Yeah I didn't plan to get all 3, I just wanted to trap one and lure the others away so I could maybe trap the other 2 afterwards. I had gotten the 150 on his own at one point and got him in the trap then the others seemed to realise where he was and swarmed round. It was dark by then so I was just hovering above waiting for morning when I realised the other 2 had managed to wander up the ramps and into the trap themselves! So maybe not the smartest dinos...

Edit: Not done much today. Bred the allos twice, got two males. Both my high levels are male already so need a high female! Silly game. Also bred my thylas twice but only have one to show for it. Something (I think my otter again) was on aggressive so as soon as the first one was born it got attacked by everything in the base!

I got my grinder finished finally. I otherwise just was running around on one of my thylas in between imprinting sessions. I tamed up a diplocaulus, only level 60 but it will do until I get scuba gear (2 levels away now, hit 79 today) and also a microraptor (only level 25). Surprised I managed it. Bola'd the microraptor. I only had tranq arrows and a 160% damage crossbow so was convinced it would die. Hit it with one arrow then a terror bird leapt on me. Jumped back on my thyla and killed the terror bird. That possibly saved the microraptor's life as it was down and out from the one arrow. Threw meat on it then realised the torpor drops really fast and I hadn't brought any narcotics with me. Quickly harvested bushes for narcoberries then another bloody terror bird attacked along with some of those stupid bugs (titanomyrna?) so murdered those with the thyla whilst trying to stay away from hitting the microraptor. Managed it somehow, kept it knocked out (despite eating 2 narcoberries myself by accident) and got him home. It was only just across the gorge from my base anyway.

On one of my trips I saw some super pretty allos but they're all around the 55ish levels... really tempted to grab some for the colours though.

Good work getting the microraptor.. they're not too bad to tame if you can pop them before they stun you. Pretty awesome you ate some narco-berries... I had a teammate who accidentally ate a bunch of narcotic and we had to talk him through eating stimberries and watching to make sure he didn't pass out... in a cave of course. Good times! So yea, don't worry, you're in good company. That diplocaulus sounds pretty cool... I've never tamed one. To be honest, it's probably better scuba gear than the scuba gear, so hang onto it.

A small bit of advice on the cooker when you get that far, you have to lay down some piping for it to snap to (since it requires water). I usually drop a 4-way water pipe connector. You may have to play around with positioning that to get the cooker where you want it. Once you've go that set up, then use the flexible pipe to connect it to your water system. That'll save you a lot of heartache. I actually use the flexible pipe connectors with most things... set up the things you want to dispense water (usually a vertical pipe and tap, but sometimes other things), then use a flexible pipe to connect it to the infrastructure.

Anyway, great progress! Keep it up!

I hit E instead of T again, such a muppet. Thank god it was only 2. That can't have been much fun in a cave! And at least he had you around (though I do rather suspect that on the wrong day, passing out in Ark with you around could wind up with the equivalent of a dick drawn on your face).

That's why I got the diplocaulus, I still have 2 levels until the air. Plus it already has over 2000 oxygen and only tamed out at level 85 and you get infinite air whilst riding it anyway, so definitely better than scuba in that sense, plus no repairs. But depending what you're doing a basil would still be better for the safety from eels and jellyfish. I'll probably swap between them depending on where I'm going and how dangerous it's likely to be.

I didn't know about flexible pipes. Are they tek? I don't think I've noticed them before in the engrams. I did have reservations about building the base up yet as I know some of the higher machines need electric and water. You may notice in that pic I've built it right by the greenhouse. Right now my piping and wiring is very basic. From the water well I just have one vertical pipe out of it, then a straight one and a 4 way with the taps hanging off it to irrigate the crops. I'm hoping it'll be an easyish 10 or so pipes to get it into the house and to the machines that need it. The generator is even easier as it's directly behind the fridges so it's just one straight wire through the wall with an outlet plopped on the end.

I did spot the 140 theri still wandering around so that's still on my list to tame. I think it's female. I also saw a 130 female not far away so might grab her too.

