So what did you do in ARK today?

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) The only thing that I did today so far (and I waited for it to count as today instead of waking up at midnight for it!) was checking on the gray giga. He's doing fine (not referring to him as "it" because it's clear now that he'll survive), I restacked the remaining meat in the maewing, which is more than enough to last him to juvenile.

For now that's all.

...

Abaddon is now grown, took him and went hunting. Killed a whole bunch of stuff, including an alpha carno. Leveled him until he got 380% melee. He's a killing machine!

Imprinted the gray giga and named him Obsidian (I'm not very creative).

Fed some of the dinos, podded Ghost.

For now that's all, but I might check on the sidebases later.

Edited July 15, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[Stewbawl]

private server: Valguero

i have a bunch of wolves and raptors that are left over from breeding up, and a buddy has a bunch of therizinosaurs.  we wanted to free up space in the yard so we decided to take them to face the broodmother.  9 wolves, 9 raptors, 6 therizinos all of mixed pedigree vs a level 77 broodmother.  3 raptors, 5 wolves, and 4 therizinos survived and we now have a spider flag to fly at our base.

we also found a blueprint for an ascendant argentavis saddle, but we don't think it's usable as it takes 429 stacks of material to make.  can anything hold that much?

[Moonie1]

Doesnt the Tek Replicator have 600 slots?

[Stewbawl]

i don't have access to tek stuff yet 

[parazight]

I logged back in today, got on my quetzal, and headed back to the main base.  Followed a tek quetzal that I saw for a while.

I didn't have enough tranquilizers with me so I abandoned that.

Got back to the farm and upgraded my fabricator.  

See, you need to have a proper cooling system when working with polymer.  ARK polymer is especially heat sensitive and throughput is mostly regulated with a stable heat profile. Hence, the need for water cooling.  Bullet production per minute is also up 2.3%!!!!

Edited July 15, 2022 by parazight

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Fjordur) Looked at my fridge, noticed there's still 200+ bloodpacks, so decided to get a better bat for use on Fjordur, since even just hunting to feed the dinos with Betty takes forever.

Went to the cave (the waterfall one, of course - best cave, nothing but bats).

Left Betty outside, went in.

And In.

And in.

Only near the end was there a single bat. I shot it with my bow and bolted to the exit.

And had to return to check on it because it got a bit lost.

Then I bolted to the exit again.

The bat followed me, I let it grab me once we were far enough from the cave.

It turned out to be a level 95 male, event colors (green back, blue base, red wing veins, yellow wings). He was tamed quickly and I named him Acid Rain.

I took Betty's saddle and put it on him, since he'll be my main bat on Fjordur now.

I should have packed a cryopod, though, since pre-podding Acid Rain was flying weirdly, constantly resetting a meter or two back. Getting home like that took forever. One home I podded-unpodded him and BOOM! A normal bat, that flies normally.

Fed dinos (getting meat with him was easy!).

(Official, Crystal Isles) Fed the trike.

For now that's all.

...

(Official, Fjordur) again. Decided that since my second sidebase bat went so well, I might as well try for more bats to maybe get better stats for my main base ones.

So I got 7 stacks of blood, 17 parachutes, went to the cave...

And it was empty. Stuck by it for nearly two hours, but nothing respawned in there. And I'm not doing a more dangerous cave with things other than bats, so nothing's in pure bat one=no bats for me to catch.

Returned home, put blood back in the refrigerator, and that's all for today.

...

Okay, I know I said it was all for today, but I still wasn't sleeping so I checked on (Official, Valguero) just to see how Obsidian's doing (doing fine, by the way. Imprinted him).

Ended up doing more than that: bred yuties (only two - breeder male to the mutated female. Egg was a fail, by the way - didn't get her mut stats). Gigas, too - and one of the eggs is kind of a success: still not a melee mut, but it's also color 62 (Dark Warm Gray), the stat change is health (and inherited from father, bringing it to 29 points) which is better than Obsidian's mut (his is on food so color is literally his only reason to be alive and growing). And the new color is on the belly.

