Think Ill post my story here....Its a bit of a story to catch up to where Im at now, but what the heck:
A month{ish?} ago, right before the end of the valentines event ended, I was introduced to ark by accident. Kids got the game during Christmas, but they didn't wanna play it. I was getting rather sick of pubg, and while The Long Dark was keeping me tided over, I felt unfulfilled. My mom of all of the people in the house {she is 60} decided to play the kids game just to see what it was about. Clueless to the gamer slang, she fired up on a PvP server and begun a very panful run. Every night she would put in a few hours {yeah all noob + bob the builder ect. ect} all to be highjacked later on. So she started hitting me up for advice, structures advice, what to do here, how to safe guard that, what does this mean, and of course basic advice on what to do and how to progress? At this point in time, I haven't even seen the game or any gameplay. I was basically guiding blind. Finally I decided to actually do some digging into what this is and what its all about, so I fired up her character and went to investigating a foreign game. When I got into the list of servers, I immediately discovered her problem. The little star icon next to a PvP server. A good chuckle was held and I decided to delve deeper into the rabbit hole. Oh wow, she is truly bob the builder after six lines of coke and 12 energy drinks. ok, now what is the game about....dinos, building, crafting, hidden notes, ok. Kinda cool. Got her a parasour, hauling mountains of wood compared to her tossing 2 stacks of wood, taking a step, picking up and tossing it again, its all looking good, time for bed.
Next day, parasour is dead and all the wood is stolen....wow, k, need to get mom off this server. Long story short, we are now offline and working on two bases. And we are even playing super vanilla. No cheats, no creative, no value adjustments, just straight up "host, single player, start game" Only adjustment made was after we started, wwe had a titanasour spawn right next to our starting point. So I checked the feed tamed dinos box for the titanasour. When we get around to taming him up, will try to do a twitch stream just for the lolz. Anyways we started off on the southern easy spawn, the one in the middle with a point going towards the ocean and river to the swamp on one side and a buyo on the other.
Ever since mom got into this game, she decided she wanted to do a tree house. I decided that I wanted to build some heavy duty "one size fits all base"
Seems she has taken a likening to her tree house, its only a tri level and she is working on putting in a glass roof for the final touches, but its right next to the lagoon over by the swamp cave. Ill try to put a elevator next to it so she can get up and down, but for now its only accessible via argy. Its a very nice place to be at as when we do decide to hit the cave, our equipment will be right there and waiting on us if or when we die and got to go back XD
With that said, we did have bit of an issue with cementing paste, wound up getting a megatherium to farm up scorpions on carno island to solve that issue. Dureing the process of shipping it back and forth however, she decided to get froggy and check out herbivore island. After takeing a look at the wildlife and a dozen questions, she wondered what it would take to tame a Pteranodon. After a few arrows, waiting to take a shot when he lands, and a couple extordinary dino, she tamed her very first dino. A lvl 36 that once tamed, turned out as a lvl 50. Once we got that done, decided to see how hard it is to get beetles. Wasn't too bad, just toyed with the most southern cave and wound up snagging some there. Still haven't touched the swamp cave, but its on the horizon. But for now, mom the builder is happy.
As for my monster base, well its in its third evolution. I decided to take the entire point located at 17, 17 or by the north west snow cave which is kinda funny looking at it now. We actually decided to build next to cave's BEFORE we even knew that they was there. XD First base was stupid simple, just to get something to save equipment to and a bed to respawn. Second base was bigger, tall enough for the industrial forge. After squirreling around a bit and messing with this and that, Iv discovered two things....first off, the screaming rex's and carno's are a dime a dozen, tamed a bunch of them up for yuty eggs. And secondly, everything is super pissed. I thought the swamp is bad, better put on your big boy panties for the snow biome! But now Im to the point in time where I want to do something massive...truly beyond anything any of us has pulled off. Its tricky, tricky like no one's business, but once I get it done, Im going to have a huge yuty egg farm, with argy eggs on the side, and will begin attempting to breed. Ill have an entire area dedicated to the breeding. But I will also have some extra room up top too when Im done. Id like to have room for a couple dozen argys. That way I should be able to deal with some boss's.....maybe the dragon? Maybe??
