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1 hour ago, KingOfTheFort said:

How do you tell if an egg is good or bad?

Incubator! It shows you what gender the baby will be (the downside is that with twins and triplets they'll always be same gender, unlike when you hatch without the incubator), how many points there'll be in each stat, what colors are on what regions, and how many mutations are on it from each parent's side. It also has the egg just sitting there, waiting patiently until you MAKE it hatch - no more missing hatchings or picking up long-incubating eggs to finish them later.

It's from Genesis 2, but it can just as well be learned on Lost Island (that's where I got mine, as I don't have Genesis).

It's an awesome thing for anyone who doesn't want to waste time hatching an egg that may not even hatch into anything worth keeping.

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1 hour ago, KingOfTheFort said:

I'm pretty new to this dino raising deal. How do you tell if an egg is good or bad?

You can tell if you have access to an incubator.  If you put the egg in the incubator, it'll tell you the baby's point distribution.  If you don't have access to one, you have to hatch the eggs to see the baby's stats.  Alas, I do not have access to an incubator since I play Switch...

 

(The Island, SP)

Day four: A good bit of grinding.  I've been grinding a lot behind the scenes but didn't write about it.  After making a crossbow, I took Desmond the Baryonyx  up to the western redwoods area.  Would you believe there are TWO high level dinos right next to each other!  A 140 Iguanodon and a 135 Stegosaurus.  I let them be as I built a taming raft.  Got stunned by Microrapt9rs, but Desmond finished them off.

First tamed the Iguanodon.  I named him Gideon, after Gideon Mantell, who first described Iguanodon scientifically and gave it its name.  Then I tamed the Stegosaurus, and named him Jagger after the Stegosaurus in Prehysteria (a movie I loved as a kid).

Kept my session short today.  And guess what?  The game did not crash!  Hooray!

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11 hours ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

I tend to base my tame choices on "wow, this looks fun" rather than "wow, this would be useful for me

That's fair. I honestly do that a lot too, like that one time me and my brother teamed up and spent 15 minutes taming a...Diplo, only to find out we were short of metal to make the saddle.

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3 hours ago, KingOfTheFort said:

Oh, yeah, I need a good yuty for bosses, any chance you have one you'd exchange for poly or something? if you're on steam official PVE 

Sorry but no. While I am on Steam PVE indeed, my yuties are... Well. The original pair was tamed just for the eggs, and since then I've only fully raised two and achieved one mutation (on melee. Which was inherited form the worse parent, whose own melee was 4 points). So I cannot give you a good yuty because all I have are a few "well, it's fluffy, it screams, and it maybe wouldn't immediately collapse if you breathe in its general direction, but try not to do that anyway" yuties.

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I rebuild the Spino Breeding Pen to house the Tek Strider we got, which involved crafted Behemoth Gate, 160 metal walls 60 metal ceilings, few metal foundations, pulled the turrets down moved the ammo crate , re built the walls higher, replaced all the  turrets  and giant hatch frames, re run all the electrical cables and junction boxes.... once the Strinder was confirmed to be able to move in and out of the secure pen I got my tribe mate to escort me to the blue zone, spent about 10mins strip mining metal into a Tek storage box back at base ended up with 80k metal.

Was a good run

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This week my partner and I finally got ourselves in position to attempt the Tek cave... again. lol.  After losing our team in the cave last month, we finally have a fresh new team of therizinos and a yuty commander.  We are adding levels to them over the next few days and hope to enter the cave again this weekend if our schedules line up. 

We have all the confidence in the strength of the team, it's the silly human mistakes that worry us 🤣... but a new strategy is in play so we are full of positive thinking.

@KingOfTheFort Sorry bud, I play on XBox. But I would have helped you with a yuty if I could.

 

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3 hours ago, KingOfTheFort said:

You could fly to where you want to go on your argy with the magma podded and use the argy to hold the metal. If you had a mining drill, they reduce the weight of metal in your inventory by 70% and would let you transfer the metal from the magma to your argy a whole lot easier 

My argy wouldn't hold more than my gasbags would, if it's the one doing the holding - argent's leveled to almost 4000 weight, gasbags has, as I mentioned, 8000, so they're about same in what they can hold. It's really a matter of fun (giant lava lizard+inflatable tardigrade!) VS efficient (argent+ankylo). I have a mining drill but I rarely ever remember about it.

