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It's not an eventful day, as I decided to dedicate it to breeding. Bred rexes, bred gigas, waiting for the oldest giga egg to hatch currently. Also, 6% is an awesome "age" for a giga - it becomes just as easy to keep alive, as rexes and allos are. I love not having to constantly watch Deimos' food level anymore. ... Egg hatched, female, dad's melee, weight and stam. Dad's colors, except for the belly. Will keep for later, but that's not exactly the giga I want. ... Since all the other eggs (including the freshly-laid therizino one) will take over and hour to hatch (actual time ranging from the theri incubation time to two days), and Deimos is capable of surviving for about an hour without supervision, I decided to go and kill another elemental. I took Elisabeth and went to the place where my prey should be. There were two, as usual. 95 (way out of the range of what I'm willing to try and attack) and a 55 (bit high, but maybe). I made a bow and shot the 55 to get it close to me. It woke up, walked in my general direction, decided to take a shortcut through the lake, and somehow walked under the ground. I checked with a spyglass, I chomped the land where it's supposed to be - Nothing! Far as I know it just ceased to exist. Returned to the base mildly disappointed. ... Guess the therizino will die. Do disconnects HAVE to happen when I have something vulnerable unpodded/freshly hatched? ... Well, I reconnected, the theri is either dead or alive somewhere under the foundation, but I'm not removing the foundation, there are ACs on it, and a therizino isn't worth losing them, unless it got, like, 5 melee mutations at once, which definitely didn't happen. Since I don't trust my connection anymore (at least, for today), I picked up all the eggs but the newest one, put them in the fridge, podded Deimos, and logged off.

I third this xD. Will sure save a lot of GM time, also they should consider tek engram unlocks per account too, it will make us more daring to hop servers without the worry of loosing everything, you would only need to grind ur levels back up @StudioWildcard please read this!!

I could be mistaken, but I remember a year or two ago alot of the creatures were in fact breedable through a mod for those who were running singleplayer or unofficials. S+ may have allowed that but not overly sure which one it was, we ran 9 different mods.

Today has started out quite exciting. I started out on a normal farming expedition, taking all my trikes as mules and bodyguards with me. Them's five in total, me riding an Iguanodon. I've found they have pretty nice speed and don't use any stamina on normal movement. I also took along my little raptor to have it gain some experience. I tamed him almost accidently on a prior expedition and he's really low level and almost useless. I took him in anyways, because the poor thing was so miserable out in the wilds I couldn't just leave him out there. So our little party started out. It's always a big deal guiding all of them through my dino-gates, so I started that process at night to be ready at day break. We ventured out some, but not very far, had some minor harvests in, but no big numbers (going for stone and wood mostly, with some berries on the side for all my herbies). When we went down a slope, all of a sudden there was a 66 alpha-raptor. I was shocked. The gang took on the fight immediately and I tried to keep out as good as I could (not very good unfortunately). First victim was little Rapsi (the poor little raptor I was talking about). Next victim was me. The confusion was so big I just couldn't figure where to run to use ranged weapons. Couldn't take much of the alpha. So I missed the rest of the fight. When I respawned I first had a look at the tribe-manager to see how many of my guys had fallen and maybe they had overcome the alpha or not. I've had some sad experience with a lower level alpha (think it was around 20+x) a little while ago, which didn't leave much chance to fight. Those guys are so awfully fast. Well, the tribe-manager didn't show anything beyond my own and poor rapsis demise. So I went forth to the battle site and despite the manager hadn't shown any more casualties I was still very surprised that the whole gang (again apart from poor little rapsi) had survived the chaos. Wow. That was far better than expected. That Alpha finally gave me more than 20 pieces of prime meat, which was amazing. I never got more than one or two before this. So I took apart all the dead bodies (the Alpha, poor Rapsi and a dillo, that somehow got mixed up in the chaos, too) and hurried home to cook all the prime meat. When that was done, a chalicotherium somehow penetrated the barricades of my base and the next fight broke loose. I was pretty unsure what to expect. I've read that those guys have some serious fighting power, but it was up against everything I had, including my four Stegos that keep guard (but I don't take them out usually, because they're too slow). I was just worried that some of my more cherished dinos - mostly my unicorn - could be killed in the fight. Again, the fight was total chaos and I couldn't do much but wait for the result. The chalico had itself trapped between some stones and my guys eagerly pressed against the only opening. Soon everything calmed down. Upon checking, I first found my unicorn and Iguanodon had both survived the fight. Great. Could have been worse A closer examination revealed, that again none of my guys had been seriously injured. So I started the cleanup... put every dino back in it's original place and gathered those, that had fled the base (I still have my mules (=Parasaurs) set to flee. Need to change that.). While picking up the lost ones I actually came across a beautiful Tek-Para that I decided to take along for the fun of it. I also took all my Dodos into a breeding shack, that from now on will be my Dodo-Shack. Keeping them outside just isn't practical and the breeding shack doesn't work anyway (it's too hot and until now I can't cool it down). Doing the rounds, I came along my Ptera and checked on it's condition. It, too, had been part of the Chalico-fight. I was shocked to see that it had no food left in it's inventory, no food left in it's food-bar and very very little health. I started dumping meat on him and it soon revitalized - albeit it had a truly amazing appetite for it's size. I estimate it took more than an entire pile of raw meat to get it back to normal conditions. Yes, despite all the events above, meat is still a more or less scarce resource. I have to admit, though, that I mostly don't kill other dinos without reason, and if I do, I harvest them for hide rather than meat. That hadn't bothered me much, because the two dillos I keep as pets don't eat much (near nothing) and the Ptera is my first true meat-consumer. So I need to keep an eye on my meat-stocks in the future. So... a lot of chaos and some serious fighting with surprisingly good results. Maybe with the new resources I can fix that dinos still can leave (or enter) base without my knowing. Other than that, I'm quite happy to see that my herbies can take care of themselves (which so far I cannot quite say of my own self). Have fun guys Eleusius.

