PS4 - Single Player - The Island
Last night I continued to tame up a frog army. ended up with 9, plus grabbed 4 female Dimorphs so I can start breeding them.
With the settings low, grinding out Cementing paste is well ... a grind. So I thought I would try something different with my froggies. I built a raft and made a huge enclosure on it made of wood railings. I then dropped all my frogs into it, and put them on aggressive. I then put my best Argy on follow and I started driving the raft to the swamp. My thinking was that I would kill something with the Argy, leave its body near the raft, and when the dragonflies come in, the frog army would eat them up.
Well before I even made it to my spot in the swamp, my Argy got aggro'd and started flying around like a crazy bird. It then somehow proceeded to glitch thru the raft enclosure. Not too bad I thought, but then I noticed he somehow managed to push 4 of the frogs thru with him. (Remember that I put the frogs on aggressive.) So they went apecrap crazy and took off in all directions. I tried to wrangle them up, but that meant going in the water. So I see one, and am trying to get close enough to whistle, when piranhas attack, and I get out of the water with about 50 HP... I mean I was nearly dead. So I quickly go thru all the cooked meat and berries I had on me in order to heal. So I grab some resources and make a couple of fires. I then grab some meat and start cooking it, only to be attacked by a unseen boa, that destroys one fireplace, and knocks me out and then kills me. Luckily I was right next to the raft and had already put a bed on it. , The frogs still in the enclosure managed to kill the snake. I respawned and noticed that my Argy (who was on neutral) is NOWHERE to be seen. I check the tribe log, and no deaths. So I spent the next 1/2 hour getting the lose frogs back, and then I take the whole group back to base. I then grab my 2nd best Argy and go out looking for the first one.
Well after an hour or so of no luck, but a lot of near deaths thanks to Kapro, Carnos, boas, etc. I finally give up, and figure I will stumble upon him in the weeks to come. I then head back to camp where I had been stock piling resources for the last week. I use all that up plus grind some more, to create a huge stone enclosure on a small island in the swamp not far from the red OB and the Redwoods. I then leadr all the froggies into the enclosure, and once again set them on aggressive.
I then decided to look again for my lost Argy. After about a 1/2 hour I fly back to the frog tank, and check to see if I have any cementing paste. Sure enough I was lucky, and a few of the frogs had CP in them, plus some hide. Once I am done checking the frogs, I went to get on my Argy. Only to discover that this one had disappeared too! DILO Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Damnit WC. I had landed my Argy inside the enclosure. How does it just disappear? (and no, it wasn't on follow) So I had to run/swim all the way back to my base nearly dying 2 times, and even had to eat the boa egg and hesperonis egg I collected on the way, just to stay alive. I finally made it back to base, but mad about the two missing Argies, so I logged off for the night.
I normally cheat and spawn in tracker nodes just for this reason. My rational is that the games glitches and causes your flying tames to take off, so I'm ok with spawning in the nodes to track them down. But I forgot to do so, and now I out my top two Argies!