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(Official PVE, Fjordur) Fed dinos. Took hazard suit and bat, went to Asgard for a drake egg. Found a 190! Uploaded, returned home, put the hazard suit away. (Official PVE, Valguero) Downloaded the egg, checked the egg, ate the egg. Same melee as what I have, worse health, stam not better than what I have by enough points to bother raising it. Filled a maewing with meat, hatched carchars from the last time and put them with the mae. Went to check spawns... A 145 female carcha! Back, ammo, baby rexes, elixir, to the carcha again. With lots of killing and an elixir got her to 98%, then she raged. Bit me once, but I got away and... Well. The fact that she bit me and didn't hurt me much (I mean, I'm in good armor. But it was a full rage carcha!) should have raised my suspicion, but I was too excited about my first good level carcha. So, another rex baby, fed, mounted, killed a few things, tamed, died (THANKS, naming prompt! Preventing me from using my sino in time is JUST what I need!). Respawned, took bat, went to get my carchar and stuff, got disconnected half way to it. Reconnected, alive, fortunately, and my bat low enough to whistle. Got stuff, got carchar (named Sandstorm). She has 120% melee. That's 20 points. Just 1 point better than best I had before her. And her highest stat is stam, 40 in it. Brought her home anyway, a female carchar is good to have, but taming that level and getting that melee feels like a waste of time and resources anyway. Checked on the babies, they're doing well. Fed gachas a lot, most went into gens. Podded baby carchars and that's all for today.

(Official PVE, Lost Island) Fed dinos. (Official PVE, Crystal Isles) Fed dinos, saw a tropeo right outside, but it was level 15, so killed. (Official, PVE, Extinction) Took part of the dust, uploaded. Then another part, then another, then gathered some. Hit the uploaded item limit, I actually have a bit more left. (Official PVE, Valguero) Downloaded dust and made it into element. Eighth stack finished, ninth started! Checked spawns, Weather Top had a 135 female giga. Left her alone. I don't need her, and even if I could (I'm really not sure I could), I'm not nasty enough to kill something like that. Someone's probably been looking for such a good level forever. The snow spawn had a carchar, but it was level 20. left that alone, too, but for a different reason. I just don't feel like bothering with it. Took Furious on a hunt, all the way to Tundra. Killed lots of stuff, even a few alpha dinos. Got him a few levels. Killed some turkeys, too. Returned home, took Abaddon, hunted turkeys some more. Nearly 200 bones by now! I want to try and save for Dodorex. Bred carchars, 2 eggs staying - one male, one female, both 19 melee. And that's all for now. ... More turkey hunting. Got 400 bones, made dodorex, rode it around. Not impressed, my gigas are stronger. I mean, I only got it to a bit under 40 levels, if I found lots of strong stuff to slaughter it'd probably be better, but still, not all that great. That's all for today.

(Official PVE, Extinction) First I gathered some dust. Then I learned that transfers are currently disabled, so I can't send it to main base. Then I gathered more dust, built a box, put dust into it, and gathered even more dust, so that when transfers are back I'll have a nice amount ready. (Official PVE, Valguero) Checked on the babies, everything's fine. Made a saddle for new carcha, since he'll be grown soon. Bred carchars, gigas and rexes. Carchars and gigas all fails, rexes all, well, also fails, but they're staying. No such thing as too many carcha baits! Did a bit of a rare mushroom run in the swamp. Checked spawns, no carchars whatsoever, but Weather Top had a level 20 giga, so I decided to try something I wanted for a long time. So I came back home, unpodded a quetz, made a platform saddle, put 4 wooden foundations on it to get a bit more space there, and a trough. Put meat in the trough. And then I deposited my favorite (and best, of course) velona, Ratteki, on to the platform. And like that I went back to Weather Top. Stopped quetz, dismounted, mounted Ratteki, and started shooting. The giga got a bit bloody right away. Just a bit (Ratteki isn't some super-bred velona, or even just good. He's simply a full imprint leveled to somewhere around 600% melee). I kept shooting. The giga tried to escape into water. I kept chasing, kept shooting. The giga ran into the Abb cave's entrance and got stuck. I couldn't get the quetz into a good enough position, so I rode Ratteki off the platform and continued shooting form the ground. And soon the giga was dead, seventh heart added into my collection, and since I, for once, had an unharvested giga corpse, I took its dermis, too. Returned home, and that's all for now. ... Checked on the babies again, drake (now named Sylvia) is adult, gave her a saddle. Older carcha adult, moved her to the rest and bred (egg stays, clean female). Checked spawns, nothing again. Returned home, took Sylvia on a hunt to get her some levels. A few points went into health, just to bring it to 10000, more - into stam, until it was a bit over 2000, and the rest will be melee. Podded spinos since I'm not all that interested in them anymore, and moved carchars in their place (except for Copperscale - podded him, as he's only god for colors, and that can wait). The younger carchar is 97.5% grown, so I'll log back on after some time to finally ride him. For now that's all. ... Carcha (named Furious) is finally grown! Saddled him, tested damage no rage, no leveling (I remind you, 19 points melee, full imprint) 422 per bite. Full rage, no levels - 1162. Then I took him for a nice long hunt pretty much all over the map - even nearly to the wyvern trench! Got him 56 levels by the time I returned home. Tested at full rage - 1716 damage, no rage - 624. Then checked how much damage my main giga, Abaddon (full imprint, 36 points melee at hatch, plus 69 leveled points at the moment) does - 2111 per bite, so Furious, despite being, stat wise, MUCH worse, isn't that far behind when angry enough. So, yeah. Now I'm absolutely sure that carchars are awesome. And that's all for today.

