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Nice! Everyone’s been up to quite a bit since I last checked. I love it, since I read the forums on days that I can’t play so I get my fill of ARK-ness. SP, Island After the death of my caving bary, I decided to take a step back. Here I am trying to start my boss army when I don’t even have proper kibble to tame anything or haven’t built the latest technology to craft more effeciently. I’ve been trying to rush my way to a broodmother army because I’m excited, but obviously having already cut some corners. SO... I’ve committed myself to starting a proper kibble farm. I lose a lot of tames because I have to keep it safe for 2Hrs while it eats whatever terrible taming food I brought. No wonder I haven’t got that far into breeding yet! I’ve made it such a chore. I’m currently looking for all the low lvl female Iguanodons for medium eggs. I think they’re the only ones of that size that can get both picked up by the argy as well as bola’d, making it the easiest to tame in my mind. I’ve got a pair so far so I can get the mate boost, so now I just need a small herd of females and an oviraptor. Oh also, I’m pretty bad at video games in general so when I started playing back in January, I brought the difficulty level way down. I felt I was ready to take on more danger so I brought it back up a bit. Getting better loot is pretty nice although I’m getting pretty nervous about fighting things now.

The past few days, I've done a lot, with both The Island and on the non-stories. For my first char, I've been running the Swamp Cave and easy underwater cave over and over. I want to get a good rex/theri saddle BP, so I can start a new boss army. I was nervous to start the easy cave, but with a basilosaurus, it's no sweat. I've gotten a LOT of loot. Some of the highlights include, a journeyman megalosaurus saddle blueprint with seventy-something armor (useless on this map, but when I make it to Aberration, it'll be amazingly helpful), a journeyman compound bow, a mastercraft longneck blueprint (I have the metal to make it, but I'm holding off, since I think I could find better), and a journeyman pump shotgun blueprint. Very good! I actually nearly died and lost my basi in the underwater cave, even though it's not too hard normally. I had dismounted and walked onto a land portion to grab some loot, when several electrophorus that had been hiding attacked. The zapping drained about half my measly human health. I whistled my basi neutral in panic. I then watched ARK's terrible AI send my basi swimming around pathetically. She got some hits in on them, but they were doing a lot of damage. I whistled follow as my basi disappeared. The fight was getting bad and shark had gotten involved. My basi had killed a few of the original swarm, but my basilosaurus was in real danger. Finally, I got her to come to me. I managed to mount and kill them all. She lost close to a quarter of her health in what would have been an easy fight. All's well that ends well. I'll just keep up the loot farming until I get the right saddle blueprint. Finding a rex or therizino is also a priority. I've found a high-level theri, but it was male, which I already have. ARK's just been mocking me with rexes. Since I tamed my high-level female, I've found no less than four high-level rexes, but they were all female as well. On the non-stories (just Rag lately) I had some fun at the wyvern trench. I found a 170 poison egg, and my crystal wyvern let me leave the regulars behind. Unfortunately, I got greedy. I stole another egg (95 lightning, just stole it to clear spawns). I landed to rest, not realizing there was a wyvern in render. It was fire and it burned away a ton of health. I fled, but I was too slow thanks to the two eggs. I knew we couldn't both make it out. I dismounted and jumped into the water, while my mount was killed. She was low-level, but it was still sad. I began to try to head home on foot, but ended up dying to hyenadons. Probably for the best, walking the whole way would have been borderline impossible. I also tamed a new thylacoleo there, since my old one had died in a transfer. I used cooked mutton and went to the savannah. I chose a 135 male, who tamed up easily. Now I have thyla power again! With so much going on with both, I don't know if I should choose The Island or non-stories for today.

Love the Art. Beautiful Images. Wish we had more to the crunch though. Not necessarily dates or even sneak peaks but perhaps a look into discussions and suggestions? Pick one or two that have risen in popularity and talk about them? It doesn't have to be definite work towards any issues - but a discussion piece based on the player comments on the posts. There were for a few weeks and it was fun reading about them. Sort of like a "Spotlight on this Suggestion" or something.

