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

      Eggcellent Adventure Returns!

      Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday April 16th until April 30th, survivors will be able to experience our annual Eggcellent Adventure event on PC, Xbox, and PS4! During Eggcellent Adventure, survivors will be able to collect special "Bunny Eggs" across the ARK from wild Bunny Dodo's. These Bunny Eggs can paint or used in special Cooking Pot recipes to craft new holiday-themed item skins the Marshmallow Dodo Hat and Chocolate Bunny Club, as well as returning skins: Bunny Ears, a Bunny Costume for the Procoptodon, Knitted Chick Hat, and Egg Shell Hat!

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      Bunny Oviraptor's will also drop festive Dino Candy this year. Collect the candy and feed it to your tames for a special festive effect! To top it all off, wild creatures roaming the ARKs will also find themselves feeling eggcellent, sporting bright colours of Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue!

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      New Items:
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_EasterDinoCandy.PrimalItemConsumable_EasterDinoCandy'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoMarshmallowHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoMarshmallowHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_MarshmallowHat.PrimalItemSkin_MarshmallowHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_Club_ChocolateRabbit.PrimalItemSkin_Club_ChocolateRabbit'" 1 0 0

      Existing Items:
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoChickHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoChickHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_EasterChick.PrimalItemSkin_EasterChick'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoEasterEggHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoEasterEggHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_EasterEggHat.PrimalItemSkin_EasterEggHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_BunnyHat.PrimalItemSkin_BunnyHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Leather/PrimalItemSkin_DinoBunnyHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoBunnyHat'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Saddles/PrimalItemCostume_ProcopBunny.PrimalItemCostume_ProcopBunny'" 1 0 0
      cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Halloween/PrimalItemStructure_EasterEgg.PrimalItemStructure_EasterEgg'" 1 0 0

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      Eggcellent Adventure Patch Notes!

      PC Patch Notes:

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      Eggcellent Adventure 4 (2019)!

      • Auto Activates 4/16-4/30
        • Not supported in Primitive Plus mode
      • Wild Bunny Oviraptors
        • 50% of wild Oviraptors (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Oviraptors
        • Cannot be tamed
        • NEW! Drop Easter Candy as they spread Easter joy!
          • Feed your candy to your tame for a fun festive effect!
      • Wild Bunny Dodos
        • 50% of wild Dodos (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Dodos
        • Cannot be tamed
        • Drop Easter Eggs as they spread Easter joy!
      • Easter Eggs
        • Can be placed in the world and painted
      • Easter Skins
        • Craftable in the Cooking Pot from Easter Eggs
        • Bunny Ears Skin
        • Procoptodon Bunny Costume
        • NEW! Marshmallow Dodo Hat
        • NEW! Chocolate Bunny Club
        • Egg Shell Hat
        • Chick Hat
      • Wild creatures have a chance to spawn with additional colors: Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue

      Managarmr

      • Drastically reduce frost breath range
        • Freezing stops at approximately turret range
        • Damage stops at approximately half turret range

      Prim+

      • Fixed inability to craft Primitive+ specific resources in the forge
      • Fixed inability to harvest coal from obsidian
      • Fixed inability to harvest beeswax
      • Fixed problems with beehive functionality
      • Cauldron/Industrial Cooker can now craft new kibble
      • New kibble is now functional on dinos

      Meshing

      • Hole fixes across Aberration, Extinction, Island, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, and The Center
      • Iteration on metrics
      • Desert Titan now requires line-of-sight to do melee or lightning damage
      • Prevented cryoing Karkinos while they are carrying something

      Environment

      • Added bottom cap to mushroom trees on Aberration
      • Fixed Aberration Surface Damage gaps
      • Fixed issue with blue mushrooms not allowing Ankylo to harvest properly on Aberration
      • Moved 4 spawn points to be out of potential geo on The Island
      • Fixed location where player could become stuck on Extinction

      Exploits

      • Fixed exploit related to stacking physics impulses
      • Fixed exploit related to Rockwell Tentacles
      • Fixed exploit related to Tek Swords
      • Fixed exploit related to Fish Baskets

      Platform Saddle

      • Enable platform build limits saddles PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier, can be used to increase this radius on unofficials
      • Prevent platform Saddles counting towards the max turret limit

      Taxidermy

      • Now properly supports Weapons on Humans!
      • Adjusted Desert Titan's dermis offset

      Homestead

      • Icon Iteration
      • Fixed LODs for Tek Triangle Roof
      • Setup colorization for Fence Foundation
      • Setup colorization for Wood Railing