(Official PVE, Extinction) Did a bit of a dust run, uploaded most of it. Also killed a level 5 wild giga, just because it was there, it was stuck, and I liked that one time when I burned a stuck wild giga to death, so this wasn't an opportunity to miss. Fed dinos (with the meat form killed giga). (Official PVE, Valguero) Retrieved dust, made it into ele. Carchars are adolescent now, around 60%, imprinted the younger one, so now both are fully imprinted. Drakes fully adult, so I decided to unpod the younger one and leave her out. Might do fine. For now that's all. ... Checked on the drake, doing fine, but won't for long. So logged off of Valg and on to (Official PVE, Fjordur), took chainsaw, went into the cave, found one node, harvested it and uploaded venom. Uploaded it, fed dinos, put the chainsaw away. (Official PVE, Valguero again) Downloaded venom, fed drake, and she'll be fine until adulthood now. And that's all for now (or, possibly, for today).

(Official PVE, Valguero) Filled a maewing with meat, unpodded carchars. Hatched a new one, and damn he looks so good! Better than the previous, and since they're otherwise the same (same gender, same melee), killed the previous one. Bred carchars using the new carchar male, stats: inherited (not that it matters, he's not my best), colors: mostly inherited. Stays unless it turns out that color combination doesn't look as good as I think it does. Hatched the sinos and ovi, put them with the maewing (well, only two of the sinos. As I said before, out of the two same stat males I chose one that looked better). Unpodded drakes. Took Ekimma and went to the loot cave, nothing good. Checked spawns since two are on the way there and third not too far, nope, nothing. Spotted two alpha carnos, though. After returning home, took Forest Lord, got his kill counter up, and went to kill those carnos. Got him a couple of levels. And killed some kentros while at max rage, then watched him heal. That carchar regeneration still seems near-unbelievable to me. Back home again, took my hoversail, wandered around. Went by that gacha tower that I used as a safe spot for my wyvern during last carcha taming, turns out it's not JUST a gacha tower - it's a community center, with unlocked vaults for leaving what you don't need for someone else to take. So I went home, grabbed some BPs I have no use for, and put them into one of the vaults there. Did a thatch run and a MASSIVE flint run, made a lot of arrows for my gachas. Crafted a tek trough and added it to the two in my raising corner, also made some cryopods. Kinda low on crystal after that, guess I should make a crystal run at come point. Or unpod one of my crystal gachas and use it. Added MOAR meat to the maewing, and filled the tek troughs completely - carchars are staying out for now. Podded drakes, though. For now that's all, will play more later. ... This isn't "playing more" yet, just checked on the babies. Doing well, imprinted them. Can't wait for that newest carchar to grow up! ... And yes, I still count it as "today". Checked on carchars, doing great. New sino adult now, gave him a helmet, some chitin, took all fail gigas out of the fridge and slaughtered them to level him. Got him to over 3000 stam and over 300 weight - and he can still level more! That's my best sino yet. Unpodded drakes. Went wandering, saw another carchar. Again, stuck face-first in a cliff. Female, level 55. Returned home, took some baby rexes, some ammo, an a sanguine elixir, went back. befriended carchar, started taming, daamn, taming carchars on 3x is nice! Got her in one go, only used elixir because didn't want to just let it rot, could have done just as well without. Named her Wendigo. She has 50% melee, but who cares, she's my second tamed female carcha! Brought her home, bred her to Forest Lord. Baby stays, maybe as a carchar to raise, maybe as a carchar to use for leveling something. Depends on whether or not I like the way he looks. Logged off and on to (Official PVE, Fjordur), took chainsaw, got venom. Two nodes instead of usual one, because drakes are pretty hungry and I needed to build their food up to leave the older two out. Also grabbed a crate, 70-something basilo BP. Worse than what I already have, but uploaded it along with the venom anyway. Returned home, put the chainsaw away. (Official PVE, Valguero again) Downloaded venom, fed drakes. Imprinted carchars, older is full now, younger is 99%. Did a crystal run, with a mining drill. Now my crystal vault looks somewhat nicer. Hunted with my argent, got her a level and a half. Checked spawns again, just in case (nothing). Went into the loot cave, nothing great, best thing I found was a 50 armor diplo saddle. Fed gachas for a pretty long time. Topped up gens back to 30 in each and still had 12 ele left for the vault. Podded young drake and that's all for today. Other two should be fine.

(Official PVE, Extinction) Fed dinos. Thought about checking for drops, but nah. (Official PVE, Crystal Isles) Fed dinos, checked for tropeos. Only found a blandly colored 45, so no taming happened, killed it for meat instead. Took ingots form the forge and made a few chain bolas. (Official PVE, Lost Island) Fed dinos, thought about going for a magma egg, but decided against it. That's all for today.

