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Community Crunch 243: Tender Loving Care 3 Details

Our Tender Loving Care 3 update approaches on November 7th and, aside from the dedicated reworks of the Stego and Mammoth, we’ve added a bunch of Quality of Life changes to make your time on the ARK more enjoyable.

We’re particularly excited about introducing insect and wyvern breeding to the game and look forward to players getting their new breedlines goin!. We’re aware these creatures may need some balance once breedlines get underway and we’ll monitor and adjust as necessary.

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]
  • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes (Matches Pachy)
  • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 1 hour, and 1 minute (Matches Dimorph)

[h3]Bat [/h3]
  • Total Gestation Time: 3 hours and 58 minutes (Matches Procoptodon)
  • Total Maturation Time: 1day, 4 hours, and 3 minutes (Matches Kairuku)

[h3]Moth[/h3]
  • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (Matches Kairuku)
  • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 6 hours, and 51 minutes (Matches Pegomastax)

[h3]Scorpion[/h3]
  • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 59 minutes (Matches Raptor)
  • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 13 hours, and 12 minutes (Matches Raptor)

[h3]Arthropluera[/h3]
  • Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 29 minutes (Matches Sarco)
  • Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 3 hours, and 26 minutes (Matches Stego)

[h3]Mantis[/h3]
  • Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 46 minutes (Matches Stego)
  • Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 6 hours, and 27 minutes (Matches Tapejara)
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]
  • Reduced maturation time by approximately 15% (Total growth is around 10~ days)

[h3]Diplocaulus[/h3]
  • Increased base health by 33% (from 190 to 250.3)
  • Increased movement speed when ridden by 25%

[h3]Thylacoleo[/h3]
  • Added a (slow draining) bleed to its basic attack

[h3]Megachelon[/h3]
  • Reduced depth requirement for breeding so that it can be bred on other maps

[h3]Wyvern[/h3]
  • Wyverns are now breedable (Zombie Wyverns cannot be bred)
  • Slight stat rebalance now that they’re breedable and to bring them in line with Crystal Wyverns

[h3]Megalodon[/h3]
  • Reduced gestation/aging times to match Megaloceros
  • Pack Bonus: Damage Reduction and Damage Increase per pack member within range
  • Added a bleed to its basic attack

[h3]Jerboa[/h3]
  • Increase base weight capacity from 55 to 120 (Matches Bulbdog)

[h3]Ankylosaurus[/h3]
  • Increase metal weight reduction by 10% (from total reduction of 75% to 85%)

[h3]Doedicurus[/h3]
  • You can now turn when rolling with a Doed (similarly to the Genesis Race Mission)

[h3]Basilisk[/h3]
  • Now has eyes


New Feature: Taming HUD


Use the interactive taming HUD to monitor your unconscious wild tamable creatures. Keep track of the following:
  • Creature's Gender and Level
  • Taming and Unconscious Progress
  • Taming Effectiveness
  • Current Health and Food status.
  • Distance from your location
  • An option to track specific creatures via in-world waypoints (which can be hovered for an over-screen overlay displaying additional information).


Boss Element Reward Increase

We’ve decided to increase the Boss Element reward on some maps to bring the Ele more into line with where we’re at with new expansions.
  • Element reward from The Island bosses has been increased by 100%
  • Element reward from The Center bosses has been increased by 100%
  • Element reward from Scorched Earth has been increased by 50%


New Feature: Turret Radius Settings

A quick and easy way to update the settings of your nearby turrets within a radius. It’s 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:
  • The ability to set a pin code to all turrets in range
  • The ability to copy settings to all turrets in range
  • The ability to copy settings to pin code-selected turrets in range
  • The settings which can be copied are: power state, range, targeting, warning


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:
  • 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching
  • 2x Harvesting
  • 2x Taming
  • 2x XP


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

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Community Crunch 242: Your New Ride!

The Extra Life charity event and TLC 3, the community has been asking "when" and we're here to deliver.

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Check out your new ride! Twin ceramic rotor drives on each wheel! And these look like computer controlled anti-lock brakes! Wow, 200 horses at 12,000 RPM! Looks a bit...fishy...to us. Tune into our Extra Life event for some epic Genesis 2 reveals.

Tender Loving Care 3


TLC 3 is getting close, Saturday, 7th November at 10 AM PST to be exact!

We have much in store for our players: The Mammoth and Stego revamp including visual and functional upgrades, some creepy crawly evolutions, and various QoL additions. Stay posted for more details on what will be included in TLC 3 in next week's Community Crunch!

[h2]...Plus a quick spooky update on Fear Evolved 4![/h2]

We'll be adjusting our boosted rates for the event! From the 22nd of October through to November the 6th, the Official ARK network will be receiving a spectral treat with:
  • 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
  • 2X XP
  • 2X Harvesting
  • 2X Taming


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. Let’s 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, Collector’s Edition boxes, game keys, and much more! Whether you’re a streamer, a donor or just keen to be along for the ride, we’d 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 you’re feeling heroic, and want to support the event with your own stream and donation goals, sign up, and let’s 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:
  • 2x Breeding/Maturing
  • 2x XP


Fan Art


Gallimimus by kawarayane

Ember 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)


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Ark admin commands: the best Ark cheat codes for Survival Evolved

Ark cheat codes and admin commands are the secret to making the world of Ark a less terrifying place. With all those dinosaurs running around unchecked, you may be finding that your quest to chop down trees is being too often interrupted by velociraptors. If this is the case, then perhaps you need to make some adjustment to your game with some Ark admin commands.