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2 minutes ago, KingOfTheFort said:

I just use my skiff, holds 16k. You can try and get the mats in a rep or exomek and have someone from another server with the engram join your tribe and craft it for you
For mining though, stryders are the best, they link up and send everything back to dedicated storage boxes so I just do that for metal runs. Then I just use a public teleporter that's at the metal spot and keep a giga podded for if I run into trouble.

Don't have any of that. As for inviting someone who has it... I'm just not one for interacting with people (one may wonder "But AllOfTheAllos, why, in the name of all that's ramshackle quality or higher, do you play online in that case?!" To which I answer: "No people where people are supposed to be feels weird. Doesn't matter whether or not I intend to talk to people that are there").

And anyway - my metal container is just a vault, it'll fill up fast enough after a few serious runs, and unless I decide to craft some more tek, or make saddles for my unsaddled gigas an yuties (though the aforementioned dinos are few in number, my insistence on making the best saddle I can for absolutely everything I have BPs for, combined with the quality of the BPs I have, can leave my vaults rather empty), it won't become empty again too soon.

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51 minutes ago, KingOfTheFort said:

I just use my skiff, holds 16k. You can try and get the mats in a rep or exomek and have someone from another server with the engram join your tribe and craft it for you
For mining though, stryders are the best, they link up and send everything back to dedicated storage boxes so I just do that for metal runs. Then I just use a public teleporter that's at the metal spot and keep a giga podded for if I run into trouble.
Magmas have way better harvest rates than ankys so try and get a good argy and you will have a lot better of a setup than if you were to use an anky.

Stryders are the bomb..... 10mins 80k metal..... love it

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3 minutes ago, KingOfTheFort said:

Where are you getting 80k metal? I only get max 30k at the mountain I go to. It could be because I avoid doing the whole thing since I'm scared of my stryder dying. I only have one and it was gifted.

In Aberration, head to the Blue Zone ramp roughly 35,52 head down when the path opens up you swing hard right and following the path towards the glowing blue trees and the river at the edge of the river turn left and follow the ramp up toward the large centre tree / root all along there is plenty of metal nodes. My tribe mate escourted me their (we werent sure if i would aggro any dino or not) he cleared out all the Titanboas, Anthos, Megas, Ravs, Drakes etc while i strip mined 

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Today my connection problems (which, to be honest, are less of "things wrong with Wi-Fi itself" and more of "Windows 10 doing what Windows 10 does, because it thinks I started to take uninterrupted gaming/browsing for granted or something like that, I guess" cleared up somewhat, so I actually played! Okay, not really played, because I still feared that it'd disconnect if I try anything serious, but did more than the barest minimum. So:

(Official, Valguero) I fed the dinos, of course. All of them, whales included. Got some of the meat by hunting with my favorite wyvern, too - things were steady enough that it wasn't too risky to do that. Imprinted the yuty, hatched the egg I had in the incubator and podded the baby.

I bred gigas, yuties, allos, sinos, wyverns, argents and tropeos, kept the allo eggs, cracked the rest.

Made the dust I had in my inventory into shards, gave bees more flowers, decided that if tomorrow's even better connection-wise, I'll go to the swamp and get more mushrooms for the gachas.

(Official, Extinction) My argent and doed were outside of the base for some reason Returned them home (they weren't far), took the parasaur and got some berries, then took the wyvern an got some meat. Filled the trough. Heard a drop, but decided not to investigate.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base, and gathered some more crystal for the wyverns. They're good on it, but it's always better to have more.

(Official, Lost Island) Killed my carno. I no longer need it, I don't use it, so no point in having it anymore. Got berries and meat, fed the dinos.

And that's all for today.

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(Official, Valguero) Imprinted the yuty, took an argent and an anky and went to get some metal. Harvested ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in the nearest two spots, returned home, put all that into the forge, and harvested everything in two more spots. A pretty decent metal run.

Took a therizino and went to the swamp, gathered rare mushrooms. Not a whole lot, ten stacks or so. Put that into the gacha trough.

Took griffin and just spent a bit of time flying around.

Checked the tek troughs - still good, no need to refill.

Saw an alpha rex near the base, but decided to leave it be. And that's all for today.

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Y'know, for clearing stuff out, you could just have a giga or smt follow your strider and just wreck face. Or your could leave the stryder somewhere nearby and safe and then wreck face with your tame. That would work, in theory. Or just bring a magmasaur. Problem solved! Plus, stryders can take a few hits, so you could also have a podded giga, and do some ambush face wrecking :).

