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Got on last night for a little bit. Went to log in and I guess The Island was down so I hopped over to Ragnarok. Didnt know what to do, so hopped on the wyvern and went to get some drops from the desert hopefully get some more stuff for rag like giga saddles and some gas masks. Spent a few hours getting desert drops and desert sky drops hoping for another chainsaw. Decided i should get some Thyla going, since I really didnt know what to do so i went to the highlands with some cakes to get some sheep to tame the thyla. Flew around for over an hour killing everything trying to force spawns. Gave up and did another drop run. Came back about an hour later and continued killing trying to get one ovis to spawn...no luck. Did some googling and people suggested staying in one spot, so I parked near where I know sheep spawn and went AFK. Flew around again killing, no luck. Tried again to AFK in a different spot, now 2 hours have passed on my second run and I gave up and went home, went to bed. The Island will probably be up next time I play so ill just grab a few sheep babies to keep on ragnarok incase.

We have our Island base at 50 50. Literally the most central location, all types except snow tames near. I would recommend this spot, theres a few spots you can build at 5050, whether its on the river side cliff plateu (our spot) or across in the redwoods, down a bit towards red ob or many other flat spots along the main river. Theres a spot in a sort of 'canyon' just towards green on the main river, across from that fallen redwood tree that bridges the river that ive always wanted to build at, beaver dams right outside your gates! Also another spot towards red, across the river from swamp cave theres a big rock cliff thats raised up along the river, had a base there and loved it. Very close to swamp, redwoods, volcano and even (again) beaver dams just below you in that river bay. Also across from this towards redwoods in arguably the best fishing spot ever, that small deep pool along sandy part by swamp

Just broke 150,000 views! When we were at 100 pages we were just about 100000 views. Keeping it relative we likes that

About the same as our Theriz saddle, 10k hide 2k ingotz 6k fibre or something. Not bad, really At least we have options if we feel like switching to rexs

Just got on for a short one today, took a bred megatherium and went to the swamp cave on my frog for some paste. About half way through I tossed out the mega for dps support (wow im doing this from now on!) While i lopped up a few flies for paste, then mounted the Mega for the rest. I got unlucky with the last drop, as I hopped off I got spat on by a ceiling Artho, lucky I have lots of HP ans carry custom food. On the very last crate got an Ascendant Rex saddle bp! 105 arm!! Went home, threw the paste in the vaults and logged

The goal last night: Make a few theri saddles and that 2nd Tek Teleport. Started off with a metal run, then took the mammoth & theri out and slotcapped the mammoth. Got back and filled the wood vault, took my anky and teleported to blue, got more metal and obsidian. While the metal was cooking went on a huge hide run. Came back to the base with 40k hide and started sorting everything before i mindwiped. Turned on the replicator and made an extra cryofridge for breeding projects, about 40 cryoballs and a Tek teleporter! Got my ingots together and had enough for 3 saddles. Mindwipe, only one saddle came with good % i.e: 136 arm roughly 47% craft. Also made some spare flak, after a small hide run had enough for another theriz saddle and then some but didnt want to do another 2 metal runs so I crafted this asc spino saddle we got from swamp cave. Ridiculous thing..151 armour naturally like 19k hide 2k paste and 2k pearls. Got lucky and it came out 199.8 armour! I now have 4 saddled Boss theriz, with an extra saddle for my personal. After speccing back I finished off my boat about 95% , threw some turrets and for the first time used a keypad, great for turning on/off lights and turrets! I was bored after my boats maiden voyage so I grabbed my ridiculous sword santa gifted me and went out on foot. Made it to green ob and back, had a blast, thanks to my pump shotgun! I was walking through the Redwood daring any thylo to pounce me. Not a single one this time! Logged for the night. Might add something I probably forgot Need to go back to my list keeping

So it begins Tonight if I get on ill make a few more saddles. Forgot to add; Last night after I posted my story I fleshed out most of my boat to metal, nothing special but by accident figured out the old ceiling foundation extension trick while converting from Thatch to Metal. My next boat will be better designed with this in mind, the current one will work as a mobile taming pen / Gunship to clear out the rivers' extreme Ptera overpopulation. After that I combined all 60 element we had in dust form, then crafted up another Tek Gen for our water base teleporter, then a few Tek Bridges for giggles. Just one more teleporter to make, last I checked before I logged with the 3k ingots I farmed we still had enough poly and ingots to craft it. Just need more element! Getting close to bosses. I know we have our 16-19 Theriz, were missing roughly 12 ascendant saddles though Probably beta brood / monkey (maybe Alpha monkey too) next weekend, depending on how much we can farm this week

