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Today: Tamed an awesome diplo. Low-level, but gorgeous dark blue color with teal spikes and white belly. Raised quetzals to 7%, froze for later. Noticed that I've hit 80 dinos (I'm trying to keep below that number. Might expand to hundred when I start getting REALLY good dinos, but for now 80 is the max amount I'll have non-podded), so I froze some dinos I might use later, but not using at the moment (ones that aren't important egg-layers. So, therizinos and all female rexes are still standing at the base), as well as UNfroze and killed some dinos I'm definitely not using ever again and that I'm not attached to. The latter included my old high level diplo male, since diplos are only used for in-base berry runs and dino painting practice, so good colors matter much more than good levels. By the end of it I was left with, if I recall correctly, 67 dinos standing in the base - all without losing anything significant.

I waited about 1000 years for the game to update because for some reason over steam it wants to stop and start for over 2 hours. And its definetly not my PC or internet, but besides that event dino stuff yurd

(Posts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5) Well, to get the good days, you gotta get the bad, and today was definitely more of a bad. I've learned to quit while I'm ahead in my time on ARK, so I decided to call it quits for the night even though I definitely could keep going. I logged on and had a normal enough start to my night. Farmed some metal and decided I wanted to make electronics, so I headed to SE to whip up pearls on the back of my griffin, Saturn. Now, Saturn is not a high level griffin. Saturn is leveled strictly in stamina and was a level 25 pre-tame because I couldn't find any higher than that and it was taking too long to kill them off on my pteranodon (read first post for more about that). Anyway, I intended to get more pearls than what I had at that point, but as I was uploading what I had on my person at a drop, a direwolf attacked Saturn and my menu bugged. I was stuck in the uploading menu while the direwolf just chewed away at Saturn. I force closed, hoping that might let me log back in in time to save them... nope. Server did that fun thing where, for about 5 minutes, it still thinks I'm logged in even though I'm not. Logged back in and Saturn and I were both dead. It wasn't a huge problem, I know SE like the back of my hand and was able to get the stuff back pretty easily, but now I'm out a griffin. I think, "Oh, what the hell, I have a wyvern back on Ragnarok and a griffin trap already set. I'll just go get one real quick." Yeah. Sure. So, Dododex insists that my crossbow won't kill one, and I'm feeling lazy. I made enough tranq arrows to knock a 150 out two times over - lag and the griffin's sporadic nature have taught me to be prepared - grab narcotics and take my lightning wyvern, Remus, out to go hunt one down. My trap allows me to use the wyvern to lure them in and then I jump off and quickly shut the door, or else the griffin loses interest in the wyvern near the trap and I kite them in on foot and shut the door while they claw at me some. Of course, the area around where griffins spawn is heavily built on in this particular Ragnarok server, so I have to travel... quite the distance to spot some griffins. Eventually, I found a lv 50 and decided to kill it - but wait, suddenly there's two griffins! I kill the 50 to discover the second is a 130 that is now quite bloody from my attacks. I decide that's no problem, I'll just wait for it to heal--I've heard bringing dead things back to carnivores and letting them eats it restores their health anyhow. So, it's a long and tedious journey, but I finally get the 130 caught in the trap. I spend some time healing Remus since he was quite injured over the few hours it took me to find this griffin (also, I leveled his health up some before I set out, as he's still new). Once that was done, griffin was still bloody, so I went and got some things for it to eat. It appeared to just have a couple splotches of blood left so I gave it some more time. A couple of people with some sickness came to inspect what I was doing, they were both on their feet--I didn't want anything to do with that so I told them to back off or I'd kill them, gave them a threatening display with Remus. They seemed to get the memo and stayed away. Finally, I decided to just try and tranq the griffin and I'd just take my time and be mindful. Yeah... didn't work out. It died in the end from the shots. Wholly frustrated, I just headed back home, cryo'd the wyvern, and decided to call it a day until tomorrow. Lesson learned. Do not try to be a cheapskate. Even if Dododex swears that your crossbow won't kill things, that doesn't account for wild damage they've taken, or damage you might do to them prior to getting them trapped. Tomorrow, I'm going to make the appropriate number of darts and go find me another high level one. I could do that tonight, but my patience has worn thin and low patience is a killer in ARK. I can't afford to lose Remus and I fear that if I try to do too much more while aggravated I could somehow lose him, too. Then I'd really be up the creek without a paddle.

