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My magamasaurs on the island finally reached 100% maturation. Finally! Today I found the time to test them out. I had been super lucky last week, and received an 120 armor saddle from a mission on genesis, so we were ready to go. I was not disappointed. The magma, to me, is way more fun to ride than an anky... Its so much faster, and smallish predators leave you alone. Plus, since its so big & you can stand in its saddle, you can put an argy on follow and easily move the resources to its inventory without dismounting. I attempted to ride the magma up to the volcano, to harvest some obsidian & crystal, but I did not make it there - I filled my argy with so much metal on the way there that I had to turn around. I think the days where we're in constant need of metal are finally over 🤩. (Of course, the current event helps a lot, with the boosted harvesting :D) I also saw a gorgeous rex in lavender and dark purple. Those colors look really good on that dino. Unfortunately, the server crashed right after I saw it, and afterwards it was of course gone. If I find the time during the event, I might try to hunt for one with similar colors. Later, my buddy & me decided we would try to tame a ferox. We went to the ferox cave, cleaned out the polar bears and wolves, and looked for a high level one. We found a lvl 150 male, unfortunately not in event colors, and decided to tame it. The server was lagging really badly, and we had trouble with the whole "grapple to the ceiling" technique - most of the time, the crossbows would not shoot anything, but we still lost a grappling hook each time that happened. After a few tries, the ferox broke our fur armor and killed my buddy. But by that time, we had already fed it several pieces of element, so we really wanted to finish taming it. We decided to move one of our boss rexes next to the ferox, and run to the other side of the rex right after feeding. The transformed ferox would then hit our poor rex' big butt, instead of us. This worked really well, and we successfully tamed the ferox. (In case anyone else wants to sth like this: the rex had a 100 armor saddle and still lost about 15k life during the whole process, so you can't just do this with low level dino and a primitive saddle) Right after we tamed it, a lavender female 130 appeared, but we did not have enough element left to tame it 😕. Oh well. I then dragged my buddy to the magmasaur cave, in hopes of getting an event colored one. I saw several nice pink and purple magmas in the cave - too bad you can't tame those... But we took several eggs, and I have high hopes for those eggs. My buddy then decided it was enough ark for today, and to go to bed. I wanted to try one more egg stealing attempt, just a quick one, before also logging off. As always in ark, doing something real quick before logging off resulted in total disaster It started with a sever lag that caused me to fall into the lava, righ next to a pissed of magmasaur, and ended roughly 1,5 hours later when I finally managed to safely loot my body and teleport out. I died like 5 times during that time, typically right after picking up my previous body bag. The absolute highlight was when I had to crawl into a magmasaur nest to get close to my body, found a 150 egg in there, and decided I would have it all: I would start the teleport, loot my body and then quickly pick up the egg - after all, what could possible go wrong? - and it would have worked, but when I took the egg the whole nest suddenly despawned from under me 🤨, which has never happened before, I fell into the lava yet again, the teleport was interrupted, and every magma in the cave started shooting fireballs at me. In the end, there was so much equipment in my body bag that I was completely unable to move after looting it. Good thing the teleport function doesn't care about this 😅

You know, duping anything with a crash is next to impossible these days. Unless the server rollback multiple saves, anything you uploaded isn't even saved (hence the upload timer). And even then, pretty sure it would simply result into player's inventory being wiped. I'm not saying it can't happens, but WC have implemented some very efficient counter measures for duping in the past years and they actively monitor everything. People scream dupers whenever their server crash but the reality is that in most cases it's just that; a server crash due to increased rates and overcrowded servers. The same people you believe are dupers, are probably believing that you are. 😉

We keep the food in the fridge, the trash in the trashcan and the server reports/complaints in here. There is not much else we can do, as official servers issues must be reported using the form pinned at the top of this thread. And not merging all of them together really just promote spamming; people going into all the others with "me too, server x too, y also, etc, etc.".

