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[ARK: SE] Genesis: Part 2 released. Flying Platypus and Robo-Giraffe, ahoy

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    General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    I think that the blue pod also may have had a bunch of lesser prizes in it like basic resources and food. At the time I just rushed to pick everything up before it could decay and then quickly stuffed everything important looking into the tek Rex. It wasn't until hours later that I noticed that I had two stacks of basic meat jerky in my inventory instead of just one.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Aiserou wrote: »
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Yesterday several of us did a Blue (easiest) Drop Pod. Here's what we learned.

    -You can't damage stuff from inside the shield, you need to patrol outside of it
    -There were three 'attack lanes' we needed to defend against
    -Nothing was particularly difficult at Blue level, but there were a lot of creatures in each wave. 40ish
    -It was less about survival than defense. With a high level rex and several Velos, we weren't in danger. It was about protecting the Pod
    -Rewards were decent, could be better. 7 Cryopods, a handful of element stuff. Some fairly good BPs and tools/armor. A large amount of foundations/pillars.

    I think we can handle a yellow, but I'd suggest at least 3 people, if not 4-5 per pod.

    Me and Delkarn handled a blue pod the other night fairly easily with two high level sloths. We tried a yellow later on (with a third sloth) and got our asses handed to us as soon as wave 2 started and we got hit with 3 spinos. They took the bubble down in about 20 seconds too. Not saying you guys can't handle it as you sound significantly more prepared than we were, I'm just saying have an escape plan and that spinos are fast and persistent.

    We're working on a line of Rexes for stuff like that, once they are ready to go we can get eggs to people. I am pretty sure that anything Yellow and up a single Velo isn't going to cut it against a wave. There will be just too many enemies and not enough stamina/time to kill them all.

    Yellow my thinking is:
    -At least one Rex on each 'lane'
    -Two to three velos to cover flyers and back up the rexes

    Red:
    -Multiple high level Rex/Spino per lane
    -Healing creatures in the shield
    -Lots of Velos focused entirely on flyers

    Purple?:
    -Basically a full perimeter of high level dinos on all sides
    -Maybe Meks

    I did a Red solo (in god-mode) before I let people on the server, and there were dozens of spinos and wyverns. They get CRAZY. I was just doing dino-wipes every wave to clear them out in time.

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    General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    I think velos can still be valuable so long as something is present to act as a tank. My current velo has over 5000 stamina and her darts hit for over 70 damage per dart. That's some insane DPS considering her rate of fire.

    She was tamed at 130, and I've got a male and female who were tamed at 145 and 140 but I haven't started any eugenics programs yet.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Hopefully by the weekend I can finally breed a high level tek female, get us a high level pair and start pumping out eggs.

    Seriously, if you see a high level tek rex female, grab it. It would save us a ton of time. The only female I managed to grab so far was lvl 18. Our male was 174.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Update on Rexes.

    Starting tonight, we'll have a breeding pair of Tek Rexes that will have babies at lvl 261. This is about as close to perfect as a Tek Rex baby can be without mutations. (I think the max a wild rex could be tamed at is 270)

    So eggs will be available soon.

    Someone should work on a line of Velos.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Something I keep meaning to post here:
    • RP Visual Storage gives us a bunch of neat looking containers, each holds a single resource only, but a lot of that resource.
    • Structures Plus gives us the Transfer Tool (not to be confused with the Transfer Gun)

    We can combine these two things to auto-sort basic resources. Here's how.

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    1. Under 'Sources', select your own inventory, dino inventories, etc...
    2. Under 'Items to Transfer', select all the basic resources such as stone, flint, thatch, wood, etc...
    3. Under 'Destination', select all of the RP Visual containers you have. Stone sheds, Thatch Carts, etc...
    4. Right-click one of the numbers on the bottom to save this as a preset.

