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  1. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island While I was at work today, C had quite a day. He did not succeed at frog breeding, borrowed an asc longneck bp and made a very expensive rifle, then immediately lost it and a newly bred saber to a lagged jump at the end of the lava cave. Yep. I did my best to console him and said to consider it a sacrifice to the Ark gods for luck. Little did I know, I was right. He was at work by the time I got home, so I logged in to play solo. Well, as solo as one can be on a server. Today started much the same as yesterday. I started with a bigger metal run to help recover the cost of the longneck, then began running drops and doing some slow sweeps around my favored hunting areas. I got a 150 argent, but lag shot it right as it went down. Stats did not turn out well, but I can use the colors for breeding, I guess. But then as I was hunting around checking theris by green ob, I found not one but two 135 brontos, a male and female nearly side by side. I couldn't believe my luck. So I did what any enterprising hunter would do. I KO'd them both, spent a game night building protective pens for both of them, then flew home and got kibble. My rare double bronto tame did not go unnoticed by B, the server's bronto collector. He's obssessed with breeding a bronto line for rhynio taming. He had one stat left missing from his base bloodline: stamina. I didn't check either bronto's pretame stats as I was too busy trying to ensure they lived long enough to be worth the kibble I tamed them with, using up all of our preciously small supply. The first bronto stood up with 40 stamina. Success! B was so excited he offered to bring a bronto over right away to breed. Then the other bronto tamed. 42 stamina! He was even more excited and dragged his male halfway across the map to breed with my female. I gave him the egg as he was raising brontos and I wouldn't have time until the weekend. I am quite happy to finally have contributed something to the server, and I also hope that means if the stats pass successfully I'll get an egg from the finished base bloodline. Both of us continued to enjoy the favor of the Ark gods. On the way home B found a 150 oviraptor to tame. I found a 140 theri just down the beach from our base. I flew it up to drop in our entryway that doubles as a taming pen, made more kibble and tamed it up and we now have breedable HP for our soon to start theri bloodline. We don't have a male yet but hopefully I can find one that will give me stamina. I told C his sacrifice was not in vain, but did not tell him what happened tonight. I imagine he'll be quite surprised when he logs in tomorrow. I do feel a bit bad as it was late enough and I was tired by that point, so I didn't really restock as much as I would have liked. I did shift some animals around in the pen, kind of had to with two brontos now taking up a not insignificant amount of room. That was it for the night.
  2. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island Slow day on the Ark. Went hunting. Got ambushed by a 150 male rhynio, because why not. At least now we've got a pheromone. Tamed a couple of direwolves. One had pretty good stats, at least. The other's sacrificial. We still don't have a male wolf for breeding though. Didn't find any decent drops either. By the time C logged in I was kinda tired after a few hours of flying around seeing not much of anything, so I logged for the night. Honestly this is the phase of the game I dislike most, being reliant on rng to acquire what you need to enter the early endgame phase. Maybe I'll see if I can buy some eggs or something to move it along.
  3. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island I am pleased to report tribemate C has really started getting into this build. He's put together a very nice sea pen with an attached tiki bar and garden. He says he's very proud of it, I think maybe a new builder is being born lol. I've been helping out with some general ideas and suggestions but the build is all his. He also seems to be making some friends on the server, which is great. He told me at the start he was too shy to talk to other people but it seems the ultra friendly community Kiah is fostering has won him over. One of my suggestions was to ask her to do a painting for the bar, I think it would be nice to kind of tie in to it seeing as we've got a nice little community center going now. Can't wait to see what it will look like when it's done. As for my own contribution today, I invested quite a bit of time into running drops with my newly adult quetzal, Zynzal. Finally something that can carry stuff! Didn't get much of note, but I did get our first sheep tamed. Then I found a 145 theri, which I carried over to the bar so C could shoot it out of Zynzal's claws lol. Easy tame now that we have kibble and narcos. Then I grabbed a 140 bary, another easy carry, shoot and tame. Then I found a nice little gift for C, a 130 frog to potentially add to his breeding line. A little low I know but finding decent frogs has been a struggle. That was about it for today. This is the slightly annoying part of the game where you can spend a lot of days getting not much of anything done if the game doesn't feel like giving you anything. That I got two good tames was highly unexpected, to say the least.
