So what did you do in ARK today?

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Valguero) Checked spawns, nothing.

Took Furious on a hunt, got him a few levels. Even went to the wyvern trench and killed wyverns there! Easy. Also, thanks to all the tek dinos I've encountered, I returned from my hunt with a bit over 600 shards.

Returned home, filled a maewing with meat, unpodded three baby carchars.

Hatched carcha bait rexes and podded them.

Hatched drake, turns out I was mistaken about color regions AGAIN. Killed.

Bred carchars, this time using Furious, because I want one with his colors for most part, and Wendigo's webbing color (since she has blue webbing, and Furious is gray with blue spots/stripes and red spikes, and his greenish-yellow webbing clashes with that). No success.

Checked spawns again, found a 130 male giga. Left that alone. Aside from that - nothing interesting.

Bred rexes (only the pair. Still trying to get that new health onto a male), nnnope.

For now that's all, will check on baby carchars later.

...

Carchars doing fine, 7% grown already. Restacked meat in the maewing and did a meatrun to fill the tek troughs.

Checked spawns again, no carchars. Weather Top had a level 20 giga. Went back home, grabbed a saddled giga (As always, not one I'm attached to, but merely one of the females. In case things go wrong), returned, killed the wildie. Bleed worked for real this time, but that didn't save it - my giga was only down to about half health in the time it took to kill the wild one. And that's eighth heart for my collection. Pity I didn't have a taxidermy tool on me, though - it was a fairly pretty giga. Orange, rather bright, but not unpleasantly so.

Returned home, put the giga back in her place.

Checked spawns again, nothing, returned home and that's all for today.

Edited November 27, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Valguero) Checked on the carchars, doing fine. Moved remaining meat form maewing to the trough.

Checked spawns, nothing, nothing and nothing.

Decided to get soem blood wyverns for use as disposables, since they're the easiest to heal back up if they get hurt, so after returning home off Valg I logged and on to

(Official PVE, Crystal Isles). Harvested some crystals, lowered resolution because there's That One Base near blood wyvern spawns, a real FPS killer, and to a wyvern hunt I went.

So I find a wyv, it's 50-ish level, male. Not great, but I'll take what I can. I tame that, upload.

Second one, about same, male too. Tamed, uploaded.

And then there's Her. A 140 female. So I start taming. But as I was waiting for her second feeding, she headed towards a small, low-tech base...

And now defensive plants are on my list of things that are Awful and I Want Them Gone.

Yep, she was killed by them. And I fell and died because I forgot parachutes.

So I respawned, went back, got my loot bag. Spotted another female, 55.

Started taming.

Dear readers, can you guess where the damn thing went?

Eyup, another wyvern not tamed, another trip back for my bag.

Third time's the charm! Parachutes. Sleeping bags. Another 55.

Tamed! Phew! For once a wyvern smart enough not to fly to the deadly base of death.

Uploaded. Returned home. Fed dinos.

(Official PVE, Valguero) Downloaded wyverns. And that's all for now.

...

Topped up tek troughs for the carchars, took the worse of two male blood wyverns for a bit of a hunt to shape him into something somewhat usable. So far I got him to a bit over 1000 stam which is... Not good.

Checked spawns while I was at it, nothing.

Returned home and that's all for today.

Edited November 28, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[prosans]

On 11/22/2022 at 12:20 AM, OldManRiver said:

Imprint, farm berries, two sweeps of skylord cave, offer tribute vault to server mates, complain about box tribes. 

i just build like that cuz i need to make a base and a design first

 

[OldManRiver]

30 minutes ago, prosans said:

i just build like that cuz i need to make a base and a design first

 

Not the box bases, the ones with boxes where letters are suppose to be since I don't want to download the language pack. All my woes that arise in Ark are somehow or another a box tribes fault. ☺️ 

[Griffin998]

On 11/24/2022 at 8:49 PM, AllOfTheAllos said:

Found a 190!

Isn't that max level for difficulty five? Woow. The luck .

[AllOfTheAllos]

28 minutes ago, Griffin998 said:

Isn't that max level for difficulty five? Woow. The luck .

Yep, it was max, but that doesn't matter since those points didn't go anywhere good.

[Griffin998]

13 minutes ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

Yep, it was max, but that doesn't matter since those points didn't go anywhere good.

Yeah. Always disappointing when that happens. Well, luck statistically cannot be bad all the time, right? But then it's ark, so no promises...

Edited November 28, 2022 by Griffin998

[prosans]

i have been playing on switch and i have lost count of how many times someone tried to drown me

[prosans]

21 hours ago, prosans said:

i have been playing on switch and i have lost count of how many times someone tried to drown me

and the admin troll me and just killed a max lv rex i was trying to tame

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Crystal Isles) Decided to try and get better blood wyverns. So. First I found was level 90. Female.

