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Our bunny stats were on our males so I got the first onto a female baby, and while I was moving her out of the floor she decided to cuddle with Berry. XD

.... baby bunnies are super-cute. >.>

New kitty! She was a 140 I found while bunny-taming yesterday and I think she's my second favorite (don't worry Mittens your status is safe >.>). Her name is Smoky. \o/

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #the mana babies have all been fails so far >.<#i know i just started them so i am trying to be patient >.>#i'm probably never going to breed the cats just because we keep taming more XD #idk i will eventually get them together to see what stats we have then we'll see #also i have tamed several new maeguanas while we've been here (including berry!)#so once we're back on val i get to see if i need to re-breed them >.>

Female mana acquired! And she was a 145 to boot! \o/

And then I drove myself slightly crazy taming some more burrowbucks. XD

Finally managed a perfect tame on the last, the other two got messed up again. Still got some really nice stats on a couple, so I'm happy with them. \o/

And then I hopped to N&A, and while I was waiting for babies to incubate I decided to go find a female spring drakeling to go with our little goth boy. They should have some... interesting color combos when I get around to breeding them. XD

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #poor girl nearly died to a pair of mammoths before i could rescue her >.<#and then she couldn't harvest the bodies at first but she did manage to heal up finally #(and then she led me all over the snow bc i've been taming them without a trap >.>)#we ended up with 57!!!! points in the bunnies' weight #and the rest is good enough to start breeding them \o/#we'll try to grab more if we find any with /super/ good stats but other than that they're done #ark n&a cluster #gonna go to astraeos here and look for tusos at some point #still only have the one here and they're the last water tames we don't have breeders for >.>#gonna go for scorched ascension here soon too \o/#bc my dude is completely out of engram points now >.<

Burrowbucks! I got on N&A first and managed to get a handful, though some of them messed up the taming so they didn't get full efficiency. >.<

Kel joined me on Aras after and we did a managarmr hunt first, and found these guys! Both males so we'll need to find a female, but everything else was low-level and we do want to be picky here. I'll do another hunt in a day or two.

And then we prepared to go on a bunny hunt... only to find we had a spawn spot right next to our base. Had to clear out a few low levels but then a 150 male spawned, and a bit later we had a 140 female join him. I focused on the male while Kel went after the girl, they were both being as difficult as possible but we finally got them. \o/

We're gonna keep looking for more, these guys are a nice start but not really that great stat-wise. I'd like to go to Ragnarok and check out the highlands island next, it'll probably be easier to find and tame them there.

#ark survival ascended #ark n&a cluster #two females are pretty decent so I'm happy #and our elderclaws are finally done so we have space for them already \o/#(i started on our poison wyverns so they're taking up a lot of room >.<)#ark aras cluster #there is a color event going on aras atm (if it wasn't obvious XD)#the manas are so much better than what i found on N&A \o/#was tempted to tame any female we could find but darnit i want as good as possible here #so we'll keep looking and hoping for now #both the bunnies lost some levels but they're decent for just riding around #the female took forever she kept going into the ocean >.<#she came out on her own mostly but we had to fish her out once or twice :P #i want to find some on single-player now too XD #SOON(tm)

Breeding event started yesterday so... More Babies!!

I have no idea what this shark was doing. She just sat there like that until she finally wanted a walk. XD

I have a mosa baby! He didn't get everything but Idc, he got the health and melee stats and the imprint made him ridiculous. He and a few others are finishing up growing overnight, and tomorrow after work (hopefully) I'm gonna jump over to Val and bring back my baby archelons that I keep forgetting about. >.>

We are calling the sharks and mosas done. We have an all-stat female of each, and we got a male mega that's only missing a couple points in his weight, and we're keeping our old Seadragon as our mosa breeder since he had nearly all our high stats.

