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Can we get a new water dino please. Seem you guys always leave the water dinos out of every map now...

As a console player and as an unofficial server cluster admin-coder I must say, I am very excited for what Valguero has to offer. I realize we aren't getting it at the same time as PC, but we are getting it- and that alone makes the wait worth it. In fact- the entire cluster I work with is actually very accepting of the news and are excited for the new adventure coming to us. ? All in all, thanks for the the time and effort. We can't wait to add it to our cluster and start exploring!

SP, "Ultimate Ark" - The Island So, I did it. I wiped my SP and started over again. Not completely though, I did make a back up of the old save. I also uploaded my cyan argent. Not going to DL him yet or anything but he is kind of my banner bird right now. Set my exp to default rate, then started fresh. Basically I'm doing the same challenge Syntac is, just without the obvious YT specific restrictions. Also still using my upped SP settings because he is doing his solo run on a server so certain things will not progress in the same way for me. Other than that, same basic rules and progression. Official story maps only, starting from The Island progressing through to Extinction map by map. 3 creatures allowed from each previous map on Extinction to start off with, but start each other map with nothing except my character and levels/Engrams. For this challenge I couldn't think of a better spot to start out than what is basically home to me. So I spawned West 3, but ended up a little bit stuck. A chalico and icthyornis flock on one side, a theri on the other. So I waited them out by doing whatever I could in my limited strand of beach. Got to level 16, made a raft and headed across to the peninsula. Tamed a trike and an icthyornis, which I will need for my preferred tames before I have access to good kibble. Tons of seagulls and my bad aim eventually pushed us inland almost to the mouth of the bay. Luckily the local sarco spawn was not up. Already out of primitive tier. Level 30 with plenty of basic supplies. And a lucky tek para find/kill to get an early jump on electronics. My plan is to start here and rebuild the Arkanus yet again. It was my original base on my first unofficial, I was there for about 1.5 years, nearly the life of the server. Situated at around 58 15, it's the two ridges above the bay, the base itself on the upper ridge. The Arkanus 1.0 was a base built in metal before S+, beavers or even frogs/the swamp existed. I built a metal base by grinding all that cementing paste out by hand. Everyone thought I was crazy. Then the giga came out and everyone was freaking out because it was PVE and no one had built proper base defenses against anything...except me, the sole survivor with a metal base on the server. Turned out to not be a big deal, but it was pretty funny watching global blow up while I was safe behind massive metal walls, just two behemoth gates. I still have a video tour of it up on my long defunct YT channel, actually. Those were the days. Arkanus 2.0 was a stone version of the base I started on a relatively fresh official before deciding it was too much grind and leaving the official life behind for good. The Arkanus 3.0 will be essentially the final, fully upgraded version of this base, completely tek and full S+ building improvements, with vastly increased knowledge and experience with the building mechanics. Obviously I won't be starting out that way, but I'll have plenty of time to smooth out the complete overhaul and redesign of this base. It had everything available at the time, but introduction of new items (like the industrial forge, yes I built a metal base without one of those either) forced numerous off the cuff layout changes that left things a bit of a mess. And I know some tek stuff like the replicator and the cloning chamber are huge, so I need to account for that in the new build. I'll also be completely redesigning the original hatchery that was also housed within my territory, in fact I'm thinking of doing 2, possibly 3 cliff platforms. And I can rebuild my spino launch ramp/dock to be a fancy shmancy elevator...honestly I'm pretty hyped up for all of this. But I probably won't do a lot of it until I'm done with the challenge run and have all of the Tekgrams and such at my disposal. For now, I've got a long way to go.

Pleaseee add more furniture to decorate bases!

Its a free map u .....

I attempted to load up today for my first server experience and got called into work. Dammit! Just got home been up since 4 am it's now 9.30pm. I'm not to sure if I should attempt to play or just sleep. Conclusion - Need a clone!

