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If the light pet chibis don't glow I will be very disappointed. Why not 2x taming, with all the pretty colors coming? Will the chibis still be craftable, since getting presents becomes Death Race Ark and people will steal chibis out of Raptor Claus presents right out from under someone? If someone lands on a present and then someone else arrives, the person with the less lag will steal everything even if someone else was there first. It was happening a lot last year, and it will be even worse this year.

Xbox SP, The Island Things are slow, but moving forward. My cautious approach to taming yutys has paid off and is actually hella fun. I’ve got a disposable argy on a quetz platform saddle which is also nice because I can keep my taming food from spoiling. As I don’t has a pair yet, I can’t make kibble but I got myself a low level yuty to start. The hunt continues

(Official, Extinction) Refreshed the base, fed the dinos. (Official, Crystal Isles) refreshed the base, checked if wyverns still have enough crystals (they do). (Official, Valguero) Got tired of having most of the base not illuminated, so I added a new wind turbine and put some lights on the cliff I use as the wyvern perch, two by the stable, 5 or 6 on the cliffs that serve as the base's natural wall, and two in my house's second balcony because why not. The central part is still pretty dark, but there's nothing important in the center save for an improvised auto-harvester consisting of a wandering moschops and a dino leash. Phobos and Killer Sausage are still growing just fine, I think I might get them their next imprints today. Bred tek rexes, no new mutations. Decided to use a mantis with a mastercraft hatchet as my dead baby harvester, because I almost always end up damaging the hatchery's floor when I harvest them myself. Did a crystal run, with the new ankylo this time. On my way back got one hell of a scare: I gasbag-jumped too far when trying to cover the distance form the cliff I got crystals from to my base, the game lagged a bit, and Balloon ran out of gas. Fortunately, we were already low enough that he didn't die or even get hurt too much, it just looked like we were still high up because lag. Aside from that nothing happened, and likely won't happen for the rest of this day (well, night technically, but you get the point), since my plans are to just watch cartoons, occasionally give Phobos couple more stacks of meat, sometimes check on Killer Sausage to see if he's ready for the next imprint yet, and do absolutely nothing else. Oh, and also I did a rare flower/mushroom run with my mammoth Atlas. Got plenty of flowers (some went into kibble freezer for that sweet, sweet Exceptional kibble, most into misc freezer for beehive maintenance), and some mushrooms, which went into the trough by the gachas because it turned out they don't eat stone from trough (they were fine. I only know it because I got some suspicions, so I took all the meat out of the trough, then wasted Generous's stamina to make him hungry, and watched the trough. Stone in it stayed untouched). ... Seeing as Phobos is growing fine and I haven't gotten any mutation on rexes lately so my current breeder tek rex isn't retiring any time soon, I made a decision: if I don't get a mutation on health or melee by the time Phobos is fully grown, it'll b not a rex, but Phobos' dad Diablo that'll get a saddle and will be sent to Extinction to serve as my heavy hitter/Forest Cave mount there. ... Since last edit: gathered plenty of hide. Found a stuck high level rex. Notified interested players. Whatever methods of tranqing were used weren't sufficient, rex was deemed glitchy, but I decided to try because if I meant for the rex to be tamed, the rex WILL be tamed. So I brought my rifle and used that. Turned out, he was just about to drop, so it only took four or five darts. Tamed him, unclaimed him for the rightful owner. While taming that, killed two alpha carnos and an alpha raptor, all with my mana Frostbite. He strong. Didn't have a chibi on me, unfortunately, since it was a hide run-turned-taming trip, and I learned to not take chibied on anything but an intentional alpha hunt. Then tamed a tek rex for another player, plan was that I would just assist, but rifle too good, accidentally got the last shot. So, again, tamed and gave to true owner. Raised Phobos to 10% and Killer Sausage to 30%, got them their imprints. At some point Sausage's trough ran out of meat, but luckily I found out way before anything had a chance to happen, so he's alive and fine. Podded him and Phobos, logged off. Eventful day!

