ARK Digest Q&A!

[coldfiresun]

Would it be possible to get armour in the future that gives more than just an armour buff. It would be cool to add iron blades to the claws of a bear to up its melee or saddlebags to the mammoth to increase its carry weight.

[coldfiresun]

Can we have an iron level upgrade to the club since there is no good melee torpor damaging weapon until the prod?

[coldfiresun]

Either as a new dinosaur or when you go back over the older dinos it would be so amazing if you make a couple herbivores with herd AI behaviors. It would be cool to see certain plant eaters behaving like dire wolves or allosaurs. You could do the circle deference for trikes or give a true stampede mechanic.

[coldfiresun]

Can we get an official outline on how the breeding phase three is implemented and how random mutations work?

[coldfiresun]

Can we get the ability in tech tier to craft beacon like objects to make finding spots on the map easier? Like if you want to mark a cave or your base you could put up a shaft of light for easy locating.

[coldfiresun]

Would it be possible to craft things in your inventory if you are accessing a smithy with the materials already in it? It would be so convenient just to walk up to a smithy or bookshelf where im storing my stuff and just go straight into crafting instead of having to drag over everything and drag it back when im done?

[coldfiresun]

I understand that punching a tree hurts, but could we have it where when punching squishy things we do not hurt ourselves? It is pretty silly that you can kill yourself on a dodo if you have low enough health.

[coldfiresun]

Would it be possible to see an expansion to the cooking recipes where we could make recipes for existing items and improve them? Such as using twice the amount of tintos for the health elixir and having a single dose twice as strong? If we can do it for foods and things it would be really nice if it could carry over to other recipes.

[coldfiresun]

The user @3mptylord has made a massive post with amazing ideas and possible changes called "Gameplay and Quality of Life Improvements" I agree with like 95% of them is there any chance that some of his/her ideas will be incorporated into the game as they are fantastic!

[coldfiresun]

On 12/13/2016 at 4:20 PM, SeverePuma said:

Any plans to add live traps? A Cage you can bait and leave, and then comeback and if a dino falls for the bait they're in the trap? Similar to how they trap opossums and even feral pigs 

^ This. This is amazing please do this. Please please pretty please!

[leboski]

could you tell me why u stop SOTF servers instead of taking down official servers from regular ark we dont need as many as we have.

[Rapefruit]

Inventory Management
Can you make a ( grab all items of the same kind button ).
Would it be possible to give inventorys an option to make full stacks with a click.

The Center Updates
The new Tek Cave, Dinos and Explorer Notes still coming to the Center ?
With the new Dunkleosteus a few new rich underwater ressource spots would be nice.

Dinos
Some more (Air flocks/ Water swarms) Dinos travel in groups in the future like Coels, or Dimorphodons.
A faster/bigger Metal farming Dino than the Dunkleo/ Ankylo ?
Will there be Herbivore Birds/Water Creatures ?

Everyday Life
Will there be wheelbarrow/Backpack for hauling Materials around.

 

[Midnight_]

@ coldfiresun

Holy post spam Batman! You really could not gather all those thoughts into a single post?  LOL  Your average there is 3 posts per minute....yeesh

 

[SurvivalArtist]

23 hours ago, Voodooroll said:

When are we getting the update on Xbox one? The time between when pc gets it and Xbox one gets it seems a bit too long

Such questions will most likely not be anwered. I suggest you follow the whole crew on twitter because they recently tweeted that the update has to be approved (as always) and this process takes time

[Musketeer]

It rains inside my buildings if the roof is more than 2 walls high... will this ever be fixed?

[Bloodlust1982]

So I wondering if it be possible that there are plans for battery(miners helm/attachable flashlight/night vision) and filters ( gas mask) that would work more like gas for the chainsaw. For instance able to use the attachment as more like a cosmetic and helmets but not have the affect s of them?

 

[neospore22]

Question will I guys ever implement a creative mode so u don't have to enter all the admin commands or at least make a admin command that make it easier for the xbox / ps4 or at the vary least plz update the new items with id's 

 

[FrenchFries]

Do you think you could ever add something like a quiver for arrows? Maybe in the off hand slot. Its a little annoying when youre transferring all items in your inventory and then you have to get your arrows back out

[FatalGaming]

On 12/13/2016 at 2:09 PM, Madlad52 said:

I've been playing since the game came out on console and I'm truly in love. I just have one minor thing that I really want to know. On the Xbox one the game seems to disconnect you from the server more often than not, now yes I understand that it's the game is pre-release/early access. But it's very frustrating especially now in the newest expansion (Schorced Earth) where you will spend 100 hours taming your first dragon, just for it to die because you disconnected from the server and couldn't save it from being harmed. Can we get more commands for our Tames? (Possibly one to have them return home when in danger, which would also fix the other flying creatures in the game when set to agressive E.G. Argentavis, petradon.) Or will we see an improvement in connectivity/performance?.

 

[KatoGod]

Since there is already one disease (swamp fever) and I am guessing that there are going to be more diseases added, I was wondering if you are going to add hazmat suits for handling diseased animals?

For instance if someone dropped a diseased dodo in your base you could equip the hazmat suit and dispose of the biohazard before anyone in the tribe gets infected. Or if someone in your tribe is already sick with the disease, you could take care of them before the sickness spreads.

It could also be used for setting up your bioweaponized dodos so you don't get constantly sickened and have to keep making antidotes to cure it.  

[ul1sses]

I want to know if the blocking of drops and obelisks is something that will continue to be part of PvP game.

How can i use the transfer mechanic if someone blocked all the exits?

[TR-8R]

Are you working on a fix to the wild megalosaurus glitching out of cave ?

 

New tranq dart for the Fab sniper ?

 

I would like to have a small Xmas tree for this year winter event and even Santa claus 's beard , perhaps you already added ?

 

When our Moth can produce silk ?

 

 

[Mantis]

Before I start, yes I understand there is a building cap.

When placing building materials, we have hit limit, and after removing buildings we are still getting the cannot place  additional structures dialog when trying to work around. Have replaced Door Frames and Doors with Walls to drop the 2 building down to 1 counter, and destroying what was planted in crop plots (plant x species). This 10,500 counter does not go down, any mistake you make gets added to this even after demoing. Can we please get both of the following.

1. A UI Function when placing buildings of how much your current count is. Example: Like writing on twitter you have (0/300) text just give us something simple like this? (0/10,500) so you can tell what your radius is, and when you hit this cap.

2. Fix to this issue

[Draconis]

can we change the way elevators work, instead of pressing Y to go up and again to go down can we change that so we click Y to enter and right analog stick to move up and down. Also will we get Dedicated Rental Servers?

[Miike171]

can you guys add a trophy wall for player ids so we can  keep the heads of the players we kill ?