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  • Community Crunch 446: Community Creature Vote, Astraeos Update, and more!

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    Survivors, we’re thrilled to see so many of you enjoying Astraeos! While we continue working on fixes to smooth out your adventures, we’ve got a little more love to share—Love Ascended will now run through Monday, giving you extra time to revel in the romance. And speaking of passion, we’ve got some words from Astraeos’ creator, Nekatus, about the journey so far…

     

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    I want to thank everyone for the support and love for Astraeos. I am very proud to bring another official map to the game and I am very excited to bring more content to Astraeos. Our journey has only just started! We are aware of the technical issues and we are very actively working on resolving them to bring you as bug-free a map as possible.

    Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and for your reports! I also wanted to give you an idea about what to expect from the next major content update. Here are the details:

     

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    The conclusion of the Valguero Community Creature Vote is just around the corner, and the competition has been fierce! The submitted creatures have been nothing short of incredible. You still have the weekend to cast your vote and decide which creature will make its mark on Valguero in ARK: Survival Ascended!

    • The second round of voting ends on Friday, February 28th at 1 pm Pacific.
    • The winner* will be announced in the Crunch on the same day.

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    • Rank the creatures in order of most preferred to least preferred
    • The vote is limited to 1 submission per person (duplicate entries will be discarded)

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    Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name. Cast your vote here.

    Overview of all the finalists here.

    * Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change.

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    Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is now extended until Monday, February 24, 2025. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine’s Day brings an array of enchanting new treats and delights!

    To view all the event details, click here.

     


     

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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-browser 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!

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    Periodically we perform maintenance on our Official Server Network. During this time the servers will not be running therefore time will not progress.

    Here are the dates for the upcoming maintenance:

    • February 25th at 8:00AM PT / 11:00AM ET
    • February 26th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET
    • February 27th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET

    To see if your server will be affected follow this page.

     

     

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    Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for "Expire" in the session filter.

    These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th. We're preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto a new map temporarily.

    Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.

     

     

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    Please note that some locations will be made non-buildable with the patch coming mid-next week. Inside the caves as well as the areas around the cave entrance will be affected. If you built in this area, make sure you move location before then.

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 24.

    • PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
    • Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
    • ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

     


     

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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

     

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    Creator: Savkyn

    Build your very own Greek estate on a secluded island of Astraeos with this tutorial and tour!

     

    Creator: BEYPlaysGames

    BEYPlaysGames takes a dive into what are the best and most useful creatures to tame for beating Astraeos. 

     

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    Metchup the Lystro by chepedukduks

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    Titan Trio by nezuyu

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    Happy Valentine's Day by @falco_luna

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    Ark: The Animated Series, Wakíya Natá Ú by Tostín

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    This is where you came from lil guy! by lhannan

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    On 2/24/2025 at 5:20 AM, BionicKetchup65 said:

    I get that having Penta and Xeno will be far better winners overall, but even if Megaraptor does win, it would be better than the other carnivores on this list, trust me I really don’t want to see a giant stick bug that looks like it was ripped out of Kong Skull Island to be in the game, and this is going to be a very unpopular opinion but I wouldn’t like to see the Cheetah win either, I’m very sick and tired of seeing it and quite frankly I’m happy to see it finally put to rest if it looses again. In summary Aero and Cryo are basically Hatze situations(they’ll never win but will keep coming back), Coelo and Desmeto will be forgotten due to time(like many other early exists) and Tany is just Tany(he’ll probably be a Nothosaurus/Jumping Spider situation where they gets turned into mods).

    yes partly unpopular... but right

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    13 hours ago, UDGxKnight said:

    God, I hope Megaraptor doesn't win. Another boring theropod is the last thing we need 

    True, people don't understand that artwork doesn't make a creature beautiful, the only interesting thing was the ability to deflect shots... but still better than the stick insect

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    On 2/23/2025 at 3:21 AM, Ermerus said:

    yes now that I think about it you're not entirely wrong...but which 4 carnivores are you referring to?

    The ARK Addition's mods of Garuga's that are yet to be made into official mods. Cyrolophosaurus, Concavenator, Helicoprion, and -Most the anticipated- Acrocanthosaurus.

