What did you do in ASA today?

[Chudz66]

The Not-so-Great Basilo Hunt

I found my otter, Misty, on top of the kibble fridge. She was knitting a red scarf, presumably for the upcoming holiday event. The crimson definitely worked with her dark brown fur.

“You want to try one more time for a Basilo?” I asked.

She looked thoughtful for a moment, put her knitting stuff down in a neat pile, and leaped gracefully onto my shoulder.

“I’m guessing that’s a yes?” I asked.

She nodded, ate the chunk of fish I was offering, and we were off to the beach.

My megalodon, Spork, had to wriggle his way out of the shallows again and wasn’t too happy when I asked if he had gained weight. To get me back, he did an unexpected barrel roll when we were in slightly deeper water. I resurfaced with a coughing fit and seaweed in my hair. Misty snorted with laughter and then began picking out the green bits. And brimming with the hope of finding a high level whale, we slowly submerged, leaving the sounds of the surface world behind.

We were almost around the entire island, and the highest Basilo I had seen was level 90. To top everything off, the game crashed when we were nearing base. It was at this time that I realized I had not saved recently, because we were all back at the halfway point of our journey. Grumpy, I got on Spork and we began speeding home, saving every now and then.

Once back at base, I parked Spork, went inside, and tried to put Misty back on the fridge. Only, there was no Misty to put back on the fridge. I had forgotten to grab her after we spawned back in. “Son of a &$!%@.”

I ran up the stairs with an uneasy feeling in my gut. On the roof, Ewe watched me hurry over, cocking her head slightly in concern. I hopped on, and we launched into the sky, heading north. It took me a little while to figure out the tracking thing. I didn’t realize the PoI option, or whatever it’s called, was what you needed to click to get a directional beacon. Thankfully, we found Misty safe and sound.

She was on an inflatable, orange and yellow Dodo, sipping a Piña colada, and knitting what appeared to be the same scarf she was working on before.

That’s when I heard the Twilight Zone music…

 

[I think it might be time for a dino wipe. Have fun all.]

Edited December 19, 2023 by Chudz66

[CervantesMor]

On 12/15/2023 at 7:06 AM, yarnevk said:

So now I can start my specialty harvester moschops family! (assuming that works I hear it might be bugged).

On Sunday I took my little female Moschops with me to the Icebergs, giving her all the normal points in attack and all the special points in "Polymer collection" at around Wh-274% & Qt-294%:

initially I manually killed three penguins and moved the Moschops above them but it didn't bite the bodies even by enabling the "walk", then I tried to kill the Penguins by riding Moschops and dismounting but nothing, finally I tried to ride Moschops and eat the bodies with the three different attacks but I didn't notice any significant differences compared to using a Pickaxe (I didn't have the club with me, but both with Moschops and with a Pickaxe or Pickaxe I collected between 12 and 20 Poly per single shot); I had done some tests for premium quality meat with my male Moschops but I had put it off to another day because I had few points to put in to notice differences...

I will probably do both tests again this weekend and maybe I will also test the difference using a Bear for the Poly and I will also bring a decent club with me to complete the comparisons, in the meantime update us if you have any news

Edited December 19, 2023 by CervantesMor
Correct Moschops % points

[Scheneighnay]

Over the weekend I successfully moved the convoy of my old tames from my old base at Stonehenge to my new base at the green obelisk. Only loss was my moschops that managed to clip its way out of the cage I built on my paracer's saddle.

I also successfully scouted one land route from the green obelisk to my next build site in the redwoods, where I placed and connected 3 tree platforms at varying heights to start the new base.

My next short-term goal as the new base develops is to tame some terrorbirds so that I can make kibble to begin building my ape legion in the redwoods.

Apes together strong

[yarnevk]

I am still down so this is my daily dose for now.

Have heard nada from several support channels why my MB ignores my SSD.  Going to have to gamble with return and trying another MB.     In the meantime might try pixARK on my laptop...

