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Xbox SP, The Island Yesterday, I managed to sneak in a few hours... we had a severe snow storm here so it put work on hold for a few days. I started getting everything ready for the boss army breeding: cryo’d all the yutys in the Colosseum to make way for theris, podded most of my other less useful dinos too just to clean things up. I took out my new thyla as a baby killer in the Colosseum for all the rejects. I don’t think I told you guys about this.... when I was flying around the redwoods looking for otters, I found a medium-level thyla just chillin on the shores. I couldn’t resist flying it back to base and taming it because I’ve never owned one! Aaaaanyway... I’ve got my two wild-tamed theris breeding at the moment. I got a Perfect F, just waiting on Perfect M to reveal himself and then the real breeding can start. I think I’m gonna collect 10 or so females after the perfect pair to increase my chances. I had 5 for the yutys and it wasn’t enough. That’s all for now, but I’m excited to report even this minimal progress.

Xbox SP, The Island Its been many moons since my last post. I have a seasonal job in real life so once the season starts, I usually play sporadically whenever I can. Despite this, I finally have some news to report. My last post was about my struggle to find otters. I had no choice, after 6 logins worth of trying I couldn’t find ANY, so I dino wiped. I managed to find some low levels after that. I got a pair this time so I never EVER have to fish for otters again. Cool colours, too! Otters are like cannon fodder when I play so I plan to breed up a bunch of spares. After all the otter drama, it was time to finally attempt the snow cave. In typical me fashion, I was totally overprepared. I got Achilles, my imprinted and levelled Yuty and made two trips, one to clear out the first section of the cave where you can put a mini base and a second trip to bring more crap and actually run the rest of the cave. The house I made in that base is big and cozy enough to live in permanently 🤣 Oh well, I’ll be comfy when I go back to fish some of the huge salmon. I was massively surprised by how easy it was to run the cave on a yuty. I even brought some of those valentines day chocolates that fully heal your creature, but never had to use one. Very effective creature, I’m super happy I chose that mount. I did lose my otter, though. I didn’t know that if my character was in knee-deep water that the otter would take cold damage as well. Didn’t take long for it to die. Next up is boss army breeding and then actual boss fights! Wish me luck!

You know what, you’re absolutely right man. I obviously play alone so maybe I just really needed a bit of perspective. perhaps I’ll just get myself a low-level pair so I don’t ever have to go otter fishing ever again. thanks for the reality check, @Penguin73. My next post should be about the snow cave 😉 believe me, I’m already sick of the island and ready to move on the SE as fast as possible!

Xbox SP, The Island I haven’t posted in a while but it’s not from a lack of gameplay. I literally just have nothing to share 😅. A few logins ago I decided to re-run the lava cave with a disposable saber. Lost the saber and everything in my inventory when I fell into lava (maybe one day I’ll learn 🤣). So for the past few logins, I’ve been working to replace the things I lost but my main thing has been finding another otter. I didn’t have the forethought to get a breeding pair the first time around, so now I’m stuck flying back and forth over the river near the redwoods to find another. Only low levels at first, and now I can’t find any. I’ve put around 17 real hours into finding a good one but haven’t yet. Wondering if I’m wasting my time now but... I need it for the snow cave. If I settle for a low level, that guarantees that I wasted all that time. Ugh. Disenchanted and discouraged, I keep on the search anyway.

Nice to see you back on the thread, looking forward to following your SP journey 👍

Xbox SP, The Island In my past couple logins, I’ve been busy stacking yuty mutations until I couldn’t take it anymore and had to do something else 😅. I ended up with a 3 health, 7 melee yuty. Could obviously be better, so I’m keeping an eye out on the eggs that come out in the Colosseum before they all get butchered. I named the yuty Achilles and levelled him just under 60 times in the purpose-built colosseum. I then gave him the ceremonial cave mount face paint and took him out for a joy ride. I’ve been saving a nearby alpha carno just for this occasion. I’m just as happy with the yuty as I am about my colosseum project. It took no time at all to level up, and the entire structure will work fantastically to breed,raise,imprint, and level the entire theri army. Basically, it was a very successful trial run. And while I was messing around with the yutys, I got better at breeding. Win! Now I’m doing loads of research and preparations for the snow cave, all advice is welcome. Im not doing that bad in terms of time, either... ~560 (in-game) days. I wasted a lot of time in the beginning learning the game and didn’t consider doing boss fights until much later, so I’m actually pretty happy with the progression since I decided I was going to ascend. It feels good to be (maybe, hopefully) close to my first boss fight. Next steps are: finish snow cave prep, run the cave, theri breeding then decide which boss to start with and begin prep for that. I hope I’m doing this right

I wish they would’ve emphasized that you could get the event items from breeding. 1000x faster and easier than fishing imo. If I could share with you I would!!!

