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  • Community Crunch 464: Lures, Loot and QoL!

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    Sun's out, dinos out! Pack your floaties and slap on that dino-safe sunscreen, Summer Bash makes a splash next week, bringing all the sun, fun, and fireworks you can handle! Whether you're kicking back on the beach with a chilled Calien Soup or reeling in trophy-sized Sabertooth Salmon with style, it's almost time to party like it’s 2015 (but with way more emotes).

    Get ready, Survivors, your ultimate ARKcation is about to begin!

     

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    • Start: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
    • End: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

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    • 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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    • Slidy 'N Slippery Kairuku *new*
      • Kill to get Popsicles to craft items from the event

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    • Ammonite
    • Cnidaria
    • Manta
    • Plesiosaur
    • Straw Hat Otter
    • Deal With It Dodo

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    • Festive Dino Candy (Summer Swirl Taffy)
    • Shark Jaw Trophy
    • Fisherman's Trophy Wall Mount Coel
    • Fisherman's Trophy Wall Mount Piranha
    • Fisherman's Trophy Wall Mount Salmon

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    • Gone Fishin Swimsuit Top *new*
    • Gone Fishin Swimsuit Bottom *new*
    • Gone Fishin shirt *new*
    • Captain's Hat *new*
    • Fishing Top *new*
    • Fishing Pants *new*
    • Fishing Boots *new*
    • Flower Crown Hat *new*
    • Flower Bracelets Glove *new*
    • Flower Anklets Boot *new*
    • Fishing Chair *new*
    • Tackle Box Small *new*
    • Squirt Gun Auto Turret *new*
    • Squirt Gun Heavy Auto Turret *new*
    • Sportsman's Speargun *new*
    • Angler's Fishing Rod *new*
    • GoneFishing Swim Short skin *new*
    • GoneFishing Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Alpha Raptor Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Alpha Raptor Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Eel Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Eel Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Floral Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Floral Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Ichthy Isles Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Ichthy Isles Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • T-Rex Swim Short Skin *new*
    • T-Rex Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Giga Poop Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Giga Poop Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Jellyfish Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Jellyfish Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Fish Bite Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Fish Bite Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Floaty Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Floaty Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Crab Fest Swim Short Skin *new*
    • Crab Fest Swim Bottom Skin *new*
    • Alpha Raptor Swimsuit Top
    • Alpha Raptor Swimsuit Bottom
    • Floaty Swimsuit Top
    • Floaty Swimsuit Bottom
    • Giga Poop Swimsuit Top
    • Giga Poop Swimsuit Bottom
    • Eel Swimsuit Top
    • Eel Swimsuit Bottom
    • Jellyfish Swimsuit Top
    • Jellyfish Swimsuit Bottom
    • T-Rex Swimsuit Top
    • T-Rex Swimsuit Bottom
    • Floral Swimsuit Top
    • Floral Swimsuit Bottom
    • Crab Fest Swimsuit Top
    • Crab Fest Swimsuit Bottom
    • Fish Bite Swimsuit Top
    • Fish Bite Swimsuit Bottom
    • Ichthy Isles Swimsuit Top
    • Ichthy Isles Swimsuit Bottom
    • Inflatable Rex Costume
    • Sunglasses
    • Angler Hat
    • Floppy Straw Summer Hat
    • Bulbdog-Print Shirt
    • Hoversail-Print Shirt
    • Retro Glasses
    • Cool Noglin-Print Shirt
    • Ice Pop-Print Shirt
    • Sea Life-Print Shirt
    • Uncle Sam Hat
    • Gasbags-Print Shirt
    • Shadowmane Fishing-Print Shirt
    • Pineapple Sunglasses
    • Sun Visor
    • Fireworks Hat
    • Sarco Sandals
    • Puka Shell Bracelet
    • Shark Costume
    • Grilling Spatula
    • Fireworks Flaregun
    • Torch Sparkler
    • Fireworks Rocket Launcher
    • Flying Disc
    • Water Soaker
    • Balloon Sword
    • Balloon Axe
    • Balloon Pick
    • Water Pistol
    • Dino Uncle Sam Hat
    • Cooler
    • BBQ Grill

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    • Sit *new*
    • ThisBig! *new*
    • Air Guitar

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    • Cream
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    • Turquoise
    • LemonLime
    • LeafGreen
    • Jade
    • Coral
    • Peach
    • Light Orange
    • LightPink
    • Light Red
    • Dino Light Red
    • Dino Albino
    • White
    • ActualBlack

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    • From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.
    • Search for Summer Bash in the ARK Mod list and Install it.  Mod ID: 927091
    • After it's installed, go back to your game setup screen and select 'Mod Settings'
    • You will see Summer Bash and any other mods you've downloaded in 'Available Mods'
    • Select Summer Bash and activate it.

