Yes, you can raise a giga in a small tribe or even solo. Watch this video to find out how!

Raising a Giga in Ark is a daunting process when you think about how long it actually takes. You think, how can I possibly do this? Well let this video be your guide, without the lets play stuff to getting in the way.

This guide is aimed at medium to advanced players, who are aware of how to raise a dinosaur in the first place. People who play in either solo or duo tribes and work. Yes, its possible to raise a giga solo while working. This guide is also for people who work fulltime.

Unfortunately, you need to accept that if you work fulltime, you won’t get 100% imprint. This is because the imprints are 8h apart and well unless you work from home, can have 2 weeks off or have a laptop you can bring with you, you’re not going to be available to do it. However, a 200+ giga is going to rip pretty much everything apart, so it isn’t that horrible.

So first, you need to prepare. The most important thing you can do while raising a giga, especially if you work is preparation. The second most important thing is timing.

To prepare, you need to have enough air conditioners to hatch the egg itself. Secondly, you need to have LOTS of fridges, stacked with cooked meat, and it’ll be helpful to have at least 1 industrial grill.

By lots of fridges, I’m talking more than 10. We started with 11 and ended up adding even more after the fact. The reason you want lots of fridge’s is so that you can prefarm the meat you need for the days/weeks ahead. Having multiple industrial grills also means that you can cook the meat faster and it’s less of a bottle neck in processing the raw meat to cooked. We started with 3 and ended up adding a totally new structure with I think 14 grills for convenience.

Ideally, you’ll already have something you can farm the meat quickly with, like a rex.

To recap the preparation:
– Fridges: At least 10. Just think of it as the more fridges you have, the easier it’ll be our end total was 21.
– Industrail Grills: At least 1. Again, the more you have the easier, and quicker it’ll be. We went with 14.
– Airconditioners and an egg itself.

Next, you want to pre-hatch the egg and bring it down as close as you can to 00:00 seconds without it hatching. 5-10 seconds is ideal.
Now you want to think about timing. You’re going to have to babysit the baby giga for a solid few hours. By hatching it first thing saturday morning, you’ll have the entire day and all of the weekend to babysit it.

One important thing to concider is the time it takes for a giga to become a baby and your ability to look after it over a 2 day period and ask yourself, is it worth waiting for a x2 breeding event? If you’re wanting one ASAP, then drop that egg… Otherwise, I’d recommend waiting until there was a breeding event to shorten the time period that the giga is a baby for convenience.

A giga doesn’t eat meat super fast, it’s the same consumption rate as other dinosaurs. The slow part is that their weight doesn’t increase as quickly as you’d expect for something so big. Meaning you’re stuck clicking and dragging or pressing T over stacks of meat for at least an hour before you can really do much of anything else and it’s hours before you can comfortably leave it alone. It isn’t terrible and it does get easier as time goes on. You wouldn’t be able to leave for any great period of time eg: go on a meat run in game or go down to the shops for a quick lunch. You’re stuck at that PC for the next few hours. You want to set alside about 6 hours to babysit the baby giga after you’ve hatched it.

From this point on, it’s an endurance run. Checking the inventory of the giga to make sure it has enough food on it and doing whatever else it is you need or want to do, whether that’s on the PC or away from the keyboard. At the end of the first night, use Crumplebum to figure out how long you have to sleep until it becomes a juvenile.

At this stage, you have to make sure you’re logging in to check the troughs to make sure they’re full. Use multiple troughs to ensure you’re covered while you’re not online and or sleeping.

Set alarms to make sure you wake up and then login so that you can refill the troughs with the cooked meat from the fridges. You’ll get ball park 5 to 8 hours sleep, depending on your gigas food and weight totals. Again using crumplebum will help you figure out the exact time you have.

I recommend hatching the egg around 8AM in the morning, that way your imprint schedule is 4PM, midnight and then 8AM or whatever you can manage while working.

The most difficult part of raising a giga is the first few hours, where it isn’t holding enough to do much anything. However, if you clear out a weekend it shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Myths and Tips
One myth that I heard when I was researching how to raise my own gigas was that you had to stay in render distance for the giga to keep eating. This is false. While there is a bug that randomly kills baby dinos with food in their inventory, it isn’t specific to gigas and doesn’t care if you’re standing right next to them or out of render distance. It’s something that you randomly have to deal with.

They don’t consume meat quickly as babies, but they do consume a lot of meat while babies. As in, they’re eating a lot of meat, just not doing it quickly. It isn’t like you’re putting a stack of meat into a trough surrounded by starving dinosaurs, it’s the normal chomp some meat, wait, wait some more and then chomp some meat again.

