Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! While we continue polishing TLC 3 and addressing any live-game issues that arise, this week we will take a look at some awesome community fan art and community content.


There will be no EVO Event this week.


The Official ARK Discord is thriving with 30k users within two weeks of launch. We've recently added LFG channels at popular request.

Get into our new hub for info, updates, and news (sometimes you can talk to us there too!)

https://discord.gg/playark


Mana by @Mauve (Discord)


Water Mill and Mansion by @ThePilgrimz


Early Morning by @KO3LNHA


Reaper by @Karl (Discord)


Latest Work by @ImEnFuego


Broodmother VS Dragon by @Goyounghee (Discord)


Shinehorn by @Slimeyspore11


Castle and Castle Town by @syn_ARK


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In this edition of the Community Crunch, we’ll be giving you more details on the upcoming TLC 3 patch and taking a look at some amazing community art.


Excitement is ramping up and we're anxious to share more details on the creature improvements we've been working on. In addition to the creature upgrades we'll been sharing, there's more polish, balance, and quality of life updates in store for the upcoming TLC patch.



Recently we gave you a peek at the visual upgrades of the Woolly Mammoth but it’s abilities have also seen an upgrade. The Mammoth comes marching in with new attacks and a buff that’s enabled by war drums. We have a feeling you will like the sound of that!

War Drum Saddle and Buff

• 1 additional passenger seat on a saddle that comes equipped with a war drum that must be played to maintain an AoE buff that improves stamina regen and makes them immune to fear.

Tusk Sweep

• Sweeps tusks left or right to gather and harvest thatch

Trunk Trumpet

• Emits a trunk roar that does an AOE debuff to all enemies within range

Foot Stomp

• Mammoth rears up and then puts all of its weight into a forward “slam” with its front legs to directionally knock back enemies and gather wood

Trunk Grab

• Similar to the Karkinos’s grab, it is able to grab, hold, and release smaller targets

Primarily known as a harvester, the Stegosaurus will be seeing visual upgrades and an expanded toolset that makes it hard to resist.

Backplate Modes
Backplate passive buff and can switch between three modes. Different modes will be indicated visually

• Hardened Plated: Applies a damage reduction buff and prevents riders from being dismounted by enemies; Wood harvesting benefit
  
• Heavy Plate Mode: Applies a slow when attacking with the basic tail whip; Thatch harvesting benefit
  
• Sharpened Plate Mode: Applies an armor penetration effect when attacking with the tail whip. Also useful for harvesting berries

Impaling Tail Whip

• Able to impale and immobilize players and smaller creatures

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 25th of Sep at 4 PM EST until Monday the 28th of Sep at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

• 2x Breeding/Maturing

Rockwell by kawarayane


Starter Base by ThePilgrim


Catch Me by Rackiera


Cliff Platform by maroichigo022


Alpha Hunter by BioZev


Direwolf by bluedragonark


Dodo by Amy the Amers


Catch you next week!
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our Official ARK:Survival Evolved Discord! Along with being a new hub for our ARK community, this Discord will be a source of information for our players where announcements and patch notes can be pushed through to your own Discord if you choose.

Jump in via this invite link: https://discord.gg/playark

At times we may make adjustments to the Code of Conduct based on evolving game meta or as a result of ongoing enforcement initiatives. These adjustments to the Code of Conduct will take place immediately.

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Teleportation zones are treated as spawn zones and as such they should not be blocked nor have any turrets in them in either pvp or pve game mode.

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Teleportation zones (on Genesis) are treated as spawn zones and as such they should not be blocked nor have any turrets in them in either pvp or pve game mode.

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Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, gas nodes, Extinction City Terminals, etc)

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Blocking access to important resources (ie. charge nodes, Extinction City Terminals, Orbital Supply Crates on Extinction, etc)

If you're planning on playing on the Official Network, please familiarize yourself with the Code of Conduct.



There will be no EVO Event this week.


Poison Wyvern by Kittu Shakmarov


Dodo by Rej PiekielnyGrabarz


Rock Drake by REN SAIO


Falling by CaPrIcOrNbReAd


Managarmr Headshot by Sarahleiwel


The Obelisk by BigChickenLover


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In this edition of the Community Crunch, we’ll be teasing you with some juicy TLC 3 info along with giving you an overview of what we’ve been focusing on lately behind the scenes.