Yesterday: Didn't accomplish much, reorganized some stuff, played with my new furry, climbing mount. Killed a 145 carno, a bit tougher with the new bleed. Today: I DID IT HAHAHAHA! YEAH! FINALLY GOT A 145 FEMALE REX! I'LL STOP WITH THE ALL CAPS! I went around clearing the spawn up by the snow on the beach, looked for rexes and allos, went into the snow itself to look for yuties and megatheirium. Found nothing, I did kill an alpha raptor up there, and for some reason I always save every rex bone helmet skin (even though I think they're really ugly to actually wear), but for once I just tossed it. I was flying to the black sand area, since that's a good rex spawn, plus megatheirium spawn nearby. As I past the volcano, a pair of rexes caught my eye. A level 10 male, and a 145 female. I have never gasped louder. Killed the level 10, promising her that I could find her a much better mate than that loser, and landed my bird safely, risking his life by putting him on passive. I tossed out my pocket thyla, mounted, and opened fire. She hit way too hard to risk face-tanking, so I kept running around, getting her stuck, shooting, and running again when she got unstuck. The climbing really helped on the steep terrain. She got a bit bloody, due to my mastercraft crossbow, so I let her eat a dead scorpion to heal. Also, rex AI is so weird. She kept running, then coming back for more, until she actually began fleeing. She began to wander into the forest and I kept having to heard her up the open hill. And that's when my crossbow breaks. I switch to my engram-grade longneck, and finish her off. I brought cooked lamb chops, but while it may be better for bonus levels and prioritized, raw prime is quicker, at the expense of losing two or three levels. I bounced between raw prime, lamb chops, and regular meat, although she thankfully never actually ate any regular, so there would always be something in her inventory, as I hunted down more prime. I never let her get hit once. She tamed up with 7k health, and 359% melee. I'm pretty sure that's a keeper. She looks really cool too, she has a green body and a white backstripe. I'm not leveling her at all, she's a breeder. Now I need a male, and a good saddle blueprint. Nineteen imprinted, leveled up babies, from her and a male of similar stats, should be able to take the broodmother and megapithicus. A yutyrannus will help with the alpha forms, plus I want at least apprentice saddles for both on alpha. I also want to wait on gamma and beta until I get a good BP, since metal is always a problem for me and I don't want to waste any. I have an anky and some forges on Red Peak, but due to the bug with SP respawns, there's less and less each time. It took forever to farm up enough for a cooker, and nineteen good saddles will take a similar amount, more if anything. I also don't know where to look for good blueprints. If I wasn't restricting myself to the Island, I could get easy loot from the front area of the iceworm cave on Rag. When I actually beat every story map (which might take forever), I want to make saves of everything, and then start naked again, this time playing in whatever order I feel like, all with the same character. Of course by then, the rumored Ark 2 might be out. I don't know. I'm coming for you, Overseer! One step at a time.

