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Realized i forgot to do an update. Sunday I decided to get with the tek grind. Went out and did a few more mats runs. With another alpha ape down, went and made a few more Tek dino gates, a few test foundations, some pillars for my base (look ugly - will not be adding lol) then decided id give real tek a try and made a genny and a tek trough. I dont really need either.. but ive never truely played with much Tek. I started using my leftover ingots to slowly convert my base to metal. Made a few walls and foundations, placed em and got bored lol Happens every time I get to metal base tier, im going to have to make it more interesting for myself. The next day I only logged on to top off troughs and logged. The day after I didnt want to play really, so after a bit of a internal debate I started a fresh scorched earth toon. I never played scorched really, my tribemates on official did most scorched stuffs and i kept to island. I figure ill give it a go on my off time. Fresh spawns, no item or dino transfers, no fliers. I might eventually transfer some dino scorched doesnt have, maybe a bear or theriz. Vanilla rates except 2x harvest and 2x dino weight. I spawned in easy zone, never really played scorched as mentioned so it was refreshing to struggle with a (almost) brand new map with different conditions. I struggled for hours trying to get a footing and get some hide. Made about 4 huts and kept getting owned by Sabres, raptors and such. Finally found somewhere i remember. That canyon with the river in it. Made it down there and set up another hut on the cliffs. Crafted a boomerang and went down to (constantly) get some water and hopefully find a raptor i can kill for some hide. Theres a pack sitting in the water, a level 5, 15 and a 60. I sat up on the cliff and started throwing my boomerang trying to hit one of em. Finally, a hit connects and they come rushing towards me. Im on a cliff, fools.. hah! ....Yeah... raptors jump now i forgot. Got owned, spawned near and made my way back into the canyon with revenge in my heart. Got my body, had to suicide again to get raptors off the cliff and near a higher one they cant pouce me on. Threw a few spears to lure them close so i can boomerang them. I didnt know the boom was a torpor inducer, so i knocked out the level 15 and 5 Went down, got my hide and threw the meat on the level 5. Tamed up really quick and i was stoked! Finally something that can help me. I threw it on follow and tried bringing it around to get up onto my little platform. Remember that level 60 raptor? Yeah I didnt. Pounced, dead. My noobie raptor died too. Got my body back, got a bit of hide from my raptor (rip) and made a sleeping bag. Not even 5 minutes later that raptor some how got up top and killed me. I accidently spawned on my bag by habit, died again and got fed up and logged The next day I found out I can change maps on my server without losing my Rag progress (thanks @DJRone89 and yes, that was me.) So im thinking i might switch map to island or SE. Not sure yet. Ill mess around on SE SP until I decide.

