ark-survival-ascended

[placid sundial]

Yeah I get it's frustrating and tbh, I don't like seeing massive page-long posts pushing everything else outta the way either. Disrespectful at best

it honestly might be worth suggesting limiting post length to dodomail tbh

[wary trail]

That will probably be a good idea.

[bronze sluice]

wait. WAIT.

Can I just net projectile a quetzal to get it down to the ground?

[misty turtle]

Nope

It too big there used to be a net gun can do that but it get remove

[cinder lintel]

Is that on official? Because I net quetzals all the time. It's how I catch them.

I just did it last week.

[fervent jackal]

Every time I play Gen 2 I crash, literally unplayable

I’ve spent 2 hours trying to log in but I’m stuck in the same place crashing

[regal yarrow]

Is it just me or is ark way laggier after the update

[silent matrix]

Anyone down to play? Dm if ye wanna

[paper nimbus]

@wary trail here you go

[long flicker]

Incorrect, unless they changed it in the past few updates, quetzals can definitely be netted

[paper nimbus]

imo net guns kinda replaced chain bolas completely

[torpid hemlock]

after getting a 145 max tamed mantis, 145 tapejara and so much more, starting from scratch is just fucking disheartning

esp after dieing in a hardcore world to some bullshit

[paper nimbus]

then...don't play hardcore

[long flicker]

Chain bolas were completely useless anyway, though I did want them to rework it at some point

[elfin oak]

anybody know where Ankylosaurus spawns?

[torpid hemlock]

unfortunately 'hardcore 100 days' gets more views

[long flicker]

yeah this is big brain time

[paper nimbus]

what map

[elfin oak]

the island

[long flicker]

Check wiki

[torpid hemlock]

fcking everywhere lmao

bob im on attempt 69 right now btw

[long flicker]

Try regular gameplay more first, and when you start not dying then try hardcore

[torpid hemlock]

i tried regular gameplay for a month, even got a wyvern and was in a perfect position to take down the manticore

[long flicker]

And how much did you die in that time

[torpid hemlock]

like twice when starting

[placid sundial]

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Ankylosaurus

[paper nimbus]

mountains, herbivore island, snow

[torpid hemlock]

im sorry but spawning next to a yuty doesnt exactly bode well

[paper nimbus]

100 days modded also gets a lot of views

[torpid hemlock]

nah i dont wanna go for mods

[paper nimbus]

fair enough

@long flicker imagine how many ark dinos fell into the backrooms

[cursive scaffold]

Eating organic polymer while falling from a high distance may prevent you from taking fall damage.

[silent matrix]

Can allied tribes kill each other

[paper nimbus]

mostly because you are dead

[long flicker]

Around 50 billion

[hasty tree]

I have a small amount of space left in my Laptop (Around 180gb) and I was wondering if I should compress Ark using compact GUI. Even though they said it doesn’t affect anything in the game, I have my doubts.

Should I compress ark or No

[flat willow]

Yes

[gilded forge]

Can someone help me, Arks update keeps downloading once its finish it restarts.

[tardy eagle]

I saw a youtuber do so, try it out prolly still works

[novel socket]

Turn off all your antivirus programs.. I've been at this for hours and that seems to be working now

after it installs, turn them back on

[gilded forge]

ty

il see if it works ;P

[novel socket]

I was getting a disk write error in Steam and had to google for help

[gilded forge]

it still seems to be doing the same thing

i disabled all of them @novel socket x.x

[novel socket]

Ok.. can I DM you the video I watched?

[gilded forge]

Yeah

[short mountain]

what is wrong with servers?

[viral dagger]

What were the map fixes? Or is it just 70+ fixes with no clarification of what was fixed?

[short mountain]

i was at work so blind here, checked my server and is down for last 24h

[viral dagger]

They had a massive update today, that's probably what triggered your server to be down for so long.

[short mountain]

its official server

[hasty tree]

The compact GUI doesn’t effect Ark in any way except lowering the amount of space ark takes up right?

[frosty trench]

If I'm playing on a multiplayer world that isn't dedicated and my friends have disconnected and they're sleeping and I go exploring will I drag their sleeping bodies with me

[placid sundial]

Afaik yes

Which is typical for map fixes

[wispy frigate]

Just mesh adjustments and foliage reduction/addition

[paper nimbus]

post it in recruitment

[frosty trench]

What is the quickest way for me to break thatch buildings while being controlled

[silent matrix]

ohh i have loads of those games, im exactly the same, you should try some of the games i mentioned

ever try the 120 dollar game Conan Exiles?

[gilded forge]

No

never even heard about it

[silent matrix]

its practically ark. but no dinos.

and bigger/better. i mean. its more than double the price so duh

[placid sundial]

'ark but no dinos'
but ark.. is dinos

like dinos are 90% of ark's content?

[wispy frigate]

Ark without dinos is just a really empty survival game

[placid sundial]

idk how something can be ark if it's lacking what makes up the majority of ark ykno lol

[outer widget]

conan has things that make it cool

[wispy frigate]

In which the only thing trying to kill you is natural threats and your crippling loneliness

[long flicker]

conan exiles is pretty good
it's very similar to ark, but it's not "ark but no dinos"

[wind portal]

is there anyway i can stop making stuff spawn in my place like rocks and plants

[outer widget]

put foundations around

[long flicker]

resources don't spawn next to structures

[wind portal]

foundation work?

[long flicker]

yep

[shell blade]

now then

how likely am I to be raided by tomorrow

relatively well hidden, surrounded in spikes and plant X

[glass goblet]

Does anyone know if you can play undedicated without tether on ps5?

[shell blade]

no, tether is to keep the console from shitting itself too bad

I don't know if you can increase it on PS5 however

[fervent jackal]

No more events next year?

[whole slate]

there will be

on ark2

[visual saffron]

does anyone know why i keep crashing when i look at my trike?

this never happeneduntil the new update

[misty turtle]

You still need it to tame tropeo right

[slender nacelle]

Ok so the last set of armour I unlocked was hide and I am now at level 33 should I get the ghillie or fur armour or just save and level up abit higher

[lucid granite]

I would say ghillie. They are somewhat good with both heat and cold, and lower aggro range

You will get more points later if you ever need fur. Ghillie, torch on saddle and torch in hand is enough to survive some of the cold

[silent matrix]

I'm building in the dunes part of ragnarok next to a small oasis and there's deathworms off in the distance. My biggest concern is how and where these spawn, and what defenses I need. I'm playing on a private pve server with an adobe house and auto turrets around the perimeter

They are severely higher level compared to anything else I've seen in the map. My friend got killed by a level 800 exploring

[placid sundial]

deathworms spawn all over the dunes. They're also locked at level 1

[silent matrix]

The difficulty setting was raised for the server. Would that change the level?

I've seen level 500 and 800 deathworms

[placid sundial]

You're not on steam? 🤨 (ie have mods?)

[silent matrix]

Xbox

[placid sundial]

shouldn't be affected by it. Also if your wild levels can reach 800 then you'll be looking at stat rollover issues

[silent matrix]

What's that?

[placid sundial]

tl;dr if a stat has more than 255 points in it, it rolls over on restart/cryopod etc

so 257 points becomes 1

[silent matrix]

Is there a way to fix that?

[placid sundial]

Not have wild levels so high

[fervent jackal]

Rip Ps5 no events next year and no Ark 2

[regal yarrow]

If you can come up with a way to make a byte store more data with the same amount of space, then yeah you can fix it lol

[placid sundial]

though i wonder if those were manually spawned or something..

[regal yarrow]

It's basically due to poor planing and logic checks

[placid sundial]

unless something's changed since i last touched vanilla deathworms, which was admittedly like 2 years ago

[regal yarrow]

Vanilla deathworms should always spawn at level 1, anything else is spawned in some otherway

[silent matrix]

Nothing on my server messed with spawns. I see comments on the wiki with other people seeing high level deathworms

[placid sundial]

How recently?

