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@yekrucifixion187 great weight and hp on those quetz!! My 145 tamed out with 7.5k hp and 1610? Weight. Im guessing the weight is pretty good (didnt check points) Awesome work man! Deer.. i was always an advocate but didjlnt know the points on their comparison of stats! Only got to play one day this week, was pretty uneventful. Been working towards a forge but been putting it off due to not wanting tk get burnt out, banged that out the other night. Burnt some charcoal and had enough poly and oil leftover for a few vaults. Made up some taming pens, Hatched 3 rex eggs, nothing special. Terribad hp (6k, 8.8k is my max) Got an imprint and went to bed.

You just described my exact sentiment with fliers! Every time whether its official or unofficial, SP or what else.. as soon as I get a quetz i get bored. Funny thing is, i put so much effort and planning into getting the quetz.. then get bored. For example, i tamed that 145 quetz.. couldnt help it! With griffins theyre sooo easy now. Now im thinking of building a platform (after farming desert drops for a premadr asc platform saddle ) and even just the thought puts that "meh .." train of thought in my head which leads to me getting bored. Every time. In Ab i had a blast running around on foot, even with gliders felt natural. As soon as I got a drake, got another and got bored. I know for sure my next play will be no fliers on the island. I think I have to tell myself no fliers, otherwise I feel like I get the same routine every time, farm, get quetz, ezmode. Problem is.. the game is totally different once you aquire one! So many possibilities open up for transport, taming and farming. I will need this if I plan to stick on my.path of getting to SP endgame! Meh i dont know. I did it to myself again. I have a problem where i get into my own head too much and do this. Help!

Awesome! I admire that for sure. I like my hlvl dinos too much.. to long as an official pve player where my tribe skoffed at anything lower than 120 (when 120 was max) and anything under 145 when it was max The playstyle does sound neat though. I always have a fleeting thought in the back of my head about how easy having all these high levels makes it..but also think about how i feel cheated taming a level 50 at engame haha.. who knows maybe ill do a lower level play, where i dont need to breed (my main focus.. always)

Quick question regarding low lvl dinos.. did you make sure to put difficulty to 1 and check max diff box? Love reading these, gives me my ark fix when i cant get on soon and also gives me ideas of what to do i cant help but put stipulations on myself when ai play and always like to see how other people set up their ark lives !

Great info man! I finally hit 80 and ventured out to Desert! Found all the drop locations and after accidetly blocking 3/4 (lol) i had it figured out. Ran drops for easily 8-10 hours every 45 mins. Got a premade asc quetz saddle Besides the drop runs got a bit of QoL work done at base. Got a dung beetle to get my farm up and running. Did some metal runs with my argy, built a small smelting facility ontop of canyons highest pillar. Kept doing metal runs between drop runs. I love farming ingots, its probably my favorite Ark passtime. Finally brought my griffin back from its desert home with loads of good stuff. For my next run ill turn down beacon loot a bit, 3x is a bit much, it rains Asc gear. ( cant believe i had it at 5 at the start! ) Didnt tame much today, but I did do something different to kill some time. Im working out the details for my next play, its going to be The Island with No Flyers. They include a slider bar for platform saddles now and being a huge paracer enthusiest (and their only problem being low structure limit) I wanted to test my 5x platform saddle limits. Hopped into creative mode and threw together the most ridiculous pacer saddle. I made it huge, completely boxed in the pacer and had every crafting station (including indy forge, chem, grill, 10x turrets etc) Thing was massive. I didnt know we could do this, it adds a lot of possiblilties to my SP Island play. After I was done testing, deleted all the structures and took off my my new quetz to grab the metal I smelted. Happy with my progress I logged for the night

Perfect! Ill hit those up today. Do i need to worry about the storms and such there like SE?