    On 2/23/2025 at 9:20 PM, BionicKetchup65 said:

    I get that having Penta and Xeno will be far better winners overall, but even if Megaraptor does win, it would be better than the other carnivores on this list, trust me I really don’t want to see a giant stick bug that looks like it was ripped out of Kong Skull Island to be in the game, and this is going to be a very unpopular opinion but I wouldn’t like to see the Cheetah win either, I’m very sick and tired of seeing it and quite frankly I’m happy to see it finally put to rest if it looses again. In summary Aero and Cryo are basically Hatze situations(they’ll never win but will keep coming back), Coelo and Desmeto will be forgotten due to time(like many other early exists) and Tany is just Tany(he’ll probably be a Nothosaurus/Jumping Spider situation where they gets turned into mods).

    I'd honestly take Ceolophysis over Megarapor anyday, we have ZERO triassic dinosaurs... ZERO!!!! The only triassic tames we do have are Lystrosaurus, Fasolasuchus, Shastasuaurs, and Icthyosaurus, none of which are dinosaurs. That's the only reason Ceolo is in my top 5, Mrgaraptor on the other hand is more than likely just going to be yet another obnoxious gimmick tame that will do everything the other carnivores can but worse than the stuff bigger than it.

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    Seriously, don't vote Megaraptor. We don't need more carnivores with better ones already on the way.

    Edited by TyranntX
    Forum being stupid
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    3 hours ago, Sp4rtn343 said:

    Will there be a creature vote for Lost Colony?

    Probably not because LC could be a paid map, but we shall see.

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    11 minutes ago, TyranntX said:

    I'd honestly take Ceolophysis over Megaraptor any day, we have ZERO Triassic dinosaurs... ZERO!!!! The only Triassic tames we do have are Lystrosaurus, Fasolasuchus, Shastasuaurs, and Ichthyosaurus, none of which are dinosaurs. That's the only reason Ceolo is in my top 5, Mrgaraptor on the other hand is more than likely just going to be yet another obnoxious gimmick tame that will do everything the other carnivores can but worse than the stuff bigger than it.

    Correction: Ichthyosaurus is from the Early Jurassic. 

    Looked it up.

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    4 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

    Correction: Ichthyosaurus is from the Early Jurassic. 

    Looked it up.

    That's Even worse, because now there's only THREE Triassic tames and STILL none of them are dinosaurs.

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    55 minutes ago, ChrisBManos said:

    Probably not because LC could be a paid map, but we shall see.

    All the story arks were paid dlcs too on ase and they too got creature votes.

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    1 hour ago, Sp4rtn343 said:

    All the story arks were paid dlcs too on ase and they too got creature votes.

    Lost Colony is on ASA, but we will see...

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    2 hours ago, TyranntX said:

    Seriously, don't vote Megaraptor. We don't need more carnivores with better ones already on the way.

    Okay, easy now

    Look, I understand that you don't want the Megaraptor to win, and neither do I. But we can't just tell them not to vote for something, it's the people's choice.

    I personally want Xenoceratops to win, but I would like to see a herbivore win to be honest (Pentaceratops, Desmatosuchus). But if something else wins, then I'll be okay with it (Even if it's the Megaraptor).

    I don't want there to be a repeat of the "Maevia Extinction Submission" incident.

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    22 hours ago, Sp4rtn343 said:

    Will there be a creature vote for Lost Colony?

    no

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    yay val time to crash severs with deinocuchus again!

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    4 hours ago, Rexisbest said:

    LETS GO MEGARAPTOOOOOOOOR

    #votemegaraptor

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    16 hours ago, Rexisbest said:

    LETS GO MEGARAPTOOOOOOOOR

    How about not, we have enough carnivores.

     

    11 hours ago, MbR224 said:

    #votemegaraptor

    #DONTvotemegaraptor 😊

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    oh yay yet another raptor dino awesome, kidding LAME

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    4 hours ago, ThcSkittles said:

    oh yay yet another raptor dino awesome, kidding LAME

    megaraptor is not a raptor

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