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Finished leveling 2 rexes today. I've worked out that it takes approximately 2.5 hours to level one up from where they are currently with the passively gained exp and all that. It could take as little as 2 hours if rng favors me with a lot of twins/triplets. Otherwise I can only do approximately 1.5 rexes per day because I only really have 4 hours to play after work, and I don't always just grind these things either. Basically I get home from work, log in, plop my character in a chair and go make dinner, etc while the eggs build up. Then I pop them all, kill them, level the rex, and hopefully it's done and I can swap for a new rex. Then I idle some more to get a second big batch of eggs, repeat process. Very dull and barely even counts as playing really, which is why I've been putting this off for so long. This game is absolutely not balanced for solo play at all.

Day 5 (non-cinematic): While the Therizino was taming I KOed and Iguanodon and tamed that too, then headed home. Looking for a high level pteranodon I only found a 13. Finally, it was moving day, my base is nowhere near metal, or even smooth stone. I moved to the southern inlets with Beavers, Obsidian, Metal, Rich Metal, Crystal, and more all nearby. I had to leave bronto and Therizino at base, maybe pick the up latter when I have saddles? Found a realitivly fast island with an ARK font A of rock on it, which looked like a good place, started clearing it and placed some pillars to prevent respawn. Upgraded my pick, tamed a beaver (woody) and went on my first really metal run with Bipedal??? And Goofy. Got around 750 raw metal! Couldn’t find crystals, but I got a spyglass from a supply drop so.. decided to go out and tame a Argy while the metal smelts. Went the long way to avoid redwoods and swamp. Got there, and it had just turned night, and illuminated against the sky a giant giga shadow stood at the top of the mountain. I flew by him a few times, and he didn’t notice me. I bit him and flew off a cliff face, he walked in circles!!!! Eventually I got him down when it turned day, killed a few raptors and picked up 4 ENs so my Pteranodon had like 12 levels stam 350-650 ( : tamed an female argy now eaglet. Flew home, gathered some trikes and turtles for the saddle! Pets day 7: Bazooka - pteranodon pteranodon pteranodon Eaglet - Argentavis Ark - Raft Banana - Therizinosuar brontosaurus woody - castoderous Ramson - Trike Goofy - Parasuar Screecher - Raptor Yellow - Raptor Bipedal??? - Iguanodons any name ideas for the bronto and the two pteranodon?

Day 4(non cinematic): geared up a little, tamed a pteranodon, he was only level 3 but he’ll work Named cheep. Flew out to my death beacon, got lucky, not too much drama, saw the same Tapajara glitched in a rock, Knocked out, started taming. Night came and the troodons attacked. Accidentally hit a dimorh, and My dimorph Mesher died, tamed the tap named him Torji, flew back, when regaining stam a thing that climbs trees Ate cheep, we escaped, and when going home, we accidentally abandoned Torji out of render. KOed a Therizino and am now taming, cus of my bossed rates should be only a handful of mejos and narcos.

Day 4(continued): I landed my bird and checked how my pets were, then noticed the Tapajahara that that had gotten trapped under a rock. I knocked him out, and feed him some meat, and I scanned the area with my pets. Only found a few raptors in a hole. Then the sun started setting, and the trodoon woke up, my pets swarmed home quickly. One must have accidentally scraped or bitten a dimetrodon. Suddenly we weren't the ones swarming. Finally there was only one left, but he was good at dodging. Finally Mesher grabbed onto him and both Dimetrodons fought, and Mesher died. Then the wild dimorph got caught by Cheep. Sad about the loss of Mesher I finished taming the Tapajara which I named Torji. I freed him from the rock he was trapped under. It was time to head home. Consulting my map, I saw four routes, one went along the river and the swamp and redwoods. Another was through the redwoods to the beach, maybe longer, but foreseeability less dangerous. The third was travel upriver more and make a big loop around the forest and redwoods, through slightly unmapped territory and possibly running into a colder area or a volcano, which I notice have bigger carnivores but if I flew right it would be least dangerous. And the forth was completely unmapped. I chose the redwoods, I wanted to get home fast. About 2/3 of the way Torpedo was tired. So we had to land, I chose a more rocky clearing spot. We were going down, and at the floor when it happened, something flew from the trees and some raptors, a carno and some weird birds circled us below, I urged torpedo to fly up the slope, where a peak was, and saw a good spot and torpedo collapsed. Behind Torji was here. Cheep was getting consumed by a large creature that had leaped from the trees. It sounds bad, but I wasn’t too sad, he was weak and I wasn’t attached. We flew ahead. Thing is, Torji is slower. He must have got caught up in some trees. I’ll find him later, but right now, it’s not worth it. We got back home. A long fingered bipedal herbivor was lounging by our base, I decided it might be a good tame. It’s fast! But I’m faster. I eventually got it knocked out, but I don’t think he’s too trusting, this might take a while.

Day 4: SUCCESS!!! Today decided the best way to get my pets back was to fly, so I got geared up with some narco-arrows, and shot the first pteranodon I saw, he looked fairly week sadly, so I made a chest and dropped off some loot and tamed him, mounting him with a saddle I pre-made, we took off, referring my map I go up the river, landing for a breath most commonly on a peninsula cliff, soon I saw my bird circling a troodon, but it was day so it had hybrnated under a rock. TBC

Will they be faster??? I know some of my bird tames will some reason have elevated speed stat.

That’s almost the entirety of my total playtime.... and I’ve had ark almost a year, given I broke my Xbox so really it’s only six months but... still!

ARK Viewer 44 now available. http://www.miragesoftware.co.uk/ARK/Apps/ARKViewer44.zip Features Astral ARK map support @Norlinri

can't wait to get back into ark with the new map im hyped

Xbox NA SERVER 1097 VALGUERO DOWN!!!!!!! Any way i can get some kind of update on the server i play on it has disappeared for 3 days now it would be nice if i could get some clarity on what is going on.