Had a fun weekend in Ark Officials got 1.5x breeding so i wasn't sure how much of it I would get with Mother's day on Sunday but my mother was going away on Sunday so we made plans for Monday instead and I got me some quality hatching. I popped a lot of eggs I had stored up but as usual only a few made the cut. First with the 1.5 event my current crop of Quetz and Yuty finished a bit sooner. Which was good to make room. I traded several of them away too which I'll cover next. While hatching looking for my complete Quetz mute color i got triplets. They pulled the green beak, the orange head, but they also received an oxygen mutation and it changed the wing color to a color like this. It was a very cool color but looked terrible with the head and beak. I decided i didn't want to try and breed that color out as color's aren't my focus anyway and so i killed the triplets and kept on hatching. I ended up with 4 Quetz keepers. A new 0 mutation female and a male and two females of; The full color set. This allowed me to move all the mutes that got me to this point. I'm very happy with this and may even go outside of my line to find a nice body and a nice neck color. I also received a gift from a friend. 419.8 melee Theri egg. I hatched and got a female. she has a green stripe down her back so I am going to combine her with my purple male and maybe a cyan male (too see what it looks like) and pull in the 9.2k hp and 1710 stamina I have. She only has 20 total mutations so if i can get a male I may be able to even build on that melee/hp. I hatched a few abberant anky eggs looking to get a female with the 439.8 melee I had acquired in a trade, discussed last week, but was disappointed when a 424 melee female popped. I immediately contacted the guy. It seems like he grabbed the wrong anky and it is getting sorted. I should be able to pick up my male tonight/tomorrow. Here's a story of stupidity and a reason for hatching. I contracted swamp fever. I know you can use a lesser antidote to heal but mistakenly thought you could die to. since i was further from the base that houses most of our stuff i went to a side base. Put away all my valuables and went to die. I was in the highlands so i was running to the scar when i heard a Giga stuck in an enclosed area. perfect. i ducked under the gate ran up to the Giga and punched it. "You were killed by a level 140 Gigantosaurus." What happened next shocked me and saddened me a little but also gave me a reason for my next hatching. "Your level 303 vulture was killed by a level 140 Gigantosaurus." RIP. Totally forgot he was on my shoulder. Purple body. 2k hp, 598 melee. Has saved me so many times when I DC. Worst of all, was it was in vain as I still had swamp fever. I had my tribe mate make me a lesser antidote. I teleported over to a different location, and healed myself. I went back to base and dropped a few vulture eggs as I know I had 1125 hatch hp in the fridge. I also reacquired my vulture from allies who had 378 hatch melee. one of the eggs popped with the 1125 but it was female. So i also hatched an egg looking for a male. a purple male hatched. i raised both of them up on 1.5x and when finished I bred the male with the 378 female and got a blue male (378 is on a blue body, blue head bird) and raised him up. he just finished this morning so I will breed him with the 1125 hp female and get a few eggs from them to hatch for Sunday. I didn't hatch any Yuty eggs. I wanted the last ones to finish up so i could take stock and sell off and figure out breeding patterns. i got that sorted and resumed breeding to gather eggs for Sunday. I hatched more Argy eggs but no keepers. So it ended up not being any more of a normal breeding time from me besides for the reduced maturation timers. Trades; I had several trades and inquiries about trades this weekend. Traded a male Yuty that hatched 9900 hp, 2184 stamina, 355 melee for 4k poly and 2 artifacts. Traded a female Yuty already leveled up to 38k hp, 4100 stam for a full set of Rag artifacts Traded another Yuty for a 140 tamed Basilisk. I just kind of wanted one. I asked my tribe mate if he wanted it for farming on Aberration but he did not so I am going to turn it into a killer instead. It started with 9k hp and 276 melee. I traded a full grown adult Theri 9.2k hp with 408 melee but leveled to 21k hp, 715 melee for 28 glowtail eggs. This was again for my tribe mate. He hatched all of those and we picked through and kept 7. They are raised so he'll move them over to Ab to start combining the stats. Could end up with a line that has 874 hp, 944 regen, 430 capacity, and 353 range. I assume that's good. lol. I moved a breeding pair of mute Quetzal's for two Tek behemoth sets. I also moved another mute Quetzal for a Tek behemoth set. This will go to my flyer barn as I start to turn that over to full tek. I believe i moved another Yuty as well. The rest of the Theri's didn't sell so I gave a few to my allies and killed off most of the rest. I did have a trade set up to get 8k poly for another mute Quetz but that player turned out to be on legacy. 2x taming, xp, harvesting. Last night they gave a special 24 hour event for 2x and I made sure to take advantage. I stocked my fridges for the week (long work week) and to help finish off the Quetzal's. I also started to tame my breeder females for the Megaloceros program. I expect to start that this Sunday as well as I have had several people inquire about it since they know I am going to work on it. i haven't found better base hp so will just need to start it and get it through mutes. The taming yesterday added 3 females for a total of 4 to the breeding pool. Three 135's and a 140. Rest of weekend; No boss fights as my allies attended to outside Ark stuff. I added a third floor for the Quetzal's in their section of the flyer barn and I added a second floor for two Wyvern's in the Argy breeding section of the flyer barn. I also began to replace the pillars and the ceilings with tek. We'll do some fights during the week. I also jumped over to the island server we plan on ascending from and moved the Rex's off of red ob. One other crew stores their's up there and it's rude and a cluster. A small area had opened up on the beach below red so I brought over some gates and turned that into the Rex storage area for fights. It also makes it easier to feed them since i can place troughs there. I also took a Theri over there and sorted out some of the stuff. One of my allies allies are moving permanently to PvP so he is in a tribe with them on their island server and is going to merge with them on our rag server. We're not incredibly established on our current island server so we may just go over to his server where they are very well established. The tribe moving on is incredible builders so I can only imagine what their base looks like. lot of options to discuss there. I also bought and watched Black panther. What a great movie. Chadwick Boseman does a good job but Michael B Jordan's Killmonger was done great adding the right amount of humanity to the villian. Marvel rarely disappoints me. Coming up; Start the Deer program. Get my shoulder Rex hatched, continue with the Yuty, Argy, and Quetz programs. Boss fights. Fun. Until next week.