Still today, but in separate comment because very exciting: I found a male giga and managed to knock him out! Soon he'll be mine (if antimesh doesn't kill him, because he's in the rocks, so might happen. But I'll try to pod him right away to avoid it). Tamed! And he's alive. Level 142 (wild 95), 17720 health, 125% melee, stamina suck but far as I know, stamina of gigas always sucks unless they have a lot of mutations on it. Brought him home, named him Diablo (might rename to Green Devil, not sure yet), bred him to Elisabeth, hope the baby gets his stats and her colors. ... So, that's how things went with Diablo: when I found him, he wasn't stuck. Not even a tiny bit. Running free as a raging wind. Yet I really wanted to get a mate for Elisabeth, so back to my base I went. Two woodruns with a therizino, two metal runs, three narcoberry ones, and a retrieval of all the spoiled meat from troughs and inventories, I had about 160 tranq darts and was ready for the next step: biotoxin run. Naturally, I used my pelagornis. The hunt wasn't very interesting, almost no risk. By the end of it I had 4 full stacks plus a bit more. Back to the base, and I made the shock darts. 145 of them. Retrieved my trusty 209.4 longneck (this time it was in the industrial cooker. I tend to sometimes leave valuables in whatever container happens to be the closest), unpodded Rose, gave her four Quetz cakes (100 stimberries and 1 element dust, just because) and 30 basic kibble, grabbed the kibble I'll need for taming as well as 12 stacks of narcotics (yes, it's an overkill. Yes, I already know FROM EXPERIENCE that it's an overkill. But I would be very nervous without a ton of narcotics on hand while taming a giga), and back to the giga we (me and Rose) went! First I wasted a few (no more than ten) darts because it sometimes looked like he got stuck, but then he got free. Then Rose needed a stam landing (or a cake, but I didn't want to use it just yet) so I headed to some player's base for that. Then my game froze so badly, that killing it in the task manager and logging in anew was the only choice. Miraculously, me and Rose were fine, within the borders of that exact base, and I didn't doubt a second before expressing my joy in the global chat, in rather crude terms. That was met with concern (and possible hope for a giga heart) from another player, and I made a promise to share the coords if I ran out of darts before the beast falls asleep (but I didn't have to because as you already know, everything went fine). I hopped back onto Rose's back and went lo look for the giga again. He was between the Lake and the Aberration cave, a dangerous place for he could easily drown, so all I could do was watch him wandering, killing everything in his path. But then... He walked into the cave's entrance. And stopped. Yes, indeed, he was well and truly stuck. It took me several attempts to get Rose into the proper position, as I didn't know how close I can go without being dismounted (I haven't checked if I could still stand on the wyvern's back while force-dismounted by the Aberration cave, and between the giga in front of me and the jellyfishes possibly under me it wasn't exactly the great time to check), and often I ended up too far to left or right, or too high to hit the giganotosaurus, but in the end I found just the right position and just the right angle, and all I had to to was dismount, turn towards the giga (and Rose's tail) and shoot. When he fell, I still had 44 darts left, not counting the one still loaded into the rifle. For a giga taming without artificial traps AND without the giga being stuck from the very beginning, it went perfectly fine.

I didn't get to play as much as I wanted this weekend. But I did hatch and imprint a couple Therizinos. Took one out for levelling in the Island SE corner since I hadn't been down there in awhile and figured it would be loaded with dinos.... And I was right. I found an explorer note to boost XP and ran around like a crazy animal. Found a couple alpha carnos and a couple mid level rexes to go with the slaughter and happily discovered I went up 27 levels when the timer expired. Took the other Therizino into the redwoods and had something new happen. I was running around and saw one of those little dudes that is always trying to steal your stuff (pegomestax, or something like that), anyway, he jumped at me and I took a swing at him. Then the game paused and asked me to name my newly tamed pegomestax. How the heck did that happen? Anyhoo, I am not sure what I will do with him. For now he is just sitting off the back corner of my base. I have always hated those things and not all that sure we can be friends at this point. If he tells his family to give back all my stuff they have taken, then maybe we can work something out. Until then, he can sit in the corner next to the compost bin. I also spent some time doing metal runs and gathering up more resources for saddles. built 3 more ascendant Therizino saddles and 1 mastercraft rex saddle. I now have 17 imprinted and leveled rexes with saddles, and 9 Therizinos (mostly leveled) with saddles. I'm not taking the rexes back to face the dragon though. That was a bad day. They will be used later in the tek cave. I took a few trips through the frozen north to look for a high level Yuti to replace my good friend, Colonel Mustard. He, like the rest of my crew, died on the field of battle in a crushing defeat to the alpha dragon. RIP Colonel. We will have our revenge!!! Our day is coming, my friend.

