Ark: Survival Evolved

[Nefretiti]

Agreed, besides people on that server is generally friendly so don't be afraid to ask questions and such when you're on.

She was knocked out in the water and I was certain she'd drown when I had finally gotten one knocked out but oxy didn't go down and ironically enough she was right by a rock I could stand on to get to her, she didn't take much since she was fairly low level, she took only like 40 something narcs and about 200 or so berries.

[Seilahyn]

First thing I see when I log in. (Spoiler, it's Nef's new tame.)

I'm in game right now. I saw someone running around near the big compounds but wasn't sure who it was. They were gone by the time I got back over. I'm Dodo hunting but not having much luck. There are raptors everywhere and the darn prey animals RUN THEM RIGHT TO ME. I should learn how to make bolos and bolo the darn things getting chased by the predators. Keep them busy for a little, while I RUN.

[zedxrgal]

Seilahyn - Is that your thatched house right behind Nef and I's compounds???? I saw it but didn't catch the name. It was uh. Missing some walls. For some reason it's been raptor city around our houses so I understand your concern. They will pick on anything lower level then them. I killed (actually it was Olive)
six or so last night. Right by the hut was two. When /if I make it on tonight I'll go back and check unless you catch this message and post otherwise. I will try and dispatch any predators around there and see if something else respawns. I think if you are close to my compound or in between Nef's and I's run for our walls or beat feet it to my taming raft, up the sloped wall and out the doorways. Anything raptor size and larger will not get out. Either I or Nef should be able to kill it when we're back on. Our watch dogs should viciously attack anything coming near. Shoot. Nef's Spino Shira well attack (or try) things attacking my home or me from across the divide. If you're close run for there. Lord knows my predators have no qualms in dispatching an overzealous raptor. And thank you for the spoiler! Oh and take down low level Phimo too. Lot of meat and hide. Bolas while effective cost hide. And break. Use the trees, rocks etc to aide you.

Nef - In the water? I get anxiety over taming in my protected raft let alone in the water. I can't wait to see her.

[Seilahyn]

Haha, I've actually tried kiting things close to your bases in hopes the giant heads sticking out would chomp the thing chasing me. Unfortunately it was not the case. I've died twice now to some glowy eyed little bugger. At first I thought they were juvenile raptors, as they have feathered arms like raptors, but they aren't. Was able to reclaim my stuff each time though.

My house is closer to the forest but sort of between your stuff. It was thatch, but I've been replacing it and expanding with Lumber stuff. Not sure why it was missing walls? Everything was there when I logged in.

I just tamed my first dino, an Iguanodon. I thought I could ride it but it seems the schematic for the saddle isn't in the Primitive yet. Doesn't matter because the idiot immediately ran after a Trike and got us both killed, DESPITE me putting him on Neutral/Not aggressive. I absolutely hate the controls in this game when it comes to pets.

[zedxrgal]

Troodons!! Little assholes. They will mess you up at any level. Vicious beasties. Always have herbivorous set to passive. The UI can be a pain.
Read this: Tips & Tricks
And this: Getting Started
If you haven't already. Tons of great info.
Interesting. So maybe it wasn't your house. The house I saw was very close to the forest close to the center line between Nef and I's compounds.
Shame running to our houses didn't work. Upon thinking. I wonder if it's because you're not in the tribe. At least if you can make it to my raft you'll be safe in there. Nor sure if Nef built her raft or not.
*shrug*
Hope to be on soon though.

Oh! And you have to set a pet to neutral first before putting it on passive. I wouldn't really worry about having one till level 20-ish. Priority should be strong house and walls.

[Seilahyn]

I hope so. I had to call for help earlier. A level 125 Dilo had me trapped on my roof. Thank GOD I was up there trying to put some roofing on my second story I'm building. Two guys came and killed it. Now there's a Carno chomping on my house a bit and generally wandering around. I -think- he might be on my roof! How a thatch roof supports a Carno is beyond me. It's only level 25, but I don't know if I could take it as I tossed my Spear at the Dilo, which was amusing. It got stuck in his tail. I have my Pitchfork but that's it.

I tried talking to the guys but it seems my mic is terrible. They could barely hear me if at all. I tried putting mic boost on under computer settings so hopefully that helps. I need to get a new headset. My old one died and this was a back up. I didn't realize when I got it that it wasn't a USB one.

