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Xbox Crystal Isles - Server Phew sorry for the cluster cluck of a weekend write up. Between my 60-80hr work weeks I'm just too scattered, going to start writing down my occurances again like I used to to formulate better write ups lol Sunday - Woke up, threw out my cryos and imprinted my new blood wyverns. I'm not sure what good stats are considered with the new max level, but they seemed pretty good so I bred them together got 3-4 good babies (and some free exp :D) and imprinted them, too. Mostly just backup / future boss dinos. I do like the colour patterns so ill see myself raising a bunch more for fun. Did a remodel of my breeding barn again, raising just three wyverns plus my 3 raised ones I had no room already to walk or anything, I hate having to keep my base lifeless for the sake of having room so it comes again - time to expand. This will be my third expansion in a short time. Hopefully the last. Besides raising the wyverns, I did more of my usual. When in doubt? Grind it out. My go-to if I'm bored is the same - metal run, stone run, wood / thatch then beaver dams. Worked well, built a bunch more cryopods and thanks to my wyvern reject babies got to level 88 for cryofridge finally Monday - Didn't get on long, wife was a little peeved I spent most the weekend gaming so we hung out a bit and did a few small renovations irl. Only got on for like 30 minutes to quickly make a few cryofridges and a whack of cryopods at a drop. Not sure my plan if I get on today - we will see! Probably go place some cryofridges at my bases and work towards my newest expansion. This time I plan to double my base yards' footprint and make spots to park wyverns without their damn tails in the way. I know i could just cryopod most stuff but it just looks so damn empty. Looking forward to the new event colours. (God damnit auto correct yes I want a u in colour, as its spelt the whole world over) d1nk, out.

Xbox Crystal Isles- Server Today was the day! I built myself a chem bench, more cryopods, a tonne of bullets and took my metal pre-made base and loaded it up to my wyvern. ...what's that server buddy? You want to give me level 400 giga eggs..?? Okay! ..nevermind. No wyverns today (until later) - Spent most of Saturday evening imprinting my new gigas, decided to spend my between imprint timers well and farmed more materials, pre-made more base bits and bred some more of my own mammals. Fast forward quite a few hours - its late Saturday night...now is rhe time! I rush over to the wyvern hive, spend awhile trying to find the perfect spot and voila, lay down my turrets, head out on one of my new purpose bred ptera to check some eggs out. Until this point I've been going in blind, just knowing there are eggs there..but not where. Didnt take long on my ptera to find some, grabbed one and took off flying to my turrets. .. pteras are slow. Barely survived. I had one of my new gigas on a leash beside my turrets, he did wonders. Took out my wyvern and went back on that. Max level 300 wild here so nabbed a few decent eggs including a 400 blood and 390 blood. Went back home to hatch them, hatched a male and female. Perfect. Cryod them and set up for breeding Sunday.

In Valhalla, Oden waits

Xbox Crystal Isles - server Very busy weekend. I should have done this in two installments, got a lot of time this weekend to get progressed. Had three main goals this weekend: Get a turret tower set up for stealing wyvern eggs, make some industrial progress and get a SE bass set up for taming / an outpost if I'm away from base. Last time I finally placed my industrial forge. Used the crap out of it this weekend. Since I already had walls and a small base set up I wanted to flesh it out fully instead of having a half shell like I usually do. I did just that. After a few hours farming at my base came and set up a wicked griffin pen, some other base stuff and found a 290 griffin to lure to my trap. Oh boy. This guy was a PAIN to knock out. I only had my crossbow, almost killed it many times. Took over an hour to knock out between it almost dying and escaping some how lol. Finally got it tamed, went for a fly. Took everything back to my base and did a lot more building. I'm getting a little mixed up on order but spent awhile collecting, building and while I was out - taming high level pteras for wyvern extras. Got a few imprinted back ups, made a few turrets, some metal base pieces and all the extras for my SE base (fridges, AC, etc) went and set up a bit. Got side tracked on a CP run, tamed a mate beaver, a mate Mammoth and popped some babies for imprinted farming tames. Spent a lot more time than I planned collecting materials, going to and from base trying to gather all I needed and placing it all to make it look decent. That was Friday night, ill post my other nights on my lunch break

Things like that is why I miss official

Its only been one day haha. Once new content gets released (teasers) it will be active again, like every update

