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  • Patch 252: Achatina, Megalosaurus, Moschops, Pachyrhinosaurus, New Caves and more!

    Thanksgiving is upon us and today, Patch 252 brings a feast of new content to ARK: Survival Evolved! New friends will be making an appearance as four new creatures will become available to discover and tame, including the slimy Achatina, nocturnal hunter Megalosaurus, harvesting-specialist Moschops and the pheromone-spewing Pachyrhinosaurus!

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    Achatina Limusegnis, slow and steady, that's the best way to describe the Achatina. A land mollusk standing about 2-3 ft tall, prized by local tribes, the Achatina is often captured and tamed for its glue-like secretions, which can be used as an adhesive when building various structures. It is also reverence for its uncanny ability to create an organic, incredibly strong, lightweight plates that can be shaped and then heat treated into casings for anything.

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    Megalosaurus Noctedominus, the scary nighttime predator Megalosaurus is a beast that causes both survivors and other land creatures to fear the dark. Megalosaurus is a voracious carnivore and is often trained for use in night-time raids against other survivor camps. Due to its ferocious strength exhibited during the night, it sometimes finds itself recovering or sleeping during the day. However be warned, as it is a light sleeper and will wake with tremendous anger is disturbed during rest.

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    Moschops Cibumutante, defines fear, as in fear-ful, since the slightest provocation sends it running. This dino's "special ability" is that it can eat just about anything and do just fine. This makes it particularly useful when domesticated and trained to eat specific materials - for example, teach it to focus on chewing a specific material, and that resource will become easier to harvest. Just remember that everything scares this breed of dino and it will flee without hesitation, so be cautious when taming it!

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    Pachyrhinosaurus Mitisaura, an easy-to-train mount for new riders, its ability to produce a calming "scent" when in danger, helps keep survivors safe. The Pachyrhinosaurus can also reverse the effect of its scent cloud, making nearby creatures incredibly aggressive, which is sometimes useful in attacking other camps.

    ..but that's not all!

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    Patch 252 also introduces a vast redesign of the original caves on The Island!

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    Bringing them up to par visually

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    As well as introducing more gameplay elements to acquiring those artifacts!

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    Seasoned explorers will want to give these a whirl as it is an entirely new experience with much to be unravelled!

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    Along with the launch of patch 252 comes even more content goodness:

    • ARK: Turkey Trial 2! New challenge and cosmetics! Earnable Emote! (this system also enables Mods to add more Emotes to the game!)
    • New Mechanic: Breeding Phase 3 with Random Mutations and Family Trees.
    • VFX Indicators for Whistle Commands: Move To, Attack, and Group-Selected Units.
    • Explorer Notes: Two new mythos Explorer Notes for each character
    • A huge increase in server performance
    • Whistle Ordering Groups! Create groups by class, or specific-dino! 
    • New Whistle Type: "Move To", Attack, and Group-Selected Units.
    • Extra Option to "stream" in "Far" map sublevels, for large memory and performance gains (but reduced visual quality & draw distance).

    Turkey Trial 2

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    ARK's biomes are now host to savage, blood-thirsty mutant Super Turkeys. Players can hunt these brutal birds of prey, harvesting their wishbones and using them to craft an event-exclusive ornamental "Chieftain Headdress", or use their poultry-powered gains to summon the mighty DodoRex to do their bidding. This year's Turkey Trial will feature something all new - an event-specific "emote" for players to unlock, and will take place on all official ARK maps including Scorched Earth, The Center, and The Island!

    ARK: Evolution Event Weekend!

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    To celebrate this festive period, and with the weekend coming early - as does the Evolution Event!

    From Thursday the 24th of November at 12PM ET until Monday the 28th of November at 12PM ET the Official ARK Network will be affected by an Evolution Event! Survivors playing this weekend will get to experience the following bonuses:

    2x Harvesting Rate

    2x Taming Rate

    2x EXP Rate

    So be sure to log in and enjoy the increased rates whilst you can!

    Steam Autumn Sale & Xbox One Black Friday Sale!

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    ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Scorched Earth on Steam!

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    ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Scorched Earth on Xbox One!

    CrossARK Trading, Breeding and Strategizing forums! 

    With our recent announcement regarding CrossARK Transfers;

    We've now opened up some new forums for players to be able to trade items, offer services such as painting, breeding and strategize with one another! Take a gander as there may be something that'll pique your interest ;)

    PC

    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/10116-cross-ark-item-trading-dino-breeding/

    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/10118-cross-ark-strategizing/

    Xbox

    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/10120-cross-ark-item-trading-dino-breeding/

    https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/10122-cross-ark-strategizing/

    Enjoy the patch everyone, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving and an adventurous exploration!

    :Jerblove:

    Edited by Jat

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    Ianpact

    Are these new creatures on the The Center map as well or do we have to wait for them to be patched in?

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    3mptylord
    On 24/11/2016 at 0:51 AM, Jat said:

    It is also reverence for its uncanny ability to create an organic, incredibly strong, lightweight plates that can be shaped and then heat treated into casings for anything.

