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Lost character - HOW IT HAPPEN I was travelling from Aberration (from 223) to Extinction (NA 500). When you travel between servers your data is saved into destination server (NA 500) and deleted in source server (Abe 223). AND I have been thrown into NA 500.. after one ot two minutes there was server crash and rollback so.. data of NA 500 was loaded from last backup save... from the time when my character wasnt there yet... Finally after restart server from backup, there wasn't my character at NA 500 and Abe 223... no character, no gears, no equipped 2 rock drakes.. And the question is..... Why traveled character data is not written in another file independent from server backup copy? So that character that will arrive into time between server backup and server crash will not be erased?

Hey all, for a change, this one will be quite short, since I don't have much to tell. I'll be farming some resources in the near future, and so I did this time. Except that I had to travel some, since I had found some mineral-rich metal deposits on a mountain nearby and right now I can't take a land-based expedition over there. So I had to fly over and my carrying capacity so far is seriously limited when flying. Don't have an argy, so I had to do with my now 3 Ptera. Now, if it was just for the farming, I probably wouldn't write anything about it, since it's just grinding and nothing else. The reason I opted to write another albeit short episode is that this game once again showed me how stupid I can be - especially when it comes to handling flyers. well well... so out we were, my 3 Ptera and me. Well, if you're out grinding / farming, you have to entertain yourself somehow or you'll get bored. Besides, my little trio had to eat something and those Ptera develop quite an appetite. So I was hunting some easy prey along the route, hopefully gaining some levels on the side. Especially since my two higher level Ptera joined me only recently and certainly needed some stats adjusted. Oh... and by the way... the recent episode taught me to always have at least two of your party equipped with saddles. So I had fixed that. So I was happily hunting along my route to the mountain. I had some fun with that, especially since things went really smooth and I got some meat stacked to take home, too. After all, there's a Carno and a Sarco to be fed there. My staff has changed quite a bit recently. So, since everything went easy, I eventually got a little too happy and thought an aerial fight would be fun, too. That was, where stupidity kicked in. I only realized after I attacked the next best Ptera (well, almost next bests. Took a low-level one). The victim took off at high speed and my two Ptera (the ones following me) took on after him. Soon those other three were out of sight and I was alone. I couldn't keep up with them. So I was alone again. Just why did I think attacking a flyer would be fun? I can't remember. Pure stupidity. Well... cutting a long story short it took me almost an hour to gather my party again and I was lucky that none of them met a serious fate. Another lesson learned - and I feel there are so many more to come. The rest of the trip was just grinding the metal and stuff and returning to camp. There'll be some more resource grinds in the near future, so unless I'll be stupid again, there won't be any exciting posts from me for the next few days. When I'm done with that, I hope I can finally set out for an argy. I'll let you know. 'til then! Have fun. Eleusius.

anyone know what time crystal drops tomorrow?

It'd be cool, but our beast here has a leg. Sure, it could be a sea serpent with legs for the occasional walk but from what we can see (which is not much tbf) it looks more built for running than swimming

(on official, Valguero) Finished hatching the tek rex eggs from a while ago. No new mutations. Incubated the giga eggs a bit more. Bred tek rexes again. Raised Deimos some more. While all that was being done, I worked some more on the new workshop (functional part of the "bridge" that'll lead from the elevator to the workshop itself is done), took down the old elevator, and finished putting all my resources, BPs and items into my brand new boxes. Now I'll have to build the elevator, build the workshop's walls and ceiling, and it'll all be done.

I have done nothing in game the past two days. Picked up a couple extra shifts at work and have been reading the forums while it is slow. Now that I have completed the island, I am reading up on other game modes. Primarily PVE and Hardcore. … Absorbing all the info I can find, and will look for a server to call home in a couple days and start a new adventure. And if nothing really progresses in community play, I plan on working my way forward with my single player character and advance to SE. I am really looking forward to seeing a new world.

@Eleusius lol. I enjoy your stories. it reminds me of the struggles of seeing the world for the first time. keep up the good work. I'm about to start anew and it's a good reminder for wha's ahead of me... again.

