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Well, it's been a very rough week at work so I've been putting in extra hours there, which means no time for Ark by the time I get home. Luckily things finally calmed down enough for me to get out at a decent hour. My spino had of course grown up so I went ahead and bred him with my stat-heavy female. I also bred my velos and my thornys. While I did discontinue the latter breeding line, I am still going to at least get my melee and weight rolls on one imprinted animal. Got nothing from the velos, finally got a female thorny with weight I can breed with my melee male. And got a new spino with every stat except HP...inherited the 0 from his father. Ugh. Obviously I can't use him for combat but I can breed with my highest HP female. I also desperately need to breed out the totally wasted 48 speed points in this line, just waiting to do that until after I've got my working stat build because I need a baby from the line as a main mount. Also just realized I totally forgot to breed my new argent, oh well. That pretty much sums up my day. Got my babies to juvenile, collected kibble eggs, stocked the trough and logged. I did find out from the server admins the increased difficulty is every other weekend. I don't know what this weekend's event will be so until I find out, I don't plan to really do much taming in the near future. I still need to work on a new Aberration outpost, I want to reconfigure my current main base again, and I'm thinking about rebuilding the Arkanus on The Island one more time. Also need an Extinction outpost, I have nothing set up there since so far I've only been hunting velos but I need to start preparing for OSDs at the very least. I was very kindly gifted a cryofridge and 50 pods but I lost 2 of them during my failed drake hunt and I'm sure I'll lose more at some point.

I checked on the Server Manager's discord, DelilahEve confirmed that you need to be in a cluster to transfer with inventory. Otherwise you have to use Ark Data. ....now I wish I'd clustered my three local servers lol. Bad server manager! Bad! hehe

Man I had such a stressful night last night. I was gliding around blue on Aberration, and went up some water fall I hadn't been to before. I had hit an explorer note so was just killing random things. I figure on a Rock Drake my risk of 'getting lost' is pretty low since I can just glide over blue and recognize something and get out. Well, at top of that waterfall I'm swarmed by a bary or 2, 2 crabs and who all knows what. Drakes level 200 so overall not a concern health wise.... but I got knocked off the drake. With so much chaos I could not get back on, crab grabbed me with claw, and it was over. Of course I'm worried about my drakes health as I usually leave it on passive, but did whistle neutral at last second but I wasn't sure if a tame group was set so wasn't for sure it went out. Problem now became I had no idea where I was. So I grab my friends spino he lent me that is the strongest and fastest one I have, and go out exploring trying to find it. Of course I rushed out naked. Hello ice spore field... I fall off dino, and what do I see? A Megalosaurus is hitting the spino, not me (WHY?)! Who seems to be on passive (not sure how that happened, i never set spinos to passive). I panic as I'm about to get my friends best bred spino killed, and log off in hopes it'll stop the attack. I felt utterly defeated. Lose my one and only freshly earned drake AND friends spino all in 1 go? Afraid to login... Schrodinger's cat. I finally get back on, no death message in tribe log! It worked! Or least I hope it's not still being attacked. So grab another spino, and a haz suit this time, as well as food and water to be sure I'm actually prepared this time. I thankfully roughly knew where I died on spino so got there, and he was fine! I'm guessing since I was the only one on server, it unloaded the region when I logged out, saving the spino. I don't understand why the megalo was even attacking the spino considering I never even attacked it. I take the friends spino back home and explore some deep areas of bio lum I've never seen, and thankfully in the end, I randomly stumble upon my drake and previous bulb dog. Sadly had a new bulb dog so had to leave the original lower level behind lol. That was the first body I never recovered the goods from in over a month ? Lost a haz suit and some MC tools I think. In the end, all I lost was some items and a level 70 bulb dog from the first death that I couldn't pick up as I had a new bulb dog. Maybe if I don't check tribe log the Schrodinger's cat can apply to that bulb dog and he will stay alive!

Single Player- Island- PS4 Well, the maiden voyage went well lol. Couldn’t post the gif Bc it was too big but picture jack sparrow riding back to the dock with his ship completely under water, that was me. Got it beached in the swamp, literally less than an hour after completing it. Will be funny to run across later lol. Finally got some tames. Got a lvl 80 lystro first just to help out, then ran into a 120 ptera and tamed it as well. While I was trying to find new tames, I ran into a 145 carno, he killed me multiple times as I tried to get my stuff, so I decided to make a trap and lead him. This was successful and ended up tranq’ing him, he has been my savior so far as he had really good stats and with lvling he’s 250 now and has 15k+ health. Tamed two lvl 50+ tek Parasaurs to hopefully breed for a “farm” later, and also tamed a 85 dilo and 90 raptor just to have them.

