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So yesterday me and my dad FINALLY got the levels up to 150 (they were at max 30 previously). My dad took the raft to Skull Island to get metal. I told my dad twice that he would have to bring a flyer to get up to the metal. When he arrived, he said: "Oh, looks like there isn't a way up without a flyer!" . So I went back to base from looking for an argent and got his Pteranodon, then flew back to Skull Island with it in tow. When we got there, I decided that I may as well help with the metal gathering, so we began the harvesting. On my first trip back from the forge on our raft, I noticed 2 bats flying above the lava. We engaged, and the 60 flew after me and the 15 flew after my dad on his ptero. I barrel rolled it a couple times but my bird didn't have much stamina (tamed at wild level 28) so I decided to just kill it with my ascendant bow. It was doing 248 dmg as opposed to my bird's barrel roll's 75, so it died after a couple of shots. My dad, in the meantime, was content to leave his bird to fight the lvl 15 bat while gathering metal. A few seconds later, he said "Uh oh, my bird's getting really sick... come help!!!!!!" I rushed over but too late. My dad was like "Oh, that sucks, whatever..." because we can get up to 150 tames now. We did a little more metal farming, then went back to base on the raft after avoiding a Leedsichthys that was hanging out in a shallower place than I would have thought possible, but ok. Then we went to look for a new Pteranodon for my dad, and since the dino levels were much higher than before, I decided to get myself a new Pteranodon as well. I pointed out a 95 really close to base, and so my dad went for him. I wanted a 100+, and found a 100. I was in 2 minds about taming it, but it was attacked by a raptor, so that settled my mind. After a couple of minutes, I lucked out on a 140. Bola'd him, KO'd him, got some prime from a Diplo, and tamed him. After that, I knocked out a 90 carno with a single 10x tranq arrow from a mod, then logged.

After another brutal day at work was glad to chill out on Ark. Continued the base move shinanigans. Started of by going off on a organic poly run, harvesting up the matis in the desert in order to build my new industrial forge. Hit up the desert drops while I was at it and lucked out on an mc pump shotty bp (should be cheaper than my asc bp and better than my current mc bp) and an asc yuty saddle, and the deathworms were like 10 a penny so killed a few of them too. Got back to base and crafted up the forge and a few vaults. Then went on another metal run and another poly run to craft up even more vaults. 10 vaults might be enough but shall craft up more, cant have too many. All ready to install into the new base. Then I traded the neighbour for a breeding pair of bulbdogs. Been desperate for a lightpet on Ragnarok, its just so dark a lightpet would help alot. Would love to get my hands on shinehorn or maybe even a featherlight but bulbdog will have to do. Cost me a trip through the wyvern trench to grab alot of eggs. Not sure of the fate of most of the eggs. Not really sure if the trade was worth the trench run risk but honestly didnt really care was good fun. Also keep hoping to find a nice blue fire wyvern but never anyluck there. The game didnt even crash once tonight ! What a great evening hahaha

Started the night off by doing a bit of farming. Went about the highlands harvesting dead basil (oil), getting crystal and metal for a fabricator. The other night I pillaged some beaver dams for a good amount of CP and pearls. After a small remodel of my house boat, I gathered a bunch of Narcoberry to start stockpiling my taming supplies for when I finally settle in a base location. Happy with my bit of progess I set out on my main goal for today: finding a base location. I went about prefabbing some stone buildings before I venture out into the world. I knew the map was populated ans that most of the common spots would be occupied already, a nice change from my SP adventures this last year. Fast forward 4 hours of flying around the map on my obnoxiously green argy. I saw some neat bases (cool base behind a waterfall in Canyon!!) and had a lot of frustrations due to the amount of (empty) bases ive seen in spots id love to occupy. Nevertheless I found a spot, it was a toss up between two areas: Heru Ur Rise (by beaver dams) and Two'chuck forest (between blue and ocean side of canyon) after an hour of flying back and fortb I decided on twochuck forest. Many times I had a good spot and as i went to inspect the area (good pve tactic) id find a huge inactive base around near me and have to look elsewhere. I dont want to cause lagg for another if not needed nor do I want to endure lagg every time I leave my base either so it seems twochuck forest above the lake with the ruin on it is my home. I will inspect further when im on next but I did a pretty extensive check. If anyone on the server does find someone near me before I do, let me know I threw together a small stone box to store my bulbdog and argy until next time, then ill start working on my actual base and scout a water pen for boat storage & get my feet wet with water dinos (hah) next time im on.

