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So with the help of @Kalnaur and @Karoz, I made myself a new friend.
It was pretty and level 81 and I couldn't resist it.
However, I already had a tamed pair of Spinos. I just wanted something a bit beefier (higher level).
So instead of having my original female sit there doing nothing, I am making her useful. Anyone who doesn't have an apex predator like a Spino or T-Rex can have my level 45. She's almost fully trained at this point and fairly well rounded. (you might want some more stamina)
Reply to this post if you want her.
Well, as the last free-to-good-home dino I obtained from the Warboyz has been a boon to my entire tribe, I would gladly to rehouse another. And since we just finished a behemoth gate yesterday, that means we'd actually be able to accommodate her!
And if anyone cares, Chrome the raptor that was the first free-to-good-home dino I obtained is still alive and well.
Remind me where you live, I'll get it delivered tonight after work.
Southwest island, just up the hill from Kalnaurs eternally partially finished construction.
And yay! This means I can make my tribe members pee themselves a little bit when they wake up to find it staring at them.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
So with the help of @Kalnaur and @Karoz, I made myself a new friend.
It was pretty and level 81 and I couldn't resist it.
However, I already had a tamed pair of Spinos. I just wanted something a bit beefier (higher level).
So instead of having my original female sit there doing nothing, I am making her useful. Anyone who doesn't have an apex predator like a Spino or T-Rex can have my level 45. She's almost fully trained at this point and fairly well rounded. (you might want some more stamina)
Reply to this post if you want her.
Well, as the last free-to-good-home dino I obtained from the Warboyz has been a boon to my entire tribe, I would gladly to rehouse another. And since we just finished a behemoth gate yesterday, that means we'd actually be able to accommodate her!
And if anyone cares, Chrome the raptor that was the first free-to-good-home dino I obtained is still alive and well.
Remind me where you live, I'll get it delivered tonight after work.
Southwest island, just up the hill from Kalnaurs eternally partially finished construction.
And yay! This means I can make my tribe members pee themselves a little bit when they wake up to find it staring at them.
Oh that's super close, I can do that before work.
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Done, the saddle is on your fabricator. (there's currently a weird bug with unclaimed dinos and saddles, so I took it off)
MuddBudd on
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Everything should be fine as long as you originally own all the dinos and built the base yourself.
Yeah, anything with you as the "personal owner" will transfer with you. People on the official forums were complaining about it because one pillar in the middle of a giant stack was owned by a former tribe member which completely blocked them from building anything in their own base because of a "hostile foundation". They had to C4 half their base to fix it and rebuild.
Is that the Spino that the Joker is going to use to kill Batman?
Yes.
Also, thanks to Karoz and MuddBudd And the other guy who was running primes before I got there (taming raptor for Ais), I now have a level 120 (as of taming, it's gained a few levels since) Rex.
I named her Atropos. Pictures can come through tomorrow. For now, sleep.
Glad to hear it all worked out! Though I did have the sudden realization when I woke up that you were taming in a pen entirely built by me and I wasn't there. Glad to see you guys found a way out one way or another. I came back this morning and tore the rest down.
Edit: Also Jane (don't know your forum/Steam name) I found Nimbus outside my place. I've parked her in my stables and set her to passive in case you're looking for her.
Yeah until we thought to use axes on the foundation of that entrance, it was entirely possible the Rex was spending the night there. Valuable lesson learned for future tames.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
@Karoz Thanks for that. I crashed out and it took a couple hours to fix the problem.
In other news, how crazy are the trilobites? In about 30 minutes I farmed up over 500 chitin, over 100 oil and almost a hundred silica pearls just from riding my spino up and down the beach.
@Karoz Thanks for that. I crashed out and it took a couple hours to fix the problem.
In other news, how crazy are the trilobites? In about 30 minutes I farmed up over 500 chitin, over 100 oil and almost a hundred silica pearls just from riding my spino up and down the beach.