Today we started up picking up ingots, crystal, and obsidian at the blue obelisk. Here is our argent army Next we just continued work on the Rex Factory. Managed to get all but 4 walls finished before having to go to work. I also installed the s+ glass corner. I wanted to make it bigger but had less crystal then i thought Tomorrow we will for sure finish the walls and hopefully make good headway on the ceiling. I'm really hoping to have it finished by Friday because I have plans with family Saturday morning so we wont be able to play our usual 4 or 5 hours, but Id really like to start hatching rex this weekend.

PVE Official server Last night i put in some good hours, but as usual felt like i got nothing really done. tidied up the dino's again need to set them to passive and get my baryonyx back on guard duty. while i was organising stuff from my argy a wild lvl 25 Lystrosaurus was wandering in my bass so i tammed him up to go along side another i have. Flew to my redwood mountain base and did a metal/crystal run with anklo. on the way back down spotted 2 sabers lvl 10 and 20, dropped the ankloy in base walls and headed back up. knock them out and started tamming with raw prime meat,suprised how quickly it jumped on tamming. got them back to base all tamed up, so now have 2 meat gatheres for that base too, also started cooking up some kibble to train a DEOD , want to start upgrading to stone walls so will be a great help, will wait for the 2x event to tame a high level one.

Mainly spent the evening last night on our Ragnarok PVE unofficial showing another player around the sillica pearl water tunnel under the water in Pirate Bay. I also spent some time trying my hardest to get back from the desert alive carrying a thorny dragon with my argentavis - not fun! It would aggro and spike my bird when picked and I had to ride it out a few seconds without sprinting but continue to fly as soon as I stalled mid-air it would attack again. To add to the problem the spikes are poisonous so not only was it dealing damage it also increasing my birds torpor - luckily got it back without it getting too bad and knocking my bird out. I also got some pictures of the progress so far on my public cave: That's my modest home with the remains of my breeding "tower" / start of my workshop to the right/behind my home. Picture showing the walls above my cave to stop Carnos and the like wandering in for a swim and light snack on my dung beetle and lystro. My relaxing/fishing area to the side of my home overlooking the waterfall coming in from above. My dock and bridge across to the other smaller island - more salmon in the waters there so gonna setup a couple of small fishing huts. Still have to finish the workshop and make a start on the stables and eatery/public bar.

