Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

For context I have been playing this game for a few years but the way I played the game was I would make a base on a new server do all the usual stuff, Get raided and then hop onto a different server. I have around 800 hours typing this and even though I have that much time playing I have never tamed a argy before. I took a long break from the game, but recently I started playing again. I started again on a new server, an official server and I was playing on it for about a week and a half when I started planning to tame a argy. I gathered my materials I planned it out and I got ready. Eventually I went out to find a bird to tame when I came across a couple and I chose the highest level one I could find (lvl 95). So I setup my taming pen, I lay out my sleeping bags, and I place down a storage box. I lead all other dinos away from the area and I begin Kiting my bird of choice into the pen. The taming pen works and it’s trapped, I start shooting it with tranqs when eventually it falls unconscious, I set the timer and I wait. I was playing on official so it took around 3-ish hours to complete. The whole time I am paranoid that something is gonna go wrong because I’m playing ark and ark is never a game where anything goes right (at least from my experience). So I’m just waiting, looking and searching for things that would mess up my day for the whole 3 hours of time it took to tame the argy. One of the birds I lead away from my trap came back and it brought a friend too. It came very close a few times and one time it did start attacking me so I lead it away again. These three hours were to most terrifying hours of my life cause I’m just waiting for something to go wrong and I keep hearing animal noises at night. But eventually my bird finishes taming. She is all white with black legs, feet, and talons. I name her Artemis after the Greek god of the hunt. Now Artemis was my best tame I had at the time (I had a raptor and a pteranodon as well). and I bring her back home. I used her for everything after that, I explored the map with her, I tamed new dinos with her, and more. Now I always wanted to make a tree house base and I have a awesome bird that can carry 1k pounds of stuff and has 1k stamina. so I get to work on one, And for the next week that is what I would be working on, and Artemis is what I would be using every second of it. I Made a simple base in the trees ( two floors each two walls tall, then a 4 wall tall animal pen area). After a week in I’m almost done and the only things left to build are a few more walls, a roof, and the animals pen walls. Now I really like Carnos, I think they look cool and so I wanted to tame one that I could take out and just roam around with every now and then. So I’m getting some materials for finishing my base when I spot a really good level Carno. So I grab my rifle and some darts and I tranq it out, and while I’m waiting for it to get hungry I go out to get some prime ( there were a few Diplos and Paracers nearby that I saw a while ago so I went to kill them for prime). I didn’t have enough prime for the whole tame but there was a lvl 5 alpha Carno nearby that I had lead away from where I gathered stone for my base. And I start attacking it, it’s really bloody and my Artemis’s health is still above half when my controller dies. So I freak out trying to find batteries, I got the batteries and I’m fumbling to put them in when Artemis dies, I die, and my lvl 150 perfect tame otter Ollie dies as well. I would have won if my stupid controller didn’t die. This happened last week and I haven’t played on that server since. I started playing on single player instead where if my batteries do die mid battle the game pauses instead of having my tames die. RIP Artemis and my Otter Ollie.