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Extinction, SP Went on a metal run for ~2.5k metal ingot worth. Then wacked some lampposts and tables with a doedic for ~5k crystal and ~5k element dust. I spotted a blue OSD and decided to give it a shot (I’ve not done an OSD before). I brought one of my newly raised Tek Rexs and 2 wolves: Sir Chewsalot and Madam Shadow. After several rounds I was very comfortable thinking this is easy. But then, as the last wave starts, the sky darkens and the precursor fireflies of a meteor shower start to fall. I debated giving up the OSD, but figured that trying to cryo my dinos as the wave of corrupted dinos hit was a bad idea, so I risked it. OSD Completed. As meteors crashed all around, I rushed around gathering the loot - most of which was useless, but I did get a few extra cryopods. The main benefit was the confidence that I can handle the OSDs. Safe back at base, I sorted all the loot and started looking through collected enforcer blueprints. The best I have is an Asc level 110, but is very costly (13k element dust, but I only have 8k). A level 95 journeyman, however, had only slightly lower health and melee percentages, and was a third the cost. I crafted this one, named it EN37. It’ll make a good starter enforcer.

went osd hunting on extinction today, we found 4, first was a blue and gave a decent amount of loot, but mostly wood construction items. Second was a yellow, got a nice bit of cryopods from it but most the items were blue as well as the blueprints, third was a yellow and had a decent amount of loot in it, however one items showed as a "Tek Replicator" when we picked it up, it vanished from our inventory. The last was a red, we were a little freaked as it was the first red we had tried by ourselves, though it went threw as a major success and got quite abit of nice loot from it, but again, another item showed as "Tek Replicator" and as soon as it was picked up, it vanished from our inventory. So this happened twice, we though "oh cool a tek replicator we can use!" but it just turned out to be a cruel joke thrown in our faces not once, but twice by wildcard. After that we headed back to base after deploying some gasbag balloons to take a bunch of the loot back to base. once there we put it all away and called it a night.

Wheres the community crunch? I mean come on they take about four seconds to put together based on how little content is ever actually in them

Structure saver sounds like the best one up there, I thought about it myself from time to time. I think itll very convenient

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I have given up so many bases, it is not funny. I am perfectly familiar with starting from nothing over and over. When I was on The Island, I had to build up a metal base bit by bit so that only C4 could get in (and there were plenty of griefers carrying C4). I guess I am getting a little attached to this stone base which I have been able to maintain a few tame dinos. I have not tried to Cryopod yet, but that sounds like it might be a useful option to keep my dinos safe and to raise them a bit at a time when I have an hour here and there. Clubs sound nice, but I have preferred pikes and swords so far. I can usually get to those technololgies in a few hours after starting from scratch. Flak armor is nice, but I can make do with hide. Crossbows are nice (rifles are nicer), but I can get by with bows. I just have to decide whether my purpose in playing at the moment is about proving that I can outlast, outwit, etc. my fellow survivors or whether it is to beat the game and its dinos and bosses. What do you mean by "gamma 4"? Is this a setting to make the game run smoother? My computer is running enough FPS. Is it something to lighten the display? I have cranked up the brightness of my TV to where I can see in pretty much every condition except the night/fog/rain condition on The Island. The drawback is that i get crazy lens flares when the sun is low in the sky and I cannot stand to see myself in metal armor. Thanks for the info and advice.

I continued with the Island base update. With the main base finished, I tore down the owl tower and old breeding barn. I layed down the ground work for the new breeding barn. Took a bit of fiddling but I got the cliff platforms down. The rest went up pretty quickly. Mostly happy with the build but am a bit unsure about the bare ground in the middle of the barn for maturing dinos. Its a bit of a mess with the cliff platforms and rocks, but shall see how it goes.

I'm on PS4 and I'm stuck on AB so i built a new crab trap. Went egg hunting and found a few eggs (180, 175, 2 145's). Raised a 160 drake and two 100's as backup. Got pregnant by a 110 reaper and started doing metal runs down in blue. So being stuck has been good for me. Made a couple of deals for 1002 melee rexs so now i have something to look forward too.

