Tired of losing pets and gear

[Barney Wobba]

My mates started a server and set it all to high difficulty, and now they don't play. I made loads of stuff but lately I am getting bored so I leave my house in the Red Forest and go off with my pets. Then I die, can't find pets, go look again, die, and again, die rinse and repeat. Takes a LONG time to level my therizinosaurs and now all three vanish.

I found a pet lost yesterday though, then died and lost it again.

I am ready to quit tbh, it's just too tough with hard mode multiplayer with no mods.

[Barney Wobba]

Screw it, had enough, no more ark :(

[The_Kuervito]

Git gud

[Violeta]

Redwood forest is one of the easiest biomes to die in. I have a lot of hours in ark and I still wouldn't base there. Its main benefit "sap" isn't very useful if you make yellow tier kibble that tames near everything on the island. Which is very easy to do with about 10-20 low level rex females.

The closest I've based near the redwood forest on the island before is the flat black sand beach near the volcano/red woods. So if I needed sap it was a short swim then walk.


A Transponder Node may help if you keep losing your tames

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by Barney Wobba:

Screw it, had enough, no more ark :(

Find a pve server with a good community and you will start to enjoy it again.

As a previous poster said, Redwoods is very hard for new people to survive in, in fact ive got a fair few hours and id go the swamp or snow before redwoods, thats how difficult it can be.

[Sarinh]

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Originally posted by Barney Wobba:

Screw it, had enough, no more ark :(

Find a pve server with a good community and you will start to enjoy it again.

As a previous poster said, Redwoods is very hard for new people to survive in, in fact ive got a fair few hours and id go the swamp or snow before redwoods, thats how difficult it can be.

That's the issue, finding an active server with an actually good community

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Barney Wobba:

My mates started a server and set it all to high difficulty, and now they don't play. I made loads of stuff but lately I am getting bored so I leave my house in the Red Forest and go off with my pets. Then I die, can't find pets, go look again, die, and again, die rinse and repeat. Takes a LONG time to level my therizinosaurs and now all three vanish.

I found a pet lost yesterday though, then died and lost it again.

I am ready to quit tbh, it's just too tough with hard mode multiplayer with no mods.

1. If they started a server and quit, why are you continuing to play on that server which obviously has settings and conditions that dont match you? That's a bit silly.

so.....

2. There are 90,000+ unofficial servers out there you can play on. Its a players market so to speak. Use the battlemetrice website to find one that better matches you. Dont use the in game system since it cant list all 90k+ servers.

Originally posted by Barney Wobba:

Screw it, had enough, no more ark :(

User end issue then if you impatiently decided that after 1 hour from your initial post. Good luck to you.

Originally posted by Zathenos:

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Find a pve server with a good community and you will start to enjoy it again.

As a previous poster said, Redwoods is very hard for new people to survive in, in fact ive got a fair few hours and id go the swamp or snow before redwoods, thats how difficult it can be.

That's the issue, finding an active server with an actually good community

See point 2 above. Understand that it is your responsibility to find a server that matches you and for you to put in the due diligence to find it. We're not you so we can't determine what's best for you nor do the work for you. Thus good luck to you too.

[Liralen]

One of the great things about Ark is that what your real life brain has learned is a lot more important than the stuff you have, at least before you find the redwood forest challenging (this isn't as true once you've acquired high end stuff).

So you could create a single player game, which inherently is in easy mode, and use your knowledge of Ark to regain what you lost, or simply use admin commands to spawn in what you had on the private server. You could add then also add mods, like Creature Finder Deluxe, to be able to find out exactly where your tamed dinos are.

You could also create your own dedicated server which you can use to further fine tune game parameters. I don't know if this is possible in single player, but restoring a back-up save is possible with a dedicated server, plus has all the options you have on single player.

[william_es]

There are mods that allow you to track your dinos. I still lose them all the time. They can get stuck on things, and when you get out of render range, they sort of disappear.