[Scheneighnay]

3 hours ago, yarnevk said:

I am still down so this is my daily dose for now.

Have heard nada from several support channels why my MB ignores my SSD.  Going to have to gamble with return and trying another MB.     In the meantime might try pixARK on my laptop...

flash the BIOS if you can, I've had that problem in the past.

 

Anyway while on my way to go mine, I found and acquired a unicorn.

[KingOfAshes]

After weeks of searching for a high level Helicoprion, I was on my way to a water cave for an artifact and came across a lvl120. I turned back and proceeded to tame that instead. I then proceeded to level it up to the max for BP conversion of 87%. I gambled my only Ascendant Megatherium saddle in the game so far to make into a BP. Of course, it broke the saddle instead and got nothing lol. The Ark gods were just not happy with me.... 

Edited December 20, 2023 by KingOfAshes

[Chudz66]

Thanks to YouTuber ButchX3, I decided to tame a Rhynio. I figured I’d start with a pair of Brontos and found a level 130 female fairly quickly. Unfortunately, the search for a high level male took five days of wiping out every low level Bronto I saw, until I finally came across a 140. Of course, I hit that with an extra tranq dart right as it went out, so taming effectiveness dropped to 96%, which I decided I could live with. Test Subject 1 was born shortly thereafter and cryopodded after healing.

I already had one pheromone and got another while I was trying to get a high level, female Rhynio to spawn. I flew over the swamp so often that Jerry the Sarco started waving to me each time I passed. He’s the neighborly type.

After two days of looking, I ran across a level 135 female and almost fell off my argy, BB Attack. (She was one of a set of triplets that were born with bright yellow plumage, so BB is for Big Bird. There’s also a BB Hauler and one unnamed left in reserve. Yah, creative, I know. Heh.) We quickly flew (too far?) out of the swamp to set up a generator building to power the cryofridge. Five minutes later, I un-podded Test Subect 1 and put the pheromone in its inventory. Next, I was off to lure the Rhynio back.

I basically had to massacre everything in a one kilometer radius before the bug would agro on me. We were heading back, swerving left and right to avoid the sap shots, and it lost interest in us about halfway to the outpost. Sigh! (Yep, the base was definitely too far.) Anyway, after murdering everything on the ground again, I got it to follow me. We finally made it to the outpost, and I dismounted. This is where mistake number one happened.

In ASE, I saw people using the net gun to immobilize Rhynios for taming. Since nets aren’t available yet, brilliant me decided to put it to sleep instead. The Rhynio was like, “Nope!” after the second tranq landed and took off like a bug outta hell. Test Subject 1 and I looked at each other for a few seconds, dumbfounded expressions on our faces. It was fluttering around in the distance, so I decided to activate the pheromone and bring it back. This was mistake number two. The Rhynio fled as soon as BB and I got near. We weren’t able to keep up as it flew full speed in random directions, and I finally lost it. We scouted the surrounding area for a while, but the 135 Rhynio was nowhere to be seen. We got back to Test Subject 1 in time to see the pheromone deactivate. Blah!

 We packed and podded everything up and headed back to base. It was time to do something different. While I was doing something different, I found the bug that got away! A new generator outpost was established with all due haste. (Closer to the bug this time!) There was going to be no luring back to the outpost this attempt. Instead, I mounted Test Subject 1 when it was un-podded, and we charged forth. Or sort of charged, I guess. There were Dodos behind us honking their horns because we were going too slow.  

 Eventually, the Rhynio engaged us in battle, and this part went well. It was after Test Subject 1 was carrying the parasite that mistake number three happened. Actually, it was more naiveté than a mistake. I didn’t know you had to bring the dino things while the parasite was growing. I saw the message with like two minutes left, raced back to base for the requested Battle Tartar, and my level 41 bug popped out as I was on my way back. Shrug!

 I podded Buggsy, headed back to base, and got sixty-percent of the imprinting done.

