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The last few days have been pretty good. Much of my time has been dedicated to raising up the 4 therizinos I will use for breeding (2 M and 2 F). I have been pushing pretty hard and have had them out for about 10-15 hours per day for the last 3 days. I know many of you probably leave your babies out while you sleep and can shorten the overall process that way; however, I have always had bad luck with something dying when I do that... so I only pull them out while playing. Anyway, The 2 Females have always been a little ahead of the males and They finally finished last night. Woohoo! The males are about 90% complete and now in the home stretch. I didn't use a stop watch but under standard rates I think it took about 100 hours or so to mature. I wish I could charge for babysitting. lol My work week just started again so these final hours for the males will be slower, but I should be able to put on the Barry White album in a few days and let the breeding begin. 😍 I think I will pod all the babies until I have around 20, then just raise them all at once. Seems like a more efficient use of my time. During the last three days I also ran through the swamp / gas cave a few times. Best item found was an ascendant argentavis BP. Turned most of the chitin I got from the cave into CP and I still have enough chitin to fill up 3 cabinets left over. lol I made a few trips up the mountain for metal / obsidian and made some poly to have on hand for later. I also decided to finally advance my personal gear. I had been wearing chitin as my daily outfit, changed to MC set of flak. Painted it blue. I put away the cross bow and grabbed one of the many shiny new shotguns and longneck riffles I have in the cabinet after the winter event. Made a bunch of ammo. It had been awhile since I last used my raft. So I flew across the island to check on it and couldn't find it. Checked the tribe log and confirmed my fear. It was destroyed two days prior from inactivity. My fault. Eh, o'well. I just tell myself a terrible storm rolled along the southern ocean and my raft was battered onto a reef. It is easier to accept that way. I can rebuild when the time is right. Later.

Xbox Island official PvE I started the weekend and for the first time in ages I had no idea what to do next. I did the tek cave last week, was planning on moving to SE to continue with the 'story'. But I started to look for excuses not to leave the island. I found one; i still haven't collected all the explorer notes, probably got all the easier ones, but underwater and cave ones have yet to be done. I have some top water tames, which I have accumulated with trading and swapping. I have a metal ocean pen full of Basilo, x Basilo, a Mosa and a pair of Tusos. But I have rarely entered the ocean only done easy water cave twice. I have avoided the depths to such an extent I had never been in a resource cave until now. I took my skiff, I have traversed the island picking up the notes I have been missing. Just before I was wrapping up for the night I decided to do one more. Strangely it was very close to my base. I guess over confidence got the best of me, because I didn't leave the other tames in the skiff. I travelled to the coords and suddenly I was ganked by several megs and a tuso. I was fighting for a few seconds then I realised no-one was dying or responding. I wish I was joking, a cold dread came over me, I have been here before. I was greeted with the main menu. Yet again it wasn't gameplay that got me, it was game design. I honestly hoped my dinos would protect me. But due to game design, my basilo set to neutral killed the wild tuso but just sat there while jellyfish killed my unresponsive survivor. Luckily there was no indication where I was killed on the death screen, due to the disconnection. I found my corpse but searching tamed menu, I quickly found my body but was dispatched yet again by the same jellyfish. This time my Tuso and Basilo sat watching the carnage. I steadily prepared to try again, armed with my remaining Tuso and successful dispatched the level 40 jellyfish, yeah level 40, my dinosaurs sat and watching. I eventually recovered all my stuff and got back home. I have rarely had a more stressful time in gaming, where I could have lost so many things. But this time I wasn't bested by a foe, rather than by the classic arkism Host timeout. But it revealed something greater, I am only constricted by the fear of losing everything I have built. For example transferring servers as there is a real chance of losing everything I have. Remember this is only a game, I only play for recreation. Sometimes it is more trouble than it is worth. Stay safe survivors.

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