Name | ARK: Survival Evolved | ||
Developer | Studio Wildcard | ||
Publisher | Studio Wildcard | ||
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Release | 2017-08-29 | ||
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Controls | Keyboard Mouse Full Controller Support | ||
Players online |  53283  | ||
Steam Rating | Mostly Positive | ||
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Owners |  5,000,000 .. 10,000,000 +/-   | ||
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Average playtime (forever) | 9742 | ||
Average playtime (last 2 weeks) | 912 | ||
Median playtime (forever) | 1355 | ||
Median playtime (last 2 weeks) | 859 | ||
DLC | The Center - ARK Expansion Map Primitive+ - ARK Total Conversion ARK: Scorched Earth - Expansion Pack Ragnarok - ARK Expansion Map ARK: Aberration - Expansion Pack ARK: Extinction - Expansion Pack Valguero - ARK Expansion Map ARK: Genesis Season Pass Crystal Isles - ARK Expansion Map Lost Island - ARK Expansion Map Fjordur - ARK Expansion Map |
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ARK: Survival Ascended is Available now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2399830/ARK_Survival_Ascended/ |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Phlinger goes on an epic search for poop, a medium crop plot, and dung beetles. [previewyoutube=6Z86geAHnPY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CHipZz attempts to beat Lost Island in 100 days without dying. Will he make it all the way to theDinopithecus King? [previewyoutube=cr9oMmKYbJ4;full][/previewyoutube] Managarmrby BumpySlays22 Amazon and Kaproby Sai Dimetrodonby Monster Encyclophedia Ark Utah Raptorby Shadow81 Rock Drake doodleby Lumiixi Untitledby Sumi Parasaurolophusby PetitFlan Screenshotby Yaldi In search of adventuresby coqui Screenshotby Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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We be provided access to your PC saves and you are now also able to directly rent a server from Nitrado who can host your PC or console saves. Nitrado servers using the Official Save games are now available here. Youll be able to:
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Songbird sings a parody of "Over the Rainbow," which we can't help but love. [previewyoutube=7iL5Ujr1Bnc;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: KingDaddyDmac and his friends hunt down an alpha wyvern to assert their dominance on Monarky's The Hunted. [previewyoutube=VtnnYEEL9Vk;full][/previewyoutube] ARK Liopleurodonby @DW_ARK Evolve by @WolfTek7 Dapper Royal Griffinby southern-sarcasm Star Festivalby laind004 An unconventional steed, indeedby whywishesarehorses Griffin by @bonten_ARK Evotyrannus from Paleo ARK modby Exploring space on the back of a giant baboonby @Songbird_Gamer The Original Wicked Ninjas baseby @TheWickedNinjas I would like to meet my partner Megateri again at ASAby @makky_ark Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Since yesterday, Thursday October 5th, we be provided access to your PC saves and you are now also able to directly rent a server from Nitrado who can host your PC or console saves. Nitrado servers using the Official Save games are now available here. Order your server today and save an additional 10% discount using promo code: LEGACY Youll be able to:
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: EpicARK's emotional goodbye to ARK: Survival Evolved over the magnificent music of Gareth Coker. Who's cutting onions?! [previewyoutube=GuamzMWKUTw;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: PSEUDO Watch Vicious Tech and his friends celebrate their last moments on ARK: Survival Evolved's Official Server. [previewyoutube=a3Nh23prH-I;full][/previewyoutube] Meiana chillingby @ewo_zaur Sinomacrops is babyby ark-erika A selection of berriesby @SoupAscended Its her bug!by ArrowArtz Thank you for everything, ARKby @DemonistraR Memoriesby @WolfTek7 H-heh, knives..by @ScutalTheLizard Screenshot by AlphaExotic The final goodbye by AKMIA Screenshot by nikarel Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
New content, QOL improvements, balance, and gameplay changes, including but not limited to:
A key thing to remember is that ARK: Survival Ascended will include all its previously released DLCs and maps in its remastered form and will have its own content roadmap. This will include new story content for the game, its own gameplay/QOL changes, new DLC, seasonal events, and more (some things were not quite ready to talk about yet!) Alrighty, its safe to start reading again! Q: Will there be a preorder? Get access to the game early? Exclusive Content? Pre-loading? We arent planning on making ARK: Survival Ascended available for pre-order. You can purchase the game towards the end of October when we reveal the trailer and related media. There are no plans to allow anyone to access the game early; you will all have access to it at the same time, and no intentions to release exclusive content only available at launch. As we intend to set the game live immediately when its ready to purchase, you cannot preload it. Q: Tell us more about Crossplay? How will that work? Okay, so we will have a 3-phase system for rolling out crossplay. This is because it allows us to iterate more rapidly after launching a fresh title and makes managing our operations much less complicated, allowing us to deliver you a better experience. Also, were waiting for updates on the engine/plugin side to enhance the experience further ;). Phase 1: Launch - Time Frame: October TLDR: Crossplay will be enabled for Xbox Series X/S, Windows PC, and PlayStation 5. Crossplay will not work for Steam PC at launch. Why? Frankly, when we launch the game, well have to patch a lot because youre going to find things we missed or break the game in ways we never identified, and wed prefer to be able to patch the Steam platform very quickly to resolve these issues. Once the game has passed the launch hurdles and has entered a more stable state, certifying builds on other platforms will be much quicker, and so, at that point, well look into enabling full crossplay. Well split Official Servers between the respective crossplay platforms. We also intend to host some servers that are crossplay only between Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 to keep out the PC Master Race folks (namely, so you stop asking us about it on Twitter (X) :)) Phase 2: Full Crossplay - Time frame December (This is a Wildcard ETA ;)) TLDR: Crossplay is now enabled for ALL PLATFORMS. Meaning Steam can play with Xbox and vice versa. At this point, we will be at a stage where the game can fully enable crossplay for all platforms. What this means is that well be aiming to patch all platforms simultaneously and keep them running on the same version, and it is at this point Steam users will be able to play on the same servers as their console friends directly. This applies to both Official and Unofficial servers, but dont worry; well still have a separate Official network online that is restricted to just Xbox and PlayStation users (without PC)! Phase 3: Cross Progression - Time frame: 2024 Cross Progression isnt going to be enabled with Full Crossplay because well need to integrate some forthcoming updates to the Epic Online Services system. We dont have an exact timeframe for that because its out of our control, and the integration may take some time. Plus, were still working out the kinks for how we intend to enable cross-progression for existing accounts, so well share more on that later. Q: What changes have been made to servers? So weve made a few changes to servers, first of all weve increased the stasis-replication range for structures (significantly) and dinos, by about +70%. This means youll be able to see them from further way before they de-render. Additionally, well be making use of instanced rendering for all our structure tilesets (think building pieces), meaning bases are going to run a lot better! At the moment, were still keeping the servers capped at 70 players. With a lot of the other changes weve made, weve had to make some trade-offs and right now the tech (nor hardware) isnt quite there yet to increase the slot cap much higher. Well be evaluating this over time and see whether we can increase it as further engine upgrades and optimizations come through (either via Epic or us). Of course, player-run unofficial servers can increase to 100+ players, and that is highly viable if they reduce the stasis-replication range or lower the maximum dino counts. Q: What content changes have been made for Day 1? Caves, Rafts, Cryopods, TEK, Giant Squirrels? This is a hot topic, and we wanted to clarify our intentions, but we wouldnt be surprised if some things have slipped through the cracks. Generally, we intend to release content based on the map it launched with. It doesnt matter WHEN it launched; for example, the Rafts will be available on Day One and the Rhyniognatha on The Island; however, TEK creature variants and Cryopods will not be available. We have done a pass on caves with some balance adjustments to choke points and improved the caves' internal appearance. We were hesitant to make dramatic changes to cave balance as, while the meta in ASE had flaws, we didn't feel a complete overhaul was wise. Between these changes and other adjustments throughout the game, we expect to see some shifts in the meta players create. We plan to monitor the impact of these moving parts in the hands of thousands of players and pivot as needed post-launch. Honestly, there are a fair number of changes on the gameplay side:
Of course, these examples cover only some of what you can expect to see redesigned in ASA. We could wax lyrical about the environment, water, sky, and how adorable wild babies are...but we'll let the game itself speak a thousand words really soon! Q: Character Creation Overhaul It was paramount to our art team that we overhaul the Character Creation system for ASA so that characters looked less survival-jank. And we successfully did that.but then we decided to say screw it and allow you to mess with all the bones and scalers anyway. So yeah, you can make something that feels nice and polished, or you could choose to make a character of questionable proportions that looks like it belongs to ARK: Survival Evolved (but next-gen). Q: Is there new Gareth Coker music? Sorry, in main menu, can't hear you over the new Gareth Coker music Q: DLSS, RTXDI, and FRAMEGEN. Were working very closely with Nvidia on all the things. Theyre actually in our game code themselves, doing all the things. You can read more about these systems on their site: https://blogs.nvidia.com/, but our goal is to launch with as much as we can or have it shortly after that. Q: Unreal Engine 5.2? Why not 5.3? Unreal Engine 5.3 is a relatively recent release, and weve been keeping up with all the changes that Epic is working on. Its too soon for us to integrate it thoroughly, and quite frankly, quite risky so close to launch. For now, weve decided to cherry-pick some things from 5.3 that we like (such as Navmesh improvements, as well as the landscape), and over time, well continue to upgrade the entire engine to 5.3 and beyond. Q: GAMEPLAY WHEN? You will 100% be able to see the game via a trailer/screenshots before you purchase the game in October. Not getting any more specific than that (right now..) Q: What about cheaters? We will still be working with an anti-cheat for ASA. We wont be sharing any more information about Anti-Cheat as it doesnt benefit anyone to do so. This anti-cheat will also work cross-platform, and we intend to create more systems to use in our live operations to battle against cheaters which, again, we wont talk much about because its better if we keep that close to our chest :). Well be doing another bounty program with ASA, so you can look forward to making some money while making hackers cry as they lay in bed alone, with their parents disappointed in them. Q: The Survival of the Fittest 5.0? So, were going back to the name SOTF. It felt easier to say than TSOTF, but more importantly, SOTF will not be available at launch. We still intend to do it, but were putting all our time, resources, energy, sweat, and blood into remastering the game to make it as good as possible. After launch, well be tackling remastering SOTF (as an in-game downloadable Mod) for a Winter Release! Q: With no SOTF, will there still be a queue? There will not be a queue system at launch, given that we intended to have it implemented with SOTF. Were still weighing up the technicalities of implementing this and whether its worth it for the game -- depends on the direction we take SOTF -- but we hear the concerns about queue botting, and will make sure that its a server-side configurable that can be disabled (and will be on our Official PvP servers) as well as implement measures to prevent this (such as blocking from the same connection, hardware, etc). Q: Events? Extra Life? ASA Content! Yes, well still be doing these. The first ASA event will be Extra Life, bonus rates n all dat jazz, and then well be doing our first content-related event in December with the launch of Winter Wonderland! And just as mentioned above, ASA has its own content roadmap, but its too soon to talk about that ;). Q: Creature Submissions, whats the plan? Honestly, its taken us so long to get the Shasta dossier done because of the design and tech investigation required to ensure it was viable for us to create that creatures abilities without destroying the game. Its a challenge, but were getting it done. This kind of threw a spanner in our calendar for doing creature votes. We might take a break because voter fatigue is creeping in. Plus, once ASA ships, the meta might establish a need for different types of creatures, and we want to give you some time before the next vote to think about that. Q: Developer Q&As, blogs, vlogs, streams, etc. We have intentionally been very quiet the last year as weve worked aggressively on shipping ASA; once the game is out the door, we intend to do a 180 and will become more directly engaged with the community (weve been reading and monitoring throughout, trust). This could include more Q&As, streams, etc., but the general idea is that our quiet days are ending with the launch of ASA and then you get to see directly what were cooking up! Thanks for reading the Q&A, guys! It was great answering all of your questions. Please check out our new release, ARK: Survival Ascended, coming to a virtual video game store near you at the end of October! Our Official PlayARK Discord will be one of our main social hubs during ASA launch and beyond. This is the only official Discord server run by Studio Wildcard (well, really, its run by our wonderful mods and admins so please say hi to them!) and, if you havent joined the incredible two hundred thousand ARK community members there, you may want to check it out!
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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Monarky's newest season is still on going. This massive collaboration of over 30 content creators challenges them to work together or struggle alone as they battle through one of ARK's most challenging mod, The Hunted! Welcoming seasoned and newer creators, Monarky's The Hunted is set to last until ARK: Survival Ascended's release at the end of October! Their goal is to celebrate eight wonderful years of ARK by creating a community network all in support of ARK content and pushing everyone's in-game survival knowledge to the very limits! Peruse the list of all the content creators here. You can also join Monarky's Discord to stay up-to-date with the event! Creator: Raasclark and other content creators attempt to survive The Hunted, a brutally hard mod that changes dino behavior, taming, and survival. Can they live through it? [previewyoutube=vfF8J4JkJGA;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: ARKitects' FirePumkin sings a sea shanty about the pirate life on ARK. [previewyoutube=OESCCRgalPM;full][/previewyoutube] Ark Allo by @N4STYR4BBiT Cute by @bonten_ARK Let's all be stylish! by @rianeko_mabi Spacewell by SirFritzM ARK Plesiosaur by @DW_ARK I will stand my ground by @CrimzonCurlz99 Snow Owl by @k3zk_627 Iguanodon by Haxxine Vanaheim wonderfull by Powpiki Construction of this castle started a month ago, and is still not done! by BlueSky Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
This final save snapshot will be provided on Thursday, October 5th (10/5). Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until the sunsetting of the servers. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Monarky's newest season is a massive collaboration of over 30 content creators, challenging them to work together or struggle alone as they battle through one of ARK's most challenging mod, The Hunted! Welcoming seasoned and newer creators and, this weekend, the public community, Monarky's The Hunted is set to last until ARK: Survival Ascended's release at the end of October! Their goal is to celebrate eight wonderful years of ARK by creating a community network all in support of ARK content and pushing everyone's in-game survival knowledge to the very limits! Peruse the list of all the content creators here. You can also join Monarky's Discord to stay up-to-date with the event! Creator: This video tells the story of the first survivors to arrive on the Island after the events of the lore have transpired. A man wakes up on a beach naked with no memory of how he got there and must figure out how to survive. [previewyoutube=iBymS4hK14k;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Axeman has another go at taming a Carcharodontosaurus, but this time he is armed with more knowledge on how to get that perfect tame! [previewyoutube=nn-RrXOgtRA;full][/previewyoutube] Before the stormby @WolfTek7 Oviraptorby Pet1tFlan Purple Raptorby SketchyFreki Demonic Ovis From Primal Fearby korrigus Audience with the Queenby @falco_luna Forest Titan (1 year of work from stump to titan) by Lasaronen I'm still in awe that I drew thisby @naeriie A pure white fluffy snow owl and a lively colored Argent by @banbeex1 Sundays were the best on ASE by @Freeza33 Yuti by @yuzu_tyubi Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name. Cast your vote here.
Overview of all the finalists here. * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until the sunsetting of the servers. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Stevie built a brand new base on his Primal Fear server. Inspired by Aaron Longstaff, this tree house will make you wish you had one as well! [previewyoutube=vzAIwlfkZyM;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Follow along as Simulation Survivor discovers the intricacy and chaos of a modded ARK! [previewyoutube=NlCGzLPIPmc;full][/previewyoutube] Just some experimental stuff by @Riinartist Untitled by @SoupAscended ARK Yi Ling by @StudiosGoji Opening of war by @falco_luna ARK Adventure Diary 2 by @minimumemo_ Sunset by @WolfTek7 Blood wyvern by BonnieFoxxx This Goat is on FIIRRRRRE by @Kittykatlapurr Screenshot by hazard Love the one you're with by PewPewCthulhu Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Make sure to check our Twitter on September 11th for the RankedVote link! *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified. ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
Next (and final) wipe:
You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Customer Support for the official ARK: Survival Evolved networks will end on September 29, 2023, at 1:00 PM PST / 4:00 PM EST, in accordance with the scheduled sunsetting of Official Servers. We appreciate your support and engagement throughout the ARK: Survival Evolved journey. Stay tuned because we can't wait to see you surviving and thriving again in ARK: Survival Ascended To recap previous announcements, we have taken save games from the Official Network and have provided the files to you so that you can host your own server and continue the progress youve made on the Official Network. We have already taken one snapshot and intend to take another during the week of the Official Network Shutdown in September in preparation for ASAs October release, with more details to come at a later date! Browse August save gameshere Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until the sunsetting of the servers on September 30th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: My ARK Story series explores the world of ARK through the eyes of a survivor. Take a step back and relax as Phlinger and his pet monkey Phoo discover this new world they just stepped into. [previewyoutube=EL_ltcTb1cg;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: MrMeola recaps his four latest unpublished episodes on his highly modded server where he tamed and bred the ultimate Kairuku. [previewyoutube=JhTJTgxTdW4;full][/previewyoutube] Dodowyvern Icon by BonjiXwX First thick coating in my life by @tiknreg . by @jimi26_gl Kahuere and her microraptors by @Ampraeh Sonya Gebashe and Timber ! by @CrimzonCurlz100 Black Snow Owl by @k3zk_627 Astrocetus and Voidwyrm by @Snudoo1 100% best way to travel by @Itsmejustagamer Untitled by lempicka-4 Ceiling Design by @Songbird_Gamer Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Make sure to check our Twitter on September 11th for the RankedVote link! *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified. To recap previous announcements, we have taken save games from the Official Network and have provided the files to you so that you can host your own server and continue the progress youve made on the Official Network. We have already taken one snapshot and intend to take another during the week of the Official Network Shutdown in September. Browse August save games here
Youll be able to:
Remember, well be taking another save snapshot during the week of the Official Network Shutdown in September in preparation for ASAs October release, with more details to come at a later date! In 2019, the launch of the Snail Games Initiative, Classic PvP, created an exciting and competitive playing experience for PC players. Throughout the course of the seasons, the meta was watched closely and changes were made to shake things up and create an experience tailored for PvP gameplay. Continue on the quest for the ultimate PvP experience with the introduction of Classic PvP Season 7! Classic PvP Season 7 is now live!
Check out Crunch 376 for all the details. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Tuesday, September 5th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: When Myth Busters meet ARK: BitMoreDave is here to confirm or bust some ARK myths! [previewyoutube=9klksT9qFmY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Join TheGamingClassroom as he discovers the joys of Megalania on The Center! [previewyoutube=4sAeEzLICDg;full][/previewyoutube] Extinctionby @WolfTek7 Kaprosuchusby ValmarBD Are you getting hungry?by @falco_luna Goofy color wheelby @Snudoo1 Rock Drake in the Red Zoneby BumpySlays22 Raptor drawingby korrigus ARK spritesby aceofintuition Screenshot by renyisz Excellent work by Primeval Pickles by WickedNinjaGames Scorched Earth, aka The Map That Turned Me Feral by 13skeletons Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
In 2019, the launch of the Snail Games Initiative, Classic PvP, created an exciting and competitive playing experience for PC players. Throughout the course of the seasons, the meta was watched closely and changes were made to shake things up and create an experience tailored for PvP gameplay. Continue on the quest for the ultimate PvP experience with the introduction of Classic PvP Season 7! Classic PvP Season 7 launches on the 28th of August at 6 p.m. Pacific Time!
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, August 28th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Syntac Syntac attempts to tame the clever and deceitful Indoraptor from Moro's Indomitable Duo mod. [previewyoutube=YZ3tkWH9fWU;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: NERD Potion 2.0 feat. Aviva Arcade Couples that play together, stay together. Nerd Potion and Aviva Arcade prove it as they use the power of teamwork to tame a shiny Spectral Bazelgeuse and a Burning Nergigante from the mod Ark Monster Hunter and Shiny! Dinos mod. [previewyoutube=8PePmV4s6TY;full][/previewyoutube] ARK Fasolasuchus Saddle Fan Conceptby EmilyStepp ARK fanartby Antiallt1 Willowby Rhallwyn Ark: The Island, Cover Storyby MayaPatch Giga VS Wyvern Rematchby Umbra-Daiwrfol Jerboa with a mushroom hat by shelby Archaeopteryxby Pet1tFlan Griffon by SAYDOM Screenshotby im with sandy Screenshot by christine_km Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
The Community Creature Vote is coming to a close, and the competition has been thrilling. The creatures that have been submitted are truly remarkable. Soon, we will know which entry will emerge victorious! You still have the weekend to vote for which creature will be added to The Center for ARK: Survival Ascended!
Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name. Cast your vote here.
Overview of all the finalists here. * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, August 21st. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Kitty is tormented in ARK Supreme on the Olympus map by her chat using the Chaos Creator mod. It was up to chat to decide if they wanted to make her life better or even worse! [previewyoutube=GKM5aOFWw1E;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Is winning Ark: The Survival of the Fittest possible by only taming Phiomias? Sanyx proves that it is! [previewyoutube=iFLJRvGF9qY;full][/previewyoutube] Head in the clouds, that one. by fritzmetzger Rest in Pixels Saphira by @alkonavi How about shaved ice ~~ by @k3zk_627 #colorfulARK by @falco_luna "Watch out for Billy" by @TekARK_01 Sketch of the Manticore from ARK by korrigus Umbra and her Theri by ArwennDelta Screenshot by LabRat Biggest boi by niinapiina Screenshot by Radskan II Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Make sure to check our Twitter on August 14th for the RankedVote link! *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, August 14th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
ARKpocalypse and Beginner servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
Next wipe:
You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Jimbob plays around with ARK Additions' newest creature, Ceratoraurus. Take a look at the magnificent mutations and abilities this bipedal menace has! [previewyoutube=38CrPj00iWI;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: feat. TBF Gaming and TaruHunter travel to the desert searching for Veneficus Thorny Dragon from the mod ARK: Corruption Overloaded, but they find much more than that. [previewyoutube=J9yLU7ra7c0;full][/previewyoutube] Hyaenodon by gvttermutt Collection of Portraits by dvinia Survivors of Nublar by mireyadc Sleeping Tempest by Leashedragon Ice Wyvern by TheN4STYR4BBiT Chibi by Dr-Rnar Ark Aberration lore gang family trope by @laind004 Screenshot by Night Screenshot by AidenKinney Screenshot by Rinafant Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Make sure to check our Twitter on August 14th for the RankedVote link! *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified. We've made some changes to the creature submission process that you can see below:
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, August 7th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: The sweet gaming grandmother, BritishTexan, embarks on a journey to the icy fields in search of Prisminium Gachas that were custom-made for her 60th birthday! [previewyoutube=JlqlIy8ga7E;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: and Veno and Raasclark are back with another Dingle Cup Contest. This time, they are making dinosaur hybrids to battle them out! What kind of atrocities will they create? [previewyoutube=7JDktZr87lg;full][/previewyoutube] Welcome to Edenby @WolfTek7 Meet Ducky and Quaksby @SoyDrys Guess what is my fav mount!by fan-da-engraveri Warfareby l-system-l Managarmrby mios-axe Tek armorby unordinarylynx His mutton chops were predictably short-lived.by fritzmetzger Screenshot by Wuwb(a) Screenshot by lizard4318 Screenshot by BigMama85 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Neddy explains the intricacies of Extinction's lore, possibly the most complex story so far! [previewyoutube=mBcQvR50H78;full][/previewyoutube] These two clips from the recent DEDSafio event truly showcase relatable struggles that we all have experienced in our first moments in ARK: Survival Evolved. Creator: [previewyoutube=QlU6PHlU7FY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: [previewyoutube=ZKsOL2-Ql-o;full][/previewyoutube] Zeiden the TitanosaurbyImDerpySheyla ARK Equusby fictopigeon Managarmr!by dvinia I got me a new sketchbook.by laitiel My Dino, Roosterby unordinarylynx Shadowmaneby fishe2122 Blue Thyla, Mystiqueby dinodogs Scorched by lempicka-4 The Lake Life by Torq Unique ARK Architectureby @oititukumono Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name.
Overview of all the finalists here. Click here to vote! * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Submit Your Vote Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, July 24th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Don't miss out on the challenges and laughter of the ongoing DEDsafio ARK. This amazing event showcases more than 70 Hispanic content creators, including both new and experienced ones, who are competing in a series of exciting challenges and tests in ARK. Stay up to date by following DEDsafio on Twitter and on Twitch. Creator: Take a moment to enjoy this animated video by Crowmeda, which humorously explains ARK in a nutshell. [previewyoutube=3bfmiaMJVUY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Mr.Meola discovers the Bermuda Triangle of Dinosaur Hybrid Monstrosities! [previewyoutube=JKIigO_q43k;full][/previewyoutube] Queen of Heavenby @WolfTek7 Precautions against heat strokeby @falco_luna Base Defenseby Eugeniy Uqlanov Argentina the Argentavis by Acodan The Noglinby WhiteWinterTigerWWT Rock Drake Referenceby TiamaDragon SinomacropsbyShadowHunter3613 My sino Willow & I gliding around by vampyricangelx Shhhh.... you'll wake them by @TheWickedNinjas Tyrannosaurus by @oititukumono Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
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You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Make sure not to miss out on DEDsafio ARK, as it's anticipated to be one of the biggest competitive events within the ARK community. This event will feature over 70 Hispanic content creators, both new and experienced, who will participate in an exciting series of challenges and tests in ARK. Stay up to date by following DEDsafio on Twitter and on Twitch. Creator: Watch Haxeu's unstoppable army in The Survival of The Fittest, featuring fearsome creatures such as Giganto, Carcha, Allos, and more. [previewyoutube=XREA0ah-Mow;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Fender's fortunes are about to change on the Monarky server as he successfully tames his first giant Achatina! [previewyoutube=erpcBPsxJ5U;full][/previewyoutube] A new startby @TekARK_01 ARK Adventure Diary Partyby @minimumemo_ ARK Fasolasuchusby @DW_ARK Brood Mother! by @tiknreg Abandon all hope ye who enter here...by @VELUKO1 Real men go catch Shadowmaneby @Yoga5291 I tried to redraw a picture from a year agoby @k3zk_627 Carne aberration by lempicka-4 ARKs Dream by jonahs-arks COOOOLOOOOORRRS by afkintheark Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Threads: threads.net/@survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Down we go to Aberration's depthsfor our nextcommunity voting contest. What will be the fan-voted real-world creature that will launch with the mapfor ARK: Survival Ascended? To participate in the Creature Submission votes, you'll have to have registered an account on our forums at survivetheark.com and be a Regular Member of the board which requires 6 posts. Please ensure to follow the forum guidelines and rules when posting Please note that this creature will be released for Aberration, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, well add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/675974-creature-submission-guidelines/ Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process, and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. The entry period will end at 1 PM Pacific on July 17th, and the voting for the top 10 upvoted creatures will begin immediately after. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life! *Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, July 10th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Join Evo as he tames and breeds the amazing amphibious bears, Kolponomos on the Caballus map. [previewyoutube=FeyRptEccJY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Watch as Raasclark fights through the struggles and frustrations to beat the infamous DOX mod! [previewyoutube=yzFwpSfuGAU;full][/previewyoutube] Farewellby @falco_luna I want to see these two types in live action someday...by @kanta20040507 Rhyniognathaby @rianeko_mabi UNIRAPTORby Sai The Sand surferby @WolfTek7 Raptor handmade art dollby sayvaris I named him Wuzhuiby Ship in a bottle by Songbird Gaming Screenshot by Aralein Little Otter by Alfen Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: When Rhyniognatha impregnates, she flies away. This makes it tricky to get multiple impregnations. But don't worry, captain fatdog solved that problem. [previewyoutube=Ma-FlWqyVmA;full][/previewyoutube] Welcome home, Survivor.by @TekARK_01 Featherlightby MARKOS ARK fanart Dodoby Saprom Spirit the Otterby tiny.llama Rhyniognatha!by @tiknreg Ark Equusby Harusarchus Tara Sketchesby Vahilor Screenshot by Red Mustang Screenshot by amenci Screenshot by life era Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Destined to give into a siren's call, a group of college graduate students grapple with a forgotten ARK, left behind by a long-lost group of survivors who left behind a station in ruin. [previewyoutube=Jut_zHsfqGI;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Sanyxs tries to win using onlyBeelzebufos in Ark: The Survival Of The Fittest! [previewyoutube=k3xGrWxupQY;full][/previewyoutube] Arkstories - Sunset docks by DjayMasi Smithy by @masonthemanicotti For the Ark players by IvyTheSkulldog Cave Exploration (ARK Fjordur) by KattailsDesigns An Intrepid Pairby Evey Reynolds Forest Titan Trophy by @dr.dismantle Insect Day by @falco_luna Screenshot by Skelpie Screenshot by Heaven1yM The First Three Houses by @DrSQlab Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Overview of all the finalists here. Click here to vote! * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, June 19th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
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You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Goji Center The indominus, rex, and spino are ALL at RISK on the arrival of this new colossal predator: ARK's Giga. Today we will put ARK's giga in both Isla Nublar and Sorna and see which of these two islands can fare better against this Giga. Will these predators be wiped out? or will they join forces to take out a new common foe? [previewyoutube=vrs_W12UaLM;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Haxeu Haxeu shows us who is fit for survival, even if you are solo. All you truly need is a doe and a bow (and massive skills). [previewyoutube=lEHN6P-sGTo;full][/previewyoutube] Carno Art by Saprom IMMODERATUS by IMMODERATUS Paleo Ark Carchar by izzybelladragon77 ARK Allosaurus by @tiknreg Our stories will be remembered by @WolfTek7 Ride by Fagua-Art Paleo Andrewsarchus by Unbrydled Early Morning Sun Rise by CorvoSnow Screenshot by OrcAaa Screenshot by . Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, June 12th. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Star Wars meets ARK Survival Evolved! A squad of Stormtroopers investigates an anomaly on a distant planet. But their training has not prepared them for what hunts in the deep jungles of Jurassic Earth. Lost... Stranded... Marooned in an unfamiliar world, far from home and devoid of any hope, the group will have to fight for survival against unknown threats that lurk in the darkness. [previewyoutube=zFzyO5sfUBo;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Thyro challenged himself to tame a Brontosaurus in one game day! Watch his very eventful day as he tackles this challenge. [previewyoutube=yYfzJ4a8ZHo;full][/previewyoutube] Epiloguesby @TekARK_01 Raptor rideby @NalakBel Otter artby Saprom Fire Wyvernby Ariz Giganotosaurusby Handmade doll Art: Deinonychusby sayvaris Shinehornby @ebiflyyyy4 Asian Castle (Arkitect Structures - Atlas mod) by Red Mustang Titanosaur by 7HoursWide Tower on Genesis2 by Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Sypher Sam Follow along or simply watch in awe as Sypher Sam builds this Elven player home! [previewyoutube=8XMfcqxW06Y;full][/previewyoutube] Featherlight icon by DimensionXXIV ARK - Moth by IsisMasshiro A very large and happy chicken by ChevreLune Jurassic West by UltraRaccoon Peaceful by @Riinartist Ragnarok by @WolfTek7 It's ok fellas, old bean got the cake. by @SrFritzofTARDIS Basilisk by Sumi Untitled by K1SSDABACKAMA Genesis by Streamline~ Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
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You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Holger "Hulk" Geissler, a remarkable modder whose creations under the HG Mods banner left an indelible mark on the community. Hulk's mods reached far and wide, touching the hearts of players and transforming their gameplay experiences. We would like to extend our most sincere condolences to his loved ones. As we bid farewell, we celebrate his ascension as a true survivor, forever inspiring us to reach new heights. Creator: DESCRIPTION [previewyoutube=11-ng1ryJko;full][/previewyoutube] Running out of timeby @TekARK3 Sceneryby @k3zk_627 Three Elementsby Acodan Kieran Arkby Rtappart Fjordhawk sketchby LycaosX Therizinosaurus!by Alona103Z Tail Rideby StephDragonness Rock Drakeby Jacob Lanovia the Unicornby Lark Tropeognathusby Homelander Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: The Axeman Axeman joins forces with Syntac, Jimbob and Evo for old time's sake on this last journey on ARK before it ascends! [previewyoutube=4VSadhiNFxs;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Pterafier Can you guess which creature it is faster than these content creators based solely on their feet? Check out part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 & part 7 as well. [previewyoutube=eN0oD19ASaI;full][/previewyoutube] All Hail the Wyvewrn King by Xirna Mermaid Kitten by Harusarchus Managarm by @k3zk_627 Gigas by mendozian I AM CHAOS!!! by Sai Baptism of Scorched Earth by @falco_luna ARK Piranha by / Griffin by Homelander Dj vu by Sumi Crystal Wyvern by CamiCam Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name.
