ashgcy Posted May 29, 2024 Share Posted May 29, 2024 (edited) Welcome back sunken survivors! It's time for another edition of the Sunken Scoop! What is a Sunken Scoop though? Well, for all the new denizens of our discord, it's our unofficial version of the Community Crunch, releasing every 2-4 weeks (though we've been really good at keeping it at a fortnightly pace!), where we show off what we've been working on! So what's in the scoop this time around? Well, last week we released 4 new fish into the seas of the ARK network! We'll be giving those new creatures a nice spotlight below! In addition, we're bringing back an old sunken variant with a fresh coat of paint. Let's give Sunken Liopleurodon a warm welcome back! We've also got a new piece of feature art for Sunken Plesiosaurus! Finally, we'll go over some size changes to a variety of creatures in our mod. Read on to find out more! If this is your first time diving into the deep end, we are a dedicated team of individuals who are looking to spruce up the ocean biome in the same way that Scorched Earth offered a unique, biome specific challenge to survival. New creatures, resources, structures, items and more, all set on a huge custom map, we're looking to give ARK's oceans the TLC they deserve! The main goal is to bridge that huge gap between early and late game ocean exploration, and make it much more viable and more fun to live a life beneath the waves! This is unofficial content and is only related to our mod. It is in no way related with the official game and its content releases. Let's dive into the scoop! NEW FISH Saurichthys That's a mean set of teeth! Saurichthys is a medium sized predator that patrols the waves, ready to snatch up an unaware survivor in a similar fashion to the Kaprosuchus of the swamps! These lean, mean, fish-killing machines deal bonus damage to smaller fish! If you want to add one to your school, you'll have to knock one out and feed it Regular Kibble or Prime Fish. While they may not recieve a pack bonus, having a small pack of these living torpedos is an excellent method to dismount enemy survivors! Materpiscis This placoderm makes for the perfect parent! Materpiscis is one of the best nannies in the sea, taking excellent care of any young aquatic creatures. They'll happily feed babies, no matter the size, until they are old enough to feed from a trough! Despite its rough exterior, its jaws are delicate enough to pick up the eggs of other sea creatures. In addition, this won't anger the parents, as Materpiscis has a symbiotic relationship with many species where they will guard other creatures' eggs as if they were their own! To tame one of these fosterly fish, simply passively feed them Simple Kibble or Prime Fish. Bothriolepis and Lepidotes Step aside Coelacanth, there's two new fish in town! Bothriolepis and Lepidotes may be a lot more ambient than the other new additions, but that doesn't mean they don't have their uses! Currently, these fish are untameable, but we are working on a unique taming method for our smaller sea life! Bothriolepis can be harvested for a surplus of chitin, alongside trace amounts of black pearls. On the other hand, harvesting Lepidotes yields an abundance of sea scales and raw fish meat. Sea scales are a substitute for hide, and will become more useful as we add more features from the ASE branch to ASA. NEW SUNKEN VARIANT CONCEPT ART Sunken Liopleurodon It's a Sunken Liopleurodon Charlie! (does that reference make me look old?) After being archived due to a lack of a unique niche, this pliosaur is back and more stunning that ever (literally)! While not as magical as its vanilla counterpart, this creature certainly has some tricks up its sleeve! With a hard pseudo-shell, it receives enough natural armour that survivors have taken to just riding it bareback! Furthermore, it can use these hardened scales like a battering ram, swimming alongside creatures and throwing its weight against them in a concussive shove! A lot of its design inspiration comes from the leatherback turtle, a deep diving, jellyfish eating giant from the modern day! While Sunken Liopleurodon may not have an affinity for harvesting biotoxin, it does share a resistance to stings and the deep diving nature of its real world source material! Thanks to ZCI for this beautiful feature piece. Sunken Plesiosaur Why the long(er) face? We've shown off Sunken Plesiosaurus before, but it's about time this big lad got a feature piece! To recap, S. Plesiosaurs have gotten a much needed facelift, and now have a dash attack! In addition, unless you're a fish, these giants are a lot more gentle than their vanilla relatives! They won't attack you unless you hit them first. Again, thank you to ZCI for the artwork! GO BIG OR GO SMALL? Did you want that creature small, medium or large? Our creature roster has seen a lot of changes over the years, but you've probably never seen one of this scale. While we do love our supersized creatures, we found ourselves thinking "how in the ARK's blue seas are people going to be able to keep these animals in their bases??" Water pens have the added difficulty of having to consider 3D space to keep your creatures safe from harm. On land, you only need to consider walls, but in the sea you might need both a ceiling AND a floor to protect your tames! For that reason, alongside the fact it would get downright silly trying to breed or display these creatures in your average base, we decided to shuffle some sizes around! The best way we came up with to make our creatures seem larger was to reduce the sizes of some sunken variants. Making the "vanilla" creatures feel smaller that meant that even with the downsizes, our own creatures would still be feel larger by comparison and have that "ocean kaiju" feel we want for the mod. Not everything is smaller though, we've increased the size of a few creatures to make their sizes match their new strength! People have asked us many times about how big <insert creature> is over the years, so hopefully this size comparison is just the thing you've all been waiting for! Thanks again to ZCI for organising this amazing artwork, which also contains some images made by Lowkey, RRG and Nitrin the Dead! COMMUNITY CORNER Christmas has come early, we've gotten two scoops in a row with a community corner! Can we make that a hat trick? Jokes aside we really do love seeing the community sharing their love for our little project, so if you have anything you want to show off, feel free to send over some screenshots, artwork/fanart, videos or anything in between! There's a submssions channel in our Discord, or you can tag us @ARKSunken or with the hashtag #sunkenscoop on Twitter! Artwork Turtle Castle by dinobros2000 Close One by dinobros2000 Screenshots Anomalocaris by mangostars That's all for this edition of the Sunken Scoop, thanks for tuning in! With the new fish, Sunken Liopleurodon and the new sizes, there's plenty in store when it comes to the future of TSW! If you want even more TSW content, why not come hang out in our discord! Have a wonderful timezone! If this is your first time seeing TSW, check out the links below to find out more! Please note that if you want to play our mod, you need both the map and creature mod active.Discord: https://discord.gg/BAkvgc7Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArkSunkenMap Mod (ASE): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182740759Creature Mod (ASE): https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2182770728Creature Mod (ASA): https://legacy.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/the-sunken-world-additions Edited May 29, 2024 by ashgcy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiddlez Posted May 29, 2024 Share Posted May 29, 2024 All the art in this edition of the sunken scoop is so freaking cool !!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UDGxKnight Posted May 29, 2024 Share Posted May 29, 2024 (edited) I love the progress on this mod. Everything I could want from a Water focused Ark *edited cuz I noticed I used "an" instead of "a", oops bad grammar lol* Edited May 29, 2024 by UDGxKnight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udam Posted May 29, 2024 Share Posted May 29, 2024 Another hood classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ4275 Posted May 29, 2024 Share Posted May 29, 2024 Funnily enough this picture makes the blue whale look nearly the same size as Moro's Livyatan. It's just interesting to see the gargantuan creatures' side by side because of mosas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heliosdaprince Posted June 13, 2024 Share Posted June 13, 2024 Love the sunken lioplurodon ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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