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  • Community Crunch 168: Valentine's Day!

    Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! :Jerbhi:

    ARK: Valentine's Day!

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    Beginning tomorrow, February 12th until February 18th, love will fill the air as we celebrate Valentine's Day!

    The ARK will be placed under Cupid's loving spell. With this event, creatures have also been affected by Cupid's spell in the following ways:

    • Red, Pink, and White colored wild creatures can be found wandering the ARKs searching for true loves kiss.
    • When mating, creatures have a 25% chance to drop an item.  That item has a 50/50 chance to be one of the following:
      • Valentines Chocolate: Restores full HP, or knocks 40% off a creatures taming bar.
      • Valentines Candy: Gives your tame random dino colors when eaten.

    All servers official and unofficial will also experience the following bonuses (auto-activated or can be toggled manually by running ActiveEvent=vday):

    • Mate Boosted range increased by 2x
    • Mating Speed and Mating Recovery increased by 3x
    • Creature Maturing and Egg Incubation speed has been increased by 3x
    • Baby Food Consumption has been decreased by 1/3

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    Survivors also have the opportunity to send out their own customs Valentine's Day card to their loved ones. Head over to playark.com/valentines and create your custom card! Be sure to send us a tweet with your image attached and the #MateBoosted, so that over the course of the week we can retweet your loving messages! 

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    PC Patch Notes:

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    Valentines Day Event!

    • Auto Activates from 2/12 - 2/18 for non-TCs
    • Run with ActiveEvent=vday to toggle manually
    • Event Rates:
      • 2x Mating/Mate boost Range
      • 3x Mating Speed/Mating Recovery
      • 3x Baby/Egg Maturation Speed
      • 1/3rd Baby Food Consumption
    • Event Details:
      • Dino color spawns: Creatures have a 20% chance to spawn with holiday themed colors
      • When mating, creatures have a 25% chance to drop an item.  That item has a 50/50 chance to be one of the following:
        • Valentines Chocolate: Restore full HP, or knock 40% off a Dino's Tame Bar
        • Valentines Candy: Random dino colors

    Managarmr

    • Fix bug causing Managarmr to die randomly
    • Potential fix for client crash
    • Ice breath is no longer stopped by a Dino Leash
    • Potential fix for Managarmrs floating away
    • Whistle Stop and Whistle Follow will interrupt the current ability
    • Increased time between freeze buffs
    • Ice breath freeze amount is now more significantly reduced by distance

    Cryopods

    • Now show gender in the tooltip
    • Tribe log displays the name of the cryopod owner who's cryopod broke
    • Fix for dino owner not transfering when stealing a cryopod with a dino in it

    Trike

    • Fixed infinite trike ramming bug

    Movement    

    • Fix for players getting stuck when walking off foundations

    Bear Traps

    • Bear traps are now placeable again!

    Tek Dinos

    • Now drop electronics/metal as intended

    Exploits

    • Fix exploit related to Tek Sword

    Desert Titan

    • Reduced tamed Desert Titan total hp by 1/3

    Item Stack Config

    • Only apply the global multiplier ItemStackSizeMultiplier to items that are intended to stack. This doesn't affect ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity entries.

    Scorched Earth

    • Removed the Ruins of Nosti gate

    Extinction

    • Fixed a meshing location
    • Reduced shadow cost of some meshes
    • Defenders are harvestable for light robotic materials 

    The Center

    • Fix exploit related to Rafts

    Xbox & PS4 Patch Notes:

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    Valentine's Day Event!

    • Auto Activates from 2/12 - 2/18 for non-TCs
    • Run with ActiveEvent=vday to toggle manually
    • Event Rates:
      • 2x Mating/Mate boost Range
      • 3x Mating Speed/Mating Recovery
      • 3x Baby/Egg Maturation Speed
      • 1/3rd Baby Food Consumption
    • Event Details:
      • Dino color spawns: Creatures have a 20% chance to spawn with holiday themed colors
      • When mating, creatures have a 25% chance to drop an item.  That item has a 50/50 chance to be one of the following:
        • Valentines Chocolate: Restore full HP, or knock 40% off a Dino's Tame Bar
        • Valentines Candy: Random dino colors

    Managarmr

    • Ice Breath damage is now scaled by distance to the target
    • Improvements to situations where Managarmrs float away
    • Whistle Follow or Whistle Stop will order the Managarmr to stop their active ability and return to ground
    • Reduced Ice Breath freeze amount
    • Increased time between Freeze Debuffs 

    Exploits

    • Fix for exploit related to Rafts
    • Fix for exploit related to Tek Gloves
    • Fix for exploit related to Owl and babies
    • Fix for exploit related to Owl
    • Fix for exploit related to Desert Titan lightning
    • Fix for exploit related to Ladders
    • Fix for exploit related to Chairs