I did a tour of the coastlines the other night and honestly I may never need chitin again. It's weirdly easier to the West and East though. South shores I had a lot of issues. Or maybe I just wasn't very good at spotting them yet.
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And Spinos are amazing for it too due to being amphibious.
MuddBudd on
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Decided to take the plunge today and pick this up. Dicked around on official server 63 for a couple of hours. Died a few times to the wildlife before finally staking my meagre claim on a little hill. Built a thatch hut with a bit of storage. I'm sure I'll log on tomorrow and everything will be destroyed.
There's some pretty hefty lag going down, but overall I'm enjoying myself. I'll likely hop onto the PA server in the next few days and check things out.
Karoz Thanks for that. I crashed out and it took a couple hours to fix the problem.
In other news, how crazy are the trilobites? In about 30 minutes I farmed up over 500 chitin, over 100 oil and almost a hundred silica pearls just from riding my spino up and down the beach.
Edit: Oohhhh Nimbus. Glad that was taken care of. Just confused me seeing her there.
KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
I've seen some argument as to if the trilos should be "nerfed" or not on the game's Steam forums, in specific some annoyance at the ease with which one can get oil and even more pointedly how easy you can get resources with large apex predators. My point would be that if you happen to be riding a spino or a rex and farming trilos, you are either a higher level or are part of a tribe who is, or have been the recipient of immense good will and you should be able to farm chitin, oil and pearls with relative ease on the ocean floor or off it.
Personally, I find them giving small to medium amounts of oil to be good for those needing to make things like jerky without the ability to invest too much in diving (or a terrible fear of underwater places).
Also, taking a bit of a break, should be back Wednesday. If you want to check my dinos for eggs in the interim, be my guest, tribemates! :biggrin:
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Just wanted to jump on and say thanks to everyone who helped me out today. I did better than I have ever managed in single player, with para (since deceased), Phiomia, Trike AND a Dilo all tamed! Now I just need to grind out some more xp and build WOOD things!
After one Disastrous failure, i spent a couple hours further preparing and went once again into the deep dark... although i forgot my spyglass on my Carno (he was the baggage boy, carrying all the junk to the sharks for loading) i managed across *three* Plesies in a group... a 35, 45(ish?) and a 56! in the confusion of killing two off i accidentally killed the 56 but managed to snag the 45(ish?) one! and after some delicious (apparently...) kibble, and primes i managed to get i think 9 or 10? levels...
But as the screenshot shows my pen is apparently alittle shallow for her but she is managing alright... you apparently need to kind of aim 'upwards' to keep them underwater when on the surface.
Extra thanks to Mudzgut and Santika for helping me tame this gorgeous beast tonight! Took him for a stomp around the northwest quarter, and it was the first time I've had the sun set in Ark and I didn't feel utterly compelled to beeline for home
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
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Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
That sounds like North base which has been abandoned for weeks. I'll swing by and see whats left.
Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
That sounds like North base which has been abandoned for weeks. I'll swing by and see whats left.
They should be okay for abit, i set up troughs and topped most of them out, i'll go back later tonight/tomorrow to max them all out... maybe we should re-home them or?
Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
That sounds like North base which has been abandoned for weeks. I'll swing by and see whats left.
They should be okay for abit, i set up troughs and topped most of them out, i'll go back later tonight/tomorrow to max them all out... maybe we should re-home them or?
Part of me is tempted to start up a Dinosaur Shelter, and take in peoples unwanted dinos, then eventually find them new homes with new players.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
Incoming in next patch: Stone Behemoth Gate. So I'll wait on making that second metal one . . . and probably replace the current metal one when it comes out.
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
That sounds like North base which has been abandoned for weeks. I'll swing by and see whats left.
I'm hesitant to suggest this--especially with structures that aren't my own--but should we focus on a clean up effort on abandoned bases? If not larger bases then definitely the smaller outposts/depots that no longer see as much use to give new players some room to grow?