Its a lot better now, did a lot of downsizing and cryod lots. Once my boat is done and out of there itll help a lot too

Got on for awhile tonight. Started off breeding Megatherium to try and get my tamed stats together, turns out both my males were similar and had bad stats. Ended up combining the stats into a few females and gave up after about 12 megatheriums, imprinted 2 females to 100% and also hatched a few Theriz eggs and got 90% on them, I think we pretty much have our boss theriz sorted, minus a few replacements (weve gotten hp and melee muts since) but were talking +500hp +12% melee. Between a few mega breeder raises I went to the lava cave for redemption and revenge for @AngrySaltire. I brought a few building supplies with me and build a couple small bridges near artifact and over the 2 main trouble spots for later use. Got 4 artifacts and put one on display at base. Over the course of 3-4h I have been getting kicked in base going from breeding area to main house, each time exactly as its loading the house. Upon login id get kicked 3 times before logging in. I decided it was probably the 7 artifacts we had on display, I took them down and the crashes got better. Still crashed (but loaded in 1st try) after, so I went on a cryo binge and sorted most of our breeders, tames etc in the fridges. After I went and demolished most of the redwoods treehouse section across the river, instead opting for a smaller gated area just for safe bridge access, we can get way more sap from Gacha, and this will help me expand our base without running into further crash problems. I really need an Xbox 1X..

We had some on official a bit after scorched released so I would assume so out of the scorched caves. Maybe the cave on Rag has scorched loot?! Ill do a bit of googling

If I got time this weekend want me to mindwipe and craft some BPs for you? (You can also do this, got 2 wipes in fridge specifically for this) Most of flak and such are darn cheap, only pain will be a longneck and or pump. Do desert cloth improved BPs drop in Ragnarok desert drops? I know you love that stuff, might be worth hunting a few bps.

Last night only got on for an hour or two. Been needing Megatherium for Brood soon so I hopped over to Rag and went Mega hunting. I went all over the ice mountains, through psudo-redwoods and didnt see a single one! I usually have to refrain myself cause I see so many. Dropped down to get a Raptorclaus drop and right beside me, 140 green megatherium female. Got it tamed up and it popped with decent hp and melee (5.6k 349 respectivley) Went out looking again, searched for 45 mins or so, found a female Roo, knocked that out for the island.. double imprints here we come! Finally stumbled across a Megatherium.. 140 male! The only two I saw that day.. both 140 mate boosted. Gotta love Rag sometimes Uploaded them then went to bed. Another days' project to combine stats and hopefully work out the ugly green!

Thats okay, swamp cave will yield more There's that 308% in my vault u can have back Didnt do a whole lot yesterday. Spent quite a few hours just feeding gacha, collecting Obsidian from them and crafting poly. Made over 2500 yesterday and 1300 the night before. After our swamp cave venture I logged for a few hours. When I got on later I threw out Saltire's cryo'd yuty and let them grow up while I ran to carno island to get the artifact. Used the teleporter to get there, what a nightmare in the cave. It was easy enough but I kept falling off trying to get back up, cryod the Bary and just ran it. When I teleported back (i didnt know you can use your personal teleport to teleport to public ones!) I got DC'd entering the base. That saves me a load of teleporters and ill just have to make one for our water base Cryo'd the yuty, placed the artifacts (love the artifact deco @AngrySaltire) then went to bed. Next time I play I need to get a tek genny and teleport for our water base going. Also looks like ill run swamp cave a bunch more, used over 7k paste the last day! Also need toget some more pump shottys

I have a Bary egg in the fridge and plenty of crafted gear to help ya, rip that 500 dmg shotgun