Overview of all the finalists here. * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Click here to vote Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, 1st of May. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Raasclark Watch as Raasclark begin his journey on Ragnarok with the Dino Overhaul X (DOX) mod, where every creature is ridiculously hard, and learning how to survive is a struggle. [previewyoutube=02IQUdW1j0Q;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: MrMEOLA (featuring Songbird Gaming) MrMEOLA has a visitor on his island, and they have built him a new astonishing home to live in! Visit with him this incredible base by the talented Songbird Gaming. [previewyoutube=9tqBj0R8Peg;full][/previewyoutube] R-Direwolf by @k3zk_628 Desperate by @falco_luna Ravager Sketch by LycaosX Yeti VS Gigantopithecus by @MayaPatch89 What's let that isn't artificial here? by @Ampraeh Wholesome Parasaur family by @Riinartist Maewing!!! by Sakusaii Nameless by Manatee Paradise by Serious Wuiiiiiiiiii by chrisrez07 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name.
Overview of all the finalists here. * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change. Click here to vote Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Easter EVO Event! During this event, 25% of wild creature spawns will be replaced with the colors from the event list. It will be active until Monday, the 24th of April. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 4/07 - 4/24
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Conquest servers are being re-introduced for a new season by Snail Games. To kick things off, our current Classic PvP season will end, and servers will be wiped shortly before the new Conquest begins on April 25th. Classic PvP servers will wipe on April 25th, 5pm Pacific Time.
Be sure to stop by the Conquest Discord to contact the Conquest enforcement team directly. ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers have been wiped today! What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?
Next wipe:
You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving! Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: KiahOnFire Preparing everyone for season 4, Kiah goes over the entire storyline of the Monarky series so far. She covers the previous 3 seasons and talks about her perspective on all the special tide-turning events the Monarks have endured. [previewyoutube=4Lir2XXatbU;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Syntac The Caballus Series is a Syntacs Final Adventure in Ark Survival Evolved before making the switch over to ARK Survival Ascended later this year. In this series Syntac will tame, breed and mutate any creature he can get his hands on from the roster of mods such as Paleo ARK, ARK Additons and Animals of Atlas. [previewyoutube=Y40kCJY1vEs;full][/previewyoutube] RIP Domino by AellosTomb The Strongest Dilo to ever grace Ark, PICKLES! by @16Direwolf My take on the dodo rex by u/SmilingEggLord Art Doll handmade of Mei-Yin's Raptor by sayvaris Paleo Kentro and his Knight! by Sai ARK 2 Smilodon by @StudiosGoji With a quiet grassland by DRAGON RIDER Fire Wyvern by u/Nub-Ninja Nope, I think I'll just go the other way by jason4pepsi Not dead, just Sleeping by //K//I//V// Dj Vu by Sumi Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Conquest servers are being re-introduced for a new season by Snail Games. To kick things off, our current Classic PvP season will end, and servers will be wiped shortly before the new Conquest begins on April 25th. Classic PvP servers will wipe on April 25th, 5pm Pacific Time.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Python Join Python as he begins his ultimate journey! There is no limit to what is possible during this playthrough, his goal is to have as much fun as possible. [previewyoutube=W0U1pe1yiH4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Veno (featuring Raasclark) Veno and Raasclark take on another challenge in their Dingle Cup Season 2! Today they will be taming creatures based solely on their dossier's description. Can you guess the creature before they do? [previewyoutube=jZ0y5scM51I;full][/previewyoutube] The kitten is watching you by Ariz Yutyrannus by @k3zk_627 Sakuramochi by @falco_luna Battle for Eden by @TekARK3 Fjordhawk by mendozian Tropeognathus by @DW_ARK Hostiles Approaching by @WolfTek7 Just finished casually farming metal at the best location in the game by @BeyPlays The view from my house by u/NahDontLook The Doedicurus by Manatee Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
[h2]No longer a backward-compatible free update?[/h2] Initially, when we had first considered doing an Unreal 5 upgrade, we planned just to port the Switch version of the game and undo the graphical limitations required for that hardware. We werent going to maximize the potential of the new technology, we werent going to introduce new gameplay changes, and we werent going to make critical design changes that would have had an impact on existing save data. After carefully considering what would be the best outcome for those who enjoy ARK: Survival Evolved and would want to continue to enjoy it in the years to come, we decided that our initial plan would not be sufficient. We want to provide you with an evergreen classic ARK experience, one that can continue to grow over time on a cleaned-up code base, making use of the new technological advancements not only in the industry but also in what we are working on with ARK 2. We werent trying to mislead you with earlier comments; our plans and overall intentions changed. So you're probably asking, why dont we make these upgrades to the original ARK: Survival Evolved (ASE)? Frankly, it would not be viable. Many of the changes were making in ARK: Survival Ascended will touch a lot of aspects of the game; itll invalidate save data, some mods may not be functional, some things may not play the same way as they did before, and we didnt want to change that experience for those who prefer it or are unable to upgrade. This also impacted our decision to sunset the ASE Official Network offline on August 31st, shortly before the ASA launch. Despite ASE Officials representing the minority of players on ARK, its an invested and passionate group with attachments to their bases, tames, and characters, and seeing that go away cant be easy. While we know its not the same, we hope making the saves available for unofficial use helps diminish the loss. Our reasoning behind the decision is that those servers are essentially based on old technology and require significant development resources and time for our teams to operate & maintain. In some cases, the issues arent as easily solvable without an overall upgrade. Additionally, we know that those resources could be better utilized on fundamentally new technology to further enhance the overall game experience for all players. ASE will still be available to play for those who choose to; that includes multiplayer through unofficial/player-hosted sessions, the endless amount of mods on the Steam workshop, and all the game content as you currently know it. All of that is going to remain, but after 8 years of development, we have to make the difficult decision of sunsetting ASE and the Official Network in order to provide that truly long-term and evergreen version of the game through ARK: Survival Ascended. Well be sending off ASE with one final content update for our 8th anniversary this June, releasing the fan-elected creature: Rhyniognatha! (Keep an eye out next week for its Dossier) We plan to support ARK: Survival Ascended with new features (including at launch), content drops, creatures, items, structures, and DLC. Our roadmap covered some of those planned changes, and we said there would be more, and heres another preview:
And this list is not exhaustive. Were hoping to get even more done, and the only reason we arent covering all of those details right now is that were still working on them. Its taking a significant amount of resources and time at the studio, and we dont want to commit to other particular features unless were sure we can get them in for launch. And yeah, we may miss our deadline on certain aspects, but theyll come in over time as we continue to support this next generation of ARK. At the end of the day, these are just words and, frankly, may not mean so much. Thats okay; we understand what will really convince you is seeing screenshots and a gameplay trailer, and you will in time. We know there are going to be more questions, and well be sharing more details over time. Were not quite ready to pull back the curtains just yet, so we hope youll hang in there with us, Survivors. Itll be worth the wait! Studio Wildcard Lets kick off the first piece of major new content for ARK: Survival Ascended - a fan-voted real-world creature that will launch on Day 1. Please note that this creature will be released for Scorched Earth, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! Well also be adding an additional real-world creature for each subsequent canonical expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended. Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. The entry period will end at 1PM Pacific on April 21st, so don't wait - get your ideas in. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life! Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Easter EVO Event! During this event, 25% of wild creature spawns will be replaced with the colors from the event list. It will be active until Monday, the 24th of April. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 4/07 - 4/24
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: NaturalCauzes Primal Fear is an Ark mod filled with terrifying creatures, majestic unicorns, and exploding dodos. NaturalCauzes has 100 days to beat Pikkons Revenge! [previewyoutube=VW5BrztXSTY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: pterafier Pterafier shows you the different ways to tame the creatures you see around you. In this helpful and captivating guide, he will help you to understand advanced crafting using mortar and pestle, tranq arrows, narcotics, saddles, passive taming, and more. [previewyoutube=MRpUZwt6KKw;full][/previewyoutube] The concept of a fiery place by @VELUKO1 Untitled by @MayaPatch89 Megalo in the night by Sai Space Mosas by N4STYR4BBiT Pteranodon handmade art doll by sayvaris Reaper Riders by Azany New tricks by terrortantrum The Island cave exploration by @maMe_buDo "You won't take this new world, but I will grant you rest, Edmund" by @BlockBeam101 Me and Cubed Ice flying over Valguero by u/MelonLord97 Inspired by Hogwarts by @ARKitects_Ark Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
At ARK: Survival Ascendeds launch, players will have access to The Island, Scorched Earth, and the new revamped game mode, Survival of the Fittest. In addition to many other new features, ARK: Survival Ascended will feature the following improvements and enhancements:
Cross-platform Modding:
Survival of the Fittest:
New content, QOL improvements, balance, and gameplay changes, including but not limited to:
We understand there will be questions regarding LiveOps for the product, so well review some key areas now.
We plan to release a new canonical-story expansion pack for ARK: Survival Ascended that will be available in Q4 2023. This DLC will feature four new creatures, which well share more details about later this year! ARK: The Animated Series has completed the animation and cast recordings of all its 14 initial episodes, which are currently in post-production (VFX, sound mix, etc.). We're delighted with how the show turned out -- it's an epic melodramatic love letter to dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, and of course ARK itself -- though we have not placed it yet with any platform, hence the lack of news in that area. So as soon as there's more to report, we will let you know! Thank you everyone for reading through this substantial write-up, and stay tuned for more information on the ARK: Survival Ascended in the months ahead toward its August launch! Studio Wildcard Conquest servers are being re-introduced for a new season by Snail Games. To kick things off, our current Classic PvP season will end, and servers will be wiped shortly before the new Conquest begins on April 25th. Classic PvP servers will wipe on April 25th, 5pm Pacific Time.
The following TEK engrams/items will be available:
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, the 3rd of April. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Sypher Sam In this speed build tutorial, Sypher Sam teaches you how to build an Elven-style PvE house inspired by the Lord of the Rings' architecture. No mods were used. Plus, it can be built on consoles & PC! [previewyoutube=c7GeSlfcRKk;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Raasclark (featuring CaptainFatdog) In this short, Raasclark and Captain Fatdog attempt to knock out a wyvern with a mantis! Will they succeed? [previewyoutube=CtzIEhTlh2Q;full][/previewyoutube] Favorite color tek Parasaurolophus by @Mio301130 Snow Owl by mendozian Lights off! by @WolfTek7 Hugs! by @ScutalTheLizard Warm your heart and body together by @rianeko_mabi Delivering Spring by @falco_luna Ferox by @k3zk_627 Recreation of Japanese Waterfall Castle in survival by @KiriiAndrew Beautiful postcard by @RikerPlays Do I love the Equus? Yes, not even gonna try lying about it by u/Fit-Photograph7844 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Nitrado is hosting their ARK tSotF: Survivors Showdown alongside MTSArk, TeamSOTF, Intel and Lenovo. This tournament will take place on March 25th at 10 am PST, live broadcast by ARKitects and FirePumpkin0214! Creator: XxStevieLad87xX Watch Stevie build a Viking-themed base on the modded map Svartalfheim! [previewyoutube=4HyQO5ksZzs;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Skeel International Corner The adventure begins for French Youtuber Skeel and her team Les Msaventuriers, as they start their journey through all the ARK in order, hoping to beat all the alpha bosses. [previewyoutube=Dle-crIwFbs;full][/previewyoutube] Raptor chase by u/Sunthoon Arkcinda by ThatKiku Frost Maewings by @N4STYR4BBiT Hobby garden by terrortantrum Dark Dodo by Keuran Little something inspired by ARK survival by orangeslice2 Untitled by @vanceymo Pretty Bat by @TiiaAurora Spring on Ark by Chogono Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Congratulations to the winners of The Survival of the Fittest Winter Cup 2023. We recommend you watch the final match of the tournament. It was a great match of epic proportions! Click below if you would like to watch the entire finals! For more information, you can join their Discord! Creator: The AxeMan Inspired by "As seen on TV," Controller Freak becomes the Ark's worst Salesperson who tries to sell his Calien Soup in one of the worst Infomercials ever! (This is all in good faith, this video made us laugh a lot!) [previewyoutube=tIbFtOTpePE;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CyclonicDuck yt Listen to this rendition of Rockwell Prime Theme expertly played on the piano by CyclonicDuck! [previewyoutube=3ND6gXLpO8E;full][/previewyoutube] ARK II Carnotaurus by @StudiosGoji Dodo Revolution by Aoilii Pearl diving by terrortantrum King Titan is Coming - ARK: Extinction by J-ManTheAngel Trinity and her Rock Drake Saphira by @alkonavi Ark, the very beginning by @seyrinn Beginning of ARK by @RISHICA123 Back on Gen 2 by @Songbird_Gamer Stegosaurus by ulle Long Live the Wyvern King! by @OfficialMonarky Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Tony Thick44 Schnur. His positive impact on the ARK community cannot be overstated. His kindness and passion for games left a lasting impact on those who knew him and fostered a beautifully supportive community. There was something very charming about the dynamic between Tony and his four Neebs Gaming comrades that led to their content being cherished by ARK players and gamers in general. We would like to extend our deepest condolences to his family, his friends and his community during this time of mourning. Although you have ascended, your legacy will never be forgotten. Long live the Wyvern King! We'll cook up a steak in your honor, Soldier. Thank you - - - We would like to share with you Neebs Gamings very first ARK: Survival Evolved video, where Thick sits down with Neebs and Appsro to see if he can get them interested in playing the game. This video was the start of legendary tales told through more than 300 episodes. [previewyoutube=pR2a-tCIo6w;full][/previewyoutube] We have a plan to add something to our Valguero shrine for Those Who Have Ascended for both Tony along with other community members who have passed. Whilst the shrine is dedicated to all, we'd like to more personally honor people individually. We have had the intention of adding a wall where names can be added for some time but we'd like this to be implemented in a dynamic way on the technical side so this will take a little time. Over on Twitter, @TeamSOTF is hosting their Winter Cup 2023. The main event will be held on the final Saturday of the month, February 25, 2023 11:00 AM Pacific Time. It will be hosted on Twitch and YouTube by Icebox, Omnikevfka and Raasclark. For more information, you can join their Discord! Creator: Bemo Guinness Follow Bemo Guiness as he goes to tame a second Carcharodontosaurus to start breeding and working towards getting an army. [previewyoutube=v12FYuplmFw;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Kaaaay Watch German Twitch broadcaster Kaaaay expertly fight his way to the top in ARK: Survival of the Fittest. (Audio in German, but a skilled gameplay is universally understood!) [previewyoutube=cusHZdDNIX0;full][/previewyoutube] A little maewing by @Hanna_Otter ARK parasaur by deathfeigning Ark Survival Evolved Illustration by Julia Viita Valguero in the morning by @SLAPunque Rhyniognatha by @bonten_ARK Microraptor by @k3zk_627 Little Wolf by @pepepesho_setu Perhaps one of the best Monarky adventures yet... by @OfficialMonarky Dawn by Izi Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a Valentine's EVO Event! It will be active until Friday, the 17th of Feb. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Mr Smart Guy Mr Smart Guy Split 100 ark players into 4 civilizations to see what would happen if they were left alone in each of their different biomes. Would they make war or peace? [previewyoutube=VpYS2pMUFLI;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Sypher Sam Looking for ideas on your next viking house build? Sypher Sam will give you some inspiration in his recent video. [previewyoutube=CidknmbkcQQ;full][/previewyoutube] Untitled by @VELUKO1 The Fight is Not Over by @WolfTek7 Lystrosaurus by @MazdaTiger [Commission] Defeating Fjordur! by MayaPatch Explaining TEK technology by @Ampraeh Fishy Time! by Scutal SuperDooM#2527 Necross#6852 LaSopadeRockwell#6863 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
CAST YOUR VOTE Although traditional events, like Love Evolved, ended last year we still plan to do themed EVO events that are timed around the same time we would do the traditional ARK events. In this case, we're kicking off a Valentine's EVO event in place of Love Evolved. The skins and cosmetics from past events are available in the HLNA Shop. 2/10/23 - 2/17/23 *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, the 6th of Feb. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Uhmaayyze You can catch Uhmaayyze on his Twitch channel where he occasionally plays ARK while casually rapping about his ARK experiences! https://twitter.com/uhmaayyze/status/1594401655277092864 Creator: captain fatdog In this episode, the limits of gravity on ARK will be tested. Hop on over to captain fatdog's channel for more episodes in the Monarky series! [previewyoutube=u22tZM7pDMc;full][/previewyoutube] A New World to Discover by @WolfTek7 ARK: Survival Evolved - Parasaurs by Vulpakula Fate of the Cosmos by @TekARK3 March Towards Ruin and Despair by @Snudoo1 Battle in the air! Giant of the Desert! by @falco_luna Carcharodontosaurus Doll. Handmade by sayvaris @sam_stimo u/Gamer_Chase @ARKLove9 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Round up your tribes and cast your vote for the next creature to be added to ARK! *Multiple votes are automatically deleted/disqualified. Only one vote will be registered CAST YOUR VOTE There will be no EVO Event this week. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Syntac Is Carchar the new apex predator in ARK? Find out in Syntac's latest ARK episode! [previewyoutube=xwQZcYwXgA8;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Cjthecheesed There's often debate on the most essential creatures to tame in ARK? Do you agree with this list from Cjthecheesed [previewyoutube=k9x3VCJFOTI;full][/previewyoutube] The black wyvern by @k3zk_627 X-Woolly Rhino by Amberghini Untitled by Iyumi#6526 ARK Snow Owl by Saprom ARK 2 Brachiosaurus by @StudiosGoji ARK 2 Allosaurus Fan Concept by Allosaurus16 u/curious_illithid u/swatch8431 Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Creator: captain fatdog One of ARK's most popular trap builders is testing a new trap to tame a Mosa. [previewyoutube=cZGV3SG1gFs;full][/previewyoutube] The Rider by @WolfTek7 Shadowmane by @maMe_buDo Fate of the Cosmos Chapter 3 by @TekARK3 Doedicurus by 3710P#0941 It's a delivery by @bonten_ARK Collection of Years Worth of Black Breedable Creatures by Cat Queen and Araneus Deum @Frenkichu Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
Creator: SINZAHH SINZAHH is back with another great PvP video! Find out some tips to transform a solo base into a formidable fortress! [previewyoutube=FHpUDF2N6hY;full][/previewyoutube] Rockwell - Edmundium Experiment by @VELUKO1 Help is on the way by @WolfTek7 Cute ARK Doodles by DoodlePalace#1035 Untitled by CrisPing#0826 Valley of Ragnarok by @k3zk_627 RAPTOR | ARK Survival Evolved by sayomphu082 Untitled by Akineza#1916 Pencil Sketch by angryrevenant#9313 LoganTheWyrmLord#6938 SuperDooM#2527 Mule#4289 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Creator: Raasclark Catch Raasckark and a popular cast of ARK community members battling to be the ultimate survivor in TSOTF. [previewyoutube=fL5150rXRy4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Syntac Follow Syntac as he fights his way to tame the dragon in TSOTF! [previewyoutube=5xu-QBYmFLw;full][/previewyoutube] Untitled by ShamroknRoll#1993 More ARKphibia by @laind004 Corrupted manticore by SoupEvolved#5709 Fate of the cosmos chapter 1 by @TekARK3 Untitled by houndteeth#0666 Untitled by @falco_luna Untitled by CrisPing#0826 Pink Carcharodontosaurus by Natahi4 Saprom Maxolotl#7089 Happy New Year! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
https://store.steampowered.com/app/407530/ARK_Survival_Of_The_Fittest/ As always, were looking forward to seeing your community-created content, collecting your feedback, and participating in the action as well! With fast-paced gameplay and intense combat focused on large-scale creature battles, The Survival of the Fittest is the ultimate test of skill and strategy! Well see you out there on its primal battlefield! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Creator: Cantex Tune in for ARK 1's final race held by the popular dino battler, Cantex! [previewyoutube=asphIFtSm70;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: ClutchOutlaw Check out an epic build tour of CluthOutlaw's best ARK base! [previewyoutube=2NRc7bZ43Sw;full][/previewyoutube] Eerie Spino Remake (Blender) by N4STYR4BBiT Ark - Kaprosuchus Race by BeanieCapPrints Untitled by DoodlePalace#1035 Santa Ferox and Reindeer Shinehorn by @sarekoube1 Giganotosaurus by TheVintageBookWolf First Drawing of the Carcha by ivan govnov#6676 ARK: Tropical Wyvern by MayDrXe Vivixx#0001 MayDrXe Krex101010#5943 Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Greetings Survivors!!
Classic PvP Season 6 launches on Thursday, December 15th! Find more information about Classic PvP Season 6 in the official Discord!
Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Tuesday the 14th of Dec until Thursday the 6th of Jan. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
In the past few weeks, we've seen a surge in viewership across Twitch for ARK streams. We were pleased to find out VAULTROOM x Crazy Raccoon held a PvP ARK event from 11/25 - 12/5 on Lost Island. The series reached incredible viewership on twitch, reaching the top ranks with popular Twitch games To find out more about the series and its participants click here. Creator: NaturalCauzes Surely 100 players can siege a castle, right? Check out this amazing video by NaturalCauzes that includes a ton of well-known ARK creators. [previewyoutube=bUsq-GDtDo8;full][/previewyoutube] Creator:NeddyTheNoodle Need a refresher on your ARK lore? NeedyTheNoodle puts together an awesome intro to the ARK universe! [previewyoutube=uoEgydLrwRQ;full][/previewyoutube] Serious Ladyby ScutalTheLizard A friend of mine running from a Giganotosaurusby Adryastic Megamekby BaldisBasics201#4735 Updated Portrait of my ARK OCby @HallOfFlameSs1 Spinosaur [ Commission ]byKanapkozaur ARK Art Discord ServerbyLockeARK#3544 Run...byUmbra-Daiwrfol tilou#0001 RedGear17#1277 Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
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There is an ongoing EVO Event that is currently running and will run right into Turkey Trial 6! *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Creator: Syntac How effective is Carcharidontosaurus when used for Orbital Supply drops? Syntac demonstrates in his latest video! [previewyoutube=kwjybj3yv3w;full][/previewyoutube] Snow pillow | Commission by Scutal Tamed Raptor by EdnaTomasdottir Chibi Rex by Alkonavi [Commission] Simply and Ferrous VS the Leed by MayaPatch Modded Ark Rex by Sans Ankylosaurus Armor Commission by @TekARK3 Just an idea by RoboticHat#7835 DodoPuncher by AngilDerT AsH#8918 Vivixx#4697 Queenie_lisie#6578 Have a happy Thanksgiving! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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View Full Team Roster Get your first look at the Charcarodontosaurus, the latest creature added to ARK with a brand new Creature Spotlight trailer! Carcharodontosaurus makes a triumphant entry to ARK with a noteworthy set of abilities that puts it in competition with ARK's most feared carnivores! [previewyoutube=7afuQadhrz8;full][/previewyoutube] We are introducing new story cutscenes to conclude each ARK map, featuring actors Maddy Madden (The Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) reprising their respective roles as Helena Walker and Sir Edmund Rockwell Here's a little teaser of what's to come! [previewyoutube=Th08l2Jpv4A;full][/previewyoutube] Dino discovery is a fact-filled ARK adventure that allows children to explore the Island without violence and learn about the fascinating prehistoric creatures that inspired the game. ARK: Dinosaur Discovery will launch on November 9 as an exclusive on Switch and is free to download with the purchase of ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition. [previewyoutube=EPz0SWCWgSQ;full][/previewyoutube] Re-evolved from the ground up with redesigned mechanics! The Survival of the Fittest Crossplay Prototype launches on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC in December 2022 on later arrives on Switch in 2023. [previewyoutube=Oi1k6vEshJc;full][/previewyoutube] We reviewed the current year in ARK and took a look at some of our favorite community art. Check out our Halls of History album which contains community art that was featured in the Community Crunch throughout the year! We've put together some of the key moments from the stream if you weren't able to tune into the entire event. Find out about how donation funds are utilized at a local level! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396832?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Catch the creature spotlight trailer of the latest creature added to ARK, Carcharodontosaurus! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396841?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed The return of Survival of the Fittest is right around the corner. Find out more about the upcoming release with Jeremy and Jat! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396842?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Find out about how donation funds are utilized at the local level in this hospital interview! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396821?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Find out more about Dino Discovery mode on Nintendo Switch in this interview with Jordan from Grove Street Games. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396836?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Watch along as Twitch chat helps Clayton design a new creature! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396823?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Curious about creature design? Check out this interview with the designers of Carcharodontosaurus. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396825?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Watch along as Twitch chat helps Clayton design a new creature! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396824?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Check out this year's office mini games! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396839?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Tag along as we check out some of the mods in the Sponsored Mod Program! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396837?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Dave and Jackson hop into the chat and answer some of their questions about level design. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396840?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Tag along as we check out some of the mods in the Sponsored Mod Program! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396822?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Jackson hops into the chat and answers some of their questions about level design. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396835?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed In this segment, Cedric reviews the current year of content in the Community Corner. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1646396831?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Studio Wildcard would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our wonderful community, including the awesome content creators who came in hot with their dedication and efforts. We just facilitate this; it's all of you who bolster us and make this an impactful event that directly helps those in need via the wonderful gaming community! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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As we reach various donation goals, we will increase the Official Server Network rates across all platforms (including Nintendo Switch). If you're an ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile survivor, you're in luck! Our friends over at Grove Street Games having a special event with 8x rates for 24 hours on Monday, November 7th. As we reach the specified donation goals marked below, rates will be updated on all Official ARK servers. Please note: The rates may take up to 15 minutes to be reflected on your server. Be sure to keep an eye on our ExtraLife 2022 page to see current donation totals and Official Server rates! Feel free to hop into our Discord or Twitch channel during the stream to hang out! We're looking forward to putting on an epic charitable cause tomorrow! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Creator: Cantex Cantex is back with another exciting video! Watch the infamous Dodorex tackle all the dinosaurs in ARK! [previewyoutube=EHGxLfvsrRM;full][/previewyoutube] UNLUCKY by Sai DodoRex by @Mio301130 ZOMKIBBY by @NeoVanilluxe Trick or Treat!! by @rianeko_mabi [Commission] fear Evolved: Dodorex and Dodowyvern by MayaPatch Dangerous Land by @demonorph (Art) Ortiz (Character) Wuzhui by Toucanfishh Reaper King (Oil Painting) by Lilly SirDrip#9735 Stevie#4778 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
With your help, we've raised over 429k for hospitals and children in need. If you are interested in joining to collect donations for the Studio Wildcard team or wish to donate directly towards our goal, click here. We'll be sharing more information on our sponsors and milestones in a future post! There is an ongoing EVO Event that is included with Fear Evolved 6. You can find the rates below:
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form pomue#9999 Were back with another ARK tale from the past. In todays story, we relive the tale of our first bout with the Island Dragon Boss. Creator: Woobly Woobly does the unthinkable and installs every dino mod from the Steam Workshop. What are the possibilities of him surviving 100 days? [previewyoutube=20RqhNuJD70;full][/previewyoutube] Corruption Wyvern by @heizigui Witching Owl by @sarekoube1 Halloween Shinehorn by @sarekoube1 Owl by Monster Zera #0521 Witch Otter by Prissiie#6186 [Commission] Simply and his Deinonychus by MayaPatch The Dodowyvern Returns by Nezuyu#8610 Krex101010#5943 Raasclark#5770 l Skills l#7339 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
An EVO Event begins next week on Wednesday, October 19th as part of Fear Evolved 6. You can find the rates below:
