We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are also maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will continue to stream live again this week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• The current schedule will be: Thursday (7/31) at 2PM PST.

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

• FPS and Level Optimization

• Mods Compatibility / Updated Dev Kit

• Server Issues

• Core Functionality 

• Fixed a crash when accessing a custom radial menu.

• Added Spearbolt to anvil.

• Crystal trees / crystalized wood harvestable visual update

• Balancing of Thalassian Rifle damage.

• Raft launching fix.

• Fixed Monodon ranged attacks so it will no longer damage players and dinosaurs that are immune to ranged damage.

• Adding select TEK items to boss drops.

• Karkinos overspawn fix.

• Trilobite overspawn fix.

• Adding Alpha Karkinos spawns.

• Updated select environmental visuals.

• Reverted initial fix for dinos/ships disappearing without tribe logs as well as cryopod issues to prevent long load times for primalgamedata, more information on this coming soon.

• Missing meshes are being addressed and will be restored into the level. (unintended/abusive ratholes/etc)

• Tek Boots

• Tek Gauntlets

• Tek Cap

• Tek Chestpiece

• Tek Leggings

• Tek Shield

• Tek Shield Riot

• Tek Grenade

• Tek Sword

• Tek Rifle

• Tek Cloning Chamber

• Tek Light

• Tek Turret

More Tek Engram additions have been proposed and are a work in progress.

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are also maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will continue to stream live throughout the week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• The current schedule will be: Tuesday (7/29) and Thursday (7/31) at 2PM PST.

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

• FPS Improvement

• Continued Progress on Mods / Updating the Dev Kit

• Server Issues

• Core Functionality 

Issues pipeline (v360.6 Live Branch)

• Adding the Spearbolt to the Anvil

• Explorer Note Location update

• Raft launching fix

• Fixing the Monodon ranged attack to no longer count as melee damage

• Balancing Thalassian Rifle damage

• Updating select environmental visuals

• Adding select Tek Engrams into the boss loot table

• Investigating server cluster transfer issues

• Continuing to address areas where players are falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Hydrosphere issues

• Infected barnacle bugs

• Continuing dino spawner updates

• Linux binaries missing

• Vehicle updates in general (rafts/motorboats and stinger)

• Ocean platform placement issues

• Tek Boots

• Tek Gauntlets

• Tek Cap

• Tek Chestpiece

• Tek Leggings

• Tek Shield

• Tek Shield Riot

• Tek Grenade

• Tek Sword

• Tek Rifle

• Tek Cloning Chamber

• Tek Light

• Tek Turret

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• Schedule for the next week of developer streams coming soon.

• Adding Tek Armor and Tek Turret + other select Tek engrams into the boss reward/loot pool for ARK: Aquatica to come very soon. Tek Engram list will come with this update.

• More game engine fixes to be able to load more mods without an updated devkit

• Finalizing fixes for dino/ships/cryopod issues when logging off

• Investigating server cluster transfer issues

• Continued FPS / Level optimization

• Updated DevKit

• Continuing to address areas where players are falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Hydrosphere issues

• Infected barnacle bugs

• Continuing dino spawner updates

• Linux binaries missing

• Vehicle updates in general (rafts/motorboats and stinger issues)

• Ocean platforms placement issue

• Settings resetting with each patch update

• Explorer Notes location update

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will be doing his last stream of this week TODAY, with more streams to come in the future!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

• Another wave of FPS / Level Optimization solutions. 

• Addressing players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava.

• Initial fix for issue with dinos/ships disappearing. This is still a work in progress.

• Vulcanite updates; including the ability to ride tamed Vulcanites.

• Dino overspawning fix for a specific section of the level.

• Boss Dossiers now found in the Guardian category.

• Patch versioning.

• Adding Tek Armor and Tek Turret + other select tek engrams, more information on this soon

• Investigating server cluster transfer issues

• Continued FPS / Level optimization

• Updated DevKit

• Continuing to address areas where players are falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Hydrosphere issues

• Infected barnacle bugs

• Continued dino spawner updates

• Linux binaries missing

• Vehicle updates in general (rafts/motorboats and stinger issues)

• Ocean platforms placement issue

• Settings resetting with each patch update

• Explorer Notes location update

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will continue to stream live throughout the week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

In the meantime, the ‘preaquatica’ branch will remain available.

