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This is beautiful. Thankyou for sharing such a heartfelt story. 💛

There's a first time for everything, I'm crying reading a Community Crunch.

This is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever seen beeing added to a game and it touched me straight to the heart. A Memorial for those who have Ascended is just so very beautiful!❤️ To all survivors that have lost a loved one out there I offer my deepest condoleances❤️

Turkey Trial 4 From Tuesday, November 24th through Tuesday, December 8th grab your tribe and flock over for Turkey Trial 4. Go on the hunt for the unforgiving “Super-Turkeys” and harvest wishbones to gain new chibis, cosmetic items, event-themed skins, and all new emotes! Event Details This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=TurkeyTrial Dates November 24th to December 8th Rates 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, and maturation) 2X XP 2X Harvesting 2X Taming Event Creatures Super Turkeys (Untamable creature) DodoRex (Craftable Temporary Tame) Event Skins 2 Thanksgiving-themed Sweater Skins *NEW* 2 Thanksgiving-themed Swimsuit Skins *NEW* 2 Hawaiian-themed Shirt Skins *NEW* Bonnet Hat Chieftan Hat Pilgrim Hat Turkey Hat Dodo Pie Swim Bottom & Top Meat Swim Bottom & Top Turkey Swim Bottom & Top Pitchfork Turkey Leg Event Chibis (acquired via killing Super Turkey's for Wishbones) Tuso *NEW* Broodmother *NEW* Bonnet Otter *NEW* Mantis *NEW* Dunkleosteus *NEW* Event Items Wishbones (acquired from killing Super Turkey's) Thanksgiving Dino Candy Wild Creature Colors MediumAutumn *NEW* LightAutumn *NEW* BurntSienna *NEW* DarkMagenta *NEW* DarkViolet *NEW* Vermillion *NEW* MidnightBlue *NEW* BlackSands *NEW* DarkBlue *NEW* Orange *NEW* Brown Dark Red Dino Dark Red Dino Albino NearBlack Red Light Brown Black Dino Darker Grey Live-Ops Update A message from our Product Manager: While gamers can sometimes squabble over the little things, like which console is better, the ARK community is nonetheless tightly-knit. It's no surprise then, that when the community loses one of their own, fellow players are eager to reach out and honour the player that has passed away Over the years, we have received some very touching messages from players who have lost fellow tribe members, family members and friends and chose to share their ways of paying tribute to them in-game with us. Many of us at Wildcard were touched by a player’s story shared on Reddit about his lovely wife Heather, who passed away suddenly. He and his sister made a tribute to her on Valguero (her favourite map) and shared this screenshot with the community We put our heads together to come up with a way we could add a lasting memorial to the game for, not only Heather, but for all of the Survivors who have Ascended. Jackson Lawrence, one of our talented Level Designers, kindly offered to spend his own time creating a lasting memorial and I think his work is just beautiful! I’m humbled to be able to share our new addition to the Valguero map with the community. Thank you for not only allowing us to entertain you but also for inviting what we created into your lives. As a bunch of people wanting to make something exciting and immersive, we’re honoured when players take that beyond anything we can possibly do to forge their own connections with the game. Our world may not be real but your sentiment and attachment to it is. We hope our small gesture brings some comfort to players who have lost loved ones. - Dollie and the Studio Wildcard Team. DDoS Mitigation Improving the health and stability of our network infrastructure is a huge priority for the team. One of the biggest hurdles we've faced stem from DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. These are malicious attacks on our network which lead to server issues such as downtime, poor performance, or not being able to connect. While these attacks are a global issue and impossible to prevent entirely, the team has spent a considerable amount of engineering time on mitigating these attacks with our hosting partners to reduce the impact they have on your playing experience. As of the past few weeks, we have deployed some serious enhancements to the system and have such seen a dramatic decrease in server issues related to DDoS attacks on PC, Xbox, and PS4. Although things have improved, we will continue to monitor the overall health of the Official Network and work on advancing the technology to mitigate these attacks. Character Loss caused by Rollbacks & Auto Restoration Preventing character loss remains of utmost importance to us. We've recently implemented the technology (and have had it running live on our Official Network) to auto-restore characters in the event that a server has experienced a rollback. Specifically, if a player has recently transferred to a server and for some reason, that server has gone down without saving the world (crashed/restarted), upon it's next start up that character (presuming it hadn't left the server), will be automatically restored. We'll continue to monitor for character loss reports and identify opportunities to advance the auto-restoration technology. Disconnection Issues for Xbox and Win10 clients. We have identified and fixed the issue causing players to regularly disconnect from Player Dedicated & Non-Dedicated servers on Xbox/Win10 every 30 minutes. The fix will be rolled out the upcoming Turkey Trial update on the 24th of November. Beginner Server Wipe Just a friendly reminder that we're close to the next reset date on Beginner servers, which will take place on December 1st. For those not familiar, Beginner Official Servers are an experience for new ARK players to test the waters without the threat of thoroughly developed tribes. Unlike our regular servers, these have undergone some changes and will wipe every 8 weeks. First of all, there have been some limitations on how much a player or dino can progress. Player levels hit their cap at 44 and the highest encounter possible for wild creatures is level 30. Tamed creatures can receive up to an additional maximum of 30 levels. Due to the progression limits, some engrams are not achievable through leveling up but are found via supply crates. Some other changes include the disabling of alliances and tribe sizes have been limited to 5 members maximum. Below are the subsequent planned wipes based on the 8-week wipe schedule: January 26 March 23 May 18 July 13 September 7 Nov 2 Dec 28 Black Friday Sales Don't miss your chance to grab ARK for up to 80% off in the XBOX Black Friday Sale Get started on your Black Friday shopping with ARK while it is up to 80% off in the Playstation Black Friday Sale! EVO Event Survivors on all platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from Friday the 20th of Nov at 4 PM EST until Tuesday the 8th of December at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Breeding/Maturing/Egg Hatching 2x Harvesting 2x Taming 2x XP Fan Art Poglin from ImEnFuego Brontos Grazing from RoxaneLapa Parasaurolophus from Drekaava Crystal Isles: A quiet sunset from Melina799 Reaper Queen from Bob van Dorst (Discord) From MrMEOLA Catch you next week! Studio Wildcard Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Discord: discord.com/invite/playark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark Twitch: twitch.tv/survivetheark Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/346110 Youtube: youtube.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark View full article