  4. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island Had an immensely successful weekend. First, I got about 90% of the main base build done. Caught tribemate C trying to make an ugly behemoth gate water pen for his frogs. Took them all down and am making him build a proper PVE pen with design and aesthetics, and only one gate lol. Borrowed one gate for the fence for our yard on the lower ridge beneath the main base. Got a grinder and a few vaults up too, always nice to have. Lots of taming, too. Got a few birds for my first breeding project, a color morph inspired by my other big gaming love, FFXIV. A saber that tamed out with 53 HP for future cave adventures. A 145 yuty that was probably one of the most scuffed chases I've ever had, I honestly have no idea how I didn't die on that one. A friendly neighbor airlifted it home for me, and someone else gifted me a quetz egg for our own future air taxi. Also stumbled across a bee, so we can officially make ourselves kibble now which is fantastic. I almost put it to use right away with a 145 rex on carno island, but by the time C had any done the rex tamed. Got another bug taxi home. Kinda feel bad I accidentally fed C to bears twice yesterday taming one for honey that we now don't even need it for lol. All good though, he had never tamed one before so he had fun with it. There was quite a kerfuffle on the server too, a 150 female rhynio popped so there was a whole bug taming event organized. I think at least 5-6 people got babies from that queen. It was nice to see, everyone working together and waiting their turn. The bug eventually died accidentally much later on. I was a bit sad that we weren't prepared for it, but considering we've only been on server for I don't know, 2 weeks max, can't expect anything yet. Now that we have our kibble supply secured though, it is on like Donkey Kong. It's hard to keep secrets from C but I think I'm gonna try breeding up a little gift for him too, if I can. I think I need to make my own fridge for my room so he can't peek at the eggs and see what I'm doing. Hiding the babies themselves will be another matter though. Anyway, I'm quite pleased. We're in a much stronger position now and can turn our attention mainly toward hunting during the week.
  5. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island Tough day today, have to admit. After stuffing myself with turkey and pie, I logged in to get started on the main base build. C had started prepping materials, of course in the most convoluted way possible. But the thought was there. I spent quite a bit of time scouting around the immediate area and killing annoying theris until I finally found where I wanted to set up. Not too far into the jungle there's a series of ridges that are relatively flat. It's quite a bit further from where I had initially thought but I got really inspired when I saw it so I set to work. I managed to get the whole base level built, and that's about where the trouble started. I took a break and went on a flight north with Smoke, my argent C tamed for me. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, I just wanted to take a break. Grabbed a few drops, including a new anky saddle. Very handy, especially as C accidentally drowned our anky. He did tame a new one but hadn't saddled it yet. I came across a low level female yuty in a fantastic spot for taming, so I took her down and tamed her. Unfortunately the walk home did not go well. She got stuck on nothing in the river and was almost eaten by piranhas. I had to jump in and spear them all to death individually then whistle her onto dry land. But alas, she met her end shortly after. Pack of allos on one side, alpha raptor on the other. What can ya do. I did bring back a consolation prize, at least. I found a baby rex, watched its parent die to a large saber pack. Claimed it, flew it home and am now raising it, hoping it will survive the night on the trough. Since it was still a baby I went back to building, where I could keep an eye on it at the same time. But alas, the server was not doing well. Several crashes later it ended up with a rollback that undid quite a bit of the work I had just done. Defeated, I gave up on building for the night. I did some general around the base maintenance tasks then sat idle, checking on the rex now and again. It's not a good level at all but it was free and we definitely need an apex carnivore. Plus it has nice colors, I'll keep it for breeding later. Have to admit I'm a bit disappointed, we haven't been getting any yuty eggs yet. Really need a male. Once we get the kibble moving so much of the game is going to open up. For now it's just that midgame grindfest. Once the baby hit juvenile I called it a night.
  6. SE is supposed to drop in December but I'd guess it will likely be delayed to the end of January.
  7. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, The Island After a few days of being busy, I logged in to see what was going on. Tribemate C has been busy taming but this is one of my pet peeves, using tribe resources and not replacing them. And also neglecting the base in general. He's never played with other people before though so I'm trying not to be too hard on him. I just grit my teeth a bit and got to work. First I cleaned up the animals, which were scattered all over the place and a couple of them weren't even in the pen. Had to save his para from being eaten by a dilo. Then I went ahead and built the basics for electrical so we now have a generator, fridge and 3 ACs to start a hatchery. Naturally that also meant an oil run, so I went out and did that, gathering enough oil for about a week plus some leftover for crafting purposes. Then I spent a bit of time organizing mats. Put a few of our fertilized eggs down to incubate, ran a short metal run, almost forgot to pick the eggs up before they hatched. Don't have time for raising right now, just wanted to get them close. I am mildly annoyed he built another extension to this temporary base when he knows I'm starting the main base build soon but whatever. I don't mind exactly but we're starting to block travel lanes and that's generally not something you want to do on a community server. That was why I wanted to build up on the ridge in the first place, so we'd be out of the way. I think I can still try to incorporate some of his design into my build but even he admits he is not much of a builder. I'm hoping I can teach him a bit through the course of the build. That was pretty much it for the night. I do want to try to tame some yutys before I start the build so we can start collecting a good stock of eggs for kibble. I expect my build is going to take anywhere from 1-2 weeks of daily play to do depending on how much assistance I get.