And now about my day in ARK today! (Official PVE, Valguero) Hatched fail babies from the last time. One of the fail spino eggs yielded triplets, which is great (I should make more pods in the nearest future, though. Almost out of empty ones). And since I have so many sacrificeable baby dinos, I went to check for carchars. Nnnope, nothing. Killed stuff on the spawns, but all I've achieved was a level 25 giga. I could kill that, technically, but it's in the snow and I don't feel like bringing one of my gigas all the way there, even in a pod. And anyway, the snow spawn is my least favorite one. Returned home, took Forest Lord and went on a hunt. This time to the Redwoods. Killed plenty of stuff there, the number of dinos in there makes it really easy to keep rage at 100. Even found a level 145 alpha carno and killed that (and Forest Lord was entirely uninjured despite being a wild-tame in a prim saddle. Damn, that carcha regeneration is nice!) Went home, but not right away - first hunted rock elementals for fun. Once home - filled a maewing with meat, unpodded old baby carcha and hatched the new one, and put them with the mae. Did a thatch run with Cernunnos, while on it, spotted a lone 145 male raptor and decided that it's been a while since I tamed one of those. Also saw an 85 male oviraptor. So after getting back to my base, I grabbed a rifle, some kibble, a few giga unferts, two pods, made some bolas, and went to tame them. Not much to tell about that - bolaed the raptor (after luring him back to the shore. Dude seemed pretty intent on drowning), knocked him out, left him to starve, went to the ovi, killed everything aggressive around, bolaed, tranqed, left to starve. Then gave them both food, raptor got tamed, brought him home, and soon after that the ovi got tamed too and I retrieved him as well. Exported new raptor's stats... Yeeeeah, good thing I don't have any serious plans for raptors. Dude has oxygen as his highest stat. And it's seriously high - 48 points. A SCUBA raptor. A diversaurus. He probably dreamed of growing up to become a shark. So, yeah, I'll kill him next time I play. The ovi is alright, but that's only because his some purpose is being a second ovi. No stats can mess that up. Bred sinos, three eggs are staying, all same stats. Two males, I'll pick the better one to use as my next shoulder sino, and one female, which will become a new breeder. Repodded carchars and that's all for now. ... Unpodded carchars again (yeah, yeah, with a mae they could have lasted even without podding, but I prefer to make sure nothing happens). Drakes, too. Killed that SCUBA raptor. Logged off and on to (Official PVE, Fjordur). Took the chainsaw, got venom, uploaded it. Fed dinos. Put the chainsaw back in the smithy. (Official PVE, Valguero again) Downloaded venom, fed drakes. Went to check for carchars again, nothing. Just a 45 giga on Weather Top spawn. Took one of my female gigas, went there, killed the wildie. Returned my giga back to the breeding row. Looked for carchars again. Nothing. Fed gachas for a while, 10 element went to the vault. It was a pretty long gacha-feeding. Looked for carchars again. And again. And again. Nothing, nothing... Wait, that rex tail sticking out of the cliff is wrong color. Too bright, for such non-event times. Lemme take my spyglass... Carchar! Male, only level 50, but damn, that's some nice colors on that boy. Went back to the base, took a sanguine elixir, some baby rexes and spinos, returned to the carchar, lured him out of the cliff, put my wyvern on a nearby gacha tower for safety, left most babies and ammo in the wyvern's inventory in case things go wrong, only taking with me one rex and two spinos. Waited for carchar to kill everything and fed him a baby rex. Mounted, went hunting, by the way, titanomyrma apparently do work for taming. Got him to around 40%, dismounted on my own when he was 18 seconds away form friend mode's end. Took another baby from wyvern's inventory, just in case. Fed him a spino, but this time a baby spino wasn't enough for full friendliness. So I killed another, but it got stuck on the cliff and carchar couldn't get to it. I killed a rex, but carchar still wanted that spino. With my sino and some maneuvering I got the spino out, carchar lost friendliness in that time, carchar ate the spino, and that one was enough. Hunted more, got him to 71%, dismounted, used elixir, and that's another carchar in my small collection! I named him Copperscale. He tamed with 70% melee, not bad for his level. Podded him, returned home, put him with the other three. Repodded babies and that's all for today. Sidebases will wait until tomorrow.

Sometimes same, but that wasn't about the difficulty of waking up, dude. More about waking up, going to the kitchen to eat something before a good few hours of ARK and finding that there's almost enough water on the floor to start building an IRL Ark (but only almost enough, thankfully, so a bucket and a towel were enough).

Yeah. I'm alright now. It just wasn't a nice thing to wake up to, so after dealing with that I decided that it was enough effort for one day, and even a proper day of ARK would be a bit much to add on top of that. I'll play normally today.

(Official PVE, Valguero) The plan was to do a good few hours of ARK right in the morning, but due to non-ARK-related reasons (had to mop up a bucket's worth of water off the kitchen floor. RIGHT after waking up.) I'm no longer in the mood, so just fed dinos, bred carchas and also the now-grown new mut rex female to a clean rex male (carcha stays, right melee. Rex fail, no mut stats inherited), and topped up gens back to 30 in each (from vault, not in the mood to feed gachas now, either). That's all for now, possibly even for today.

(Official PVE, Fjordur) Got venom, uploaded venom, fed dinos. (Official PVE, Valguero) Unpodded drakes, downloaded venom, fed drakes. Unpodded carchar baby. Hatched eggs form the last time, decided to not keep giga fail eggs anymore - I have plenty baby gigas in case I need to level a wyvern or a shoulder pet, and I need space for rex/spino ones. LOOOTS of space. Bred gigas, carchars, rexes and spinos. Carchar stays (male, 19 melee), rest fails. Gigas cracked, rexes and spinos kept for carcha taming. Scouted spawns, found a 95 female carchar, lovely ginger. Grabbed some ammo, a sanguine elixir, and 6 baby rexes. 3 with me, and 3 spares on wyvern. Killed a rex, carchar didn't see it. Trying to drown near someone's base was more important. Finally got her to sniff it, but she couldn't get to it. Killed another rex - it disappeared. Another - she sniffed it, ate it, I got her to a bit over 20%. Went back to the wyvern, took remaining babies. Another - and got her to 40%. But I ran out of things to kill on that shore and made a stupid decision to swim across the lake to another instead of, you know. Riding up and to the mountain and killing things there. Because I'm an idiot. So she drowned on my way back, like 1/4 her body's length away from where water would be shallow enough for her to stand. Oops. Returned home, put remaining two babies into the fridge. Made more ammo, repaired shotgun and left it in the fabricator, took SCUBAs and went for an Abyss loot run. Nothing good, an 80-something yuty saddle, but I can make better. Killed two tusos. Returned home, fed gachas for some time, most ele went into the gens. Imprinted carcha, podded her and the drakes, and that's all for today.

