ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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A simple riddle. Can you solve it?
You are asleep. You are in a metal box with metal floors, metal walls and a metal ceiling. All of the metal doors in their metal doorframes are closed. There are no wild or tamed dinosaurs inside your metal box. There are no openings for a wild or tamed dinosaur to get inside your metal box.

Yet you are now dead. You were killed by a level 21 Dilophosaurus. Your friends, of which there are 2, are also dead. Your tamed dinosaurs, in their own Stone box, are also dead.

Fortunately, you live in a world where you are able to respawn and upon getting back to your box you see that none of the metal has been damaged. Yet some of the wooden crates that stored your rare valuables are destroyed and their contents gone. These were also in the metal box.

How did this happen?!
















On a serious note I think Dilos are bugged to be able to attack through walls with their ranged attack and while I can take offline raiding, I can take long taming times and huge amounts of harvesting materials all to be lost to a guy with some grenades. What I can't really take is when I spend a good 2 weeks building a base that has never been raided due to its position and strength, and everything of value inside is destroyed by a tiny dinosaur with a pesky ranged attack. So I think I'm out. This game is actually incredible and I'm sure I'll be back when its finished. In some ways I wish I never played the early access because the first 10 hours of this game are incredible and I won't get that again...
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tom_gore Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:13am 
Confirming that I've been attacked through the wall by dilo's ranged spit.
Jimmy NoShoes Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:15am 
Can confirm the above also. Dilo agrod on me through a stone fence when I was tending to my dodos, who in turn agrod. 1 dodo died through the wall during the time it took me to run round, open behemoth gate, and poke it with my pointy stick.
Last edited by Jimmy NoShoes; Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:16am
old mate Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:23am 
dilo's spawned inside my house once, killed me and broke my cabinets.

my house is on 26 pillars rising from the ocean floor between the mainland and the dead island in the north.
Xeno Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:32am 
The answer to the riddle is ........you built all that on a thatch foundation!........Dang im good at riddles :-p
Originally posted by Zeno:
The answer to the riddle is ........you built all that on a thatch foundation!........Dang im good at riddles :-p

kappa
Lowcost Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:34am 
No more oxygen cause everything was closed? :P
NightUndead Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:34am 
"You are in a metal box with metal floors, metal walls and a metal ceiling."

"All of the metal doors in their metal doorframes are closed."


I saw through your lies, there ARE no doors!
Originally posted by NightUndead:
"You are in a metal box with metal floors, metal walls and a metal ceiling."

"All of the metal doors in their metal doorframes are closed."


I saw through your lies, there ARE no doors!

Congratulations, the one ring is yours. Try not to die when you throw it in Mount Doom.
Swindal Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:44am 
Because you were in the metal box and you stole the stuff and broke the chests, then fast travelled from a bed that was in the box to a bed outside the box via bed or opened the door and got out if thats allowed, and killed your dinos/friends before being snuck up on by a dilo. IT WAS YOUR FAULT ALL ALONG
NightUndead Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:45am 
Originally posted by Sir_JoshuLa:
Originally posted by NightUndead:
"You are in a metal box with metal floors, metal walls and a metal ceiling."

"All of the metal doors in their metal doorframes are closed."


I saw through your lies, there ARE no doors!

Congratulations, the one ring is yours. Try not to die when you throw it in Mount Doom.

Can I haz cookie instead?

If not:
WTT [H]The One Ring [W]Cookies
Last edited by NightUndead; Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:46am
Has anyone else experienced anything similar or figured out ways to stop it by the way?
Kotli Jul 16, 2015 @ 4:29am 
A Wild Dilo spawned inside your building or got knocked though the wall by a trike or something killed everyone then fell though the floor?

I know that stuff can spawn inside buildings as we got a wild dodo is stuck in the floor of one of our small warehouse buildings.
AbsoluteOlino Jul 16, 2015 @ 4:30am 
Confirming wildlife spawning with dwellings (I had saberteeth spawn into 2 layers of metal walls to kill me and destroy all storage)
had a spino spawn insoide our perimiter (5 high walls). Same thing here, he attacked through our metal box. Ate the wooden floors we had (since back then you couldnt replace floors/foundations) and thus ended the gaming experience until release of the game :D
Last edited by Igor Von Locket Ohlsson; Jul 16, 2015 @ 4:33am
Originally posted by Kotli:
A Wild Dilo spawned inside your building or got knocked though the wall by a trike or something killed everyone then fell though the floor?

If it spawned in our base wouldn't it still be there when I got back? Also with the Dilo being the only dinosaur with a ranged attack it seems more likely to me that this was the cause rather than it getting inside. Also it killed our dinosaurs (presumably) and theres another door between us and the dinosaurs.
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Date Posted: Jul 16, 2015 @ 3:12am
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