SnowboundGem

Just now, caleb68 said:

you have to shoot the crab with boulders directly in the face, if you miss it does major damage to them, very easy to kill the crab while trying to knock it out.   To top it off there is no way to recover a crab once it falls through the map, it will just keep falling till it hits the death plane (part of the engine) as the crab is a bottom walker not a swimmer.  so Both the doedic and the crab will be killed due to Wildcard not fixing a known issue sense 2017. 

I've lost tames to falling through map before and I've fallen through it myself a few times on extinction. It's gut wrenching knowing all that work has gone.

It does sound rather a pain in the backside to tame I know already I would not be successful in that tame. 

7 minutes ago, caleb68 said:

what did I do in ark today.....

I just lost my Crab & My Doedic UNDER THE MAP while farming rock on Herbivore island on the TOP MOST section,  this caused me to Rage quit the game.   Crabs are a major pain in the arse to tame in the first place and then losing one to this?? not only that but my Doedic as well? this is just.... yeah....  I can't say how I really feel at the moment as its probably forum ban worthy..

Oh dear, I just realised I've never tamed a crab, so no idea how long it took or the effort required but I feel for you.

Hope you feel a bit better soon.

11 hours ago, Cymas said:

@SnowboundGem It's too bad you're on console, I think you'd really enjoy the Castles, Keeps & Forts mods and maybe the eco set of mods, all dedicated to building. Personally I can't play this game without S+, it just fixes way too many issues with this game to go without it.

Anyway, after a long grind at work I was happy to come home and grind in Ark instead. Side note I also got my new Ark journal in the mail. I wish there were official licensed ones, blank or dot grid. I'd even buy it if it was Moleskine and I don't like that brand. This one is actually a Jurassic Park journal lol but it's surprisingly decent for the price. Lined though, typical for novelty journals. But now I can keep track of my progress instead of scribbling on the backs of my shopping lists lol

I know I would, I would play for hours.. I have watched a few people build with it on YouTube. I'm gutted we don't have that but I think you would be surprised how much detail I manage with just basic bps.

I bought my hubby a journal with dragons/wyverns looked like fire and ice last year for his stat keeping. I found it yesterday cleaning the games room. It's empty haha.

I have been buying him these type of books for years he hasn't ever filled anything in just one for all his passwords and important reminders. That's 15 empty dragon style journals on a shelf. I could start a shop..

I never got to play on ark today my husband spent longer at work and it's his last day tomorrow new job Monday so he's had a lot on handing over to new person.

When I got in I was seeing double with a migraine so slept for 6 hours and it still didn't shift. I went for a nap not a marathon!

If I do ever get onto ark this week I will hopefully play on a clean map so I can go nuts with building again.

Keep us updated with your build as it goes. Love seeing what you and others get up to. ?

Good luck. ?

3 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

tonight we are going to help out on a friends server who is being trolled by a tribe. tell yas how it goes

Don't let your friend go I can see it all going wrong, he might be trying to help but I'd imagine your other friends Dino's may end up dead too. Haha 

Thanks for the answer about dedicated if it can adjust as much as sp for Xbox I'm fine with it.

He asked me to find our head sets to talk later in game when home from work. Umm will be sat on the same sofa in the same room why the f do we need a head set on? Should I point out the stillness of the question? I think he maybe tired. Haha

I didn't get to play. My husband did something really nice I think it's because I have a cold.

He set up our games room with a new TV & Xbox for me so I can play ark etc with him without tethering. 

He's not sure how to set up something for just us two does it cost anything to have a dedicated server? 

What is a dedicated server & non dedicated? 

So when we get home later we are going to try sorting something and hopefully play ark.

58 minutes ago, Aushegun said:

Yes, it is the one with the tiny broken bridge. 

I choose this spot, because I have played thousands of hours in ARK, and have built bases in many many places. When I joined this server, I told myself to build small, until I decide I want to stay on the server. I landed on the island for a stamina break, and I noticed the oil node. I then decided this would be a great spot, and it would force me to stay small, as the island is not big.  The only worry was the occasional Megalania or Argent.

I had planned on fixing the bridge, but then I realized it would allow the megalanias to run across it. So I left it broken.