[silent matrix]

2017

There's some from 2019

[fervent jackal]

Anyone else losing their gear after transferring

[placid sundial]

this save is from 2019

[regal yarrow]

Don't know what to say lol, maybe the logic on deathworms breaks at a certain point

[placid sundial]

a better question is where doesn't it

however level locking is 99.9% chance just a property on primaldino and completely unrelated to worms speicifcally

[regal yarrow]

Ark is entirely full of logic check errors, so maybe this is one

[silent matrix]

Maybe the difficulty is set too high. Most spawns I seem to not go past 150 but occasionally I see a level 300 compy or an onyc in a dungeon

[regal yarrow]

Try a Dino wipe and see if that fixes it

It could also be a new bug introduced with lost island?

[placid sundial]

Onyc in caves is normal (setting on cave spawners). level 300 compy shouldn't be possible on override 5 which max 150 implies

[regal yarrow]

Either way that shouldn't make a deathworms level 800

[placid sundial]

yeah that's what i meant about 'unless something's changed'. maybe they messed with worms at some point

[regal yarrow]

Difficulty override doesn't effect them or titans

[placid sundial]

ik thats what i said

[regal yarrow]

Well I guess titans it does a bit

[silent matrix]

Only titans I see were level 2

[placid sundial]

level 300 compy

[regal yarrow]

You saw titanosuar at level 2, compies at level 300 and deathworms at 800. Yeah something is messed up

[placid sundial]

titanos at lvl 2 is normal

[regal yarrow]

For a 300 compy the titan should be 10

[flat elm]

Titano normally lvl 5 I thought

[regal yarrow]

Titans always have the same level as the difficulty override

For official that is 5

So to have a compy at 300 is difficulty 10 minimum, so a titan shouldn't be able to spawn at level 2 without something wierd going on

[silent matrix]

We only modified the difficulty because at the start of the server everything was really low level

[left thistle]

What does swamp fever actually do to the player?

[regal yarrow]

If you haven't Dino wiped then that could explain it

[placid sundial]

Did you dinowipe after changing it?

[silent matrix]

No

[placid sundial]

that explains the low levels then

and what is it on now?

[regal yarrow]

Increased movement speed, decreased health and stam

[left thistle]

I was curious because someone came up to me and carried it over but I never got it before so

[silent matrix]

Difficulty offset 1 override official difficulty 15 is what's on the server

[regal yarrow]

It's useful sometimes on pvp servers

[placid sundial]

ok so levels 300 and 150 are normal to be on the same server as well

[regal yarrow]

Yeah, max should be 450

[placid sundial]

i still think those deathworms were admin spawned most likely.

[regal yarrow]

That still doesn't explain the deathworms though

Lol

[placid sundial]

unless someone wants to check them rn in sp

see if smth's changed

[silent matrix]

My friend I'm actively playing with on xbox with me and he'd have to type out all that on the on screen keyboard

He's the only admin

[regal yarrow]

I ran into a few on scorched yesterday that were level 1 on official difficulty

[silent matrix]

The deathworm was near the edge of the desert

[placid sundial]

Other possibility is that it's different on console to pc

[long flicker]

ye

[regal yarrow]

Could be that rag got messed up in an update, but the only way to test that is to wipe and let them respawn

[visual saffron]

does anyone know if a new ark update can cause textures to get fucked to the point where if you look at a dinosaur your game just crashes

[placid sundial]

verify files

update might have installed dodgily

[regal yarrow]

Yeah, I haven't seen the code for the deathworms, so I dont know lol

[visual saffron]

i did and it still crashing, im reinstalling rn but just want to know if anyone else had that error

[placid sundial]

not that im aware of

[regal yarrow]

I had some lag issues, but no crashes

[visual saffron]

hmmm weird this is the first time it has happened to me and kinda annoying as ark is so big

[silent matrix]

Doing the dino wipe now

[half spear]

maybe just get good nerd

[long flicker]

thank you for your invaluable input

[half spear]

no problem happy to help

im their friend btw just thought id say that incase i get a warning or something

[shell blade]

Sadly it ruined my characters stars but at least i have 160% move speed on beginner servers which is@nice id say

[silent matrix]

Did a dino wipe. Titanosaur is level 5 now

[slender nacelle]

Ok I didn't get the fur or ghillie armour but should I get the chitin? I am still wearing hide btw

Or should I skip it and save?

[long flicker]

chitin is kinda eh

if you have the chitin to spare for it, sure
but if you're low on chitin then I'd say no

[silent matrix]

Deathworm level 1 now

[pastel hemlock]

Oooooh my god!! This is unbelievable. I just got my first rock drake egg ever! I lost 3 spinos 1 to rock drakes and two fell into the element river and I just abandoned them. But guess what, the egg was 190.

[long flicker]

hm nice

[silent matrix]

Do you have milk?

[long flicker]

it's a drake

rip spinos tho

[pastel hemlock]

I have venom. Lots of them.

[umbral wave]

was a drake rlly worth that many dinos?

[long flicker]

you can use it to get more without casualties

and the spinos were probably replaceable

[slender nacelle]

So skip another set of armour i have been in hide for so long now

[pastel hemlock]

Yeah, they're replaceablethey were bred

[long flicker]

lol it's fine, hide is decent till you can get to flak

[long flicker]

just don't end up losing that thing now

[pastel hemlock]

I'm lucky for the first time. Where can I get a rock drake saddle bp?

[long flicker]

I would assume surface drops

for now an engram quality one is more than enough though

[pastel hemlock]

I haven't been there yet.

[umbral wave]

can u get rock drake saddles from orbital supply drops?

[long flicker]

don't think so

[umbral wave]

yeah u cant nvm

[half mortar]

Gen2 979 has been down for nine hours, outage report filled 8 hours ago

[slender nacelle]

I am at level 38 now just saddle my pteradon

[pastel hemlock]

I'll use this drake to get more drake eggs. What should I put points into?

[static fjord]

stamina and weight

[long flicker]

#bobs-with-probs

[silent matrix]

What temperature do I need to hatch a doedicurus egg? I live in an adobe house in ragnarok deathsands with two ACs

[placid sundial]

Doeds don't lay eggs

However this is a useful page for refence for things that do https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Incubation

[long flicker]

they sure do look like eggs

[placid sundial]

Doeds themselves?

[long flicker]

yeah, when they're rolled up

[silent matrix]

Oh ok

[sick quiver]

Goddamn 189GB of Patching to do. Jesus christ WC.

[torpid hemlock]

hello

[gray kayak]

Event boost when?

[pastel hemlock]

Is this for real?!! 196 gigs patch?!!!

The heck is this

[torpid hemlock]

woah 2 weebs

how rare!

[gray kayak]

Stone the weebs!

[torpid hemlock]

hell yeah

[long flicker]

ಠ_ಠ

[torpid hemlock]

ello bob

[azure rapids]

Anyone tryna play ark?

[dense furnace]

recruitment channel

[dense furnace]

#735196277221883964

[umbral wave]

i just cannot get theri claws for some reason

[sick quiver]

Creature overweight?

[abstract silo]

can devs please fix primitive plus
i know its not getting new content anymore but that isnt an excuse for making it unplayable
creatures just dont spawn on most maps (caves on island and all of ragnarok are the only exceptions)

[sick quiver]

*over half of their weight capacity

[limpid swallow]

any mods on that can help me?

[thorn spear]

There are no game mods here, you can @ dodo mail for discord issues iirc

[long flicker]

dodomail is for discord related issues

[thorn spear]

Yes yes

This is what I meant whoops shall edit

[limpid swallow]

i need help with something thats happened in game tho..