Hey Stretch, if you'll take some unsolicited advice from a fairly new solo surviver - rely on your base as little as you can, and be prepared to ditch it at short notice. You can always come back later. A wrecked base with no door that's been empty for a week can be safer than a brand new base, though anything of value is best stashed away elsewhere. Cryopods will (partially) solve the dino problem - 10 crystal, 15 fibre, 5 hide, 2 metal, 4 oil, 8 polymer and you can make them at a cargo beacon. As a solo pvper you're always going to be outgunned, but sometimes you can outsmart the buggers. Good luck!

Official Valguero, PvP, all by myself My usual griefer came calling yesterday as I was on. As previously documented, he jpined my tribe as a level 4 and promptly killed me with the weapons that I gave him. This time, he flew in on a dragon (probably a wyvern - I can't really tell between dragons except for Managarmrs) so I did not kill him on sight. He spent a little while picking up my Stego and dropping it and then picking me up and dropping me. I was shooting with my crossbow with tranq arrows (I had been taming a Ptera when he caught me outside) and when he was done playing (or maybe when his dragon started getting groggy from tranq arrows), he killed me with a shotgun. The good thing is that he did not kill my Stego and did not loot my body or wreck my base (not sure if he could actually hurt stone). It was no problem to respawn inside my base and wait until he gave up taunting and went away so that I could go collect the stuff on my body. The bad thing is that even though i have a mastercraft shotgun (it was safe in my base while he was killing me), I really do not have adequate defenses against him other than hiding in my base. My dinos in the pen are vulnerable to flyers unless I attempt to build a truly huge box with a large dino gate. I suspect that the roof could not be built without foundations below it or lots of pillars in the middle of my pen. I am debating giving up on this whole PvP thing. I have tried it and have survived and prospered, but it is a real pain to do anything permanently. I cannot keep any dinosaur too large to put in my house (I have a large hatchframe and can put small flyers like Pteros inside). I may just move to a PvE Valguero server as I have heard that the neighbors are more friendly on PvE ? If I move to an offical PvE server, can I move back to am official PVP server in the future? I would hate to lose the only PvP survivor that i have leveled up in case I want to return to PvP someday.

What about Diana ? She is also alive with Mei Yin on Extinction since she was the first survivor brought back to life by TOWW. Her last note talks about heading off to Arrat Prime with Mei-Yin, so it does make sense, but the reason im saying that it is Diana instead of the Mei Yin, would be that Diana simply has more affinity for all of the tek stuff, thus making it more likely that it would be Diana, if we were to choose one of the two EDIT: Also if we take your reasons into account, they also would apply here, Diana is a soldier, she would probably hate Rockwell even more than the Mei Yin for killing most of the people in the TEK village, since Diana knew them since their verry arrival on Aberration. Last but not least .... Rockwell literally was the cause of Dianas Death, so im quite sure she has a good motive too.

Perhaps this “new character” is none other than the “Beast Queen” herself, Mei Yin. She’s one of the only surviving friends of Helena, and she is a full on warrior, and she hates Rockwell for killing the majority of her people in theTEK village where she lived on Aberration, making her a likely character.

Finally lol. After a few nights worth of work I have finished the base conversion on the Island. Took longer than I thought it would, and a few changes in plans. I scaled back the amount of glass peices, I could easily have made the entire roof glass lol. Tried to keep the original character of the build while expanding to it, well at least keep one or two key features. Definitely feels more like a new build though. Got the usual crafting areas, storage areas aswell as the the now compulsory bp library that every base must have. Am really happy with it although I am still not happy with the stairs, need to work out a better way of accessing the first floor. Theres alot of room left to add things, so maybe I can add a small indoor green house in the corner or even just more storage. I think next up is demolishing the snow owl pellet tower and the old breeding barn and creating a new breeding barn. Shall have to sleep on that idea.

