AllOfTheAllos

Today I finished building the wall of the expanded part of my base and taking down the old part. Also, one of the giga eggs is 9 hours from hatching. Won't make the mistake of trying to raise it in the evening again: when it hatches, I'll pod it and only unpod at some time when there isn't as much risk of disconnect. Just checked on the loot cave again and! Finally! Good loot! A rex saddle BP. 71.8. Far as I know, that's a boss-grade kinda saddle. I'm not planning to ever do bosses, but I DO plan to get my tek rexes somewhere close to boss-killer stats, so it's great that by the time that happens I'll already have what to put on them. Also, just have to get at-least-a-bit-better-than-basic giga BP now that I no longer have to look for a good rex one. Finally done with the elevator! I've been building it for a long time. Not because it's all that hard, I'm just lazy. But now it's done (well, functionally done. The aesthetic thingies like railings and stuff remain to be added, but at least I can now get to and from my workshop without using a flyer). New giga hatched, mother's colors except for belly, mother's melee, female. Froze her. I decided to just freeze all the gigas I hatch. Once I run out of space in the baby fridge, I'll pick the best one/s for raising and make the rest into some meat and EXP.

Added two troughs to the corner of base that I use for raising dinos. Now I'm truly prepared to raise a giga. Second giga egg hatched, mother's colors+father's stats inherited, great. It's a female. I'll raise her, unless the next one hatches a giga with same stats and colors, except male, as I'm better at naming male dinos. Third egg hatched, dad's melee and weight (which is all that matters, really. The rest of their stats aren't all that different), mom's colors, MALE! That's the one I'll raise, and imprint, and name something cool once he's old enough for me to be completely sure of his survival. Aaand I got disconnected. He'll probably die. Dammit. He died. Starved to death. Other two eggs still are far from hatching. Couldn't that tiny disconnect happen when I had something less important unfrozen, like the one with perfect colors but wrong stats? ... Checked on the loot cave (everything but the blue crate was already taken, in the blue crate was a 156 shotgun, which I ground for resources because the one I made from blueprint is better anyway), added some more rows to the extended part of wall, put a few fence foundations in the gaps between cliffs, will put railings there later. Gave the rex a stack of kibble to munch on, with that and, at the very least, 120 stacks of cooked meat in the troughs, he'll be fine on his own for quite a while. Logged off.

Raised the giga another 0.1%, raised the tek rex a bit too, checked on the loot cave (50-something bary saddle BP. Guess I'll have to tame some baries). Made the shotgun from that awesome BP I got not long ago, it's probably awesome, haven't tested it yet since I don't have any unwanted rex babies right now and they're what I needed the better gun for (my old 140-something just wasn't cutting it anymore). Killed a level 80-something alpha rex, using Wildfire, because he's great at it, needed a bit more EXP, and, unlike my other alpha-killer Nightshade the tek rex, can easily be used to escape the alpha if it's too strong. Still today from my point of view. Some hours ago I had to pick up the giga egg with less than three hours left on it because my connection was acting like crap again and I wasn't sure I'll be able to get to the giga before it hatches and dies. Now it's okay, so I'll log back in and put it back into the hatchery. Also, while picking it up earlier I bred the gigas again and managed (not from the first try) get the new egg to the hatchery, so that'll be three eggs - surely one of them will hatch into a black-brown-brown giga with dad's 125% melee!