[paper nimbus]

just ask here

[thorn spear]

The player base can offer advice but not take any actions

[limpid swallow]

ok ok, so i got off after the update yesterday, when i logged back on now a bunch of my stuff auto decayed and has now set me back.. i was off for like 15 hours push or shove

^ something only mods can really help me with (on smalltribes)

[paper nimbus]

the mods aren't admins, just volunteers. they don't have in-game admin rights

[long flicker]

looks like you're looking for #customer-support

[long flicker]

I'm pretty sure they were referring to game mods in the first place

[limpid swallow]

and it kicked me from the server and now the server wont come up for me to join. @paper nimbus what do i do about this? i only recently started playing ark again from a big break and yeah

[long flicker]

This is about all you can do

[limpid swallow]

ok sweet, cheers guys

oh 1 more things, so im on the ticket thing and idrk which one to pick for my problem?

[paper nimbus]

sorry can't help with that

[thorn spear]

If it’s auto decayed it’s gone, that’s a game mechanic sorry dude

[limpid swallow]

but auto decay after 15 hours?

isnt it usually like 7 days

[buoyant urchin]

My ark is getting updated but it stops on 1.4 / 1.4 gb and doesnt really load in ? any help

[limpid swallow]

are you validating? my ark validation was like 100gb after the 14gb update

[buoyant urchin]

nope

i just opened steam and it wont load in

its just stuck there at the end like some windows loading screen

[thorn spear]

Depends on the item, some that are alone like just pillars or single foundations decay quick af

[limpid swallow]

it were indi forges on foundations, been playing on the server for like a week and it didnt auto decay until now

[thorn spear]

Check your tribe log to make sure it wasn’t destroyed for mesh

[limpid swallow]

it was auto decay

[thorn spear]

Yeah ticket then, shouldn’t have happened.

[buoyant urchin]

[help i can't do shit]

[tough bramble]

Any1 selling boss fight?

[clever pumice]

I just kill wild giga.

lvl.40

My first time.

[tough bramble]

Any1 selling boss fight smalls?

[tough yarrow]

@tough bramble don't spam. Get a role so people know your platform, and do #pvp-discussion or the recruitment channel for your platform under #bulletin-board-rules.

[clever pumice]

Oh I just die from purlovia.

[buoyant urchin]

rip

[clever pumice]

Yup

And I forgot to place a bed.

My bed just destroy by giga.

I will play ark abberation now.

[buoyant urchin]

atleast you can play, my ark is updating and it stopped on the end and it wont go further now

[clever pumice]

ok

Portal? Easiest? That name cool.

I will spawn.

What is aberrant ankylo?

It have a gem!

I will build some home.

Basilisk???

[buoyant urchin]

pls help anyone?? My Ark stopped updating at 100% [1.4gb/1.4gb] and i cant make it stop updating

[clever pumice]

Sorry , I do not know.

[buoyant urchin]

bro what the time updates instead of going down

it said that its gonna finish in 30 seconds

now its in about 2 hours

[thorn spear]

Sounds like a steam/epic launcher issue

[buoyant urchin]

I have an idea

my last resort, P C R E S T A R T

[thorn spear]

“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

[buoyant urchin]

Yes. . And i see that my last resort didnt work

literally nothing works

[paper nimbus]

be very careful there

[buoyant urchin]

it says it downloaded fully but like i cant still play BUT if ill get it specified then its 1/4 downloaded and doesnt download more

[clever pumice]

ok

Oh my torpor is up!

[paper nimbus]

eat stimberries

[novel socket]

Shut off your antivirus software and try. That worked for me

[buoyant urchin]

aight

ill trust you

[novel socket]

There’s a video I followed on YouTube

[buoyant urchin]

can you send it to me?

[silent matrix]

Guys are some leaks on what map is gonna get patched?

Like im just asking but i want that they wont turn off ark for like week on GeForce Now which already happened like 2 weeks ago

[clever pumice]

So long to make Stone house.

[buoyant urchin]

Nope, nothing seems to work unfortunately.

[novel socket]

Did you follow each step in that video?

[buoyant urchin]

Yes.

I cleared my cache and other stuff

[novel socket]

Well I would try again before I would uninstall and reinstall

[frozen forge]

Hello to all

[buoyant urchin]

sup

[frozen forge]

I have a problem guys

I cant play, because every time i found stupid child

[buoyant urchin]

wdym

can you explain it to me further

because i dont know what you mean by " stupid child "

[buoyant urchin]

okay im gonna do something very interesting

reinstalling the entire game

[novel socket]

Ugh. Sorry

[frozen forge]

Lol sorry

[novel socket]

I was almost to that point yesterday after about 4 hours

[buoyant urchin]

im also gonna try deleting some games

[frozen forge]

I cant make any progress because on server where i play, are 2 stupid child that kill me and destroy my bed

[buoyant urchin]

change server OR play on singleplayer

[frozen forge]

Any help to survive? 😫 😫 😩

[buoyant urchin]

or just spawn somewhere else

[novel socket]

Or play PVE

[buoyant urchin]

yea i dont really play multiplayer because its boring most of the times

my disk space has 425 gb left

after uninstalling ark it will be-

about 600?

because ark weights 200-400 gb for me

730 gb

time to install ark now.

[novel socket]

Good luck. Let me know

[buoyant urchin]

estimated download time - 2 d a y s

steam downloads stuff fast so it should be about like 1-3h

It keeps changing from 1h to about 3 h

im gonna exit discord for faster downloading, bye

[pseudo moss]

there is trade in these server ?

[tough yarrow]

#pve-discussion or #pvp-discussion , but find a good trading discord or group for larger trades

[charred geyser]

is it just me or are there more higher level dinos on The Center than there are on Scorched Earth

[frosty trench]

What tools should I be using to break down thatch, I'm using a sword but it breaks so fast

[tough yarrow]

Custom maps have higher levels than most story maps

[tough yarrow]

Like to break into someone else's house? Sword or pike I think 🤔 I don't know why you'd break into a thatch base though

[frosty trench]

To remodel mine

[tough yarrow]

Just hold triangle and demolish

[static fjord]

c4

[tough yarrow]

At least I think it's triangle

[charred geyser]

hmm, ok. Good to know

[frosty trench]

I'm not the one that built it, my buddy is

[tough yarrow]

If you're in the same tribe you should be able to demo unless they've changed fhe tribe settings.

[silent matrix]

Can i tame an alpha raptor?

[tough yarrow]

No

[lyric narwhal]

Are there more gen2 drop spawns on the corrupted side of gen2

[buoyant urchin]

its been like 3 hours downloading ark

if that wont work ill cry.

its like 3/4 done

[silent matrix]

Yes they are a passive tame you just put meat in your last slot

[barren grove]

Ive seen alot of high lvls on my island playthrough not as much as rag or val but way more than it used to be

[shut flicker]

How do I stop raptors from killing my tames everytime I tame a Dino a raptor comes out of nowhere and kills it

[sullen tusk]

Can Any1 who has guns on ps5 help me

I’m new

[regal yarrow]

Tame a raptor

[shut flicker]

What’s best for Knocking them out?

I tried a bola and wooden bat but it didn’t end well for me

[paper nimbus]

Tranq arrows

[ancient badge]

bola and hit with club, higher level need tranq arrow

[shut flicker]

I’ll try tranq arrows what’s best a crossbow or a bow

[paper nimbus]

Crossbow

Once you get a crossbow you can throw the bow away @shut flicker

[timid shuttle]

What kind of kibble can you give a Theriz?

Is it only the highest one (exceptional?)

Or can you give it a ny and it be more effective than mejos?

[cursive scaffold]

im pretty sure if you give it any kibble less than exceptional it wont even bother eating it so mejos are still better than the lower kibbles

[timid shuttle]

kk thanks

and do you happen to know how to get eggs out of dinos that aren't fertalized?

Like what are the reqs for them to pop them out occasionally?

[cursive scaffold]

oh im wrong btw, it'll eat the worse kibbles but the taming effectivness will tank

[timid shuttle]

worse than mejos?

[cursive scaffold]

yes

[timid shuttle]

I have some superiors

ah ok np

[cursive scaffold]

if you use the wrong kibble the taming speed is .66x

[bronze sluice]

hey question--are the chocolates/etc from love evolved in the hex store?