Tamed without trouble, uploaded. Then after some time saw a 130. Male, which is great.

Started taming. Things were fine-fine-fine, he steered clear of cliffs and the base with plants.

Then he flew into the wall of a big metal base and threw me off by doing so.

And I couldn't enable parachute in time, so I died.

Respawned on a sleeping bag, took my second tropical, got back...

Almost. A disconnect happened.

Died. Respawned on another sleeping bag, took tropeo (good thing I had both second wyvern AND tropeo left there form last taming!), went back, got my stuff, mounted a wyvern, went back to the one I was taming, got onto his back, fed some more, he threw me off. And in my attempts to get back to him I got my wyvern stuck between the cliff and the railing.

Managed to get close enough to spyglass-whistle my other wyvern, one that was left hovering from first death, went back to the blood wyv I was taming...

Well, now I know how the taming drop happens. You know, that thing when progress goes down faster than you can feed it.

Looks like it's caused by the wyvern getting too hungry and deciding that it'd rather not join the player who clearly doesn't care enough to keep it fed. Well, I suppose it's better and more believable than the sino approach to the issue of overly large pause between taming feedings, which is basically "guess I'll starve to death".

So I waited for taming to drop all the way to zero, and his food got back to full. I started taming him again, got to about 70%, got thrown off on a cliff, got back to him, and finished tame. And the other wyvern got unstuck at some point during that, so that's good, too.

Uploaded him. Returned home.

(Official PVE, Valguero) Checked on the carchars, looks like they'll do just fine with no refills.

Downloaded wyverns.

Bred the new male to the yesterday's female, since she was ready already.

Bred drakes and carchars, too.

And it's a mut day! One of the carcha eggs, drake egg and wyvern egg are all mut, wyvern's double!

Carcha and drake staying just because I want to see if they'll look any good, the wyvern is definitely for raising, though. Got the good melee (36 points) and good stam with one of the muts on it. Colors not too bad, either - white fins and WyvernPurple0 highlights, with inherited black on body. Would be actually good if it wasn't for Light Red belly.

Bred rexes, just the pair. Egg isn't any good. Hatched the one form last time and podded for carcha bait.

Fed gachas, most ele went into gens.

Hatched wyvern, yep, looking good. Podded for later.

And that's all for today.

Edited November 29, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[prosans]

allo have you tried to tame a tek strider?
 

[AllOfTheAllos]

2 minutes ago, prosans said:

allo have you tried to tame a tek strider?
 

No. I don't have Genesis. And I hate tek stryders.

[prosans]

why?
 

[AllOfTheAllos]

1 minute ago, prosans said:

why?
 

Why wouldn't I hate them? I don't like their looks. I tested them in singleplayer, and guess what? I don't like their abilities either. And the few times I happened to be near one on official while it was being used, I got lagged to hell and back whenever it harvested things, so they're disgusting lag machines.

[CervantesMor]

8 hours ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

(Official PVE, Crystal Isles) Decided to try and get better blood wyverns.

Play you on XBox? PVE...Legacy?

[AllOfTheAllos]

57 minutes ago, CervantesMor said:

Play you on XBox? PVE...Legacy?

Steam, PC.

[prosans]

who please ark on ps4?
 

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Valguero) Carchars nearly adult. Unpodded blood wyvern for a bit of raising.

Hatched drake and carchar. Not sure about drake, stays for now but still might kill him later. Carcha's definitely good, though. Mut's Cyan on body made a wonderful combination with inherited Black Sands on back and WyvernBlue on stripes and webbing.

Filled a maewing and put the carcha with it. Left drake out for a bit of raising.

Bred blood wyverns and drakes, nothing worth keeping.

FINALLY remembered to move the new sino breeder female to the others. Podded one of the older ones.

Checked spawns, nothing, nothing and nothing.

Hunted, topped up tek troughs - carcha should be fine with mae until juvenile, so he stays out.

Podded drake and wyvern and that's all for today.

[riceandvegetable]

Had a very awkward experience on Scorched Earth. I suspected that only playing that map on single player / non-dedicated made it too easy. So I found the least populated official European server and hopped on for an hour or two of the official bob experience. But turned out even the most deserted server was still so full with buildings that I would've felt weird to plaster my bob shack next to them. So I tried the medium to hard spawns, which were better, but I still spawned plenty inside of other peoples' bases, and so did unholy amounts of terror birds. Tried to get a beginner tame to get away from the suburb I was in but after well over an hour gave up. And that's that.