SP Xbox, The Island I have been breeding Yutys for a few days now and have learned an incredible amount. I didn’t realize how much space this was going to take, I’ve renovated the breeding area like 3 times. No big deal, though, I like building. After the novelty of hatching wore off, I got bored and planned and built a gladiator-style coliseum. It’s not just for show, it’s got a triple-purpose. For one, it will serve as a nice place to kill and get rid of all the unwanted yutys that are no longer needed for breeding as well as other useless dinos hanging around. Next, it’s entire floor has a basement with a generator and a/c units (obviously for hatching) and a walkway up top on which to place the last of the female yuty breeders, which brings me to my third purpose, levelling. I can either choose to keep some good yutys that fall into the pit, but the vast majority will be used to level the keepers. The yuty you want to keep walks up the ramp to fall into the pit, slaughters however many dinos, then leaves thru the gates ready for either the snow save or boss fights. There’s even a platform on which they stand afterwards to get painted, kind of like a rite of passage... not much else to do who left waiting around for timers to go down lol. I’ve currently got a stack of 2 health, 4 melee on my current breeders. Soo far to go, yet 😟. Current colours are green main body with a red stripe on top, pretty poopy but different I’ll admit. I won’t mind if I get something else 😅 also... I now have an UNGODLY amount of chocolates and candies. Had to make a bunch more storage and fridges 😁 Anybody else go a bit crazy on collecting the event items?

@Sativa420 Welcome to the thread! I love the otter colours!

Xbox SP, The Island Happy times at the Hidden Lake base. I buckled down and got better at breeding for mutations. I started by messing around with some sabers, I wanted a better small caving dino so that seemed like a good place to start. I’m glad I did, because I certainly made some mistakes along the way. While I waited around for timers from go down, I did metal and meat runs, got OSD’s and did some more renovations. Then I got to the yutys. I was very intimidated at first, but I was smart enough to keep the original parents. I’m glad I did, too, because I made some more mistakes in that breeding line. But, I’m currently sitting at 1 Health and 3 Melee mutations on my snow cave/boss fighting yuty line. I’m pretty proud, and now that I’ve kinda got the hang of things I’m actually having some fun. It’s a good time to “get into” breeding too, with the Valentine’s event going on. I’ve been getting lots of chocolates and candies. I experimented with the candies a bit and was really pleasantly surprised at some of the colour combos. On some of my dinos, I wish the colours were permanent. I also built an incubation/hatching room with the a/c units under the floor, which I’m pretty proud of. I have 5 yuty females, so I collect like 10-15 eggs in the fridge then hatch em up at the same time then use one of the sabers to harvest the unwanted ones. Pretty slick! Can’t believe I waited so long to get started on this.

Xbox SP, The Island Not a problem, because in the past week, I finally, FINALLY found two high(ish) levels. They aren’t anywhere near max level, but I also have yet to see anything higher, so I’ll settle. Yesssss... finally have my boss and snow cave cave mount. I’m in the process of breeding now. Since losing my basilo in the cave, I felt really demoralized. I really didn’t feel like yuty or theri breeding (I’m also new to it which sucks) so I started doing feel-good tasks around the base. Things I could easily accomplish that would make my life instantly better; - I killed all my egg-laying dinos, destroyed the pen and made one especially for yuty egg farming. I never thought I’d be DROWNING in special eggs lol. - I went to slaughter some penguins and made a huge amount of really good ghillie armour. - I redecorated the house and made room for breeding indoors - I made extra cryofridges and cryopods so I can more easily separate and organize my dinos. Also cleared up the house by putting lots of dinos into cryo. Then I started to get bored. So I made gunpowder. Still bored, so I made various types of ammo. Then, there I am, stashing things into my caving vault, and I say SCREW IT. WE’RE DOING A CAVE! I needed a pick-me-up after losing basil. So I picked a cave I knew I was good at, the lava cave, and crushed it. No drama 😄 One could say I was on a roll, because after getting back from the lava cave, I immediately started loading up gas masks. Yup, I was gonna try the swamp cave again. I got the artifact last time, but barely survived. After re-supplying, I grabbed my best argy and headed south to the swamp cave. While flying over the mountain in the redwoods, I spot an alpha rex. I take him down with the argy and while I’m picking through our inventories to drop stuff, I get THYLA’D. Oh. My. God. I’m about to lose my best and only imprinted argy, I’m thinking, as I stood there stunned. I whistle furiously to my bird to attack, and together we kill the thyla. In the chaos, I hadn’t realized that a saber had also joined in. So we kill that too but at this point I’m so hurt that I can’t move. Whistle, whistle, whistle for my bird to come get me, but he keeps missing and there’s a pack of allos is headed my way. On Merlin’s 5th pass over my head I finally manage to actually mount him, and we escape. So all in all, a pretty good series of events compared to my last post. I got 2 spare artifacts, some blueprints, a spare MC rifle which was nice and a few levels on my caving bary, Ghillie. Ghillie earned himself a painted saddle so I spent some time making it just right. Quite literally the only thing I have left now is breeding. There is nothing else in life for me right now but getting this done. I could try a boss fight if I had an army. I could try the snow cave if I had an imprinted yuty. It’s time to get good at breeding.