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    • If you would like to enable Summer Bash on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments (-mods=modID). No other changes should be necessary to activate the event. Mod ID: 927091

     



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    We’re planning to roll out a Quality of Life and balance patch next week with the Summer Bash. It’s packed with a wide range of improvements aimed at smoothing out day-to-day gameplay and introduces some fresh changes to the meta along the way. 

    On the QoL front, we’ll be making good on some long-standing community requests. You’ll be able to enable "autorun" from the action wheel, and holding H while wearing armor will show the durability of each equipped piece. For our farmers, Ankylosaurus, Doedicurus, and Dunkleosaurus will let you choose a specific resource type to harvest (so if you're just after metal, for example, you won't have to constantly drop stone). Plus, Anky and Doedic will keep on auto-harvesting past the current 50% max weight even when held by a flyer to make life easier for our solo farmers.

    On the balance side, some updates are on the way that should help smooth out certain areas while reintroducing a bit of variety. To touch on a few examples: Mek blueprints will be tinkerable again, with themselves only, bringing back some flexibility without opening the floodgates.  We’ve made adjustments to Tesla Turret stun, reduced poison damage, and tuned down the HP on the Dreadnoughtus. You’ll also see a slight speed increase for Quetzals and health buffs for Spinosaurus, Mammoth and Brontos, among other tweaks. 

    And, finally, because it’s too hot to keep to ourselves, the Phoenix will soon be breedable! It’s been a long-requested addition, and we’re excited to see what kind of fire-fueled bloodlines you start hatching! 

    These are just a few highlights from a much larger list of changes and improvements we’ve got queued up. Your feedback keeps us evolving, thanks for being part of the journey as we continue refining and expanding the ARK experience

     


     

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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 are 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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    ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

    What is ARKpocalypse?

    • ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates and monthly curated mods.

    Next wipe: July 25th, 2025

     

    For this round, the following mods will be included: 

    You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

     


     

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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, June 30.

    • 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: captain fatdog

    Looking to build a Griffin trap in ARK: Survival Ascended? Look no further. This inexpensive and simple trap features a wide entrance, making trapping extremely easy.

     

    Creator: LolsAtLance

    Ready to build like a true Viking? Check out this starter base tutorial by LolsAtLance!


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    Defeat by @WolfTek7

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    The feeling of defeating my first boss in ARK by zanite_

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    Space Diplo! by savvytabby

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    Best tame I ever had in ARK by plane2259

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    Celebrating with my favourite Lizard Jerry! by charlispirit

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    The Three Obelisks by @CWoodpaw

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    The heart of darkness by @TekARK_01

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    Glass bottles of seasonal memories by oz3dis

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    I tried to steal an egg with a Lymantria by dedfuze

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    Relax with a summer swim but beware of the big fish by totalgrimace

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    The sunrise is so gorgeous me and my beloved argy have to stop a moment and enjoy it by songbirdgaming

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    Enjoy your weekend!
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    Please i beg you add the new hairstyles that are in game files for so long with the update i beg 

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    Please, I'm begging you with tears in my eyes, do a TLC pass for the plesiosaur. It has desperately needed one for years. It doesn't even need any extra abilities, just improve the bite range and reduce the turn radius or give it side-to-side mobility or let it turn in place.

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    16 minutes ago, absurdlyobfuscated said:

    Please, I'm begging you with tears in my eyes, do a TLC pass for the plesiosaur. It has desperately needed one for years. It doesn't even need any extra abilities, just reduce the turn radius or give it side-to-side mobility or let it turn in place.

    if you play unofficial with mods at all, the Paleo Team is doing a TLC for the plesiosaur. it's not out yet(says summer 2025) but everything they've showed in their discord looks pretty good. their TLC for rex, giga, and Mosa are amazing.

