https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Lc5YdfAgA



Like typical Anglerfish, the Melanocetus primarily uses its bioluminescent light pods to attract smaller fish and trick them into coming close enough for it to consume the prey. This often makes wild Melanocetus itself relatively easy to spot among the briny depths. Whether its size is caused by adaptation to the island's other inhabitants, or by cross-breeding with another larger species, Melanocetus Anglerpescum is one of the largest form of Anglerfish. Additionally, a tamed Anglerfish can use the natural light at the end of its stalks to illuminate the depths for safe exploration, and the luminescent nodules can be harvested to create long-lasting fuel and organic light emplacements for surface homes, too.



The Kairuku Waitaki, on the other hand, is an amazingly docile and friendly creature. Kairuku are useless in a fight, but they nonetheless are tamed for their cuteness and friendly nature, kind of like a pet, and the incidentally cool fact that their bodies run extremely hot. Survival Tip! Standing near Kairuku can help keep a survivor warm through long, harsh nights on the icebergs.

The Kairuku’s only defensive trait: Suspended in Kairuku’s blubber are small, dense particles that act as a light form of armor. Adding to Kairuku's problems, a clever survivor discovered that refining Kairuku blubber can yield a natural form of the same polymer used in advanced tribes' manufacturing processes. This has caused many tribes to hunt Kairuku extensively, especially the blubber-rich infants, a practice colloquially known as "Kairu Clubbing."

Furthermore, in this update, the new “Tribal Warfare Alliance” system allows Tribes to formally declare war against each other for specific mutually agreed-upon timeframes, encouraging large-scale set player-vs-player confrontations rather than offline raiding! Survivors will also find a realistic Creature "Fur" pass, primitive siege Catapult and a modern-tier Gatling Gun Turret to defend their homes with!


For those of you who have yet to visit the island, you can start your epic adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved during our limited-time sale through now until the 16th of November on Steam for $19.99! That’s a 33% discount off the regular game!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Lc5YdfAgA



Like typical Anglerfish, the Melanocetus primarily uses its bioluminescent light pods to attract smaller fish and trick them into coming close enough for it to consume the prey. This often makes wild Melanocetus itself relatively easy to spot among the briny depths. Whether its size is caused by adaptation to the island's other inhabitants, or by cross-breeding with another larger species, Melanocetus Anglerpescum is one of the largest form of Anglerfish. Additionally, a tamed Anglerfish can use the natural light at the end of its stalks to illuminate the depths for safe exploration, and the luminescent nodules can be harvested to create long-lasting fuel and organic light emplacements for surface homes, too.



The Kairuku Waitaki, on the other hand, is an amazingly docile and friendly creature. Kairuku are useless in a fight, but they nonetheless are tamed for their cuteness and friendly nature, kind of like a pet, and the incidentally cool fact that their bodies run extremely hot. Survival Tip! Standing near Kairuku can help keep a survivor warm through long, harsh nights on the icebergs.

The Kairuku’s only defensive trait: Suspended in Kairuku’s blubber are small, dense particles that act as a light form of armor. Adding to Kairuku's problems, a clever survivor discovered that refining Kairuku blubber can yield a natural form of the same polymer used in advanced tribes' manufacturing processes. This has caused many tribes to hunt Kairuku extensively, especially the blubber-rich infants, a practice colloquially known as "Kairu Clubbing."

Furthermore, in this update, the new “Tribal Warfare Alliance” system allows Tribes to formally declare war against each other for specific mutually agreed-upon timeframes, encouraging large-scale set player-vs-player confrontations rather than offline raiding! Survivors will also find a realistic Creature "Fur" pass, primitive siege Catapult and a modern-tier Gatling Gun Turret to defend their homes with!


For those of you who have yet to visit the island, you can start your epic adventure with ARK: Survival Evolved during our limited-time sale through now until the 16th of November on Steam for $19.99! That’s a 33% discount off the regular game!

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favorite intelligent pack hunter, the Troodon!

Hey Survivors!