I've decided I'm going to save my next mosa hunt for the next higher-level event. We want to get acros then too, just to get as OP stats as possible. Don't know when the next one will be yet, but hopefully it won't be too long.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #best part is nobody needed an elixir >.>#the sharks only took 2 imprints each and the mosa and squids went fast #the two squids from last time only needed 2 more to finish anyway \o/#going to pop out the entire shark collection before we leave and level them all. which will likely be fun >.<#(seriously we have so many now oops)#i am about ready to go back home to val but we will probably be back here again in a couple weeks #there's still a ton of stuff i wanted to do we just need to do stuff on other maps too XD

Showing off Hammertime's colors, since he looks so pale underwater.

I've leveled his melee as much as I'm comfortable with. He can still knock out a megalodon if I'm careful and it has high enough health. Now I can just pump his other stats until he never runs out of stam or health. XD

I told myself I was done keeping sharks for the cave pack but we have 4 new babies to raise already so that is... not going to plan but I might start culling the not-as-good older ones. Also keep reminding myself that their purpose is pretty much just to kill stuff until they die so it might be good to have a lot of them. >.>

I left our new mosa girl out to grow, tomorrow I get to start her up with Seadragon and hope they give us our breeders quickly. Still going to look for better ones, but it'll be nice to already have our current high stats combined.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #i LOVE not having to bring tranqs on my ocean trips i cannot stress this enough XD #he's so handsome look at him #we got pretty lucky with these guys :D #the cave sharks are all getting primitive saddles so we won't have to worry about having to craft stuff >.>#we have yet to do /any/ asa water caves so i want to be Ready when we do #wanted to play more SP astraeos but got distracted by other games #so that will wait til another day >.>

I restarted on single-player Astraeos, my dude is back to living on a ship. And on the way to the sheep island he picked up a passenger for a bit. XD

Baby Raising Day round 2! Everything but the squids are grown now, I picked up two squids that I was imprinting but my Noodle and our two new breeders are staying out to finish growing. \o/

Noodle was only about 60-something% here and she's already BIG. XD

So now the xiphs are done, the tusos are done, all we have left are the megas and mosas. I have started on the mosas though we've gotten nothing good yet, still gonna look for more but we can always just work in any stat upgrades. >.>

#ark survival ascended #ark astraeos #i did not tame the turtle he was only 95 #he will get one eventually but i'm holding out for good levels >.>#ark aras cluster #i figured out how to elixir the squids! \o/#so imprinting went much better after that >.>#but they still take so long i only went til noodle was fully imprinted #so the other two will get finished later #and we got an all-stat egg that hatched m/f twins so we have our breeders! \o/#/and/ i have an imprinted slappy shark! \o/#took him out to play just for a bit and i love him #he's stockpiling levels now so he will be OP when i get him out next >:)#once we are done with the water breeding we're heading back to val #i miss having all my tames handy and i keep worrying about everyone back home >.>#but this has been super fun so we'll keep coming back every so often

We had so many babies. >.<

They're all just about grown now though, I got them all imprinted and left them to finish. Also you might see a baby squid in there - I went out again and found a 135 male and brought him home. \o/

We did unfortunately lose one of the xiphs, I was giving them all their elixirs and he flopped up too high on the dock. I was more careful with the rest of them after that. >.<

And I bred the sharks one more time and thought we got another male, but we ended up with triplets and TWO of them were female. So now we can breed them with our other tamed male and FINALLY get all our stats combined. Eventually, if they behave. >.>

Sidenote: Look at how handsome our slappy sharks are. Good golly I love them.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #they were all so good for their imprints \o/#although i couldn't do an elixir for my tuso baby so i'll have to do her the hard way >.<#also update: we got our male xiph now so they're done \o/#and i got a couple eggs from the helicos so we each can have an imprinted one now :D #going to keep looking for better tuso stats but i can be lazy about it now #and eventually i'll find a freaking decent female mosa >.>#next on the list is to start looking for osds #and finding some acros/deinotheriums

Wanted to play in the ocean again, I didn't want to mess with stupid mosa levels so I went after something different. \o/

Megabyte was the perfect bait (even when they meshed her and got her stuck inside them constantly >.>). They are both female unfortunately, but eventually the scanner led me to a wall-squid that I couldn't reach so I had to give up. I'll find them a boyfriend next time.