More admin related than actual gameplay but still... I finished work early today and came back to rotate our Island server over to Scorched Earth only to find that the previous saves were wiped . Loaded up Aberration and it was the same, everything gone. I figured this was due to our server moving hardware the day after our first planned Tek cave event 2 weeks earlier. As a host, nothing’s worse than knowing everyone’s hard work has been lost due to unforeseen circumstances out of your control. I only want the best for my community so a bit the bullet and bought 2 new permanent servers, on the maps which were previously on the rotation. We now have all maps on our cluster, yay. I plan to make a fresh start this weekend but I’m at odds on which map it will be; Scorched Earth or Aberration.

Just double check in case As d1nk says it might not be the case.

These are different maps by different people you play on? It wont work then - only if one of the maps you play on bought another map connected (clustered) Wont work cross-maps or to your own singleplayer

Here's the thing WC stated the top 30 most populated legacy servers will not see a server wipe so...can we just get a actual list of the top 30 populated servers so everyone can prepare to find a spot an play the game as intended.

Yep. Just load up your inventory and transfer your character I cant stand sitting there uploading items one by one. Might be worth double checking on respective clusters to make sure it does work, various settings might not allow it.

The legacy community would over populate the new offical network if legacy closed for good even if half of us quit

Yikes...... sounds like one of those ARK days for sure! I think you are referring to the Eurypterids ... the lobster like things in Viking Bay. Great for Black pearls, but they are a Pain In the Pego!

So today I played for a bit just to explore everything on rag I always have missions in mind but today was just a chill day. I died to a bat in the castle because I dismounted for no reason other than hitting wrong button. I'm making a headstone to place near or on castle to tell my tale of idiocy. Then I died falling somehow I dismounted the wrong way from Griffin I am going to blame myself for that death. Won't make gravestone as it doesn't count. I died in pirate cove to the stupid things that knock you out I can never recall name of them. My thyla died too. Not sure if my fault couldn't see anything. Thyla gravestone to make.. I died by drowning. FML! I got stuck in my meg somewhere mid belly and somehow during a manta fight I killed myself according to death message. Sooo I'm having the rest of the day off. ?

The Center Tbh honest I wasnt going to play tonight, was going to play more Halo and wait for the scorched server to rotate in but some of the other guys were thinking of boss fighting at somepoint so I decided to raise some theris to replace the ones we lost in the tek cave to bulk the team back up again. Hatched up and raised 6 new theris and fully imprinted all 6 of them. The imprinting timers on the server have been adjusted slightly and so its much easier to imprint longer raises and so I had 5 minutes to spare on my theris. Also finished my otter breeding project. Got a cyan and blue breeding pair with the best stats and also raised up 3 more for use. Spotted a 145 cyan and green doed left over from the event on a metal run so I tamed that up. Finished up by helping out one of our new neighbours. He had been trying to tame some anglers but kept getting killed by mosas and what not so I had my breeding pair of anglers drop a few eggs to help him out. Also @d1nk, I had a look at the new Rag breeding base in the desert and I think I am in love with it. Looks awesome.

Not only that..on pvp new players and solo players or 2 or 3 friends can play there and survive more time.ppl that doesn t have time to play everyday have a chance on this servers.

Ps4 - Ragnarok - Unofficial Logged into the Grinder server last night, and was dismayed to immediately notice that the server had been rolled back again. 2nd time in 4 days. Once again I lost hours of resource grinding to make element, as well as multiple event colored Griffins. Turns out someone somehow broke into a tek base that a player had been logged into earlier that day, and they stole everything from the base. (This is a PvE server, so not sure how that happens) The admins rolled back to get the person their stuff back. So for the 3rd time in a week, I spent hours farming crystal and black pearls to make element. After a while someone new appeared in chat, asking if anyone could help them get started. I was actually loading unwanted armor and tools into my grinder, so I said sure, I can help you out. So I meet the person at the Red OB, and give them a full ASC flak armor, ASC pick, hatchet, crossbow, shotgun, shotgun ammo, 40 metal walls, and a shinehorn, plus a couple cryopods. The kid grabs them all, them promptly leaves the server. No thank you, nothing. ( smh, some people's kids huh?) About an hour later another person joins, and starts asking questions, but not asking for free stuff. Just asking what dinos on server, etc. About an hour later he asks if anyone know where Ravagers are this map. He is near the red ob, and I tell him they spawn not far from the Green OB on this map. Literally about 1 hours later, he says " I finally made it to green ob area, but don't see any. Then says something about being under attack. I was just getting ready to head to that area anyway, so I teleport over, (lots of public TPs on this server) and I finally realize why it took him so long to travel across the map. He has no flyers, instead, he is riding a raptor, followed by a morrellotops, a kangaroo, thorny dragon, and a stego. Since this kid never asked for free stuff, just info, I decided to reward his long trip, so I gave him a ptera I had with me, 4-5 cryopods, a bulbdog and some other tools. I then flew around and found him a ravager, and led him to it. He was very happy, and very nice. While he was taming the ravager, I found and tamed a griffin for him, and at the same time, another person on the server, gifted him a Reaper!. Kid was very excited, and kept offering to repay us. I hope he stays on the server, seems like a good one. I then searched around for a while more, but the darkness and rain prevented me from finding a griffin worth taming for myself. But on the way home, I found a event colored thyla that I tamed and added to the base. (This server has night just as long as day, so it can get real dark for long periods) Hopefully tonight, the server hasn't been rolled back again.