Started the morning off making some eggs for later and just puttering around the base. Went for a few stone runs, etc. When saltire logged in I started breeding carnos and getting more imprinted Theriz for the bosses going. Grabbed one of his reject Yuty and put some imprints on it incase I need to ride it for the bosses. Spent awhile imprinting the Theriz, yuty and the carno i settled with after getting a breeding pair. I missed my last imprint on it by seconds, same with 3/4 of my theriz! Damn they add up We went to the swamp cave. Ive been through there lots with different mounts, on foot etc. I found the carnos to be the easiest defence-wise.. dont need to worry about Artho pretty much at all. They seem weak but have great hp for their size. We each brought 3 Hyena and that was a nightmare. Last room i got dc'd and took two login attempts to get back. We went back, made some stuff around the base and then he logged. When saltire left I went and grabbed some wyvern milk from Rag and popped my 180 egf on the island I had ready. Came out pure albino with a small event green stripe on the belly My first event wyvern and its even a 180! (Poison though ) After it raised up I went for a big metal run then logged off for awhile. Got back on later and did another big metal run, farmed over 6k ingots total, then went to hit up the swamp cave again, this time with a frog for paste. Only briouggt 2 hyena in with me to facetank artho.. way better than 3. Went back and went to mine obsidian when I remembered I have 3x obsidian gacha.. load em up with 4k stone each and went semi afk. Each time I came back to 30 crystals, roughly 1000 obsidian. Used 3000 / 4500 of the paste i farmed making polymer. Went for a few alpha runs to get a little bit of element dust then crafted up and placed my first Tek Teleporter ever Logged off for the night, today I might make the other teleporter, not sure yet! Edit: Forgot to mention; got another mutation on the theriz line while hatching old eggs for my wyvern to kill.. got a health mutation! Got them mostly combined into one solid tame but ill have to finish that today

Do kill runs of the river. Kill one whole spot, leave render, come back voila. New crabs, my base was infront of blue waterfall fertile area and I would do that 10x a day to get all my crabs Sounds nice! Ill have to come check it out some time soon

Decided to combine the last two days since I didnt do to much today compared to the others. Yesterday I started with some breeding. I had those two mammoths and a doed to breed up. I love having imprinted farmer dinos, one of my small joys. Combined the doed and afted a few babies got a decent combined male. The mammoths not so much.. ill try again anothet time didnt combine many stats but just imprinted one anyways. Went out and slot capped the mammoth almost right after it was born. Did a few more runs, stone, metal, stone again for Gachas. Was only a few crystal short so turned on the crystal gacha and oh boy.. each crystal is around 50 crystal! Crafted up the Tek behemoth gate i meant to place, took out a few alphas so I also made a few random pieces to cover my tek gens..ran out of pearls. Did a long run on my crab. I was bored so went out looking for an oviraptor and ended up waaay over on the other side of the map. I tell you, a movement speed crab is great. Found an oviraptor right outside my gates as I got home (lol) then started breeding Gacha. Ive never tried it before so I tested a few methods. I needed to keep them rendered so I started hatching eggs from a melee mutation I got on my theriz while hatching eggs to kill for exp the other day. Combined them after about 20 eggs and out of 6 gacha popped I killed 3, then got 2x obsidian and a black pearl gacha. Still no elusive Element Dust.. Tamed a 135 carno outside my base and made some eggs. Premade a bunch of metal pieces for my soon-to-be motor boat and logged off. This morning I just puttered around the base until @AngrySaltire logged in. He was heading out on his Giga, I spotted a Titan near our base so I asked him if he wanted to kill it on our Gigas? The answer was "of course!" So he took off first while i grabbed my mateboosted Gigas. When we arrived and downed it, we glanced over and not one render block away... another Titan! We wrecked the first one, 3 gigas (two imprinted with good saddles) and the second one enraged my mateboost follow Giga. After it died I went and jumped off Obsidian mtn with my gigas on follow (glidesuit ftw) When I arrived at the base Saltire called out ANOTHER Titan just on the other side of where we killed the two!! He dragged it near our base while I grabbed my Giga and met him in the river. After all that I just fed the gachas while making food and stuff IRL, placed some foundations on my boat then logged off. I might get on later but I have to work tomorrow. Over 3 weeks being off and first day back, phew. Im ARK'd out from these last few weeks! Ill need to take it easy, ive purposfully left a few small projects I can do when I get some time here and there during my week at work.