      Kentrosaurus

      • Added a hard clamp to damage reflection

      Equus

      • Fix preferred kibble

      GPS Transponders    

      • Fixed transponders disappearing
      • Placed Transponder Node no longer scales up after restart

      Mind Wipe    

      • Updated description of Mind Wipe to reflect 24-hour cooldown 

      Cryopods

      • Cryosick dinos are no longer able to attack
      • Now use players in-game name in the tribe log

      Industrial Cooker    

      • Now supports pulling water from any connected source
      • Never auto-activates when connected to water

      Extinction

      • Removed GlobalCuddleFoodList Override array

      Turrets

      • Use FastTurretTargeting system automatically for anything moving faster than 300 cm/s

      Sloped Wooden Wall

      • Adjusted Left Sloped Wooden Wall to fit better with attaching to a normal wall

      C4

      • Can now place C4 near ORP protected structures, except near foundations

      Dino Leash        

      • Dino leashes no longer can be placed near enemy foundations

      LOD iteration for

      • Basilisk
      • Flak Armor
      • Ghillie Armor

      Xbox and PS4 Patch Notes:

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      Eggcellent Adventure 4 (2019)!

      • Auto Activates 4/16-4/30
        • Not supported in Primitive Plus mode
      • Wild Bunny Oviraptors
        • 50% of wild Oviraptors (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Oviraptors
        • Cannot be tamed
        • NEW! Drop Easter Candy as they spread Easter joy!
          • Feed your candy to your tame for a fun festive effect!
      • Wild Bunny Dodos
        • 50% of wild Dodos (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Dodos
        • Cannot be tamed
        • Drop Easter Eggs as they spread Easter joy!
      • Easter Eggs
        • Can be placed in the world and painted
      • Easter Skins
        • Craftable in the Cooking Pot from Easter Eggs
        • Bunny Ears Skin
        • Procoptodon Bunny Costume
        • NEW! Marshmallow Dodo Hat
        • NEW! Chocolate Bunny Club
        • Egg Shell Hat
        • Chick Hat
      • Wild creatures have a chance to spawn with additional colors: Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue

      Managarmr

      • Drastically reduce frost breath range
        • Freezing stops at approximately turret range
        • Damage stops at approximately half turret range

      Prim+

      • Fixed inability to craft Primitive+ specific resources in the forge
      • Fixed inability to harvest coal from obsidian
      • Fixed inability to harvest beeswax
      • Fixed problems with beehive functionality
      • Cauldron/Industrial Cooker can now craft new kibble
      • New kibble is now functional on dinos

      Meshing

      • Desert Titan now requires line-of-sight to do melee or lightning damage
      • Prevented cryoing Karkinos while they are carrying something

      Exploits

      • Fixed exploit related to Rockwell Tentacles
      • Fixed exploit related to Tek Swords
      • Fixed exploit related to Fish Baskets

      Environment

      • Aberration
        • Fixed issue with blue mushrooms not allowing Ankylo to harvest properly

      Platform Saddle

      • Enable platform build limits saddles PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier, can be used to increase this radius on unofficials
      • Prevent platform Saddles counting towards the max turret limit

      Taxidermy

      • Now properly supports Weapons on Humans!
      • Adjusted Desert Titan's dermis offset

      Homestead

      • Icon Iteration
      • Fixed LODs for Tek Triangle Roof
      • Setup colorization for Fence Foundation
      • Setup colorization for Wood Railing

      Kentrosaurus

      • Added a hard clamp to damage reflection

      Equus

      • Fix preferred kibble

      GPS Transponders    

      • Fixed transponders disappearing
      • Placed Transponder Node no longer scales up after restart

      Mind Wipe    

      • Updated description of Mind Wipe to reflect 24-hour cooldown 

      Rendering Artifacts

      • Fixed rendering artifact in Scorched Earth Dust Storm
      • Fixed rendering artifact in Extinction Ascension

      Cryopods

      • Cryosick dinos are no longer able to attack
      • Now use players in-game name in the tribe log

      Industrial Cooker    

      • Now supports pulling water from any connected source
      • Never auto-activates when connected to water

      Extinction

      • Removed GlobalCuddleFoodList Override array

      Turrets

      • Use FastTurretTargeting system automatically for anything moving faster than 300 cm/s

      Sloped Wooden Wall

      • Adjusted Left Sloped Wooden Wall to fit better with attaching to a normal wall

      C4

      • Can now place C4 near ORP protected structures, except near foundations

      Dino Leash        

      • Dino leashes no longer can be placed near enemy foundations

      LOD iteration for

      • Basilisk
      • Flak Armor
      • Ghillie Armor

      Egg Painting Contest!

