I Survived 100 Days of Hardcore ARK Extinction and this is what happened.
yo guys it’s your boy mr rums here today i’m here to take you on a journey through my 100 day playthrough of ARK extinction not just any simple playthrough of ARK extinction but a hardcore playthrough where we’re only allowed one life whether it be by our hands or the hands of a dinosaur or the unforgiving environment and flora and fauna of arc extinction before we get into it i’d like to give a quick shout out to two people luke the notable and zany zebra both early adopters of the 100 day hardcore playthrough series and both true legendary survivors definitely take some time to go check out one of their videos you won’t be disappointed day one i spawned in the city biome and quickly made my way to my potential base spot looks like it’s already claimed by the alphas but to my surprise my base location was already inhabited by a pretty rude tenant thankfully i prepared for this and the ichthy was no match for my bullets my primitive spear and my little monkey friend many of the extinction city ruins have a never-ending water supply and the best thing about these spots is no sarcos or piranhas can spawn in these waters this is good news because my second hardcore attempt was quickly ended by a sarco safe and sound day two wasn’t overly exciting i mostly spent my time learning engrams and starting to build a little rudimentary base the best thing about this location is that no mobs will spawn up here with the exception of some mixtures like we already seen but they’re pretty easy to deal with as long as you have some bolas i didn’t have to go far to gather a bunch of materials for tranqs and started focusing on getting some levels so i can get some much needed weight day three i pumped a bunch of levels into weight and went out gathering all the stone and flint that i could find as you guys know you need a ton of the core resources just to get a little base going i was able to make a forge with the materials i gathered and continued on my deforestation quest i was able to get some good stone foundations down and put up some primitive batch walls just to give me a little privacy day 4 i continued the breaking bad simulator and i came across a really sweet pair of wheels actually i think i’m gonna pass up on this guy even though he’d be useless as a mount taking him out and harvesting him will provide us with quite a bit of hide and raw meet where’s your friends live i spent the rest of my day touring the town and meeting all the locals none of them were very friendly but neither was i so that was alright i followed around the local terminators and just harvested the hides from all of their hunts this was great i thought i had it all figured out until i accidentally hit an enforcer with my axe while harvesting no no no no no no no no pull a goat my first hardcore attempt ended to one of those guys so i’m happy i made it out alive day five i found one of santiago’s logs which provided me with a nice xp buff i immediately put this xp buff to work and started taking out as many things as i could get it boy get a boy get a boy get a boy at this game stage you really have to pick your fights wisely so i chose all the slow animals and not the brontos oh i also came across the potentially suitable mount this pt was level 20 but at this game stage that’s kind of like it being max i already had a hundred kite in from following around the terminators so i quickly made a saddle you’ll have to do he tamed out at level 30 but on day six i came across one that was at its space level before it was tamed pts only take a couple track arrows to the head so they’re perfect pack mule teams at this point of the game i use these pts as pack mules to get a bunch of metal and stone up to my base but the only thing that’s better than a pt for a pack meal at this state is a tapi and i was lucky enough to come across one why is it always gonna be bugs after dealing with these venomous little pests i quickly put my sights back on the tappy tappi’s team up super easy but getting close to one to be able to bullet it is a totally different ball game on top of that i had a whole bunch of fans that i had to tend to before i could take care of the tappy you little mates are lucky i have to play it safe i spent most of day 7 doing this after dealing with the threats i quickly put my sights back on the tapi thankfully he was still there and didn’t get spooked from all the commotion day 8 was spent doing the typical taming cycle bullying knocking out finding meat to tame them and eventually taming them while the tapi was taming i came across this parasaur having a parasaur even at level 20 would definitely increase my level of play you’re gonna fit right in buddy i spent the rest of day eight taming these guys and collecting all the stuff i need to make their saddles what you need a smithy for a tappy saddle i couldn’t make the tappy saddle but i was able to craft the parasaur saddle while i was doing this though we ran into one of the local terminators tappy no i just got you the tapajara didn’t make it but thankfully i was already mounted on my parasaur so i could make a quick escape give him a good arc burial after properly mourning the loss of the taffy me and my parasaurs set off to greener pastures and though day 9 was filled with a lot of grief we had to keep cool heads and push on day 10 i took all my berries and gathered up all my pt’s and made my way back to base i need a ton of tracks just to get this playthrough rolling so that was the biggest thing on my to do list but like always i can never go back to base and not do a little base upgrading i split all my meat in the stacks of one and waited for it to spoil as all that meat is rotting in my inventory me and my pt went out for a test drive i also was able to tech up a little bit i was able to make a spy glass with the crystal that i harvested which is a huge upgrade you would think i’d be a huge target with all this rotting meat on me as day 11 rolled around i was pleasantly surprised with this stego trapped between these tree roots can’t get me here bud after the long and arduous process of tracking this guy i finally had him dropped this is exactly the kind of thing that i love about ark our level 75 stego tamed out at level 112 afterwards at this game stage a level 112 stego is a great addition but there was only one problem he was stuck thank you vouch foundation with a little luck and a little help from the arc physics i was able to get this stego unstuck and on day 12 i was able to really feel the fruits of my labor more like the berries of my labor as i grinded towards a whole inventory full of narcoberries i stumbled across another taffy i probably would have passed up on him but i was still mourning the loss of my last tapagera and this guy had a little bit of the event colors in him so i had to grab him after my new tappy tamed up i gathered up the whole crew and we took to the base once we got back to base i put my stego to work mowing the lawn this gave me tons more berries at this point i had 1300 narco berries and even more in my stego this was going to give us enough tracks for a long time day 13 i spoiled a bunch more meat and loaded it up in my mortar and pestle i also had to take my new tapi for a spin day 14 me and my tapi ventured down towards the green obelisk i’m sure all of you already know if you played extinction but a lot of rg’s spawn towards the green obelisk not just rg’s but t-rex’s as well so this was a great spot to start building some traps yeah this trap is not state of the art at all after farming up all the materials and building my janky trap it was time to go out and scout an rg my tappy and i took to the skies and we eventually found ourselves a good candidate day 15 was crowned rg day i spent most of my morning trying to get the rg in the trap but i successfully got him