Flexible pipes unlock about the same level as the regular metal pipes. They're really just for connecting two normal, non-flexible pipes... but it lets you build a nice infrastructure in your floors or ceiling or whatever, build the simple piping for your taps or machines or whatever, then connect the two. Here's a link to the flexible pipe... you probably just didn't notice it. https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Metal_Irrigation_Pipe_-_Flexible Electrical has something similar with the flexible electrical cable. Like the pipes, it just makes connecting up separate electrical systems easy. Of course with electric you have the plugs, but the automatic wires can be really really ugly.

Anyway, no playing for me lately. I'm sure I'll play this weekend. It's a holiday weekend for the US, but I got a smoker yesterday, so that'll be where a lot of my time will be spent. I've got two briskets and a chicken to make.

Ah that's why I haven't noticed them, think I've only looked at the stone ones, not metal. Very handy to know though.

I haven't played for a couple of days but jumped on for a few hours tonight. I mainly just did breeding but I did also use the grinder trick to hit level 81. I was *this* close to 80 when one of the small red drops landed near my base (about 500 xp off it) so I used it to get that... it contained a blueprint for a medium crop plot. Then I went to breed another basilo and 2 icthy's. I got 2 male icthy's, one is as good as his dad, who is my best icthy. Need a female with those stats so I have a permanent breeding couple. The basilo was better than his dad but not quite as good as his mum.

Whilst they were growing up I used the grinder to hit 81 and made some scuba gear. Then I took my worst basilo out. I was debating that or one of the bary's; I'm glad I chose the basilo. I went out of the small inlet through the redwoods and when I hit the ocean, just headed down. Instantly a plesiosaur, multiple angler fish and about 5 eels started on me. We took them out no problem, at one point a tuso joined in but then randomly wandered off. I'd just killed those when 4 plesios, more anglers and more eels arrived! They bit the dust too so I headed back home.

I've also bred up my allos again in the hopes of getting a female this time but not hatched the egg yet. I also bred both pairs of spinos and again didn't hatch the eggs yet, think I have 2 from each pair waiting to hatch now.

Edit: well I searched 'flexible' in the engrams menu and there is a stone one so I'm clearly just blind.

Not a lot done today, some breeding of sabercats, one pair for stats, one pair for the ongoing 'battlecat' colour mutation. I also bred my ankys as I can get a 232 one out of my original pair but no such luck yet. I did get one with the yellow plates on it's legs and the yellow skin on it's legs though. I also headed back to the floating island base to breed my wyverns so I've just arrived back at base with 1 egg of each type, bred from the best parents. Incubation next time I play.

I had a quick clean up of my horses. I had 5 males there weren't amazing stats or different colours to any others I have so I got rid of them. This time I decided to be nice though so I put them all on wandering, threw all their level up points into speed and also put them on passive flee. After I did that I realised I should've set them all to follow one then set that one to wandering so they stayed as a herd. Might do that next time. I spotted a new male up by the old base, only level 20 but with white legs. I haven't seen one like that yet. Grabbed it up and took it back to tame but it's quite glitchy at times and the horse jumped onto a rock then just vanished.

I can make an industrial forge now so one of my next projects is to gather the materials for that. Also I was looking up some of the underwater tames after my dive the other night. The eels deal torpor damage and can apparently be tamed relatively easily in one area of crystal isles so I might try to tame a small pack of them. You can set them to only stun concious creatures so you could set them on something and be too at risk of it dropping taming effectiveness unless two stun at the same time I guess.

Congrats on hitting level 81. Being able to make scuba gear is pretty cool when you've got some water tames to make use of. I'm not particularly surprised you've been doing more breeding. The idea of setting loose herds of animals is a good one... I think I've ended up with around 15 raptors, so I may copy that idea. I haven't really been playing Ark lately... mostly AC: Odyssey and then doing things other than gaming. Keep me posted on your progress!

