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  • Community Crunch 349: ARK 2 Carnotaurus Concept, EVO Extension, and More!

    Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!


    This week we're dropping a sneak peek at our favorite ARK2 tiny-armed, horned stomper in the form of the Carnotaurus! Granted, it's technically the only creature with all of those characteristics combined but the point is - we love our fresh iteration of the Carno and hope you do too! We carno tell you how excited we are to drop ARK2 morsels (sorry!)

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    Introducing Carnotaurus: The Horned Terror

     


     

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    We're submitting an update for Xbox to resolve performance issues, especially on old-gen hardware (PC too!).  Unfortunately, this delays the PlayStation launch until next week as we'll need to incorporate these fixes.

    We'll keep you updated on the progress!

     


     

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    Our Love Evolved EVO event is still live until February 20th! Unlike traditional ARK holiday events, only rates and wild dino colors will be active for holiday EVO Events.  

    Survivors on Nintendo Switch can experience a traditional Love Evolved experience until Feb 20th!

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    • 2/10/23 - 2/20/23

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    *Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates. 

    • Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
    • Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
    • ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
    • Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

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    • Dark Lavender
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    • Magenta
    • Dino Dark Purple
    • Dino Light Red
    • Deep Pink
    • Dark Red
    • Lemon Lime
    • Red
    • Actual Black

     


     

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     We are deeply saddened by the passing of Tony “Thick44” Schnur.
    His positive impact on the ARK community cannot be overstated. His kindness and passion
     for games left a lasting impact on those who knew him and fostered a beautifully supportive community. There was something very charming about the dynamic between Tony and his four Neebs Gaming comrades that led to their content being cherished by ARK players and gamers in general. We would like to extend our deepest condolences
     to his family, his friends and his community during this time of mourning.
    Although you have ascended, your legacy will never be forgotten.
    Long live the Wyvern King!


     We'll cook up a steak in your honor, Soldier. Thank you ❤️

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    We would like to share with you Neebs Gaming’s very first ARK: Survival Evolved video,
    where Thick sits down with Neebs and Appsro to see if he can get them interested in playing the game.
    This video was the start of legendary tales told through more than 300 episodes. 

     

     

    We have a plan to add something to our Valguero shrine for Those Who Have Ascended for both Tony along with other community members who have passed. Whilst the shrine is dedicated to all, we'd like to more personally honor people individually. We have had the intention of adding a wall where names can be added for some time but we'd like this to be implemented in a dynamic way on the technical side so this will take a little time.

     


     

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    Over on Twitter, @TeamSOTF is hosting their Winter Cup 2023.
    The main event will be held on the final Saturday of the month, February 25, 2023 11:00 AM Pacific Time.
    It will be hosted on Twitch and YouTube by Icebox, Omnikevfka and Raasclark.
    For more information, you can join their Discord!

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    Creator: Bemo Guinness

    Follow Bemo Guiness as he goes to tame a second Carcharodontosaurus to start breeding and working towards getting an army.

    Creator: Kaaaay

    Watch German Twitch broadcaster Kaaaay expertly fight his way to the top in ARK: Survival of the Fittest.
    (Audio in German, but a skilled gameplay is universally understood!)

     

     

     

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    A little maewing by @Hanna_Otter

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    ARK parasaur by deathfeigning

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    Ark Survival Evolved Illustration by Julia Viita

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    Valguero in the morning by @SLAPunque

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    Rhyniognatha by @bonten_ARK

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    Microraptor by @k3zk_627

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    Little Wolf by @pepepesho_setu

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    Perhaps one of the best Monarky adventures yet... by @OfficialMonarky

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    Dawn by Izi

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    Catch you next week!
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    On 2/20/2023 at 11:48 PM, CosmicSkeleton said:

    Pretty sure most fossils that come out of china at this point are either real and end up in some rich dudes private collection or fake and reconstructed out of multiple different fossils or materials. That aside weren't maniraptorians one of the few groups that we knew had species that were feathered?

    Most likely not. Here more info.
    Birds Did Not Evolve from Dinosaurs, Say Evolutionists
    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.

    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.
    Birds did not evolve from dinosaurs: what creationists have been pointing out for years is now  buttressed by new research.
    The study focuses on the relationship between birds’ leg and pelvis anatomy and their breathing system, and notes the
    absence of that relationship in dinosaurs. This is only the latest volley in the debate over bird evolution.
     Expect to hear either a sharp, vocal response from other evolutionists—or total silence.


    Background The research hinges—almost literally—on the femur (upper leg bone) of birds. Unlike other walking creatures, a bird’s femur does not move significantly, and birds instead articulate the lower portion of their leg to walk or run. Quick’s surprising discovery is that this “knee running” anatomy, with nearly fixed femur bones and musculature, is crucial in preventing a bird’s air-sac lung from collapsing whenever the bird takes a breath.