stuck after a little while after what seemed like forever i was able to successfully get to rg trapped and tracked at this game state level 55 was the highest i was able to scout but even a level 55 rg can carry a lot more than my character or any of my pt’s or my tappies i had to reference the handy dodo decks to see how long it would take to tame and how much kibble or raw meat i would need this is not sponsored it’s just a really handy tool if you’re an arc player thanks to the local supply of prime me i was able to get close to 100 efficiency and then once he tamed up i learned the engram for his saddle and gave him a fitting name i can’t count how many orgies i’ve named rg day 16 it was back to base with my rg and my tappy i was also able to upgrade to the glass water skins no more constant trips to the water supply and since the rg doubles as a smithy i was able to make a bunch of behemoth gates while i was out farming metal and core resources i was also able to make a ton of stone walls thanks to the rg’s high wave and for the first time in a while i didn’t feel as exposed as i did before the rg’s are actual tanks in this game and they can take out dinos that are even way higher than they are and much thanks to the rg on day 17 i was able to upgrade some tools and get a much needed flak armor set i also had to learn the engram for the long neck as well as craft one this will come in handy when i have a little bit more metal and tracks to spare but on day 18 it was time to address one of my other concerns oh baby 135 racks i got so lucky and i was able to find a 135 rex out here on your green obelisk and to my surprise the wrecks actually got stuck underneath one of these overhanging rocks i had to clear out the rest of the area around this rex to make sure nothing messed with my team give me that prime meat but since i was already taming a rex it was like killing two birds with one stone as i needed a bunch of prime meat for this tame good rex stay right there stay right there rex but after tracking it for quite a while my anxiety got the best of me and i already had these behemoth gates and i knew i’d be coming back here to tame more rexes in the future so i might as well make a trap around him before he gets unstuck much comfier little did i know at the time this decision may have saved my life or the whole playthrough that’s because after i cleared out all the surrounding dinos it made room for more dinosaurs to spawn and spawn they did however we can worry about that later i’m safe inside my rex tank once again i had to reference the handy dodo decks and as i was tapped out i heard something banging on the doors of the trap the traps closed for the night man however my orgy made short work of the carno and i was able to gather more than enough prime meat to obtain this wreck and about halfway through day 19 the rex was finally tamed and i gave him a very fitting name tomato after he was tamed there was only one thing to do gather a bunch of cementing page from the local beaverswith all this extra wood i got from the beaver dams i decided to make another behemoth gate now this trap isn’t just a trap but a little base that i can store my dinos in while i’m down near green off having a secure little spot like this will definitely come in handy at least until i get cryopods i noticed this explorer note towards the top of my trap so me and my rex made our way up to the top to grab it quick tomato loves explorer notes with rxb buff in hand me and tomatoes set out to get some much needed levels i’d really like to get some cryopods from from drop soon so it’s really important that i level up tomato but if we hope to survive in the harsh wastelands of extinction we’re going to need some ghillie armor tomato was able to gather all the organic polymer we’d need so all i had to do was gather all the fiber with my metal sickle and once we were decked out in ghillie it was time to take to the wastelands the corrupted dinos are like an xp farm in this game as long as you have a dino that can handle a wave of 4-5 for up to dinos day 21 was pretty much spending the duration of my expino out in the wastelands farming corrupted dinos on our way back to base i heard a meteor dropping in the distance so me and meatball took to the wastelands to mark it out on our map yeah this rg’s name is meatball now if you open your map and hit p you can place markers it’s super handy but you have to be dismounted day 22 our detour ended and we made it back to base where we finally place down our fabricator and loaded it up with all the polymer we farmed these corrupted nodules that you get from the corrupted dinos works just the same as polymer but unlike hard polymer it expires just like organic polymer so it’s important to use it up before it fully expires as we were farming for all the stuff we needed to get our base out of the stone age and into the electrical era we ran into arch enemy number one ichthyornis although i was much better equipped this time and by day 23 i had a full inventory of electricals a bunch of behemoth gates and a bunch of stone so i could finally start my real base the ruins right across the bridge from where i initially set up will make for a really good base location you can pretty much gate the whole thing off with four behemoth gates and a bunch of the smaller gates and i think it’s really economical plus it’ll give us a bunch of room to expand when we have more dinos and we want to start breeding i’m sure you guys know how easy it is to get carried away with the building and arc so i tried to add all the really important clips without getting carried away too much with my gates up i felt my base was very secure the only problem i had was this giant hole right in the middle of my base all this pillaring it’s just like official and so day 24 i started the long and arduous process of ground pillaring so that i could build ceilings above them thankfully i didn’t have to pill her down all the way to the ground for every ceiling and since i don’t have a dodec yet this was all done by hand so i’m sure you guys can understand how much time this took with just an axe by day 25 my main base was really starting to come together the only thing that i was truly lacking on was metal so i took meatball out to harvest a bunch of metal and i made a forage to place in my new base after i got my metal smelting i decided to go out exploring on day 26 tomato was still back at base so i marked the drop and went back to base to grab him by day 27 tomato was completely healed up and i took him out to this blue drop to see how he’d managethis is going to be a cakewalk i eat corrupted dinos for breakfasttomato is making short work of this blue drop although it is a blue drop it’s been so long since i soloed one of these drops on a rex so i really wasn’t sure what to expect but i guess i shouldn’t be surprised considering he’s a nearly max team rex on one of the easiest drops on extinction however up until this point we were still using craftables and primitive gear so everything that we got from this would be a huge tech upgrade give me the loop give me the loop we got a ton of good stuff but what i was most excited about was all these really nice cryopods these things are a huge quality of life improvement on day 28 we spotted a 140 male anki we didn’t have a trap close to base yet so that was the first course of action but thankfully that blue osd gave us a bunch of stone materials that we could easily make a trap with nicewith the trap made the last thing we had to do was get the anki in the trap thankfully he was waiting very patiently next to this trap the whole time i quickly replaced some of the walls with some doors that i could shoot through and started the process of tracking the stankyafter a short while the yankee went down and was ready to be starved and fed i can already smell the metal and by the end of