(Official ORP PVP, Ragnarok) Last time, I wrote about how I finished gathering all artifacts needed to summon the bosses. This time, I tell you that I have been hard at work breeding and raising boss fighters for said boss fight. Alpha Dragon and Manticore, I'm coming for you! I also have been hard at work trying to find gigas. Bullets and building the base better is great and all, but I need teeth, to use and to breed. Finding high levels has sucked. There is nothing else to describe it with. I decided to forfeit that venture and asked around for people selling or trading any. I didn't want anything spectacular to breed with, honestly, anything with 30+ points in melee or health would have been fantastic. Ended up scoring one with a fantastic melee instead. I had to work for it for sure, and the giga in question was a baby, but it was totally worth it. Only 1 mutation, it's mainly red, and fantastic melee stat. However, I decided that I really didn't want to risk losing this baby. So... I decided that instead of feeding berries and raw meat to my important babies, I wanted to try upgrading to just using basic kibble. So I went on a dodo taming mission. Then another. Then another. Long story short, I've got way too many dodos to count now, and they make eggs like crazy. I also got some dilophosaurs since I had been meaning to start breeding those anyway to stand guard in the base. I have been gathering eggs a lot and making basic kibble as I go and using that to feed the giga baby. I haven't been raising anything else from tiny baby stage in the meantime, everything else is juvenile and above, so that's been that. Once the giga can be left alone for 4+ hours, I am going to go to Extinction to grind some more Element so I can get some more tek dedicated storages going, which will make bullet farming way easier since I'll actually have somewhere to keep stuff. Vaults seem so cumbersome and just... not worth having imo. They're so big and bulky for how (in my opinion, the humble packrat I am) little they hold. I tested in SP with where I wanted these new tek dedis to go for optimum bullet farming potential and liked it. I may also try to farm more materials to expand the greenhouse... berry farming near my base isn't fantastic and I want to get some mejoberry and narcoberry crops going. I theoretically could just take some argies and travel farther from my base to where there are denser populations of bushes, but I think it might be more beneficial for someone who does so much breeding like me to use crop plots, since they passively gain berries over time, constantly. While I have been waiting on giga baby to grow, I did breed a bunch of tames. Cryo'd babies or picked up the eggs of them all just before they hatched so that once I have bigger basic kibble reserves I can use it to raise them out of baby stages. Thinking I need more dodos..., and a bigger kibble farming ramp thing. I just have one layer of ramping right now and have run out of space, so I may make another layer with more dodos on that. I have also, however, met a new friend on the server. We have been helping one another out a lot and trading often and I am really liking them a lot. I think I may have a real unofficial alliance in this tribe... which has been an odd experience for me. My people skills can be a little lacking and I tend to keep to my hermit bubble in the desert so I don't have to deal with them, but I have been talking a little more and being kinder to people to try to earn myself some allies and it has clearly worked out in my favor. However, the old alpha of this CA's Ragnarok recently returned, and has also been interesting... In fact, it seems like quite a few old players recently returned. I may not be super involved in the politics of this cluster all the time, but I am very curious to see how this turns out.

Separate post time now! Because important news: I almost have a gacha pair now! And I don't mean "almost have" like the last time, when I had to abandon them because no way to the terminal. So: Since my owly boy Frozen Lime on (Official, Valguero) is adult and puking that undigested bone goodness now, I decided that getting a gacha would be neat. First I though to maybe buy one, but took a look at the goods I have and... Well, maybe they'd be enough, but better not make myself look like a bigger idiot than I am, so no. No trading for that specific thing. So I have that wyvern, remember? Rose. Blood crystal. Too pink to use as one of my main rides. But leveled in stam, and she's a good luck wyvern - 2 outta three giga tamings I used her for were successful! So I took Rose in a pod and I took another pod, empty one. And an extra canteen. Uploaded them. And some owl puke (didn't do me any good, though). So to (Official, Extinction) I went. Took Rose, took empty pod, didn't leave the pellets and the canteen laying there in the nothingness of being uploaded either. Double-checked the Explorer map and to the Sunken Forest I went. First gacha I found pretty quickly, level 20 female. Gave her pellets - not enough. Thatch structures (stone too slow to make) - not enough. Straight up rocks - not enough. So I got that idea. A smart one as it turned out. I had a sickle, so I gathered fiber. Tons of fiber. And made cloth armor. Tons. And fed her that. And it was fine! Sure, effectiveness plummeted, but I don't really care. It worked and it wasn't too slow. I named her Schedraya (which is just female form of the Russian word for "generous", but "generous" doesn't really work as a name for a female dino), podded her, slot-capped myself with cloth hats and boots, and went looking for a male. 3 hours. 3. Hours. I spent looking for a nice, LOW-LEVEL male gacha. Killed a bunch of stuff. And finally found him! Level 35. Spent a lot of time taming him, had to use up not just the clothes I prepared, but also ones off my own back. And my metal hatchet. And all the meat Rose had in her inventory. And some thatch. Well, mostly I used it all to give him something to eat while I get more fiber and make more hats. But in the end I tamed him. He got the name Generous, because it works for a male, and fits the theme. So I podded him, went back to The City, nothing happened at all, no meteors, no corrupted flyers, found a terminal, uploaded them ,just gotta retrieve them back on Valguero now. (Official, Valguero) Gachas obtained and producing! Schedraya is making oil, can make metal and fragmented green gems, but I enjoy metal runs and don't need gems. Generous is making obsidian, can make blue crystallized sap. Got some quality crystals from them already, but no good loot yet. But anyway, I'm very happy about my new (first ever!) gachas.

Wildcard if u have nothing of meaning to say please just dont make any community crunch. Cause they suck lile realy suck

That's why it's so important to breed dinos. We've all been there.

Wildcard only knows how to break their game, and no clue how to fix it, screw the tlc and stop the dumb fan art no one cares about it, FIX the game so much gone wrong with it, its not funny, but you bring us this worthless content. But why fix it people will still play, and pay for it. Its sad Wildcard doesn't care about the players.

it said fan art and more.... where is the more lol

How about fix game breaking stuff like aimbot and meshing , instead of looking at fan art.

These crunches, recently, have become like a broken pencil.....pointless

Give this man a job as Communications Officer for Wildcard. Fire the one you have because they are horrible. Simply abhorrently ghastly and scandalously horrendously lousy.

Why even bother posting these... Also try announcing evo events before the event starts so we can plan.

raaaaaahhh... jk lol

Wildcard only knows how to break their game, and no clue how to fix it, screw the tlc and stop the dumb fan art no one cares about it, FIX the game so much gone with it, its not funny, but you bring us this worthless content. But why fix it people will still play, and pay for it. Its sad Wildcard doesn't care about the players. and your a toll

Hey I caught one! One of em annoyances who knows nothing about game design and thinks he could do better than wildcard!

Just completely forget about the TLC dino reveals huh? Kid, they can't make a major update each week

Those drawings are really good.Great job to @Goyounghee , @Slimeyspore11, @Karl, @KO3LNHA, and @Mauve!