 

So next time, if there is a next time, I think I’ll pod Test Subject 2 right after the Rhynio implants the parasite and head back to base.

[yarnevk]

Like ButchX3 youtubes, he is not afraid to show that playing ark is called getting arked for a reason - especially if you go in blind!

Finally got my PC rebuilt (even then epic is just too buggy), then got the crazy idea to build the cliff up above herbi island - using my stegos, trikes and anky to clear the hill.  That jungle is thick - few swipes and they are full and there is dead dilos and raptors and ticklers.  I grabbed a RPG fantasy map of a keep, drafted with thatch foundations and quickly realized doing double walls (old school D&D 5' walls) and double height was going to kill my stone capabilities.  So took things back to single and got the stone walls and wood roof mostly done, but there is hundreds of stone foundations I gotta make!   

Going to need crystal as finally getting into iron age after taking a squadron of ankys up the sw hill. So ButchX3 videos is Inspiring me to tackle caves - and being I am at original ASE EA rates (.125 XP and 0.2 tames) I lack all the ascendant drops he had.  Just lost my max ptera after getting wiped by a Barry after getting suckered into a yellow drop.  So I have been building up a mutant breeding operation (using SP rates and cheated in tek binoculars) using the normys either as hide/meat or expendables chain gang.  My anky gang is bright green and pink makes them easier to see!

Edited January 23 by yarnevk

[yarnevk]

My latest project leaving the keep unfinished is building a stone exploration raft.  Clearing rivers and shorelines so I do not lose dinos on rocks, and there is easy shallow metal and oil to get without drowning the anky.  I just got my beaver saddle so I can craft on the go now and not wait for him to find a tree, but now that I got good harvesting dinos I really do not need a mobile smithy to freshen up my metal tools!

What I noticed is if ankys follow the beaver who is on the raft they will always float and climb onto the raft, but if following the raft or you they will drown themselves even in shallow water.  So I use this when underwater mining they are low on O2 I jump off and they swim safely back up to the raft even if low on stamina - whereas if you tried to surface with them they will struggle and drown.  Seems someone complained years ago they used to float up gasping for air on follow so the devs snidely said OK no more floats they will stay and now we have years of drowning dinos in creeks.

I watched a bunch of leed proof raft videos and they all settled on ceiling/ramp extensions are the secret so its bite misses the raft.   Seems 3x3 foundations covering the raft. with a ring of ceilings then ring of ramps was the simplest design I found.    But I like having the entire raft exposed for easy hitbox of jumping onto the rudder from anywhere.   So what I did was flush pillars at nearly raft corners (2x2) then surrounded that with 2 rings of ceilings then a ring of ramps.   So in theory unless leeds comes straight up from the deeps I should be safe since it is the raft they want to eat so it should not matter that I do not have foundations covering it.

This design I can do gateways as my walls so I can feel the ocean breeze, and have more dino hauling space than my wooden raft with everything crammed on it, then it should do in a pinch as a floating drop tamer.  Just leveled up to argy saddles though I did get lucky and got a yellow saddle - so finally will be able to get more mobile with a raft and argy and get off the hills into mountain doed - though I like all the extras my anky gets he is more of a fuel producer (sparkpowder and oil) than a keep builder!

 

Edited January 23 by yarnevk

[Chudz66]

Buggsy, my bluish gray Rhynio, is pretty awesome even if he is lower level. I grabbed the extra stone and metal building pieces that I had stored away and loaded him up. He hardly noticed as he was deep into a game of chess with Butthead, my pegomastax. They’re both way better at it than I am. And since I was heading to the snowy biome, I decided to bring an otter along. My original otter, Misty, was introduced to Champion (Really cheesed that name…) a while back, and they eventually had a pup named Glenda. She grew up and has almost 1k melee now which definitely helps with the cold.