Checked on the wyverns on Crystal Isles (they're fine, not escaped or anything), gave Summerwind a bit more crystals to munch on until I decide to check on her and Lilac Wind again, built water pipes leading to my house and ending with a tap. And then I logged onto the server I actually play on to check on the giga eggs. Giga eggs are fine, older one will hatch in less than four hours so I'll just keep my character in the hatchery the whole time, watching stuff on YouTube and occasionally checking the game to feed and water the character and check on the egg. ... The egg hatched! Male giga, mom's colors (like I wanted), mom's damage (like I didn't want). Still gonna raise him, unless, of course, one of the two eggs I have in the hatchery now yields a giga with mom's colors and dad's damage (or mostly mom's colors, dad's damage, and a mutated color that looks nice with the rest (so, black, dark gray, or something like that). ... After raising the young giga until he could hold a whole stack and almost-a-half of meat, I froze him and took his mother Elisabeth on a murderwander. I encountered a level 90 alpha raptor and decided to check how good she'll be at fighting something that strong. Very good, as it turns out! Didn't get hurt much, killed it pretty quickly. Then I killed a lot of brontos, trikes, carnos, allos and rexes, and then I found an alpha carno, level 15. Elisabeth easily ate that, too. I suppose, as long as I don't throw her at alpha rexes of any level, things will be perfectly fine in a non giga-enraging way.

Didn't do much today: went on a small meatrun with Elisabeth, found a dead bronto who was in a real creepy pose (lying in a pretty normal way, sorta like a resting cow, with head propped on a small cliff... And twisted upside-down, making it appear eyeless and eerily smiling), fed the dinos, checked on the giga egg (everything's fine), bred gigas again and added the second egg to the hatchery, logged off.

Today my connection behaves too badly to actually play (weird. Usually it only does that in the evening, during rain, or when there's a Windows update, but it's a sunny day and no update, so it SHOULD be fine), so my day in ARK will consist of putting the giga egg in the hatchery (done, took two attempts to get to the fridge, two to drop it off in the hatchery, and two to go back into my house for a safe log-off. I wasn't joking when I said my connection is REALLY bad today), and taking it out at some point in the evening. ... Connection issues fixed themselves somehow, so I took Elisabeth for a meatrun, threw quetz eggs into the hatchery (only one hour left on them! And I'll raise the babies even if they aren't cool, because apparently it's better to have some unneeded quetzals on hand at all times), unfroze 9900 health tek rex baby number 1 (named Tough), and checked out the loot cave (journeyman 145 slingshot BP, an apprentice metal shield, a mastercraft equus saddle BP and a mastercraft para saddle, plus some less remarkable stuff). ... Checked the loot cave again, still no cool loot, just a journeyman pistol and an ascendant metal pick. At least I remembered a great place with crystals nearby and put that pick to a good use. Quetzals hatched, froze all. Froze the baby rex, will resume raising him tomorrow. Added another row of metal railings to the extended part of the base, once I hit half-height of the rest of the wall, I'll start to take rows off the old border. Kept the giga egg in the hatchery, hope nothing happens (though, everything was always fine so anything happening now is unlikely). Went into singleplayer a bit, built the base there a bit more but didn't feel like doing much. ... Checked the loot cave yet again. There was a level 20 argent in it, it attacked me, and, I guess, pushed me (I was riding an argent of my own) into the cave's ceiling. It didn't kill me, though, just teleported me into my equus stable, into the stall where I keep Raf the pelagornis. Had to go back to the cave to retrieve the argent and finally get the loot (43 plesio saddle, 111 fur gloves BP, 40-something fur gloves, and a shotgun BP with over 170 damage - I'll make the ultimate baby unmaker gun from it!).