day 28 our anki was tamed and ready to be cry out man i don’t know how i played without cryoson day 29 i took my new anki name hanky out to gather some metal hanky was making short work of all these metal nodes and he was a great addition to our group oh baby jackpot we also spotted a wild dung beetle which i quickly tamed the name dungyand today’s our lucky day we found another 145 anki we quickly trapped him and went out to gather supplies to tame himand while we were gathering berries we came across this 145 iguanodon we quickly put him up next to our trap and cranked him outthe city is a very hostile environment with all these little techs running around so i choose to tranq everything and trap everything up here on this little pillarand to continue my luck i found a 150 stego not just a 150 stego but a 150 text lego i didn’t have a trap on the ground and i couldn’t pick him up with my rg so i quickly made this little trap here in the corneronce the stego was trapped we referenced our handy dodo decks once again this is not sponsored by dododex in any way i just couldn’t recommend it more to an arc playerthe rest of day 29 was pretty much spent cranking out this stego and feeding him as well as getting our anki knocked outwe got a lot of really good teams today and the best thing about it is that i can cry on law and easily get him back to base just look at that beautiful stego the stego tlc is probably one of my favorite tlc’sday 30 we got everybody back to base and i named my other aunkie panky and we put the new tech stego to work mowing the grass at our new base location we started to outfit the rest of the base with a fabi and some more pestle and mortars with all these high level herbivores gathering berries is a breeze so i continued stockpiling all the tracks i could i also got another smithy made and managed to put that down right next door if abby on day 31 i felt like it was time to start looking for some better teams so i referenced the arc fandoms resource map and started looking for some gigas and some rex spawns close by unfortunately i didn’t come across the giga just yet but i did manage to find another 130 rex and it was really close by to the trap that we made previouslygetting this guy into the trap was no problem but it wasn’t just the wrecks that i had to deal with we also had company we had an alpha raptor right outside of our trap and alpha raptors have been known to aggro to structures just like these behemoth gates and it wasn’t just the raptor i had to deal with it seemed like ark had spawned a ton of aggressive animals right next to my trap i left tomato at base so it was kind of up to my rg to try to get the alpha raptor stuckhowever by day 32 i managed to get the alfa raptor far enough away from the trap to where i was comfortable tracking out this rex tomatoes gonna be so happy to have a girlfriendi spent the rest of the day harvesting prime and babysitting this racks to be honest i was very worried that this alpha raptor was going to come in and ruin my taming effectiveness below and behold the rex teamed up and he was level 194 when it was all said and doneday 33 it was time to take out my frustrations on this alpharaptor the alpha was level 100 and he was growing in power every minute so i had to do something about it our new lady rex had a very powerful voice so i had to give her a fitting name afterwards i cried mariah carey and went out looking for some dodecs or some beavers there’s one i had no luck on the dodecs but i managed to find a couple beavers so i quickly built a trap on day 34 and tried to trap one and after spending all that time building a trap and luring the beaver into the trap he disappeared through the water never to be seen again and so the rest of the day was spent decimating the local population and exporting them for their resources i did manage to trap a level 55 beaver so he’ll do for nowday 35 was pretty much spent scouring the entire map for a high level dodicarus and all my hard work would pay off when i finally made it to the desert biome and i found not one but two high-level dodec’si quickly threw up a trap and wasted no time getting the dodec’s trapped holiday colorshaving a trap in the desert biome is super important as there’s a lot of high-level carnos that patrol this area i work through the night to get these dodecs tamed and by day 36 i had two dodec’s ready to take back to base which i named dumb and dumberday 37 was hitting up this yellow drop that i noticed on my way back to base mariah carey was still low hp so i took tomato out and he made short work of this osd i literally almost lost this rex i got a ton of really good core resources as well as a bunch more cryopods which are a welcome addition day 38 was all about harvesting it was time to put these dodec’s to good use and get some much needed melee levels in them the whole base is really starting to come together now i feel like i have most of everything that i need to get a good base up and running the only things i was severely lacking on was storage space for items and dinos so i got to work making a bolt and started putting down some more stone floors day 39 it was time to put all my accumulated narcotics and tracks to work i made for the snow biome and i set up a trap this trap is going to help me easily tame up a bunch of snow owls and maybe even a good rg i spent most of the day building if i wasn’t harvesting for materials for the build and by the end of the day i had a working trap that i could easily get a snow owl into i spent the rest of the night and a lot of day 40 looking for an appropriate level snow owl 140. once i found one i quickly lured him back to my trap and shut the doors it’s just me and you now buddybefore long i had the snow owl knocked out and ready to be tamed he tamed out at 209 which is pretty good for my first snow owlthe rest of the night i spent looking for snow owls but i came across this level 75 mana and quickly trapped him between two gates day 41 was spent knocking out this mana he tamed out at level 112 which isn’t great but it’s better than nothing at this pointas night started to fall i came across this really cool looking rg he was super high level and a lot better than the rg that i had i’m gonna name you code red by the morning of day 42 our rg had tamed up and i appropriately named him mountain dew code red he’s so rare day 43 i came across this mammoth he was pretty high level and i had some behemoth gates to use so i put him to work i never liked to snowball i’m on extinction so i had to seize the opportunity to grab a 140 mammoth while i could i named her mama and i put her in a cryopod 356 melee day 44 i got a glimpse of a giga for the first time but it was way too low to start gaming i did however run across this 140 mail managet in the trap buddyi spent the rest of the evening knocking out this mana a 140 mana at this game stage is huge big manday 45 i came across the deodon theodons are super useful for boss fights so i had to trap him and track him let me outafter taking care of the deodon i came across a snow owl on the morning of day 46. he was level 140 this is super super lucky big snowday 47 i started the long journey home i’m really proud of my taming expedition in the snow biome we got a lot of really helpful teams day 48 was all about crafting i made a bunch of cable intersections to start getting some electricity in my base and on day 49 i finally placed my jennythere’s nothing sweeter than the sound of a jenny i continued placing all my cable intersections with a bunch of miscellaneous electrical stuff like lamp posts and fridges and by day 50 i’d make even rockwell proud i’m starting to look like a rich little survivor in my little ghillie outfit i took care of my storage problem and started working on the irrigation system for my base after i had an irrigation system day 51 was spent building a real