TorgosSolaris

After far too many hours in game, my efforts have at last come to fruition. I hatched The Übergeier. Straight out of the egg he was a level 216 vulture with 1,025 HP, 462 damage, and 89 weight, which imprinted out to 1,230 HP, 547 damage, and 106 weight. After leveling him up some, I took him out to the swamp (while wearing my best set of flak armor just in case) and he made short work of everything there. I died once to a group of snakes literally seconds after The Übergeier killed a Baryonyx that had damaged me pretty badly, but the vulture was perfectly fine. I actually got the little guy to kill a Brontosaurus and a Paraceratherium surprisingly quickly, so I sent him after a level 4 alpha raptor that I had seen wandering around, and he made short work of that too. I feel a hell of a lot safer on foot now that I've got a loyal little bodyguard on my shoulder. Since I'm really going to need a fast, mobile animal I went skirting around the redwoods in hopes of getting a good terror bird. I'd been having a hard time finding good levels, but this time I found a level 116 wandering around. It was a surprisingly easy tame considering. The other birds were scattered around, so I just took those out individually (or rather, The Übergeier did, since I'm basically trying to power level him) and then I just bola'd my quarry and knocked him out. Finally got around to crafting the gun whose blueprint I had lying around in storage for ages. It took 869 ingots to craft, but it's a lot more durable and a lot more powerful than my last rifle. I figured it was a better use of my ingots at the moment than just trying to make more vaults. My next plan is to make a quick trip to Genesis, see if I can nab a few X-Argentavis. Since I can't use a flyer (I tried earlier, you can imagine how well that went), the terror bird should be the next best thing.

Welp, somehow my game files got corrupted. Not sure how or why, but I lost a few hours of progress, meaning that the 112 Icthyornis I tamed is gone along with the G3 vulture eggs I had started collecting. I assume it had something to do with the update, since when I came back to the game, the spring event was over and the files were corrupted. Not gonna lie, I'm pretty pissed. I reverted my save, but this time I went to try to tame the Icthy I wound up killing it somehow, but not before it took my best pike, which I wasn't able to find again. Then on the way back I saw an all white female Dimorphodon I wanted to tame, but when I finally brought it down, my taming effectiveness was ruined by three snakes all dogpiling on me. Moreover, since I thought the event was ending on the 19th I thought I still had time to collect some dino candy, but apparently I didn't. I'm legit considering wiping again back to just before my files got corrupted. Having the files get corrupted is bad enough, but losing the pike as well as two good animals on top of that has me at the end of my rope. Dealing with problems I didn't have before due to a bug in the game just feels cheap, and I'm not above using my own cheap tactics to circumvent the issue. Admittedly, one thing made me laugh during this debacle. I saw this DireWolf traipsing about when I was tracking the Dimorphodon: He's only level 16 unfortunately, or I'd consider trying to tame him just for the memes.

Success! Over a couple of in-game days I managed to hatch vultures with all their parents' best stats. Actually, in addition to getting my main second generation breeding pair, I hatched a melee mutation and a weight mutation, also with their parents' best stats. I decided to keep the mutations so I can breed them in later. Now that I've got my main G2 vultures, I used the leftover eggs from G1 to make an SS hatchery so I can go off to do other things while my birds are breeding without worrying about eggs popping open left and right. Hopefully I can keep up a steady supply of re-fertilizer to keep it active. I found a couple of bunny Oviraptors running around my base so I decided to kidnap them and put them on the balcony with the dodos. I'm kind of worried about them despawning since the last spring event I participated in I tried to pen one in and it despawned, but so far they're still there, and since the dodos haven't been vanishing, I'm holding out hope. I've been collecting a ton of bunny eggs from my dodo farm. I completely filled up my cooking pot with 2400 eggs, and cracked literally hundreds open for chibis. I actually managed to snag a crystal wyvern chibi, but pretty much as I expected it's not as good as the managarmr. The problem I noticed with chibis is that most of the colors you get are...just not that good. Most of the time the colors aren't especially harmonious, and sometimes they're straight up garish and weird looking. The managarmr I got seems to be uncommonly appealing. Unfortunately the game cheated me out of a level 120 Dilophosaurus I found on the river bank near my base. It was trying to pick a fight with my Pteranodon, so I carried it back and put it on the green obelisk pedestal thinking it should have a hard time escaping, but when I came back to it with bolas and tranq arrows, it was gone, seemingly been replaced with two Parasaurolophus. I looked in the moat, I looked along the walkways, and there was no evidence of the dilo ever having been there, not even a predator lurking around that might have taken it out. I honestly don't understand why the game despawns animals when it does, but this is not the first time I came back to tame a desireable creature only to see that it had disappeared. In other news, I found an interesting mod called Cosplay Evolved. I really like it personally. It seems to be primarily targeted at furries (no shade, I like a good portion of the furry community) but there's some great features beyond animal-themed body parts. It gives you the ability to edit your character's features after character creation, so you can change your proportions, skin color, eye color and hair color without having to make an entirely new character. The color sliders in particular are more precise than what you get in the character creation screen, so you can seemingly give yourself pink hair or something. You can even select the length of your hair and keep it from growing further. Only thing it doesn't seem to have is the ability to rename your character, but that's a minor issue. I wish I had this mod when I was playing my previous character and she looked good in the character creation screen, but the lighting in game made her look completely different. The main selling point for me now is that I can semi-permanently attach the vampire eyes to my character instead of using them to skin a hat. I've wanted to be able to wear the vampire eyes along with other types of headgear for a while now, and this mod lets me do it. I'd say it's a keeper.