@DodoRaptor I've watched almost every video of his from his season 4 series onwards. He shows his settings yes, but if you look at the stats on his dinos in the season 4 playthrough, particularly the Alpha Dragon fight they are not actually possible with vanilla settings. It may or may not be intentional on his part, we all know updates can screw up settings from time to time. It's also easy to overlook certain things because the settings are not organized in any particular way. Believe me I enjoy his videos a lot, that's just a specific issue I have with a specific part of his content. @Cordiste He has the timer in the Tek cave because he's hosting his single player game on a server, which is not reflective of actual single player gameplay for this and other reasons. Personally I don't think it's worth it to add that much extra stress in an already challenging environment for the sake of authenticity, but I've also been playing on this map for a year and I'd really rather not give myself any extra reasons to fail and be stuck on this map for even longer lol. If I mess up on my Overseer run I'd either have to restore my pre-battle backup save, which is cheaty, or spend another 2 months rebuilding to try again when I'm already bored and fatigued with being on The Island for so long. Neither of which is appealing as an option for me. I'd like to finish this map and move on to Scorched Earth. Speaking of, I am a bit behind on progress. I made one saddle yesterday and one today and that's about all I've managed to get done. I do think I'm going to bump my plans up. I'll do the majority of my prep tomorrow and I'm just going to go ahead and run it on Friday night after work with whatever I've got ready. I'll probably be short something like 5 rexes but whatever. There's a reason for the rush, it's so if I do manage to conquer the Tek cave and defeat the Overseer, I'll have the entire weekend to enjoy a brand new (to me) map, as Scorched Earth is the only one I've never set foot on before.