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.

Today: put the points on my fem quetz into stam (few, it was pretty good to begin with), health (most, I need her to be able to handle some rocks being hurled at her), and weight. Put a platform saddle on her. Made a cannon and installed it on the saddle. Cannonballs, too. Enough to knock out even a max level, plus some more in case I miss a few times. Gathered a lot of deinon eggs (unpopular nests are the worst! The eggs stay there for so long, that they insta-spoil when picked up), but lost almost all because I forgot that I had a deinon egg recipe in my cooker for some reason. Threw the recipe out, got more eggs, made some kibble. Should be enough, but I'll still wait for my bee to make, like, 10 more honey and make more kibble. Having too much is better than too little, after all! ... Made more kibble. Took kibble. Loaded Thunderstorm with cannonballs. Found a 140 elemental. Turned out, the cliff I chose to fire from was a crappy one, only got the angle right once (and yes, it's the cliff that was the problem. I have already tamed an elem once with no problem, also from a dino (paracer) standing on a cliff.). Two shots missed, three hit the body. Also, forgot about the protection, so the cannon was destroyed. Which caused me to fall off the quetz and die. Luckily, my ember wyvern Wildfire is fast as hell (like all crystal wyverns) and got plenty of stam, so I got back there in time to call Thunderstorm AND retrieve my deathbag which contained a good crossbow, really good chitin armor, two cannonballs and 31 piece of Extra kibble - all very important things (why was I wearing nice armor and weapon to a likely suicidal mission? The answer is simple: I don't own any worse and was too eager for a hunt to waste time on making some). Had to kill 3 allos for it (easy) and lure away the elem (hard. The damn thing insisted on returning to my deathbag and only then calming down). Preparations for the next attempt: a metal foundation with two ceilings are installed on Thunderstorm's back with some walls attached, hopefully that'll protect the cannon and maybe even Thunder herself to some extent when I try to tame an elem again. Serious metal run will be required to build a new cannon and enough cannonballs. I will also scout the territory on a wyvern first to search for any good-level elems under or close to suitable (low enough, non-climbable, with some rock formations nearby to prevent the elem from going too close) cliffs. Should an elemental be close but not quite enough to such a cliff, I'll lure it there first and then come with Thunderstorm to tame it. ... Made a new cannon. Made more cannonballs. Found an elemental in an okay area. Tried to tame. The "defenses" made it hard to aim. Realized I'm too low on cannonballs, plus the cannon still got damaged and wouldn't have lasted another hit. Went for a level 25 instead. Shot, shot, shot, certainly hit once on the head, then a diplo came and started trying to befriend me. Can't waste ammo on it, can't kill with quetz. Tried to shoot the elem again. Ran out of cannonballs. Quetz below 50% health. Gave up. Returned to the base. Demolished the cannon. Kibble will go into taming something easier. I'm done with elementals.

I took out Megepithecus Alpha on the island yesterday using 19 rexes 1 yuty on SP mode. 80-94 armor saddles. 20k HP 700-800 melee 20/20 melee imprints.

Today I decided that I maybe want to have an elemental again (except a good level now, so that I can actually use it) and started preparations: altered the greenhouse to fit 9 plots total (3 citronal, 3 savoroot, 3 longrass), and went to tame a bee. I broke about 6 hives, three of them consisting of 5-7 stacked hives themselves, and only found one bee. Which got itself killed before I had the chance to feed it. That's about two hours wasted completely. Also, one of my dung beetles escaped the pen, but apparently its daring escape plan amounted to "exit the pen and walk in circles under quetzals and wyverns, probably hoping for some poop". ... Continued search for bees led to me finding a full hive... On top of an empty hive, on top of an empty hive, on top of a full hive, on top of yet another likely empty hive. So upon destruction of the first hive I was left with a bee stuck in a hive, inaccessible and endlessly spawning drones. With a few flaps of Wildfire's wings I managed to dislodge it, but while fending off the drones I disturbed the hive under the hive and was attacked by more drones. Almost died, and the first bee died too because it got in the way. And the second bee was stuck, spawning drones, NOT dislodgeable by aggressively flapping at it, plus I was nearly dead, so I left it bee*. Also, tamed a phiomia. Named him God of Crops. He's gray, was a bit over level 90 in the wild, tamed perfectly with kibble. Not that it matters, since his only purpose is to provide my two dung beetles with material for fertilizer, because I decided that it's a bit too annoying to run back and forth between the greenhouse and the rexes to get all the poop needed. *NOT a typo.