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  1. Extinction, Modded Single-Player: Happy New Year! Happy New Year, survivors. Here’s hoping for a great 2019! It was a supremely quiet day for me today, given I was simply in the mood to relax, to which end I loaded up my element dust, oil and polymer gachas, and set about some menial metal runs with my weight-trained wyvern, Ymir. I also loaded up the industrial forge with extra wood, and did some stone and flint runs to start processing out quite a lot of gunpowder, as I’ve started getting low on sniper rounds, and my gachas have gifted me with a veritable gun locker of things I don’t normally play with and figured I’d make some ammo for. In between two imprinting rounds for my three adolescent wyverns and six adolescent dimorphodons, I loaded up the tek replicator with all the goodies I had my gachas working on, and made three of my apprentice 100+ enforcer blueprints. I painted two of them in holiday colors in the spirit of the event. I’m up to seven now, and very happy...I love these guys. And finally; on a complete whim, since my nursery level is busy as it is, I still felt inclined to hatch another four eggs. One had twins, but one had my happy new year’s gift within: my second color mutation! On my starting white palate, I’ve now gotten red highlights, and the new color, a jet black body. But the gift wasn’t done giving, I found. The red mutation was kind of useless stat wise, food. But the black mutation on Racer is health! And so I whiled away the remaining minutes of 2018, tending my new babies and waiting to ring in the new year the only proper way: immersed in my peaceful Ark sanctuary, surrounded by my adorable baby birds and wyverns. Next up: We draw ever nearer! All required members of the thirty strong OSD flock are in the building. As soon as the last few have matured I’ll power level them to the specs the older birds have gotten, my benchmark to be duty-ready, and then orbital supply drops here I come!
    5 points
  2. Modded singleplayer on the Island (S+, Death Helper, Dinotracker, eco's RP Decor) - 2x harvest, 3x xp, no mating cooldown, singleplayer settings, max level/difficulty, lv. 100 I FOUND RADIAL! I thought for certain she was dead! It-it was months ago! I was brand new to the Island. I had only just started the meager foundations of my islet base; I had two other pteranodons, an army of dilophosaurs, a couple parasaurs, and a single raptor. Radial, a bright green pteranodon with dark, black markings across her body befriended my two pteranodons first and later myself. She was a fantastically strong creature. She could last much longer than the other two in the skies. I even took out one of the formidable alpha raptors with her! And yet... one day, I decided to take her on a journey to explore the Island further. I had never been beyond Death Valley, a river valley nearby. Across the swamps the river led to was the Red Eye - the redwoods - and I took her too low through them. I did not know about thylacoleo at that point in time. One of those immense marsupials launched itself from a tree and before I had a chance to react, I was bowled off Radial's saddle. Terrifyingly sharp, cone-shaped teeth gnashed at my face as I fought desperately for my life. In the background I could see Radial frantically scrambling to fight and peck at it, and her efforts earned her a fresh swipe to the thigh. Blood spattered across the thylacoleo and myself. My arms grew tired from the fight and relented enough to let the creature get a swift bite in on my neck. So, I was dead. I awoke again at home. I had been forced to assume Radial had died. The blow she had been dealt looked like it had knocked her from the sky, and I could only assume she met the same end I had. It had been a somber evening of setting up the gravestone. But she is ALIVE! AND WELL! Ethernet, my lightning wyvern, and I were battling some creatures at the base of the Red Eye, looking for baryonyxes just off the edge of the Hell Swamps, and barreling through the trees she came to our aid! I recognized her right away. I'm still so shocked she is alive. I do not have much use for her anymore, but if I am honest, this pleases me. I am happy to treat her as a pet and give her nothing but care, without exposing her to the elements any longer. I failed her before, and it shocks me she even recognizes or cares to respond to me still. I owe it to her to do nothing but keep her safe now. The other pteranodons were happy to see her again, too. Welcome home, Radial. You won't know the weight of another saddle.
    3 points
  3. Didnt do too much today. Was working on borrowed time but got more than I figured so didnt plan anything. Did a few metal runs, with redwood mountain so close its easy to hop over there with an Argy and Anky for a quick metal run. A bit more running around than Ragnarok but it feels more...real? I dont know. Bred up a few more theriz and made some blueprints ive been meaning to craft. Have a few really nice flak bps and other goodies from Santa, including two ridiculous bps.. a 1200 dura flak chest and a 1250 dura 414dmg crossbow, so I made a set for me and a set for Saltire. Got one theriz to 80% the rest a few % on and a few without. The rejects will get thrown into a murder group to roam the island until I find a use for them / they die / I kill them. Did a few more base things, made some more vaults and got an outpost outside swamp cave put down. Went for a quick run on my Bary, while pretty easy (and dimorphodon on the shoulder helps SO much..) i got my set shredded by a glitchy ceiling Artho, didnt have an extra set of boots so turned around and ill complete it anothet day. Logged off in the sleeping pod, headed out for some dinner and possibly some drinks. Have a great new years all!