Edit:
Server went down for a quickie maint. But before that I managed to chase that darn Carno off. I ran him to the taming house things a couple times but he just kept coming back to my house and chomping on it. So I just kept pegging him in the butt with stones until he ran off into the woods and didn't come back. Teach that mean ol Carno who's boss! *flexes weak level 25 muscles*

[Nefretiti]

Good work with the carno
I will try to catch you on soon to see if I can invite you unless you two see eachother first. if you join the tribe you'll be able to take 'refuge' in either of our compounds, if you do that the
watchdogs should chomp down on whatever's chasin you.
And store tames untill you get an enclosure built.

I was literally shaking the whole time, I peppered her with arrows, she didn't go down, go back to my house, make a giant bear trap come back convinced I would have to start over on the torpor thing.
shoot her in the butt with one arrow and see her collapse in shallow water .. shit ... swim up to her to check oxygen .. hm not going down, clamber up on the rock .. smack whatever berries and narcs into her inventory and just wait while nervously watching for predators. I was half certain something would come along but I think beeing out in the water meant I was 'out of sight' from most things on the beach which helped.

On another note: I got my fuzzball from Braz a greyfurred lass named Brunhildar Braz is such a nice person, cheered me on with the bronto, let me have whichever of the bears I wanted (Exept one who he had reserved) and gave me both a saddle for her and a bronto saddle for Betsy. afterwards he escorted me back close to my compound when I was worried about bringing my teddy home on land.
Brun is such a neat animal, and much faster than you'd think too and nearly as strong as a rex.

[Seilahyn]

Well, they just took it down for another quick maint. I'll more than likely be on for the rest of the night/morning. I'm trying to reset my horrible sleeping schedule at the moment.

Almost done with upgrading my house. It's taking longer because I keep wandering around looking for Dodos and just exploring. I tried to tame another dino and the same damn thing happened. You'd think I'd remember from the first one how to change it, but noooo. The way the circle menu makes it look, it's like they're set to aggressive right off the bat. So me, being me, clicks it thinking I'm turning it off when I'm actually turning it on and vrooom there they go! This one was a Parasaur. I tried whistling to get her back but she just ignored me. Kept going. Chased the male Para away then picked a fight with a Trike. I just left it go instead of getting myself killed again. I'm terrible at this. I REALLY need to remember how this darn radial menu works.

[Nefretiti]

I usually manage to set mine to wandering and have to spend ages chasin them down and dodging predators while trying to catch them and disable it.

Try making fence foundations and build thatch walls or something similar around the tame before it finishes, should keep it immobile long enough for you to get the menu sorted and give abit of protection while taming. When you get that the spike fences are useful and don't need foundations to put down.

[Ana]

Seilahyn - is so nice to see you enjoy ark too.

Nef - your bronto is super cute. Gratz on taming her I adore the name !

Zed - That gigantosaurus on the photos is an Omega.. its soo huge! It kinda ruined the experience for me if i cant see where I am going.. simply to large. I do have an Alpha Gigantosaurus.. while scary its not so big so - and not sure it enrages as easily as the omega did.. I dont use it for much.. mostly go out on adventure on my wolf - but the Alpha gigantosaurus is nice to have for my army.. i plan on taking on the broadmother one day so need as many teeth as I can get





I had an underwater adventure yesterday.. not my favorite but I need some underwater dinos to be able to tame a squid one day.. and to go into the underwater caves .. but thats a loong road ahead before i go into any caves.

Caught 3 underwater dinos, all Alphas off course - First off a Plesiosaur



Size comparison with me mounted




next off a megaladon






and I think this is called a Mosasaurus






I still need to find a Leedsichthys, an Electrophorus and a Manta.. but not sure if any of them comes in an Alpha, or Elite version.. have only seen normal mantas so far..and the lowest version I want to tame is elites..

I might need to expand my underwater pen yet again... but need more wood for that

[Nefretiti]

Zed could you pm me the name of the annoyance so I know who to look out for?

I don't have a raft right now, I destroyed the one I had, I'll be building a new one soon so I can farm metal for Didis 10 person saddle.
Vaellia showed me good places for both crystals and metal nice and close to our bases after I complained once again about constantly losing my spyglass.

Seila would it be okay if I add you on steam as well? if so pm me your username if not that's okay. It would let me see when you're on and playing making it easier to help out if needed.

[Seilahyn]

Sure, I don't mind at all. My Steam is Leashedragon. I'm going to try and keep myself up as long as I can today so I can sleep tonight. I might need a nap or break from game though.

I'm currently hiding in your house... there is a level 130 Dilo AGAIN. Or.. was it 120? I know it's over 100 and while running from it I ran into a Raptor. It's kind of awkward because.. well.. you're kind of unconscious here on the floor... I think this is you? Nef is Sarai and Zed is Falara? (Sorry if I spelled that wrong, I can't see your compound from here, and you totally gave me a whole bunch of stuff earlier.)

