Hello Survivors!

We are very excited to share a titanic amount of news with you! Today at E3 with PC Gamer, we were able to reveal some of the upcoming updates coming to the ARK! First of all, let’s begin with what you’re all curious to hear about, our new gamemode…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dha-P6U6lxY

ARK: Primal Survival is an upcoming Total Conversion where survivors will be able to play, live, and breed as any of the ARK’s creatures! Survivors will experience full survival mechanics and lifecycles, including mating, growing, recruiting more creatures to your ‘pack,’ even constructing primitive dens.

Playing Primal Survival will allow survivors to experience;



Live life as a Raptor, communicate and coordinate tactical attacks on other species.



Spend your nights creepily crawling around the caves as the Araneo, catching your victims with your web spinning ability and spraying them paralyzing venom, while laying eggs to expand your brood!



Cuddle up with your cubs and forget about your worries and your strife whilst you spend the day fishing, wandering and roaming the land with your sleuth!

Work together as one to execute strategic attacks alongside your pack to chase and takedown prey! Train and protect your young through the harsh winters so that they are ready to join the hunt by the time they are full grown adults.



Experience the ARK through the eyes of a Titanomyrma, building a thriving colony centered around ‘ant hills’, and survive against the elements and the dangers that the island brings!

Furthermore the new functionality associated with this Primal Survival mode will also enable mod creators to build much more intricate mods involving playing as these various creatures and detailing their lifecycles & survival mechanics, with new capabilities for creating asymmetric gameplay modes. ;)!

🐾


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv23Mqknw0Y



Releasing June 22 on Steam via the v243 update, and shortly thereafter on Xbox One, The Redwood Biome is an all-new biome filled with lush, giant trees sturdy enough in which to build treehouses and villages.



Harvest lumber from these gigantic arbors to create your fortress super high up in the air, providing a safer place to to build a village as well as providing height advantage for a superb tactical defense stance, or tap into the massive redwoods to extract their sap for healthy concoctions.



Also making its debut in ARK v243, the extremely rare Titanosaur (Titanosaurus Vagacastrum) is the largest creature found on ARK island, operating for many players as a mobile superfortress capable of ferrying obscene amounts of weight, structures, defenses and creatures upon its back.



Essentially a walking mountain, this herbivore often crushes creatures and buildings within its path and takes issue with any creature invading his personal space.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHdAebezB98

The second official mod, Primitive+, will launch directly within ARK: Survival Evolved on Thursday, July 28 for both PC and Xbox One players!



Primitive+ explores the idea of what life may be like with common-day knowledge and resources provided by the land. It incorporates primitive tools and techniques that are still being used by indigenous tribes around the world today!

Players are challenged to use primarily wood and stone without the benefit of advanced metals. A whole new set of items and detailed new mechanics focus the player on 'primitive' survival, which fits snugly in the world of ARK. Primitive+ will be playable as a functionality mod on all official ARK maps.

The mod will include;

• Over 100 primitive-themed structures
  
• 3 ancient building tiers (adobe, lumber, brick & cement)
  
• Diverse resource system - live off the land with 40 different resources
  
• Primitive trapping system (deadfall trap / fishing traps)
  
• Advanced farming - 10 historic crops and resources (Wheat, Barley, Coffee, Tea, etc)
  
• 11 iconic weapons (Flintlock pistol, Musket, Viking Axe, Battleaxe, etc)
  
• 60 types of food recipes to craft
  
• Enhanced role-playing experience (market stalls for trading, meals, etc)

With even more update and features to come!

We hope you guys are excited for today’s announcements just as much as we are! And don’t worry, we’ve still got loads more exciting developments coming up this year, and we’re excited to continuing to work with you to create ARK: Survival Evolved and its many extended features!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat & the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

Hello Survivors!

