Adventurers!

I hope you all had a great Labor day weekend and you are all enjoying the 2x’s harvesting bonus! There were some technical issues getting the event up and running over the weekend so we have extended the event until this Sunday 9.9.18 8pm PST so if you haven’t had a chance to take advantage, it's not too late!

We have a lot of big changes that are being made. If you haven’t yet, Be sure to check out our most recent issue of the Archos Herald here for more information.


In our last Archos Herald ee announced that Jimmy, aka Zephyr, would be stepping away from his community duties. Unfortunately, we are saddened to announce today that Erebus will also no longer be a part of the community team. He was very passionate about the Dark and Light community, and he will be sorely missed.

On a positive note, I’d like to introduce myself. I am Stormborn, the new community manager for Dark and light and I look forward to getting to know everyone and grow with the community! I’m excited to also introduce another new member, Calculated! Calculated has been more of behind the scenes guy but will be taking a more open roll in our team going forward. We look forward to embracing this change and having the opportunity to be a part of Dark and Light family!

Other great things to look forward to is we will be hosting an upcoming community event! Details on that will be released soon! Also, the new DLC Shard of the Faith is coming soon! So stay tuned to our social media for more info regarding release dates!

You can find us on the Official Forums, Steam Forums, and reddit, as well as following us on Twitter and Facebook.

Until next time!

Greetings Adventurers!

We are excited about some new upcoming changes that will be announced very soon but first things first! Archos Herold will be bi monthly, and will answer the burning questions that the community has! We want to keep everyone updated with the trials, quests, and let's be honest, overall antics that you’re fellow Adventurers are getting involved in. Each section will go over a bit of what we have in mind for it, as well as an update to what is happening in the world of Dark and Light.


GAME DEV UPDATE -




Similar to the previous rendition of the Archos Herald, our first section needs to be about the current status and updates happening for Dark and Light. This is where we can go over any patch notes, hot fixes, future updates, and/or bug fixes that need to have may need to be discussed. As most of the community knows, we’re currently all hands on deck for the Shard of Faith DLC which is coming out soon!


COMMUNITY Q&A

In this section, we’ll be taking questions either from the comments section of the Archos Herald, or from the previous Community Streams that we weren’t able to answer or go into at the time.

In the meantime, check out the VOD of our August Q&A Live Stream and lets us know if you there are some questions you want to see answered!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Aa128jUnk&t=36s


COMMUNITY CLIPS

Here is where we’ll have a variety of different clips that have been posted either to YouTube or captured during Twitch.tv streams.

GodHand made a post with a spread of clips from different streams. We’ve featured a few below, and you can check out the full list of clips here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/529180/discussions/0/1736589519986233560/


COMMUNITY SNAPS


Here is where we’ll have some other top community made content, in the form of screenshots to show off. Check out some of our favorites:



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COMMUNITY EVENTS



Last, not not least, this is the final section where we’ll be showing off the community events that are either currently going on, or that are just being announced. Right now, we have a 2x Harvest Rate weekend, which is running from Sunday, 9/01 to Sunday, 9/8. We’ll be looking forward to hearing and seeing how everyone took advantage of these rates. All discussions about the rates can be done in the mega thread set up on our official forums! Link here

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Adventurers, it’s with a heavy heart that I say that Jimmy, aka Zephyr, is being taken away from us. He is being moved to work with a different team, which means you will be seeing less of him around here. However, he has left this statement for us to all remember him by.

Hello everyone,

Starting today, I will be passing on all community responsibilities (Steam, Official Forums, and Discord) to Stormborn as I will be no longer be working with the community team. Stormborn will be both our voice and the community’s voice. It was great being able to interact with you all over the past year, and Stormborn will be forced to keep me in the loop.




CLOSING

Well everyone, we hope that you like the new and improved Archos Herald. We’ll be continuing to listen to feedback and make adjustments to make sure that this is news outlet is one that is providing accurate and desired information. Make sure that you’re checking out our Official Forums, Steam Forums, and reddit, as well as following us on Twitter and Facebook.

Greetings Adventurers!

​​​​​​​It’s finally the time of the month where Dean, Jimmy, Luhan, and myself, place ourselves on a cozy couch, and answer your questions! Our third monthly Q&A Community Stream has been scheduled for Wednesday, August 22nd, at 4PM PDT! We’ve been making adjustments to the format each month to better answer the burning questions our Adventurers have, and this month, we’re continuing to change things up a bit.