For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Supa Koopa#8624 so when i was playing with a friend on fjordur (after it came out like 2 weeks ago) we were looking for andrewsarcus and after awhile we found one. we tamed 3 of them (one for my other friend) and we got back to base and un cryod them. we forgot to put food in there inventory and guess what happed? you already know xd Xmaz1ng#3692 (This was when i was more new to my server) Halloween Shoulder Pets by @Prissiiedraws Halloween Shoulder Pets by @Prissiiedraws Deformed Bone REX by @falco_luna Doodles by @VELUKO1 Shmane by Maxolotl#7089 ARK Knight. Wide by FoxArtt Duel by Asimos chiiQ Chibi Collection by chiiQ Krex101010#5943 wngplay#2015 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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There is no EVO event this week Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form pomue#9999 This Story is from 2017. My friends and I (Group of 5) all decided to download ARK and play through the game for the very first time. We decided on hardcore settings, no tames and 1.5x Creature Damage. We decide to go into Island South Cave. We have assault rifles, chitin armor and 2 people with shields and swords. We manage to make it down to the artifact, but decide to head into the cave further as we wanted the chance at getting some blueprints out of drops. (Little did we know this would spell the end for 3 of our 5 members. We also had hardcore mode enabled, so we would lose everything if we were to die.) We decide to cross the little lake in the cave with the plan of jumping in and swimming to shore. We all jump in and 4 of us make it to the other side of the lake and onto shore before we turn to see one of our tribemates say help me as hes bounced back into the water by a group of piranhas, thus we obtained our first causality of the play through. As we grieve over the loss of our tribemate, we agree we must press onward to not let his sacrifice have been in vain, and thats when disaster struck once more. A pack of scorpions on 1.5x Damage snuck out from inside the wall of the cave and knocked out one of the vanguard in a single hit, then proceeded to take his life in the process. The tribe was powerless as our only means of shielding was gone, but we managed to fight them off with our guns and a little bit of luck. Thus being down two members of the expedition team, our tribe leader suggests that we turn around and leave. Myself and the other remaining member decide that the only way to honor the fallen is to continue onward, and thus we do just that. I take the lead, as I have the most HP, and equip the shield of my fallen comrade. With shield and sword in hand, I fail to account for the biggest danger of all, Megalania. Failing to look upwards, Im jumped on without any warning. My tribemates unload their guns into the creature in a desperate attempt to salvage what little bit we can, but unfortunately, the damage had been done. Mega rabies had infected my character, and it was taking my life away at a rapid rate. In a panic, I run towards the safety of my tribemates, failing to realize I harmed the very people I was supposed to protect. The leader and other member now had the disease as well, and as we all rushed past the megalania and for the entrance in a hopes of escape, we lost our tribe leader. Myself and one other left that day, and we never went into a cave on that play through again. Creator: SINZAHH SINZAHH is back to show you how he transformed his base into a solo fortress! [previewyoutube=Kn3qp25IeKM;full][/previewyoutube] Arkemon by @AngelStrangeArt Welcome Survivor by @WolfTek7 Inktober day 2: Scurry by @NeoVanilluxe Deformed Titan by @bonten_ARK Fast sketch of my fav creature by xCone344#4461 [VN] ARKtober 2022 - Day 5 and 6 by Ampraeh RedGear17#1277 @DreadTamer Krex101010#5943 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Tacosaurus#3251 So uhhh... I had never beaten a boss before and the people of the cluster I play on were going for tek cave but needed alpha dragon. So i opted in to do it and... I still to this day havent beaten a boss. The alpha dragon at the very end of the fight decided to aggro onto me, snipe me with a fire ball and killed me. RallraxAuri#0412 accidentally killed my max level lightning wyvern with the s+ kill gun. I was aiming for a baby and when i was shooting i was wondering why nothing was happening. I look behind me and my best tame is dead. rip The Outcasts Are you looking for some epic base locations on Fjordur? Well, look no further! Check out these fantastic underwater cave locations. [previewyoutube=sCf4C7Sa2Yw;full][/previewyoutube] Survivors | Commission by Scutal Double Exposure Thyla by Boedoe#0489 Reaper Queen | Wallpaper by Fabycinder Rock Drake by @k3zk_627 [Ark- OC] LAura and Cupcake by MayaPatch Reset and Revive! by @NeoVanilluxe Bulbdog with a Knife by HallOfFlameSs#3779 SuperDooM#2527 Cailleach#5832 Vivixx#4697 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! My good friend mhix likes to breed his Dinos and let me get the babies or eggs from them. He did this with his otters several times. Each and every time I get a batch of his babies they die!!! Today I waited 7hours and 30minutes for them to give birth I was prepared with tons of fish meat cooked and raw, was so excited too. The 7 hour timer I set went off, I quickly finished my meat run and got distracted. In that time of getting distracted I moved my young kittens to a safer spot in my room. Went to the living room to show my mom one of the kittens, we sat there for about 30 minutes when I realized I needed to get the otters. I freaked out and ran to my room quickly grabbed pods and ran to my friends base. I got there lagging and saw the babies heads. I started imprinting them all and led them away from the adults so I could pod them. They all died at the same time! There goes 7 hours of excitement Untitled by @SLAPunque Untimely Descent of the Gas Bag by RoxaneLapa Golem De Pierre by Pet1tFlan To the space biome we go! by Boedoe The Journey Home by Boedoe Kawaii Desmodus by @kinosei_x2 ARK Ichthyosaurus X JWTG Ophthalmosaurus by /#1582 Banshee Barvado Raasclark#5770 thecavelassie2022#6129 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form #1814 I was down deep in the red zone on abberation on my drake looking for the artifact of the stalker cave. Then two reaper queens started to chase me around and chased me right into a purlovia. I got thrown off my drake and the reapers broke some of my hazard gear. Then they focused on my drake and I was able to throw my extra set of hazard gear on, jump back on my drake, leave the red zone and didnt go back for the rest of the day The Sircurity Camera#6568 It is a sad moment where you lose your first ever important tame that helped you through much. And that happened to me a long time ago, but let me tell you my story. Creator: Neebs Gaming What happens when the noobs take on the alpha tribe in ARK? Neebs Gaming has a series you might be interested in! [previewyoutube=PAEDCM65ygw;full][/previewyoutube] Abandoned by @VELUKO1 Managarmr by @Wakami_artwi Gift | Flamess by Nalak-Bel Shazdia and Hazel by TheRealShanBear Tom and Jerry by @bonten_ARK [comm] ARK by DarkyRey Untitled by @kinosei_x2 Untitled by tri#0003 Carcharodontosaurus by @WolfTek7 Untitled by @Bo3do3 @Freeza33 @DreadTamer Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Brian#6436 Was doing a red drop on Extinction. Hit E. Fell off giga. Chased giga around amid wyverns and enraged triceratops. Latter killed me. Giga ate the rest. Got giga. Went to public TP. Person who built it didn't fill in the gap underneath. Got trapped. Died again. Got my stuff back again. Danced with my corpse because this time there was a corpse left to dance with. Creator: Camway Gaming Camway Gaming walks through some tips that even the most seasoned ARK survivors may find useful! [previewyoutube=MYjV2FAsa3c;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Neebs Gaming Check out the latest episode in Neebs Gaming "Ark: Noobs Vs Alpha Tribe" series [previewyoutube=RJr7KgYiyTo;full][/previewyoutube] Untitled by gnose_#6945 ARK Genesis by InmagineThat Top Of the Winds by @Rex_2_ ARK x Synapsida by @falco_luna Deinonychus by @rianeko_mabi Fenrir by @sarekoube1 Untitled by @sis_6193 Whistle the Managarmr by StarMew27#2125 Teen Yuty Fanart by #5783 Threepwood#4646 Ari the Adventurer#1243 Katt Farrell#0928 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
A very long time ago when I was an ark noob on the island, I had a phiomia I kept in a pen made of fences and let it wander around. One day I saw it had escaped and didnt care too much since I could always just tame another phiomia. Fast forward a couple days and its the middle of the night, I go towards the woods of my base to harvest a bit of wood for my campfires and get knocked out by a bunch of troodons. But to my surprise, my phiomia comes running over to help me, draws the aggro of the troodons and fights them. She saved my life but died at the cost of it. Rest In Peace Princess Phiomia Creator: Xavii Xavii takes us along an epic PvP cave build in the Fjordur ice cave! [previewyoutube=e8zYqXOY_cM;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: The Outcasts Can you really become an alpha tribe in a week? The Outcasts test the limits in their latest video. [previewyoutube=e2RNUAiPSSA;full][/previewyoutube] The Three Astrid, Fan art for @xSkeelington by @Haiwden ARK ukiyoe Ukiyo-e Dinosaur Illustration by @sarekoube1 Corrupted Survivor Doodle by HallOfFlameSs#3779 Andrewsarchus by @bonten_ARK Apple Orchard by SkyeyPony A King and Queen by PineConeDA ARK Reaper King by meltedfreddy Spawning on Aberration by @StudiosGoji Untitled by ToxxicFoxxy#0061 Willow- AF by xFalkenx @thrassic Garron24(tulpa)#9620 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Supa Koopa#8624 ok so i was flying on my argent and then i was over the water, paused my game (was in singleplayer) and then when i got back from eating my waffle i was still flying, then my bird ran out of frickin stamina. THEN then a jellyfish shocked me IN THE AIR and then i died tl;dr: dont fly over water with a bird with low stam Eligma5659#8713 [Quote]That moment you tame your first raptor and while sending it out to kill a dodo it hits a trike and you whistle passive by accident and by the time you whistle aggressive it kills your raptor and comes for you and so you need to get your group of dinos to kill it and go tame a new raptor[quote] Creator: The AxeMan Follow The AxeMan as he checks out a very popular ARK mod, Play as a Dino! [previewyoutube=LtpBulFroKs;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: UpFromTheDepths Let's take a look at another popular mod, ARK Additions. Check out the latest addition to the ARK Additions mod, Deinotherium! [previewyoutube=MYqY4Zs_YLA;full][/previewyoutube] Mei-Yin Li & Wuzhui by @falco_luna ARK Wyverns by IKumoarti Fjordur by @k3zk_627 Such a good boy by @WolfTek7 ARK but Falling through space (Render) by @FlameRenders Airbrushed by Garron24(tulpa)#9620 Baryonx Dossier (Hand Drawn) by average_mgr_enjoyer#4350 [commission] magma puppy by WandererTamplior Ari the Adventurer#1243 @sarrisrainbows @codigoalex_ Unknown See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
For the duration of this EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Dragma#6881 Yesterday I decided imma get me a spino cuz why the heck not! Tamed her up and was leading her back to my base on my argy. She ran into a piranha but I was like "bah she can take care of it" next thing I know she dies to a single piranha... RIP Sally VinEgar2009#0356 I was on a steam party talking to my friend about how good my rock drake is while riding around on lava Island. So I was like " my rock drake is insane I love it so much" and proceded to jump into the insta kill lava on my rock drake and I died but luckily I had my fjordhawk and a cryoed maewing, so I flew back to realise that my rock drake absolutely tanked the lava and now my rock drake is back safe and sound Creator: Aaron Longstaff Check out this mind-blowing build by one of the ARK communities well-known builders! [previewyoutube=lFjA4gjWFgA;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CHipZz - Ark Builds Are you looking to score a 100% efficiency tame on Desmodus? Tiia shows us exactly how it's done! While you're at it, check out the suite of ARK tools created by Tiia and Coldino by checking out this link! [previewyoutube=F3cjItfUKCw;full][previewyoutube=qazrsEsOFAw;full][/previewyoutube][/previewyoutube] ARK by InmagineThat Untitled by SYLVIA#2317 DPD 25/07/2022 - Dare by Sealterbloind Particular Friends by Bluejay Snow Owl by Mesow ARK x Stranger Things 4 by tilou Summer Water Gun by @sis_6193 TEK Tyranno by @k3zk_627 Untitled by Vayae#0784 Lightning Wyvern by @bonten_ARK SuperDooM#2527 @ARKLove9 @NeddyTheNoodle YAMATO#4352 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
For the duration of The Summer EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Find more information about the Summer EVO Event here. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form falseHacker#7841 The deep abyss is the most haunting place on Ark. Ive recently unlocked tek, and needed to grab some materials, which many happened to be underwater. Fjordors ocean isnt very large, its relatively shallow most of the time with frequent caves. However, on the western side, I encountered a cave while exploring and I found the deep abyss. An area of nothing but freezing cold water, and dangerous creatures. However, those are not the scariest parts of the area, its the emptiness. It was just me, my shadowmane, and sound of my oxygen tank and breathing. I entered and saw, a blinding sight of blue nothingness. Sure there were alpha creatures in there, but they never scared me, I had strong mounts I could throw out to protect me, the atmosphere was what scared me. A massive cove of water, occasionally interrupted by cracks in floor, that give off radiation. A massive skeleton lays for what seems an infinite length around the abyss, is what sealed the deal. As soon as I got what I needed, I left. Never would I think ark triggers this sense of terror Creator: Xavii In this ARK: Fjordur PvP video, Xavii and their tribe go to the Ice cave (Yeti Cave) on Fjordur and raid it online for some insane profit! [previewyoutube=uwLSqfAAA1M;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CHipZz - Ark Builds A step by step tutorial showing you how to build a Viking Workshop on official settings with no mods. Including a few tricks to take back to your own builds! [previewyoutube=qazrsEsOFAw;full][/previewyoutube] Baby wait for me by @bonten_ARK Maewing Twins by @lunabrew Purlovia by Luana Souza#6780 Change My Mind by @ScutalTheLizard Looks really smart by @OKurokoge Hunt down the raptor by @VELUKO1 Rock Drake by Purplepaw#5637 Untitled by SoupEvolved#5709 Allosaurus, Sarcosuchus, Elasmosaurus by @falco_luna Artfight - Nishka by Ares#2032 Artfight - Noktus by @Ares33909104 Tickling by @ebiflyyyy4 Skeel and Wolf by UmbraDaiwrf0l Scorched Earth by @pon_tetsu130 Assorted light source organisms by @bonten_ARK @Jessekallison Krex101010#5943 @ThePilgrimz @Muni_ark See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
For the duration of The Summer EVO Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during breeding events, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps. Find more information about the Summer EVO Event here. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form falseHacker#7841 The deep abyss is the most haunting place on Ark. Ive recently unlocked tek, and needed to grab some materials, which many happened to be underwater. Fjordors ocean isnt very large, its relatively shallow most of the time with frequent caves. However, on the western side, I encountered a cave while exploring and I found the deep abyss. An area of nothing but freezing cold water, and dangerous creatures. However, those are not the scariest parts of the area, its the emptiness. It was just me, my shadowmane, and sound of my oxygen tank and breathing. I entered and saw, a blinding sight of blue nothingness. Sure there were alpha creatures in there, but they never scared me, I had strong mounts I could throw out to protect me, the atmosphere was what scared me. A massive cove of water, occasionally interrupted by cracks in floor, that give off radiation. A massive skeleton lays for what seems an infinite length around the abyss, is what sealed the deal. As soon as I got what I needed, I left. Never would I think ark triggers this sense of terror Creator: NeddyTheNoodle The complete Scorched Earth Survival Stories, by NeddytheNoodle and his amazing team, brings to life the lore of this mysterious desert. You can also watch The Island Survival Stories here. [previewyoutube=bcVGEiKdSWM;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Kittykatlapurr Kittykatlapurr begins her epic journey on the ARKIVE - a PVP ish Server that revolves around trying to get all the gold! Who will become friends and who will become enemies? [previewyoutube=Xb_ENInc6o8;full][/previewyoutube] Shadowmane by @bonten_ARK Tramen's birthday gift by @bonten_ARK Fluffy snow by @falco_luna Artfight - Perseus by @rhallwyn Otter and Shadowmane by @rianeko_mabi Rex in the style of Ark: The Animated Series! by @Snudoo1 ARKive by @TriassicRaptor Till the end by @WolfTek7 Underwater walk by @k3zk_627 ARK - Stripped by IsisMasshiro Rest in piece Tangerine by MAD#1337 Dodowyvern and Mantis by MayaPatch Mosasaur by @MayaPatch Artfight - Reine and Sapphire by NeoVanilluxe#0900 Oh? You're approaching me? by nszkoda#8225 Glow pets by ToxxicFoxxy#0061 Spinosaurus' (Render) by DragonHeart#6424 @DreadTamer Hoover#8669 Porter#5063 YAMATO#4352 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
Find more information about Conquest Season 4 here, and be sure to stop by the Conquest Discord to directly contact the Conquest enforcement team. If you are looking to change up the game why not check out some new mods. The ARK Sponsored Mod program is currently accepting applications until August 5th. Please submit your projects here. Gimilkhad is back with more for everyone that loves to build. This collection includes additional types of structure pieces that match vanilla style and others to allow for entirely new constructions. You also find QoL changes for snap points and building tools, including efforts to improve snapping between different mods! Check out the Arkitect Builder Collection Looking for some more structures variation for your RP server? You will find new types of crops, structures, light sources, tools, and even an economic system built right into R.P. EDDitions. With a revamped tame storage system, new revival system, and plenty of plans for the future you should find some refreshing gameplay with this mod. Check out R.P. EDDitions There is an ongoing Summer EVO Event until 1pm Pacific, on July 15th. You can find the rates below: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Find more information about the Summer EVO Event here. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Khal Alastor -Dusk-#8673 I remember joining a friend's server for the first time, they had dragon mods and a cool map to look at so they invited me to check it out. I spawned in and immediately got harassed by a pegomastix as I was trying to gather resources... I punched this pego in the face and it had tamed instantly! I stood there shocked at what had just happened while my friends were laughing so hard about it all... To this day we all laugh about it still! Funny thing is... Not long after.. I did it again! Who knew punching in the face would give you a friend or two StylishGoldFish#5205 so im level 50 right, so I was exploring around my base with my ptera and found a male 145 rex terrorizing the local herbivores around 300-500 meters away from my base, so i was worried that if it continues it would stumble its way to my base so I took 2 cross bows and 130 tranq arrows and set out to tame the mf before it shits on me and my base or at least lead it farther away Creator: Kiddas Kiddas tells us about Ark: Survival Evolved, as well as a quick beginners guide for anyone who is new to this jurassic world. [previewyoutube=cpAiYSFItHU;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Chaotic Gaming Chaotic Gaming has put together this in-depth guide full of everything you need to know about breeding and then some! [previewyoutube=33zvpxQMnk8;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: JonahBirch https://clips.twitch.tv/SquareDeafHamTooSpicy-BN0YHyz4HsB8zl0k?tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Gacha by @bonten_ARK Recent Work for @SyntacYT (Render) by @imagni_ These two meet again by @VELUKO1 Dinosaur Skin by @ebiflyyyy4 Fjordhawk by @falco_luna Reaper by @falco_luna Dodo Hug by @HallOfFlameSs1 Rock drake by WhiteSkally Shadow Titan by redpandarepublic#1929 Managarmr Emote by Slither06#0066 Argentavis by Rasvim1313#2269 @byragnart Silke#5949 @DmC_Mario jim_bo#0395 DragonHeart#6424 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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For the duration of The Summer Evo Event, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact events have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during the holidays, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so going forward during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
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Creator: Ninjakiller A brief but very informative breakdown of Fjordur rune locations, plus tips to help track them all down. [previewyoutube=L77sX48RJA4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: pterafier pterafier's 10 tips for beginners! ARK can be hard, don't feel bad about being confused or dying a lot. It happens to the best of us! [previewyoutube=mJKukjjdOCs;full][/previewyoutube] Over 800 followers by @bonten_ARK Allenolantern's Pride Art Collaboration by Various Artists Coffeebean by naeriie#2439 My best friend and his Spinosaurus by DEYNO #0999 Snow Owl and Argentavis by Wrath#9612 Untitled by @k3zk_627 Fjord walk fun by @k3zk_627 Argentavis and Survivor by @k3zk_627 Ice Wyvern by @ScutalTheLizard Glowtail and Fjordhawk by @rianeko_mabi Shinehorn and Basilisk by @rianeko_mabi Dracula by @falco_luna Shadowmane doing a leap by @FishE2122 "Beast trainer" by @WolfTek7 #ARK2 Raptor by @StudiosGoji Watcher of Snowy Land by artlimit7 Thyla plushie by @RaeVan87 ClutchOutlaw#9595 [T.R] Quantum#2914 @BemoGuinness @LaSopaRockwell See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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Find out more information about conquest here, and be sure to stop by the Conquest Discord to get into direct contact with the Enforcement team for Conquest. In April this year we moved the Official ARK wiki to its new home and partner, ark.wiki.gg! Moving the ARK wiki has provided a more stable and streamlined experience for the ARK community to build its future wiki roots on. Since the move to wiki.gg the wiki team has been working hard to improve the way information can be displayed and accessed, and one of these projects is the improved interactive resource, exploration, and spawn maps!
ark.wiki.gg There is an ongoing EVO Event until Monday, June 27th. You can find the rates below: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
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Creator: Ark Solo Watch this adorable little Bulbdog embark on a perilous adventure, journeying across Aberration to find his way home. [previewyoutube=VjxBiQFAuU4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Raasclark Raasclark guides players through everything there is to know about Fjordur: Map Base Locations, Creatures, Resources, Artifact Boss Requirements, Locations & Rewards. It's all here in one place! [previewyoutube=SOxOZ77zvRU;full][/previewyoutube] Magmasaur by Jitser#9861 Ark Yuty go brr by #0476 Deinonychus by @ebiflyyyy4 Our Sarcosuchus by @Fururuuun Fan art of ARK Survival Evolved by @tanituki Fenrir by KrioStaz Megalosaurus Cuddle Pile by Foxitrox Fjord Djrip (Render) by RedGear17#1277 Apples#3322 Ari the Adventurer#1243 @soapysoapp CHipZz - Ark Builds#9595 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Official Wiki: ark.wiki.gg |
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Creator: Python Fjordur is now live on all platforms! What better way to get acclimated to the map than a tour from Python while gathering his first impressions! [previewyoutube=fEILU1bPOcw;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Anthomnia Will Anthomnia be mighty enough to wield the legendary Mjolnir? Check out Anthomnias latest video for more information on Fenrir and Mjolnir! [previewyoutube=6p8VzwQntFU;full][/previewyoutube] Fjordhawk by @bonten_ARK Fjordur boss, Steinbjorn by TheIronWolf45#4176 Andrewsarchus vs Carno by Robinson Vronti#4113 Fenrir unbound by DINODOG#8923 Untitled by Gamer_dragon606#6745 See you later old friend... by @WolfTek7 Guilffer#6112 photoninja#6997 @Nekatus @ThePilgrimz Multiple sources shared by the community Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Hey Survivors! mod.io is a cross-platform UGC solution, supporting 11 game systems and stores. By partnering with mod.io, we are connecting ARK 2 with a complete ecosystem in which mods can exist, be presented, and accessed in-game. Were excited to see our vision for Mods powered by proven tech, and deliver the best possible experience for players, everywhere they can play ARK 2. Advanced character traversal mechanics like mantling, free-climbing, parkour, sliding, and swinging! Target-lock, blocks, dodges, combos, staggers, special attacks, emphasizing player-skill-based action. Explore a mysterious, chaotic world where native flora and fauna are being overrun by invasive primeval creatures from an extinct Earth! Construct your weapons and tools from a range of distinct modules to customize their look and functionality -- millions of possible combinations enable you to craft your own unique gear! The specific materials you choose will further affect the appearance of your items, with multiple options of resources found in unique regions of the world. Natural and unnatural occurrences are always happening across the game world, independent of your presence! Your choices in deciding whether to interact with these events will yield rewards or challenges. Hostile 'Aratai' hunt & attack you riding their own tamed creatures, as they seek to drive human interlopers from their world. Instanced rendering and network-streaming enable much higher client and server performance for large, player-built structures, and a longer draw distance! Survivors can set up and save their own preferred building templates, share them, and place prospective template layouts in the world to then build them out as a team. No omnipresent radar -- animals now track and hunt by sight, sound, and smell! Hide from predators with visual camouflage and environmental obstructions, and learn to mask your scent! Dynamic pathfinding enables creatures to intelligently maneuver around obstacles and player-built structures. Gain both experience points from gameplay, and knowledge points by accomplishing key objectives and overcoming unique challenges, to progress along a massive skill tree filled with new active abilities, perks, and passive benefits. See foliage react convincingly to passing wildlife, water flow downstream around obstacles, volumetric stormclouds, localized weather systems, smoke and particles affected by physical forces, and much more! Fundamental advancement of lighting systems enables a more photorealistic day-night cycle, generating real-time ambient lighting & shadows within both natural and player-constructed environments! As we journey into the next evolution of ARK, Jesse and Jeremy reflected on the time theyve spent creating ARK and wanted to include a personal message about ARK 2 to the community.
ARKs development has always benefited from external teams providing their expertise for ARKs myriad of content and game systems. Whether it be Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, or another developer thats partnered with us during the creation of ARK: Survival Evolved, weve always leveraged the amazing talent from external studios to create the best version of ARK for our fans. In that spirit, were partnering with Grove Street Games to co-develop ARK 2 and rewrite the ARK Nintendo Switch code with a full revamp of gameplay functionality, graphics, and optimization. Thomas Williamson, the Director of Grove Street, will be Development Director and Technical Director of ARK 2 with parts of the Grove Street Games team also joining ARK 2s production in a development partnership. Jeremy and Jesse will balance their time between games and the expansion of the ARK franchise across multiple platforms and formats, with Jeremy focusing his creative efforts on the TV series and other initiatives, whilst continuing to serve as Executive Producer of ARK 2. Jesse will continue as Creative Director of ARK 2 and co-creator of the TV series. We are beyond-thrilled that Thomas and the incredibly talented team at Grove Street Games have opted to go all-in on partnering up to build the next iterations of the ARK franchise. By combining Grove Street's amazing capabilities with Studio Wildcard, were confident ARK 2 is going to be a mind-blowing experience! We know many of you have also been waiting expectantly for news on the Animated Series, and were so looking forward to being able to share more with everyone about it. The Series now has fourteen 30-minute episodes in post-production! To celebrate this milestone, we have released the first poster images of key characters from the show, available here. ARK: The Animated Series chronicles the story of a mysterious primeval land populated by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures, where people from throughout human history have been resurrected. When 21st century Australian paleontologist Helena Walker awakes on the ARK after tragedy, she must learn to survive and find new allies, or die again at the hands of ruthless warlords -- all while trying to uncover the true nature of their strange new world. Jay Oliva (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) has taken on the role of Executive Producer, Director, and Co-Showrunner, alongside ARK franchise creators Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, with the series being produced at Glendale-based Lex+Otis animation studio. Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded) and Dee Bradley Baker (Star Wars: The Bad Batch) have also joined the series talented cast. The show features an extraordinary voice cast, including Gerard Butler (300), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Madeleine Madden (The Wheel of Time), Devery Jacobs (American Gods), Deborah Mailman (Total Control), Zahn McClarnon (Doctor Sleep), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy), Ragga Ragnars (Vikings), David Tennant (Good Omens), Alan Tudyk (Rogue One), Karl Urban (The Boys), Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Ron Yuan (Mulan), with Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Vin Diesel reprising his role as franchise hero, Santiago. We look forward to sharing more news soon! In April we announced that Nintendo Switch would be receiving a completely rehauled version of ARK that will include enhancements and upgrades to bring it into line, visually and functionally, with the experience on Xbox One and PS4. Today, were happy to share an update on the progress and more information on ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition! ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition will introduce new story cutscenes to conclude each ARK map, featuring actors Maddy Madden (The Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) reprising their respective roles as Helena Walker and Sir Edmund Rockwell. All of Helenas and Rockwells Dossiers and Explorer Notes will also be voiced by the actors, as will survivors epic confrontation versus Rockwell on ARK Aberration. Madden will also voice the cheery robot-AI guide HLN-A in the "Young Explorer's Mode" that will lead players through ARK in a low-pressure, kid-friendly, dino-fact-filled adventure. Were happy to show you what to expect in September, so Tune in at 1:30pm Pacific Monday, June 13, to /twitchgaming livestream to see the first gameplay of ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition on Switch. Be sure to check out our previous post for more details on the upcoming update. [previewyoutube=snHef1gnvlU;full][/previewyoutube] Fjordur, the newest official ARK community map, released today on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Stadia! Free to download for all ARK players, this Nordic-style, cold-weather map features four new creatures to tame and over 140 sq kilometers of new biomes, new challenges, and rewarding discoveries! If youve ever wanted an easy selling point to convince your friends to join you on your quest for ultimate survival, there might never be a better opportunity! Head to Steam where ARK: Survival Evolved is free-to-permanently-own for anyone who claims the game before June 19 at 10AM PDT! This is a limited-time offer, so call your aspiring survivalists, tribe up, and join in on the adventure! Its been an amazing ride as we begin to close out ARK 1 with the release of Fjordur and the upcoming inclusion of the Carcharodontosaurus. Were so proud of what this game has become over these past 7 years with the passionate support and inspiration from our wonderful ARK community. With ARK 2 now on the horizon, were energized to ascend into a new generation of gaming. Unreal Engine 5 is empowering us to make the game everything it can be. Any Homo Deus would be proud to see it in action, and we look forward to having all of you come join us in the next evolution of the ARK franchise! The Studio Wildcard Team |
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Much of what is known of Fenrir comes from tales passed down from previous Survivors but this elusive creature has managed to avoid being documented in the form of a dossier. What we do know is: Fenrir does not respond to conventional taming methods. If you are able to capture and ride Fenrir, you'll be able to freeze your enemies in their steps. Andrewsarchus makes its way to Fjordur packing an arsenal of utility! Andrewsarchus may seem sluggish while foraging for a meal, but they can move unexpectedly fast when provoked. Once tamed, its saddle will allow you to mount a minigun to the back of it! Click to view the dossier for Andrewsarchus As you might imagine, Desmodus prefers to hang out in dark places, waiting for its unsuspecting prey! If you're lucky enough to tame one, you can send Desmodus to snatch up small prey or saddle up and vanish into the darkness. Click to view the dossier for Desmodus Looking to dive right into the action, Fjordhawk can forge close bonds with humans as wholeheartedly as any canine or primate. A tamed Fjordhawk is a surprisingly playful companion that is very capable of fetching targets that you point out. A well-trained Fjordhawk can locate injured prey and communicate its find to you. Click here to view the dossier for Fjordhawk Acting as a functional weapon skin for the TEK sword, Mjolnir packs its own special powers and empowers Survivors with supernatural might. Devastate your foes with shocking ease as you exercise control over the element of lightning. However, not every survivor will pass the test and be considered worthy to obtain the mighty Mjolnir. Will you be up to the challenge? The launch of Fjordur also marks a new season of Conquest PvP. Check out the updates below before hopping into the new season on June 12th at 10AM Pacific!
