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From Tuesday, November 23rd through Tuesday, December 7th jump into a large-scale scavenger to hunt and carve up rare “Super-Turkeys” that have been unleashed across the ARK for Turkey Trial 5!

By harvesting Super Turkey Wishbones from these ruthless, genetically-modified creatures, you can craft their very own fashionable Turkey Costume, Ugly Sweater skins, or choose to summon the devastating DodoRex creature to do your bidding for a limited period of time.


This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=TurkeyTrial

Dates
November 23th to December 7th

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), 0.6x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.6x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.6x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.6x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

• Super Turkeys (Untamable creature)
  
• DodoRex (Craftable Temporary Tame)

• Turkey Costume *NEW*
  
• 3 Ugly Sweater Skins *NEW*
  
• Bonnet Hat Skin
  
• Chieftan Hat Skin
  
• Dodo Pie Swim Bottom Skin
  
• Dodo Pie Swim Top Skin
  
• Dodorex Swim Bottom Skin
  
• Dodorex Swim Top Skin
  
• Dodorex-Print Shirt Skin
  
• Meat Swim Bottom Skin
  
• Meat Swim Top Skin
  
• Murder Turkey Swim Bottom Skin
  
• Murder Turkey Swim Top Skin
  
• Murder-Turkey-Print Shirt Skin
  
• Pilgrim Hat Skin
  
• Pitchfork Skin
  
• Turkey Hat Skin
  
• Turkey Leg Skin
  
• Turkey Swim Bottom Skin
  
• Turkey Swim Top Skin
  
• Ugly Cornucopia Sweater Skin
  
• Ugly Trike Sweater Skin

(acquired via killing Super Turkey's for Wishbones)

• Deinonychus Chibi *NEW*
  
• Kaprosuchus Chibi *NEW*
  
• Onyc Chibi *NEW*
  
• Tek Raptor Chibi *NEW*
  
• Gigantopithecus Chieftain Chibi *NEW*

• Wishbones (acquired from killing Super Turkey's)
  
• Thanksgiving Dino Candy

• Orange
  
• Medium Autumn
  
• Light Autumn
  
• Burnt Sienna
  
• Brown
  
• Light Brown
  
• Dark Magenta
  
• Dark Violet
  
• Vermillion
  
• Red
  
• Dark Red
  
• Dino Dark Red
  
• Midnight Blue
  
• Black Sands
  
• Dark Blue
  
• Near Black
  
• Black
  
• Dino Darker Grey
  
• Dino Albino

There will be an upcoming EVO event as part of Turkey Trial 5.




Creator: SINZAH
SINZAH is back with another exciting solo raid video!


Creator: Sypher Sam
Sypher Sam constructs the infamous Forerunner structure from Halo.



(OC) Sketch dump Saron and her pets by Escapado-draw


King Titan by ArtofEliza


What a boring day part 2 by Suricato forzuto#0596


Untitled by Larry-The-Lombax#4466


DodoRex by @N_si_93


Undead Spinosaurus by Whitesekhmet




@VenoEdit (3D Render)


RazerBandit#0770




El Shu


Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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It's been another amazing year taking part in ExtraLife and raising money for kids in need! During our annual 24-hour ExtraLife stream, the ARK Community raised a staggering $184,502! The ARK community helped us reach new records this year. The Studio Wildcard team was the #1 team for most of Game Day and the highest we've ever been before (previously #3)! Additionally, we reached #2 on individual fundraising setting a new record for individual donations!

This seventh year of participating in GameDay with ExtraLife puts us well over $400K raised and we couldn't have done it without the ARK community! We are grateful for our generous, supportive players, partners & sponsors, & the opportunity to help facilitate this endeavor. Here's a recap of everything you may have missed during the 24-hour event!

• AMD
  
• Nvidia GeForce
  
• Blue (Yeti)
  
• Corsair
  
• Elgato
  
• Xbox
  
• Discord
  
• Nitrado
  
• Grove Street Games

If you've won one of these amazing giveaways, please be patient! We'll be in touch over the coming days!

• Syntac
  
• ARK Charity giveaway
  
• Phlinger Phoo
  
• RoyaleWithCheese
  
• Raasclark & Aaron Longstaff
  
• Belle
  
• Shockist
  
• TELMO SAMPAIO
  
• Ryan Chavez
  
• Elite ARK
  
• MIO ARK
  
• NeddyTheNoodle
  
• View Full Team Roster

The Lost Island free DLC map will be released on all platforms on December 14th, 2021! Take a look at this Amargasaurus, Dinopithecus, and Sinomacrops spotlight we showed during the stream!



Fjordur is a Nordic-inspired mod community map that will be coming to all platforms as free DLC in June 2022!








Andrewsarchus is one of the 3 creatures that will be released with Fjordur. Want a chance in picking one of the other ones? Check out our Creature Submission Forum for details on how to submit an entry!


Kicking off the stream, we have a chat with a representative from the UF Health Shands Children Hospital about where the proceeds go.
Interview with Representative from UF Health Shands Children's Hospital


Cedric and Zane stop to chat with a representative from ExtraLife.
Interview with ExtraLife


Alex Laurant, the Art Director for ARK 2, sits down with Cedric and Zane for a chat.
interview with Alex Laurant


Jesse and Gareth have an in-depth talk about ARK music composition and community favorites.
Interview with Jesse and Gareth

Here's a sneak preview from the 7 hours of original Gareth Coker music found in the ARK The Animated Series:
https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-wildcard/ark-the-animated-series-music-by-gareth-coker


Jesse interviews Clayton D'Mello, an artist on the Studio Wildcard team.
Interview with Clayton D'Mello and Jesse

Clayton was given a unique challenge when Twitch chat was given the opportunity to direct Clayton's next creature design. The chat was given options and Clayton drew live on stream!


