tiryanabell

Horrible, horrible day in ARK. So I logged in and thought: Well a powerful wyvern would be nice to add to my collection. I already have a dodorex and a broodmother, it's time to get power in the air! So I take my poison tapejara on my shoulder, some taming and healing supplies and set out on my faithful prime argy towards the centre of the map. Between the snowy and unfinished redwood area I spot a gorgeous prime wyvern, Lvl 580. I want that!!! I have faith in my now level 614 tapejar, so I switch birds, take the argent on my shoulder and fly the tappy out towards the wyvern. A heavy battle starts, I quickly needed to use my first health potion, and then my second. I realized this was a loosing battle so I turned to face home, only to find out I wasn't nearly fast enough to outrun the wyvern! Just when I opened inventory to grab another healing potion, it happened: my tapejar was killed by the 580 wyvern and I was rushing to the ground at deadly speed. Respawned at my base bed, I quickly grabbed one of my crystal wyverns, only to durp out, as I grabbed the low level, returned, grabbed the high level ans rushed as fast as I could to the death scene. My argent was still there! I quickly spotted the prime wyvern and a little further just hanging out: my trusted argy. I wisled follow and brought argy and crystal towards the ground to find my body and possibly the remnants of my tappy. As I thought I found something, I made the mistake of my life and jumped of the crystal. ... To be munched on by an alpha raptor, talking about being raptored. So same scenario: respawn at bed, take my fastest ptera, now to rescue argent and crystal. I found them quickly and returned home, dropped the crystal off and set out on my low level tapejar to find a new high level one. I managed to find and tame a 580 poison allo, but no luck on the tapejars. Lost some, gained some. That's life in Ark I suppose. But I still miss my super tapejar.

Well the past few days, I have been leveling up my poison tapejara, from his post-taming level of 479 to currently 594, with most points spent in melee, some in speed and some in health. All to try and go get myself a high level dodorex. So I start to fly out over the White Shoals in the direction of where the dodorexes usually hang out. First try was a fail, because, I saw this beautiful level 600 crystal wyvern I absolutely wanted to have. So I flew back to base, got some primal crystal, flew back to the wyvern, wait for it to sit, and, ... Yes, a new male wyvern for my collection. Level 899 nonetheless, but useless for anything else but fast travel across the map. Second try, I fly out, and just about where xB has his base on the PE server, I see this rainbow glow. What????? I go check of course and it's a low level fabled unicorn! So, can I knock that out? Yes, I can! And feed it mejo's? Yes, I can!!! So, sweeeet second tame of the day. Low stats, so not a fighter, but it can fly! And poops rainbow poop! So three is a charm I think, and I head out again for my dodorex. I need to fly around for a while, but finally spot a 560 female. Not the highest level possible, but still good. It takes me a while to laser poison it before she finally goes down amidst some trees, ... and all the other knocked out stuff in the area. So I kill off the baddies close by, put some meat on the dodorex and tame it up. Yeah, another great tame, and a good fighter this time. Seconds after she got up we were attacked by a lightning rex and some other small stuff I didn't even see. I got knocked out, not killed luckily, and through the haze I see my tapejar and the dodorex fighting for their lives. Fortunately they manage to finish the scum on their own, so when I finally wake up, everything seems quiet. I put my tapejar on my shoulder, and jump on the dodorex, and turn and turn and turn, ... We're stuck! In a tree, in an unbreakable tree! Nooooooo. Savior of the day was my brother, who told me: "Why don't you take your dodorex on your shoulder? That should free her from the tree." And indeed it did. So happily ever after we all went back to the safety of our, again expanded, loving home.

I am so sorry for your loss . But chin up: tomorrow is another day. So I decided to give the new Iso: Crystal Isles map a try and had it installed this morning. First glance: wauw, so beautiful and colorful, a totally new and magic world to explore. I'll try to get a small base set up this evening, and start exploring after. (I'm on Single Player, and obviously not the Island map, hope that's ok to add my adventures here?)

I love the ones they picked (I didn't even know there were so many map mods in development), but I'm also missing a few: the new annunaki genesis: Extinction Core for example. And I also love many of the smaller mods, like the Upgrade Table for single player. Maybe a smaller contribution to these guys would be nice too.

So, I'm playing on single player and the dino stats have been "unnerfed" to a balance between the pre- and post-WC major tamed dino nerf. Will this tool still work for me? Are there perhaps settings I need to adjust?

Chalicotherium is for me the horse on the Island. I hope this one is for SE, as there are still a lot of animals missing on SE (morellatops EVERYWHERE becomes boring).