Xbox Crystal Isles, Server When I first logged on I wanted to try and snag a mate for my high level tropical wyvern, bed hopped to my outpost I had near green ob. Flew around awhile, didn't spot any high levels (most low levels like 40-50) then checked out the landscape, found an alpha leeds trapped in some low pool.. easy kill even for my disposable ptera. Arrr I'm a captain now matey. Went back home and spent the better part of the night farming / building / going on metal / cp runs working towards that first indy forge. I'll spare the details, in short redid some of my base and got all the metal needed for forge + possible grinder if I have the crystal (oddly enough having a hard time getting loads of crystal besides flying node to node the whole map) Was sick of sitting around waiting for metal to smelt so I decided I wanted to tame some Thyla / other creatures south so I made an outpost. Plan is to make a small base other side of the map to tame at, also make a public taming pen because.... why not. Took a bunch of pre-made stone ive been slowly building up, flew due south to the SE area. After a long fly, I settled on an area I saw a thyla and some griffins, neat. Before I set down anything I flew around. I'm flying and see an alpha heir .. scary ! As I keep a wide birth I see some turret tower... why? As I land near it to get some stam...I realize why. I guess I'm in heir territory and get jumped by 3 wyverns. Eeeek! A few minutes of dodging ensue and I finally make it away mostly unscathed. I guess the server shut down as I was mid flight, booted back up to a few minutes prior (? Might have just been bad memory) luckily I wasn't being chased any more. Set up a perimeter wall, a rough shack and cryod my wyvern went to sleep for the night. Today ill build a nifty taming pen good for drop tames, fly tames and griffins. Excited to hopefully tame a high level thyla / griffin tonight!

Maybe its an enforcer type? Defence unit

You weren't around in Alpha / Early beta. It can get much worse

Theyre max level 300. I'm not sure the difficulty #, I have a lovely admin to do all that.. I just play the server I would guess 10 difficulty if 5x is 150 (console) Makes for a really hard start, even just tranqing out a 270 spino with a 200% crossbow took over 60 tranqs lol. Fun times.

Well, day of highs and lows. Finished my build, happy with it. Did a good amount of decorating too, which is unusual of me. I think a bit of Saltire rubbed off on me. After building I went for a fly to find some more high ankies for my line. Right off the bat, 270 okay. Flying around to see more after it knocks out, 290 snow owl! I've been wanting one. Went back to base, grabbed a pre-made taming pen and went to lay it down. As I got there, 290 anky! Ok. Bring this back to second taming pen first, throw it in, tranq, land back in base on my wyvern to quickly help the wife, came back outside after being afk....wyvern is gone. Searched all over for it no luck. Ugh my heart. Loved that thing. Oh well. Fly over to that snow owl, trap it, start tranqing, as it starts to run.."You have killed a snow owl 290" ......F. mustve been low hp didnt notice. Flew back to base, parked argy (made sure) then logged off lol. Today ill look more for my wyvern but I've heard horror stories from others on the cluster about this, probably going to tame a new one.

Crystal Isles- Server Not much happened in the server that was exciting yesterday. Besides a friend gifting me a cryofridge and the same server mate leaving a vault unlocked of crappy blueprints (for him - great for me) I didnt so much but build. Worked on my new breeding pen, I'm pretty happy with it. Also decided to redo my base. Spent the time to properly plumb and wire both bases. That was a huge source of grief for me..knowing I didn't properly wire my first base. Now it's done and even expanded upon it and made a proper crafting area worth my later base. Other than that, nothing. Productive day none the less! D1nk out

Xbox Crystal Isles- Server Not much to report today. Been working a lot lately and didn't feel like doing anything crazy in ARK today. I have to remember to pace myself or ill end up in the eventual boredom loop of feeding and maintaining. Dont want that! Puttered around my base while popping anky eggs to hatch. Gathered 10 eggs to hatch at once and popped em all down while doing some touch ups on base. Finally got all my stats to combine into a m/f copy of each other, great. Next project is to add my melee mutation I had and aside from taming others for stats im not going to work on the line much. Ive done Anky lines a million times and would like get a nice niche line to work on. That being said nobody has any good Thyla lines around the server so ill be taming a few of those soon. Went to the redwoods to tame some- admin added bloodstalkers to their spawn so nope'd out of there quickly. Thylas are such a mainstream tame so ill be "puts on thick rimmed glasses and a toque" doing carnos for some change. Did a metal run with one of my new ankys then went back to build. Was building some pieces for a new base addition- going to detach my breeding pen so its not one huge building, always liked compound base builds rather than just one big box builds. - when I had enough of trying to navigate my Mammoth around to build. Great tame, but need something a little more compact to ferry wood around the base. Beaver time. Went off to get some dams anyways, grabbed a few and grabbed a 260 beaver to bring home to tame. Its a long tame with loads of torpor timer manipulation so I stayed in my base. Built a few vaults, some pieces to my breeding pen and was going to start placing the footing but was getting tired. Decided I'd save it for today after work. As I'm typing this I remembered we have those corner foundations now, so ill build something somewhat aestetically pleasing but also isn't too bad on my load times. Still using an original Xbox one here, not excited for the eventually "base is so big to load in first try" phase that will eventually come. Anyways, just rambling now. D1NK out

