Aki Rosenthal Finishes Her Giant ARK Base, Then Heads Into a Frozen Cave Alone

HOLOLIVE — Aki Rosenthal, a member of Hololive’s first generation, declared her large base finished on Sunday during Day 10 of the Hololive community’s ARK server stream, then set out on her first solo expedition into a frozen-region cave.

She opened by saying she was short on sleep and dealing with throat damage and allergies, and that she aimed to stop within one to two hours. The first stretch went to repairs. Pieces placed with the game’s building template tool would not complete, and she could not make the leftover blue outlines go away. After asking viewers for help, she took the template pieces apart one at a time. When the house survived, she said she had been afraid it would all vanish. She called the build done about 38 minutes in.

“That was scary. I thought the whole house was going to disappear.” — Aki Rosenthal, after dismantling the glitched template pieces

Most of the next hour went to cosmetics. She tried the game’s structure skins, including steampunk, frontier, castle, royal and Atlantic styles, and settled on frontier for the exterior, with glass windows, automatic doors, a two-story layout with a room under the stairs, and a loft. Another player visited as her first guest and was shown the automatic doors. The royal skin turned the entrance gold, which she found excessive but funny. Later she set up lighting, placed a wind turbine on the roof and gave a full tour of the interior.

Around the two-hour mark she gathered food, water and a rabbit mount for the trip and entered the cave. She lost her way for a long stretch, and the game appeared to stall at one point, which made her consider restarting. She eventually found several supply crates, including a red one, and brought loot home. On the way back she lost a boss trophy she had been showing off, but found an Artifact pedestal, which she used to display a find.

She closed after about three hours, saying she wants to move her gear and animals into the new base and that anyone can freely use and expand what she has built and collected. She said the next stream would come the following day at a surprise time.