Gaming

Those ants are probably scarier.
They rarely come alone, they're highly aggressive and follow you to the ends of the earth just to kill you, AND they hide in the grass until you're close and then they can attack either on land (drones) OR air (soldiers)!

I STILL haven't seen any snakes. Maybe there are none on "the Island"? Or are you also on "the Island"?

Maybe the ants ate the snakes

I was just petting my tame lysowhatsits (named "Primula") when two raptors appeared out of nowhere and killed us both! Right outside my hut! (I guess that at least will make getting my items back fairly easy....)

Those raptors are such meanies.

Maybe the Raptors ate the snakes

Possibly. They just killed me through the walls of my hut...

EDIT: DANG those raptors... they even swim after you. They must be what etted all the sneks.

The wiki also says there are numerous caves. I've not seen any either.
After having a pair of raptors circling my hut and killing me through the wall before I could retrieve my stuff from my previous death right outside the door, I started over... But I think I'll start over again

First off, I moved quite a ways from my starting point before I ded. Then I respawned right back where I'd started.... so getting my stuff was just too much of a journey. I started looking for a safe place to set up a hut. (Seriously isn't there ANYPLACE safe???) I found a place with a rock wall on one side and a fairly steep slope towards the water on one side. Figured that'd make attacks less likely, but while I stood there pondering I was attacked from the sky! I finally killed the stoopid bird, but before could even find the carcass I was attacked by two dilophosauruses in love... So I ded again. It's getting a bit tiresome.

Anyway I have a wallk with dad soon, so I might as well stop playing ded and get ready...

EDIT: And.... isn't it a bit silly that everytime I close down ARK, Epic loads a big splash screen saying I can get ARK for free? I just did, stoopid Epic.

EDIT 2: And WHY do I keep spawning in the dead of night? I can't see a thing!!!

EDIT 3: Now things are getting really weird... I'm finding these boxes with notes (I found one previously but didn't notice the effect they had) and I'me getting multiple status points and "engram points". I never advanced this fast! I'm already level 14 and all I've done is run further away from one of those pesky birds that keep attacking me.

I haven't left that southern little peninsula thing yet and I'm level 16 I think. But it's all thanks to finding two of those dossier notes thingies in short order (I think basically the boost from the first quadrupled or so the boost from the second). I'm trying to build my first little hut base now, but I can already use wooden pieces instead of thatch