So I have black for the back (from wild parents), and with Obsidian and the new, nameless, not-even-hatched-yet dude I also have Dark Warm Gray for the sides and for the belly.

Imagine that combined.

Sure, it's not full black, but it's damn close. That's some good luck with colors I have!

Also, took Abaddon and hunted, got him two more levels.

And fed dinos.

And now THAT'S all for today.

Edited July 16, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[CosmicSkeleton]

Bred more Andrews because I got a mutation line going, devolved into a frothy rage because every baby keeps coming out female and I want at least one mutant male for seperate bloodlines, wiped the base of some jaggoff that apparently thought they were on an official server and could build around an ob to block it without repercussion, about to breed mantises

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Hatched the giga egg, filled the maewing and put the giga with it. Imprinted Obsidian.

Bred yuties (again, just the pair), no success.

Bred gigas, wyverns, and spinos. All cracked, othing good.

Took Abaddon and went hunting. Hunted well! Got him to 390% melee (only alpha dinos and high-levl brontos take more than five bites to kill now), and killed four alpha carnos (and my chibi is now noticeably over half to final level!).

Returned home, topped up the troughs, and that's all for now. Will restack what meat remains in the maewing later and that'll be all for today.

...

Checked on the gigas. Growing fine, imprinted both. Younger one is juvenile now, so I moved meat form the mae to one of the tek troughs.

I named the younger giga Oreo (yes, he's not black-white-dark warm gray, but black-brown-dark warm gray, but chocolate cream oreos are a thing. Also, my giga - my rules).

And that's all for today.

Edited July 17, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[Krigan]

Collected cement paste at beaver pond and looked for T-rex to tame. Hoping to replace the one stolen by a Pego.

[Stewbawl]

WATER DISASTER!

(unofficial Valguero) took a shark into the deep ocean cave looking for black pearls and i got ganged up on by too many sharks to handle.  took another shark back in and could not find my corpse or items.  didn't lose much other than a pump shotgun that took me an insane amount of polymer to make.  i probably wont remake it, i don't look forward to trying to farm that many materials again.

i did make 10 gasmasks though, so now i'm ready to explore the spider cave.  just not certain what dino i'll take in as my cave mount.  

 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Checked on the gigas. Obsidian's adult now, podded him for later. Oreo is growing fine, imprinted him.

Bred yuties (same pair), gigas and spinos. No luck, cracked all.

Took Abaddon and went hunting. No alpha dinos this time, but I got him another level, and also got enough hide that my hide vault is completely full now.

Added more fertilizer to the crop plots, and that's all for today (or for now. I mean, I MIGHT feel like playing later. But right now it feels like I'm more in an anime-watching mood than ARK mood).

...

(Official, Extinction) Went looking for drops. Found yellow. There was nothing else, so I started doing that.

Wave 0 fine, wave 1 fine, wave 2 fine, wave 3 couldn't find last three enemies, strayed too far from the drop and it disappeared.

Returned home, fed dinos, that's all for today.

Edited July 18, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[CosmicSkeleton]

Built an aquatic base to free up a cryfridge, committed a massacre on several smacks (not a typo, this is the actual term for a group of them weirdly enough) of jellyfish- eels too for good measure, lamented to no one in particular the fact that the ocean is sorta bland

Edited July 19, 2022 by CosmicSkeleton

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Only logged on  for a bit, to imprint Oreo and add more meat to the tek troughs (wasn't necessary, really, but felt like doing it).

Will actually play later.

...

(Official, Fjordur) Took blood and parachutes, went to the cave. There was nothing Waited for about an hour, checked again - a single bat, 145, female. Aggrroed, lured out, tamed.

Decent colors and better health than what I already have. Everything else's worse, but at least I get health and colors, that's something. Uploaded her. Waited, went again, nothing.

Grabbed some beacons, got a 50-something ravager saddle. Uploaded it. Killed two alpha raptors. Fed dinos.