Well it's been a long while since I updated anything as I haven't been playing much lately having decided this is the year to write my own retail systems (tills/reports/management etc.) for small shops and start my own business this year. Anyway - this week we decided that having completed both Scorched Earth and Aberration it was time to finally return to the Island and also complete that. We had done everything but the Alpha dragon and any level of the Tek Cave (without cheating - did it once but found out one member had god on.. not happy). So this week has mainly been raising new better REX, dumping my skills into crafting and building the saddles/weapons and armor so we have the best we possibly can. We have a plan on bringing over a couple players from our Ragnarok server to help out tomorrow evening (Friday 3rd Aug) but so that we weren't met by any surprise changes to the existing bosses we decided to give all the bosses a trial run with just myself, Hep and Khep. Alpha Broodmother No changes that I could tell but lost 2 REX, stupid mistake, lack of concentration and control to get the group surrounding her instead leaving themselves open to the spit attack up front. Alpha Megapithecus Arena changed since last playing - the middle section up to the stairs has been compacted bringing the spawn and stairway closer together - and the "hole" in the ground seems to have been made larger. No losses. Alpha Dragon First attempt - I was distracted, didn't realise the dragon had landed and was heading for me as I stood by my Yuty... I die.. not long later the entire team and all REX die. Guess that was expected as I was the one whistle controlling them. ... restore backup ... Second attempt - fully prepared this time, handled the whisle control well. Used Asc pump shotgun and Asc assault rifle whilst it was in the air and then mounted my yuty and boosted the rexes to attack it whenever it landed the right side of the lava river. Key to this arena/boss is to avoid the lava river - only ever attack the dragon when its on your side with your mounts. If it stays in air or lands other side of the river simply revert to long range weapons. 3 REX lost. Gamma Tek Cave / Overseer Lost a few REX on the way to the overseer teleport chamber down through the Tek cave - stupid AI "follow me" does NOT mean "first run a full 90 degrees right into the lava before trying to get back on track and follow me". Made it down with 7 or so REX and destroyed the Overseer - no further losses. Beta Tek Cave / Overseer Not much different - better luck this time with navigating the REX pack down the Tek cave and only lost 2 to the lava. Made it with 13+ REX but only just on time. Overseer was a little more difficult but not stupidly so - mainly more drones both floor and flying to take out - no further losses. Weekend Mission As our experiments went well we're happy to try and go all out tomorrow now and hit all Alpha bosses followed by Alpha Tek Cave and Overseer with the other 2 members from Ragnarok. Just need to transfer our Ragnarok characters tonight to breed up and imprint new REXes - our Ragnarok characters have progressed both story maps but the ones we had on Island have only done Island - makes sense to now ditch the Island characters and do it with the others. On a side note we've very nearly got one of our dinos to max level - that's been a looooong grind.

Some of these stories are amazing lol, just came back to Ark for myself as I played on a friends account and have been away for 8 months to see most of the fun "Ark moments"/glitches are still around. Nothing like perfect taming a max Rex to have its first steps to follow you sees it falling through the floor to never be seen again. It is a lot of fun though even with these crazy weird happenings. Wish you all well in the Ark today.

Same as I do every day: chased after loot crates

Watch out that you dont make your new base too big or it will turn into crash city too

Continued with the base relocation tonight, focusing with the main building. After a bit of fidgeting I finally got the orientation of the build to my liking and started building. Went with the same style as my last build but expanded the size of it. After tinkering around with the build I finally completed the main structure. Oh my God the view from the build is stunning, especially from the top floor, looking out down the valley to green obelisk. At the moment I am just using wood windows but I might have to consider proper greenhouse windows to get the full view. All I really need to do now for this building is furnish it out and install the balconys. As time went on it suddenly hit me, Ark actually has textures ! The xbox could actually hold a texture on a stone wall or wyvern. Am so glad to have decided to move. Also it suddenly hit me that with all my masterfull planning and organising abilities I had forgotten to pick a base location with easy access to water.... Great... thats going to be one heck of a pipe to provide water to an industrial cooker... a problem for another day ! Once I completed the building I flew back to the land of no textures and crashes (my current base). Grabbed the anky with my weight poison wyvern and went on a metal run. Going to need alot of metal to build the new industrial forge and all the other metal items and electrics I need to replace. Also I want to install vaults as my main form of storage in the new build. So I flew to the central canyons (my favourite metal spawn) and completely filled up the anky. Flew back to the land of no textures and crashes, and filled up the industrial forge. Switched on the forge and left it to do its thing. Last thing I did tonight was to start gathering more resources in anticipation of all the behomoth gates I'll need to build, to keep the local wildlife out of my new home.

Quetzal thing happened to me some days ago. Managed to fall in one of the smallest ponds i've ever seen in the island. I don't even get mad anymore Been playing this nearly since the beggining.