    Now, every time you bring one of your gathering dinos home, activate the Transfer Tool, select your preset, and hit Transfer. Voila, the bulk of your resource storage is done.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Also, this handsome gentleman is named Shepard. He's not as high level as the new rexes are going to be, but he's still not bad (180-ish). If anyone wants him, grab him.

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    BeornKBeornK Registered User regular
    So she transfer tool trick is really good. I recommend you leave out gasoline and fertilizer from the main transfer list if you include structures. Otherwise you may find you emptied your generators and veggie gardens like i did. I think transferring from dino/player to destinations is the best choice in general though.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    BeornK wrote: »
    So she transfer tool trick is really good. I recommend you leave out gasoline and fertilizer from the main transfer list if you include structures. Otherwise you may find you emptied your generators and veggie gardens like i did. I think transferring from dino/player to destinations is the best choice in general though.

    Yeah I leave structures out personally. I've also added in raw meat and berries and my trough. Which shouldn't cause sorting problems... I think.

    Also a hell of a lot cheaper than buying ammonite bile to make S+ dedicated storage. (which ARE awesome btw)

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    I could see dedicated storage for things that need refrigeration, but RP storage person is also still making more stuff for the mod from what I understand so who knows what they'll make in the future.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    I could see dedicated storage for things that need refrigeration, but RP storage person is also still making more stuff for the mod from what I understand so who knows what they'll make in the future.

    That's true, I might make one or two for stuff like that. (Corrupted Nodules, for example)

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    BeornKBeornK Registered User regular
    I need a scrap bin and a nodule storage. Also a gatcha crystal display case...

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    An announcement/update.
    It's that time of year. The harvest has come in, friends and family gather for a traditional feast. The corrupted dinos start screaming that one Duran Duran song for some reason.... And children listen closely at night for the soft flapping of Mothmanclaus.

    Yes, it is time for.... MOTHSGIVING.

    Effectively immediately:
    • Moths are now tameable. This is a permanent change.
    • All resources now respawn twice as often. This lasts for a week.
    • All resource harvesting is doubled. This lasts for a week.
    • After farming coins for a bit, I have finished my cost analysis. The cost to build a teleport pad has been reduced to 20k. This is a permanent change.

    Happy Holiday, dino friends.

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    General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    Is there anything that can be done about Wyverns wandering into the city? We don't have anyone deliberating kiting them in, but we've had a few instances where hard veins and pods have been triggered inadvertently and the resulting wyverns have managed to wander into the "safe zone" of the city.

    All I can think of is maybe working to sertup a tek generator and tek shield bubble over people's homesteads to at least stall for time until the Cavalry can arrive.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Is there anything that can be done about Wyverns wandering into the city? We don't have anyone deliberating kiting them in, but we've had a few instances where hard veins and pods have been triggered inadvertently and the resulting wyverns have managed to wander into the "safe zone" of the city.

    All I can think of is maybe working to sertup a tek generator and tek shield bubble over people's homesteads to at least stall for time until the Cavalry can arrive.

    Not a lot. I put up turrets around East Garden to specifically target Wyverns (and any corrupted, and wandering rexes). I think we're debating a shield generator too.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Alright, as much fun as it is to make moths useful for a bit, I think it's time. I have highly enjoyed exploring this map via Gasbag and on land, but that can't go on forever. Also it's Christmas month.

    As of right now, all flyer tames are unlocked.

    We're going to need them to eventually beat the Desert Titan, and Snow Owls are just too useful for gacha production. Plus Argents are great haulers, and flying is super great for people interested in building on the various skyscrapers.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    A Mysterious Stranger has appeared on Earth!

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    That's right, it's the infamous Wacky Dan, of Wacky Dan's Interdimensional and Orbital Imports!

    Dan will have new Creatures for sale every week! Sometimes just one, sometimes several. Always Expensive, though. Dan has to work hard to get rare and strange creatures down to earth.

    Sometimes Dan will have things we can't get on Earth. Other times, he might have just have more mundane creatures in rare colors or high levels.