greenhouse the best thing about this base location is that it allows for a greenhouse on the interior of the base and we’re going to need a lot of kibble day 52 i made a ton of air conditioners and started work on another projecti’m going gonna place a bunch of metal ceilings above these air conditioners to hide all of the air conditioners but still be able to hatch eggs here this will be my temporary hatchery i’m just really excited to try to breed up some of those manas we got and by day 53 we had a baby mana i don’t think i made my hatchery big enough so i’ll build a bigger one in the future but i just wanted to see if it would work for now on the morning of day 54 we spotted our first quetzel we really need a quetzal if we don’t want to use snow owls for the boss fight then we definitely would like to have a quetzal but that’s way too low we spent the rest of the day searching and on day 55 we made our way into the underground biome we definitely needed to get some gotcha production going so it was a worthwhile pit stopcome on element we continued taming a bunch of gotchas with our snow owl but we didn’t have any luck finding an element one though we did get some pearls so those are pretty good on day 56 we ran back to the snow biome to try to get a better mana to breedour luck finding high level manas this time was a lot better we found two level 135s and a 140. we are definitely spoiled for choice so we decided to take them allday 57 we found another mana and this one was a 140 female this is definitely a welcome addition and on day 58 we came across the near max level snow owl so we had to grab him actually we came across two of themand if our luck couldn’t get any better on day 59 we came across the 140 giga oh baby you’re coming home with me i unfortunately didn’t have enough uh tranqs to knock him out so i built a trap and got him trapped before he ran off the side of the mapcome on baby just get in the trap get in the trapphewday 60 we made a quick trip back to base to repair our long neck our crossbow and make some more tracks while we were here we also decided to make up a bunch of kibblefor everything but a giga i’d probably just tame it with prime but because it’s a giga having kibble is probably very importantit also gave me a good excuse to use up all those rex eggs i’ve accumulated once again i had to check dodo decks to make sure i had enough kibble and track arrowsand if it couldn’t get any better when i came back it seemed like the giga was stuck against the wall which made for very easy tracking oh yes total game changer total game changer it took most of the day to get him starved out and tamed and thankfully i put the kibble on him before my character passed out from dehydration what is this gameand by the morning of day 61 our giga was tamed out at 140 melee which isn’t too bad i still need to find a mate for him so we can start breeding up some better gigas for the boss fights but this is a really good start day 62 i put my giga to work building a suitable giga pen i went a little overboard with the pen but i had a ton of metal to spend so you know how it goes home sweet home the ruins offer such great protection already and a really cool base location as well my biggest base on official was built in the same location so i already know what you can and can’t do here i spent the rest of my day outfitting my base with cable intersections and making some cool green and purple lights and on day 63 i decided to put some of my dyes to use on tomato big mom is going to need a paint job too the rest of the day i spent crafting cable intersections and air conditioners for my next big project this is gonna look so cooli placed a bunch of air conditioners underneath this glass tile inside of my gigapen and yeah it’ll allow me to do some breeding on the inside in style and with all these good snow owls we just got i decided to put my hatchery to the test i really don’t like selective breeding after naming all the snow owls with their appropriate stats we started to wait for some babies to pop and by the morning of day 65 we had a few juvenile babies to take care of but like any good father i left i’ll be right back kids i gotta go to the gas station really though babies gotta eat and they need a ton of raw meat so that’s what i did for the remainder of the day if you kids get hungry there’s some spaghettios in the coverand after multiple meat runs i had enough raw meat to raise maybe a dozen or so snow owls come on give me some mutations day 66 was spent hand-feeding all these snow owlsfinally a mutation i also breeded up a little mana with one of the new breeding pairs i picked up in the snow biomeday 67 i realized i didn’t have enough troughs so i made a bunch more and filled them up with my mana on meat runs be back soon kids be good for your mom on my meat run i found myself in the wasteland and i came across the low level giga unfortunately it’s not high enough for a breeding pair i also gathered another note and since all my troughs were already filled up i decided i put this note to good use and try to get some levels in my giga yellow drops are very easy on a giga as long as you position the mouth just right it’s pretty easy to solo them on a gig give me some ascendant tools please my giga was flying through the levels and since i was only leveling melee i didn’t have to wait for his hp to heal i was feeling really good about this drop and i thought there would be nothing that could stop me the drop was going so well and i was pumping all the melee damage into my giga until the unthinkable happenedwhat is this areas i’m sure you guys can see a meteor shower started as i was on the final waves of the drop thankfully though i was able to take cover in these deserted ruins and there goes the neighborhood my gig got stuck as i was trying to flee the drop i was really cutting it close for time the second that i got my giga into the safety of the ruins the meteor shower really started that would have been my giga i know wild card severely nerfed the damage from the meteor showers but i really didn’t want to chance it on this giga as the meteor shower ended and day 68 drew to a close i started to head back to base but on day 69 on my way back to base i stumbled across this blue drop when in romesince i was already here and the last drop was a complete disaster i figured i’d wait it out and take on this drop with my giga and my mana you guys make this look so easyafter what happened the day before at the yellow drop i was so close to just walking past this drop and heading back to base but after being showered with loot i couldn’t be more happy with my decision to hit the drop up on day 70 i did a bunch of bass stuff i made a bunch of war maps and finally got some more cooked meat at this point i was still using pretty much primitive tools so i was trying to pump as much stuff out of the catches as i could you can get gotchas to produce these colorful crystals with about anything but i like to make war maps as they’re really easy to make and the gauchos seem to really like them i still had almost a half a volt of wood from farming for my war maps so i decided i’d make a bunch of these taxonomy bases this is so cool in all of my playthroughs and my thousands of hours of arc i really never even used the dermis tool or the taxidermy bases so i may have gotten a little carried away on day 72 i took one of my snow owls and said to this guy i had a certain target in mind and after searching for most of the day i finally found him a 144 male tech quetzal i previously ran into this guy as i was farming raw meat out in the wastelands and i spooked him so i knew he’d be close to 50 50 on the mapunfortunately i wasn’t able to freezebomb him onto the ground but after a while of following him i got him stuck in this little trap i made sweet sweet victoryi went a little overboard with my trap but there was