You don’t have to be in a big tribe to raise a giga. What better way to corner the market than to get people believing that you do. You can do it solo, you can also team up with an alliance of players and use a communal breeding pen with troughs that are pincoded to feed them as juveniles if you know you’re unable to login for some time.

You can also use kibble to feed your giga with, so if you did have to leave but wanted a small safety net throw in as much kibble as you can. Kibble has a massive expiration timer and still feeds the babies, juveniles and growing dinosaurs.

Thats it. Yes it’s daunting. By about day 3 you’ll be hankering for a proper sleep and by day 9 you’re wondering if it’s worth it. Once your giga is an adult and can be ridden, you realise, yes it was.
Enjoy your new gigas!

If you do end up raising a giga, let me know in the comment section below or post a picture to Twitter and @shilliantYT #Giga2018

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Having slow internet, sucks. I’ve spent the last few ours putting together a video for the trailer, but it’s going to take 2 hours to upload.. It’s not even 6 mins long. So instead of a video, I’ll post the script here and update later tonight with the video.

An email was sent out by EA announcing Sims 4 Seasons! What can we expect from the expansion pack?

Stay tuned for a trailer breakdown. Be sure to subscribe and click the notification for move videos like this one. Also, apologies I’m currently sick with a little cold which makes me sound terrible no doubt.

What were the 4 days introduced in Sims 3 Seasons? Comment below with your answers.

We get a new looking Greenhouse and clothing designs as always. A kiddy swimming poop and the ability to make snow angels and snowmen. Rake up snow and leaves, which shows the same animation. Again, the same animation is use for jumping in puddles, a pile of leaves and a sprinkler Something Toddlers and children can get into. We see people doing what looks like a water balloon fight that turns into a snowball fight. A guy twirling while ice skating that turns into a woman rollerskating, which will probably be a new skill or two. House decorations to match the seasons, which look amazing. Although we’ve had the Christmas ones for a while, so I’m hoping we get more than that. Lots of new foods being added and a gnome costume, hamster and Father Christmas looing get up. We also see a bee keeper, which will probably be another skill and then a guy playing around with a scarecrow pinned to a tree and then towards the end we have a weather changing machine that allows a passerby down the way to turn into Thor when he’s hit with lightning, so there’s some new skill or ability there as well.

LET ME KNOW: On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you for Sims 4 Seasons?

Sims 3 Seasons introduced Aliens to the game, so it’ll be interesting to see what they introduce, if anything as an occult class.

The blurb on the EA preorder page, says that weather will be added to all existing maps. We can assume this means other worlds and holiday destinations. You can ice skate as we saw in the clip and befriend a magical scarecrow during fall. What this will do is unknown, but can speculate something like the wishing well? What do you think, let me know in the comment section below.

We’ve also got new weather appropriate outfits and they’re expanding on the Gardening career with botanist or Florist pathways. We also see Beekeeping in the pictures/trailer. Bird of Paradise flower being clipped, which will hopefully mean that more actual grow able flowers will also be introduced. We can see a leave blower which looks really fun and probably something more household specific rather than gardening career. I absolutely love the greenhouse looks that you see in the trailer.

It also mentions guests that come during season parties. From the images we can see a Santa-esk guy appearing, giving the kids presents while the parents lovingly watch on. So that’ll be interesting and a nice reason to have parties.

Being released on the 22nd June, we can also expect seasonal events as the year progresses.

HELP ME TEST THE COMMENT ADDON! What do you think you’ll be most excited about with Seasons?

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Love Day, Leisure Day, Spooky Day, Snowflake Day

It’s currently day 5, I’m tired and getting frustrated with having to login every 8 hours in order to imprint. If you’re late, that means you’re sequentially later and later with each following imprint.

So, we goofed. We hatched them around mid-morning so our last imprinting of the day is 3AM! In total you get 42 chances to imprint in order to get 100% imprint, which means you can miss 8 if you want to get 100%, unless there is a bonus event.

I recommend hatching the egg at 8AM, that way you’re imprinting next at 4PM and then midnight. It isn’t terrible to keep up. However, still draining if you’re someone who likes to get more than 7 hours sleep and impossible to do if you work.

They don’t eat much, although we keep 4-5 feeding bins troughs at any given time, with cooked meat. That way we’ve got plenty of meat and have wriggle room if needed.

So far, nothing seems impossible to have done solo, if you plan ahead with multiple fridges full of meat and feeding troughs.

