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(Official, Extinction) Went to the Forest Cave. Didn't get anything good. No Extinction-specific BPs or anything, just normal stuff - some armor, a chalico saddle... And there were tons or yuties and allos this time, so by the time I exited the cave, Jotunn was down to just 9000 health - less than half! Took and uploaded the artifact because I gotta get at least something out of it. (Official, Valguero) Retrieved the artifact and installed it on the roof. Made a ton of dye. Colored the house (might repaint later - not sure if I'm happy with the current look). Dyed my riot armor black, silver and royal and added rex helmet skin to the helmet, now it looks sorta halloween-y AND matches colors and saddles of my tek rexes (Nightshade and Empress, not the ones that are just for breeding and will have proper colors re-introduced to them once I'm satisfied with the stats). Hatched 10 tek rex eggs, no new mutations. Hatched a snow owl egg - wrong color. Bred gachas - nothing good in the production. At least the managarmr (now named Frostbite) is growing well. Reached level 106. Wanted to go looking for alphas to get the chibi to level 3 and unlock level 107, but that was before rex eggs hatched and I realized half-way to my usual hunting spot that if I go they'll hatch and die without me and had to return.

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I hadn't noticed the thread got put back because it unsubscribed me, rip To destroy/corrupt them. Rockwell is power hungry and enjoys that kind of thing. That said, it's not somewhere he'd want to go while he was still putting together his army in the GenSim and had only just started corrupting the real-life humans on the ship. Two possible reasons: 1. The ship was sent to a planet that was deemed probably habitable while looking at it from Earth, and was sent there. No one on Earth was aware of the danger actually present on the destination planet. 2. This was a second colony ship and a ship came before them to that same planet. The ship we are on was following the first which was already set up on the planet. Aliens/corruption reached the first ship before we got there. Basically, it could have easily looked safe years ago when the ships left Earth, but a lot can change during long term space travel. All that said, I don't think it's aliens either. At least not normal uncorrupted, sapient aliens. I could get behind corrupted aliens. Whatever is there is obviously hostile due to corruption. If it is corrupted, I think it's safe to say that whatever is on the planet is not Rockwell, perhaps the origin point for the original Corruption or just something else entirely. Regardless, it'd likely be hostile to everything on the ship, including Rockwell. It might be a kind of juggle for us choosing to deal with either Rockwell on the colony ship or Natives on the planet (I'm giving this temporary name to whatever the hell we find currently living on the planet since no one really knows for sure what it is yet) Also, please take a closer look at the A in the newest picture. Whatever that stuff is, it does not at all look like anything we've seen on Earth. Even if it is corrupted, it's clearly something entirely different from whatever we've dealt with before.

The team has been making progress on character transfers and there are some updates going in this weekend. There's also some upcoming fixes in the Fear Evolved patch.

Sorry but I want to play ARK and not Star Wars.

super théorie merci pour votre travail

I think it’s aliens as the theme seams to be tilting toward elements home world and such, I assume the Rockwell, will have control over these aliens as they are element infested, and judging by the fact I doubt WC would EVER add NPCs, and they have been doing more alien creatures in part one, and the teasers seam alien, plus, learning how an alien civilization got destroyed/corrupted, may be more interesting lore... lastly how do we know these aliens are hostile?

I actually disagree. I think the cities are human. And it’s for these reasons: 1. We have no clue how long they could have been there. 2. We have no clue how long it takes one of the ships to travel to that planet. 3. Why would Rockwell want to go to a civilization of aliens when he has no clue if he can use them for his needs? 4. If Rockwell didn’t reprogram the ships destination why would we go to a planet of potentially dangerous and hostile sentient life forms?

IKR! It's not like the name of the image was literally AkiraLikePoster_Promo_STA.jpg. That would make it too obvious for the forums detectives. 🙄

There better be a new type of wolf in genesis 2, Imma be really disappointed if there isn't. I've been waiting years watching 3 new types of parasaurs be released with no new wolves

No Man’s Ark.

What he said.

No, ARK is already running on a heavily modified Unreal Engine and upgrading to Unreal 5 is like doing a complete remake of the game.

And still no fix for Master Controller not dropping his flag, or tek trikes being unable to transfer off Genesis