(Official PVE, Extinction) Lowered resolution before logging on to it, so things went fine. Counted the cloning chambers on that weirdo neighbour base - 20 in each of two top rows, 8 in each of two bottom ones. Never seen ANY being used, so might just be there to be a lagging, crashing nuisance. Fed dinos. Heard a drop, went to check, but didn't find anything. Must have misidentified sound's direction. (Official PVE, Lost Island) Fed dinos. Though about going for a new magma egg, but decided against it. (Official PVE, Crystal Isles) Built a trough (yes, after all this time). Fed dinos, gathered some metal. (Official PVE, Valguero) Unpodded drakes and carcha. Bred rexes and spinos. Hatched fail eggs from the last time - 2 sets of spino twins! Great! Took old fail rex eggs from Noodle - he still has a giga one, he won't starve, and I need them more now that I have use for all those breedjects. Took an old podded wyvern, one too painfully bright to use, and went to a Lost Island server finally get that hoversail engram. It doesn't deserve its own entry on this post, because nothing happened - I uploaded without it taking so long that I'd get nervous, learned the engram (plus a few other Gen 1/2 ones, since I hate jumping servers and want it to be my last server jump on main character. Better get everything I might potentially want), used my wyvern to fly to the nearest beacon, and returned home. The wyvern was left there (I unclaimed it). Back home I made new armor, spyglass, tek canteen and food, since I jumped back so fast that nothing on me was ready for my way back home. Took my hoversail, traveled a bit on it. Jumped over a swimming spino while at that. Because why not. Returned home, experimented a bit with painting the hoversail, decided on mostly black with some bright green. And named it GamerBoat 3000, because with colors like those it can't be named anything else. Fed gachas, most element I got form them went into generators. Took Forest Lord on a hunt, killed a level 20 alpha rex and two rock elementals. Returned home, podded drakes and carcha, and that's all for today.

(Official PVE, Valguero) Unpodded drakes. Moved meat form the trough to maewing, hatched carcha, put her and the new mut rex with the maewing. Bred rexes, spinos and gigas. All fails (well, that just means more gigas for leveling sinos, and more spinos and rexes for the next time I try for a carcha!) Podded some more dinos I'm not using (basilisks except for Jormungandr, magmas except for Ferra, one of the maewings, gigas Obsidian and Cyanide (I decided to leave trying to get their colors together for some later time), egg-run wyverns since I'm not planning for any egg-runs, instead of them I unpodded an old crystal ember wyvern - faster, good if I need to go back for more babies when taming a carcha, and much brighter - easy to find). Bred carchas, no luck - 1 melee. Cracked. Took Forest Lord of a bit of a hunt. Went through the swamp, ended up near the nearest giga spawn. Didn't stay to see if there's anything there - just chomped the nearest para and used the speed boost to get the hell out of there. Returned home, checked drakes - pretty hungry. Logged off and on to (Official PVE, Fjordur). Got venom. And also looted the red cave crate, 370 flak gauntlets BP! That's better than what I have back on Valg. Uploaded venom and BP. Returned home, out the chainsaw away. (Official PVE, Valguero again) Downloaded venom and BP, fed drakes. Took hoversail, wandered around on it for a while. Returned home, did a flit run for my next portion of arrows, a meatrun with a giga, filled the tek trough for rex, podded drakes and carcha, and that's all for today (unless I get worried about the rex and log back on to check on her).

(Official PVE, Valguero) Planned to do something, but immediately forgot what, so just bred rexes. And imagine that! A new health mut, bringing them to 45 health! That egg went into the incubator with carcha one, while the rest of them stays in the other one. Just so I don't use the baby as next carcha bait by mistake. For now that's all. ... Unpodded drakes for raising and went to check the spawns. no babies on me this time, I was literally just checking. But a 90! Male! Nice green (carchas, apparently, are among dinos that don't look like cheap plastic toys in green)! So back I went, took three rexes and a few spinos. Started taming. At first things went fine, with a lot of killing and a sanguine elixir got him to around 60%. Then next rex I wanted to give him was eaten by argents. I killed them, but that's still -1 rex, with no benefit to me at all. Then I did a stupid thing that I REALLY should have kept for SP testing an not for actual, on-server play: I hopped off of him early an gave him another baby to see if you can just extend friendliness instead of waiting for it to run out and befriending the carcha again. You can't. Well, at least with this waste of a perfectly good dead baby new knowledge was gained. Then gave him a spino, with friendship form that got him nearly to 90% Then another, but that one popped out of existence when I shot it. And that was the last baby. Tried killing wild dinos, no good, stegos give plenty, but just not ENOUGH. Returned home, took some adults out of the fridge. Two stegos, a pachyrhino, and a mana. Lowered their health, repodded, brought them to the carcha. No good. And had to harvest pachy myself, because I got stuck in it. Back home and rex eggs were ready! Hatched three, went back, he lost quite a lot of progress, was around 60% again. Got him to 91% with two rexes, the third one he couldn't get to quickly enough, so he ate it but gained no friendliness. Also, was almost killed by two allos, but killed them with my shotgun (good thing I had armor and bloodpacks!). Went back, hatched last fail egg, podded drakes so that I don't lose them, as they got pretty hungry during my carcha adventure, returned to carcha, got him friendly with that final rex, he still was at 91%, killed stuff. Encountered a pack of allos, not the same that hurt me (on the account of those being dead), but killing them still felt great. A "look big bro, those are the kids that bullied me!" kinda feel, I imagine. Finally tamed, level 120 (effectiveness was around 60%). 115% melee. Named him Forest Lord, podded, brought home. Tested on a training dummy, no leveling, no rage - 242 damage per bite. Now that's a good boy! For now that's all, i need a bit of rest after all that. Later will feed drakes, kill stuff with my newest carcha and whatever. ... (Official PVE, Fjordur) Got venom, 9 of it. Uploaded it. Fed dinos. (Official PVE, Valguero) Unpodded drakes, downloaded venom, fed them. Remembered I saw some abandoned-looking vaults back when taming Forest Lord, went back there, and yep. Abandoned, decayed. ready for harvesting. Looted them. Nothing great, but an extra incubator is a nice thing to have. Even if I don't need it, I can just break it for resources. Returned home, took Forest Lord, went hunting. He's so much stronger than the previous two, that I was able to get 100 kills right outside the base, running out of prety was more of a problem than not killing it fast enough. Tested him, still unleveled, at 100 rage - 667 damage per bite. Took him to the Beaver Lake, hunted more, even killed a level 20 alpha rex (that regeneration is something - he wasn't hurt at all by the end of it!). Leveled him to 156% melee. Returned home, keeping that 100, tested - 906 damage. Roared to lose the rage, tested - 329. Nice! Podded drakes and that's all for today.

