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Community Crunch 287: Sinomacrops, EVO Event, and More!

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Have you met our feisty and featherweight flier, Sinomacrops? In Community Crunch 282, we released the Sinomacrops dossier for the upcoming Lost Island free DLC map. Although our new friend may seem to mostly have its strength in traversal, Sinomacrops brings substantial utility for players of all types. A secondary inventory is available to players whilst it is shoulder-mounted and Sinomacrops packs a significant weight reduction on the items it's carrying for you! Who's ready to say hi to their new backpack buddy!?

In addition to Sinomacrops, Amargasaurus and Dinopithecus will make it's way to Lost Island later this year. Although Dinopithecus won the community vote for the Lost Island Creature Submission, we're looking forward to doing it again later this year. What creature would you like to see added to ARK?

Quality Of Life and Balance Patch

We plan to release a Quality of Life and Balance pass next week on PC, and a little further down the road on console. This patch will include various QoL additions along with some important balance-changes predominantly aimed at PvP. One of the key aspects we looked at in regards to balance is the prevalence of chain-stuns/crowd control in the current PvP meta - most specifically Void Wyvern, Shadowmane, Netgun and Plant Z. We've also made balance tweaks to various creatures and items that we think will make PvP more fun and interesting.
This patch also includes two newly breedable creatures! We do plan to make some more currently un-breedable creatures breedable in the future so stay posted if your favorite isn't included in this one!

Last but not least, we're kicking this weekend off with a breeding EVO event and a look at some amazing community content!

An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday the 11th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

2X Breeding and Imprinting
2X Taming
2X Harvesting
2X XP

Creator: pterafier
We are all excited to see what the Season 1 MONARKY series has in store! Check out the trailer below and hop on over to Episode 1 if you're as interested as we are!
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Creator: The AxeMan
Get an early look at the new Titan Map by @codigoalex_. We have a feeling this will be a popular community map!
[previewyoutube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvfUue7Lr0[/previewyoutube]

X-Yutyrannus by Amberghini

Feeding the Little Ones by Nalak

Godzilla vs. the Ice Titan by Daizua123

The Scorched Earth Guardian by Kitty#7656

Fanart of my Shadowmane by Fordale#4520

Untitled by MayaPatch#8071

Khal Alastor -Dusk-#8673 (Edit)

Prissiie#6186

@DreadTamer (Fjordur)

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Community Crunch 286: EVO Event, Community Corner, and More!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

We're getting the weekend started with an EVO event and taking a look at some amazing community art!

An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday the 4th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

2X Taming
2X Harvesting
2X XP

Creator: The Johtunn Bandit
What is an super-omni-trap? Check out this video which boasts to hold over 65 creatures!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bReFrh_WEnY

Creator: Cantex
Do all ARK creatures stand a chance against the Ice Titan and Forest Titan? Let's find out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvfUue7Lr0

ARK Survival Evolved Hollow Knight by Chervendiga

TEK Therizinosaurus Fan Concept by EmilyStepp

Acro Head Final by GarboAnimations

Three Gun Mussel by @J0vando

Ark fan art by LionsAngel22

Aberration by archipelagornis

Avie

@XxStevieLad87xX

@Petergames_666

Community Crunch 285: EVO Event, Community Corner, and More!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we rolled out the optimized Dedicated Storage change to PlayStation. We're working on rolling those changes out to XBOX next week.

Take a look at some community content from this week as we prep for an action-packed end of the year!

An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday the 27th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

3X Taming
3X Harvesting
3X XP

Creator: UpFromTheDepths
Check out a teaser for the upcoming episode to the Paleo ARK series!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5JyvyJO8Po

Creator: Syntac
Would you try and fight The Overseer with a Deinonychus? Well, Syntac did! Find out if he succeeds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7XMyBAHGI

Primal Fear by GustavoGarcez

"Kiara" The Shadowmane by Irinaal9

Giganotosaurus by @N_Life93

Battle For The Highlands by Kitty#7656

Jerboa by LunarSiren#8178

@sis_6193

Rasvim1313#2269

tilou

Who the hell#1082

@sam_stimo

Community Crunch 284: Dedicated Storage Change, Evo Event, and more!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week, initially on PC, we rolled out a refactored version of the dedicated storage structure. Our impetus for doing so was optimization and performance improvements for dedicated servers.