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Been a few days since I was last here but I enjoy sharing my experiences.

I have tribed up with two friends I've met on a different server. We still have our solo bases but a shared base on another gen 2 server. It works really well, I'm into breeding, taming, boss fights and generally making the most of the mechanics of the game. One of the others does selling and trading and the other is a good builder and decorater. Between us we have a really nice looking base on the server and its going well. We share stuff there and clone/breed dinos for each other and take some of what we want back to our solo bases. Still my solo base is my main focus.

After a load of breeding whilst the evo event was on I managed to produce another hp mut on my yutys and produced some down bred rexs. These were then bred with my super rex and I got a female with only high hp and melee and very low everything else plus she has shows no mutations on the maternal side 👍. Perfect for breeding a boss rex army.

Bred our 2 event coloured megachelon on the shared base, I have the baby back at my solo and boy do those things eat! Almost as bad as gacha babies at draining troughs. Speaking of which, after a few rounds of breeding I have obsidian, black pearl and dust gachas so I don't need to breed those anymore.

Found 2 unicorns (one on island map and one on rag) recently which I tamed, sadly both were male but one of my tribemates had a female so a clone and a baby are already here. 

Went reaper hunting with a server friend the other day, but after killing 15 + queens we never found higher than a lvl 90. So agreed to come back during easter event.

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(The Island, SP) Raided some beaver dams.  Found a 135 beaver and tamed it.  Named her Justine.  Had her gather enough wood to build a tree platform.  Headed over to the redwoods on Desmond the Baryonyx, placed the platform, and built a ramp to the ground.  Went back to the Green Obelisk and moved the dinos waiting there to the new redwoods base.  That's all for now, since I have to play in short sessions... or risk the game crashing.  Which isn't fun...

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(Official, Valgeuro) Imprinted the yuty (two more imprints and he's done, and I think I'll be able to fit them into the remaining growth time even without podding, too!), checked troughs - still good (damn, tek troughs are amazing!).

Took argy and anky, cleared out the nearest metal spot and one farther. On my way to the second one saw a decayed metal dedi, so after putting all the metal I harvested into the forge I took the argent, the gasbags, and looted that. There was so much, that I had to go three times: first gasbags+argy for most of it, and then twice just gasbags (okay, if I used argy too, that would have been just two runs. But it's annoying to wait for the argent to catch up to the gasbags). Now my forge is completely full, and I'll leave it running for the night.

Fed dinos, even did some hunting with the griffin!

Bred gigas, allos, yuties, argents, sinos, tropeos and dodos, none of the eggs are staying - nothing good in them at all.

And that's all for today.

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I have finally deleted Ark. I just got timer wiped for the 13th time and i really put a lot of time into that character. Ark just felt like a chore and i figured its not worth the pressure. I will get back to it one day, when i'm out of school, have money for a private server, and have friends to play with. It has given me much joy and frustration and will always have a place in my heart. The community has been fantastic and I wish all of you the best in your Ark journey.

Farewell survivors,

Fulton, The Dunderhead

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We finally defeated the Overseer!

It has been a long journey of laughs and tears but yesterday we finally ascended.  Albeit, it was only gamma, but our team shredded the overseer and we will most certainly return for beta / alpha at some point.  Actually it was over too quickly.  I was kinda hoping to enjoy the fight but our team of 12 therizinos sliced through each phase of the overseer like a hot knife through butter.  

I want to send a big thank you to @Dinorancher and @L4D2 for the advice and video that ultimately led to a winning strategy.  My partner and I entered the cave with just the two rexes that we rode.  No long lines of tames to lead through the cave.  No worrying if the train would get spooked and run into the lava one after the other.  No stressing about the clock counting down at the top of the screen.... It was just two survivors and two rexes walking through the park clearing away anything that stood in our way.  Once the cave was clear, we un podded the team of therizinos and a yuty and led them down the final ramp and through the barrier separating hot from cold.  The team was small enough to easily manage but more than enough to fight the overseer.  

My partner has never been to Scorched Earth and wasted no time getting started. I have already played SE on single player so I volunteered to stay behind and handle the homesite for awhile so she can get a true SE experience before I head over.

Yesterday was a good day.  Today I am resting.  Tomorrow I prepare for the next chapter.

