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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Love Ascended is returning to ARK next week, bringing a wave of romantic and delightful rewards in honor of the world's biggest mate boosting holiday! But that’s not all, we’re also gearing up for the launch of Astraeos, the first-ever Official Partner DLC, landing on February 12th!

 

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Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is set to sweep ARK survivors off their feet with an array of enchanting new treats and delights. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine's Day, kicks off on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, and will continue to spread joy and affection until Wednesday, February 19, 2025, on Official Servers.

 

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  • Starts on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:00am PST
  • Ends on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 10:00am PST

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  • PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
  • Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
  • ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

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  • Lovebirds *new*
  • Love Bugs
  • Vday Coel 

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  • Chibi-Lovebird *new*
  • Chibi Pair-o-Saurs *new*

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  • Valentine’s Fishing Rod
  • Love Bug Hearts
  • Festive Dino Candy
  • Box o' Chocolates (Now also reduce mating cooldown by 20% of current time remaining)

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  • Pillow-Club Skin  *new*
  • Loveseat *new*
  • Ottoman *new*
  • Love-Chair *new*
  • Pajama Top *new*
  • Pajama Bottoms *new*
  • SleepingHat *new*
  • PomPom Slippers *new*
  • Friendship Bracelets *new*
  • Bear Hug Swimsuit
  • Odd Couple Swimsuit
  • Sauropod Heart Swimsuit
  • Cupid Couture Bottom Skin
  • Cupid Couture Top Skin
  • Halo Headband Skin
  • Heart-shaped Sunglasses Skin
  • Heart Spring Hat
  • Cuddle Rex Sweater
  • Bow & Eros Skin
  • Heart-shaped Shield Skin
  • Teddy Bear Grenade Skin
  • Love Shackles Skin
  • Heart Spring Hat 
  • Cuddle Rex Sweater
  • Love-Bed

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  • Proposal Emote *new*
  • Lasso Emote *new*
  • Flirty Emote
  • Heart Emote
  • Self Hug Emote

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  • Dino Light Blue
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  • PowderBlue
  • Glacial
  • DarkLavender
  • MediumLavender
  • Lavender
  • DarkViolet
  • Dino Light Purple
  • LightPink
  • Magenta
  • DeepPink
  • Red
  • DarkMagenta
  • Dino Albino
  • Cream
  • Jade
  • LeafGreen

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  • From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.
  • Search for Love Ascended in the ARK Mod list and Install it. Mod ID: 927084
  • After it's installed, go back to your game setup screen and select 'Mod Settings'
  • You will see Love Ascended and any other mods you've downloaded in 'Available Mods'
  • Select Love Ascended and activate it.

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  • If you would like to enable Love Ascended on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments (-mods=927084). No other changes should be necessary to activate the event.

 


 

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The next winner of our Community Creature Vote will be featured on Valguero. Get your endlessly creative submissions ready, and you might see your creature making its debut with the release of the Valguero map in ARK: Survival Ascended!

Please note that this creature will be released for Valguero, so ensure your real-world submissions align with that map's theme! As mentioned earlier, we will introduce an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release in ARK: Survival Ascended.

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. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

  • The entry period will end at 1pm Pacific on February 20th.
  • The voting will begin at 1pm PST on February 21st and end on February 28th at 1pm Pacific.
  • The winner will be announced in the Crunch of February 28th.

Make sure to check our Twitter on February 21st for the RankedVote link!

*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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Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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It’s Morphin’ time! Get ready to suit up and unleash your inner hero—or villain—with the
ARK x Power Rangers Cosmetic Pack Wave 2!

 

Suit up and morph into legends with the iconic looks of the Green Ranger and White Ranger, or embrace your dark side as the nefarious Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, and more. But the power doesn’t stop there—your dinos are getting an epic upgrade with Dinozord skins, turning them into fearsome, battle-ready beasts. Equip yourself with Power Weapon skins worthy of a true Ranger, and with unique emotes that let you strike poses bold enough to feel the power surge! And, once you're worthy, show off your zordplay by conquering the King Titan as a towering Megazord!

Thanks to ASA’s dynamic cosmetic system, even if you don’t own the pack, you’ll still witness these dinomighty skins in action during online play.


It’s time to choose your side, Survivors. Will you be a hero or a villain?
 

Features:

  • POWER RANGERS — 7 unique skins for the Green Ranger, White Ranger, Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, Goldar, Alpha 5 and Putty
  • POWER EMOTES —  7 unique emotes for each character skin: Green Ranger, White Ranger, Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, Goldar, Alpha 5 and Putty
  • POWER WEAPONS —  6 unique weapon skins; transform supported weapons into a Green Dagger, Green Sword, White Saba Sword, Rita Staff, Zedd Staff, or Goldar Sword
  • DINOZORDS — 4 unique dinosaur emotes; transform supported dinosaurs into the Thylacoleo White Tigerzord, Bronto Titanus, Giganotosaurus Green Dragonzord, or MegaMEK/MEK Megazord.

