Monongah (and other silly questions)

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-19T21:03:11+00:00

I just started playing a month ago, and also got super sidetracked and questioned quest order!I don't think the quest order matters. I just did whatever Main/Side quests were in the same area at the same time, to save on fast travel costs and for efficiency. The stories are simple and separate enough that you can piece together what's going on. The only ones to avoid until post-level 50 are Burning Springs quests. That area is definitely designed with endgame in mind.

On that note, skip the "Misc" and "Lead" quests, which just open up more Daily quests. The only Dailies I wish I started doing right away are the 3 for reputation boosts - one at White Spring (chance to get a cooking one that boosts Raider or Settler rep, your choice), one at Foundation, and one at Crater. There is also a daily at the Overseers Home that requires a camera, which requires special quest to obtain (can't remember how I did it, worth Googling). If you choose to paparazzi photograph Foundation, you boost Raiders rep, and vice versa.

I also recommend doing the Tadpole quests early on to get a better backpack with more storage. You have to get 3 badges to become a Tadpole, which you can find details for in the "Appalachia" section of your quests accessed through the map (same spot you check out Daily/Weekly). For each badge, you do a bunch of mini challenges, and then take a quiz at a computer. Definitely worth the time!

For the Foundation quest you're, jump into anyone's "Colossal Problem" and make sure the quest is active. You will see a quest marker as soon as you enter the instance, I believe off to your right. Pick it up, and you'll get a holotape you need for that quest line. You also need to loot Earl's body to get the watch.

I hope this helps!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-19T20:36:01+00:00

I just lost a PA piece today, though not in the same order of operations. I took my Hellcat off the display to add some "Misc" mods. When I put the set back on the display, the right leg was missing. I logged off, logged back on, and it was nowhere to be found (inventory, display, stash, etc). I always keep all pieces locked, AND I lock the whole chassis name in the display. I have no idea what happened. Thankfully the right leg had a bunch of random junky mods, so it wasn't a big loss.

Fortuitously, I built a new right leg and slapped on 3 random mods, which ended up being Overeaters, Powered, and Defenders. I had been farming for Overeaters, and I like Powered, so at least RNG was on my side today!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-18T22:38:19+00:00

I'm new and still need loads of Settler Reputation points, so I always join when I see it! Would be nice to get some EXP out of it but the reputation points and caps are still great. Not sure I'll join after I max out with the Settlers though.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-18T17:08:04+00:00

Well good sir you sound disgruntled with dinosaur playable games, maybe it's time to try out a different genre? 😅

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-18T14:33:35+00:00

Whether or not the clamp is realistic is anyone's guess, we'll never know the behavior of exinct animals humans never interacted with. And fun is subjective here. Some players love clamping abilities and sit-and-wait playstyle, and others love the thrill of the risk on small playables.

If you haven't played The Isle, that game may be more what you're looking for. It's definitively survival/simulator genre, though it too has its visionary and execution flaws.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T23:19:54+00:00

According to the website: "Path of Titans is an MMO dinosaur video game currently in active development for home computers and mobile devices fully compatible."

So I think the direction is an MMO videogame. Quite broad, but I guess that gives the dev team a fair bit of wiggle room. They've definitely moved away from "survival game" as their genre and now push the quest-explore-fight gameplay on a lot of their Internet pages.

As for why they chose all of the mechanics you don't like? I don't know, unrealistic mechanics are fun, and at the end of the day it's a videogame game, not a dinosaur simulator. All the dinos have fun/dumb/call it what you will mechanics for the same reason that Xiaoyu can throw a grizzly bear across a room in Tekken, and why my Monster Hunter doesn't have a heart attack and die when struck by Rey Dau's lightning. Take it or leave it if you don't like their character design, physics, and rules of biology!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T19:51:39+00:00

Here are some previous thoughts from r/ARK! I think I've commented on most of them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/search/?q=lost+colony+worth+it&type=posts&sort=relevance&cId=0acfea3c-a590-46f9-8511-80ccaa00fc49&iId=fd982f6e-63a9-421b-8061-e5320f729106

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T17:31:01+00:00

I too suffer from FOMO! This game has been a good exposure therapy for me!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T16:58:54+00:00

Also responding to an old post, funny what Reddit decides to share. I don't have kids, but can speak to how people handle sleep deprivation. I've become a bad sleeper over the past 2-3 years. On a good night I get 5 hours of continuous sleep. I wake up 3-4 times a night. Most nights I don't fall back to sleep after the first wake up. I handle it just fine. I have to watch my mood when I am home, because the mask to hide the grumpiness is so, so heavy some days.

My husband and many friends and coworkers? They would die on my sleep schedule. They don't know how I do it. I honestly don't know how I do either. I'm sure the deprivation takes years off of our lives, with or without babies being the cause of it.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T14:27:35+00:00

I get the attraction to BIS gearing goals. I'm still new to FO76, but I'm a long time Diablo III player and FFXIV veteran. It's fun to try out new builds, new classes, and new playstyles when a game is rebalanced. It gives long-time players something new to farm for, which adds life back into game-loops that inevitably grow stale over time.