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@Penguin73 congrats on ascension!

I've done the conga line of tames in the past and I won't put myself through that again.  I like using some deinos in my boss fighting army but they have a bad habit of leaping if they so much as touch a rock. Even that last little stretch from uncryo to terminal in the tek cave is stressful with them lol!

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Longtime listener, first time caller… maybe second time? Heck still a beach bob to the forum…

 

But ive recently purchased a new Nitrado Server for a coworker (Que) and a buddy (D). Its a 10 man server (slightly boosted, 2 XP, 3x tame, hatching/imprint boosts, extended day hours) and my two sons love Ark so their spots in the tribe are saved. My wife (Reese) has been watching me and the boys play for years so she has started picking up the controller to get adjusted a bit. Nothing serious yet. Both Que and D have played survival games with me before. Dont Starve being our goto for 3~ years. So Ark hit freemium with PS Plus and of course I talked them into it. The following post will be our first two weeks so bare with me….

 

Day 1. Que loads in with me once we get off work. The day before we hosted a nondedicated just to break the ice and get a few deaths in for them. D is SUPER apprehensive at the steep learning curve. I mean like refused to login until we strong armed him. 30-45 mins into Que and myself running around punching dilos, we have a small army of the ankle biters. A parasaur on follow. And just grinding levels like madmen… he encounters the dreaded tickle chicken. Now up til this point, his biggest question was carnivore or herbivore before he decides how to proceed. Me being the cheeky DireWolf I am…. Tell him he’s a berry lover with a good heart. So he grabs his gear and just as he’s running out the little hut, D loads in. Certain the Theri will be easier then the Trike we finally took down together (after 3 deaths on his own) he enlists D’s help to get his feet wet. Apprehensive as every D declines and opts to watch from the roof….

 

Boys and girls, lets just say this is where the 💩 hits the fan. All I can hear thru the chat is ‘That MF Freddy (Kruger) just turned and is coming at you Que’  ‘He dont look happy’ ‘o 💩 he just dropped ALL the dilos’ then ‘tribemate Que has died to Theri’ and HYSTERICAL laughter. I mean gut busting hilarious pure joy laughter. Que loads back in pissed as high hell. I toss him my stuff and tell him dont take it like a lil bihhh. 30 secs later? He’s respawning down the beach as the bed he just found a use for hasnt cooldown’d. Freddy earned the right to live and D logs out without so much as kicking a dodo down the street. 
 

Days 2-4 you can pretty much guess. We grind out bows, kill the Freddy that caused Que so much hell. Find another that I have to beg him to let use tane instead. Gonthru the whole “O 💩 that MF waking up again Purp! Like forreal this the 5th time ive forcefed it narcoberries”. Get him tamed up. Grind out a boat to get them to Herb Island. Of course D still isnt really having fun. Half assed going thru the motions. Low and behold, headed to Herbie Island, a Leed comes out of wherever they happen to hide… D being the old fart he is decided to go AFK while I drove. Wouldnt ya know it? SMACK. D and our lovely large storage box go flying off the boat. He respawned and logged. We get there and set up. D finally logs in again on a nice new bed safe and sound. 
 

Now we all love ark. We’ve played it for years. And everyone knows for a fact. ARK DGAF. The 100 gb update hit on a night i was playing alone and i got the ‘8 gb noti’ n was happy thinking id be back in in an hour tops. Nahhh. Patches killed my night. I woke up to log and check everything (still on herb island so no biggie) and NO SERVERS… i mean none. Now day 1 we had issues getting it up. Day 2 logging in. Day 6 I couldnt get on AT ALL… D was waning. I even caught his DST server up and jumped in just to drag him over once. Luckily they both downloaded it and logged in just fine after a bit of a wait. I was pissed but the tribe was content to grind without me. I had tamed a Ptera with their help before and they were in hog heaven over there 🤣. I ended up deleted and redownloading then continued the foolishness again solo the nextday. By the time they logged later that afternoon I was on our original beach. The 2 x 2 wood base was a 5 x 5 stone. There was no roof but we had space and storage. And a direct line of sight (albeit diagonally across the ocean) with both soon to be bases. D finally tamed a Ptera himself (Purple Reign) and still has her to this day… but thats gonna get important later. Point is, he was hooked from that moment. 
 

