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Hello Survivors! We are very excited to share a titanic amount of news with you! Today at E3 with PC Gamer, we were able to reveal some of the upcoming updates coming to the ARK! First of all, let’s begin with what you’re all curious to hear about, our new gamemode… ARK: Primal Survival! ARK: Primal Survival is an upcoming Total Conversion where survivors will be able to play, live, and breed as any of the ARK’s creatures! Survivors will experience full survival mechanics and lifecycles, including mating, growing, recruiting more creatures to your ‘pack,’ even constructing primitive dens. Playing Primal Survival, which will launch later this year on PC and Xbox One as an Official Total Conversion, will allow survivors to experience; Live life as a Raptor, communicate and coordinate tactical attacks on other species. Spend your nights creepily crawling around the caves as the Araneo, catching your victims with your web spinning ability and spraying them paralyzing venom, while laying eggs to expand your brood! Work together as one to execute strategic attacks alongside your pack to chase and takedown prey! Train and protect your young through the harsh winters so that they are ready to join the hunt by the time they are full grown adults. Cuddle up with your cubs and forget about your worries and your strife whilst you spend the day fishing, wandering and roaming the land with your sleuth! Experience the ARK through the eyes of a Titanomyrma, building a thriving colony centered around ‘ant hills’, and survive against the elements and the dangers that the island brings! Furthermore the new functionality associated with this Primal Survival mode will also enable mod creators to build much more intricate mods involving playing as these various creatures and detailing their lifecycles & survival mechanics, with new capabilities for creating asymmetric gameplay modes. ;)! ? The Redwood Biome and Spotlight: Titanosaur! Releasing June 22 on Steam via the v243 update, and shortly thereafter on Xbox One, The Redwood Biome is an all-new biome filled with lush, giant trees sturdy enough in which to build treehouses and villages. Harvest lumber from these gigantic arbors to create your fortress super high up in the air, providing a safer place to to build a village as well as providing height advantage for a superb tactical defense stance, or tap into the massive redwoods to extract their sap for healthy concoctions. Also making its debut in ARK v243, the extremely rare Titanosaur (Titanosaurus Vagacastrum) is the largest creature found on ARK island, operating for many players as a mobile superfortress capable of ferrying obscene amounts of weight, structures, defenses and creatures upon its back. Essentially a walking mountain, this herbivore often crushes creatures and buildings within its path and takes issue with any creature invading his personal space. Primitive Plus Official Mod Launch! The second official mod, Primitive+, will launch directly within ARK: Survival Evolved on Thursday, July 28 for both PC and Xbox One players! Primitive+ explores the idea of what life may be like with common-day knowledge and resources provided by the land. It incorporates primitive tools and techniques that are still being used by indigenous tribes around the world today! Players are challenged to use primarily wood and stone without the benefit of advanced metals. A whole new set of items and detailed new mechanics focus the player on 'primitive' survival, which fits snugly in the world of ARK. Primitive+ will be playable as a functionality mod on all official ARK maps. The mod will include; - Over 100 primitive-themed structures - 3 ancient building tiers (adobe, lumber, brick & cement) - Diverse resource system - live off the land with 40 different resources - Primitive trapping system (deadfall trap / fishing traps) - Advanced farming - 10 historic crops and resources (Wheat, Barley, Coffee, Tea, etc) - 11 iconic weapons (Flintlock pistol, Musket, Viking Axe, Battleaxe, etc) - 60 types of food recipes to craft - Enhanced role-playing experience (market stalls for trading, meals, etc) With even more update and features to come! We hope you guys are excited for today’s announcements just as much as we are! And don’t worry, we’ve still got loads more exciting developments coming up this year, and we’re excited to continuing to work with you to create ARK: Survival Evolved and its many extended features! All the best, Wildcard Jat & the ARK: Survival Evolved Team

Hello Survivors! E3 News! On Monday the 13th of June, we will be revealing some very awesome updates about ARK! You'll be able to tune in and catch all the details at the E3 PC Gamer Show. The show starts at 10:30AM PST with ARK's segment beginning at 11:30 PST, all will be revealed then! For those of you who won't be at the show, don't worry as PCGamer will be streaming it live across multiple platforms! You can check it out on their twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/pcgamer or for other places, check out: http://www.pcgamingshow.com/ Hope you guys tune in and enjoy the show! Fan Feature! Sinclaiiiir! By Grande Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699271601 Carno Island by Albina Diamond Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=697378797 Camo Diplodocus by Sharkcat Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=700559928 Schoolbus Diplodocus by Sharkcat Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699792861 Drake by Hardstyleriin Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698857149 ARK meets Skyrim by dinovart Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698629490 Megapithecus Evolved by dinovart Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698624657 Broodmother Evolved by dinovart Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698620784 Dragon Evolved by dinovart Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698626819 CHICKEN by renthemisfit Lovely Parasaur is lovely by Morgengrau Fanmade Dossier: Amargasurus by Tomtoyer Fanmade Dossier: Nothosaurus by Tomtoyer Fanmade Dossier: Tanystropheus by Tomtoyer Fanmade Dossier: Ampelosaur by Parrotmarauder327 Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699524635 Fanmade Dossier: Ornimegalonyx by HYPERSONICGX Source: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/66956-ornimegalonyx-fan-dossier/ Fanmade Dossier: Van Meter Monster by Shadlos Source: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=696835853 TheStiffler’s POV from the Survivor League May Finals! Squidge’s Steampunk Steamboat Showcase! The ARKanium Stadius by TheLimeInc! Community Contests! ARKitect! This is an award given to Survivors to celebrate the amazing structures you build. These bases are judged based upon a number of different factors such as their creativity, uniqueness, how fun of a base it is, the difficulty of building it, the functionality it provides and much more! The ARKitect for Community Crunch 51 is… Wolf Angules with Wolf-Shock! If you liked what you see, you can take a closer look at the build here in this album Wolf has set up with many beautiful screenshots: And for more details about this piece of arkitecture itself, check out his entry post! We’d also like to give a special honourable mention to: Valoule for their recreation of Optimus Prime! And you can check out the full album here: http://imgur.com/a/IiJQL ARKVideo! This new Contest will be open for all types of video be they funny, epic, scenic, stories, whatever inspires you. Just a general reminder that they should remain safe for work, think of the children! The ARKVideo winner for Community Crunch 51 is… Nakedzombo for fantastic ARK Cinematic: Something is wrong with the Training Dummy! And we’d also like to give a special honourable mention to: GamerPerfection, putting the DodoRex to the test by pitting it agianst the Dragon! Marvelous entries as usual guys! Thank you to all those who entered and congratulations to all our winners and if you’d like to take a look at what all the survivors submitted, you can do so here: Workshop Spotlight! For this weeks Spotlight, Cedric will be taking you through the top 5 maps in our International Modding Contest. Check out the youtube videos below on the ARK Workshop channel for a tour of these incredible maps! ARK Workshop Spotlight: Valhalla! ARK Workshop Spotlight: Roraima! ARK Workshop Spotlight: WickWillow! ARK Workshop Spotlight: Umassoura! ARK Workshop Spotlight: Madagascar Evolved! That’s it for this week’s post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @survivetheark - Facebook at www.facebook.com/survivetheark and Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/playark! All the best, Wildcard Jat and the ARK: Survival Evolved Team!