Gaming

It was probably all that Vegetable Soup that I was spamming.
Not that it helped.

Anyway I've just been back to Ark. I'd been putting it off cos I knew my raft needed repairs and I suspected that it'd be a boring chore but I was completely wrong. I had it fixed up in no time.
I then tried that sailing trip again in search of better rocks and on the way found quite a few of those rubbishy rocks. Oh, well. Some metal is better than no metal so I went to chip away... and got poisoned by a Troodon.



Thankfully I killed it before the toxic stuff kicked in so I just had to hope nothing else turned up while I was "sleeping". Once I was awake again I continued on and chipped away at some more occasional metal and then got attacked from above by one of those pesky birdies that snaffled all the berries and cooked meat from my pockets.
I did manage to shoot it down!



First time I've successfully shot something out of the sky.
And I sailed on again right up the west coast but STILL couldn't find any of the proper metal rocks!
I've looked on the resources map and there's supposed to be some there but I just can't see them.

I may now give up on that particular location and try to sail eastward on the south coast. It's a longer journey near some deeper waters but the "map" says there are more of those rocks there and even some of the "richer" metal rocks too!
Is that about where your base was, Charlotte?

If I'd known it was one of those poison ones I'd have scarpered straight away but I have trouble recognising the smaller two-legged things. I always think they're Dilos, which I can kill easily, and I then get into trouble when they get closer and I realise that it's a Troodon or in some cases a Raptor.
In fact, while sailing back home there was a convenient supply drop on a beach and I was gonna hop off and grab it until I saw something stalking around it and couldn't quite tell what it was at a distance. And coming so soon after the poison thing I decided to let it go.

I just double checked on the resources map and those western rocks are indeed in a cave.
No wonder I couldn't see them. But those ones to the south east are above ground so it may be worth the journey.
But I am very scared of sailing too close to those southern deep waters. I definitely don't want to meet that huge Moby Dick thing that's over there. That's just guaranteed death and destruction.

Did you ever get a flying thing to travel on?
The next major goal I've set for myself is to eventually tame and ride a pteranodon. I think it'd make travel a lot easier and maybe safer too(?) while also opening up access to the mountains.
200+ hide for a saddle is a bit too much at the moment so it'll have to stay as a long term "quest".

Well, they don't "need" kibble, that's just the quickest way.
I still haven't made any of that stuff (don't even have a cooking pot! ) so if I ever get to taming one then my plan will probably be to just feed it raw meat and keep clubbing it for half an hour.