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Please head over to SurviveTheArk for the latest community post!

Please head over to SurviveTheARK for the latest community post!

How perplexing, who can guess what this might be?




We at Studio Wildcard would like to give a sincere thanks to the community for participating in our latest 24 hour ExtraLife charity event. With the help of our community and ExtraLife team, we raised over $90,906.20 and beat our highest amount raised in 2018 at $76,630.27!  We couldn't have done this without the help of our generous community, our amazing sponsors, and our dedicated community who signed up to join our team. We gave away over $10K in prizes with items from Discord, AMD, Alienware, season pass keys, and more!

As with prior ExtraLife events, we take this as an opportunity to share sneak peeks at upcoming content.  In true tradition, we shared video and visuals from the upcoming Genesis DLC.  We're excited to take you on a new adventure in Genesis and look forward to sharing more unseen content.  If you missed the event on Saturday and want a sneak peek of Genesis, we've created a clip of a recap on Twitch.  This clip includes the videos and concept art of all the Genesis content that was shared during the event.



ARK: Fishing Net Item Teaser
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ARK: Cruise Missile Weapon Teaser
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ARK: TEK Shoulder Cannon Weapon Teaser
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ARK: Magmasaur Creature Teaser
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ARK: Bloodstalker Creature Teaser
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ARK: Lunar Biome Environment Teaser
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Team Fundraising Total (as of this writing): $90,906.20
-Up from Last Year’s: $76,630.27 

Team Size: 125
-Up from 70 last year

Overall Participant Rank: 5 out of 47769
-Up from Rank 14 out of 48101

Participant Earnings: $57,422.57
-Up from Last Year’s: $45,183.27

Overall Team Rank: 6 out of 4954
-Up from Rank 11 out of 5137 

Average Donation: $57.28
-Up from Last Year: $42.43

Largest Total Donation Sum (Top Donator) : $3,106 from Acidic
-Up from Last Year: $2,500

Total Team Giveaways (excluding keys and vouchers): 33
-Up from Last Year: 11

Top 10 Team Donations:
Studio Wildcard - $57,422.57
Burke Black - $6,063.50
Syntac - $4,238.92
Death & Taxes (ATLAS NA PVP) - $3,634
DarksideRP - $3,614
N3 (Exoleras) - $3,339.72
Belle - $2,049.99
Shockist - $1,505.01
Drewlbucket - $1,500
SvalaGaming - $910

Largest Community Donation: $1,337 from Acidic

Scoville Units consumed of hot stuff: 31,081,600 
A Jalapeno Pepper is about 2,500 - 8,000 Scoville

During the stream, we also played a few ARK mods you might be interested in. For those who wanted to know more about them, we've included links to the mods and a short description below.

Poker After Ark

Poker After Ark offers the ability to play NoLimit Hold'em Poker with up to nine players at the same table.
There are four different tables to play on.
- PokerTable FullRing (9Max)
- PokerTable Shorthanded (6Max)
- PokerTable Ramshackle (4Max)
- PokerTable HeadsUp (2Max)
At least two players need to sit at a table to start the game.

The Hunt

Hunt
In hunt mode, one person plays as a terrible monster, and other persons (hunters) try to defeat the monster and prevent it from evolving into an adult beast. Hunters have several types of weapons and traps, 
including flamethrowers and rifles. The monster has invisibility, a special vision that allows you to detect living beings. Do not think that you can escape from it on the height - a monster can climb anywhere.

Survive.
In this mode, the goal of the survivors is to run away from the monster by opening the gates that are powered by generators. Generators appear in random places on the map and their number depends on the number of survivors. Power the generators with energy cells to open the gate and escape.

ARK Arena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Q9-0X3Jnc

This mod contains 4 fun game modes which will allow you to experience the full depth of Ark PvP without the grinding

We also want to thank our moderators in the chat for helping manage the event, our sponsors, and all our Studio Wildcard survivors that were behind the scenes making the event and reveals possible!  We're looking forward to ExtraLife 2020 and if you want to find out more about ExtraLife and how to get involved, visit the ExtraLife website!



We are welcoming four new projects to the Sponsored Mod Program today! We hope to see these projects flourish and expand on the things that they do great.

Faith
Author: Snowy
Faith is a complete reenvisioning of The Island with new twists and creative ideas. If you would like to see an old favorite in a new face you should check out this labor of love.

Primal NPCs
Author: multipl3x
Primal NPCs takes some unique turns for an NPC mod, such as the ability to order them around via chat. The NPC game is evolving!

Prehistoric Structures & Paintable Structures
Author: Lisa
Prehistoric Structures offers another unique visual design for those that are interested in more primal structure designs.
Paintable Structures offers a more modern touch with an insane amount of customizability.
Between these two sets of structures, most players should be able to find something they love!

