I will raise this one as it has the best colors and all the best stats.   Getting a white male yuty is only a matter of time now.  But, at least I now have a breeding pair with all the same good stats.  I am getting closer.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Went for a dust run. Gathered dust, uploaded, tamed and uploaded a dung beetle just because. Returned home, found that my wyvern (who was there before dust run) is missing. Looked for him, failed to find. Fed the dinos. As for the wyvern - either he'll show up at some point, or I'll send a replacement either form CI or from Valguero.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base.

(Official, Valguero) Retrieved the dust and the beetle. Had to make some of the dust into element because Topaz Thorn couldn't carry it all as is, but most will stay in dust form, at least for now. Put the new dung beetle with the other two.

Dinos are good on food still, so didn't refill the troughs. Logged off.

...

Also, not something new I did, but a thought: maybe I should get my side-survivor on Ext a managarmr instead of a new wyvern. I have a few mana-puppies in the fridge back on Valg, so I can just raise one, and I have a sorta okay saddle BP so that's not a problem either. They're easy to raise, I have 2 males and a female, so in case of anything I can make more. Plus they're faster, not so annoying to keep on follow, and I'm pretty sure they'd hit harder than any sidebase quality wyvern.

Edited April 21, 2021 by AllOfTheAllos

[Penguin73]

SP Scorched Earth

Not much time to play today before work, but I pulled out the yuty for a bit and she is now 89% mature.  Made a metal run.  Gathered meat for the troughs.  Made some kibble.  And found a whole cabinet full of clay that I had forgotten about, so I made a bunch of adobe stuff for a building project that has been on the back burner for awhile.

[Pocolate]

(SP, The Island) Started the day by taking out a bary to get fish meat for breeding prep. Decided not to start breeding the bary's immediately because I still had the argies going and I didn't want them to eat all of the fish meat, which I'm sure is what happened last time. Put the fish meat in the fridge, podded the bary and went to hatch the argy eggs I had available. Nothing good, killed them all.

Decided to take a chance and head to the cave with the Artifact of the Skylord, which is one I've never done before. Killed two groups of bats and then got slaughtered by the next set. I realized I wasn't prepared and headed back home after using my sleeping bag. This started a dimorph taming hunt, in which I found a 150 near my base and 2x 140's but I accidentally killed one when I pulled the wrong rifle. I bred up the two I got after comparing with my event tames and got my perfect breeding pair. Set them to breed and hatched argies. No good, killed.

Hatched theris, managed to get a breeding pair of twins after about 2-3 sets (I toss about 10 eggs for each set). Set off for a metal run while waiting for them to grow. Found a 110 pink and green quetzal near the red ob during my adventures, vowed to come back for it. Found another 150 dimorph and tamed it. It had better melee than my current set so I swapped it out for the female. Got a new breeding set of those and started that again, ate the old eggs and killed the old breeding pair to keep confusion to a minimum.

Podded the argies after getting frustrated with the lack of results from several sessions of egg tossing. Set the bary's to breed and managed to get two 229 bary's with the blue color pretty quickly. Hatched up a couple of dimorph eggs and podded those and the bary's until I could focus on imprinting them.

Went back for the quetzal with my new tapejara and mutton/kibble but it was nowhere to be found. For such a slow bird, it sure took off in a hurry! Went back to base and found the theris were still growing... decided that was enough for today and signed out.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Refilled the troughs. Raised the spino and one of the two baby manas for a bit. Imprinted the spino. Fed gachas, a lot. Hunted things, especially bunny dodos because those things shouldn't even be there, the event's over!

Killed an alpha carno, didn't wear a chibi, but at least it gave Frostbite a new level, he finally has 400% melee. Noticed that the hives started losing health, gave them all the remaining rare flowers (should go gather more at some point), bred rexes (eggs went into the fridge).

Killed off some dinos I absolutely don't need and aren't attached to (and by killed I mean "fed to the gachas" - cryopods are easy now that I have a replicator, so I can afford to destroy some).

Podded the enforcers - I barely use them, and yet I always feed them. It was fine in my pre-tek days, when that was all I needed dust for, but now it's just plain wasteful.

Repodded the spino and the mana, logged off.

Edited April 22, 2021 by AllOfTheAllos

[Penguin73]

SP Scorched Earth

Spent a good part of the last few days focused on the yuty issue.  After many eggs I finally got a male with the right colors and stats to match the female.  I labeled them as my mating pair.  I really want to get to the manticore fight so I took the first baby and raised it with 100% imprint.  Named him Cpt Morgan.

