Jump to content

Announcing: ARKaeology Event!


Jen
 Share

Recommended Posts

A short while ago we announced a special countdown timer that was featured on the front page of our forums counting down to a reveal, and today is that day. We are very excited to announce we are launching a new in-game event: ARKaeology!

large.digfing.jpg.35b94e724b4bc273508794

The event will run beginning today on all platforms until July 15th. As you traverse along the ground on any of the maps (the Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Aberration or Scorched Earth) you will come across fossil mounds which you are able to excavate. Inside the mounds, you'll find a few bones and if you're lucky you'll even find extra loot inside of one (signified by a special particle effect)! After you collect enough bones you’ll be able to craft several skins with the use of a Cooking Pot.

large.ark_arkaeologyEvent01.jpg.3ab02471

There are four brand new skins to collect:

Brachiosaurus (Brontosaurus Costume)

large.brach.jpg.6ea58a86f71ec4647397137f

Stygimoloch (Pachycephalosaurus Costume)

large_styg.jpg.aa3c570b9db6b7715f1db297e

Styracosaurus (Triceratops Costume)

large.styra.jpg.d79a27b5a2ca70b6951c4c23

Dilophosaurus Mask (Hat Skin) 

large.dilomask.jpg.4d0657f4191fdfc143274

There are returning skins, the skeleton bone dino costumes: 

  • Rex Bone Costume
  • Carno Bone Costume
  • Raptor Bone Costume
  • Bronto Bone Costume
  • Stego Bone Costume
  • Trike Bone Costume
  • Giganotosaurus Bone Costume
  • Quetzalcoatlus Bone Costume
  • Jerboa Bone Costume
  • Wyvern Bone Costume

The ARKaeology event also brings with it a bionic battle beast - the Tek Rex - for survivors to tame, ride and breed!

large_rex.jpg.c5e357306d5984a17cc8115c16

The Tek Rex is, as the name implies, a rare, specially armored wild T-Rex that can achieve a higher level than its standard brethren. Previously isolated to just a cosmetic skin, these wild creatures will be roaming the ARKs (on maps where normal Rexes are present) and are yours for the taming, if you can handle it! 

During this event all wild dinos have a chance to spawn with additional mutation colors: White, Yellow, Grey, and Black!

Patch Notes!

Patch Notes for PC Version: v280.114

ARKaeology Event!
Scavenge fossils from the various mounds that spawn on every map, be on the lookout for special mounds that contain items and use fossils to craft special skins!

The event will run automatically from 15th of June to 15th of July on Multiplayer and Single Player. If you're using a non coredata mods, or a custom map, you can activate the event with the following commandline:

-ActiveEvent=ARKaeology

you can also run that commandline after the designated period to have the event continue, or opt-out using:

-ActiveEvent=None

The skins added to the event, are the following:
- Brachiosaurus (Brontosaurus Skin)
- Stygimoloch (Pachycephalosaurus Skin)
- Styracosaurus (Triceratops Skin)
- Dilophosaurus Mask (Hat Skin)
 
Bone Skins!
- Rex
- Carno
- Raptor
- Bronto
- Stego
- Trike
- Giganotosaurus
- Quetzalcoatlus
- Jerboa
- Wyvern

Fortitude rework[
- The threshold for being knocked out increases with fortitude increases
- Increased natural insulation from fortitude by 8%

Small Tribe Server rule changes (PC ONLY)
- 24 hr cooldown on tribe slot reuse
- Disabled dino unclaiming
- Disabled non-tribe pin code access to structures

Tek Rex
- 5% of wild Rex spawns are tex
- 20% higher wild level
- New breeding line

Miscellaneous
- Tek Tapajara saddle range reduced by 75%
- Fix for server performance in certain situations
- Many hole fixes across all maps
- Ragnarok optimizations    
- Rendering fixes
- Fix emissive when moving the camera
- Fix for ambient occlusion rendering issue
- Max level has been increased by 1 to 131.

Be on the lookout for hidden mysteries!

ARK'S BIGGEST SALE!

ARK and its expansion packs are currently on sale across all platforms at their lowest prices ever! Discounts may vary across regions and platforms. Check out the images and links below for more details!

xboxsummer.jpg

ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Explorer's Edition

ARK: Season Pass

ARK: Scorched Earth

ARK: Aberration

summerSTEAM.jpg

ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Explorer's Edition

ARK: Season Pass

ARK: Scorched Earth

ARK: Aberration

summerEUPS4.jpg

ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Explorer's Edition

ARK: Season Pass

ARK: Scorched Earth

ARK: Aberration

ARK: Complete Your Season Pass


View full article

  • Thanks 1
  • Facepalm 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

been following the timer for 15 days only to discover that we get 4 dinosaur skins...and a hat. I don t want damn skins I want dinos...just add the dinos on the template (like brachiosaurus on bronto) and give them some new abilities or uses...only the abilities need bigger coding

did not imagine I could get so dissapointed. this deserved a 2 days timer max...

not looking forward to a similar ark announcement ever again

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...