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  • Community Crunch 394: Custom Cosmetic System, Bonus Rates, and More!

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    Remember the upcoming Simple Game Framework and Custom Cosmetic system we unveiled last week for the Development Kit? Well, this week we're diving deep into how you will be able to unleash your inner architect and fashionista to transform your ARK experience!

    The new "Custom Cosmetic" system allows players to dynamically apply player-generated costumes to players and dinos, end-user-created skins to armors and weapons, and end-user-created skins to all the game's structures. These can have endless client-side functionality, including network messaging and limited persistent replicated data storage. For structures, this effectively enables infinite visual variety and functional enhancement through player-created cosmetics, which do not require any server-updating or loading onto the server.

    • Phase 1, launching Feb 1, will require clients to manually install such Custom Cosmetic Mods in order to see and use them on Official Servers.
    • Phase 2, launching April 1, will automatically download them in the background when encountered during gameplay. Note: Clients can disable usage of these globally or per-Mod-ID. Servers can disable globally or use a whitelist (we suggest servers use our official whitelist, which will be the default). The cosmetics allowed on official servers will be dynamically-white-listed on a daily basis by Overwolf and Studio Wildcard to avoid any exploity or issue-causing cosmetics.

    Here are some initial functional Structure Custom Cosmetics that we'll be launching next week, as simple examples to show Modders some things that can easily be done in addition to visual swaps:

     

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    Can be placed over any normal wall & turns it into an adjustable glass panel (can hide borders to create larger or different-sized panes & can make it opaque, transparent, or one-way)

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    Can be placed over the normal or the omnidirectional lamppost. Adds the ability to set a primary & secondary color (White, Red, Green, Blue, or the paint color of the light), a primary & secondary intensity (off, low, medium, high) & a blink speed (fast, slow). Fast blinking creates a strobe effect & slow blinking blinks every second. The slow blinking is synchronized to the network time so that turning on multiple lamps will keep them all blinking in sync. (network time is overkill for this, but we wanted to give modders an example that’s useful for longer periods as well)

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    Two players can play a game of tic tac toe on the wooden table. Keeps a running total game wins & identifies players by their unique ID string, so should be able to keep playing across sessions (no time out, so can each make a move when back at base... the game can be reset at any time, though).

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    Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-bowser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

    This video features:

     

     

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    Are you interested in modding for ARK? Here's your chance to dive in! Our seasoned modding expert, Garuga123, will guide you through the creative process of making a new character - from animations to physics. This three part series will start on Saturday, February 3rd, at 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific and continue every other week at the same time.

    Bring your questions, enthusiasm, and a thirst for knowledge as we embark on this modding journey together. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from one of our most popular modding members.

    • Session 1
      • February 3rd, 10 AM - 12PM Pacific
      • Visual elements - starting a new character, setting up the animations, mesh, physics, etc.
    • Session 2
      • February 17th, 10 AM - 12 PM Pacific
      • Blueprinting - setting up the actual character BPs
    • Session 3
      • March 2nd, 10 AM - 12 PM Pacific
      • Going Live - getting the mod prepped, testing issues, uploading, etc.

    Watch on Garuga or on SurvivetheArk's Twitch channels!

     

     

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, January 29th.

    • PVP/PVE: 1.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 1.5x Breeding
    • Small Tribes: 4x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 3.5x Breeding
    • ARKpocalypse: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience + 4.5x Breeding

     

     

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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

    Help us discover your talent by tagging your art with #ARKPhotoMode or #ARKFanart on social media!

     

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    Creator: Veno feat. Raasclark

    Veno and Raasclark's editors have a minute to draw Ark Creatures from memory. Then Veno and Raasclark have to guess (by taming) what creature it is!

     

    Creator: MissVadams

    A beginners guide to ARK: Survival Ascended; how to tame your very first dino!

     

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    Fan art by rainichor

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    Light Pets by @ewo_zaur

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    ARK Mosasaurus by @DW_ARK

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    Sky by @WolfTek7

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    An ill-tempered stegosaur by @Fern_paleo1

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    Mía vs giga by @StudiosGoji

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    Lava Lizard by BumpySlays22

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    Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor (no mods) by I BARDEN I

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    One King To Rule Them All by ar0y2810

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    The sea is so wide, so big, so scary by @sulumee55

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    The Challenger by @SwordswiperYt

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    Photo Mode by cosmicman5455

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    Enjoy your weekend!
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    LEON1DAZ

    We’ll time to tame a giraffe and a mushroom allo

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    badjuejue

    Any reason why the post comes later and later? 