    3 points
  4. Hey Survivors! Welcome to the first (and also short) edition of the Community Crunch for 2019! 2018 in Review! Happy New Year, Survivors! Thank you all for making us a part of your 2018. It has truly been an insane year for us. As always we are humbled by your support of all things ARK and we could not have achieved these milestones without you. Let's bring in the new year with a roar, and keep on surviving in 2019! Structure Plus & Kibble Rework! We look forward to being back in the office this week and back to the grind so we can bring you more ARK this year. In case you missed our post about it, two of the main things we are currently working on in the month of January include Structures Plus and the Kibble rework, which you can read about here: The extra exciting news is that we will be launching a public beta on PC for the next round of S+ implementation and the kibble changes very soon. We will be relying on your feedback and making tweaks and changes during the beta process before these features make their way into the live game for everyone to enjoy. When the beta releases we invite you to break these new features as much as possible! Extinction Transfers Opening Soon! We have been getting a lot of questions about this lately and rightfully so. We will be opening server transfers on our official servers into Extinction on January 15th! This will be on all applicable platforms. There will be no transfer restrictions on creatures (unlike Aberration). Xbox Game Pass! We're excited to announce that ARK will be joining January’s Xbox Game Pass titles today! Xbox Game Pass is a monthly subscription that lets you enjoy unlimited access to over one hundred great Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles. We are excited to be welcoming Game Pass holders into the world of ARK. Best of luck surviving! Winter Wonderland! Don't forget that Winter Wonderland is here but it won't be around forever! This winter-themed holiday event ends on January 7th so be sure to get your fill of this festive event before Raptor Claus and Gacha Claus make their way back to the North Pole. Fanart of the Week! Below Zero by Scutal! Evolution Event! Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 4th of January at 1 PM EST until Monday the 7th of January at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Much love from all of us, Studio Wildcard
    2 points
  5. The Gamma Dragon and I had our showdown, and now it's Dragon 1 - Chudz 0. Blah! Heh, total wipe... I had a hard time getting my rexes untangled after porting in there. So we got off to a slow start, and then I found it difficult to control them and try to buff with the Yuty at the same time. We got him down under half before he took flight again, and I think I'd only lost a couple of rexes at that point. But the next time he landed they started dropping like crazy. It ended with me firing my automatic rifle into a swirling cloud of Dimorphs and Pteranodons. I'll chalk it up as a learning experience. I mindwiped and put all my points into crafting. From the 76AC BP, I've actually made a 101AC saddle. I need to gather sixty-thousand more hide to finish the saddles, though. (Groan) I think I'm going to get some rex babies raising as well, since I'm going to get a bunch of meat along with the hide. I might look into raising Theris, too, for next time. Anyway, back to the grind.
    2 points
  6. Pvp small tribes the center Wife and I did some metal grinding to go towards the new base, industrial burner and heavy turrets. After that found a pretty looking raid target. We sniped the velenosaur on turret mode and lured away one of his argies on neutral. This still left him with a pteranadon, stego, para and two argies. We dont grief as we know how hard it is to get on your feet in this game so we chased away a wild argie that was killing his tames as we cleared him of all his possessions. We found he had some storage under his floor so after we took what we wanted we blew more of his floor just in case. Unfortunately this then killed his pteranadon and blew up half of his base and burners. Feels bad but this is a rough game kill or be killed our turn to be wiped will come again soon enough.
    2 points
  7. Happy New Year! Today I decided to ring in the new year with a female quetz for my male....if I can find her.
    2 points
  8. I usually take ten - fifteen dimorphodons with me, depending on the cave. It can get a bit tricky to keep track of them all, but I’ve generally found most problems in Ark can be solved if you just throw enough birds at it. I once took on the Tek cave by betting all my money on dimorphodons. Tek armor and a boatload of guns and ammo for me, and fifty birds in the air. They made it about 3/4ths of the way before I had to start picking them up via Pet Res. The moral, more birds = more success, in my experience. ?
    2 points
  9. I really didn't do much today. I logged on and got my rexes breeding again. Afterward, a friend of mine was online and we hopped into 7D2D for awhile. I actually remembered to turn the rex breeding off before I ended up with mucho angry baby rexes, which is a nice change. Gamma Dragon, we're gonna have a showdown soon...
