Tokoyami Towa Tames a Dinotherium in Ark After Repeated Failed Approaches

HOLOLIVE — Tokoyami Towa tamed a Dinotherium, a large elephant-like creature, in Ark: Survival on Wednesday after several approaches in which it lost patience with her. Chat erupted in cheers when the attempt went through near the four-hour mark of her 283-minute Hololive server stream.

The stream was the 13th in her Hololive Ark series. She opened by sorting out gear and said she wanted to talk through how to tackle the island’s caves and boss fights. She planned to mass-produce tyrannosaurs for the bosses and asked viewers what else she would need. Later she cleared out her storage, shedding unneeded weapons and armor with the comment that clearing out is important.

“At this rate there will be nothing left in the world but poop.” — Tokoyami Towa, watching dinosaur droppings pile up

A mid-stream surprise came when the dinosaurs she kept at base began leaving far more droppings than she expected. She called it a bug, worried the world would fill up with nothing else, and posted a note to the server’s admins. She read out the server chat, where other members were reporting the same, and an administrator’s apology for the “inconvenience” prompted a pun on the Japanese word for the inconvenience, which shares a character with the word for excrement.

Her research into taming the Dinotherium, which she had judged a good fit for her boss-fight plans, began about three and a half hours in. She learned it had to be fed beer and shown three gestures in turn: a head shake, an ear flap and a nose shake. After it got angry at her, she repeated the approach again and again, with viewers noting that the gestures were random and that she mainly needed patience. The ear flap and nose shake were slow to appear.

She was cheered on by chat as the last attempt succeeded. Later in the stream she recalled that she had caught the elephant. Five paid messages came in over the stream.

She signed off by saying she might stream again at midday the next day, work permitting, and asked viewers to post tips on what to gather for the caves and bosses, or helpful videos, with the Ark hashtag, spoilers kept to a minimum.