I found her playing tetherball out back with the Trike babies that hang out around the base, and I’m guessing she had lost a few games because she was looking kind of grumpy. She heard my whistle, waved goodbye to her friends, and hurried over to clamber up on my shoulders. Taming supplies were gathered from various storage boxes and fridges after that, and then we headed out front. Turns out, the chess game had ended in a draw by the time we got back to Buggsy, so I hopped in the saddle, and we began buzzing our way north.

I set up a taming pen on a little island close to shore that lay in the shadow of a mountain, and this is where Buggsy came in really handy. All in all, we tamed three lower level, female Yutys without any close calls. It’s so nice to be able to pick them up and drop them in a pen, definitely less stressful this way. I also saw a level 145 male Yuty that would complete our kibble group nicely. Unfortunately, it was getting late, so I decided to call it a day. Hopefully, I can find it again today.

 

Hope everyone is having fun.

Edited January 25 by Chudz66

[yarnevk]

I miss my otter I got early game who got arked, have yet to see another one.  And now getting into mutant breeding - heading north to find argys after building my trap raft - sure would be nice to have one again as a thermos..

I sure hope the differences I made from the leeds raft videos does not make it a leeds snack if I have to drive over to carno island for one!   It was a long anky stone grind as I need the argy to get a doed.

So much for my anky cave squad the wiki recommended, seems the later ascended videos you need small to get past new constrictions and I doubt they will fit as cannot get them thru double doors, I had to upgrade to dino doors for the raft.   I still like the idea though so will probably egg them into a cave.

[yarnevk]

I hope your taming trip goes better than mine.     Got raft swarmed by kapros on a cold rainy night, I tried to escape up the rope ladder to the top level but they lept and pulled me back down.   Naked freezing corpse run on an iguanadon as it is fast cross country mount hoping the guard pela I had pecked them to death but nope I watched them eat my storage chests - with all the loot drop blueprints and trophies I had been moving to my new base and forget to unload.   So I said OK lets bring they shark navy, but they had died while I was out building the stone raft - all the trough fish rotted as I had took them off aggro as they got too fat on blubber.   So I said this calls for the marines - which consists of only a mid level spino that was an early lucky tame but I do not have a saddle for yet.  No problem I got a sarco if I can just find it in the tall grass - as I do have that on a saddle.  Nope guess a tickle chicken ate it while it pretended to bite back.   Sigh.  So that left my newly acquired low level beaver to lead the amphibious assault.   

Damn the spino and the beaver are not to be messed with I need to get breeding some high level mutants and get them some ladies.   But I got knocked off my supervising rock in the freezing rain into the bayou and swam for the raft.  Thank god I used pillars not foundations for the build - because one more heartbeat I was going to be an icicle under the raft - so it was easy to pull myself onto the raft.   Luckily I still had food left in the fireplace as they ate the fridge.   So now I am naked and afraid and need to head back because I got nothing to shoot argy with - there is no way I am going to swim circles in infested waters trying to figure out which sinking loot bag has my gear.   Back to white gear for a while.

The spino just died from a lvl4 shark because it decided to eat coel instead.

Edited January 25 by yarnevk

[BigChungus1]

I crashed 3 times and jumped around on a roo. I rate my time 6/10. Would have been much worse without my roo.

 

Oh yeah my otter ate a dozen T-Rexes, that was pretty funny. 

Edited January 25 by BigChungus1

[prosans]

19 hours ago, yarnevk said:

I miss my otter I got early game who got arked, have yet to see another one.  And now getting into mutant breeding - heading north to find argys after building my trap raft - sure would be nice to have one again as a thermos..

I sure hope the differences I made from the leeds raft videos does not make it a leeds snack if I have to drive over to carno island for one!   It was a long anky stone grind as I need the argy to get a doed.