Of course PC first, I mean it is made on a PC. Sir your ire is misdirected. I still read angry posts of Xbox or PS4 maps "not working" yet you want them at the same time. PC users are the beta testers. They are the ones who loose characters or bases or tames because of unforseen glitches or bugs. They are the ones who must risk weeks of time on a "New" type of mechanic only for it to be lost to a bug. It is because they get it first that it comes to console in a somewhat playable state. So if consoles must get things later so PC can find the problems, I say good luck to those souls brave enough to risk playing on PC. That small peace of mind is worth a little patience on my part.

Make it so you can tell your dinosaurs to protect the base in Emergencies

They would be banned so fast on our server.. what the actual bleep....Why would someone do that lol

I think they’re certifying it, and if not that, PC is the test dummy for issues/bugs so they can fix the console versions and then release it for console. I’m pretty disappointed too, but it is what it is

PS4 - Unofficial - Easy Element Server Great news! I logged on last night, and the Ragnarok server was back online after at least 2 days offline. I was obviously relieved, and after loading up on supplies, I transferred over to the Island map, to get some dinos and supplies distributed on that map. I then spent the next 2 hours looking for a Rex on the Island. In that entire time, I found 1 low level Rex. That is all. Some idiots have completely covered Carno island in tek forcefields and tek turrets killing all wild dinos. The same tribe has random tek turrets set up in virtually every Rex/Giga spawn across the entire map. I will certainly bring this up to the ADMIN next time I see one on, as this really ruins it for everyone else. In the meantime, I will transfer over some of my Tek Rexs from RAG, so I can do boss runs on the Island. It was a short night online.

You really would like me to join with my wyvern and 200+ metal pillars? How many players would transfer like that. Think of it!

You need to get a molder to edit this for you. ?

I hope that when this new map does come out for us console players, it doesn't crash to home screen after X amount of time, like Ragnarok does. I absolutely love the Ragnarok map, but get annoyed at all the ill-timed crashes. As my friend would say: "Fix your sh*t (Ragnarok performance in this case) before releasing new content!" i

Yes, you can see a glimpse of a karkinos in the trailer they dropped earlier in the ab biome. So I assume they will be. He literally explained why in the twitch stream.

Cryopod and Cryofridge engrams are now available on all maps (edited) FINNALY ??? Hail to all of you guys

PS4 - UNofficial Easy E server. So About 6 weeks ago, I joined a Unofficial server with really easy Element crafting. Boosted drops, and max level dinos at level 900. It was the Ragnarok map. I built up a huge base, tamed and started breeding up a Tek rex army along with other dinos. I played it for about 3 weeks then discovered it was clustered with Extinction and Abberation maps. So I made a small outpost on Extinction. Then 2 weeks ago, I decided to build a decent outpost on Abberation. I spent a full Sunday building a nice base on ABB. I then logged in a few days later to find out that the Abberation map had been replaced by The Island map. I was disappointed about losing that base, but I had already tamed a handful of ABB dinos and transferred them to my main base at Rag, so all was well. I saw an admin on and commented about how I lost a new base on Abberation. She mentioned she was sorry, that they had forgotten to post a server message, warning about the ABB map going away. To make up for it, she let me pick a dino from the shop for free. (So I picked a Reaper) So a week ago, I spent a bunch of time building up a nice base on The Island. Well this weekend I tried to log into the Server, and the Rag map is nowhere to be found. I was able to log into the Island map, but because my character was on Rag when I last logged out, I cannot access that player or all of those dinos/supplies (and my new Reaper) . And that ALSO means I cannot access my base on the Island! I never saw an admin on while playing this weekend, so I cannot ask if Rag map is gone, or just offline for a couple days. Since I've never operated a public server, I don't know why a server would offline for 2 days. But I pray that it comes back. Otherwise, my near max level army of Boss Tek Rexs, my max level Ptera bloodline, and Gigas are lost, and I was soooo close to taking the Rexs into the boss arena (that was the plan this weekend!) Not to mention I lost my max level Ice and Fire wyverns that were 100% imprinted. With only Extinction and The Island on the cluster currently, there is no way to get wyverns. Now I know people will say "That is why you don't play official", but I really wish they would have at least warn us about server maps going away. Had I been prepared about it going away, I would have transferred character and all supplies to The Island base. oh well, I will try again tonight, and pray that the Rag map is back online.