Pretty sure I know where you built, is there a water node close by?   I would be a bit paranoid, with the Wyverns so close!

Not too close we never have them fly to us. I did have to stop a rex spawn which was close and we did have megalania on the beach until I blocked that spawn too. 

I keep all my Dino's in barns on passive and have a bunch of high hp and melee thylas on neutral outside to deal with anything that wanders too close, they deal with rexes in a heart beat. Not much does wander too close these days due to the walls.

I love that island but on my play through its close to a rex spawn so I left it to farm them for alphas of which there have been 3 so far at that spot. 

If I played on a server I can imagine I would have wyverns kited to me regularly. That would make me reconsider my home location.

@Cymas you are right they are expensive to build I'm lucky because I can mess about with harvest yield in settings as its just two of us. 

Your base is very inspiring I haven't had any Dino's destroy my trees nearby I'm quite lucky but I have walled us in and sprawled out a little to block nearby dino spawns.

I'm the builder my hubby builds square and pointy like a house in RL. I try to explore new shapes love the s+ additions would love a few more bits or alternatives. Different styles of feeding trough, meat/berry, haybales for barns that sort of stuff.

Oh and pretty argy you have there.. ?

5 hours ago, Aushegun said:

On Ragnarok, the tiny island I refer to as Megalania island.  It is at the southern tip of the large penisula that leads from the wyvern cove & hidden wyvern cave.

If I fly west a short bit, the next island is "Jerboa Island".

I like this tiny island, because it has a hidden cave with metal and crystal directly below, and an oil pump node on it as well. If you build at the high point of the island, you can use cliff platforms to double the area for a base/dinos.

 

But I will confess, that I recently moved from there, because it just doesn't have the room to raise large dinos, like Rexs for Boss battles.

On my game I'm halfway up that island approx 78/42 between the megalania bit and the wyverns, I build up on the Cresent beach and cliffs behind.

I'm on the side of the island facing away from jerboa island. Basilo bay I call it, there seem to be tonnes in my play through.

The only reason I chose this place is just a hop over the water there is a huge metal deposit cave 80/60 ISH. 

Also to farm wyvern eggs for kibble occasionally. Just north of wyvern bay before you get to green ob there were lots of high level rexes so I got all my clean ones there. First time ever I got some nice coloured ones. 

We did spawn on the northern larger island near jerboas once on one play through but built a raft and sailed away to better lands. It was raptor central. 

What made you choose megalania island? Is it the one with the broken bridge? Or further south? I'm trying to picture it from your image but can't fathom it.

Can't wait for what's coming up. ?

12 minutes ago, Aushegun said:

My last base, I intentionally did not cut down any trees on the island my was on.  I would travel to other islands to gather wood.  I like having trees (plus PvE) so no need to worry about not seeing enemies attack.

We just play on sp Xbox. I like to keep the environment natural he likes everything flat and bare. Can't wait to see your progress I'm currently building cliffside because I never have before. But itching to do a tree top city.

Where have you chosen island?

17 hours ago, Cymas said:

That's why I always copy long posts before I post them, if you take too long to write them the forum tends to kind of refresh and lost things.

Anyway, I have to admit I was pretty excited to hop on today. Didn't really do anything super exciting though, mainly a lot of trial and error as I worked on my base build. A lot of reshuffling, crafting and harvesting. The farthest I went was a brief sojourn across the river on the ptera. Otherwise I was entirely at base. This is what I ended up with:

That lighting is stunning. I see you left uncut trees.. I have one near our base my husband keeps threatening to chop but he hasn't and it makes it look nice having trees. Build is looking good ?

4 hours ago, Snipar88 said:

An old man that likes the design of Dinosaurs through many generations of Movies and Games, till the point when they look like Chicken Hybrids...

I have read that many post on here I actually managed to be confused for a few mins over this reply. Reason I too am getting old nearly 40 and I forgot what the topic of conversation was. ?

So sorry the picture resembles something from an old potato of a phone. I took a screenshot with Xbox but somehow can't locate it. So took one with my huwaii p20 and it looks terrible.