Xbkx Crystal Isles - Server Another eventful day! I had to stay up until 9am to adjust my body to night shift, playing Ark seems like a good way to keep awake! Started off by taking my new deer out for some much needed thatch gathering. Underwhelming at best. Still did the trick but was expecting a lot more. Farmed up a bunch of stone pieces, threw em in a box for later. I went out for a fly, searched for obsidian, hit some more dams up and nabbed a 280 anky to tame while I did base stuff. Made a couple cryopods while waiting for my tame. After the anky tamed up I took it for a quick metal run then on my way back spotted a 290 rex, decided I needed a good battle tame and devised some crappy trap to get it into. Worked like a charm. Uneventful tame, came out with mediocre stats. Yay cryopods though:) Got back to base, couldn't make a saddle for it yet not high enough so took it out to whistle kill some brontos. While I was out I was eyeing down a 280 spino near my base.. decided not to just tamed a rex. As I pop by a red drop, a pre-made asc spino saddle! Okay. I set up the same tame pen as I did for my rex. Took a lot longer than I wanted but got the spino into the trap and knocked out after a loong tranq run. I need to get myself a better crossbow or some darts lol. Had a few close calls with Carnos while taming but nothing my handy rex couldn't deal with. Got that baby tamed up and went for a murder session. Cringed a bit as I killed a great mate boosted rex pair - 290 and 280.. but great experience for my spino! Went back to disassemble my trap. Taking down the pieces (thank jeebus for pick up) a max level 300 carno jumps me, almost kills my ptera. It practically got itself trapped so I figured I'd tame it, it really wanted to be my buddy ! Came out with amazing stats, too. 650 base melee. I forsee a carno breeding line soon gonna keep my eyes out for a mate, max level or near with some fun event colours. Pleased with my progress i took a short break to let some ptera eggs hatch. Needed a spare anyways, threw into cryo after. Went for a big exploration, found a bunch of obsidian for fridges and such. Made a genny, fridges, water pipes, installed them all and wasn't happy with my space, remodel time ! Back to farming stone pieces. Spent a while redoing my base, expanded quite a bit. Grabbed a lower level event anky to mate with my near max tame, popped some eggs and combined stats while building. Made more cryopods and set my base up. Got some good stat combos, combined the lines to a decent anky line. Got a nice black shell mutation with the red event accents, looks cool. It was getting pretty late for me so I popped a few more eggs and just sat around base awhile. I was going to go to bed when I just had a hankering.... made coffee and sorted a ptera out to go try my hand at getting a low level wyvern just for taming utility. Gathered a small respawn hut, some materials and took off on my spare ptera for white shoals. As soon as I arrived I saw a low level wyvern, put my ptera on follow and just..jumped on its back. Was a fast tame, was very pleased with it! Just as I tamed it I spoke in server chat and a mate explained he got some high level ones with just crystal.. well! I'll have to try it.. went and set up a spawn bed incase, took off to find a high level. Didnt take long, was on the back of a 270 only minutes later. Took a long time but was an easy tame and well worth it, almost too easy for its utility. Flew home on my freshly tamed 400+ wyvern:) Couldn't resist a 280 red doed on my way.. threw it in the pen and let it starve before I went to bed. Loaded it up with narcs, berries and with the tame times / torpor timers it tamed its self while I slept. Eventful day! Off to work shortly here and ill do a few more hours when I get home!