ComplexMindedToday at 6:14 PM For this event we added a "rare" chibi craft, so players can pay a little more to specifically target the new and/or rarer chibis

Beautiful, wildcard thank you, for those of us who have lost people this means so much. I’ll be sure whenever I play to visit this region and give it due respect. Thank you.

same here honestly the summer and easter events were great for chibi but everyone i know complained about the bones on halloween. we moved on to getting just the emotes and stopped there. for shame

Real tears appeared in my eyes when I read this story about the monument. Thank you for this!

I lost my tribemate just after the release of the game, we played early acess together.. I met him on PVE and we went from nothing to one of the biggest tribes together (hes deaf and im mute), just the two of us about 7 days after the game released he got hit by a car that he couldnt hear... Killed him instantly. I built a giant memorial on my server before leaving it and have been tending to that memorial ever since. Thank you wildcard, this gesture, as small as it might be, is so important to me. I hope his memory will be preserved here, I miss you jai, but I hope youre in a better place now.

Sometimes there's just nothing new to discuss. If someone thinks up something new or a different take on something old, we'll post about it, but we can't just come up with new, coherent theories every day lol. Recently, there was an explosion of activity in this thread which started mostly because of the ExtraLife stream, and like d1nk said, I guarantee it'll be active again as soon as something new gets revealed

💜💜💜💜 Wow trying to hold bk the tears, that is a lovely thing to do for all that have past, thank you wildcard team x

How about a Thanksgiving gift of support for Notek Cross Ark 6....not a peep since aberration....

" A message from our Product Manager: While gamers can sometimes squabble over the little things, like which console is better, the ARK community is nonetheless tightly-knit. " This isn't the first time this has happened in Ark - there are a couple of player-built monuments/tributes to friends who have moved on, but the story on Reddit was touching too. I am happy - in a weirdly sad way - that Ark is the latest game to have put something like this in their environment to honour players no longer with us. It's a good thing and no doubt appreciated by many in the community. And everyone knows arguing over which console is best is just plain daft.... We all know PC is Master Race 😝

Me too! That's so sweet, and so appreciated!