Edit:
Actually I'm going to take a break. I can't do much with with the 100+ Dilo hanging around, the Raptor, and now a new level 130 Raptor. It could be the same one that chased me earlier that I just assumed was the level 70 one I had ran from not long before that. All I know is they are sticking around the area. I'm also in a lot of pain right now. Took a Naproxen and waiting for it to kick in, but sitting here is just painful. I keep adjusting myself in hopes it will help and it doesn't. (Ovarian cyst that is growing but they don't want to remove.)

[Nefretiti]

I'm Sarai and Zed is Felara yes

I'll send you a friendrequest when I get home, currently at 'work'
Yeah your character 'sleeps' in the game while you're offline which is why everyone says a safe house/base is a priority.
I'm currently planning an expansion since I wasn't actually expecting to sucessfully tame Betsy and she takes up ALOT of room. I'll likely have to build another Behemoth gate.

Erf :/ a break might be good, take care and I hope you feel better soon.

[Ana]

You guys takes exceptionally few screenshots.. or maybe I take too many

A girl and her wolf out exploring











Wolf name is Pawsome because well he is awesome Fast enough to outrun the mobs i cant handle and tough enough to handle a lot of the big mobs. He is my favorite to run around with.


Mission add more teeth got a little boost today.. 4 new t-rexes

[Seilahyn]

I had no idea about the sleeping thing. Explains why I saw some random body for most of the first day on the beach.

I hope my home isn't in the way to expand your base, Nef. Imagine now we're in a tribe together it shouldn't interfere. I want to start working on a big enclosure next, but space by the water is limited. There's a random wall to the west. If that big house boat wasn't north of Nef I might be able to get in there, but there's another up on the hill. I was thinking of going across the water, but that's quite a ways to go.

I actually took an amusing screenshot in Nef's enclosure... but it didn't take? I can't find it in the folder or on steam. I had her rex, bronco and two carnos looking down at me like, "excuse me, who are you in our home?"

I also gave some pets to the little four legged guys. Their responses were cute.

[zedxrgal]

Tarn - You crack me up. I just never think to take screenshots because I'm not usually doing anything all that exciting. Or the tame has me so frazzled I just race home. I do have a screenshot of lady Theriz I've not posted yet. I really want water creatures but that is a LONG way off yet. I'm just a girl survivor trying to keep the kids I have now fed let alone adding more to it.

Seilahyn - I'll accept the friend request or send one soon as I get home. The UI has some known bugs they're appear to be aware of. Nef has a great idea in protection walls. Once we get the mega base plans worked out taming things should be easier. Great job on the carno.

Nef - We should talk with Wolf Tribe and see if they've anymore adoptables for Seila OR get then ourselves. I'm good either way. I'll try and be on tonight but i know you'll be offline by the time I do. I suspect this weekend we'll have the opportunity to workout /on mega base. Trying to think if there is anything else.

Anyone - if I run out of meats will my kids starve and die?

[Nefretiti]

I sent a friend request earlier.

Yeah I would be happy to help with taming, either as a sentry or gathering whatever food is needed etc.
I'm on right now so I can talk to them if you want.

I think so but it takes time.

[zedxrgal]

Seilahyn - They look at me like that too! Just give them some good chin scratchies. Yeah make a simple bed asap but you will have the option of using any of Nef & I's beds also. Just be mindful each bed has a 5 minute cool down. But between she and I there's like 6 or 7 beds. So I don't think it'll be an issue. Nef and I have been planning a mega base for almost a week. It's just being on at the same time to complete it. But between the two of us should be able to knock it out quickly I reckon. Don't worry about where you are. You're closer to me than her and I can easily expand without encroaching on you. I had planned on expanding to my sides and from more that rear. I wouldn't mind pushing those back walls out but not if it'll impact you. The inlet on the other side is a good place BUT I strongly suggest it be started after your home by us is done. Safer that way. Lot of predators over there. Walls first then home. Again not trying to make you move but if you want close to the shore I'd snatch it up asap. I may just do it if you don't.

[Nefretiti]

the little tykes are cute and not all that hard to tame but you need rare flower, after that you basically just follow them around and feed them, doesnt take long.

basically what Zed said about the base

[zedxrgal]

the little tykes are cute and not all that hard to tame but you need rare flower, after that you basically just follow them around and feed them, doesnt take long.

The little Lystros???? I tamed all three of mine with mejoberries. Followed them around like a crazy person. Soon as they got hungry I mashed that E button.

i really want to get home and play but I think the man is going to make me go grocery shopping and get dinner.