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Quick blurb; We ran the Alpha Rag fight last night. Mixed results. The technique for drawing the Golem's when they popped up was great. I discussed with my allies how/where to move their Rex's as I moved by with the tanks to grab them up. So that worked fairly well. My ally did lose a Rex. Rex's got stuck on themselves and he took a direct impact from the dragon. It's Alpha level and even with reduced impact damage, the DOT attack after significantly hurt his Rex. I don't know if it was a Golem pop or a Griffin hit that did that Rex in. My tank Rex's performed great. 12k hp loss on the one I rode, 18k loss on the unridden one. No Yuty buff this time. I told my tribe mate to stay with the group. 116 armor saddles, mate boosted, 100% imprint. 40k hp. It works. Same as before I stayed on the edge, no harassment from anything. I just sat there and fired off rounds at the Dragon and then the Manticore. The only time the Manticore messed with me was after I pulled all the Golem's. Think we have the dino's, resources, and know how to farm Alpha rag now as an alliance which is significant with the amount of element we get from that. I think a few more fights and we can start selling the fight. It's highly sought after for the tek transmitter and to a lesser degree the transporter unlock. Edit: Forgot to mention a new milestone. My tanks took down two of the Golem's this time. They still have level's to go and sit 647 percent melee in addition to the 40k hp. They'll hit 700 soon enough. Just thought that was neat since I've wanted to kill a Golem in the fight.

All points should go into melee and the percentage is of their base damage. giga base damage is 1000 so 45% of that rex base damage is 62 so you need 726% to equal your giga currently phiomia base damage is 10, I'm not even doing this math That being said, it is a bit of a worthless tame at that level but really it is still very strong and will be alright for simple meat runs in the swamp. Just don't use it to fight other giga's, titans, alpha's, and avoid kentro's with it else it will rage and eat you.

Aside from more cave runs looking for a Rex saddle BP, I moved my main base from storage boxes to vaults. I really hope I never have to move again in real life . . . unless of course I win the grand prize in some four hundred million Lotto game. Then, I'd make an exception. P.S. Anyone else think they might have hoarder tendencies in Ark? I'm not asking for me, of course. It's for a friend....

Finished the workshop, built a fabricator, a generator, cabling and my first refrigerator. I've got powah! Very nice, about time. Still a very long way to go. I also desperately need a better anky and a bird, and a quetz would be nice too...but one step at a time. Having completed my building for the day I went out to tame and came back successful. Added 2 more dilos, a dimo, a pachy, 2 paras, a ptera and a terror bird to my farm. I also ended up taming another micro because it was annoying me while I had the terror bird down, so I now have an unintentional egg group of those lol. I'm actually in pretty good shape now, with at least one female of every imprint kibble animal except gallis and dimetrodons, of which I currently have none of either. Animal wise my biggest priority now will be two more female argents to complete an egg flock. I am really hurting without a good spino, I just do not like rexes that much. With the workshop completed my biggest base priority by far is the aviary itself to protect my rapidly growing collection of farm animals, plus it will eventually house my working birds too. But I also need a lot of interior work. The biggest in every sense of the word is of course an industrial forge, but an immediate need is also a grill so I can begin jerky production in earnest now that I have a fridge, eggs and crops. One fridge will also fill up very quickly, as I'm used to having at least 4 or 5 just for basic food storage. And of course who can make kibble without a cooker... So, so much to do.

I farme Black Pearls With out x2? And farmed Meat for All the rex we Are breeding Uhh and spino sails! So overall a Pretty neat Day. Lets see what tomorrow brings

Quite a day, whew. So I'm off of work for the rest of the week recovery after a surgical procedure (am fine for the record) and decided to use my time to get a bunch of stuff done. I built and I built and I built and... I apologize for the terrible image quality, but that's basically 1/4 of the new Arkanus completed, the entire bottom floor. The bird's wing is obscuring the split level on the left and of course you can't see the chambers under the ceilings. There's 6 main rooms all connected by interior corridors, not including the open space in the middle. That core part of the base is the aviary/egg pen. I haven't yet built the exterior landing pad/ramps so I only ended up moving the smaller animals in. It's a bit messy right now, which is why I appreciate a relatively clean in progress shot. Having spent most of the day building, I decided to use my evening hours for hunting. Came back with a new para to begin a new herd after the previous one was completely destroyed by the rogue theri. Also tamed a pachyrhino, oof those are not fun tames. Also found two Easter microraptors and happened to have some flowers from raiding dams earlier, so I got both. I used to breed micros actually, so I'm happy to have them. They are no joke, one of mine even got the kill shot on a 130 theri on the walk home. Spent some time moving animals around to a better configuration now that the weakest/smallest of them are safely protected by large, very thick stone walls. I won't relax entirely until I can move all the farm animals up but that's still going to take some time. For now they are ringed by my stronger animals as it will be some time before I completely secure my perimeter. At the very least tomorrow I would like to get the workshop enclosed so I can start working on building all the necessary crafting stations. I still only have forges, a smithy and a mortar at this point. Ideally I'd also like to get power hooked up and at least one fridge built to accommodate my rapidly growing egg collection. Even without an oviraptor (the biggest downside to this event) my animals are still producing fairly steadily, which is nice. I'd also like 2 more dilos to get more eggs faster--the ankys I already tamed just aren't good enough for my purposes. At least I can keep two for eggs and I'll try to sell the other male off. Also two more argents, the faster I get a good spino the happier I'll be.

