Community Crunch 489: Naughty, Nice, or Eaten, Raptor Claus Returns!

love the new cosmetics! wasn’t expecting gingerbread cosmetics looking forward to making my own gingerbread house in ark now lol

do expiration servers get the event? Because it sure hasnt started yet. 

 

Winter Wonderland is BACK ❄️🎅

That map is so trash.. waste of 30 bucks .

While I'm not on console I have several hundreds of members in my community that are. When will you guys be allowing consoles to reliably import/export templates on the same level as PC?

You say the event starts on the 19th, but it's the 20th x), and when is the mod update coming?

when is the event gonna start or is this delayed too?

@WolfTek7, your art is stunning as always! I come to these weekly crunches just to see if any if your work is featured. If there's added info from the devs, that's just a bonus!

Please, never stop making art.

 

(Quick edit for spelling/grammar.)

Edited December 20, 2025 by Oreochema

So does this mean TLC Submissions next week?

Oh this whole thing should be fun when I get a PlayStation 7 and can actually run the game and DLCs I bought with the features promised to me!

How does it work? On AB I don't think any gifts will come.

Winter wonderland yay.
 

Edited December 20, 2025 by Sheogorath

It’s a good map but when are you expanding it over toward the crashed ship? 

15 hours ago, DEMlZE said:

That map is so trash.. waste of 30 bucks .

100% agree. It's the worst map in the game, and it's not even close.

How many times u going to update just to break the game more...get your crap together

I didn't get the beginning of the lost colony intro she was talking to us in the past through her mind power, unless I miss something I don't know,  It also didn't show how we got there or how we got taken

Can we stop with the daily updates? Or fix how you handle steam updates? 

This is the only game in my library that needs its entire space in extra room to install a 1.7gb update. Why do i have to uninstall and reinstall the game twice over the weekend instead of being able to do a short update and continue?

I bought the game recently and have spent 3x my 11hr playtime installing the game over and over again after each of these updates. its infuriating. 

On 12/22/2025 at 4:09 AM, arkbanned said:

Has anyone tried the new Lost Colony and want to share their impressions? 

The intro didn't made sense they made it look like helena was talking to us in the past and didn't really explain how we got there but I might of missed something.

Some creatures doesn't look like the creatures in the post like the malwyn but that might be because of it being new and the design didn't load in good.

And it's pretty much a snow map with some stuff here and there, I say the coolest part is the city but it's almost impossible for consoles to go in, at least for me, it runs better outside but I seen some video that it can be pretty bad even for computer but again it's most likely because it new.

Its a pretty map and im not saying its a bad map because I haven't explored the whole map, I just found out there some cave looks cool.

There some creatures that is fun to use, there is 13 or more creatures and 11 or more are tameable, but 4 of them was released early and 1 creatures gotten release early from a different map, I don't know if you count them 

The npc needs some work, the wild one works better then the ones on your side they kind of work like sir-5rm8 when you want them to gather or have them put away stuff, they get stuck on stuff, but there's other thing they can do that is cool.

The new items is the funniest thing and pretty cool but the skins for the structures is kind of lazy like only the walls you can change the design of with the skin the rest of the skins is that and that only.

Edited December 24, 2025 by Dinoking117

Hello, why can't I download the Winter Wonderland mod? It starts downloading but keeps stopping after a 2-millimeter progress bar. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the game twice.

16 hours ago, arkbanned said:

thanks buddy, can I ask if the new creatures with their magical powers are OP compared to the older creatures or are they balanced enough? 

Some of the Chinese dragon ability seem not to work very well so I can't tell you if the dragon is OP but some of the ability is slow on it, the really cool thing is how it move where I wish the snakes and the millipede move like this not the weird turning.

The malwyn has a ability for is a debuff other thing, the ability is slowness, stop healing, and Melee debuff they also can teleport to the creatures that you are attacking. There might be more but it doesn't have the control on the screen for some reason.

The solwyn is the opposite they have ability that buff which is healing, speed, and melee, but instead of teleport they use a ice bridge they also clime.

The gloon has three different type of attacks thing the normal do more damage over time the, second one is like scare thing that you can have auto attack on you shoulder, the third one is when you shot a wild creatures or other things, all of the creatures will start attacking it. They can turn you invisible but when you attack you get out of it and they also act like light with i think three different type of light which I don't know if it will be like a light pet.

The cryolophosaurus was a moded dino its abilities has two breath type one is narcotic and the other is freezing, you also have to use snow or water to use them.

The Gigadesmodus I haven't use it that much and don't know what some stuff does but so far it doesn't seem worth it because you have to do the boss fight. 

The npc, there is ten different type and all of them can do the same thing which is follow, turret mode, Harvesting which needs work on and put away stuff which also needs work on but you can also take control of them and it will act like your player the only different is you can't craft thing in them but they also have there own weapons that is infinite ammo or they don't break.

 

On 12/22/2025 at 4:09 AM, arkbanned said:

Has anyone tried the new Lost Colony and want to share their impressions? 

I've seen the ending and I can say it's not that great at least for me and what I think, it shows two animated styles, one is the ark animated series animation style which it seem that they just put it in just to promote it and the other one is the ASA animated style.

There's also some parts of the cutscene that is unnecessary and weird, But the boss fight looks cool and really hard.

On 12/25/2025 at 2:14 AM, arkbanned said:

Thank you  

Np, I'm sure there's people that can tell you more better and know how the creatures works or see what cool things is on the map but it's what I've seen and did so I hope that I help you and others that is wondering the same thing.

I also wish you can see aberration or the ship in the background.

On private server, if I remove the Winter Wonderland mod will my friends lose all their chibi's and WW colored dinos?
Only real info I'm finding is from last year telling ppl to wait to remove it till they incorp the files into the base. Has that happened?