    Extinction    

    • Environment memory improvements

    Ice Titan

    • Have Ice Titan consider more targets as a leapable-enemy

    Desert Titan

    • Fix for Desert Titan sometimes freezing/refusing to move during boss fight
    • Fix for Desert Titan occasionally flying out of world bounds
    • Untamed Desert Titan ground targeted lightning attack will now have a variable delay
    • Removed Burning debuff that the lightning field puts on enemies

    Titans

    • Reduced damage to structures from melee attacks

    Mating

    • Added "Enable Mating" under Behavior dial on Dinos, wandering is no longer required to mate
    • Change dino hover UI to read "Enable Wander or Mating to Mate" instead of "Enable Wander to Mate"

    UI

    • Moved chatbox down to lower left corner

    Inventory    

    • Increased Bullet/Arrow stack size to 100 (from 50).

    Turrets

    • Reduced Auto/Heavy turret inventory size roughly 40%, to accommodate ammo stack change (results in slight increase of max # of bullets they can store)

    Tribes

    • Finish increasing tribe group rank limit from 5 to 10
    • A player can not accept alliance invites unless they are tribe admin
    • Alliance invites and new tribes added or removed from alliances is now logged in the Tribe Log.    

    Cryopod

    • Tooltips now contain the stats of the dino
    • Mating timer now advances while in a Cryopod unless the Cryopod is transferred, then it is reset to respect the new server's MatingIntervalMultiplier
    • Baby aging is paused while in a Cryopod
    • Baby imprinting is paused while in a Cryopod
    • Baby gestation is aborted when entering a Cryopod

    Air Conditioner

    • Reduced Air Conditioning SFX radius

    Plant Y

    • No longer affects Quetz and Karkinos

    Plant Z

    • Stun cooldown increased vs dinos, 5 seconds -> 7.5 seconds

    Megalania

    • Halved torpidity decrease rate

    Bola

    • You can now struggle to get out of bola faster

     Experimental

    • Added [ServerSettings] ItemStackSizeMultiplier to allow increasing or decreasing item stack size
    • Added [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode] ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity to allow manually overriding item stack size on a per-item basis

    Mesh Memory Optimizations

    • Doedicurus
    • Parasaur Saddle
    • Rex Saddle
    • Sauropod Saddle
    • Various Particle Meshes    

    Particle Memory Optimizations

    • Dino Leash

    Skins

    • Fixed missing Bionic skins

    Upcoming Server Maintenance!

    On February 13th beginning at 7am EST we will be conducting a small maintenance on a portion of our NA Official Servers. During this time the servers will go offline in succession therefore all will not be going down promptly at 7am. The servers will not be running during this maintenance period once they are down. We anticipate the full maintenance duration to take a few hours however the servers will be booted back up shortly after they are taken down, which should minimize individual downtime.

    Also worth noting: In our next patch we will be renaming all legacy servers to include "LEGACY" in their names. This change will not affect your favorites but the name will be changed there to reflect the new name. Legacy servers will be using the following format: LEGACY-servername. Ex: LEGACY-OfficialServer2. This change applies to all platforms that have Legacy servers. Legacy servers will still be located in the Official Legacy Servers tab in the server browser.

    Attention Builders!

    Fancy yourself a top tier builder? We want to see what you can do with the new structure changes! 

    Hop into the beta (details on how to do that below) and build to your heart's content using any of our officially supported maps (The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction). You can do this in your single player world or your unofficial server if you have access to one. We’ll be picking the best builds submitted to us for featuring in an upcoming video trailer showcasing the building changes to ARK similar to the announcement video we did for our latest mod contest. 

    Submit pictures and/or a video of your build, your map save and coordinates to your build to arkfans@studiowildcard.com so we can take a look. You can get the direct coordinates to your build location by enabling setcheatplayer true and jotting down the coordinates presented on screen. You can upload your map save to a file sharing website such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc, and include the link in the email. 

    Today is the LAST DAY to submit your builds! We look forward to seeing your masterpieces!

    Structures Plus (S+) & Kibble Rework Beta!

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    The Structures Plus and Kibble Rework beta is still available and we're looking for additional feedback as we get closer to release of these features in the near future. We plan to have one more update to the beta for testing before the final version is released to the main game.

    Please check out the post below for all of the information on how you can get involved in play testing this beta.

    Modding Community Updates!

    It's mod tutorial time!

    Let's continue where we left off in the last tutorial and hook up our transition material to the sentry tower system. We're going to make use of some previously discussed topics and covered a new one, timelines. Don't let these handy little nodes fool you, they can be used on much more than just materials, and they can really make some aspects are your game feel much more alive!