PS4 - Single Player - The Island So yesterday, I continued on with my new character back on the Island with default settings. Man the night comes quickly and often! I forgot that with my other characters, the daytime is maxed and the nighttime is minimal. So it was weird to have nightfall come so often. I did some more grinding and build a forge, smithy, added a few more pestles and got 4 crop plots going, so I can start making kibble for taming a better Pteradon. I then built a raft, and decided to travel over by the bay in the SE corner of the map, so I could grab some crystal, pearls and obsidian. I loaded up the raft with my best Parasaur to help carry the resources I would collect. We traveled tight to the shore, but were attacked by a Sarco, that killed me before I even knew what was happening. When I first start a new character out, I pump up weight and melee points, but leave health for later. So the Sarco got an easy snack. I then I realized that I had forgotten to build a bed on the raft, so I had to spawn back at base, and run/swim all the way back to the raft. Finally the raft rendered in, as a piranha killed my Parasaur. I jumped on the raft and got out of there, making my way around the "stonehenge" island and as I did, I saw trapped shark. I thought about taming it, but it was only a level 3 and I didn't really want to waste time on it at this time. Good thing I kept going, because about 100 yards later, I came face to face with an Alpha shark that would have killed my shark in a heartbeat. Finally made it around the penisula, and back west into the bay. As I made shore, I saw a level 20 parasaur, which was by far the highest level parasaur I have seen on this setting. I gotten it trapped in some rocks, and armed with my newly made crossbow, I put it down. This time I took my time, and was able to get a 99% TE on it. Then nightfall came, and so I huddled on the raft with the parasaur and two dilos I tamed when they tried to mess with me on the beach. crowded around the campfire we waited for dawn to set out again. But in real life, it was time for bed. Until tonight.

Yesterday I did basically the same thing as Monday. Built one chamber of my base, this actually completes the bottom third of the first floor aside from a few corridor ceilings. Worked a little more on the floor layout as well, I think I have it mostly in my head now. Then I went out hunting, some bad luck meant I didn't really find anything. Did get a stego but the tame took forever ugh. I don't understand why they didn't leave x2 on for the event but whatevs. But that herd is complete so barring any unforeseen circumstances and more rogue theris I won't ever have to do that again. Now I'm trying to decide what I should prioritize in the base build itself. The aviary will take the longest because it's the single biggest part of the entire base. It is very important and I would feel a lot better if I were able to move all my farm animals inside. On the other hand the other rooms in the base will be more immediately useful because I can't set up most of my crafting stations until the second floor is done. One of the problems with such a highly integrated base design is that the base basically needs to be built before any of the interior can be set up. I guess I'll just do as much building as I can stand to do today and see where that gets me.

PS4 - Single Player - The Island So lately I've gone back and started to re-watch the entire NEEBS GAMING video playlist for ARK. They are the reason I ever got into the game. Well I was watching the very first few episodes, and just shaking my head watching some of the Noob moves they made. but I also starting remembering how exciting it was back then, being afraid of all the dinos and not having the proper defenses. unlike now, when I can pretty much kill any dino I want at will (exception of Alphas and Golems and Gigas) So I decided to create a totally new character, under a different log in account and start fresh. That isn't a huge change. the BIG thing, was that I went back to using the game's default settings. For the last year +, I have used boosted setting for resource gathering, taming speed, hatching, maturing, and slowed down the hunger and thirst affect. HOLY DILO! I forgot what a pain it is to have to eat/drink like every 2 minutes, instead of every 30 minutes. And resource gathering ... OMG the grind is real!! I played for about 3.5 hours last night, and all I managed was to tame 2 parasaurs, 2 dodos (killed the others for hide) and a pteradon. Sure I can't even build a saddle for another 20 levels, but he landed right next to me, and was a level 24, so I bola's him and clubbed him. Sadly a dilo jump scared me, and got in a few licks on the Ptera before I could kill it, so it only raw meat tamed out to level 30. But at least I will be ready to fly. I've already crafted up a bunch of narcotics (that meat spoil rate!) and am just waiting until I can unlock the tranq dart. I also have to figure out where to get crystal. Since I am starting out in the South central part of the map, the mountains are waaaay far away, so I have to try and remember if there is a cave nearby. I did notice a Spino not far away, so I need to be aware of that when out gathering. There are a bunch of turtles on the beach next to my peninsula base, and I've killed a few, but I saw last night a level 32 appears to be trapped in some rocks. That is the highest level dino I've come across thus far, and she would offer me some water transport. I could get oil with her. It was also funny to get killed by low level dinos again. I got killed by a frigging flying pego bird level 4! As well as a couple turtles and a trike that I accidently hit. But I got revenge on them all, except the Flying ichy. Damn those pesky bird demons. I have not given up my other ARk characters, but I just wanted a change of pace for a bit. I'm sure later in the week, when I get frustrated by the extreme grind, and the time it takes to tame animals, I will switch back to RAG or SCORCHED characters.

I just tamed my first Giga and found out that it wasn't worth it in the least. It was a lvl 20 Giga when it was wild and now it's lvl 40. I already have three Rexes that are lvl 220+ and ALL OF THEM are WAY better than the Giga.... It has a minimum of 3000 less health than all of my Rexes and for gods sake my lvl 200 Phiomia hits almost 3X HARDER IN THE MELEE DAMAGE DEPARTMENT (The Giga has 45% melee damage...). Because of it's overall patheticness I named her Tiny. If anybody's wondering why I bothered to tame a lvl20 Giga, it's because it's literally the only one that spawned on the entire map. I scouted the entire map with my Pteranadon before I settled for a lvl 20. I'm just glad I have a Giga now so that I can move on and tame things that might actually be worth the effort...

Every ARK Video Maker is playing Pixark right now