  8. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, No Mods, The Island Well, the one thing I did forget about (and don't miss) from playing on a server...the dreaded post-patch server update lol More of a mild inconvenience but I'd hoped to get on a bit early and work on a project to surprise tribemate C. He's working tonight and can't play so it'd be a prime opportunity for hijinks, if not shenanigans! Also I didn't realize it but I inadvertently claimed territory across the river from Crabby so we're almost neighbors lol. I definitely need to work on a decent build if Cap's going to be hanging around in the area! I'm nowhere near his level but I am a bit of a builder myself. But to do that I need utility dinos, and levels. Lots of levels. First, I logged on and was surprised to see C tamed an argent. Not saddled since neither of us is high enough level. Yet. I may be a PVE player, but I've watched enough PVP to know some of the basic strats, which I took heavy advantage of this evening. C tamed me a ptera last night so I took it out for an exp note run. I don't have the optimal pathing, but I do have a pretty good memory and simply ran down a bunch of the ones I knew about and had easy access to. Once buffed I went on an absurd narc farm since we had tons of spoiled meat already. I admit, this is a bit cheeky of me to do. C has a fair few hours in ASE but his knowledge is still relatively limited. He's going to be so confused when he logs in tomorrow lol. He had been about 13 levels ahead of me. Now he's 14 levels behind. He's not going to have any idea how I did it. Once I had my levels, I saddled the argent. Now, I don't generally condone using other people's personal tames but I felt this situation warranted it. I was very careful with his bird as I got to work. First since we were nearby I went to herb island and grabbed an anky. KO'd it outside base and tamed it up. Once it was done I took it up to Far's Peak for a metal run. While there I spotted a doed. Went home, loaded the forge, went back and grabbed the doed. Tamed that. Happened to get a moschops walk into base while I was putting some stuff away, tamed it. Had a baby so free backup moschops, no complaints here. Then I went out and scoured The Island for my least favorite utility tame...a beaver. I greatly prefer mammoths but beavers can be carried so...it ended up being quite a hunt but I tracked one down all the way at the opposite corner of the map, by the volcano. That was a long flight. But we got it home and KO'd. Found a 145 lystro wandering around nearby so I tamed that too. Finished the night organizing the animals and putting away supplies. I had hoped to do more, specifically getting us into electrical, but I simply ran out of time. All in all though an extremely successful day. I can't wait for C's reaction when he logs in and see a whole set of utility dinos sitting there, all saddled up and ready to go.
  9. Kiah's Community Server, Unofficial, No Mods, The Island Yep, I did a thing. As happy as I am to be on single player, I've been really missing server play and the last really good unofficial I was on was a YTer server so...I'm gonna try another one. I feel like Kiah's a bit underrated in the Monarky and from what I've seen I trust her to do a good job running a server so I'm braving the high ping of EU to join in the fun. Spent my evening doing the basic bob beach life. Leveled up, built a raft, built up the raft, died to a dilo while afk, killed the dilo and stole its baby in revenge, you know, the usual. I had wanted to at least level up enough to get a ptera but ended up a bit shy in level and wasn't finding any good pteras anyway. Ended up sailing pretty much all the way from west 3 to halfway up the east coast. This is quite the busy little server, lots of bases and a very active chat. Got to wave to cap's boat on my way by too, that was neat. I think I'll like it here. I found a place to park and set up a really basic box (ugh) build, I don't know if I'll stay here or not just yet. After a bit I was joined by a friend, C, so it seems I'm running a tribe again. Another friend K may join up with us later on, and my old tribemate M if he can upgrade his computer. For now, we've got grinding to do.
