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    Hello Survivors!

    We’re back again with another announcement straight from PAX East 2016! We told you that there would be a lot coming this week, and a bit of everything for everyone and we’ll be true to our words.

    Studio Wildcard is proud and excited to announce the ARK: Official Mods program. What this means is that we’ll be able to take a step further when working with Mods and begin integrating them into our Official ARK System. We will be launching this program starting with The Center Map for Xbox One and PC in May 2016.

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    Designed by community member Ben Burkart, The Center adds an over-the-top, fantasy-themed map that doubles the size of the current game and is more varied than the original ARK map, with tons of new biomes, dungeons, floating islands, end-of-the-world waterfalls, massive ancient ruins, along with other wonders to explore and secrets to find. Drawn completely by hand without any auto-generated content, The Center is a massive increase in the game's official playable content and is free to both PC and Xbox One players.

    Following that we’ll be working hard to introduce more of your favourite mods to the game with Primitive+ (already an Official Mod on PC). In the case of Primitive Plus, players are challenged to use only wood and stone without the benefit of advanced metals to create weapons such as guns. A whole new set of items and detailed new mechanics focus the player on 'primitive' survival, which fits snugly in the world of ARK. Primitive Plus will be playable as a functionality mod on all official ARK maps. 

    We really appreciate and value the hard work and effort that goes into the mods from the community and will do what we can to help, this new program is another step we’re going to take to ensure that modders get all the support they need and are recognized for their contribution and efforts in ARK!

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    Thank you for all your support and be sure to keep up with our PAX East show at www.twitch.tv/survivetheark for all the latest news and announcements! Don’t forget to give the #PAXRex a shout out ;).

    See you guys tomorrow!

    All the best,

    Wildcard Jat and The ARK: Survival Evolved Team.

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    Also will it be like Minecraft with the different world saves or will we have to delete our other world to play on the new map ?

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    29 minutes ago, Kris said:

    Also will it be like Minecraft with the different world saves or will we have to delete our other world to play on the new map ?

    Probably not at this point. 

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    5 hours ago, Jeremy Stieglitz said:
    • The Official Mods/Maps will all function in singleplayer, etc.

     

    That is all i needed to know. Now to inform my server inhabitants that the map will be changed the second the mods are available on the Xbox One! :D

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    6 hours ago, Jeremy Stieglitz said:

    Some info to clarify a few points:

    • Of course all the Official Mods/Maps will be free. The intent is to give back to the community and get more great ARK content integrated into the official game on PC and Consoles :)
    • The Official Mods/Maps will all function in singleplayer, etc.
    • We will be hosting & maintaining Official Servers for all the Official Mods/Maps.
    • Because of The Center being added as an Official Map during the Mod Contest now, it will shortly be removed from the Mod Contest competition placement and the next entrant will be moved up. Congratulations Valhalla :D  

    All the best,
    Jer

    Jeremy,

    From myself and the rest of the Valhalla team: Thank you. I have never been so close to falling out of my chair, as to when I read your post!

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    i am excited to see the new maps. not sure where im going to move my server too.

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    are we likely to see the annunaki genesis mod and ark moon conversion on xbox?

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    Will mods chosen to be official receive some kind of monetary support or other incentives such as employment? Also, Drake's post makes it sound like The Center just got disqualified for the mod contest, which is sad because last I looked it was #1 and the author could probably use the prize money.

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    4 hours ago, Rickyh24 said:

    Now I face the dilemma of having to decide if I want to start my dedicated over on the Center map. 

    Already told my guys to prepare for it lol

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    On 4/22/2016 at 5:34 PM, jagilki said:

    Hype.. Hype as all let out.  

    I don't know much about The Center.  Any youtubers play on it that I could watch to see a large portion of the scenery? 

    everynightriot is a youtuber who is running a modded series on the center.

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    2 hours ago, bo0MXxXsplatter said:

    Will there be official servers for The Center? Sorry if this was answered already.

    Yes there will be, confirmed there will be The Centre servers, Primitive Plus servers and also The Centre/PrimitivePlus official servers :)

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    If only we can use the stargate mod to travel from the Island to The Center.

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    14 hours ago, Kris said:

    Also will it be like Minecraft with the different world saves or will we have to delete our other world to play on the new map ?

    They've confirmed multiple single world saves, but I'm betting that they'll have two separate worlds for us to play on when this releases, as you can see when you go to load in a single player it will say 'Map' and underneath you have 'The ARK'. It's very likely underneath/above 'The ARK' we'll see 'The Center' when the map releases.

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    14 hours ago, Mystalias said:

    Will mods chosen to be official receive some kind of monetary support or other incentives such as employment? Also, Drake's post makes it sound like The Center just got disqualified for the mod contest, which is sad because last I looked it was #1 and the author could probably use the prize money.

    I'm making a guess here, but I would say that the developer of The Center map will be receiving some form of payment for his work.  The Center belongs to him, so they have to "purchase rights" if they want to use it officially.  They both benefit as I am sure that some have heard how small the map is and want a bigger map and seeing the video of The Center map will entice them to buy ARK to have access to both maps.  The developer will benefit, not just from any money he will obtain, but the extra recognition of his work.  

    Just a guess on my part. 

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    4 minutes ago, DemonLordCronos said:

    I just watched the video they should hire this guy to make more maps

    Does look like an amazing job, can't wait to play on it!

    And something tells me he may have a further role in the future.

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    I followed the link from here to Steam and saw this post from Mr. Frank, the developer of The Center map.  He was responding to a question from Dragon of Desire about working on the mods.

    quote   "Yes I've basically been hired on and moving onsite to work on this map full time so I will be able to work more directly with the devs to make this map awesome and iron out some of those issues that are a bit unknowns like the dino spawning :) "   end quote

     

    So. looks like he came out okay with this deal, getting the recognition he deserves, a paying job doing the work on his creation and I think it was a very smart move on Wildcard to hire him. 

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    I think many mod authors will be glad to hear that their work might get them a job in the games industry. Maybe other companies will take note of this and begin seeking talent from their talented player bases. :)

    As an independent developer myself, I have thought many times of getting the dev kit and creating some maps, but paused at the EULA... It feels overly broad, probably due to being able to not only make maps but code extensions as well. So I have to ask, will we ever get a stand alone map/level editor that doesn't require all those restrictions, but lets us just make maps?

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    wait... mods for xbox? man i though this wouldn't even be considered till near release, that's awesome! :D 

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    12 minutes ago, DiloFodder said:

    wait... mods for xbox? man i though this wouldn't even be considered till near release, that's awesome! :D 

    Well unless someone has said otherwise the estimated release date is June. So the mods coming in May, seems near enough to me. Also I'm sure they want to work out any kinks with releasing the mods to Xbox before the full release. I hope everything works as planned because as you said it is awesome!!

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    im wondering if we will be able to still download anything from The island map. dedicated server

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    Just now, XxsidwinderxX said:

    im wondering if we will be able to still download anything from The island map. dedicated server

    They said in the last ark digest that they would get uploads turned back on. Whether or not downloads are allowed would be up to the server owners. If it were possible to flag a dino as being 'official compatible' or something, they could probably allow data transfer from one official server to another... but it would probably have to be determined by the server itself because such a flag could probably be manipulated...

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