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(official, Valguero) Today I made four SCUBA tanks, mask, leggings, took my bary (female, as she's less valuable due to lower stats), grabbed some kibble and went into the Abyss. At first I found nothing good, just a bunch of sharks and mantas. I killed them all and went deeper, but there was an alpha megalodon and I'm not dealing with that. So I turned back. In the place of stuff I killed two basilos spawned, both male, but, unfortunately, both level 20. I used one to practice peeling manta shell off a basilo, and then killed it in hopes of a better one spawning. Then I went closer to the entrance and... There was a basilo! Level 135 female. I easily removed the mantas and started to tame her. She was even considerate enough to swim out of the Abyss and into the safer waters of the Lake. I accidentally hit her once when trying to dispose of icthies nearby (the game lagged in that "everything seems normal, but actions aren't performed right away and nobody knows when and where they'll finally happen" way), but in the end I tamed her. Named her Toriel becase 1: why the hell not? and 2: It was the first name that surfaced in my head. Podded her, went to the base to check the item/BP box for any basilo saddles, found a Journeyman BP with about 60 armor. Went on a metal run, made the saddle, took pod with Toriel, hopped onto Lampeater, flew to the Lake, unpodded Toriel, podded Lampeater, and went on a nice little murderwander with my new whale. And it WAS nice! She's fast, strong and tough, and upon surfacing it turned out that she's a nice dark red. Hunted cnidarias, just because I can, plus it's a nice, WHALEsome activity. Killed an alpha megalodon, was pretty hard, but Toriel got 25 whole levels from it, so I got her to 25 thousand health, leveled melee some too, so the next time will be easier.

Well, this one I know. It happens when the game decides you spawn below ground. Pretty much every login, my location is a little bit off from where I logged off before. Right now I know a place that is relatively safe to log off, but with Ark, nothing's for granted. So, as you said ... store your valuables in a safe place (made a board specifically for that purpose), undress and logoff only after that. This problem can hit you very hard if you log off involuntarily (like your client crashes) and find all your best equipment with your corpse below ground. If you're playing on your own server, there are cheats to counter this problem. But on official, you're just f*ed up. And yes, we all know that fun and frustration are very close neighbours in this game. As if it wasn't hard to get started anyway, you also have to get used to all the quirks and glitches. Hope you still have fun! Regards, Eleusius.

(Official, Valguero) Tek rexes are growing fine. Went to an elemental hunt with Elisabeth, got attacked by a level 20 alpha rex. Running away on a giga isn't exactly possible, so I had to fight. Elisabeth lost a lot of health, but we won. The loot wasn't any good - just the standard skull and teeth. Went to the loot cave in hopes for a giga saddle BP, no such thing was found. Got a 60-something armor daeo saddle BP (kinda useful) and a 221.2 ascendant slingshot BP (in a red crate. Red crate!). Still, asc BP is an asc BP, so I decided to keep it. Even used it to make a slingshot and tamed a wild level 145 dilo with it. Added more meat to the raising troughs, restacked it to make it last longer, logged off.

Hey all, well - I was talking about fun and frustration being next door neighbours with this game. And as if the game had been spying on me, it was about to proof just that. I was having fun with my airforce, killing stuff around the swamp, hoping for a Dimet to show up. I could really use one. For the time being, I was just harvesting hide and meat and looking out for my real goal. Well... it didn't show up. Just around the time when I thought I'd call it a day I turned around counting my party. Not that I hadn't done that in a while - I'm almost continuously checking for a complete party. But bang... one member missing. Well, I decided to bring my remaining airforce home and use spectator mode to go looking for the lost member. And so I did. Searched long and wide for way over 2 hours. Even found a lost Parasaur of mine that had somehow turned up in an area where I've never been. But no trace of the missing member of my airforce. So frustrating. I've pretty much turned every stone and in spectator mode it is normally easy to spot your animals due to the highlight colour of the writing above them. Well ... I had to go back to an older save. Hours for nothing. As it is so often. Hoping for better news soon, Eleusius.