Admin commands, also known as console commands, are not strictly Ark cheats, but they do change the game to allow you access to things you wouldn't usually have. You can boost your experience points, instantly tame a dinosaur, add an item to your inventory, or even destroy every dinosaur in the land, simply by using a code word. Just type them in, tap enter, and hack the world as if it's the Matrix.


Our guide to Ark's admin commands will show you how to do all this. We've got all the best console codes, and we'll even show you how to change the Ark .ini file to make sure they all work, too.


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RELATED LINKS:

The Epic Games Store's rolling out "early version" Achievements

The best survival games on PC

Ark: Survival Evolved is free on Epic for its fifth anniversary


Ark admin commands: the best Ark cheat codes for Survival Evolved

Ark cheat codes and admin commands are the secret to making the world of Ark a less terrifying place. With all those dinosaurs running around unchecked, you may be finding that your quest to chop down trees is being too often interrupted by velociraptors. If this is the case, then perhaps you need to make some adjustment to your game with some Ark admin commands.


Admin commands, also known as console commands, are not strictly Ark cheats, but they do change the game to allow you access to things you wouldn't usually have. You can boost your experience points, instantly tame a dinosaur, add an item to your inventory, or even destroy every dinosaur in the land, simply by using a code word. Just type them in, tap enter, and hack the world as if it's the Matrix.


Our guide to Ark's admin commands will show you how to do all this. We've got all the best console codes, and we'll even show you how to change the Ark .ini file to make sure they all work, too.


Read the rest of the story...


RELATED LINKS:

The Epic Games Store's rolling out "early version" Achievements

The best survival games on PC

Ark: Survival Evolved is free on Epic for its fifth anniversary


Community Crunch 241: Fear Evolved 4

Fear Evolved 4


It's time to Trick or Treat whilst howling under the blood moon! The Dodorex and Dodowyvern will be striking fear into the hearts of Survivors with their fearsome return to the ARK! Hunt for new diabolical chibis, spectral creature skins, event themed threads, and new holiday emotes. Fear Evolved is one of our favorite events and we can't wait for you to experience what we've conjured up this year!

[h2]Event Details[/h2]
This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=FearEvolved

[h3]Dates [/h3]
  • October 22nd to November 6th

[h3]Rates[/h3]
  • 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
  • 2X Player XP

[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]
  • DodoRex (Untamable Boss)
  • DodoWyvern (Untamable Boss)
  • Zomdodo
  • Zombie Fire Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
  • Zombie Lightning Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
  • Zombie Poison Wyvern (claimable & persist after Fear Evolved)
  • Skeletal Giganotosaurus
  • Skeletal Quetzal
  • Skeletal Jerboa
  • Bone Fire Wyvern
  • Skeletal Bronto
  • Skeletal Stego
  • Skeletal Trike
  • Skeletal Raptor
  • Skeletal Rex
  • Skeletal Carnotaurus
  • Ghost Reaper (Surface reapers) *new*
  • Ghost Bulbdog *new*
  • Ghost Rex *new*
  • Ghost Basilisk *new*
  • Ghost Snow Owl *new*
  • Ghost Mantis *new*
  • Ghost Direwolf *new*

[h3]Event Chibis (acquired via killing Dodowyvern/Dodorex or Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
  • Skeletal Giganotosaurus *new*
  • Skeletal Quetzal *new*
  • Skeletal Jerboa *new*
  • Skeletal Bronto *new*
  • Skeletal Stego *new*
  • Skeletal Trike *new*
  • Skeletal Raptor *new*
  • Skeletal Rex *new*
  • Skeletal Carnotaurus *new*
  • Bone Wyvern *new*
  • Zombie Wyvern *new*

[h3]Ghost Creature Skins (acquired via killing Ghost creatures)[/h3]
  • Reaper *new*
  • Bulbdog *new*
  • Rex *new*
  • Basilisk *new*
  • Snow Owl *new*
  • Mantis *new*
  • Direwolf *new*


[h3]Items[/h3]
  • Pumpkin
  • Stolen Headstone
  • Scarecrow
  • Dinosaur Bone
  • Dino Candy Corn

[h3]Emotes (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
  • Scare Emote *new*
  • Knock Emote *new*
  • Panic Emote
  • Dance Emote
  • Zombie Emote

[h3]Skins (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)[/h3]
  • Reaper Swimsuit Skin *new*
  • Jack-O-Lantern Swimsuit Skin *new*
  • Pumpkin Helmet Skin
  • Headless Costume Skin
  • Hockey Mask Skin
  • Araneo Swimsuit Skins
  • Onyc Swimsuit Skins
  • Vampire Dodo Swimsuit Skins

[h3]Creature Event Colors[/h3]
  • Dino Darker Grey
  • Dino Light Blue
  • Dino Dark Yellow
  • DragonBase1
  • Light Brown
  • Light Grey
  • Dino Light Brown
  • Dino Dark Brown
  • DragonFire
  • Vermillion *new*
  • ActualBlack *new*
  • MidnightBlue *new*
  • MediumAutumn *new*
  • DarkWarmGray *new*
  • Orange *new*
  • DarkLavender *new*
  • Jade *new*




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:
  • 2x Breeding/Maturing
  • 2x XP


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!
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