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  • Biome Update, The Center Contest and Xbox Patch 736!

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    Hey Survivors!

    Earlier this month in a Community Crunch we announced that later on we would be making some very large biome changes to The Island. Part of this change would be introducing a new zone, known as the Redwood Forest and also slightly expanding the size of the Snow Biome.

    This is a map you can use to help identify the areas where The Island will receive some changes and it’s makeover.

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    The blue area represents the new size of the Snow Biome. The orange area represents the location of the new Redwood Biome and the green-area represents part of the Swamp that is also being turned into Redwood.

    Something we will always try to avoid is making drastic map changes as we know it can be unsettling for players to have to be concerned about relocating their base, however in some cases we have to go ahead and make those changes for the development of the game. We apologize if this does cause any inconvenience and we really hope you enjoy the upcoming biome changes!

    Whilst we prepare for launching the new biomes we said we’d be updating the in-game environment with 3D Markers to help indicate areas that will be undergoing change. These markers will be brought into the game on Wednesday and here’s what you can expect them to look like! 

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    That’ll give you an idea of whether you need to make any plans to move or not :)

    CONTEST: The Center Boss Fight!

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    For Official server The Center players, we're giving away $1000 cash in a special contest!

    $500 to the first Xbox tribe and another $500 to the first PC tribe to beat both bosses on an Official PVP server!

    Screenshot proof of the pause menu in the boss arena including server name, as well as the items received from defeating the bosses must be provided! You can upload your images to our forums, and write a comment down below with the screenshots. Good luck!

    Xbox Patch 736!

    Don’t worry guys! It’s been submitted and it’s currently going through QA/Certification! As soon as we know the status of it, we will let you know and roll the patch out. We are very grateful your patience and as soon as we can your games will be updated with the latest fixes from the patch! To check out the full-notes, you can head to our patch-notes thread:

    ‘Evolve’ by Nerd Out!

    The awesome dudes over at Nerd Out made this fantastic song and video about ARK! We’re absolutely in love with it - check it out!

    That’s all for today guys! We’ve got a big patch to prepare for now! 

    All the best,

    Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team.

    Edited by Jat

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    AmbientLamb0581

    The snow biome in my world is already big. Unless the map above doesn't show that. But either way my house and stuff are nowhere near those locations, I live in the southern islets in that little bit of beach that curves inward. 

    But there's a question I have for the game devs concerning newer creatures, will the microraptors live mainly in the redwood biome? Reedwood trees are perfect cause they're big enough for microraptors to glide across the tree tops

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    Marksman00048

    I vote you have a separate contest for primitive servers,  no person is ever going to win this contest on primitive....

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    Zenos
    36 minutes ago, HypnoticBunny said:

    When do you plan on doing the biome changes for Xbox? 

    Will we have this marker as well? I wonder if it might be the Thylacoleo or the flying squirrel fan art, Sciurumimus that will be released, maybe both. Also if the tree house building might have a retractable rope ladder. With this update.

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    bittererbobdob

    when I first saw the redwood picture I thought that was a pathcy. lol. dang those trees are big.

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    Tomazon

    RedWood forest gona be an amazing biome!!!
    Very liked with that.

    I don't understand the "keep out" and the "safe zone" if someone can help me pls do it. 

    Thanks.

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    Mac_intosh1172

    This is exactly what I wanted the Redwood Biome to look like.  Fantastic job devs!

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    ArkRexy
    16 hours ago, McNuggets said:

    Waaaaahooooo!!!

     

     

    16 hours ago, McNuggets said:

    Waaaaahooooo!!!

     

    THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!!!

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    demonhero100
    16 hours ago, Johnmay said:

    You guys should seriously use this song in your future commercials when the game fully releases

    It would be amazing

     

    Dude it's should not just be a advertisment song but the theme song of ark survival evolved

     

     

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    ThzNutz

    looks awesome--ewok village recreation here i come:D

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    EvilChaosDX
    1 minute ago, ThzNutz said:

    looks awesome--ewok village recreation here i come:D

    Just need to be able to build in (up) the trees!

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    ThzNutz
    3 minutes ago, EvilChaosDX said:

    Just need to be able to build in (up) the trees!

    tree house's are gonna be a thing from what i understand? not sure when that will be, but i thought i had been posted they were gonna do them...right?

    no ewok village=:(

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    EvilChaosDX
    2 minutes ago, ThzNutz said:

    tree house's are gonna be a thing from what i understand? not sure when that will be, but i thought i had been posted they were gonna do them...right?

    no ewok village=:(

    That is true, I believe I read it in a digest a while ago.

    We just don't have them yet :(

     

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    Plannb23
    18 hours ago, Jat said:

    Xbox Patch 736!

    Don’t worry guys! It’s been submitted and it’s currently going through QA/Certification! As soon as we know the status of it, we will let you know and roll the patch out. We are very grateful your patience and as soon as we can your games will be updated with the latest fixes from the patch! To check out the full-notes, you can head to our patch-notes thread:

     

    I'm a little frustrated at the way this patch was wheeled out.  We're in the middle of a breeding cycle.  I work during the day and heard nothing about a patch being released.  Then I get home to try and rush and feed the baby dinosaurs before they die and what do I find .... another patch.  20GB of content in a week.  It would be nice to get a bit more notice here especially considering that the game itself is an online real time environment.

    I'm curious.  If the patch download causes our tribe to not get on in time, is this something that can be restored?  Or are we just SOL?

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    thedapanda

    So if your base is in the red zone it will just be removed when "The Island" is updated?

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    DeltaCharlie00
    1 minute ago, thedapanda said:

    So if your base is in the red zone it will just be removed when "The Island" is updated?

    No it is just endanger of disappearing and/or having new changes spawn in. not only your base but your dinos could potentially be endanger too. like a new rock spawns were they stand.... then poof it's removed.

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    thedapanda

    Well that happened with the last update to some of my dinos, but damn that is junk.

    Edited by thedapanda

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    NukeZX
    6 hours ago, Plannb23 said:

    I'm a little frustrated at the way this patch was wheeled out.  We're in the middle of a breeding cycle.  I work during the day and heard nothing about a patch being released.  Then I get home to try and rush and feed the baby dinosaurs before they die and what do I find .... another patch.  20GB of content in a week.  It would be nice to get a bit more notice here especially considering that the game itself is an online real time environment.

    I'm curious.  If the patch download causes our tribe to not get on in time, is this something that can be restored?  Or are we just SOL?

    What is the complaint? That the devs roll out patches during the week or that you are surprised by the new biome update next week?

    This patch was announced  long ago, and the map details incl snow/redwood biome  updates have been announced on may 7.

     

     

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    troopsta

    Thank you guys for still caring about the old map, cuz us people that have a real survival life

    xDxDxD

    has yet to explore, learn, and play the Island.

     

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    Toni

    Nice, looks like you changed to 4k textures to make this screenshot? :D
    Will we receive 4k textures with this patch?

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