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    Add giant meteors that fall from the sky and crash into the ground bringing with it cosmic wild Dino’s and once all are defeated you get a special kind of ore.

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    Those are hot QoL, keep the flame cooking. I look forward to seeing more great additions like this in the future. 

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    Please add chibi crafting for prime meat on the event, something to use the prime wild dinos give.

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    Wooo, can't wait for a top stat full colored Phoenix!! 🥳

    Also, super thumbs up for the farmer changes! Now if you guys could expand that to meat farmers, cause it's simply super annoying to drop prime meat from babies on swamp every 30 seconds (more than that, I have friends that play on other languages like German and can't filter to drop solely the prime, making the simple task of farming super annoying). ☹️

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    This is amazing!! Keep up this good work! You are on the right way with those QoLs! 

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    Here is few more you guys should add to that list of QoL, first…..ALLOW TEK DINOS TO SPAWN ON ALL MAPS LIKE IN ASE!!!!

    -fix invisible city terminals in extinction (not a big deal for players with access to transmitter, but a pain for low level or new players).

    - spawns in rag are not like they were in ASE, they need attention!

    - allow us to have the ability to level movement speed in ALL flyers but cap it to respective flyers.  Obviously a quetz moving at wyv speed is absurd, but what was once a must have in the base has been diminished to a “yeah not wasting my time”.

    Allow water intakes to be placed on water veins in Ragnarok.

    It is awesome to see those QoL changes coming, and I’m intrigued to see what the rest of the list contains.  Ragnarok release was better than expected and the map is absolutely awesome and tastefully redesigned.  Now can you guys do that with The Center, some areas of that map went from awesome to “c’mon man”.  I like the idea of a new boss for Ragnarok, The Center really needed that as well.  Hopefully these new changes you guys are doing doesn’t break a ton of stuff.  Looking forward to what the list entails.

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    All dinos should have ability to rotate in place 360 degress like dreadnought have when you holdin R1 on ps5. Plus as a emote claping hands to switch on light on the lightpet on your shoulder you should have emote that you look on lightpet and whisle on him to jump or land on your shoulder. Just now you need to walk to soulder pet and pick it up on your shoulder. Something like you have whisle dino on the air to land . You get me ?

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    Idk why y'all haven't tapped in to the real merch market. These swimsuits and shirts would sell. Hell, i'd buy some sarcos from the croc store. Y'all sleepin on it

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    Love to Qol changes coming! Especially the farming changes.
    But please fix the problem with Single Player on PlayStation not saving properly! I can’t play if the game never saves any of my progress after I log out! I absolutely love asa and would love to be able to actually play the game and maps like Ragnarok but this not saving problem is preventing me from being able to do so. 

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    For anky QOL, dont limit to flyer only. Please add karkinos intothe list. Abber dont have flyer

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    Thank you I've been waiting for the day to finally breed the Phoenix!

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    In short... man-eating creatures, the fate of the world in your hands, a summer with interesting cosmetics... a typical summer in Calabria then

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    I not play ARK! because there are no servers arkpocalypse only CONSOLE!!!!!and on ps5 pro small rocks load from a distance of one meter.

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    I'm excited to see what changes are coming, I really hope that some day we can re-apply equipment traits to blueprints again. Like having a cloth shirt blueprint with the Mobile trait so everyone can craft their own pieces cheaply for moving things around base (the Telekinesis skill is alright but I'm still too used to walking around my base anc accessing things directly to make good use of it yet).

    It'd be crazy if we could throw out cryopods on pvp servers without needing a nearby powered cryofridge; I'd take a 30 minute cryosickness debuff happily for that so I can stop carrying batteries with me everywhere.

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    Hey Wildcards...
    please do your homework. The creature is named Dunkleosteus and NOT Dunkleosaurus. The latter did never exist and is ONLY mentioned in Jurassic Wiki.

    Thanks :)
    and also a good change.

    Eleusius.

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    Is there going to be another xbox sale? Was waiting until payday to buy bobs tall tales only to see that it's no longer on sale for xbox, but it's still 40% off on steam? 

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