Head here to be in direct contact with the Enforcement team for Conquest Season 4. Remember to be respectful to the team, this discord will remove any distracting participants. Join the Discord See the full post if you're looking for more information on Conquest PvP and the new season coming up! There is an ongoing EVO Event until Monday, June 20th. You can find the rates below: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form K O K U S H I B O U#5261 I bought psn to buy ark back in 2020. My lil bro underestimated the game bc I played before on mobile, but once when I woke up on the beaches of the island for the 1st time on ps4, my bro was shocked, the graphic was much better than mobile one, atleast more FPS than mobile and then my brother wanted to play splitscreen with me. I answered "yes" and we started going into the journey of the island for the 1st time. Both had to get used with the settings but i got used quicker, cause I played more than him. We together struggled alot gaining the artifacts. We collected them all 3 times. A challenge was for us the taming methods too and the difficulties of certain biomes. We didn't know alot about the resistance but my bro put most of his levels on health and died out often in the ice caves and lava cave from taking the artifacts. For us, was the mutation system also complicated but we didn't know anything, and bred random rexes to built the entire small island(Southern islets) full of rexes. I went alone taming two yuties bc yuties were my fav back then with their buff and roar. We were sweating when we tried broodmother(gamma) but...we won the fight easily and I was dumb and said"we gotta the guardians 3 times to gain all the tek gear" and we did that sadly. But we gained alot of element, extreme resource grinding and finally building the replicator with tek armor. My brother loved flying around or running on the water like a shinobi from naruto. We've been ready to face the gamma overseer. 6 rexes out of 25 fell in the lava. 2 sacrificed themselves against the terrifying giga. We beat up the overseer with strategy. One shoots off the drones, the other buffs the dinos. We finally ascended. We played ofc aberration too, it was very new for us the whole mechanic but...he refused when I asked him if we will fight rockwell. Today, he seems to play other games, and only playing fibercraft and generally on the game very rare.. Creator: NaturalCauzes What if civilizations formed in Ark? Would they create peace? War? Trades? In this video, I investigate this question by simulating human civilization in Ark with REAL players! [previewyoutube=Z_w3AwHEhzM;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: The Outcasts Preparing for the upcoming Fjordur launch? Check out this handy guide of optimal base locations by The Outcasts. Keep in mind: This video was filmed on the mod version and some of these locations may have changed. [previewyoutube=g1DadEomZsE;full][/previewyoutube] Fenrir by @sarekoube1 My ARK inspired art by Ally#8494 Meralbayr encountering some huge creatures by @NalakBel Good night, Ferrox by @rianeko_mabi Theo the saber by @artbychloe99 Vivarium Notes - Kahuere by Ampraeh Voidwyrm by Marsgirl01#5730 Yutyrannus Fan Art by die-no-sour Orick#1225 @TheWickedNinjas ycniV#1244 EDRin See you next week for the Fjordur launch! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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In addition to Fenrir, a creature that's native to the original Fjordur mod, Fjordur will launch with 3 brand new creatures! Will you look to tame the mobile tank first, seek out a helpful Fjordhawk companion, or stalk the night's sky to hunt your prey? Andrewsarchus makes its way to Fjordur packing an arsenal of utility! Andrewsarchus may seem sluggish while foraging for a meal, but they can move unexpectedly fast when provoked. Once tamed, its saddle will allow you to mount a minigun to the back of it! Click to view the dossier for Andrewsarchus As you might imagine, Desmodus prefers to hang out in dark places, waiting for its unsuspecting prey! If you're lucky enough to tame one, you can send Desmodus to snatch up small prey or saddle up and vanish into the darkness. Click to view the dossier for Desmodus Looking to dive right into the action, Fjordhawk can forge close bonds with humans as wholeheartedly as any canine or primate. A tamed Fjordhawk is a surprisingly playful companion that is very capable of fetching targets that you point out. A well-trained Fjordhawk can locate injured prey and communicate its find to you. Click here to view the dossier for Fjordhawk Acting as a functional weapon skin for the TEK sword, Mjolnir packs its own special powers and empowers Survivors with supernatural might. Devastate your foes with shocking ease as you exercise control over the element of lightning. However, not every survivor will pass the test and be considered worthy to obtain the mighty Mjolnir. Will you be up to the challenge? Every year, during the month of June, the LGBTQ+ community celebrates Pride Month in a number of different ways. Across the globe, various events are held as a way of recognising the influence LGBTQ+ people have had around the world and the struggles faced. Why was June chosen? Because it is when the Stonewall Riots took place, way back in 1969. Pride Month is important because it marks the start of change within the LGBTQ+ community, along with wider societal implications. Studio Wildcard stands in support of the LGBTQ+ community and we would like to make an addition to the ARK: Survival Evolved Official Discord with inclusion of an opt-in role for our LGBTQ+ community members and allies. Join the Discord We continue to work towards creating an ARK community where all LGBTQ+ people are included, where everyone is free to play as their authentic selves and enjoy a space that supports self-expression. It is more important than ever to recognize that systems of inequity based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, disability, and other forms of discrimination intersect and ultimately affect us all. We also support organizations that are driving change for issues that impact LGBTQ+ communities and, as such, we have made a donation to the Ali Forney Centre.Their mission is to protect LGBTQ+ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently. AFCs Founder, Carl Siciliano was named a White House Champion of Change by Barack Obama. You can learn more about them at https://www.aliforneycenter.org/ Please consider making a contribution to their efforts if you are able. You can also show them support by following them on Twitter We hope you enjoy your fancy new Unicorn Pride role and the rainbow-themed dino color event we kicked off with our 7th Birthday! We look forward to continuing to celebrate Pride Month with the wonderful ARK community, and more cultural, environmental and social awareness celebrations in the months ahead! Happy 7 years of ARK! We are so grateful for our amazing community and all of your support. Looking forward to what the coming years hold in store! Help us celebrate with a hand-picked rainbow-colored event featuring a bunch of colors loved by you & 2x on all rates! This event ends on Monday, June 6th. *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
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Creator: Tiia Are there really ARK creatures that don't like you? Tiia educates us on some creatures in ARK that we shouldn't be so trusting of! [previewyoutube=hiNinHBk6KY;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: ItzYouKnow It's not every day that you go looking for inspiration to build a giant UFO-like pillar but if today is that day, you're in luck! [previewyoutube=gwcF4I7nAUs;full][/previewyoutube] A few sketches of Rockwell by @VELUKO1 by @falco_luna (*`*) by @rianeko_mabi The Island - Beginning of the legend by @pon_tetsu130 @Hodgaming1 KS9#4211 @DreadTamer Stevie#4778 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: GG Fizz Check out this video GG Fizz released last month where he walks through the creation of a massive Medieval castle! GG Fizz is a ARK community builder that often helps with the builds in our trailers! [previewyoutube=enwXjsuDGFc;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Apex Check out this video GG Fizz released last month where he walks through the creation of a massive Medieval castle! GG Fizz is a ARK community builder that often helps with the builds in our trailers! [previewyoutube=NA9NXth9aZc;full][/previewyoutube] Incursion by @WolfTek7 Ravager by Natahi-4 The Stampede by R-Giganotosaurus by @sarekoube1 Pheonix by redpandaking#1929 Managarmr by Heart of Fire by Scutal Maewing Doll by sayvaris BlueSucho#4999 HoRiZoN#9407 @sarrisrainbows Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Chocoo#2155
Creator: Syntac I bet you were wondering if it's possible to solo tame the Extinction Titans weren't you. Syntac did our homework for us in his latest video! [previewyoutube=RiXLqe8kSGs;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: NeddyTheNoodle Maybe you've seen various takes on the '100 Days' series, but what about 20 real life days? Tag along as NeddyTheNoodle takes us on an adventure! [previewyoutube=enwXjsuDGFc;full][/previewyoutube] #playARK x #Avatar2 by @FeelsR3KTman Titacabane by UmbraDaiwrf0l Untitled by V1SERION#2775 Dont you dare by ilizzdragoness Calla Quickstep and Dash-n-Slash by Steeltalon Lagoon, my PaleoArk Baryonyx Oc by ShamroknRoll#1993 MicroRaptor by Lekjih#0997 @Freeza33 @trinshutup SuperDooM#2527 @Eferhilda (map by @Lucky_Fes) Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Rickzz#3486 (Part 1)
Creator: Rampy If you had 100 days to beat ARK do you think you could? Rampy sets out to answer the question in his latest video. [previewyoutube=bzuw4XURjW4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Viperr Who says you can't raid a base solo? Viperr shows us the way in the latest video of his solo raid series. [previewyoutube=FwRHrUesOMk;full][/previewyoutube] Don't forget to feed your pets by @ScutalTheLizard Commission | sewshichan by Nalak-Bel Snow Owl by @DNA_3000 Snow Owl by AvoidableIncidents Line Art of Jamie by Ares#2032 ARK Titans by @kawarayane ! Fried#3812 Starlight#0985 @harry12983476 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
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Dumb horse#5415
Creator: Bemo Guinness Follow Bemo Guiness as he tries to take on Valguero bosses using Shadowmane's! [previewyoutube=fjQJTdeVfxQ;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Python Are you looking for a new 'Let's Play' series to start? Looks like Python just started a new series on The Island! [previewyoutube=CntOz1VYuCw;full][/previewyoutube] Untitled by Riggy#6314 Argentavis Auram by Molly69929 Thylacoleo by VampireSessh Rock Drake by @ebiflyyyy4 Untitled by Gerald.#4819 Argen Watercolor Brush by @bonten_ARK @Muckey_59318 FunkyMunkeyGaming#8936 @DreadTamer See you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
Creator: Complete Games What are the best ways to heal your favorite companions in ARK? Complete Games takes a look at various methods of healing your tames. [previewyoutube=CrvWYbV5ag4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Veno Veno is taking a shot at ranking every tameable creature in ARK. Do you agree with Veno's assessments? [previewyoutube=_llyDlGRIzs;full][/previewyoutube] Adventure in Aberration by Sunima Me and my Bro as Bobs by Wallpaper#5740 Bulbdog by @ebiflyyyy4 New Piece to my Collection by BaseballxHero#4775 ARK-Boxelder the Rex by KattailsDesigns Relaxing Break ( `) by @sis_6193 @sam_stimo Bercas#3045 @JuhuLetsplay See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
With this transition, The ARK wiki has evolved into a long-term platform for ARK information to thrive! The community team looks forward to hearing your thoughts on the ARK wiki transition! There is an ongoing EVO Event included with Eggcellent Adventure. You can find the rates below: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Emotional_Pain#4695 I remember when I was playing with my friend in a server on mobile, since I don't have ARK on my PC. My friend had run off with a bunch of random tames to find a base location for us, while I was just building at the shore of spawn. I only had a parasaur and two dilos tamed, and my friend had a parasaur, dilo, baryonyx, and had recently got a free rex egg from someone. So what happened was I had recently finished building a thatch base because I didn't have enough engrams for wood or stone, neither did my friend, and I was AFK for some time in my small thatch base. When I was got back, I was about to leave my temporary base, but once I opened the door, I had seen a therizinosaurus right outside my base. I then closed the door, not wanting it to aggro me, and went to the back of my base. I was talking with my friend, who was working on their base somewhere, and then I eventually turned around to see part of my base destroyed by the therizinosaurus. I had no idea that dinosaur had seen me, yet I stayed in the back of my base and started shooting it with my bow. I somehow killed it about 5 minutes later, and I'm still impressed that I had done that since I was about level 17, I think. But that was also when I decided that I would head out to my friends base that they were working on, so I hopped onto my parasaur and started my journey. When I got somewhat closer to my friends base, I had spotted another therizinosaurus. Not only did it see me, but it also killed my parasaur and both of my dilos. It was a sad day, but I had eventually tamed a raptor, which made me a bit happier. It wasn't a high level, but I mainly used it for traveling faster. One I had tamed it and put a saddle on it, I continued my journey to my friends base. Shortly after, I came across a spino, and thankfully it didn't see me when I ran past it. Soon after that, a therizinosaurus came out of nowhere and killed my raptor. I ran for my life, and shortly left the server since I was completely lost. Creator: The Pilgrimz Project Check out this amazing and unique build by The Pilgrimz project! Enhance your raft build with this tour and build guide! [previewyoutube=T2gKzzV5XXE;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Nexxuz World ARKADIA 2 has begun and our Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audience has already begun creating amazing memories. Check out Nexxuz latest video if you're looking to learn more. (Tip: You can use auto-translate subtitles on YouTube if you don't speak Spanish). Content may be NSFW [previewyoutube=1EJfjLOuk74;full][/previewyoutube] Quick ARK Raptor Painting by @ItsCryptillian Stole the Dragon Egg by @TZULIN_ Progress on Shadowmane by Nachara#7563 Parasaur TEK by Pet1tFlan Island Guardians by Gerald.#4819 Ice Wyvern! by Acodan rhiannnnnnn12<3#5531 @YaBoiGasBoi See you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Dodo#6097 this was back in the early days a couple weeks after gigas were added and back when it was a big deal to have them. We traded the alpha tribe on our server 50 metal foundations for a giga egg (yeah they weren't too bright giving away their giga lines for some metal foundations lol) We were on official pvp and back then dinos grew up much much slower. Cryopods were not a thing back then so we agreed to take turns with the night shift to feed it. Eventually we all got off for the day except the tribemate that had the first night shift. Next morning we got on to find that the tribemate who was on the night shift had fallen asleep at his computer and the giga had starved to death clipsvideos.png Creator: GG Fizz GG Fizz shows off an epic medieval-styled castle in his latest video! [previewyoutube=vWUOL_GqZOE;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Negan XII Check out this amazing base tour of an ARK Official PvP mega tribe! [previewyoutube=KgvexweWnpw;full][/previewyoutube] Reaper Empress by UmbraDaiwrf0l Maewing From ARK by kitt0hokage Parasaur by Aurakin-Arts Main Survivor Speedrun by @NeoVanilluxe ARK 2 by @dibujosdevan Hootie Hoo :: Ark by MissLovely Messy Painting by Sunthoon#0432 @maroichigo0220 @kitaca_gm Have another eggcellent weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Greetings Survivors!
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Noow33#3702
PotatoChip#8458
Creator: The Pilgrimz Project The Pilgrimz Project is back with another epic build! This time, it's a gothic-styled castle built on Lost Island! [previewyoutube=yjCk8MBXpv4;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Clamen Follow Clamen as he strives to become the biggest tribe their cluster has ever seen! [previewyoutube=lbzByH5z7gg;full][/previewyoutube] My derpy rex <3 by Hotaru ARK Megalania by / My ARK Survivor by @SoupEvolved My Fire Wyvern Alkhiara by Gerald.#4819 You can always tell a former Aberration player by Tacimur It's almost Easter by @FeelsR3KTman @ARKLove9 #1650 Have an eggcellent weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
An ARK: EVO Event will be active on all platforms from April 1st to April 4th, with the following EVO perks: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
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Creator: Complete Games Are you looking to breed your first creature in ARK? Check out this helpful guide on hatching eggs! [previewyoutube=Rkl5TKgYwyA;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Cantex Who will survive this epic run? Cantex puts ARK creatures to the test in their latest video! [previewyoutube=tc-vkxhg4S4;full][/previewyoutube] @co3na3 - Aki-chan with Mukinishan! Maria.#6438 - Otter @bonten_ARK - WRYYYYY!!!!!! @HallOfFlameSs1 - Portrait Art of my Ark OC Youssef356#8262 - ARK Wallpaper Youssef356#8262 - Managarmr's Rider @Nekatus BlueSucho#4999 Have an eggcellent weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors! I continued my walk because I thought I had torches in my inventory. It got darker and darker and when I couldn't see anything I opened the inventory but I didn't have any torch... It was very dark I couldn't see where I had the necessary resources to make a torch, so I decided to stay where I was. and wait for the dawn. When morning came and there was enough sunlight for me to be able to see the path and the dangers around it, I keep walking south towards my house but something tragic happened. Creator: Sypher Sam Sypher Sam takes on the challenge of rebuilding the snow castle on Lost island without mods! [previewyoutube=hKPCV3C22yw;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: pterafier Everyone makes mistakes, but hopefully, pterafier can help you avoid a few you haven't made yet [previewyoutube=b-f8iSznXMc;full][/previewyoutube] Arkadia 1 Key Moment by @unluckyNisis The Little Griffin by layer Commission: Crystal Wyvern by capsartwork Prime Smilodon VS Griffin by UmbraDaiwrf0l Santiago Da Costa - ARK 2 by J-ManTheAngel Megachelon by RexMyPet Aberration Fan Art by @ScutalTheLizard #6634 Primal#7888 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
Creator: Aaron Longstaff Do you need some inspiration for your next build? Check out this creative Japanese-influenced build by Aaron Longstaff! [previewyoutube=HX6JK9mzTls;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Lucky Shot Are you new to ARK? With ARK now a part of the Playstation Plus subscription, these tips may come in handy for those new survivors! [previewyoutube=lw-8WPGrC20;full][previewyoutube=HX6JK9mzTls;full][/previewyoutube][/previewyoutube] War of Humans and Dinosaurs by Saprom Sino Drawing by YeetinYuty189#5689 Ferox by @falco_luna Painting made by a friend of mine by RyanOT02#9246 Glorp by naeriie#2439 Wyverns From ARK Survival Evolved by Daeodude Fletch#9534 (Created by Cpt Spanky) @Riinartist See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form Corrupted Empress Jasmine#7275
Creator: SINZAHH Check out the amazing storytelling and strategy behind setting up a heist on a hard and popular unofficial ARK server. [previewyoutube=DxY5DDFcoJc;full][/previewyoutube] Stealing Wyvern Eggs (Render) by Veno#5000 Penllyn by @ottermeal Ferox by @falco_luna Aberration-Themed Journal by TheUnskilledKwill#3155 Liopleurodon by Khimera Welcome to the Island by scartitan Jinx#7374 @properlyspoopi @NaturalCauzes See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! This week we've made some changes to the Community Corner. In the coming weeks, we'll be turning up the heat with more information and exciting reveals of the upcoming creatures debuting with Fjordur!
There will be no EVO event this week. Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form We've made some small upgrades to the Community Corner! We've seen our fair share of great art posted within the community and throughout the years, we've been honored to share that art using the Community Crunch as a platform. Going forward, we're applying a frame to the art we post in the crunch that includes the edition and date. Additionally, we'll be uploading these to a public community album to show the years of support the community has provided in one easy place. Every image in the album will contain the artist's name and source. If you're creating content for ARK, we want you to know we respect your art and appreciate your contributions to the community! We've created a form for artists to use when they feel their art is misrepresented or posted without credit. We're also adding a new section to the Community Corner - Community Stories! Recently, we held a competition in our Discord community for reaching 150K members. Members of the community shared their ARK stories for a chance at a prize. Considering we read so many heartfelt and funny stories, we made it a permanent section in the Discord and the Community Corner. So jump over to our Discord to share your own stories! krickiex89#8924
My Snow Dragon#5911
Creator: Sypher Sam Take a look at Sypher Sam's latest build - a castle port on Lost Island! [previewyoutube=n7NfodZyYG8;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Cantex How long can a level 1000 Alpha Rex last? Cantex tests the limits with this challenging deathrun! [previewyoutube=qk9Q0wXfZ2M;full][/previewyoutube] MEK by Razo4arovanie Allosaurus Design by @Ares33909104 Managarmr by DINODOG#8923 Crime. He Stole Her Crown by NeoVanilluxe#0900 ARK: Survival Evolved Armored Basilisk Fan Concept by @Emily_Art Wurm-Rider by zombeecakes KS9#4211 @SyntacYT See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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The third annual Love Evolved event is live until Wednesday, February 16th! While ARK is under Cupid's spell, go fishing for love and gain a chance at new skins, items, and five new chibi pets to collect! See below for the full event details:
Creator: Aaron Longstaff A well-known community builder, Aaron Longstaff, is back with a new stables build! [previewyoutube=mD1aZ-r3ed8;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: captain fatdog It's a simple question. Can an Amarga be tamed with a Giga? Let's find out! [previewyoutube=nOPquh_zb9E;full][/previewyoutube] ARK - CazadorR ARK Griffin Fanart - Saprom Hybrid of ARK Creatures - MudgyGaming#6313 Encounter - Asimos 10 Sc before disaster - Umbra_Daiwrfol #QueremosArkadia2 - @J0vando Golden Drop (shared by@NeddyTheNoodle) @Virtual_Optix Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
2/09/22 - 2/16/22
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Creator: spoonkid There's nothing more special than seeing someone's first ARK experience. Watch spoonkid take on The Island! [previewyoutube=gvfqa5trRdc;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Xavii Xavii just started a new PvP series on Genesis and ends up in a solo raid on Day 1! [previewyoutube=1Mi4fHbTYpo;full][/previewyoutube] Ao Yue - Toucanfishh ARK Aberration drawing - Saprom Untitled - CrowMother#0491 alpha fire wyvern - arcticthefoxwing Megalosaurus - @NeoVanilluxe My Dunkleosteus David - Gerald.#4819 lordLKkamikaze (Render/Remodel) KS9#4211 @zorafoxx (Clay Sculpture) Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
2/09/22 - 2/16/22
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
There will be no EVO event this week. The next upcoming EVO event will be a part of the Love Evolved event on February 9th. You can find the rates below: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Creator: Vitality Can Vitality hold off his attackers by himself in one of ARK's notable caves? Click play and find out! [previewyoutube=gfhxnMTZj0c;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CHipZz - Ark Builds Check out this giant cryopod structure by Chipzz! [previewyoutube=DrrSzdfrplc;full][/previewyoutube] Yuty go hunt - sangwiss16 Stormclouds - Archipelagornis Gaius Nerva - Ted Beer Gasbag ARK fanart - Radioactive_penguin Shadowmane - Robinson Vronti#4113 Lil house on the Prairie + Ark abb - Prissiie#6186 sebrexi#2167 FaTaL#9867 @ImEnFuego (Render) Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Happy New Year!
There will be no EVO event this week. Creator: Shockist Follow Shockist as he kicks off his latest Lost Island series! [previewyoutube=8Ia4MDn_GSQ;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Aaron Longstaff Aaron Longstaff shows us how to create a simple but elegant firepit. [previewyoutube=fVW3vqBLyVY;full][/previewyoutube] Gas bag lift by @illust_Junk Helena by IcyHoroku ARK Traditional Painting by Firefly Chowder the Christmas Yuty! by Sparky16#6587 The herd by Ampraeh 2021 summary of my journal project for my Ark OC Jamie by @Ares33909104 2021 summary by @NeoVanilluxe Shadowmane by Nachara#7563 Silke#5949 @Riinartist (Render) See you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
And the result is usually someone that only a minority are actually happy with. On top of all that, live-results further exacerbate the problem. If someone likes the Penguin, but sees that its in 5th place (out of 10), theyre going to think that voting for the Penguin is throwing their vote away even though thats what they actually want to vote for. This is where RCV comes in. With RCV, you rank all of the options from want the most (rank 1) to want the least (rank 10). Then we do the calculating (Technically, there are a bunch of versions of RCV but instant run-off is the easiest to implement, easiest to understand, and gives very good results) The best thing about RCV is that its always best to vote for the candidates you actually want! Even if they dont win, your vote isnt wasted. Your second, or possibly third or fourth or fifth votes will still get counted. Community feedback from the Lost Island vote made it clear that while the community appreciated having their voices heard, we think its important to improve the process to let more of you be heard. In the spirit of open communication, once the vote closes and we announce the winner, we will make the final data available publicly (anonymously, of course). We are confident that RCV is the best way forward, and look forward to seeing you cast your votes. CraigBrownCraigBrown Lead Designer, ARK2 Our first big release of the year, ARK: Genesis Part 2., was the final chapter of the ARK: Survival Evolved story is by far the most intricate and ambitious expansion weve yet created. ARK: Genesis Part 2 completes the eons-spanning story of ARK: Survival Evolved! Everything that your tribe has built, tamed, and fought for has led to this final challenge. We truly hope you felt it was a fitting story conclusion to the journey youve taken with us in ARK over the past 6 years! This year we held our first-ever community creature vote for Lost Island. ARK community members submitted hundreds of entries filled with creative concept art and gameplay ideas. During the submission process, the community continually voted on their favorite ideas. Dinopithecus emerged victorious after rounding up the top 10 submissions! Voting is underway for the next community-voted creature! Go check out the Top 10 creature submissions and vote on your favorite concept for the upcoming free DLC map Fjordur! In 2021 we launched ARK on Stadia with cross-play, enabling you to team up with thousands of PC players online or enjoy a solo Jurassic experience if you prefer to rough it out alone. From Love Evolved to Winter Wonderland, 2021 saw no shortage of in-game ARK events and unique skins. The T-Rex inflatable costume went "ARK viral" as it spread in pictures and videos throughout social media. ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition launched in the latter part of 2021 including everything the ARK franchise has to offer. ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition includes ARK: Survival Evolved, along with: Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis Parts 1 & 2. All updated and optimized with every improvement made since the launch of the base game, adding up to thousands of hours of gameplay! As an additional bonus, this compilation also includes original soundtracks containing the music of ARK as composed by Gareth Coker. This seventh year of participating in GameDay with ExtraLife puts us well over $450K raised and we couldn't have done it without the ARK community! We are grateful for our generous, supportive players, partners & sponsors, & the opportunity to help facilitate this endeavor. Lost Island is the most recent Official Map that comes from the ARK modding community. Lost Island boasts 150 sq km of exploration and is the first map to include a community-voted creature. It's a pleasure to close out the year and holiday season by getting Lost Island and 3 new creatures into the hands of more ARK survivors! At midnight EST on Dec 31st and midday EST Jan 1st, our Official Networks will be bombarded with raining gifts in a hail of fireworks to mark the end of 2021. These gifts will contain a collection of your favorite skins from past events that are currently unavailable and a chibi bonanza! And by bonanza, we mean, the drop rate of Rare, Very Rare and Legendary chibis will be dialed to over 9000! 'Happy New Year!' event is now enabled on Official Servers. The event is set to go off at approximately Midnight EST and Noon EST on the 1st of January 2022. Servers running the event will be bombarded with raining gifts in a hail of fireworks to mark the end of 2021. These gifts will contain a collection of your favorite skins from past events that are currently unavailable and a chibi bonanza! And by bonanza, we mean, the drop rate of Rare, Very Rare and Legendary chibis will be dialed to over 9000! Unofficial Servers can enable the event with the following commandline param: -NewYearEvent To modify the times, the following commandline parameters can also be used: ?NewYear1UTC=1640995200 ?NewYear2UTC=1641038400 You can use https://www.epochconverter.com/ to get your appropriate timestamp. Please keep in mind that this event cannot be run before Midnight EST on the 1st of January 2021, so if you wish to change your time it would have to be set after that. Some additional notes: This event can only be run ONCE on a savefile (with 2 triggers). If a server is set to run the event at a time already passed, then on load the server will immediately trigger the gifts. If a custom time isn't set, then the event will run default at Midnight EST on the 1st and again at Noon. 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Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Thursday the 14th of Dec until Thursday the 6th of Jan. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
ARK | Fire !! (Static) - Speedpaint by Nalak-Bel Firefly's Light by Firefly Yuti and Sino Sketches by DiscountWendigo#5827 Syntacrops by TheUnskilledKwill#3155 Chogono @TheWickedNinjas Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Looking to get started in the ARK universe? Play ARK: Survival Evolved for FREE starting now through Monday 12/20 at 10AM PST. You can also pick up ARK: Survival Evolved at 67% off the regular price! |
This aggressive sauropod from the Cretaceous period is a force to be feared across Lost Island. Amargasaurus formidable thermal spines will burn or freeze anyone unfortunate enough to stray into their range. Closer still, these titans can thrash enemies to shreds with their spiked tails This perky, protective little Jurassic pterosaur can become a living glider for their master. From its perch on your shoulders, Sinomacrops will break your fall and let you soar away from trouble Voted onto the island by the community at large, this baboon bruiser defends its master with remarkable ferocity. Dinopithecus will sweep you up with its tail and carry you up sheer walls on its back. Tame a troop of them, to unleash a hail of droppings packing a parasitic payload capable of shutting down enemy Tek Check out our Lost Island Launch Details post for useful information on the Lost Island rollout! Today marks the start of the Winter Wonderland event! Survivors can stay warm in their festively decorated homes with Holiday Lights, Decorative Christmas Trees, Wreaths, Wall-Stockings, Snowmen, and more! Fill your stocking with presents from past Winter Wonderland events, or treat yourself to a brand new Animated TV Show Parasaur Skin! The full Winter Wonderland event details can be found here. |
The Lost Island rollout begins with PC first then consoles later in the day on Tuesday, December 14th! Explore the soaring heights and hidden depths of ARK's newest official community map, featuring three new creatures for you to tame! Lost Island boasts 150 square kilometers of new biomes, new challenges, and mysterious ruins. Discover jungle valleys fed by giant waterfalls, build a treehouse high in the forest canopies, get down and dirty in vast mangrove swamps, dive deep underwater, brave treacherous snowy peaks, or spelunk uncharted cave systems in search of treasure There's something here for everyone! Lost Island is the first community map released with three new creatures, and the first to include a creature chosen by the ARK community. Unleash thermal hell from atop your Amargasaurus, glide into battle with Sinomacrops at your back, or treat your enemies to a shower of Tek-disabling Dinopithecus dung! Stay tuned to our official accounts for more details on the launch timing! We're in the giving spirit and we've stashed away some ARK loot for the holiday season! If you missed out on an opportunity to score a Dodo plushie, Noglin plushie, or Noglin hat, this holiday season will provide ample opportunity.
We want to see pictures of your Lost Island tames, your event-colored dino's, your fan art, your ARK holiday decorations, or videos of your ARK holiday experience! get creative! The rules are simple, make it ARK and make it epic! Each winner will receive 1 Dodo plushie, 1 Noglin plushie, and 1 Noglin hat. You have until the end of the Winter Wonderland event (Thursday, 1/6) to get your submissions in or make donations to the Studio Wildcard ExtraLife page! Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Tuesday the 14th of Dec until Thursday the 6th of Jan. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Creator: Aaron Longstaff Looking for some new build ideas for the new year? Check out Aaron Longstaff's latest video! [previewyoutube=ghAtJDnUCkw;full][/previewyoutube] Rockwell by KingKillianNight It finally snowed by @VELUKO1 Untitled by The Collector#7703 Bulbdog and Element by naeriie#2439 TEK-Goat by M1mple Fur and fang cryo attacks by Umbradaiwrfol @EgoSilentium @TheEarrion Theziren Smeltback#0900 Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
There is an ongoing EVO event as part of Turkey Trial 5 that lasts until December 7th. *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Creator: Syntac We've seen many community members take on the challenge, but can Syntac survive 100 days in Hardcore? Let's find out! [previewyoutube=ni_6nvCSEVk;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Aaron Longstaff Just starting out in ARK? Check out this perfect wooden starter house by Aaron Longstaff! [previewyoutube=pIqWLFU0fa0;full][previewyoutube=ni_6nvCSEVk;full][/previewyoutube][/previewyoutube] Bulbdog Fan Concept Commission by EmilyStepp Raptor Painting by Firefly Genetically Altered Therizino by Ares#2032 "You woke up the monster... didn't you?" by @VELUKO1 Turkey by @Snudoo1 Blue T-Rex on Fire by M1mple @NaturalCauzes / NaturalCauzes#0230 Chogono Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
(acquired via killing Super Turkey's for Wishbones)
There will be an upcoming EVO event as part of Turkey Trial 5. Creator: SINZAH SINZAH is back with another exciting solo raid video! [previewyoutube=b-GcV09_p_M;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Sypher Sam Sypher Sam constructs the infamous Forerunner structure from Halo. [previewyoutube=FLHyW_gME9s;full][/previewyoutube] (OC) Sketch dump Saron and her pets by Escapado-draw King Titan by ArtofEliza What a boring day part 2 by Suricato forzuto#0596 Untitled by Larry-The-Lombax#4466 DodoRex by @N_si_93 Undead Spinosaurus by Whitesekhmet @VenoEdit (3D Render) RazerBandit#0770 El Shu Have a happy Thanksgiving! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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The Lost Island free DLC map will be released on all platforms on December 14th, 2021! Take a look at this Amargasaurus, Dinopithecus, and Sinomacrops spotlight we showed during the stream! [previewyoutube=dQMoC8IQe3U;full][/previewyoutube] Fjordur is a Nordic-inspired mod community map that will be coming to all platforms as free DLC in June 2022! Andrewsarchus is one of the 3 creatures that will be released with Fjordur. Want a chance in picking one of the other ones? Check out our Creature Submission Forum for details on how to submit an entry! Kicking off the stream, we have a chat with a representative from the UF Health Shands Children Hospital about where the proceeds go. Interview with Representative from UF Health Shands Children's Hospital Cedric and Zane stop to chat with a representative from ExtraLife. Interview with ExtraLife Alex Laurant, the Art Director for ARK 2, sits down with Cedric and Zane for a chat. interview with Alex Laurant Jesse and Gareth have an in-depth talk about ARK music composition and community favorites. Interview with Jesse and Gareth Here's a sneak preview from the 7 hours of original Gareth Coker music found in the ARK The Animated Series: https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-wildcard/ark-the-animated-series-music-by-gareth-coker Jesse interviews Clayton D'Mello, an artist on the Studio Wildcard team. Interview with Clayton D'Mello and Jesse Clayton was given a unique challenge when Twitch chat was given the opportunity to direct Clayton's next creature design. The chat was given options and Clayton drew live on stream! Clayton Draws Pt 1 Clayton Draws Pt. 2 Zane demos an early build of Lost Island on the Steam Deck Steam Deck and Proton ARK: Survival Evolved is fully functional on Steam Proton, which means it'll work right out of the box if you're lucky enough to get your hands on a Steam Deck! It fully supports the expansions packs, free maps, and mods. As of this week, we've also got it working with BattlEye which means you'll be able to play on Official Servers or other BattlEye supported servers. Linux players can also get their hands on the Proton version by downloading the Steam Beta client and in ARK's steam game properties, make sure you've enabled "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", this will enable the use of Proton. In the future we'll be moving Proton to the default version of the Steam Game for Linux players, however, we'll continue to support the native version which will be required for older hardware as Proton requirements are higher. At that time we'll provide further instructions on how you can switch to the native version, but for now it won't be necessary. Thank you for helping us reach our goals and supporting a great cause! The Studio Wildcard Team |
As we reach various donation goals, we will increase the Official Server Network rates. If you're an ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile survivor, you're in luck! Our friends over at Grove Street Games will be matching our final rates for at least 24 hours at the close of our stream at 9am PST on Sunday, November 7th. As we reach the specified donation goals marked below, rates will be updated on all Official ARK servers. Please note: The rates may take up to 15 minutes to be reflected on your server. Be sure to keep an eye on our ExtraLife 2021 page to see current donation totals and Official Server rates! Feel free to hop into our Discord or Twitch channel during the stream to hang out! We're looking forward to putting on an epic charitable cause tomorrow! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: Raasclark What's your favorite ARK soundtrack? Even Gareth Coker himself has taken an interest in Raasclark's latest video! [previewyoutube=hEzbyI9FlMg;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Clamen Check out this recent video from Clamen where he goes on attack against three different tribes. [previewyoutube=Yb2SYcj7YwI;full][/previewyoutube] Dinotober Day 25: Ark Giganotosaurus by LionsAngel22 Ark Halloween Implant by Allenolantern Fear Evolved by @kawarayane Lightning Wyvern from ARK by ZOMKIBBY by @NeoVanilluxe Noglin by @J0vando @Nekatus ZuzKrr @DreadTamer Have a great Halloween! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Go scouting for all the past Fear Evolved content while treating yourself to 5 new spooky themed chibi's, 2 new full-body skins, and 4 new shirt prints to add to your growing collection! Spooky Encounters
Event Chibis (acquired via killing Dodowyvern/Dodorex or Cooking Pot recipe)
Ghost Creature Skins (acquired via killing Ghost creatures)
Items
Emotes (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)
Skins (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)
Creature Event Colors
There is no EVO event this week Creator: SINZAHH Want to see an epic solo raid that led to a plentiful bounty? Look no further! [previewyoutube=XCJgV-iDZNo;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: nakedzombo Taking on the ever so popular TV series, nakedzombo puts on an episode of The Squid Games, but in ARK! [previewyoutube=Y8gxC1FwNiM;full][/previewyoutube] Firelight by Archipelagornis Ice Titan by @kawarayane First Rock Drake by @sis_6193 The DodoRex by @Snudoo1 Untitled by @eAV25EGDmWnbjXu Quick Kitty Doodle by @ChloeFr73367791 Rarvynth#7106 @_Jukari101_ ZuzKrr See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: pterafier We are all excited to see what the Season 1 MONARKY series has in store! Check out the trailer below and hop on over to Episode 1 if you're as interested as we are! [previewyoutube=3DJO06xFjtQ;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: The AxeMan Get an early look at the new Titan Map by @codigoalex_. We have a feeling this will be a popular community map! [previewyoutube=yMv5W1PqnPM;full]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvfUue7Lr0[/previewyoutube] X-Yutyrannus by Amberghini Feeding the Little Ones by Nalak Godzilla vs. the Ice Titan by Daizua123 The Scorched Earth Guardian by Kitty#7656 Fanart of my Shadowmane by Fordale#4520 Untitled by MayaPatch#8071 Khal Alastor -Dusk-#8673 (Edit) Prissiie#6186 @DreadTamer (Fjordur) Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: The Johtunn Bandit What is an super-omni-trap? Check out this video which boasts to hold over 65 creatures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bReFrh_WEnY Creator: Cantex Do all ARK creatures stand a chance against the Ice Titan and Forest Titan? Let's find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvfUue7Lr0 ARK Survival Evolved Hollow Knight by Chervendiga TEK Therizinosaurus Fan Concept by EmilyStepp Acro Head Final by GarboAnimations Three Gun Mussel by @J0vando Ark fan art by LionsAngel22 Aberration by archipelagornis Avie @XxStevieLad87xX @Petergames_666 Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: UpFromTheDepths Check out a teaser for the upcoming episode to the Paleo ARK series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5JyvyJO8Po Creator: Syntac Would you try and fight The Overseer with a Deinonychus? Well, Syntac did! Find out if he succeeds! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7XMyBAHGI Primal Fear by GustavoGarcez "Kiara" The Shadowmane by Irinaal9 Giganotosaurus by @N_Life93 Battle For The Highlands by Kitty#7656 Jerboa by LunarSiren#8178 @sis_6193 Rasvim1313#2269 tilou Who the hell#1082 @sam_stimo Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Were also working on getting all of these changes moved over to console as soon as possible. This includes the quantity-display in different locations and fixing/improving the PlayStation version of the Dedicated Storage box so that youll be able to see the quantity of the items on the box itself similarly to the other platforms. An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 20th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!