For this stream, we’d like everyone interested to submit their questions to us ahead of time! We will be collecting, reading, and organizing questions starting now and going until Wednesday, August 22nd, at 10AM PDT to make sure that the popular and most asked questions are answered. To submit your question, please email us at, dnlevents@snailgamesusa.com. Be sure to spread the word far and wide, and we look forward to hanging out with the Adventures of Archos in the near future.

Greetings Adventurers,

We have another Dark and Light patch coming at the start of this coming week. This patch is focused on giving more options for people running servers, as well as creating user made maps. You can check out all of the changes in the full patch notes below.

Adjustments

• Expose item stack size and item weight multiplier in .ini setting files.
  
• StackSizeMultiplier=2.0 (used to adjust item stack size)
  
• ItemWeightScale=0.5 (used to adjust item weight)
  
• StackWeightMultiplier=2.0 (adjusts Character weight)

The failsafe way to adjust these multipliers is go to the game directory, and add StackSizeMultiplier, and ItemWeightScale under [ServerSettings] in \Game\Config\DefaultGameUserSettings.ini. Please ignore the in-game slider in HOST/LOCAL screen.

• Sync dev kit changes and fixes to game to make sure that the changes to the dev kit reflects that in the game so client crashes caused by any of those dev kit changes should be solved now.

Instructions to Cook Map Extension in Dev Kit

• Use File Explorer to Create a folder called TheIslandSubMaps under DarkAndLightEditor\Game\Content\Maps;
  
• Copy and paste the umap for your map ext to this folder;
  
• Hit Cook Island Extension;
  
• Wait for the cooking process to complete.
  
• Once this is done, your map ext should appear in DarkAndLightEditor\ModTools\Output\(your mod)\WindowsNoEditor;
  
• Remove the .umap in TheIslandSubMap.
  

Greetings Adventures!

We have a small patch this week, but have included a feature that many community members have been asking for. We’d like to thank everyone for their patience, and you can check out the full patch notes below.

Gameplay Additions

• Added structure decay timers to PvP servers.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the in-game bestiary incorrectly claims the Dark Wraith is tamable.
  
• Fixed an issue where casting the Wall of Ice spell may cause a crash in Single Player.
  

Greetings Adventurers,

We will be delaying this week's patch until next week. There are a few things we wanted make sure that got enough testing before we went out with this one. Sorry again everyone!

Greetings Adventurers!

We have a dev kit patch first up this week, which will be going out at ~11AM PDT, Tuesday, 7/10. You will be able to update via EPIC Launcher. With this patch, we have made some adjustments to the current systems in place, as well as exposing some functions. You can check out the full notes below.

• Expose function, Remove Item, from PrimalinventoryComponent
  
• Expose function, Add Item and Add Item EX, from PrimalinventoryComponent (note: ShowHUD is different from ARK’s counterpart)
  
• Expose functions, BP Timer Servers, and BP Timer NonDedicated (note: added new properties - bUseBPTimerServer, bUseBPTimerNonDedicated, float BPTimerServerMin, float BPTimerServerMax, float BPTimerNonDedicatedMin,and float BPTimerNonDedicatedMax; added new events - BPTimerNonDedicated and BPTimerServer; added new methods, EnableBPTimerServer and EnableBPTimerNonDedicated)
  
• Expose function, Get Riding Dinos
  
• Expose functions, BPContainerActivated and BPContainerDeactivated (note: added new property bUseBPActivated, used to determine if there is blueprint event. When true, it will trigger BPContainer Activated and BPContainer Deactivated)
  
• Expose function, Spawn Dino from Data
  
• Expose BPWeapon Deal Damage in the Weapons Template BP actor

Greetings Adventurers!

We hope that everyone who celebrated had a great holiday, and everyone who didn’t is having a great week! We have another small patch this week that will be going live Friday,7/6, at around 1AM PDT. You can check out the full patch notes below.

• Fixed a bug where summoning pools were becoming invisible in Single Player
  
• Adjusted Shapeshifting so Adventurers aren’t able to use Shapeshift Runes before unlocking them in the Knowledge tree.

Greetings Adventurers!

We have another patch this week, with a few adjustments to in game elements of Dark and Light. This will be going live at the normal time, ~1AM PDT, Friday, 6/29. Please make sure that your Adventurer and tames are in a safe location before this update starts.

• Fix an issue where server resets were making saddles disappeared on tamed creatures.
  
• Fix an issue where leaving render distance will causes tames crafting items to stop, and resources to be lost.