The excitement has worn off and the reality is setting in. The two gigas haven’t become any more difficult to raise however, the thought of loggin in daily to make sure that the troughs are full is somewhat daunting. Pressure to ensure that the imprinting % is as high as possible is the only real difficulty that we face. Each imprint only gives 4%. That feels horrible. Otherwise things are going smoothly.

Deciding to raise a Giganotosaurus

We’re a small tribe. A tribe of 2 mains with 2 others who flutter in as they want. We were given a Giga egg from a friend, Its parents were level 262 and 293, we were told that there is a chance that there will be blue skin. Awesome!

But…

Gigas take 2 weeks to raise. That’s a huge time commitment. Given that the time sink was huge, we tried reading about it. The impression we got was that gigas ate a huge amount of food, fast. To find out how fast they ate, we got a lower level giga and hatched it. The food consumption wasn’t as bad as we thought. We didn’t have to stand over it, with inventory open and a bag full of meat, ready to press T. It consumed food at a normal rate. By the time 15 mins had passed, it was holding 14 food, 45 mins after hatching it held 39 food. It wasn’t a mad scramble for food at all.

The issue would be, we got twins!

Bonus, it was male and female, should we ever want to breed them.

The first hour came and went. Aside from there being two, it was fairly uneventful. But we were prepared…

It feels like more of an endurance test than anything else. Making sure you’ve got fridges stocked with, meat checking to make sure they’re eating it and making sure to add more when they’re low. It certainly isn’t difficult in terms of meat upkeep if you’ve prepared your meat before hand.

As of writing this, we’re a approx 1h and 20m into the raising of the giga. It’s holding 71 bits of meat, it’ll eat a bit of meat every 45 or so seconds. While I wouldn’t recommend going AFK for any great period of time, it hasn’t been this horrendous transfer spam fest  either.

Stardew Valley has finally dropped the multiplayer update, via beta. You need to opt in to the beta. Follow the instructions below to opt in.

Step 1

Right click the game and select Properties in your Steam folder.

Step 2

Enter the code “jumpingjunimos“. Verify.

Step 3

Then select the beta from the drop down.

Step 4

Once you’ve finished. You’ll have to download the game. It’ll appear in your list of games as Stardew Valley [beta]. Load the game and you’ll be able to start a LAN game or enter a code and join another game.

In Sea of Thieves there are a handful of different skeleton types that you’ll come across including generic, grass, gold, shadow and Captains. Below are pages dedicated to each different type, the details on their abilities and recommended ways on killing them.

Skeletons are found throughout the game, during missions for the Order of Souls and on Skeleton Forts.

Got any tips? Share them below!

Sea of Thieves Skull logo for anyone who wants it. I’ve also included an editable file for those who want it via Illustrator.

Click to view larger map.

The Merchant Alliance in Sea of Thieves requires you to find animals on specific islands throughout the map. Below is a table that contains all reported/confirmed locations of animals. These quests are cumbersome however, lucrative.

Once you purchase the mission from the vendor you have to place and then vote for it. When the quest has been activated, you then have to return to the vendor in order to obtain the coops, pens and or baskets for each of the animals required. Each individual animal has their own basket. Once you’ve collected the animals, you need to take them back to the correct outpost. These missions often have you travelling to a handful of islands before being completed.

• Chickens – have no care requirements
• Pigs – need to be fed bananas when they cry, else they starve and die
• Snakes – need to have music played in order to catch them and placed somewhere out of sight of other animals/people to avoid being spat on with venom

How spawns work

Each non-fort or non-outpost island has been assigned 1-2 animals that can spawn when you arrive. However, this does not guarantee that they will be spawned when you arrive on the island itself. For example, Old Faithful Island has been allocated chickens and pigs. Snakes will not spawn there. You may visit and find only chickens or pigs, you may also visit and find both chickens and pigs. You can also show up and there will be no animals at all. Additionally, the animals may spawn but not be the correct colour.

You can also buy your own copy of the maps or give thanks for the maps here. 

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When I saw people printing out the Sea of Thieves map, I was excited. I wanted to do something like this as well. Then I remembered I don’t have a colour printer. It was at this point I decided to remake the map, using Illustrator, in a black and white version so that I can print it out.

Then my husband asked if he could have a night version mode, so that he could have it loaded on his monitor.

Below you’ll find 2 copies of the map in black and white + night mode. Free!

TO SAVE: Click on the images to enlarge them, then right click to save as.

There is also a link to my store where you can, if you wanted to, buy the Illustrator version and make edits to the map itself (not for resale).

If you want an editable version of the skull, click add to cart below.

Download is being handled via the store front so that I can manage the downloads. Fluff your details, but know that they won’t be used for anything.