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I know on the two PS4 clusters I was on, people tried to transfer golems off of Valguerro, and they became undeployable from cryopod, or unable to download from transmitter (grayed out). My buddy Calififornia tamed 2 max level Chalk Golems and an Ice Golem, and lost them all to this.

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Real life has taken the forefront for the last week or so, as I have other things that need to be done. The timing is perfect, as I have also kind of been just "going thru the motions" the last 10-14 days in ARK. The little time I did play the last 4-5 days, I did get some stuff done however. I bred up and raised some replacement battle rexs for the ones lost to the manitcore. I also FINALLY found a very good armor Rex saddle BP. So I can craft up those once i gather enough resources. I managed to get another event colored Reaper on Abb, as well as a near max level red and green Abb Spino. I'm going to breed my spinos and see if I can use them in boss battles. I've never done the Abberration Boss, so I need to start making an army for that. Manged to get a couple near max level Ice, Lightening, and Poison wyvern eggs on Rag and Val. I'm not sure if PS4 will get the dodorex in the Halloween event, but reading about it, make me worry that I will need to upgrade my defenses and protect my base better during the event. Haven't heard from my buddy Texas yet, and I know he lives in the area of the bad tornadoes from last night, so hope he is ok.

As far as I know, the bug with transferring golem between maps is still a thing, so be careful.

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster This weekend I managed to finally start transferring all of my dinos and stuff from my Valguerro base in the aberration zone, over to my preferred base location near the spire along the lake. It is a large flat space, so I started building a medium sized barn. I got it all done except the roof, which I will need to do, as this cluster allows dino pick up, and I'm wary of some troll picking up and moving my small dinos. I got all the necessary appliances installed except for a cooker, which I will do later. I transferred all of the resources and nearly everything else from the underground location. Just have some more artifacts back at the old location. I then transferred over some of my Reapers from Abberration, so I now have about 15 Reapers on Valguerro. I will use some of them to fight the broodmother, along with my Megatheriums. Over on Abberration, I ran into a cold streak with the Reapers, only getting normal looking babies, and finding fewer and fewer Queens. On Friday the server event was switched to Easter, so I had hoped for some cool colored babies, but I ended up only getting 2 colored babies out of 6-7 pregnancies, and the colors were boring. So I took a break and went looking for shine horns or other cool dinos. I decided I wanted some cool high level Abberrant Spinos, so I kept looking until i got back up into the Green zone along the river. I ended up finding and taming a pair of near max level Spinos. After demolishing my trap, it got dark very quickly, but I noticed a fire in the distance, so I made my way over to it. The name of the tribe was new to me, and the base was unfinished and mostly made from thatch walls. So I called out in chat since I could tell the person was online. A moment later the person arrived back at their base. naked with no light (in the dark of Abberration) I asked them if they were new, and he said yes, just started that day. He asked me a few questions, as he hadn't played in many months, and had forgotten how to tame dinos. He also noticed my Owl, and wondered how I got one. I told him that this is a 3 map cluster, and that I transferred over the Owl from another map that I had tamed it on. And that flyers were allowed on this map. I then went thru my inventory and dumped a bunch of stuff for him. (I had been hitting drops while searching for Spinos) I didn't give him anything OP, since I want him to work a little, but certainly enough stuff to make his life easier. He said thank you and I was off back to my base. I then hit the Drake trench and came away with about 16 eggs, including about 5 very high level eggs, and one that was I hoped a cool event colored one. Got back to base and transferred the eggs to Ragnarok, as I have a drake capable hatchery already built there. Hatched up the 5 high level eggs, and got 2 sets of twins, and I was correct about the color event egg, as it was bright blue and pink with black just like the one I killed while stealing it. One other was a bright green with Yellow. So I spent the rest of the evening raising and imprinting those, while working on my Rag base. I tamed a max level colored Anky, as I needed one for Valguerro, and I also went out and tamed some max level veloansaurs. I was really lucky, and found 2 max females and 1 max male in less than 30 minutes (The velos were added to the Rag desert) I plan on bring some Velos along with my Rexes and Yuty, next time I do the Rag bosses. Finally I was exhausted and logged off for the weekend.

