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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
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    Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark
    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    1 hour ago, BlueberryJackal said:
    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. 

    Looks like consoles only got PC version 291.100 instead of the latest PC version of v292.100 that has the fix.  :(

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    Mating recovery is supposed to be 3x yet the rexes I just bred have well over a 24 hour timer. Shouldn’t it be 8-16 hours?

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    So why do the devs think that the Titans should be weak? It seems that the devs are trying to do what they did to Gigas to the Titans. A wild Titan is awesome and a tamed one is garbage. I feel that the Titans should be powerful, tamed or not.

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    12 hours ago, GP said:

    The setting changes in the event is for official only. Unofficial will remain unchanged in settings unless the server owner manually changes them.

    Thx for the clarifying but then why in the event notes it says "

    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"
    Edited by TNTKiller2001

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    Wish you'd at least bring the rates over to the switch version, I feel the switch community thinks we're being forgotten with 0 patches or bugfixes for a game that's entirely broken, no word on future dlcs or anything of the sort.

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    Boys, xbox finally getting some equal love.

    Wildcard is also doing some good after all their mess ups.

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    They always add red and pink please change it. And please bring back Halloween and fourth of July events, with cool colors. They never have any black and cyan, cyan and pink, orange and purple, green and blue, none of these colors. Like use green and blue colors for earth day, cyan and pink for mother and fathers day, black and cyan, orange and purple, yellow and black, red and black, for Halloween, red white and blue for fourth of July. Please give us new colors wildcard, I've bought and played your game since 2015-2017 on PS4, and have dropped off the radar for a while now. And please bring new extinction creatures, every other DLC had a lot of new creatures, and only 10 for one of the biggest and best maps?

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    20 hours ago, Stevew said:

    NOOOO seriously this event isn’t coming to switch? We don’t need all these fancy color changes and candies, just give us A weekend of boosted breeding speeds. All you have to do is change a few settings. 

    I strongly agree, where are all the updates on switch I bet if you devs put more work into the switch version like  adding in the maps (for free... at least ragnarok) and giving us events like this people will like it more,  I’m really hoping you guys do this because us switch players want to have fun too. Just because people didn’t like it at first doesn’t mean it’s a lost cause, maybe add in its own couple of maps and creatures and maybe some people who don’t really care about the graphics will come back last but not least pls pay attention to the switch comments and throw them to the side.

    Sincerley, Shadow

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    33 minutes ago, TNTKiller2001 said:

    Thx for the clarifying but then why in the event notes it says "

    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"

    Probably because you should take what forum moderators say with a pinch of salt. They don't work for Wildcard so some of their educated guesses are just that.

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    1 hour ago, Malak said:

    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.... ?

    Correct, it's for PC unofficials only. Console hosted servers are a drop in the ocean for customisation options available on PC or rented.

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    So Item stack Size Multiplier is not showing in the PS4 single player settings

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    Is there a way to move the chat box back to where it was? I can not see if someone else is answering someone else's question now due to the Xbox keyboard covering it up now.

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    aww when I saw the update on ps4 I was all giddy hoping it was structures plus finally but nope.. All pumped for nothing..

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    Not sure if this will be seen but i just updated ark and was going to play but when i launch ark the screen goes black and returns me to the home screen. I play on xbox one. Thanks for any help

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    Right after this came out my Xbox lost all official servers. The event sounds nice and all, but I would prefer to get on my server over getting my new shark grown fast.

     

    Right then to anyone else suffering this try to find the update manually, after that if you are on LEGACY servers you will need to search for your server again as they have added LEGACY- to the front and this will remove it from favourites.

    Theres always something...

     

    Well the other something was an increase in rubberbanding, it used to be every now and then lasting around a minute before I flunked back to where I was server side. I came back on after searching for the server only to be stuck for 5 minutes in a rubberband moment before quitting to get out of it. Grr, this is getting daft guys! Can we not make 2 problems for every 1 we fix?!

    I've been with you since pre-release and we've come a long way but let's try not to take more steps backwards than forward.

    Edited by Xana
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    18 minutes ago, Xexnoob said:

    Is there a way to move the chat box back to where it was? I can not see if someone else is answering someone else's question now due to the Xbox keyboard covering it up now.

    I’m having the same problem. I think being able to choose the location of the chatbox is a great idea and should be added to the settings options. Personally, I think something more like a rss feed format would be great, coupled with the choice of having it appear at the top or bottom of the screen. 

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    5 hours ago, rebekahxstone said:

    They had a purple event in the summer

    thats what i said

    22 hours ago, b0ender said:

    Not a single event has purple color appart from that one when exctinction was releasing, which will not happen again.

     

     

     

     

    5 hours ago, rebekahxstone said:

    and the easter event has all the colours 

    no it doesnt

     

     

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    Um, I just updated and my Primitive+ server seems broken! Parts of my house, all the troughs, other buildings, tek teleports are gone!!!! In creative mode there is no lumber, a bunch of tek and who knows what else is missing!

    Did the update break some stuff? Will Wildcard please fix it?

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    I can't find this in the settings, I play xbox. It is a command?

    • Added [ServerSettings] ItemStackSizeMultiplier to allow increasing or decreasing item stack size

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    2 hours ago, MonkeyFZ said:

    Not sure if this will be seen but i just updated ark and was going to play but when i launch ark the screen goes black and returns me to the home screen. I play on xbox one. Thanks for any help

    I'd try a hard restart, usually fixes this issue.

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    1 hour ago, Pegasaurusrex said:

    I can't find this in the settings, I play xbox. It is a command?

    • Added [ServerSettings] ItemStackSizeMultiplier to allow increasing or decreasing item stack size

    Looks like consoles only got PC version 291.100 instead of the latest PC version of v292.100 that has that feature.  Also not sure which options they make available in the UI for server settings.  Might only be an option if you pay for a dedicated server.  :( 

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    Major Game Breaking Bug with the new update for Xbox. Every time you hold B to whistle tames, the game crashes completely. It's all over Reddit. Hundreds of players with the same issue. This makes the game virtually unplayable. This is something that needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY

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    Just now, Pegasaurusrex said:

    I can't find this in the settings, I play xbox. It is a command?

    • Added [ServerSettings] ItemStackSizeMultiplier to allow increasing or decreasing item stack size

    I play on PS4 and have my own server and I can't find any of the stack settings. Anyone know where they are?

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