 


 

 

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ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

 

What is ARKpocalypse?

  • ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates and monthly-curated mods.

Next wipe: March 7th 2025

 

For the second round, the following mods will be included: 

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

 


 

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This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 10.

  • PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
  • Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
  • ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

 


 

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Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

 

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Creator: Frodo the Dodo

Frodo the Dodo made the dos and don'ts to succeed all difficulties of Element Veins. 

 

Creator: The Survivors Handbook

The Survivors Handbook reviews three fun mods to add to your gameplay!

 

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Heat Ray by @falco_luna

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ARK Tattoo by tnfireman

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Managarm Tribal by @SS38529630

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Barbatos the Loud Mouth King by Robinson Vronti

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Art doll Dilophosaurus by sayvaris

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Ark Pachyrhinosaurus redesign by ShatteredReaIity

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Speed paint: Ark by FlawlezFalcon

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ARKxPowerRangers by @MedusaGeek

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Power Rangers Survivors by @LAMEBOY81390688

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Photo Mode by @Vattghornn

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The new Power Ranger mod is fire by @TheAx3Man

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It's Morphing Time! by @DragonHeart7998

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Enjoy your weekend!
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Remember everyone : don't just vote for the creatures currently in the Top10 (it's not set in stone anyway). It's not fair to people who are only now adding their submission to ignore the new arrivals.

You have an unlimited amount of votes, so boost any of the creatures you like. A lot can still happen in two weeks !

And even for creatures that seemingly have no odds of making it to the top, upvoting and/or commenting will be appreciated.
Any one of us who has submitted a creature has given it some level of thought and put some work into it, be it through art, presentation, writing, concept, research, etc. So just a few kind words, some constructive feedback, or simply underlining what you like about their creature, will be appreciated.

Community votes are when our community is at our best : full of hope, ideas and enthusiasm ! Be part of what's positive...

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Friendship Bracelets *new*

Damn, imagine getting a FRIENDSHIP bracelet for Valentine's Day... I'd rather be eaten by a pack of Compies.

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ARK Tattoo by tnfireman

Definitely the winner of this week's Community Crunch ! Damn that's some fine skin art, sir.

 

...By the way, the Darwinius is still sitting right outside of the Top10, if you'd be so kind as to consider it ! DARWINIUS-Triangle.png

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I'm excited for the chibi lovebird! I do wish these events would last longer. Especially this one because of the hell that is fishing. That limited timeline is exactly why I left official servers for a custom server that leaves events up for a month or sometimes until the next event. Im not saying official should let the events go on for THAT long, but at least 2 weeks would be a nice bit of leeway for those of us who work. ALSO, isn't Astraeos releasing on the 12th? The same day the event starts? That timing is brutal because that gives zero time to establish yourself and focus on the event. Feels unfair

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13 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

Remember everyone : don't just vote for the creatures currently in the Top10 (it's not set in stone anyway). It's not fair to people who are only now adding their submission to ignore the new arrivals.

You have an unlimited amount of votes, so boost any of the creatures you like. A lot can still happen in two weeks !

And even for creatures that seemingly have no odds of making it to the top, upvoting and/or commenting will be appreciated.
Any one of us who has submitted a creature has given it some level of thought and put some work into it, be it through art, presentation, writing, concept, research, etc. So just a few kind words, some constructive feedback, or simply underlining what you like about their creature, will be appreciated.

Community votes are when our community is at our best : full of hope, ideas and enthusiasm ! Be part of what's positive...

Damn, imagine getting a FRIENDSHIP bracelet for Valentine's Day... I'd rather be eaten by a pack of Compies.

Definitely the winner of this week's Community Crunch ! Damn that's some fine skin art, sir.

 

...By the way, the Darwinius is still sitting right outside of the Top10, if you'd be so kind as to consider it ! DARWINIUS-Triangle.png

Thank God someone is talking about it, as a veteran of the contest I can only agree. The problem is that everyone is talking about it unfortunately it's as if it were engraved in stone, between videos and other online platforms it's a continuous advertising campaign... 

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I renew my personal opinion on the fact that there should be more winners even if distributed over time for 3 main reasons:
1- You get more creatures (obviously)
2- It allows in future contests to win even creatures that have not been voted in previous contests, maybe from people who did not even hope to get there.

3-Having more creatures would also allow us to create entire maps not with the usual parasaur or the usual t-rex because, remember, arks are used to host as much biodiversity as possible...

(I want to point out that I'm not throwing poop at the developers, seeing the bison for ragnarock is proof that they listen to us, it's just my opinion)

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What happened to server transfers open for extinction on the 7th?  There was the one mention of it but after that nothing.  No updates, no further discussion.  Not too mention Gacha spawns are almost non existent, same as tek Dino spawns, as a matter of fact spawns in general on extinction are pretty dismal, city terminals are still invisible.  Which is extremely annoying for those of us that don’t have the transmitter unlocked yet.  Otherwise we are forced to use the king titan terminal, which is a pain especially if we only have a small amount of time to do what we gotta do.  It would be nice if you guys got this stuff fixed before too much longer as well as release tek dinos on all maps just like it was in ASE, if ya want to keep the tek giga on Extinction as sort of a unique thing only to the map I wouldn’t have an issue with that.  It would make taming one that much better.  
 

