Tonight I upgraded my thatch base on my Scorched Earth SP world to adobe, which I have been putting off for quite some time. Once I had done that, and also built my greenhouse, all I needed was to find a couple of dung beetles, so off I went on my trusty wyvern Raijin to go and search for some. The first two I found were of a decent level, and I managed to tame them without a hassle. I brought them back to base and got them working to pay their rent straight away. I then went to go find my next pair. I found my third one as soon as I entered the North Eastern desert, so I picked it up and flew all around until I reached the North Western corner of the map. I found my (supposedly) last one and landed. In my peripheral vision I saw some pesky titanomyrma, so I decided to send them to oblivion with one powerful blast of lightning from Raijin. What happened next? I got the good old game freeze/crash!
After reloading my game, I was dead, and Raijin was stuck where I found my third dung beetle. I also had to run back to my base because I forgot to rebuild a bed to respawn at, when I had done the previous renovations to my base (I'm rather picky what goes where in my base ). Once I got back I got on my Argent, and took the long, slow flight to where I died. Halfway there, I happened to see a group of Equus, and blow me down, there was a level 300! (my difficulty setting is set to 10, so the max level that wild Dino's spawn at is 300). This wasn't just a mission to rescue my wyvern now, but to rescue and tame that max level Equus before it got itself killed! I finally found my wyvern, got on it, left my Argie and raced back to where I last saw it. Luckily, the Equus was unharmed, so I grabbed it, dropped it into my Jerboa breeding pen until I had enough crops to finally tame it.
All in all, it was a pretty good day. I rescued my wyvern, and tamed a max level horse. Now I'm going to get to work on an automatic taming pen, thanks to the S+ mod giving us tranq turrets!
I also need to remember to use the saveworld command more often to prevent this situation, but meh, Ark happens!
Edit: Karma is toying with me now As soon as I posted this, I get the dreaded crash popup box..... *sigh*