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It was a peaceful day when I went to carnivore island to tame a argy so I took my pterodoan and landed sent up a trap got it unconscious but then a t-rex covered in the blood of it's enemy's killed my pterodoan and the argy I was so striken with anger that I took my sword and I hacked at the rex till it finally died I was filled with a sense of relaxation and soothed I took the arms and hung them on my wall along with Mango my pterodoan and the argy's graves.
So I had just tamed my pteradon and put a saddle on and I named it Terry. I was on the edge of a river and I saw two allosauruses so I decided to pick up a dilo and throw it to them. After that I fell in love with my terry. I saw a big mountain and u decided to go to the peak so me and my Terry could feel kings of the island. When I was going up the mountain I saw a Griffin attacking some sabertooths so I decided to spectate and then the Griffin lost interest in the sabertooths and came straight towards me. As I just tamed it it had really slow speed so when I was flying back at full speed to my anky and trike the Griffin killed my pteradon just on top of the river so I had to stare at it falling to its death in the river.
RIP for my lovely loyal Terry
😭😭😭RIP terry
The story of PurpleMatter: Days 1-281 (281 days as of April 12, 2025)
My Ark career has gone a long way from when I was a noob. My best friend taught me everything I need to know, and he retired from ARK over an year ago. From videos, I now know almost everything about Ark. ARK Mobile is where it all began. In Season 3 of ARK Mobile, I hoped it would bring better adventures than ever and lead me on the path to mastery. And indeed it did. The first 100 days, you might think were as normal. But I do a lot of things my way. But what wasn’t expected was the pteranodon I was about to tame for the series. If you read the title, you’ll know what I named her.
She may only have been a Level 85 the day I tamed her. But that did not mean she wasn’t great. Sure, it’s not the best level, but don’t be fooled. I wasn’t prepared for the journey we were about to have.
Days 30-40
Our story begins in the early stages of Days 30-40, where I was looking out for pursuits and a pteranodon to tame. I did a lot of taming pursuits. When I looked in the redwoods, I found a Level 85 Pteranodon, who looked really good. I decided she was going to be my best bet. Oh, she was. I didn’t know at the time. I got a soothing balm and managed to tame her quickly with no problems, and then I saw a pursuit, Tame Pteranodon, which was perfect. It gave me a saddle. 92 armor.. Pay attention to the armor’s number, because that’s the only reason she’s still alive. You’ll see why later. I didn’t expect much, except that I was going to take to the skies and tame things easier. I got many things from many caves. I decided to start a Giga mutation grind. Because why not? But… the first Giga of the series… this one…
You’re about to see why I named him Brutality and gave him the title, “The End of Taming”...
Days 50-60 and 60-70
I found a 95 female Giga, but it despawned. But I found an even better level. But I had no idea of what would happen. My original plan was to knock it out from its back via grappling hook. But my armor at the time was so weak it couldn’t take one hit. So that meant before I could even start, the Giga ruined me and destroyed all my armor. Thankfully, my pteranodon was high in the sky so the Giga couldn’t get her. The Giga was a 120, and a male. There was a bed near where the Giga was, so I went there and requested the pteranodon. I got my stuff and led the Giga down to where I wanted to trap it. It was betwee two sides of a cliff, behind a big rock. My plan was to get the Giga in that position and knock it out. I had all the tranqs, all the narcotics, and the soothing balm. After a little struggle, I managed to get it stuck, and I was knocking it out happily and easily… until everything started going wrong. He called a raptor to ambush me, and it pushed me off the cliff into the Giga’s mouth. I tried everything to get my stuff back, but it was on the wall high above the cliff. I even requested Yeetus the Galli, and he wasn’t much of a help. I soon managed to grab my stuff with one minute to spare. But I probably should’ve brought Yeetus home before continuing, because soon, the Giga decided he would be a good meal. And since he was such a low level, I had no chance to react and was forced to watch as the Giga ate up the funnest tame I’ve ever had. I was upset and I knew right then I had to get him. But Yeetus wasn’t the only tame I would lose. Later, PurpleMatter got so hurt and had no food I was forced to use my Argy to bait the Giga in. I got food for PurpleMatter and let her rest, then I requested my Argy. All was going fine except the fact it wouldn’t stay in the trap, until something terrible happened. It was half health, and it was too low to the ground, and while the Giga was aggroed, it got enough hits on that I couldn’t escape in time, and my Argy was dead and gone in seconds. I flew home to regroup and get more tranqs because I used them all, and then a trap. And when I returned, I requested my Raptor and went to trap the Giga. It was going well, until when I was placing the last billboard, I misclicked and accidentally scratched the Giga’s leg, immediately drawing its aggro. In seconds, my raptor was ended. I was upset. I was not giving up there. I put the billboard in the gap of the cliff so now if the Giga fell in there, he would be perfectly secured. I just needed to not die. After almost losing my Pteranodon over and over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally got it stuck, placed spikes around me so nothing could ambush me. Then I slept to get it to 0 food, but then I ran out of tranqs. So I had to get home and get more. After that, I almost lost her over and over and over until I finally got it trapped. I slept near it to get it to 0 food, then I shot it down with tranqs for a while and finally, he was down. After a soothing balm and some prime meat, he was mine. I immediately gave him a name he deserved. Brutality, because of how hard it was to trap him. Title: The End of Taming, because not only did he destroy 3 of my tames, he also did something that could’ve ended Season 3. Because I will not continue the series if my pteranodon dies like that. The thing is, Season 3 would’ve been brought to its end a long time ago if I didn’t get such a saddle from the pursuit. With a primitive saddle, the Giga would’ve easily killed her. So Brutality was forever known as: The End of Taming, for almost bringing an end to all of my taming plans for Season 3.