Still today, but in separate comment because very exciting: I found a male giga and managed to knock him out! Soon he'll be mine (if antimesh doesn't kill him, because he's in the rocks, so might happen. But I'll try to pod him right away to avoid it). Tamed! And he's alive. Level 142 (wild 95), 17720 health, 125% melee, stamina suck but far as I know, stamina of gigas always sucks unless they have a lot of mutations on it. Brought him home, named him Diablo (might rename to Green Devil, not sure yet), bred him to Elisabeth, hope the baby gets his stats and her colors. ... So, that's how things went with Diablo: when I found him, he wasn't stuck. Not even a tiny bit. Running free as a raging wind. Yet I really wanted to get a mate for Elisabeth, so back to my base I went. Two woodruns with a therizino, two metal runs, three narcoberry ones, and a retrieval of all the spoiled meat from troughs and inventories, I had about 160 tranq darts and was ready for the next step: biotoxin run. Naturally, I used my pelagornis. The hunt wasn't very interesting, almost no risk. By the end of it I had 4 full stacks plus a bit more. Back to the base, and I made the shock darts. 145 of them. Retrieved my trusty 209.4 longneck (this time it was in the industrial cooker. I tend to sometimes leave valuables in whatever container happens to be the closest), unpodded Rose, gave her four Quetz cakes (100 stimberries and 1 element dust, just because) and 30 basic kibble, grabbed the kibble I'll need for taming as well as 12 stacks of narcotics (yes, it's an overkill. Yes, I already know FROM EXPERIENCE that it's an overkill. But I would be very nervous without a ton of narcotics on hand while taming a giga), and back to the giga we (me and Rose) went! First I wasted a few (no more than ten) darts because it sometimes looked like he got stuck, but then he got free. Then Rose needed a stam landing (or a cake, but I didn't want to use it just yet) so I headed to some player's base for that. Then my game froze so badly, that killing it in the task manager and logging in anew was the only choice. Miraculously, me and Rose were fine, within the borders of that exact base, and I didn't doubt a second before expressing my joy in the global chat, in rather crude terms. That was met with concern (and possible hope for a giga heart) from another player, and I made a promise to share the coords if I ran out of darts before the beast falls asleep (but I didn't have to because as you already know, everything went fine). I hopped back onto Rose's back and went lo look for the giga again. He was between the Lake and the Aberration cave, a dangerous place for he could easily drown, so all I could do was watch him wandering, killing everything in his path. But then... He walked into the cave's entrance. And stopped. Yes, indeed, he was well and truly stuck. It took me several attempts to get Rose into the proper position, as I didn't know how close I can go without being dismounted (I haven't checked if I could still stand on the wyvern's back while force-dismounted by the Aberration cave, and between the giga in front of me and the jellyfishes possibly under me it wasn't exactly the great time to check), and often I ended up too far to left or right, or too high to hit the giganotosaurus, but in the end I found just the right position and just the right angle, and all I had to to was dismount, turn towards the giga (and Rose's tail) and shoot. When he fell, I still had 44 darts left, not counting the one still loaded into the rifle. For a giga taming without artificial traps AND without the giga being stuck from the very beginning, it went perfectly fine.

Today: took Elisabeth on a murderwander through the redwoods, got her that last melee point, she still has 22 more levels to gain which, as I said before, will be spread between health, stam, and possibly weight. Also, learned that it is possible to be thylacoleo'd off a giga. By getting thylacoleo'd off Elisabeth's back. Fortunately, I had no problem retrieving my stuff using my least favorite wyvern, and Elisabeth dealt with the thyla just fine on her own while I was getting back to her. Won't take her to the redwoods anymore, though. Too much hassle to get to, and too many things (1 whole species, yes, that's too many) that can hurt me despite me riding such a huge and fearsome beast. Froze some dinos I'm not riding/breeding at the moment (2 theries, both quetz females, 1 diplo, 3 moschops, 1 ankylo. That leaves me with 45 dinos non-cryoed, not counting the baby tek rex). The rest of the day will be spent raising one of the 9900 health tek rexes from yesterday.

Today was a long and productive day! I: Rode around on my giga, leveling her up (just need one more point to hit 100% melee, and the rest will go into health, stam, and maybe a bit of weight, poor girl encumbers easily). Even killed a level 20 rock elemental with her, I didn't really believe that it's an easy thing that can be done with just a tamed giga (I was prepared to turn tail and use up all of her stamina to escape if things went wrong), but it really WAS easy and she was barely even hurt despite wearing basic 25 armor saddle, and it was when her melee was only around 80%, so if were to do it now it would be even easier! Hatched 10 tek rex eggs, one egg hatched male triplets with a third health mutation (that's 9900 health!)! I'll raise one and keep others frozen first in case I fail to raise one, and then to maybe trade them for something. Traded! That's the second time I've ever done it, went fine. Filled up the box where I keep electronics (I get them solely from hunting tek dinos and grinding stuff, and I prefer not to throw things out unless they're really common, like hide), gave away the entire contents of it so that I can keep putting electronics in there. Started to expand my base. Not much, just extended the wall, like, 10 foundations (checked. Actually more -16 or seventeen) from the former border. Just so that it no longer feels cramped (by cramped I meas I suddenly realized that it's about 2 gigas wide. It became noticeable due to my giga Elisabeth being there)