[cursive scaffold]

theyre removed for now cuz the event is over

[bronze sluice]

yeah I know, but I was asking because skins are in the store

I was asking if you could buy the consumables from the hex store

[cursive scaffold]

basically you have females with a male nearby. an oviraptor close by also increases the chances

[cursive scaffold]

youd have to check i guess

[regal yarrow]

That would be op

[bronze sluice]

guess I'll wait for the mod, then lol

[timid shuttle]

@cursive scaffold and they do this while they are between mating cycles?

[cursive scaffold]

yeah they'll lay unfertilized eggs between mating cycles

[timid shuttle]

or only when mating is disabled?

[cursive scaffold]

both

[timid shuttle]

Ah, good to know.

Thank you, sorry for the silly questions.

[cursive scaffold]

if youre after ascendant kibble though, the only unfertilized eggs you can use are yuty

[timid shuttle]

I'm after whatever lets me tame theris

[cursive scaffold]

the rest have to be fertilized cuz they either dont lay them and deinos unfertilized eggs are just raptor eggs

[timid shuttle]

Exceptional Kibble is what these fellas need.

[cursive scaffold]

yea, but you can use a higher quality kibble too

just not lower

[timid shuttle]

fair enough

I'll have to tame some yuteranus' at some point

i dont have one yet lol

[tough yarrow]

@potent pendant #735196277221883964 for lfg

[ionic mango]

I haven't played this game in so long

I assume it's the same right?

[true mortar]

they need exceptional kibble, not extraordinary kibble

you just need rex eggs for exceptional

[fervent turtle]

what level does a dino have to be to get for the achievement maximum dinosaur to pop?

[cursive scaffold]

i heard if you put 88 XP levels into a dino thats how you get it

[regal yarrow]

I think if you just use a big Dino it'll work

[cunning solar]

what's the time limit on an official pvp server that a tribe can keep you locked up in a box and handcuffed?

[regal yarrow]

Indefinite I am pretty sure lol

[cunning solar]

That seems a bit on the foolish side I would think.

[toxic fox]

Is there a looking for group chat on here

I’m on ps5 trying to find a tribe

[cursive scaffold]

#735196277221883964

[wanton pond]

Is there an evo event this weekend?

[silent matrix]

can somebody help me im new

[cursive scaffold]

we don't know yet, the crunch hasnt come out today yet.

[versed jackal]

on my male parent theri i have 398.8% dmg, the child got 399%, isnt that just the same with breeding later on

[golden cloud]

ark is soooo... great.... it downloaded the patch, installed the patch... then decided to check to see if the patch file was valid ... oh it was currupted.... ark - "oops sorry for screwing up your whole game cause we didn't bother to check the patch BEFORE applying it"....

So.... ark decides to fix it.....
"Downloading update.... installing update... done..."
"oh wait, we didn't fix everything.... downloading another update.... installing ... done..."
"Oh still need to fix more stuff, alocating spce... downloading another update.... installing... done"

Says its completed fixing it.... launch game... crash.

Validate files....
"validating.... oh 1009 files failed to valid date... validation check complete...."
"oh wait we want to validate again.... yep... 1009 files failed to validate...."

so all that leads to 4 hours later....and....
"Downloading 79GB...."
"Installling...."

Only reason im even bothering is one of my friends wanted me to help them with something on ark that would of taken 15 minutes tops.... and here i am.... dealing with another issue that only happens with ARK.

Out of all 352 games I own I can honestly say I have never had any issues with updates - EXCEPT Ark. Great job Wildcard!

[reef ermine]

Do you think there will still be raised multipliers / Evo events with Ark once Ark 2 comes out? Or will the raise the multipliers constantly?

[untold notch]

hey complete noob here. Tips on stats. Don't want to spend hours messing up my character

pvp

[swift leaf]

thoughts on the mixed rating of lost island on steam store page?

[crimson lintel]

What are the Evo rates

[swift leaf]

my pals are super hyped to play it (we're about to try it for the first time)

[golden cloud]

being evo multiplier events can be setup as a scheduled thing, its possible, but i wouldn't hold on to it. Dark & Light has been long forgotten but still does its multipliers.

[swift leaf]

Probably doesn't apply to you, but on Linux there's quite a few segfaults here and there, you gotta be gentle with the game and let the background preloading finish for a stable experience, and once it's running you can have six hour sessions just fine

joining from Steam servers list is a surefireway to crash on startup

no matter if you accept to join or not once the game starts

[golden cloud]

yeah im pc, not linux, know about the linux issues, one of my friends has to deal with them every time.

[swift leaf]

Yeah, those are no fun, but once you know how to work around them it's OK-ish

besides, us Linux crowd are sadly used to this kind of stuff 😦

[golden cloud]

yeah seems ark doesn't care as much for the linux crowd, they always seem a step or two behind sadly.

[swift leaf]

it's already nice enough of Wildcard to give us a native Linux version IMHO, and even more so to not only keep it uptodate but even address some of the issues regularly - I used to be able to trigger the segfault from "normal" use (just being "too fast" at joining before things preload) and it's fixed, now only the steam server direct join crashes the game

[silent matrix]

whats the hex code?

hex store*****

[golden cloud]

i feel sorry for you guys and the graph issues they haven't bothered to fix for so long, if i had 1/2 of those i would of stopped playing a long time ago.

[cursive scaffold]

Gen 1 and 2 currency shop. You get points from missions and spend them with HLNA

[swift leaf]

(you gotta realize other studios literally STOPPED providing Linux builds because of the sheer amount of triage, which again WC was kind enough to NOT do, and I like them for it)

(cough Rust cough)

[golden cloud]

rust - a game thats perma dead in my library lol...

i just won't play that anymore.

[swift leaf]

I bought it after they dropped Linux support so I did play it, but literally there's 3 Linux-compatible servers out of the thousands available

And ARK is obviously a lot more interesting than Rust for pure PVE, even solo

sooo... yeah, same as you, Rust likely will stay dead for a while in my library 🤣

[golden cloud]

pretty much any survival game is more interesting then rust for pve. 😉

[buoyant urchin]

its been 5 hours and more and my ark is still downloading

10 more gb's and its done, please tell me that will fix the bug

[swift leaf]

(totally fair, even Minecraft nowadays)

[golden cloud]

i feel you spuder... im going on hr 5 myself sense the patch fubared my ark.

[buoyant urchin]

yea but i did it only because my steam couldn't update the game

for some reason, even tho i have like 200-400 more gb's on my disk

[golden cloud]

well... with ark - you have to look at it like this - if its going to take 200gb, you'll need 400gb free.

anyother game... if its gonna take 200gb, you only need 200gb.

[reef ermine]

I also feel you guys. And Ark is so great because just with this weekend's large update - where a lot of things can go wrong - they announce an EVO event. 😛 Best timing in the world I would say

[golden cloud]

lol yeah, things do seem to like to go wrong during the EVO events.

i think ark needs a moto "If it can go wrong, It will!"

[buoyant urchin]

i have played multiplayer only 2 times

i dont play it because of the toxicity and getting killed by every dino

[reef ermine]

I need to be really dedicated to Ark this last year, because I still want to achieve the Extinction bosses myself and need to play Abberation, which I haven't started yet. I feel in a hurry sort of because of the announcement of Ark2. But maybe I shouldn't worry too much. It is WILDCARD, after all 😉

[golden cloud]

i played some unofficial servers but mostly played official sense launch of ark.

[golden cloud]

what you mean wildcard release dates always getting pushed back?

[reef ermine]

Yes exactly

[buoyant urchin]

Well i dont have any special dlc's i dont have abberant stuff and scorched earth. i just have the ragnarok and similiar ones

[golden cloud]

heh... yeah ark 2 probably isn't as close as people think it will be.

[reef ermine]

True, I think 2024 is realistic, after a drawn-out Early-Access phase

[static fjord]

they didnt delay lost island which is cool.

[golden cloud]

lost island was a user created map though, not a wildcard created map.

[barren grove]

"If it doesn't go wrong this update it sure as hell will the next one"

[static fjord]

yeah but its wildcard we can expect them to mess something up and delay it for the next 2 months,

[golden cloud]

"it ain't broke? we can fix that!"