We are very excited to share a titanic amount of news with you! Today at E3 with PC Gamer, we were able to reveal some of the upcoming updates coming to the ARK! First of all, let’s begin with what you’re all curious to hear about, our new gamemode…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dha-P6U6lxY

ARK: Primal Survival is an upcoming Total Conversion where survivors will be able to play, live, and breed as any of the ARK’s creatures! Survivors will experience full survival mechanics and lifecycles, including mating, growing, recruiting more creatures to your ‘pack,’ even constructing primitive dens.

Playing Primal Survival will allow survivors to experience;



Live life as a Raptor, communicate and coordinate tactical attacks on other species.



Spend your nights creepily crawling around the caves as the Araneo, catching your victims with your web spinning ability and spraying them paralyzing venom, while laying eggs to expand your brood!



Cuddle up with your cubs and forget about your worries and your strife whilst you spend the day fishing, wandering and roaming the land with your sleuth!

Work together as one to execute strategic attacks alongside your pack to chase and takedown prey! Train and protect your young through the harsh winters so that they are ready to join the hunt by the time they are full grown adults.



Experience the ARK through the eyes of a Titanomyrma, building a thriving colony centered around ‘ant hills’, and survive against the elements and the dangers that the island brings!

Furthermore the new functionality associated with this Primal Survival mode will also enable mod creators to build much more intricate mods involving playing as these various creatures and detailing their lifecycles & survival mechanics, with new capabilities for creating asymmetric gameplay modes. ;)!

🐾


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv23Mqknw0Y



Releasing June 22 on Steam via the v243 update, and shortly thereafter on Xbox One, The Redwood Biome is an all-new biome filled with lush, giant trees sturdy enough in which to build treehouses and villages.



Harvest lumber from these gigantic arbors to create your fortress super high up in the air, providing a safer place to to build a village as well as providing height advantage for a superb tactical defense stance, or tap into the massive redwoods to extract their sap for healthy concoctions.



Also making its debut in ARK v243, the extremely rare Titanosaur (Titanosaurus Vagacastrum) is the largest creature found on ARK island, operating for many players as a mobile superfortress capable of ferrying obscene amounts of weight, structures, defenses and creatures upon its back.



Essentially a walking mountain, this herbivore often crushes creatures and buildings within its path and takes issue with any creature invading his personal space.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHdAebezB98

The second official mod, Primitive+, will launch directly within ARK: Survival Evolved on Thursday, July 28 for both PC and Xbox One players!



Primitive+ explores the idea of what life may be like with common-day knowledge and resources provided by the land. It incorporates primitive tools and techniques that are still being used by indigenous tribes around the world today!

Players are challenged to use primarily wood and stone without the benefit of advanced metals. A whole new set of items and detailed new mechanics focus the player on 'primitive' survival, which fits snugly in the world of ARK. Primitive+ will be playable as a functionality mod on all official ARK maps.

The mod will include;

• Over 100 primitive-themed structures
  
• 3 ancient building tiers (adobe, lumber, brick & cement)
  
• Diverse resource system - live off the land with 40 different resources
  
• Primitive trapping system (deadfall trap / fishing traps)
  
• Advanced farming - 10 historic crops and resources (Wheat, Barley, Coffee, Tea, etc)
  
• 11 iconic weapons (Flintlock pistol, Musket, Viking Axe, Battleaxe, etc)
  
• 60 types of food recipes to craft
  
• Enhanced role-playing experience (market stalls for trading, meals, etc)

With even more update and features to come!

We hope you guys are excited for today’s announcements just as much as we are! And don’t worry, we’ve still got loads more exciting developments coming up this year, and we’re excited to continuing to work with you to create ARK: Survival Evolved and its many extended features!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat & the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

Hello Survivors!

Got some very exciting news to share with you. On Monday the 13th of June, we will be revealing some very awesome updates about ARK! You'll be able to tune in and catch all the details at the E3 PC Gamer Show.