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Got off work on Friday early, and home by 5:30pm. Played ARK until 5:30Am Yikes Woke up after 3 hours couldn't sleep, so back onto ARK by 9am on Saturday. More or less played until 11pm. Woke up Sunday morning and was back online ARK by 10:15am. Played nearly nonstop until 6:00am Monday morning! (yes 20 hours) Woke up today (Monday) at 10:30, did some things around the house, going to grab lunch, and then be back on by 1pm. So yeah .... a total DILO-ton of hours this holiday weekend! Why? My buddies convinced me to give Abberration another go. The admins have the Easter event going on that map this weekend. I've tamed about 25 shine horns, 30 featherlights, 5-10 other event colored dinos. (and 6-8 Rock Drakes - 4 event colored) and oh yeah, I've been impregnated by Reaper Queens 10 times, and given birth 9 times. (the first time, I tried switching some nearly broken tek armor while pregnant and still in the radiation zone. Oops!) I ended up with 5 Easter Reapers from the same Queen! Yellow Body, Pinks highlights, and neon Green stomach! (It was a high level, so we built a birthing pen right near the pen we trapped the Reaper in. Once we saw the baby pop as a event colored, we farmed her for 3 hours, but holy cow she was not very cooperating most of the time, and kept glitching. The rest are all normal colored. (and yes, the breeding and maturation rates are boosted on this server, so the pregnancy lasts less than an hour.) Been a CRAZY weekend, but I am actually having fun on Abberation, even though I am scared everytime down in the Red zone, and I couldn't do it without my buddy, as I get lost CONSTANTLY !

Started my first online adventure yesterday and on PVP no less! Found a server with as few people possible on Scorched earth and began building up with my friend. Eventually we made contact with the only other 2 people on the server and found that they had just started as well so now we are all in a tribe together. I'm super excited about having outside input about the game that I cannot get from playing singleplayer. Already learning tons about PVP and how to not piss off the Alpha Tribe as best you can (I'm still not convinced there even is an Alpha tribe on the server, it looks pretty desolate). We have a morellatops, raptor and doed tamed so far (with lots of parasaurs that have laid down their lives for our cause) and are next to a great little mountain with crystal, metal, salt, obsidian and most important of all... Argie's.

Operation Aberration was quite the success, I tamed a low level bulb dog and managed to tame 2 ravagers, male and female, both of which tamed out at level 201. I hadn't planned on taming ravagers but it seemed fated and I have played long enough to know that when the ark giveth we taketh, because when you WANT it you won't find it. I also built a little resupply shack near the entrance to top up narcotics stocks and eventually tamed a 145 aberrant spino. I left the tames by the shack and ran to the entrance to catch a taxi (argy) back to base, grabbed the stuff to make a cryofridge and some pods. I wired up the cryofridge next to the chembench and raced off to retrive my new housemates. My next plan is to finish working on the base, I have had 2 lucky dino hunt days in a row and don't want to push my luck.

