When did the Broodmother arena change?

[Syrilian]

So a couple of months ago, my group on a private server attempted to beat the broodmother and the arena had a bridge. This time it did not. When was the bridge removed? This is on the island.

[Jacira]

You sure you weren't doing Megapithecus?

[invincibleqc]

Back in the days, there was a canyon and a bridge in the middle of the Broodmother's arena. This was removed a long time ago tho, mainly for two reasons. The first one being that it was a nightmare when your unridden creatures were falling down there and the second because it was used to prevent the boss from dealing damage while players were staying up there using ranged weapons, etc.

You can see it in the spotlight video:

To answer the question at hand, the changes were released on June 10, 2017:

On 3/27/2017 at 10:50 AM, Jatheish said:

v258.71

- Rebalanced Broodmother and streamlined Broodmother arena

 

[ArianaGaming]

Hello,

At retail release ARK changed and the following months as well. Old servers became legacy servers.

Later ARK launched on mobile and is much popular.

Regards,

Ariana 

[GP]

5 hours ago, Syrilian said:

So a couple of months ago, my group on a private server attempted to beat the broodmother and the arena had a bridge. This time it did not. When was the bridge removed? This is on the island.

It was definitely longer than a couple of months ago unless you guys were playing a very very old version.