Creator: Shockist Follow along with Shockist as he takes you on a tour of the largest official genesis 2 base! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbG1pCyLUHU Creator: SINZAHH Ever wonder what you can accomplish as a solo player in ARK? SINZAHH takes us along for an epic solo raid! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lfEaYL3I0 The Grave of the Lost by Kitty Untitled by @kawarayane Reaper by @KarkinosGaming Rockwell (Pyschonauts Mashup) by @edmundium Crystal Wyvern by Dronade#0814 MR RED#4506 J S @EgoSilentium Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Creator: Leo The various '100 days' series have become popular in the community, so here's a different take: 100 days as a master tamer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTVpHndbfw Creator: Cjthecheesedj Are these the top 10 traveling creatures to tame? Chime in and let us know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4askVKDbc ARK Raptor evolution to TEK by @Ica7 Ferox for Jinx by alphaeuscreatives ARKrptr by salamantha Mei Yin by & Prissiie#6186 CryptidCorvids#0449 Good luck Shinehorn by Kitty#7656 @LolosArtCorner @PurdyTrevor @sarrisrainbows Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Creator: Finn Reinhardt Want to see what happens when some well-known creators and players from the PvP and ARK community hide valuable items on an Official Server? Check out this amazing cinematic story from Finn Reinhardt! [previewyoutube=ahHGEgRUjco;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Sefiro Ultima Learn one of the more complex builds to pull off in ARK, the spiral staircase! [previewyoutube=UVVEv7ICeIY;full][/previewyoutube] Genesis 2 by @co3na3 [VN] Pet me mommy ! by Ampraeh I can haz element? by nezuyu Genesis 2 Vibes by Firefly VELUKO#6347 Ares#2032 The Amazing "Gacha" by Oriah @slime_of_toilet Matte iru Lietz | Comms Open#2149 @ARKLove9 Sayvaris Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors!
Creator: Schwalbe Check out a brand new "Lets Play" series on Extinction with Schwalbe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuw3iLFGkg Creator: Hearts Looking to take on the Crystal Islands map? You might want to see how Hearts fared in his new YouTube series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4a7m-UF2I Kiryu Coco | ARK: Survival Evolved by Cubicorn The roaring giganotosaurus by locelotkal Spinosaurus by Archipelagornis Managarmr by Diaboli666 Shinehorn by MiniVulpix Crystal Wyvern by Oriah Untitled (Discord Submission) by HallOfFlameSs#3779 ZuzKrr Chogono Have a great weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Greetings Survivors! |
Behind the scenes, we've been busy with the upcoming Lost Island map, new creatures, stability patches, and much more. With the live-game, we've identified an issue that results in a crash when releasing tames from cryopods on Player Dedicated and clients on Win10. We are working on a resolution and hope to have more news early next week! |
Final voting for the second creature to be added to Lost Island has concluded. A few weeks ago, we created a forum where you could submit your ideas for creatures that will be added to Lost Island. From there, we narrowed it down to the top 10 up-voted submissions. Over 15,000 votes were submitted for the next Lost Island creature andonly 1% difference separating the Dinopithecus and the Carcharodontosaurus! Talk about a close finish
Creator:Captain Fatdog You can make your life a lot easier with this simple fish basket build by Captain Fatdog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvlC8XaOOww Creator: Zany Zebra Here is another take on '100 days in ARK' but this time in Abberration. Does Zany Zebra have what it takes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqF34RpLg0A BioKiller72-Scanner 20200916 Frost-Strike -ARK Raptor Sterva-666 -Otter @Emily_Art-Fan skeletal anatomy concept of Ferox @TekARK3 - The Last Frontier @ChimeraGirl_ -Kevin, our beloved @ThePilgrimz @OnFire944 @XxStevieLad87xX bear hunter See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Congratulations to all the winners! We will reach out via Twitter with information on redemption. In an effort to consolidate all the useful information from the community, we've made some changes to our bug reports section. Console and PC players will now use the same bug reporting process. Instead of relying on multiple sources to identify bugs, the QA team can focus their efforts on one consolidated, well-maintained source. When reporting a bug it's very helpful to our QA team to include a repro (the steps required to reproduce the bug). With a detailed step-by-step instruction the person investigating will understand how to reproduce the issue. Listed steps should be as detailed as needed but also as simple as possible. Ideally, your bug should be reproducible. It's great if your steps are robust enough to reproduce the bug without any ambiguity. If it's not reproducible every time you can still file a bug mentioning the periodic nature of the bug. Additionally supporting information like video evidence, is often needed to take action on your request. Take a look at our guide on submitting video evidence when creating a support ticket. Bug Reports: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/ There will be no EVO event this weekend. Creator: everynightxRIOT Take a look at an unreleased Godzilla mod with everynightxRIOT. Does it stand a chance against ARK kaiju's? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFBm8KO-ZsM Creator: NeddyTheNoodle Check out an excellent visual of John Dahkeya's story, based on explorer notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47zRGaF-veQ brzozan - [ARK] Reaper iirha - Wyvern Sisters FyrnOfficiel - Travel in the swamps (ARK fanart) Firefly - Acro FULCRUM#0250 (Discord) Nutte Sac#6969 - X-Mosasaur (Discord) T 1 L 0 U#0001 (3D Render) @EgoSilentium Maddrik#0401 @TheEarrion See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Creator:Ark Tested ARK Tested really tests the limits of tiny-house living in this example of building with a compact footprint in mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-VJr37eOH0 Creator: NaturalCauzes You think you know everything about the TEK suit, but do you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlXDyW4Ykig vaalbaracreeps - Yutyrannus @Snudoo1 - Summer Bash Parasaur @WolfTek7- @WanchanPlay Survivor @Ares33909104 - Dilo (Discord) Whitlynx#2923 (Discord) antloverguy#1145 - X-Mosasaur (Discord) @koharu_SD Fierro#0106 @sarrisrainbows @YoutubeGingie @RaeVan87 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Still looking to get your hands on the elusive Genesis 2 plushie. Don't worry. The ARKitects are hosting a Summer Bash event where they will be giving away plushies. Plenty of known ARK community members will be joining and participating. Be sure to join the live stream and follow the ARKitects Twitter account for more information! Creator: pterafier Check out these useful beginner tips for beginning ARK players. If you're already past the beginner stage, check out his other videos for more advanced tips! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpGEM2Zdwk Creator: The AxeMan The AxeMan shares his top 10 official maps. Take a look and see if you agree! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyeFLe4KuDY MiniVulpix - Boden, My Argentavis - Ferox Toaster21648 - Amargasaurus axoNNNessj - April and Alana Vilkas GodzillaXL#3486 - Riding Astro antloverguy#1145 - Bulbdog named "Chunky" KCrownee (Render) @SyntacYT @Noah_Caprihorn @RaeVan87 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, Extinction City Terminals, Orbital supply crates on Extinction, or Mission Terminals and etc) After: Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, Extinction City Terminals, Orbital supply crates on Extinction, Teleporters, Dispatchers, or Mission Terminals and etc) Keep up to date with the Code of Conduct: here. If you know of an exploit on Official Servers, be sure to check out our Bounty Thread. We provide bounties for anyone who can report hacks or exploits of any kind (which are NOT aimbots/esp/speed hacks) that can have a serious impact on gameplay or server stability on our official, online servers. We've rewarded players with over 50k! An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms from now through June 28th, with the following EVO perks:
veluko - Voidwyrm Papryczka03 - Rockwell Portrait Ocelotka - Jerboa axoNNNessj - Megapithecus Tri#0001 - Helena Xenix#7589 - Shadowmane Freasaloz @EgoSilentium FoxFox @NaturalCauzes See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms from now through June 21st, with the following EVO perks:
@N_Life93 - Managarmr @kawarayane - ARK Genesis Part 2 Rockwellium#0952 - Shadowmane O Abel joga - ARK Art AnaLoup90 - Scottish Kilt in Ark? Fubukii - Space Creatures @ARKLove9 @FPumpkin0214 @woahitsbandit murph_661 @SelinaDaol See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
The entire team has been having a blast and enjoying all the Genesis 2 content you've been sharing. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! As the team continues to iterate on some bugs from the latest launch, we wanted to take this time and talk about something we've seen across the minds of the survivor community:
We'll be contacting you on Twitter with a code for your requested plushie! An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms from now through June 14th, with the following EVO perks:
Creator: captain fatdog Last week we showed you how to tame a Maewing, but it might help to learn how to trap one. The trap master, captain fatdog, is back at it! [previewyoutube=KkS4g7Vt9yw;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: CHipZz - Ark Builds After you've trapped and tamed Maewing, what's next? Building a perfect hatchery! [previewyoutube=qBr9I1eocKQ;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Evolution Curios What a ride it's been! Take a look at a journey through ARK! [previewyoutube=CHb9P46N4Yw;full][/previewyoutube] @PatheticLlamas - A Journeys End @TekARK3 - Locke and HLN-A @JLNHD_z - NexxuzHD and Astrodelphis @TekstelArt - Sketch of ARK Character @ceridonias - Shadowmane @Enoch_Parsons - Rockwell Fanart @GGFizz4 (Additional credit for CC cover image) @EgoSilentium @Nekatus @sefiroultima Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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The team is busy preparing for the Genesis 2 launch on June 2nd. Thursday we appeared on the TwitchGaming Weekly show and dropped a few unseen Genesis 2 teasers:
@IhanamakiRiina - Deinonychus EmilyStepp - TEK Rhino Concept for @niceguysrage @HallOfFlameSs1 - Fate of the Cosmos @dianyland - #ARKeanos @dodemo_kensyou - Astro Family @hiremewildcard - Lost and Confused @NaturalCauzes @bry_shel We can't wait to get Genesis 2 in your hands next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Today we stopped by The Weekly TwitchGaming show and talked about ARK and Genesis 2 development. We didn't want you to miss out on all the action, so here's everything you may have missed: |
We're at the home stretch for the Genesis 2 launch and we're sharing the last few things before you get to hop in and experience it yourself. Check out our latest post for an update to the Genesis 2 release, and a first listen at the main theme!
Creator: The AxeMan Captain Fatdog shows off the Millennium Falcon, built on Xbox with ThirdEchelon for the ARKitects #MayThe4thBeWithYou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svK6x3v0h8A life-k - Trike DraukaRalh - Baryonyx Morning Darken-Si - Helmsdeep my brachi @naeriie - Rest well friend Drawolf#0677 VALKEE#6347 RedGear17#6109 @PicturesOfArk (Isabell) CapDrac #0038 See you at the TwitchGaming show next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Weve had our heads down as we push to get ARK: Genesis Part 2 across the finish line, and wed like to take pause and touch base with an update for our community. |
The Genesis II reveals continue following the Canoe, Noglin, and the Minigun. This week we take at a few items that were hot topics during the original reveal in our charity stream.
Creator: The AxeMan Do you agree with The AxeMan's ranking of ARK's carnivores? Hop in and check out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Uj-D3MhvI Creator: Raasclark On a similar note, do you agree with Raasclark's community-ranked DLC countdowns? Let us know! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrW4veULVx0 @GMFoxyArt - Inktober DraukaRalh - Mourning Rider @Schneekauzi - ARK Survivor Notebook Dead Nitr0th3Edg3l0rd - Anomalocaris Dossier @_Rosefinch - Fully Inked @MEIPARK75263284 - Gasbags and Nikes Kai#3241 Chaotic#7548 @ARKLove9 Catch up with you next week, survivors! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
The Genesis II reveals continue following the Canoe, Noglin, and the Minigun. This week we take at a few items that were hot topics during the original reveal in our charity stream.
[h2]The Builds[/h2] R2D2 Credits: @captain_fatdog | @FPumpkin0214 | @Raccoon89p132 Ebon Hawk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vdjs6B8KRg Credits: @AaronLongstaff1 Imperial Outpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD-y-_LG5oo Credits: @knufflesandman (and team) Millennium Falcon Credits: @captain_fatdog | @ThirdEchelon111 EWok Tree Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AC2fjKEWo Credits: @UwereAmonkey Needless to say, there were more amazing builds in this event! be sure to check out the next ARKiteks event and give them a follow on Twitter to see more of what you may have missed! [h2]Fan Art[/h2] @kawarayane - ARK miaou#7777 - Shadowmane @MayaPatch89 - New ARK Commission @NeoVanilluxe - Upcoming Fan Comic #1650 - Dodo Din-The-Painter - Rock Drake Smile [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] @PicturesofArk @NappshizzleE0WH_tdXIAAFNnj.jpg NaturalCauzes#0230 Catch up with you next week, survivors! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Fresh off the Federation Crop Plot, Shadowmane, and the Loadout Mannequin images, we're following up this week with more images of upcoming Genesis II content.
Small Tribes Update As previously announced, the Small Tribes Rules have been updated and made more stringent to address some of the pain points youve experienced. Along with this comes the need for those sharing defenses to move those defenses or for some tribes to relocate altogether, depending on the location. The full rules can be found here if youd like to go over them Weve noticed there hasnt been much progression in this area and were past the end date of April 23rd! Because of this, weve decided to give players two more weeks as wed much prefer not to have tribes wiped by enforcement. Lets address a few questions that have come up from the community to make sure the cave/shared defenses rule is crystal clear. Wed like to take this time to clear up any misconceptions players may have gotten from the last post.
cheat spi 140679 -179843 -41208 174.82 -21.56 cheat spi 307462 -148205 -32354 75.56 -27.47 Enforcement will begin to take action on these and other similar cases after the 15th of May. These changes may just be the start, but theyve set the stage for possible fine tuning in the months ahead. EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk! It will be active from Friday the 30th of April to Monday the 3rd of May. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Community Corner Un gran Gracias a los organizadores de #ARKADIA y a toda nuestra comunidad Hispana por darnos un sin fin de horas de entretenimiento! "A big thank you to the #ARKADIA organizers and our Hispanic community for giving us endless hours of entertainment/Videos" [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: MrPilgrimz Mr Pilgrimz is back with an epic build that resembles a modern house! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jtPmm5PEU Creator: Neebs Gaming Leave it up to Neebs crew to pull off an entertaining and exciting event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-iZkFXex_c Fan Art SharkOwO#2662 - Wyvern @TekARK3 - The Fate Of The Cosmos JaxoJ#8855 / @JaxoJ - Randomly Mutated Achatinas not Eren Yeager - Dodo [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/8729288/9d41ef97979ddcda497b39590b1eb0f93b85640d.jpg[/img ] @Jak300000 - ARK x Pokemon Crossover [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] idontsk8#9263 Jacob Bilashakala#5529 Medusa Geek See you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Last week we began sharingnew images of Maewing, Exo-mek, and the Egg Incubation Device. We're continuing the trend this week by sharing more images of upcoming Genesis II content. |
We're heading right into the launch of Genesis II on May 26th, and we know you are eager to see what's in store. Well we are eager to share some of what we've been working on! |
The entire development team is excited and anxious to share Genesis II with you. Over the weekend, Jeremy Stieglitz (co-founder) shared some things he's been passionately working on for Genesis II, along with a teaser of ARK: The Animated Series. |
If you have any questions or need clarifications on the rules, don't hesitate to submit a ticket! EVO Event There will be no EVO event while Eggcellent Adventure is live. Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: Aaron Longstaff Aaron is back again, but this time with a sanctuary fit to house Sarcos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPx880XMujo Creator: Beanny Beanny has an ongoing series where he begins playing from the Island all the way to Genesis part 2. On this episode, he sets out to tame a Giga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-h2l2ckgQ [h2]Fan Art[/h2] Stray-Galaxy - Chalk Hills HermitHubby - Megalasaurus RRRAVEN- MeiYin and Wuzhui naeriie#2439 / @naeriie - Reine and Bernard [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] OnFire944#7809 catw3b Bush llama steve#3684 Have a happy Easter!!! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
From Wednesday, March 31st through Wednesday, April 14th, be on the lookout for wild Bunny Dodo's and Bunny Oviraptor's to gather Bunny Eggs for some eggcellent loot. Place down Bunny Eggs to paint on them, or use them in a Crafting Pot to craft special holiday-themed cosmetics including a new bunny tail skin, a new tail wiggle emote, and 5 new chibi's!
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Small Tribes Rules Update A couple of weeks back, we announced that we would be honing the ruleset for Small Tribes servers along with implementing some teaming report requirements in order to make our Enforcement Teams investigative process more efficient:
Community Crunch 257: LiveOps Update, New Sponsored Mods, and more! We consulted with our enforcement team and had some much-appreciated talks with a large number of players from the Small Tribes community in order to hone our approach to improving quality of life and enforcement on these servers. So, without further ado, lets get to it! [h2]Rules Overview[/h2] One of the most impactful changes will be considering tribes benefitting from another tribes defenses as teaming. We are giving 4 weeks notice (9th April 2021) before the enforcement team will act on these specific rules in order to provide tribes time to relocate or otherwise adjust defenses. Were also clarifying that open-world PvP is okay. The rules will get into the nitty gritty, but essentially, if its out in the open and away from a base and doesnt include a FOB or a bunch of dinos that can be considered raiding meta dinos eg: box build racers etc, its fair game to PvP freely and grab those kits. We want players to be able to have spontaneous fun in the open world without keeping tabs on who may randomly show up to join in. Another impactful clarification is: Bases in different locations are open to being attacked by different tribes simultaneously. In essence, dont build whatcha can't defend. [h2]Teaming ticket guidelines[/h2] Its impossible for the enforcement team to always join a server and investigate teaming reports live. Sometimes it happens and its great but wed like to improve on the efficiency of investigations, especially retroactive enforcement action after the fact if the team is unable to check it out live and in the moment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of teaming reports only include a screenshot of tribelogs and this is very rarely sufficient evidence for the enforcement team to take action. Weve put together a guide on what will assist you and the enforcement team in a more thorough investigation and swift enforcement action. Video should include short overview of action going on - Indicate the relative position of associated bases/FOBs - Please show who owns them (use spyglass) - If possible, try to show where the action is taking place (players/dinos) spyglass of people names - should show shortly before or after they teamed for longer videos - include timestamps where stuff can be seen - Tribe names and player names must be included in the videos - Videos should be submitted via a Youtube link (see help article) here Screenshots/videos of tribe logs is not sufficient evidence for action in the vast majority of cases. [h2]More Severe Enforcement Action: [/h2] Another change of note that works in harmony with more thorough submissions of evidence is the severity of enforcement action for certain cases. Enforcement will be looking at more frequently wiping main bases of offenders rather than focusing the FOB and player bans (those things will continue to happen too though!) Please be aware and take this as a heads up ;) The full updated rules can be found here Teaming ticket guide can be found here This round of changes may require further iteration but we consider some ongoing tweaking and potential growing pains worth it in order to provide a better experience for Smalls players in the long term. Looking forward to your feedback as we gauge how this plays out! Fan Content Guidelines ARK content creators are a large part of the core of the ARK community. Whether you share screenshots you take in-game, create videos of your experiences, stream, or make fan art, you are the force helping to create connections and communities along with driving millions of views and viewing hours of ARK content across social media platforms and streaming sites. Sometimes knowing what is fair to use and in what context it can be used may be a little confusing. Recently, weve been approached in regards to what type of content you can create and share without concerns that youre infringing on the IP. So, to make this simple we've created a page for ARK fans to help bridge the gap and understand whats fair game. Fan Content Guidelines We are grateful for your unending enthusiasm and engaging content contributions showcasing ARK over the last 5 years. Heres to the years ahead surviving, and thriving, in game! EVO Event There will be noEVO event this week or while Eggcellent Adventure is live Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: Tiia Ever wanted to get into breeding but didn't know where to start? You're just in luck! Tiia takes you on a beginner-friendly tour. [previewyoutube=Ee54pE2DsRQ;full][/previewyoutube] Creator: Jukari Check out the main them for ARK: The Lost Stories, an upcoming episodic series in the form of 3 standalone stories. [previewyoutube=GLyggu5kcCc;full][/previewyoutube] [h2]Fan Art[/h2] PikA - Ferox ARK :Survival Evolved EmilyStepp- Catapult Karkinos Concept DjayMasi- ARK Stories Preview Rexyzilla- Chibi Megachelon Slither06#0006- Snow Owl [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] RoyaleWithCheese (@FunWithCheese) Fet's Luck (puppa w/ dat ice)#8539 BackedbroomGaming#7846 catw3b See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Last week in ARK, we take a look at the difference between kills made by tamed creatures vs. kills made by wild creatures. The Island and Genesis are where we see the biggest disparities. What's your best guess on the cause of the difference?
Community Corner [h2] Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: Mgen Mgen show's us a simple but effective taming trap for the Giga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znWFvtpiMWI Creator: Kishko Interested in some PvP action? Join Kishko as he shares some of his PvP moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyX-t1QVoc Creator: GutsDestroyYou Looks like a gold mine to us https://clips.twitch.tv/HedonisticDelightfulCatEleGiggle-f0kY2Xrc4gfLtdpx?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed [h2]Fan Art[/h2] planty#0315 - Untitled ArtOfGriffinD - Desert Parasaurolophus Subber#2991- Untitled /#1582 - ARK Rodan VS Origin Wyvern(Primal Fear Mod) KingCrownee - Wyvernslight000000 Mister Purple Tentacles [Tri] Tri#0005 - Rockwell [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] @sarrisrainbows @PicturesofArk @Raven_Captures @XxStevieLad87x Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
LiveOps Update |
We know that what you want is news on Genesis II, so let's not mince words and get straight to it: We have decided to push our final DLC release date to May 26th, for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Stadia. Download in high resolution On behalf of the Wildcard team, we want to thank you for your ongoing support and passion. We're looking forward to sharing ARK: Survival Evolveds final climactic chapter with you! Studio Wildcard EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk! It will be active until Friday the 26th of February to Monday the 1st of March. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: Gamology Anthropologist and Survival expert, Kinga Philipps, reacts to ARK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQGIIZtzFQ Creator: Raasclark Want to get your hands on the latest Federation Gloves? Raasclark shows you how in a recent video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecxWnAwXLJU Creator: Sven P Check out an epic castle build deep in the Redwoods biome with Sven P. We've also included a screenshot of the completed build in the screenshots section. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usamez8j-es Creator: Mr Dolphin Say goodbye to thatTEK Skiff. https://clips.twitch.tv/TalentedDignifiedBaboonTwitchRaid-KJMEepDr94FkWbFe?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator:Rockapolis Gaming Here's a quick 3x3 base that has all the essentials you need to get started! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LejKuFkchjghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LejKuFkchjg [h2]Fan Art[/h2] KingCrownee-Zombie Fire Wyvern&Zombie Lightning Wyvern NeoVanilluxe-ARK Thorny Dragon Kohaku-senpai-Wyvern Vahilor -Santiago Mek Pilot HeatherPeoples-Griffin [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] sefiroultima#7980 Medusa Greek KingWillrus#2876 Keylleen Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Behind The LiveOps Curtain
We consider our continued approach to meshing to be three pronged:
Well share more on the world border changes when that goes live. [h3]Enforcement[/h3] Some of you dont feel your reports lead to action so we want to share more info about the action taken against players who cheat or otherwise break our Code Of Conduct. We are working on some solutions for better visibility for those affected by cheaters into punishments and actions taken against players that are consistently ruining the game via third party software etc. We hope to roll those out in the near future. [h2]Performance and Stability[/h2] Client and server performance was a focus through 2020. That said, over the years, weve learned to stop counting dodos before they hatch in regards to how noticeable performance improvements are. But now that we can see the combined impact of a year's changes, we can confirm some tangible improvements when comparing performance at the start of 2020 to performance today. [h3]Servers[/h3] Transfer system:
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[h3]Performance in-game[/h3] Structure placing and demolition performance update. The most significant boost to performance in-game that we implemented on our Official Network last November is the structure placing/demo update. Eliminated server calculation in relation to placing structures: Previously the server had to do some massive calculations involving checking all snapped structures to the structure being replaced to verify structural integrity. That calculation has now been eliminated as it is a replacement rather than the placement of a new structure in a new area. This is most noticeable on busy servers with large save files. Optimised server calculation for demolishing structures: The demolish change was a reduction on how much is actually being calculated. Its less complex in the way in which the server checks these things now so demolishing things will be less intensive aka cheaperon the servers performance thereby reducing lag, stalls and/or server frame drops when demolishing. We're not taking these gains as cause to stop iterating, though. There's still room to improve, so well keep pushing those out throughout 2021 too. [h2]Community feedback/connection[/h2] In some ways, when we update the game, were really updating something thats no longer ours. Its yours; its a creature, mechanic or DLC that millions of players may have grown to love, and we want to make sure we do good by you all first and foremost. This is a reason why we released an Official Discord, so we can get more feedback from players on the direction were headed. Thanks to a breadth of functionality, lots of our players have embraced the ARK Discord as a semi-public community platform. We find observing our player's thoughts and chatter, along with sometimes interacting with you in a live medium useful and enjoyable. This along with the more traditional forums and various feedback channels helps us to stay connected to the community. If youve made it this far, thank you for sticking your head behind the curtain with us. Do let us know if you find write ups like this interesting. Studio Wildcard EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk! It will be active until Thursday the 25th of February. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos [/h2] Creator: sotfleague This week was the first monthly tournament for the player-run SoTF league with a prize pool. Icebox came through with first place in the duos. This early game bow fight leads to a priceless reaction from the announcer. https://clips.twitch.tv/BumblingGracefulPistachioOptimizePrime-zjn1Mx3UXpX9B0sm?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator: Syntac Check out the latest Love Evolved update with Syntac! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LdnZ1Hql0 Creator: Alexby11 You have to answer when nature calls #ARKADIA https://clips.twitch.tv/SteamyRelievedFungusHeyGuys-o-zaU1xtHzz4N4kn?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator: AaronLongstaff1 Take a look at Aaron's stream of a Japanese-styled temple. He's building on Crystal isles, a perfect backdrop for this awesome build! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaq-RNBG7_g Creator: Feederi XD Throwback Clip: Fifi and tek jump pads go brrrrt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPxmANUP-V4 [h2]Fan Art[/h2] Sonne-Spiritwind - ARK: Coelophysis SlappyShotte - Com|Aberration sis_6193 - Let's go home early TekARK3 - Locke Terranova Slither06#9236 - Otter (Discord) [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] @mocco1218ga Sandi#9998 Tinner The Big Red Dovah#2333 Vattghornn#9974 Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator: Rubius Z #ARKADIA, an ARK event by a group of content creators, launched this week with much excitement. Join Rubius Z as he starts his ARK adventure! Check this out to find out more about the content creators that are involved and be sure to give the event Twitter account a follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgaVvqcj-VY Creator: sam_stimo Check out this Viking town build, complete with a port, docks, houses, a blacksmith, and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WivKxA6S6w Creator: nohistoryheregaming Never know when a friendly raptor is looking to welcome you to the neighborhood . https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlyManlyBaconMikeHogu-_9zfXbRK47vik1WO?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator: Sheplaysit You really can't rush a good ale . https://clips.twitch.tv/SuccessfulMoistHorseradishFreakinStinkin?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator: UpFromTheDepths In this documentary-style video series, UpFromTheDepths explores ARK in an entirely new way. This episode, Snowbound, focuses on the harsh winter season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thB1EWkeO8 Creator: NoHistoryHereGaming You never know when that friendly raptor wants to welcome you to the neighborhood . https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlyManlyBaconMikeHogu-_9zfXbRK47vik1WO?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator: IamMacMan Join I Am MacMan as they take us on a tour of their Owl Trade Base in this build showcase video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsz0Vah5j04 [h3]Fan Art [/h3] EmilyStepp - ARK Armored Reaper Concept NeoVanilluxe - ARK Dodorex Natahi-4 - Spinosaurus Aquareliga RRRaven#0666 (Discord) [h3]In-Game Screenshots[/h3] GirlKingThatOddThing#2542 KingWillrus#2876 Sandi#9998 auztyle#7907 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Last Week In ARK In this week's update, we take a look at bans and average deaths per server (PvE and PvP) over the past seven days. There were a total of 732 bans this week between the enforcement team and BattleEye. The Enforcement team bans are done manually after investigation for various infractions of our Code of Conduct and BattlEye's bans are implemented for detection of third party software/cheats. We are curious as to why our Xbox players have so many PvE deaths. Haha! EVO Event There will be no EVO event this week. The next upcoming EVO event will be on February 11th. Community Corner [h2]Clips/Videos[/h2] Creator:Simfinity_nin Tranquil rafting on the ARK. Kick back, relax, and sip on a nice brew in the sunshine https://clips.twitch.tv/ImportantMushyRavenBigBrother?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator:IceBox IceBox doing what IceBox does best in an awesome player-run Carry Your Bob SOTF Mod Tournament! https://clips.twitch.tv/PeacefulAlertMushroomNotLikeThis?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator:Zilara It's fine! This is fine! New vault drop meta https://clips.twitch.tv/GenerousPoorCiderSSSsss?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator:Circaskys We're not sure what is going down but ARK RP'ers don't do things by halves! https://clips.twitch.tv/SullenGrotesqueLegCharlieBitMe?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed Creator:bobbysama1 Awkies heh https://clips.twitch.tv/FineAgitatedAubergineKAPOW?tt_content=player_title&tt_medium=clips_embed/?&tt_content=channel_name&tt_medium=embed [h2]Fan Art[/h2] Feather Light-kawarayane Gen 2 Teaser -Locke.ARK#6239 (Discord) Standing Ground -RedGear17#6109 (Discord) The Dodo's Are In Love -NeoVanilluxe#0900 I'd Love To See This in the Crunch -@RoboticHat717 [h2]In-Game Screenshots[/h2] mangostars#7256 CHipZz - Ark Builds#9595 @ChristySoffe- My Little Beach House See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
[h2]Season 4 Changes[/h2]
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ARK II & ARK: THE Animated Series [h2]ARK II[/h2] ARK II, Sequel to the Multi-Platinum Dinosaur Franchise has been announced with major moves to expand the iconic survival universe! Were so excited to share the trailer with you! [previewyoutube=RG2aOpCQQSA;full][/previewyoutube] ARK II thrusts players into a brutal new world of primitive survival against both beast and man, facing down the ever-present threats of hyper-realistic intelligent dinosaurs, aggressive alien fauna, and the exotic environments of an unearthly planet. Survivors will continue ARK's dramatic eons-spanning story of humankind's evolution, in this next-generation sandbox survival experience! Catch the Official full length high-resolution trailer featuring Vin Diesel as the hero protagonist, Santiago Finally, here's a special treat from Gareth Coker, the first two Official tracks from the ARK II soundtrack! [previewyoutube=lTE6XKLbBkU;full][/previewyoutube] [h2]ARK: Animated Series[/h2] Studio Wildcard has partnered with acclaimed director Jay Oliva (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) to executive produce and co-showrun an original animated television series based on the hit video game ARK: Survival Evolved. Created and executive produced by the games creators Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak and associate produced by the games product managers, Jatheish K and Ihriel E, ARK: The Animated Series is currently composed of fourteen 30-minute episodes and has two seasons currently in production in anticipation of a 2022 launch. Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman, DCs Bombshells, Batman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Josie and the Pussycats) and Kendall Deacon Davis (Halo 4, The Wolf Among Us, Honor of Kings) are the lead writers for ARK: The Animated Series, which features an extraordinary voice cast! [previewyoutube=6ZBrMJSYi_o;full][/previewyoutube] Voice talent and character descriptions, in alphabetical order:
Vin Diesel has joined Studio Wildcard as President of Creative Convergence and will act as executive producer of both ARK II and ARK: The Animated Series. Diesel will also lend his voice talents as Santiago, a fully rendered hero protagonist, who will cross over from the newly announced video game sequel to the animated television series. From cutting-edge animation studio Lex + Otis and with music composed by Gareth Coker (Ori and the Will of the Wisps), ARK: The Animated Series chronicles the story of a mysterious primeval land populated by dinosaurs and other extinct creatures, where people from throughout human history have been resurrected. When 21st century Australian paleontologist Helena Walker awakes on the ARK after tragedy, she must learn to survive and find new allies, or die again at the hands of ruthless warlords -- all while trying to uncover the true nature of their strange new world. ARK fans will recognise many aspects of the lore and witness new depth and development to familiar characters. We cant wait to share more as we near the airing! To celebrate our latest news of ARK II and ARK: The Animated Series, we've created some special skins you can obtain in-game. Be sure to view the trailers from the ARK main game menu to get your hands on a cool anime raptor inspired from the animated series, or a hatchet and spear skin inspired from ARK II! Official Network PC Server Maintenance The Official PC Network will be undergoing maintenance at approximately 10PM on Wednesday, December 16th. We are expecting up to 3 hours of downtime during this maintenance period. We are scheduling this downtime so that it impacts the least amount of players. If there are changes to the proposed maintenance window timeframe, we'll provide a more specific timeframe prior to the maintenance period. EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event as part of Winter Wonderland! It will be active from Thursday the 17th of Dec at 1 PM EST until Thursday the 7th of January at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art ARK: Survival Evolved by EdenStarInc Giga in ARK 2 by Robinson Vronti (Discord) The Dragon by MoltenElement Feeling Nostalgic by naeriie Griffin by Toxin Yuty by Amberghini ARK 2 by AdamsAlive4kids Wishing everyone safe and happy holidays! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
Prior to the launch of Season 3 next week, we'll share more details on the launch and timing. EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk as part of the Turkey Trial event! It will be active from Tuesday the 24th of Nov at 4 PM EST until Thursday the 10th of December. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art DodoRex by Silatria Its a pink Argy by Beastboy (Discord) The Kings Call by FoxFox87 Therizinosaurus by kawarayane Face Off by nikout13 (Discord) Giganotosaurus at the Meadow by Cucumberg We can't wait to catch up with you at The Game Awards! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
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Live-Ops Update A message from our Product Manager: While gamers can sometimes squabble over the little things, like which console is better, the ARK community is nonetheless tightly-knit. It's no surprise then, that when the community loses one of their own, fellow players are eager to reach out and honour the player that has passed away Over the years, we have received some very touching messages from players who have lost fellow tribe members, family members and friends and chose to share their ways of paying tribute to them in-game with us. Many of us at Wildcard were touched by a players story shared on Reddit about his lovely wife Heather, who passed away suddenly. He and his sister made a tribute to her on Valguero (her favourite map) and shared this screenshot with the community We put our heads together to come up with a way we could add a lasting memorial to the game for, not only Heather, but for all of the Survivors who have Ascended. Jackson Lawrence, one of our talented Level Designers, kindly offered to spend his own time creating a lasting memorial and I think his work is just beautiful! Im humbled to be able to share our new addition to the Valguero map with the community. Thank you for not only allowing us to entertain you but also for inviting what we created into your lives. As a bunch of people wanting to make something exciting and immersive, were honoured when players take that beyond anything we can possibly do to forge their own connections with the game. Our world may not be real but your sentiment and attachment to it is. We hope our small gesture brings some comfort to players who have lost loved ones. - Dollie and the Studio Wildcard Team. [h2]DDoS Mitigation[/h2] Improving the health and stability of our network infrastructure is a huge priority for the team. One of the biggest hurdles we've faced stem from DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. These are malicious attacks on our network which lead to server issues such as downtime, poor performance, or not being able to connect. While these attacks are impossible to prevent entirely, the team has spent a considerable amount of engineering time on mitigating these attacks with our hosting partners to reduce the impact they have on your playing experience. As of the past few weeks, we have deployed some serious enhancements to the system and have such seen a dramatic decrease in server issues related to DDoS attacks on PC, Xbox, and PS4. Although things have improved, we will continue to monitor the overall health of the Official Network and work on advancing the technology to mitigate these attacks. [h2]Character Loss caused by Rollbacks & Auto Restoration[/h2] Preventing character loss remains of utmost importance to us. We've recently implemented the technology (and have had it running live on our Official Network) to auto-restore characters in the event that a server has experienced a rollback. Specifically, if a player has recently transferred to a server and for some reason, that server has done down without saving the world (crashed/restarted), upon it's next start up that character (presuming it hadn't left the server), will be automatically restored. We'll continue to monitor for character loss reports and identify opportunities to advance the auto-restoration technology. [h2]Disconnection Issues for Xbox and Win10 clients.[/h2] We have identified and fixed the issue causing players to regularly disconnect from Player Dedicated & Non-Dedicated servers on Xbox/Win10 every 30 minutes. The fix will be rolled out the upcoming Turkey Trial update on the 24th of November. [h2]Beginner Server Wipe[/h2] Just a friendly reminder that we're close to the next reset date on Beginner servers, which will take place on December 1st. For those not familiar, Beginner Official Servers are an experience for new ARK players to test the waters without the threat of thoroughly developed tribes. Unlike our regular servers, these have undergone some changes and will wipe every 8 weeks. First of all, there have been some limitations on how much a player or dino can progress. Player levels hit their cap at 44 and the highest encounter possible for wild creatures is level 30. Tamed creatures can receive up to an additional maximum of 30 levels. Due to the progression limits, some engrams are not achievable through leveling up but are found via supply crates. Some other changes include the disabling of alliances and tribe sizes have been limited to 5 members maximum. Below are the subsequently planned wipes based on the 8-week wipe schedule:
Black Friday Sales Don't miss your chance to grab ARK for up to 80% off in the XBOX Black Friday Sale Get started on your Black Friday shopping with ARK while it is up to 80% off in the Playstation Black Friday Sale! EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 20th of Nov at 4 PM EST until Monday the 23rd of Nov at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art Poglin from ImEnFuego Brontos Grazing from RoxaneLapa Parasaurolophus from Drekaava Crystal Isles: A quiet sunset by Melina799 Reaper Queen from Bob van Dorst (Discord) From MrMEOLA Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark |
What an eventful week it's been! We hope you had a chance to check out the Extra Life charity stream that happened this past Saturday. A tremendous thanks to the ARK community for helping us raise over $180,000 for sick children. Year after year, the ARK community continues to come together to support a great cause. |
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[h3]New Attacks[/h3] Tusk Sweep
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New Breedable Creatures The insects and creatures that can now be bred are: Spider, Onyc, Moth, Scorpion, Arthropluera, Mantis and the mighty Wyverns! The new (Wyvern are unchanged) hatching/gestation and maturation times are as follows: [h3]Spider[/h3]
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Creature Quality of Life Changes In addition to insect breeding, we went back and showed some love to a few of ARK's well-known inhabitants. [h3]Giganotosaurus [/h3]
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New Feature: Taming HUD Use the interactive taming HUD to monitor your unconscious wild tamable creatures. Keep track of the following:
Boss Element Reward Increase Weve decided to increase the Boss Element reward on some maps to bring the Ele more into line with where were at with new expansions.