I'm excited for this! I love Christmas, and I'll join a PVP Extinction server just to watch players endgame each other over the loot Raptorclaus drops. Like chaotic last-second Christmas shopping.

The new colours look amazing, can't wait... *prepares for mana farming*

I don't, I'd actually prefer full outfits including gloves and boots too. However, I rarely wear any of the skins I make because once you lose it it's gone. Which is a really poor mechanic.

I agree. 😀

Squeee! I am so excited!! This is my first Ark Christmas!! My gen server is hella small so super excited that there won't be huge fights over presents. Also... For those saying no 2x taming... I'm fairly certain that's a misprint. Every event has always been 2x all pretty much. I don't see this one being any different... But even so... I am totally stoked for light pet chibis !!! And dark violet dinos?! Hell yes!! Cannot wait for this event!!! Thanks Ark Team!

I love the mood of Winter Wonderland. But the present drop would be more grinch-free if they will appear in random locations.

2X taming was made permanent a few months back, let the breeders get a perk for a change without whining

If I want bad enough, yeah, I'll wait, it wouldnt be the first time.

I know it says wed at 10 pm for work on the servers BUT is it est , pst ?

Oh man you need to work on your reading comprehension. 🤦‍♂️

Also I want the CHIBI RAINDEER

I would if there were a birthday suit gloves skin. ^^ at the moment i use the swim suit skins only for my diving suit.

Why no 2x poop interval? It's always breeding or taming...

Oh right, also WC, please continue letting us activate all events after they are finished insted of just removing them.. it makes the Activate Event tab 100% useless..

yeah the event skins should be perma idk why not

dang this marks five for me I'm ancient

same

Ya know I'd think it would be a great idea to add pajamas maybe slippers and one of those cartoon nightcaps as a comedic skin

Anime to me is the latter, which I would not consider Ark series as Anime.

i think he means 2x the 2x Honestly taming still takes too long on 2x perma but I'm grateful for it regardless

Hmmm .. somehow funny that Santiagos last name in the Explorer notes is Camacho and in the trailer DaCosta.. probably someone did not do his homework ? ^^ Also I don't know what to think as Vin Diesel as "cast" for him, not really happy with that choice. There would have bewn way better options in my humble opinion.

Just wait on odd hours nobody is on, find a island, boom, gifts. What i did last year anyway. Always made ark hunting easy at least.

My favorite event is finally back!

Celebrated my daughter's birthday this weekend and I picked up some extra shifts at work so I didn't get to play hardly at all... other than putting food in the trough. Typing this from my desk in the middle of another 10.5 hour shift. But I am enjoying your stories when work gets slow, so keep them coming. lol. It might be a couple more days before I can get back to playing, so I thought I would use this time to reflect on goals and objectives. I am at the point where the game is really fun for me. The base is built, the character is at level 89, and I have many good tames. All the little things are getting easier and I can focus on advanced tames, breeding, caves, and gear. The hard part right now is deciding how much time I want to put into this island play-through. I have already defeated the island on SP. I then spent about 2 months starting a character on Island Primitive Plus because I wanted to just see what that was like, and I might have stuck with it but then decided I really wanted to play through all the maps... and you can't on Primitive Plus. Soooo, I started this character on Island Official PVE. I think the release of Ark 2 (somewhere in the future) has energized me again to advance through the story. I don't necessarily need to race through but I do want to get past the island in short order and finally see a new world. I enjoy the server I am on and will probably keep my base active while starting a new character on each map. I do enjoy the early struggles too as that is really the nitty gritty part of the game. I bought SE some time ago but have not played it yet other than turning it on for an hour just to see it. I will most likely head there next, for the story aspect. What does that all mean. Well, for one, I don't think I am going to spend much time on things that don't lead to the end of the island. I won't go searching for tames I don't need or take the time to breed for colors or statistical bragging rights (although I am starting to enjoy the whole breeding thing). And two, I will eventually slow down to enjoy the little things again but will probably wait until I am on a different world. On my next days off my focus will be acquiring a baryonix. I want it specifically for the upper south cave and to finally get into the water and find a basi or something else for water caves. Then, I must focus on Therizinos. If I can only have one army... I want therizinos. And in between breeding / raising therizinos I will need to cave, cave, and cave some more to get saddles and armor. And in between caves I will have to gather materials for the saddles. The plan is to do it (mostly) legit. I am not going to ask for special favors or just let someone else carry me through. However, I will consider trading some of the tames I have to get the ones I need though. The donated dinos I have received are already making me feel guilty enough....and, well, ok... If I am asked to join a group heading for a boss... I might join them, lol. I am not stupid. However, my sleeves are already rolled up... time to roll them up a little higher I guess. I want to get to the sand, feel the heat, bump into cactus, and finally tame a wyvern.