    Stock rotates weekly, Dan himself may occasionally move, and you'll have to find him again.

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    I would suggest seeking out Dan's new location this week. He has some good stuff on offer atm.

    Also, I have activated the Winter Wonderland event. This replaces the extinction chronicles even for a bit, so less wacky colors and more christmasy colors. (and less tek dinos, for a bit)

    Current Version: v288.113
    Winter Wonderland!

    Raptor Claus
    Flies over any map between 0am and 2am in-game (with event enabled)
    Drops Holiday Gifts
    Gacha Claus
    Spawns where you'd find Parasaurs on all maps
    Has holiday colors and wears a Santa Hat
    Cannot be tamed
    Doesn't like being near other wild dinos
    Accepts Coal
    Gives Holiday Items in return
    Drops Dino Candy
    Feed this to a tamed dino for a strange effect
    Accepts Mistletoe
    Gives Items in return
    Colorization
    20% of wild dinos will spawn with Holiday colors
    Uses the ActiveEvent system
    ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland
    Cleans up after ActiveEvent is reset
    Auto applies to all non-TC sessions from 12/18-1/7 (UTC)
    Run with ActiveEvent=None to disable
    Extinction

    Fix for King Titan environmental effects starting again after boss despawned
    Fix for other bosses interrupting King Titan environmental effects
    Cave entrance cooldown display bug fix
    Increased radius of city meteor shield
    Improvements to dome shaders
    Reduced meteor impact damage to 750
    Improvements to height fog in desert biome
    Titans

    Increased Mek sword damage to tamed titans approximately 9x
    Increased Mek pistol damage to tamed titans approximately 3x
    Increased turret damage multipliers to tamed Titans
    Changes to Titan downloading
    Titan is disabled for 15m after download
    Titan takes increased damage during this time
    Increased Titan download cooldown to 6+ hours
    Fix typo in vertical Can't Damage message
    Orbital Supply Drop

    Buffed Legendary Drops in difficulty and quality of loot
    Can now be claimed by a tribe in PVE
    Only that tribe can disable shield, eject items, gather loot
    Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    Improvements to shield behavior on low FPS servers
    Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior
    Element Vein

    Can now be claimed by a tribe in PvE
    Only that tribe can harvest element
    Fixed bug that eventually only allowed 1 event at a time in a session
    Improvements to attacker pathing and behavior
    Desert Titan

    Increased damage when it strikes itself with lightning
    Improvements to Desert Titan follow to address flying away
    Fix for flocks not defending properly
    Improvements to tail attack accuracy
    Made tail attack damage consistent
    Disabled cryoing the flock
    Fixed encumbered movement when walking on a Desert Titan
    Dropped Items

    Improvements to dropped item interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    Prevented dropped items from falling through structures on load
    Prevented dropped items from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them
    Eggs

    Improvements to egg interpolation on low fps servers (less poking through ground)
    Prevented eggs from falling through structures on load
    Prevented eggs from ghosting through structures if thrown close to them
    Fix for invisible Rock Drake and Wyvern eggs
    Velonasaur

    Increased accuracy of AOE attack
    Reduced AOE damage to compensate for increased accuracy
    Wild Velonasaurs will no longer shoot for too long
    Fix for Wild Velonasaurs not doing damage in PvE
    Improvements to desyncs between spines and damage
    Reduced hovering when walking
    AOE attack will no longer loot victims
    Managarmr

    Fixed anim bug related to Ice Breath
    Fixes for several orientation desyncs
    Fixes for desyncs when moving on low fps server
    Minor buff to landing damage
    Improvements to ice breath targeting
    Added message when you are unable to dive
    Slowed down baby Managarmrs
    Enforcer

    Fixed instances where Enforcer could teleport to a non-existant wall
    Fixed instances where it could jump back to its last jump position
    Scout

    Improved Scout tagging accuracy
    Improvements to player inspection mechanic
    Scout will now show floating damage text when damaged
    Item Balloon