New Feature: Turret Radius Settings A quick and easy way to update the settings of your nearby turrets within a radius. Its set to currently match the Official Server Turret Limit radius, but players can also toggle viewing the radius on/off. The current functionality it supports is as follows:
Miscellaneous Fixes & Changes
EVO Event: Extra Life As we reach various donation goals, we will increase the Official Server Network rates. We'll also be extending the event past the regular 24 hours as a gesture towards those with slower connections who may be downloading for a portion of the livestream. If you are interested in joining our team to help raise money, we'd love to have you! Check out this link for more information on how to get started. All donations go to the Extra Life organization and contribute to raising the Official Network rates! For specialized game modes, we'll be using the rates below: Tune in to our crazy Extra Life event at www.twitch.tv/survivetheark until 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET Sunday, November 8 for additional content reveals for ARK: Genesis II and boosted rates as the community meets fundraising goals, while the game also continues its Free Weekend on the Steam Store where anyone can hop in and play! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
[h2]Extra Life Donation Rewards[/h2]
As we reach various donation goals, we will increase the Official Server Network rates. If you're an ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile survivor, you're in luck! Our friends over at Grove Street Games will be matching our final rates for at least 24 hours at the close of our stream at 10am PST on Sunday, November 8th. We'll be extending the event past the regular 24 hours as a gesture towards those with slower connections who may be downloading for a portion of the livestream. If you are interested in joining our team to help raise money, we'd love to have you! Check out this link for more information on how to get started. All donations go to the Extra Life organization and contribute to raising the Official Network rates! For specialized game modes, we'll be using the rates below: Tender Loving Care 3 November 7th also marks the date that the Tender Loving Care 3 update will be reaching PC, Xbox, and PS4. Aside from the dedicated reworks of the Stego and Mammoth you may have seen in prior Community Crunches, weve added a bunch of Quality of Life changes to make your time on the ARK more enjoyable. Check out this thread for more information! We'll be keeping you up to date as we hit our donation goals and increase rates on the Official Network but we'd love for the entire community to come and hang out with us while we raise money for a great cause. Pop a squat in our Official Discord or hang out in our Twitch chat when the action starts. Steam: Free-to-Play Weekend! Looking to expand your tribe? Introduce your friends to the world of ARK for free from Thursday, November 5th until Monday, November 9th. Begin your quest for survival with a free-play weekend! Steam Sale Wishing for an ARK sale on Steam? Your wish is our command! Grab ARK for up to 75% off as part of the Steam sale! New Sponsored Mods [h2]SOTF 2: Revival Mod[/h2] SOTF 2: Revival Mod is a community effort to pick up where SOTF left off. The team has made many QoL changes based on community efforts and even hosts tournaments! If you were a fan of the original SOTF, this community made revival may be just what you are looking for! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2097253226 [h2]HGBuild[/h2] [HG]Hulk has created a lot of utility and other mods with very focused scopes. Now they have added a wonderful set of clean futuristic building pieces. prefabricated structures, domed rooms, and clean line architecture everywhere. A e s t h e t i c https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2116500182 [h2]ARK Chaos Creator[/h2] ARK Chaos Creator is a unique addition to the sponsorship program; this isn't just a mod for ARK, the Chaos Creator mod will open a line from a twitch stream right to the game. Stream viewers can influence the game for the streamer either making things more difficult, giving them useful (Or sometimes ridiculously chaotic) gifts, or spawning a bunch of mayhem directly on top of them. There is also a version in the works to allow content creators to use channel points instead of bits if they choose. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2187784730 EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event on November 7th 10AM PST. See above for details on the Extra Life event and specifics on the rates. Fan Art Dont Move! by sis_6193 Titano Taming Pen by ThePilgrim Megalosaurus (Night Hunter) by GuidiNox Raptor Shrine by skywalker81 (Discord) Dodowyvern by nezuyu We can't wait to see you for Extra Life on November 7th! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Welcome to a spooky edition of the Community Crunch and Happy Halloween!
Fan Art Zombie Wyvern by PicturesofArk Jerboa by Amberghini My Tribe Mate and I by Trashcan Mcgee (Discord) Wild Caard, notice me! by Timidd (Discord) Architecture Fun by Gamecruisers Arks theropod offspring by Apal (Discord) Wyvern by kawarayane Have a safe and happy Halloween! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Our Tender Loving Care 3 update approaches on November 7th and, aside from the dedicated reworks of the Stego and Mammoth, weve added a bunch of Quality of Life changes to make your time on the ARK more enjoyable.
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[h3]Moth[/h3]
[h3]Scorpion[/h3]
[h3]Arthropluera[/h3]
[h3]Mantis[/h3]
Creature Quality of Life Changes
[h3]Giganotosaurus [/h3]
[h3]Diplocaulus[/h3]
[h3]Thylacoleo[/h3]
[h3]Megachelon[/h3]
[h3]Wyvern[/h3]
[h3]Megalodon[/h3]
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New Feature: Taming HUD Use the interactive taming HUD to monitor your unconscious wild tamable creatures. Keep track of the following:
Boss Element Reward Increase Weve decided to increase the Boss Element reward on some maps to bring the Ele more into line with where were at with new expansions.
New Feature: Turret Radius Settings A quick and easy way to update the settings of your nearby turrets within a radius. Its set to currently match the Official Server Turret Limit radius, but players can also toggle viewing the radius on/off. The current functionality it supports is as follows:
We are anxious to get these community requests and quality of life improvements into your hands! The Tender Loving Care 3 update launches on November 7th on all platforms! We realize the TLC patch releasing at the same time as Extra Life is less than ideal for players. To compensate, we'll be extending the duration of the Extra Life boosted rates so everyone can enjoy the boost! Official Server Maintenance and Infrastructure Upgrade Next week on Tuesday/Wednesday the 27th/28th, we plan to upgrade our Server Transfer infrastructure. The intent behind these upgrades is to resolve problems with character loss, player timeout, latency, and failure to download or upload player data at times. We've recently put a lot of time into refining the transfer logic, and combined with the hardware upgrades; we should see some significant improvements with our Official Servers. Our goal is to get these upgrades to you as soon as possible, particularly before our Extra Life weekend, where we expect a lot of player transfer footprint to take place so that our servers and transfers are running as smoothly as possible. We anticipate that the TRANSFER downtime could last up to 24 hours, and this could be simultaneously on PC, Xbox, and PS4 or take place one after the other. We will provide a more specific timeline of when this update will take place per platform early next week. EVO Event: Fear Evolved Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Thursday the 22nd of Oct at 4 PM EST until Friday the 6th of Nov at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art Ravager by bluedragonark Velonasaur Variant by Nisis Snow Owl by Allomro_395 Inktober 2020: Day 15 by vernhestand Deinonychus by dra Atmosphere May Inn and Uzi by kawarayane Catch you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
The Extra Life charity event and TLC 3, the community has been asking "when" and we're here to deliver.
ExtraLife Charity Event Our 24 hour Extra Life stream is fast approaching and we invite everyone from the community to join us for a great cause. Lets try to beat or prior year record of $112,206.35 and see what we can raise for the kids through gaming and giving. This year's ExtraLife event kicks off on November 7th at 10 AM PST! We'll be coming to you live from our Seattle Studio to bring 24 hours of entertainment, giveaways, Collectors Edition boxes, game keys, and much more! Whether youre a streamer, a donor or just keen to be along for the ride, wed love to have you! Like prior events, we will be enabling boosted rates for all players on our Official Networks. These rates increase incrementally as each fundraising milestone is reached. Further details on milestones and rates will be shared closer to the start of the event. If youre feeling heroic, and want to support the event with your own stream and donation goals, sign up, and lets raise some money for the kids! Gather your tribes, alliances, and stimberries, and feel free to hop into the official ARK discord for an epic 24hr adventure! If you'd like to join the cause and help us fundraise or contribute a donation, check out our Extra Life page! EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 16th of Oct at 4 PM EST until Monday the 19th of Oct at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art Gallimimus by kawarayane by stray-galaxy Outpost by FaFpNd Managarmr Watercolor by Marbleschu Tiamat by ProjectTiamat Crystal Wyvern Queen by AnuDoriniTalah Yutyrannus by sangwiss16 TEK Raptor Building by skywalker81 (Discord) Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Fear Evolved 4
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[h3]Creatures[/h3] In addition to some of the past favorites from Fear Evolved, survivors will find themselves on the hunt for 11 new spooky themed chibi's to add to their growing collection and 7 new ghostly dinosaur skins. [h3]Spooky Encounters[/h3]
[h3]Event Chibis (acquired via killing Dodowyvern/Dodorex or Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
[h3]Ghost Creature Skins (acquired via killing Ghost creatures)[/h3]
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[h3]Emotes (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
[h3]Skins (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
[h3]Creature Event Colors[/h3]
Live Tuning System The latest major PC version supports our Initial Implementation of the 'Live Tuning' system. The 'Live Tuning' system is a dynamic configuration system which will allow server hosts to easily modify supported game properties without the need for mods. All that is required is a simple edit of a json file, and you're good to go! As you can imagine, this new dynamic configuration system will provide useful options for server administrators, especially as we grow it out to support more properties. For the modding community, this system is also very powerful. Modders may have actually seen it before in the property details panel. When you add variables there is a checkbox for "Live-Tunable". Checking that box on properties will opt them into the system. By doing so, this will allow server owners to tweak mod settings on the fly without the need for mod updates. As the system evolves, we hope to add more options and expose more values to tweak. The 'Live Tuning' system provides ways for server administrators to offer dynamic events in a quick, simple, and straightforward way. For more information on the 'Live Tuning' system and how to set it up, check out the following thread. We'll be adding more details as the system continues to expand: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/569366-server-configuration-live-tuning-system/ Networking & Live Game Improvements One of our constant priorities is monitoring the live-game and server reliability. Over the past few weeks, we've noticed an increase in reports about server instability. The causes of server instability may range but our engineering team has been hard at work diagnosing the root causes. In a past Community Crunch we noted that we've been working on technical changes behind the scenes to increase server performance and mitigate some of the attacks we're seeing against the servers. We've made improvements to mesh detection, added more protection against DDOS, and fixed various exploits/cheats that could be used to intentionally crash servers. Since deploying those changes we have seen a noticeable decrease in some of the server instability reports and attacks we were seeing. Although things have improved, we will continue to work against malicious players who intend to ruin the experience for others. Structure Stasis Changes We've made some changes with a focus on improving performance. This reworks how structures are loaded/unloaded on the server. The simple idea is that fewer calculations take place at a given time with the new system so the server doesn't have to do as much. Something to note is that the performance gains are more noticeable when more active structures are present (so think really busy, large bases) and an increased number of players on a server. The structures are now broken up into a grid, when a player logs in they are assigned grid cells appropriate to their location, and the structures in those cells are loaded. That way not all are loaded. This setting is enabled by default on Official Servers, and Unofficials can now opt-into using the new system too by setting the following server parameter in their commandline: -UseStructureStasisGrid This will work on both PC and Console, but we highly recommend that it is not used on servers with mods, as there are some assumptions made about structures in stasis and this could cause issues with modded content, however in a future devkit update, you'll be able to opt said structures out of the system to avoid the issues. TLDR: Predominantly busy servers with a lot of players and big bases will be seeing the most significant performance gains. Official Discord Our Official ARK Discord launched a few weeks ago and it's thriving with 35k users already! If you'd like to get in on the action for updates, patch notes, a community hub, bulletin board, and sometimes chatting with us, you can join on the invite below! https://discord.gg/playark EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 9th of Oct at 3 PM EST until Monday the 12th of Oct at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art Winston Sith Kawaranaye FireRayDragon Saurvax moon0w0 Bandi We're always thrilled to see what our talented Community create and love sharing your fanart. Keep it coming! Until next time! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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In this edition of the Community Crunch, well be giving you more details on the upcoming TLC 3 patch and taking a look at some amazing community art.
[h3]New Attacks[/h3] Tusk Sweep
Trunk Trumpet
Foot Stomp
Trunk Grab
[h2]Stegosaurus[/h2] Primarily known as a harvester, the Stegosaurus will be seeing visual upgrades and an expanded toolset that makes it hard to resist. [h3]New Abilities[/h3] Backplate Modes Backplate passive buff and can switch between three modes. Different modes will be indicated visually
[h3]New Attacks[/h3] Impaling Tail Whip
EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 25th of Sep at 4 PM EST until Monday the 28th of Sep at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Fan Art Rockwell by kawarayane Starter Base by ThePilgrim Catch Me by Rackiera Cliff Platform by maroichigo022 Alpha Hunter by BioZev Direwolf by bluedragonark Dodo by Amy the Amers Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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In this edition of the Community Crunch, well be teasing you with some juicy TLC 3 info along with giving you an overview of what weve been focusing on lately behind the scenes.
Fan Art Dropping some ARK work by RoboticHat717 The Featherlight Family by bluedragonark ARK Survival: Alpha Raptor by Valonia-Feline Supa Pink Dodo by DakotaAnnArt Desert Watchtowers by ThePilgrim Speedpaint: Forest Camping by Earthsong9405 Small Mockup by EdiPotter We hope youre all keeping safe and well. While working remotely has been somewhat of an adjustment period for us, weve now hit our stride and look forward to sharing more of what weve been grinding away at very soon! Over and out, Survivors! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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EVO Event As mentioned in prior Community Crunches, the Official Network rates will be increasing to 2X following the next major version update on Tuesday, August 25th. Following the update, we'll have more information on EVO events. Until then, we'll be using the EVO event system to apply the bonuses. Community Fan Art Chilling with my Dilophosauruses by konstancja ARK Drawing 1 by LukeZera ARK Drawing 2 by LukeZera ARK Drawing 3 by LukeZera Dragon Hologram by NeoVanilluxe Yutyrannus by kawara Wood Harvesting by kawara Wings Of Valor by blue Extinction by scoot Catch you on the flip side! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Basilosaurus [h3]Breeding[/h3] - Reduced Mosasaur maturation time (now matches Yutyrannus) [h3]General[/h3] - Flying creatures will prioritise picking up friendly-creatures rather than dismounting friendly riders Official Rates Weve heard you loud and clear! Since March, our Official Networks across those 3 platforms have been under the effect of an Evolution Event as these increased rates have now become the norm and we are happy with the results, its time to make it a permanent change! Going forward, we'll be doubling the fun by doubling the Official Rates across PC, Xbox, and PS4 as standard along with some changes to our specialty servers. From the next major version, Official rates will now have increased default rates for Harvesting, Taming, and XP. What was previously 2x rates prior to today, will now become the new base rate (1x). The increased 2x rates will be implemented directly in the game build itself. This means that Non-Dedicated Servers, Single Player Sessions, and of course Unofficial Servers will also feel the increased rates. Therefore, if youre currently using customized rates, its something you will want to keep in mind before this change is in place -- specifically upon the release of the next Major Version on each of your respective platforms, you may wish to reduce your server/game rates by 50% to have the same effective values as before. Official rates will be adjusted accordingly:
P.S -- This is actually the second time weve increased the default rates if we look back to the early access days of 2015. So for you old timeys, its technically 4x . Inb4 comments back in my day, it took us two weeks to build a wooden 4x4. EVO Event As mentioned above, the Official Network rates will be increasing to 2X following the next major version update. Following the update, we'll have more information on EVO events. Until then, we'll be using the EVO event system to apply the bonuses. Community Fan Art Fan Art Cutscene by @Nightshade_404 Rock Drake by @DiN-the-Painter Child Who Likes Rain by @sis_6193 Wear Your Mask by @PicturesofArk Japanese-Style Castle by @sam_stimo Who's Playing Crystal Isles by @DudeSolo1 Kanata Castle by @forbanana El Galen Capitn Archer by @RikerPlays See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Fan Art Castle Build by @sefiroultima Speed Genesis Build by @sam_stimo Masters of Genesis Simulation by @Scutal OC Playing Ark:Survival Evolved by @BrekrofMadness Faith (Mod Map) by @JaceMonsen Ragnarok by @caffeineluvver Cute Little Rat by @ARKLove9 See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Fan Art @NAMCOOo Link To Images Artist Profile @ThePilgrimz Desert Fortress @harry12983476 127 8K Photos of Aberration That's it for this week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Summer Bash Extension
Community Fan Art Event Gachas by @nova_fox13 Valguero Rainbow by @welshwilco Building With TEK by @sugarmodark Exogenesis by @jeffrichey Family by @Schillaa2 Shadow of Death by @grammar_gamer Addicts Drawing by @wyvernadas See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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New Emotes
New Skins
New Chibi Pets
Event-Colored Wild Creatures
The event kicks off at 10AM PDT. Breeding Performance Improvements With the start of the 5th Anniversary event, we implemented some changes to the way our servers calculate growing baby dinos. By distributing these calculations we can recover some of the performance costs related to breeding calculations, which is quite cost-intensive. In more technical terms, we have done this by measuring the stress on a server with each tick and batching the actors to process their breeding calculations over the course of several ticks rather than all of them on every tick. For a server that is already in a stable state not much might be noticed, but for a server under intense stress players may notice that breeding calculations, and the initial start of mating may be a little delayed. The good news is that players should notice less performance issues during boosted breeding rates. Servers will always be put under extra strain during event rates, especially so in regards to breeding rates but we've sought to minimize that with these changes and we've noticed some positive improvements. If you are on a busy server and experiencing some delays, this is why and we're currently iterating on this so these response delays don't feel like as much of a disruption. Our Community Crunch Is Moving We're moving the Community Crunch back to Friday's! In addition to moving the Crunch back to Friday's, we'll start to feature community content in the Community Crunch rather than its own separate day. If you are creating or sharing ARK content, be sure to tag it with #playARK for a chance to be featured! ARK Summer Sale Kick back enjoy a great start to your summer with the ARK Summer Sale. For a limited time, ARK will be up to 80% off! https://store.steampowered.com/app/346110 EVO Event While Summer Bash is active from June 25th to July 14th, there will be no special EVO event rates. Summer Bash Rates
Community Fan Art Crystal Griffin by @bluedragonark Fire Reef by @ProjectTiamat ActualBlack Megatherium by @TiiaAurora Argentavis on Genesis by @PicturesofArk Epic Viking Longhouse by @ThePilgrimz Wyvern Drawing by @RunsWithPencil See you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Tropeognathus Tame and saddle up your own TropeognathusARKs newest pterosaurfor a dizzying jet-fuel-powered ride into aerial combat, complete with powerful mounted flak cannon! This large pterosaur from the Cretaceous period can quickly gnash victims armor into bits, and when outfitted with a saddle containing a jetpack, its speed and maneuverability are second-to-none. Also providing a built-in flak cannon available to the pilot, this terror of the skies can engage in aerial combat with extreme deadliness. Tropeognathus makes its debut on the ARK with the introduction of our anniversary event! The creature can be found exclusively on Crystal Isles when playing on PC, and on console the flying terror can be encountered as a rare spawn on the following maps: The Island, The Center, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, and Valguero. Timecapsule Servers Before TEK suits and replicators, survivors experienced the Island in a much different way. Traversing the landscape provided unique challenges without many of the creatures we know and love. It might be hard to imagine The Island without the Redwoods biome or the numerous caves that have been added but earlier survivors will have distinct memories of this era in ARKs history. Many of the latest creatures that serve as companions, utility, and defense in ARKs modern era werent a concept yet. Time capsule servers will offer a unique perspective and highlight the progression of ARKs content, lore, and community when compared to the current day. While were happy to take this trip down memory lane its important to remember that Timecapsule servers are a snapshot of a moment in time. They wont receive any customer service support or future updates. [h2]The Timecapsule Experience[/h2] Here are a few notable features of the 2015 Timecapsule build:
If you'd like to take a look at ARK in its most primitive days, you'll need to opt into our special branchin your steam ARK configuration. You can do so by following the steps below: 1) Right-click on the ARK game in your Steam library and select "properties" 2) Select the "Beta" tab 3) Locate "timecapsule" in the drop-down menu and select that. 4) Select close, patch ARK, and remember to launch the game without BattlEye then go forth and punchtrees! EVO Event While the Anniversary event is active, there will be no special EVO rates. The event rates for Official servers:
Wed like to thank the community once more, as we truly appreciate all the passion and support youve shown the game. While we couldnt have foreseen quite how the last 5 years would play out, from primitive dwellings to hyperspace whales, our vision for the ARK franchise is as strong as ever. So stick with us on this rollercoaster ride into the future, as we look forward with you to tremendously exciting years ahead for ARK, where the very definition of survival continues to evolve. With gratitude, The Studio Wildcard team! |
Introducing Tropeognathus! |
Greetings Survivors! |
Greetings Survivors!
