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  • Community Crunch 171: ARK Stream & Homestead Update Tomorrow!

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

    Homestead Update Tomorrow!

    It's finally arrived! We're beyond thrilled to be releasing Structure Plus (S+) and the long-awaited kibble rework (now packaged together as 'Homestead') to all of our survivors March 5th 2019!

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    If you can dream it, you can build it! Homestead includes the major elements of Structures Plus (S+), a player created Sponsored Mod by Orionsun. S+ has maintained a large following of users over an extended period of time, and its move to console has long been requested. We are particularly excited to finally be able to share this with our console survivors who will be using it for the very first time.

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    Here are the new building features included in Homestead:

    • Dedicated bulk storage
    • Triangle foundations, ceilings and roof pieces
    • Four high walls
    • Fence supports for level walls
    • Flexible pipes and electrical cables
    • Double doors
    • Swappable variants for ramps/stairs
    • New visual variants for existing structures

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    Along-side the update to structures we also have our kibble rework included in this patch! Previously the Kibble system worked like a tree, the egg of one creature being used in a kibble to tame the next creature in line. Often these kibbles didn’t make sense in terms of game progression and became more redundant with each new creature that was added to the game. Each creature now falls into one of six categories, and that creature’s egg can be used to tame any creature within that specific category. Instead of having 50+ different kibbles all requiring a different specific egg, it is drastically reduced to: Basic, Simple, Regular, Superior, Exceptional, and Extraordinary kibbles!

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    You can expect the Homestead update to hit your respective platform around 10am PST tomorrow starting with PC and concluding with PS4. We invite you to watch our Homestead trailer to see a preview of the variety of structures that are now possible. All of the builds featured in the trailer are player-created and you can find links to how to build the structures in the video description. It has been an amazing experience for us to see our dedicated players create things we could have never imagined! 

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    We hope these changes to ARK inspire survivors to turn their wooden shack on the beach into the fortress of their dreams!

    Homestead patch notes:

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    S+

    • Variant System
      • Added Structure variant system to cycle visuals for a structure
    • Structure Pickup
      • Enabled pickup of the following structures:
        • Elevator Platforms
        • Elevator Tracks
        • Electric Generator
        • Grill
        • Industrial Forge
        • Industrial Grinder
        • Chem Bench
        • Fabricator
        • Tek Generator
        • Tek Replicator
        • Tek Transmitter
      • Disabled pickup of Bee Hives
      • Added ServerSettings ini config option StructurePickupHoldDuration to allow unofficials to configure (or disable by setting to 0) the quick-pickup hold duration
      • Changed default for quick-pickup to 0.5 seconds (from 1 second)
    • Structure Additions
      • Added 'Smooth' sidewall variants (like the stone foundation) to the stock square foundations [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Thatch, Wood]
      • Triangle foundations [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]
      • Triangle ceilings [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood, Greenhouse]
      • Triangle roofs [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood, Greenhouse]
      • Large (4x height) walls [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]
      • Flexible pipes [Stone, Metal]
      • Flexible electrical cables
      • Stairs (with freely swappable ramp variant) [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]
      • Double door frames [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]
      • Double doors [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]
      • Tek Dedicated storage (Tek structure that allows storing a large amount of a single resource)
      • Fence supports (allows you to build fences that are level along the top) [Adobe, Metal, Stone, Tek, Wood]

