Community Crunch 168: Valentine's Day!
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Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! 
ARK: Valentine's Day!
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.
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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
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!
PC Patch Notes:
QuoteValentines 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:
QuoteValentine'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!
Deep Dive by Violet
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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