Clayton Draws Pt 1


Clayton Draws Pt. 2


Zane demos an early build of Lost Island on the Steam Deck
Steam Deck and Proton

ARK: Survival Evolved is fully functional on Steam Proton, which means it'll work right out of the box if you're lucky enough to get your hands on a Steam Deck! It fully supports the expansions packs, free maps, and mods. As of this week, we've also got it working with BattlEye which means you'll be able to play on Official Servers or other BattlEye supported servers.

Linux players can also get their hands on the Proton version by downloading the Steam Beta client and in ARK's steam game properties, make sure you've enabled "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", this will enable the use of Proton. In the future we'll be moving Proton to the default version of the Steam Game for Linux players, however, we'll continue to support the native version which will be required for older hardware as Proton requirements are higher. At that time we'll provide further instructions on how you can switch to the native version, but for now it won't be necessary.

Thank you for helping us reach our goals and supporting a great cause!

The Studio Wildcard Team

We are going live from our Seattle Studio tomorrow at 10AM Pacific to bring 24 hours of entertainment, giveaways, Collector’s Edition boxes, game keys, and much more! You don't want to miss out because we will be sharing juicy ARK details and teasers.

If you are interested in donating or joining the team to raise donations, click on the button below! All donations go to the Extra Life organization and contribute to raising the Official Network rates!

• 3X Ryzen 7 5800X processors
  
• 3X MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi
  
• 3X Radeon RX 6800 XT MBA graphics cards
  
• MSI Alpha 17 laptop
  
• Nvidia GEFORCE RTX 3080
  
• 5X Yeti Nano
  
• 3X Yeti Blackout
  
• 2X Yeti X
  
• 2X K100 Corsair Keyboard
  
• 2X Dark Core Pro Gaming Mouse
  
• 2X Virtuoso Carbon Headset
  
• 2X MM700 RGB Mousepad
  
• Yeti Caster
  
• Elgato Stream Deck XL
  
• Elgato Face Cam
  
• Elgato Wave 3 Mic
  
• 2X Xbox Series X
  
• 3X Xbox Series S
  
• Xbox accessories and controllers
  
• Codes for ARK Mobile, Discord Nitro, Nitrado Servers, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

As we reach various donation goals, we will increase the Official Server Network rates. If you're an ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile survivor, you're in luck! Our friends over at Grove Street Games will be matching our final rates for at least 24 hours at the close of our stream at 9am PST on Sunday, November 7th.

As we reach the specified donation goals marked below, rates will be updated on all Official ARK servers. Please note: The rates may take up to 15 minutes to be reflected on your server.

Be sure to keep an eye on our ExtraLife 2021 page to see current donation totals and Official Server rates!





Feel free to hop into our Discord or Twitch channel during the stream to hang out! We're looking forward to putting on an epic charitable cause tomorrow!

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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!


The Studio Wildcard team wants to wish you a very happy Halloween!

Our 24-hour charity stream for ExtraLife is right around the corner. On November 6th, 10 am Pacific, we'll be kicking off our 7th ExtraLife stream on http://twitch.tv/survivetheark from our Seattle headquarters. For 24 hours we'll be teasing you with ARK info, playing games, but most importantly raising money for kids in need.

Stop by and have a chance at winning some amazing giveaways from sponsors like Blue microphone or special limited-edition ARK merch!

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, a list of sponsors, and details on boosted Official Network rates next week!



Fear Evolved 5 is live from October 26th to November 9th with the following perks:

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
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus

Creator: Raasclark
What's your favorite ARK soundtrack? Even Gareth Coker himself has taken an interest in Raasclark's latest video!


Creator: Clamen
Check out this recent video from Clamen where he goes on attack against three different tribes.



Dinotober Day 25: Ark Giganotosaurus by LionsAngel22


Ark Halloween Implant by Allenolantern


Fear Evolved by @kawarayane


Lightning Wyvern from ARK by Ангел Хаоса


ZOMKIBBY by @NeoVanilluxe


Noglin by @J0vando



@Nekatus


ZuzKrr


@DreadTamer


Have a great Halloween!
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👻 🦇 💀

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
  
• Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
  
• Conquest: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x 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!


Creator: nakedzombo
Taking on the ever so popular TV series, nakedzombo puts on an episode of The Squid Games, but in ARK!




Firelight by Archipelagornis


Ice Titan by @kawarayane


First Rock Drake by @sis_6193


The DodoRex by @Snudoo1


Untitled by @eAV25EGDmWnbjXu


Quick Kitty Doodle by @ChloeFr73367791




Rarvynth#7106


@_Jukari101_


ZuzKrr


See you next week!
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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!


Creator: Flipsider Entertainment
Getting a little tired of your setup? Take a look at an episode of Extreme Home Makeovers: ARK Edition!



Allosaurio by Pacadian


ARK Experience in Nutshell by LastKrystalDragon


Tyrannosaurus by _morena_goddes_


Untitled by DiscountWendigo#5827


My Best Mana Art by Zock#4258


Best kitty of the ARK! by @Alvozath


Untitled by @VELUKO1



@BlueDragonARK


@EgoSilentium


BaldisBasics201#4735


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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?

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!


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!




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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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


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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


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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


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