    Kibble Rework

    • Categorized Kibble
    • Creatures prefer their category of Kibble or above
    • Produced
      • Allosaurus - Superior
      • Ankylosaurus - Regular
      • Archaeopteryx - Simple
      • Argentavis - Superior
      • Baryonyx - Regular
      • Basilisk - Exceptional
      • Brontosaurus - Exceptional
      • Carbonemys - Regular
      • Carnotaur - Regular
      • Compy - Simple
      • Dilophosaur - Basic
      • Dimetrodon - Regular
      • Dimorphodon - Simple
      • Diplodocus - Regular
      • Dodo - Basic
      • Featherlight - Basic
      • Gallimimus - Simple
      • Giganotosaurus - Exceptional
      • Glowtail - Basic
      • Hesperornis - Extraordinary
      • Ichthyornis - Simple
      • Iguanodon - Simple
      • Kairuku - Basic
      • Kaprosuchus - Regular
      • Kentrosaurus - Regular
      • Lystrosaurus - Basic
      • Mantis - Superior
      • Megalania - Superior
      • Megalosaurus - Superior
      • Micro Raptor - Simple
      • Morellatops - Simple
      • Moschops - Superior
      • Oviraptor - Simple
      • Snow Owl - Superior
      • Pachycephalosaurus - Simple
      • Pachyrhinosaurus - Regular
      • Parasaur - Basic
      • Pegomastax - Simple
      • Pelagornis - Regular
      • Pteranodon - Simple
      • Pulmonoscorpius - Regular
      • Quetzalcoatlus - Exceptional
      • Raptor - Simple
      • Rex - Exceptional
      • Rock Drake - Extraordinary
      • Sarcosuchus - Regular
      • Spinosaur - Superior
      • Stegosaurus - Regular
      • Tapejera - Superior
      • Terror Bird - Regular
      • Therizinosaurus - Exceptional
      • Thorny Dragon - Regular
      • Titanboa - Superior
      • Triceratops - Simple
      • Troodon - Regular
      • Velonasaur - Regular
      • Vulture - Basic
      • Wyvern - Extraordinary
      • Yutyrannus - Exceptional
    • Preferred
      • Allosaurus - Superior
      • Angler Fish - Regular
      • Ankylosaurus - Regular
      • Araneo - Simple
      • Archaeopteryx - Simple
      • Argentavis - Superior
      • Baryonyx - Regular
      • Basilosaurus - Exceptional
      • Beelzebufo - Regular
      • Brontosaurus - Exceptional
      • Carbonemys - Regular
      • Carnotaur - Regular
      • Castoroides - Superior
      • Daeodon - Superior
      • Dilophosaur - Basic
      • Dimetrodon - Regular
      • Dimorphodon - Simple
      • Diplocaulus - Simple
      • Diplodocus - Regular
      • Direbear - Superior
      • Direwolf - Superior
      • Dodo - Basic
      • Doedicurus - Regular
      • Dunkleosteus - Superior
      • Gallimimus - Simple
      • Gasbags - Superior
      • Giant Bee - Simple
      • Gigantopithecus - Regular
      • Giganotosaurus - Exceptional
      • Griffin - Extraordinary
      • Ichthyornis - Simple
      • Ichthyosaurus - Simple
      • Iguanodon - Simple
      • Kairuku - Basic
      • Kaprosuchus - Regular
      • Karkinos - Exceptional
      • Kentrosaurus - Regular
      • Lymantria - Regular
      • Mammoth - Superior
      • Managarmr - Exceptional
      • Megalania - Extraordinary
      • Megaloceros - Simple
      • Megalodon - Superior
      • Megalosaurus - Superior
      • Megatherium - Superior
      • Mesopithicus - Basic
      • Morellatops - Simple
      • Mosasaurus - Exceptional
      • Onyc - Simple
      • Snow Owl - Superior
      • Pachycephalosaurus - Simple
      • Paraceratherium - Superior
      • Parasaur - Basic
      • Pegomastax - Simple
      • Pelagornis - Regular
      • Phiomia - Basic
      • Plesiosaurus - Superior
      • Pteranodon - Regular
      • Pulmonoscorpius - Regular
      • Purlovia - Regular
      • Quetzalcoatlus - Exceptional
      • Raptor - Simple
      • Rex - Exceptional
      • Rock Elemental - Extraordinary
      • Sabertooth - Regular
      • Sarcosuchus - Regular
      • Spinosaur - Exceptional
      • Stegosaurus - Regular
      • Tapejera - Superior
      • Terror Bird - Regular
      • Therizinosaurus - Exceptional
      • Thorny Dragon - Regular
      • Thylacoleo - Extraordinary
      • Triceratops - Simple
      • Velonasaur - Regular
      • Woolly Rhino - Superior
      • Yutyrannus - Extraordinary