The much-awaited TLC is getting closer and we’re excited to get some of our re-imagined favorites into your hands soon!


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We’ll be reconceiving these veteran ARK friends via visual and mechanical upgrades that will introduce new elements of gameplay. Much appreciated community feedback drew our attention towards the Wooly Mammoth (among others) and it’s time for this relic of the Pliocene epoch to make a new debut heralded by the beat of a new buff bound to add more utility to emergent gameplay, and more!

We hope that drums up some enthusiasm ;)



Whilst we’re ramping up work on the TLC 3 patch and our climactic Genesis Part II expansion, we frequently pivot to Live Ops and seek to achieve fast iterations on fixes for bugs and exploits.

One of our biggest priorities at the moment is the ongoing investigating and work done on server reliability. Over the last few weeks we have seen an uptick in player reports regarding their servers not listing, not being able to join them, high ping, being unable to transfer, “ghosting”, or offline. While the cause of this downtime may vary, sometimes it is the result of a malicious attack. Our engineers are working with our partners on technical implementations to further improve stability and mitigate the attacks. We will be rolling out changes to all platforms in the near future which will have a serious impact on resolving these issues.

Recently we’ve also addressed issues that include fixes to various exploits including: invulnerability related to characters and dinos, pincode bypassing, further checks between server and client in relation to shooting, and abuse of dino mechanics. We’ve also implemented Level Design changes across varied maps with the purpose of filling in holes that may have allowed players to gain entry into unintended playable areas of the map. A fair environment is important to us and to the health of the game, we’ll continue to address these issues as they arise.

We plan on continuing to improve the player experience with updates like our recent Quality Of Life and Balance patch in the near future...speaking of Quality Of Life, how does an EVO Event sound?



Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 11th of Sep at 4 PM EST until Monday the 14th of Sep at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

• 2x Breeding/Maturing

Dropping some ARK work by RoboticHat717


The Featherlight Family by bluedragonark


ARK Survival: Alpha Raptor by Valonia-Feline


Supa Pink Dodo by DakotaAnnArt


Desert Watchtowers by ThePilgrim


Speedpaint: Forest Camping by Earthsong9405


Small Mockup by EdiPotter



We hope you’re all keeping safe and well. While working remotely has been somewhat of an adjustment period for us, we’ve now hit our stride and look forward to sharing more of what we’ve been grinding away at very soon!

Over and out, Survivors!
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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch. This week we take a look at a new sponsored mod and great fan art from the community!




Simple Spawners is a popular utility mod that makes it easy to customize maps to suit the desires and needs of your server. Having expanded from creature spawners the mod adds useful tools like setting up no-build zones, no-fly zones, nests, harvestable resources, radiation zones, and loot crate/beacon points. With Simple Spawners you can get quite creative with how you customize your server map!

Check out Simple Spawners



There will be no EVO event this week.


Glowtail by Slimeyspore11


Glow Pug by chocodeamon


Photoshopping Some ARK by bluedragonark


ARK Aberration: The Spine by RobynTheDragon


A Fun Wonder by ARKLove9


Craft Station On Sea by SKRMT_


ARK PvP Event by MayaPatch


Argentavis magnificens by Vignar


That's it for this week!

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Welcome to another edition of the community crunch.  We hope everyone is enjoying their experience on the newly launched Crystal Isles!  The team will be on the lookout for any issues we're seeing in the community.  Meanwhile, let's take a look at some amazing community art while we prepare for upcoming events that will round out the year. 



There will be no EVO event this week.


Kong vs. Rock Drake by Mayapatch


Carnotaurus by Eshkerigal


Home of the Alchemist by Koooooo071


Light Up my World by Diachelvia


Leaning Tower of Pisa by ramall_081


Scarlett The Rock Drake by Zeeo103


Snow Mountain Walk by N_kaiser


Managarmrby DarkOfTheLight


Until next week!

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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

Just a reminder that on Tuesday, August 25th, we will be releasing Crystal Isles for XBOX and PS4 console users! Additionally, we will be enabling full server transfers into Crystal Isles and our freshly launched Official PC Servers. From August 25th, PC players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction.