[reef ermine]

lol

[bronze bough]

If i have Ark on steam & epic, its possible to share game folder? Or do i need to install everything twice?

[reef ermine]

I once want to work with professionals.... 😉

[golden cloud]

two installs.

[reef ermine]

twice

But I don't like the epic ui and software, it so much lacks functions that steam has (e.g. screenshots...)

[golden cloud]

oh joy.... ark is verifying files again....

at this rate i might get into game say.... monday.... lol.

[reef ermine]

right after evo 😛

[crystal osprey]

Hello, what can I do if the game detected a meshing while I was offline?

[reef ermine]

I need to get me a 250k Mbit fast internet connection, I am so fed up with my 50k

[daring kite]

Anyone know how I play with friends in epic?

[silent matrix]

@daring kite

[daring kite]

?

@silent matrix

[gilded forge]

my ark is at 100 but keeps downloading

😦

[golden cloud]

there's a few people having the same issue

[gilded forge]

i even uninstalled all

than reinstalled Now its not working

[daring kite]

??

[golden cloud]

basically, they'd have to tell you what server they are playing on and you search for it in the server list.... epics 'friend' bit doesn't work all that great, its very basic.

[daring kite]

If I do host non dedicated will it work?

[golden cloud]

everyone will be tethered to you and won't be able to move very far from you.

its a really short distance too. its pretty annoying to be honest.

best thing to do is to find a nice unofficial/official server for all you to play on tbh.

[daring kite]

Yes but it will work in epic because when i tried it more than a year ago it did not work

[steady pecan]

same

[orchid prism]

Any tips for new people

[cursive scaffold]

tame a maewing asap

[orchid prism]

Kk

[lunar thicket]

Also #bobs-with-probs

[barren raptor]

Can the alpha Titan be defeated without taming the other titans?

[shell blade]

you can solo it with the Mega Mek

but it's recommended you get at least one other titan

[barren raptor]

Ohh okay so guessing the usual Rex army or even a giga army can’t do anything ?

[outer widget]

your gigas are gunna get like 1-shot

[scenic wave]

Hi, I have one question. when i turn on a non dedicated host and a friend wants to join it join failed can it be fixed?

on ps5

[barren raptor]

Is it a case of the higher the mek bp the higher the mega mek is gonna be ?

[shell blade]

I don't think so, no

Mega mek will always be a certain strength, just like Titans and Leeds are always level 1

[barren raptor]

Ohhh okay thanks was about to waste a tone of stuff 😂😂

[flat willow]

somebody dm me for ark ps4

cant talk there rn i have 1 hour left

[merry hornet]

Anyone wanna play smalls ps dm me

[orchid prism]

Thank you

[shell blade]

yeah you just wanna make 4 low level meks, and maybe have another high level, ideally your best, as back up

and then have gigas is you can or if they're disposable

then a titan and boom, King Titan dead

[frosty trench]

Where the fuck do I find crystal

[shell blade]

which map

[buoyant urchin]

so it took me 6 hours to install ark , now its verifying.

[shell blade]

but generally the mountains or snow biome

[shell blade]

welcome to unoptimization hell

enjoy your stay

[buoyant urchin]

yea i reinstalled it because my game couldn't update

it was stuck at the end and wouldnt finish .

[shell blade]

you sure it wasn't patching?

[buoyant urchin]

nah.

i got out for a walk

for like an hour , and it was still loading after that

[shell blade]

yes patching takes a long time

it was 150 gbs yesterday

[buoyant urchin]

yea but like

there was a problem, it said its fully downloaded but stuck at the end but when i specified it it was at the half and it was there for such a long time, yet no progress

[silent matrix]

Can I build a metal house in the ragnarok deathsands region without cooking alive or is that just a scorched earth thing?

[buoyant urchin]

i dont think u can, but i also think adobe stuff should work

[silent matrix]

Scared of deathworms

[weary marsh]

Death worms are so hard to kill in pve

[silent matrix]

A friend and I are building out here on pve for a challenge and we're trying to find a defense to those

[buoyant urchin]

aight afk for a sec imma go get some milk

bacc

[weary marsh]

Me and my brother are trying to get some mantises and we have wyverns to kill them but we’ve been struggling for such a long time 😂

[primal patio]

I think dropping them in water works

[silent matrix]

Wait does the evo event effect sp

[primal patio]

No

[weary marsh]

What the mantis or the death worms

[primal patio]

You can change your own rates

Mantis

[silent matrix]

I know that lol

[weary marsh]

Oh we don’t have them yet

[silent matrix]

Some creatures on Ragnarok and scorched earth

[primal patio]

Yh drop in water

[silent matrix]

The death worm isn't tamable

[primal patio]

They wont aggro

[buoyant urchin]

what s better? ragnarok or the center , because im not sure, also what's easier

[weary marsh]

I know the death worm isn’t tame able

[primal patio]

Pick up mantis with wyv drop in water and they dont aggro

[weary marsh]

I’m talking about how hard it is for me and my brother to get death worm horns to tame the mantis

[primal patio]

Oh

[weary marsh]

we haven’t been able to get one yet

[primal patio]

Rhinos???

[silent matrix]

If you want a variety of creatures I'd say rag but if you want high level dinos center

[weary marsh]

Are rhinos on scorched earth

[primal patio]

Rhino horns work

[silent matrix]

Nope

[primal patio]

Rip

[weary marsh]

Oh

We plan to play the extra maps after we beat gen 2

I’ll keep that in mind though

Thanks

[primal patio]

Np

[buoyant urchin]

guess ill go with center

[silent matrix]

I'm not sure if that's a thing anymore

But Ragnarok is bigger

[buoyant urchin]

yea but in ragnarok i keep dying because of the birbs

[primal patio]

Lol

[silent matrix]

Yeah alot of terror birbs

[primal patio]

Go antoher spawn

[silent matrix]

Too many in fact

Spawn in the highlands

[primal patio]

Viking bay or something

[silent matrix]

Good beginning area just be careful of Gigas

[primal patio]

Yh

Tame horse

Go to viking bay

[silent matrix]

They have carrots to tame them there

[silent matrix]

The bridge is a good base location

[primal patio]

Get some metal tools from boxes

[primal patio]

Highlands cave?

[silent matrix]

Or if you want good flat land build your base near green ob

[primal patio]

Im a pvp guy i only know pvp names lol

[silent matrix]

Yeah that one

Not the cliffs one

[slender shale]

best base spots for solos??? pls help for pvp 10x

[shell phoenix]

Gen 2 has levels and variety

[buoyant urchin]

i dont have it.

[frosty trench]

Island

[shell blade]

so yes, Mountains or Snow Biome

[regal yarrow]

Find a rathole, or a cliff, and go crazy with turrets and ammo

[placid frigate]

im poor and i need someone tame to start pls in pvp official pls

[regal yarrow]

I might have a dodo there lol

[scenic wave]

Hi, I have one question. when i start a non dedicated host and friend wants to join but its write join failed can it be fixed? on ps5

[buoyant urchin]

impossible . . it have worked, reinstalling ark that took me 7h fixed my bug

but its like 2 am at night

goodbye and goodnight everyone

[novel socket]

@buoyant urchin its working?

[untold notch]

so advice to noobs when it comes to stating out ur guy?

[hearty hawk]

dude why can I only hear in the left side
in ark
i hear ambient noises in both ears, but sfx in only left ear
anyone else having or have had these issues

[untold notch]

pvp servers

[untold notch]

I had that issue with metro exodus before but not ark

[olive ledge]

dooooooes magmasaurs (juvenile) eat meat still or is it sulfur now til 100% maturity? havent meddled with magmasaurs since gen 1 launch

[silent matrix]

Does split screen still have the saving problem?

[cursive scaffold]

ambergris and sulfure until full maturity.