• Game engine issues are actively being tested for release.

• Issue with dinos/ships disappearing and cryopod bug under investigation.

• Addressing areas where players fall off the map when crossing big pools of lava.

• More solutions for FPS / Level Optimization are a work in progress.

• Vulcanite Updates

• Dino Spawner Updates

• Beginning of Patch versioning

• Boss battle music fix

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Infection loop bugs

• Hydrosphere issues

• Dino spawner updates

• Linux Binaries

• Updated DevKit

• Vehicle Updates in general

  • Rafts/Motorboats

  • Stinger 

• Ocean platforms placement issue

• Investigating server transfer issues

Look forward to continued updates as the development team makes progress, we appreciate the community’s extended patience.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will continue to stream live throughout the week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes, and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

The “preaquatica” beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

• An additional game engine fix is in the works, more mod fixes are being pushed.

• Potential fix for issue with dinos/ships disappearing and cryopod bug when logging off.

• Players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava, a work in progress.

• Several FPS / Level Optimization are in progress

• Linux Binaries

• Server cluster transfers

• Addressing rending and mesh popping in the level

• Boss battle music

• Updated Devkit

• Hydrosphere Issues

• Vehicle issues (Rafts/Motorboats/Stinger issues)

• Ocean platform placement issue

• Settings resetting every update

Look forward to continued updates soon as we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will look to continue streaming live this week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

The “preaquatica” beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

• Additional Emotes

• Advanced Rafts

• ARK: Omega

• ARKomatic

• Awesome Spyglass

• Awesome Teleporters

• Capitalism Currency

• Capitalism Player Trader

• Castles, Keeps, and Forts Remastered

• Death Recovery Mod (v1.13)

• Dragons Evolved

• eco In Wonderland

• eco's RP Decor

• Human NPC's

• Immersive Taming

• Items+ Companion

• Kanga Core Library

• Kanga Culinary

• Kanga Husbandry

• Lethals Reusables

• MarniiMods: Hairstyles

• MarniiMods: Wildlife

• More Narcotics & More Tranq-Arrows Combined v3.0

• Party of Six

• Primal Fear

• Primal Fear Bosses

• RP Enhancements

• RR-MedievalRoleplayDeco

• ShapeshiftingThe Last Grapple

• Travi Transformations

• Updated DevKit

• Further FPS / Level Optimization

• Addressing rendering and mesh popping in the level

• Issue with dinos/ships disappearing and cryopod bug disappearing when logging off.

• Linux binaries

• Players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava

• Vehicle Updates to address issues with but not limited to:

  • Rafts shooting players into the air

  • Stinger issues (multiple)

• Ocean platforms not placeable

• Hydrosphere issues

• Boss battle music fix

Look forward to continued updates soon as we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

The “preaquatica” beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

• A Game engine fix is a part of today’s patch. Progress will continue to be made, some mods will be functional. This will continue to be addressed in waves. What follows is a list of mods that we have confirmed are working, we will continue to test more and more mods that have been reported via the community broken mods sheet listed here: Broken Mods

• Additional Emotes

• Advanced Rafts

• ARK: Omega

• ARKomatic

• Awesome Spyglass

• Awesome Teleporters

• Capitalism Currency

• Capitalism Player Trader

• Castles, Keeps, and Forts Remastered

• Death Recovery Mod (v1.13)

• Dragons Evolved

• eco In Wonderland

• eco's RP Decor

• Human NPC's

• Immersive Taming

• Items+ Companion

• Kanga Core Library

• Kanga Culinary

• Kanga Husbandry

• Lethals Reusables

• MarniiMods: Hairstyles

• MarniiMods: Wildlife

• More Narcotics & More Tranq-Arrows Combined v3.0

• Party of Six

• Primal Fear

• Primal Fear Bosses

• RP Enhancements

• RR-MedievalRoleplayDeco

• ShapeshiftingThe Last Grapple

• Travi Transformations

• Fixed Takifugu textures when inflated.