[prosans]

2 hours ago, riceandvegetable said:

Had a very awkward experience on Scorched Earth. I suspected that only playing that map on single player / non-dedicated made it too easy. So I found the least populated official European server and hopped on for an hour or two of the official bob experience. But turned out even the most deserted server was still so full with buildings that I would've felt weird to plaster my bob shack next to them. So I tried the medium to hard spawns, which were better, but I still spawned plenty inside of other peoples' bases, and so did unholy amounts of terror birds. Tried to get a beginner tame to get away from the suburb I was in but after well over an hour gave up. And that's that.

what are u playing on switch or pc?

 

[riceandvegetable]

3 hours ago, prosans said:

what are u playing on switch or pc?

 

I'm on PC.

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Lost Island) Fed dinos.

(Official PVE, Valguero) Older carchars adult, younger doing fine. Imprinted him.

Bred blood wyverns, one egg stays.

Decided to give amargas another try, so made soups, a good pistol, bullets, uploaded that +some kibble, a few empty cryopods and podded bat that's better than one already on LI (for elixirs).

(Official PVE, Lost Island) Downloaded all that, went to try and get amagras. in the desert.

150 female! Got killed by a thyla right before my eyes like an idiot.

50 male! Also got himself killed. Nobody taught him not to bite arthros.

And they were the only ones near the traps (and yes, parts or tools for building my own were the only damn thing I forgot).

50, 50 and 50 - two killed, got third 50 (a female) 5% tamed thanks to a stuck yuty, but then yuty's carno pack finished her off.

45 - abandoned her after running out of stuff to hunt. Only 2% and she was nearly dead anyway.

Once again decided that amargas aren't for me (I'm all about murderlizards anyway. They're more like suicidelizards), returned home, threw out remaining soups, ate kibble since I can't send it back anyway and i don't need it on LI for anything else, and that's all for today.

[CervantesMor]

4 hours ago, AllOfTheAllos said:

 (I'm all about murderlizards anyway. They're more like suicidelizards), 

I'm agreed mhuhahahaha

You need a Snow Owl. My last time without a trap, a female 140 was killed by 2 Tyla spawned near, 83%...more of 2 hours in puffff mhuhhahah

Edited December 2, 2022 by CervantesMor

[AllOfTheAllos]

3 hours ago, CervantesMor said:

You need a Snow Owl. My last time without a trap, a female 140 was killed by 2 Tyla spawned near, 83%...more of 2 hours in puffff mhuhhahah

Hmmm. That might work. When choosing creatures for use on sidebases I always end up disregarding snowls despite several of them always being in my sight thanks to my gachas. Guess I might give amargas another try - with an owl this time.

Edited December 2, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos

[AllOfTheAllos]

(Official PVE, Valguero) Checked on the carchar (growing fine, doesn't need a trough refill. Imprinted him and named him Toxic Rage).

Uploaded a saddled podded owl, and more kibble and soups.

(Official PVE, Lost Island) Downloaded the stuff. Went to try for amarga again. First i found was yesterday's 45, still alive (guess nobody rendered the zone in. Can't see any other way for an amarga to live that long). Tried to tame. The owl allowed me to keep her alive until 8%, then wolves happened. Couldn't fight them off with the owl (I'd hit amarga. HARD), couldn't shoot them really either (I'm not exactly what you could call a sharpshooter).

Then tried another, level 90. Things were fine, then a high-level daeodon happened. Too tough for me to kill, even if I healed the amarga as much as possible.

Two others - didn't even get to sync, only watched them die.

Tried my luck near the volcano. Level 100 male - got him to over 20% Things were FINE! I got to feed him two whole times!

Ran out of things to kill, went to a lone thorny dragon stuck on a rock in the water, fell in water, used my sino to get out, hard lag because turns out there was a MASSIVE base just a few meters away and it chose to start loading it.

So I uncontrollably flew out of taming range.

Dammit. But while sino-parachuting back to the ground I saw an even better one!

A 130 female! Got her to 2.9%, there was nothing left to kill, every single creature around either a herbivore, or some tiny piece of that I couldn't shoot either without hitting amarga, or at all.

So I gave up, went home, and that's it. No more amargas. Carchars do the "hunt with it to tame it" thing so much better! With carchars it's like "okay, tiny bald monkey. I'll work for you for a bit, if it's more fun than running alone - I'll stick with you", which is nice and reasonable. Amarga taming makes me question who is taming who, exactly? Because damn lizard clearly wants to be in charge. And the lizard in question is an idiot, which is bad. Between me and the dino I'm taming there should be only one idiot, and that place is taken.

...

(Official PVE, Fjordur) Fed dinos and decided that it's enough for today.

Edited December 2, 2022 by AllOfTheAllos