[olive ledge]

wellp F. i miss being able to feed juveniles raw meat (but lets be honest that kinda broke the intention of em)

shows how long ive been off game lol

[cursive scaffold]

i mean...idk if you can or cant, but i know they eat the other stuff.

[olive ledge]

according to wiki they are omnivores i just know baby stages doesnt work

[cursive scaffold]

they grow up faster than they starve on my server so i dont pay attention after i put in a few rows of ambergris

[regal yarrow]

Just a verification, because I forgot, but theris with 900 dmg and 21k health can beat the alpha dragon right?

It's been so long since I did this fight lol

[cursive scaffold]

they should

just give 'em cakes and a yuty roar

[regal yarrow]

Perfect lol, wish me luck jaja, besides the Gen1 boss this is the only one that is scary jajaja

[untold notch]

Because of ||REDACTED||

[vestal sphinx]

yo where do i ask about finding a server to play on?

unnofficial discussion?

[tough yarrow]

@vestal sphinx you can look around in #800538767252389888 or #800538816691699722.

[vestal sphinx]

thanks man

[tough yarrow]

That channel is for discussions about unofficial (or single player) server setups including mods and other relevant topics. Not searching for servers or players.

[vestal sphinx]

sweet

[vale terrace]

wow not even two hrs in and server crashed already, go figure, in space with my stryder probably gonna lose it, like always. tired of not being able to play ANY events because of server CRASHES all the damn time.... FIX YOUR SERVERS for the love of all that is holy

[tough yarrow]

@vale terrace make sure to file #server-reports

[vale terrace]

file what every stryder I ever lost during crashed too many to count,

it's already in the balltmetrics so I am sure they know about it

[tough yarrow]

A server outage report, may be able to contact #customer-support about the stryders, I am not sure.

[vale terrace]

ok thanks for the info I sent one in.

[silent matrix]

Is there a setting to make breeding faster

[olive ledge]

actually regarding that was there any reason stated for that change besides the obvious balance reason?

magmasaur wise

[cursive scaffold]

i dont know, i could have been wrong. i dont raise them cuz theyre sluggish

[olive ledge]

ur right cuz one starved as i attempted feed it meat via nanny

so sulfur needed

costed me a hatchling cuz havent played with magma geckos since launch 😓

[acoustic dawn]

Hey, are your game crashing when spawning in some places on Lost Island?

[gray sage]

a red drop just despawned in front of me

[normal bane]

Hey I want to make a sever with my friends. What are good stats for something that would be mess around but also dedication. Also it there first time playing so I’m not looking for the hard core grinding

[regal yarrow]

3x harvest, 1.5 drop loot, 50x breeding and maturation, and imprint settings how you like them. Makes all the really long parts of ark go faster

[normal bane]

Stats?

[regal yarrow]

Put s+ on for the extra tek stuff, but changing person or dino stats too much makes the game way too easy

[normal bane]

It on PlayStation

So no mods

[placid sundial]

2x dino and player health regen, 1.5-2x player weight is what I use. Otherwise defaults

[regal yarrow]

Ahh, well then you cant do much there, mutations will still take awhile

[normal bane]

I was thinking 10x weight

[regal yarrow]

I usually have a stack mod, so I dont change the weight, but that could be very helpful for someone on console

[placid sundial]

I find boosting weight so stupid high (including with a stack mod) to defeat the point of weight as a mechanic personally

Which is why I keep mine low. Makes it a bit more manageable while making weight still a relevant factor

But not everyone wants to deal with weight so

[normal bane]

Ya see it going to be 3. One man tribes. So I’m was thinking of thing to help

[placid sundial]

I play SP so my recommendations do come from a solo player's perspective

[wispy frigate]

Me who just boosts movement speed so I can spend more points on weight

[placid sundial]

Me who boosts weight so I can spend more points on movement speed

[paper nimbus]

me who boosts oxygen and crafting skill so i dont have to spend it on TRASH like wieght and movement speed

[regal yarrow]

Me who boosts stack size so I can store more junk

[wispy frigate]

Me who unknowingly boosted crafting skill and is too lazy to change it back

[regal yarrow]

I use the crafting skill mod, because redoing stats and engrams is annoying lol

[paper nimbus]

off my ark takes so long to get into a world every time

[placid sundial]

Heavy modlist?

[regal yarrow]

Anything more than like 4 mods is too much lol

[strange karma]

Help i can only level my dino 5 times

[regal yarrow]

Kill more stuff?

[strange karma]

It’s maxed

It happens to all my Dino’s

[placid sundial]

..depends what mods. 4 tiny mods will have a fraction of the impact as one overhaul

I have lists of both 19 and 40, a singular overhaul is going to have a bigger impact than that 19 one

The 40-mod list is a bit heavier, with ark additions and a few decor mods, but about a quarter of the mods on there are tiny- spawn tweaks and whatnot- and are utterly negligable in impact

[hasty glen]

Anyone wanna play I'm new

[regal yarrow]

I have 7 mods, and that is as far as I ever want to go lol

[placid sundial]

Why?

[regal yarrow]

Because I have an old hhd

[placid sundial]

it's a pretty annoying misconception that 'more mods = inherently bad' because it completely misses the fact that mods have all sorts of different scopes. Like, you shouldn't compare a 0.01mb bugfix to a 3.5gb overhaul

[placid sundial]

ill direct you to this then

Mod scope, size and content is what matters, NOT mod count

[regal yarrow]

That's true, but I don't really need a lot of bugfix mods lol

[placid sundial]

It's still spreading a misconception to imply that

like, people are scared of using incredibly lightweight mods because of it

[regal yarrow]

I dont have misconceptions about it, I know how computers work, and ark already takes up my whole computer to run lol

Even small mods make a big difference

[dusky olive]

I'm looking for someone to play with

[regal yarrow]

I cant even have task manager open when I run ark on aberation or gen2 because itll crash

[placid sundial]

that spreads them even if you know better:P

[placid sundial]

Gen2 is stupidly intensive, even my pc struggles with it and it's pretty decent. That.. is pretty damn bad regardless though yikes lol

[outer widget]

my pc is trash but it runs gen2 ok

[placid sundial]

The main load is on startup, it settles down to more manageable performance after a couple of minutes. Maybe playing on servers prevents even that initial load. But for those first few minutes, I have to just let my pc sit and sort its shit out

[outer widget]

but I am very accepting of low frames and lag

[placid sundial]

I'm used to shit fps because I like my graphics high lol

[regal yarrow]

I have a bad monitor, so even with high graphics it doesnt make much difference lol

[outer widget]

I had a potato for a computer when skyrim came out and still put 200 hours in at 5-7 fps

[regal yarrow]

I would never do that lol, jajaja

[placid sundial]

Respect

I'm used to about 8-15 on ark, but I think in something like skyrim I'd struggle to handle such low fps

Some games are more playable at low fps than others for me

[regal yarrow]

I get 30 on ark no matter what, but I am very careful with the settings I use

[placid sundial]

I'm not, I push everything almost as high as I can lol

I'm a screenshotter, so it matters just as much how it looks as how it plays to me

[regal yarrow]

Well, to be honest you can have most settings on high if you are careful about the ones to have on low

Like if I have shadows on medium, I can have everything else on high and its fine

[placid sundial]

I have shadows off, still runs like ass with everything else mixed high/epic

What do you keep resolution scale on?

I noticed that one in particular has a pretty massive impact, if I need higher frames for something turning that down is my go-to

[regal yarrow]

I go default scale, because turning it down is actually worse for performance in ark

[placid sundial]

it raises my fps 🤷

Launch options like sm4 also have a pretty big impact but i run with none of them since they just look.. so bad

[regal yarrow]

Hmm, maybe its just my computer then, because a lower resolution scale makes it run much worse

[placid sundial]

Weird. Yeah, it's always had a really noticeable positive impact for me

[placid sundial]

oh tbf i do prevent hibernation, which also makes my game a bit jitterier iirc. Though last time I ran without it to compare was like 2 1/2-3 years ago or something

I also can get around 20-25 and occasionally even hit 30 if I'm on Island with nothing on it on more mediumish settings. General fps get WAY lower when im in my base with all my dinos, where the main difference between 15 and 8 comes in is 'am i at base' lol

..it's down to my dino hoarding issues

And I do have dino storage, buuut i still like having some dinos out for the sake of it

[fluid pivot]

Lag issues i take it?