Or we can wait for that eventual server restart but who knows when we will finally do that.
Tons of tiny thatch shacks along the east coast, I havent seen any activity in any of them, some are even incomplete or with walls missing. Sometimes its just a foundation and a campfire nearby. Also, campfires peppered ALL along the coast, sleeping bags and standing torches, but they have insane timers to allow demolition. Should we check names of litter and ask the owner to clean up?
Also, I try to remove everything if I camp in the wild, and have removed everything each time I relocated, but if anyone sees litter belonging to me (Flan) or the tribe (Imperators), let me know so I can go remove it.
Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
I've left a few campfires around, but mostly because I'm always happy to find one lying around since I'm usually stacked with meat and starving. Do they block off constructions around them like other structures seem to? In that case I'll be more careful about it.
Tons of tiny thatch shacks along the east coast, I havent seen any activity in any of them, some are even incomplete or with walls missing. Sometimes its just a foundation and a campfire nearby. Also, campfires peppered ALL along the coast, sleeping bags and standing torches, but they have insane timers to allow demolition. Should we check names of litter and ask the owner to clean up?
Also, I try to remove everything if I camp in the wild, and have removed everything each time I relocated, but if anyone sees litter belonging to me (Flan) or the tribe (Imperators), let me know so I can go remove it.
Hey Flan, I'm Chloe on the server! A question: I seem to recall you being able to make Trike saddles? Could you make me one, and could I borrow one of your Trikes tonight to gather the berries to catch one of my own?
I've been demolishing any small shacks I come across that have the demo timer expired on them.
East coast is definitely cluttered with a lot of this stuff. I agree that we should probably start asking the neighbors to demo old homes if they've moved to a newer spot, unless it's like a mining outpost in the mountains or something.
I've left a few campfires around, but mostly because I'm always happy to find one lying around since I'm usually stacked with meat and starving. Do they block off constructions around them like other structures seem to? In that case I'll be more careful about it.
Tons of tiny thatch shacks along the east coast, I havent seen any activity in any of them, some are even incomplete or with walls missing. Sometimes its just a foundation and a campfire nearby. Also, campfires peppered ALL along the coast, sleeping bags and standing torches, but they have insane timers to allow demolition. Should we check names of litter and ask the owner to clean up?
Also, I try to remove everything if I camp in the wild, and have removed everything each time I relocated, but if anyone sees litter belonging to me (Flan) or the tribe (Imperators), let me know so I can go remove it.
Hey Flan, I'm Chloe on the server! A question: I seem to recall you being able to make Trike saddles? Could you make me one, and could I borrow one of your Trikes tonight to gather the berries to catch one of my own?
Absolutely, say, in about 4 hours or so, I will be online, and I can make you a saddle then. The trikes are near the mountains now, but feel free to use them when they are around.
Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
All those steepled buildings, like a village . . . damn them for giving me ideas.
. . . is it bad that what I liked most in the trailer were the buildings? The big battle stuff did not interest me at all.
Well, and the caves look kinda cool. Guess I should visit one one of these days.
I desperately want more building parts. I had such building freedom in minecraft and here its hard to do pretty details.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
For buildings I want: triangle right angled walls (to go with ramps as slanted roofs), waist high walls (in all the tiers), counters, tables, chairs (including a basic chair of wood and metal tiers and bigger thrones in wood, stone or metal), benches, window planter boxes, (able to be hooked directly in to irrigation), Curtains and rugs (give me something more to do with all those hides), maybe thatch mats . . .
Things to really make a place feel lived in.
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Upcoming Version: v193.0, ETA: Tuesday night EDT
* New Items: Small and Large Bear Traps, for locking players and dinos in their tracks!
* New Structure: Stone Behemoth Gate
* New rare "Alpha" T-Rex can be found that is bigger and meaner than the regular T-Rex with distinct color schema, gives a unique cosmetic (and a ton of XP and resources) if you defeat it. It also buffs the resistance and damage of nearby carnos around it due to its Alpha-pack dominating status. You can't tame it... yet... but we'd like feedback on whether the community would be interested in more of this direction.