Is it? All the sources I've seen say it's 70%.

I've been trying (very unsuccessfully) to breed my vultures. I just let my game run half the time while I do other chores, and I swear I've gone through upwards of a hundred eggs yet not a single chick has inherited both its parents best stats. I'm being super anal about it mostly because I've regretted not being anal enough about stats in this game in the past, but good lord this is ridiculous. You'd think with the 70% chance for the higher stat I'd see more max level babies than min level babies, but no. I've seen two min level babies already but not hide nor hair (feather?) of a max level. Meanwhile I started building my new base. I decided to try something a little different and build off a cliff this time. Every time I build on the ground I start running out of space or having to destroy the landscape, so making a clifftop house seems like the best option. So far it's much more spacious than anything else I've ever built, and ideally this time around I won't have the issue of struggling to find space for the large crafting machines. I built a nice balcony running along the edge that has enough room to land a flying mount with space to walk around. So far I only have one level to my house but I plan on adding a second when I revamp the place with CKFR materials. I used plain vanilla wood this time around because I didn't want to go on a lengthy gathering excursion while my vultures are breeding but the low ceilings and awkward tiling is getting to me. Speaking of gathering, I did make some short trips out to grab some bunny dodos. I didn't want to miss out on the spoils of the spring event because I was spending all my time near my base, so I brought the dodos is to me. I managed to collect ten bunny dodos and put them on my balcony to pop out eggs for me to collect. I got enough to make several copies of each of the different skins, plus a bunch to crack open. I got super lucky since I was looking for a chibi that I found aesthetically pleasing while also complementing my survivor, and after about two hundred eggs I scored a chibi managarmr with dark grey fur and pink scales. It decidedly exceeds my expectations. I was holding out for something like a wyvern, but the nice colors and visual effects on the mana are going to make it a very hard candidate to beat. I have no idea what to name it though, and since I'm really bad at naming things I think I'll leave it unnamed unless I think of something really nice.

I had a ridiculously eventful day. Over the past couple of days I made several fortuitous discoveries: I found a level 120 tek rex on Dead Island, I found a level 100 Chalicotherium not too far from my base, and I found a unicorn. Tamed the unicorn, but didn't have the supplies to tame the others so I went to collect them. Started breeding my Argentavis in the interim, but I apparently didn't know what I was doing and I and had to try again. Second try with the Argentavis got me a really nice baby with the stats I wanted. During the mating cool down I decided to try taming the rex, and it went surprisingly smoothly. I expected something to go horribly wrong, but no, I got it into a pen, knocked it out and tamed it, easy peasy lemon squeezy. After I brought the rex home I tried breeding a second argent. Unfortunately I got more females, when I need a male for breeding purposes. I spent the waiting time gathering resources for a tree platform, and finally ventured off to tame the Chalicotherium. That also went surprisingly smoothly. I honestly expected it to be a lot trickier like most other passive games, but no. Just stay behind it and give it all the beer it wants. Finally after another shot at breeding I got twin argents, one male one female (I don't think that should be possible...) with the stat I wanted. While I was waiting for them to mature I was just out doing standard base maintenance and resource collecting, and I noticed a ton of Triceratops had spawned near my base. I went to investigate and there was a 120 male and 120 female among them. I had to have these guys, so I went to tame them. These were actually a lot harder than the rex since I couldn't be bothered with making a pen, and there were so damn many. Got 'em tamed up, now I'm just waiting for my baby argent to reach adulthood so I can breed him with my female and get some really nice babies out of it. Honestly I don't think I've ever had this much luck finding good stuff over the course of a year as I did over a couple of days.