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      After you've managed to hunt down a Bunny Dodo  and find yourself an egg, place the egg down on the ground and take out your paint brush and dyes. You'll be able to paint select regions on the egg as well as free-hand paint it with the brush to paint any design on it. Be creative!

      There will be three competitions with a prize to the winner of $100!

      • PC Egg Painting
      • Console Egg Painting
      • Real-life Egg Painting

      The first two are self-explanatory and make sure in your entry to state whether you're a PC, Xbox, or PS4 user. PC players will be in one category (using a mouse) and console users (using a controller) in another category to make things fair. Players are expected to paint their own designs and downloading templates or images to use is not allowed.

      In the third category, we're looking for you and your tribe mates to get together and paint some eggs in real life that somehow reflect the world of ARK! Screenshot or photo quality won't be taken into consideration but try to get a picture that best shows off your egg.

      The entries will be judged by our community team. Submissions are limited to three eggs per survivor, so choose your best egg. You'll have the month of April to enter, with April 30th being the final day to enter. Submit your images in the comments below, and we look forward to seeing your creativity!

      Update on Meshing...

      “Meshing” is the common term used to reference a variety of exploits in the game that involves going under terrain or behind walls to access unintended areas. While under the terrain, an exploiter may build bases, turrets, and a multitude of other things that prevent fair and fun gameplay for everyone. There are many ways that a player can access these areas but one of the easiest and most common are holes in the mesh itself. The term “collision” in games is what prevents players from being able to go through what would otherwise be hollow 3D objects. Some areas and objects have incorrect collision and provide easy access to areas behind terrain. Other cases of meshing can happen as a result of items in the game or the gameplay functionality they allow. Items like chairs, climbing picks, and platform saddles can be susceptible to exploits like meshing due to how they manipulate the player character.

      Meshing has been a hot topic within the community for some time. Behind the scenes, we have been identifying these vulnerabilities by attacking them at different vantage points. Our ideal goal is to prevent players from getting into the mesh in the first place. We actively look for areas in maps where collision can be improved or tweaked to avoid the occurrence from someone purposefully or intentionally getting under the terrain.  We are happy to report that this upcoming patch (patch number) has considerable improvements in this area. Since prevention is the preferred method to tackle meshing, bugs in items that allow players to access areas behind terrain are a priority for the gameplay team.

      Players in unintended areas are in violation of our Code of Conduct and it is something we take very seriously. The Enforcement Team has employed the use of new data and metrics in an effort to combat meshing and investigate each case thoroughly. In many cases, they are preventing minor issues from becoming substantial ones. The mesh detection tool has provided the Enforcement Team with new data that enables them to act quickly and efficiently. If the mesh detection tool becomes more refined, we plan to integrate it on other platforms (like console) to reduce meshing exploits in a more automated fashion. The Enforcement Team has seen a noticeable drop in reports related to meshing because of these implementations and we feel we are making positive strides towards eliminating this issue as a whole. 

      If you are aware of meshing or exploits that are happening on PC, please report them here by selecting Report Abuse and filling out a quick report:
      https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/requests/new#

      We will continue to keep you updated with any significant advancements on the topic.  It is and has always been, an important topic for us.

      Update on Recent Lost Characters...

      Please see our recent announcement if you were affected by the recent rollback that occurred on the Official Server Network. If you have not submitted your ticket yet, please do so here. The Customer Service team is still actively working through tickets.

      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 19th of April at 1 PM EST until Monday the 22nd of April 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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      700 Mbs of trash forced to download again...

      What did you say...? Demolished vaults? Laggy servers? Fatal errors? LOST CHARACTERS?

      Shut up and take our totally ugly pink-yellow dinos and bunch of useless eggs and skins! And better enjoy it or we'll ignore your ticket! Actually... we will anyways.

       

      Awesome work, WC, as always. Good to know you have some priorities in life.

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      Every time Wildcard updates Ark to fix something, another part of the game glitches out.

      Let's put our guesses here, what part of the game will this update mess up.

       

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      So this egg coloring event makes no sense if I paint an egg and post it here there's a chance one of these clowns in the comments will save the picture and claim it as there own this contest is broken what's stopping someone from stealing someone else's work anyone can claim your work and say its them 

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      Can I just have region paint on Dino’s for official? That’s all I want. 

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      Are you kidding us? Stop nerfing the managarmr. I understand it has to be OP on PvP, but ffs, don't forget about your PvE community! You're making it more and more useless! Com'on..