Secondly, the Love Evolved event only a week and at 2x?????  C’mon guys!  The love evolved event has always been catered to the breeding side of Ark.  Not trying to sound like an ungrateful, entitled whine ass but (and I’m sure others would agree) the Love Evolved event would warrant 3x breeding/raising.  The winter wonderland event was over 2 weeks, the Turkey Trial was 2 weeks and the Fear Evolved event was 2 weeks, why is the Love Evolved event only a week?  I could agree for a week long Love Evolved if say it was 4x or something like that.

@ladyteruki, that is a very good thing to bring up!  I myself forget there’s more options than just the top ten, I am only human….i think.  In this day and age of just looking at the first page of everything, people seemed to have forgot that sometimes the information they want, need or are interested in seeing aren’t until page 3.

 

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51 minutes ago, Clicks said:

Are you suggesting they did a different crossover? There may be other crossovers coming down the line, Transformers Dinobots would be awesome. You may also be thinking that the work being done on these cosmetics is somehow holding them back from doing other things but it's most likely that the art and animation people who put this together aren't the same team who are actively developing the back end of the game, both things can happen at the same time.

The only thing I was saying is that they could focus on improving the game instead, but I just hope that they have a team just for crossovers, we can't know for sure.

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15 hours ago, Ermerus said:

Thank God someone is talking about it, as a veteran of the contest I can only agree. The problem is that everyone is talking about it unfortunately it's as if it were engraved in stone, between videos and other online platforms it's a continuous advertising campaign... 

I'll be honest, I don't understand Youtubers who only talk about the Top10 (or Top3 for that matter), when it is simply free content to browse the submissions on camera, then react to even those who have only one or two votes. It'd be the 8 easiest minutes to fill. Repeatedly, if they wanted.

Everyone knows about the Top10 ! There is zero surprises there. Be the person who's going to uncover a great creature in the depths of the submissions, instead.

When I was still active on Xwitter, I remember just talking about some of my finds for previous votes ; for instance I firmly believe creatures like the Hippopotamus, the Eomanis, the first Cryodrakon or the Keresdrakon would have gotten more votes if they had had more exposure. In my opinion they had the potential for it. Who else but the content creators can be the person who says "hey, I found a hidden gem, let's go vote for it !", rather than dragging more votes to creatures who already have been upvoted hundreds of times ?
Even if they don't win, how great for the submitter to know their idea was not posted in the void...

9 hours ago, ccz2887 said:

@ladyteruki, that is a very good thing to bring up!  I myself forget there’s more options than just the top ten, I am only human….i think.  In this day and age of just looking at the first page of everything, people seemed to have forgot that sometimes the information they want, need or are interested in seeing aren’t until page 3.

We're all only human, survivor :) I think we can all use a reminder from time to time that we don't have to just go with what is already popular. And you're right, sometimes the right creature for you is hidden on page 3 (or later), and this creature might never make it to the Top10 if noone has the curiosity to look for it.
While a creature finishes taming or an egg hatches, maybe we have time to browse the official forums and take a look further than the obvious ones ?

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7 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

I'll be honest, I don't understand Youtubers who only talk about the Top10 (or Top3 for that matter), when it is simply free content to browse the submissions on camera, then react to even those who have only one or two votes. It'd be the 8 easiest minutes to fill. Repeatedly, if they wanted.

Everyone knows about the Top10 ! There is zero surprises there. Be the person who's going to uncover a great creature in the depths of the submissions, instead.

When I was still active on Xwitter, I remember just talking about some of my finds for previous votes ; for instance I firmly believe creatures like the Hippopotamus, the Eomanis, the first Cryodrakon or the Keresdrakon would have gotten more votes if they had had more exposure. In my opinion they had the potential for it. Who else but the content creators can be the person who says "hey, I found a hidden gem, let's go vote for it !", rather than dragging more votes to creatures who already have been upvoted hundreds of times ?
Even if they don't win, how great for the submitter to know their idea was not posted in the void...

We're all only human, survivor :) I think we can all use a reminder from time to time that we don't have to just go with what is already popular. And you're right, sometimes the right creature for you is hidden on page 3 (or later), and this creature might never make it to the Top10 if noone has the curiosity to look for it.
While a creature finishes taming or an egg hatches, maybe we have time to browse the official forums and take a look further than the obvious ones ?

Well what can I say... very true, but from personal experience, as with poverty in the world, this superficiality of users persists because it is convenient for someone...

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1 hour ago, dragobianco said:

all this attention on something that will be published who knows when and in a precarious state seems to me just a way to distract attention from the pitiful state in which ark is in 

Well maybe but apart from a few bugs I don't think it's in such a bad state come on, do you remember how the evolved version was?

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