Since I have checked on and fed my creatures both on Valguero and on Crystal Isles recently enough, so nothing is at the risk of starving or decaying, I decided that today will be the singleplayer day. Still not actually playing, as the base is not fully built yet, but I think that I might actually finish today. The base is a rather typical one for me, built with CKF (both versions, as new one has some nice stuff, but the old one has rounded pieces which make it much easier to build towers), and consisting of three parts: outer rectangle, with higher walls and three large gates, serving as the main defense against any and all flying creatures, will also house whatever large terrestrial predators I manage to acquire. First inner rectangle (the walls of which will be connected to my house), which is going to be a garden, useless but pretty. And the second inner rectangle, which has a dodo coop (was supposed to be a chicken one, but it turned out that the alteration to chickens in AOA mod wasn't just renaming them and now they wouldn't fit through the door), a "field" of 12 large crop plots, a pen for aurochs, and a stable (6 stalls, 2 long 2 wide). I haven't made screenshots of that new build, but here's a link to a screenshot of the first singleplayer base I've built in such a way (new one's a lot bigger, though): here it is! ... EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ADDITION (important because I'm very excited): I decided to go onto the Valguero server I play on just to quickly check on that cave (it was, indeed, the loot cave with no enemies and flyers allowed). Got no good loot, BUT! I saw a giga. Female, level 55, pretty colors (dark, possibly actually black back, belly seems to be light gray. Either way, colors are nice and not clashing). And just before my eyes, she got stuck on some rocks. Now, I know that gigas and other strong creatures tend to get unstuck just as you think they won't get out, but still I went to my base to grab the rifle, narcotics, kibble, darts, and Rose (the Blood wyvern that I initially got for breeding, but that's not happening, and her colors aren't pretty enough to ride). SO! I got it all, and I went back, and the giga was still there! I found a nice position and stopped Rose there. And started firing. Missed 2 shots, but the rest of the darts (all 114 of them) hit the mark. But I guess giga's torpor drop rate is too fast for that to work. So I flew back to the base, killed and harvested some cnidarias on my way, made shock darts, and returned. The giga was still there. I got Rose into position, shot-shot-shot, almost lost hope, but when I had just three darts left, the giga finally fell! So I loaded her up with all the narcotics (turned out I brought too much! Still had 5 whole stacks left by the end of it), waited for her to get hungry enough for two pieces of kibble, didn't have patience for her to get hungrier than that, and gave her all of it (brought too much of that too, by the way. Had plenty left afterwards). Had to fight off a tek raptor and a sabertooth, but they didn't ruin the effectiveness too much, she still ended up being level 81. And then I podded her, brought her to my base, made her a saddle (dyed black and brown with golden metal parts), and named her Elisabeth. Already tried her out, she's pretty great! No idea how good or bad is 70% melee for a 81 giga, but seems pretty okay for meatruns (plus, I won't put a single point into anything besides melee until it's at least 80%). So anyway that's how I tamed my first giga just because it was there.

Today: Checked for dark red spinos (no dark red spinos found. No spinos AT ALL found). Found what was probably that one cave with no enemies, some loot and no "no flying" rule that I've heard about, but I didn't go in because there's that sound in it, it's probably just for the mood, but it's creepy and I got too nervous. Maybe I'll check it later. When not carrying anything valuable or riding anything I'm too fond of. Found pretty decent flak boots in a yellow beacon, great, because I had no boots (I just forgot to make new ones, because boots are an easy to miss detail, unlike, for example, pants). Saw four quetzals, some pretty okay levels, but I have enough quetzals already. Bred rexes, put their eggs and old quetz ones into the hatchery, but realized that the breeding rates are back to normal and picked them up. Gonna hatch them later. Probably.