Between imprints I added a new building to the compound that I call home.  Added a large bedroom of sorts that hangs out over the cliff edge and above the lake at the green obelisk.  I am also in the process of redesigning a section of the kibble farm.  

I also spent a little time between raising the yuty to search for a nice saddle.  Opened a bunch of red OSDs  and red desert look crates.  I never found a yuty saddle but I now have a complete set of scuba gear, a Mosa platform saddle, a Megalodon saddle, a paracer platform saddle, a 300+ armor giga saddle, and various high end ghillie and riot pieces... all of them ascendant level.  So much good stuff on scorched earth... too bad you have to go to another world to use it though.

Took Cpt Morgan out for some quick levels after he was all grown up.  Found a 150 Mantis in the desert with really nice colors.  Ran home and grabbed the ghillie, bug repellant, and worm horns.  I was able to tame him without trouble.  

Finally, I deemed myself ready for the manticore.  I felt my rexes are pretty OP so I left a few behind.  Ended up going with 16 rexes and 1 yuty.  I wore a good set of ghillie because it has better armor then the desert gear.  I also wore a gas mask.  The rexes all had MC saddles, but I was still sporting a primitive saddle on the yuty.  Many videos out there show people using assault riffles and missle launchers but I just took my cross bow and some flaming arrows... and I didn't even need them.  The gamma fight was done in less than ten minutes and the rexes hardly worked up a sweat.  I was honestly surprised it was so easy.  So I re-organized the team and went right back in for the beta.  And aside from it taking just a few extra minutes... It was very easy too.  

I had to call it quits for today, but I will go after the alpha tomorrow.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Fed dinos. Went looking for my wyvern again, and found him! He was sitting near a tiny lake, barely more than a puddle. Alive, healthy, almost not hungry, and set to passive, so no idea why he decided to leave my base in the first place. Returned him to the base. Sidebase mana will still happen, though. At some point.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Fed dinos, decided to get back Dark Hopper (my full black procopto). Since Dark Hopper is long dead, getting him back means taming some procoptos with black on various regions, at least one of them with good-ish stats, and mating them together until I get a good stat male full black. First step was made in the form of taming a level 25 male with black back and stripes.

Also, gave bees more flowers. They're good on them, but it's always better to have more.

[Penguin73]

SP Scorched Earth

Defeated the Alpha Manticore late last night.  😀👍

I want to finish redesigning the base a bit.  I am not going crazy, I just want to clean up some things that were hastily built in the beginning... poor design bothers me.  And I would like to grab the remaining explorer notes to read the story... but other than that I am pretty much done with SE and need to decide what to do next.  If I remember right, think Aberation is the next map... but I think Rag sounds cool too.  IDK

[Pocolate]

Congratulations, Penguin!

(SP, The Island) The last few days have been pretty mundane. I've been breeding theri's, so a lot of my time has been spent afk waiting for them to breed, then the mutated babies to grow, rinse and repeat. I have managed to get 1 health and 3 melee mutations in that time.

Today was my most eventful day. There was a lot of taming to be done. I had found and tamed a male 140 basilo last night before bed but this morning I found a 135 female to mate with him. They aren't the best levels but hopefully an imprinted baby won't be half bad. At the same time, I found a 150 easter-colored megalodon! Tamed that up but for some reason it isn't giving me the check on the dossier saying I tamed one, so I will eventually have to tame another for my achievement. I finally had enough beer made up, so I tamed up a pink and yellow chalico that I had found near the red ob the other day. I also tamed up a titanoboa, which I've never done before and I'm glad it was a low level because it was a frustrating tame. I have no use for it besides the achievement, so I'm glad that's out of the way.

Next, I ran around trying to find a queen bee but all of the hives I broke were empty, so I gave up and started gathering honey from a nearby hive every 15 minutes with my bear until I had enough to make 2 s+ hives. Then it was time to head off to the snow to find a yuty, which I did... a 135 male. I died once and it was another frustrating tame that I struggled to trap for a good 30 minutes. It was all good though when he was finally mine - now I just have to keep my eyes peeled for a high level female. While I was looking around for a mate for him, I happened upon a 145 green heal pig and decided he must be mine! Of course I didn't have any kibble on me, so I flew him home with him biting my butt all the way. I will need a mate for him too, although I'm not sure if I want to use a pig or veggie cakes when I finally get to the bosses.

