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So I've been playing a singleplayer ASE world, mainly Ragnarok. I have Small Bosses, Structures Plus, Simple Spawners, Awesome Spyglass, and Dino Storage v2. The tek dedicated storage tekgram is just gone. I do not have the server set to allow only specified engrams, so it's not that. My previous character had all bosses from Island to Ab, so I definitely had it unlocked. I could make an S+ tek dedi, but it doesn't work with my Stryders. I picked up a normal tek dedi that I had placed previously, intending to use it temporarily, only to find I couldn't place it. It would show up green, but wouldn't actually place. Thinking my character might be glitched, I remade my character, but noticed that in the locked tekgrams... the tek dedi was STILL missing. This wouldn't be such a headache if the S+ tek dedi worked with stryders, but it doesn't. DILO am I doing wrong?? For debugging purposes, I tried loading a brand new save of the Island with the same mod loadout, and made a new character. The tek dedicated storage engram was gone then, too. Then, I tried opening a brand new Island save without any of the mods, and made a new character. Tekgram still missing, and upon killing the alpha dragon, I saw text saying that I had learned the tek dedicated storage engram... but it still wasn't in my engram list! Considering this happened when I didn't have mods loaded, I'm convinced it's not my mods. This happened after I had verified all my game files not that long ago as well Please. Any help is appreciated. This has been plaguing me for like a week and I can't find answers or even people complaining of a similar problem anywhere...

The existence of people is not "expressing views." The existence of LGBTQA+ people is not political. The existence of people who need abortions is not political. LGBTQA+ people, people who have had abortions, so on, so forth, have always existed, even if historians erase them in your sanitized schooling. The people who want to stomp these minorities out, hide them, or are "uncomfortable" with/"offended" by them are the ones who make it political. You are the one making this a problem. Why do people existing upset you? By the way, you might want to read the ARK Explorer Notes. They've supported all this "stuff" you "find offensive" since the beginning.

They were likely adults that they unclaimed, since it sounds like it's unofficial. They likely grew before they were noticed and when they attempted to kill with griffin, they fought back since babies grow up automatically set on "attack your target." (Official ORP PVP, Ragnarok) Worked on raising the new giga baby some more. She can now stay out overnight properly. Spent most of today online just replenishing raw meat/berry reserves. Still need more dodos before I can properly move to basic kibble for baby food. I made a huge batch of fresh cryos so tomorrow, I'm going to gather a bunch of mejos and go on another dodo taming spree. Once that's through, I plan to go to Extinction for element farming as well, since the giga can be left alone for long periods of time now. Tek dedis here I come! I really need to get back onto bullet farming... I also intend to go back into SP some and test out some build ideas. Honestly I'm at a point where I'm just kind of working on a whole slew of random stuff lol.

(Official ORP PVP, Ragnarok) Last time, I wrote about how I finished gathering all artifacts needed to summon the bosses. This time, I tell you that I have been hard at work breeding and raising boss fighters for said boss fight. Alpha Dragon and Manticore, I'm coming for you! I also have been hard at work trying to find gigas. Bullets and building the base better is great and all, but I need teeth, to use and to breed. Finding high levels has sucked. There is nothing else to describe it with. I decided to forfeit that venture and asked around for people selling or trading any. I didn't want anything spectacular to breed with, honestly, anything with 30+ points in melee or health would have been fantastic. Ended up scoring one with a fantastic melee instead. I had to work for it for sure, and the giga in question was a baby, but it was totally worth it. Only 1 mutation, it's mainly red, and fantastic melee stat. However, I decided that I really didn't want to risk losing this baby. So... I decided that instead of feeding berries and raw meat to my important babies, I wanted to try upgrading to just using basic kibble. So I went on a dodo taming mission. Then another. Then another. Long story short, I've got way too many dodos to count now, and they make eggs like crazy. I also got some dilophosaurs since I had been meaning to start breeding those anyway to stand guard in the base. I have been gathering eggs a lot and making basic kibble as I go and using that to feed the giga baby. I haven't been raising anything else from tiny baby stage in the meantime, everything else is juvenile and above, so that's been that. Once the giga can be left alone for 4+ hours, I am going to go to Extinction to grind some more Element so I can get some more tek dedicated storages going, which will make bullet farming way easier since I'll actually have somewhere to keep stuff. Vaults seem so cumbersome and just... not worth having imo. They're so big and bulky for how (in my opinion, the humble packrat I am) little they hold. I tested in SP with where I wanted these new tek dedis to go for optimum bullet farming potential and liked it. I may also try to farm more materials to expand the greenhouse... berry farming near my base isn't fantastic and I want to get some mejoberry and narcoberry crops going. I theoretically could just take some argies and travel farther from my base to where there are denser populations of bushes, but I think it might be more beneficial for someone who does so much breeding like me to use crop plots, since they passively gain berries over time, constantly. While I have been waiting on giga baby to grow, I did breed a bunch of tames. Cryo'd babies or picked up the eggs of them all just before they hatched so that once I have bigger basic kibble reserves I can use it to raise them out of baby stages. Thinking I need more dodos..., and a bigger kibble farming ramp thing. I just have one layer of ramping right now and have run out of space, so I may make another layer with more dodos on that. I have also, however, met a new friend on the server. We have been helping one another out a lot and trading often and I am really liking them a lot. I think I may have a real unofficial alliance in this tribe... which has been an odd experience for me. My people skills can be a little lacking and I tend to keep to my hermit bubble in the desert so I don't have to deal with them, but I have been talking a little more and being kinder to people to try to earn myself some allies and it has clearly worked out in my favor. However, the old alpha of this CA's Ragnarok recently returned, and has also been interesting... In fact, it seems like quite a few old players recently returned. I may not be super involved in the politics of this cluster all the time, but I am very curious to see how this turns out.