Server Upgrades Weve also been recently working on upgrading the last of our servers to new hardware. A lot has already taken place across all platforms, these were our most recent that took place over the last week:
Mac & Linux Late last week we were able to push out fixes for both the Mac and Linux versions of the game, which should allow those clients to play on the latest servers, with all the latest content. We appreciate your patience and will be working on improving our pipeline to get these out to you in a quicker and more stable state. Live Game Over the past couple of months, weve shifted our primary focus for our regular patches between balance/quality of life and bugs/exploits. The past few weeks have been primarily dedicated to bugs and exploits in this regard. Weve also been working on various crash fixes. We plan to pivot back to further balance and QoL improvements soon, including a pass on breeding to improve players experience and further tweaks to mission rewards and crates on Genesis. Anti-Cheat & Exploit Measures The last time we spoke about our efforts to combat cheaters, we unveiled our work on our Anti-Meshing systems which focused on detection and prevention. After rolling out the system entirely, we saw a 90% reduction in overall meshing cases across the board. Since then, we've continued the fight against the various ways that underhanded survivors try to cheat on the ARK, and we'd like to give you an update on that fight. Meshing Our Anti-meshing Detection System is proving effective and were continuing to see a vast decline in incidents. Like all exploits/cheats, this is an ongoing battle and here's our latest progress: As you can see the battle against meshers is not over, but cases remain low and will continue to decrease over time. Some of the additional changes we've been working on have included:
We really appreciate and want to thank the ARK community for the reports and support, as the information provided helped us to improve the system overall. Keep it coming guys! <3 Duping Similarly to meshing, this has been another hot topic that has plagued the game. In one of our most recent updates, we were able to release a system to identify duped items (in some cases retroactively), as well as prevent many instances of duping from occurring in the first place. It's still early days, but so far the results have been outstanding, as we're sure some of you have seen. The system is still being monitored by our team and we'll continue to iterate on improvements where possible whilst having our enforcement team dish out harsher punishments. Exploits & Bugs Fixing bugs and exploits has been the main focus of our most recent patches. Wed intended to push out some patches focusing on balance but they were put on hold whilst we address what we consider to be more pressing issues. Examples exploits weve fixed recently include:
And theres definitely more if you go through the rest of the patch notes, as well as a whole host of bug fixes! We know that the patch notes regarding exploits arent super detailed. We typically just reference the object surrounding the exploit and that is because we prefer to hold these cards close to our chest, especially to prevent these methods from being exploited on unpatched Unofficial servers. Player Reports We recognize that some of the auto-responses on tickets could be worded in a more precise manner so as to mitigate confusion and well be working with our GMs to update them. Something wed like to clarify is that an auto-response with the ticket being closed does not denote that the case isnt being investigated. It means one of the following:
Our enforcement team (GMs) does not disclose the outcome of player reports for player privacy reasons but rest assured that if a reported player or tribe is found in violation of the Code of Conduct, the enforcement team will be taking the necessary action against them. For those wanting to report a player for breaking the code of conduct on an Official Server, it can be done so here. Third-Party Software (Aimbot/ESP etc) Over the past few months, weve seen a spike in our CCUs across the platforms, which usually leads to a spike in cheaters too. In particular, on PC and Crossplay servers, weve witnessed a rise in aimbot reports and the team has been working hard with our partners to combat the use of third party software. For some additional insight into the cycle of fighting against aimbots, this is usually what happens: We notice an increase in the number of aimbot reports, we work with our anti-cheat partners to identify and detect the new software and once that has been done, well issue a ban wave and punish cheaters accordingly. Following this, well see a slight dip in the frequency of aimbot reports on our Official Networks, until either new software is released or older software has been updated, and then we repeat the process again of identification, detection, and punishment. This cycle can be as long as a few weeks, or as short as a few days. Its a constant cat and mouse and our team is working diligently with BattlEye in order to detect new third party software and keep our officials as safe from cheaters as possible. In addition to that, we have also ramped up our enforcement measures, including, not only player bans but full wipes of tribes associated. In regards to Crossplay specifically, weve recently implemented and improved our systems & heuristics to identify those using malicious third party software and it is proving effective. Over the past week, our enforcement team has wiped multiple tribes and banned a large number of players on our Crossplay servers with more to come very soon. Well continue to enforce hard against these cheaters. Eggcellent Painting Contest As a reminder, the Eggcellent Painting contest is ongoing. There will be two competitions with a prize for the winner of $100! In-Game Painting Real-life Egg Painting The entries will be judged by our community team. Submissions are limited to three eggs per survivor, so choose your best egg. You'll have the month of April to enter, with April 30th being the final day to enter. Submit your images in the comments below, and we look forward to seeing your creativity! Click here for more details and enter your painting for a chance to win On The Horizon Along with continuing to squash bugs, improve performance, and address any exploits that may arise, we will be working on planned balance and QoL for the Live Game. Some of the team are busy working on the upcoming Crystal Isles map and a unique new creature. Were excited to release Crystal Isles on our Official Networks in the not too distant future! Steam Sale: Explorers Edition (75% Off) Want to introduce your friends to the world of ARK? Right now, the ARK: Survival Evolved Explorer's Edition Bundle is available for 75% off on Steam! The Explorer's Edition gives you access to the base game as well as the Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction Expansion Packs. Go grab your copy now! Evo Event As mentioned above, we've enabled 2x XP, taming, breeding, and harvest. We'll continue to run these rates for the time being as a gesture towards our community as we all deal with the isolation and stress during these tough times. Thats about it for this Community Crunch. Stay safe and take care! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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For the in-game egg painting, players are expected to paint their own designs and downloading templates or images to use is not allowed. For the real-life egg painting, we're looking for you and your tribemates to get together and paint some eggs in real life that somehow reflect the world of ARK! Screenshot or photo quality won't be taken into consideration but try to get a picture that best shows off your egg. The entries will be judged by our community team. Submissions are limited to three eggs per survivor, so choose your best egg. You'll have the month of April to enter, with April 30th being the final day to enter. Submit your images in the comments below, and we look forward to seeing your creativity! Click here for examples of entries from last year Steam Sale: Explorers Edition (75% Off) Want to introduce your friends to the world of ARK? Right now, the ARK: Survival Evolved Explorer's Edition Bundle is available for 75% off on Steam! The Explorer's Edition gives you access to the base game as well as the Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction Expansion Packs. Go grab your copy now! EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 3rd of Apr at 1 PM EST until Monday the 6th of Apr at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 3.5x Harvesting Rates 3.5x Breeding 3.5x Taming Rates 3.5x EXP Rates Until next time! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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On The Horizon Anti-Mesh System The results from the implementation of the anti-mesh system has had a positive effect on the overall health of the game. We ask for your patience as we continue to improve the false positives you are seeing. Every report you submit brings us closer to an exploit-free environment. Thank you for your patience as we realize this is a inconvenience for those who encounter these problematic areas. We are working diligently to correct any false positives that currently remain. When making your reports, please list the map you had the encounter on. Mod Sponsorship Applications A friendly reminder that the mod sponsorship application process closes on the 2/5. Apply for Sponsorship EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 7th of Feb at 1 PM EST until Monday the 10th of Feb at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:
Until next time! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Until next time! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Fear Evolved 3 October 22nd to November 5th marks the return of Fear Evolved and we have some frightening treats in store! Stay tuned for a spooky trailer and more event details when the event begins tomorrow! If you missed the last post on Fear Evolved: On The Horizon PS4 Primitive+ The engineering team is still hard at work on a Primitive+ patch to resolve the latest issues from deployment. We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to bringing you good news soon. EVO Event There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active! Until next time! Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Sponsored Mod Program Applications |
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Community Update And now we are happy to introduce the winners of the 2019 ARK Modding Contest! Map Winners
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That's it for this week! As always if youve got anything to share you can find us at: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Eggcellent Adventure Patch Notes! Eggcellent Adventure 4 (2019)! Egg Painting Contest! After you've managed to hunt down a Bunny Dodo or Bunny Oviraptor and find yourself an egg, place the egg down on the ground and take out your paint brush and dyes. You'll be able to paint select regions on the egg as well as free-hand paint it with the brush to paint any design on it. Be creative! There will be multiple competitions with a prize to the winner of $100! - PC Egg Painting - Real-life Egg Painting Players are expected to paint their own designs and downloading templates or images to use is not allowed. In the real-life category, we're looking for you and your tribe mates to get together and paint some eggs in real life that somehow reflect the world of ARK! Screenshot or photo quality won't be taken into consideration but try to get a picture that best shows off your egg. The entries will be judged by our community team. Submissions are limited to three eggs per survivor, so choose your best egg. You'll have the month of April to enter, with April 30th being the final day to enter. Submit your images in the thread linked below, and we look forward to seeing your creativity! https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/community-crunch-177-eggcellent-adventure-returns-tomorrow-r1176/ Updateon Meshing... Meshing is the common term used to reference a variety of exploits in the game that involves going under terrain or behind walls to access unintended areas. While under the terrain, an exploiter may build bases, turrets, and a multitude of other things that prevent fair and fun gameplay for everyone. There are many ways that a player can access these areas but one of the easiest and most common are holes in the mesh itself. The term collision in games is what prevents players from being able to go through what would otherwise be hollow 3D objects. Some areas and objects have incorrect collision and provide easy access to areas behind terrain. Other cases of meshing can happen as a result of items in the game or the gameplay functionality they allow. Items like chairs, climbing picks, and platform saddles can be susceptible to exploits like meshing due to how they manipulate the player character. Meshing has been a hot topic within the community for some time. Behind the scenes, we have been identifying these vulnerabilities by attacking them at different vantage points. Our ideal goal is to prevent players from getting into the mesh in the first place. We actively look for areas in maps where collision can be improved or tweaked to avoid the occurrence from someone purposefully or intentionally getting under the terrain. We are happy to report that this upcoming patch (patch number) has considerable improvements in this area. Since prevention is the preferred method to tackle meshing, bugs in items that allow players to access areas behind terrain are a priority for the gameplay team. Players in unintended areas are in violation of our Code of Conduct and it is something we take very seriously. The Enforcement Team has employed the use of new data and metrics in an effort to combat meshing and investigate each case thoroughly. In many cases, they are preventing minor issues from becoming substantial ones. The mesh detection tool has provided the Enforcement Team with new data that enables them to act quickly and efficiently. If the mesh detection tool becomes more refined, we plan to integrate it on other platforms (like console) to reduce meshing exploits in a more automated fashion. The Enforcement Team has seen a noticeable drop in reports related to meshing because of these implementations and we feel we are making positive strides towards eliminating this issue as a whole. If you are aware of meshing or exploits that are happening on PC, please report them here by selecting Report Abuse and filling out a quick report: https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/requests/new# We will continue to keep you updated with any significant advancements on the topic. It is and has always been, an important topic for us. Update on Recent Lost Characters... Please see our recent announcement if you were affected by the recent rollback that occurred on the Official Server Network. If you have not submitted your ticket yet, please do so here.The Customer Service team is still actively working through tickets. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/update-regarding-recent-lost-characters-r1167/ |
Classic PvP Begins Tomorrow! |
https://youtu.be/VdXku3-sxi4 S+ ARK Developer Stream Tomorrow! https://www.twitch.tv/survivetheark Tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific Time (March 5th), members of the ARK development team will be hosting a Developer Livestream on our Twitch channel! Our Community-focused livestreams went over well with the community so we decided to restructure slightly to bring even more members of our team into the mix! We invite you to join us from our Seattle office as we discuss the latest developments with ARK. In this stream we will be showcasing and discussing our biggest addition and change to the game: the Structures Plus and Kibble rework. We'll also be answering questions from you--the community--in a live form Digest. We invite you to leave your ARK or development related questions in the comment section below and we will be selecting an assortment of your questions to answer live on stream. The developers on-camera this stream will be: Cedric: Host, Gameplay Programmer Chris: Lead Programmer & Lead Designer Colin: Senior Producer Jen: Community Manager We look forward to seeing you all on our Twitch channel tomorrow! Mod Community Updates! We're bringing in two new projects to the Sponsored Mod Program this month, and don't forget that we have already started another round of applications for the sponsored mod program. You'll be able to submit an application until April 5th. So polish up those design documents and send them in. We love seeing the amazing projects everyone is working on. First up we have Additional Lighting by ReinerSCT. This mod adds a plethora of new lighting options of different colors, styles, and configurations. Ever wanted to make your own disco room, or set up a complex lighting system for your over-the-top castle? This mod will let you do it! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1380777369 We're also happy to bring in the Play as Dino mod by Finntastic. Does anybody else ever use the old mantra "Don't just hunt the raptor... Be the raptor"? No? Just me? Either way, with this mod you can! The author has a lot of cool systems being worked on for this mod and we're happy to provide some support for them. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=662773951 Happy Modding! |
At 1 PM Pacific Time on March 5th, members of the ARK development team will be hosting a Developer Livestream on our Twitch channel! |
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Structures Plus (S+) & Kibble Rework Beta! Triangle Foundations Kibble: All eggs have been assigned a value based on the size and rarity of the egg. These sizes include: Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, and Special. The eggs are used in a recipe to create kibble of a coinciding value, which are: Basic, Simple, Regular, Superior, Exceptional, and Extraordinary. The blueprint paths for these new kibbles are listed below so you can spawn them in for testing: cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_Kibble_Base_XSmall.PrimalItemConsumable_Kibble_Base_XSmall'" 10 0 0 The recipes for these new kibbles are as follows: Basic: 5 Fiber, 5 mejoberries, 10 tintoberries, 10 amarberries, 1 cooked meat, 1 extra small egg Regarding previously crafted kibble: - Old kibbles will not be wiped, and will inherit their new "value/color" appropriately. - Old kibbles will still work to tame their appropriate creatures. - Old kibble will no longer be craftable, only the new types will be craftable. Further notes: If you have a single player or unofficial save file it is worth loading it up on the beta and checking if there are any obvious bugs or compatibility issues. Your pre-existing structures should see no changes on the beta, and kibble that is already crafted should work as normal. If there are any inconsistencies you notice, please report them to us using the threads linked above so we can address them. Attention builders! Fancy yourself a top tier builder? We want to see what you can do with the new structure changes! Hop into the beta and build to your heart's content using any of our officially supported maps (The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction). You can do this in your single player world or your unofficial server if you have access to one. Well be picking the best builds submitted to us for featuring in an upcoming video trailer showcasing the building changes to ARK similar to the announcement video we did for our latest mod contest. Submit pictures and/or a video of your build, your map save and coordinates to your build to arkfans@studiowildcard.com so we can take a look. You can get the direct coordinates to your build location by enabling setcheatplayer true and jotting down the coordinates presented on screen. You can upload your map save to a file sharing website such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc, and include the link in the email. Entries are due by February 4th, 2018. We look forward to seeing your masterpieces! Extinction Transfers Are Open! Server transfers into our official Extinction servers are now open. |
Hello, Modders! Be sure to read the weekly Community Crunch over on our website, survivetheark.com! |
2018 in Review! |
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ATLAS is Now Available on Steam Early Access and is 17% off!* |
Winter Wonderland 2018! Winter Wonderland! Modding Community Updates! A reminder for mod authors that the sponsored mod program will be opening up applications again on January 1st. If you would like to apply for sponsorship you will have five weeks after the application period starts, so make sure that your submissions are ready! Be sure to read the weekly Community Crunch over on our website, survivetheark.com! |
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Winter Wonderland Is Returning! ARK, at its core, is successful because it offers the best and most diverse survival experience that it can to each player who plays it, and the many options that we provide allows that to happen. There are many, many players that play our game over multiple platforms and each of them has a different definition of whats most important to them, what ARK does well, and what it should do better. Early on we made a decision to offer a vast array of options, modes, maps, servers, and mods to get as close as we could to being the best survival game for everyone. This creates a major challenge when it comes to development however, as each piece of content or change is used in a large number of different ways. The many play modes are likely to be at odds with each other and are competing for the same development resources, so we have to make a number of tough decisions and pick our priorities. This can result in mechanics that feel less than ideal for your setup or bugs that only appear in certain modes. I do believe its better than the primary alternative - not offering or supporting these options at all. PC Patch Tomorrow! Tomorrow at 10am PST there will be a PC patch. There will also be another post tomorrow here on the community forums going over some of the changes coming up and things currently being worked on by our development team. Mod Community Updates! Hello, fellow modders. You'll be happy to know we have a manual devkit update ready that includes all of the extinction content! https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/modding/ark-survival-evolved/62293-12-2-ark-dev-kit-v287-1-is-now-on-google-drive We also have a new tutorial ready for you, this time we're finally going to get started on some graphs for this mod. Specifically how to convert our tamed creatures into the sentry crystals that will be used elsewhere by the mod. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/387144-wildcard-workshop-19-vss-virtualization-process/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z99VYpN59o Be sure to check out todays Community Crunch post on our website for the full Crunch announcement post. |
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TAME NEW CREATURES Capture, tame and craft powerful and unusual organic and mechanical creature types different from anything previously seen in the ARK universe. Increase situational awareness by flying and controlling robotic surveillance drones. Harvest valuable resources by taming and feeding organic transmutation machines. Reach new heights and remote locations by climbing and teleporting with the ultimate security bot. Ensure your survival by building and piloting your own customizable battle Mek to victory! CRAFT UNIQUE ITEMS Ensure mastery on this forsaken world with many new and exotic craftable items. Keep your tames where you want them with a creature leash, use taxidermy tools to enhance your home decor with trophy mounts from your most memorable kills, span and traverse previously uncrossable gaps with a Tek bridge, store and preserve your favorite friendly creature in a portable cryopod for reuse later, utilize Tek gravity grenades to attract or repel foes to your advantage, and autonomously airlift loot back to your base with an airborne delivery crate! CONQUER NEW CHALLENGES As Element runs rampant across Earth, corrupting and mutating all that it touches, Survivors must be prepared for the unique challenges fueled from these cataclysmic events. Engage in epic battles of titanic proportions when encountering the colossal Titans that rule this hostile planet as the ultimate apex predator. Scour the wastelands for orbital supply drops and protect the precious cargo they contain while fending off an onslaught of Element-corrupted monstrosities barely resembling their former selves. Survive and shelter from environmental anomalies such as Element eruptions, eclipses and meteor showers. Return to Earth and complete your conquest of the ARK universe, gain sought after answers to advance the storyline, discover the fate of the original explorers, determine the true purpose of the ARK network, and unravel the remaining mysteries of the Homo Deus! Havent yet explored the thrilling world of ARK? Jump into the adventure today during ARKs Free Weekend on Steam, where the base game ARK: Survival Evolved is available to play for free now - Sunday, Nov 11th, paired with massive discounts to own ARK and its other expansion packs, Scorched Earth and Aberration. Stay tuned to our Twitter account for the most up-to-date information on Extinction official servers going live. ARK on Sale! |
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Extinction Creature Teaser Tomorrow! Extinction does not have a large body of water. As you can imagine, the surface of the Earth has undergone some dramatic changes, one of which is that most of the water has dried up. That said, we did build the Extinction creatures with water in mind, and there should be a few surprises waiting for you when you take them to other maps! Survivor Caleb asks, "Is the dev team currently working on a long-term solution to improve the quality of life/tame cap issues on PVE? If so, could the team provide us with some details?" We think that Cryopods coming in Extinction should help with this problem directly. When a creature has been captured into a Cryopod, it does not count against the tame cap of the server. In addition, Cryopods can be kept forever in a Cryofridge with power, arming players with a powerful tool to work around the limitations of the cap. Survivor Nattix asks, "As you mentioned in the previous digest, titans are going to be temporary tames. Will titans have more uses for PVE players who aren't looking to go to war or are they going to be solely for PVP like titanosaurs?" Our hope is that Titans bring a new type of PVE encounter to the game with in-world boss fights and interesting new mechanics that are interesting in themselves. Once tamed, Titans are very powerful. They can clear space and take down lots of dinos quickly making them good for area cleanup or meat runs. In addition, weve worked to make each of them fun to ride. I enjoy exploring the various maps on them for that reason. Survivor Thomas asks, "In a previous teaser we saw some Defense Units roaming the land, this time without their supreme leader summoning them. Could this be the time we finally are able to get our chance to befriend the buggers instead of ripping them apart limb-from-limb (or at least, put them back together again :P)?" The Defense Units found within Extinction are part of the automated force that served and defended the city before it fell into disarray. These days they like to roll around and punch Dodos. They arent craftable like the other Robots found within the city (such as the Scout or Enforcer), but we felt like they brought a missing piece to the ecosystem there, namely punching Dodos. Survivor Thomas asks, "Since we already have seen a glimpse of some Wyvern-action on the land below, can we then confirm that Extinction will have some more creatures from previous expansions living on earths crust and if so, will they be living under similar conditions as they were on their respective arks accordingly?" There are a number of creatures that make their return in Extinction, and they exist in biomes/environments that youd expect to find them in. In addition, a number of existing creatures have been corrupted by Element and they roam the wasteland. These creatures will not behave as they would traditionally, instead destroying anything that gets in the way of their hunt for additional Element to consume. If you have a question you want answered by the ARK dev team please submit your questions with the Subject "ARK Q&A" to our email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Community Livestream Update! There won't be a community livestream this coming Thursday, but it's because we're super busy poreparing for our TwitchCon event coming up this week, and our yearly Extra Life stream AND the launch of Extinction falls shortly after! These next few weeks sure will be busy. Jen will be present at our special TwitchCon event this year along with ARK producer John. To those of you that RSVP'd to attend we look forward to seeing you there and we hope you enjoy getting to be the first to play Extinction! In case you've missed our last couple of mentions of it, Extra Life this year is on November 3rd and we'll be streaming for 24-hours straight to raise money for sick kids hospitals. We'll be dropping some Extinction teasers along the way and boosting our official server rates as our Extra Life team gets closer to our goal. Be sure to tune into our Twitch channel on the 3rd and we'll have more details about this next week. Mod Community Updates! Over the last two weeks, we managed to spotlight almost every mod in the contest. If you missed any and would like to see what all of the mods have to offer, the streams have been sliced and put into convenient episodes, all of which can be found in this Twitch collection. Public voting for the Mod Contest has concluded but technical evaluations are still being finalized so rankings may still continue to change until the winners are announced on November 1st. The current Rankings can be found here: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/contest-home/ The start date for the next contest has not yet been determined, the management system will be taken offline during the winter months for some updates and adjustments based on feedback from the current contest. Once a date is determined everyone will be made aware of it. Fanart of the Week! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541038695 ARK: Evolution Event! Survivors will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 26th of October at 1 PM EST until Monday the 29th of October at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if youve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Happy Patch Day, Survivors! It's Tuesday and ARK's latest patch is live on all platforms. |
Extinction Chronicles V! - Extinction Chronicles V Be sure to check out todays Community Crunch post on our website for the full Crunch announcement post. |
Extinction Chronicles V Next Week Undermeshing refers to the ability to get to where you aren't supposed to by moving outside of the playable space. Almost every game is susceptible to undermeshing in some form. Most speed runs rely on undermeshing, for example. It's effectively impossible to solve completely, at least automatically. The approaches taken to prevent it are usually a tradeoff between how much freedom you want the player to have, how complex your world is, and how much processing time you can afford to spend on physics. Generally, when there's an instance of meshing, it's caused by bad collision setup, improper level geometry (holes), or a problem with the algorithm used to move the character through the world. In some instances, you place kill volumes in locations that you want to guarantee that the player doesn't end up, but that isnt a global solution. Mod Community Updates! Today marks the start of a two-week streaming schedule to spotlight all of the mods entered into the contest. You can vote now for your favorite mods as they compete for a Grand Prize of $15,000! https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/voting/ You can follow the rankings with hourly updates as well! https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/contest-home/ Meanwhile, I will be streaming from the ARK twitch channel showcasing all of these mods, every weekday for the next two weeks! You can find the full schedule here: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/371532-ark-modding-contest-stream-schedule-october-2018/ Come check out some mods and support your fellow community members that give so much of their time to make these fantastic creations! Community Livestream #9 This Thursday! This Thursday October 11th the community team will be doing another biweekly livestream! During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen bring you ARK news, celebrate modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We mix it up between playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339 We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related! You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, October the 11th at 1pm EST! We hope to see you there :) Fanart of the Week! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1532287707 ARK: Evolution Event! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 12th of October at 1 PM EST until Monday the 15th of October at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if youve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Extinction Chronicles IV! - Extinction Chronicles IV New Extinction Previews! In celebration of the patch today we're sharing what we have been working on: some more brand new previews of our upcoming expansion pack ARK: Extinction. Check out the images below for a sneak peak at what you can expect to see on planet Earth! In Extinction, Earth has become an Element-infested planet filled with fantastical creatures both organic and technological. Element has ravaged the planet and corrupted both the landscape and some of its inhabitants, causing mutations in the creatures and plants that can be found there. We look forward to sharing more in the months ahead as we work towards our Extinction release! Be sure to check out yesterdays Community Crunch post on our website for the full Crunch announcement post. |
Extinction Chronicles IV Next Week Hello Survivors! Today, I'd like to talk today about what goes into designing and building new gameplay mechanics. For brevity, I'll focus on the Scout, a creature that we've revealed as part of our upcoming Extinction expansion. When we approach designing gameplay mechanics we start by brainstorming interesting ideas that would make a compelling addition to our sandbox. The Scout started as a desire for the ability to fly around the battlefield with a drone. We have several members of the team who enjoy flying drones, so collectively we fell in love with the idea of remote piloting early. We also had another gameplay mechanic that we were interested in that finds its origins in another franchise - the ability to tag enemies to reveal them to your allies. This idea was also high on our list, and through further brainstorming, we found it was a natural fit for the Scout, so they came together in the brainstorming phase. Next, we'll build the mechanic and iterate numerous times, using multiple weekly gameplay review sessions to nail the fine details. The Scout was deployable from a grenade and had remote viewing baked in pretty early on. Originally it's tagging mechanism was a projectile that it fired. This was very difficult to use, so we switched to more of a raygun. The tags originally lasted a very short time, so they weren't very useful. We've since upped the time that they last - making the Scout a key target for the other team to take out. In addition, we didn't originally allow the tagging of allies, but this slotted in naturally as a way to give a more complete view of the battlefield. Upcoming Server Maintenance! This Wednesday, September 12th at 12pm EST we will be merging the PC ARKpocalypse servers into one cluster. It is important for players on those servers to note that during this process any items or creatures uploaded into the Obelisk will be lost. Therefore it is strongly encouraged that you download anything in your cloud to ensure nothing is lost before Wednesday. You can follow us on Twitter to keep up-to-date with this server process. Mod Community Updates! The ARK Modding contest is now in full swing, and we've been getting some good entries, but I still want to encourage anyone that has ever considered making mods for ARK to dive in and participate. The submission period will be open until Saturday, October 6th so polish up those mods and let's have some fun. After that, we'll move into the voting phase where we'll post all the mods in the contest publicly and let everyone try them out and vote on their favorites. We've also received a couple tutorial bounty claims for chat commands and map optimizations and I have added a bunch of new bounties to the board ready to be claimed. You can find all of them here: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/345036-modding-tutorial-bounty-board/ We're going to need some new tutorial requests too, and please check the list in the form to see if the request already exists, as I choose new bounties based on demand which can only be counted if everyone submits the form using one of the items from the drop-down. Next week I'll have a new tutorial ready. I've been getting a ton of requests for a tutorial on version control, so I'm going to show everyone how to use Git with the devkit. Happy modding! Community Livestream #8 This Thursday! This Thursday September 13th the community team will be doing another biweekly livestream! During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen bring you ARK news, celebrate modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We mix it up between playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339 We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related! You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, September the 13th at 1pm EST! We hope to see you there :) Fanart of the Week! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504244666 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504249202 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504246010 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1504247549 We would like to give a special shout out this week to creature paint artist Sharkcat for their Jurassic World raptor paints! ARK: Evolution Event! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 14th of September at 1 PM EST until Monday the 17th of September at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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ARK Digest 53! Fliers are allowed on Extinction! There will be a number of existing fliers that spawn in Extinction, and we’re working on a few more to add to your collection. That said, there will be new challenges for fliers on this map that we’re excited for you to discover and contend with. Survivor Max K asks, “Any news on the kibble tree rework?” While imperfect, a lot of thought and work went into building the kibble tree as it stands now. A number of us internally would like to make major changes to this, potentially rebuilding it from the ground up. The reality is that this represents a significant undertaking, and would be very disruptive to the game. If we decide to tackle this, it will be post Extinction. Survivor B Anthony asks, “Will there be artifacts in Extinction? And will the Obelisks still be used to go to the boss's room in Extinction?” We’re still hammering out the exact summoning mechanics, but the Titan battles in Extinction will take place on the live map. There will not be separate boss fight arenas for them. Survivor Caleb H asks, “Is there a scheduled frame of time that the S+ mod mechanics will be implemented? If so, when could we expect to see them? I'm sure the community would love to see the progress you have made.” S+ is a shining example of the benefits of releasing mod tools to the community. It contains a number of improvements to the building system that we’d like to integrate. That said, it also contains a number of features and mechanics that circumvent systems in the game. Given this, we aren’t planning to integrate the mod wholesale. We are, however, examining and tracking individual improvements that would make sense to integrate. Any improvements in this area would come after Extinction launches. Survivor Kim R asks, “Have you definitely decided for or against whether some mechanics from the expansion packs might carry over to other maps? I'm thinking of the cliff platforms that would be cool to build on the Island or other maps.” When we set out to build an expansion, we seek to add gameplay that adds to the core experience. Our goal, then, is to allow those mechanics to be used in all the places that make sense. Cliff Platforms work on all maps, for example. A number of the features we’re adding in Extinction are meant to be used across all of the other maps. They’re meant to change things up on multiple levels. Survivor Kim R asks, “Is it, or will it be, possible to run multiple events as a server owner? For example, both the Easter Event and the ARKaeology Event?” Unfortunately, no. When we set out earlier this year to rebuild the event system in a way that they would persist, we decided not to ensure compatibility between them. Largely they modify many of the same bits, so making them fully compatible would take a significant amount of work and lower the likelihood that we could implement cool things like the bone pile spawning in the ARKaeology event. Survivor Austin K asks, “With Extinction being the biggest DLC you've done yet, can we expect most if not all dinos in the game to be featured on the map?” A number of our previous creatures will inhabit the Extinction map. As with our other expansions, we’ll bring across the ones that make the most sense and incorporate them. In addition, we’re adding the highly aggressive corrupted versions of a number of creatures to provide new challenges. Survivor BrokenRealm asks, “Will there be another Ark: Fear Evolved?” We like creating new and interesting events for our players. Unfortunately, most of our effort at that time will be focused on ensuring a smooth and enjoyable launch for Extinction. Doing a Halloween event and wrapping the expansion at the same time would have a negative impact on both, so we’ll be skipping Halloween this year. Survivor Dave M asks, “Will there be any new mods coming out for console players? We’re aware that our console players would like to see more in this space. We don’t have anything specific to announce at the moment, but stay tuned. Survivor Joaquin S asks, “If you had to describe Extinction in one to three words, what would they be?” Prodigious, challenging, fresh. The Titans bring a number of new elements to the core experience through public boss fights and taming of even larger creatures. The new in-world event system we’re building will bring new gameplay to both PVE and PVP servers. Finally, the introduction of the city brings a whole new dynamic to exploration and building. I’m really excited about these new elements. If you have a question you want answered by the ARK dev team please submit your questions with the Subject "ARK Q&A" to our email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Community Livestream #6 Roundup! On August 16th we had our sixth Community Livestream. Thank you to all of those who attended and participated! The community team had a lot of fun and we hope you did as well. If you weren't able to catch the stream you can watch the video-on-demand on our Twitch page or by clicking on the video below. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298128665 This stream we were joined by the creator of the mod Auction House, Ghazlawl. Auction House allows you to create, bid on, and purchase auctions for items, weapons, blueprints, skins, dinos, etc, from players on your server or players on other servers who are also using the mod. On top of that, modded items and dinos are supported! The mod has its own intuiative UI to allow for easy trading. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=898049820 Chris, Zen and Jen then went on a taming adventure to find a Tek Raptor, which was newly introduced last week in our Extinction Chronicles III update. It was an eventful journey around the island full of action, and by action we mean being pounced on by every raptor except a Tek one. After a suggestion from chat our adventurers made their way towards the volcano and it was on the way that they finally spotted a female Tek Raptor and tamed her, later dubbed "Raptotron" by chat. Success! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339 We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related! You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, August the 30th at 1PM EST! We hope to see you there :) Mod Community Updates! Hello everyone! Zen here. It's that time again for some mod news and reminders. I have been getting some suggestions about changes to make for the tutorial bounty board. I will be thinking about those and consider the proper way to achieve the things people want to get from those suggestions. There are some claims that have been declared this month as well so I will be reviewing them shortly... or at least I should be, but I am actually in the middle of moving into a new apartment, so the bounty claims might be a bit delayed as I will be quite busy from now until the end of the month. I will get to them though, don't worry. The next workshop video will likely be delayed as well since my recording setup may not be ready in time. I also have another Wildcard Workshop modding tutorial ready for you. I got some asks recently to cover event dispatchers, so here we go. These things are pretty useful so I would give it a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZ1DMbI4RM Fanart of the Week! We would like to give a special shoutout this week to artist Frillface for their amazing ARKwork created in MSPaint! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1482723717 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1481472756 ARK: Evolution Event! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 24th of August at 1 PM EST until Monday the 27th of August at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
Happy Patch Day, Survivors! It's Tuesday and ARK's latest update is going live just as this announcement is being posted. |
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Be aware of and respect the rules of the Official Server Code of Conduct, which you can read in it's full form here: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/code-of-conduct/ Community Livestream #5 This Thursday! This Thursday August 2nd the community team will be doing another biweekly livestream! During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen bring you ARK news, celebrate modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We mix it up between playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339 We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related! You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, August the 2nd! We hope to see you there :) ARK: Evolution Event! Survivors will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 3rd of August at 1 PM EST until Monday the 6th of August at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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Mysterious Mysteries: Introducing ??????? EU-PVP-Official-Aberration-SmallTribes5 Upcoming Maintenance - Fresh Servers Joining Main Cluster! On July 3rd the first set of Fresh Servers that were released will be joining the main cluster as the 60 period has expired. This will happen during our 1pm EST deployment. *FRESH*EU-PVE-Official-TheIsland395 Community Livestream #5 This Thursday! This Thursday July 5th the community team will be doing another biweekly livestream! During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen bring you ARK news, celebrate modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We mix it up between playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339 We are accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related! You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, July the 5th! We hope to see you there :) Salien! The Steam Intergalactic Summer Sale is here! Until July 4th you can collect an ARK-themed outfit for your Salien when participating in the sale, or by playing the Summer Saliens Game to win free games! http://steamcommunity.com/saliengame/play ARK'S BIGGEST SALE! ARK and its expansion packs are currently on sale across all platforms at their lowest prices ever! Check out the image and links below for more details! ARK: Evolution Event - Fourth of July! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this Fourth of July! It will be active from Tuesday the 3rd of July at 2 PM EST until Thursday the 5th of July at 2 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Maturation Rates 2x Mating Rates 2x Egg Hatching Rates And also... Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 6th of July at 1 PM EST until Monday the 9th of July at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rates 2x Taming Rates 2x EXP Rates That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Community Hub: www.survivetheark.com Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark |
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The ARKaeology event also brings with it a bionic battle beast - the Tek Rex - for survivors to tame, ride and breed! The Tek Rex is, as the name implies, a rare, specially armored wild T-Rex that can achieve a higher level than its standard brethren. Previously isolated to just a cosmetic skin, these wild creatures will be roaming the ARKs (on maps where normal Rexes are present) and are yours for the taming, if you can handle it! ARK'S BIGGEST SALE! ARK and its expansion packs are currently on sale across all platforms at their lowest prices ever! Check out the image and links below for more details! Patch Notes for Current Version: v280.114 ARKaeology Event Scavenge fossils from the various mounds that spawn on every map, be on the lookout for special mounds that contain items and use fossils to craft special skins! The event will run automatically from 15th of June to 15th of July on Multiplayer and Single Player. If you're using a non coredata mods, or a custom map, you can activate the event with the following commandline: -ActiveEvent=ARKaeology you can also run that commandline after the designated period to have the event continue, or opt-out using: -ActiveEvent=None The skins added to the event, are the following: - Brachiosaurus (Brontosaurus Skin) - Stygimoloch (Pachycephalosaurus Skin) - Styracosaurus (Triceratops Skin) - Dilophosaurus Mask (Hat Skin) Bone Skins! - Rex - Carno - Raptor - Bronto - Stego - Trike - Giganotosaurus - Quetzalcoatlus - Jerboa - Wyvern Fortitude rework - The threshold for being knocked out increases with fortitude increases - Increased natural insulation from fortitude by 8% Small Tribe Server rule changes - 24 hr cooldown on tribe slot reuse - Disabled dino unclaiming - Disabled non-tribe pin code access to structures Tek Rex - 5% of wild Rex spawns are tex - 20% higher wild level - New breeding line Miscellaneous - Tek Tapajara saddle range reduced by 75% - Fix for server performance in certain situations - Many hole fixes across all maps - Ragnarok optimizations - Rendering fixes - Fix emissive when moving the camera - Fix for ambient occlusion rendering issue - Max level increased by 1 to 131 Be on the lookout for hidden mysteries! |
Be on the lookout on our social media for a confirmed start and end date on official servers. We're aiming for this weekend if our console cert process is successful! PC single player and PC unofficial servers will be able to turn on the event as early as tomorrow after our weekly patch, if you so wish.