    Exploits

    • Fixed exploit related to water well
    • Fixed exploit related to Titan downloads
    • Fixed exploit related to Velonasaurs
    • Fixed exploit related to Platform Saddles

    Crashes

    • Fixed crash related to shoulder pets
    • Fixed crash related to Taxidermy    

    Managarmr

    • Fixed issue with Managarmr breath causing flyers to teleport
    • Fixed Managarmr's forward dash not triggering consistently when spamming it
    • When Managarmr freezes a dino with a rider, the rider will no longer be dismounted but rather frozen for 1 second
    • Character frozen visual effect should change more smoothly
    • A player frozen either standing, crouching, or prone can no longer change that state
    • Duration of frozen for player characters is now a function of health and armor rating
    • Duration of frozen for player characters is significantly reduced overall
    • Cheat spawning a dino should no longer cause you to get stuck on that dino if it dies while being frozen by Managarmar Ice breath
    • Reduced Managarmr ice breath damage ~25%
    • Added new freeze immune icon

    Environments

    • Fixed buildable space outside of bounds
    • Fixed multiple holes and meshing locations
    • Moved Desert Titan player spawn point to an area inside the structure prevention zone
    • Fixed climbable trees in Extinction

    Kairuku

    • Base affinity increased by 30% now that it has a preferred kibble

    Ice Wyverns

    • Fixed creature icon being blank

    Item Stacks

    • Fixed ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity issue with RawPrimeMeat

    Giganotosaurus

    • Increased damage required to enrage a giga by 55%

    Corrupted Heart

    • Fixed item to use correct icon

    Mind Wipe

    • Characters can be respeced once every 24 hours

    UI

    • Improved search filtering on inventory and crafting menus

    Elevators

    • Set Primitive Elevator Platforms and Tracks to be craftable by wood instead of requiring fungal wood

    Additional PS4/Xbox patch notes:

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    Exploits

    • Fixed exploit related to Tek Swords
    • Fixed exploit related to Rafts on Center

    Managarmr

    • Fixed managarmr space launch bug 
    • Managarmr ice breath is no longer stopped by Dino Leash
    • Speculative fix for the Managarmr breath client crash
    • Whistle Stop and Whistle Follow will interrupt the current ability
    • Ice breath freeze amount is now more significantly reduced by distance
    • Clamped forward dash movement to horizontal plane

    Cryopods

    • Disable following after releasing from Cryo
    • Now show gender in the tooltip
    • Tribe log displays the name of the cryopod owner who's cryopod broke
    • Fix for dino owner not transferring when stealing a cryopod with a dino in it

    Environments

    • Removed the Ruins of Nosti gate
    • Reduced shadow cost of some meshes

    Defenders

    • Defenders are harvestable for light robotic materials

    Bear Traps

    • Bear traps are now placeable again!

    Tek Dinos

    • Now drop electronics/metal as intended

    Movement

    • Fixed players getting stuck when walking off foundations in single player

    Mosasaurus

    • Reduced Mosasaurus speed per level up by 50%     

    Manta

    • Reduced Manta speed per level up by 75%

    Gasbags

    • Set gasbags to mature at the rate of Wooly Rhinos due to similar utility capabilities

    Desert Titan

    • Reduced tamed Desert Titan total hp by 1/3

    ARK Developer Stream Tomorrow!

    Tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific Time on March 5th, members of the ARK development team will be hosting a Developer Livestream on our Twitch channel!

    Our Community-focused livestreams went over well with the community so we decided to restructure slightly to bring even more members of our team into the mix! We invite you to join us from our Seattle office as we discuss the latest developments with ARK.

    In tomorrows stream we will be showcasing and discussing our biggest addition and change to the game: the Structures Plus and Kibble rework.

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    We'll also be answering questions from you--the community--in a live form Digest. 

    The developers on-camera this stream will be:

    • Cedric: Host, Gameplay Programmer
    • Chris: Lead Programmer & Lead Designer
    • Colin: Senior Producer
    • Jen: Community Manager

    We look forward to seeing you all on our Twitch channel tomorrow at 1pm PST!