So much for my anky cave squad the wiki recommended, seems the later ascended videos you need small to get past new constrictions and I doubt they will fit as cannot get them thru double doors, I had to upgrade to dino doors for the raft.   I still like the idea though so will probably egg them into a cave.

in ase i always get to that point but.. i get lonely and ditch the sever due to lack of interest 

[Eskwyre]

My favourite thing, waiting to see where I'm at when the server comes back online 😂

[Chudz66]

@yarnevk: My taming trip went well, and I hope your chaos has calmed down.
 
 
Speaking of my taming trip, I logged back in and shivered until I got Glenda back on my shoulders. Once she was settled, we scanned the area for nearby threats and didn’t see any, so we hopped on Buggsy and began our hunt. A level 40 female Yuty was found within the first two minutes and flown back to the pen. She tamed up with raw prime meat donations from a couple of mammoths and was podded, leaving me with only one cryopod left. Time for the level 145 male, I thought.
 
Searching for the elusive 145 Yuty wasn’t going well. It obviously wasn’t where I remembered it to be, and it didn’t help that Glenda kept pointing in different directions. Her memory must be as bad as mine. While we were hovering, deciding on what to do next, a Yuty roared off in the distance. Glenda let out a happy squeak, and I immediately steered Buggsy in that direction. It . . . wasn’t the level 145, but it was a level 5 female Yuty. I mean, that’s practically a gimme for a kibble group, so I had to tame it, which we did. Once she was podded, we continued our hunt.
 
Our search area expanded, and we eventually found the 145 going on a rampage by some boulders. Buggsy swooped down, deftly grabbed him, and headed for the trap. The only problem was that the Yuty would chomp my Rhynio to death before we got there, so we had to drop him partway and go heal. The second time was the charm, though. The Yuty plopped into the trap and roared in fury, while an under half-health Buggsy landed a safe distance away to heal up.
 
More than a few shocking tranquilizer darts missed their mark while I was trying to knock him out. I’m totally blaming that on the wind and not on the adult libations that I was enjoying at the time. He toppled to the ground eventually, though, and I hopped off Buggsy to begin the taming process. Since we were a cryopod short, I decided to leave the level 5 female here to be picked up later, and went to throw her pod out. Of course, I received the no cryofridge in range message. Buh!
 
Glenda let out an angry chirp and head-butted me softly.
 
“Oh, like you remembered we forgot to set one up?” I asked my otter.
 
She made a chuckling noise and shrugged her shoulders.
 
I sighed. It was all I could do.
 
The 145 tamed up without issue at least, and then began the long, long trip home with Buggsy hauling a Yuty the whole way.
 
I made saddles when we were finally back and set up the kibble group. Ovira was happy because she had egg-collecting duties again, and we soon had our first round of extraordinary kibble. Huzzah!

[yarnevk]

I started to sail back thinking to try again regroup and wait for another day, it was sunny when I got to the swamp but my beaver was on patrol and ate another croc and snake that got on the raft.  I noticed there was some bag floaters, turns out unlike death bags, storage bags do not stay sunk.    So I got back all the storage they did not eat the goods!   Since the frogs was out chirping now that my marines was on patrol I dove in looking for my death bag hoping it was still there - and it was!

So I decided to gamble loosing my loot again, turned around headed back to the island of death, parked at an empty penisula and tried my initial trap idea which was my dino door rafts and an escape hatchway for the pela - but turns out the massive argy slipped right thru with me.   Luckily I grabbed a stone drop with what I needed to do the simple Captain Fatdog argy trap with 3 double doors and a ramp.  First trial no good since it was on level 2 of my raft and they argys needed to clear level 3 walkway that I had made intending it will be double duty for drop tames.   So I moved it to the top floor, too high.   I finally came up with the idea of using the dino door as the door part and captured a lvl1 thinking it would make great bait and put a runway extension on the side of the raft.

I used the high level pela to take out all the weak argies, and got a max level lined up - and got it briefly trapped - the flaw in my plan was it needs to be double doors the dino doors are too far apart.   So it jumped out and landed in the rocky water and drowned.