So far I did it by running around on the carcha and murdering everything in my path. Rare flowers can be helpful... As long as it's not the snow spawn, with the rock elementals. Worked well enough for the two I tamed so far. Leading and netting is unlikely to be any good - as far as I know, you have to ride it to get progress, and a friendly carcha will still attack anything that's close enough - only making an exception for the tamer. So it's likely to be a waste of dinos, that also makes it harder to mount carcha as it runs around chaotically.

Unclaimed is still tamed. It's nobody's tame, but it's still a tame. That's not yours. Therefore killing it is not allowed on PVE even with friendly-fire methods (weapons, wyverns and such) that work for tames that DO belong to you.

I play PVE. I just looked up the method, and even the author in the pinned comment says it won't work for PVE. Sorry for confusion (guess I'll start adding "PVE" to the "Official, mapname" thing to avoid further confusion. Even though it being PVE is pretty obvious from having multiple tames out all the time, even gigas, and the lack of mention of not wild-dino or my own stupidity-related losses. And the fact that the only "raiding" happening is looting of decayed bases)

(Official, Valguero) Another try at finding a carcha. Took podded baby rexes and spinos (sorry, but I'm not going to bother with taming and breeding good diplos when I have more of those produced nearly every day), a sanguine elixir, gun, ammo, sino and wyvern (my egg-run fire wyvern, same as last time. Strong enough to handle stuff, ugly enough to not care if things go wrong). Zoomed between spawns, killing everything. No carchas whatsoever. Then on one spawn one of the two giant murderbeasts available appeared... But, unfortunately, it was a giga. level 55. I tried to lure him into water to drown, but he refused to drown. However, he bit my wyvern a few times and the "gnashed" effect didn't really work - icon and blood spray, but no health drain. So I went back home, unpodded Phobos, took his saddle, repodded him. Saddled one of my breeder females (I'm not risking my actual riding giga, Abaddon. And anyway, they're both 200% at hatch, fully imprinted. The girls just only have passive levels so they're around 300% current while Abaddon is 406%). Podded her, went back, unpodded, killed the wild giga. repodded her, zoomed between spawns, killing stuff some more. An alpha rex spawned. Unpodded giga again, killed the rex, killed everything else, still no carcha spawned. Returned home, put the giga back in her place in the breeder row, and that's all for now. Later will check on sidebases and search for carchas some more. ... (Official, Extinction) Uploaded dust from the last time, started killing stuff to feed dinos, crashed due to running out of graphics card's memory because normally it plus the flash drive-as-extra-RAM thing are enough, but not when trying to load in four rows of I-didn't-count-but-there's-like-20-AT LEAST-in-each-row cloning chambers (who the hell needs that many?! Even the craziest of the bases I've seen before, one so bad that being near it caused desyncs, had only eleven!). And that's what the neighboring base has. Started ARK again, lowered resolution to absolute minimum, logged back on, fed dinos. Logged off, put resolution back to normal. I guess I'll just have to make it minimum whenever I log onto Extinction. (Official, Crystal Isles) Uploaded the third basilisk. Fed dinos. Saw a tropeo, but low level and basest possible colors, so left it alone. (Official, Lost Island) Fed dinos. (Official, Valguero) You know the drill! Breedject babies, shotgun, ammo, sanguine elixir (and some blood packs in case I get hurt), flowers, sino, wyvern, and off to the giga spawns! First and second yielded nothing. But in the snows I saw HIM. Light gray, male, already forgot the wild level but it was either 50 or 55. So I landed my wyvern on a cliff, put most babies and ammo in her inventory so that I won't lose all if things go wrong, waited for the carcha to kill everything and just stand there as carchas do, unpodded a baby rex and killed it, brought it to the carcha... He sniffed, I dropped it and flew a bit away, he ate it, insta-friendly! I mounted him, went killing (flowers weren't much good. I mean, great at making prey come to us! But rock elementals were affected too). With lots of murder and a sanguine elixir I got him to around 70%. Then I ran out of time, he threw me off, bit me. But I had good armor so I was crippled but still alive, and it happened while I was still in the process of falling off his back, so being crippled didn't prevent me form escaping on my sino. Waited for the carcha to kill everything nearby again, unpodded and killed a second rex, offered it, he ate it, re-mounted, tamed him the rest of the way. Podded him, got back to my wyvern, returned home. Named the new carcha Arctic. He had 45% melee right after tame, training dummy revealed that with no levels, no rage he hits for around 90 (95, maybe? Already forgot, and didn't think to write it down. Either way. much better than Cupcake) ASB already updated for carchas, by the way, so now I know that Cupcake's melee pre-leveling is 1 point, and Arctic's - 5. Took Arctic to the beach for a hunt. Yeah, he's a lot better than Cupcake. Kills most dodos in a single bite, so I was able to get him to 70 pretty fast. Then I took him to the Beaver Lake, he was already strong enough to take on a pack of hyaenodons. At 100 kills he actually became a semi-impressive killing machine. By that time he was leveled to a bit over 50% melee. Kept that 100 all the way to the home, tested on a training dummy. 323 at 100 kills, 117 at 0 (I actually wrote that down, so yes, these are the right numbers). Not bad! Bred him and Cupcake, the egg is female, Arctic's melee, rest of the stats from Cupcake. Stays because 1. First carcha egg! And 2. I want to see what a carcha can do with full imprint. Downloaded dust and basilisk. Made dust into element, unpodded basilisk and named him Udon't Noodle. Podded a few tames I don't need at the moment. Unpodded drakes for a bit of raising. Fed gachas, not much. Most element form gachas and from the downloaded dust went into generators. Repodded drakes and that's all for today. Didn't visit Fjordur sidebase because tomorrow I'll visit it in any case because it'll be drake feeding time.

