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  • Community Crunch 243: Tender Loving Care 3 Details, Official Server Maintenance and More!


    Our Tender Loving Care 3 update approaches on November 7th and, aside from the dedicated reworks of the Stego and Mammoth, we’ve added a bunch of Quality of Life changes to make your time on the ARK more enjoyable. 

    We’re particularly excited about introducing insect and wyvern breeding to the game and look forward to players getting their new breedlines goin!. We’re aware these creatures may need some balance once breedlines get underway and we’ll monitor and adjust as necessary. 

    New Breedable Creatures

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    The insects and creatures that can now be bred are: Spider, Onyc, Moth, Scorpion, Arthropluera, Mantis and the mighty Wyverns!

    The new (Wyvern are unchanged) hatching/gestation and maturation times are as follows:

    Spider

    • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and  25 minutes (Matches Pachy)
    • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 1 hour, and 1 minute (Matches Dimorph)

    Bat 

    • Total Gestation Time: 3 hours and 58 minutes (Matches Procoptodon)
    • Total Maturation Time: 1day, 4 hours, and 3 minutes (Matches Kairuku)

    Moth

    • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (Matches Kairuku)
    • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 6 hours, and 51 minutes (Matches Pegomastax)

    Scorpion

    • Egg Hatch Time: 1 hour and 59 minutes (Matches Raptor)
    • Total Maturation Time: 1 day, 13 hours, and 12 minutes (Matches Raptor)

    Arthropluera

    • Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 29 minutes (Matches Sarco)
    • Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 3 hours, and 26 minutes (Matches Stego)

    Mantis

    • Egg Hatch Time: 2 hours and 46 minutes (Matches Stego)
    • Total Maturation Time: 2 days, 6 hours, and 27 minutes (Matches Tapejara)

    Creature Quality of Life Changes

    In addition to insect breeding, we went back and showed some love to a few of ARK's well-known inhabitants.
    Giganotosaurus 

    • Reduced maturation time by approximately 15% (Total growth is around 10~ days)

    Diplocaulus

    • Increased base health by 33% (from 190 to 250.3)
    • Increased movement speed when ridden by 25%

    Thylacoleo

    • Added a (slow draining) bleed to its basic attack

    Megachelon

    • Reduced depth requirement for breeding so that it can be bred on other maps

    Wyvern

    • Wyverns are now breedable (Zombie Wyverns cannot be bred)
    • Slight stat rebalance now that they’re breedable and to bring them in line with Crystal Wyverns

    Megalodon

    • Reduced gestation/aging times to match Megaloceros
    • Pack Bonus: Damage Reduction and Damage Increase per pack member within range
    • Added a bleed to its basic attack

    Jerboa

    • Increase base weight capacity from 55 to 120 (Matches Bulbdog)

    Ankylosaurus

    • Increase metal weight reduction by 10% (from total reduction of 75% to 85%)

    Doedicurus

    • You can now turn when rolling with a Doed (similarly to the Genesis Race Mission)

    Basilisk

    • Now has eyes

    New Feature: Taming HUD

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    Use the interactive taming HUD to monitor your unconscious wild tamable creatures. Keep track of the following:

    • Creature's Gender and Level
    • Taming and Unconscious Progress
    • Taming Effectiveness
    • Current Health and Food status.
    • Distance from your location
    • An option to track specific creatures via in-world waypoints (which can be hovered for an over-screen overlay displaying additional information).

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    Boss Element Reward Increase
    We’ve decided to increase the Boss Element reward on some maps to bring the Ele more into line with where we’re at with new expansions.

    • Element reward from The Island bosses has been increased by 100%
    • Element reward from The Center bosses has been increased by 100%
    • Element reward from Scorched Earth has been increased by 50%

    New Feature: Turret Radius Settings

    A quick and easy way to update the settings of your nearby turrets within a radius. It’s set to currently match the Official Server Turret Limit radius, but players can also toggle viewing the radius on/off. The current functionality it supports is as follows:

     

    • The ability to set a pin code to all turrets in range
    • The ability to copy settings to all turrets in range
    • The ability to copy settings to pin code-selected turrets in range

    The settings which can be copied are: power state, range, targeting, warning

    We are anxious to get these community requests and quality of life improvements into your hands!  The Tender Loving Care 3 update launches on November 7th on all platforms!  We realize the TLC patch releasing at the same time as Extra Life is less than ideal for players. To compensate, we'll be extending the duration of the Extra Life boosted rates so everyone can enjoy the boost!