    Fixed instances of it not going to the correct destination
    Fix for cases where balloons didn't explode after landing
    Improvements to weight calculation
    Gacha

    Fix for unclamped loot quality
    Fix for incorrect UI when taming is interrupted
    Ice Titan

    Fix for broken dino animations related to Ice Breath
    Increased collision radius for shoulder Corruption
    Flyers

    Improved flyer following when in water
    Added Whistle Land Flyer command
    Commands a flyer to land nearby
    Crash

    Fix low frequency crash
    Manticore

    Improvements to landing logic
    Performance

    Improvements to server performance
    Map Markers

    Add support for decimal values
    Snow Owl

    Slowed down baby food consumption rate
    Daedon

    Disable healing when frozen

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    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Raptor Claus and Gacha Claus give such good loot.

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Wanted to do this now since we're probably going to Holiday forums real soon. (reminder we have a Discord Server: https://discord.gg/jrUGGvM)

    In addition to the Holiday Event being active, I have adjusted the following settings.
    Harvesting is doubled to 4x
    Taming is doubled to 6x
    Resource respawn is increased from 2x to 3x
    All breeding timer settings are doubled/halved as applicable

    This will last until Jan 2nd or so.

    MuddBudd on
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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    So . . . is ARK "done"? Are they done adding and tweaking? Are they done with all their story DLC? I don't really follow the community crunch and informational stuff, but I'm just assuming they've moved on to the pirate game, so I was just wondering if anything else has come out about other planned materials.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    So I think its safe to say we all have kind of hit burnout here. I am probably going to wind down the server next month sometime?

    But first, I want to kill the bosses.

    So, Saturday, March 9th, I am going to host a boss-killing event, just so we can see the content. Creatures will be spawned in for you, and I will activate some kind of buffs so things aren't crazy hard. We'll do all the titans and then take down the king.

    Maybe we can do some high level drops while the settings are high.

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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    General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    Sounds like fun. I plan to be there.

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    Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    Wow, they finally released the official Structures+.

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Is that the Homestead thing?

    I'm on Survival Servers' email distro since I am paying them for a Conan Exiles server, and I got an email from them that said something along the lines of "ARK Homestead now Live!". I wondered what that was because I don't follow ARK news super closely.

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    I would LOVE a full blown singleplayer ARK with a campaign, enemy tribes to battle against, and a full immersive offline experience. As it stands, ARK isn't for me. I want to like it and there's a lot of good ideas there, but those ideas get buried by a lot of design choices that I just don't care for.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    I would also love that. Single player ARK can be fun for a bit, highly modded, but at a certain point its just... I lose motivation.

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    Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    Yeah, the Homestead update includes Structures+ officially. I quite enjoy single-player ARK as it is (modded, of course), but I would be all for more features. I enjoy the progression the game provides, personally.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Also because Wildcard, it accidentally broke S+ itself. Might be hotfixed now.

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    Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Also because Wildcard, it accidentally broke S+ itself. Might be hotfixed now.

    I'm guessing S+ will have stuff not included with Homestead?

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    MuddBudd wrote: »
    Also because Wildcard, it accidentally broke S+ itself. Might be hotfixed now.

    I'm guessing S+ will have stuff not included with Homestead?

    Yeah, I suspect mostly the automated stuff, like the collectors, mutators, farmhands, etc...

    I haven't looked into it too hard yet.

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Yeah, the Homestead update includes Structures+ officially. I quite enjoy single-player ARK as it is (modded, of course), but I would be all for more features. I enjoy the progression the game provides, personally.

    I guess if all you're doing is teching and building, singleplayer ARK is fine for that. Especially if you adjust tame rates and harvest rates and stuff to a comfortable level.

    But I guess what I'm talking about is more along the lines of a campaign. Like with a story. And villains. And evil NPC tribes that have their own bases, dinosaurs, form raiding parties and such.