I have a 4.4k weight argy. You will never be able to farm with anything else ever again 😂

(Official ORP PVP) Today, I got tired of just constantly breeding/feeding babies and grinding bullets and decided to tackle a few caves to blow some steam and have some fun. Life's Labyrinth, did the right path, everything was fine until the boss room... couldn't get the bosses to spawn and the barrier was still up nonetheless. Tried to just walk through it, because usually when that happens, you can just phase through the barrier, but that didn't work either. Oh well, I only needed the Artifact of the Clever anyway, but still would have been nice to grab those last two artifacts as well. I do love the atmosphere of this cave, though! Also, the thyla is a lifesaver in here. Bring a cryo'd one in and you're set. It can walk through a pretty significant part of the right path. Jungle Dungeon, pretty much just spammed grappling hooks, arthros did break a lot of my armor though so by the end i was running around naked. That was definitely panic and adrenaline-inducing, lol, but I made it out of there with the Artifact of the Hunter! Frozen Dungeon, again, took a thyla and made it through pretty easily. I had my brother join me on this one for the Iceworm Queen because I wasn't sure if my thyla could handle it alone. His thyla wasn't imprinted so I stuck an ascendant saddle on it. We both survived with hardly a scratch! Artifact of the Pack - acquired. Artifact of the Devourer was also acquired today. I took a sarco and just swam out there to it. I waited until the tusos were far enough away from it that I could skirt in and snatch it and then leave without having to deal with any of them. I don't have anything really in the way of water tames aside from a single sarco and baryonyx - I had no interest in tangoing with a tuso lol. So now, the goal shifts to raising the baby bossers and gathering the rest of the trophy items. I am concerned about the tuso tentacle requirement for the alpha Rag boss though... 25. I still don't really know how I even intend to fight 1 tuso, much less enough for 25 tentacles. Oof. I'll need to do research on that, big time. But the goal is within the next 2 weeks to take on the Ragnarok Arena (Alpha) with a team of therizinos, daeodons, and a yuty.

(Official PVP ORP) Not only did I get all of my cryos back, but another tribe said that they ended up with some fertilized eggs of mine after some battling with the griefers who attacked me, babies of some animals that died in the fire (lol it was a raid but I'll just call it 'the fire' from now on), and was willing to give them back. So now I have some eggs that are guaranteed to be good and be exactly what I need, so that's fantastic! These people also gave me plenty of pointers and since then, my base has received even more upgrades. It's bullet farming days here in the future as well as some minor interior QOL repairs - such as crafting myself a ton of empty cryos, because while I got all my tames in cryos back, I had no idea how many spare cryos I had and didn't want to ask for those back since they were going through the trouble of giving me my tames. So, tomorrow I'll probably make a ton of cryos, some cryofridges, and then bullets, bullets, bullets. Did some testing in singleplayer as well to try to replicate what the raiders did on a mockup of my rebuilt/better base to see if it would stand up to an assault, and it did. Obviously, more experienced raiders than me could probably break it faster or what have you, but next time I intend to be ready to defend as well rather than just cower and hope for the best. In between bullet farming, I have a tame list to get started on. I need to start breeding velonas again and I want to tame microraptors, pegos, and in general, any annoying small creatures I can get my hands on. Maybe onyc, maybe titanoboas, maybe troodons, I have no idea, but something smallish and tranquilizing to keep in the base on aggressive. Onyc I figure could be good since they shred armor and can hit players on mounts. Quite a few yuty babies survived the fire so I have an extraordinary kibble farm still and I have plenty of ovis in cryos fully leveled in health ready for slaughter (since I think Onyc take just raw mutton). Dimorphs could be fun, just for poops and giggles, maybe set them to follow some of the turret velonas on aggressive as well (1. to hopefully clean up any dead animals they kill so they dont starve themselves trying to shoot corpses and 2. again, can hurt players off of tames). I dunno, I will probably have lots of time to kill while I wait for wood and metal to smelt, so I'll just go out with my high stam fire wyvern and look for Annoying Small Tames(TM). I'll also be searching for gigas, but I swear, the ARK gods hate me there, because in many years on this Ragnarok map and constant visits to the dunes of the desert, I've seen like 5 gigas total and they've never been over level 95. The gigas I had in the past that were high level all came from the Center but also the idea of transferring for taming a giga that may never spawn and having to leave extraordinary kibble on another map is agonizing. I'll sweep and raze the desert, highlands, and near the green ob until hopefully some high levels spawn. Oh, right, I need to go tame more bees though, since they starved earlier last week... agh... Though in other news, my newly raised and imprinted thyla and managarmr that survived the fire, I took both out for a spin to get some levels and things, and I love them both. Tbh, I'm still not entirely sure what the craze for the mana is outside of pvp, because while it's fast and fun to ride, it doesn't get hide as well as my thyla nor meat as fast as my wyvern (plus it eats a ton of it through the massive uses of stamina!), etc etc... Though I know it can be used on Aberration and that sounds super useful. Ah well, it's a fun tame and as aforementioned, clearly useful for PVP, so I'm still glad to have raised it and to breed them in the future. The thyla will be useful for hide farming as well as caving. I dunno. Lots of future plans. All I did today was gather metal and crystal. Antimesh teleported me around like I was Goku with Instant Transmission for a while because I was farming crystal in a cave in the Ragnarok desert and apparently my head poked too far into the ceiling or something, I dunno, lol. Can't have poop in Detroit the desert. Anyway, until next time!

