You know those times where you have plans for certain things and then Ark throws you a curve ball? Well, over the weekend was like that for me. I was planning on leveling up my bears and giving the hard snow cave on the Island another shot. But when I arrived at my outpost, I saw a 125 Yuty that was stuck in the ice on the river. He’d been there for a couple days at that point. So I thought what the heck, I haven’t drowned a Yuty in a while. I’ll give it a shot.
I knocked him out, and his head was submerged. I figured his oxygen would be dropping when I opened his stats, but it wasn’t. Woo Hoo! So a sheep from my nearby outpost was slau- . . . um . . . sent to the park, and Lance the Yuty tamed out at a good level. I actually remembered to bring a pod for a change, too, so I wrapped him up and brought him back to my rex base.
I’ve never done a boss battle with a Yuty before, just my rexes. So I want to try Beta Brood with one of his progeny to see how it goes. If we win with low damage to my flock and a lot of time left, I’ll finish leveling my rexes and give Alpha a try.
After that, I did some more RC runs but didn’t get anything of note. My mistletoe stash was getting a bit out of control at this point, though, so I doled a bunch out to the Gacha Claus population and didn’t get anything better than a blue crystal. Still, though, I got some good stuff for the grinder. I probably have thirty-some mistletoe left, too.
That’s when the obsession started. I decided that I needed a pair of otters, so I could wear more flak in the snow cave and less fur. I looked all over the Island and didn’t see one, so after a couple of hours, I was off to Ragnarok. I didn’t see any near the beavers, or a couple of other likely spots, then I found a pond near the desert that looked like the perfect place, but I only saw fish. That was probably another hour or two of searching, so I decided I needed a break and went after the desert loot crates. I found the usual ascendant loot, which if it wasn’t an improvement on what I had, it would be good grinding, so that was a check in the Win column at least. Then on my way back, I stopped at that pond again and found a level 90 female otter. She was tamed with the help of my evil Icthyornis, Lord Bobert the First.
Unfortunately, I forgot a pod this time, so we had to fly to the nearest obelisk with Nina, the otter, on my shoulders and Bobert flapping like crazy to keep up with my pteranodon. It got a little hairy when we saw the 135 giga, but we were lucky cause the giga not a sawr us. Ha!Ha!Ha! (Sorry, I’ll try not to do that again.) Anyway, we got the otter back to my island base, and I went out looking for her mate.
I eventually found two female otters around the river by the redwoods/volcano, which really wasn’t helpful. Then I accidentally ate an otter with my rex a little farther down the way. It was probably a male otter, too. *Sigh* Anyway, after six-ish hours of otter hunting, I decided to call it a night, and we made the long trek back to the Red obelisk.
We’ll see where Ark leads me next weekend.