Haven't done much today... Yet. Didn't even log onto the server where my main character is, just the Crystal Isles one. Checked on the wyverns (Both sitting in the base! In the same parts where I left them last time! It's really surprising, because Summerwind has a habit of flying out of it when I'm logged off and sit about 20 meters away from the fence, and Hothead (low-level Ember I used to have) was actually lost completely because he flew far away and autodecayed). Checked some beacons and crates (nothing great. Got some gas balls and blue gems, might transfer them to Valguero sometime). Killed three rexes of varying levels and a level 15 tropical crystal wyvern. Saw a spino with the color that I really want, but decided against trying to tame it because it was level 15 (I like higher levels, even if just for color), plus my base on CI is very minimal, no kibble farm or anything, as it's not meant for taming anything major that isn't a crystal wyvern. On Valguero, once I feel like it, I plan to grab a rifle, some narcotics, darts, and kibble, and check lakes and rivers for a good level spino with that one color (it's dark red. Ripe cherry red, really. I used to have those in singleplayer and a screenshot on reddit reminded me of that). No other plans, at least outside of usual "feed-breed-hatch".

Didn't do much today. Fed the dinos. Noticed that some were too far from the troughs, moved them into the range. Fished from the back of my pelagornis (nothing great. Just some obsidian, crystal, metal - the usual). Remembered that I've respecked recently and had more points put into crafting skill this time (formerly 460, now 560) so I decided to try and see what I can squeeze out of my 193 longneck BP this time, and "squeezed" quite a nice 209.4 rifle. Considered finishing to hatch the quetz eggs and breeding the rexes, but didn't feel like that. Also, started singleplayer on Crystal Isles with some mods, not playing yet - just building the base. Playing time would be once that's done. Also also, uninstalled Ragnarok because I haven't played on that map for at least two months in singleplayer and definitely won't do that on a server, seeing as I've firmly settled on Valguero and prefer not to get distracted from that (to the point where the only other survivor on official that I'm currently using exists solely so that I can get things from there without raking the risk of transferring my main survivor).

Today: fished (no BPs, 2 pieces of hard poly, some organic, some crystal, 2 pieces of angler gel), hatched 5 tek rex eggs (only one new mutation, speed, blue on the "ribs" (and not the shade I find pleasant when applied to tek dinos), killed all), the young female quetzals have fully matured, got eggs from them and their mother, incubated them for a bit and put in the fridge for later (hope that if one hatches with a mutation, it would be with an unusual wing color. I saw a blue-winged one once in the wild and the color really suits them).

Today: hatched two moschops eggs, one inherited higher melee, but no mutation. Since I'm breeding for color, I killed it. Other inherited lower melee, but got a mutation on it, accompanied by a rather pleasant shade of yellow on body. I named her Lemondrop and froze for later. Killed a level 55 alpha rex, did it with Wildfire. Since I already knew the good and safe way of doing so, he only got hurt once, when the rex managed to bite him on the tail. It still took a lot of time, though, because alpha rexes seem to have some sorta "instinct" to run toward the laggiest base around once the opponent proves to be a strong and persistent one, so both getting Wildfire into position to attack AND landing him in a safe area for rest took unreasonably long and often required multiple attempts. Unfroze Empress to use her in breeding again, sure, she's leveled and her initial stats are long since forgotten, but that doesn't matter anyway, since it's only the male's stats that are important. Found a 53 armor rex saddle in a loot crate. Some time ago I also found a 70-something one. Would have preferred a BP, but that's cool too. Raised the quetzals to 44%, filled the trough almos completely with cooked meat, gave them both a stack of basic kibble each, won't have to bother about anything until evening (longer than that, but better remember it as "until evening" so that I don't put it off for so long that the food actually runs out). ... Gave quetzals some more food, and went to tame a pelagornis (fishing, plus I have an awesome pela saddle BP). Took quite a few attempts and at least 60 rare flowers, but I managed to lure a level 145 to the shore, and the rest was easy. The stats were... Well, sorta okay. Though the most wild points went into health. He tamed quickly, I used kibble so the effectiveness was very high. I named him Raf. On the way back to the base I killed some fish with him, and then parked him in one of the empty stalls in my equus stable.