its around day 10-11 (real life days, we all have pretty hectic jobs and im normally the only one on daily. Que is almost as active. D plays hard when he can by now. We’ve gotten pretty good. Que and me have flown Pteras up the river between the two big islands a few times hunting and shooting bigger threats off rocks. Couple of Bary’s, Quartet of Raptors. 5 or 6 Tek Parasaurs (cargo and eggs/future oil packs 🤣 they still dont even know why I keep a fridge full of future genocide) are in the front yard surrounded by a gate and our building is roofed aside from ceiling by a door somebody CANT not get stuck in.. my boy needs a new challenge. So what do we do? Get our favorite Pteras and I tell him we’re going to get Real Birds… little did he know this was another learning moment 

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(Official, Valguero) Early in the morning (or in what passes for the morning for me - the time when I woke up, regardless of what's on the clock) logged on and imprinted the yuty. That left just one more imprint to do.

Later, like, just a few hours before I started typing this, I:

Fed dinos on (Official, Lost Island).

Did the same on (Official, Extinction), plus checked nearest part of the wasteland for drops (nnope).

Refreshed the base on (Official, Crystal Isles).

And, finally, on (Official, Valguero) I imprinted the yuty one last time, bred gigas, sinos, dodos, allos, yuties (but forgot about them and missed the eggs) and tropeos (none of the eggs are staying. Had a mut on a sino, but it was health mut, and without the previously mutated stam inherited), fed dinos, hunted with the griffin, gave the element gacha some stone.

Then unpodded my wyvern (I forgot about him for quite a while), let him grow for a bit. I also unpodded two ankylos and two yuties. Oe of the ankylos was an adolescent that I was raising with imprint and then abandoned for a reason that I cant remember. Anyway, will continue raising him, why the hell did I even stop? The colors are nice, so is the melee.

Bred wyverns, and the egg is STAYING! It's female, all grays inherited, my preferred (brown) highlights color is inherited too. Not all stats are there, but whatever, I'll just use her to breed her to the one I'm currently raising for a better chance at all stats-all colors male wyvern.

Speaking of the growing wyvern: he got hungry enough, so I went to the trench. Got milk, and then decided to check for the eggs - there was one fresh (low-level), which I ate, and then I went through the whole place and cleaned out all the decayed ones, since I was there anyway.

Returned home, fed the wyvern, podded him, the adolescent ankylo, and the baby yuties. The now-fully imprinted yuty is staying out, so does the younger ankylo, and the non-imprinted female yuty is now adult and moved to the breeding stand.

And that's all for today.

 

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(Official, Valguero) Unpodded the adolescent ankylo. Unpodded the wyvern, also hatched the new one. Checked the stats and realized that neither of them has the good melee, but that's okay. That's fixable, and I'll just concentrate on the colors for now.

Bred wyverns (male, all grays, brown highlights, but pretty much all stats bad, so cracked), dodos (new mut AND both old mut colors inherited, plus it's male! Stays.), sinos (mut colors inherited, stats not. But male and new color would compliment the older two! I think. I'll decide once it's hatched.), and argents (nothing good).

Realized that the statement I have made in one of my earlier posts about the amount of gunpowder I possess was, in fat, incorrect due to the whole "making tons of tranq darts because narcotic vault too full" thing, so took an ankylo and got a ton of flint plus a bit of stone, then a magma and gathered a lot of stone, then gathered a lot of wood, burned wood to coal, made sparkpowder, made gunpowder. So now I do actually have gunpowder. Not a ton, but some.

Took a magma and went to raid beaver dams, got a nice amount of paste.

Then gathered more stone and made some paste.

Also, finally took down some unneeded wires gong from one of my wind turbines to the breeding stand (unneeded because some parts are broken and I'm too lazy to repair), and put a generator inside the stand instead (maybe should add a wall or two later to conceal it for a neater look), so the breeding stand is illuminated once again. Only took me... Dunno. Half a year, maybe?

Imprinted the ankylo, put more berries into the trough, and he stays, because that was his last imprint.

Oh, and the mutated, imprinted yuty is adult, moved to the other large land carnivores, and has a saddle (which is dyed pink to match his color. Look, I don't really like pink, but he's my only mut yuty even if he's useless (6 melee, remember?) so can't kill him, and saddle and dino gotta match, okay?).

Repodded wyverns, doeble-checked to make sure I disabled breeding on males of everything I've bred today, and that's all for today.

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