ARK: Survival Evolved News

Community Crunch 277: Top 10 Lost Island Creatures, Giveaways, and More!

We've rounded up the top 10 upvoted creatures from the community for the upcoming free DLC map, Lost Island. You'll have until July 30th, 00:00 UTC to cast your vote for the creature you want to see in Lost Island. Follow the link below to participate:

Top 10: Lost Island Creature Voting

A huge thanks to the ARK community for all the Summer Bash content that was shared over social media. We had a blast sharing all your images and videos around internally. Below are the winners from the Summer Bash Twitter giveaway.

@RikerPlays
@wilderbeast74
@Lalicore
@N_Life93
@NaturalCauzes
@LocalSquirrel28
@rencontabero
@poison666666
@Ryan69586742
@YoutubeGingie
@WilliamColvin2
@XxStevieLad87xX
@EgoSilentium

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

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Community Crunch 276: Creature Submission Voting, Enforcement Update, and More!

The Summer Bash event is winding down! Be sure to capitalize on all the fun in the sun before the event ends on July 21st!

You have until July 23rd to get all of your ideas in! After July 23rd, we'll round up the most liked 10 creatures and set up a poll for voting on the forums. Click here to check out the guidelines and learn how to participate!

If you're looking for an opportunity to cash out on ARK Summer Bash loot, look no further. Next week we'll be drawing winners for our giveaway tweet! Reply on the tweet with your favorite Summer Bash picture or video for a chance to win. Keep your eyes peeled on Twitter and Discord for more opportunities for some sweet Summer Bash loot.

https://twitter.com/survivetheark/status/1415431469791514624

With our Genesis II map going live only recently, along with bug fixes and balance passes, we are also heavily iterating on level design as players help us find locations that were unintended as build zones that may give players building in them an unfair advantage. We have recently fixed many of these locations (including some on other maps) and more will be addressed in future updates. When building, please refer to the CoC. A good general rule of thumb is: If you need to use a pelagornis, a zipline etc to enter a location, if you can see odd textures -- basically through the mesh, you shouldn't build there and the location should be reported so we can get it fixed. Ditto for building on world barriers as outlined in the CoC. If in doubt, please submit a ticket to enforcement for clarification on a specific spot if you feel it's borderline and you aren't sure.

In the past, we would announce when servers were coming down for enforcement investigation in relation to potential tribe wipes. This was primarily intended as advance notice of servers being temporarily offline but we realize that some of the community found value in seeing our enforcement team take action on entire tribes for severe cases of breaking the Code of Conduct. Due to some technical improvements, we no longer need to take servers down so that enforcement can wipe tribes but we understand that this type of transparency is desirable to the community so we will be sharing a spreadsheet of enforcement action resulting in tribe wipes that will be updated at regular intervals.

If you are interested in seeing which naughty tribes were bopped by enforcement, you may want to bookmark this 😉

An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms until 7/21 as part of the Summer Bash event!

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

Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

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

Community Crunch 275: Summer Bash is Live, Community Corner, and More!

Summer Bash is live on all platforms! Join in on the fun from June 30th to July 14th for boosted rates, new skins, new chibis, and more!

Less than a week after announcing the creature submission vote for the upcoming free map Lost Islands and 3 new real-world creatures, we already have over a thousand submissions!

You have until July 23rd to get all of your ideas in! After July 23rd, we'll round up the most liked 10 creatures and complete a vote. Click here to check out the guidelines and learn how to participate!

An ARK: EVOLUTION EVENT is active on all platforms as part of the Summer Bash event!

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

Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

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

影茨 - Ferox

Toaster21648 - Amargasaurus

axoNNNessj - April and Alana Vilkas

GodzillaXL#3486 - Riding Astro

antloverguy#1145 - Bulbdog named "Chunky"

KCrownee (Render)

@SyntacYT

@Noah_Caprihorn

@RaeVan87

Ark: Survival Evolved now has inflatable dinosaur costumes

Ark: Survival Evolved's third annual Summer Bash has arrived with a bang, and thanks to the event's new in-game items you won't only have to think about taming and caring for the best dinosaurs you can find now - you'll get to be the best dino you can be, too. Well, kind of.

That's because the rundown of new items coming to Ark with its annual summer-themed blowout includes an inflatable T-Rex costume that is every bit as hilarious as those ones you'll have no doubt seen pop up in all kinds of memes and clips online. Developer Studio Wildcard has shown off the puffy, plasticky new dino skins with a screen (above) that has an army of them armed with assault rifles and it's - well, it is something. There's also a slightly unnerving clip of an Ark survivor cackling mischievously in a Summer Bash trailer, which you can see below.

The event also sees harvesting, taming, and breeding rates dialled up for its duration by up to five times across the survival game's Official, Small Tribe, Arkpocalypse, and Conquest servers.

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Summer Bash 2021 is live!

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Summer has officially started with the Summer Bash event! Soak in some sun and have some fun with a community-favorite ARK event. From June 30th to July 14th the annual Summer Bash event is now underway. Relax by the beach with your tribemates or go on the hunt for newly released chibi pets! However you choose to spend your summer in ARK, Summer Bash is bound to cook up a lot of entertainment.

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

Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Summer Swirl Taffy

Hula Dance Emote *NEW*
Flip In Place Emote *NEW*
Air Guitar Emote
Air Drums Emote
Mosh Pit Emote
Archer Flex Emote
Bicep Smooch Emote

Inflatable T-Rex costume *NEW*
3 Hawaiian Shirt patterns *NEW*
3 Swimsuit patterns *NEW*
Retro Sunglasses Skin *NEW*
Floppy Straw Summer Hat Skin *NEW*
Angler Hat Skin *NEW*
Alpha Raptor Swim Bottom Skin
Alpha Raptor Swim Top Skin
Crab Fest Swim Bottom Skin
Crab Fest Swim Top Skin
Fish Bite Swim Bottom Skin
Fish Bite Swim Top Skin
Floral Swim Bottom Skin
Floral Swim Top Skin
Giga Poop Swim Bottom Skin
Giga Poop Swim Top Skin
Ichthy Isles Swim Bottom Skin
Ichthy Isles Swim Top Skin
T-Rex Swim Bottom Skin
T-Rex Swim Top Skin
Bulbdog-Print Shirt Skin
Gasbags-Print Shirt Skin
Ice Pop-Print Shirt Skin
Sea Life-Print Shirt Skin
Sunglasses Skin
Uncle Sam Hat Skin
Dino Uncle Sam Hat Skin
Grilling Spatula Skin
Water Soaker Skin
Flying Disc Skin
Fireworks Flaregun Skin
Fireworks Rocket Launcher Skin
Torch Sparkler Skin

Maewing *NEW*
Spacedolphin *NEW*
Voidwyrm *NEW*
Deal With It Dodo *NEW*
Straw Hat Otter *NEW*
Manta
Ammonite
Cnidaria
Plesiosaur
Astrocetus

Dino Dark Blue
Red
White
Dino Light Blue
Dark Red
Blue
Light Grey
Cream
Cammo
Orange
MediumTeal
DarkBlue
LemonLime
Peach
Coral

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