We have one perfect xiph, just need to get her raised and get a male to match her. The sharks are still being dumb so I'm going to get all the babies raised and see whether any of them are good enough to add to the breeding pool. >.>

Kel and I have decided we're going to go get all the BTT explorer notes for those extra levels. I'm nervous about doing Aberration's but Scorched and Extinction should be easy enough.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #i feel like i should name my shark now i've certainly been using her long enough #though i still want an imprinted one so idk >.>#she's been a /very/ good girl for me though so she deserves one #they were 130 and 145 \o/#and they're good enough that if i can't find a good level male i'm just taming whatever i can find #aberration is still the most unstable map for me so i'm lowkey terrified of dc'ing at the worst possible moments >.<#but if i can find a guide and the notes aren't too hard to get then we'll definitely go knock them out #i am finally on vacation this week and i've missed ark so much lately so i will be playing a lot again for a bit \o/#next time (probably tomorrow) will definitely be a baby-raising day though

Collecting more shoulder pets. The bird ambushed me outside our door and I was going to kill him until I saw his level/colors. The cat is just a baby but I couldn't say no to another tortie. >.>

Turtles and helicos are done, the sharks are still being stupid but we're getting a nice cave pack out of the rejects, at least. Being a bit more picky with the xiphs, but we've gotten a couple babies we're keeping from them, too.

We are getting a lot of little ones, though. Next time I get on for any length of time I need to raise some of these babies. >.<

I tried taming some acros on N&A and ended up killing both my attempts. Think I'm gonna try another map next time, Center redwoods is not the best terrain for it. >.>

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #apologies for the long silence i have been. forgetting to make posts oops >.>#haven't even attempted acros here yet bc i'm afraid to do it solo >.>#(not for me but just afraid of killing them which i think is justified now >.<)#we are just both absorbed in other games rn >.<#but we will get some eventually!#got a vacation after this week so i'm gonna try for some deinotheriums and maybe other stuff #tonight i took chevy the turtle out for more biotoxin and found out he does 33k a bite on the jellyfish when he's buffed O.o #will probably go after some black pearls soon and go look for tusos again #since the mosas are STILL being disappointing >.>

Took a helico out on another mosa hunt which ended when I found a 145 with 40 POINTS IN HIS FOOD and I still couldn't bring myself to kill him so I went home to sulk instead. >.>

But I did find a 145 male xiph on the way back to shore so now we can breed the fishies. \o/

.... I love the helicos so much. Who the heck needs tranqs when you have a slappy shark. :D

Got our male basilo so he's halfway raised already and the others are put away. One of the megalodons finally had the stats we needed but it's another male so I'm breeding the female with our other male to try to get those stats on a girl, and that baby's halfway raised. Neither are getting imprinted so I'll get on tomorrow after work to put them away.

Took my freshly grown imprinted dunkle out for some cementing paste farming and she ended up killing an astral megalodon. I love her. XD

Kel is currently on Val and with the transfers being messed up she's gonna stay there for now but once she can get back to Astraeos we're going acro hunting. Unless I get antsy enough to go by myself, which is a definite possibility. >.>

And the tortugars are grown so they're popping out eggs now. Hopefully they won't be as difficult as the sharks and we'll get them finished soon.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #did a meat run in the desert just for a change in scenery and i found tons of acros there #and they spawn in the redwoods-ish spot near our base so we have plenty of choices for tames #i am going to be /very/ picky about stats though >.>#bc i want them to be as OP as possible >:D #the wild mosas are being ridiculous though i found one 100 and everything else was 90 or below again #this is ASTRAEOS where the heck are the high levels darnit >.>#(the 145 had 18 in health and everything else was in the low 20s >.<)#(... except stam he had good stam but idc about that >.>)#we will find something decent eventually but i am impatient >.>

My computer FUBAR'd so I couldn't play for a few days, but all is fixed now so. \o/

Had my first baby-raising binge in the new pen and I don't want to change anything so it is officially perfect. Also I was not prepared for how tiny baby helicos are. XD