Well, that means I REALLY need to get Cupcake a good level mate, so that instead of mere 70 to 199, suitable for hunting small stuff, I could have an all-killing ragemachine that jumps from something decent to something INSANE.

(Official, Fjordur) Took chainsaw, took yuty, into the cave, NODES! Harvested one, uploaded venom (and the loot accumulated during the fail runs). (Official, Valguero) Unpodded drakes, downloaded venom and loot, fed drakes. Took a few fail baby gigas, leveled Jormungandr with them. Also got the final, 115 level for myself. Took three podded babies (drake, tek rex, and a spino that wasn't really a fail, but not important and only thing that's small enough to carry AND see where I'm going as I carry it AND sure to give a nice amount of trust), and went to the giga spawns. First one - nothing. Second one... Carcha! Level 20, but still, a carcha is a carcha. First I unpodded a baby rex. Killed, started dragging to my soon-to-be-tame... Ants. Then she ran to the abb cave, I landed with my sino onto the rock above it... Had to kill a carno and a raptor for safety. Then sinochuted down, unpodded drake, killed, brought to the carcha, she sniffed it and ate it! Didn't make her friendly right away, but about 60% isn't bad. Then I unpodded and killed the spino, gave that to her, boom! Friendly! Mounted her and went to kill stuff. Important fact: not sure about other alphas, but alpha carnos can't be used for taming - carcha's bite doesn't do anything to them. It's like trying to bite a ghost. So, no easy tames if you thought about using that. I killed brontos and diplos, sabers and raptors, and everything else that was there (only one rex. I think it would have been faster if there were more rexes). Argents were pretty good, compared to everything else, so leaving corpses unharvested as a bait is a good idea for when the area's low on the good prey. It was 30 seconds to friend mode's end when I finally got her tamed. named her Cupcake (not wasting a cool name on a level 20. Also, "C'mere, Cupcake" was what I said when she got friendly but instead of letting me mount her decided that a para corpse nearby looks yummy and must be eaten now, and ran off to get it). Podded her, brought her home, made a saddle, took her on a hunt. She struggles even with dodos (as expected form someone her level), and gets less melee per point than a giga. But otherwise fun. Returned home, podded drakes, that's all for now. ... Unpodded drakes again. Bred rexes, spinos, drakes and gigas. Perfect drake! Female, all stats, all colors (lo light brown, so no regions for me to mistake for the right one). Gigas all fails, leveling fodder. Rest of non-drakes all fails too, some of them will be going with me on the next carcharo taming trip. Took Cupcake and went to the beach to see if that blood rage can get useful if I stack it as high as it goes. As it turns out, it goes to 100, at 50 she was already killing weaker dodos with one bite, and at 100 I took her up to Beaver Lake and she was fine killing hyaenodons, mammoths and stegos. Took her home (while continuing to kill stuff to keep that 100), tested her on a training dummy, turns out at max rage she hits for 199 (she's leveled to a bit over 30% melee now and without any blood rage she hits for around 70). Repodded drakes and that's all for today. ... Okay, wasn't all for today. because I realized rex eggs should be ready, so logged on, hatched four, podded, took them, gun, ammo, sino, rare flowers (to lure dinos to me. Should be better than spending a minute out of ten chasing a single one), and even a sanguine elixir. Went to the giga spawns. Only two of them, because I really don't like the snow biome for anything but wyvern egg runs. I'm much more familiar with forests and mountains. Nothing and nothing. Killed everything, waited for new spawns. Nothing and nothing. Again. Nothing and a level 15 giga. Tried to lure her into the lake, failed. BUT! She ended up running up a cliff and getting stuck on it, face in the depths of stone, toothless, defenseless behind open to all winds. Also to gunshots and wyvern breath. So I slowly, bit by bit, chipped away at her health with my wyvern's flames, until the giga was no more. Went to the other spawn, killed stuff. Went back. Giga. Again. 95 this time, so can't even risk to try and lure it away - too dangerous. Focused on the other spawn, killing and killing and killing. Nothing. Got tired of it all, returned home, put rexes into the "leveling fodder" fridge. Hatched the drake, and yes. Yesss! She's perfect. Might even just use her as my mount instead of breeding her back to Moss in hopes for perfect looks/perfect stats male. But for now I just podded it and that's actually all for today.