Now I'm just waiting for my last mutated theri to grow up so I can start breeding again. It was enough for the night though, so she's at 80% for now.

[MASTERking]

He visto que a la gente le gusta este tema así que disfruten!

[Austria]

Xbox pve, Scouting purple drops on my tropegnatus start one next to ice biome place 20 spike walls after first wave heal my Giga at five Wave get disconect at wave seven. After a long time (there is alredy a player with this Account connected/ wrong Adress) i can join the server again pick up my Bag freeze my giga fly back to Base log off.

[Pocolate]

(SP, The Island) I ran the swamp cave for the first time. I got discouraged when I nearly lost Aqua, my well-leveled caving bary right at the beginning. I healed him up and we tried again though, which was well worth it. I ended up with an ascendant rex saddle and an ascendant quetz saddle blueprint. I died once trying to sneak through a crevice that Aqua didn't fit through because I was instantly swarmed by spiders. I ran back and he was fine though, so we continued on. After clearing out the artifact and the loot drops, I headed out and found an apprentice rifle (I've been using primitive) in a purple drop and a Mastercraft flak chest piece in a yellow drop. Finally! I've been getting metal wall blueprints and crop plots for days in the supply drops around my base... so it was great to see some real loot!

I thought I would run the cave on carno island but the ark gods had different plans for me. As soon as I landed, I jumped down and threw out Aqua. All of the baddies around came straight for me, of course... and I am not great at combat without my mount. I hadn't load my shotgun prior, so you know.. I died. On the flight back with my backup argy, I spotted a 145 pink and yellow quetzal. "Luckily" I had my tapejara on me, so I threw him out and proceeded to chase the thing through the sky. 30 minutes later, he was down to half health and at 7k out of 17k torpor and it was dropping too fast for me to make any real dent. I was running low on darts and was too scared to keep shooting arrows, so I gave up and flew back to base. I signed out, feeling completely frustrated. I decided I will go back for my tames tomorrow and maybe try to think of another way to get that quetzal if he doesn't disappear.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Fed gachas, took kibble, darts, rifle, bolas, 3 cryopods (1 just in case) and went to tame a pair of beelzebufos. Tranqed 2 females, 130 and 145. 130 got damaged at some point, effectiveness dropped, so I took away her kibble and killed her. 145 was fine, tamed, I named her Dolores Leapfrog. Podded her, went back to the base, made and colored a saddle for her, picked up and opened gacha crystals, took a bit more kibble, went to get a male frog. Found a 130, knocked him out, but he was nearly dead, so I went home for an owl. Healed him up, tamed, named him Daniel Leapfrog, gave him a saddle, too. Colored, of course.

Took Dolores to the jungle to see if frogs are as good as people say. Well... Usable. The attack would be better if it was possible to hit higher/lower, otherwise it might take a while to get the angle right to hit meganeuras that fly a bit higher then usual. Speed is okay. Pretty fun to ride. I got a bit over 3 stacks of cementing paste by the time I returned to the base, making it in the chemistry bench would have been faster.

So, the frogs stay, but as fun mounts, not as something I'd seriously use.

Filled troughs.

(Official, Extinction) Logged on to find myself on my house's roof. jumped off, took wyvern, gathered meat, took para, gathered berries, filled the trough.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed the base.

Edited April 27, 2021 by AllOfTheAllos

[Randallk34]

Nothing, server keep crashing and erasing everything I did. Val 1101

[Penguin73]

SP Scorched Earth

Not much today.  Just flew around and collected some explorer notes.  I have most of the Rockwell and Helena notes now.

[Pocolate]

(SP, The Island) Took one of my recently tamed basilo out to the ocean to look for jellyfish. Gathered a decent amount of biotoxin and made shocking tranq darts, then headed out to find that quetzal I had been failing to knock out the other night. I managed to get her down right on the edge of the redwoods. Guarded her until she tamed up and quickly podded her.

With that out of the way, I headed off to the cave on carno Island so I could collect my tames. Spotted a 145 male rex and tamed him up while I was there, gathering explorer notes while he was unconscious. I finally headed into the cave after that to collect the artifact and check for loot. There was only one drop, which seems to be my typical luck in most caves... it had a Mastercraft ghillie legging set inside, which worked out perfectly to get rid of my ice cube status.