What an intense several weeks it has been! We’ve all been through a rollercoaster of emotions over the Survival of the Fittest: The Last Stand series, with a ton of fights, tears, tames, deaths and an outrageous number of poo-flinging monkeys!

For those of you who didn’t have a chance to catch The Last Stand: Final Round - you can watch the full VOD here; or check out your favourite streamers most recent broadcasts, as they may have casted their POV!

Without further ado, we’re proud to announce the end of the Last Stand series and winners of the last championship, The Last Stand: Final Round! So let’s congratulate our winners and all of the contestants for putting up a very great competitive showing!



And let’s not forget the other rounds that took place! There were many survivors who invested a lot of time and energy into playing these high-stress, high-value, high-pressure games. Here are our victors throughout the tournament!





Now don’t sweat, we’ve still got loads planned for Survival of the Fittest! We’re picking up a core-development team to focus solely on this mode, so they can expand it and take it to the level that it needs to be! And we aren’t finished yet for this year, we’re planning something huge and special for around Christmas, unlike any match that has come before - so stay tuned!




Incredible -- the only word which can justify what happened! Following the SoTF Tournament, we went live with our marathon ExtraLife stream with our excellent hosts, CannibalQueen2107 aka Erin and Forest Rapczak! In 24 hours, the wonderful ARK: Survival Evolved community donated over $23,500 for the keeedzz! Every ARK Survivor should be very proud, congratulations :)

There was a ton of fun with a number of games including; "Tennis Ball Headsock Challenge w/ ARK Cosplayers", "Narcoberry Eating Contest", "Wild West Nerf Gun Duel", "Red Bull Flip Cup", "Chubby Bunny", "T-Rex Arms Cup Stacking", as well a lot of sneak-peeks and teasers for upcoming ARK content! Not to forget all the lovely streamers, their teams, and donators who participated on a 24/7 PvP server, playing with us and keeping everyone entertained!

If you didn’t tune into the marathon, but want to catch the vods you can do so here!

ExtraLife Part 1
ExtraLife Part 2

And it’s still not too late to offer some support for ExtraLife! If you’d like to donate to the cause, just click here and follow the steps!

Thank you everyone for tuning into the stream and for all the support you’ve shown so far! We truly appreciate it and we’re so grateful for having such a caring community!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team

#FORTHEKEEEDZZ

Hey Survivors!

What an intense several weeks it has been! We’ve all been through a rollercoaster of emotions over the Survival of the Fittest: The Last Stand series, with a ton of fights, tears, tames, deaths and an outrageous number of poo-flinging monkeys!

For those of you who didn’t have a chance to catch The Last Stand: Final Round - you can watch the full VOD here; or check out your favourite streamers most recent broadcasts, as they may have casted their POV!

Without further ado, we’re proud to announce the end of the Last Stand series and winners of the last championship, The Last Stand: Final Round! So let’s congratulate our winners and all of the contestants for putting up a very great competitive showing!



And let’s not forget the other rounds that took place! There were many survivors who invested a lot of time and energy into playing these high-stress, high-value, high-pressure games. Here are our victors throughout the tournament!





Now don’t sweat, we’ve still got loads planned for Survival of the Fittest! We’re picking up a core-development team to focus solely on this mode, so they can expand it and take it to the level that it needs to be! And we aren’t finished yet for this year, we’re planning something huge and special for around Christmas, unlike any match that has come before - so stay tuned!




Incredible -- the only word which can justify what happened! Following the SoTF Tournament, we went live with our marathon ExtraLife stream with our excellent hosts, CannibalQueen2107 aka Erin and Forest Rapczak! In 24 hours, the wonderful ARK: Survival Evolved community donated over $23,500 for the keeedzz! Every ARK Survivor should be very proud, congratulations :)

There was a ton of fun with a number of games including; "Tennis Ball Headsock Challenge w/ ARK Cosplayers", "Narcoberry Eating Contest", "Wild West Nerf Gun Duel", "Red Bull Flip Cup", "Chubby Bunny", "T-Rex Arms Cup Stacking", as well a lot of sneak-peeks and teasers for upcoming ARK content! Not to forget all the lovely streamers, their teams, and donators who participated on a 24/7 PvP server, playing with us and keeping everyone entertained!