(Unmodded singleplayer, the Island) More carcha testing. Spawned a 150 this time, since I have the mechanism figured out already and just needed to see how it'll work once I get one for real (meaning, on official). Taming speed unaltered, I was able to get it to a bit over 50% in one go. Can't remember whether SP settings were on or off, though, so actual experience may vary. Once the carcha can't be ridden anymore (whether done with its friend mode, or tamed), rider gets launched high and far off its back. For safety, I assume. Parachutes would be good to have. Sino - better. More importantly, tamed dinos CAN be used to make it friendly. So that fridge of baby giga breedjects I have on Valg? Totally gonna come in handy. (Official, Fjordur) Tried to get venom. No nodes. (Official, Extinction) Dust run! Flew around on a wyvern, chomping lampposts. Uploaded 41 full stack of dust. Have more, but it didn't fit (wiki says it's 50 slots. Terminals themselves say it's 50 slots. But I tried to upload 42-th, like, 5 times, and it gave me time-out each time). Eh, next time. (Official, Valguero) Downloaded dust and made it into element. 12 split between the generators, rest went into the vault. Took a few podded baby gigas, shotgun and bat, went looking for carchars. No carchars. Returned home, bred drakes and gigas. Gigas no good, drake male, all right colors, right health, weight and melee, wrong stam but eh. With 38 melee I guess I can sacrifice a few points in favor of stamina. Remembered about dung beetles, refilled their trough. Giga's nearly adult, named her Cyanide. And that's all for now. ... Another run over the giga spawns, nothing. Returned home, uploaded the carcha kit (babies, gun, ammo, sino). Also, hatched drake. I had regions mixed up, he is NOT the right color (I forgot which was feathers and which was underscale. So he ended up being with light brown FEATHERS, which is unacceptable) (Official, Crystal Isles) Downloaded all that, went to giga spawns, nothing. Repodded sino, uploaded the kit again. And uploaded the tropeo, too. (Official, Extinction) Uploaded last time's dust, downloaded the other stuff (except for tropeo, of course). But turns out I forgot to upload the ammo. Crafted some. Went to the snow dome... Carcha! not high level, but fairly good looking. Buuut it turned out that I really should have tested if the sacrificial babies are draggable. They aren't. Wasted ammo for nothing killing them. Left the carcha alone. Uploaded pods and shotgun. not sino, though. He'll stay on Ext. (Official, Fjordur) Another try at getting venom, another failure. Well, that's how it goes during events! I'll get mine once it's over. (Official, Valguero) Downloaded the stuff. Made dust into element. Took OTHER fail babies, ones that I know I can carry after killed, and went looking for carchas. Spent a long time killing things on the giga spawns. Nope, nothing. Rage... Who said "quit"? Nope! Rage-bred three fire wyverns, and uploaded their eggs, an empty cryo and a gasmask. If I can't get a carcha during the high rates, then I'll at least get SOMETHING! (Official, Crystal Isles) Downloaded the stuff and went to the basilisk spawns. Looked for a while, nothing. Except for a titano stuck on top of some trees. But then, a glimpse of blue! A basilisk, unburied, and a 135 at that! I dropped an egg and waited for him to kill his prey (a trike and a dilo). He did that, saw the egg, ate the egg, and that's my first ever danger noodle of unusual size. Spent some time looked for another - I brought enough for three, so I'm getting at least two! For a while, nothing. Then a level 20. After a 135, you can't just give me a twenty. She wasn't worth a dodo egg, let alone a wyvern one. Then saw two, buried. One surfaced to catch a snail, level 50, not particularly great. The other, and 85. Better. Put the gasmask on and quickly dismounted-remounted to get her attention, threw an egg, she ate it. Boom! Done. Podded. Then I saw a third one, got his attention, but he really wanted to kill me and wanted no eggs. So I tried to get one that spawned where the 85 used to be, but they both came so in the end I'm not sure which one I got. Uploaded two basilisks, didn't have the patience to wait for the third's uploading time. (Official, Valguero) Downloaded basilisks, named (Jormungandr and Naga), made two saddles, only saddled Jorm for now, though. Exported their stats, Jormungandr has 28 health, 28 stam, 32 weight and 25 melee. Naga has 29 food, and that's her highest stat. So, she's a spare, not a snake to actually use if there's a choice. And that's all for today.

(Official, Extinction) Chomped some lampposts, uploaded dust. Fed dinos. (Official, Crystal Isles) Looked for high-level tropeos. Found none, also my kibble was stolen by a pego and my ptera ate it when I killed the pego. Oops. Found a tropeo after all, right near my base. Not high-level at all, though - only 15. Okay colors, though. Trapped, regular-bolaed, hurt to make it starve, chain-bolaed, tamed with raw meat (and a bit of prime). Podded, will upload later. (Official, Fjordur) There were two alphas outside. A raptor and a carno. Had to kill them. Fed dinos. (Official, Lost Island) Fed dinos. (Official, Valguero) Downloaded dust. Bred drakes in case I'll get something even better than what I already have. And, well, the scales are wrong, but rest of colors and stats are right, and it's a female. So I'm keeping her, will raise her and the previous one both. And that's all for now. ... Okay, so this second part of today was largely to test a little something. You see, I did that thing where a flash drive is formatted and used for extra RAM, wanted to see if it'll affect my ARK experience, and... IT DID. Looks like most of my "lag problems" were just RAM problems, actually. So, (Official, Valguero) Unpodded the drake and left her to grow. Took my rollrat, went on a wood run. For the first time ever, was able to roll for 1/3 worth of his stam instead of a stutter stopping me after a few meters. Good sign already, though can be "blamed" on the server feeling unusually good. Then, after moving all the wood to the vault, I took my hoversail. Out of the base I went and on the lake, right past a rather laggy base, with a tower, a few large, fully enclosed boxes, and a ton of dinos. You get the picture. Not the worst, but definitely not a "just zoom past it" one for someone with a weak PC like mine. Wandering near it could result in a hard time turning back, so laggy it can get. Well, didn't exactly zoom past it, but was only slowed to the minimum of about 12 FPS - still high enough to stay in control, turning as I please and even doing tricks when it went a bit higher. Then took my ice egg-run wyvern. Went to the trench, but not right away - first a few loops around that same base - maybe on hoversail I just wasn't close enough to be affected? Nope. Flew around it fine. Same low-but-still-not-a-slideshow FPS. To the trench I went, circling a few more big bases on my way - and flying around them just fine. No need to stay high up, out of everything's rendering range, to enjoy a mostly-uninterrumted flight. In the trench killed a few wyverns. No lag there, either. Not surprising at that point. Back, and on my way back - a nice loop over a base with a few astrocetus floating above it. And still went nice. Returned home, the drake was ready to have her first meal, so I logged off and on to (Official, Fjordur). Took my chainsaw and my yuty, went into the cave. About 2 seconds to go in - unusually fast. So, definitely the flash drive thing doing wonders, and not just my main server feeling good. Harvested one node, 15 venom. Waited for upload, killed some stuff in the mean time. Uploaded, exited the cave. About 5 seconds. Again, unusually fast. Normally it's more like a full minute. Returned home and put the chainsaw away. (Official, Valguero) Fed drake, hunted with my bat, made elixir, used it on the drake and fed her again. Repodded her and that's all for today. ... Okay, wasn't ALL for today because I was still awake, and event started, and update dropped. So (Unmodded singleplayer, the Island) Spawned a few low-level wild carchas and tried to figure out their taming on my own. Then saw the actual method on Reddit, felt dumb, tried that, yep, it works, it's good, it probably can be done (wonder about best trap, classic box with ramp, but huge and one wall a tek behem gate? Well, considering that I play on Official PVE, I'll probably have to make do with whatever whoever claimed the territory comes up with). (Official, Valguero) Unpodded drakes and the rex (the one that was finally male and with both mut stats), took Ekimma (my bat) and a shotgun with some ammo, and went to check giga spawns because according to another comment on Reddit, that's where carchas are maybe supposed to be and at the moment that's all the info I have, so might as well try. One was empty, other two contained low-level gigas. Returned home with nothing. Took Abaddon and went killing stuff. Tek dino hunting was somewhat profitable, got enough dust for 1 element and 60 shards. Also, I got a level and Abaddon got one, too. Mine went into weight, just because 350 is neater than 340, and his, naturally, into melee. He's a giga after all. Though it was a pity to lose his 404% melee - I mean, 406% is better, bot 404 is FUNNIER. Returned home, decided that might as well get some more levels while they're fast, unpodded some fail gigas and shot them. That got 3 levels for me (all into crafting skill) and 10 for my sino (all into weight). Drakes got hungry enough, logged on to (Official, Fjordur), took chainsaw and yuty, and... There were no nodes. Waited, nothing. Went outside, took bat, wandered around for a while, returned - nothing. Logged off for (Official, Valguero) again: bred gigas (all fails), imprinted one drake, podded both, and that's actually all for today.