PVE Island official: Like everyone else, I have been raising babies the last couple days. 15 rexes hatched and in the juvenile stage. I was not looking but found a 135 F yuty. I tamed her up and then bred her with my high-health male. Got twins, 1 M and 1 F. Sweet. Babies are now 20% mature. @Cordiste sorry, not trying to rub that in. haha. Therizinos have been slower than I wanted. I have hatched 3 and have one more egg in the fridge. However, the server has been so lagy that the countdown timer for breeding the female (my only female) again seems to take forever. An 18 hour timer will actually take closer to 25-30 hours right now. Eh, it is what it is. I finally met up with my friend and she gave me a baby basilo. Then a second one was born right away and she let me claim that one too. Bonus! They are both male but I am okay with that. And I spent most of my time at her water platform raising them this weekend. The water platform was built with floor and walls and is closer to a fully enclosed swimming pool than anything else. I even brought the rexes with me and had them all lined up around the perimeter of the platform at various times. Then at one point when the basilos were about 50% mature the game crashed. Luckily I had the rexes podded at that moment because the game was acting funny. 10 minutes later when I was able to log back in I found myself in the water (as expected) with the basilos (my two babies and the adult breeding pair belonging to my friend). Anyway, the platform structure took an exceptionally long time to load in... and a shark that could be seen in the distance then swam towards us. I kept thinking the pen would spawn in but it didn't. As the shark got closer the adult breeding pair had another baby at that moment. Of course the shark went for the newborn baby. The baby swam away and the shark followed. The structure finally loaded in but not before the newborn and shark fled the area. I couldn't stand by and watch so I climbed out of the water pen and jumped into the open ocean. I swam after the shark and baby and luckily then swam toward shallower water. I surfaced a few times for air along the way. When I caught up to them the baby was already bloody. I took out my sword and started whacking on the shark. Eventually the shark died. And I was left with a very bloody and barely alive baby basilo... but it was alive! I then claimed it, podded it, and took it back to the pen and fed it to help it heal. My friend (offline at the time) later let me keep that one too. So now I have 3 basilos in the 280-285 range with wicked awesome stats... 2 males and 1 female. 😄 PVE Scorched Earth official: I went to SE when island lag made the game unplayable. Made another trip with my sabrecat to my second hut. Took some supplies with me and built a 2x2 adobe house. Added the basic amenities and will make it my new temporary base. I plan to eventually transfer all my supplies to this base then leap frog north again. I would also like to get an argy while here if possible. I have seen a couple in the distance. That is now on my to-do list.

(Official, Crystal Isles) Refreshed base. (Official, Valguero) Bred EVERYTHING (except for unicorns). I mean everything: allos. Rexes. Gigas. Velonas. Gasbags. Gachas. Managarmrs. Mantises. Argents. Featherlights. Even WYVERNS! (Except for tropical, because I only had one female tropical on Valg and I traded her away a while ago, and just never bothered t get a new one). Hatched yet another batch of disappointing rexes, claimed and podded for later a nice blue female argy, and a nice green/brown female mantis. The wyverns hatched female, with colors that are just right, and if I manage to raise them I'll be able to use them for breeding. And then the server crashed. Less than an hour before my gasbags and gacha give birth, velonas and featherlight even sooner, and this happens. Yay. ... It's back. Hopefully for a long time. ... Velonas hatched, not good enough, killed. Featherlight hatched, inherited father's colors, which is pink, I think one pink bird is enough already, so killed. Gachas born, twins, nothing good, killed. Gasbags born, male, killed. Managarmr born, male, light blue, podded. Podded some of the tames, rearranged the rest. Oldest giga egg hatching soon, once that's done I'll pick up the other two, pod the wyvern babies, and that'll be enough ARK for today.

All events seem to be trying to outrank each other in case of decreasing the playability of the game. Why is this not addressed after so many years?

(Official, Valguero) Bred allos to try and get a perfect (well, as perfect as possible cosidering the parents) full black male to start breeding full black allos. Bred tek rexes. Bred gigas. Bred unicorns, gasbags and gachas. Finished raising Marblehoof (90% imprint, but whatever. Good enough to ride around within the base). Allo hatched, melee good, colors right, male. Health bad. Went on a meatrun, forgot to take the cryopods (3 empty, 2 with baby gasbags I had for a while and wanted to start raising after the meatrun, one with the new baby allo) out of my inventory before that. Died due to disconnect. Allo and gasbags got taken from my deathbag by another player. Well, at least it's event and they were babies. Replaceable. In this case the pods are bigger loss than their contents. Rexes hatched, nothing good. Bred argents. Bred velonas. Bred parasaurs. Parasaurs: 2 females, 2 males (1 male and 1 female are from same egg. And with a mutation! Didn't check on what stat, but I like the color, which, I'm pretty sure, is jade). Gasbags: female. Gacha: male, no dust. Killed. Velonas: 2 females, 1 male. Planned to keep both females, but didn't happen, because when Snow (unicorn) gave birth, I only had one empty pod in the inventory and didn't feel like running to the hatchery for another one, but wanted to keep both unicorn twins, so I threw out the worse velona and killed it. So, a mostly good day!