But this, unfortunately, was not the last of the Giga close calls. Oh, no. There were a lot more throughout the series.
During the course of Days 1-100, she had helped me tame many things. But there was a Alpha Rex. I killed it with my Allos, and kept PurpleMatter out of the way because like I said,
If PurpleMatter dies before the end of Day 200, I have to end Season 3. Day 200 is when I hope to do a dungeon, but we’ll get to that later. All of my Allos died, but I managed to get my pteranodon in time. I also wanted a small wolf pack. I got a pretty one who was Level 115. Later on, I found a 150. And yeah, I bred the two and got a wolf. It was perfect. With Eery Candy, I could imprint it instantly. Thus, I could 100% imprint a wolf, which is something you can’t do in normal circumstances in singleplayer. With him, I could get the Strong cave done. After a while, I did all the armor pursuits and got good fur armor. I managed to finish the cave. The problem was: I needed a better helmet. In the last chamber, we got ambushed and we got so close to losing the greatest wolf we’ve ever had. Tracker, who had come back from Season 2, got down to 300 health out of almost 2000. That’s just stupid. She needed a better helmet. And I got her one. PurpleMatter has been through a lot. I remember finding a 140 Giga, which I would soon find out was the most powerful Giga I’ve ever tamed. But there was a huge scare. I tried to destroy the trap, but kept dismounting right next to him! I’ll tell you now, if he was not distracted with the corpses, I wouldn’t have anything left. My armor was weak and he would definitely have one shot me. If the Giga had aggroed when I accidentally dismounted, and he wasn’t distracted… I told you we would have more close calls. She may be the greatest tame ever, but she’s also the most vulnerable. She can tank 4 hits from a Giga, but the problem is: my armor proves I can only tank one. So if a Giga aggroed on me while I was doing something, we would be on Season 4 by now.
Days 100-200:
During this period, my goal was to get a ton of amber, and that’s what I was going for. I had the Thick Skin ability and my wolves, which was good. It’d protect me from the poison in the swamp cave, which is way easier on mobile. It’d be a nightmare if it was as bad as it was on the other platforms. PurpleMatter helped me get so much. Many tames, many caves, but it didn’t come without the troubles. There were times where things got bad. An incident with a decently leveled Alpha Rex. I had some Allos to kill it. But yeah, it got bad. II find reverting saves to keep my tames cheating. I did that with PurpleMatter twice before Day 200. So if she dies before Day 300, I end the series. The first time was during the Alpha Rex incident. The second after I lost my best wolf. But at least I got a good amount of amber out of it all. And the original group of Gigas…
Day 200-300
It’s been a while since I wrote here. Update: PurpleMatter has gained many levels. She has fought in many battles, barely survived so many Gigas. I tamed a Giga named Savage, who had really good melee. He became the strongest Giga ever. He’s killed multiple Gigas and Titans, and thanks to the bleed of a wild Giga, PurpleMatter even got kill credit from a Titanosaur! Without her, I don’t think I would’ve even come this far in Ark mobile, gotten so many Gigas.
Now, here I stand, almost Day 300. Day 280-290. I have two out of the three Giga color regions mutated. I am grinding eggs to hatch (The Giga eggs on mobile take 5 hours to hatch, dude!!) and hoping to get a mutation on the last color region, then get a whole army of the fully mutated Giga. PupleMatter is strong, she is brave, courageous, she is unstoppable, and she is the greatest Pteranodon I have ever tamed. Pteranodons are in my top 5 favorite dinos, thanks to her. That’s saying a lot, because I love Brontos, Rexes, Dimporphs, Trikes, Theris, and a lot of other dinos! The Giga mutation grind is racing at full speed thanks to PurpleMatter.
And you might be asking: What’d happen if you lost PurpleMatter entirely? Like, no saves to get her back without losing 20 days of progress, no implant, nothing?
I’d… I refuse to think about it. I’d definitely be absolutely devastated. I just… don’t ask me that again. Seriously… just don’t.
Okay, for real, it’d be really upsetting. Her stats took so long to level up. Do you know how long it took me to get him 20,000 XP, say that again, 20 THOUSAND XP!! On mobile, XP is slightly nerfed and it’s pretty difficult to level. It’d be so hard to replace her. Her saddle is impossible to replace since it was only retrieved from a pursuit.
PurpleMatter helped me tame Savage. Savage helped me get to Level 81 because he could kill Titans. Thanks to that XP, I got the Trophy Room pursuit, which is basically super OP on mobile since it gives 200,000 XP on medium. Max XP boost, 7x, can get me to Level 92, which got me the Hunt Giga pursuit. Savage killed that Giga. I got a Titanosaur saddle. I grinded for a Titan tame and I got the Titanosaur. In a way, PurpleMatter is what got me the Titanosaur. Her saddle really made a difference. Even Argies with more HP can get decimated from Gigas bleed due to the saddle. I lost many Argies thanks to the Gigas. I say right now, PurpleMatter would’ve died a long, long time ago if not for that saddle. She is not just a pteranodon. She is a true Survivor.
I hoped you enjoyed this long story by me. If you want more, go read Journey Through All Creatures. You can find the first chapter and prologue in Achatina. You’ll have to scroll down a lot, though. That’s the Dododex fanfiction community right there.
Anyway, I will continue updating you guys on PurpleMatter’s journey. I will see you all later.
-RelatingHen8906
I had a Pteranodon names Pops, Pops and I were hunting spinos. A spino broke out of the trap and Pops tanked the spino and fought back, giving me time to escape. Pops is honored by our whole tribe, Pops had a son named Pops Jr. who lives to this day. We also have another Pteranodon named RIP Pops. Pops’s legacy is carried on by the whole tribe and our tames. Pops will never be forgotten.#RIP Pops