My biggest issue right now is shoulder pets. If I forget to throw them down on the ground, and log off, the shoulder pet will be floating in mid air when I log back into the game (I'm playing solo right now, don't have time for MP ark). So sometimes I start the game and immediately go running off. Poor shoulder pet is just hanging there. I've 1/4 of the way across the map before I've realized that I never picked it up again.

Speaking of shoulder pets, a nice high level one with good melee is a great defense against getting jumped by things. I've had a super high level dimorphodon eat a thylacoleo in the redwoods. Just ate it all up. Yum. I got jumped by the thyla while flying through the redwoods, ganked right off my flyer. Landed on the ground, and the thyla was just... gone. Wasn't til I found the thyla claw in the dimorph's inventory that I figured out it had killed and eaten the thyla.

I've invaded the redwoods and built bases there before... but last time I went in riding a paraceratherium, with a platform saddle. Whole mini-base on top, with a roof over the drivers seat so thyla's couldn't jump me. A whole army of tames following me too. Theri's, bronto, etc I lived out of the paracer mini-base until I could build a permanent one. I just put wood spikes in a huge circle all the way around it and the tames. Didn't even have a gate, I mostly flew in an out.

[Barney Wobba]

Thanks everyone. I know I should have quit the server and restarted but I kinda bonded with my little pets and didn't want to leave them all alones :(

Took me maaaany days to get my three Therizinosaurs and stuff. Now they are lost somewhere in the Red woods and I can't find them.

I am going to take a break and maybe return on a server where I can use mods and not spend so much time investment.

[Sicksadpanda]

I think the rule of thumb on Ark is to expect everything to not last. Taming and bonding with dinos is fun, but this is a game where they can die very easily due to even the slightest mistake.

[Violeta]

When I catch a 130-150 I never use that dino. I store it until I get another of the opposite gender, Then I breed them and only use the babies for combat. This means even if everything dies, I still have the parents to build back with.

If its a drastically hard to get or rare dino or if in desperate need of that species, I may breed it with a low level one until I get a clone of it. For instance breeding a level 150 tapejar with a level 5-20 tapejar.

Yeah its less fun, but its very safe. And since I never level those original parents up, its much easier later to compare and breed with them to get the best babies possible. Eventually they do get replaced once I have a male and female super dino via breeding, but thats often much later.

Keeping this base stock safe, along with any blueprints, really reduces the chance to lose anything important in a non-pvp situation.

Ideally, if you die and can't recover your body, the most painful loss should be the chibi pet. Not your gear or tames.

[Barney Wobba]

Yea, tried the breeding thing. 8 hours hand feeding it was not fun, then after 48 hours it vanished from my baby-safe pen for unknown reasons.

[grrantu]

I like to play Casual Ark as well. For the lost pet problem I have found this mod to be a real stress reducer https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591643730 it allows you to search for all dinos and filter by "tamed" status so you could search for all "Theri" that are tamed and they will all show up on the map. Then you just select the one you want to find and it highlights it like the "Taming" tracker. Maybe try setting up a single player game and trying out various mods to find what you like. You can also tweak difficulty settings and options to get a game that matches the play style that brings you enjoyment.

For the longest time I wasn't able to do any of the bosses cause it just took so long to gather the dinos for it that I would get bored. So I created a server with really fast egg laying, breeding and gestation speeds so I could raise dinos in like 5 minutes. It allowed me to experience the end game bosses on the island. Which outside of that experience I have never been able to do because it just takes so long to gather everything together. But I really enjoyed the story of it and I think it's a shame that 90% of the people that play ark never get to see it because on normal settings it's just too time consuming.

[Barney Wobba]

Ok, fanks. Me try so hard on normal server and multiplayer, when me am solo...it too sad :(

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by ⛧Coeur du diable⛧:

When I catch a 130-150 I never use that dino. I store it until I get another of the opposite gender, Then I breed them and only use the babies for combat. This means even if everything dies, I still have the parents to build back with.

You should use Ark Smart Breeding, then you dont have to store heaps of useless dinos.