Meanwhile in all the searching I created a lot of lowest level rex orphans, they did a good job protecting my raft from the alpha carnos and raptors.   Even got a medium level carno baby for possible caver?   Though they are not marines like the Spino was so will see how I can get them all back home to the egg farm (I refuse to use the pokeballs - I am playing OG ark)

Finally spotted a near max level argy and decided to try the trap one more time, but I need a better xbow or invest in a dart rifle as it too escaped.  But since I have the tek binoculars cheated in I hopped on the pela hoping to get the last narc shot in over land as it was headed for the mainland.  Finally it lands in a jungle clearing at the foot of the mountain.  'save the game' as this would be worst time for a crash having spent an hour chasing this bird (it had already crashed repositioning the raft looking out at the sunrise).  Reloading also fixes the buggy wild temps so I did not die freezing in the jungly and at last my aggro pela another argy to get some prime takeout. 

Now to do it again and get a female!   Or go home and research a better raft argy trap.  At least I can get some IRL sleep tonight.  But I think this argy will survive for a bit before needing a backup egg long as I scout carefully.  Test out the drop top on the raft with some sabers before I go, then run up the mountain and see if get any doedics - then get to base building!

Edited January 26 by yarnevk

[Chudz66]

Let’s see, what else have I done recently that I haven’t chronicled?

Oh, I did finally find a high level female Basilo who is now known as “Betty the Basilo”. There was a 100+ AC saddle waiting for her, too, so she’s pretty beastly. I haven’t found a mate for her yet, though, but I have taken her through both sea caves after leveling her up. I was surprised to see bats in the easy one.

Spork the shark, of course, had a retirement party since Betty arrived. I knew I shouldn’t have let my three Pegos rope me into a shot contest, but I figured we’d send Spork off in grand fashion. Talk about a hangover, but it was kinda worth it to see three Pegos bazooka vomit at the same time.

I also added the QoL+ mod, seeing as I was really missing the inventory transfer option. The Nanny is also a big help. I wonder if she’d work with Rhynio imprinting?

A Rex breeding base was constructed after I found a high level male and female. Right now, all the good stats are on the male, so I’m trying to get females with those stats, but the babies haven’t been cooperating.  

Today, I didn’t have much time, so I focused on some general upkeep first. And then, I remembered seeing a low level, male unicorn on Herbivore Island and thought what the heck. I grabbed some Rock Carrots and set off for the island on BB Attack. I then came back to base and grabbed a cryopod because I figured I’d need one, before setting out again. Then, I came back again because I forgot to get my ghillie suit, and once again we were off.

So after all that, we finally arrived at the island and there was no unicorn to be found. Yargh! I consoled myself by thinking he was probably a jerkwad anyway.

Happy Ark’ing all.

Edited January 30 by Chudz66

[yarnevk]

Carnage on the farm after researching more about breeding because was wondering why my mutant counter > mutant stats.  Turns out it is not a mutant stats counter if you are cross breeding cloned mutants, instead the same mutations get counted multiple times so you can easily find yourself geometrically progressing into no mutations zone.  I was under the impression that if both parents had a mutation like IRL it would be more likely to  get new mutations, but instead it rolls for mutant stat then rolls to pick which parent slightly biased to the stronger one.   I made the mistake of unclaiming anky mutants all at once and letting the remaining ankys swat them - but got caught in the AOE fracas and the ovi ate my corpse and my gear bag vanished.   So I did a manual rollback and had to kill everything twice...

I am going to try the tried and true mutant males studding the clean female clones.  I got one mutant male anxy that has a clean count (stam, oxy for diving) and will use the argy to find some new ladies for it.

I had already snipped the OG anky that I had been using as clearers so they are put out to pasture now.  Turns out just in the entrance of Hunters cave there are blue wall crystals that their AOE reaches - got a storage full without even moving.   So now i have a light/greenhouse tower, a glass walled chapel for artifacts and trophys and a master bed with wall of glass opening onto deck over the cliff, and got my egg farm garden all glassed in. 