Yeah it wasn't the crouch bug, but rather the one were your character acts like it is walking in cement.

Looks like a fishing net to me.

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster - Aberration Last night was a short, but weird night. Logged into Abberration, and headed out to find a Reaper Queen, killed the first two I found as they were very low level, then found a decent level, and kited it back to trap. Got pregnant and had a normal colored baby. I saved the baby, as I have a friend who wants some reapers for battles. I filled the baby with food, and headed back out for another reaper. Got pregnant again, and as I returned to base to give birth, I noticed that the first baby was no longer in the base building. but I could hear it walking around. I looked all over, and then I noticed that I could see the dust clouds like a Reaper underground, yet, I could still hear the reaper footsteps. I tried whistling, but nothing would happen, and even with my Tek helmet, I could not see the Reaper, even though the dust cloud was directly in front of me. I then gave birth to another normal colored baby, and head back out for another Queen to trap. After getting impregnated again, I was trying to get around the base while waiting to give birth, but my character was stuck in that can't walk correctly bug, so I logged off and then logged back in. I could now walk correctly, and at this point I noticed the "missing" reaper baby was now visible and wandering amongst other parked reapers. I managed to get it under control and then I went to give birth to sadly another normal colored reaper. But once again my character was stuck in the weird walk bug, and I was even unable to fast travel between beds, so I just logged off and called it a night.

PS4 - Unofficial cluster Kind of hit a lull late last week. Found myself kind of forcing myself to log on, so I took a break mostly from ARK for the weekend. In fact the only time I played was Saturday morning from 3:30 - 5:30 am due to inability to sleep, and then again on Sunday afternoon for about 2 hours. I managed to get 3-4 more colored Reapers, but nothing real exciting. I need to get on tonight and refresh my bases on the other two maps. I think the Plant Species X turrets decay after 3 -4 days. I think I will demolish my starter base on Valguerro, and just keep the base near the abberation biome. I had planned on building a big base where my starter base is, and then demolishing my underground base, but I just can't seem to get the energy up to move everything from 1 base to the other. But I need to do it, and probably cryo all of my dinos too on the two maps that I hardly play. Ever since the Manticore bug on Rag, I just have no desire to go back to that map.

Awesome looking base, but OMG I can't imagine how bad that lag must be!

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster - Abberration I logged on yesterday with trepidation, as I expected some huge new bases to be built near me. But unless I am missing something, the people from a couple days ago, tore down the base and trap they were building, as it was no longer right next to me! So I was pleased about that, and then I headed out to trap some more Queens. I ended up trapping 3 different Queens and getting pregnant from each. The first queen was a lower level, but gave me a All orange and Parchment baby. The next was a near max level queen that sadly gave me a plain black and tan baby. The final queen was a decent level, and the baby came out Dark Red with Purple belly. Looks really cool. So I ended up getting 2 more of those babies, and also got my buddy Indiana pregnant when he happened to log on. So it was a good night.

Well it's PvE, so not sure what you could exactly do. (other than be a griefer, which is not how I prefer to play, I want to enjoy my ARK time, not be engaged in combat and childish nonsense)

PS4 - unofficial cluster - Abberration Continued trapping Reaper Queens in my quest for a Purple reaper baby. And while I was pregnant last night, 3 people logged into the map at the same time. One of them is "Redneck Wife", who is the same person I gave all of my Valguerro dinos and base to on the old cluster. Kind of weird to see her join this one too. I asked her if she was quitting the other cluster, and she said no, jut playing both clusters at the same time. So I ask them what brings them to Abberration, and they said to get Reapers. So I tell them about my two unlocked Reaper Queen traps as well as the unlocked birthing room next to the trap. I then give them the coordinates. A few minutes later I notice a person building a trap and base about as close to my base as ARK will allow. (keep in mind this map has only been live for 2-3 weeks, and as far as I know there are only 4 bases on the entire map, with 3 of those being myself, Texas and California. So a very undeveloped map thus far.) "Umm hello, why are you building a base and trap to close to my base, and you don't need to build a trap, I have two public traps right over there, you are like 75 yards from it" Other person : " well there is not much space down here, so we have to just live with being near each other" ME: " there is a ton of space, and this is my main base, can't you build farther away, and there is no need for a 3rd Reaper trap in such a tiny area. Just use the public ones" Rude person: " My trap will be public too, and I'm only building a small base" Redneck Wife: " Yeah F*** it, we will all have to have our bases near each other" ME: " really? all of this open space, and you have to build right here?" At that point I just dropped the conversation, and continued doing my thing. then a few minutes later they stop by my base, asking me to grind some stuff in my grinder, and to craft some element for them in my replicator. I do this for them, and then they take off, I later get a high level queen trapped and alert them about it in the chat, and that they are welcome to get impregnated from her if they want. Zero response from them. At this point I was crabby from having these people and their rude behaviour, and I logged off. I'm afraid to see what they have built when I log in tonight.