Today I decided to tame a pair of high-level theries for breeding. The first female I found (135) I had to kill, because my rex got stuck on her in a position that made it impossible to shoot her with any level of accuracy. The second one (140) ate up all of my tranq darts like they were candy, got more health off Nightshade than any alpha rex ever managed (granted, I never fought one higher than level 50 on him, and that one kept running away, but still, pretty impressive), I had to make some tranq arrows instead. Finally, she fell. I'm taming her - too much effort went into knocking her out to just kill her off, but her stats... Here they are on dododex. Behold, a theri that sucks: here it is ... So. The theri is tamed (some time ago, but I didn't feel like writing right away). Her stats have improved somewhat, at least the melee is over 200 now instead of pathetic 160. I got stuck on my way back to the base because of some players whose idea of a base is "find a road framed by some cliffs and close it off from both ends", so I had to put the pods, kibble and everything else into Nightshade's inventory, suicide by punching a rhino who also fell there, and then grab a wyvern to retrieve Nightshade and all the things. I think I'm done playing for today, so making more darts and getting a male high-lvl theri will have to wait for tomorrow... Or for whenever else I feel like doing that.

Today: didn't feel like playing, so decided to just feed the dinos and log off. Went for a meatrun on Wildfire. Spotted a level 56 alpha rex. Attacked. Was fine, until due to a tiny lag spike Wildfire got stuck in the damn beast. Took some seconds to break free, plus at least two more to get enough stamina to fly away. Wildfire was reduced to less than two thousand health out of his normal nearly 8000. Hunted some lystros, paras and jerboas, force-fed him meat until he had a bit over 4000, then continued to burn the rex, now in a different manner: hovering above it for short periods, rather than swooping low and burning while passing above it. Both safety and accuracy increased significantly. Killed the rex without receiving any more damage. No cool loot, but at least I now have a new skull and a pair of fangs in my collection. The rest was uneventful: an actual short meatrun, an in-base berry run, placed all food into appropriate troughs, took oil out of Khepri and Kabuto's inventories and gave them some fresh poop.