Helped out others on the server mainly and then continued working on my Pirate Cave public build. Funniest moment was flying down to the desert on Ragnarok to pick a Kangaroo with with my Argy to take for another tribe to tame up after selling him on the idea of using the fast, mega jumping Kanga for berries instead of a slow Trike. I got to the desert, took quite some time finding a low level Kanga - all seem to be 130-150 and don't think the guy has time to tame up a high level so wanted to grab a lower one for him. I eventually spot a level 60 and go in for the pick after resting to regen my birds stamina and once picked up I start heading north over the desert/mountains and back towards the volcano area to drop it off for him... ahhh ohh, ahh ohh, ahh ohh.. darn I didn't bring a canteen and I'm slowly dying from dehydration. My mind throws me back to Scorched Earth and I head towards the mountains, keeping my health topped up with a couple health brews I have but still miles from water - I let the guy know I might not make it as dehydrated and the response is calm and well thought - "Why don't you fly towards the shore?".. doh! of course the desert on Ragnarok is surrounded by a coastline. I bow my head in shame and sling a right turn towards the coast where I take a drink and continue my journey. I ended the evening building fences around the top of my cave so that I don't get anymore surprise visitors dropping in (Carno nearly wrecked me and the other guy on one visit dropping from the land above). I was then going to pull down my breeding "tower" (behemo gate height box) and make a workshop and stables but got distracted and instead bridged the islands in the cave to start working on my fishing deck area. Will try and get some pictures together when it is more complete.

The Evolution Events are the only thing that keeps me interested in Ark Official Servers. The rates for official servers are set to low on weekdays. I am a casual player, I have a career, home, and a family to take care of but I do enjoy playing Ark in my free time, typically a few hours every week-night and weekends. With the normal official rates, it takes prohibitively too long to tame bigger/useful dinos so I rely heavily on the Evolution Events but as of lately, even the Evolution Events have not been as frequent as they used to. This "every other weekend" idea is unbearable. Wildcard as an avid consumer I must make it known that whenever you have new DLC's to purchase, I do so times 3. So that myself and my kids all get copies for their account. I believe it is fair to say that I bring a considerable increase in your bottom dollar but if the Evolution Events continue to be only available "every other weekend" and the current Official server rates remain the same or less, then I may no longer be supporting your product. Your product is a great one and I have had plenty of fun moments within your game but the timesink is getting way out of hand. I feel deeply that your loyalism to your players is left wanting... You do not create enough innovated new servers they are usually just the same old PVE or PVP server number 200......blah blah. As a casual and single player I do greatly appreciate your Offline-Raid-Protected servers but even then for us casual players, they are typically overwhelmed by Asian alphas spamming their square characters and blocking off all of the vital resources. I recommend that you create a new server for casual players that are both "Offline Raid Protected" and "NO TEK" combined, that should also limit tribe member sizes, prevent tribe alliances, and is completely isolated (no character/item uploading or downloading at all). This way the server you start on is the very same server you stick with throughout your entire time playing. The TEK was always a crap idea for casual players as we were never going to be able to enjoy that aspect of the game and TEK only serves the larger alpha tribes which only widens the divide between casual players and Alphas. Wildcard, I sure hope that this is the best forum to post this suggestion/complaint as your forum is really large and confusing. Thank you, Sincerely, Vaylain

Scorched can be a best at first. I pumped points into water early as well as health, and instead of building big bases, I instead make a small adobe base as soon as possible, or a stone base in a cave. I tame a morellotops for the water function, and then I go straight for the Argies! My last SE character, I had about 6 Argies before I even leveled up to the saddle! I kept them flying after me for protection and hauling. Sorry your first forray into Scorched was such a nightmare.

Kibble gives the most amount of food for Daedons, but of course can be a pain to make mass amounts. Second best is cooked prime/mutton followed by cooked meat

1) I thought I could only get swamp fever from leeches. learn something new all the time! 2) Thank you .... I can make a ton of Allo kibble, as I have so many females over at my Wyvern Scar base. Did not know about the rendering trick either. Wow, feeling very Nooby this week. 3) ok, I see some videos where they are talking about veggie cakes, but wasnt sure if that is for Rexs too.