Sorry for the concurrent spam, ill have to make sure I record my doings after each time or it gets messy haha. Where were we? Oh yeah. The taming. After the tragic death of Barry the Cat, I was determined to find another gatherer. Searched all around for a male deer.. pure bologna sandwich party. No dudes anywhere. I did find a second Saber though- much lower just basically a movement mount. Tamed that up, took off on a small run around (made sure to scan area with bird prior) As I was getting near snow but not too far from my base the clouds open up, Raptor Jesus smiles upon my humble sacrifice and a 280 Mammoth drops down from the skies almost in front of me. *insert holy light noise* I ran back to grab whatever I had for stone structures....plum out. I take my trusty crossbow and figure...I'll just knock it out anywhere since it isn't too far. Start shooting it while walking backwards on Saber. Takes over 30 tranq with a 200+ crossbow so it takes awhile. It was dark, was going backwards and finally knocked it out! ...I hear a noise behind me...o.O... its my own tames. I'm just outside my walls! Hallelujah! I put some single high thatch around it just incase. As it's taming (1.5h tame on berries- slow for this cluster) i gathered the mats for a saddle, did a bit of base stuff and went on a few thatch runs in anticipation of having an awesome wood gatherer soon. As I was out enjoying my Saber I got jumped just outside my base by a group of fresh spawned raptors. Bye bye Barry the Second. I ran back to base and grabbed my argy to quickly dispatch of them since they're near my tame. No problem. Pick all them up, murder in my claws then... I swear there was a 4th one? Hmm oh well. Fly back to walls and there it is, attacking my Mammoth taming..raptor.. only got a few hits in but enough to halve its gained levels. Oh well!! Still a beast. I go AFK and the Mammoth tames. Go out on the maiden voyage with it. Impressed by its wood abilities (and yes - the saddle is stupid.. oh well) I start up on my first big project, a proper giga - proof wall. Many trips later its completed. Outfitted with a fancy behemoth gate and all. Then I started building my main building more, added a few layers and dedicated crafting, breeding and parking areas. I did bit of Google work for oil, went on a long flight to find some. Spent my last chitin to make 20 paste for my fabricator and took off. Went uneventful, found my oil and landed next to an unlocked pump, score. On the way back... magical beaver dams !! Yes. Nabbed up some free paste, got tempted on a 280 beaver but decided I'd come back today for it then found a dark grey / black male deer level 200. Close enough. On the way back found some pearls, life is good as a Bob. Brought it back to tame as I worked on my base. Made my fabricator, made some gasoline, polymer, electronics, now I'm set to make a few cryopods next session and taming will be 5000x easier (mathematics) Phew! Finally got it all out. On night shift all weekend so ill have a few late night ventures ahead. d1nk, out

Xbox Server - Crystal Isles Thankfully for bathroom breaks at work, can type the rest up. Day 2: Got the day off work today for a holiday, wife was real chill letting me do what I wanted all day. Spawned in to my baby ptera raised. Took it out to level it a bit. It birthed over 520 melee so after imprints had near 600. Speeds up my production a lot. Go kill some stuff. I spent awhile farming too, gathering everything by hand for a decent stone wall around my area, hit some drops up. Tamed a level 100 anky mainly for berry gathering as there isn't much metal walking distance from me. Lucky with my boosted speed and stam (150 each) i can run around faster than most tames. Helped a lot. Spent the better part of the morning running around, gathering materials and making my base a tad cozier. Outside my wall additions I was putting aside the materials for a small taming pen. I plan to get an argy to get the essentials tamed up. Spent a long while doing this. Hit a drop just as I was asking a server mate about where to get quality picks / hatchet/ crossbow and got myself a MC Crossbow blueprint! Perfect. Nows the time. I take off with my trap and ptera to find an argy. Didnt take too long to find one, lay the trap and kite it near but took forever to get it into my trap. Had to sacrifice one of my ptera to do so. Got it knocked out, ran back to base to wait the times. All tamed up i had to spend awhile getting the chitin for its saddle. Had to fly to the desert area to find enough chitin. Was a good chance to explore, too. Saddled the argy and took off on an adventure / level up. Spent awhile just scouting the areas, getting some prime, hide, etc. On the way back spotted a 200 doed, score! Knocked it out inside my base (took my leftover argy pen bits and made a drop tame pen in my walls) then sat out the tame while doing stuff irl. All tamed up, went on a few stone runs! Only bottleneck... wood and thatch! Went out looking for something to tame, mainly a male deer. Came back with a sabertooth.. ark.. got it tamed, saddled and went for a juant. Didn't last too long, a pack of 200+ raptors jumped me near base and I sacrificed Barry to run to safety. Was fun while it lasted Barry the Cat. Took a short break and planned my next endeavor- well.. tame anything really...but the main key to the plan - a Mammoth! No idea how I was going to trap one as they're in the dangerous snow area. Oops ran out of time, part 3 of my two day start on my next break!