Remember how I said I was attacked and all cryos stolen? Well, as it would turn out, a friendly to me tribe found all of my podded dinos on some enemies! My base has already received significant upgrades and I've been given all my cryo'd dinos back. Only my dimorph and iguanodon lines, which I had barely started, are entirely gone. The rest have been salvaged! Theris included. I've also started working again finally (stupid pandemic) and so I'm doing a lot better, so I'm finding grinding to not be as annoying, even enjoying seeing all those materials come together and the heaps of progress I've made just in the last few days. The ARK gods were looking out for me that day, even if it didn't seem like it. Ultimately, they didn't gain anything from raiding me and I've learned a lot from the attack. Onward and upward! What a game.

I'll admit, today was a dark day. I don't have that much pvp experience and I grossly underestimated the griefers that attacked me unprovoked, and then I panicked. Although most of my base survived - it's ORP after all - they killed all of my animals that weren't in the upper baby floor aside from a couple argies and stole everything else that was in the cryofridges. I learned several valuable lessons today despite the tragedy of it all, and am already repairing and rebuilding. They didn't kill off all my lines so I'm not starting from zero and most of the interior survived. Honestly, I'm not that upset. Definitely not happy about it, but such is life. I'm taking a break to spend some time with SO here shortly but later tonight I intend to use the new griffin I tamed to get a wyvern and hatch it. The sooner I get that, the sooner everything goes back to normal. Then I'm going to work and focus very, very hard on base defense, because I grew complacent and shafted base upgrades in lieu of breeding recently, especially with the breeding event. Of course, breeding means nothing if you can't keep said breeders protected. Cruelty is the way ARK teaches, though, so... Lesson learned and I look forward to rebuilding.

Evo breeding event!!! Thank you! ? IRL is so hard right now and working on my breeding lines is one of my favorite ways to wind down, but having to farm so much less food/make progress faster is always welcome!

take a shot every time someone says rates are 1x because they get 1 rock when they pick up a stone off the ground challenge you'll die but hey

Today, the baby pile. lol this is all I've been doing today. I thought I'd show this because I thought they looked funny. I whipped them all into this blob so they'd stop batting me around with their glitchy tails while I was trying to get to the actual tiny babies that still need to be hand fed.

Haven't posted in a while and honestly, that's because I haven't had much to say. I'm in the really grindy phase, not that that bothers me, but still. Breeding therizinos, dimoprhs, thylas, velonas, manas, daeodons, yutys. Started breeding iguanodons as well - mostly for fun though, tbh. Keeping decent relations with everyone so far. I stay in my corner everyone leaves me alone lol. Got some tek stuff going as well. Hoping to start regularly battling bosses for element starting November, but who knows. Goal is to get an operation going on Genesis or Aberration come 2021. Until then, though... typical smooth sailing. Breeding therizinos has been really fun and exciting though. It's official so getting them out of baby stage is a bit of a pain but after that... Man, it's been rewarding watching my initial 4 therizinos bloom into the fairly massive project they are now. It may just be the quarantine and the ADHD talking, but working on them consistently throughout the days of the week makes me really happy. Anyway, that's all I gotta say for now tbh.

... I literally saw several moderators saying that with new base rates it doesn't increase the number of stones you get. Evo events do this, yes, but the base rate multiplier does not. Trust me, I wish they were paying me lol. Check this thread out and if you still wanna bitch and moan that's your problem

do. not. test. rates. by picking up. stones. you always get 1 stone by hand from what I understand