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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, Garuga123will 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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    On 1/26/2024 at 7:19 PM, LEON1DAZ said:

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

    Well*

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    I play on ps5.. and every time I try to play I get really frustrated and give up and stop playing.. I ry to download a map because I don’t like the island map and then I can’t download any of the other mods I want and even with out another map there is not enough memory to download the mods I want.. it honestly makes me not want to play. I can’t even get into any of my friends servers because they have different mods then my single player mode.. it’s soo frustrating.. so iv been playing other games..i can hardly download anything I want..I wish you could just open it up more and give more memory… like double what it is now..maybe even triple.. especially when fancy new creatures come out and all the building stuff I can’t even use it.. I feel like I wasted my money on a game I don’t even want to play.. it’s just soo frustrating to me..I’d really like to play it but everything just doesn’t work..

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    The Sivatherium model needs a bit of work, but it already looks better than a few other mods.

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    Great, now give us the egg incubator and the option to make the cryopod and tek bino information boxes larger and clearer. Sick of having to damage my eyesight just to see the damn thing. Give it a solid background whilst you're at it, the semi transparent background is a problem, the same goes for the wheel menu also. 
    I expect this to be done for the center map release at the latest. Also, put the xp gain back for killing our own dinos, no sane person is going to realistically level their characters in the later levels.

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    Game is broken. Servers are terrible.  You won't fix it.

    So now comes the $$ grab through transactions in an EARLY ACCESS game. I get you need money to operate but lipstick on a pig doesn't get you beauty queen. 

    I endured all antics you pulled in ASE. I thought I could run the gauntlet again. I was wrong. I'll watch the fire from a distance. 

    We all deserve better.  ✌️

     

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    This is a cool update. We can get custom cosmetics and never be able to use them because the single player save bug still isn't fixed.

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    12 hours ago, Garyo86 said:

    Great, now give us the egg incubator and the option to make the cryopod ...

    You have that option.

    It's called ASE.

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    i don't like people complaining that they have no cryos and  incubators only show how dependent they gotten on them its called air cons and they are cheaper than the incubators i use cryos so my tames dont decay and so i dont get admin wiped due to having to many tames out

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    also they should add a tutorial for those who are new and at least give them a hint in the right direction i have gotten dependent on my team keeping me entertained and interested in playing  without getting lonely or bored

    i know how solo player feel its not for me

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    5 hours ago, prosans said:

    i don't like people complaining that they have no cryos and  incubators only show how dependent they gotten on them its called air cons and they are cheaper than the incubators i use cryos so my tames dont decay and so i dont get admin wiped due to having to many tames out

    the oviraptor was broken last time i check, firsts days enemy oviraptor can steal your eggs and for now only ally tribe can steal your eggs,
    also eggs still falling to under the map and under the ceillings

    thats why ppl want incubators or fix the oviraptor, fix the eggs, the ground or the ceillings... atleast

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    13 hours ago, Ferchi said:

    the oviraptor was broken last time i check, firsts days enemy oviraptor can steal your eggs and for now only ally tribe can steal your eggs,
    also eggs still falling to under the map and under the ceillings

    thats why ppl want incubators or fix the oviraptor, fix the eggs, the ground or the ceillings... atleast

    ah i thought it only worked with wild dinos

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    Sivatherium >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ugly Mutant Machine Dino Hybrid called Oasisaur

    Crunch Rank: 4/10

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    What would one way glass be best for? Maybe they will add an update where dinos can see through normal glass, so we will have to use tinted glass. (For certain areas you live at.) Also, there could be a specific weather pattern that happens, such as a superheat. Anyway, just ideas. 🙂

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