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I know I’m super late to the game, but I got my first Artifact today, thought I’d share

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u/-St_Ajora- avatar

Congrats! Now go get all the others. Get Dino trophies and fight some bosses!!

6500 hours in between ASE and ASA. Remember my beginning days like yesterday.

Enjoy your new addiction.

Yet i still don’t remember we’re any caves are lol

12k hours Fr me between both lol

Yeah I have been playing so much Asa recently trying to learn the ways of the game and such

Not quite as many here but well enough close to 4K hours between the two versions, I remember it as well. I remember just starting out, getting my first mount a raptor running through the swamps of the island, leading the pack mule of a trike around.

My first tame was a like a level 15 trike

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u/Big-Eye-1007 avatar

Been playing since drop and I still haven’t completed a cave/ artifact run. Over a 1000 hours and not one. Good job.

You, my dear fellow, are experiencing straight survival, no bosses, no super stuffed caves, just straight peaceful day to day survival, Wich honestly sounds peaceful, Soo good for you

u/Big-Eye-1007 avatar

Yeah I hope to change that 😅 it’s peaceful but at a certain point I get to the “now what?” Phase, take a little bit off, and then start a new play through. I’m trying to stick with this play through to the end.

u/Middle-Opposite4336 avatar

Did this for a looong time till I finally decided to knock out the island bosses with my brother. We both went....ok we did that. And went back to playing the same way

u/Big-Eye-1007 avatar

Im doing it solo since I work a bunch and have kids so I always felt bad trying to play with other people. I’d get on one day and we’d start out and then a bunch of stuff would come up and then I wouldn’t be able to get on for week or so and my buddies tamed like a bunch of Rexes and made a bad ass base and everything and then I’d lose interest because I didn’t have to do anything. No skin in the game

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That’s me, I have maybe 3-400 hours total on ASE and ASA, and besides base building and taming, I’m trying to actually finish the game and kill the bosses which will take me a while longer, but I’m trying to try my hand at mutations right now

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Same! Over a thousand hours, and I have only done the scorched boss fight. None of the others. I just build cool bases, tame creatures and mutation breed for the fun colours.

Thank you!

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u/ADAMracecarDRIVER avatar

There is no such thing as late in this game.

Good job. I'm just curious why you chose to get one of the harder cave artifacts. But anyway, good job im proud of you.

I did it on a beezlebufo frog, I was trying to get cementing paste and came across it

I see

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It's a great feeling getting your first artifact. I remember it took me ages and many, many failed attempts before I finally got the Artifact of the Devourer. Keep it up!

Thank you so much I’m doing more research on the other caves so I know what to expect 😭

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u/Aarongia avatar

Whoooooop

u/Zuxeri avatar

good job buddy 🫂

Dang, the Artifact of the Immune? That's one of the hardest ones to get.

Great Job!

Hardest? Just bring some megatheriums in cryos and it's basically an XP farm.

I did it with a frog, I was trying to get cementing paste, I seen a guide on YouTube talking about upgrading its damage as much as possible with weight

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The first if quite a few, on your way to fighting bosses, wish you look on your survival journey

Thank you so much!

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Which one is that? Need it for my collection.

It’s the one in the RedWood forest next to the pond with the island in the middle of it, idk the exact coordinates but you can look it up on YouTube

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Way to go man! Go show the spider who's boss!

I’m gonna be grinding for those battles!

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u/AnimatedKing avatar

Nahh man... that is legit cool. I'm a lousy player and I get that unless you are being helped by experience players.. it takes a lot of grinding to get one... congrats.

Thank you so much I had just finished getting the chemistry bench and industrial cooker, I have most electric stuff unlocked now so it was a perfect addition

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Honestly same

Congrats bro, i only know how to get only one artifact on the island, I enjoy taming and build and i dont know so much about tek structures and ammo so I just be happy building ñ.ñ

That’s me, I always focused on taming and breeding animals, I finally decided to really focus on farming so I can try to make kibble for Rex’s and the Giga once I try to go after it

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Good job man

u/caseman98 avatar

And Here’s to many more!

Thank you!

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u/BenFS96 avatar

I’m always slow! I played on the island on ASA with my Canadian buddy on release. Within a month people had tek and was doing alpha boss fights. I still didn’t enter a cave 😂

We entered the tek era at the end of March, we are slow, but really enjoyed the process

That’s the part I like about it is taking it pretty slow and learning all the stuff I never learned how to do from ASE

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I like to breed also, so working on my dinos and getting the stats etc, I love to build so there’s always that to do, farm resources, this time round I did lots of trading

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Picked a pretty hard cave for your first artifact lol

I live in the RedWoods, have a some decent animals. I did the cave on a frog trying to grind cementing paste and get the loot from the loot things. I was just exploring when I found it. I leveled my frogs damage up and used gilly gloves and shoes and scuba tank, pants and mask to not die from the toxic air. Seen that on a YouTube guide

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Bro do u have argentavis?

Yes I have a few

You can fly a argentavis thru 3 of the caves. The one in south, lava cave and the one just outside Cano can be flown thru on a argentavis.

Hey I didn’t know that, thank you!

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u/Moist_Nothing_6571 avatar

good job im gonna show you all artifact places

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Thank you!

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I been playing for months idk what those even are yet 🤣🤣🤣 I have 0 👍 I walked into cave and almost died so I got outa there lol just in time too

Lmao real😭, I did that my first time finding a cave 😭

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u/decoy139 avatar

Bug cave?

Everyone saying their first artifacts were hard.. I was searching for a Anky in desert biome in crystal isles and found the artifact

u/Mackon69 avatar

Yuhhhh

u/Agreeable_West_4612 avatar

Good job dude. For caves may I suggest the deinonychos I can't remember how to spell it. There might be better tames now but in my day they were the bomb