Community Crunch 370: Sponsored Mods, Aberration Creature Submissions, and More!

[StudioWildcard]

If there's one thing we know most people love, it's new ARK content.  That's why we're excited to announce 2 new sponsored mods that offer more content to enhance your ARK experience.  If you're looking for more sneak peaks at upcoming official ARK content, don't worry.  We'll have more to share on ASA and ARK 2 in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

 

 

If you are looking to change up the game, why not check out some new mods?
 

Akka's ARK Decor mods offer a wide selection of stylish interior and exterior furniture and decorations. You will also find separate mods for festive and spooky decor.

Check out Akka's ARK Decor Mods Collection

 

Finding that unique wild dino with just the right colors and stats feels great. Shiny! Dinos offers additional ways for creatures of the ARKs to be more unique. More than just a fresh splash of paint job, some of these Shiny! Dinos have unique abilities to spice up your base.

Check out Shiny! Dinos

 

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Down we go to Aberration's depths for our next community voting contest. What will be the fan-voted real-world creature that will launch with the map for ARK: Survival Ascended? 

Please note that this creature will be released for Aberration, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, we’ll add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended.

To participate in the Creature Submission votes, you'll have to have registered an account on our forums at survivetheark.com and be a Regular Member of the board which requires 6 posts. Please ensure to follow the forum guidelines and rules when posting

Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process, and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. The entry period will end at 1 PM Pacific on July 17th, and the voting for the top 10 upvoted creatures will begin immediately after.  We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

*Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified.

 

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Season 5 of The Conquest is currently in progress. The recently added maps (Aberration, Fjordur, and Extinction) will be open for full transfers on Saturday at 6 pm Pacific Time!

 

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Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, July 17th.
All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.

Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon
Conquest: 5x XP, Harvesting, Taming and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x hexagon

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ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What are ARKpocalypse and Beginner Servers?

• ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates.
• Beginner servers are wiped periodically to help provide a fresh beginner experience for new players.

Next wipe:

• ARKpocalypse: August 11th 2023
• Beginner: August 11th 2023

You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

 

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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

 

 

Make sure not to miss out on DEDsafio ARK, as it's anticipated to be one of the biggest competitive events within the ARK community. This event will feature over 70 Hispanic content creators, both new and experienced, who will participate in an exciting series of challenges and tests in ARK.

Stay up to date by following DEDsafio on Twitter and on Twitch.

 

Creator: Haxeu

Watch Haxeu's unstoppable army in The Survival of The Fittest, featuring fearsome creatures such as Giganto, Carcha, Allos, and more.

 

Creator: FenderFTW

Fender's fortunes are about to change on the Monarky server as he successfully tames his first giant Achatina!

 

 

A new start by @TekARK_01

 

ARK Adventure Diary Party by @minimumemo_

 

ARK Fasolasuchus by @DW_ARK

 

Brood Mother!  by @tiknreg

 

Abandon all hope ye who enter here... by @VELUKO1

 

Real men go catch Shadowmane by @Yoga5291

 

I tried to redraw a picture from a year ago by @k3zk_627

 

 

Carne aberration by lempicka-4

 

ARKs Dream by jonahs-arks

 

COOOOLOOOOORRRS by afkintheark

 

Enjoy your weekend!
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[akosmc5]

Useless crunch

[LeDonkaConka]

Oh well, the mods sound pretty cool at least

Edited July 15, 2023 by LeDonkaConka

[MMaas]

We have nothing to say.
Stay tuned for more nothing next week.

 

[Austin304]

YAWN

[NotAtAllMalicious]

NICE

 

[KaramellKeks]

I'm kinda disappointed. But hopefully next week we'll get new things to see

 

[Dienstbier]

It's a pity there's nothing today.
Well, hopefully next week.

[Lizachu0792]

Where's animated though. It's been a minute since any news for that. Would looove to see something on that!

[RexTheDargon]

Other than the mods, this was very boring. The DEDsafio thing could also be cool but this was a very mid crunch. I wish that next week we can see the gigantic apt or dossier or even what the ASA exclusive dlc is and even the 4 creatures they are adding.

[Dragons54321]

I think we need to talk about the shady things that overwolf has been accused of before I can even get excited about the sponsored mods. Apparently swearing is not allowed on forums so yeah... Anyway I love this game but the choices that are being made are disheartening

[AmanaTishala]

Will the creature vote be on Twitter "immediately after " again and not show up to the community crunch until there's only 3 days left to vote again? I don't have a Twitter account so I didn't see it last time until someone posted a direct link to the Twitter vote in reply to my comment on here since the community crunch version wasn't working. I don't really want to get a Twitter account for multiple reasons, so I'm hoping that someone can help link to it again if it ends up JUST on there for a whole week again. 