(Official, Valguero) Imprinted Oreo one last time. Fed dinos. Retrieved bat and the saddle. Named the bat Marcy.

Bred gigas and spinos, nothing good.

That's all for today.

Edited July 19, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Logged on for a bit. Oreo is adult now, podded him for later. Turned generator powering the tek troughs off, put some of the meat form tek troughs into other troughs.

Bred yuties, gigas, spinos and fire wyverns. Got nothing good: yuty, once again, didn't get the mut stats. The only new mut wyvern pulled absolutely the worst ones, so it doesn't even matter what's the mut on. The giga got a weight mut with some sort of a dark pink color. Spinos got nothing new. All cracked.

For now that's all.

...

Official, Extinction) Looked for drops, nothing. Fed dinos. Uploaded loot form the last time, except for one cryopod. Went to try for a male dust gacha. There were plenty gachas and most of them male!

But no dust.

After running out of male gachas I tamed a low-level (45 if I recall correctly) female just because she was there, and what do you think?

She was a dust!

I podded her, uploaded her, re-downloaded one of the empty pods I uploaded earlier, and went back to try for a MALE dust gacha.

Nnnope.

Returned home.

(Official, Valguero) Downloaded loot and the gacha. Decided to try and unpod her, if the distance at which she's okay to exist as the same time as another female gacha doesn't seem too bad to me, she stays.

And it really is a pretty alright distance, so it won't be too much trouble for me to run between her and my first dust gacha, Felicia.

I took down my old gacha crystal accumulator (that's the fancy way of saying "a few fence foundations and railings in a half-honeycomb shape") and built two new, smaller ones for each of my two dust gachas. Generous (a male obsidian gacha) stands in the middle between them, so that both dusties are happy.

Unpodded two owls for the new gacha, named her Lucky, gave her some pellets taken form Felicia's inventory, and gave them both plenty of stone and seeds.

28 pieces of element. And that's on stone and seeds, which aren't all that fast. Next time I'll feed them something crafted - arrows, or thatch sloped walls, something like that. That'll be much later, though - all out of pellets now.

Bred desmodus, but nothing good, terminated gestation on all.

Podded all the breeder wyverns - I have no success with them, might as well pause them for now. Podded Olivia (female stego), too.

Went to the trench to refresh the trap, turns out two more people built their own traps (usable by everyone) since I last visited it. Nice.

And that's all for today.

Edited July 21, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[Stewbawl]

(Valguero) for the last two days i've been looking for a high level female Rex with no luck.  

i have however found several high level Allosaurus's.  so i guess i'm going to breed them for a while.

went in the spider cave with a raptor, poked my head around a bit and killed a few things but didn't go too far.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Fjordur) Took blood and paracutes, went bat-hunting. Today the cave was full.

Lured bats out, tamed.

Nothing good, but that's a start.

And today was, apparently, a quick respawn day - I went back in after a minute and there were three or four more bats.

I got killed, though - while one bat was carrying me, another decided to attack.

Respawned, went back, looted my body and tamed two more bats, one of them a 140 female And man, am I glad I did - that 140 (now 178. Yes, I don't bother feeding them pets for effectiveness) was the only one worthy of sending to main base: 31 point HP, 28 Weight, and 35 melee. My previous best bat melee was only 29.

So, yeah. I uploaded her and led others to their death by wild spino.

Fed dinos.

(Official, Valguero) Retrieved the new bat and named her Mary. Fed dinos. Bred gigas, yuties (same pair) and spinos. Got two new muts on spinos. Haven't compared the egg stats to the parent ones yet but I THINK it's on something good. Anyway, it's finally new muts on Abb spinos, that's what matters, and I'll check if they're worthy of keeping after they hatch. All other eggs were failures.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Fed the trike, checked if wyverns still have enough crystals (yep. Still good).

And that's all for today.

Edited July 23, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[bigsucc69]

Got my first ever lightning wyvern in scorched earth, realized i could make short work of the deathworms now. unfortunely, no black pearls yet. even in my second kill. i hope these are not rare, since i like my mining drills...

