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Sunken Scoop 31: Sea You Next Year!


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Welcome back sunken survivors!

2024 has been quite the year for TSW! Since we ported at the beginning of the year (did that seriously all happen this year?), we've TLC'd some of our beloved creatures, released a whole library of amazing concept art and models, released a fair number of Sunken Scoops, teased a new project (more on that later) and a bunch more things that would make this list way too long! It's been another incredible year of TSW content for sure, but the most important thing of note is that we've had so much fun making stuff for all of you!

So let's send off the year with a bang, shall we? In this edition of the scoop, we'll be going over our new sister project, Fabled Dominion, just in case you missed it, as well as sharing some final bits of concept art for the year. Read on to find out more!

If this is your first time diving into the deep end, the Sunken World project is a dedicated team of individuals who are looking to spruce up the seas 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!


WHAT IS FABLED DOMINION?

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Fabled Dominion will be an ARK like no other (because it's technically two)! FD is set on a fantastical ARK still recovering from a cataclysmic event: the navigational systems of two ARKs failing and causing them to collide. The impact, currently still under repair by the ARK's systems, drastically altered the environment, damaged the DNA banks and corrupted and combined the AI of the Overseers of the separate ARKs. With its damaged databases, this new Overseer began pulling from the only bits and pieces of information available to it, causing it to believe that creatures from human mythologies and legend were real animals! Using bits and pieces of DNA available to it, it repopulated this amalgamated ARK with all manner of beasts from tales long past!

This project is being worked on alongside TSW! This means that progress for TSW will not be affected in the slightest, and both mods will be developed at the same time! However, FD is going to be partially made up of premium content. As we've stated multiple times, we are entirely commited on making sure all of TSW remains freehowever that means generating funding to continue to make TSW is quite difficult (though our incredible Patrons help out a ton!). And on the topic of the Patreon, while we don't advertise it much, we do have one! Links are available in our Discord if you'd like to support the project!

So what's going to be premium?

  • TSW will always be free
  • The FD Additions mod (all the creatures, resources, etc) will be free
  • The FD Map mod will be premium

While we know that premium mods can be a touchy subject for some, we hope that we've made our reasons for creating premium content more than clear. We really think that FD will help both projects as a whole... and speaking of help!

Help Wanted!

We're looking for more team members to help work on specifically Fabled Dominion! This doesn't mean that they will be unable to work on TSW though, it just means we really need people to help out more on FD for now!

The roles we're looking to fill at the moment are:

  • Dev Kit Developer
  • Animators/Riggers
  • Hard Surface Modelers
  • Creature Modelers
  • Composer

If you're interested, DM Sireoptera! More information can be found in the announcements channel of our Discord as well! Also, you can join the Fabled Dominion Discord here!


NEW CONCEPT ART

Tyrant Shrimp Redraw

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You mean to tell me a tie ranted this shrimp... wait did I make this joke already? ZCI has revisited Tyrant Shrimp's old feature piece and given it a fresh coat of paint! Now this shrimp can really show off its big meaty claws!

Once in game, the Tyrant Shrimp will be like an undersea Velonasaur/Tapejara hybrid, able to move in any direction while peppering enemies with shots from its claws at a distance! 

Acrophyseter Ping Icon

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"Acrophyseter with long macaroni around head" as ZCI so eloquently put it! This icon was missed in the last scoop, and is our response to the feedback we've been getting that it can be hard to see what Acrophyseter has detected with all the haze and colour shifting underwater. This icon will replace the current ping icon in game. And again, massive thanks go to ZCI for all his work on this and the other icons!


COMMUNITY CORNER

One of the biggest miracles of 2024 is that the community corner has survived the whole year! I guess gaining more popularity in the modding community means more community content! If you have anything you want us to show off next year, feel free to send over some screenshots, artwork/fanart, videos or anything in between to the submissions channel in our Discord, or you can tag us @ARKSunken or with the hashtag #sunkenscoop on Twitter!

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Happy Holidays by solid steel

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SEA YOU IN 2025

Time to wave goodbye to 2024 (almost)! 🌊

Tongue and cheek aside though, on behalf of the TSW team I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas if you celebrate! And for those that don't, we hope you thoroughly enjoy the holidays!

Our little project has grown so much over 2024, and it's been a real privilege to see all the love for our little ocean ARK coming from the community! We definitely feel really lucky to have such a tight knit (and well behaved, looking at you official discord :p) little server, and we're just as excited as you are for all the new shenanigans we'll be getting up to in 2025!

That's all for this edition of the Sunken Scoop! Instead of our usual ending statements, all I want to say today is that we hope you'll all stay happy and safe in the last few weeks of 2024, and we'll see you in the new year!

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/BAkvgc7
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArkSunken
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ArkTheSunkenWorld
Map Mod (ASE): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182740759
Creature Mod (ASE): https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2182770728
Creature Mod (ASA): https://legacy.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/the-sunken-world-additions

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