The show starts at 11:30AM PST and all will be revealed then! For those of you who won't be at the show, don't worry as PCGamer will be streaming it live across multiple platforms! You can check it out on their twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer or for other places, check out: http://www.pcgamingshow.com/

Hope you guys tune in and enjoy the show!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team.

Hello Survivors!

Got some very exciting news to share with you. On Monday the 13th of June, we will be revealing some very awesome updates about ARK! You'll be able to tune in and catch all the details at the E3 PC Gamer Show.

The show starts at 11:30AM PST and all will be revealed then! For those of you who won't be at the show, don't worry as PCGamer will be streaming it live across multiple platforms! You can check it out on their twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer or for other places, check out: http://www.pcgamingshow.com/

Hope you guys tune in and enjoy the show!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team.

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favourite tactical terror of the sky, the Tapejara!

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favourite tactical terror of the sky, the Tapejara!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCptFi1elDQ

Exciting news Survivors! The Dragon makes its debut in ARK: Survival Evolved on it’s Birthday Week as players can now face off the mighty beast and it's fearsome flyer minions in their epic treacherous volcanic lair! Patch 242 also introduces additional tribe member settings, a training dummy, diseases and cures, interactive baby raising, two new creatures, the Dilplodocus, the Leech and so much more!



On Thursday, the 2nd of June, ARK: Survival Evolved will officially turn One Year Old! Exciting right?! Already a year has gone by and we’d like to celebrate that with you by running a special one-week “ARK Birthday Event” where players can find Candles from Supply crates to craft ARK Birthday Cakes! When each candle is blown out, a special message to the players occur and exclusive items are gifted, including: Player and Dino Party Hats, Fun “Birthday Suits” (censor-pixelization of course ;)), and finally, as everyone knows there’s no party without a cake - a giant ARK Anniversary Birthday Cake which can be consumed for a major XP Buff!



Despite being one of the island’s larger creatures, Diplodocus Insulaprincep is among the Island’s smaller sauropods which allow it to offer maximum speed and greater endurance compared to its giant brethren!



After taming, many tribes equip the beast with a large saddle which allows the Diplodocus to carry as many as 10 passengers! These passengers often use ranged weapons to protect the creature and attack nearby enemies while on the move.



Diplodocus has shown to be a strange creature due to it’s overly trusting nature, which has proven to be quite detrimental to its life. It usually doesn’t flee from predators until after they’ve attacked it repeatedly, preferring instead to make numerous fruitless attempts at friendship. For some strange reason, Diplodocus trust humans so much that it doesn’t seem to fight back against them, ever!



The Leech is one of the more detestable creatures of the island. The disease-carrying blood-sucker, Haementeria Iaetus has practically no intelligence, and merely attaches to any nearby living flesh in an attempt to drain that creature’s blood. Not tamable, the Leech does not provide much of a resource for any tribe, though some have been known to keep them around in order to create antidotes: When process carefully, Haementaria venom can be made into powerful anti-venom!



Removing Haementeria requires precision bladework, or access to an open flame! Both can be nearly as dangerous to the host as to the leech itself. Once the Leech attaches to a host, its drain blood at a rapid pace, and the host will suffer from hunger, loss of health and reduced stamina. Some Haementeria are also carriers for a dangerous disease known as ‘Swamp Fever’, which persists permanently beyond the Leech’s own lifespan.

Alongside the special event and the new creatures, players will be able to take advantage of the new structure: Training Dummy which will display floating Damage Per Second values indicating how strong each dino attack actually is, while the new mechanic, Permanent Diseases & Cures, will enable players to deliberately infect Dodos to use them as Disease Vectors! If you get a permanent disease, it persists even beyond respawn and you will need to cure it with an antidote using the blood of the leeches!

• Dragon Arena & Dragon Boss Fight
  
• Breeding Mechanics Phase 2: Interactive Baby Raising (cuddle with your dino babies, pet, walk, and hand-feed them for extra benefits and greater affinity for whoever raised them once they grow up!)
  