The real thing that makes me not liking much the Christmas hunting thing are people stealing your gifts.... when I started, we were in an isolated server, so little people playing and all friends, so we decided to pick one gift at a time to let others have a chance. But once we moved to Official, things got ugly. Some guys used the tek grenate to move my flyer away from me, making me being killed by allos... it's a nice idea to have the gifts falling from the sky, but it is not so much fair, because I saw people just sitting where the presents fall...

Ty woop woop all nighters here we come lol coffee at the ready ☕😂😂👍

(Official, Valguero) Gasbags and ankylo are adults now. Unfortunately, not fully imprinted, but close enough. Started raising one of the twin gigas, so far goes fine, he can already hold a full stack of meat. He's temporarily named "first", just to distinguish him from his brother. If he survives to the point where no random disconnect or crash could lead to his starvation, he'll be renamed to Phobos. Killer Sausage is growing fine, last time I checked on him he was 9% grown, with enough meat in his inventory to last him to 10%, plenty of meat in the basilo trough, too. I already used the new gasbags (named Balloon) to get some crystal (with old ankylo as the harvester), he's pretty great at carrying stuff. Haven't tested the new ankylo (Thundertail is her name) yet, since I'm busy with the giga and don't want to pod him yet. ... Giga still growing fine! For once I'm raising a giga that's just right, and there's no disconnects! He already can hold a bit over three stacks of meat, so I don't have to pay that much attention to him now. ... 2.6 percent, still alive and fine! Once he hits 3%, He'll be no longer "first". He'll be Phobos. ... Since last edit Phobos was renamed to, well, Phobos as he is grown enough that I'm sure he won't die. I already made a saddle for him to wear once he'll become adult. Got really lucky with it, too! I made it from the 80 armor BP I have, and it came out not 81, not 85, but whole NINETY TWO. 92! That's the best armor saddle I've ever made! I already colored it, black and brick, with cantaloupe coloring for the metal parts. Also, that totally drained me of any fiber and hide I had, so I made vaults for them because it's way easier to accumulate resources when they're not spread through two crafting stations and several dinos. Anyway, now Phobos and Killer Sausage are both podded and returned to the cryofridge because I believe that's enough ARK for today. I may not have done a lot today, but I did enough.

I successfully killed a giga using only Direwolves. Level 50 giga, vs 37 direwolves, most were leveled to have 6k health and 500 melee. I could have waited for all of them to have it, but that would have put it off for at least another week, and I've waited long enough. In the end, 21 of the pack did not survive, but the remaining 16 are about to get a ride home where they will rest, and then take on their new role as base guardians. The wolf who got the killing blow has been properly named as Giga Slayer, and she will live a pampered life inside my tower.

Vin Diesel in Ark? This means we can race and do tuning on dinos? The tropeo got nitrous oxide already 😂

What?

preach it brutha

For a change? All events have had 2x breeding going on so its nothing new. All previous events have had 2x taming also.

Are you really going to wait a hour for taming most dinos?? I don't think so and they had 2 times taming last Christmas event so I don't know what changed and it should be 2 times everything