PS4 - Private Server - Ragnarok No new color mutations on the ravagers last night, so all those babies got killed. I then was flying around, and I saw a whole group of high level event colored Dilos. So I KO's and tamed 5 of them. I assigned them as guards to my 2 Meglasaurus back at my Viking Bay base. I then went looking for the 135 Red body/green stomach Rex I had been seeing. So I finally found it, and I land my wyvern, when I hear a roar from BEHIND me, I turn and coming out of the dense brush is a Green 150 male Rex. SO I change plans and focus on the 150. A few mistakes were made, and I ended up falling of the cliffside. I didn't die, but when I finally got enough arrows into the Rex, to make him start running, he turned and ran straight towards the Viking Bay water. So I had to back off to prevent it from drowning. So I went and got my Wyvern back up on the cliff, and then I went back after the 150 Rex. Even though I was trying to herd him away from the water, he kept going into it. so I kept having to back away for a bit. Finally I dropped him on the water's edge and went off to kill a few Stegos for Prime, since I w as out of kibble and mutton. So I get back to the Rex, and get off my Wyvern to feed the Rex. Suddenly glitching thru the Rex comes a freaking water lobster and I am stuck between the rex and the wyvern (thought I would be safe that way), so I end up getting knocked out, and because I had some good riot gear on, I have to sit there for like a minute, while the lobster finally kills me. (I keep my Wyvern on passive when taming dinos) So I spawn back at my Vikign Bay base, and jump on my newest argy, and fly back. I land, put my Argy on Neutral and follow, and I run over to my body. and then I get attacked by 2 lobsters! Both came thru the sleeping Rex to attack. So I get KO'd and die again! Respawn back at the Viking base (thankfully I have 2 beds there) and I run fast as I can back to the scene of the crime. I get there, and I see that my Argy has killed the two lobsters, so I grab my gear from my first dead body, and then proceed to harvest the the lobsters (black pearls, etc.) then suddenly I get struck from behind, and I turn to see a Scorpion that has fallen from the cliff above. Well he stings my naked body before I can even turn around, and when I do, I am passed out. Some how a flock of Vultures have arrived on the scene, and my Argy begins battling with them, all the while I lay passed out on the beach, while the Scorpion continues to sting me, and I eventually die AGAIN!. So I spawn back at the Viking Bay base AGAIN, and I run naked all the way back again to the Rex. I arrive, and I once again grab my stuff from my dead body and the stuff the prime meat into the Rex. Then suddenly I start getting attacked by more vultures, I am fighting them off, hiding under my wyvern, and my Argy is battling them I am nearly dead, but the battle seems to have ended. So I go into my menu, to try and eat some cooked meat and berries, and then I get hit one last time. (Killed by a level 5 vulture!) RE-SPAWN AGAIN back at the Viking Bay base, jump on a high level carno, and race over to the Rex. On the way I spy 2 more lobsters on land, and we kill them off, then arrive at the Rex. I gather all of my belongings for like the 4th time and jump back on my wyvern for safety. I have the argy and carno on neutral and follow. After a bit the Rex jumps up but only at level 212, so sometime during all of the fighting, he got hit a couple times to reduce the T.E. ? I then proceed to walk/fly the whole gang back to my Viking Bay base. I heal up my dinos and repair my armor, and then go back out for the 135 Red Rex. But this time I take with me 6 dino gates that I position in such a way, that blocks off most of the path to the water, and I lure the red Rex off the cliff into my "trap". Things are going great, and the Rex seems to be about to KO. Then suddenly, it starts climbing the cliff, and I fire another tranq arrow at it, but just as I release the arrow, the Rex passes out, and all I can do is watch the last arrow hit the Rex too late. So I am trying to decide what to do should I wake it up and re-tranq? Well, I'm cranky and impatient from the fiasco with the Green 150 rex, so I say DILO it, I'm taming it now, and then going to bed. So I stuff it with PRime, and it stands up at level 188, so I lost a bunch of levels. Arrgggghhhh! I should have just had patience, but nope not today. So I walked him back to the base, and leveled him up on a few dinos on the way back. I then moved some of the dinos around in the base, to get better use of my Lystros, and when I moved my dolphin about 10 feet, my 150 pre-tame Manta that was on follow and wearing an ASC saddle, swung wide, and ran aground, dying nearly instantly!!!!!!!!!!!! Then I filled food bins, and called it a night. I have to travel for business for a few days, so can't play for a couple days. But after feeling like a complete Noob all evening with the multiple deaths and errors, maybe I need the break!

2016: were adding more dinos 2017: were adding futuristic tek 2018: were adding woodland animals

Spotted a lvl 145 saber near my trap on the frozen tooth, so i trapped and tranqed it. While i was taming the 145 i saw a 150 saber. The 145 finished taming so i started trying to catch the 150, but i ran into a whole pack of sabers and then a giga came in... All the sabers dead. Saw another lvl 150 but this time an argent (oh lucky day). It was very bloody from the giga i quess, but i knocked it out in my trap anyway after waiting a while. After about half an hour a pack of sabers came my way. Took care if them with my argent, but one sneaky saber went behind the trap and killed my already low hp tame. Trapped ANOTHER argent, 135 this time. While getting prime meat on my 245 argent, killing everything, i get knocked off it by a raptor while i was fighting a stego. I respawn at a sleeping bag near my trap stuck in a rock.. After 2 min being stuck i see a message that my lvl 245 argent, wich i had since the beginning, got killed by an allosaurus RIP

On Xbox, someone went on my Ark, did a bunch of stuff without my permission, then when I was going to ban them they killed a bunch of my dinos ( including 3 of my wyverns, one was a poison ) then left. If anyone's wondering, or wants to do something about it, his gamertag is this: eastside kevmo