    Quick explained, “This is fundamental to bird physiology. It’s really strange that no one realized this before. The position of the thigh bone and muscles in birds is critical to their lung function, which in turn is what gives them enough lung capacity for flight.”

    Dinosaurs lack this fixed femur, however, and that includes the theropod dinosaurs from which birds supposedly evolved. Oregon State zoologist John Ruben, a coauthor on the paper, commented, “Theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. Their abdominal air sac, if they had one, would have collapsed. That undercuts a critical piece of supporting evidence for the dinosaur-bird link.”

    He continued, “It’s really kind of amazing that after centuries of studying birds and flight we still didn’t understand a basic aspect of bird biology.” Ruben added that the appearance of birds before dinosaurs in the fossil record is a “serious problem” that is ignored by those who advocate dinosaur-to-bird evolution “That’s quite possible and is routinely found in evolution. It just seems pretty clear now that birds were evolving all along on their own and did not descend directly from the theropod dinosaurs, which lived many millions of years later,” 

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    On 2/17/2023 at 4:43 PM, Cancan001 said:

    Thick44 rest easy legend! We need a statue with thick44 and cooter to remember them, and now they fly together and forever in our hearts 

    We should have a statue of him on the island or rag in his honor.

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    2 hours ago, Maria064 said:

    Most likely not. Here more info.
    Birds Did Not Evolve from Dinosaurs, Say Evolutionists
    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.

    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.
    Birds did not evolve from dinosaurs: what creationists have been pointing out for years is now  buttressed by new research.
    The study focuses on the relationship between birds’ leg and pelvis anatomy and their breathing system, and notes the
    absence of that relationship in dinosaurs. This is only the latest volley in the debate over bird evolution.
     Expect to hear either a sharp, vocal response from other evolutionists—or total silence.


    Background The research hinges—almost literally—on the femur (upper leg bone) of birds. Unlike other walking creatures, a bird’s femur does not move significantly, and birds instead articulate the lower portion of their leg to walk or run. Quick’s surprising discovery is that this “knee running” anatomy, with nearly fixed femur bones and musculature, is crucial in preventing a bird’s air-sac lung from collapsing whenever the bird takes a breath.

    Quick explained, “This is fundamental to bird physiology. It’s really strange that no one realized this before. The position of the thigh bone and muscles in birds is critical to their lung function, which in turn is what gives them enough lung capacity for flight.”

    Dinosaurs lack this fixed femur, however, and that includes the theropod dinosaurs from which birds supposedly evolved. Oregon State zoologist John Ruben, a coauthor on the paper, commented, “Theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. Their abdominal air sac, if they had one, would have collapsed. That undercuts a critical piece of supporting evidence for the dinosaur-bird link.”

    He continued, “It’s really kind of amazing that after centuries of studying birds and flight we still didn’t understand a basic aspect of bird biology.” Ruben added that the appearance of birds before dinosaurs in the fossil record is a “serious problem” that is ignored by those who advocate dinosaur-to-bird evolution “That’s quite possible and is routinely found in evolution. It just seems pretty clear now that birds were evolving all along on their own and did not descend directly from the theropod dinosaurs, which lived many millions of years later,” 

    You're using quotations but I need a link to a source dude. As an aside convergent evolution is a thing. Animals evolve similar features all the time despite not actually being related. Take for example anteaters and pangolins, two entirely different animals from entirely different ecosystems who's only connection is that they're both in class mammalia. In spite of they they've both evolved forelimbs and tongues designed for digging up ant/termite mounds to devour the occupants. Feathers may not necessarily be a sign that one became another, they may just be something that came about because for one reason or another they made the animal with them more successful and thus got passed on to future generations. 

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    33 minutes ago, loudplatipus said:

    Hatzegopteryx Skeletal by SassyPaleoNerd on DeviantArt

     

    We already have a Quetz.

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    20 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    We already have a Quetz.

    But the quetz is very outdated and has little to no uses. And they are just a standard knockout tame.

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    3 minutes ago, loudplatipus said:

    But the quetz is very outdated and has little to no uses. And they are just a standard knockout tame.

    I wish they would retool it. Make it useful again.

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    1 hour ago, Joebl0w13 said:

    I wish they would retool it. Make it useful again.

    Yea i hope they do a huge tlc overhall.

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    22 hours ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

    You're using quotations but I need a link to a source dude. As an aside convergent evolution is a thing. Animals evolve similar features all the time despite not actually being related. Take for example anteaters and pangolins, two entirely different animals from entirely different ecosystems who's only connection is that they're both in class mammalia. In spite of they they've both evolved forelimbs and tongues designed for digging up ant/termite mounds to devour the occupants. Feathers may not necessarily be a sign that one became another, they may just be something that came about because for one reason or another they made the animal with them more successful and thus got passed on to future generations. 