I've never used TEK turrets, and was not aware that this was an option. I will have to look into it. Thanks!

PS4 - Unofficial Cluster Logged in to Ragnarok to refresh the timers, and just as I did, Raptor Claus appeared, so I went out and collected 4 of the Xmas present drops. Also got a blue and yellow drop along the way. topped off some food troughs, and then went to Valguerro bed hopped on Valguerro to refresh both base timers as well as check food levels. needed berrries for my Jerboa, so did a bit of gathering, and also managed to let a baby owl mature up and imprint him once, before cryo'ing him and transferring to Abberration. I've been battling some illness bug since Sunday, as well as my damaged back really causing me pain, so I took a quick break to grab some pain pills and a sleeping pill. Repaired some previously broken tek armor, and did some imprints on a couple of Reapers I had cryo'd last session. Fed some unwanted loot to the Gachas in my base, and also dumped some wood and stone into them. Then I headed out to find, kite and trap a Reaper Queen. I quickly find a level 105 female, which was only ok level, but since I am more concerned about getting event colored babies, I don't care too much. I began kiting her to the trap, when I hear another roar, and realize I now have 2 Queens after me. I continue tanking as I lead them to my two traps. Only as we get to the traps, do I realize that I now have 3 Queens after me. I manage to get one into a trap, and then try to get another one in the other trap. That done, I turn around looking for the 3rd queen, only to see that she trapped herself in the first trap, so now I have two queens in that trap. I scope out the queens and am happy to see that the Queen by herself is a 234!, while the 105 is trapped with a 23 low level. I decide to try and get impregnated by the 234 first, and I began bringing her health down. I get her to the Pink stage, and just then two meglosaurus began attacking her. I try to kill them, but it takes 2 bites, and the second bite proved to be too much as it killed the baddies, but sadly the Queen as well. Angered, I turned to the other trap, and took out my frustration by quickly and intentionally killing both of the trapped Queens. I returned to the radiation zone, and found another queen. and brought her back to the traps. much like before, Another Queen joined in on the fun as I was leading the first one back to the traps, but I managed to get each one in a trap, and began getting pregnant from the higher level one. Successful with that, I went to my base, and continued imprinting cryo'd Reapers as I waited for my Pregnancy to end. As my chest burst open, I see it is a event colored baby white with a red belly. So I head back to get pregnant again. By now the sleeping pill is starting to kick in, and I am kind of in zombie mode. Which was not good, as I was totally oblivious to my light pet still being turned on as I beat the queen, and accidently killed her. Arrrgh I then turn to the other Queen which was a level 198. We do the dance, and soon I head back to base impregnanted. That baby pops out Red with a purple belly, so I return 2 more times and end up with 3 of those babies, I was really struggling to stay awake, but I was staying online waiting for Texas to transfer over, so he could get a colored baby too. Finally he logs in, and I go to bed, exhausted, but happy that I got some more event colored Reaper babies!

