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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:

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    Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110
    Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark

    All the best,
    Studio Wildcard

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    11 minutes ago, Bullet2687 said:

    So is imprinting not updated gotta wait 8 hrs???? Shouldn't it be less

    and what about dinos (for example pteras) that have 12 total hours of rise when x3... one 8 hour imprint should make 100%?? or second one will be 4 hours?

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    12 hours ago, WolfTourqe said:

    They never have any (...)

    Cyan, blue, magenta, yellow, light green and a brownish-grey have been used for the last Easter event.

    Magenta and shades of red for Vday

    Shades of red, green and blue, black-white, purple were part of the extinction chronicles.

    Shades of red, green and white for christmas.

    Orange was used in the first color event, halloween, but they only were available on cave creatures that spawned in the overworld, and last year's halloween overlapped with the extinction chronicles. So maybe this year we'll get those colors again.

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    The chat box is in the worst place it was way better back up in the top left corner as you could read what people are saying be for you put anything up

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    Being able to mate dinos without setting to wander is the best thing since cryopods! The ammo stacking amount is also a nice surprise, and showing the stats on pods brings cryo closer to perfection. 

     

    As far as the chatbox relocation goes, I hope it gets reversed pretty soon because it’s in the worst place for Xbox users. Also, hoping the imprint timer gets an update before the weekend or I’ll pretty much miss out on the advantages of the breeding event. 

     

    Overall, I really like the update except the new chatbox location. Keep up the good work and upkeep it to work good. 

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    17 hours ago, SaltyMonkey said:

    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.

    You know what? You are right. The unnofficials got increased rates too.

    Someone needs desperatly to learn how to gather information

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    l am not happy

    you broke my whole order

    growing babies bonuses are broken

    understand these losses now

    you are too weak to understand players

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    3 hours ago, TNTKiller2001 said:

    You know what? You are right. The unnofficials got increased rates too.

    Someone needs desperatly to learn how to gather information

    Yep. My unofficial has increased rates. It’s almost as if the devs meant it when they said that unofficials would get the boost too.

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    Ever since the update my player dedicated server keeps crashing everytime I try to throw a dinosaur out of the cryo pod

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    Are u ever gonna release new servers?? Everything ur doing is good but everyone would like 10 man servers. This would give everything a new fun time with all the recent improvementso and would bring ppl back who quit because of the fresh servers 

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    On 2/12/2019 at 5:24 AM, Bl2ckscyth3 said:

    Lol. Thats not ark. You lazy ass ?

    Lazy? When I work 2 jobs lol yup I’m lazy alright! ? 

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    On 2/12/2019 at 7:35 AM, DauntingBeef08 said:

    Maybe could make a tek structure or high level item like a super air con that drasticly slows food consumption.

     

    or a reciepe for a food that only eaton by babies that spoils slow and fills alot of food

    Do you know how long Tek trough keeps food refrigerated for? That would be super useful! My schedules at both places are always different and it sucks being gone all day then having to worry about a baby Dino running out of food or it spoils before I can get back :( thank you for the input... and being nice about it :) 

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    Anyone Xbox getting any Valentines drops at all?  12 Rex breeds and 14 dodo's.  Not one drop, at a 25% drop rate feeling it's broken.

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    Breed TekRex, egg popped out(lvl263) only after a few seconds.. total time was 2 hours(ish),  with 0 imprints.. Was not even given, the indication to imprint. I'm not the only one that this happened to on our server.

     

    What's the point of having a breathing hatching event.. When you can't even imprint. I was so looking forward to, hatching some gigas & wyverns. 

    I'll wait until event is over. 

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    6 hours ago, Nexuz said:

    Breed TekRex, egg popped out(lvl263) only after a few seconds.. total time was 2 hours(ish),  with 0 imprints.. Was not even given, the indication to imprint. I'm not the only one that this happened to on our server.

     

    What's the point of having a breathing hatching event.. When you can't even imprint. I was so looking forward to, hatching some gigas & wyverns. 

    I'll wait until event is over. 

    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?

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    Can someone settle this - I'm telling a tribe mate that there's no evolution event due to the valentine event, he says there definitely is. Who's right here? 

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    56 minutes ago, Bruvas78 said:

    Can someone settle this - I'm telling a tribe mate that there's no evolution event due to the valentine event, he says there definitely is. Who's right here? 

    I think the post has been edited, because I would swear the evolution event was mentioned before. No sign of it now. It appears there won’t be, and that does it for me. Now I wish they hadn’t done a V-day event at all, because it’s ruined the imprints and so much for my taming plans for the weekend. They really need an emergency patch to fix the imprint and should extend the event for a time equal to the amount of time until it’s fixed. 

     

    I can’t believe we’re not seeing more complaints here. My server’s global chat is nothing but people complaining as they find out their imprints are ruined. Of course, you can’t really read them on Xbox because the keyboard covers up the chat.

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    On 2/11/2019 at 6:04 PM, 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 know its total bs

     

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    3 hours ago, silverpanda said:

    I know its total bs

     

    It’s actually going on! I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw it with my own eyes. Without a word that I’m aware of, they did end up speeding up all the settings and I guess that’s our version of the event...

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    Are the color changes from the candies permanent? I noticed there was a timer of sorts....if so talk about a disappointment 

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    Also noticed a timer after feeding candy to dino. Will the color disappear?

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