ARK:Survival Evolved

TheKells wrote: »

I moved to a lake further south, seemed to be busy once upon a time but not anymore.

As for taming a raptor, I tried taming a croc with raw meat but nothing happened at all. Figure that was just a glitch or is there something else I'm missing when it comes to a carnivore?

Which one was your base, I took a flight south to look around and found a cave and a few bases.

There's a mountain not a million miles from my place that I raid when I can. Barrel up on a Pteranodon, leg it around grabbing metal before I'm attacked by god knows what then bale home to deposit haul.

Very top of the mountain has rocks that are nearly all gold and give serious amounts of metal, also some crystals up there.

I'm sorta halfway south, never noticed a cave. Lonestar will know the lake, he has a big wooden fort there and put a sign up about crocodile feeding ground.

Seems i need to get me a flyer then.

*Found a raptor, tried to tame it...it killed me instead! Went back to loot my body and it's gone but the raptor lying unconscious. In process of taming it now, didn't realise they could eat my stuff after they killed me. Ah well, I got a raptor in return

Think I spotted the fort, must see if I can spot your place when I'm on in a few minutes

Lone Stone

my fort is pew pew and unfinished i logged in after not being on in weeks and my carnivors were eating stacks of meat in seconds, i thought maybe the feeding rate got messed up, i farmed like 500 meat and the rex ate it all in like 30 minuets =s

Anyone able to find the gaellords server at the mo? It's not showing in my favorites any more, showing as online on their site though.

Edit just seen it needs to be updated.

Does it update automatically? Or does the admin have to log in and do it?

Possibly a manual thing, Laviski could answer that better than me though

Ant695

Ark is free this weekend on steam for anyone who wants to try it out without commiting to buying it.

Ant695 wrote: »

Ark is free this weekend on steam for anyone who wants to try it out without commiting to buying it.

Was playing it last night with my friend on one of them extinction servers. After dying it was nigh on impossible to find each other again until we both died at the same time and spawned together.

Wait weeks to play ark with someone and spend the whole time wandering about lost!!

Ant695

TheKells wrote: »

Was playing it last night with my friend on one of them extinction servers. After dying it was nigh on impossible to find each other again until we both died at the same time and spawned together.

Wait weeks to play ark with someone and spend the whole time wandering about lost!!

Haha yeah dying is a bit of a balls in it but once you get your bearings it should be easier to say I'm down by the huge rock on the beach near the bronto or whatever and have landmarks to find eachother.

TheKells wrote: »

*Found a raptor, tried to tame it...it killed me instead! Went back to loot my body and it's gone but the raptor lying unconscious. In process of taming it now, didn't realise they could eat my stuff after they killed me. Ah well, I got a raptor in return

A very easy thing to do is build a taming cage. quite simple to build.

Couple of stone wall foundations in a square. Build some walls at x height depending on what you want to tame.. If only raptors etc, two or three is plenty. Leave space for a dino gate and either a door on the other side or a ladder up. Make sure you have a ceiling you can walk on at the top.

Leave dino gate open, agro dino and run in. Dino follows, close dino gate. Run out door or up ladder. Dino attacks walls, you ko dino with arrows. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
For taming some higher level meanies, build a fridge and generator so you can store prime meat.

I have one set up but currently building a behemoth gate trap for Rex and whatever new big dinos come in the next patches

Lone Stone

or get some one to carry you on a birdy and shoot narc arrows at the thing pewpew

LmnadZ

Hey guys,I'm new to ark bought it last week. I feel the game is grindy on official servers,do you guys have any servers you play on?.

I would love to play with some of you guys maybe in a tribe so I don't feel lost.

LmnadZ wrote: »

Hey guys,I'm new to ark bought it last week. I feel the game is grindy on official servers,do you guys have any servers you play on?.

I would love to play with some of you guys maybe in a tribe so I don't feel lost.

I use the server on the first page of this topic.

Noxin wrote: »

A very easy thing to do is build a taming cage. quite simple to build.

Couple of stone wall foundations in a square. Build some walls at x height depending on what you want to tame.. If only raptors etc, two or three is plenty. Leave space for a dino gate and either a door on the other side or a ladder up. Make sure you have a ceiling you can walk on at the top.

Leave dino gate open, agro dino and run in. Dino follows, close dino gate. Run out door or up ladder. Dino attacks walls, you ko dino with arrows. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
For taming some higher level meanies, build a fridge and generator so you can store prime meat.

I have one set up but currently building a behemoth gate trap for Rex and whatever new big dinos come in the next patches

I have decided that my refusal to hunt herbivores is holding me back big time! At this rate I'd never get to build anything like that.

TheKells wrote: »

I have decided that my refusal to hunt herbivores is holding me back big time! At this rate I'd never get to build anything like that.

If you don't have a mammoth you're missing out. Or even a trike. Total game changers. Easy to tame multiples at a time too.

Noxin wrote: »

If you don't have a mammoth you're missing out. Or even a trike. Total game changers. Easy to tame multiples at a time too.