Xbox Server - Crystal Isles I was sitting there on SP and I decided... F it! Made a survivor on my mates server again. Same server I used to play but they've boosted the wild dinos now to 300. It begins.. Spawn in. Thankfully I explored a bit on single to get a spawn point (or where I thought was safe) First spawn- 'You were killed by a level 300 basilisk' eek !! They were added in the swamps (?) Rare spawn, scary stuff. Spawn a few more times to get a decent area. Do the whole beach Bob thing except... its hard to kill a level 270 phomia with a primitive spear... Skip the boring hours (yes hours) it took to get an established hut with a tamed parasaur, yay! Finally get get some narco production going. As I'm sitting there waiting out the night in my shack - your parasaur has been killed! 200+ raptor.. crap. Kite it away, re tame another para. Finally get some narcs, working on hide for bolas, your parasaur has been killed.... another raptor ! Eff. Ok. No messing around now. Find another parasaur near, build a boat. Got lucky with magneura got some hide. Make my boat all wood and take off exploring some new spots and possibly some hide. Two minutes into my boat tour ... a sarco jumps and grabs my parasaur kills it. F. Ok I get it. Going it solo now. Spend hours boating around, exploring (went in pretty blind) only to realize I'm in some middle lake type thing, no way to boat away. Okay. New plan: Spend all my materials leveling up, get loads of stam, speed and run across this land area to where I know I can make a boat in the main river. Gather it all, park close to where I want to go and ruuuun! Didn't make it one render before a 324 (max level tek) raptor cheeses my day. I had my crossbow on me....oh no! Ensue the next hour trying to kite said raptor away, grab bag, die, waiting for bed reapawn time. Rinse repeat. Finally get my crossbow back, deposit it and try again only to get mowed down shortly after. Ok. Going to try to get some tame to make the run. I get back to my boat and turn around back to where I spawned. Half way back a 270 ptera lands on my boat, bola it and knock it out. So lucky!! I haven't seen any ptera around until this one. Bring it back via boat to a small island I know is safe. Wait the long meat tame / get some hide. After the ptera tamed , put it safe in an enclosure on this island and went about to find chitin. This. Took. Hours. Finally - ptera saddle made. I take to the skies to go near redwoods/red swamp to where I know I saw argentavis on single player. Long journey I finally make it to a nice spot, a while clearing the locals out and I get my first bed down in the new place. Found a mating pair to my ptera, tamed it and went to bed after hatching an egg for an extra flier. Part one, ill post yesterday's later this was longer than I intended!

SP Cristal Well the universe doesn't want me on. Finally got on last night for a few minutes, took one small flight around and got called into work. Better luck tonight !

Because the connection timed out

Woah! "A wild d1nk has appeared" Single Player, my crappy Xbox So after many days of downloads (300mb/s my ass) i finally got to play ARK! Been a while since my last iteration I wanted to have fun on single player before hopping to any servers. Loaded up Crystal Isles. Wasn't too sure on any locations, spawn points or anything really so started in some sort of tropical area and did my noob stuff. B-lined to get a boat made with all my stuffs on it so I could explore a bit and as I just made Tranq arrows finally I noticed a 145 turtle stuck in my raft. Knocked that sucker out and got my first tame! Being single player I took to the skies with admin mode just to look at the map. A few near disconnects later (note to self- don't fly high speed into any red areas) i found that the map sure lives up to its name. Also I found out that I absolutely must live in the "autumn land" as my wife calls it. Despite my xbox screaming at me to not. Killed myself (can't live with the lies!!) and went back to regular normie mode. Took my boat, my turtle and took off to the red area (name???) Upon arrival i realized.... its a raptoring swamp! Ugh. I trek past to the other side of a bay and set up a temporary base. Right next to a flock of argentavis, hello first fliers. Spent a few hours puttering around, flying around lots aswell and managed to find a 135 doed, bread and butter taming pen, tamed. I was landing between lag spikes and found a Tropeg ...whatsit name. Never seen one before so I force tamed it (the shame) and left it there to die after flying around a bit on it. Neat. Don't have any goals, just playing around. I'll probably build something neat in creative mode, get bored and join a server. Dink, out

I believe I got my good ones from swamp cave island

Had the hankering to start a casual single player save on Crystal Isles today. Don't know why but I've been just wanting to build & chill. Plan to start this weekend, doing a bit of googling on CI is very disheartening, bad reviews and im worried about how itll run on my Xbox single. Time to research a base spot

Good stuff all. Love reading this even if I don't even play!

No problem I think it's the neat thing about this thread - you learn new styles of play every day. Didnt mean to come across pushy. You probably arent ready to farm titans for hide haha, loads of other options though !