Went back to base and switched out gear to run the swamp cave again now that I've discovered how close it is. Everything was going fine until an arthro broke my armor, so I had to turn around and run out of there before I died. Unfortunately I am out of organic polymer, so I couldn't repair my ghillie. I hatched up all of the theri eggs - no mutations, killed them all. Signed out.

[Penguin73]

Um, I think the update last night might have wiped out all my single player worlds.  Nothing would load today and my only option was to start a new character.  Grrrrrr.

I switched over to my PVE official island survivor, and it loaded up just fine.  So I took my wyvern out of storage and just flew around for awhile to see what has changed since I last played.  Saw a few changes in the form of new bases or empty spaces where bases used to be.  Game got laggy and I flew home... just in case.

Tried to talk myself into unpodding more critters and playing for awhile but couldn't do it.  The difficulties of playing on that server with all the crashes still haunt my dreams.  And I think I am at a crossroad once again with this game. 

IDK, it might be the end.  I will have to think about it.

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[edit / update]

So I also posted on the general forum earlier that I had an issue with SP account.  Then I saw it was moved by admin to the bug forum that nobody reads.  However, there are a ton of people with the same issue apparently.  Anyway, here is a piece of what I said:

[ "I see now there are sooo many others experiencing this issue as well.  A ton of empathy being felt right now for all my brothers and sisters out there.  However, I will say this... Thank you, ARK, for helping me pass the time during COVID.  You played a role in keeping me home and keeping me safe.  BUT... somehow I always new it would end like this... strong disappointment, loss, anguish at being defeated not by raptor, rex, or Rockwell, but by those of you pulling the strings behind the scenes.  I will check again tonight to see if it is fixed.  If not, I will walk away.  You will be unloaded from my console to make room for whatever game I wish to play next.   And Ark 2 will never be a thing in my house.  Good luck."] 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Penguin73

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Filled the trough near gachas (it's also velona/thyla/half-the-dimorphs, owl, wyvern, and half-the-argents trough) with meat. Took some mushrooms from it. Grabbed narcotics, rifle, darts, pods, and went looking for procoptodons. Found a 130 black-bellied male. After some time managed to lure him into my trap AND! Together with him two more procoptodons were caught! One was not what I need: 85 male. Meh. But the other was a 25 female (with black sides). So, I knocked the 130 and the 25 out, let the 85 out of the trap and tamed the ones I wanted. While they were taming, I put food into the rest of my troughs.

And now the they ARE tamed, I have all I need to get a new Dark Hopper: I have Jumps (the wild level 130 male) for stats and the belly color, Roo (the wild level 25 male) for body and stripes color, and Leapy (the wild level 25 female) to make those colors meet.

Looked through my BP vault to see if I have a procoptodon BP, turns out I do - 50-something, so not great, but better than nothing. Made a saddle and colored it, Jumps will be wearing it until I get a full black male with his stats that'll become my actual battle/travel kangaroo.

(Official, Extinction) Fed dinos. Only meat today, they still have some berries form the last time.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base, and checked wyvern inventories - yep, still good on crystals.

And that's all for today.

Edited April 29, 2021 by AllOfTheAllos

[d1nk]

4 hours ago, Penguin73 said:

Um, I think the update last night might have wiped out all my single player worlds.  Nothing would load today and my only option was to start a new character.  Grrrrrr.

I switched over to my PVE official island survivor, and it loaded up just fine.  So I took my wyvern out of storage and just flew around for awhile to see what has changed since I last played.  Saw a few changes in the form of new bases or empty spaces where bases used to be.  Game got laggy and I flew home... just in case.

Tried to talk myself into unpodding more critters and playing for awhile but couldn't do it.  The difficulties of playing on that server with all the crashes still haunt my dreams.  And I think I am at a crossroad once again with this game. 

IDK, it might be the end.  I will have to think about it.

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[edit / update]

So I also posted on the general forum earlier that I had an issue with SP account.  Then I saw it was moved by admin to the bug forum that nobody reads.  However, there are a ton of people with the same issue apparently.  Anyway, here is a piece of what I said:

[ "I see now there are sooo many others experiencing this issue as well.  A ton of empathy being felt right now for all my brothers and sisters out there.  However, I will say this... Thank you, ARK, for helping me pass the time during COVID.  You played a role in keeping me home and keeping me safe.  BUT... somehow I always new it would end like this... strong disappointment, loss, anguish at being defeated not by raptor, rex, or Rockwell, but by those of you pulling the strings behind the scenes.  I will check again tonight to see if it is fixed.  If not, I will walk away.  You will be unloaded from my console to make room for whatever game I wish to play next.   And Ark 2 will never be a thing in my house.  Good luck."] 