• Optional RPG Stat Mode: Displays floating in-world damage numbers for all Player-Related Damage Events.
  
• Added 'Follow Range' (Low/Medium/Far) Setting Per Tamed Dino
  
• Added option for PvE Servers to disable building around critical resource node regions
  
• Added server option to override per-Item Crafting costs
  
• Added server option to override the loot tables for each kind of supply crate
  
• Added server option to limit number of members in Tribes. Default: no limit.
  
• Multi-Seat Saddles (Galli, Diplodocus, etc). Dinos now have an option to enable public seating. Dino Taxi service, ahoy!
  
• Servers can now optionally enable an "offline raiding prevention" mode which will make Dinos/Structures invincible if no owner is logged-in (indicated via the head whether the owner player/tribe is logged-in or not). Recommend that server owners utilize this with care, as it may have undesired side effects in a competitive environment
  
• Tribe Groups Phase 2: Support for Limited Non-Admin Invites and promotions/demotions per group! Also "Prevent Dino Unclaiming" checkbox, and other new per-rank options
  
• Added Alpha Mosasaurus (contains lots of Black Pearls)
  
• Alpha creatures XP reduced by 45%
  
• Auto-Turrets can no longer be built on Quetz/Sauro/Mosa/Plesi/Paracer platforms (Plant turrets can't be grown on them). Any existing turrets on such platforms will no longer fire. Otherwise they're now only allowed on Rafts and non-moving Bases.
  
• Plant Turrets now consume Fertilizer per shot, and also will not shoot if no water is in the crop plot.
  
• Approximate +100% increase to Sauropod and Paraceratherium respective Weight stats.

So it’s a big one guys! We hope you have a fantastic time with the update and enjoy the special event, we are so grateful for all the support you show us and hopefully we’ll be able to celebrate many more special occasions together, in our Birthday Suits! ;)



All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCptFi1elDQ

Exciting news Survivors! The Dragon makes its debut in ARK: Survival Evolved on it’s Birthday Week as players can now face off the mighty beast and it's fearsome flyer minions in their epic treacherous volcanic lair! Patch 242 also introduces additional tribe member settings, a training dummy, diseases and cures, interactive baby raising, two new creatures, the Dilplodocus, the Leech and so much more!



On Thursday, the 2nd of June, ARK: Survival Evolved will officially turn One Year Old! Exciting right?! Already a year has gone by and we’d like to celebrate that with you by running a special one-week “ARK Birthday Event” where players can find Candles from Supply crates to craft ARK Birthday Cakes! When each candle is blown out, a special message to the players occur and exclusive items are gifted, including: Player and Dino Party Hats, Fun “Birthday Suits” (censor-pixelization of course ;)), and finally, as everyone knows there’s no party without a cake - a giant ARK Anniversary Birthday Cake which can be consumed for a major XP Buff!



Despite being one of the island’s larger creatures, Diplodocus Insulaprincep is among the Island’s smaller sauropods which allow it to offer maximum speed and greater endurance compared to its giant brethren!



After taming, many tribes equip the beast with a large saddle which allows the Diplodocus to carry as many as 10 passengers! These passengers often use ranged weapons to protect the creature and attack nearby enemies while on the move.



Diplodocus has shown to be a strange creature due to it’s overly trusting nature, which has proven to be quite detrimental to its life. It usually doesn’t flee from predators until after they’ve attacked it repeatedly, preferring instead to make numerous fruitless attempts at friendship. For some strange reason, Diplodocus trust humans so much that it doesn’t seem to fight back against them, ever!



The Leech is one of the more detestable creatures of the island. The disease-carrying blood-sucker, Haementeria Iaetus has practically no intelligence, and merely attaches to any nearby living flesh in an attempt to drain that creature’s blood. Not tamable, the Leech does not provide much of a resource for any tribe, though some have been known to keep them around in order to create antidotes: When process carefully, Haementaria venom can be made into powerful anti-venom!