     

    Edited by badjuejue

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    doverbeach

    How about something we can place over dinos so that we dismount outside of them.

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    nipe

    Was just wondering where this is, and why Dollie is acting community manager in the Discord.. Also 1.5x rates going live at 04:08 AM SATURDAY Central European Time is NOT okay.. It's already past 12 AM in OC and far-east Asia. Can we please go back to where it starts around 7pm CET?! 🤬

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    AdmiralMorgan

    It’s been two months now even though windows 10 was supposed to be back on official PvP within a week. Update???

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    Kobayudon

    Will ARK Survival Ascended be going live on PlayStation in Japan later in January ?

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    Oughter

    The hardest part about inconsistent timing of rate changes is planning to breed things. In ASE rates were (with few exception) changed around 1pm EST, or heads up was provided to let us know when they'd change. 

    With all the events and rates of ASA it's been a variable time. So for example today, waiting til around the "normal" time and nothing, even waited til the latest previous rate drop in ASA, nothing. So breed everything, do imprints. So now because rates changed without notice much later, the breeding intervals are on cooldown for longer than if the rate was planned/announced or at a regular time. Imprints are an 8 hour cool down, so on some tames the final imprint will be missed as it's now raising faster than it would and the imprint is longer than if we had waited to do the imprint inside the rate weekend. 

    Love the rates, don't get me wrong, they are extremely welcomed. But if there could be some consistency or heads up they are coming so survivors can plan accordingly and make the most of them! Please and thank you

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    rbrjunior

    interesting, but the date of the opening of the transfers? date of the new The Center map? Failure to meet dates is what bothers me most today, incomplete information.

     

     

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    Anything

    We need more mod space and we need the shop mods back 

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    Bagsmods

    Instead of adding more content please fix the servers they crash lag out tickets not answered ect bosses broken spawn in no boss loose everything 

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    Ferchi

    boss Ape and Dragon still broken with no info

    full ruberbanding

    and where is the new transfer date or the maps? or no delay now ?

     

    you need add more real info and no just ads

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    Reco69

    And the information of the new closed servers?

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    S4LTFrana

    In the beginning screen we had this amazing character creation before the game start. Some of us just skipped this to get to the spot we’re we wanted to be on the map. COULD YOU PLEASE LET US USE THE SICCORS AND GIVE US THE ABILITY TO EDIT OUR CHARACTER WITH THIS AWESOME CHARACTER CREATION YOU IMPLEMENTED PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 

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    TakaPs5

    Where did you go for information on the ASA Japan edition? It's the end of January already, right?

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    lostrecoilz
    18 minutes ago, TakaPs5 said:

    Where did you go for information on the ASA Japan edition? It's the end of January already, right?

    offical is 1x always we have legacy rates atm and its really not bad

     

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    snides20
    2 hours ago, Ferchi said:

    boss Ape and Dragon still broken with no info

    full ruberbanding

    and where is the new transfer date or the maps? or no delay now ?

     

    you need add more real info and no just adif you are talking invisible dragon and not getting element with the gigantapithacus. Boss dragon if anyone is on console and has console access turned on have them turn it off it's a bug. Monkey you can not kill it on the pad you spawn in on bc that is where the drop spawns kill it across the bridge then it should spawn back at the pad

     

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    BigChungus1

    I don't understand the new cosmetic system. Will you have to use the UE mod kit to do anything with it? 

     

    If it allows me to easily make a behemoth ceiling then I'll be happy. 😢

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    LoonyDragon76
    3 hours ago, rbrjunior said:

    interesting, but the date of the opening of the transfers? date of the new The Center map? Failure to meet dates is what bothers me most today, incomplete information.

     

     

    Was mentioned in the last crunch… 

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    LoonyDragon76
    3 hours ago, palworldenjoyer said:

    dumb article anyways who is enjoying palworld?

    But yet here you are reading it… nope not playing Palworld. Didn’t like it.  

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