Our annual Halloween event, Fear Evolved, creeps onto the ARK with a ghoulish screech and we have laid out all of the tricks and/or treats for Survivors to indulge in over the coming weeks!
From October 26th to November 9th : ARK will be teeming with spook-tackular new chibis making their ARK debut, cutting(knife) edge fashion, and eerie event creatures all resplendent in moonlit pumpkin patches and Hallow's Eve festivities!
Cloak yourself in event-themed fashion and creepy shoulder companions to embark on a hunt for the elusive DodoRex and DodoWyvern.
Fear Evolved is a community favorite and we can't wait for you to see what we've conjured up this year!
This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=FearEvolved
Dates October 26th to November 9th
Rates 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
Go scouting for all the past Fear Evolved content while treating yourself to 5 new spooky themed chibi's, 2 new full-body skins, and 4 new shirt prints to add to your growing collection!
Spooky Encounters
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)
Ghost Bulbdog
Ghost Rex
Ghost Basilisk
Ghost Snow Owl
Ghost Mantis
Ghost Direwolf
Event Chibis (acquired via killing Dodowyvern/Dodorex or Cooking Pot recipe)
The Witching Owl *new*
Ghost Direwolf *new*
Ghost Basilisk *new*
Ghost Rex *new*
Ghost Mantis *new*
Skeletal Giganotosaurus
Skeletal Quetzal
Skeletal Jerboa
Skeletal Bronto
Skeletal Stego
Skeletal Trike
Skeletal Raptor
Skeletal Rex
Skeletal Carnotaurus
Bone Wyvern
Zombie Wyvern
Ghost Creature Skins (acquired via killing Ghost creatures)
Reaper
Bulbdog
Rex
Basilisk
Snow Owl
Mantis
Direwolf
Items
Pumpkin
Stolen Headstone
Scarecrow
Dinosaur Bone
Dino Candy Corn
Emotes (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)
Scare Emote
Knock Emote
Zombie Emote
Dance Emote
Panic Emote
Skins (acquired via Cooking Pot recipe)
Strawman costume
new*
Skeleton costume
new*
Skelly Print Shirt
new*
Tentacle Print Shirt
new*
ZombDodo Print Shirt
new*
Zombie Wyvern Print Shirt
new*
Reaper Swimsuit Skin
Jack-O-Lantern Swimsuit Skin
Pumpkin Helmet Skin
Headless Costume Skin
Hockey Mask Skin
Araneo Swimsuit Skins
Onyc Swimsuit Skins
Vampire Dodo Swimsuit Skins
Creature Event Colors
Dino Darker Grey
Dino Light Blue
Dino Dark Yellow
DragonBase1
Light Brown
Light Grey
Dino Light Brown
Dino Dark Brown
DragonFire
Vermillion
ActualBlack
MidnightBlue
MediumAutumn
DarkWarmGray
Orange
DarkLavender
Jade
There is no EVO event this week
Creator: SINZAHH Want to see an epic solo raid that led to a plentiful bounty? Look no further! [previewyoutube="XCJgV-iDZNo;full"]
Creator: nakedzombo Taking on the ever so popular TV series, nakedzombo puts on an episode of The Squid Games, but in ARK! [previewyoutube="Y8gxC1FwNiM;full"]
Community Crunch 288: ExtraLife Team Sign-Up, Community Corner, and More!
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
This week we're preparing for Fear Evolved 5 which will run from Tuesday, October 26th until Tuesday, November 9th! We'll be sharing the full event details in the next Community Crunch. In addition to Fear Evolved, Extra Life is right around the corner! If you've never tuned in for our 24-hour ExtraLife stream, you're in for a treat! As usual, we'll be sharing upcoming ARK info, playing games, and most importantly raising money for kids in need for 24 hours! It all goes down on November 6th at 10am PDT. Join us for our seventh ExtraLife event and help us raise some money #ForTheKids!
If you are interested in joining our team to help raise money, we'd love to have you! Check out this link for more information on how to get started. All donations go to the Extra Life organization and contribute to raising the Official Network rates! We'll be sharing an event outline and details on boosted Official Network rates in the near future!
There is no EVO event this week!
Creator: SINZAHH How unstoppable is this duo? You watch and be the judge! [previewyoutube="TM3ecSxkjz0;full"]
Creator: Flipsider Entertainment Getting a little tired of your setup? Take a look at an episode of Extreme Home Makeovers: ARK Edition! [previewyoutube="34RkwMHUzys;full"]
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! [previewyoutube="3DJO06xFjtQ;full"]
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="yMv5W1PqnPM;full"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvfUue7Lr0[/previewyoutube]
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
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
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
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
Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!
In the lead-up to the release of the Lost Island, a free DLC map coming later this year, we've been engaging the community and seeing what creatures you'd like to see on the upcoming release. During the first-ever official community vote, we saw a heated race as we narrowed down which creature would be one of the 3 new creatures that release with Lost Island.
