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  • Community Crunch 469: Introducing Helicoprion from ARK: Additions!

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    We’re excited to welcome another fearsome and fabulous creature from Garuga123’s ARK: Additions into the world of ARK: Survival Ascended. These community-favorite creatures bring new ways to play, new threats to overcome, and, frankly, some of the coolest tames around.

    Expect a little fine-tuning as the Helicoprion settles into its new home, but one thing’s certain: it's here to make a mark in the ocean’s depths!

     

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    There’s something lurking in the deep—and for once, it’s not looking for you.

    Roughly the size of a Megalodon but far less aggressive, Helicoprion prefers the quiet vastness of open ocean, circling silently with its iconic, spiral-toothed grin. Survivors report they’re mostly unbothered… unless you’re an Ammonite. In that case? Good luck.

    But there’s more to this prehistoric predator than brute force. That strange, whorled jaw has a curious utility that crafters may find indispensable…

    Prepare your scuba gear, Helicoprion arrives for free in the base game on August 20th.

     

    Keep up with the development on ARK: Additions in Garuga’s Discord!

     



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    Moving day is near!  

    Official Ragnarok transfers will fully open on the 15th of August, allowing players to move items, creatures, and characters onto the map without restriction! Please pack your dodos in bubble-wrap. 

     

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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 September 1st. 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 September 1st, 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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    We’re currently working on an issue related to character transfers whilst a build template is active.

    To help mitigate the impact, we’ve taken the following steps:

    • Disabled auto-decay timers for structures and creatures, etc
    • Prevented transfers if you have an active template
    • Actively working on a fix for characters that cannot be downloaded with high priority

    We appreciate your patience and will share updates as we make progress on a resolution.

     

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    For our PlayStation survivors: the PS5 mod storage upgrade is currently in certification. The testing process is taking a little longer than usual due to the technical requirements of this update, but if it clears certification, we’re aiming to roll it out next week!

     


     

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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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    This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, August 4.

    • 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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    This season Monarky is taking us back to where it all started - Ragnarok, where our creators will compete for forged crowns, to declare the ultimate winner, whilst discovering how the Monarky came to be, as we catch up with the past...

    Monarky VII: Medieval Mayhem introducing a new Crown Vault System mod, with live leaderboards, crown generation, base perimeter division to balance PvE & PvP, with an in-built dino license config, to allow specific dinos to tame, whilst surviving at weekly level cap increases. Get ready, it starts tonight!

    Medieval Mayhem Mornarks:

     

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    Creator: Arkraktor

    Looking to spice up your creature roster in ARK: Survival Ascended? Check out 5 new modded additions you should try, handpicked by Arkraktor! From terrifying titans to fluffy bears, there’s something for every Survivor.

     

    Creator: Sanyxs

    Sanyxs takes on the Lava Golem on Ragnarok Ascended!

     

    Creator: Jimbob

    Jimbob finally takes “The Final Warning” into deep waters. Will his battleship be enough to bring the Dunkleosteus down? Let's find out.

     

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    Home? We’ll find it. Eventually. Probably. by @coffeedragonart

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    So essentially Tinkering table is now a moot item. Something we paid for that basically will be in game for free. Way to go WC. 

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    Thank you for the heads up on transfers but I honestly wish Ragnarok transfers didn’t happen until September 15th but hey it was inevitable anyhow 

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    Please fix the Rock drakes. I am no longer able to shoot from the back of my saddle and reapers are no longer impregnating. Abb is my favorite map.

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    40 minutes ago, TargetOne said:

    Maybe the Helicoprion will *finally* reduce the Meg overspawning on Ragnarok?

    Imagine Helicoption overspawn 😁

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    33 minutes ago, CTheRain said:

    🫠  Still can grab things through the mesh. How about fixing the mesh holes and some of the bad exploits I post videos on instead of the fun innocent ones (that add more meta variety to PVE/PVP) before enter my "Villain Ark" out of spite? 

    Even being more transparent about what exploits are fixed would go a long way for the community.

    Even the most laziest version is:

    • Fixed not being able to harvest SIR-5rM8
      • You still cannot harvest it. It just decomposes very fast.
    • Fixed Trike charge destroying structures through walls
      • But the griffin is fine hitting through the mesh and buildings...

     

    Like this thing below is FUN. This is variety. Same with the Armadoggo attachments working map wide for some attachments.

     

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    So good to have you here mate 

    You do good very job♥️

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    I'm excited to see if the fish keeps the conversion ability when it gets released. Making gear with the server capped, clamped blueprint crafting costs vs a fish that lets you convert a lower quality item into a blueprint that's almost the same stat-wise but several times cheaper resource-wise (and the difference can then be made up for by using a crafting alt) is gonna be great. More players might be found wearing mastercraft instead of ascendant if the cost quality ratio works out nicely.

    It's like when you find a flak blueprint that cost 480 ingots and another one that cost 87 ingots but they both have the same capped stats on a pvp server; any cost savings are really good to get and it makes stealing heavy loot more worthwhile being able to blueprint-ify it.

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    4 hours ago, Lise said:

    I'm excited to see if the fish keeps the conversion ability when it gets released. Making gear with the server capped, clamped blueprint crafting costs vs a fish that lets you convert a lower quality item into a blueprint that's almost the same stat-wise but several times cheaper resource-wise (and the difference can then be made up for by using a crafting alt) is gonna be great. More players might be found wearing mastercraft instead of ascendant if the cost quality ratio works out nicely.

    It's like when you find a flak blueprint that cost 480 ingots and another one that cost 87 ingots but they both have the same capped stats on a pvp server; any cost savings are really good to get and it makes stealing heavy loot more worthwhile being able to blueprint-ify it.

    Personally, I just hope he keeps the pufferfish meme.😂

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    8 hours ago, badjuejue said:

    I guess no delay news on valguero is good news right?

    It will be September, it was noted in the Crunch just without actually saying it directly.... i.e. temp servers.

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    8 hours ago, crazyhobo said:

    still no info on that free power ranger update wow did they just forget or what

    They said on the Discord they'll hopefully have news on that soon.

    I'll leave you to judge how long soon is 🤣

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    9 hours ago, GrayYourClothes said:

    Please fix the Rock drakes. I am no longer able to shoot from the back of my saddle and reapers are no longer impregnating. Abb is my favorite map.

    Big fan of epilepsy, I see. 

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    Shame we couldn't get Helicoprion a little closer to shark week, but at least its on the way now.

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    Hola soy nuevo aquí no me ubico en nada y venía para ofrecer el diseño de mi dossier y actualizion para el spinosaurus ya sea pa Ark 2 o como queráis si alguien le interesa mi proyecto que me ayudes a ofrecerlo o lo que sea porfavor 

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    On 8/2/2025 at 5:33 AM, GP said:

    They said on the Discord they'll hopefully have news on that soon.

    I'll leave you to judge how long soon is 🤣

    they ever going to give us news on the power ranger free update they said 0.o they way behind on that also

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    12 hours ago, crazyhobo said:

    they ever going to give us news on the power ranger free update they said 0.o they way behind on that also

    That's what my reply to you was about. 😊

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    On 8/2/2025 at 11:33 AM, GP said:

    I'll leave you to judge how long soon is 🤣

    Knowing the game I would say "Sometime this lifetime. Unless you are terminal, in that case: Too late for you."

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    Hey guys
    Any infos about optimisation or re-enabling DLSS Frame Generation? 

    For a week I struggled with MANY different console/menu setting to get rid of stuttering on my 4070 and I was unable to. After I gave up i saw a video that there is stuttering on 5090 so my rig is not the one to blame.
     

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