Rexes will be super rexes starting from low level, mostly because that is the orphans I picked up so I can learn how it works. Though seems infeasible on SP to actually get min-maxed mutants, and with the SP tame buffs not really needed still fun to learn.  Finally got an industrial grill so I can cook up all the alpha prime they have been getting me - no walls at my new base just rex aggro leashed to my parasaur

Edited January 29 by yarnevk

[Chudz66]

I spent most of my Sunday making extraordinary kibble and getting the base of my Rex line set up and ready to go.

My poor bees. They were so proud of all their honey, and then I came through like a swarm of kibble-making honey-locust. I think there’s only one or two honey left in each hive now, so kibble production is on hold for a bit.

Over at the Rex base, I decided we could use a healer, so we put a Help Wanted sign outside. It attracted a handful of Dodos that kept pecking at the sign and a couple of Dilos that tried to eat the Dodos. I had to sic Sabene, my Sabertooth, on them before a new sign was needed. I put a lot of work into that one! Anyway, the only serious looking applicant was a creepy Pegomastax. He was dressed in a dark trench coat and had a large syringe slung over one shoulder. After he knocked at the gate, I said, “The heck with that,” and turned the turret back on. So as Yoda would say, “Time for a Daeodon, it is.”

Once we were equipped, Buggsy and I headed up north to the Yuty pen where we began our hunt. As we drifted across the snowy landscape, the fluttering of giant insect wings sent some of the more skittish creatures fleeing for their lives. I’m pretty sure I heard a Kairuku yell, “The sky is falling!” before diving into a snowbank.

A little later, we overflew a group of low level Daeodons that were attacking a mammoth, silently rooted for the mammoth, and continued on. We passed a pair of pigs here, a single one there, but they were all low level. Eventually, we happened upon another pig versus mammoth brouhaha, and one of the curly tailed miscreants was level 130. It actually looked to be running away from battle when giant insect legs suddenly latched onto it and pulled it into the sky. The Daeodon was a little bitey on the way back to the taming pen, but Buggsy dropped her in there without a hitch, and she tamed up quickly thanks to the exceptional kibble. I named her Tikachu before podding her.

Back at the Rex base, Doc Tika helped heal up the female rexes that were born with the male’s stats, and we soon had a large enough group to start breeding for mutations. Nothing so far, but I have high hopes.
 

Happy Arking, All!

[yarnevk]

Not having any luck on the doed hunt.   Spent on ark day on giga mountain saw a single digit level.  Moved SW to the next mountain spent another ark day and had more luck on its gentler slopes and saved a few doed balls from rexes - again single digits.   I could have got more stone from my anky on herbi island at this rate.   Finally got a decent level getting mauled by a saber, but it was getting dark out and I did not see the black argy that had dive bombed me on my way down,  had not realized I had grabbed the doed already and killed it instead when I was intending to kill the argy.   And worst of all it was an above max female argy which would have been a needed mate, but I had damaged it too much to try for the tame.  (I guess wild mutants combined with a SP wild bonus gets more than lvl 30? - rare but I do see them!)

Guess I will spend the next ark day heading west...probably better to bring the raft trap so I do not get mauled if I go there and can park and gets lots of tames.

Edited January 31 by yarnevk

[yarnevk]

Flying out to the westmost peninsula that bounds tropical from artic I got mauled by two allosaur mates who I did not think would swim out and climb the rock I was on.   Respawned back at my egg farm and took out my pela as fast as I could and got there just in time to see the argy had taken them out.   Decided to check out the redwoods mountain , and that was a fatal mistake for the pela as the damn flying bug is just as fast as us and pulled the pela down then came after my argy - it lost a lot of feathers but prevailed for some tasty bug guts.  Did not stick around for the loot as there was a mess of swamp below us and I was not sure it had anymore feathers to lose.