no way i was letting this guy escape after all this work taming a quetzal off the ground is probably the most ideal situation just because there’s a lot of nasties and carnivores on the ground but i have to admit i got super lucky to get him stuck up here after waiting for most of the evening for him to tame up i decided to check on him and i noticed he started to fall out of our trapoh nohowever i came prepared to tame him on the ground anyways so it was easy to defend him with my cryo giga and it wasn’t long before he was tamed up and we finally had ourselves a high level tech quetzal in extinction it’s really easy to solo the desert titan with a quetzal and we’ll get into that in a little bit i was so excited to have a quetzal this means we could take on the desert titan with ease i ran back to base the next day and quickly made the platform saddleday 73 was all about making him a saddle and getting him set up for the next boss fight soloing the desert titan is a real breeze if you’re able to get a kletzel with a platform saddle that has at least a little bit of hp so i began syncing all the foundations closer to the level of the platform saddle this will allow me to build a little bunker on top of the platform saddle that i can easily hide in when i’m fighting the desert titan and if i get knocked off i can easily access the ride on the saddle and after my saddle was good to go i threw some stairs on the back of it and decided to take hanky out for some metal gathering i’m sure a lot of you guys already know but a nike on a quetz platform saddle is a really good way to gather metal you can pretty much slot cap your anki as all the mobility is up to the quetzal this was pretty much the majority of day 74. i was able to pretty much slot cap both of my indie forges and by day 74 i set out for the desert biome so that i could start collecting the artifacts for the boss fight this cave is the worst with a little perseverance to the annoyances of the cave i was able to make my way to the boss areayou were going on passiveand with my new artifact in hand i went over to the boss terminal to take inventory on all the stuff that i’ll need to summon the desert titan after a quick trip back to base i made my way to the snow biome so i could grab the artifact of the void and with all the stuff that i brought from base i decided i’d make another trip to the tribute terminal so i could make a cryo fridge why can’t you just craft these in city terminals getting back out of the snow cave was more than a hassle level 245 dire bear that should be illegal however this little trip into the snow biome would definitely pay off once i found out what was in this yellow drop ascendant tools ascendant tools to send tools please i was really hoping for an ascendant hatchet but what i got was even better a 336 long neck rifle on day 77 i set my sights on collecting all the materials i would need to summon the bosses in the forbidden zone you can find a bunch of corrupted wyverns and corrupted rexes which are definitely needed for the boss fight after massacring every corrupted dino i seen i started to make my way back to base and on day 78 i finally had a cryo fridge better late than never i took inventory on all the stuff i needed to summon the bosses and i realized i had enough to summon the desert titan so i started loading everything up in my quetzalcoat and we took for the desert biome by day 79 we were in the desert biome and i parked my quetzal on one of these cliffs and grabbed my mana to set off into the cave you guys stay right there there’s a bunch of nasties on the ground of the desert cave so the mana makes short work getting to the transmitter and by day 80 we were at the desert terminal and we were ready to summon up the desert boss for the first timeoh desert kaiju where are youi quickly jumped on my mana and ran up to the cliff where my quetzal was parked as you can see i built a little one by one on top of the quetzal platform this little one by one is going to do a lot to shield us from the electrical attacks of the flock it’s not a hundred percent safe but as long as you come prepared with some parachutes in case of an emergency it’s really easy to take the desert titan out solo with this method not even breaking a sweat the battle with the desert kaiju ensued all through the night the tale takes so long it actually took all of day 81 just to take down the note on the tail but after a lot of trial and error i managed to tame him on day 82 you’re coming home with me buddyand on the rest of day 82 i tamed him and named him big desert and started my venture home by day 83 i was back at base and it was time to make him a little loading dock the desert titan makes short work of all the osds and the element veins out in the wasteland so i needed an easy way to unload and load up this guy now this is high tech i used the large elevator platform to make an elevator loading dock where i could place some storage containers and easily load all the element and all the loot that i’m getting out in the wastelands and on day 84 i took to the wastelands to start farming up the mass amount of elementsi’m gonna need a lot more element by the end of day 84 my vaults were starting to look pretty good i was filling them all up with element but it wasn’t enough for what i had planned gotta get more loot gotta get more loot i came across this red drop and decided to put my desert titan to work and it definitely paid off what’s a man gotta do for an ascendant axe i also defended another element node but i used my giga this time aroundwhistling a giga that’s on the ground and riding the desert titan really makes short work of these element veins you can pretty much afk out and watch a movie or a video and just click as you see necessary i spent the majority of day 86 doing just that afk and making element why are all my youtube ads for retirement homes it was a pretty uneventful day 86 but i got a ton of element made and this is definitely going to help me out for what we have planned next and day 87 was a bunch more bass stuff my volts were really starting to fill up and i was looking like a rich little survivor again and on day 88 i had my best idea yetso you want to be a player but your wheels ain’t fly let’s hope i don’t get a copyright strike for that and on day 89 we went out farming element with my new set of wheels you’ve got to pimp myday 90 i forced some drops to spawn by logging in and out i already had them all mapped out on my map so finding them was a breeze the new paint job on my desert kaiju definitely added a ton of horsepower because we were flying through this osd my giggle would make short work of everything on the ground that was small and all i had to do was target the flyers with my flock i knew titans were strong but man this is just game breakingwith a little help from my giga we managed to get this lsd done in short time and once again we were promptly showered with loot come on ascending axe come onit’s really nice to have this desert titan to farm these drops up until the point where i got the titan i really was lacking for good supplies and tools but i still didn’t get my ascending axe so i tried to hit up a couple more osds before the day was over get in there giga it’s your time to shine my giga was doing really well through all the blue drops and the yellow drops but it’s safe to say he didn’t fare so well in the red drops did i really almost just lose by gigai had just enough time to cry on my giga and jump back on my rg so that i could get on my titan it was a really close call though no more red drops for you giga i think it’s safe to say that i’ll leave the red drops to my desert titan from now on but the desert titan made short work of it anyhow come on give me some good tools i got a bunch of great drops but i didn’t get any good tools or any mechs yet but on day 91 my luck was about to change i