Today: put the points on my fem quetz into stam (few, it was pretty good to begin with), health (most, I need her to be able to handle some rocks being hurled at her), and weight. Put a platform saddle on her. Made a cannon and installed it on the saddle. Cannonballs, too. Enough to knock out even a max level, plus some more in case I miss a few times. Gathered a lot of deinon eggs (unpopular nests are the worst! The eggs stay there for so long, that they insta-spoil when picked up), but lost almost all because I forgot that I had a deinon egg recipe in my cooker for some reason. Threw the recipe out, got more eggs, made some kibble. Should be enough, but I'll still wait for my bee to make, like, 10 more honey and make more kibble. Having too much is better than too little, after all! ... Made more kibble. Took kibble. Loaded Thunderstorm with cannonballs. Found a 140 elemental. Turned out, the cliff I chose to fire from was a crappy one, only got the angle right once (and yes, it's the cliff that was the problem. I have already tamed an elem once with no problem, also from a dino (paracer) standing on a cliff.). Two shots missed, three hit the body. Also, forgot about the protection, so the cannon was destroyed. Which caused me to fall off the quetz and die. Luckily, my ember wyvern Wildfire is fast as hell (like all crystal wyverns) and got plenty of stam, so I got back there in time to call Thunderstorm AND retrieve my deathbag which contained a good crossbow, really good chitin armor, two cannonballs and 31 piece of Extra kibble - all very important things (why was I wearing nice armor and weapon to a likely suicidal mission? The answer is simple: I don't own any worse and was too eager for a hunt to waste time on making some). Had to kill 3 allos for it (easy) and lure away the elem (hard. The damn thing insisted on returning to my deathbag and only then calming down). Preparations for the next attempt: a metal foundation with two ceilings are installed on Thunderstorm's back with some walls attached, hopefully that'll protect the cannon and maybe even Thunder herself to some extent when I try to tame an elem again. Serious metal run will be required to build a new cannon and enough cannonballs. I will also scout the territory on a wyvern first to search for any good-level elems under or close to suitable (low enough, non-climbable, with some rock formations nearby to prevent the elem from going too close) cliffs. Should an elemental be close but not quite enough to such a cliff, I'll lure it there first and then come with Thunderstorm to tame it. ... Made a new cannon. Made more cannonballs. Found an elemental in an okay area. Tried to tame. The "defenses" made it hard to aim. Realized I'm too low on cannonballs, plus the cannon still got damaged and wouldn't have lasted another hit. Went for a level 25 instead. Shot, shot, shot, certainly hit once on the head, then a diplo came and started trying to befriend me. Can't waste ammo on it, can't kill with quetz. Tried to shoot the elem again. Ran out of cannonballs. Quetz below 50% health. Gave up. Returned to the base. Demolished the cannon. Kibble will go into taming something easier. I'm done with elementals.

Today I searched for bees again. Found none. I guess I'll have to just gather honey from empty hives to make kibble. Slow, but less disappointing. Already did that a bit - got two piees of extra kibble now. And accidentally made one of augmented extra, but it's said in the official wiki that that's not supposed to be craftable anymore, so I threw it out just in case. ... Found a full beehive! It had TWO queens! Tamed both. Gonna install one hive and keep the other in case I get distracted and miss the auto-decay again.

Today I decided that I maybe want to have an elemental again (except a good level now, so that I can actually use it) and started preparations: altered the greenhouse to fit 9 plots total (3 citronal, 3 savoroot, 3 longrass), and went to tame a bee. I broke about 6 hives, three of them consisting of 5-7 stacked hives themselves, and only found one bee. Which got itself killed before I had the chance to feed it. That's about two hours wasted completely. Also, one of my dung beetles escaped the pen, but apparently its daring escape plan amounted to "exit the pen and walk in circles under quetzals and wyverns, probably hoping for some poop". ... Continued search for bees led to me finding a full hive... On top of an empty hive, on top of an empty hive, on top of a full hive, on top of yet another likely empty hive. So upon destruction of the first hive I was left with a bee stuck in a hive, inaccessible and endlessly spawning drones. With a few flaps of Wildfire's wings I managed to dislodge it, but while fending off the drones I disturbed the hive under the hive and was attacked by more drones. Almost died, and the first bee died too because it got in the way. And the second bee was stuck, spawning drones, NOT dislodgeable by aggressively flapping at it, plus I was nearly dead, so I left it bee*. Also, tamed a phiomia. Named him God of Crops. He's gray, was a bit over level 90 in the wild, tamed perfectly with kibble. Not that it matters, since his only purpose is to provide my two dung beetles with material for fertilizer, because I decided that it's a bit too annoying to run back and forth between the greenhouse and the rexes to get all the poop needed. *NOT a typo.