[placid sundial]

yup

[regal yarrow]

Running at 25, and dropping to 8 must mean you have a huge base lol

[placid sundial]

if I didn't itd be like 4000 dinos sitting out in the one area

[fluid pivot]

I can relate somewhat, when i return to base my game spikes in lag do to me returning to rendering distance of my base which is decently big

[placid sundial]

Nah it's more 15-20 when I'm out an about, and ~8 at base

The difference is VERY prominent. Like, I can tell when I'm near base because suddenly my computer starts chugging REALLY hard

because i tend to have hundreds of dinos out

[regal yarrow]

How does your computer survive with hundreds of dinos lol

[placid sundial]

End key is an absolute lifesaver. If I don't have it on the lag gets so bad that dino names flicker into and out of existence

[placid sundial]

It doesn't

[regal yarrow]

Lol,

I have to play on a server to have more than like 50 out

[placid sundial]

Especially in the summer, where i then ALSO have heat-lag issues

Because this laptop has absolutely atrocious heating issues >.> so i'll be running at my 8 or whatever and drop to 2-3fps every couple of seconds. And that's where my limit is, sometimes if im really stubborn I'll try play with it anyway and get incredibly frustrated, sometimes I just give up

and it's an awful idea to keep trying to play like that anyway, i know

[regal yarrow]

My pc has like 8 fans, my gpu is too good for the rest of it, so I had to make it way cooler lol

[placid sundial]

even when it's cold, it's uncomfortable to put my hand on the keyboard if I have a game running because it gets so hot

I wish I could add some more cooling honestly

But this is a laptop so not much I can really do in the way of installing new hardware. When it dies I'll have an excuse to buy a better one at least- For now, I set it up on a cooling stand and run a decent quality standing aircon on it constantly

..Without the aircon, it doesn't matter how hot a day it is, I cannot run any game without heatlag

yeah this laptop has some pretty shitty design.

[outer widget]

do you plan to get another laptop when it dies?

[placid sundial]

I'm not sure if I'll go for a laptop or not tbh. On the one hand, I do like the portability of a laptop, and I know people who have gaming laptops that don't have the sort of heat issues mine does so there are definitely decent gaming laptop options. On the other.. with all the peripherals, the cooling stand, the fucking metre-high aircon- it's not like this laptop is particularly portable anyway and a desktop would be better

I think I'm leaning toward desktop currently, since i don't really need to move my laptop around much even though it's nice to be able to when I do

[ruby totem]

yo guys can i get a giga heart from killing my own giga?

[outer widget]

no

[unborn quiver]

Uh so i went to update ark and the patch is 123.9 gigs??

Is that normal???

[placid sundial]

Download is only like 1.4-5 for most people

[unborn quiver]

I haven’t updated ark on this pc in about 2 months

[placid sundial]

it's just changing 120-195gb of files

[unborn quiver]

Idk man

[placid sundial]

the size is patches is separate to the actual download

[unborn quiver]

Is there a way to fix it

[placid sundial]

there's nothing to fix

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516122409947103247/949074840327958548/unknown.png

[unborn quiver]

Huh alright ive just never seen it so big

Damn

[placid sundial]

8gb download, 195gb patch. completed in like an hour

[placid sundial]

Yeah the update yesterday fixed map issues on like every map so it's changing a lot of files

[regal yarrow]

I kind of wish they were a bit more specific about what actually was changed lol

[rich galleon]

@viral shore You have any information for the community that collects colored EVENT dinos? Are you guys going to add colored dinos to the base game, or what?

[regal yarrow]

Mutate

[cursive scaffold]

Join unofficial

[silent matrix]

use a paintbrush or spray painter to change the colors yourself

[viscid patio]

Tek Sleeping pods are still BROKEN

[iron geyser]

wum they are broken

[silent matrix]

Anyone know how to change deadzone on ark

[flint bluff]

Are celestial therozenosaurs good

[regal yarrow]

No, mainly because primal fear isnt good lol

[brittle sorrel]

how do you get stryders inside of gen1 volcano?

[bronze sluice]

okay. that is....incredibly helpful.

I just learned (rediscovered?) the "force feed a stack of narco berries" method of keeping creatures down.

not sure I could keep a theri down if I didn't

[regal yarrow]

Transmitter?

Teleporter

[brittle sorrel]

I don't think you can build inside

[fluid pivot]

I think ive been breeding rexes for a whole month now

[floral storm]

guys how do i climb the big tree with the bloodstalkers in the bog biome (genesis part 1)

[silent matrix]

nevermind. apparently i played ark a lot 2 years ago.

[golden bluff]

I wish if wildcard add more admin command to make it easy to kill bosses because bosses like rockwell and master controll take a billion years to defeat I wish there was a defeat boss command that just throws us to the death animation of the boss

[solid maple]

top left entrance.

[brittle sorrel]

ty

[solid maple]

No worries, both the south entrances are too small.

[wispy frigate]

Yep, you can’t tame a lot of creatures on 1x without that method (other than just tranqing it, but that is inefficient for obvious reasons)

[wispy frigate]

You’re not really meant to use commands to kill it lol
If you just want fancy implant, giveascension exists

[floral storm]

if you're using cheats just spawn in gigas and wait

[golden bluff]

Giveascenison doesn't show the cutscenes lol

[slender shale]

man i need help i keep starting on servers then leaving and starting on another and I cant get motivation to keep playing but i want to its just i dont know what to do i get bored

[wispy frigate]

I never said it did

If the cutscenes are all you want, just yt them lol

[golden bluff]

I don't I feel like in game it is better but ok

[slender shale]

i lowkey wanna try offical for once but im a solo

[wispy frigate]

Better because you spawned in mutagel, cheated the missions in, teleported in and ran kill at rockwell prime? Rather than googling it?

[floral storm]

ouch, shots fired

[long flicker]

it's pretty much the same thing apart from the mouse cursor being visible

[wispy frigate]

And one is much more effort

[golden bluff]

I I didn't say that the work I said that the cutscene in game looks better

[long flicker]

eh, relatively much more effort
neither is what I'd call "oh no so much work"

[long flicker]

it looks the exact same

unless you're playing in 8k something or the other

[wispy frigate]

[golden bluff]

Not the effort ofcourse not the effort that is what I was complaining in the first place

[floral storm]

its the exact same

[wispy frigate]

True, but given a choice I’d just google it

[long flicker]

only difference is having to find a dude who can keep his mouth shut

though I think most yt'ers didn't talk during that cutscene

[floral storm]

you would be surprised

[long flicker]

well, youtuber be youtuber

[wispy frigate]

Ugh I’m bored

[floral storm]

i just realized how good wave ray 64 is early on in genesis 1

[long flicker]

yo same

[long flicker]

from what I remember it gave... fur? maybe fur, definitely did give megatherium saddles tho

[wispy frigate]

Its an easy one yeah
Don’t think it gives much good loot tho

[floral storm]

everyone

[long flicker]

I wanna play minecraft but I can't so I'm sad

[wispy frigate]

Megatherium saddles, not bad

[floral storm]

it doesnt give great loot, but im talking about the hexagons

[long flicker]

ah

[narrow plank]

Alrighty... so I just found the underforest in Extinction. Should I build a sub-base down here, or is it kinda limited?

[long flicker]

the sunken forest biome?

[floral storm]

and i also got my mining drill from it, so yey

[narrow plank]

Yup

[long flicker]

it's neat, and has gachas
base worthy, ig if you want to

[wispy frigate]

Hexagons are… meh

Like 3k for alpha?

[floral storm]

definitely didnt deserve it, got mining drill pre hide armor

[long flicker]

yeah you can get mining drill from any random mission

[floral storm]

1.25k for alpha, but early on, its really good

[narrow plank]

Seems like it is different down here than anywhere else in this world.

