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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!

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    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    Not trying to be that guy but I find it funny how they originally planned to give us an Evolution event on the weekend then deleted it from the post as if it was never there.

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    10 minutes ago, damnspeck said:

    is there not going to be an evolution event this weekend?

    There was originally one advertised but they deleted it from the post, so i am assuming they are not giving one at the same time of the VDay event.

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    On 2/14/2019 at 7:24 AM, ArkP1 said:

    Yeah, I didn’t realize how bad the imprint would suffer. I raised a couple test dinos yesterday, thinking the imprint might work out in the 8 hours it takes, but it doesn’t. Thought maybe it would be more effective for the event, but it’s the same meaning 100% is impossible, not to mention; some dinos reach adulthood with ZERO opportunity to imprint. Unfortunately, we would have been better off with no event. Really disappointing because the only time we are really able to breed is during an event like this. Now, we’re going to have to wait for the breeding event to be over before breeding anything else. How’s that for irony?

    Well now is the only time, for getting the eggs ready.

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    Yeah i saw it in OG post.....just a "sorry guys, typo" or anything would of been nice

     

    Not the first time an Evo event was edited out the OG post  :(

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    I am so glad to see wildcard taking steps to fix the meshing tools. Thank you. Now just gotta fix the rest. Don't forget the Tek sword. 

    Now, I am hearing that wildcard is now allowing mesh defense turrets to be placed under bases without risking a dev wipe. Can anyone please confirm this as fact? 

     

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    Why is there no 2x this weekend?  Original post said there was going to be. I have not been able to enjoy the event because i am not a high enough lvl to build ac. Still 15 lvls away.

     

     

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    On 2/12/2019 at 1:41 PM, sluggo5 said:

    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.

    well, this was a panicked rough start to the event. thankfully i used one owl to test the start of the event and the rest of the event went perfectly fine. got lots of giga babies a giant leap forward this event.

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    22 hours ago, FollowedWolf said:

    Why is there no 2x this weekend?  Original post said there was going to be. I have not been able to enjoy the event because i am not a high enough lvl to build ac. Still 15 lvls away.

     

     

    if you provide the mat's id make them for you, or i could travel to your server and make them for ya :)

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    On 2/15/2019 at 5:47 PM, Mojsije said:
    • Fix bug causing Managarmr to die randomly

    Yea this isn't fixed...Just happened to me on Island, Managarmr is wiped, all my inventory is wiped and the otter that was on me also wiped. No info in the tribe log, as if it never happened.

    Exact the same thing happend to me on Island too. Never play them again, fixes are not trustworthy. And good features like Snow Owl baby freeze are getting removed... shame..

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    On the pve server 842 the island , why can’t we store leech blood in the fridge? It takes hours of searching and no leeches, very hard to find leeches because you have 90% of leeches spawning In the cave and only 10% in swamp, after all that work you can’t even preserve them , and no good drops ever only leather clothes really?

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    So many people here cannot differentiate between PC and console patch notes even though they have clear headers.

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    On 2/12/2019 at 11:05 AM, 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.

    ill sell u a purple reaper unleveled 150 for a boss fight 

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    9 hours ago, Crazyaces45 said:

    On the pve server 842 the island , why can’t we store leech blood in the fridge? It takes hours of searching and no leeches, very hard to find leeches because you have 90% of leeches spawning In the cave and only 10% in swamp, after all that work you can’t even preserve them , and no good drops ever only leather clothes really?

    Swamp cave has loads in, take a decent level baryonyx in there , collect loads

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    On 2/16/2019 at 1:35 AM, KobMatt said:

    Not trying to be that guy but I find it funny how they originally planned to give us an Evolution event on the weekend then deleted it from the post as if it was never there.

    Was a big injustice to all players.

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    4 hours ago, jpcab said:

    Was a big injustice to all players.

    Evo events are easy mode

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    "Added "Enable Mating" under Behavior dial on Dinos, wandering is no longer required to mate"

    Best feature ever! Now, if we could just get a warning when you whistle ALL dinos that says something like, "are you sure you want to do this" lol

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    Is there any timeline for when this actually end? I don't want to get 7 hours into an imprint and have it end up being normal rates with 3x the growth for 90% of it. 

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    Who else got their valentine´s day

     

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