Today I tamed a male Blood Crystal wyvern (pre-tame level 85) with good colors (dark gray scales, red fins, gray crystals, red belly, and wings in that slightly orangeish red that's not the brightest but definitely not that "light red" that's actually just pink), named him Bloodwind, leveled him up a bit by killing three alpha raptors, then transferred him to Valguero. And then I killed old Bloodwind, because that was the whole point - sure, he was my first wyvern, but since his role is "flying far, looking cool, killing stuff" and he was only good for the second part... Then I decided to fly around on new Bloodwind, saw a level 20 rock elemental and decided to attack it, since I can always get away if it proves to be too dangerous. And then I spent a long while sitting on a rock, attacking the elemental, only rarely getting hit with boulders. And then I got some oil, obsidian, metal and crystal. With more effort than a normal resource run would bring me, and in much smaller amounts. Because I only had a stone pick on me. Next time I'm bringing a metal one. And maybe an argy, because my wyverns suck at hauling weights, and I'm not spending more than one-two points to fix that. Next time happened right away. New victim was a level 50 elem, the instrument used for harvest - ascendant hatchet, about 180%. Much better results, Bloodwind was only barely able to fly with the mats I got (over a hundred crystal, 40 obsidian, an okay amount of metal, I don't really remember, but his weight is a bit over 300 and he was almost full after I put everything I harvested in him) Also, Wildfire's crystals and fins returned to their normal color. Great! He looks good again, and I no longer need to doubt my memory in which I definitely tamed an orange-dark brown-orange wyvern and not a yellow-dark brown-orange one.

Went on a big ichthyornis hunt with Wildfire (at least 10 thiefbirds burned!), led Draco (the tek rex from the post before the last one) to the females and already got the first batch of eggs (3 with no new mutations, 1 unknown because I got disconnected before it hatched and then decided that since my internet connection is too crappy to play right now, I might as well turn the computer off and do something about the fan, which was noisy ever since I accidentally kicked the table, making it hard to concentrate on playing). Got a new dodo. Wasn't planning - I have enough, but it was female, conveniently knocked out by a wild scorpion which then got distracted by a carbonemys, so I just couldn't leave it there. Also, yesterday made my best longneck so far (204%, made from a 193-something BP).

Today I tamed two dung beetles. At first I wanted to tame them on Valguero, since the wiki states that they do spawn there, but the thing is - I don't really know Valguero all that well beyond things that interest me, such as the location of beaver dams, the closest deinon nests, metal and crystal deposits - that kinda thing. And since I have no interest in regular wyverns, even less so since I got my Crystal ones, the location of Valguero's wyvern trench was a mystery to me. So basically I went to where the dung beetles are supposed to be, realized that THAT'S where the wyverns (and also gigas, at least one) are, and noped the hell outta there. So instead I used my other survivor on Crystal Isles to tame a couple beetles and transferred them to Valguero. I named them Khepri and Kabuto. They now live in the kitchen/greenhouse thing, in a small pen of their own (which shares a wall with the dodo pen because the space's kinda limited). Holy fertilizer! Khepri and Kabuto are making TONS of the non-holy variation of the aforementioned substance. I mean, I've read about how much dung beetles produce, but it's different actually seeing their inventories filled with so much fertilizer. Might expand the greenhouse, not because I need more plots but just because I can maintain more now.

Today: Raised quetzals a bit more. Started raising the new baby tek rex (double mutated health AND mutated melee inherited!), finished hatching the two tek rex eggs left from yesterday (1 hatched a female with only health inherited, the other - health inherited+a stam mutation, also female. Killed both). Killed a level 24 tek quetzal. I don't normally kill valuable tameables, even if I'm not interested in taming them myself, but the server was wonderfully non-laggy, my mood was great, and I was really curious about how many firebreaths from Wildfire it'll take to kill it. 2 breaths, by the way. Well, that plus however much burning damage happened while I was aiming for the second one. Nothing else happened. Was thinking abut going to get a dung beetle, but don't really feel like doing that. Maybe later.

Today I continued to declutter the base by taking down the quetz trap (I got a male, I got a female, far as I'm concerned I have no need to be ready to catch any more quetzals!), freezing the three unleveled crystal wyverns, leaving me with just Bloodwind, Skysoul and Wildfire staying unfrozen, and installing a second cryofridge, because I was starting to run out of space in the first one, seeing as I now have quite a lot of adult dinos podded. Also, tamed a pair of lystros. High-level (wild levels 145 and 150). Gonna breed them, but anything that doesn't have an interesting color mutation will be killed right after hatching.