ARK: Survival Evolved News

Greetings Survivors and welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

Next week we're kicking off the beginning of PAX West with a community live stream from the ARK office. At 10:00 AM Pacific on Friday, September 2nd, Cedric and members of the Grove Street Team will talk about the enhancements that are included in the upcoming release of ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition on Nintendo Switch. We'll also be doing a live version of the Community Crunch and going over the amazing community content from the week!

If you're in Seattle from September 2nd through September 5th, be sure to stop by our PAX West ARK Booth #325 (Main Floor - Level 4)! A real-life-sized version of HLN-A, complete with an incredible holographic display-face, will be in attendance to interact directly with ARK survivors – so whatever burning questions or comments you’ve always wanted to ask!

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There will be no EVO event this week.


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Creator: Phlinger Phoo
Do you agree with this list of the best gathering dinosaurs in ARK? Sound off in the comments!
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Hi there buddy! by @WolfTek7


Shadowmane by @sarekoube1


Untitled by @Riinartist


Reaper King by @rianeko_mabi


Untitled by @NAMCOOo


Commission by @MayaPatch89


Untitled by @k3zk_627


Primal Style Rock Drake by ikrannn


Untitled by Ari the Adventurer#1243


Shadowmane by Alvozath




@Freeza33


@vadams10




Ronald L Ermey#3887


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Greetings Survivors and welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

The ARK team and your cheery robot-AI guide, HLN-A, will be at PAX West ARK Booth #325 (Main Floor - Level 4) from September 2nd through September 5th! While #PAXRex and #PAXRaptor hibernate, we're bringing a well-known companion to help us navigate the PAX event floor! A real life-sized version of HLN-A, complete with an incredible holographic display-face, will be in attendance to interact directly with ARK survivors – so whatever burning questions or comments you’ve always wanted to ask her, this is your chance!

Also, survivors will get their first chance to play ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition on Nintendo Switch, developed by Grove Street Games. This completely rehauled version of ARK will include enhancements and upgrades to bring it into line, visually and functionally, with the experience on Xbox One and PS4 – ultimately including all of its Expansion Packs, starting with Scorched Earth at PAX – and launching with a new game mode featuring our loving AI-companion HLN-A as they players through ARK in a low-pressure, kid-friendly, dino-fact-filled adventure in a special mode called "ARK: Dinosaur Discovery"!

If you're planning on attending, don't miss out on a chance to grab some exclusive ARK giveaways and get a firsthand demo of ARK: Ultimate Survivor Edition on Nintendo Switch!



This month’s Wildcard cause was chosen in honor of members of our community who have been impacted by cancer. Many of our players are young adults - we're passionate about giving back to our community and we’ve opted to support a charity that focuses on that age group.

Today cancer is the leading terminal disease amongst 20 to 39 year-olds in the United States.

Despite advances in early detection, treatment, and prevention, there’s been no improvement within the last 30 years in survival rates for this particular age group — and in fact, the gap between the survival rates of young adults and those of cancer patients in other age groups is widening.

We believe technology and entertainment can help to bring people together and that gaming can be advantageous in terms of recovery and in coping during treatment:

Studies have also been conducted and show patient empowerment has been increased with the use of video games (Caldwell, et al 2013) Govender et al (2015) also found these benefits with cancer patients in particular, The researchers go to state “Empowerment interventions may enhance patients’ internal locus of control, resilience, coping skills, and self-management of symptoms related to disease and therapy.”

Cancer patients can commonly suffer with a phenomena known as “chemo brain”, where cognitive functioning is impacted (Simó, Rifà-Ros, Rodriguez-Fornells, & Bruna, 2013) video games have been proven to increase working memory, problem solving, spatial awareness and eye hand coordination and executive control functions (Hall et al, 2012; Shin, et al 2015, Adachi, & Willoughby, 2013).

With respect to our players battling cancer, we’ve donated to the Ulman Foundation, a charity that creates a community of support for young adults and their loved ones.

https://ulmanfoundation.org/



There is an ongoing EVO event until 1 PM Pacific, on August 22nd. You can find the rates below:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.

• Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• ARKpocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  

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.

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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.

Just another day, really.

Creator: Camway Gaming
Camway Gaming walks through some tips that even the most seasoned ARK survivors may find useful!
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Creator: Neebs Gaming
Check out the latest episode in Neebs Gaming "Ark: Noobs Vs Alpha Tribe" series
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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 恐鳥#5783



Threepwood#4646


Ari the Adventurer#1243


Katt Farrell#0928


See you next week!
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Greetings Survivors and welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we're taking a look at some hand-picked content from the community in the Community Corner and preparing to open up transfers on Fjordur!


On September 9th, we will be enabling full server transfers into Fjordur on our Official Servers across all platforms. Once enabled, players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction!



There will be no EVO event this week.

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Alfonso#5862

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 didn’t care too much since I could always just tame another phiomia. Fast forward a couple days and it’s 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!
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Creator: The Outcasts
Can you really become an alpha tribe in a week? The Outcasts test the limits in their latest video.
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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


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Greetings Survivors!

Recently the ARK PvP Community suffered the loss of a much-loved member, Uriel. He was a uniting force amid a varied group of players and multiple tribes. Uri endeared himself to everyone irrespective of their affiliation in PvP due to his sweet and funny nature along with being known for his amusing dances on stream.

Uri was someone who didn't allow his own adversities in life to dim the good-natured light he shone. We will all feel the absence of his warmth greatly.

We’d like to honor Uri, his tribemates, and his friends by sharing the absolutely heartwarming outpouring of love for him that was shown when an unprecedented number of our Official PvP players came together to memorialize him with in-game builds.

We have collated pics of players’ memorial builds to share with the community. A nod to Skittle for traveling to servers to take high-quality screenshots for mourning players.

A message for Uri from his tribemates and friends:
It is never easy to say goodbye to anyone we love, and it has been especially hard to accept the loss of our dearest friend, Uri. He reached out and touched the hearts of many around the world, whether it was being a tribe member, an entertainer through his streams, or an amazing friend. No matter what he was battling he remained selfless and put others' happiness before his own. It is rare to meet people like that, especially on the internet. Going forward, we have been thinking about what Uri would want and that would be to be happy, to strive for greatness, and to dance our way through the hard times. We will forever cherish the memories we’ve shared and even though he is not with us, he will always be in our hearts. We love you Uri, that sky border doesn’t exist anymore so fly high, king.

With respect for a lovely member of our community who has now ascended. RIP Uri ❤️

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Be happy - Uriel




There is an ongoing EVO event until 1 PM Pacific, on August 8th. You can find the rates below:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.

• Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• ARKpocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  

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.

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Supa Koopa#8624
[Quote]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

Greetings Survivors!

Although we just wrapped up the Summer EVO event, we're kicking off an EVO event to get the weekend started and wrapping up with some of our favorite community content Community Corner.



There is an ongoing EVO event until 1 PM Pacific, on August 1st. You can find the rates below:

• Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• ARKpocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  
• Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval
  

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.

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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!
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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!
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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


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