Didn't play on server today. Was in singleplayer instead. Hit level 38, so the dragon is now moved into my base instead of living in the snows. Tamed an embersteed, low level but best colors out of the herd. Got a lot of resources. Tamed a featherlight. Killed two alpha carnos. Discovered that ranged dino attacks, such as wyvern breath, work perfectly well for killing piranhas and other stuff in the water bubbles on Eldritch Isle, that's something to remember - would be useful in multiplayer as well.

it's been a loooooooooooooong journey... Today I decided that I absolutely needed a Cryopod. Imagining I'd eventually find and even tame a Doedi or other very useful non-flying creature and then being unable to bring it back home was too much of a burden. So... what would I have to do to get a pod? Well.... not so easy (at my stage). Among other things I needed some Polymer and that meant I had to travel all the way to the other side of the world... er pardon... the island... The Island!... and try to harvest some Polymer from the Kairuku. After the little experience I had had so far, that was a serious task.I had never been anywhere like that and I didn't have any protection against the cold and whatever else I might encounter along the way. But what the heck... others have done it and so would I. Or at least give it a shot. I picked up whatever supplies I would need for the pod (as far as I had them) and things I considered useful along the journey, mounted my Ptera (still the old one. The new one isn't usable, yet. The default stat-distribution was simply too bad to use it straight away. So despite being of higher level than the one I'm using right now, it's much worse. But it'll improve much faster than the one I'm using now and thus become better eventually). Just me and my Ptera on a big expedition. I was curious how that would turn out. To make sure I was doing the right thing I flew to the Obelisk first, since that's the place these things can be crafted. There are no supply-drops on my server, so that's not an option and the third possibility is way out of reach for my humble little self. When I got there, I couldn't find the right crafting menu. All I saw was the portal-fabrication and the upload-options, but I failed to see any other production possibilities. Took me a little time to find the right place or rather procedure to do this, but eventually I made it. I verified the requirments and was satisfied that polymer was indeed the only supply I was missing from the list. So I turned north towards the snow biome (which - of course - was way out of sight). It would be a long journey for sure. Occasionally I checked what creatures I came along. Most of them I had seen before, most frequent probably trikes. They've been frequent everywhere I've been so far - it seems to be quite a versatile or at least adaptable creature. Almost as common as trikes were Pteras, pretty much all of them below level 50, not worth a second inspection. Thus I was even more surprised when I eventually came across a level 200 Ptera. That was promising - I wouldn't pass by this creature without at least attempting to tame it. But to use a bola, first of all I'd have to meet the creature on ground and not in the air. From there on, things should be pretty easy. But yeah - sometimes the game seems to be mind-reading. The Ptera was flying straight up, then straight down again. This behaviour repeated for a few minutes and all I could do is follow suit and wait for a chance. And it came. The Ptera landed and so did I, equipped the bolas and hit it straight from a short distance. The crossbow with Everything easy. So I robbed some meat from my own flyer and tamed the buddy up. Amazing 270+ levels! And yeah - it did have some stats. This one was definitely usable right away, although some improvements would certainly benefit the overall experience. So from here on, we were a team of two flyers. Nice. Only drawback was that my two buddies had to share the rations. Thus I raided a few herbivores along the way to fill up my supplies and offer decent amounts to both. After all, especially the new one needed to heal up after the taming. It was somewhat surprising to see how few creatures live on the west coast. But I got my supplies and we had traveled some distance while gathering them. Eventually I arrived at the last spot of land without snow. I had already watched some videos about that area characterizing it as the "mosh-pit", because it had so many spawns right there and creatures were continually fighting each other. I picked a safe spot, rested and watched the scene. It wasn't as remarkable as in the video, but I had a bunch of "first sights". A couple of Argys among them, a pack of Hyenas that was one after another consumed by an impressive Rex and a pack of Allos - well, the Rex and the Allos no longer a first sight, but still a very rare sight for me. And finally I was in spotting range of the snow-biome. It had taken my little party some serious time to get here. Then I started off for my first trip over. I immediately started freezing. Well I knew it would cause increased food consumption, so I had brought some. That didn't worry me. I was worried for other effects it might have. Then I arrived on the first snow-island and to my disappointment didn't spot any Kairuku. But there was a lot of oil to be had, so I took some and put it on my spare Ptera and went back to the mosh-pit to warm up. I had noticed some health-reduction, but for short trips like this one it