Removing Haementeria requires precision bladework, or access to an open flame! Both can be nearly as dangerous to the host as to the leech itself. Once the Leech attaches to a host, its drain blood at a rapid pace, and the host will suffer from hunger, loss of health and reduced stamina. Some Haementeria are also carriers for a dangerous disease known as ‘Swamp Fever’, which persists permanently beyond the Leech’s own lifespan.

Alongside the special event and the new creatures, players will be able to take advantage of the new structure: Training Dummy which will display floating Damage Per Second values indicating how strong each dino attack actually is, while the new mechanic, Permanent Diseases & Cures, will enable players to deliberately infect Dodos to use them as Disease Vectors! If you get a permanent disease, it persists even beyond respawn and you will need to cure it with an antidote using the blood of the leeches!

• Dragon Arena & Dragon Boss Fight
  
• Breeding Mechanics Phase 2: Interactive Baby Raising (cuddle with your dino babies, pet, walk, and hand-feed them for extra benefits and greater affinity for whoever raised them once they grow up!)
  
• Optional RPG Stat Mode: Displays floating in-world damage numbers for all Player-Related Damage Events.
  
• Added 'Follow Range' (Low/Medium/Far) Setting Per Tamed Dino
  
• Added option for PvE Servers to disable building around critical resource node regions
  
• Added server option to override per-Item Crafting costs
  
• Added server option to override the loot tables for each kind of supply crate
  
• Added server option to limit number of members in Tribes. Default: no limit.
  
• Multi-Seat Saddles (Galli, Diplodocus, etc). Dinos now have an option to enable public seating. Dino Taxi service, ahoy!
  
• Servers can now optionally enable an "offline raiding prevention" mode which will make Dinos/Structures invincible if no owner is logged-in (indicated via the head whether the owner player/tribe is logged-in or not). Recommend that server owners utilize this with care, as it may have undesired side effects in a competitive environment
  
• Tribe Groups Phase 2: Support for Limited Non-Admin Invites and promotions/demotions per group! Also "Prevent Dino Unclaiming" checkbox, and other new per-rank options
  
• Added Alpha Mosasaurus (contains lots of Black Pearls)
  
• Alpha creatures XP reduced by 45%
  
• Auto-Turrets can no longer be built on Quetz/Sauro/Mosa/Plesi/Paracer platforms (Plant turrets can't be grown on them). Any existing turrets on such platforms will no longer fire. Otherwise they're now only allowed on Rafts and non-moving Bases.
  
• Plant Turrets now consume Fertilizer per shot, and also will not shoot if no water is in the crop plot.
  
• Approximate +100% increase to Sauropod and Paraceratherium respective Weight stats.

So it’s a big one guys! We hope you have a fantastic time with the update and enjoy the special event, we are so grateful for all the support you show us and hopefully we’ll be able to celebrate many more special occasions together, in our Birthday Suits! ;)



All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favourite protean prodigious paddler, the Pelagornis!


Just an update on 242 guys! We’re still working on it, it’s a pretty large patch as you can imagine from checking out the notes, which we’re constantly updating:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/

Because of all that’s coming in, we’ll be delaying the release til Wednesday June the 1st and we have something special in store for you with:

'ARK's Awesome Anniversary' 1-week Event

Get ready to make some Birthday Wishes for some limited run items, a fun event and maybe the reappearance of everyone’s favourite DodoRex! ;)

All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favourite protean prodigious paddler, the Pelagornis!


Just an update on 242 guys! We’re still working on it, it’s a pretty large patch as you can imagine from checking out the notes, which we’re constantly updating:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/

Because of all that’s coming in, we’ll be delaying the release til Wednesday June the 1st and we have something special in store for you with:

'ARK's Awesome Anniversary' 1-week Event

Get ready to make some Birthday Wishes for some limited run items, a fun event and maybe the reappearance of everyone’s favourite DodoRex! ;)

All the best,

Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team