    Mod Community Updates!

    We're bringing in two new projects to the Sponsored Mod Program this month, and don't forget that we have already started another round of applications for the sponsored mod program. You'll be able to submit an application until April 5th. So polish up those design documents and send them in. We love seeing the amazing projects everyone is working on.

    First up we have Additional Lighting by ReinerSCT. This mod adds a plethora of new lighting options of different colors, styles, and configurations. Ever wanted to make your own disco room, or set up a complex lighting system for your over-the-top castle? This mod will let you do it!

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    We're also happy to bring in the Play as Dino mod by Finntastic. Does anybody else ever use the old mantra "Don't just hunt the raptor... Be the raptor"? No? Just me? Either way, with this mod you can! The author has a lot of cool systems being worked on for this mod and we're happy to provide some support for them.

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    Happy Modding!

    Fan Feature of the Week!

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    AUS Model Update: Parahelicoprion finished by Kaprodonychus

    Evolution Event!

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 8th of March at 1 PM EST until Monday the 11th of March at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    • 2x Harvesting Rates
    • 2x Taming Rates
    • 2x EXP Rates

    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

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    1 hour ago, EviLTrusis said:

    Impossible to play, you cant fly, you cant walk around with dino, make 3 steps and game freezes for 20 seconds, i cant even harvest meat for babys im raising, with that freezing it will take me 10h.

    Jen tweeted that they'd fix that tomorrow apparently... I only seen that as it was off to the sidebar in the front page and it was among the many tweets showing a catastrophic release where many issues were had.

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    Is kibble for imprinting to and are we going to get dodo hatchery plz

     

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    11 hours ago, Syrilian said:

    So I noticed on Dododex that exceptional kibble requires element dust. Isn't that only available on Extinction?

    You can now get Element dust by killing Tek Dinos and harvesting their bodies.

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    2 hours ago, EviLTrusis said:

    Impossible to play, you cant fly, you cant walk around with dino, make 3 steps and game freezes for 20 seconds, i cant even harvest meat for babys im raising, with that freezing it will take me 10h.

    It only lags like this for me in a 50-100 meter radius around my base and only when I leave it and not inside of it. When I'm further away from my base it's back to fine.

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    Fence railing is not snapping to sloped walls or sloped roof pieces correctly. 

     

    ...and NO THANKS for downgrading my Allo, Turtle, Titanoboa and Mantis eggs with hardly any notice, not to mention; removing Titanoboa from the special egg list. I am not happy with WC and that mess of a post announcing this recent patch. Try giving a week’s notice to prepare next time you’re planning to significantly devalue items it took so long to save up.

     

    RAW fish prime, not cooked? Thanks again, for nothing.

     

    Do hesperornis even spawn on Extinction, because I’ve never seen one on that map?

     

    By the way, all the servers are lagging like Bethesda is running things now. Yeah, that means worse than usual.

     

     

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    so as for unlocking the new tek engrams it looks like you can only do it from doing the boss fight on the island server.  example, broodmother and megabon the center dont unlock the new tek engrams, but mega m brood on the island do.  same goes for rag, if u beat rag dragon u dont get the new tek engrams u have to do it on the island.  thats just stupid and needs to be fixed asap.  what difference does it make where u do the boos fight at, it should unlock the same engrams.

     

    ya people dont wanna have bases on each map to unlock the engrams.  all engrams should be able to be unlocked on each map too.  but at least have the dragon on the island unlock the same ones as the dragon on rag please

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    5 hours ago, Leoli said:

    I came looking for the same. Equus forgotten. :´(

    I now find Regular Kibble is ok for taming Equus.  :)

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    We have been arked thanks to this stupid update Monday my Managarmrs gave birth to two sets of twins we had a set of lvl 191 which was a boy and a girl and we also had a set of lvl 195 twins that was also a boy and a girl we started having issues with the internet so we cryopoded all four babies we just took them out to start raising them this morning and my level 191 girl has turned into a boy so now instead of having two females and two males I have three males and a female can u please fix this

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    so when can we expect this useless Patch to be revoked and not be released before you actually for once in your career test a thing before you release it? once again a useless patch that breaks more then it fixes it seem...