    Happy Modding!

    Fan Feature of the Week!

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    That's it for this post!

    As always if you’ve got anything to share you can find us at:

    Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark
    Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark
    Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark
    Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark
    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

    Edited by Jen

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    Guest EnergyDrink

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    Imprints will not get messed up because u will get 3x % on an imprint aswell. 

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    Spaceinvader216

    Show some love to switch players....official stats are cancer this event would've been nice for people who have jobs and lives but apparently we're excluded. If we can't get the event can you at least fix when the entire floor disappears or something? Nah...prob not..

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    ELFLYNNRAD

    What time, eastern time, does patch and event happen?  and how many gb is it for computer?

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    Thughes

    Cant wait for the event, love to get color variations on Drakes. I'll just hop down to the red zone grab some eggs and..............uh never mind. Would be nice if the eggs were fixed, and maybe the drops as well. Just saying. You imagine buying the game and finding out alot of the stuff is broken, who does that...... uh nevermind

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    Weiss

    Did you fix the unreacheable loot chests inside ruins of nosti too? That's more important than removing a gate that can be bypassed by cryos anyway. 

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    SaltyMonkey
    2 hours ago, IndianaBones said:

    Oh great, still no fix for the missing skins i paid for , THANKS WILDCARD.

    Did you even read the patch notes?

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    jollysantaclauz
    6 hours ago, Bl2ckscyth3 said:

    Lol. Thats not ark. You lazy ass ?

     

     

    Edited by jollysantaclauz

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    KodyD

    When will getting stuck on foundations and rocks and logs be fixed on Xbox single player? I don’t see that in these notes and it’s been a frustrating bug since the last big update.

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    rebekahxstone
    17 hours ago, b0ender said:

    Disappointed that there is no purple color as part of this event. Not a single event has purple color appart from that one when exctinction was releasing, which will not happen again. While red and white were part of event 45 days ago..... I think you guys should distribute colors so that there is repeatable event for each color.

    They had a purple event in the summer and the easter event has all the colours 

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    ArrangedFire90
    17 hours ago, Auby09 said:

    I was hoping to find this out as well

     

    17 hours ago, Craziienation said:

    Time the event starts or update is released ?

    Just so you know its most likely going to happen at 10am PST

    Hope this helps ???

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    ArrangedFire90
    14 hours ago, Justinmv said:

    For clarification @Jen

    or 

    These are two different numbers......

    So what they mean is 1 out of 3 or also 0.33.

    So basically if I'm right there food will drain that much slower.

    Hope this helps ???

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    ArrangedFire90
    12 minutes ago, MzSquawk said:

    Any update on time of event and patch?

    Most likely going to be 10am PST

    Hope this helps ???

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    DomiDarko

    Aaaaand another update without fixing the invisible Forest Titan and broken "all stay put" whistle... ?

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    MzSquawk
    6 minutes ago, ArrangedFire90 said:

    Most likely going to be 10am PST

    Hope this helps ???

    Im uk lol but i figured it out i think lol any time now then

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    BlueberryJackal
    1. There are some bugs happening on PC and console as well, like getting stuck on foundations. But why is it only fixed for PC and not for console?
    2. The S+ beta is still active. When are you going to finish it and put it into the game? 
    3. i really wish to have an option to change the active events. F.e. you play with Extinction chronicles and winter wonderland. I would be happy enough, if its only for SP. 

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    sluggo5

    The event seems to be broken. i actually can't breed for the duration of the event if this does not get fixed. Imprint timers remain at 8 hours. the actual amount of imprint percent is not increased. this means anything i try to raise will not have a chance to get 100%. gestation timer is still full time so this makes breeding mammals a waste of time. this is not a personal bug, this is common with a friend on the same server. please fix this ASAP, i planned on getting my new giga ready. now i have to wait till the event is over to raise it.

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    Platypus5

    Oh my god, they finally fixed the bug where I would get stuck when walking off foundations! Now I don't need to build a ramp in every single door in my house

     

    Edited by Platypus5

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    Paultron89

    Are we not getting 3x imprint rates? I just imprinted a featherlight to test and only got 17% If we're SUPPOSED to have 3x imprint rates can you please activate it?

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    Paultron89
    4 hours ago, EnergyDrink said:

    Imprints will not get messed up because u will get 3x % on an imprint aswell. 

    Except that they will when they "activate" the event and everything else is working but they didn't turn on 3x imprint %

     

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    Malak

    Is anyone aware of where the setting option for stack size is on Xbox for dedicated servers? I was really excited for this but I'm afraid the answer I'm going to be told is it's an option for only rent servers.... ?

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