Hello Survivors, today I have two little episodes to tell. I've done a lot of grinding and base work to get a solid foundation on the chaos-server (valguero), but I'll spare you the details. It takes some effort getting used to playing on a 24/7 server, though. Those food-troughs never last long enough. Also I had some health-issues at the end of last week and couldn't play, so feeding the dinos has been an issue. Luckily a fellow player helped me out. I would've been in some trouble otherwise (since I didn't have any cryos then and all the Dinos were sitting at my base). ====== Episode 1 ====== After I had experienced trouble to play regular enough to feed the dinos as needed, I decided it was time to get my first cryopod(s). That actually meant to go out farming organic polymer. Well... that's a lot easier on val, since you find it all along the beaches, not just at the snow-biome. For shorter distance I decided to just cross the big lake instead of going to the south shore. Soon enough I found some fishes and other loot and harvested all in the vicinity. I wasn't quite satisfied, though, since I wanted to make at least 5 pods and the polymer I got wasn't enough. Well, a few dozen meters up the beach was another section of beach. I examined it, found a fish some way further up and farmed it. Examined the vicinity and was surprised that a pack of Allos was within sight. To avoid troubles I decided to take my little party some way back from where I've come. Luckily I found another fish and landed. During the harvest I was suddenly ambushed and from the glimpse I got during the first attack it was either a rex or an allo. Oh no... trouble coming. I ran. Too slow. I was hit again and soon died - it was an allo. My heart was racing, since my expedition party was no doomed to fight the ambushers and from all I had seen out of the corner of my eye, that allo wasn't alone. My most important flyers were all out there, most importantly my only two argys. Well, they had some health-points, but I had no idea how long that would last. Only thing I knew is that they were in serious trouble. So I hasted to jump on the next Ptera and pushed it to race over the lake. Had to make a little rest before flying on to the battle site. Checked the tribe-log. No entries other than myself. Good. Onwards! Coming closer to the battle site I saw a 3 vs 3 battle. My two argys and the Ptera I had taken across the lake vs a pack of 3 Allos. All were alive and I started whistling passive & follow as soon as I saw them, still racing closer to get into hearing distance. Then the fight stopped and I was surrounded by all my buddies. *deep*sigh* I checked on everybodys health. The Ptera was quite beaten up, but the Argys were doing almost ok. The pack of Allos must have moved up the beach to my last farming spot, which I hadn't expected. And quite fast, too. I was pretty sure they hadn't taken up my trail when I first saw them and I've definitely been out of rendering distance. So... another lesson learned and I didn't pay too dearly for this one. Only problem was I still wanted to recover my equipment, so I settled on a nearby rock which was clearly inaccessible by the allos and watched. And indeed - it didn't take long until the pack moved on, keeping their direction. They must have been set to travel up the beach anyways. So I got all that belonged to me, still got all the stuff I had farmed and moved on to craft the pods. Well... that could actually make another episode, but today I've something different to tell. ====== Episode 2 ====== Recently I had done a whole lot of housekeeping and fillling up supplies. Just the daily duties you have to do to keep your base running smoothly. To be short - it wasn't fun. So after all was done I decided to overdraw my "ark-time-account" even more and have some fun. Namely completing my 3-D-collection. The 3-D-collection consists of a Doedicurus, a Daeodon and a Dimetrodon. All excessively useful and I started to call them the 3-D because I had so much trouble getting started on them in my solo play on the island - you might read this story a few pages back on this thread. On Valguero I already had a sweet Doedicurus, again with the help of a very generous fellow on this server, so this time it was Daeodon-time. I had seen some a bit north of the big lake, knowing the territory being not the easiest - all kinds of trouble spawns there. But another night I had landed at the descent of a large hill in that area, expecting that no other creature would be able to traverse the incline. Mistake. A small group of wolf-sized shapes, though a bit bulkier, had come rushing towards me and I had only just enough time to take to the air again. I then checked out what had rushed me and found Daeodons. So that's why I decided to come back here. First thing I found - as pretty much always in this area - were mammoths. And only seconds later some wolfes. Of course the two groups were fighting each other. It seems as there's no other way of existence for the two. No Daeodons, though. A bit later I found the corpse of a Daeodon, which of course was useless. No chance to even harvest it, though. Too much trouble around. So I kept looking. Took me quite some time, but a bit later I saw a Daeodon that had teamed up with a pack of wolves to bully two mammoths. I switched from Ptera to Argy and dived right into the fray, grabbed and took to the air as fast as I could. Only took one or two hits. Luckily, I was indeed carrying a Daeodon. Hooray. It was a level 60, not too good, but not too bad either. I made haste to leave this unfriendly area, pushing my argy to hurry. That was another mistake. It didn't take too long until I ran out of stamina. I had to rest. I decided to land on a small headland, hoping that it would be easy to pick up the Daeodon later. What was I thinking? As soon as it touched ground it stormed towards the local herbivores. Man ... it was fast. FAST. Next time I saw it, it was fighting 3 Trikes and a Stego, and it wasn't giving them an easy time. The fight had quickly moved on into a forest and as much as I tried, I couldn't get my argy into any position I could even think about grabbing something. This was a lost case. It didn't take long until the dust settled - there were even more dinos in the vicinity that had joined the fray and made for a quick finish for my (supposed) Daeodon. I pondered my options and actually decided to return to the unfriendly area and give it another go. I had to search some, but not too much this time. Arks gods probably had a look on the clock, granting me a faster exit. I was late. Terribly late. This time I had found two Daeodons taking on a single mammoth. By the time I arrived at the battle site, the mammoth had collapsed and the Daeodons were feeding. That was a lucky circumstance, since each of them was on one side of the corpse. Knowing that they are a quick bunch I didn't bother to examine them, but just grabbed one and flew off. This - no matter what - would be my last action for that session. I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised - I found myself carrying a level 140 shiny white Daeodon. How sweet! Well, I knew I shouldn't push my luck any further, so I let my argy fly at it's own speed and made it easily back to my base. I also hit my taming pen on first try - I'm still having issues with that, but for the Daeodon, knowing that it'll rush the next best creature in the vicinity, it was kind of critical. And I did it. I was almost going crazy. What could go wrong from here? Well... I could overlook something and spoil things. I always can. So I calmed down and prepared for the taming. Looked up the kind of food, the amount of food. Man... this was a hungry fellow. A very hungry fellow. Pondering between my rather small supply of prime meat and my first attempt to make some kibble I decided for the latter. So I got some extra tranq-arrows and my trusted crossbow and stuck the arrows into the Daeodon. It took a LOT. Almost thought I'd never stop shooting. Then it came down with 7+k torpor. Well, that was a number. Next I started preparing the kibble, gathered all the supplies from various storages throughout my base, thres it all together in a pot and set it on fire. It worked. I have to admit that it was my third attempt to cook kibble, but I've failed the first two, so this was my first self-made kibble. Hooray. I added some prime meat and threw it all on the Daeodon. Man, it was hungry... ate ALL the kibble I had prepared (I had hopes it might leave some for future tames) and some extra. Oh well... it was an investment. And it worked. Took only a little time to have it stand up and shine. I had done it. Named it. Put everything back and hurried to sleep in real life. Feeling good ============== Thanks for reading! Have fun everyone! Eleusius.