Now with this said, I decided to help us speed things up by acquiring a qutzel. Defiantly a two player task for sure, even if I did have to cheat a little. I have one mean set of argy's, all have melee above 500% but the one we used, I literally leveled all the way up to about 104 before we attempted the task, but with the melee, stamina, and health all bumped up to mighty levels. We set off to look for a quetzal that I had seen, but wound up looking for the whole damn day IRL instead of just a few minutes. x.x Just before calling it quits tho, boom. Just north east of the blue obelisk. She jumped onto the argy, I shot a grappling hook into the saddle, and off we went. It was only a lvl 3, so it only took 3 shocking tranqs, but just as it hit the ground, I knew it was over. 5 wolves, 3 hogs, all worked together for once in order to kill our hopes and dreams. sour at our bad luck, we died in vain, resurected, killed all the sobs, and went about being all grumpy about the deal, she went back to work on her tree house, me to my metal hill to unload the majority of the equipment......and then I stumbled into another quetz. kinda south of the eastern red woods. a lvl 4 this time. we went at it, knocked it down, and this time we had enough time to get the argy down. But this time it dawned on me as it was falling out of the sky. it landed in the swamp.
I kicked mom off the argy to tend to the quetzal while I hopped onto the argy and went on a murder death killing spree of anything nearby. A couple snakes, 10 piranha, a frog I accidentally hit, big gator, small jumping gator, 2 baryls, and the cream of the crop, an alpha raptor. yeah, dang good thing I brough the 104 birdie, cause if not, that would have been the final nail in the coffin, but now with a lvl 108 birdie and a clear spot to tame up the first quetzal, we could do our thing.....except I forgot the jellyfish jelly.
no narco, no mountains of narc berries, no jellyfish jelly, we was loosing this battle quickly, and Id have to pray that I accidentally made some narco up on the metal hill. After a non stop sprint from the quetz to the hill in the middle of the red woods {thank god no leo's} Got lucky, super lucky, pleanty of narco, 150 waiting on me. But time was ticking, and I didn't have time to separate a specific amount, I took it all and got outta there. But while my lvl 108 birdie has adjustments made to her stamina, it wasn't enough and I had to wait a pinch longer before taking off. My controller made a cracking sound in my grip, but I finally filled the stamina "just enough" that I thought I could make it....it was not enough. My mom was gathering as much narc berries as possible to try and help me, she was raiding every single bush nearby in hopes of not being attacked, and getting "just enough berries to keep him down" till I got back and she was loosing the battle quickly. At about 100m my birdie ran out of stamina and I literally hopped off to run the rest of the way. I get to the quetz, I open up inventory, jam the narco in his inventory and force feed him 10 immediately. Just as I pulled the trigger to get him to take it, I look at the torpidity....47.2......I only had 47.2 torpidity before I hit him with the first narco. Good lord that was close!
With the narco takeing effect, I took inventory of what I had and what I could use to feed him.....One extraordinary kibble and prime meat from the raptor, well the kibble was good, but the prime would spoil soon....not a problem, couple of snakes and another croc, plenty of prime, and sure enough, we had our first quetz.
Built a platform sadle, was cruising around, found another qutz on accident {only when your not looking for it will you find it. XD}, tried to use the flying cage technique, failed, said screw it and shot it while just riding the tamed quetz. Worked like a charm, tamed it up with just prime, and noticed I got lucky. They are male and female. I can breed them to make my own quetz army!
Got em home to the big base, and finally broke ground on the base I have been putting off all this time. Got to get it going as its going to take quite some time. With that said, half tempted to leave my second base up so I don't have to rebuild the industrial forge and fabricator and such. Dunno. In the meantime however, Im literally wipeing the area out of rock and wood.....gonna be fun...
Primitive+ Primitive+ remains a priority. We have engineering teams working on the complications from the Genesis update. We will keep you informed with any significant progress FINALLY! Good lord, I have been looking everywhere in this forums for something about the primitive plus problems, and now. Literally since the genesis update, NOW! I find something about it.....I wish this was a little more out there to be found, but thank you for acknowledging the problems going on. As for many of the mods, I am very tempted to look harder into this as I would love something more than just some wooden chairs to decorate with, but its a shame there isn't more, and Im worried that much of this may not transfer to console.....we love to buy extra junk for in game mods too.