    Official Server Maintenance and Infrastructure Upgrade

    Next week on Tuesday/Wednesday the 27th/28th, we plan to upgrade our Server Transfer infrastructure. The intent behind these upgrades is to resolve problems with character loss, player timeout, latency, and failure to download or upload player data at times.

    We've recently put a lot of time into refining the transfer logic, and combined with the hardware upgrades; we should see some significant improvements with our Official Servers. Our goal is to get these upgrades to you as soon as possible, particularly before our Extra Life weekend, where we expect a lot of player transfer footprint to take place so that our servers and transfers are running as smoothly as possible.

    We anticipate that the TRANSFER downtime could last up to 24 hours, and this could be simultaneously on PC, Xbox, and PS4 or take place one after the other. We will provide a more specific timeline of when this update will take place per platform early next week.

     


    EVO Event: Fear Evolved

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    Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Thursday the 22nd of Oct at 4 PM EST until Friday the 6th of Nov at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

    • 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching
    • 2x Harvesting
    • 2x Taming
    • 2x XP

     


    Fan Art

    Ravager by bluedragonark

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    Velonasaur Variant by Nisis

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    Snow Owl by Allomro_395

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    Inktober 2020: Day 15 by vernhestand

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    Deinonychus by dra

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    Atmosphere May Inn and Uzi by kawarayane

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    Catch you on the flip side!
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    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

     

     


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    Omg. I love what you guys have done. About time for some and congrats on things we even didnt think about. 

    Keep it up dev's. 

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    20 hours ago, MayaPatch said:

    the Kraken's better dino mod (this mod is amazing and gives an utility to almost all the dinos si taming them really worth, plus several abilities that we should really have on Ark for a better quality life)xD

    Gotta agree with this. One of my personal favorite mods. 

    Yay! Spiders are now breedable in vanilla! 

    Now to give them wall climbing and Bolas web shot :)

     

     

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    Wow basks have eyes. What idiot came up with that. Make them breedable Jesus. How about combat numbers for console. Or ab dimorphs actually spawning on ab. 

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    Why the hell would wild card allow skiffs on aberration when it’s a no flyer map . So dumb

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    17 minutes ago, Alaskancaptian said:

    Why the hell would wild card allow skiffs on aberration when it’s a no flyer map . So dumb

    What does that have to do with this thread?

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    Maybe one day we can have breedable crabs, Drakes and Basilisk.



    One day!

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    Wow one of the best update notes I've seen in a long time.

     

    Good job WC keep em coming 

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    WC hope you read new comments. I am so, so happy to hear about this tlc. I have wanted breedable bugs and bats forever!!! 

    Thank you so much!

    Keep being AWESOME! Those who love you most are playing with your game not trolling you with negative comments. 😍

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    My Tek Trikes are now completely broken, before the cryo pods worked on genesis and could be used and bred there, now they are broken on all servers and just deinonychus on all servers..

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    On 10/24/2020 at 4:43 AM, Banaanzxcvbnm said:

    it says in big fat yellow "transfer" downtime 

    Yeah it does - after they edited it. 

    Do try to keep up, there's a good lad. 

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    Looks great excited to breed. You should allow the Big Apes to wield tools too while you're at it!

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    Can PC player not play anymore i am unable to join servers at all dedis and regular servers and theres no way i am banned havent done anything

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    Fear Evolved without fun?! Yes, because there is hard to find pumpkins, scarecrows and graves. Good to have colors, good to have ghosts skins, good to have boosted multipliers...
    BUT WE CANT COOK ANY EVO STUFF

     

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    nice update!! excited for it. Let's release it on time also 😉 not late in the day or the day after 😊

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    I knew when I first saw this that they were about to break the game again. Now its released and sure enough you guys did it again. Wildcard you guys honestly suck at what you do

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    This update was one of the best updates ever btw can there be a separate news area for ark on the switch it deserves more love than it got especially since it is kinda dead and only has one map

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    4 minutes ago, Quagzorkan6777 said:

    can there be a separate news area for ark on the switch

    I think that would be rather pointless. When was the last time the Switch got any news or updates?

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    So xbox is still without the update. And server maintenance is about to bring servers down for 1-2 days. The Fear event for xbox will still end on the same date as other platforms? Xbox has already lost half the event window. That sucks WC.

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    Just now, StinkyFingerton said:

    So xbox is still without the update.

    No, Xbox has the update, has been out for at least 10 hours now.

    Just now, StinkyFingerton said:

    And server maintenance is about to bring servers down for 1-2 days.

    No, it is only transfers that will be down for upto 24 hours. Servers will still be up and running.

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