[GloBruce]

Thank you for sending out another round of "nothing to see here, folks" to what few players you actually have left.  We appreciate the "meh" rates about as much as we're appreciating your "meh" approach to your player base.  You could have had an amazing Summer Bash on all platforms.  You could go out with a bang by giving us everything you've got - every color, great rates, randomly activate various themes from events like dodo rex or raptor claus but hey, your business strategy of slowly bleeding out is, if nothing else, interesting to watch.  Hopefully the chest compressions you're getting from who knows where to keep your company alive sustain you because your players are rapidly vanishing and, frankly, a lot of them are not coming back.  

Edited July 15, 2023 by GloBruce

[SergioYanny]

Today there weren't as many cool things as other weeks, but you don't have to hate the ark workers either

 

Edited July 20, 2023 by SergioYanny

[danlillis]

Please note that this creature will be released for Aberration, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, we’ll add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended. (i may be reading this wrong but it sorta sounds like we are getting a community vote critter and another from wildcard for abberation? i mean does that mean that or its just one critter per map that is the community voted creature i am meaning)

Edited July 15, 2023 by danlillis

[hbomb1972]

I will post this again this week:

Please unlock element and/or dino tribute transfers for the rest of ASE so we can more easily keep the lights on in our bases until Official goes away!?!

[AThiccNacho]

Ouch, another nothing burger. I enjoy the community content, but man, the constant kicking the can of ASA-related stuff is really telling they're extremely far behind schedule.

 

OOF.

[Kinsky]

Dicelo ese Dedsafio Ark

[Noffek]

Wc/Sg has a talent for destruction.  When those who are players on the current servers leave, there will be 0 because only during refresh periods, the servers show the activity of 5/7 players (and with a bit of luck) and so most of the bases have collapsed.  No one to play with anymore.  Why catch and breed a dino now when it's going to the dump anyway?  I hate Sisyphean work, i.e. starting from the beginning, in this case ASA.  Although many do not even plan to buy ASA anymore because they do not have the opportunity to buy better equipment.  And since there will be no official servers, players will take their dino in the form of TxT LoL and leave WC / SG because in the case of consoles we are dependent on hosting companies such as Nitrado.  PCs can set up their own servers without incurring rental costs.  Let's also call it ugly "Discrimination of console players" In this direction, WC / SG also does nothing to give players the opportunity to have their own server, apart from the fact that it can be done using another console, but the question of the performance of such a server 4 players is already a big burden for  Hosting PS4 despite the fact that it has quite a lot of internet bandwidth.  And with poor internet quality, PS hosting ASE will have a problem with game stability if a few players join it.  WC/SG only sees a massive player base in their system, the massive amount of "spam" we get from votes doesn't reflect the total player database.  Since June this year, more or less a multitude of players wanting to vote for dino have registered and they still do it without noticing what a mess they have introduced on Few Crunch.  And if you pay attention to them for the mess they create, you get Ban xD.  Sum sumarum, I don't even see the point of speaking further, even this community is crumbling.  I will last until TxT and say goodbye to WC/SG forever.

[Duffmek]

holy moly ... i was scrolling to actually SEE something and THAT was it???? dang

[GP]

4 hours ago, danlillis said:

Please note that this creature will be released for Aberration, so make sure your real-world submissions are in theme with that map! As previously stated, we’ll add an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release on ARK: Survival Ascended. (i may be reading this wrong but it sorta sounds like we are getting a community vote critter and another from wildcard for abberation? i mean does that mean that or its just one critter per map that is the community voted creature i am meaning)

It's ONE new community voted creature per map.

[Bballer01]

Take your time WC, I am hyped to see more about the upcoming updates

Edited July 15, 2023 by Bballer01
wrong content

[danlillis]

33 minutes ago, GP said:

It's ONE new community voted creature per map.

Thanks for clarifying that wasn't sure 

[Stevendillon]

Rip wildcard am not paying for the privilege of starting from O again after 8 years of playing gone to picking up berries again servers had 40 to 50 players on now 5 to 10 if lucky Noah’s ark most people leaving before the flood

[Haumea]

No Ark 2 concept art today? Shame. Next week better be a big one.