• Addressed a few issues causing server instability.

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Mantis Shrimp a second time while taming.

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Kathreptis a second time while taming. 

• Fixed Tridacna taming issues, should now be tamable in PvE.

• Made several improvements to the Vulcanithys boss encounter.

• Fixed Kibble Mash not being craftable in player inventory.

• Lighting Optimization and Level Streaming Optimization done to address low FPS performance.

• Note: FPS level streaming fix may cause objects/foliage to pop into view from a further distance, some mesh resources (rocks etc). This is intended to try to address the level streaming causing lower fps. This issue is a work in progress and will be optimized in future updates. Polishing render distance and popping visual issues will continue to be a priority.

• Broadcast system for this update and moving forward which will generate warnings every minute starting at 15 minutes before the server is shut down.

• Fix for mixed water/air volume on the far right side portion of the map/level that is causing swimming in the air/mobility issues.

• Patched more gaps and mesh holes across the map/level.

• There is a newly reported bug for this update where players may experience increased dinosaur spawning in single player mode. This issue will be addressed and a solution is being developed.

• Players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava.

• Tames/ships disappearing when logging off, with no tribe logs posted for said tames/ships that disappear.

• Water Vehicle Updates in general.

  • Skiffs disappearing between updates.

  • Rafts/motorboats shooting players into the air.

  • Stinger issues (placement issues, missile issues, etc.).

• Ocean platforms placement issue.

• Hydrosphere issues.

• Vulcanithys fight update.

• Addressing more gaps and mesh holes across the map/level.

• Boss battle music fix.

This update will require a minor server downtime of 1 hour to official ARK: Aquatica servers. Servers with the highest population will be prioritized. This update will be pushed starting:

8:00 PM UTC
4:00 AM CST
1:00 PM PST
4:00 PM EST

Look forward to more updates soon as we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.

We wanted to begin tonight’s post with a thank you to all community members who joined our developer live stream today. We hope to be able to continue providing updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the #「📩」support channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will look to continue streaming live this week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

• We are looking into issues that relate to shader issues built into the engine

• We have been able to identify content that was pushed to the base game that may be conflicting with mods

• Fixed Takifugu textures when inflated.

• Addressed a few issues causing server instability

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Mantis Shrimp a second time while taming.

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Kathreptis a second time while taming. 

• Fixed Tridacna taming issues, should now be tamable in PvE.

• Made several improvements to the Vulcanithys boss encounter.

• Fixed Kibble Mash not being craftable in player inventory.

• Lighting Optimization and Level Streaming Optimization done to address low FPS performance.

• Broadcast system for this update and moving forward.

  • Warnings every minute starting at 15 minutes before server shut down

• Players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava.

• Water Vehicle Updates in general.

  • Skiffs disappearing between updates.

  • Rafts/motorboats shooting players into the air.

  • Stinger issues (placement issues, missile issues, etc.).

• Ocean platforms placement issue.

• Hydrosphere issues.

• Vulcanithys fight update.

• Addressing more gaps and mesh holes across the map/level.

• Boss battle music fix.

Look forward to more updates soon as we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.

A member of the Studio Sirens Development team will be doing a live stream

• The plan for this stream is to review the updates from last week’s efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.

• The stream will go live at 2:00 PM PST, 07/21 Monday

• Stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell

Rest assured, we are working on a larger scale update for the ARK: Aquatica DLC, we hope to be able to provide a pre-patch notes announcement later today.

• We are looking into issues that relate to shader issues built into the engine

• We have been able to identify content that was pushed to the base game that may be conflicting with mods

The “preaquatica” beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

To navigate to the the “preaquatica” branch: 

• Right Click ARK: Survival Evolved in your Steam Library

• Click Properties

• Betas

• Beta participation

• Opt into "preaquatica" branch

The branch is available for clients and dedicated servers now.

Look forward to more updates soon, we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.