    Basically, take Farcry's open world maps and hostile roaming NPCs and the outpost system, but add ARK to that, and that's what I want.

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    So, what's our timetable for the March 9th festivities? I've already told the wife it'll be going on, but a start time would be very helpful.

    Also, have they fixed the thing where SP saves were being overwritten by Evo saves? Because I'd really kinda like the server save like we've done with the others, but I don't want to nuke my SP Island save.

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    KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Yeah, the Homestead update includes Structures+ officially. I quite enjoy single-player ARK as it is (modded, of course), but I would be all for more features. I enjoy the progression the game provides, personally.

    I guess if all you're doing is teching and building, singleplayer ARK is fine for that. Especially if you adjust tame rates and harvest rates and stuff to a comfortable level.

    But I guess what I'm talking about is more along the lines of a campaign. Like with a story. And villains. And evil NPC tribes that have their own bases, dinosaurs, form raiding parties and such.

    Basically, take Farcry's open world maps and hostile roaming NPCs and the outpost system, but add ARK to that, and that's what I want.

    See, what I'd like in this vein is a first person/third person shooter/spectacle fighter in an open world using the Turok property, including being able to more or less "tame" animals, upgrade weapons (and yourself), etc.

    Something that combined Farcry, Shadow of Mordor, and Devil May Cry on top of the building/taming/farming aspects of ARK, more or less.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Kalnaur wrote: »
    So, what's our timetable for the March 9th festivities? I've already told the wife it'll be going on, but a start time would be very helpful.

    Also, have they fixed the thing where SP saves were being overwritten by Evo saves? Because I'd really kinda like the server save like we've done with the others, but I don't want to nuke my SP Island save.

    I am thinking 1pm PST? Unless that doesn't work for a lot of people.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    Just to make it official, yes, 1pm tomorrow, Saturday the 9th

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    BeornKBeornK Registered User regular
    Well that was fun Mudd! I'd never messed around with the meks before.

    Also I hid the supports for the ship. Its no Millennium Falcon, but its a functional base at least and looks better floating there. If I thought we'd keep playing I'd start moving main operations up there but I don't see a reason too at this point. Also apparently there was a bug with wells (thats been fixed) that let you build floating platforms... oh well I missed that, but I'm still happy with my ship hanging in space by invisible walls....

    I'm really digging the mek sitting on top of the ship. I had no idea how big they were!

    One nice thing about my old base is the vivariums provide a steady supply of eggs to sell for coins that lets me buy mats rather than go gathering... If I'd bothered to empty them once a week or so over the last few months I'd have a vault full of coin by now... My "command center" in the ship has the various mat stations so I can use "nano-element" handwavy-ium to get what I need easily. Seems thematic for a high tech space ship to me ;)

    I had some cool upgrades for the ship planned, but I just can't get into it these days. I was going to use the cloning chamber to leave a bunch of babies with stunted growth and toss them in the Terrarium room I'd set up ect... stuff like that.

    It was definitely fun to get on and mess around with stuff again though.

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    General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    There's a bug with the tek elevator teleporters that lets you build floating platforms too, but the concern with using it for an ambitious project is that it might be patched and all of your hard work would come tumbling down.

    I currently use the bug grant access to my giga hatchery. The hatchery is built on a cliff platform above my base. Down at ground level I built the teleporter elevator, then I built a set of walls up to the hatchery. The walls let me snap the teleporter elevator into place. Once locked in place, I was free to destroy the walls. So I have one telepad at ground level, and a second floating in mid air several stories up in the sky that just so happens to be a few inches above the surface of the cliff platform.

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    So we only got to two of the bosses this weekend, it took more time than I expected.

    So next boss rush will be... Saturday the 23rd at 1pm again. We'll do the sky titan, then go after the King.

    I'll make sure we have some gear prepared for the aerial fight beforehand.

    There's no plan, there's no race to be run
    The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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