Haha that pack of raptors would be fun! Just imagine your panic when you see them in the distance before realising they're 'yours'. Of course it would be more fun online when they'd actually attack other people

I'll probably jump on tonight and have an update. I've had a couple of days off as I got sucked into Ultima Online again. Plus I don't want to kill my enthusiasm for the game (I think I'm over 300 hours already at this point)

Played a bit last night. Hatched the 2 allo eggs I had stored up. Finally got 2 girls and 1 had the best stats on from the parents so she will now be bred to the other high level male to try and get a continuous breeding line of high levels. Other than that I just ran around on one of my thlyas. I meant to take pics but forgot. First was exploring the redwoods near me. I found a cave and ventured in a little way. Arthropleuras destroyed my armour and I met my first aranaeos but the thyla coped just fine. I didn't venture too far though. I also found the giant hive; just what it sounds like, it's a huge underground cave filled with honey and bees (and bears looking for honey). I didn't disturb anything but when I need to tame a bear or farm some honey I know where to go. I then went wandering around the snowy, desert and tropical areas. I found a few more caves too but didn't go in them. I found a new artifact though so this map has more artifacts than are required for the boss I think. So guessing some are decorative. I assume you can't take artifacts cross-map. I saw a few spinos I wanted but didn't tame anything yet. The levels weren't the best (around the 90 mark) but one was all sorts of different reds and one had a lovely purple sail with a dark green edge to it. I also had a nice looking scorpion attack me, black with white claws, so I left it alive and might go tame it at some point.

You're correct, you can't take artifacts cross-map. So yea, maybe for decoration... you can make artifact stands out of obsidian... I forget what they're called. But you can make some nice looking stuff with it, since the artifacts glow. Cool you found more caves... those typically have loot crates that drop some good stuff, so worth exploring. If they're anything like caves on the Island, you'll want to pack along some antidote in case you contract super-rabies (not joking). On the burning sands map (why can I not remember the name half the time?) the arthropleuras roam outside in the desert and can be tamed. They're not amazing tames or anything, but it's kinda neat. I tamed several and bread them for the hell of it on my previous game.

Regarding taming stuff in the cave, just beware that if it's a really high level, you won't be able to tame it. Still worth a shot though. I haven't been playing, so nothing new to report. Keep feeding me updates! Reading your adventures is really what got me to play again in the first place.

There are arthropleuras in the desert on crystal isles too. I was going to try and tame one at some point. I love the oily sheen to them. I do have some antidote that I made 'just in case'. I actually headed back to my flying island base a few days ago and looked in some ruins/sort of cave under there. I spotted a megalania I think (the komodo dragon type thing) and read up on it so I am aware of super rabies. I'm going to go back for it at some point, although it's only a level 20.

I did some hatching earlier. I have 4 fertilised spino eggs so hatched the 2 from my best pair and left the other 2. Got a 227 and a 204, both males. The 227 is the best I've got so far but he isn't worth breeding back to his mother as it's 2 stats from the father he missed out on. I can get a 232 with the best outcome. I also headed into the hive just to get some screenshots for you and ended up in some sort of microraptor microclimate! I've learnt they don't attack if you're on foot so as soon as I saw one flying at me I dismounted my thyla then punched them to set the thyla on them. There were 4 or 5 just in one spot! Little sods.

Edit: Had a mess about in the evening. Got the 2 spinos 100% imprinted and took the 227 out for a spin. Stuck to the coast, murdered a few mantas and megalodons. I also had my crossbow and tranq arrows on me because I'd see a really lovely coloured diplocaulus that I wanted to tame (it had a pimping purple fin!) but couldn't find it. So I had a go at tranqing a megalodon. Found a level 20, knocked it out just fine but another near it came over to have a munch and I killed the knocked out one by accident trying to get rid of the other one. So I tamed that one. Easy to do at low level, I lured it into the shallows then just shot arrows until it started to run. Took 2 in the butt to knock it out. Higher levels you'd want to trap them though as following them would be awkward/dangerous whilst trying to finish knocking them out. Easier mounted I guess (I had jumped off the spino as you can't shoot from them) but still not ideal. It's only tamed out at 29 but I can give it a whirl at least and see what they're like. If I use them it's more likely in a pack to guard me whilst I'm on my basilo I think.