Although Dinopithecus emerged as the clear winner, today we may have an addition that's fairly familiar to the community and the final creature being added to Lost Island!
Sinomacrops bondei is a friendly and curious little pterosaur. It may approach and investigate unfamiliar creatures, but Sinomacrops does spook easily. When threatened, it will unfurl its wings to reveal deimatic eyespots in an attempt to confuse or scare predators away. Still, Sinomacrops seems to be a highly intelligent creature that craves social interaction.
While it's normally curious and friendly, Sinomacrops' adorably oversized mouth turns into a deadly weapon at the slightest sight and smell of insects. Even alone, this cute little critter can take down insects far larger than itself. Unfortunately, this means that armor made from chitinous plates is going to trigger an attack response from the otherwise sweet-hearted pterosaur.
Taming a Sinomacrops is fairly straightforward (in theory) -- just feed them without scaring them. Once tamed, they absolutely love travelling with their humans, and prefer to cling to them whenever possible.
Not only are they sociable, but they're fiercely protective once bonded. Any small creature approaching someone with a tame Sinomacrops will be met with its flashing eyespots and piercing shriek. That’s usually enough to stun an undersized interloper.
For such a small flier, Sinomacrops can carry surprisingly heavy loads. It can even support the weight of a fully-grown human adult, though it will struggle to gain altitude. Still, any creature companion that can double as a glider and parachute is invaluable for anyone traversing an ARK... as long as they bring plenty of snacks for their new friend.
It's that time where we introduce new projects in the sponsored mod program! Our first set of picks for the year is ready for you to enjoy. The ARK Sponsored Mod Program is also now accepting applications for the next selection, you will be able to apply until October 5th. Don't forget to submit your projects at https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/modding/apply-for-sponsorship/.
Alemia
[previewyoutube="sMjBqm377vY;full"] Alemia is a map project that reworks many aspects of the game to take the player on a challenging survival adventure without any trace of technology. You'll find new structures and mechanics for crafting, exploration, taming and harvesting. And if that's not enough for you, there are many dungeons hiding underground... Alemia awaits. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2353826185
ARK Genomes - Extinction Evolved
ARK Genomes brings forth a significant overhaul. Complete with challenges, a new tiered improvement system for creatures, and it's own story flow. Take on difficult challenges to fight off the corruption of element, gain new rewards and raise your tames through multiple stages of genetic evolution! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1902213098
An ARK Evolution Event is active until Tuesday, the 7th 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: Finn Reinhardt Want to see what happens when some well-known creators and players from the PvP and ARK community hide valuable items on an Official Server? Check out this amazing cinematic story from Finn Reinhardt! [previewyoutube="ahHGEgRUjco;full"]
Creator: Sefiro Ultima Learn one of the more complex builds to pull off in ARK, the spiral staircase! [previewyoutube="UVVEv7ICeIY;full"]
Community Crunch 281: Evo Event, Community Corner, and more!
Greetings Survivors!
This week we'll be taking a look at some great community art in the community corner and kicking the weekend off with an EVO event! Internally, we're keeping an eye on the live-game and addressing issues with patches as they arise. Thank you for submitting your bugs to the bug tracker and reporting any server issues you are having.
We're all gearing up for an exciting end of the year for ARK!
An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 23rd with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!
2X Taming
2X Harvesting
2X XP
Creator: Schwalbe Check out a brand new "Lets Play" series on Extinction with Schwalbe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuw3iLFGkg
Creator: Hearts Looking to take on the Crystal Islands map? You might want to see how Hearts fared in his new YouTube series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4a7m-UF2I
Kiryu Coco | ARK: Survival Evolved by Cubicorn
The roaring giganotosaurus by locelotkal
Spinosaurus by Archipelagornis
Managarmr by Diaboli666
Shinehorn by MiniVulpix
Crystal Wyvern by Oriah
Untitled (Discord Submission) by HallOfFlameSs#3779
Community Crunch 280: Genesis Part II Server Transfers, Evo Event, and more!
Greetings Survivors!
In this Crunch, we will be covering the opening of Genesis II transfers on our Official servers and a special little Evo Event including breeding and hexagon rewards!
Genesis Part II Official Server Transfers
On Friday, September 3rd, we will be enabling full server transfers into Genesis Part II on our Official Servers across all platforms. Once enabled, players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction!
An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 16th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!
2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, imprint, and maturation) 2X Taming 2X Harvesting 2X XP 2x Hexagons
Creator: Aaron Longstaff Aaron Longstaff is back with some helpful tips on building an ankylo pen with an industrial forge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yP7h4G2vfc
Untitled (Discord Submission) by VELUKO#6347
Brownie the sabertooth by NocturnalShallows
TGD- Dreaded Beast I - Andrewsarchus by DjayMasi
Dimetrodon's Final Moments by @NeoVanilluxe
My Raptur Art (Discord Submission) by UR MOBILE GOD#7804
Reaper King Fan Art (Discord Submission) by AM#7193