guess i can just make a level 51 mac then day 91 i forespawned a bunch of the red drops by logging in and out of the game come on matt come on mac the first drop of the day i didn’t get anything good other than a bunch of materials and gates but i kept at it and on my second red drop my luck was about to change this is going to be the one i can feel iti really can’t overstate how strong these desert titans are for farming osds the desert flock pretty much decimates everything on the ground and once again we were showered with loot and this time we actually got something really good come on give me a mac give me a mac give me a macooh a 106 bp for a mac it’s better than nothing we’ll take it our mech rolls weren’t that perfect but it’s better than the level 51 mac that you can craft by yourselfget rekt fullday 92 was more farming of the red drops we were really looking for something that was a little better than the 106. we managed to get a really good mana saddle though and that’ll help us out in the upcoming boss fights and speaking of boss fights it was time to start preparing for the end game of arc extinctionwe made our way back to the initial base spot that we set up our first little hut on day one we placed on a bunch of metal foundations some vaults and some cryo fridges we hit up another yellow drop on day 93 and then we went back to base to start crafting up some more metal foundations day 94 was more farming and crafting we even added some more dermises to our little taxidermy area it’s starting to look really cool it’s not goodbye it’s i’ll see you later desert titan after making a proper memorial for our desert titan that we’re about to lose we went back to our new little base spot and started to build up our new quetzal platform the reason that we’re remodeling our platform saddle and doing a little renovations and expansions to our base is because we’re about to go kill the desert titan for those tech engrams it’s day 94 i really need to get a move on so we took our newly outfitted quetzal back to the desert biome i probably should have killed him before i tamed him and with another quick trip to the desert titan cave it was time to get ready to take on the desert titan once again oh my god i’m so oh i forgot that i couldn’t have two desert titans on the map at once so we had to make another detour back to base to properly put him down before we could actually summon him i can’t believe i just did that but with my desert tightened down and my artifact in hand it was time to summon him once again this time i’m not going to be so nice we loaded up the tribute terminal and got ready for a big battle with the big bass i mean the desert titan maybe he looks more like a manta ray but we were ready and this time we were gonna get some engrams out of itand by the start of day 95 we were ready to take him on i quickly cried my mana and jumped back on my quetzal and threw out the giga on top of the platform saddle that we just built with a little bit of remodeling we were able to turn our platform saddle into a little giga pen the giga makes short work for the desert titan as you can see and it’s all from the safety of our little one by one boxhowever with the addition of the giga in the pen the phlox targeting range changes quite a bit from what it was when we were taming it so make sure to pack some parachutes just in case you get dismountedafter a quick dismount we made our way back up to the desert titan and the giga was making short work well until i got dismounted again but you’re pretty safe as long as you have some parachutes typically the flock will just stick to the giga so you don’t have to worry about it too much this really could have ended my playthrough though go go grappling hookafter a couple close calls the desert titan was really starting to fall in hp this is why it’s so important to have a quetzal that you can tank with so close so close so close so close yes yes yes thank you tom cruiseand with all our new tech engrams it was time to make our way back to baseday 95 and i just got my replicator in jennyand on the morning of day 96 we took a little photo off with our new prize and then quickly made our way back to base we gathered all the necessary stuff so that we could craft our tech replicator and made our way over to the desert cave to use the terminal to craft it but not before enjoying the sights a little bitmonkey you’ve been with me this whole time i’ll never let you go and after unloading everything from mountain dew code red we put everything in the terminal and got ready to craft our first tech replicatorthis is gonna change everything for four days we hurried home and promptly placed down our tech replicator on our new metal foundationsit really felt so good to have a replicator i really should have prioritized getting the replicator engrams before but at least we have them now with our replicator we were able to craft a whole bunch of stuff that we couldn’t before like some daddy storage boxes and a jenny as well as the tech trough which will definitely help us breed up some gigas i should have been at this point like 20 days agowe made one of the mechs we got from the drop and then decided to craft up a tech trough so we could get to breeding breeding one or two gigas with a normal trough is pretty easy but when you want to do a bunch of mass breeding like we’re about to do in a short amount of time having some tech troughs is so invaluable and now that our base is really starting to come together i felt like it was time to do a little customizingyou’ve got to pimp my hideafter spending the rest of the day customizing their hides i took my snow owl out on the start of day 97 to find a suitable partner for our giga get in the trap get in the trap niceand with our new giga suitor trapped it was time to start the process of knocking him out and taming him thankfully with our taming rates we were able to get the giga tamed up before the end of the day and we quickly made our way back to base once we got back to base we wasted no time getting the gigas mating we had to turn up the mating intervals so that they could get enough babies pumped out in time i also had to turn down the days and night speed just so that we’d have enough time to finish this playthrough we wasted no time getting all of our tech drops totally topped off daddy’s got mouths to feedand we were right on time because as i turned around i noticed that my gigas were pumping out eggs at an extraordinary rate yes yes yes at this rate i really don’t know if i have enough time to start breeding selectively for mutations so i’m just going for a mass amount of gigas at this point i did however manage to get one suitable female that i could speed up the breeding process with and i eventually got one mutation which was a weight mutation so it really wasn’t helpful for what we needed them for but it’ll do for now thankfully we’ve already been preparing and gathering a bunch of resources to make a ton of saddles for these guys and the cryo fridges are right there so we can get them healed up and cryo’ed and ready for the boss fights it’s really starting to look like a full house i grabbed my snow owl and put it to use healing up all the giggles that were coming out but that’s when i remember that i didn’t have a ut yet so i set out to the snow biome to quickly tame a uteranus don’t fear me don’t fear me don’t fear me we quickly found a suitable ut and got him trapped and tracked in no time hurry up bud we don’t have a lot of timethe you tyrannus will definitely be a nice addition to our giga troop as the you tyrannus has an ability that can buff up other nearby dinos definitely making it a worthwhile addition for any boss fightthis is the best name i could come up with as we were already very limited for time and i could feel the pressure setting in but as we got back to base i noticed a lot of the gigas were still