1) Swamp fever, make antidotes (or drink wyv milk its a cure all) 2) Iguanadon kibble, other kibbles or cooked meat. Level just food on them. You dont bring them in the boss fights, you just use to heal between. Fill with cooked meat, heal up. To fill its food quick simply leave render and come back. It will eat to its full food level. To give you an idea.. my daedon has 100k food and that 100k will only heal all my theriz like 20% or less, if you brought in a boss fight you would need to ride it AND have over 3k kibble to make it last.. just ride yuty. Grab a few megatherium for your brood battles,,they own there 3) Cooked meat, honestly you wont need it though. It heals to little to make a difference

I'm giving a shoutout to PVE-OfficialServer33 as well. The thing is, the reason I HAVEN'T been on this server much recently is that,,,*wait for it*,,,I've been busy rebuilding my SE base from the last migration. Feature not a bug? If WC is going to offer multiple DLC server types, I'm not sure each server activity alone reflects overall player participation. My main base is the Island. There should be some accounting for my being on SE , Ragnarock and Abberation servers. You can't be everywhere at once, and WC is offering DLC's that by definition mean your time on any particular server is going to be diluted.

I have no knowledge on how the devs assess a server as being active or not active enough to be retained, however, the leaderboard you linked to does not show 50 active players. Player #1 on that list has played 230 hours over 30 days (there are 720 hours over a 30 day month). Therefore if we take the top 5 players from that list, this is how much they have played in total over the past 30 days: #1 - 9.5 days (230 hours) #2 - 6.1 days (148 hours) #3 - 5.2 days (127 hours) #4 - 4.7 days (113 hours) #5 - 3.5 days (84 hours) You yourself are in position #28 at 1.1 days (28 hours). #50 has played 4.75 hours in the past 30 days Now, I haven't looked at other servers in the kill list or the popular list, but from that leaderboard i'm not sure whether you are considering "active" the same way the devs do. More than half of the people on that list of 50 have not played the equivalent of even 1 day in the last 30 days.

after a busy weekend breeding and with an assignment due in at university I am going to have half an hour on now to get meat and berries then do boring uni work haha

Aberration - modded single player: It’s a full house. So, I still haven’t found a place for my offsite facility, mainly because I got distracted by my main joy in Ark, breeding. I decided to take a break from the featherlight mutation pursuit, and instead hatched a round of dimorphodons. Four eggs, five jet black birds...no mutations, but that’s okay. I moved them out and tried again, and currently have another five jet black juvenile dimorphodons. Some day I will get a color mutation. Some day. My two adolescent wyverns are sitting at around 95%...they should be finished today or tomorrow. And, I realized my hoard of shoulder pets had something missing, so I spawned in four jerboas and immediately bred a fifth - my first jerboa baby, who hit a jackpot with a health mutation, but again not a used color region. I really do have abysmal luck. Fun fact, jerboas alert on earthquakes like they do for electrical storms. And I also found a satisfactory female otter, and therefore took one of the dragons and ate the entire river several times over to gather fish. I accidentally ate a few otters and it made me sad. ? But if I wanted to breed my otters I needed a boatload of fish, because one of the Ark quirks I find most inconvenient is the way carnivores of all sorts favor fish over meat, meaning otters (and my pelagornises in other games) have to be inventory fed because I hate the water in Ark and want to spend as little time as possible messing around in it. And sure enough, my first juvenile otter is sharing the trough meant exclusively for her with every other carnivore in range. It’s a massive pain. But she is adorable and Aberration’s extremely friendly, shallow rivers mean I don’t have to submerge to keep restocking, so I can cope. That totals out to nine babies on the nursery level right now, and I’m going to wait until these little bundles of joy are matured before I add more. I’m thinking it’ll be another couple of wyverns and four more dimorphodons...and I might pursue more jerboas since I was handed a valuable mutation on a silver platter.