So far today some terrifying and good news. I was out on my lesser griffin getting drops and checking tames. Landed for a yellow near my base and a 145 giga came out from some trees, i tried to run but foolishly was out of stamina from traveling before and died, lost my first griffin! I went back and admin killed the giga out of spite. My first admin code kill lol. Was out looking for a dung beetle and came across a 145 quetz flying above volcano. Im only level 76 but I do have quite a few rex eggs, having 6 rexs from breeding now. I chased that sucker for a good while and got it knocked out in murdersnow lake. Made some rex kibble painstakingly in the cooking pot, got 3/4 of what I needed the rest will be mutton. Currently 50% tamed. Edit: Ive had two dashboards today, one made me lose a tame, the other made my quetz tame at 80% go back to 30% when i pumped narcs on him, had to go refarm 1000 narc berry and lost 4 kibble because rollback (idk wsaidits fine now, got more mutton itll only tame a few lvls lower. That being said im worried about my xbox's ability to keep ragnarok my main farming / taming / breeding map so im going to take preventative measures. I need a kibble farm but it will lagg me out and potentially cause more of these and worst, corrupt save. (Knock.on wood for me please!!) So im going to devise a "tame for kibble" system where i tame X dino (maybe has to be mate boosted?) And kill them.off in exchange for spawned eggs at an amount per the tamed level. Low amount say.. 5 eggs per lvl 150 or something to keep the grind & reduce lagg.. Edited out question, answred below. Thanks!

Remember if you hold a torch they run from you at night now ! I had a busy night! The wife is away at a hockey game this weekend (Cya later Swede brothers!) So I got the whole night to myself! I Started off by getting 100% imprint on my rex (praise RNGesus) now I have a good base breeder and a good meat runner. Stats need some work but im excited to get my own bloodlines going. Currently sitting at 8k hp 310 melee 1.9k stam As this was happeneing i farmed up the rest of my base, placed 5 fridges, more AC for breeding room. Tamed a level 90 anky for small metal runs at new base. After a few runs i realized its probably faster just to find a dedicated metal spawn and build an outpost.. tomorrow d1nk problems. Ive been hitting the ice cave drops pretty hard the last few days. Roughly once an hour and ive gotten loads of good stuff. Finally looted a pick blueprint, happened to be a nice Asc one too! Now I just need an axe bp! Theres roughly 5 possible red drops around my base, also hit those hoping for a rex saddle bp. I bred up another rex, knocked out a 150 paracer near base, mating pair for my 135 I tamed earlier. The rex got shafted on stats but I figure its just another body for the army. Paracer tamed out great, good hp and melee! Found a 150 mammoth, as im knocking it out dodging wolves in snow near my base, mustve accidently hit it an extra time, i didnt notice until i threw food in awhile later and didnt want to reknock out. (Came out 74%) Did a few more metal runs while it was taming. Got a few stegos for the start of an egg farm. Birthed a baby pacer, came out same stats as new tame but opposite gender, sweet! Realized ill need a kibble farm for imprints so thats my mission today. This base is really coming along, almost complete for the main buildings.. just need to flesh out the crafting stations more, get a farm together (need a dung beetle) and some finishing touches. Ive gone for function over aestetics this time, though I will try to atleast make it look good! Just logged on for the day today, getting some lifeblood into me (coffee) and im ready to get stuff done. Hoping for some good imprints on my baby Paracer

Last double post, this will have me caught up! After re-reading I realized two things. One, im a terrible writer and im glad I do labour for a living. Two, I forgot to add while travelling between my two bases I found a 150 argy, knocked it out with the arrows I had in the open. It was a huge battle to keep it safe where it was but eventually tamed out perfect Started off Thursday with a base in mind. Of course it never is *just* that! Jumped on my doed, brought my beaver over yesterday with my argy and headed out into the bush to mass produce a base. I spent a good 2 hours straight on doed/beaver using argy to ferry prebuilt dino gates, walls etc back to base. We havent gotten TLC2 yet on Xbox so I was suprised how efficient this was. I actually kept focus and at the end of it all I had 100 gates & doors, 150 walls and 45 foundations. I was going the lazy gate-wall route this time because I know this base will be big and its already pretty laggy for whatever reason near Green ob. I had a lot of time to play so I managed to get my entire permiter wall up, including 2 behemoth gates with another behemoth gate on my 15x16 breeding / crafting facility. I ended up just putting a roof on the crafting portion and leaving the breeding pen open to the air. Not too worried about threats, there might be a Giga spawn (very rare) but the gates will stop em. There is a titan spawn, I usually just lead them away though. Got all my crafting stations down, I was smart this time and built my genny in my foundations whilist framing so I was able to run cable perfectly straight & hidden in foundations. Woohoo! Farmed up another fridge, 2x ac and a ton of storage. I wanted to do some taming now, I set off on my rex (now saddled) for a killathon around green to try and get a good level male rex spawn. Spent a good hour just killing before i got my first intresting dino, 120 female rex. What the heck. Knock it out away from the spawns and let it starve with spikes around it as Im killing away. Almost another hour passes, my rex is tamed and im still killing. I head back to base to drop hide off and possibly hop off and whuddya know.. Ark has other plans. I spot a real nice coloured Rex, red spine, white body, red-orange belly, scope it and its a 140 male! Hes close to my base so I drag it to my gates and pin it with more gates against mine. Knock it out, tames up with no problems. Low hp, high stam, decent melee. I threw them together and made a couple eggs which ive hatched and just finished babies before bed. I just got home (irl) just hopping on now to get some imprints, start of my weekend so much more interesting things to come later!