Existing Items: Modding Tutorial Contest #1 Winner! Hello everyone, Zen here! The winner of the first mod tutorial contest has been decided! @Garuga123 has put together an excellent tutorial for adding new creatures to ARK. He makes it easy to follow and introduces you to the different parts that need to be prepared. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD9NHeZHbMo Don't forget that the second modding tutorial contest is already underway and accepting submissions. If you are interested, please take a look here: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/316338-ark-modding-tutorial-contest/ And if you are interested in learning how to make mods, we launched the Wildcard Workshop tutorial series last week. Next week I will have a new tutorial ready for you all! https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/316320-wildcard-workshop-1-getting-started/ ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the 30th of March at 1 PM EST until Monday the 2nd at 3 PM. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on survivetheark! Keep on surviving! |
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With TLC patch #2 just around the corner (tomorrow!) we're excited to share with you the new dossiers for the 6 creatures that will be receiving changes this patch. This includes the Argentavis, Parasaur, Raptor, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaur, and Triceratops. Take a look! |
Everyone's favourite early tame, the Parasaur, won't be receiving a visual update but will be receiving some handy ability upgrades to make it more useful for beginner survivors in TLC #2. NA/EU PVE/PVP 327-389 Mod Tutorial Contest! Every other week, as part of the community crunch, the newest member of our team ZenRowe will be doing mod spotlights and giving tips, tutorials, and best practices. We are also going to start hosting a Mod Tutorial Contest every other week. The goal of this contest is to encourage mod authors to share knowledge and increase the skill level and understanding of mod authors that are new or trying to acquire new skills. If you'd like to participate in our first Modding Tutorial contest check out the post below: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/312558-mod-tutorial-contest-1/ Extended 2x Evo Event! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend and into next week! Over St. Patrick's Day an Evo Event will be active from Friday the 16th at 1pm EST until Wednesday the 21st at 3pm. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on survivetheark! Keep on surviving! |
This week we'll be previewing the latest TLC of one of our oldest friend, here is everyone's favourite early tame, the Triceratops! Taming Speed will be increased to 3x You can play on your favourite map and transfer between other Arkpocalypse servers on a closed cluster, separate from the main PVP cluster. Note: Arkpocalypse servers are not affected by Evolution Events. Fan Building Contest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scIG_R9UOWM Survivors Firespark81 & GGFizz are currently hosting a building contest for fellow PC Survivors. They are doing both a vanilla and modded contest. If you're interested, check out the video above. They also have a list of rules and a sign up form if you'd like to enter. Contest Rules & Info: https://sites.google.com/view/buildconrules/ Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaInq2jQ_i5Xe0AWQI6UN9KAK4O0RqgDH_j2eXupfk3rjpFQ/viewform Be sure to get in touch with them if you're interested in participating, and good luck! ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on survivetheark! Keep on surviving! |
Last week we showed you a preview of the updated Sarcosuchus coming in TLC 2 next month. Today we have another special treat to share: the Raptor! |
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Turrets 3: The Turret... ening. Holiday Events! We'd like to wish all survivors out there a Happy Thanksgiving and hope that have a great weekend! As for our plans, we will not be hosting an event for Thanksgiving this year due to our efforts being focused on Aberration and getting it out in December. We apologise for the lack of event this time of year, we love hosting holiday events, but unfortunately, we just didn't have the time to do so. Though, with Christmas around the corner, you won't have to wait long for a special Christmas themed Holiday Event! Autumn Sale! Haven’t yet explored the island of ARK? Nows your chance to get in as ARK has huge discounts during the Autumn Sale! http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/696680/ARK_Survival_Evolved_Season_Pass/ That's it for this post guys! As always if you want to keep up with the latest news be sure to follow us on: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard |
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Hey Survivors! We’d like to start off by giving a huge thanks to all of you who participated in ARK’s first ever Twitch on! Whether you attended the show, tuned into our streams, or took part on social media, we are grateful for all the support and engagement! |
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Yes, along with an increased Ascension level and a narrative-advancing ending! Survivor NeckRipper asks, "Will dlc content carrier over to the different arks island, center and rag? Like zipline, ice picks ect…" Yes, it will, and all of the items are being designed to be useful on more than just Aberration. Survivor danleveille asks, "How will taming work in Aberration? Will there be any major changes to the taming mechanic or will it remain roughly similar? Will there be Kibble? Asking for a friend." For your “friend”, I can say that while most creatures will be similar in core mechanics to The Island creatures, there are a few that are rather batsh$t crazy to tame. One even involves xenomorphic impregnation and chestbursting. Survivor xViiVD asks, "I have heard from multiple sources that there will be no fliers on this map. Will you restrict any form of transferring fliers or will tribes be allowed to move pteras and wyverns over to Aberration from the island?" By default and on Official Servers there will not be any rideable fliers transferrable onto the map, in order to encourage new forms of traversal. This will be a server option of course. Survivor OnePotatoChip asks, "Does this map have more of a PvE focus or at least more PvE oriented content?" In my view Aberration is the most PvE oriented ARK yet, with more story development than ever before, and more unique non-natural mythos “landmarks” to find and explore. Survivor WeebTrash asks, "I heard that because of how Aberration's map is designed, gamma won't work on it to make it lighter, is this true? If so, is there gonna be a server option for unofficials to enable gamma working on that map?" Not sure where you heard that, no plans to change the current gamma functionality. Survivor RaifuForLaifu asks, "What are "Element Chambers"?" They are zones of intense radiation where it is possible to collect Element Ore, as well as encounter certain hideous, aggressive creatures. Survivor HighFlyer15 asks, "Unlike Scorched Earth, where we saw a whole lot of creatures from the Island, can we expect only to see new creatures on Aberration?" Aberration will include various biome-appropriate creatures from The Island, similar to Scorched Earth. Survivor Wolf Angelus asks, "What has persuaded you guys to go the sci-fi approach? You could have picked many different routes, but what was the logical thought for this choice, and the incorporation of radiation, and other such things that are "space-themed"?" Specifically in this case, Aberration was chosen in order to develop the next story arc of… ARK! Survivor Blackwolfe asks, "Will the cliff platforms be like the tree platforms in the way that they can only be placed in specific spots or will you be able to place them anywhere? Will you be able to snap things on cliff platforms?" You can build the cliff platforms onto ANY surface that has sufficient attachment area, not only at pre-determined locations. Survivor PuffyPony asks, "A big part of Aberration is the idea that a malfunctioning ARK led to mutations in its population. Are we getting/can we get lore into what developed into what? Like the Lantern Pug appears to be a mutated Angler, the Rock Drake could be a Megalania, the crazy Mysterious Mysteries #1 a Thylacoleo... I'd love to get some of the background on that, since it'd tie the DLC into the base game nicely." Yes, there will be some indications along those lines. What developed into the Nameless? Survivor alcarazr asks, "Will we be able to directly harvest Element in Aberration, either as a resource (with a new tool, such as a special pick) or by killing certain creatures?" Yes. Survivor Deaner asks, "Will Aberration have a new building tier just like Scorched Earth got the adobe building tier?" It won’t have a completely unique tileset, but will have a lot of new utility structures. Survivor lysergicsid asks, "It was mentioned that the Ark in Aberration has an unstable atmosphere, leaks, etc. so how does that tie into the gameplay, if at all? Like are there some areas where you can suffocate outside of water? If so, will there be any masks or tools that can counteract this?" Yes there are areas with Low or No Oxygen, and of course the incredibly harsh surface radiation, along with various other environmental hazards. Yeah, there’s a new Hazard Suit designed to aid in counter-acting SOME of these conditions. Survivor TalSet asks, "This world is supposed to be hostile with mutants correct? Is it going to be one of those situations where its very difficult to start and you constantly die as you spawn?" We’re trying to make the initial difficulty ramp more forgiving on this ARK, for example the giant “Fertile Chamber” is actually pretty chill, and things get more difficult the deeper you go... Survivor DauntedVenus asks, "Well, the question most of the community will ask is... will there be legacy servers for this DLC?" Of course! Survivor DiloFodder asks, "Will you be able to fire weapons from the back of the rock wyvern? I think it would be equal parts amazing and terrifying to have a firing platform for a sniper that functions as a glider and can utilize a basic active camouflage and would be awesome to use for guerrilla style warfare." Yes. Survivor Ashtray asks, "Will the cave climbing picks be able to be used freely on any cliff/cave or only on certain areas?" Freely on essentially any surface :) Survivor Colonel Siberia asks, "How useful a role will regular land animals with no climbing dynamics be in moving about? Will we be able to go from one biome to the next without needing to switch to a more mobile creature like the showcased rock drake? Or will there be geographical limitations that necessitate adding all-terrain creatures to our arsenals and adapting to the topography?" Most of Aberrations creatures have capabilities to move through the complex environment, and there are also new structures to aid in both primitive and high-tech dino mobility... Survivor Colonel Siberia asks, "How will earthquakes change the way players build their bases and raise their dinos? Are the earthquakes capable of damaging structures and, if so, are there any ways we can mitigate these effects?" They are capable of damaging structures, but they’re only intense in certain areas of certain biomes. Building permanent bases there is not advised! Survivor Colonel Siberia asks, "How will radiation affect the way players explore and how will hazard suits work with the system? Will there be any strange creatures that survive, and possibly even thrive, in radiation zones? Is the radiation solely on the surface, or will we encounter some underground, as well?" Yes, a few creature types benefit from radiation. It’s not solely on the surface, but is most intense there. The Hazard Suit mitigates radiation and other extreme environmental dangers, but its durability is decreased over time when under such effects. ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event++ perk this weekend! It's already live now and will remain active until Monday the 25th at 12PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate 2x Maturing 2x Hatching 2x Gestation 2x Faster Mating Interval Rates ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on survivetheark! Keep on surviving! |
Yeah, we’ll add a general AI option for dinos to only attack Conscious targets. Survivor TranqRex asks, “You’re not able to Scorched Earth on a Player Dedicated Server unless you own the DLC. Will this be changed, as you can host on PC without.” Unfortunately not, because we can’t download the necessary content files onto the game client without the player having ownership of the DLC itself. Survivor Hazelnut20 asks, “Could you create a 'flee' aggression status, so that if something hits your dinosaur, that it runs away, instead of standing in direct line of fire?” Sure, we’ll add that -- no guarantees as to how effective it’ll be against a determined attacker, however! Survivor Hosscat asks, “Being an achievement hunter and enjoying some of the challenges ARK gives to obtain some of the achievements I was excited to see The Center map had its own specific achievement. Will more achievements for other maps be released, such as Scorched Earth or Ragnarok only achievements?” Yes, when Ragnarok is done, we’ll add Achivements for it. Scorched Earth and Aberration will also be getting achievements. Survivor AbeHikura asks, “are the future expansions already decided by the team (hence the season pass) or are you guys carefully monitoring us for inspiration? Will these expansions be the same or larger than Scorched earth (content wise)?” We’ve got the third Expansion in early design phase -- though much of its content is yet to be determined and will also be in response to continued feedback. Beyond that, we’ll be in continuous brainstorming mode :) Survivor Mendoza asks, “Have you considered any further the decision to make above ground beacon drops fully random?” We’ll be adding a configuration option for this in the very near future. Survivor TheGamingGomer asks, “Will we get splitscreen on console player dedicated servers? My brother and our friend would like to be able to play together without having three consoles or all getting on at the same time.” We can’t do it because the tethering logic is necessary for splitscreen to function properly, and the tethering logic only runs in non-dedicated mode. Survivor Ulkusus asks, “Command/execute on starting ark: scan your steam achievements and update your local profile accordingly so one can get skins back after a reinstall of the game?” Yes, we will do this. Probably doesn’t need to be a command-line either, can likely just run upon each startup. Will investigate ASAP. Survivor EternalUniverse asks, “Can we please have a respawn protection (ya'know when you respawn and you are into that animation that takes a long time to finish and then you get spawn killed by a dino?)” We’ll make a respawning player not targetable by Wild Dino AI’s. Survivor Nightmare2772 asks, “Will Aberration feature a new plant species? Plant Species Z maybe? I like the idea of a huge carnivorous plant.” It will, and it’s called Plant Species Z :-P Survivor KraziestKraken asks, “This is kind of a random question, but is the woman riding the raptor on the box art Helena? I've always thought so, but i'd like confirmation. “ As a matter of fact, she is. Survivor NeckRipper asks, “Will the dlc content of Aberration carry over and be usable in the other Arks like the island, center and rag?” Yes, just like with Scorched Earth. Survivor Nch1418 asks, “First, are there plans to expand the story into the newly announced Aberration expansion and the other expansion coming in 2018? Second, will we be getting Explorer Notes from any new characters besides the six already introduced? Third, any small hints on what the 2018 DLC is going to involve or what it will be centered around (e.g. further story content, etc.)?” The story continues in Aberration and reaches a climax in the third DLC, where All Is Revealed in an epic conclusion. Each Expansion introduces new characters and raises the stakes, while continuing the story of the characters who have survived previous ARKs (they might not make it out alive from subsequent ARKs though!). Survivor Gibsy asks, “Are you guys still going ahead with the revamp of the older dinos? If so when are we likely to see it” We have our design plans worked-out here for the Dino TLC pass, and it will be implemented and released this year. ARK: 2x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event++ perk this weekend! It's already live now and will remain active until Monday the 18th at 12PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate 2x Maturing 2x Hatching 2x Gestation 2x Faster Mating Interval Rates ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on survivetheark! Keep on surviving! |
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ARK: Survival Evolved is Now Available on Steam! |
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For those of you who missed us this morning on the Twitch at Gamescom livestream, we just premiered the official launch trailer for ARK: Survival Evolved! Watch it below! |
Introducing the Phoenix! A lot of server-side work in particular, more physics threading and more efficient networking. For clients, one of the biggest areas for potential improvement currently is faster rendering of large bases: using instanced meshes to render hundreds of structures in a single draw-call. After that, general profiling. DX12 is still of interest, but we need to do more analysis to make sure it’s a real benefit to players -- the gains were small last time we checked, and the drivers were unstable, though I imagine a lot has improved over the past year, so will be taking another look at it! Survivor DangerPlayz asks, “Hey Jeremy! I play a lot of Single Player and am very happy with the changes you have made recently! However, can we please get an option to remove the engram points system and unlock all engrams at a certain level, when we reach said level. Thanks!” Will do, easy enough. Survivor Caseybear asks “Will the small CrossArk cluster servers be gaining access to Ragnarok and other future content? If so, any idea when?” Aye, it should be added when we allocate more server machines at launch. Survivor IGNWhyt asks, “Will you please address the issue where the game takes up 100+GB? Is this intended? Are there any plans on reducing the size?” It’s intended. In essence, much of the content exists in two forms: seekfree (for fast-loading of the basic game), and non-seekfree for support of Mods and Total Conversion to use individual assets. That said, there is a strong argument the non-seekfree files necessary for Mods should be contained in an optional “Mod Support” DLC pack, and not part of the immediate base game. Will consider this in the days ahead. Survivor RaifuForLaifu, asks “Can we get a damage reduction on The Dragon's fire breath pretty please with extra sprinkles on top? 25% feels a tad ridiculous. Thank you” It shall be done! Survivor Blackwolfe asks, “You earlier mentioned that you were reworking the kibble tree. Will this also affect the kibbles asked for when imprinting dinos? Beacuse kibble for imprinting I think is a large part of why people feel forced to have a lot of dinos (together with the kibbles needed for taming).” Yes, we have a tentative rework of the Kibble Tree that will be going live on the post-retail-launch “Experimental” branch for public feedback. Survivor GamerPerfection asks, “Can you make the Tribe Logs record your Tames/Turrets kills? I find it frustrating not knowing what they've actually killed when i'm not around.” It shall be done! Survivor Mendoza asks, “Can we get Sun Glasses added to the game to help reduce glare?” Yep. Survivor iAmE asks, “Do you plan on hiring any additional support staff? I would figure any number would be nice, as you would seem to be going up from what appears to be zero (4-6 Month ticket turn arounds hurt this game an immense amount.” Yeah, as we get into retail launch and beyond, more Support Staff is going to be needed and we’ll be getting that buffed in the coming weeks. Survivor Touhma asks, “As A server Admin I want an option that can allow me to have a full customisation on Taming time / ressources Any chances to have this options : * TamedDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier -> To avoid the consumption of ressource after taming ( when foodDrain is up ) * WildDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier -> To tweak the speed of taming whitout affect the tamed dinos ( when foodDrain is up and avoiding the effect on tamed dinos ) * WildDinoTorporDrainMultiplier -> To have a use of narcotics ( because of TamingEfficiency make narcotics almost useless en taming time is less than offi ) * PassiveTameIntervalMultiplier -> To adjust the interval between 2 feeding tentative for passive tame dinos ( because if the foorDrainMultiplier is greater than 2 the dino is dying when trying to tame it ) Why I want these changes: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/225312-something-wrong-with-taming-settings-on-custom-server/“ Those are good, and we’ll get it done! Survivor CottonCandy asks, “1) Is there any chance we'll see an option to enable NVIDIA Ansel on servers that don't care about people using it to cheat, etc?” Yeah, we’ll just add the capability to use Ansel if you’re an admin :-P Survivor PaladinKong asks, “Will those who have the game now in early access be able to get the physical items that come with the collectors edition, like the dossier book, without having to buy another copy of the game?” The company that manufactures & distributes the Collector’s Editions (which is not us directly) has told us that when they sell out, they can manufacture more that are CE-only (and thus cheaper) without the game included. I think we’re close to selling out, so we’ll bug them about it now. Survivor johnm81 asks, “Prim+ players have been told that load times for pc version can't be addressed till after alpha. Now that alpha is over what are the plans to lower the 5-15min load times for this total conversion?” Yep, we need to do give it a proper Seekfree cook which would then have the same load times as the base game. We’ll do so soon. The problem is that it has to then be updated (recooked) more often as well, but I think we can handle it. We may also provide Dev Kit authors with the option to do a (large but super-fast-loading) Seekfree cook. Survivor legendaryc4 asks, “can console players get the option to hold back the left stick to slow flyers down? Very big here for me as building high up can be a pain.” Yes, we’ll add this. Been on the todo list for a while but darn the limited buttons available on gamepad. What you suggest seems like a good way to go with it. Survivor Lowly asks, “Can we get some sort of flame retardant suite, firefighter suite, racing driver type flame retardant suite, to fit into the modern technology side of scorched earth” Yes, Bio/Hazard Suit is incoming. Survivor Dustiest-Ninja asks, “On a scale of 1-Incredible Hulk how much did dealing with the PhysX Engine for the tek ATV-jeeps make you rage?” It was… interesting. In all fairness, we actually had to modify the lowest-level PhysX code in order to make it work halfway-decently :-P I hope to do more with that soon. Survivor Syntac asks, “Will you guys ever implement the Hive, the creature in the dev kit that looks like a giant beetle?” After the Phoenix ;) Survivor Gelantious asks, “Any news related to Vulkan? Still having hopes you guys will move over to it and ditch the idea of dx12, since it would help Linux users as well and all windows users, not just the windows 10 players.” Unreal 4’s own official Vulkan integration was only like half-functional when I last reviewed it a few months ago. I’ll take a look shortly to see if it’s farther along. Once Epic has got it going fully well (fully matching the functionality and pipeline of DX11 & Shader Model 5), I’d like to try to incorporate it into ARK. Survivor tolle79 asks” lets be serious the question of all quetions is why doesnt the doedicurus gather berries? Like how does it survive in the wild?” It ought to gather berries! :-P Survivor LordMaxilos asks, “TEK: Is there any chance that some sort of TEK Bow will be introduced to the game? As well as a TEK Arrow who will split up into three when you shoot it or something?” Tek Bow isn’t a question of “if”, just a question of “when”! Survivor Redstorm8616 asks, “Growable Cactus Sap?” Hmm, could be fun. <*Ouch, prickly!*> In all seriousness, we should totally do it and will. Would be fun to have more growable crops. Survivor mleii asks, “Can we get some videos showing what the Xbox One X will look like in game?” Soon -- the Xbox One X runs at 1440p 30 FPS using “PC High” settings, or 60 FPS 1080p using “PC Medium” settings (we’ll provide the Option for either High or Medium modes). Also because the Xbox One X has so much available RAM, ARK for Xbox One X has a new 4k texture pack (free DLC) and when the a non-dedicated multiplayer host is Xbox One X, the clients don’t have a distance-tether! It was shown behind-closed-doors on August 8 Xbox One X event at Microsoft, so I think we can take some video from that build. The Great Migration! We have some very important news for Survivors playing on our official servers. This coming Tuesday (August 22nd) we will be posting the list of servers that will be taken down on our launch day and re-purposed for the new servers, while all other existing servers become Legacy servers. For those who decide not to migrate, the saves for these servers will be uploaded and provided, which you can then download and use to host your own unofficial servers with all of your stuff intact. Closer to release date we will also be communicating how these servers will be allocated, so you can prepare to take over a new server! ARK: 3x Evolution Event Weekend! Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event+++ perk this weekend! It's already live now and will remain active until Monday the 21st at 12PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 3x Harvesting Rate 3x Taming Rate 3x EXP Rate 3x Maturing 3x Hatching 3x Gestation 3x Faster Mating Interval Rates Reminder: this 2x bonus is on top of the 2x rates that are now standard on our official servers! ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on our official forums. Keep on surviving! |
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Introducing the Otter! We’re investing the possibility of including Structures+ as an officially integrated feature -- beyond an Officially Supported Mod, directly into the core game itself. No promises yet though, it depends on how much of a clean implementation it proves to be. Survivor Cynanic Ember asks: Will the two upcoming Expansion Packs included in the Season Pass round out and complete Ark's story entirely, or is there a possibility for additional Expansions beyond those? We’ll see how the next two Expansions go, and if there’s more interesting story to tell and survival mechanics to explore beyond that. I’m hopeful! Has the TLC pass for Legacy dinos been scrapped or pushed back to post launch updates? Post-Launch update. I will not be able to rest until those initial launch dinos get their due. On that subject, will post-launch updates be in much the same format as pre-launch? Or will we have larger themed updates like "Farming and Flora Update"? Same format as pre-launch, at least for the rest of this year. Namely, firefighting and individual feature updating. Next year, will probably settle into a groove of less frequent, bigger themes. Will the Ice Wyvern ever get a distinct model, texture, and breath weapon instead of a re-skin? Yes, at the end of August! And it will be transferable. Will we be getting a more robust TEK Arsenal? The current TEK Rifle is the successor to the Assault Rifle, but what about a TEK Heavy Weapon like the rocket launcher (plasma cannon or railgun maybe?), or a sidearm, sniper rifle, or close-quarters weapon? (i.e Shotgun, not Tek Sword) Yep, you will, stay tuned. I’m a big fan of ‘Eraser’! Now that the game's full launch is approaching, will you be taking a look at any of the content that you originally wanted to implement, but was cut for various reasons? (Such as oil lanterns, primitive saddle mounted cannons, bean-bag ammo for shotguns, grapeshot for primitive cannon, etc...) We plan to continue to add content post-launch, so I’m optimistic most if not all of these ideas will be realized in the months ahead. Survivor Waterkeeper asks, “How's the kibble tree rework coming along?” It’s nearly ready for public feedback, just trying to decide whether I want to put it out now or wait until the Experimental branch is live post-launch. Leaning towards Experimental branch to enable us to have more time to collect live feedback before it affects Officials, in case we don’t get some of the values right. IGNWhyt asks, “Are there any plans to make a colorblind-friendly mode? It's 2017, as such its not a new concept game wise. Or at the very least make supply drops different colors (red/green and blue/purple) if you can?” Yes, we will deal with this in the coming months, before the end of October. It’s important! Scrysis asks, “Is Primal Ark still being developed? You know, the total conversion that allows players to play as the dinos?” The team working on it had to put it on the backburner to help with completing our UWP and multiplatform launch goals (along with infrastructure improvements). We hope to return to it post-launch. xKingPheonix asks, “Is the phoenix permanently scrapped or will you guys add it to another dlc?” It’ll be added into Scorched Earth on August 29, as a thank-you for everyone making that Expansion such a success. We really do appreciate it! Steyoung89 asks, “Where do you stand with the Windows 10 version of the game?” It’s nearly ready -- with Crossplay and Windows-hosted Dedicated Server and cross-buy and cross-platform transfer of data etc -- and it should release on August 29 or near that (depending on whether Microsoft can certify it for launch quickly enough!). ColossuS asks, “Extinction Servers have been dead for a very long time now and I have seen countless posts and tweets asking for the map to be reverted back to The Island; will this ever happen?“ Yep, we’ll likely make that change on the August 29 new-launch. Stonefather asks “Will insects ever become breedable? I feel like they are outclassed by other creatures and being able to raise your own would help bring them closer in line with other creatures.” Not by us, their lifecycles are too different from animals so it’d be difficult to represent without a major amount of effort for each individual insect. Oakwind asks “When are we getting the Phiomia bacon we were promised?!?!” Dino TLC pass, this year. Lewiatan asks “Do you plan to make AI overhaul before or after premiere? What will AI overhaul contain? Among other things, during the Dino TLC pass, for example, we plan to make various creatures biased towards being nocturnal or diurnal. So that, unless they are perturbed, you’d actually see them sleeping and recovering their vital stats during that time. This will provide more incentive for travel at a specific time of day or night, depending on where you’re going. Survivor, SirMatthew asks “We will ever get banner/flag fixed in saddles, similar to the Tribe Flag from Survival of the Fittest?” Very possible, just haven’t got around to it yet. Sponsored Mod Program Update! Here's what Cedric had to say: We are excited to announce some new changes to the Sponsored Mod Program for the month of August. It’s mind blowing seeing what our sponsored modders have accomplished in such a short time. As the program develops and the mods mature, we’ll be looking to see if any more mods have potential for a console release. Dragonpunk: Tribe of Gods Everyone here is really excited for what this Total Conversion will bring to gameplay. At the moment, this Total Conversion is split into several different mods, but there are plans to make it a one-stop shop. They are aiming to redefine the way ARK. Be sure to check out their website for more information! In the meantime, you can check out the Mythical Creatures for a little preview of what’s to come, plus they’ll be dropping a new magic mod later this month! Call of the Wild I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to see new game modes being developed. Survival of the Fittest was originally a mod that was created in the dev kit. Call of the Wild summons a wave of creatures at a location you choose that are there for your blood. It reminds me of some of the popular wave-based game modes that are still popular in games today. ------------- To read the rest of the Community Crunch this week, check out our announcement post on our official forums. Keep on surviving! |
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Introducing the Griffin! A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone's favourite gallant glider, the Griffin! Official Release Date! ARK: Survival Evolved has entered its final phase of core production, and will hit worldwide retail and digital release on August the 8th, 2017 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Mac, and Linux. The past two years have been one heck of a journey! Millions of ARK players worldwide have built gigantic bases, captured and trained armies of dinosaurs, crafted armories full of weapons and eaten billion of pounds of berries. With your help, we're now about to reach the completion of core content for ARK: Survival Evolved and release the full game to the world! That was just the beginning; now we'll be entering the next phase of our journey. Players who have been with us throughout this early access program and were excited with the launch of each update, have even more reason to be excited! ARK is going to become even more fun with surprise new content at launch and beyond, as we continue to have a massive amount of additional gameplay, creatures, and story elements in the works. That’s all for now guys! Thank you so much for all the support the past 2 years, and we hope you are excited as we are about the news. As always, there’s still more planned for the ARK universe, both leading up to and beyond the August 8 launch. Survivors can look forward to a lot more going forward, so stay tuned! - Studio Wildcard <3 |
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Turkey Trial 2 ARK's biomes are now host to savage, blood-thirsty mutant Super Turkeys. Players can hunt these brutal birds of prey, harvesting their wishbones and using them to craft an event-exclusive ornamental "Chieftain Headdress", or use their poultry-powered gains to summon the mighty DodoRex to do their bidding. This year's Turkey Trial will feature something all new - an event-specific "emote" for players to unlock, and will take place on all official ARK maps including Scorched Earth, The Center, and The Island! Evolution Event Weekend! To celebrate this festive period, and with the weekend coming early - as does the Evolution Event! From Thursday the 24th of November at 12PM ET until Monday the 28th of November at 12PM ET the Official ARK Network will be affected by an Evolution Event! Survivors playing this weekend will get to experience the following bonuses:
So be sure to log in and enjoy the increased rates whilst you can! Steam Autumn Sale From November 23rd to the 29th, you can purchase ARK: Survival Evolved at 50% off and Scorched Earth at 25% off! Get it whilst it's hot ;) http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110 http://store.steampowered.com/app/512540/ CrossARK Trading, Breeding and Strategizing forums! With our recent announcement regarding CrossARK Transfers; http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/603875242708384509 We've now opened up some new forums for players to be able to trade items, offer services such as painting, breeding and strategize with one another! Take a gander as there may be something that'll pique your interest ;) CrossARK Item Trading and Dino Breeding Forum CrossARK Strategizing Forum Enjoy the patch everyone, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and an adventurous exploration! |
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Steam Free Weekend and Epic 50% Sale! http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110 From Thursday through Sunday, July 28-31, 2016, ARK: Survival Evolved is hosting a Free Weekend on Steam where all survivors can invite their friends to start to tame, train, breed and ride Dinosaurs in this open-world action-adventure survival game. ARK: Survival Evolved also is on sale for Steam players at 50% off (retail $29.99) from Thursday through Wednesday, July 28 - August 3, 2016. The Summer Cup! We’re excited to announce that the finals for the Summer Cup will be taking place today! The qualified teams were flown out to Shanghai, China to play at ChinaJoy 2016 and get the chance to compete for over $40,000! The top 10 qualifying international teams -- eight from Europe and North America, two from China -- have flown in for the tournament taking place on the expo floor of ChinaJoy 2016. The three one-hour matches will be shoutcasted by popular streamer typeForced and Studio Wildcard Jen starting at 6:30 pm PST, Thursday, July 28, 2016. All matches will be streamed on the ARK Twitch channel, www.twitch.tv/survivetheark at the following times, with the Award Ceremony immediately following the last match: Round 1 – 6:30 pm PST, Thursday, July 28 Round 2 – 9:30 pm PST, Thursday, July 28 Round 3 – 11:30 pm PST Thursday, July 28 (ending no later than 3 am PST, Friday, July 29) Have fun and keep on surviving, Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team |
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So it’s a big one guys! We hope you have a fantastic time with the update and enjoy the special event, we are so grateful for all the support you show us and hopefully we’ll be able to celebrate many more special occasions together, in our Birthday Suits! ;) All the best, Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team |
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It’s Ced here, and it’s been an exciting few months as we’ve been amazed by the sheer creativity and ingenuity of the modding community. We’ve had the pleasure of experiencing survival on the moon, building massive race tracks, having epic battles in tribe warfare, and enjoying some fantastic views on many of the breath-taking maps that were submitted to our second mod contest. We are blown away by the talent of the modding community and are forever grateful for the efforts of those who bring these custom experiences to all ARK players worldwide - and soon Xbox. |
The Center - ARK Expansion Map, all new FREE content for ARK: Survival Evolved is Now Available on Steam. |
Good luck on your adventures and unravelling the mysterious Survivors! All the best, Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team |
Key: The Old Snow Biome has received some changes, the extent of which is difficulty to quantify, it is closer to a touch-up as opposed to a re-do. There is a chance this could effect bases in that location, which is why we wanted to include it on the map to give you guys the option as to whether to relocate or not, however it is also likely that they are not significant enough to cause you any disruption. The other highlighted areas, are areas of change. The swamp isn't being made into a tiny small piece, it is still rather large - it's just a far majority of it will be unaffected by this map change, which is why it is not highlighted on the map - however the areas that are highlighted, will change. We try to avoid making drastic map changes as we know it can be unsettling for players to have to be concerned about relocating their base, however sometimes we have to go ahead and make those changes for the development of the game. We apologize if this does cause any inconvenience and we really hope you enjoy the upcoming biome changes :) Don't worry if it's a little confusing! We'll be updating the in-game environment with 3D markers indicating areas that will be undergoing a change! Here's a little sneak-preview of what's to come, and we'll be showing off some more later on as we get closer to release :) Thanks guys! All the best, Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team |
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A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favourite fleeing foodie, the Moschops! |
Hey Survivors! |
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