Xbox Crystal Isles, Server When I first logged on I wanted to try and snag a mate for my high level tropical wyvern, bed hopped to my outpost I had near green ob. Flew around awhile, didn't spot any high levels (most low levels like 40-50) then checked out the landscape, found an alpha leeds trapped in some low pool.. easy kill even for my disposable ptera. Arrr I'm a captain now matey. Went back home and spent the better part of the night farming / building / going on metal / cp runs working towards that first indy forge. I'll spare the details, in short redid some of my base and got all the metal needed for forge + possible grinder if I have the crystal (oddly enough having a hard time getting loads of crystal besides flying node to node the whole map) Was sick of sitting around waiting for metal to smelt so I decided I wanted to tame some Thyla / other creatures south so I made an outpost. Plan is to make a small base other side of the map to tame at, also make a public taming pen because.... why not. Took a bunch of pre-made stone ive been slowly building up, flew due south to the SE area. After a long fly, I settled on an area I saw a thyla and some griffins, neat. Before I set down anything I flew around. I'm flying and see an alpha heir .. scary ! As I keep a wide birth I see some turret tower... why? As I land near it to get some stam...I realize why. I guess I'm in heir territory and get jumped by 3 wyverns. Eeeek! A few minutes of dodging ensue and I finally make it away mostly unscathed. I guess the server shut down as I was mid flight, booted back up to a few minutes prior (? Might have just been bad memory) luckily I wasn't being chased any more. Set up a perimeter wall, a rough shack and cryod my wyvern went to sleep for the night. Today ill build a nifty taming pen good for drop tames, fly tames and griffins. Excited to hopefully tame a high level thyla / griffin tonight!

(Official, Valguero) Bred tek rexes, put new and both old batches into the hatchery (that's 15 eggs!), put old giga egg into the hatchery, bred velonas (used Ratteki instead of Gatling this time). Did a crystal run, tried to finish the roof, turned out it's impossible to do with no gaps, so took it down, and started rebuilding in a different way, one that'll leave roof pieces no choise but to align correctly, since they'll be snapped to a ring of ceilings rather than right to the walls (because walls are snapped some to ceilings some to foundations, and there's a bit of difference in height because of that). Went to hunt some alpha dinos, unfortunately only found one raptor and two carnos. Still, better than nothing. ... 15 tek rex eggs? More like "Fifteen Shades of Average"! No mutations. At all. I'm not even talking about the good stuff like health or melee - there's not even useless ones! Just no. New. Mutations. Killed all. Dimorph egg hatched into a female, but I would have kept it even if it was male - dimorphs can be anything, as long as it has a pair of functional wings it's welcome in my future pack of tiny flying monsters. Velona eggs - no new mutations. Killed all. Still waiting for the oldest giga egg to hatch, feeding gachas as I wait.

Logged on today to find out that after I had cryo'd some baby mana's, that apparently the server rolled back to BEFORE i did, thus letting them starve to death while I'm at my job. This is freaking ridiculous, they literally should have been grown by now, but it seems like the servers were rolling back to frequently, it was taking twice as long to fully mature. I'm so frustrated to have wasted my time getting a top stat mana (fully black mind you) just to die from a stupid rollback, with the server showing absolutely no signs of lag before logging off.

At this point the game was way outgrown dinosaurs. I loved the prehistoric feel of ark back in the day too, but what is adding another variation of a trex or trike really gonna do for the game..? They can get much more creative with stuff like an invisible freakin lion, and honestly I think something like that is simply more interesting than another dinosaur added to the 100 dinos we already have. Again, with the map what are they gonna do add another volcano/snow/desert area ? We've been there done that several times over. I absolutely love the look of the ship and how the biomes wrap around it in rings. So much more interesting than another Valguero or Ragnarok type landscape. I like that they've gone in a new direction, I just hope they dont royally screw it up with some dumb design decision like they did with the mission build restrictions and teleporting that made gen 1 awful (neither are in gen 2).

Can win10/xbox players please get an update on the 30 minute host timeout disconnects from the server? Every half hour like clockwork since the deployment of the Fear Evolved 4 event (8/26/20). Saw that you guys deployed a server side patch but thousands of us on unofficial and player dedicated are still having this problem. Very sad and disappointing and i think I speak for all of us when i say we're feeling neglected :( :( :(