Was also breeding the tortugars and we have everything combined into these two, so just need to get them grown and breeding and then we'll have our final pair. \o/

I want to get back here asap so probably won't go as long without playing again. Gonna head back to the mosa trench I found last time and see if I can find a breeding female, last time I went hunting I couldn't find anything above level 90. >.<

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #super happy with the tortugars that went really fast \o/#going to bonk the sharks though they've been consistently giving us fail-babies >.<#we have our final dunkleo pair and a perfect female basilo \o/#so just need a male basilo and to breed the new helico pair until they're done #did some resource-farming in between imprints and meat runs #there's still some stuff i'd like more of but we're looking good now \o/

I am so freaking happy with this water pen, you guys. Just look at that. :D

We went tortugar-hunting! Kel found a big area that ended up having fast respawns, so we just cleared out the low ones until we got some high-levels. Very happy with these guys, the two pinks and the solid green have all our high stats so the others are free to play with. And I'll start their breeding next time I'm on here. \o/

We got a tuso saddle out of a drop so now we have extra incentive to tame one. And I'm gonna go look for a female mosa while we're here, we do have one but she was a lowish level and I'd like to find something better.

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #server has a color event going so we saw some /really/ pretty ones #i claimed the steel-blue one >.>#he's /really/ nice too just not quite as high as the breeders #all their stats are 48-49 and we got 52 weight \o/#not quite as OP as on N&A but idc #bred everyone before logging and we got one good dunkle baby and a basilo i decided to keep \o/#i put some ceilings underneath the dock so we have incubators out there now #and a generator sitting on the dock XD #i'm just... so happy with this now \o/#love this map /and/ this base

Tried to get on Aras only to find Astraeos was down for some reason. So I got on single-player instead and started building my base.

Might end up making it bigger depending on how long he stays here. It is a really nice spot so I miiiiight end up making it his main base after all.

Went out and found him an argy and a pair of doedics, then came across a couple high-level huskywolves and couldn't resist. And then I took his turtle out to play in the ocean and found a max-level megalodon and a 145 sphyrna and nabbed them too, so he has the start of his tuso-hunting/caving pack. \o/

Will do server stuff tomorrow provided the servers behave. I want to do that bee cave trip, and might go check out the new wyvern trench too.

#ark survival ascended #ark astraeos #it's not finished yet obviously but he ran out of wood so i want to saddle his thorny >.>#the argy and one of the wolves had THREE babies each XD #so yea he has a /really/ nice wolf pack now \o/#and some spare birds just in case #there were TWO TUSOS in a deep spot right next to his base >.<#so i'm really happy he has the sharks now >.>#neither is worth taming but he can get started on helio kibble at least

Got on N&A to do the usual base check and wound up doing an ocean trip. Got a male angler, a bunch of plesios, and a handful more basilos.

The mosas are done, we got an all-stat baby finally and as I was hatching it I told Kel it'd be nice if we got opposite-gender twins. And guess what it did. XD

Bred the plesios before I logged off and their first baby gave me the stats I needed so maybe hopefully they'll be nice and quick. The water pen isn't that big, so the basilos will have to wait til they're done.

Got on Aras after, made a quick trip back to Valguero for the daeodons and snails (and to the Island for their cages >.>). Then I did a bunch of resource farming, and then built the water pen!

Meant to just craft some foundations and start laying out the outline, but once I started I didn't want to stop. So, full thing is done and now I can finally start breeding stuff. \o/

#ark survival ascended #ark n&a cluster #jaws is so photogenic XD #the new basilos gave us upgrades on everything but health \o/#and the plesios will be monsters when they're done #no idea if we'll ever use them but it'll be nice to have them anyway #ark aras cluster #we need to do a bee cave trip for poly (and honey as a bonus)#but we're pretty well set for everything else now \o/#... probably out of stone i forgot to check before i logged XD #brought the snails bc we've had a hard time getting paste #and we can go tame some /good/ bats now too \o/#the pen is so huge i /love/ it #will probably feel smaller when we get the mosas out but still XD #needs a few finishing touches for the breeding but that won't take long

I've had this custom cosmetic for a while but Kel doesn't so here's a pic of the kitties wearing their hoodies, Kel.

