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Spent much of yesterday collecting animals. Mostly dilos. I have the rare sightings mod installed and one of them happened to be a dilo, so I went and grabbed it. Stats weren't that great, in fact it's already been completely outclassed by some of the other dilos. Yes, I am hunting high level dilos, you could say it's my breeder pride showing. I love high level animals, no matter the breed. I also added a small taming pen to the side of my breeding facility and started collecting iguanodons to breed. And since my base is all Tek, I'll be collecting tek animals for various projects also, I already have multiple tek paras. I still need to find that high level tek raptor that killed me ages and ages ago, it may think I forgot but I did not, I intend to tame it as punishment for killing me lol. Also brought back some very old, very familiar faces. I've had some animals uploaded in the obelisk for a very, very long time but now that I've made myself a basically permanent home on a SP map it was time to bring them down. I kind of regret not uploading more. I have 3 of my old tribemate Asta's prize tames, he gave me permission to take them when our server underwent one of its multiple wipes. I have his favorite ptera Venom, his perfect tamed real albino rex Seleene, and the first giga ever tamed on our server, Mocha. These animals have some great memories attached to them. I also brought down some animals that have a great deal of personal meaning to myself. As you can imagine, they're mostly spinos. I had uploaded several as I was in the middle of my first spino color morph breeding project when the server wiped. I also had one with base colors I can use for a planned "Alpha Spino" color morph. And finally, I brought him back home. Smaug, the spino who was once the king of a server. He may very well be one of the oldest spinos still extant in this game. I tamed him before the first big dino stat nerf, when all tames had much beefier stats. He used to have over 30k HP and fought toe to toe with a level 100 alpha rex to emerge triumphant. He was a perfect tamed 120 with dossier spino colors. The level cap was 120, breeding wasn't in the game yet (neither were gigas), and he had at one point the original spino base stats. That's how old this spino is. I realize now every spino I've ever bred since then has been an attempt to recreate my memories of Smaug, so I decided it was time to bring the big guy himself out of retirement. Sadly the model update has changed his colors to be less impressive. My profile's cover photo is Smaug, how he used to look. Now he's mostly charcoal and his gorgeous gold is more bronzed. But you know what, while it's not generally my thing I can adjust my "headcannon" to say that the change occurred as a result of his age. You bet I've been taking him everywhere again even though he's technically outclassed and has been for years. Doesn't matter, he's still the reigning champion of The Island to me. And since I have Smaug himself, I can breed a new spino with updated stats and his colors. Never as a replacement for him of course, but he has to pass the torch eventually. But even with his ruined stats (that were unfixable after the nerf) he is still an absolute force to be reckoned with. I never even gave him any speed levels because every point I had went into making him stronger with HP, melee and stamina. And honestly bringing him back has reminded me of all the spinos I wanted to breed, I once had plans for dozens of projects. I think I'll be setting up my spino breeding ranch again in the very near future. A large collection of spinos simply will not fit in this area. You haven't seen a spino army until you've seen mine lol. It's really too bad I can't maintain on an official server, I would have loved to really get into the trading game with my spinos. I made an attempt but it's just too much work for the scale I would need, plus all of the issues with tame caps and tribe limits, etc. You think I can't tame/breed 500 spinos, oh I definitely can... I'm just going to settle for making a gallery of my color morphs to share as I progress. I'll do it for my other breeds too. Today's plans are just going to be more animal collecting, probably. The nice thing about the S+ Tek transmitter is the dino scanner, I make extensive use of it, no shame. It's not like I don't still have to go out and clear entire regions to spawn new animals in, it's just easier to see when I need to.

Started the morning (and afternoon) with raising Gigas. I pre incubated 3 eggs, two for me one for SaltyMonkey and they popped twins one egg, we got a mating pair each. Same melee as Saltire's giga eggs but more hp / melee. Half way through DJ came and relieved me from imprint duty, had to go to the store. He watched them from there on out. Between imprints I was raising Gacha. Finally popped an Organic Polymer one! Hit up the Desert cave while DJ was imprinting. First went in with 2 rexs, after the first rubble golem I switched to Mana and ran the whole thing. After our Gigas DJ and I went and did the ice cave to level our gigas. Went well. DJ logged after and I found myself a Red OSD. Popped both gigas, was going great. On wave 4/5 I was clearing the last 3 dinos out when.. kick. I got back on to an enraged trike attacking me...and the red drop gone. What a waste of 30 mins Did some more base stuff then went to TC. Cloned the poly gacha, then went to tame some more by the ice palace. First one tamed was an organic poly, go figure. Set those up, gathered over 3000 organic poly and made a shotgun Helped a new guy on the server with a bunch of leftover dinos and blueprints I had extra of. Got rid of lots of my outdated tames on The Island gave em to him. After I went to rag to do a wyv egg run, came out with 2x 155 lightning eggs and a 170 poison. Hatched the 155 on extinction while making a new desert teleport above the Cave. A whole day crammed into a few paragraphs haha. Today Saltire and I plan to kill the Desert Titan. Been collecting artifacts and tribute for that.

Got on TC first and did a quick metal run, then to Skull Isl for an obs run, made up some poly then hopped over to The Island. I went to go look for those Tek Boot blueprint and to transfer over some blueprints. When I got there I searched the blueprints (later found the boot bp on TC lol) and decided instead I would make a few saddles. Mindwiped and crafted two Mana saddles. Both came.out 100+ arm, made two incase Saltire doesnt have one for his Mana, otherwise for my backup if he does. Went back over to TC, did another obaidian run, paste run, stone, wood, etc. Crafted a bunch of premade stone then flew down to my Ice Palace spot to finish the base. Did a butcher job making walls then installed the tek teleport. Went to the ice palace twice for poly, yielded over 1k organic. Got back to base and mindwiped, crafted Tek Boots (35%) and a 350 fabricated sniper bp, got 391. Queued some more poly then went over to check out Salty's new addons for his base. Traded a bunch of allo eggs for a couple of his Giga egg then hopped to Extinction to drop em off and then logged. Currently im incubating two giga eggs and a 3rd for SaltyMonkey that ill raise for him (aftrr he imprints - yay for tribe imprints)

Yep, that's the spot. The area is a little small for a large scale base (even on SP I'm incapable of scaling down my builds lol) but perfect for one large facility. Flat, easy to protect, accessible. Speaking of, my breeding base is now basically done, the main structure at least. Not one of my best builds but it'll serve well enough. Honestly I feel the same way about my already built taming base, which has a few issues I haven't rectified yet. I might do a Tek overhaul of that or at least add a few conveniences. Nothing beats a transmitter for moving fresh tames quickly. And now I just need to decide on a breeding project. The longer I play the less interested I am in the standard combat mounts, honestly. I mean I still love my spinos and will breed them forever, but man does it get dull farming rexes/theris over and over again. I do like the post-TLC rex a lot better but I'm still not super fond of the model, and I like theris mainly for being the main non-rex boss viable option. I was going to breed pelagornis until I realized how intensely boring their model is, with only two color regions. So much for my semi-aquatic theme. I rarely get them so I really, really like color mutations, and I also do a lot of natural color breeding so animals with lots of color regions and base colors are much more interesting to me. It's insane but I'm almost seriously considering breeding dilos just for fun. I mean they're useless as tames but so easy to find and tame and they have tons of colors to play with, plus all color regions. Add some mutations into the mix and I could make some really fun color morphs.