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Since I have checked on and fed my creatures both on Valguero and on Crystal Isles recently enough, so nothing is at the risk of starving or decaying, I decided that today will be the singleplayer day. Still not actually playing, as the base is not fully built yet, but I think that I might actually finish today. The base is a rather typical one for me, built with CKF (both versions, as new one has some nice stuff, but the old one has rounded pieces which make it much easier to build towers), and consisting of three parts: outer rectangle, with higher walls and three large gates, serving as the main defense against any and all flying creatures, will also house whatever large terrestrial predators I manage to acquire. First inner rectangle (the walls of which will be connected to my house), which is going to be a garden, useless but pretty. And the second inner rectangle, which has a dodo coop (was supposed to be a chicken one, but it turned out that the alteration to chickens in AOA mod wasn't just renaming them and now they wouldn't fit through the door), a "field" of 12 large crop plots, a pen for aurochs, and a stable (6 stalls, 2 long 2 wide). I haven't made screenshots of that new build, but here's a link to a screenshot of the first singleplayer base I've built in such a way (new one's a lot bigger, though): here it is! ... EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ADDITION (important because I'm very excited): I decided to go onto the Valguero server I play on just to quickly check on that cave (it was, indeed, the loot cave with no enemies and flyers allowed). Got no good loot, BUT! I saw a giga. Female, level 55, pretty colors (dark, possibly actually black back, belly seems to be light gray. Either way, colors are nice and not clashing). And just before my eyes, she got stuck on some rocks. Now, I know that gigas and other strong creatures tend to get unstuck just as you think they won't get out, but still I went to my base to grab the rifle, narcotics, kibble, darts, and Rose (the Blood wyvern that I initially got for breeding, but that's not happening, and her colors aren't pretty enough to ride). SO! I got it all, and I went back, and the giga was still there! I found a nice position and stopped Rose there. And started firing. Missed 2 shots, but the rest of the darts (all 114 of them) hit the mark. But I guess giga's torpor drop rate is too fast for that to work. So I flew back to the base, killed and harvested some cnidarias on my way, made shock darts, and returned. The giga was still there. I got Rose into position, shot-shot-shot, almost lost hope, but when I had just three darts left, the giga finally fell! So I loaded her up with all the narcotics (turned out I brought too much! Still had 5 whole stacks left by the end of it), waited for her to get hungry enough for two pieces of kibble, didn't have patience for her to get hungrier than that, and gave her all of it (brought too much of that too, by the way. Had plenty left afterwards). Had to fight off a tek raptor and a sabertooth, but they didn't ruin the effectiveness too much, she still ended up being level 81. And then I podded her, brought her to my base, made her a saddle (dyed black and brown with golden metal parts), and named her Elisabeth. Already tried her out, she's pretty great! No idea how good or bad is 70% melee for a 81 giga, but seems pretty okay for meatruns (plus, I won't put a single point into anything besides melee until it's at least 80%). So anyway that's how I tamed my first giga just because it was there.

Thanks for the tip. I'm not on a map with titans atm; however I hope to meet them someday. Chainsaw sounds cool though. I might have to make one just to play with it. lol. And yes, Theriz' are great. After I hatch and imprint one I load it up with a basic saddle and ride it around and thrash everything in sight. Like a good parent, I make them earn the materials for their improved saddle.... They can't just have one for free.... and it levels them up in the process. win-win.

I'd just like to see turrets buildable on platform saddles again in pve