  10. @Dave192 This is literally the one time when narcoberries are actually the better play. Because they apply torpor so slowly you can spam them all in and then have 20 minutes or so of breathing room. The downside is that many berries are heavy to be carrying around lol. Had an enormously successful weekend, I have to say. Yesterday was...ok. I didn't play a ton but enough to go hunt for more raptors. I ended up with 3 140+ megaloceros instead, which I tamed up and ended up doing a little breeding project with them. This was mainly a test for my breeding settings, which ended up being prescient because it's taking quite a bit of tweaking to get them where I want it. Imprints still need some adjusting but I can do them now, at least. I spent probably 3 hours just messing around with my world settings then went to bed way too late. Also submitted my first bug report for ASA after discovering an amusing visual bug and some very confused elk babies... Today was the big win, I have catapulted myself up a tier for sure. First I got annoyed looking for a high level male raptor so I tamed a low level and used it as a pivot to breed with my 2 females to get a decent mount. I used that raptor to go to the volcano cave and farm up chitin, which I turned into paste, then polymer. I now have a generator, 2 fridges, a grill, and power! Nice. I then turned my attention to the next biggest thing on my list, literally and figuratively: yutys. It took quite a chunk of the afternoon but I hunted down a low level pair of yutys then walked them all the way home out of the snow. Ah, the good old days. It may have taken longer but I stuck to the coast/rivers rather then try to cut cross country though all the bad stuff with low visibility. Once I had my yutys, I, well, bred my yutys. Culled the babies until I got 4 females and raised them up. Made a pearl run so I could craft the saddle and get them all set up. Then I grabbed the first couple of eggs produced and went out to tame an oviraptor. Went with a lowish level just to have it. Then with so many big dinos, there are lots of big dino poops to pick up. I took advantage to stock up and took my bred raptor all the way out to central cave and battled our way through waves of angry spiders (seriously why are there so many!?) to get to the real prize: dung beetle! Got the beetle home and set up and while it was making fertilizer I got my irrigation and crop plots set up. A few cycles later and I have my farm. Unfortunately success came with a setback. Having forgotten I whistled passive to tame the oviraptor, I didn't notice a dilo attacking my mammoth until it was far too late. I will never understand why dilos aggro so much random stuff that could smush them into paste. Sigh. So it was back to the snow for a new mammoth tame. At least I have fur and a random otter I spotted while walking one of the yutys home. And yes this is entirely on me for being too lazy/confident to think I should bother putting up behemoth gates just for the mammoth. The sad part is it would have been completely fine if I left it on the other side of the base, too. The first one I saw was a 145. Obviously I don't have kibble yet but...even a bad tame would be better so I did it. Tame got ruined by a pack of sabers but the mammoth lived and after way too long listening to it snore we made our way home. By that time it was pretty late in the evening so I finished out the day with some scouting for where I want my main base build to be.
  11. Not really, I see them in all their usual spots. If anything they seem to be more common. Try the edges of the redwoods, I see a lot along there.
  12. Devs are people too. Given how many launch problems they had, they likely worked around the clock for the whole first week to push all those patches out and now they've slowed down some to take a break. They're also likely preparing for the console launch in just a few days. I'd guess we'll probably see a pretty big patch in advance of the drop, then another wave of patches all next week afterwards.
  13. Single Player, Vanilla, The Island Started off my day more or less where I left off last night. With my new rex in need of a saddle, I took my argent out to farm yet more hide. It is a grind without a good carnivore. Eventually I got what I needed, got my saddle, and an achievement to go with it. I immediately took my new, very large guard dog out on a hide run. Hey, even a crappy rex is still a rex. Hide won't be a problem anymore. With that in mind, I turned my attention to my base infrastructure. Specifically, it's time to move up to the electrical tier. However, I almost immediately ran into some problems. First, without the convenience of tek dinos I would need to go pearl hunting for the first time in ages. Luckily the little pond/river by carno point still has them. Second, paste. Ugh, paste. Bane of my Ark life since 2015. Obviously I need either a frog or a cave dino. If I want a frog, I definitely want high level ones in anticipation of swamp cave. Definitely don't have the resources for it yet. So that leaves normal cave dinos, either a raptor or a saber, which are easy to tame, easy to transport, and generally low maintenance. So the hunt began. I did some slow sweeps along my usual dino hunting grounds. I found a high level raptor surprisingly quickly and got it down, but in the 10 seconds it took me to turn around and get meat from the bird, a random dilo appeared and ruined the tame. The raptor didn't die but obviously no point. I left it and moved on. Eventually found and tamed another, and a baby trike while I was at it. I felt guilty for killing his brother for prime meat, then his father for trying to protect his family. Carried the raptor and had the trike follow and we all made it home. Sorry trike. You can live in safety and relative peace now. Found another raptor, tamed it and spotted another while carrying it home. Both of my tames are females and I need a male and this one was. Hurried back but unfortunately I lost it. Either it died to something or I missed it in the brush. Either way, after a long and fruitless canvassing of the area we gave up and turned for home. In comparing stats, I didn't do too badly. But I still need a high level male so I can breed them. I did scrape together enough paste to make the fabricator, but that was about it. So all in all, while it wasn't a bad day per se it was still kind of a bust. Best part of the day was getting a slightly better crossbow from a drop on my way by.