Hah! Wrong again d1nk. Yesterday was not the chill relaxing day I had planned. Started off the morning raising some Hyena from a kidnapped pair from Saltire. Got two males and a fem. After that I bred up our ankies and hatched a bunch of eggs, managed to combine the stats into two partners then imprinted a few. Between this ive been farming loads of hide with a chainsaw (about 30-40k) and a few metal runs. I premade 9 mindwipes and started to prep for my big crafting venture. I plan to make a set of my asc flak, two asc theri saddles (19k hide alone ) and a whack of other blueprints. Started gathering more metal and saw the polymer build up, figured "hey i could use another tek trough.." and thus it begins. Went on more metal runs and inbetween I kept heading out with the chainsaw. Hopped over to Ext to do a quick element run and transfer over some crystal. A few runs later got back onto Island and crafted up 2x tek trough and 1x tek genny. Putting a tek trough in breeding area on a sep genny and fixing a trough location. After those were built I took a gander and calculated my materials, still short about 3000 ingots to make what i want, another metal run! Hopped over to rag while the metal smelted, did a few drop runs and made some kibble. Downed two mammoths, 145 m and a 145 f then went out for more drop runs. Popped back over to the island, slot capped my argy with everything, did a final hide run and mindwiped to start the crafting. Lots of my stuff got high 30-40% crafting bonus except the saddles >< Did another metal run and popped back to rag to run some more drops ans go hunt for a new wyvern egg. In total got: a jm meatpack bp, a few useful lower saddle bps, asc thylo bp and an asc yuty saddle bp Popped into the scar and spent 2 hours killing wyvernedand getting eggs, only got poisons. A 180 poison though, ill pop by again today.

I think my body is in 10-11 min intervals now. Spent all day raising and farming! Started off hatching some frogs, I knew they went a litte wild but I wasnt prepared for them. I built a small lean-to for them in the water and set them breeding via dino leash, all went good until the baby went buck wild once it hatched. Took me 10 mins to find the baby and ended up getting a low imprint %. Bred Saltire's Basil and decided to imprint a basil too. Hatched a few other frogs in my newly designed underwater box..stupid babies. The basil ended on 86 or 87% then I took it on its first ocean voyage. Returned home to see Salite cramming some.meat in the baby gigas butts, we worked on a build in base then after he logged I took over shift. Ended up with the gigas at 92%, literally sat there and watched me miss the last imprint by mere seconds.. After the gigas were raised I went out for a pelt run on my lightning wyvern, got myself killed twice (dumb mistakes.. jump off while lightning is going ><) Along the way I saw a titan and an explorer note and figure.. why not? 20 minutes later theres a dead titan at my feet, luckily had a chainsaw on me and got over 7k hide from the beast! Limped back home and premade some pieces to add onto our swamp cave base, im bringing a frog with me there and I plan to breed two Hyeanadon from Saltire to bring with my frog in for paste runs. So that leaves us almost no room in our outpost. Got that all done up and even added a small taming pen / courtyard thingy in it, neat! We can now park the fliers above and go downstairs to get our tames for the cave. I plan to use it as my main source of paste and chitin so I wanted a decent outpost. Jumped on my frog and went on into the swamp cave, I brought my asc pump action shotgun this time and im VERY glad I did. I ended up blasting all the centipedes. Got pegged twice but walked out with 9k chitin and 8k paste plus an artifact and some loot (best being a 425 dmg pump action premade) On the way out two Artho were blocking the path out, already down to my primitive tank I tried to run past and got sniped.. made it out of the cave with 10hp to spare. Went back and made up a bunch of poly and started gathering all my crafting mats. I plan to mindwipe and have enough mats to make two Asc theriz saddles, full set of asc flak, various weapons and such. Ill make a few mindwipes for later. Went for a big metal run then logged off for the night. Today is crafting day, I only plan to raise a few hyena and thats it. Going to do some building and hopefully just relax and enjoy what ive made so far. Been far too focused on grinding this last week! D1NK out;

Another one of those nights where Ark participates with you instead of against you! Been refreshing. Started out on The Island, woke up to a suprise 150 tames theriz with higher HP than ours, so I got to breeding straight away. After 20 or so hatches got two sets of combined sets, one red black and white for me and blue red white for Saltire. Hatch level on Theriz now 262. After that we went on a small cave expedition then farmed up a bunch of materials. I was able to turn most of the chitin to paste and get an industrial grinder crafted and placed. Made a few more vaults then went to Ragnarok. I brought over a few blueprints, some fur, flak set, random saddles and such and went yet again for a big paste / obsidian run. While at obsidian island I made a small taming pen and inbetween runs on the Anky tamed up three frogs. A 145 male, 130 male and 130 female. Ill get to breeding them tomorrow for easy paste in the swamp cave. Went back to base and crafted up over 1k hard poly, then hopped to Extinction breifly. While over there I gathered some element dust and a few random tames. Tranferred it all back to the island and gathered everything together for a Tek Replicator. Flew to an Obelisk and got that made up between Theriz imprints & a Rock Drake. Starting my boss army now we have decent Theriz base. Did another base wall expansion, chocked out about 10 behemoth gates worth of room, bred some shinehorns and now im about to log out. Tomorrow ill be breeding some frogs a few Basil~ and who knows what else