Hah ! Thats awesome. Id love to see some interrior pics! Almost caught up on my current progress! After taming that rex, I saw the saddle was 74 now. Being 68? I think i decided to head home and grind some exp, maybe get a bronto to speed up narc production. As im flying out of green ob valley I spot a 145 griffin! Get back to my taming pen, grab my ptera and drag the griffin back to my pen, get it knocked out. (This pen is seriously the easiest taming pen ive made, griffin AI doesnt like pillars and they get trapped easily ) As its taking its forced nap, i decide to fly around and take in the sights. I spot a 135 paracer by green ob, cant build near obelisk T_T so I knock it out old fashioned way. Throw berries in it and head back to griffin. Hes almost tamed up, stash my first griffin and hop on my new one to level it up. A few bronto and rexs later hes already better than my old one Paracer is tamed up, I walk my rex to green ob on follow, throw paracer and rex in cloud to download closer to my base from a drop. Found a MC paracer saddle platform on the way home and found out you cant download/upload from drops in SP >< ..oh well! I head back home, no timer on SP so i rest easy. Found a 150 bronto walking near a cliff by my base, craft up a bunch more arrows, take my new MC crossbow out and park on a cliff to shoot the bronto. It goes down pretty easily, even walked close to my base! Now the long wait.. make a saddle while im waiting. Get that sucker tamed up, do a big berry run and continue my buisness. Im starting to accumulate a few big tames and decide i should expand my base a bit. Mated my sabers and went off expanding my base a bit. Saber baby came out pretty meh.. didnt bother imprinting more than once. (50% isnt bad) As im expanding I get a gut feeling that this place isnt going to work for my ever expanding tame count. I decide to head back to green ob, scout a new rex and look at a base spot near green ob. I know thats the biggest, mosy flat spot on Rag and I decide I should be close to an Obelisk for future transfers to the Island. I caved and started planning my green ob base. I didnt want to be here, as I was at Lake Vogues on my last private server. Oh well! I wont be spending too much time on Rag except to breed rexs for Island anyways. Frame out a decent 15x12 hatching pen, throw 120 fences down and head off to look for a doed for here, sick of hand harvesting after 120 fence foundations and roughly 50 foundations. Found a badly injured 130 doed (is there a tame level theme or what??) Throw a stone box around it and let it heal up as I fight off multiple rexs and such. I was tired, was getting close to midnight and I work at 630am. Head to bed, ill tame that doed Thursday after work (yes, im still behind a day haha)

Sorry for the double post, I decided to record all of this after over a week of playing so trying to throw it all down while at work, pesky boss keeps interrupting me I managed to get my Ptera, Bear and Horse to my new base spot. Lots of sabers around but theyre made quick work of with my Asc. Pike I got from a yellow ring drop! I had drops turned up tp 4.0 and have since turned them down to 2.5, I didnt want to find Asc. Stuff all over the place (but kept the pike because its so good ) Managed to get up a wall, gate and a small taming pen to double as an Argy pit and drop tame spot. Kited some level 20 argy around my base into it, made up a saddle and went off searching for a beaver to throw in there. After a long fight with some beavers (i just wanted free paste ) I found a level 100, good enough for now.. got it up in the pen and tamed out decently with berries. Continued making my base a bit more fortified, knocked out some low level doed and made up a behemoth gate, logged out for the night happy with the progress I made! The next day I logged on with a plan in mind. I was going to expand my base, get some metal going and get an Anky tamed up. I found a 140 Anky just down the hill, knocked it out after a loooong chase trying to bring it up closer to my base. I just throw spikes around it and tame it in the open. Grab my Argy and do a fly around while im waiting for the tame, spot a 150 female Saber and a 130 male, tame them 1 by 1 while my Anky tames. I throw all my new tames in my expanded base and head out my front gate for some metal. Few hundred ingots later, after dinner I get to work making up a fab, genny fridge and ac. Feels good to be into electrical age again! Been stocking up on jerky, made a grill and cooked a few stacks of mutton, threw in my new fridge. Ran out again for a quick metal run, made some more arrows and some tranqs. I gathered some taming mats and decided I should at least look for a Rex to get my line started. Head off to my griffin outpost, saw a 130 rex there the other night. My griffin was a nice 130 tame, tamed with raw meat so it lost quite a few levels and im feeling it with low stam. Found that 130 rex, got it knocked out after almost dying to the roar making me poop haha. Got it tamed up, now its a long walk back so i threw it in my griffin pen's walls. It really sucks that rex cant fit through dino gates anymore! I decide ill throw it in obby and download closer to base. Was fed up with my griffin and set out to find a better one around. Killed a few around and nothing over 100 was spawning. Logged off for the night decided id stay near green for easy taming next time ai get on

