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I saw a brightly colored blue and red bronto stomping around outside my base and debated if i wanted to risk death and having my base broken down. I risked it and i shot a bunch of tranqs in him and stood there all day and all night taming him. Now he is squished awkwardly in my small enclosure. I then got too brave and tried to go after a alpha raptor to tame him. I was a few feet from my base gates when it killed me. I respawned in the base then came back out with bow and arrows to try again. well he broke 2 of my gates and crashed around in the base. i hate the bronto set to aggressive as well as a high level trike. raptor killed me again. i came back he was gone but no notice of my dinos killing him. so guess he ran and is around somewhere.

Playing solo. Raising and levelling Theri group for a go at the beta and alpha dragons (hopefully by this weekend), gathering / grinding out mats for saddles.

Still progressing on my ice map project as I finished the entire snow tier structures today. Now to learn Blender and make the new crafting stations... Progress on the map/DLC can be tracked here :

Didn't do much today. Fed the dinos. Noticed that some were too far from the troughs, moved them into the range. Fished from the back of my pelagornis (nothing great. Just some obsidian, crystal, metal - the usual). Remembered that I've respecked recently and had more points put into crafting skill this time (formerly 460, now 560) so I decided to try and see what I can squeeze out of my 193 longneck BP this time, and "squeezed" quite a nice 209.4 rifle. Considered finishing to hatch the quetz eggs and breeding the rexes, but didn't feel like that. Also, started singleplayer on Crystal Isles with some mods, not playing yet - just building the base. Playing time would be once that's done. Also also, uninstalled Ragnarok because I haven't played on that map for at least two months in singleplayer and definitely won't do that on a server, seeing as I've firmly settled on Valguero and prefer not to get distracted from that (to the point where the only other survivor on official that I'm currently using exists solely so that I can get things from there without raking the risk of transferring my main survivor).

Last day at work, last day of single player. Loaded my small herd onto the boat & started looking for a more permanent base location since we've outgrown our mobile one. Set my sights on something near green obi. Made landing, tamed a second trike for additional muscle. Started scouting and found argy's. Knocked out a 95 with green plumage & named her Peridot Took her out in search of a Doed. First one i knocked out got eaten by allos, but the second 1 I spotted turned out to be a 140. Spent the rest of my time taming it with berries

Not much going on over the week but I found some time on the weekend. Lots more building, of course. I don't want to even hazard a guess as to the raw cost of this base... More importantly, I successfully acquired a pair of yutyrannus. I would consider them a keystone tame, as important as argents or ankys in the grand scheme of things for their overall impact. A source of yuty eggs means kibble time, so I got a hive up and going, boy was that tedious and annoying. And crops, of course. I also made a huge discovery. I found the phoenix! Unfortunately I've failed twice at taming it. My wyvern isn't powerful enough and I've been having trouble using the pillar trick to find the ashes, even seeing where it fell. So I'm both excited to have it nearby and frustrated that I can't seem to tame it. It's event colors too... That's pretty much it. As far as builds go this base is rather intricate so most of my time is taken up with that. I'm quite happy with how it's turning out, but it'll be a long time before I'm ready to share the finished base.

Today was the beginning of the rest of my ark life. Finally, I figured out how to get a max level of 150. Thanks @LEDminer, for helping me figure it out! Went argent hunting. First one was five. Second was 150. Went home and slaughtered an ovis for mutton, started feeding, the thing ate like six bites before I realized I accidentally had my taming at 1.0, instead of 4.0. I quickly fixed it. Turned out super good, over 2k health, 700 weight, at least 11k stamina, maybe more, and over 300% melee. And that was without a single stat pumped, or single-player settings. Fury, my loyal level 75 argent, who started out at only level 9 in the wild, is now retired, and will spend the rest of her days looking out over my base. After several dino wipes, I've been forced to deal with the respawns. My base is going bananas over every raptor, dilo, and ant. I usually like bunch on neutral, just in case, but right now I think passive is better. Tomorrow, I'm sloth hunting. Look out overseer. I started small, but I'm on my to endgame. I also hear rexes are nice this time of year. I think I'll do the bosses like this: megatheirium army first, I can afford to be a bit casual, no dedicated breeding pair, just breed with whoever I feel like, original wild two will just be part of the army. For alpha and maybe beta, I'll add in a good yutyrannus. All difficulties primitive saddles, unless I find a good blueprint or premade. If I don't, it's fine. Cementing paste is a joke thanks to my snail. Rex army for megapithicus. Definitely not worried about gamma, primitive saddles and no yutyrannus will probably be fine. Beta and alpha, yutyrannus, and probably good saddles. I might use good saddles for gamma if I can get my hands on them, so I won't waste materials and time on saddles that will just be replaced. I will have a dedicated pair, that won't fight or get level-ups, since boss tier rex breeders are more valuable than sloth breeders. The sloths can be forgotten after I fight the alpha broodmother (many will die anyway), but good rexes can fight the megapithicus, manticore, help with element nodes and drops on extinction, maybe even help with the Genesis missions. Finally, therizinos for dragon. I will DEFINITELY use good saddles, and a yutyrannus, I honestly might lose some on just gamma. I won't farm it at all, just get it killed quick so I can unlock its tek stuff. The many eggs from my rex army will help tame the theris, since I can easily mutton tame a rex, but a berry tamed theri is a bit painful. Maybe I planned too far ahead...