Started moving into my cliffside build spent hours relocating resources into them. Haven't moved any tames yet. 3 week of hard work and it's not all done yet.

Feels nice having almost completed a huge project.

Big question is there a construction limit? 

Stuck on what else I can do I'm thinking of a tree top city. 

1 minute ago, SaltyMonkey said:

What does that have to do with fan art? The most effective way to complain is to use the correct channels. Commenting on every unrelated post is not the way to get attention.

I swear I read this twice trying to figure out if I had slipped into a different thread. ? 100% agree with salty monkey there.

Back on topic I love the fan made dossiers I keep seeing them on Reddit.

That wyvern though!

I'm considering an unusual gift for hubby and would love to actually have a print of of that wyvern. Stunning work.

17 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

i play on ps4 and it runs ext and ab like a charm, i fought the king alpha titan on high and it ran pretty well. as for E3 i cant watch it sadly. plz tell me if anything comes up, and if any content does come out i will be updating ark as soon  as released. honestly a huge update fixing about 50% of the bugs and glitches in ark would be great. content would also be good. i do believe ark is due for a huge update adding new content and mass fixing bugs

It's all on youtube to catch up with.

Even watching to troll them makes them think they are valid though so giving them air time and an audience makes them believe people like them. 

if I don't like it I just don't watch it. 

Good luck with the map I saw you mention it a while ago not sure if on here or Reddit. 

I was watching the E3 conferences for last 2 days might stick it out and watch tomorrow too.

If something new did come up personally I would just like to stay connected to my game when playing on extinction. I dashboard every 10 mins. The one map I can't play.

1 minute ago, Kodking194 said:

 

yeah i get ya, not being able to play online or have a pc that can run ark i watch syntacs modded play throughs, lately he has been doing main ark with no real big mods asside from his usual s+. anyway, syntac made a video about a possible new map. the word relates to pizza, it is not click biat as he uses real evidence and does not say there is a new map but theorizes and hopes for a new map, u here that crysis and nuroku, u could learn a thing or two from syntac, he does things right, u click baiting jerks, anyway hope syntacs theories r true, i would love new dinos and a new map, isn't E3 tomorrow, maybe they will announce something at it about ark. then delay it for months on end, hehehe lol

I saw syns vid but it was just speculation of what could be coming and the pizza comment had me chuckling. His vid didn't bother me in the slightest.

Too many people feed into the other two you mentioned, then take everything as gospel and then spew it out all over the internet. ?

2 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

and when tthey started sponsoring the mod that really activated people. i am hoping more creatures come to ark, i am bored of the same old things.

Sponsoring isn't a guarantee to add to game though so I do get the hype I just tend to plod along and wait rather than watch clickbait YouTube vids by other creators.

Not referring to syntac with this statement. I learned a lot from tagbacktv, syntac and many others. Watched every vid from every season from both of those unless it was ott on mods.

4 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

the deino is from ark additions mod apparently, i have not looked at the mod or played it, so we assume that its creatures will be added, on of them is the brachi, go check out syntacs vids about it, he showcased the brachi in the mod on his jurrasic ark series?

I tend to loose interest in the modded play throughs as on Xbox we don't have mods so it always seems irrelevant information. So that's why I didn't know about it.

Although I do watch syntac and most of the crew there are a few who just go ott on mods which I have previously watched for a while, it ruins the feel of the game for me.

7 minutes ago, Kodking194 said:

also, if the brachi is added i know for a fact it will not have all the abilities of the modded one, i would certainly change the roar to only affecting gigas. and possibly nerf its stomp a bit, not much but a bit, also make is so when the brachi does stomp it loses like 80% of its stam.

Why are you mentioning brachi have I missed something new?

On 6/7/2019 at 4:13 AM, SaltyMonkey said:

No it was Extinction.

No kodking mean the ark that lit up at end of extinction was the aberration ark.

I am glad there is to be another Dino. Can't wait to see how I mess up grabbing my first egg. ?

On 6/7/2019 at 8:00 PM, Ryaquaza1 said:

PIs it rideable tho? That’s my question

It's not been said in the dossier and not one person who is posting has any more information than you. So unknown yet is the answer. The post is all speculation!