* Swimming against water surface with water dinos is now perfectly smooth, doesn't result in a hard-stop of your character.
* Dealt with the Trilobites' resources
* Misc Spectator mode improvements (alphabetical player list, no longer considered "idle" for kicking, fixed sometimes getting into spectator mode when not desired, etc)
* Canteens are no longer consumed when making soups
* You can now properly enter spectator mode after dying without getting stuck at a black screen
* More dino blood overlays, & option to disable Dino blood overlays
* Fixed various server crashes
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Damn I was hoping to get some trilobite farming in before the change, but wouldn't be able to get on tonight.
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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edited August 2015
In their "upcoming" is the snow and swamp biome, and from this map:
It appears the sort of lake right above Budd is going to turn into a swamp. That should be interesting.
A little further out:
August 13:
- Competitive "ARK: Survival of the Fittest" game type, with all moddable source
- "Total Conversion" super-mod system to completely change out core game content
Collidable Saddle Platform & Build-on-Saddles: make your big ♥♥♥ brontos and plesios into mobile bases, build just about anything up from them! Build ladders to climb up onto them, whatever -- the possibilities are nearly endless!!! We originally were gonna limit it to sleeping bags and turrets, but let's just go all-out and make it work with everything, like so:
(getting every structure type to work with it and be balanced is... interesting )
- Swamp Biome & New Cave
- Snow Biome & New Cave
- Water Raft
- Driveable Dune Buggy Modding example (we'll let modders have the first crack at vehicles with this example
- Human and Dino Warpaint
- Controllable Ballistas/Turrets to place on structures and on the backs of your dinos
- Primitive Organic Automated Turrets
- Powered Elevator Structures
- Random GPU Driver crash fix: TrueSky
- Specific Representative "on-ground" meshes for all dropped items
- Better system for hosting dedicated server mods: now you only need to specify Mod ID's, not maps or paths, and there is automatic built-in downloading & updating of their content, no more manual file copying.
I suspect I know where the swamp cave entrance will be. Sometimes when flying you can see a hole in the world that is covered with indestructible rocks when you get near it. Cave entrances look similar.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Southwest island, just up the hill from Kalnaurs eternally partially finished construction.
And yay! This means I can make my tribe members pee themselves a little bit when they wake up to find it staring at them.
Oh that's super close, I can do that before work.
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Done, the saddle is on your fabricator. (there's currently a weird bug with unclaimed dinos and saddles, so I took it off)
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Yeah, anything with you as the "personal owner" will transfer with you. People on the official forums were complaining about it because one pillar in the middle of a giant stack was owned by a former tribe member which completely blocked them from building anything in their own base because of a "hostile foundation". They had to C4 half their base to fix it and rebuild.
Yeah until we thought to use axes on the foundation of that entrance, it was entirely possible the Rex was spending the night there. Valuable lesson learned for future tames.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
In other news, how crazy are the trilobites? In about 30 minutes I farmed up over 500 chitin, over 100 oil and almost a hundred silica pearls just from riding my spino up and down the beach.
I did a tour of the coastlines the other night and honestly I may never need chitin again. It's weirdly easier to the West and East though. South shores I had a lot of issues. Or maybe I just wasn't very good at spotting them yet.
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And Spinos are amazing for it too due to being amphibious.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
There's some pretty hefty lag going down, but overall I'm enjoying myself. I'll likely hop onto the PA server in the next few days and check things out.
Edit: Oohhhh Nimbus. Glad that was taken care of. Just confused me seeing her there.
Trilobites are totally crazy though.
Personally, I find them giving small to medium amounts of oil to be good for those needing to make things like jerky without the ability to invest too much in diving (or a terrible fear of underwater places).