I'm too low a level for a mammoth. Have a couple of trikes.

I meant hunting animals for hide/meat. I usually only attack if attacked first. Gotta change that though

If you have a raptor now then that should be a lot easier, although if you're stuck there's a spot between my place and yours one of the lads named dodo beach (According to the bed in the house anyway) that as you can imagine is full of dodos. Easy kills and you'll get some meat and hide from them. Not huge amounts but handy in a pinch.

I need to try tame a sabertooth for farming hide, they're tricky bastards to evade though

Tazzimus wrote: »

If you have a raptor now then that should be a lot easier, although if you're stuck there's a spot between my place and yours one of the lads named dodo beach (According to the bed in the house anyway) that as you can imagine is full of dodos. Easy kills and you'll get some meat and hide from them. Not huge amounts but handy in a pinch.

I need to try tame a sabertooth for farming hide, they're tricky bastards to evade though

I noticed that, there's a note near there too about his hunt for Rick Grimes.

I've been killed twice by sabertooths and both times I never saw it coming. Just dead and you have been killed by on screen.

TheKells wrote: »

I noticed that, there's a note near there too about his hunt for Rick Grimes.

I've been killed twice by sabertooths and both times I never saw it coming. Just dead and you have been killed by on screen.

That'll be Lone Stone, he left a tamed dodo near my place before named I'm watching you Tazz I think, also a note about Rick in my cooking pot.

Have you been raiding the supply crates at all? Took me ages to figure out what they were, built up a nice stash of stuff though since I realised.

Last one that got me picked me off after an Argeventis made bits of me before hand

So just moved my egg producing dinos into a barn... it's a tad crowded..

Laviski

anyone doing the free weekend
hook me up on steam
will give you the basics on the official server.

callumsdad

Laviski wrote: »

anyone doing the free weekend
hook me up on steam
will give you the basics on the official server.

Is there a boards.ie tribe?
Cheers

Laviski

everyone is scattered on different servers i think most play on private servers that have reduced taming times and increased resource gathering.

Sadly no tribe on here, would like to join one but didn't seem there was much interest when it was mentioned a few days ago.

Got myself a raptor and went for a wee jog round part of the island. Saw a T-Rex harassing a group of herbivores and a spinosaurus having a scrap with a bunch of trikes and stegos, waterfalls and mountains.

I've missed so much just sticking to the coast seeing the odd carno or raptor rocking up.

I play on an official PVE server for now. Saving PVP for a future date.

The best way to get into a tribe is to find a server which seems to have decent people and start building a base yourself. It's doubtful you'd get invited to an established tribe without at least trying to learn some of the game and building a starting base. People will just think you're there to beg for stuff.

TheKells wrote: »

I've missed so much just sticking to the coast seeing the odd carno or raptor rocking up.

Yup the coasts get kinda boring after a while. Raptor is great for getting around. Nice an fast and at higher levels they can take out anything bar Alphas. Upgrade to a Saber if you get a chance though. Higher base damage.

Also if you want an absolute beast at the moment, take some dodo's and start collecting their eggs. They drop often. Make Dodo kibble and tame a high level Pteranodon. Their roll damage is insane if you spec right.
Currently mine is around lvl 205 and I can happily hunt Alpha raptors and some low level carnos. Wouldn't even attempt a Rex though.
They're also the best for getting around the island and seeing the chaos that goes on.
Currently a 120 Pteran would take 21 kibble and about 1.5 hours to tame on official so not that long. A 120 pure kibble tame would wake at around lvl 171 if nothing goes wrong.

How do you get them to lay eggs? I have two trikes 1 female 1 male, says they are mate boosted, but I have never seen them lay an egg.

Will be getting myself some dodos tonight then.

TheKells wrote: »

How do you get them to lay eggs? I have two trikes 1 female 1 male, says they are mate boosted, but I have never seen them lay an egg.

Will be getting myself some dodos tonight then.

It's random. They just drop every now and then but they only last 30 minutes on the ground before they decompose and anyone anyone can pick it up if they see it. If you pick it up it'll ask for a number of days. If you put it into a dino inventory it'll last longer again and a fridge holds it for over 300 days so obviously that's the best way to go about storing them. Just make sure your fridge is in a secure area as there is no pin code locks for it.

Mate pared will drop eggs more often. You also don't need 1m/1fm ratio. 1 male can get his hump on with a tonne of the ladies the lucky bugger :pac:

Also Dodo's take only minutes to tame. Get a big bunch of them to make it quick. You can release them later if you choose. Their kibble also works on the mini monkeys and dolphin.

I'm trying to find a lone anlylo/mammoth/scorpion to knock out and tame but any time I spot one on it's todd a Raptor or Argeventis is nearby waiting to try eat me.

Gonna see if I can coax one down from the mountain away from the nasties and knock it out. could try for a sabertooth as well.

Whats with the bigfoot style monkeys walking about the place? There's one or two that saunter about around my gaff but not sure if I want to try kill them or not.