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https://youtu.be/VdXku3-sxi4 It's finally arrived! We're beyond thrilled tobe releasing Structure Plus (S+)and the long-awaited kibble rework (now packaged together as 'Homestead')to all of our survivors March 5th 2019!
If you can dream it, you can build it! Homestead includes the major elements of Structures Plus (S+), a player created Sponsored Mod by Orionsun. S+ has maintained a large following of users over an extended period of time, and its move to console has long been requested. We are particularly excited to finally be able to share this with our console survivors who will be using it for the very first time.
Here are the new building features included in Homestead: - Dedicated bulk storage - Triangle foundations, ceilings and roof pieces - Four high walls - Fence supports for level walls - Flexible pipes and electrical cables - Double doors - Swappable variants for ramps/stairs - New visual variantsfor existing structures

Along-side the update to structures we also have our kibble rework included in this patch! Previously the Kibble system worked like a tree, the egg of one creature being used in a kibble to tame the next creature in line. Often these kibbles didnt make sense in terms of game progression and became more redundant with each new creature that was added to the game.Each creature now falls into one of six categories, and that creatures egg can be used to tame any creature within that specific category. Instead of having 50+ different kibbles all requiring a different specific egg, it is drastically reduced to: Basic, Simple, Regular, Superior, Exceptional, and Extraordinary kibbles!
You can expect the Homestead update to hit your respective platform around 10am PST tomorrow starting with PC and concluding with PS4.We invite you to watch our Homestead trailer to see a preview ofthe variety of structures that are now possible. All of the builds featured in the trailer are player-created and you can find links to how to build the structures in the video description. It has been an amazing experience for us to see our dedicated players create things we could have never imagined!
We hope these changes to ARK inspire survivors to turn their wooden shack on the beach into the fortress of their dreams!

Homestead patch notes:

[quote]S+ Variant System - Added Structure variant system to cycle visuals for a structure Structure Pickup - Enabled pickup of the following structures: - Elevator Platforms - Elevator Tracks - Electric Generator - Grill - Industrial Forge - Industrial Grinder - Chem Bench - Fabricator - Tek Generator - Tek Replicator - Tek Transmitter - Disabled pickup of Bee Hives - Added ServerSettings ini config option StructurePickupHoldDuration to allow unofficials to configure (or disable by setting to 0) the quick-pickup hold duration - Changed default for quick-pickup to 0.5 seconds (from 1 second) Structure Additions - Added 'Smooth' sidewall variants (like the stone foundation) to the stock square foundations [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Thatch, Wood] - Triangle foundations [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] - Triangle ceilings [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood, Greenhouse] - Triangle roofs [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood, Greenhouse] - Large (4x height) walls [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] - Flexible pipes [Stone, Metal] - Flexible electrical cables - Stairs (with freely swappable ramp variant) [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] - Double door frames [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] - Double doors [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] - Tek Dedicated storage (Tek structure that allows storing a large amount of a single resource) - Fence supports (allows you to build fences that are level along the top) [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood] Kibble Rework - Categorized Kibble - Creatures prefer their category of Kibble or above - Produced - Allosaurus - Superior - Ankylosaurus - Regular - Archaeopteryx - Simple - Argentavis - Superior - Baryonyx - Regular - Basilisk - Exceptional - Brontosaurus - Exceptional - Carbonemys - Regular - Carnotaur - Regular - Compy - Simple - Dilophosaur - Basic - Dimetrodon - Regular - Dimorphodon - Simple - Diplodocus - Regular - Dodo - Basic - Featherlight - Basic - Gallimimus - Simple - Giganotosaurus - Exceptional - Glowtail - Basic - Hesperornis - Extraordinary - Ichthyornis - Simple - Iguanodon - Simple - Kairuku - Basic - Kaprosuchus - Regular - Kentrosaurus - Regular - Lystrosaurus - Basic - Mantis - Superior - Megalania - Superior - Megalosaurus - Superior - Micro Raptor - Simple - Morellatops - Simple - Moschops - Superior - Oviraptor - Simple - Snow Owl - Superior - Pachycephalosaurus - Simple - Pachyrhinosaurus - Regular - Parasaur - Basic - Pegomastax - Simple - Pelagornis - Regular - Pteranodon - Simple - Pulmonoscorpius - Regular - Quetzalcoatlus - Exceptional - Raptor - Simple - Rex - Exceptional - Rock Drake - Extraordinary - Sarcosuchus - Regular - Spinosaur - Superior - Stegosaurus - Regular - Tapejera - Superior - Terror Bird - Regular - Therizinosaurus - Exceptional - Thorny Dragon - Regular - Titanboa - Superior - Triceratops - Simple - Troodon - Regular - Velonasaur - Regular - Vulture - Basic - Wyvern - Extraordinary - Yutyrannus - Exceptional - Preferred - Allosaurus - Superior - Angler Fish - Regular - Ankylosaurus - Regular - Araneo - Simple - Archaeopteryx - Simple - Argentavis - Superior - Baryonyx - Regular - Basilosaurus - Exceptional - Beelzebufo - Regular - Brontosaurus - Exceptional - Carbonemys - Regular - Carnotaur - Regular - Castoroides - Superior - Daeodon - Superior - Dilophosaur - Basic - Dimetrodon - Regular - Dimorphodon - Simple - Diplocaulus - Simple - Diplodocus - Regular - Direbear - Superior - Direwolf - Superior - Dodo - Basic - Doedicurus - Regular - Dunkleosteus - Superior - Gallimimus - Simple - Gasbags - Superior - Giant Bee - Simple - Gigantopithecus - Regular - Giganotosaurus - Exceptional - Griffin - Extraordinary - Ichthyornis - Simple - Ichthyosaurus - Simple - Iguanodon - Simple - Kairuku - Basic - Kaprosuchus - Regular - Karkinos - Exceptional - Kentrosaurus - Regular - Lymantria - Regular - Mammoth - Superior - Managarmr - Exceptional - Megalania - Extraordinary - Megaloceros - Simple - Megalodon - Superior - Megalosaurus - Superior - Megatherium - Superior - Mesopithicus - Basic - Morellatops - Simple - Mosasaurus - Exceptional - Onyc - Simple - Snow Owl - Superior - Pachycephalosaurus - Simple - Paraceratherium - Superior - Parasaur - Basic - Pegomastax - Simple - Pelagornis - Regular - Phiomia - Basic - Plesiosaurus - Superior - Pteranodon - Regular - Pulmonoscorpius - Regular - Purlovia - Regular - Quetzalcoatlus - Exceptional - Raptor - Simple - Rex - Exceptional - Rock Elemental - Extraordinary - Sabertooth - Regular - Sarcosuchus - Regular - Spinosaur - Exceptional - Stegosaurus - Regular - Tapejera - Superior - Terror Bird - Regular - Therizinosaurus - Exceptional - Thorny Dragon - Regular - Thylacoleo - Extraordinary - Triceratops - Simple - Velonasaur - Regular - Woolly Rhino - Superior - Yutyrannus - Extraordinary Exploits - Fixed exploit related to water well - Fixed exploit related to Titan downloads - Fixed exploit related to Velonasaurs - Fixed exploit related to Platform Saddles Crashes - Fixed crash related to shoulder pets - Fixed crash related to Taxidermy Managarmr - Fixed issue with Managarmr breath causing flyers to teleport - Fixed Managarmr's forward dash not triggering consistently when spamming it - When Managarmr freezes a dino with a rider, the rider will no longer be dismounted but rather frozen for 1 second - Character frozen visual effect should change more smoothly - A player frozen either standing, crouching, or prone can no longer change that state - Duration of frozen for player characters is now a function of health and armor rating - Duration of frozen for player characters is significantly reduced overall - Cheat spawning a dino should no longer cause you to get stuck on that dino - if it dies while being frozen by Managarmar Ice breath - Reduced Managarmr ice breath damage ~25% - Added new freeze immune icon Environments - Fixed buildable space outside of bounds - Fixed multiple holes and meshing locations - Moved Desert Titan player spawn point to an area inside the structure prevention zone - Fixed climbable trees in Extinction Kairuku - Base affinity increased by 30% now that it has a preferred kibble Ice Wyverns - Fixed creature icon being blank Item Stacks - Fixed ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity issue with RawPrimeMeat Giganotosaurus - Increased damage required to enrage a giga by 55% Corrupted Heart - Fixed item to use correct icon Mind Wipe - Characters can be respeced once every 24 hours UI - Improved search filtering on inventory and crafting menus Elevators - Set Primitive Elevator Platforms and Tracks to be craftable by wood instead of requiring fungal wood[/quote]