PS4 - Single Player - Ragnarok So my character is still in the Single Player world after I transferred over some dinos from the private server. So I decided to tame a few oviraptors, to help with the egg production. Took forever to find one, and after searching all the areas I thought one should be, I was nearly back at base, when I passed over one. However it was on a small ledge, and I was having trouble with the wyvern picking it up. But finally got it, and tamed it up. A low level male, but for Oviraptors, I don't care about the level. I then went back out to search for another, as the dino pen is too big for one Oviraptor's range. (I have 1 dozen Spinos, and 20 some REXs, plus allos and a few others in that pen.) So I finally end up over at Viking Bay, and my starter base. SO I decide to check on the Bronto I tamed the day before. and while doing this, I get some kill messages, that my Species X plants had killed a Ptera, then trike, then pego, then Oviraptor! Well crud that sucks. So I figure since I'm at Viking Bay, might as well farm for black pearls and regular pearls. So I take the two sharks I keep in the bay jsut for this reason, and we kill all of the lobsters and get a nice batch of black pearls. Then we take off into the pearl cave, and gather up a few thousand. I am heading back out, when I get a BSOD (blue screen of death) and I have to re-start. When I start up again, I am in the water away from Viking Bay, with my Wyvern hovering above me. So that means I lost all of the pearls I had just harvested, due to the game rollback. So I quickly fly to the Viking Bay base, and search intently for the Oviraptor that was killed the first time around. Finally I see it, and after a few failed attempts, I pick it up and take it back to my Big Butte Base to tame it up. Well this one is a level 100, and it has very high Food level. So the starve was taking forever, but according to dododex, I still had 7 minutes before the torpor was over. So I ran around collecting some eggs and as I am walking back to the taming pen (with over 2 minutes left on the torpor timer) I hear the Oviraptor noise. Sure enough, the damn thing woke up on me. Arrrgghh! So I tranq it again (3 shots with a ASC crossbow!) and this time I just dump in the eggs I had just collected (rexs and spinos). Well about a minute later, the thing stands up tamed! I didn't check, but can only assume the food level had not re-charged, and it was still starving. This was female, so going forward, I can just breed the male and female, instead of wasting eggs taming wild ones. I called it a night after that, as I had to be at the office early today. *** Here are a couple NOOB questions from a guy who has easily 2000 hours into the game *** ? 1) I see people posting about uploading dinos at beacons/drops. But I can't find that option in my game. Is that a feature not available on PS4? 2) I still cannot figure out how to get the Griffin to do the dive attack consistently. about 99% of the time I just land on the ground. What PS4 controls buttons are need to do the diving attack? 3) I cannot figure out how to get the TLC argy to pick something up with it's beak. How can I do it? 4) How much wood can a woodchuck chuck, after ARK gives it TLC treatment?

Whats with all the you dont have permission to see this???

Ack! I ended up with a bunch of Manta and Mammoth saddles during my time. The grinder was well fed, heh. Having suffered only 1/6th of your RNG pain, I can't say I know what it's like, but here's wishing that your luck changes drastically for the better!

Recently started on a new server on Ragnarok so been mostly leveling up and exploring. Got an equus, a pteranodon, 2 dodos and a raft to my name. Its a simple life being a sailor lol Explored most of the coastal areas before settling down in a safeish area. So todays task was continuing with a perimeter wall enclosing off a few hilly areas to build up a base. Want to get the raised areas blocked off first to prevent wild dinos wandering up to where I will build my base. Will worry later about the lower areas at a later time when I can expand once I have the resouces and means to do so. Tonight I only managed to get a behomoth gate and some walls down blocking of the largest raised area before calling it a night. Still living out of the raft. Progress is slow atm cause of being so busy with work.

People let me tell you about my best friend He's a warm hearted person who'll love me till the end ♫ Here he tells me a joke. Because that's what best friends do! Here he told me a sad story and I comfort him. Because that's what best friends do!

My (and the parents') first gigantopithecus baby. Parents tamed on lvl 204 and 216, baby came out 228. Lucky day for me and the parents. You can see them in the background watching over their daughter.

Kibble tamed a male gigantopithecus on Ragnarok official. Now I can breed an army of high lvl apes with each of them wearing a different hat + skin. ?? If you're searching for a high lvl ape, don't do it on Island.

killed a mosasaur with tranq arrows...

A pegomastax stole titanoboa kibble from me. I only realized when it was too late. Please Wildcard, it should say in huge flashing letters in the middle of your screen when a pego stole titanoboa kibble from you. It took weeks to get that kibb because titbos suck. It was a shattering and painful moment.