As a consolation prize I caught another mid-level beaver lady near my egg farm with one stat better than my other one.   So I am hunting for male beaver today, even if low level I will just keep popping them out until I clone the female as a male.   They are too rare just never find high levels and I keep loosing them on wander.   I got a storage full of wood again, but what I need is stone!

At least my journey filled in the map and got me some more notes.

[Chudz66]

Well, no mutations for the Rexes yet. However, I did realize that my Oviraptor at the Rex Base, Ethyl, could use more points in weight. We stopped by after several hours of doing other stuff and found her buried under a pile of Rex eggs. Oops! Emergency Services were called, and in less than two minutes, three Gigantopithecuses (Gigantopitheci?) parachuted in and began the rescue. Ethyl’s fine, but she is considering a lateral job change. And after thinking about it, I might pod her for a bit and level up the other Oviraptor that’s currently in the fridge, focusing on weight.

My bees are still recovering from the abrupt decline of their honey stores, so I decided to cheer them up. I gave Butthead and Eff’Wad, two of my ever-growing number of self-tamed pegos, kazoos and other noise makers and sent them on a mission codenamed “Smiley Bees”. I watched as they began heading for the hives with an aura of upbeat kazoo music surrounding them. Eff’Wad honked a bike horn several times, testing it out, and Butthead accompanied him with hand cymbals. They rounded a corner of the base, and the sound of their music faded a bit. After a brief pause, the happy kazoo music ramped up exponentially, punctuated here and there by horn beeps and the crash of cymbals. This went on for all of ten seconds before I heard a loud buzzing noise.

I looked around, thinking Buggsy, my Rhynio, was about to land nearby, but he was nowhere in sight. That’s when the kazoo music suddenly changed from happy go lucky tones to the discordant notes of someone accidentally stepping on a Titanoboa nest. The repeated honking of the bike horn and erratic crash of cymbals began getting louder, along with the buzzing. Then, my two pegos burst into view trailed by a swarm of angry bees, who are definitely not music enthusiasts. Butthead flung his cymbals away before diving into the ocean, and Eff’Wad wasn’t far behind. When I . . . um . . . left to do other things, the bees were still loitering above the water while two improvised kazoo-snorkels pierced its surface.
 
I decided to let things cool down around the base, so Buggsy and I headed for my sap platform in the red woods. I had seen a video where someone, I think Syntac, had made a Thyla taming pen on a treehouse platform. I ground out materials, manufactured building pieces, and Buggsy helped ferry them up to be installed. We eventually had something that loosely resembled what I saw in the video, and then it was time to test it out.

A low level Thyla attacked us when we landed to save the game, and Buggsy quickly dispatched it. I’m not sure if anyone else runs into this, but my game crashes fairly often when I’m flying near or in the red woods, so I also save quite often. Case in point ten minutes later, I spotted a Rhynio just inside the tree line and decided to get some height for a better view. My game crashed as we were heading upward. I figured I’d spawn at my last save, which was on the ground, so I loaded back in. Nope! We were up in the air still, and I plummeted toward the forest floor. I don’t think flapping my arms as fast as I could helped, but it made me feel a little better during the descent at least. Luckily, I survived the drop and was able to heal up with some medical brews. It kind of killed my adventuring mood for the day, though, so I decided to wrap things up.
 

Happy Ark’ing, All!

Edited February 3 by Chudz66

[yarnevk]

Do you have Global Illumination on High/Epic?  After my trip there with too many save/reload the game from too many disco lightshafts and blackout shadown dancing leading to GPU hangs or impossible to even see in forests -  I settled for the uglyness of Medium (caves are nasty looking now).   Have yet to have any problems!

[Chudz66]

Thanks for the suggestion. I do have Global Illumination set at Medium unless I'm in the easier sea cave. I change it to High when I'm in there so everything doesn't go grayscale on me.