wasn't too bad. So I rested some and took a little extra-tour of the area to finally (!!!) spotted my first Doedi. I had no means to tame it right there and no pod, yet, to transport it. So I left it be. It was sort of low-level, too, but I was so happy to finally see one. To me, strangely, they are so far among the rarest creatures on my Ark. I had even spotted a Titanosaurus before, but no Doedi. I also spotted some silica perls and took them with me. Nice. Resources were definitely going up this time. Then I made my next trip to the snow-biome and finally spotted some Kairuku next to the "oil-island" of my last visit. They're just too small to be seen from some distance, so I had to bring up the courage to move near the next larger floe to be successful. I happily gathered some Polymer, while feeling pity for the poor little Kairuku who hadn't behaved ill towards me. But well... I needed their stuff, so to say. Surviving has other rules than society. Unfortunately. So with all my new resources I finally embarked on the way back, routing over the next obelisk. Crafting the pod wasn't a problem anymore and so I went home with "mission accomplished". Yay! There are a few small intermezzi I want to share with you, too, since this time also, things didn't go without problems and the above report is a little too shiny to be true. First I happened to find an explorer note on a small ridge at the west end of the island. Quite a small spot, but you could either drop to it from above (not too high) or land on it. I unfortunately decided to land on it - which wasn't the problem, but then erroneously decided to get off my mount to read it. That was a bad idea, since it made me fall from the ridge. there should be a way to get off your mount without jumping 2 meters to the side... Not too bad, because I landed in the water and fortunately the area was clear of predators. So I was able to climb out and with some clairvoyance or maybe just foresight had set my Ptera to "follow" me, so it came down to pick me up. Phuh... so, up again, this time drop from the ridge and read. It wasn't an easy read, since the background kept switching colours and it was a strange font and I had to adjust the size to even see it all. And then, when I was almost finished reading, I fell off the ridge again. WHY? The display said I had killed myself. I don't get it. I was just reading! So I respawned at my base and cheated my way back to the ridge, picked up my gear and went on without taking another peek at the note. The other intermezzo is just about me being stupid. I sometimes hit the wrong keys. Normally there's nothing bad about that, but if you're flying high and hit that dismount-key, you're certainly not in the best situation. I was lucky to be flying above the ocean at the time when it happened, so I didn't die at the spot. I even made it to the next floe without being attacked. So far, so good. So I checked on my party. The following Ptera (the one without a saddle) was hovering near by, but the one I was flying still hovered high above me with no intent to leave that position. This time, unfortunately, I had removed the "following" option (at some point the buddy had simply gotten on my nerves flying above me all the time) so there was no change to be expected. I tried to whistle. Nothing. Change groups and whistle again. Nothing. Aim better and whistle again. Nothing. There was nothing I could do to make it move. That struck me as a disappointment and serious danger. I was stranded on an ice-floe with an unmountable flyer (no saddle) and no means to change my situation. Well, I had cheated before, but this time it was my own stupidity and not the games fault to make me do it. I reconsidered my options. I didn't want to cheat. But the next non-freezing island in range was the mosh-pit and I certainly didn't want to go there on foot. Also I expected the waters around this area to be more dangerous than in my homelands - despite the fact that I have found danger to be more evenly distributed in the waters around the island. What should I do? I had no solution. I decided to craft up saddles for all my flyers to be able to use them in situations like this. But I couldn't do that right now. I couldn't construct a work-bench, either, which in turn would have enabled me to create a saddle. Well, it wouldn't, since I didn't have the metal on me to do it. So, still no way out. And I was freezing. Messed this one up. Seriously No point in denying - this time I was cheating for my own good. I used "fly" to get back to my Ptera and mount it and also corrected the settings to follow me again. No matter how much it sucked, I wouldn't change that. Bad hearing it has, if it couldn't hear me whistle. Note: Improve ears of Ptera. Important. Another time I tried to dismount my Ptera to attack a Trilobyte at the beach. The other Ptera came to hover right above me (following distance is set to high!!!) and when I dismounted, I glitched into the other Ptera and got stuck there. Nothing I could do made me move in any direction. Jump, open inventory... nothing helped. So I logged out and logged back in and the situation was solved. The Trilobyte, however, was gone. So that's my share today. What have you been up to? Regards, Eleusius.

Omg thank you very much >.< I'm glad to hear it And yeah, I'm trying to give saddles to creatures that don't have one. I always wondered why the diplocaulus doesn't have it lol It's a pretty useful dino if people play in a primitive way and without a scuba.