ARK Parados
Author: Malinja
ARK Parados is an overhaul mod that offers a wide range of custom creature variants. Bright colors and unique mechanics are sure to be a treat for the eyes and the adventurous.

Applying to be a Sponsored Mod
Sponsored Mod Program applications will open again on January 1st. We hope that everyone enjoys their winter break!

Happy Modding! 




PS4 Primitive+

We understand that the current issues with Primitive+ on PS4 is preventing an ideal experience.  We apologize for the delay in a patch that resolved the current issue with wild dinos.  We hope to have more information on this issue later in the week

Server Maintenance

On Thursday afternoon EST we will be conducting maintenance on our OC network across all platforms. Please check for further information, including timing on our maintenance page at ark.gg/maintenance.




There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!  The normally scheduled event will return when Fear Evolved ends on November 8th

Until next time!

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Credit (@ScutalTheLizard)

The content from the community from Fear Evolved has been nothing less than amazing!  Due to some early launch issues, we'll be extending the event to November 8th 10AM PDT.  We realize how important these events are for our community and have been monitoring your feedback throughout the way! There is still an update planned to iron out some existing issues with creature spawns.

The feedback we receive from this event will be invaluable as we roll into Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland.




The ExtraLife charity stream this year is going to be a hot one!  In addition to OVER 5K IN GIVEAWAYS, we'll have fun challenges and contests including 'Hot Ones' themed events.  Be sure to stop by for the 24 hours stream and tons of hilarity!

Want to hang out during the stream?  No problem!  We've set up a Discord server:

ExtraLife Discord Server Invite

https://discord.gg/v4YPpEf






PS4 Primitive+

The engineering team is attempting another patch to address the current issues with Primitive+.  We hope to have more news for you tomorrow!

Valguero Transfers

Transfers into Valguero open up tomorrow!  See the details on transfer timelines below:





There will be no EVO event rates while Fear Evolved event rates are active!

Until next time!

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Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

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Originally posted by Jesse

The upcoming Genesis expansion adds a lot of innovative and fun new features to ARK and is our most complex expansion pack to date, with a completely new mission system that dramatically changes the way you can play ARK. As a team we have decided that an extra month of polish and balancing is needed to deliver an awesome experience to everyone on launch day, so our anticipated simultaneous release for all platforms will be late January 2020. Meanwhile, we will continue to create fun new events and updates for ARK, including today as we launch Fear Evolved 3, and with the extra time we plan to add mouse-and-keyboard support on consoles this year as well as working on some surprises for the entire community at our biggest-ever Winter Wonderland event in December!

We are excited to bring you the third annual Fear Evolved, bigger and better than before!  The blood-moon, DodoWyvern, DodoRex, have made a return to ARK from October 22nd to November 5th!  Find tombstones to and gather what you need to craft spooky skins or hunt down the elusive DoDoWyvern - the choice is up to you.  For those who have experienced Fear Evolved before, we've added some new tricks and treats to ensure Fear Evolved maintains its legacy as a community favorite.

Event Rates

2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation)
2X Player XP
2X Harvesting

Wild Creature Event Colors

Dino Light Orange
Dino Light Red
Dino Dark Orange
Dino Dark Red
DragonBase0
DragonBase1
Dino Dark Purple
Dino Light Brown
Dino Dark Brown
Dino Light Green
Dino Light Grey
Dino Darker Grey
Dino Light Blue
Dino Dark Yellow
DragonFire
NearBlack

NEW Event Items

Jack O'Lantern Mask
Hockey Mask
Headless Neck stump
Halloween-inspired Dino Colorization Candy 
Panic Emote
Spooky Dance Emote
Zombie Emote

Prior Event Creatures

DodoRex
Zomdodo
Dodo Wyvern
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Bone Fire Wyvern
Zombie Fire Wyvern
Zombie Lightning Wyvern
Zombie Poison Wyvern
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus

Prior Event Items

Pumpkin
Stolen Headstone
Scarecrow

Prior Event Skins

DodoWyvern Mask Skin
Clown Mask Skin
Vampire Eyes Skin
Werewolf Mask Skin
Giganotosaurus Bone Costume
Jerboa Bone Costume
Quetzalcoatlus Bone Costume
Wyvern Bone Costume
DodoRex Mask Skin
Carno Bone Costume
Rex Bone Costume
Raptor Bone Costume
Bronto Bone Costume
Trike Bone Costume
Stego Bone Costume
Witch Hat Skin
Dino Witch Hat Skin

We hope the community enjoys Fear Evolved 3 and we look forward to bringing you more exciting events like Turkey Trials and Winter Wonderland!

Until next time!

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