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Checked the spino stats, and yea. Both are staying, one's a stam mut, other's a melee. I'll breed them with each other and that'll be my new breeder male. Put them with the maewing stuffed full of meat.

Took Abaddon and went to the Redwoods. Killed the broodmother there. He got pretty beat up, lost about 10000 health, but we won. It was about same as when I did it with Phobos, I guess when it comes to killing a mini-boss 15 points of difference in melee-at-hatch don't matter much.

Ten went to the tundra, killed two alpha carnos there long with a ton of other stuff. Got Abaddon another level.

Returned home, filled two tek troughs and turned the generator on for the spinos.

Bred gigas, yuties and spinos, still no luck.

And that's all for today.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Went to try for a male dust gacha again, no success.

Returned home, fed dinos.

For now that's all.

...

(Official, Valguero) Fed some of the dinos. Imprinted spinos. Bred gigas, yuties, spinos and desmodus.

One giga egg stays. Mut's no good but it's my first single color giga (yes, it's full medium brown. But that's still same color on all active regions. It counts and has to be if not raised, then at last allowed to hatch). Other eggs are cracked and desmodus pregnancies terminated - nothing good.

Gave gachas a ton of structures and arrows. Also, bred gachas.

Got 31 piece of element. Planned to keep the male gacha baby (well, at least see if maybe he's a dust), but realized I don't feel like playing more ARK today, so terminated them both.

That's all for today.

Edited July 24, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[Stewbawl]

private server, Valguero:

a couple friends and I visited a few caves and acquired all of the artifacts and items to do the gamma fight.  depending on who is available we'll be making an attempt sometime this week.  i'm a little concerned as our server is set for max wild dino levels @120 (so 179 tamed).  we've bred some therezinosaurs, allosaurus, and rexes up to about 200-210 with ok stats, so hopefully we'll be ok.  we have good weapons and armor to help out.

 

 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Valguero) Bred spinos (new pair, fail. Baby didn't get the mut stats), yuties (same), gigas (no muts).

Hatched the yesterday's giga egg, twins. Podded one, killed other.

Took Abaddon and went hunting. Two alpha carnos, not bad. Low levels, though. Still, got him another level and started on the next. He's very close to hitting 400% melee.

Returned home, fed all the dinos, and that's all for today.

[CosmicSkeleton]

Tried to settle a dispute between a player that was banned from my cluster and one of my admin team right after a long day of work and errands, felt like a jaggoff because I couldn't really lean on one side or the other since it was primarily just hearsay on both sides and neither could give me a screenshot for concrete of who was in the wrong (reminder to all unofficial admins and players, screenshot EVERYTHING when a dispute involves you), kind of just sitting here now feeling regretful since I consider both of the parties involved good people. 

[Xraid3]

I've been hunting for a rex saddle blueprint and while I wait for loot to respawn, I try to stack mutations on my deinonychus.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official, Extinction) Fed dinos. And, since I logged on while someone was fighting King Titan, went there and watched the last few minutes of the battle from a safe distance (so safe I only saw the Titan, not whoever was fighting it).

(Official, Crystal Isles) Fed the trike.

(Official, Fjordur) Fed dinos, grabbed a few beacons (nothing good).

(Official, Valguero) Fed dinos, bred yuties, spinos and gigas. Nothing good (spino egg was kept because I wrote down the stats to compare them, but I just did now and stam's not inherited, so I'll kill it next time I play).

And that's all for today.

[Stewbawl]

On 7/27/2022 at 1:06 AM, Xraid3 said:

I've been hunting for a rex saddle blueprint and while I wait for loot to respawn, I try to stack mutations on my deinonychus.

that is almost exactly what i've been doing in the background lately.  i'm a bit new to it though.

 

last night myself and 3 friends did the gamma fight (valguero), we succeeded but lost a few of the rexes.  we don't have a blueprint for rex saddles yet, i think that's the big difference.  the allosaureses and deinonychus's we brought weren't any better but they had good saddles.