@SnowboundGem I'm not the only one who has suggested it, but every time someone brings it up they freak out. The myth is that breeding multiple females to the same male will increase the mating cooldown timer to each successive female. But that fails a logic check immediately because multiple females can breed with a single male at the same time. It's also a level of coding that would be excessively unnecessary given that there already is a "penalty" for inbreeding in the form of the mutation counter. The cooldown timers do have a range, it's much less noticeable with increased timers but very noticeable on defaults. The cooldown can be 18 hours to 2 days on each female on official settings. I wasn't even asking for crazy short timers, just for them to match the maturation rates on the server so the females are off of cooldown by the time the next generation grows up. Depending on species that's 5-6 hours, even every 12 hours would be fine since most of us work during the week anyway. I have a sneaking suspicion the mating interval is tied to the server longevity--it's a Patreon sponsored server so of course the longer people play and sponsor the server, the more money they get. And most people follow the sunk cost fallacy, so by the time they realize they made a horrible mistake they've already invested too much into the server to stop, even though it's an incredibly frustrating experience. It's definitely not just me, even the server sponsors are in agreement and the admin is flat out refusing to listen to them. What they don't realize is that yes, they keep their sponsors, but it kills the rest of the server community, which is already happening. All of the friends I've made on the server so far have either not been playing recently or moved servers. You will not find any information about that setting in particular anywhere in the Discord and it's not something you would immediately think to look for because if breeding rates are already increased, reasonable assumption is that mating is too... I've started over many, many times so I'm much less invested than most PVE players, I guess. I was actually on an unofficial for about 2 years when the game first released in early access, it was one of the best community experiences I've ever had. It was a big community, dynamic, population was there because it was supported by (but rarely played on) by a YTer. I've made good friends, even got a new job because of this server. But eventually the YTer stopped advertising it, we had some issues requiring a few wipes, and politics eventually killed the server. It was dead long before it was shut down for good. I've been drifting looking for a good server since then, just haven't found anything. I'm very particular about mods and rates so finding a low mod server with relatively low rates is tough. When my friend M is able to play again we plan to play together, but his computer is a potato and can't handle more than 5-6 mods. And we just don't like stuff like the classic/speedy flyers mod which automatically disqualifies a huge number of unofficials. This is actually why I've never finished most of the game content, because I just haven't found anywhere to settle. And I play Ark the way I played Pokemon--if I feel like things are not progressing in an ideal way I will often restart from scratch again and again. It's that midgame grind that gets me every time. I've already been thinking of doing it here on my SP because I don't like the way my redwoods base turned out...

Most people would come back with a wipe everyone likes early game late game ark gets so fkn boring

and how many players will join and place thatch foundations instead? instead of taking it 1 min to claim land it will take 30. they could have also allowed only character and tame transfer, or allowed transfers of everything in few days rather then 2 months that will prob take them. ur point makes no sense and its not reason why they disabled it. they just do it to force us spend our time doing same poop on repeat. RECYCLED CONTENT.

WHY ARE TRANSFERS DISABLED? Why are youu treating this DLC like previous DLC's that included tons of new dinos and items? (SE, aber, extinction) This DLC is NOTHING like that. Its exactly the same as ragnarok which only brought 1 new dino, Grifin, and nothing else except for being new map. Transfers were allowed day 1 on ragna. So lame that we need to start from scratch only to get 1 new dino. You really treat us terrible Wildcard.

What about fixing ragrarok first ?

Wow it's kinda sad watching studio wildcard flip console players the bird just goes to show how little they actually care

Normal dev team: let’s wait to release this until everyone can experience it ark dev team: money’s nice, I like money

I learnt how to pronounce managarmr after months of calling it managamar. ? I loaded the game looked at everything then logged off I'm not feeling it today..