If you didn’t tune into the marathon, but want to catch the vods you can do so here!

ExtraLife Part 1
ExtraLife Part 2

And it’s still not too late to offer some support for ExtraLife! If you’d like to donate to the cause, just click here and follow the steps!

Thank you everyone for tuning into the stream and for all the support you’ve shown so far! We truly appreciate it and we’re so grateful for having such a caring community!

All the best,

Wildcard Jat & The ARK Survival Evolved Team

#FORTHEKEEEDZZ

Hello Survivors!

It’s been quite a few months since we first announced the Alienware Modding Contest! The submission period has now ended and there have been a number of fantastic submissions for the contest, we’ve been thoroughly impressed with what we’ve seen for such a short period of time, especially considering how relatively new the game and the ADK is itself! So congratulation to all those who’ve entered.

Alienware Modding Contest

The Voting period is now open! Public Voting will take place from November the 4th 12:00 PDT through November 17 11:59PM PDT. Scroll over the Mod screenshot images and select “like” to cast your vote for the entries that best meet the contest objective!

Judging

The contest objective was to make use of our Dev Tools to create a mod that best meets the following criteria:

Originality / creativity
Does the Entry look and sound engaging
Does it look like it would be fun to play?

We would also like to extend our apology to a lot of you workshoppers who were unable to enter the contest due to region restrictions. We appreciate all the work you guys put into developing your mods and there’s a lot of fantastic ones out there that weren’t able to be show-cased. For future competitions and events, we’ll ensure that everyone around the world will be able to participate!

You can check out the mega-thread to see all the submissions.




This week we’ve combined the Community Crunch and ARK Digest into a mega-thread again, you can check it out here!

Hello Survivors!

It’s been quite a few months since we first announced the Alienware Modding Contest! The submission period has now ended and there have been a number of fantastic submissions for the contest, we’ve been thoroughly impressed with what we’ve seen for such a short period of time, especially considering how relatively new the game and the ADK is itself! So congratulation to all those who’ve entered.

Alienware Modding Contest

The Voting period is now open! Public Voting will take place from November the 4th 12:00 PDT through November 17 11:59PM PDT. Scroll over the Mod screenshot images and select “like” to cast your vote for the entries that best meet the contest objective!

Judging

The contest objective was to make use of our Dev Tools to create a mod that best meets the following criteria:

Originality / creativity
Does the Entry look and sound engaging
Does it look like it would be fun to play?

We would also like to extend our apology to a lot of you workshoppers who were unable to enter the contest due to region restrictions. We appreciate all the work you guys put into developing your mods and there’s a lot of fantastic ones out there that weren’t able to be show-cased. For future competitions and events, we’ll ensure that everyone around the world will be able to participate!

You can check out the mega-thread to see all the submissions.




This week we’ve combined the Community Crunch and ARK Digest into a mega-thread again, you can check it out here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrt21WitQBc

While greater in size than most large predators, the Giganotosaurus is sometimes less dangerous when encountered in the wild, due to its sluggish speed. Even still, getting trapped or chased down by a Giganotosaurus often means certain death for nearly any creature.

Taming a Giganotosaurus is a dangerous prospect. Its rage reaction, even when tamed, can sometimes cause it to briefly turn on members of its own tribe. Indeed it may even throw off its rider if it has been sufficiently angered! And yet, the sheer size and immense power that the Giganotosaurus possesses means that some factions endeavor to tame it as a fear-inducing "capital" beast of war -- even at great risk!

Fighting a Giganotosaurus directly is always a bad idea, as its rage rapidly grows with every hit it takes. With this rage, it builds increasing reserves of energy to use, making its iron-jawed bites progressively more deadly and enhancing its stamina.