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    Beneath the waves, something new is lurking…

    Arriving later this year in Genesis Part 1, the latest community-voted creature brings a new kind of intelligence to the depths. 

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    When exploring the wide underwater biomes, you may notice two very different moods beneath the waves. Sometimes the calm is shattered by a sudden, violent surge—a frantic rush of ink and power that suggests the depths have finally lost their patience. Other times, the seabed gains an extra stone… a coral formation grows a few more “branches”… and the ocean floor becomes suspiciously still.

    Disturb it at the wrong moment, and survivors will learn quickly that those eight arms aren’t just for show.
     

     

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    Following the recent Major Version update, we began encountering a series of corruption-related crashes across the Official Network. While the patch introduced a significant amount of new content, this issue was not specific to Astraeos. The release simply exposed something that was already lurking beneath the surface.

    To protect player progress and prevent further data damage, we made the decision to take the entire Official Network offline while we investigated and stabilised the environment. That call was not made lightly but leaving servers online while corruption was occurring carried the risk of far greater long-term impact.

    Our investigation traced the crashes back to corrupted dino data. In certain edge cases, a dino could be destroyed while the server still retained references to it. The server would then continue attempting to process or save data tied to that non-existent creature. Over time, those “ghost” dinos could trigger crashes and, in some cases, additional corruption. For reasons we’re still actively investigating, certain edge cases were only surfacing under the conditions introduced with the release, which we’re actively investigating.

    After taking the network offline, we ran controlled subsets of Official servers with enhanced logging and updated builds. This allowed us to safely reproduce the issue, gather clean crash data, and validate adjustments without putting the wider network at risk to work on the resulting fix.

     

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    We will hold on running the EVO event while we continue stability monitoring. If servers remain stable during that window, we’ll kick off a week-long EVO event running through Monday the 9th.

    We know downtime on this scale is disruptive, and we appreciate the patience while we worked through this properly. Our goal was not just to bring the network back, but to bring it back stable.

     

    If you prefer more immediate, step-by-step Live Ops updates as we work through this, you can join the Official ARK Discord.

     

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    Expire servers wipe date extended to March 9.

    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 March 9. 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 March 9, 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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    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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    Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

     

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    Creator: LolstAtLance

    This building tutorial shows how to create a fully functional desert PVE base on Astraeos, perfect for surviving the scorching Pythanos region.

     

    Creator: Vattghornn

    *International Corner* Vattghornn teaches everything you need to know about the new Grand Tortugar, from its taming method to its abilities!

     

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    GP

    Release the Kraken!!!! 🐙

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    ChrisBManos

    WC should really give their team a pat back when it comes to creature designs

    They really cooked with this octopus right here 🐙

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    ashgcy

    LETS GOOO PALEOCTOPUS STAYS WINNING

    IT'S SO PEAK

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    Ermerus

    Did someone say Nu Udra? Anyway, the design is phenomenal, and its adaptable nature is perfect for the map.

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    RebelKevin94

    The Palaeoctopus looks just as good as I imagined it and it’s Big! Sounds like it’ll be one of the best additions to the oceans, if not the the best, and to me this will be number 1! We are finally getting a Giant Octopus! Release the Kraken! 🐙 

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    RebelKevin94
    3 hours ago, ashgcy said:

    LETS GOOO PALEOCTOPUS STAYS WINNING

    IT'S SO PEAK

    It’s absolutely awesome, I don’t know if peak can give it just justice. Super excited for it!

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    RebelKevin94
    3 hours ago, ChrisBManos said:

    WC should really give their team a pat back when it comes to creature designs

    They really cooked with this octopus right here 🐙

    They cooked better than Gordon Ramsey with this one! 🐙

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    w3s

    3/4 of community is banned from that discord just bcoz some mods wake up in a bad mood why are u telling ppl to look at status updates? at some point u typing there for 10 ppl sista ❤️ and u get another 10 to test your servers when u call them :) 

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    Blackmage2015

    Will it work like pirates of the Caribbean I want to summon the kraken. And the tentacles might be a little small maybe have to make them bigger so they can really grab the whole ship. 

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    ChrisBManos
    1 hour ago, Katanaa said:

    MY SON

    Congratulations

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    Dragonight590

    My biggest question is when is "later this year" do you mean Q2, Q3 or Q4?

     

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    WarbossEfan

    i hope it also walks on land like it said it could, i always prefer amphibious tames over water tames even if they're not as great on land. sneaky swamptopus!

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    Dekoy

    The real question is will it work or will it break the game…the current state of many maps is incomplete.  Why not finish what the community is begging for and polish the game?  So many issues currently….where’s customer service support?!?!  Why won’t anyone answer tickets going back months?!??!  Core value not excess baggage.  The community deserves better WC

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    Flofli

    Ça c'est une grosse pieuvre, je ne m'y attendais pas 

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    Dinoking117

    Does anyone else have a strange blue fog in there bases on the astraeos map because whenever I go in my base there's a blues fog and when I leave my base it's gone 

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