(Posts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5) Thought I might jump back in this thread! I typically just lurk, tried posting a few times in the past and always would forget, but this time I think it'll stick and really do me some good. Quarantine may be mostly over where I am but it's not over for me and my immunocompromised mother, not to mention the everything else going on... Sigh. Anyway, without getting into all the details, let's just say I have a lot of free time nowadays. Some background for my journey through ARK. I started mostly in singleplayer and played that for about a year, then I grew bored and wanted something new. Played on private servers with a friend or two for a few months. Got bored of never being able to be online at the same time/the boosted rates, so I managed to drag said friend(s) to official ORP PVP. Have been stuck to that server cluster like glue ever since and what a wild ride it has been. It was just me and two other players for a while. I'll call this tribe SS. SS, to put it bluntly, had no idea what it was doing. SS started on Ragnarok and we didn't know where the good metal, crystal, whatever-nodes were, we didn't know how to gradually build up so we put down a huge footprint with a stone base that could have been easily broken into. Thankfully, our cluster was a pretty nice one, as long as you were a good distance from the easy spawns - which, considering we were in the desert, we were - and we had tons of people offer us advice on how to build better and so forth. Because of my busy IRL schedule, it was often one of SS's tribemates that did the brunt of the work. Thanks to their dedication, even though SS was not well put together, we lasted for quite some time in that little spot before we decided to move and build a proper metal base elsewhere. SS moved to a metal base along the desert shores of Ragnarok. We had a good amount of turrets and plant X for a while there. Things were going well, but SS suffered from a lot of internal drama (me and the one member of SS that did most of the work disagreed a lot. I will not demonize them; they had valid reasons to disagree with my behavior, and I believe I had valid reasons to disagree with theirs. We were just very incompatible people). The third SS tribemember was family of the one I disagreed with and they didn't play much anyways, so they were not often there to defuse the tension (not that I'm even sure they'd have been able to should I have been there). Anyway, we decided that if SS was going to survive, we needed new tribemates because we needed metaphorical space from one another. Thus, we merged with another tribe--we'll call this one DN. DN consisted of myself, the original two members of SS, plus five or so active people and a handful of others that were sporadically active or inactive. DN was an end-game tribe full of players that seemed to prefer the early-game. Couple this with the fact our time zones were almost all over the place, and... progress was sporadic and often not well-focused. At least, it was difficult for me to collaborate with the others. Again, not saying this is anyone's fault, just that it also caused more drama (at least on my end). Then DN started to decline. First, I'll put down some names for tribemates - there's me, D, M, S, A, and N. For a while, D and S were close friends but also clashed a lot. S then started to grow rather inactive. D was invited to join one of the cluster's alphas. D waffled on this for some time until they finally relented and left. D was the same player I had been with since the start of SS. S was deeply hurt at first by this, but was already quite inactive anyway. S eventually quit playing all that often. M, being D's family member, didn't play much to begin with but really didn't play after that at all. A, N, and myself were almost never online at the same time and I never knew what to do because DN's base was just so large and needed so much done that I didn't know where to start. S had been our leader. A slowly overtook that role, but was mostly a grinder tribemate. They could churn out ingots, bullets, and so forth like you wouldn't believe! But anyway, that's pretty much all they wanted to do. N... enjoyed Aberration a lot and skipped around the maps often, growing interested in Ab and Extinction. Eventually, I left the tribe as well when I noticed everyone's declining activity levels. I took all my dinosaurs (quite a lot, as I enjoyed taming and breeding) with the permission of the remaining tribemates (so it wasn't like I stole anyone's dinos or anything), took some of my supplies and things, and slowly moved to SE because of the low population and because it reminded me of Rag's desert. There I started a tribe we'll call LA. LA was just me! At first, some other people from the Ragnarok tribe were in it so they could help me move and such, but they didn't really come over often and they had low perms. Anyway, that's where I plateaued for a while. I just built up this metal base on some pillars, slowly tried to work on defenses, but... then the COVID-19 crisis began and I fell into deep, deep depression because I was forced to go back home to live in an abusive household. For a while, I just cryo'd all the tames and would log in just enough to repair generators and refresh things, but then I had a particularly nasty week where... I didn't come online for 10 days. This was just after I had tried to get back in so I left a lot of tames out. The innards of my base was made out of adobe because otherwise, the negative hyperthermal insulation would nuke me in seconds (even at 400 health and full asc ghillie!!). Out of 12 or so cryofridges of tames, only one cryofridge was left standing in that mangled mess of metal and I couldn't get to it since I had no flyers and lived on uneven pillars (plus, the decayed adobe meant a lot of other structures collapsed and were impossible to navigate). I had to just abandon ship. To Ragnarok I went. There, I made yet another tribe that's still just me that we can call AC. I spawned in the highlands in the midst of the birthday event and gathered some rockarrots