Another day goes by, I spent most of my time looking for a base spot and also was looking for a nice sturdy tame. After flying around highlands I see a 150 bear on redwood sands and build a trap to try and knock it out. Luckily I put a bed, the bear almost killed my Griff and did kill me twice. Got that sucker penned and knocked out. Grabbed some raw mutton and it tamed out quite nice. I decided upon this mountaintop near Beaver Paradise (Titan's Rise) and set up camp. I just built a small shack, bed etc until I can go grab my horse, bear and ptera. I log off for the night to make the migration tomorrow

I've started again, couldn't stay away for too long! This time around ive decided to do Single Player (inspired by Diablo 2) and come here to write about it! I tend to stray from my plans or get bored on SP plays so I figure if I record some key parts it will keep my intrests up! For this go ive decided to do a full ascension experience. Playing through story on Island-SE-Ab, beating the bosses and decking out a base in Tek. This will be a long, multi-tiered journey and I plan to make it pretty low farming rates (2x harvest, 1.5x xp, 4x Tame) while breeding is boosted to compensate for non persistant world and sporadic playtimes. I also have a slight boost to per point invested in Weight for dinos and player. (1.5) Now lets start! I decided I would start in Ragnarok without any stipulations besides getting a good crew together to eventually bring over to Island and do bosses. Ive been at it now for a few weeks, ill stuff all the starting stuff into a small paraphrase. I started out in Highlands with a vigor. I've been waiting all week to start up, only having mainly weekends to play. I have a game plan in mind, get a horse. Get a ptera, saddled. Build a trap, get a Griffin. I did the usual thatch hut, berries etc. As i was stimbling around scanning for that one Giga that spawns there I stumbled upon Rockcarrot and took off to find a horse. I saw a few low levels, I had 72 carrots so I was going to look for something decent. After the second ridge, my wives' friend was watching, I was explaining the game and how I was looking for a Horse. As im texting and walking she screams "Unicorn!" and I scramble and get to it. Only a level 20, oh well! Tamed it up, took off around on my newfound glory. As im slumming around I find a 130 horse, jump off my Unicorn and hop on the 130. Im bucking around mid tame and my.unicorn gets jumped by spiders and snakes, she dies.. not even named! I end up getting smacked a few times, losing some % but taming the horse. Great starter mount for a level 27! I decide im not going to comit to a base yet and set up a small outpost in the waterfall cave in highlands. Tamed a 130 Trike, leveled up a bit. Tamed a 145 pteradon with some slaughtered sheep meat and parked it in my cave until I can make a saddle for it. Finally able to make my saddle i take off to the skies to find a new (and hopefully perm.) base location as I make my way to Green ob to get a Griff. I make a small but efficient trap, a side hut to store my Ptera and go searching for a decent griffin. Theres 3 spawns around, 50, 90... I almost brought it back but decided to keep looking. Near the bridge, 130! I seem to be on a 130 trend but ill.take it! I got the sucker in the trap and after a long proccess and a few crossbows later I got it knocked out. I only had a few mutton left and set out to get some prime. Nearly killing my ptera a few times I decide to just raw meat the rest and watch a movie while it tames up. It came out at some lower %, 75 or something but a huge boost for me regardless. I left my trusty ptera there and flew off with my griffin to search the lands for a suitable (and nice) spot.

I remember when you got him! (If its the same one earlier on your past server) rip smaug. You will rest upon gold mounds in ark heaven!