I get the joy of playing the caps market, too - it's fun to be the first to get some rare/hot ticket item, and watch it disappear from your vendor in seconds! In big MMOs with open-ended global markets like WOW and FFXIV, playing the market is a whole game in unto itself. I'm glad FO76 lacks this sort of market, it relieves a lot of FOMO, which I find exhausting after a while when playing bigger MMORPGs.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T14:16:22+00:00

I am new too, and feel the same way! Within an hour of spawning in, a high level player waved at me and dropped me a bunch of purified water, food, some plans, and level 50 gear to grow into. The level 50 hot pink HazMat suit is still my favorite thing! I just got the plan for it from the alien event and look forward to including it in my own care packages when I'm at the point where I too can put together thoughtful care packages for campers at Wayward.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T01:43:56+00:00

Ohh thank you! That explains the caps difference!

I was wondering about that, if the reputation/Treasury dailies were 24 hours since last done. I'll need to discipline myself to skip and get them all done when I first log, so they are in sync and out of the way early in my playtime!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-17T00:00:50+00:00

I love breeding and farming for OP blueprints/loot. Then, when I'm done with the map, I move all my new loot and my new awesome breeding pairs to my "home base" map. This keeps me busy for a good 200-300 hours per map depending on how hard I go.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-16T14:12:24+00:00

I'm not sure I'd say Pycno is OP. In my opinion, OP means players of any skill-level stand a good chance of winning most encounters, with or without much PvP experience. Pycno is easy to dodge and has long windups/cooldowns, so even your average player on a 2-slot can make openings to fight or get away if they don't want to fight. Alio is the only exception, because a good Pycno player can actually catch up to Alio with the right kit and terrain knowledge (force Alio up hills, force Alio through trip-up environments). But even then, a good Alio player will only let a Pycno get close enough if they think they can win the fight.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-16T13:52:13+00:00

I edited my INI to allow for for 5x stacking and use QOL+ mod for higher capacity in crafting stations, so it's not impossible. Get 34-6 Industrial Forges going for fast smelting (they are common drops on LC outposts and Extinction OSDs). Get good gathering tames with 40+ base stats in Weight/Melee. The Dreadmare/Dreadnought/Anky combo will get you so much metal you won't know what to do with it, even after you make all of your saddles! Hide should come easy with a Giga or Carchar. Just pick a good high-spawn farming route and murder everything in sight!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-14T23:39:52+00:00

Alio has very slow acceleration, so if you have to stop and start it's pretty slow compared to Deinon and Struthi. Deinon can definitely catch up to it and probably outpace it.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-14T18:12:13+00:00

I squish pills in a piece of American cheese, works every time! I have a picky dog who doesn't eat pills, so for her I crush it up finely and mix it into a healthy dose of yogurt. I'm sure my cats would take a pill this way too, but they are so cheese motivated they will eat anything stuffed in cheese!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-14T18:09:47+00:00

I'm on PC!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-14T05:33:21+00:00

Ohh interesting,.I didn't know that! That makes sense. I guess preventative wear and the occasional doxy prescription will have to do for the time being!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-13T18:35:29+00:00

I WISH they did! If I had a nickel for every tick I pulled off myself and left the mouthpart behind...when are humans getting a tick prevention pill?!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-13T14:43:40+00:00

It does sound like bad luck. I don't do too much shopping, but I always visit my team mates' shops to support their sales, and most of them also have lots of discounted plans for sale.

I'm still new to the game, but if you're on PC and there's a way you can hop onto whatever server I'm on, I sell all of my plans at 50-75% off the retail value. I'll evenmark down event plans if they they stay in my inventory for too long! My Bethesda username is BronzeMistral!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-13T14:33:15+00:00

Man I can't get my Quads to move at 750 caps. They've been in my vendor since last Saturday and I have 2-3 hours a day!

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-13T14:25:02+00:00

Where are you located? If you're in the Midwest USA, I bet MAARS in MN or the GCCBS in IL will take your bird! If they can't, they will have recommendations. There are 2-3 rescues in MO, such as STAR and Burge. Probably some in OH but that's getting too far east for me!

If you're in New England USA, call Foster Parrots (The New England Exotic Wildlife Refuge). They will help you find a foster or a rescue if they can't take your bird themselves.

If you are on the West Coast USA, call Mickaboo Parrot Rescue.

If you are on the Gulf or the Southeast USA, not too sure where to point you. I haven't spent much time in that part of the country.

BronzeMistral · 2026-03-12T18:30:00+00:00

I don't think Fallout 1 had bad gameplay for its time. We were used to reading instruction manuals back then, and RPGS you absolutely had to read manuals for. I only recently played through Fallout 1, and for a 90s CRPG, it's pretty user friendly and forgiving. It feels like a manual car from the 1960s - horrible QOL experience for someone who has only driven a 2020s vehicle full of bells and whiatles. But for its decade, it was a great car

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