PS4 - Ragnarok - Easy E Unofficial Server Been too busy with work demands to take a break and write about my weekend time on the other server I have been playing on lately. This server I call "Easy E" because you can make Element from Raw Metal!!! After a couple weeks on this server, I have a fully metal base with forcefield and teleporter, plus Tek doors and gates. I got lucky last week, and stumbled upon a well hidden base, that had been abandoned. It was a metal base and all timers were up. The base had a full set of artifacts, a high level lightning and Fire Wyvern (I already had max level Poison and Ice Wyverns I raised myself), plus a mated pair of high level Gigas and Tek Rexs! I already had a line of Tek Rexs going on my own, but these were better, so I added them to the bloodline. I rarely use Gigas, but I went ahead and bred up a few eggs, and hatch and raised a 86% imprinted one. This server is clustered with AB and Ext, so I also have 1/2 dozen Gachas including 3 that produce Dust, and the rest are silica pearls and Org Poly. I have bred them multiple times, but no Black Pearl ones yet. In this server, my base is inside the huge cave next to upper hidana ( I think it is called Little Snow Top Mountian?) The last thing I did over the weekend was tame up 8 sharks and I put them in the small but deep pond next to the cave. I put them on aggressive/wander, and built a nice pier and placed "No Swimming" & "No Lifeguard on Duty" signs around the pond. I then had way too much fun picking up dinos with my wyvern and dropping them into the shark pond! I also spent time helping out the newbies on the server who did Not log in, and immediately ask for starter pack. I was amazed to see how many people would log in, ask for starter, when told no Admin on duty, they would immediately log off. This is BOOSTED server! I had a fully metal base within the first 8 hours of joining. People are so dang lazy! Tonight I will go back to the "Grinder Element" server and try to tame more high level event colored dinos like Thylas, Griffins, and also get wyvern eggs. (on this server, you can get random artifacts via the beacon drops, so I need to raise a Rex army, so I can do the boss battle.)

Coming up on 21 hours and still no list. So not sure yet. But if your server has an average of 4 players or less. Might want to get ready to move to a more populated server. Or just delete the game. Because a year or less from now they will do the same thing again. And delete slowly all of them. And of course the pops will always go down. No one wants to join a server that will one day be deleted.

So not sure where I last left off, possibly with the Rex BP finds... (3 of them at once), well, 2 more popped last night, a 133 armour one and a 97 MC which is like a 3rd of the mats of our asc ones - it will be a good seller. I fed up Center when I logged on and finished off the 28k 960MD Rex and bred with all our females. Lay down a further 6 eggs to incubate and went off to Ext to help on a purple drop. Now that I have taken my main char (Center char which recently alpha ascended) over to Ext with a 97% Giga, these things are easy and the three of us in our tribe claimed an easy 7 wave purple drop. I would really like to see something new drop, maybe more asc haz mat bps but I guess patience is the key. For once the game didnt crash - running in 4k can sometimes be a little sketchy on Ext but it seemed fine last night, have had it in the past where my body is just lying on the floor with 3 Gigas taking on the waves of corrupted and when I get to log back in its... run run run, where is my Giga! My plan now that I have my Max level Reaper, Fire Wyv, Posion Wyv is to get a Lightning and Ice as I only have 185s. Yes, I know that stats matter, but I want 190s ? I have made a bucket list which is to have all dino types in our base breed out above level 300. At first it seemed really daunting but now that I have started working through it my current list stands at. Above 300 when born/hatched: Rex, Yuty, Theri, Ptera, Argy, Anky, Doed, Bear, Thyla, Quetz, Raptor, Spino Above 265 and currently improving stats: Allo (295), Daeodon (271), Glow Tail (265), Featherlight (293), Mammoth (289) Beaver (282), Tappys (272), Snow Owl (293), Mags (272) Giga (265), Hyena (265) Mesis (265) So out of the main Dinos that we use, Im 50% there and the others are coming along nice. We havent worked on the breeding of water dinos too much yet but we have just built a massive water pen with its own swimming pool so that is ready to go now. I will keep you updated on any good progress - The Allo is so close to being over 300 and with one stat left to get I think it will leave me at 299 and then I just need a little mute just to pop it over

I accidentally ate a fertilized baryonix egg i planned on hatching. First and hopefully last time doing that.

Soo there is no list still ?