Previously, Dedicated Storages used to hold up to 1800 stacks of a single item. On a typical popular server, there are usually thousands of dedicated storage boxes across an entire save, many of which are filled with stacks. On some of our most populated Official Servers, we see save files with over 65,000 dedicated storages -- many of them full (these were PVE servers). As you can imagine, this is a lot of items, like... a lot, a lot. How does this impact our servers? In our worst-case scenario, taking a server with 65,000 dedicated storages, let’s assume 70% of these are full; that means we’re talking 81,900,000 stacks, just from dedicated storage boxes alone. These all contribute to how well the server runs in terms of framerate, as well as the memory cost. Each ‘stack’ costs a little bit of both.

So a rework was necessary, and the results have proven to be great! This isn't a magic bullet and you won't suddenly see servers drop half their memory cost or double in performance, but we are seeing significant gains across our network on all maps. Some savings are as high as 10GB on memory usage, which is pretty phenomenal! Additionally, this change slows down the growth of memory usage on servers, as previously it would exponentially increase with additional dedicated storage boxes.

So here's how the rework 'works' under the hood:

The idea of having 'multiple' stacks is no longer the case when using Dedicated Storages. When viewing your UI, you won't see the items on the right-hand side anymore, and it won't display the item slot count when looking at the structure.
Instead, the dedicated storage box now contains a single item, and when you deposit items into it, we adjust the quantity of the said item. So instead of having 1800 stacks, you have one giant stack, if you will. Don't panic if you don't see items on the right-hand side, it is intentional! The items are still inside of the dedicated storage, it just works differently
The good news is that you'll still be able to withdraw one regular-sized stack at a time, should you need to as the game can calculate what that number would be.
As we've removed the 'items' from the storage, you can no longer interface with the remote inventory on the right-hand side. This means you can't split stacks inside of it, you can't drop items from it, etc.
The team is working to mitigate some of the changes, and one thing we've done and implemented is changed the 'Transfer All' function on Dedicated Storages to ignore your weight. Previously players could 'popcorn' items from Dedicated Storages (which is spamming the 'O' key, to drop them quickly) and then pick them up with a whip, but unfortunately that no longer works - which is why we've made this QOL change.
We are currently working on some additional QOL changes, which will enable players to pull out 1,5, or 10 items at a time if an entire stack isn't needed (You can press/click these buttons multiple times to get your desired quantity).
We're still monitoring community feedback with the change as we knew it would be an impactful and necessary change to increase performance for dedicated servers. We also want to make sure that the structure still feels pretty good to use as we know how important it is to base/item management. We'll do our best to take in the community feedback and see whether we can act upon it!

We’re also working on getting all of these changes moved over to console as soon as possible. This includes the quantity-display in different locations and fixing/improving the PlayStation version of the Dedicated Storage box so that you’ll be able to see the quantity of the items on the box itself similarly to the other platforms.

An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 20th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

3X Taming
3X Harvesting
3X XP

Creator: Shockist
Follow along with Shockist as he takes you on a tour of the largest official genesis 2 base!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbG1pCyLUHU

Creator: SINZAHH
Ever wonder what you can accomplish as a solo player in ARK? SINZAHH takes us along for an epic solo raid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lfEaYL3I0

The Grave of the Lost by Kitty

Untitled by @kawarayane

Reaper by @KarkinosGaming

Rockwell (Pyschonauts Mashup) by @edmundium

Crystal Wyvern by Dronade#0814

MR RED#4506

Jøŋ Sŋøẃ

@EgoSilentium

Community Crunch 283: Evo Event, Community Corner, and more!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we're taking a look at what's happening in the community in the Community Corner. Things may seem quiet on the homefront, but we're gearing up for a great close-out to the year! Lost Islands, three new creatures, another community creature vote, Extra Life, holiday events, and more will give everyone something to enjoy this holiday season!

An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 13th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

2X Taming
2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, imprint, and maturation)
2X Harvesting
2X XP
2X Hexagon Bonus

Creator: Leo
The various '100 days' series have become popular in the community, so here's a different take: 100 days as a master tamer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTVpHndbfw

Creator: Cjthecheesedj
Are these the top 10 traveling creatures to tame? Chime in and let us know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4askVKDbc

ARK Raptor evolution to TEK by @Ica7

Ferox for Jinx by alphaeuscreatives

ARKrptr by salamantha

Mei Yin by 龍&玥

Prissiie#6186

CryptidCorvids#0449

Good luck Shinehorn by Kitty#7656

@LolosArtCorner

@PurdyTrevor

@sarrisrainbows