  14. Single Player, Vanilla, The Island After a dreary and rather irritating day at work I was quite excited to come home to my tropical not-quite paradise... And had myself a fantastic Ark day. First, I went on a rescue mission to save my other dilo. It's a long story but the short version is he ended up stranded on the coast near carno point because I didn't have anything that could carry him and it was too far to walk. So I took my new argent out and picked him up. He's almost luckier than Lucky was. Then I decided to take my own advice about the rule of 2 for birds and fish and went in search of another argent. Nighttime temperatures sent us winging back south to a warmer clime, however. Well, there's always something to do back at base, like make more tranq arrows. We returned in the early morning and I quickly located my choice pick: a beautiful blue male that I knew I had to have as soon as I laid eyes on him. Only level 55, but a fact of little import in the midgame. I used the upper volcano path to kite and successfully KO him, well above any other dino spawns so I could safely do a prime meat run. Really dredging up my old ASE memories, tactics and techniques that have gone unused for years in the advent of modern Ark conveniences. Tamed him and got him home safely. Now that I have a breeding pair, I went ahead and bred them, hatched the egg and raised my first notable baby. By this point dusk was falling so I spent another night at base. In fact, I decided somewhat on a whim to expand and put a nice addition on the side, with a perch for my rapidly growing flock of birds so they're up off the ground and away from danger. Not that there's much to worry about and I do have a fence, but birds are too valuable at this stage of the game. With my new bird grown and saddled, I took my anky out on our first real metal run. It's a bit awkward that my anky has higher carry weight than my argent does, but we made it work. But it was also extremely apparent that I would need a wood gatherer very soon to keep my hungry forge and campfire burning. So we set off again on a mission that is daring but familiar to me: a mammoth hunt. Yes, I went taming in the snow without fur, cryopods, or even a raft. I quickly located my most likely target and while I was in fact freezing to death, I was able to KO a low level female and get berries in her. My torch was just enough to keep me from dying until the temperatures rose a bit out of the lethal zone. While she tamed up I spent my time clearing our most likely path of any problem dinos, including an allo pack and a pig. Honestly the hardest part was walking her off the glacier. Once we made it to the pond it was quite easy to just walk down the coast, enjoying the benefits of the improved pathing AI. She did get stuck once but all in all I was well pleased. Naturally a new tame means a new run for hide so I went out and did that. Then on a bit of a whim I flew back to that forest I mentioned with the rexes again. Yes, I was very sorely tempted to, well, tempt fate. But as luck would have it I would not have to try fending off multiple rexes and the alpha for custody of the baby. Instead I found a low level adult female wandering off by herself. I had the arrows, a bird, and a lot of experience flying proverbial kites. So I made her angry and brought her down to the beach and brought her down. Came back from a meat run to find an alpha raptor camping her, so I had to kite that away. Then I came back to seagulls, which I shot to keep them from stealing the precious meat I had just farmed. Then we had to fend off a wave of pegos. But finally, finally, she tamed and stood up. It was an easy walk home, of course. I don't have enough hide to make her a saddle yet but that's ok. She's not a great level, her primary purpose will be eggs and protecting the mammoth, as she will not fit through my dino gate and I'm too lazy to build a new fence and behemoth gate just for her. So yeah, the mammoth has a pet rex, basically. Given how much I accomplished, I felt that would be a good stopping point for the day. I'll farm the saddle tomorrow and after that...who knows? It is becoming painfully obvious that I do need fur armor, and soon.
  15. First rule of Ark: never go anywhere with anything you can't afford to lose. Caves can be done on foot--if you're very familiar with the layout and know what to expect (and have lots of grapples) but for the average newbie, this is definitely not a beginner strat. How you recover from it is more or less how you learn to play the game as Ark has never been particularly forgiving of mistakes. What I would recommend doing personally, is to wait. Leave your gear, that's lost. You can make it again. Before you go in again, I recommend finding a mate for your baryonyx and breeding them. Raise the baby. Make a spare saddle. Then try again. The important part is that it's bred, not because a low level with an imprint is going to be strong, but because bred tames are disposable. Sad but that's Ark for you. And don't enter the cave with anything you consider valuable. That way if you/the bary dies you aren't really losing anything except some time. Side note, I also highly recommend doing this for birds and aquatic tames, too. Get one, then get a mate and bred them. Use the baby, not the parents. This way when one inevitably gets lost or killed, you aren't set back so much by such a loss. Basically you need to go into everything in this game with the attitude that you and/or your dinos will die and adjust accordingly.
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