    Modern birds found with dinosaurs
    https://creation.com/modern-birds-with-dinosaurs

    Theropod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds? Not Likely, Says Study
    https://www.science20.com/news_articles/theropod_dinosaurs_evolved_birds_not_likely_says_study

    Fossil shows birds evolved before dinosaurs
    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/06/23/142745.htm


    Why birds are NOT descended from dinosaurs
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192019/Why-birds-NOT-descended-dinosaurs.html

    More Proof That Dinosaurs Lived with 'Later' Creatures
    https://www.icr.org/article/more-proof-that-dinosaurs-lived-with
     

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    36 minutes ago, Maria064 said:

    Modern birds found with dinosaurs
    https://creation.com/modern-birds-with-dinosaurs

    Theropod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds? Not Likely, Says Study
    https://www.science20.com/news_articles/theropod_dinosaurs_evolved_birds_not_likely_says_study

    Fossil shows birds evolved before dinosaurs
    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/06/23/142745.htm


    Why birds are NOT descended from dinosaurs
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192019/Why-birds-NOT-descended-dinosaurs.html

    More Proof That Dinosaurs Lived with 'Later' Creatures
    https://www.icr.org/article/more-proof-that-dinosaurs-lived-with
     

    Most of that is credited to Carl Werner’s "work". Which isn't scientific research at all. He's a religious hack who wanted to sell DVDs and Youtube videos. He hasn't contributed a single thing to the scientific community. Nothing presented for peer review. 

    That's a long way of saying, most of those sources are not based on scientific research. 

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    47 minutes ago, Maria064 said:

    Modern birds found with dinosaurs
    https://creation.com/modern-birds-with-dinosaurs

    Theropod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds? Not Likely, Says Study
    https://www.science20.com/news_articles/theropod_dinosaurs_evolved_birds_not_likely_says_study

    Fossil shows birds evolved before dinosaurs
    https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/06/23/142745.htm


    Why birds are NOT descended from dinosaurs
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1192019/Why-birds-NOT-descended-dinosaurs.html

    More Proof That Dinosaurs Lived with 'Later' Creatures
    https://www.icr.org/article/more-proof-that-dinosaurs-lived-with
     

    Gonna have to side with Joe on this. It's more or less equivalent to trying to defer to Jack "the Rex was whack" Horner for information regarding the lifestyle of tyrannosaurus. Lots of speculation but without someone to back it, it's hard to just take it at face value.

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    On 2/23/2023 at 8:35 PM, Maria064 said:

    Most likely not. Here more info.
    Birds Did Not Evolve from Dinosaurs, Say Evolutionists
    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.

    Oregon State University scientists have released a new study debunking the alleged evolution of dinosaurs into birds.
    Birds did not evolve from dinosaurs: what creationists have been pointing out for years is now  buttressed by new research.
    The study focuses on the relationship between birds’ leg and pelvis anatomy and their breathing system, and notes the
    absence of that relationship in dinosaurs. This is only the latest volley in the debate over bird evolution.
     Expect to hear either a sharp, vocal response from other evolutionists—or total silence.


    Background The research hinges—almost literally—on the femur (upper leg bone) of birds. Unlike other walking creatures, a bird’s femur does not move significantly, and birds instead articulate the lower portion of their leg to walk or run. Quick’s surprising discovery is that this “knee running” anatomy, with nearly fixed femur bones and musculature, is crucial in preventing a bird’s air-sac lung from collapsing whenever the bird takes a breath.

    Quick explained, “This is fundamental to bird physiology. It’s really strange that no one realized this before. The position of the thigh bone and muscles in birds is critical to their lung function, which in turn is what gives them enough lung capacity for flight.”

    Dinosaurs lack this fixed femur, however, and that includes the theropod dinosaurs from which birds supposedly evolved. Oregon State zoologist John Ruben, a coauthor on the paper, commented, “Theropod dinosaurs had a moving femur and therefore could not have had a lung that worked like that in birds. Their abdominal air sac, if they had one, would have collapsed. That undercuts a critical piece of supporting evidence for the dinosaur-bird link.”

    He continued, “It’s really kind of amazing that after centuries of studying birds and flight we still didn’t understand a basic aspect of bird biology.” Ruben added that the appearance of birds before dinosaurs in the fossil record is a “serious problem” that is ignored by those who advocate dinosaur-to-bird evolution “That’s quite possible and is routinely found in evolution. It just seems pretty clear now that birds were evolving all along on their own and did not descend directly from the theropod dinosaurs, which lived many millions of years later,” 

    I might be wrong but if you look at Archeopteryx and early cretaceous birds (which still have many non-avian fearures, such as claws), you can see the femur slowly retreating as we go forward. Dinosaurs and Birds did live together, becouse they split during the late Jurassic period. But again, i might be wrong since i did not do as many research as you did, but it's also hard to find information about Cretaceous Bird Femurs.

