Bluestone

Looking through the comments I just want to back up what others have already relayed, Dollie and Ced have tweeted about the Fjordur spawn issues, the team is aware of the Fjordur spawns problem and have been working on a viable fix which we hope to be ready soon in a major version update. In the meantime we have been redeploying the official servers more often throughout the week than we normally would to help to alleviate the low spawns partially. And also to confirm that the Summer EVO Event will be extended, but we will announce a new end date for that once an update for the spawn issues is sorted.

Search for it in the server list rather than looking in your favourites. Looks like it has a new IP so was probably moved to a new box and so wont show in your favourites list. 434 has been back up with the new IP for maybe a day or two.

I have recently returned to Ark because my 10yo son has been expressing interest in it. So we have started in the base game on The Island just like I started years ago. We are just playing non-dedicated while he learns but he is a quick learner. I jacked up some of the rates of course, may have overdone the taming rate as he only used one berry to tame a low level Moschops which he then named Berry. And he was thirlled that he could ride it without a saddle. Then when I asked him to gather Narco berries he thought the gather rate was amazing until a Trike I tamed later showed him a much better rate lol. There was a funny moment early on when he was attacking Dilos and my 7yo daughter yells at him not to do that just in case their mother was nearby. She thought they were baby dinos. So far the tether distance is a bit of a pain (we are playing the gamepass version since I only have the one PC and a few Xbox Ones) but we have a Trike and a Parasaur and of course my sons Moschops and I keep upgrading our hut for storage, soon we will be able to get exploring and taming some of the more difficult tames. I am really enjoying getting back to the basics of the game and sharing the experience with someone that is experiencing it for the first time.

Just as a starting point you could browse the tribes directory: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/tribes/