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      Im glad they are nerfing manas its gotten ridiculous on pvp all you need to pvp is a mana they have made pretty much all other flyers useless since they came out the other patches did help but im glad this patch finally came out the reduction of range to match turrets was well needed you know how annyoing it is to use the teleporter to defend it from a enemy and being frozen instantly and killed literally broke the game

       

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      ? ? thank you wildcard for again screwing over all the PvE players who use managarmrs. PLEASE stop nerfing them. Sorry that PvP ppl use them, but you can't keep breaking them for the players to actually use them as mounts and not PvP griefing dinos.

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      i cant care less about cosmetics the event is poop, no x3 breding and manas where nerf too much you can go to hell wildcard. 

       

       

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      Where's my server!! Nitrado says it is updated and running. Network status is Healthy... So why can't I find my server?!?! Lol... No server is showing up right now. Get it together. 

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      Great job i updated,  logged in come in my base. Nu make mutated direwolf is gone. Was sitting in my procoptodon, every raptoring update i lose a tame because pff this bullpoop. Wildcard your gonna replace it, you guys still ow me rock drakes to. This is bullpoop every update the same bullpoop

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      2 hours ago, Melcreif said:

      This was my point.  ANYONE can create a 2nd account, at least on XBOX you can.  Some folks do it simply for the purpose of having a crafting character, in this case I'd do it so you can continue to play.  If you are in a solo tribe then of course you can't be added to your tribe, but if not then another admin can add your 2nd character.

       

      Also while I've created multiple characters, one for different maps on the same account I can't say I recommend it.  I've accidentally overwritten these characters by transferring my main onto that same map.  I've done this at least 2 or 3 times so I can't say I'll be doing things again that way anytime soon.

      Ah, I see. Personally, I use a different character on every map because I’m always afraid an update or rollback will prevent transfers or delete my character. It’s a pain leveling each, but my dinos don’t starve and my bases don’t decay. 

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      4 minutes ago, ArkP1 said:

      Ah, I see. Personally, I use a different character on every map because I’m always afraid an update or rollback will prevent transfers or delete my character. It’s a pain leveling each, but my dinos don’t starve and my bases don’t decay. 

      yeah and actually this works well with my new strategy as well in using different different accounts.  I've never actually lost a character due to a rollback or glitch, only to the before mentioned transfering a character over another in the same account...

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      What a nerf! I guess manas were to powerfull for PvP, but with that range, the remaining dino for Desert Titan is arge now xD Thanks, really...

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      why are people teksting about 3x breeding ? 
      anyhow im justhappy for the event colors : D i hope this event will last a good while : D 

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      Really Wc??!! Give us a reason to play your game, every other Easter you’ve done 3x breeding, now you just put in 2 x harvesting and taking like a normal weekend? Cmon do what your players want not want you want.

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      Really Wc??!! Give us a reason to play your game, every other Easter you’ve done 3x breeding, now you just put in 2 x harvesting and taking like a normal weekend? Cmon do what your players want not want you want. You say “special evolution event” but in all reality it’s the same exact thing as the other weekends with 2x, and meshing will never get fixed you just won’t admit to yourselves, your game is raptored no cap

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      Thank you wildcard for destroying the managarm, congratulations for a bad job,
      now not only nerf the ice beam but it does not fly well now.
      
      Thanks guys.
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      Sigh. So much for the mana being an end game mount... now all it is good for is short distance fast travel, with no weight. If you are going to make it useless for fighting, atleast buff its weight and stam to make it useful for utility purposes.

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      There is no way to balance a game for both pve and pvp

      Edited by Chubchub2020
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      All my stuff is gone. My character was deleted in this update or something. All my buildings, dinos, everything is gone. I am so pissed!

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      11 hours ago, PangaeaServersArk said:

      Does this mean well be able to make steel Ignots And Other Stuff On Primitive Plus??????

      You would think so, but no. I even made a new refining forge, and it accepts the ingredients for steel (and glass), but does not make them. Very frustrating.

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      6 minutes ago, qaphsiel said:

      You would think so, but no. I even made a new refining forge, and it accepts the ingredients for steel (and glass), but does not make them. Very frustrating.

      Yeah I'm having the same issue unfortunately.

       

      Also, the bugged canteen has been completely removed from the engrams. Best we have is the water jar.

       

      Edit: Tried the industrial forge through creative. Items still cannot be placed inside to make prim+ materials.

      Edited by Lyricmonster96

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      Already something bust! Unless this is an old problem  and I didn't notice? 3DScrnf.jpg

      it's the s+ Mods railing. I haven't tried Homestead's cause it's disabled on my server.

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      So when are they doing the next charity event so I can do some raising? 

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