    Has anyone figured out the recipe, yet? Organic Polymer is not produced entirely passively, so I assume there is a Dung Bettle-like recipe. 

    Also, do they eat anything other than Sweet Vegetables Cakes? I assumed this would be llke kangaroos and other special tames that default to berries or meat once tamed, but I can't find anything they'll eat other than Sweet Vegetable Cakes.

     

    UPDATE: Okay, 1 Organic Polymer has just appeared after 45 minutes. There must be some trick to improve this. Even with the 3x spoilage rate for Organic Polymer while inside the snail, you'll never see more than 2 Organic Polymer. You get 100 just for taming it! Does one of its stats increase this?

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    ciabattaroll
    40 minutes ago, 3mptylord said:

    Has anyone figured out the recipe, yet? Organic Polymer is not produced entirely passively, so I assume there is a Dung Bettle-like recipe. 

    Also, do they eat anything other than Sweet Vegetables Cakes? I assumed this would be llke kangaroos and other special tames that default to berries or meat once tamed, but I can't find anything they'll eat other than Sweet Vegetable Cakes.

     

    UPDATE: Okay, 1 Organic Polymer has just appeared after 45 minutes. There must be some trick to improve this. Even with the 3x spoilage rate for Organic Polymer while inside the snail, you'll never see more than 2 Organic Polymer. You get 100 just for taming it! Does one of its stats increase this?

    To my recollection this is as intended so that players can have the means of obtaining organic polymer for things like minor repairs without overshadowing hunting down kairuku.

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    AlbinoArchaeopteryx2008

    When is this released for Xbox? And why did ark update 2 times yesterday, and I still don't have this patch? Why does it say Turkey Trial 2 twice? Sorry for the inconvenience. 

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    3mptylord
    1 hour ago, ciabattaroll said:

    To my recollection this is as intended so that players can have the means of obtaining organic polymer for things like minor repairs without overshadowing hunting down kairuku.

    What can 2 organic polymer actually repair, though?

    It generates Snail Paste at a rate of 1 per minute, up to 100. Once it has 100 in its inventory, it won't produce any more. This means you have to come back once every 100 minutes, at most, to make the most out of them - similar to crop plots.

    But 2 Organic Polymer every 90 minutes, up to 2... is just bad (since the first one will spoil as the third one is produced). Given that they ONLY eat Herbivore Cakes (even after they're tamed), and thus are a nuisance to keep alive - I don't think it'd would be unbalanced to have a similar rate to Snail Paste (even half would be useful). I think I'd almost prefer a recipe, though.

    Although I see a snail backpack being useful when hunting kairuku, due to the extended lifespan.

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    hpbaxx
    On 24.11.2016 at 1:51 AM, Jat said:

     

    • VFX Indicators for Whistle Commands: Move To, Attack, and Group-Selected Units.
    • Whistle Ordering Groups! Create groups by class, or specific-dino! 
    • New Whistle Type: "Move To", Attack, and Group-Selected Units.

    Is there a tutorial which explains how to use these new features in detail?

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    ForgeMaster
    On 11/24/2016 at 1:07 AM, F4ng said:

    when are we getting primitive (not primitive +) cross ark/cluster servers for xbox 

    Primal Survival? Should be later this year

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    Iguanodonisbae
    On November 23, 2016 at 9:46 PM, DahDerpasaur said:

    Holy poop it came out on time.

    I'm just as surprised as you are

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    GP
    1 hour ago, ForgeMaster said:

    Primal Survival? Should be later this year

    No, he's talking about Primitive cross ark/cluster servers.

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    FlyinJapman4

    Is this when we'll get resting animations for the other dinos, or just the Megalosaurus?

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    F4ng
    6 hours ago, ForgeMaster said:

    Primal Survival? Should be later this year

    nah mate primitive (the one which limits the engram tree to no guns explosive metal structures) and cross ark clusters (the ones which run all 3 maps)

     

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    MarciBld

    The caves dont load at all the servers. Theres any fix for this problem???:dod-xmas::Berries:

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    Iguanodonisbae
    On November 23, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Hillerz said:

    I'm not sure if it's passive or by killing it.

     

    Its passive

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    Tredo

    What do we know about Megalosaurus Saddle not being in this last build and Prim+ running on a server?

    Any fix in sight for this huge set back?


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    Eviscerate

    When are we getting the new dinosaurs? I was told the 13th of December but we still have nothing for the Xbox.

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    GP
    4 minutes ago, Eviscerate said:

    When are we getting the new dinosaurs? I was told the 13th of December but we still have nothing for the Xbox.

    The Xbox Patch Notes are here. The Patch is ETA 14th Dec. It is still in MS QA.

     

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    EnderGalaxy123

    I need help. Scorched Earth is not able to download for the last 3 days and keeps getting stuck(1.4GB / 1.4GB) nothing happens from there on

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