Yeah just an apprentice one, decent for its cost. Im sure DJ has an asc bp

Productive night on the servers. Started out just messing around on The Island for a bit. Been wanting to organize my 'in use' dinos better so they arent all over the place, so I attempted a low load baring structure to not add too much render to my base.. half way through I demo'd it and rebuilt then half way through that just stopped. I figure ill just park them in a certain area to help.. left the U shaped unfinished frame for now. Went on a metal and obsidian run at Obsidian mtn, its nice being near all major spots (besides blue obelisk) After I crafted up what poly I could, made a few extra vaults, some personal vaults and such then went over to Ragnarok. Gathered a bunch of paste, made more poly and crafted an industrial cooker, after a short visit to Extinction crafted two more Tek Troughs and a cryofridge for the island. Transferred over a few snails, ovis and some blueprints (check the blueprints @AngrySaltire you will be pleased) then made a small owl collection doohickey and went to bed. Tomorrow's plans are to make an Indistrial Grinder and possibly Tek Replicator for the island, provided I can farm up enough poly element and other mats.

Didnt do too much today. Was working on borrowed time but got more than I figured so didnt plan anything. Did a few metal runs, with redwood mountain so close its easy to hop over there with an Argy and Anky for a quick metal run. A bit more running around than Ragnarok but it feels more...real? I dont know. Bred up a few more theriz and made some blueprints ive been meaning to craft. Have a few really nice flak bps and other goodies from Santa, including two ridiculous bps.. a 1200 dura flak chest and a 1250 dura 414dmg crossbow, so I made a set for me and a set for Saltire. Got one theriz to 80% the rest a few % on and a few without. The rejects will get thrown into a murder group to roam the island until I find a use for them / they die / I kill them. Did a few more base things, made some more vaults and got an outpost outside swamp cave put down. Went for a quick run on my Bary, while pretty easy (and dimorphodon on the shoulder helps SO much..) i got my set shredded by a glitchy ceiling Artho, didnt have an extra set of boots so turned around and ill complete it anothet day. Logged off in the sleeping pod, headed out for some dinner and possibly some drinks. Have a great new years all!

Last night my big plan was to finish my interiror base expansion. I didnt realize I was so close, went for a small crystal run, then some dams after. Got my back room completed.. now to fill it! Ive been dreading this but I jumped on it anyways. I needed to go to Ragnarok to farm up my industrial items.. went right to work. Out for a big obsidian run, got some metal whilist on Obsidian island, more than I figured.. about 4k ingots. Got back and crafted up a bunch of poly and let the metal smelt as I hope over to Extinction for some mass electronics and other goodies im bringing over. Grabbed all my kibbles, all my good blueprints and my good gachas then brought em to the island. Back onto Ragnarok to craft up an industrial forge, chem bench and cryofridge. All thats left now is the cooker, grinder and replicator Brough over a bunch of behemoth gates and started building another expansion to my base walls. Bumped out the walls about 4x3 behemoth for a breeding pen. Slapped down a metal cliff platform to filll in some gaps and make the ground more even, made a decent sized breeding pen then did a small bit of filling in, placed all my industrial items and filled out the AC on breeding pen while imprinting a few Theriz for general use / personal boss mount. Spent the last few hours doing material runs to build up my metal, still need to make about 10 vaults. Logging in now to start that, constant poly runs

Ride a yuty, pig is only to heal between bosses. Not much strat, send in rexs via whistle while riding yuty, fully buff rexs and occasionally whistle aggressive to kill spiders then back to whistle attack my target to get back on boss You will need a decent saddle, atleast 40 armour for beta/gamma brood and gamma/beta ape. Youll need rexs that hatch around 10k hp 400 melee optimally, lower will do. Imprint the rexs