Watched the screen and hoped for the best. But after event ended, i still have 30 to 120 seconds no response time every server save. And not to mention the spikes inbetween. else just looking and trying to plan how ill go forth and minimize whaty i loose if i try something in game and get hit by the unintenden game mechanichs that the server gives me.

As per Crunch 227 they stated that as the Crunch is moving to Friday's that it would be merged with Fan Art rather than having it seperate.

Scorched Earth, private server, two of us... We have managed to build most of our infrastructure now up through cryofridges and we are still working on an industrial forge. We have Argys hatching over level 200 and we are still looking for high level Megatherium and Rexes. I have found all three caves on Scorched Earth (in the crevasse to the Southwest, in the mountains to the Northwest, and in the desert ruins in the South), but we have not attempted to enter them. We will probably wait until we have high-level Megatherium to combat Mantises that I imagine will be swarming in the caves. I may do some testing with Megatherium vs. Mantises in the desert sends to see exactly how tough are these new beasties (my sole encounter was when my Argy survived a single hit from a Mantis when I was flying low searching a ruin). I see Wyverns flying overhead near the trench and I cower under an overhang hoping they do not see me. Our plan is to breed 40 or so Argys, grab a Wyvern egg, and fly through the cloud of Argys with the egg and hope that they will take care of the swarm of Wyverns that will be chasing the egg thief. After reading about Cymas dogfighting a Wyvern on an Argy (a couple of pages back in this thread), I am tempted to try it with a "disposable" Argy just to see how tough the Wyverns are. I, of course, am always disposable. Scorched Earth feels so different from The Island I think mostly because of the line of sight distances. You can see almost everywhere on Scorched Earth, but everything is camouflaged and hidden. It seems a bit easier, but I think that may be just because we know what to expect from Ark and the type of things on which to concentrate. Snails are also one of our high-priority luxuries. We really could use lots of cementing paste and organic polymer. We finally got a beehive for the honey to make Sweet Vegetable Cake to tame a snail. As far as I can tell, I think that he only beehives on Scorched Earth are in the crevasse to the Southwest. It took us a bit of effort since the Queen Bee did not fall to the ground, but instead got stuck on a ledge where I could barely crouch. I only had to die once to figure out that the Queen will not eat at all (she eats only rare flowers) unless you are wearing insect repellent and some amount of ghillie armor. Draining the hive now that it is tamed only takes insect repellent. Note that the Ghillie armor that we used was from drops since we cannot make it without organic polymer (from snails or possibly by killing Mantises).

Today: fished (no BPs, 2 pieces of hard poly, some organic, some crystal, 2 pieces of angler gel), hatched 5 tek rex eggs (only one new mutation, speed, blue on the "ribs" (and not the shade I find pleasant when applied to tek dinos), killed all), the young female quetzals have fully matured, got eggs from them and their mother, incubated them for a bit and put in the fridge for later (hope that if one hatches with a mutation, it would be with an unusual wing color. I saw a blue-winged one once in the wild and the color really suits them).

Something has apparently changed with work internet so i have been unable to access my server. Instead I started fresh single player on Val for a few days until I go home. Worked my way up to taming my first Ptera. Lvl 50, not bad. As im waiting for it to tame, a 145 lands near by. Tranqued it before shutting down for the night.

There's just a lot less community facing things to report this week. Every week won't be a heavy news week. There's lots happening in the background that we'll be talking about soon enough though.

Last night I worked on a new recruitment tribe I am running and we discovered some 13 y/o kid that was pretending to be a woman. He keeps stalking me everywhere I go but now I know 3 of his psn's, so everyday brings me closer to having peace. I don't know why this kid is obsessed with me. I want nothing to do with him and keep blocking him on all accounts and blocking all of his friends. This community is really annoying sometimes.

Well, that makes a bit more sense. Why did I get the impression that BLM and libtard protests were the cause? I guess it was the timing. I stand corrected but my opinions remain, agree or disagree with them. Like I said, no apologies.

I don't care about "the voices of others" The nonsense that's going on in the U.S. is unimportant garbage and politicizing the release of game expansions is the dumbest nonsense ever. The BLM movement are a bunch of anarchist communist rabble rousers in league with Antifa. Supporting those clowns in any way is foolishness. I worry about my own people, my friends and family, not faceless people who mean nothing to me. No pity. No regrets. No apologies.