Just a friendly reminder to all who read this. Something will go horribly wrong on the august 25 update. Don't have your characters, creatures, or items in upload. Do not leave babies out. Lock it up and hide it out. Do not transfer servers! I repeat something WILL go wrong on the august 25th update. Don't be a fool!

Yeah when will we be able to transfer them I have an epic one on genesis and would love to use it one other maps but I can’t

WHY in that last picture does the guy have 5 toes on his right foot and only 4 toes on his left AND why is his flip flops / thongs on the wrong feet ?

No, it said that PC players will get transfers now. We'll get them in couple months. Can we get a boost to 2x for raising? Everything else is, so why not for raising babies.

Yeah kind of crappy crunch, but Cedric has more than come out and said that there wasn’t really anything write home about on past crunches like this one. I myself would love to read more about what they are working on, but we all know how tight lipped they are when it comes to stuff. Yeah it’s frustrating. We all saw things during the extra life event 2019 that I thought was cool as hell! Like the different game modes along the lines of “capture the flag” style, the tek trikes would be a sweet thing to have in the entire game rather than just from genesis. Personally I still have not bought genesis because my opinion there’s plenty of other things that have needed attention for years. Cedric did say too last week and on Twitter that they are working on a metric crap ton of things for the game albeit mostly for TLC 3, Crystal isles, the upcoming holiday season events and of course the big one, Genesis part 2. Given the events around the world with the pandemic and all the other crazy horse sh** happening even I’m willing to cut them some slack, and I been bi***ing about the things that have needed some attention ever since I started playing Ark. @Cedric and the rest of Wildcard, I understand there’s a lot in the pipe right now but don’t leave us completely out in the cold. I’m sure there’s other things that can be brought up and talked about other than what’s coming up.

They Said that transfers Will be allowed without any restrictions to PC. As consoles Will get the map Just now, we wont be able to transfer stuff in Cristal Isles for a while, Just like PC isnt able to til the 25th update

tek trikes ? lmao what about tek dodos with railguns on their heads

Literally the same Crunch three weeks in a row. Thanks for the reminder though, I guess?

worst community crunch of all time

Usually around 1-3 p.m. EST

The perhaps a compromise? I know Gigas are top tier-end-game dinos but the 10% takes to long maybe make the getting to 10% only take 12 hours and the rest of it stay the same (add 12 hours to juvy time maybe?) The same for all the other dinos taking longer then 12 hours to reach 10%? An the ping being 255 has about as much to do with people being on the server with mega huge bases as people breeding.... just my humble personal opinion. Thanks to Cryopods some (SOME) players could reduce the size of their bases helping the server's ping BUT that is a choice a person would have to make on their own if plausible for their tribe. Also if you no longer are on a server heavily then perhaps tone back the base(s) to help ping? There's a million opinions on how to reduce ping, lag, land hogging, and inconveniences. I do not claim to have the best one but as gamers who enjoy the game we should seek to aid the servers, developers, and fellow gamers as much as we expect to be assisted.

With this fan art am surprised there isn't a ark cartoon

Please make imprint to Account and no longer to char.

What do they mean by “freshly Launched pc servers”? Will there be any new pc servers for Crystal map or the transfers will be available only for the servers that were launched 3 monthes ago?

Nothing new, should we assume there is going to be no fixes for anything, did WC just give up all hope for this game by just posting the same info 3 weeks in a row? Please tell us something we don't already know :/ After Genesis part 2, I see ARK going stone cold. Why break things and never fix them, do u think if u leave all the broken stuff the community will eventually forget them? I think yes the community will forget to load in ark ever again. I also seen posts by unreliable sources about to possibilities of ARK2. Round 2 of broken stuff, nah I don't think so, ill keep my money thanks.

Jesus Christ! What is that last fanart entry. Why would you want to turn a beast into that?! Looks like a guy you would see knocked out with a beer in his hand at a party

I dont understand why ark players are so toxic in game and here, who cares if they post a community crunch instead of bug fixes or teasers? It's their choice to post that stuff. Fortnite got rid of patch notes yet their community doesn't scream over it every week when they patch stuff (I don't really follow Fortnite much so not sure if they added patch notes back or something) But still, just be nice and patient about stuff

Still nothing for console player dedicated genesis. Go figure.