    1 point
  10. Xbox - Unofficial Nitrado Server - Island Not too sure what I actually acheived tonight, mostly little things. Popped along to check out @d1nk new build. I am in love with it all, if your not careful I might accidentally move in lol. Much better than my measly set up lol. Transfered over a bunch of kibble for tribe imprinting and nabbed d1nks theris and bred up a bunch off eggs to hatch later when I have time. Had a scout around the island for good rexs and theris to tame but no luck. Transfered over a motorboat from Rag so that I could build a portably taming boat. Also did a quick bit of ovis breeding so I can keep some sheep in crypods for on the go taming with mutton, am aiming for a female yuty at the moment. Finally started to think about gearing up for the hard swamp cave so transfered over a gasmask and also a gasmask bpnand also some good scuba bps which Ill need to work on. Also transfered over my hyaenadon warpack across from Extinction. Want to see if these tough cookies will help out with the swamp cave, they worked a treat the last time I did it so I want to see if thats still the case. Logged off before the bells in the tek bed d1nk had built for me, easy levels !. Heck I might even have a drink when the bells ring !. So happy new year everyone and good luck with the year ahead ! Or as they say round my way Happy Hogmanay !
    1 point
  11. Having such a blast reading the different little stories in here! I'm going to try to present mine in an interesting way since, admittedly, as it is singleplayer, it would probably be a little boring otherwise. Modded singleplayer on the Island (S+, Death Helper, Dinotracker, eco's RP Decor) - 2x harvest, 3x xp, no mating cooldown, singleplayer settings, max level/difficulty, lv. 100 character. This update comes from a few days ago but I was never able to sit down and actually write it. I am on a mission to get one of those ice wyverns from the murderous snows of Ragnarok... Unfortunately, it is just far too cold there. I've heard tales of extremely well-crafted fur armor hidden in ancient caves scattered about the Island from the tatters of journals I've located. Since I am not exactly the best when it comes to crafting clothes - my fur armor is quite awful - I've decided to venture into these caves to see what they have to offer. My first adventure today was into a cave midway between Giga's Peak and the Volcano. This centralized cave offered little resistance... It was occupied by mostly bats, with some large insects seeking refuge here as well. I was able to bring my direwolf Plymouth in with me, however, and he more or less negated their threat. I made sure to bring medicine with me this time, though. My first encounter with a bat that killed me and rendered my items irretrievable due to my infectious body taught me that lesson rather harshly... I'm still not sure why I return after I die in this world, but perhaps I should be more concerned with the fact I'm comfortable with that knowledge now. Anyway, I found nothing of use in the cave until I reached a bridge in a deep pool of water. A calming pulsation emanated from a bright, floating object on the bridge. Plymouth refused to approach, backing away and whining, but I hopped free of his back once I was certain the room was clear and grasped the object. The pulsations stopped immediately, and I was hit with a rush of... of something. It was a ravenous feeling of mischief, like I could get away with anything that I wanted to in that moment. Glancing at my fingers pressed against the shimmering green item, I wanted to dig my nails into it, use its power... It had to be important. There simply had to be a use for it. I moved my thumb and was surprised to find, in tiny text along the base of the strangely shaped object, the words 'Wit and quick thinking may turn the odds in one's favor, even when nature has other plans..' I got the sense it was a very ancient object indeed. Plymouth's whimpering snapped me from the dark feelings taking hold of me. I cast a look to the direwolf over my shoulder, and the beastly dog was sitting with his tail tucked between his legs, ears flat, and eyes so wide his sclera was visible. It was then I realized that the object I was holding seemed quite weightless... I went to move it, and it shrank! It just lit up bright green all of a sudden, blindingly so, and shrank, to the size of a domino. Clasping it in the palm of my hand, I carefully tucked it into a pocket I knew it wouldn't fall out of and approached Plymouth. Hopefully, now, the wolf would not be so afraid. It seemed to work. My next trip didn't go nearly as smoothly. I had located a cave just off the cliffs of the Snow Place on one of my many flights about the Island in the past. I had marked down its location, and hoping perhaps it would contain something, I ventured there. I quickly realized I could not traverse it well. The spaces were extremely narrow. Bats and spiders lived here, but as soon as I realized I couldn't bring Plymouth inside, I had covered myself in bug repellent, taken a few dimorphodons, and mostly crawled through, with the occasional grappling over deep, cavernous trenches in the ice. The pits looked as if they could have gone down for miles... It was so dark... Even with my careful steps, it didn't go well, though. I ended up falling into one of those endless pits, and died several times upon my return. The five dimorphodons with me met a most grisly fate as well. But in the end, I did find a few strange boxes, like those that drop from the sky. They contained some blueprints for saddles and other equipment I wasn't particularly interested in, but at the deepest depth of the cave, I found yet another totem. Grasping this one gave me a rush of adrenaline like no other, and a sense of smug pride. As if I were above everything else. Written at this one's base was 'Mastery of the skies confers a distinct advantage over earthbound competition.' The first seemed to convey cleverness, and this one mastery of the skies. I suppose they are artifacts. Artifacts of Cleverness and Mastering of the Skies. Lording of the skies? Skymaster? Skylord? ...Skylord. I like it.
    1 point
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