Plot Twist: Helena and all the dinos were dead the entire time. We just could see the ghosts of people & dinos, and didn't know it. Also the entire time, we were just miles away from civilization, and we didn't know it; due to the elders manipulating us. Plot Theory written by Hmmm Knight Shamalamadingdong

PS4 - UNofficial Cluster Abberration installed more appliances and things to the new base next to the Reaper Queen traps. Spent some time unsuccessfully looking for event colored shinehorns or Basiisk. Farmed up about 12 Rock Drake eggs, but only one of high level. Got impregnated 3 times and got a cool looking blue body with red belly and highlights reaper baby. Called it a night early, as I have not been feeling well.

You are correct, I had never faced that bug before, and had never needed a gun as we has always destroyed the bosses within 15 minutes in my previous attempts. I will make sure to be bringing some firepower to all future boss battles in case it happens again.

Yeah I realized early on that it was bugged, never saw it behave like that, never landing, and just attacking from 100 feet in the air constantly. It slowly KO's all my dinos 1 by 1. So for the last 8-9 minutes I was running around or flying around trying to kill it with a hatchet. I also made up about 35 wooden spears, and was throwing those at it. I contemplated killing my Ko'd dinos, so as to give them an honorable death versus the time out death. But I kept holding out a sliver of hope we would some how pull out a victory. I posted my poor fortunes on the server discord, and was surprised by how many people had never heard of the Manitcore bug. They were leaving comments like "just wait for it to land", or "Use Deinys on it for the bleed affect". oh well, they must have superhero deinys that can jump 100 feet in the air. lol

PS4 - Ragnarok Me: Hi there person on server, want to join me as i do the alpha boss battle with my OP rexs on this boosted server, and we get 1600 element plus lots of loot? Person on server: sure Manticore: LOL I ain't landing you sons of beaches. Arena Timer: ZERO Innocent person on server: Why am I dead, and lost everything? Me: So there is this bug with the Manticore, that I had never seen in person before. I guess I can check that off my bucket list. My Rexs, Yuty, Featherlight, Tek suits, and everything else: RIP

So you're saying that the local council said "Nana nana boo boo to the mana v mana mano a mano?"

TRUE STORY - this song has been my ringtone for 10 years! No lie

So if you pitted them against each other in a fight to the death, would it be a mana v mana mano a mano?

PS4 - unofficial cluster Logged into Valguerro last night, and got Indiana to join me as we hit the wyvern trench. As luck would have it, he got a handful of high level and near max eggs, while I got the total crap levels. We also ventured into the fire wyvern area, and grabbed a few eggs. He then flew back to his base to hatch them up. Frustrated by my poor luck, I flew around the trench repeatedly for about 20 minutes (leaving render, then returning) and finally ended up getting 3 Ice and 1 Fire egg that were high level. I got back to my base and sadly they were all vanilla colored (server is running Summer Bash event) Meanwhile Indiana tells me in party chat that two of his are cool event colors, and at the same time, California (who was on Rag, but in our party) tells me he got a max level ice wyvern that is cool Easter event colors. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR so jealous. I only use Ice and Fire wyverns, and I cannot get colored ones. Frustrated, and switched over to Abberration, and raised up one of the colored reapers from the other night, and then I headed back into the radiation in search of a Queen. A few nights back, I had asked the admin to do a wild dino wipe, as I could not get any Reaper Queens to spawn anymore. Well I hadn't gone 100 yards into the Radiation zone, when not 1, not 2, but THREE Queens popped up and started to attack me, I kited them back into my trap area, and thankfully lost one. But when I tried to get 1 in each of the two traps, but they were not cooperating, and both jumped into the same trap. (I use ramp traps) Faced with this dilemma, I tried to tail whip one out of the trap to no avail. I then just decided to kill the lower level one. After doing that, I began trying to get impregnated from the remaining queen. I got her down to the pink glow, and after she tail whipped me, I was getting back into position, when suddenly she died! Standing there chomping on her body was bright red event high level purlovia. I quickly killed it with my reaper, and went back out for another Queen. This time I found 2 more , and while kiting them back to the trap I managed to get both of them into separate traps. I then proceeded to get impregnated by one, and later the other, but both were normal colored babies, and were culled. Finally I ended the night by getting 2 Green and White good level babies. The elusive Purple or Blue bodied reaper baby is still avoiding me!

Thanks for the tips, I just realized that "it's not too late, to whip it, whip it good!"