ARK: Survival Evolved - Catch All

Thanks for taking time to work on it. Feel better!

I have been messing around with Aberration and while it is pretty, I am getting the same crash over and over. I requested a refund from Steam.

I miss playing guys. Work is busy, so no stealing time during lunch. And my basement is being finished (great news!) so my rig is packed up.

Enjoy Rag. I'll probably get in around the new year.

It'll be here when you're ready even though we have some new players, it's far from 'busy' and there's plenty space to go around.

Good luck with your work and basement!

I've managed to get in and I've made myself a lil cabin

Yay, glad to have you I should be on for at least a little while this evening if you are, then I can get you into the tribe. No worries if not though.

After many days of trying, I was finally able to get on the server. Man it takes forever to load all those mods.

Do we have some big Clan project going on right now?

Be careful about leaving tames near my tower. I havn't built out proper defenses yet and there is a rex that wanders through the beach periodically

WizKid wrote:

After many days of trying, I was finally able to get on the server. Man it takes forever to load all those mods.

Do we have some big Clan project going on right now?

No clan projects at the moment. Syd, Spork and I have been hatching Wyverns. I think 12 so far with a few eggs in the cooler. Spork and I tried defeating the Ice Queen worm last night....didn't go so well. A high level Compound Bow is great at battling against the normal Ice Worms.

We are usually on the GWJ Ark channel on Twitch.

Ohh, i just got an Ascendant Compound bow from a drop the other night, too!

I also got an Ascendant Giga Saddle O.o

Still haven't found a Quetzal Platform Saddle of any kind

I timed joining the server and it takes me 3m.20s from hitting Ok on the passowrd prompt until I can move around. While that is still quite a long time, I guess I've just gotten used to that, but if you're not on SSD for ARK, I can imagine it'd be very painful when first loading in.

At this stage I would be very reluctant to add any more mods, but I do always try to put things to a community vote, as I am server 3 distinct community groups on these servers, so I'm never going to keep everyone always happy, but will do what I can

It takes a solid 5-7 mins to load on my regular HD, but it's just a front end deal so it doesn't really bother me. i can start the load and grab a cup of coffee/martini. I guess it might be time to invest in a large SSD for graphics intensive games.

It is getting pretty ridiculous for Ark, though. With none of the DLC, and only 2 additional maps (the ones we run), my ARK folder that was recently reinstalled is sitting at 120GB. I'd imagine that at least some of the DLC data is already in there, but that buying them and thus unlocking them would add even more to the folder size.

yea thats way to big to put on my OS drive

mmmmmm martini...

Agree with Thrawne. My rig is by no means a beast, so I learn to live with many things. My initial load with my HDD is ~10 min. Having fewer mods would definitely help (which I'm partial to since I actually use very few), but .... meh. Interesting comparison...my very non-gaming-but-still-fairly-performant work issued laptop with an SSD loads in about 2 minutes (both assuming no mod updates to wait for).

SSD is definitely on my next to purchase list....but I just ordered all the trimmings for my basement (75" 4K Samsung TV and 1TB PS4 pro), so it'll be awhile before my wife will let me near the money again.

Just a couple times to the sperm bank and you could get THIS just for ARK.

Sydhart wrote:

Just a couple times to the sperm bank and you could get THIS just for ARK.

because pretty soon ark will be so big nothing else will fit on it.

thrawn82 wrote:
Sydhart wrote:

Just a couple times to the sperm bank and you could get THIS just for ARK.

because pretty soon ark will be so big nothing else will fit on it.

Yes.

I'm on an SSD also and it takes roughly 2-3 minutes to load also. To free up some HD space I unchecked the DLC's that I own, but do not play. That freed up 27GB. Ark is still at 109GB.

Had a report from one user that they are seeing taming efficieny dropping to 40% for seemingly no reason following the recent batch of daily updates. I haven't had a chance to try yet but would be good if someone gets the chance to test this on both The Center and Ragnarok (otherwise I'll do so when I get home).

omni wrote:

Had a report from one user that they are seeing taming efficieny dropping to 40% for seemingly no reason following the recent batch of daily updates. I haven't had a chance to try yet but would be good if someone gets the chance to test this on both The Center and Ragnarok (otherwise I'll do so when I get home).

I had two different tames that used one extra kibble when both Dododex and the Survuve-Ark calculator's said different. I did tame two other dinos yesterday and they both tamed according to the calculators. I believe there was a small client update between the two taming sessions.

yeah, and there's been another update today up to v276, so hopefully it was just a temporary glitch and has been resolved..

I can't make Clay or the Oil Jar. I have tried normal and S+ Mortar and Pestle. I have the engram. I also have 20 clay I harvested, but when I try to make the Oil Jar, it says I have no clay.

Is that from the adobe structures? Do you have to unlock the engram's using the scorched earth tab in the engram list?

omni wrote:

Is that from the adobe structures? Do you have to unlock the engram's using the scorched earth tab in the engram list?

I totally didn't realize there were tabs for each expansion until a few days ago.

Clay is originally from Scorched Earth and the engram is under SE level 5. I learned it, but cannot make it still. You grind sand and cactus sap in a Pestle to make clay. I also went out and harvested clay, but when I try to make the Oil Jar (SE engram also) it says I have no clay (except I do have clay)

I am able to make other SE items.

I didn't know about the tabs until the other day when I found an Oil Vein and was trying to work out how to build the oil pump

As for the clay.. I've only come up against that issue with one of the mods once - asking me to make clay bricks, but I couldn't make the 'correct' type of clay for that mod, only clay from another mod... or something..

Well another bug in the latest patch....Spinos everywehere!! There were over 40 just in this one small area, but I could not take a screenshot and capture all of them.

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Good news though....the SouthEast area on the map is now open for exploration. Deathworms in the desert!!

Oh crap... I'm not that far from there either... Weird about the Spinos, they must be taking up quite a lot of the Dino spawn points for that area....