Private Xbox cluster - Extinction
My last sessions consisted of me going for gatherer tames. I also transferred in some useful stuff like a few cryopods, a cryofridge, a Giant Bee, and Griffin (only rideable tame so not to completely ruin experience).
I tamed a 145 beaver on mejo berries *shudders* near my base in the sunken forest using my 1 size fits all taming raft. After that, I returned to the city on my Griffin to scout out locations for Ankys and Doeds. Managed to find an Anky by green ob so tamed it despite its low level. Froze it up and found a Doed close by. 5 mins into the tame, a corrupted Rex munched on it and it died in seconds. I was pissed because I spent a while looking for one in that spot.
I decided to go to the desert biome to see if I had a better chance, and my word there are a lot there. Fortunately in my case, there was about 6 to choose from in a section without predators, but without kibble, I wasn’t prepared to go for a high level. Tamed and froze that up, and flew back to base.
After placing down a couple dino leashes and seeing they were still solar powered, I discovered that the sunken forest, despite being underground had the potential to give a greenhouse effect. I had already placed my beehive inside a mini greenhouse so placed a crop plot and saw it had 30% effect. This was a game changer because from then on my focus was to build an armoured greenhouse and tame a Dung Beetle.
After spending a considerable amount of time searching for a Dung Beetle in the city, I finally found a level 10 and tamed it almost immediately. That’ll do for now. Got back to base, stuck the Beetle in a leash with a Raptor for protection and began fertiliser production right away. The next couple hours were spent mapping out where and how I planned on building the greenhouse. Finally decided that despite its ugly exterior design, I built it on pillars with a long metal piping to the nearest river. Once the armoured greenhouse was built, my Dung Beetle had enough fertiliser to fill 4 advanced crops. I now have 20 crop plots left to play about with.