Well, it could have been worse (I mean, I was sure I'll lose my survivor and therefore everything I worked hard to get (or had mad luck to get. That piece of territory my base is built on? Pure luck). So I'd say 5/10 on the ARKedness scale: pretty bad, had potential to be seriously bad, but at the end of it did more damage to my nervous system than to anything actually important.

(Official, Valguero) Checked on the giga, imprinted her, hatched eggs and podded babies. That's all for now. ... Planned a 100 rune run using ARK wiki's map - only runes that are NOT in dangerous places (trenches, onyc-containing caves, deep redwoods). That got me 88 (plans changed a bit later, a few turned out to be in too dangerous areas, had to be replaced partially by ones in safe-ish caves, forgot about another, but 86 that I ended up with was good enough) in Midgard, rest in Asgard. Lowered graphics' quality to as little as I can without it causing my eyes to try to leave my skull. Unpodded my old bat, Konrad. He had saddle, which is fortunate. Put all of his accumulated during podding levels into stam. Repodded him, waited for server save, hopped onto a Fjordur server. (Official, Fjordur) Spawned in Vannaland, South. Unpodded Konrad and went rune-hunting. Got the nearest ones to my spawn, then went to that swamp island (sorry, don't remember the name. Most location names on Fjordur sound to me like a drunk Viking choking on gravel, and I can't memorize what I can barely read), grabbed the non-cave runes there. Then Vardiland, grabbed all surface runes there. Then the volcano island, that's where my plans had to be changed a bit - didn't realize while planning that a few runes there were too close to the trench. Then island between the volcano and Vardiland, then Vardiland itself. Waited for night, grabbed runes in the cave with nameless venom. When looking for the ones near Redwoods, spotted a decayed vault. Looted that. Couldn't get everything, but did take all jumping pads, a cryofridge, a transmitter, a replicator, tek double frame and door, some tek lights, and (my first time seeing one of those!) electronic binoculars. Waited for nearest save (grabbed a couple of runes while at that) uploaded that sweet, sweet loot. Finished the Midgard part of my run with the rune in Hidden Worlds and went to Asgard. Wasn't hard to get the remaining runes there. The whole run took me a bit over 5 hours. Would be less if it wasn't for extra-laggy megabases (I get it. Big bases are cool. But are all those astrocetus really necessary?). Tried to travel back to Valguero. Loading. Loading. Loading. "You were kicked by BattleEye, reason: client not responding" So there I am, my heart physically switching places with brain, judging by how it felt. and just generally nervous as hell. So I try to log onto Valg. Connection timeout. \I waited for a little bit, tried again. Took a looong time to load. But finally, thankfully, not character creation menu, but survivor download one. I download myself, I spawn on my bed, I grab my sino, I download all the loot, and that's all for now. Later I'll log back on to top up the tek troughs, feed gachas, maybe hunt something for a bit of Exp, but right now I just need a break. ... Okay, break's over. Placed some of the tek lights, stored the rest in a vault. Tested the binoculars. A fun toy, but not much more. Spyglass is better - at least it doesn't require me to be on foot. Replaced my house's door (upper one. I go outside by jumping off the balcony with my sino much more often than I do it by exiting like a normal human being through the door on first floor), and installed the new cryofridge. Took Abaddon, went hunting. Killed a lot of hyaenodons and sabers, then went to the swamp, killed stuff there, too. Gonna take a lot more to push me to the next level, but I'm not in any hurry (especially since the engram I'm leveling (hoversail. Can't just be forever-careful with the only one I have!) for isn't available on Valg, and I think it'll be quite a long time before I'm brave enough to transfer again). Returned home, topped up the tek trough for the giga. Imprinted giga (her final imprint!). Unpodded drake, fed gachas for a while, most element went into generators. Repodded drake (1% grown) and that's all for today.

(Official, Valguero) Early in the morning checked on the giga. She was doing fine, I imprinted her and moved remaining meat from the maewing to a tek trough. Just now imprinted giga again, saddled my newly-grown megatherium (his name is Tyranid Eater) and went on a leveling/chitin run. Leveled him to 10000 health and 500+% melee, even killed an alpha (well, skeletal) carno! Returned home, put chitin into the storage, topped up tek troughs, podded two newly-grown magmas, hatched drake (I was wrong, not all colors are right - wrong feathers. Off to the leveling fodder fridge she goes!), and that's all for now. ... Checked on the giga (doing fine, troughs so full that no refill is needed), imprinted her. Moved new sino male to the coop, podded old one. Bred sinos, drakes and rexes. One sino egg stays (female, clean, all right stats), drake and rex staying too (drake female, most right stats, this time really all the right colors, rex male, mut stats inherited). And that's all for today.