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after playing aberration for maybe 3-4 years i found my first alpha king reaper yesterday and got my first barb, and surprisingly i saw another one later but on a different surface, got back to base to get my chargelight pet , by the time i went back to the alpha spot it was too late for risking an exit, had to wait for the next night cycle, so i waited on the edge away from the flammes, alt tab to check something on the net with my game still running, then when i alt tab back to the game i got a wonderful message that i died along with my mana and bulbdog, somehow i ended up on the scorching surface while being away, so i grab another mana and pet but couldn't find the alpha again today i venture again on the surface and find another alpha reaper at a different location, i managed to kill it 30 min before sunrise so it is 2 barbs in 2 days out of 3 alpha reapers, before that i probably killed over 300 reapers to get an alpha to spawn but never succeeded so now i got to find an alpha basilisk and maybe try my first alpha rockwell (did gamma already) i once had a basilisk fang but traded it away for a pair of top stat deino

(Glacius) I needed to get a new jerboa, it seemed foolish not to have a weather radar in the freezing zone. So I went all the way back and got one, and good thing I did. Next, I wanted to see what I'm up against with the bison. I put down sleeping bags, put on a full suit of ghillie and took cactus broth, then approached a herd to see if I could get close enough to feed one. Nope, it oneshot me immediately. I then farmed up the materials for a trap in the freezing hellscape of rexes, basilisks and yuties and collected more drops with my argent. I reached the southern coast and set up my trap near a herd of bison with two lv 110+. On the way there I had to kill not one, but two alpha rexes, good xp for the argy, though. Temperatures were at -37°C during daytime, and even with over 60 fortitude and fria curry on, changing into ghillie made my health meter drop rapidly. I still got both bison, and it was a breeding pair, too! Felt super thrilled, heart pounding and all. On the flight back, I got the blueprint for unstable element (yay!) when my jerboa started growling. It was what I had dreaded. I would never make it back to the quetzal in time before the weather hit. So I immediately found a safe spot and put down a sleeping bag and my tent. Thankfully, that was enough to survive the -59°C, but by now it was night and the blue fog was so thick you couldn't see a thing. When I sat in the tent, suddenly I heard the footsteps. Then the roar. Rex. I rushed out of the tent, and out of the icy mist emerged a tek rex, eyes and lights blazing white. I killed it with my argent, but that's going to be one of my favourite Ark memories ever. Thank the Ark gods I had the jerboa or the supercold would've hit while I was in mid-air, and that the rex didn't arrive while I was AFK. When the extreme cold wore off, I continued on towards my flying base and arrived in swirling snow with the worst visibility yet. I waited out the night and put as much of my loot on the argent as I could, then left the quetzal there and flew back to my starter base. Next up is bison breeding and getting the saddle.

4.3.0.1 now available. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJMcFKej3V7X7vx2MDHuxkb1Uc8vLhxD/view?usp=sharing Fixed command line parsing. Included any appropriate .dll or .json dependencies that I might have missed previously.

Thanks m8 i sent your mine savegame via dc not here via pm (sorry didnt mention it).

@pleinx Not got your dm with save but Larkfields already sent me his which I've been quickly testing. The command line export appears to have changed between the versions of .net - for some reason the regular expression I was using to parse it out no longer does. I have a new version I'm working on - leave it with me half hour or so. I guess I also forgot to package up System.Data.SqlClient.dll - will make sure I zip it up with next release.

Wb, glad to see you are having more time again I forked it a while back and played around with .net 6.0 already and it drastically improved the speed of extracting with ASVExport on Linux, got some server stuff I have to deal with, but will later write up how to get it working on a Debian based system.

Achieving goals on Glacius! I have a glowing Ice Ankylosaurus now. The freezing zone is the only place where ankys spawn, so I took my argy over there, grabbed the highest level I could find and dropped it down to tame - next to an ice golem. So with the last bit of stam I snatched it back up again, and a short time later it was mine. Named it Ötzi. Getting resources feels so comparatively easy now, I could cry. I had all the metal I needed for the industrial cooker now. I also found out that the ice you can mine from glaciers not only stacks to 100 but also works like preserving salt. I was missing the polymer needed to finish the cooker, but on my way to the penguin colonies I came across the quetz again, a dusty looking lv. 70 above a safe area. Got really excited at that and aborted the polymer run to prepare best as I could to solo tame the quetzal. I wanted a mobile base so badly! Parachuted above it and netted it, but the first time it got out of my dino gates. So I made more, ready to spam them all over the bird, and the next time I found it, I couldn't believe it when it worked. I cannibalized my cooker materials for a platform saddle, named the whole thing Airbase Alpha because I was so damn glad and built a snow hut on it. Snow tier buildings give great insulation but are super fragile. Seems predestined to be on a flying platform to me. ARK's building system tried its best to screw with me, but in the end, I had it. Some more mining and soon I was back where I started and on my way to the penguin colonies again. Decided to check out the icebergs, but only one of them has spawns at this point. Polar bears, kairuku and acrophoca, which are the map-exclusive giant seals. I knocked out a low level, but they seem to be piscivore and I didn't have fish meat. So I harvested it and its buddies for their blubber (can be made into marine oil), farmed up the penguins and finally crafted the cooker. I have now no real reason to procrastinate visiting the scary areas anymore. Still feel super uncomfortable with the thought. Then again, I'm curious about the bison. I said goodnight to my 'realistic' brown featherlight and logged off.