Edit 2: Took the megalodon out, stayed near the surface and promptly got attacked by eels! We managed to kill them but didn't feel overly safe out there so I quickly went home. Took the basilo out. So much better (except the speed). At one point we had at least 3 megalodons, 6 or 7 mantas and a plesiosaur chomping on us. But victory was ours! Also fought an alpha megalodon (finally got my chibi to level 2), a tuso and a mosasaur at different points in the journey, plus some more eels. The basilo I keep taking out currently has just over 50k health, 1200 stam, just over 500% melee and 126% speed.

oh wow, those pics of the bee cave (or whatever it is) are pretty cool. And grats on your continued breeding adventures. I still haven't played recently, so nothing to report here. Looks like you're getting to the point where venturing into a cave is going to happen. Good luck!

Niall got a cold and passed it to me so I can't be bothered doing much right now. I just did some more hatching last night. I had to swim back first as I'd logged out halfway round the map on my basilo. Just as I was getting close to home I spotted a 145 female basilo. Of course I had to go tame her up. My previous best had been a wild 90 I think so she's a huge upgrade. I've included a picture of her stats.

Then it was hatching the crystal wyvern eggs I bred, so 1 tropical, 1 blood and 1 ember plus the 150 blood egg that I stole from a nest. The 150 is definitely the best blood I have, the one I'd bred hatched as an 89 female so that's an improvement over my current female. The ember was a 140 I think and the tropical hatched at something like 220.

I did watch a video regarding stealing wyvern eggs. Sort of useful but sort of not. Basically if a wyvern is in range to see you and aggro naturally, it's pointless, just do the usual grab it and run on your flier or kill the wyvern. But if they're further away and would only aggro if you grabbed the egg yourself, take an oviraptor with you. Get the oviraptor next to the egg, put it on follow and it will automatically grab the egg without aggroing anything! You can then take it off the oviraptor with no repercussions.

Huh, weird. I didn't know oviraptors stole eggs. Not sure if really matters... setting up a nest of autoguns nearby sounds like a much better solution.

It would be useful early game *if* nests were on the ground and *if* you didn't need to have it on follow for it to steal the egg. If you could stand from afar and send it in to grab one, great, easy high-end egg early on. Since you have to go in with the oviraptor it's a bit pointless other than for fun. Autoturrets sound more fun though

Still not completely over the cold so again not done much. I finished raising and imprinting the 4 wyverns (100%). I had saved a 130 baryonyx that spawned near my base from a lower level spino with the intent of taming it up a later day. But over the weekend I spotted a 150 male spino had spawned there and started a fight with it. Let the spino chomp the bary whilst I set up a taming pen again. I couldn't pass by a max level spino. Got him tamed up and he has 36 in stamina which fills in a nice gap in my stats. So I have one with 36 in HP, one with 36 in stam, a 34 in weight and a 36 in damage. Best food is 35 but not fussed about that and best oxygen is 31 which can be useful for a spino. Best I can breed from my stock now is a 244.

I then had a couple of hours killing crystal wyvern heirs and stealing their eggs, just for the hell of it. Not sure if I'll hatch them or just store them to use if I ever try to tame a basilisk. None were amazing levels. On the way there I did take my newly raised tropical crystal wyvern to level up a bit. I found the alpha tuso that's been stranded on the beach since day 1, a level 94. Took forever to kill it but the wyvern got 37 levels out of it and I got 2 myself, so I'm now 84.

Final thing last night was breeding the basilos. Best I can get is a 216 clone of the recently tamed female so I was hoping for a male baby clone but no luck, got a 206 female. She'll be my new one to take out when I fancy exploring the ocean for now once she grows up.

I really need to get back on this. I keep getting distracted away from it or just not being in a gaming mood. I might be doing loads of breeding on it soon though as I'm hoping to get some elbow surgery so won't be able to play anything really, but can probably manage to move around enough to feed/imprint as necessary.

I did mean to ask if you've seen the latest new dino for the last map Satis? Sinomacrops: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/ar ... ore-r1817/