    Sure we got a much needed nerf to Manas, but i would rather have the old manas and not have to stand still for 1-2mins when TPing in and out of a base...

     

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    you have to modify the special egg! very little variety! Now it becomes more difficult to tame a griffin for example! and it does not let me do old kibel!

    what can I do now ! if I have server alone in extinction! I am forced to go for other maps!

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    3 hours ago, EviLTrusis said:

    Impossible to play, you cant fly, you cant walk around with dino, make 3 steps and game freezes for 20 seconds, i cant even harvest meat for babys im raising, with that freezing it will take me 10h.

    Yes. When it is not fps, it is the server that hangs. WC, please arrange this quickly.

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    Anyone else having issues snapping 4 high walls into your existing structures, mine wont snap and don't line up  with 4 high walls

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    Did the patch fix trikes being unharvestable? Is imprinting still asking for old kibble?

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    Propably the worst implementation of a mod to a maingame ever. Just hoping WC fixes the snap point issue on S+ mod that they broke completely making everything i and many others have built atm on undedicated servers obsolete and broken. Not feeling the breeze of fun intended of the patch since the original mod was actually working 100% and has option of straight snapping for example making building actually fun and smooth instead of smashing q or e to get a dino pen done with out using hours for 4 straight walls and a gate. Sad to put the game on hold again for days just to get a decent patch making the game more enjoyable. WC needs a miracle to make this big mistake to be worth the wait since there was beta and issues were reported and yet again ignored.

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    Can we please have an official statement on an eta for a fix to S+ snap points?

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    same issue, was working on new build and lo and behold i can't do it cuz nothing will snap i can't place roof pieces to structure, can't snap flooring together so hmmm lets get this right WC please give us an update on when this is gonna be fixed?

     

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    Hey debs there is a glitch on the Xbox where you try to access the new tea storage box and press show more it crashes the game

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    18 hours ago, hud said:

    Dont know for u guys but they raptor me pretty good because special eggs.

    So they pushing me to play on another server and another map because i cant get eggs on extinction

     

    Or did i missed something ??

     

    Titanoboa were supposed to lay “special” eggs, which makes sense because they have a low egg laying frequency and are not common tames among players due to the cost of fertilized eggs. Apparently, WC decided to change things last minute and barely give players enough time to save their eggs from a significant devaluation. If you have Allo, Turtle, Titanoboa or Mantis eggs, they might be worthless if you were saving them for specific creatures. 

     

    #PirateGamesAreLame

     

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    6 minutes ago, Ghostkiller4274 said:

    Hey debs there is a glitch on the Xbox where you try to access the new tea storage box and press show more it crashes the game

    Oh, that is intentional. The most recent patch was intended to frustrate players and make the game less enjoyable. Everything is going as planned.

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    can anyone help i cant transfer servers havent been able to for about a month idk what else todo

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    2 hours ago, Zira said:

    I now find Regular Kibble is ok for taming Equus.  :)

    Saved.

    Thanks for sharing. : )

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    Hey now you can focus your attention on more serious quality of life improvements! Like nerfing or removing C4 or making a proper implimentation of offline raid protection and making Offline raiding a punishable offence with devwiping as a consequence! 

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    I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this yet. But PS4 Large walls stack weird. You can layer the walls inside eachother every 1 wall up. I hope this makes sense. Also, the large walls do not snap down from walls (continuing a tower from a cliff platform into the ground.

     

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    10 minutes ago, stharr01 said:

    can anyone help i cant transfer servers havent been able to for about a month idk what else todo

    My gues is you have a clone floating in the network. start ark just join any official server. then it will ask you to download your char. download it. logout of the server and go to the server with your main char. you should be able to travel again!

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    Please note that ARK is now super freeze broken. This is a example of how important it can be to do a rollback in IT for deployments. Im wondering if this was staged intentionally to make players play other newer games from Wildcard?

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