Xbox SP, The Island No drama this time. Went for a yuty hunt, found no high lvls. Got some OSD’s, that’s a bout it. And now, for the first time ever... Xbox Official PvP 😁 The soloist joins the chaos of the servers for the first time! I was going to hold out on trying to servers until I had ascended on SP but I needed a change to keep myself interested in the game. Needed something a little less serious, I’ve been really stressed about trying to find a good yuty. I must say, I haven’t had this much fun playing in a while. I had the normal hilarious encounters that I’m sure you've all experienced a million times before me. Someone knocked on my beach hut door late at night and left 2 golden eggs on my steps. I got killed for using someone’s campfire. I bola’d and killed a bob trying to sneak up on me when I had my back turned while building on my raft. A mysterious player on a rainbow-coloured wyvern thundered in and landed in front of my door, killed everything around and left the corpses for me to harvest. It’s been hilarious and dangerous and my only regret is not trying it sooner. I’m not taking it too seriously and don’t care if I get raided, however I don’t foresee that being an issue. My time as a soloist is really helping me out in this new world. I’ve only put a few hrs in and I’m already over lvl 40 and have a rifle and fur armour. No tames yet.

Xbox SP, The Island Playing solo embodies what I feel being a real survivor would be like. Very alone, and consequences are huge when you fail. Nobody is there to tell you not to attempt something or rescue you when you fail. As you can imagine, I’m feeling philosophical after losing quite badly. But first, some good news! I got quite bored with the yuty hunt, I wasn’t finding anything good to tame after a week of playing a ridiculous amount of hours. I was in need of good BPs, so I took my caving basilo and did loops of the map, grabbing deep sea loot crates and fighting alphas. I got a few pretty good things overall, an okay assault rifle, an asc argy saddle, m/c scuba leggings, a m/c yuty saddle.... but most importantly, I got asc fur pants and mc fur hat. A few more pieces and I’ll be well-armoured for the snow cave. I just need an actually good yuty. So flash-forward to after I got all that loot. I decide I’m ready for a challenge so I slowly venture into the Caverns of Lost Hope (artifact of the Cunning). Things were going really well, and I had done the cave already. But then... 😭 I went to take care of a relatively low-lvl tuso. Everything in the room swarmed ( which happens, nbd) but I was getting swarmed too badly and clipping into the wall that I couldn’t land any actual hits on the creatures around me. I couldn’t move around, hit or escape. I just had to sit there and watch my best-ever basilo slowly die. When it did die, I fled for my life, but in the wrong direction. I actually tanked a hit from a mosa before dying. After all the shenanigans, I’m up a few good BPs and a good amount of black pearls and I’m down a disposable argy, nice shotgun, expensive scuba leggings and my best and only caving basilo. Everything else that I lost I don’t care about. Suddenly, I feel like I’d rather fly around looking for yutys. Sorry for the late reply lol. I haven’t used theris at all except to get fiber, so I have no idea what they’re like in a fight. After watching an ungodly amount of boss fight videos on YouTube, I do prefer the smaller size of the theri. Controlling rexs seems to give a lot of people grief in the arenas and tek cave. That and that they do better against the dragon.

How do you like using theris? I just started amassing my army and I’m nervous that I haven’t made the right Dino choice. I just prefer the size vs the Rex and I have access to a grotesque amount of veggies cakes..

SP Xbox, The Island Finally got a medium-level yuty for the snow cave/boss mount. I think. Lol. To recap, I’ve been searching for so long, I decided to make a very well-established taming hut, with power, between the two snow mountains near the coast. I got a bunch of low lvl ones for eggs, but now it’s time to focus on yutys that can fight. I had a few pretty funny deaths in the snow biome while on yuty hunts, but I always managed to get on another bird and find all my stuff and my original mount. All’s well that ends well. Currently torn between settling with the semi-crappy yuty I have and trying the snow cave or continuing on the search. I have yet to see a max level or anything near that in my entire gameplay on the island. Tough call. Maybe I’ll use Semi-Crappy to get me into the cave just so I can establish an outpost. I just feel like doing something different would be nice but getting a good yuty is the critical task needed to progress.