As mentioned in prior Community Crunches, the Official Network rates will be increasing to 2X following the next major version update on Tuesday, August 25th. Following the update, we'll have more information on EVO events. Until then, we'll be using the EVO event system to apply the bonuses.


Ashlyns Spinosaurus Neighbor by GravyMan12


Hunting underwater by MayaPatch


Liopleurodon by DW_ARK


Aberrant Carno by PicturesOfArk


The Managarmr by littleFernanda


ARK Raptor by TinyTina20


Ok(? by HipApparitiongamer


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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

On Tuesday, August 25th, we will be releasing Crystal Isles for XBOX and PS4 console users! Additionally, we will be enabling full server transfers into Crystal Isles and our freshly launched Official PC Servers. From August 25th, PC players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction. Similar to PC, console users will have a period of time where item and creature downloads will be disabled.



With the major update on Tuesday, August 25th, we'll be doubling the fun by doubling the Official Rates across PC, Xbox and PS4 as standard, along with some changes to our specialty servers. From the next major version, Official Server rates will now have increased default rates for Harvesting, Taming, and XP. What was previously ‘2x rates’ prior to today, will now become the new base rate (1x).

The increased 2x rates will be implemented directly in the game build itself. This means that Non-Dedicated Servers, Single Player Sessions and of course Unofficial Servers will also feel the increased rates. Therefore, if you’re currently using customized rates, it’s something you will want to keep in mind before this change is in place -- specifically upon the release of the next Major Version on each of your respective platforms, you may wish to reduce your server/game rates by 50% to have the same effective values as before.

Official rates will be adjusted accordingly:

• Standard Official Servers: 1x harvesting, taming, and XP (which is equivalent to 4x when considering our old values)
  
• Small Tribes Servers: Smalls will have their taming, harvesting, and XP changed to 2.5x (which is equivalent to 5x when considering our old values)
  
• Apocalypse Servers: These will remain at 3x harvesting, taming, and XP (which is equivalent to 6x when considering our old values)

As mentioned in prior Community Crunches, the Official Network rates will be increasing to 2X following the next major version update on Tuesday, August 25th. Following the update, we'll have more information on EVO events. Until then, we'll be using the EVO event system to apply the bonuses.


Chilling with my Dilophosauruses by konstancja


Wings Of Valor by blue


Extinction by scoot



Catch you on the flip side!

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Greetings Survivors,

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch! This week we'll be taking a sneak peek at something small and cute, discuss the opening of transfers on PC Crystal Isles/new servers, and sharing awesome community fan art and content!

Check out last week's Community Crunch for more information on Genesis Part 2 and other events planned for this year!




We will be enabling full server transfers into Crystal Isles and our freshly launched Official PC Servers on Tuesday, August 25th. This means from that date, players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction.




Just a friendly reminder that we're close to the next reset date on Beginner servers, which will take place on September the 8th, 2020.

For those not familiar, Beginner Official Servers are an experience for new ARK players to test the waters without the threat of thoroughly developed tribes.

Unlike our regular servers, these have undergone some changes. First of all, there have been some limitations on how much a player or dino can progress. Player levels hit their cap at 44 and the highest encounter possible for wild creatures is level 30. Tamed creatures can receive up to an additional maximum of 30 levels. Due to the progression limits, some engrams are not achievable through leveling up but are found via supply crates. Some other changes include the disabling of alliances and tribe sizes have been limited to 5 members maximum.

Once established on a beginner server survivors can choose to exit into the rest of the official server network by uploading their character and moving to another server for the full ARK experience. Downloads of any kind are permanently disabled on Beginner servers so once you upload your character and leave the server you can't come back.

These servers are not intended to be a long-term place to become established and because of this, they are regularly wiped so new players can get their fresh start.




If the mantis is always praying, what is their faith?

Varies a bit. They're all in sects after all.

We'll see ourselves out... 🐛




As mentioned in the prior Community Crunch, the Official Network rates will be increasing to 2X following the next major version update. Following the update, we'll have more information on EVO events. Until then, we'll be using the EVO event system to apply the bonuses.


Deinonychus by @Riyuu



Titan Thumbnails by @ImEnFuego






Ferox by @Riyuu



Ragnarok Castle by @sam_stimo



Argentavis by @kawara



Primal Plesiosaur by @드찌/어찌



That's it for this week!

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