bloody so i quickly grabbed on the deodon and brought him over to use his healing ability to try to speed up the process a little bitdo your thing don deodons can easily starve themselves if you enable the passive healing but we have a bunch of leftover meat in the tech drops so i think it’ll be all right for a little while plus we had a lot to do we quickly made our way back to the desert cave to once again tame up the desert titan i feel like i’ve been here beforeas we got back to the boss terminal i noticed something kind of suspicious our monkey friend must have been left behind here during one of our past escapades monkey i’m so sorry so we quickly cry out him and start loading up the boss terminal leave no monkey behind and then once again we cry out our mana and jumped on our quetzal i’m so thankful that we got this quetzal because if we didn’t this whole process would have been a true pain even with the quetzal the play through almost ended multiple times during the desert titan fight we had to do some last minute remodeling to stop the flock from dismounting us during the fight but once we did we were right back at itand just like that we are proud owners of a desert titan once again we quickly made our way back to base and crafted a bunch of stuff in our replicator mostly armor and whatnot stuff that’ll help us in the upcoming boss fights by this point all of our gigas were mostly healed up so i started pumping them in melee damage then we set up the entire giga troop in the snow biome fairly close to where the snow titan will spawn this might be a little overkill with all of our gigas prepared we made our way through the snow cave so that we could access the boss terminal and get the snow tight and ready to gox going give it to you go and give it to you and from the back of my mana i led the charge to the snow titan all the gigas were doing really well and they were making short work of the snow titanwhy do only half of you listen to whistles a few members of my giga army were getting distracted so i deployed my mac to make up for lost time and make up for lost time we did the snow titan was down and we had all the engrams that we could get from him we also got a bunch of juicy loot like any of this will be useful at this point although none of the loot was very useful the tech engrams were a nice addition to our playthrough how did you get hit so much so i crowded up the rest of my gigas that were on the battlefield and quickly made my way back to the snow cave once again ascendant sickle this would have been useful like 50 days ago and with everything loaded back up in the tribute terminal it was time to summon the ice titan once again but this time to tame him and since we’re already short on time and this is a hardcore solo playthrough we’re gonna be cheesing the ice titan a little bit with our mac i don’t think wild card wanted thisparking your mac on one of the high ledges is a pretty foolproof way to safe spot the ice titan you can pretty much use just a little bit of element to safe spot all the nodules from the safety of one of these ledges and in a matter of no time at all the ice titan was down and aimed this had to be the cheesiest boss fight in olive arcwe named him iceman and started the long journey back home and i mean a long journey it was already well in the day 98 by the time we made it home so i threw out the rest of my gigas to give them a chance to heal up using the tech trough and my diadon and at this point we took a break only to log back in and see that our save file was mysteriously missingthankfully i prepared for this and had my files backed up and the only thing that i had lost when i logged back in were my graphic settings and all of my engrams so i unfortunately had to use the console to learn all the engrams again because i did not have time to go back through the boss fights and we grabbed a bunch more of our gigas out of the cryofridge and started our way over to the forest biome once we got there we wasted no time readying the troops and getting ready for the forest titan boss the forest titan is probably the easiest of the three if you don’t count cheesing the desert titan so this will be a cake walk we quickly made our way through the forest cave and loaded up the tribute terminal with all the necessary ingredients to spawn the forest titan gotta go fast gotta go fast gotta go fastas i rode my mana into the charge we pretty much just hit him with our ice boat and let the gigas do all the heavy lifting man you gigas do not listen to whistles very well and although only about half of the gigas wanted to join the fight the ones that did were making very short work of the forest titan and just like that the forest titan was down and we got all the juicy loot and would have learned the engrams if our little mishap didn’t happen earlier we quickly gathered all of our troops and made our way back down to the forest cave for the last time can’t get me up here guys and just like that we are back at the terminal and ready to summon the forest titan but this time we were gonna take him home with us let’s go let’s go the process of taming the forest titan is pretty much exactly the same as the ice titan except there’s not really a good spot that you can safe spot him so you just kite him around hitting him with your laser until he eventually gets stuck the nodules on the forest titan were going down even faster than that of the ice titan and we were pretty much making short work of them just one more to go one more to goand before long all the nodules were destroyed and we had ourself a forest titani’m gonna name you group and with our newly tamed forest titan we started the long journey back home i think he’s broke and with all of our titans back home we took inventory of all of our gigas and we decided to craft up the last pieces of tech gear that we didn’t have and you know i had to put a little paint job on them and for the first time in all the play through i felt like we were comfortable with taking on the king titan it is day 98 and we are just now ready to take on the king titan i’ve always been a procrastinator so we cryed up every single thing that we had that we could throw against the king titan and finally gave our desert titan a fitting name and started the farewell journey to say goodbye to all of these dinos that we accumulated over the last 98 days i know they’re just pixels but they’re my pixels and in the last little bit of day 98 we finally made some teleporters and we’re gonna set one up here at base i’ll name this one base we grabbed all of our trophies that we’ll need to summon the king titan and did some last minute preparations and then it was time to set off i’d like to set up a teleporter at the corrupted terminal but before then we had to make a quick pit stop so i could gather some alpha tyrannosaurus teeth you can easily gather them from these corrupted tech rexes that you can bait out of the red drops and you can just let the drop fail and just wait for these guys to spawn and the titanoboa venom was easy enough to farmheadshot and after that we were all finished and ready to start preparations for our last day here on the ark we threw down some metal foundations so that we could put our teleporter pad on top and place down attack jenny to power iti really can’t believe it’s been 98 days it’s bittersweet this playthrough coming to an end let’s just hope we come out victorious after the teleporter was all set up we wasted no time getting our giga army ready to rollgotta set you guys too aggressive we don’t want any slackersand after a long while we had all the gigas deployed and set to aggressive so we don’t have any slackerswe flew down to our teleporter so we could make our way back to base we still had to get our two titans up to the king titan terminal that’s when i noticed that we still had a ton of element and other supplies left