today i set out to make some organic poly from my gacha for the trade deal i had worked out, so I pulled out a iguanodon i had tamed in abberation who i had named "Fingers", he wasn't the highest level guy but at the time he worked for berries. I parked fingers over by the gacha and hopped atop the bronto, I didn't care what berries I got just as long as I got alot of them, and just a few minutes later, 3k of bronto weight filled with berries, a little thatch n' wood. I started pulling the berries off the bronto and using fingers masterful skills had him turn all the berries into seeds. I shoved the seeds into the Gacha who already were half full with owl pellets, and they promptly started chomping away and making me crystals. By the time all was said and done, i had 400 crystals, at 30 poly per crystal, i was sure that was more then enough. A Tribe said they were going to do the alpha tek cave and invited anyone who wanted to come, I decided to join them but not before breeding the rex that I was going to take with me. I grabbed a set of armor my gacha had given me earlier while making poly, and 200 medi brew just to be safe. and flew off to the tek cave to meet up with the tribe. they were doing a little prep work before they headed in and i just followed the lead, as I had never done the tek cave before. As we got to through the first part, everything seemed to be going pretty good, didn't seem as tough as what people were saying it was, and only 3 giga were encountered on the way in. we got to the teleporter, and headed in to the main arena, everything looked like it was going great. one inside they led us to the eplorers note in the chamber then shortly after the battle started. Not knowing what I was to do, i just followed what everyone else was doing and defended the yuty so it could keep the rexs buffed. It seemed to be going okay, but, i was watching the timer, and not enough damage was being done to the boss in corilation to how much time was left. when it rolled down to the last 5 minutes, most of the other players rex were dead, and when it hit the end of the counter, everyone was dead and all the dinos, except me and my rex, the counter went to -10 then vanished, I was still inside, and so was my rex, but he was almost dead, i knew he was lost, so I hopped off the seat, whistled attack my target and ran behind a pillar. The rex battled bravely to its last breath, but... i was still alive... and alone... with the boss... for about 5 minutes, i wasn't taking any damage, what was going on? I tried to find a way out but at lass, there wasn't any, and after that 5 minutes passed, i started taking damage again.. so I promptly ran up to the boss and started punching him, i knew i was a goner but by god i was gonna get a few good blows in. and then... i died. I'm guessing they didn't have rexes with high enough melee for the boss, its the only thing i could think of that caused the loss of the battle. there at the end i did a good 1/4th damage to the dragon form of it, so it really was the only thing i could think of. I'm going to watch some videos of the tek cave, hopefully i can find some legit official battles and not ones where people have cheats enabled in order to beat it. After i was out, i thanked the other tribe for the experience then left the temp alliance they made to get everyone in, and headed home. once back home, i sorted abit of stuff, and looked in my armor chest thinking 'im glad i took some stuff the gacha gave me today'. I fed all the rexs and then carted 4 off across the river to breed them with the neighboring tribe, perhaps i'll get some even higher melee rexs out of it. Put the eggs away, did one more meat run, and cooked up some meat as my fridge was almost empty, then made some more medi brew while i waited for that to cook up. One of my friends who is a tribe member on Valguero called out to me asking for some help to retrieve some dino's from the ice cave up in the north west corner, I grabbed some gear, and 1/2 the medi brew i had just cooked up and headed over to his base taking a shortcut with the teleporter. He loaned me a rex to use while we headed in, and told me what to expect as we went in, saying "well probably die if we get hit". Keeping a watchful eye as we headed in I could see there were alot of perlovia in there, i hate those guys, always leaping and knocking you off your dino... didn't know they had a 'daze' feature now when they knock you off though. for the most part we did really well heading in, neather of us got knocked off, and took hardly any damage, we came to a spot where we had to put the rex away, and go on foot, and thats when a theri came running up, freaked me out but luckly, it was my friends! one down, 5 to go, the next dino we found was his other theri, then his snow owl which he healed everyone up with. by the time we go to where his rexs were they had gone poof... rip rexs. we rode the theri out most of the way only needing to cryo them once. I got knocked off twice, one time i thought for sure i was dead, but managed to get back on the theri with a sliver of health left and promptly drank a bunch of medi brew, the second time wasn't so bad as the theri had the perlovia blocked from hitting me. my friend got knocked off his once, i tried to warn him before it leeped but i was too slow of a typer. we made it out safely. As a reward for helping him get his dino's back he let me keep the loaner rex, a nice black and gold tek rex. i was happy to keep it, he also let me keep a sniper rifle and the bullets, and gave me a bit of loot from the cave. that was a fun adventure. not all days are totally productive, but all days are learning experiences. Its been a long day, and I headed back up to my bed and decided to call it a day, laying back thinking on the days events.

Took the week off from the dev kit, while trying to get anwsers to the issues I faced with my concept. Did some major progress in my solo series as I finally defeated the alpha dragon & alpha overseer. Started on SE, which I haven't played in 3 years... jeez the memories. First 3-4 hours : - Tamed a 125 argentavis. - Tamed a pathetic lvl 5 rex as a "meat farmer". - Tamed a 120 anky + 20 doed. Over the week : - Found a decent plateau high up the mountains left of blue ob. - Built a miserable 4x3 adobe base as well as a dino gate wall to prevent further carno infestation. - Got a cryofridge yesterday! - Kibble tamed a 150 wolf (340 dmg) and a 145 female rex, which ended with 9.5k hp. I'll most likely tame the first male rex I see and start breeding them while also looking for a decent saddle BP. Might as well skip wyverns entirely on this map as they are not required to defeat the alpha manticore...

EU-PVP-Official-[REDACTED] Things have been working out well at Safehouse 3, and with a decent stash of cryopods under my belt I decided to upgrade my raptor to an argie. I've spent quite enough time chasing birds around like Grandpa Simpson, so this time I did my homework and found this nifty little trap. Flying in the face of my own sage advice I returned to the mountain where I knew there were plenty of argies. I found a good one, level 110. After a couple of false starts I got it locked down. Blew away some low level birds for prime meat and settled in for a long tame. At around about 95% I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much done. I'll just grab a coffee and when I get back I can take her out for a spin.' Of course it was killed. Of course it was. Then on the way home someone dropped a giga on my head.