ARK: Survival Evolved News

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Official ARK:Survival Evolved Discord! Along with being a new hub for our ARK community, this Discord will be a source of information for our players where announcements and patch notes can be pushed through to your own Discord if you choose.

Jump in via this invite link: https://discord.gg/playark


At times we may make adjustments to the Code of Conduct based on evolving game meta or as a result of ongoing enforcement initiatives. These adjustments to the Code of Conduct will take place immediately.

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Teleportation zones are treated as spawn zones and as such they should not be blocked nor have any turrets in them in either pvp or pve game mode.

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Teleportation zones (on Genesis) are treated as spawn zones and as such they should not be blocked nor have any turrets in them in either pvp or pve game mode.

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Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, gas nodes, Extinction City Terminals, etc)

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Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, Extinction City Terminals, Orbital Supply Crates on Extinction, etc)

If you're planning on playing on the Official Network, please familiarize yourself with the Code of Conduct.



There will be no EVO Event this week.



Poison Wyvern by Kittu Shakmarov

Dodo by Rej PiekielnyGrabarz

Rock Drake by REN SAIO

Falling by CaPrIcOrNbReAd

Managarmr Headshot by Sarahleiwel

The Obelisk by BigChickenLover

See you in Discord!
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In this edition of the Community Crunch, we’ll be teasing you with some juicy TLC 3 info along with giving you an overview of what we’ve been focusing on lately behind the scenes.

The much-awaited TLC is getting closer and we’re excited to get some of our re-imagined favorites into your hands soon!

Download the high-resolution version

We’ll be reconceiving these veteran ARK friends via visual and mechanical upgrades that will introduce new elements of gameplay. Much appreciated community feedback drew our attention towards the Wooly Mammoth (among others) and it’s time for this relic of the Pliocene epoch to make a new debut heralded by the beat of a new buff bound to add more utility to emergent gameplay, and more!

We hope that drums up some enthusiasm ;)



Whilst we’re ramping up work on the TLC 3 patch and our climactic Genesis Part II expansion, we frequently pivot to Live Ops and seek to achieve fast iterations on fixes for bugs and exploits.

One of our biggest priorities at the moment is the ongoing investigating and work done on server reliability. Over the last few weeks we have seen an uptick in player reports regarding their servers not listing, not being able to join them, high ping, being unable to transfer, “ghosting”, or offline. While the cause of this downtime may vary, sometimes it is the result of a malicious attack. Our engineers are working with our partners on technical implementations to further improve stability and mitigate the attacks. We will be rolling out changes to all platforms in the near future which will have a serious impact on resolving these issues.

Recently we’ve also addressed issues that include fixes to various exploits including: invulnerability related to characters and dinos, pincode bypassing, further checks between server and client in relation to shooting, and abuse of dino mechanics. We’ve also implemented Level Design changes across varied maps with the purpose of filling in holes that may have allowed players to gain entry into unintended playable areas of the map. A fair environment is important to us and to the health of the game, we’ll continue to address these issues as they arise.

We plan on continuing to improve the player experience with updates like our recent Quality Of Life and Balance patch in the near future...speaking of Quality Of Life, how does an EVO Event sound?



Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 11th of Sep at 4 PM EST until Monday the 14th of Sep at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

• 2x Breeding/Maturing
  

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 you’re all keeping safe and well. While working remotely has been somewhat of an adjustment period for us, we’ve now hit our stride and look forward to sharing more of what we’ve been grinding away at very soon!

Over and out, Survivors!
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Credit: Jacob

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch. This week we take a look at a new sponsored mod and great fan art from the community!



[h2]Simple Spawners[/h2]


Simple Spawners is a popular utility mod that makes it easy to customize maps to suit the desires and needs of your server. Having expanded from creature spawners the mod adds useful tools like setting up no-build zones, no-fly zones, nests, harvestable resources, radiation zones, and loot crate/beacon points. With Simple Spawners you can get quite creative with how you customize your server map!

Check out Simple Spawners




There will be no EVO event this week.



Glowtail by Slimeyspore11

Glow Pug by chocodeamon

Photoshopping Some ARK by bluedragonark

ARK Aberration: The Spine by RobynTheDragon

A Fun Wonder by ARKLove9


Craft Station On Sea by SKRMT_

ARK PvP Event by MayaPatch

Argentavis magnificens by Vignar

That's it for this week!

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Credit: WetFish40

Welcome to another edition of the community crunch.  We hope everyone is enjoying their experience on the newly launched Crystal Isles!  The team will be on the lookout for any issues we're seeing in the community.  Meanwhile, let's take a look at some amazing community art while we prepare for upcoming events that will round out the year. 



There will be no EVO event this week.


Kong vs. Rock Drake by Mayapatch

Carnotaurus by Eshkerigal

Home of the Alchemist by Koooooo071

Light Up my World by Diachelvia

Leaning Tower of Pisa by ramall_081

Scarlett The Rock Drake by Zeeo103

Snow Mountain Walk by N_kaiser

Managarmrby DarkOfTheLight

Until next week!

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