over so i decided to make a tech sword as well as a tech railgun i grabbed the rest of our element and put it in the ice titan to start the long journey up to the king titan terminal can you move any slower i thought getting the ice titan up to the king terminal was long but the forest titan only moves at a leisurely stride so it was a much longer expedition but we still managed to get all of our titans and all of our gigas up to the king titan terminal before the end of day 98 and on the beginning of day 99 we had everything ready to go and in the terminal the only thing to do now is summon the king titan these gigas are gonna get destroyedall right giggles go go go go go listen to my whistles please listen to my whistles why aren’t you guys attacking the king titan attack the king titan you’re on aggressive although we only had the desert titan and about half of my giga army attacking the king diet and they were still putting a huge dent in his health bar come on guys come on guys come on get over here you’re gonna end up dying before you did any damagewell nobody died just yet i knew i could count on the desert titan to attack my target so i went over to grab the ice titaneven in full tech i feel like a sitting duckoh no oh nomost of the giga army got destroyed but by this time the ice titan and the forest titan were both on him so he really didn’t stand much of a chanceoh yes that’s what i’m talking about babyoh i should make that my thumbnailafter assessing the damage and going to collect all the juicy loot i jump back on my forest titan to really get a good scope of the damage it wasn’t even worth it to breed all those gigas they didn’t stand a chance after a small farewell ceremony for all our fallen comrades i went to go take numbers on all of our survivors and collect all the saddles from the gigas we lost i mean just in case i want to use this world againi spent some time running around to allow the party to heal up a bit before we took on the next boss fight i’m still so shook that all those gigas got decimated so quickly i know they weren’t super mutated gigas but i really thought they’d last a little bit longer than the first fight rest in peace you’ll never be forgotten however there was no more time to mourn i quickly gathered up the surviving troops and allowed them to heal up a bit and then it was time to set our sights on the second difficulty of the king titan when i started this video i figured i’d maybe make it to the first difficulty but i didn’t think i’d make it past the first difficulty so while we’re here let’s just see if we can take on the second plus it was only day 99 truly we still had one more day to call it 100 days of hardcore arc so let’s see what we can do on the second difficultyall of these dead gigas come on guys attack attack attack attack whatget in there get in there attack oh come on nowafter a bit of convincing i finally got my giga army to aggro onto the king titan but my ice titan was still just hanging out and my desert titan wasn’t doing much at all at least i could count on grooth well kind of he was doing somethingfinally you guys listened to my whistles with the giga army whistle to the king titan i quickly jumped on the ice tight and to start putting some real damage onto the king titanoh man grootthe gigas seem to be taking a break but between the ice titan and the forest titan we were really putting the dent in his hp i was starting to feel good about this boss fight that was until the rest of my gigas well most of my gigas got decimated i’m kind of happy i didn’t go for mutations it would have been such a wasteso the tldr of this video seems to be that you really only need the titans to take on the king titan a giga army would probably help especially if you had a few people that go with you maybe some rex’s would have done better if you would have pumped them with hp but the gigas seemed to get pretty much one shot by his ground pound so i just recommend bringing the titans for this bossand groot felt the last hit and he’s still only at half hp and my ice titan is almost at full still so yeah i’d say the titans are super strong against the king titan we got a bunch more good loot but it’s all kind of useless at this point but one good piece of loot we got was a journeyman momi or momi which will allow us to put three mechs together to make one of the super max which is going to be good against the next difficultywe emptied our inventory and then we jumped off of our titan so that we could do the ascension but we weren’t just done here we were going to come right backoh that was such a good cut scene but no spoilers just yet i promise it’s coming soon after downloading our survivor back to the extinction map we quickly ran over to our teleporter pad and made our way back up to our titanstheir hp levels were still looking pretty good with the exception of groot so we waited a little bit until he got some hp back it was still only day 99 and i was super excited about my new specimen implant ooh baby homo dias record since our friendly desert titan barbara manatee decided to sit out that last battle she was pretty much at full health so i made sure to set her to aggressive and set her targeting distance to high and with all of our titans healed up i began deploying the three low-level mechs that i brought from basewhen you use demomi to make the mega mac the base level of the mechs you use doesn’t matter at all so i like to use the low level primitive ones instead of my nice max it’s not like it’s going to matter anyways they’ll probably get destroyedbut with my mind in the right place and all my mechs deployed it was time to take on the big bossgo go power rangersoh come on yesi could already feel it the mega mech was gonna make mince meat out of this king titaneveryone’s actually attacking him it definitely helped that the rest of my titans were attacking the king titan well barbara manatee was off doing her own thing but it’s not like it really matters much anywaysmy lord this mega mech is so powerful this is why they don’t oh barbara manatee with barbara manatee down it was really time to get seriousbut the mega mech was still over half hp so the king titan didn’t stand much of a chance it’s a little buggy but we’ll take it go go self-destruct seatsphewand with the king tightened down we’ve actually completed this map as you can see i have the homogeneous skins in my inventory and we got a ton more good loot but that’s not the best part of it the best part is that we finally get to ascend on the highest difficulty and just in time for day 100 i emptied my inventory once again and prepared for the ascension i mean just in case i ever want to come back to this mapi really can’t believe i made it to day 100 we’ve accomplished so much over these last 100 days and we really did the time crunch in the last 10. i’m so stoked i’ve had all of you along with me for the journey and a big thanks to everybody who made it to this point of the video you guys are absolute legends if you like content like this show this video some love so i can continue making more content on arc and survival games that we all love and uh with that and this has been your boy rumsey and i’ll be quiet now and let this really cool cutscene play out till next time guys stay safe and we’ll see you in the next video peaceabsolutely beautifulcome on take a lookit’s finally begun the arks are coming home each one carries with it the seeds of new life plants animals and humans and these seeds will take root across the far corners of the worldonce they do all that life will be unleashedfrom there it will spread grow and thrive and this planet our home will bloom once more as for the rest of the infection well the ox can take it from herein time i’ll purge every last bit of the front soilbut make no mistake this is all thanks to you i’m just glad i got to see itlook at that sun’s risingsookayyou