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!

[ 2019-03-05 04:37:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

ARK: Survival Evolved

Studio Wildcard Developer

Studio Wildcard Publisher

2017-08-29 Release

Action Indie RPG Adventure MMO Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop Tags

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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

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http://www.playark.com

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The Game includes VR Support

Keyboard & mouse: 1

Gamepad support: 1

Seated: 1

Available DLCs:

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

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

The following features are in the game on its Day-1 Early Access release. We have many more aspects and refinements planned for the long-term development roadmap, and here's what you get to experience right now in ARK:

Dinosaurs, Creatures, & Breeding! -- over 60+ currently at Early Access and 100+ planned for final release -- can be tamed using a challenging capture-&-affinity process, involving weakening a feral creature to knock it unconscious, and then nursing it back to health with appropriate food. Once tamed, you can issue commands to your Pet, which it may follow depending on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Pets, which can continue to level-up and consume food, can also carry Inventory and Equipment such as Armor, carry prey back to your settlement depending on their strength, and larger pets can be ridden and directly controlled! Fly a Pterodactyl over the snow-capped mountains, lift allies over enemy walls, race through the jungle with a pack of Raptors, tromp through an enemy base along a gigantic brontosaurus, or chase down prey on the back of a raging T-Rex! Take part in a dynamic ecosystem life-cycle with its own predator & prey hierarchies, where you are just one creature among many species struggling for dominance and survival. Pets can also be mated with the opposite gender, to selectively breed successive generations using a trait system based on recombinant genetic inheritance. This process includes both egg-based incubation and mammalian gestation lifecycles! Or put more simply, breed & raise Dino Babies!

You must eat and drink to survive, with different kinds of plants & meat having different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of fresh water to your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical actions come at a cost of food and water, long-distance travel is fraught with subsistence peril! Inventory weight makes you move slower, and the day/night cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge by altering the temperature of the environment, causing you to hunger or thirst more quickly. Build a fire or shelter, and craft a large variety of customizable clothing & armors, to help protect yourself against locational damage & extreme temperatures using the dynamic indoor/outdoor insulation calculation system!

By chopping down forests full of trees and mining metal and other precious resources, you can craft the parts to build massive multi-leveled structures composed of complex snap-linked parts, including ramps, beams, pillars, windows, doors, gates, remote gates, trapdoors, water pipes, faucets, generators, wires and all manner of electrical devices, and ladders among many other types. Structures have a load system to fall apart if enough support has been destroyed, so reinforcing your buildings is important. All structures and items can be painted to customize the look of your home, as well as placing dynamically per-pixel paintable signs, textual billboards, and other decorative objects. Shelter reduces the extremes of weather and provides security for yourself and your stash! Weapons, clothing & armor gear can also be painted to express your own visual style.