After my quetz arrives at base I get a party invite, its the guy who helped me tame my quetz. Theres another level 45 and he really wants his own quetz! .. having just arrived at my base, check a few imprints and hop back on tapajara to head back.. get back, down his quetz (shocking darts ftw ) get it tamed up, mutton is a wonderful thing ! As soon as it tames up, another quetz spawns above us, level 60. I have everything needed to tame on me,so we fly his quetz back to his base so i can make a saddle for him later (not 97 yet.. but 96 from running swamp cave like a crazy person) He drives my tapa and we down the 60 for me! Get it tamed up (had sound on this time, dilo is with the new taming sounds? Haha freaked me out.) Fly back to base. Stay in party with the guy and mentioned how i need to build a community tavern for the server. He offered to help! Log on my admin character and we head off to 5050 to build it (server agreed on this location. Fine with me) After 4 hours of building with admin commands its up. Were pretty happy with it, had to be stone because.. well.. lots of carnos out here ! While were there the guy sees a 140 rex, i help him knock it out and it stands up with 385 base melee!! Great starting point for boss rexs! He kindly gives me an egg, and im off to incubate it! Its now around 5am, been on all night now. Hatched my rex, melee carried but hp is atrocious.. oh well. Free rex! I had it in my mind that i should hatch a quetz from my new mating low level pair.. why not? Popped an egg down as i was hand feeding my rex, its almost done so i pop it. Nothing special, low level as expected. Do the small hand feed (only 4h with boost ) but in my energy drink addled ark night realize.. its 8am!! Time for sleep. Poor d1nk, you did it to yourself again. The next day consisted of more breeds, imprints, nothing noteworthy. Was still tired from my late night so just puttered around the house, its now getting nice out so went out enjoyed the sun!

Long time reader of this first time poster! I figure since i run a private server and not currently into bosses right now itd be a more enteraining read than my solo pve ventures which included almost every day; "Farm metal, make saddles, make ammo, kill boss" Maybe this will make me have some more intrest in ark! Some background: Almost 2 months ago bought anothet xbox with intentions of making a server for me, my roomate and my other RL friend who doesnt play ark anymore but would on my own server.. so fast forward 2 months of noobishness (was fun!) I ended up inviting a few tribes including a big tribe of 10 and a few smaller tribes. Just what we needed for the server, been a lot more fun! Right now im all over the place in my usual fashion, taming, breeding, building slowly working my way to endgame solo again. I have been spending the last few weeks messing around without any real goal or direction except to make it endgame soonish. This first post will be all over the place! Forewarned. Friday night after a long week of work finally got on ark My first goal in mind: get more ankys going! Im set up near my two friends by carno island, dedicated servers spawns are a bit nuts.. so some times theres upwards of 30+ ankylo near my base.. grabbed a few high levels! (2x 140 F and a 140 male) two of them came out at 345 melee, perfect for a first breeding pair! Also quite weird that two came out with the same melee.. but hey, i dont mind Got them tamed up one by one and got right to breeding. Ive been working on dimorphs to help my solo swamp cave runs be a bit easier, popped a few eggs and put the anky eggs down to incubate. What do you know? Threw down 3 anky eggs, 3x dimo eggs and ark ate all but two eggs!! (One ank one dimo egg left.. randomly vanished as i dropped them!) Im currently 4x incubate, 4x breed so it goes a little faster. Pop out the dimorph egg, my first mutation! Cyan blue wing tips with all my good stats combined! Wewt. Anky egg pops, pretty much what i excpected for a first breed anky. Great melee, carried most stats so thats a bonus. Make some dinner during hand feeds. Once theyre good and juvi, head out on a scouting mission. My roomie is looking for allos so i figured id scout around for tames. Get bored and dont see much interesting, except (and i counted) 23 ankys in one group!! .. time for a dino wipe lol. Wipe it and one of the tribes calls out a 45 quetz, perfect! Been wanting to replace my noobie inpromptu tame of my 20! Head off on my tapejara and one of the tribes offers to help (im solo) big relief! Throw the grapple hooks away haha. Get the sucker down. Tames out nothing special. Fly back to base (red ob to carno island..jam the joystick and have a few smokes lol) Speaking of smokes, been outside typing this for way longer than i should be on a quick smoke break from work.. boss is probably pissed haha. More later! Dont mind my skatter brained typing style.. never was good like @Cymas at typing out stories haha.

This isnt a flier balance complaint thread. If you cant handle the rebalance then silently log off.

Now if only it works as in video ill be happy

This. Maybe they could give a 5 or 10 minute pre warning instead ? Good job WC, love your product

+1 Is there a manual input one we could use for a smart phone ? Input stats at tame,library them and get bred stats before we commit to breed?