Been playing on a localhost server with a friend and it was starting to feel too easy (especially after we got crossbows). He was not on tonight (and he's the host) so I joined some random server and decided to spawn on the north side... which is frozen. Did I mention you spawn completely naked and don't know how to make clothes from the start?
Obviously I died a few times, but I managed to die in an easy to locate spot so I just ran back every death with my stash of loot, and eventually managed to gather enough fiber and level up enough between deaths to learn to make clothes and a campfire. I made a ring of campfires, standing in the middle was enough to keep me warm even though I only had basic cloth clothes.
So I'm feeling pretty good about myself, I can take short breaks to run around chopping trees and picking berries before I have to run back to the campfires. I'm trying to see what I need to do to work on making a thatch hut when I hear a load roaring...
I peek around the rock I'm next to and see.... a goddamn tyrannosaurus rex barreling straight for me. I tried to run but I got stuck on some bit of scenery and it ate me.
WTF was a tyrannosaurus doing on a frozen tundra? Why didn't he freeze to death? I sure don't know, but it was still there when I respawned and started chasing me again so I just gave up and abandoned fort campfires.
ARK: Survival evolved.