Pick seeds from the wild vegetation around you, plant them in plots that you lay down, water them and nurture them with fertilizer (everything poops after consuming calories, which can then be composted, and some fertilizer is better than others). Tend to your crops and they will grow to produce delicious and rare fruits, which can also be used to cook a plethora of logical recipes and make useful tonics! Explore to find the rarest of plant seeds that have the most powerful properties! Vegetarians & vegans can flourish, and it will be possible to master and conquer the ARK in a non-violent manner!

By bringing sufficient rare sacrificial items to special Summon locations, you can capture the attention of the one of the ARK’s god-like mythical creatures, who will arrive for battle. These gargantuan monstrosities provide an end-game goal for the most experienced groups of players and their armies of pets, and will yield extremely valuable progression items if they are defeated.

Create a Tribe and add your friends to it, and all your Pets can be commanded by and allied to anyone in your Tribe. Your Tribe will also be able to respawn at any of your home spawn points. Promote members to Tribe Admins to reduce the burden of management. Distribute key items and pass-codes to provide access your shared village!

All items are crafted from Blueprints that have variable statistics and qualities, and require corresponding resources. More remote and harsh locales across the ARK tend to have better resources, including the tallest mountains, darkest caves, and depths of the ocean! Level-Up your player character by gaining experience through performance actions, Level-Up your Pets, and learn new "Engrams" to be able to craft Items from memory without the use of blueprints, even if you die! Customize the underlying physical look of your character with hair, eye, and skin tones, along with an array of body proportion modifiers.

Everything you craft has durability and will wear-out from extended use if not repaired, and when you leave the game, your character remains sleeping in the persistent world. Your inventory physically exists in boxes or on your character in the world. Everything can be looted & stolen, so to achieve security you must build-up, team-up, or have pets to guard your stash. Death is permanent, and you can even knock out, capture, and force-feed other players to use them for your own purposes, such as extracting their blood to for transfusions, harvesting their fecal matter to use as fertilizer, or using them as food for your carnivorous pets!

The mysterious ARK is a formidable and imposing environment, composed of many natural and unnatural structures, above-ground, below-ground, and underwater. By fully exploring its secrets, you’ll find the most exotic procedurally randomized creatures and rare blueprints. Also to be found are Explorer Notes that are dynamically updated into the game, written by previous human denizens of the ARK from across the millennia, creatively detailing the creatures and backstory of the ARK and its creatures. Fully develop your in-game ARK-map through exploration, write custom points of interest onto it, and craft a Compass or GPS coordinates to aid exploring with other players, whom you can communicate with via proximity text & voice chat, or long-distance radio. Construct & draw in-game signs for other players to help them or lead them astray... And yet.. how do you ultimately challenge the Creators and Conquer the ARK? A definitive end-game is planned.

On the 100+ player servers, your character, everything you built, and your pets, stay in-game even when you leave. You can even physically travel your character and items between the network of ARK's by accessing the Obelisks and uploading (or downloading) your data from the Steam Economy! A galaxy of ARKs, each slightly different than the previous, to leave your mark on and conquer, one at a time -- special official ARKs will be unveiled on
the World-map for limited times in singular themed events with corresponding limited-run items!

You can play single-player local games, and bring your character and items between unofficial player-hosted servers, back and forth from singleplayer to multiplayer. Mod the game, with full Steam Workshop support and customized Unreal Engine 4 editor. See how we built our ARK using our maps and assets as an example. Host your own server and configure your ARK precisely to your liking. We want to see what you create!

The over-the-top hyper real imagery of the ARK its creatures is brought to expressive life using a highly-customized Unreal Engine 4, with fully dynamic lighting & global illumination, weather systems (rain, fog, snow, etc) & true-to-life volumetric cloud simulation, and the latest in advanced DirectX11 and DirectX12 rendering techniques. Music by award-winning composer of "Ori and the Blind Forest", Gareth Coker!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu Equivalent Distro
Processor: 2 GHz 64-bit CPUMemory: 4000 MB RAM
Memory: 4000 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3 Compatible GPU with 1GB Video RAM
Storage: 20000 MB available space

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