and tried to find an equus to tame. All I could find was a measly level 25. I jokingly named him Spirit in reference to the DreamWorks animated movie, but I digress. Spirit shocked me with just how incredibly helpful he was in getting started. Within a day or two, I had two argies and was back at my preferred location in Ragnarok's desert near the metal mountain. Once I felt I had some measly defenses up, I traveled back to SE with one of the argies and was able to finally pick apart the remains of the base there. I retrieved the single cryofridge of animals and discovered that what had survived included pteranodons, argies(!!!), rexes, tek rexes, and ovis. The argies were a godsend to have survived because they had incredibly high weight stats. I was so glad to have salvaged that. The tek rexes may also have really good melee and health on them, but I still haven't looked at that yet. Once I retrieved as much as I could carry or as much as I cared to carry from SE, I went back to Ragnarok and have continued to build up AC there. DN has since merged into the server alpha, but the old desert base on Ragnarok is now devoid of life and use. It's a big, turretless metal husk that I think is just there because they haven't bothered to take it down. I don't mind that too much. I kinda like having them there, lol. The old members of DN have moved on as well and a lot don't play ARK anymore. Personally? Although I was devastated when LA's SE base decayed, and for a few days I didn't want to do anything, I found it... weirdly refreshing to hop onto Ragnarok with nothing and try again. I had a blast riding around on that pathetically low level equus and clawing my way back to where I wanted to be on the map. The adventures I have had in just the week or so since I have started this new journey... I won't say that I'm glad LA decayed, because there are some tames that were lost that I really, really would love back and were sentimental to me, but I am glad to have started AC on Ragnarok. I went to tame a griffin the other day and after finding 8 level 25s and suffering through trying to kill them with my pteranodon (which, because all of mine that survived in the cryofridge were meant to be breeders, was leveled in food and not stamina, took forever!!!), I just relented and tamed a crappy level 25 griffin. I stuck it in an empty cryopod and let it amass levels and leveled it strictly in stamina. Then, I went to the scar and managed to grab me a level 100 lightning egg without getting us killed. With the boosted rates, it only took one milking to get it to adulthood (which I am so grateful for, playing chicken with wyverns on a griffin with 760(!!!) health is not fun). I am hoping to level it as needed in stamina and health so I can steal a higher level lightning egg, but in the meantime, it will do for trips to the far desert for organic polymer from mantises (I do not have the patience to tame a moschops at the moment--I will in the future, but for now, just flying around on fast lizard and monching the mantises should hold me over). I wanted organic polymer to be easier to gather because I wasn't having any problems with paste, metal, crystal, etc, but polymer has always been such a pain. I want to briefly focus on defense for my base, but after that, I intend to tame a bunch of low level female yutys and a single male so I can get a bunch of eggs. A couple of oviraptors, ironically enough, survived the great LA decay event, so I don't need to worry about getting one of them. With those, I should be able to tame just about anything. I want to focus on therizinos though. My intention is to hyperfocus on these therizinos so that I can take on the Dragon on the Island to get the Transmitter tekgram. I want to have bases across the maps, but I get so angry with trying to use drops and obelisks (Aberration is ESPECIALLY an enormous pain since I don't have a rock drake anymore... rip Seafoam, you will be missed). So yeah, that should catch everyone up to speed more or less with where I'm at in my ARK journey. It's been a wild two and a half years and 3k hours, but I'm looking forward to so many more regardless of how much heartache this game has caused me. 'Cause for all the heartache and bad days, there have been so many more good and wonderful days. In Helena Walker's words, for every sunrise I lose track of on this island, it's like each one seems more beautiful than the last... potentially because of how much I have been through to get there.

Hi , I got teleported and kill inside my small metals base on aberration : 242333 -88952 39998 31.61 -5.02

So for noobs and lazy people this might be cool... but for someone who has been playing since day 1.... you gmfu! It didnt stay up all those hours to get new stats and mutations for it to be all taken away. The countless hours i put into base designs over all the different maps. You wipe official and most of the ark player base will be leaving the game. It would be suicide for wildcard, most players would expect that from future games from wildcard so wouldnt waste time.

Might surprise some of you, but some PvE players actually like and get attached to our things and don’t view the game as a death arena.

The only ones , that want a wipe its the damn kids that always are winning about something , instead of playing the game. I play the game for 3 years and dont have any problem with my evolution and i still have much to work for . Just because , you are too lazy to work for your stuff and want everything for yesterday , i dont have to be punished by all that posture of yours. My server is constantly with 20+ people on, and everyday new players start on my server, 1 out of 10 succed and keep playing, cause all the others only know beg and ask for stuff, and we dont support that kind of attitude .

I don't care if pvp servers are wiped, but I don't want my pve servers wiped.

Think of how many people will upvote a suggestion like this, just cause they want to watch the world burn. There already exists official servers that wipe on a schedule.

ARK is no longer in Early Access, therefore wipes should not really occur.