We finally moved over to Astraeos, where we spontaneously got some bats! Didn't bring any daeodons or moschops so no extra taming efficiency, but we can play with them now. And I'm gonna go fetch a few pigs over here so next time we can tame them properly. \o/

We took a tour through the desert and found some tortugars but there were no good levels, so we'll try again some other time. I also want to get some managarmrs here before we leave but they will take more preparation so we'll plan a trip specifically for them soon.

I've figured out where I want to do the water pen, so next main project is building it. Gonna try to get it done asap so I can start breeding stuff, I brought over nearly every water tame we have. XD

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #we will be making at least weekly trips back to val for base checks #so everyone there should be fine while we're here #idk how long we'll be here but i don't want to go back til we're /done/ with stuff here #i want to do the water pen out of metal eventually though stone will do for now >.>#just because astral sharks exist and i want to be /sure/ our guys will be safe #we've got the helios and basilos and dunkleos and mosas #and i brought our xiphs too just in case we find a male here #(we did find a 145 male today but he was dying to a turtle and decided to run off while we were trying to save him >.<)

Wanted to do more SP so I headed to my base spot... where I got a rude reminder of how dangerous it is there. So I changed my mind. >.<

I like this little island I found so I'm gonna stick here for a bit, not sure yet if I'll stay here for good so I'm not building anything huge (yet). But this will be home for now. \o/

I'm running a bunch of creature mods and picked up a dinocrocruta pack before I left the last place, as well as a pair of thorny dragons and an anky. Anky got chomped by an allo before I could stop it but he'll still work just fine. Still looking for a doedic, I might have to brave the volcanic island and maybe tame an argy first for that. >.>

Will do server base checks tomorrow and I might make an Astraeos trip on Aras? Will decide that once I get on, Idk how much I'll feel like playing tomorrow. >.>

#ark survival ascended #ark astraeos #the doggies are his guards for now #this island is pretty quiet but i did have to kill a dilo #i just want some storage and the rest of his crafting stations for now #but i should be able to do a nice big water pen too \o/#i've got the sunken world additions mod too so he'll have plenty of water tames eventually #my first base pick was covered in allos and thornies and dogs so it probably wouldn't be fun trying to live there >.<#and of course everything was high-level >.<#probably gonna go back at some point and try to get an allo pack #next session here will just be building and resource gathering >.>

Spent some time on my single-player Astraeos finally. My dude is living on a ship currently, but I know where I want to build my base and he's gonna head there and get started on it next time I feel like playing.

He has a couple pteros, a trike and moschops for berries, and a maeguana, and he just got a turtle and horse tonight. I do want to pick up an anky/doed/wood-gatherer but he can do that on the way to the base spot.

I've been breeding the megatheriums and bison on Aras and we finally have our bison pair, though the sloths are being pains. And on N&A I have FOUR projects going, even though I hate breeding on that server because the cooldowns are so long. >.>

#ark survival ascended #ark aras cluster #i'm running out of projects on aras help me >.>#we really ought to go to lost colony/astraeos and tame the new stuff #SOON(tm) hopefully >.>#ark n&a cluster #i've got the griffons mosas elderclaws and now managarmrs going >.<#i did put away the tortugars we got one all-stat male and some nice females so i'm happy #found a pair of nice male manas couple days ago and one had a female baby \o/#the griffons have been going forever they just won't cooperate ugh #ark astraeos #there is a 150 tortugar i was eyeballing as well #though my guy just has primitive stuff and his crossbow was not doing much torpor-wise >.<#but he got an ascendant one from a drop and now he has the horse to help so might go back for it #(also i might just immersive-tame it now that he has kelp >.>)#the horse will help with his gatherers too so he can save his narcotics #gonna base at the cove i was next to on a previous save and do a tiki-style build on top of my water pen #been watching a lot of phlinger videos and it may have inspired me XD

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