Also, taking a bit of a break, should be back Wednesday. If you want to check my dinos for eggs in the interim, be my guest, tribemates! :biggrin:
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After one Disastrous failure, i spent a couple hours further preparing and went once again into the deep dark... although i forgot my spyglass on my Carno (he was the baggage boy, carrying all the junk to the sharks for loading) i managed across *three* Plesies in a group... a 35, 45(ish?) and a 56! in the confusion of killing two off i accidentally killed the 56 but managed to snag the 45(ish?) one! and after some delicious (apparently...) kibble, and primes i managed to get i think 9 or 10? levels...
But as the screenshot shows my pen is apparently alittle shallow for her but she is managing alright... you apparently need to kind of aim 'upwards' to keep them underwater when on the surface.
Extra thanks to Mudzgut and Santika for helping me tame this gorgeous beast tonight! Took him for a stomp around the northwest quarter, and it was the first time I've had the sun set in Ark and I didn't feel utterly compelled to beeline for home
Also, it sadly looks like trilos are possibly getting the nerfbat in the next patch, so stock up while you can . . .
Yeah... hopefully they don't hit them too hard...
Also... whoevers base is at 22, 69 your dinos are really close to starving... i'll try fly some berries and such down to them but, yeah... its up north with a small lake in the middle with your base on a ridge.
Also also, whoevers (looks like mojojojojojojo) base is at 14, 68 up north ontop of a cliff up against the ocean, some of your dino's have starved and the others are really close to it... i'll also try run some food upto them.
That sounds like North base which has been abandoned for weeks. I'll swing by and see whats left.
They should be okay for abit, i set up troughs and topped most of them out, i'll go back later tonight/tomorrow to max them all out... maybe we should re-home them or?
Part of me is tempted to start up a Dinosaur Shelter, and take in peoples unwanted dinos, then eventually find them new homes with new players.
I'm hesitant to suggest this--especially with structures that aren't my own--but should we focus on a clean up effort on abandoned bases? If not larger bases then definitely the smaller outposts/depots that no longer see as much use to give new players some room to grow?
Or we can wait for that eventual server restart but who knows when we will finally do that.
Also, I try to remove everything if I camp in the wild, and have removed everything each time I relocated, but if anyone sees litter belonging to me (Flan) or the tribe (Imperators), let me know so I can go remove it.
Hey Flan, I'm Chloe on the server! A question: I seem to recall you being able to make Trike saddles? Could you make me one, and could I borrow one of your Trikes tonight to gather the berries to catch one of my own?
East coast is definitely cluttered with a lot of this stuff. I agree that we should probably start asking the neighbors to demo old homes if they've moved to a newer spot, unless it's like a mining outpost in the mountains or something.
Absolutely, say, in about 4 hours or so, I will be online, and I can make you a saddle then. The trikes are near the mountains now, but feel free to use them when they are around.
EDIT: Seems fine when I'm logged in.
Holy shit this thing is amazing, it gives so much more stuff.
dang, wish I had graphics like that
. . . is it bad that what I liked most in the trailer were the buildings? The big battle stuff did not interest me at all.
Well, and the caves look kinda cool. Guess I should visit one one of these days.
I desperately want more building parts. I had such building freedom in minecraft and here its hard to do pretty details.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Things to really make a place feel lived in.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
It appears the sort of lake right above Budd is going to turn into a swamp. That should be interesting.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I haven't seen a dev word one way or another, but I have my suspicions. Why do you ask?
Are you saying that Bird Swamp is becoming an actual swamp? I can't imagine this is going to be a net positive for our spino/dragonfly populations.
It would probably wipe out the mountain path, which I find convenient. (although I use it less now that we mine at Red Obelisk)
And anything near the Red Obelisk could be affected too.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I suspect I know where the swamp cave entrance will be. Sometimes when flying you can see a hole in the world that is covered with indestructible rocks when you get near it. Cave entrances look similar.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.