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    1 hour ago, Haumea said:

    I might be wrong but if you look at Archeopteryx and early cretaceous birds (which still have many non-avian fearures, such as claws), you can see the femur slowly retreating as we go forward. Dinosaurs and Birds did live together, becouse they split during the late Jurassic period. But again, i might be wrong since i did not do as many research as you did, but it's also hard to find information about Cretaceous Bird Femurs.

    That's the trouble with paleontology. We have so little to work with; so few intact specimens, so many eons of evolutionary shifts yet undiscovered, so much land to cover, fossils swallowed or simply tossed about by the depths of an ever rising and falling sea and crushed to shale beneath its weight and tides. The land issue is particularly troublesome since spots containing fossils could very well have been uprooted and destroyed for the march of civilization. Who knows how much we've lost because farmer brown needed more land for crops or big daddy gubmint decided that some random patch of land would be the perfect spot to pave a new road that'll just be filled with potholes within the year because the ground was never stable enough for it.

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    20 hours ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

    That's the trouble with paleontology. We have so little to work with; so few intact specimens, so many eons of evolutionary shifts yet undiscovered, so much land to cover, fossils swallowed or simply tossed about by the depths of an ever rising and falling sea and crushed to shale beneath its weight and tides. The land issue is particularly troublesome since spots containing fossils could very well have been uprooted and destroyed for the march of civilization. Who knows how much we've lost because farmer brown needed more land for crops or big daddy gubmint decided that some random patch of land would be the perfect spot to pave a new road that'll just be filled with potholes within the year because the ground was never stable enough for it.

    The big problem is also that so may scientist and  paleontologist refer to the Archaeoraptor as the missing link. to be the proof the dinosaurs became birds.
    But they cant and should not  refer to it for it was proven to be a fake made by humans under the 90s.   but how can thy sit there and say its the missing link and proof for it  when it wasn't even a real animal? it never existed for its put together by different animals. one small land animal and some other things cant remember the name of it

    Another link to it.  https://crev.info/2019/03/why-is-china-the-leader-in-feathered-dinosaur-fossils/

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    7 hours ago, Maria064 said:

    The big problem is also that so may scientist and  paleontologist refer to the Archaeoraptor as the missing link. to be the proof the dinosaurs became birds.
    But they cant and should not  refer to it for it was proven to be a fake made by humans under the 90s.   but how can thy sit there and say its the missing link and proof for it  when it wasn't even a real animal? it never existed for its put together by different animals. one small land animal and some other things cant remember the name of it

    Another link to it.  https://crev.info/2019/03/why-is-china-the-leader-in-feathered-dinosaur-fossils/

    Again it's hard to take that link at face value with Werner being a cited source

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    12 hours ago, Maria064 said:

    The big problem is also that so may scientist and  paleontologist refer to the Archaeoraptor as the missing link. to be the proof the dinosaurs became birds.
    But they cant and should not  refer to it for it was proven to be a fake made by humans under the 90s.   but how can thy sit there and say its the missing link and proof for it  when it wasn't even a real animal? it never existed for its put together by different animals. one small land animal and some other things cant remember the name of it

    Another link to it.  https://crev.info/2019/03/why-is-china-the-leader-in-feathered-dinosaur-fossils/

    I don't think all 12 Archaeopteryx fossils are fake.

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    15 hours ago, Haumea said:

    I don't think all 12 Archaeopteryx fossils are fake.

    Also a valid point to bring up. Unless everyone conspired together to make each fossil have the same skeletal features down to minute details and then when through the painstaking process of making sure all of them got jumbled differently to make it look authentic it would be hard to believe that each one is fake. Maybe a handful are forgeries or piecemeal, but all of them? I don't see it.

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    How ridiculous is it that it's about to be March 2023 and we still have not been given an actual release date for ARK2?? I mean ALL the hyper around it and WILDCARD can't even be bothered with telling loyal players when to expect the new game!? 

     

    It's so bloody frustrating!!!!

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    3 minutes ago, Myztii89 said:

    How ridiculous is it that it's about to be March 2023 and we still have not been given an actual release date for ARK2?? I mean ALL the hyper around it and WILDCARD can't even be bothered with telling loyal players when to expect the new game!? 

     

    It's so bloody frustrating!!!!

    We're getting an ARK roadmap next month so we might find out more then hopefully.

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    rip the wyvern king, you will always be remembered

     

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    Yo espero que esté ark 2 no se me buge tanto como el primero 

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    estando acostumbrado a los gráficos de ARK esto se ve impresionante 

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