[long flicker]

it has a more aberration vibe

[narrow plank]

Haven't seen any corrupted yet.... will that change?

[wispy frigate]

Aberration but only green zone

[narrow plank]

I hated aberration.

[long flicker]

nah, corrupted are only out and about

[wispy frigate]

Nah corrupteds aren’t in any proto arks

[long flicker]

D: why

[floral storm]

can i climb the big tree in genesis bog with the grappling hook

the tree with the bloodstalkers

[long flicker]

probably can, idk tho

[floral storm]

also, whats the best prefix for an item in ark

[narrow plank]

Everything... and everything wants to kill me. I'd rather have some passives/neutral.

[long flicker]

prefix as in?

[wispy frigate]

Yes, but I wouldn’t

[floral storm]

like Ramshackle, Acendant, Mastercraft, etc

[long flicker]

ravagers and raptors ain't everything

[long flicker]

oh the quality, ascendant is the best

[floral storm]

what DO i use then?

[long flicker]

but the quality only tells how good a certain item CAN be, so sometimes a single mastercraft can be better than ascendants

[floral storm]

i only called it prefix because terraria instincts

[wispy frigate]

Ascendant is generally best but mastercraft can be as good and is cheaper (just rarer to find mastercraft of the same quality)

[narrow plank]

All the corrupted stuff wants me dead... or am I doing it wrong?

[long flicker]

but in general, ascendant > mastercraft

[glass goblet]

my tames are getting like 2000 health per level and my settings are set to x1 xp per level, anyone know why theyre getting insane stats?

[long flicker]

aberration doesn't have corrupted dinos

[wispy frigate]

Nothing? A bloodstalker? Idk

[long flicker]

are you playing with mods?

[long flicker]

the default health per level slider isn't 1

[floral storm]

bro im climbing the tree TO get a bloodstalker lol

but i dont see how you can climb it with nothing

[long flicker]

you can shoot the stalker down

[glass goblet]

rly? then what is it...

[long flicker]

either 0.44 or 0.14, something like that

[narrow plank]

Oh yeah... now that I think about it... just the ravagers.

[floral storm]

unless you're seeing something im not

also, how many blood packs for a lvl 150 bloodstalker

[long flicker]

you can reset your settings and change everything else again to make the health per level default

[long flicker]

rates?

[floral storm]

1 food drain 1 taming speed

[wispy frigate]

Use dododex

[long flicker]

1500

[floral storm]

haha excuse me?

[long flicker]

10 for every level

[floral storm]

I have 100, take it or leave it.

[long flicker]

1500 for a max level
do you have sp settings turned on?

[frosty trench]

How do I get better quality items than primitive

[long flicker]

from drops

[floral storm]

whats sp lol

[long flicker]

singleplayer settings

[glass goblet]

pardon my stupidity but what exactly is tamed affinity?

[long flicker]

I forgot which is which
easiest to just reset all your settings and change the ones you change again

[wispy frigate]

The multiplicative taming bonus

[floral storm]

i modified a few things, but other than that all my settings are default

[long flicker]

do you have the checkbox, singleplayer settings ticked

[floral storm]

hold on

[glass goblet]

ohhh right ty!

[wispy frigate]

Phew chat was moving quickly

[long flicker]

man I'm bored

[wispy frigate]

A bit too quickly for me, especially with a 5 second slomo

[long flicker]

and somehow no one's on general lmao

[wispy frigate]

Ikr

[floral storm]

ayo chat calm down

[long flicker]

I want to play something but idk what I want to play

[wispy frigate]

Vaal just kills the chat by saying gn

[floral storm]

no one uses general in an ark server lol

[long flicker]

you kidding? general's the most active chat

[floral storm]

yo

wow, you found it

the hidden joke

[floral storm]

yeah, what about it

[long flicker]

that was a strange joke but ok

[wispy frigate]

Theres about 5.5x more messages in #general than #ark-survival-ascended

[long flicker]

then your taming speed is 2.5x, not 1x
you'll need 600 bloodpacks

[floral storm]

ill just bring 1000, just to be safe

[wispy frigate]

Its always a bit iffy

Theres a reason dododex says give or take 25%

[long flicker]

with bloodstalkers it shouldn't be

[wispy frigate]

shouldn’t

[long flicker]

it's ark, you think I can ever be sure of anything

[wispy frigate]

Exactly

I mean
Exactly afaik/iirc

[floral storm]

taming is weird in ark

scratch that, everything is weird in ark

[narrow plank]

Weird SP question: Is Ark better with transfers, or should I deal with each iteration as it's own new adventure, to be started "naked"?

[wispy frigate]

All preference really

[floral storm]

one minute im vibing with a dire bear the next i move within 3 miles of him and he lunges at me

[long flicker]

I myself prefer a cluster style gameplay, others prefer no transferring

[long flicker]

bears don't aggro till you're pretty much in touching distance

[floral storm]

exxageration, but yeah

my point still stands lol

[long flicker]

keep in mind the dino also moves around so you can get closer to them than you'd realise

[wispy frigate]

Imo starting each map for the first time by itself without transfers is best for immersion, then later doing a cluster type
But whatever floats your boat

[long flicker]

you end up just never reaching that cluster type
cough cough

[floral storm]

guys what should i set my taming speed to

[wispy frigate]

Hehehehe idk what you’re talking about

[long flicker]

sp's 2.5x is good enough most of the time

though I'd suggest turning sp settings off, since they boost dinos and make them pretty unbalanced

[wispy frigate]

And theres like 1 thing you can’t just do normally with the settings anyways

[long flicker]

wdym

[wispy frigate]

It modifies engram points per lvl, which afaik isn’t possible with normal settings

[floral storm]

im thinking of setting it to like x10 just for this one bloodstalker

[long flicker]

it is, though you need ini for it

[lucid grove]

Do yall know how i can maybe join a bigger tribe? Im sick of playing boosted cuz my friends dont like offi

[floral storm]

oops

[wispy frigate]

Smh no caps

[floral storm]

yoo lets gooo

[wispy frigate]

10 is the limit

[floral storm]

lvl 223 x raptor

[wispy frigate]

Ooo

After tame?

[floral storm]

yeah

[wispy frigate]

Nice

[floral storm]

i really like the x raptor design

i normally but the bionic skin on my raptors, but for x raptors, hell nah

[long flicker]

anyway, let me just go and add gigas to lunar now

[narrow plank]

Have you tried single player?

[floral storm]

if i set my taming speed to 15x, how many blood packs for a 150 bloodstalker

[floral storm]

i also got a lvl 154 direwolf (after tame)

not the best, but, i just started genesis a bit ago

[wispy frigate]

1500/15

[long flicker]

there's... 6 lunar caves
of course there is

the video I watched only showed 4 caves

[wispy frigate]

Lol

[floral storm]

aight, ty

its 100, so ill bring 200 just in case

[wispy frigate]

Altho, if you set taming to 15 it’ll be 1500/(15x2.5)

Because sp settings

[long flicker]

sp settings are meh

[floral storm]

ill turn sp settings off for this bloodstalker

i dont want everything to be TOO easy

i enjoy the challenge of ark

extracts blood from their arm
leg snaps in half

[lucid grove]

Nah, solo is hard like i get shii but my bases dont last long like that when i get like 70 turrets i get wiped

[floral storm]

i like solo more tbh

[long flicker]

dammit eclipse is offline, I wanted to ask things about spawns

so should I put gigas next to the shinehorns

let me put gigas next to the shinehorns

[floral storm]

how do you add dinos to maps

[long flicker]

ini,
can't do it on console singleplayer

[floral storm]

goddamnit.

[long flicker]

@wispy frigate do you want to see a giga overspawn

[unkempt sentinel]

good day under which option can i advertise my server

[long flicker]

#800537627752398899 or #800537518843756544

[floral storm]

what are yalls records for fastest time dying in the bog without moving