(Singleplayer, Crystal Isles) Spent a lot of time flying around. Added two more craft stations. Finally found that NPC tribe (I'm using Primal NPC mod) that spawned first after I wiped all NPCs. Found out that the ability to interact with NPCs via chat was disabled, which is a pity (It was working when I first used that mod, and I really liked it). At least NPCs themselves work fine, I already raised the reputation with them a bit. Killed a rock drake (I spawned some wild ones back when I was building the base. Not on the same island my base is on, of course, on the lower ones). By "killed" I mean I attacked it, then landed on a small island to restore stamina, and the dumb reptile fell off the island and drowned. At least I still was able to get a feather, which I need for a trophy bait. Looked for the rest of the drakes, found only two, remember spawning more. Probably drowned as well. Had to spawn new ones (nothing powerful - levels 10-56. Perfectly reasonable), because the trophy baits will be for taming a pair (thanks to Better dinos I can breed them), so gotta have some wandering around for me to tame. (Official, Extinction) Spent some time looking through the servers I had characters on at some point, because my favorite servers got un-favorited (again) and I forgot the server number (again. Yes, I'm not smart). Wrote the number down this time. (Official, Valguero) Giga egg has 7 hours to hatching. Picked it up. Didn't do anything else.

Farmed a metric ton of crystal on crystal isles and crafted them into greenhouse roofs and windows. After raising the first batch of magmasaurs to 90% on the island, I decided that the next batch will definitely be raised on genesis. But of course, I needed a decent base for that - my little 4x4 stone shack wont do. So I built a nice flat ground floor out of metal (no ugly pillar nubs poking through the floor! 😊), then calculated how much crystal I would need for the windows and roof. I came up with about 25k, which is a lot (for me), but I like bases with greenhouse windows better than pure metal boxes. And I wanted to finish the base before the breeding event starts, for obvious reasons. Also sacrificed most of our element stash on the island to craft a tek generator & tek through. After transferring those over to genesis, I discovered that my genesis character can actually interact with the generator, which means I wont have to swap my characters around just to turn the generator on, yay. 😄 Over on the island, I managed to get absolutely, utterly stuck between two of my adolescent magmas. It happend because of a lag, I fell down from the first floor of my base and landed right in between them, with absolutely no way of getting out again. (You cant crawl out under their bellies, and they're way too big to jump over their legs & tail). Of course, I had no cryopods with me. In my annoyance, I attempted to use a whistle command to make them walk away from me. This was a mistake - not only did the two magmas themselves not move by an inch, but instead every single dino inside my base ran over to me. So I was still stuck between the two magmas, while a bunch of argies jumped on top of me. Unfortunately, those argies were unsaddled, so I could not use them to escape. (That's just my luck, I of course have several saddled argies... where were those?) Meanwhile my rexes and my giga were pounding against the wall from outside, wanting to come in and join the fun. At this point, I decided to just turn the sound & monitor off and do something else for a while. About 40 minuted later, I returned to the game - by then, my character had finally died of thirst. I then spent ages rearranging my dinos. I really, really hate whistle commands. 😕

From what ive noticed that excuse that no one playes with a broken thing the devs justify it not being worked on. From what ive noticed prim plus might even be more popular then vanilla ark. I for one think its 1000x better then vanilla and makes a whole lot more sense. Especially with actual more features then vanilla. I want it worked on dammit!!!!!

As far as im concerned they have abandoned prim, really wish they would just have the guts to at least say it

Well, there goes any hope of Genesis 2 coming in March, though it's certainly not surprising. Still excited tho.