Not what you want to hear but its been around since the start of ARK. Its worse on console because we can't really recover any saves..

 

I'm sorry this happened, its happened to me a few times as well. Its like getting wiped on a pvp server.. demotivating. Best of luck.

[Penguin73]

1 hour ago, d1nk said:

Not what you want to hear but its been around since the start of ARK. Its worse on console because we can't really recover any saves..

 

I'm sorry this happened, its happened to me a few times as well. Its like getting wiped on a pvp server.. demotivating. Best of luck.

Thanks for the words.  It is sad to know it has happened before to so many people and I still held the belief I would be spared.  A little naive on my part perhaps. 

Well, I have some decisions to make.  My immediate anger has simmered, and I will admit my initial response of quitting the game completely might have been premature.  I still have a PVE account with a survivor close to level 100 and lots of good tames with it... so not ALL is lost.  And a small silver lining is that I am getting things done around the house today.  Wife will be happy.

[Pocolate]

So sorry to hear about your save file, Penguin! I love this game but I'm always afraid of what is going to happen whenever there is an update.

(SP, The Island) I only had a few minutes to play today, so I mainly just put away things I had collected in my adventures the last time I was on - blueprints, saddles, and such. Healed up my bary so he will be ready for whatever our next adventure is. I then took a quick trip to the snow and snatched up a male and female kairuku so I can start a polymer farm. Flew back to base and signed out.

[Penguin73]

Eh, nothing on SP.  LOL.  That bird is cooked.

It is hard to stay away when one has an addiction.  And I felt the itch to do something different so I took a secondary survivor that I used many months ago to poke around on Scorched Earth for a bit and transferred him to a Rag server.  I decided I kinda want to explore some of the worlds that I have never really seen before.  I don't think I want to complete them so much as just poke around to say "I was there."

I picked a starting point in the SW corner and walked around some of the islands for a bit.  Built a raft.  Found a small secluded beach and made a small round house with the basic furnishings.  It will serve as a good point to launch from and I will be a raft explorer for awhile.

This server seems to be very populated with a very active chat box, which is good.  However, the overpopulation might be the source of the ever-present lag / dc issues... but I don't plan to stay long. 

[Pocolate]

(SP, The Island) Ran the swamp cave and found nothing of any great value. Found a diseased leech and purposely got swamp fever for the achievement. Went back to base and repaired my scuba tank, switched out gear for taming supplies. Headed to the ocean to tame up a 135 megalodon I had seen recently to make up for the fact the last one I tamed didn't give me credit for the achievement. Tamed that up and then killed a low level mosa I had also spotted. Thought about trying to kill a level 30 alpha mosa that was also nearby but he disappeared by the time I was done with the other. Swam around to look for loot crates but found none.. found a 120 plesi with Easter colors and tried to knock it out but it kept running and I could hardly keep up. I ended up losing it when I got attacked by a shark and two other plesi... Killed an alpha leed and got my pirate hat skin. 

Back on land, I spotted two high level pelagornis - a 150 female and a 130 male. Tamed them both up and took them home to get an imprinted baby with the best stats. I plan to start fishing to try to get some decent blueprints since I have a lack of cave loot crates and very little luck with supply drops. It turns out that the waters my base is positioned on are deep enough to toss out a basilo, so I started breeding my male and female to get an imprinted baby with the best stats for that too. I want to make my way into the underwater caves soon.

Threw out my theri eggs to try my luck with mutations again - only one but it wasn't on a good stat, so killed them all. Put away my collected treasures and loot, and signed out for the night.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Fed dinos. Bred thylas and procoptos. Bred tek rexes (eggs went to the fridge). Made some cementing paste. Found an alpha rex (level 55), killed. Didn't forget to wear the chibi.

Gave bees more flowers, and since I used repellent anyway - tamed a new bee.

Did beaver dams, got a nice amount of cementing paste.

Procopto born, mother's health, killed. Thyla born, male, double mutations (never got that before!), dad's health and mutated on it, dad's food and second mutation on that. Dad's melee. Mutated color red (1) on stripes. That boy stays.

Will check on sidebases today, but later. For now that's all.

(Official, Extinction) Fed dinos.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base.

Edited May 2, 2021 by AllOfTheAllos