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Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch! The Community Crunch is where we share important things going on with ARK, as well as host contests and showcase creations made by the community! Console Transfers and TLC2! We're targetting a console release for this update in mid-April (week of 16th April) and will keep you posted about more accurate release dates once we get closer to the date! With this update, we'll also be: - Enabling item transfers and the vanilla-version of aberrant creatures to be moved to Aberration servers. This means that you'll be able to take over your regular Spino to an Aberration server. - Preventing people from building within the Ragnarok Puzzle cave, so if you store any structures or creatures down there, make use of this time to relocate them ASAP as once this update goes live on console, that will no longer be possible. It is important to note that the Turret Update will not go live on console with this update, but instead a future one. Upcoming Maintenance for some NA PC Servers! The maintenance will take place on Wednesday, April 11th at 2 pm Eastern. The maintenance will take approximately 2 hours to complete. During this time the servers will be shut down and the save data transferred. Once the transfer is complete, the servers will be brought back online. These servers will no longer appear in your Favorites due to an IP address change, therefore, you will need to search for the server again and re-favourite your server. You can find the list of servers in this thread: ARK: Evolution Events! We will not be running an Evolution Event this weekend. Our next Evolution Event will take place from the 20th of April at 1 PM EST until Monday the 23rd at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes: 2x Harvesting Rate 2x Taming Rate 2x EXP Rate Easter Egg Contest! During the Eggcellent Adventure Easter Event, we ran a little egg painting contest! Survivors were tasked to collect their Easter Eggs and decorate them! We had two categories, one for in-game submissions, and the other was for real life egg painting. With the conclusion of the event, we're excited to announce our winners! Let's give it up for the following survivors and their eggcellent painting abilities! Rex Hatching Egg by Mitharen! Bunny Dodo Egg by Hosscat! and... Bunny Plesiosaurs Swimming Egg by wenkula! We'll be in touch via email for your prizes! We hope you guys enjoyed the Eggcellent Adventure event! We've loved all the screenshots you've sent us of the festively coloured tames you've discovered. Here are some pretty awesome ones: This year, unofficials servers can also continue to enjoy the event to their heart's content by keeping the event running Mod Tutorial Contest Update! Mod tutorial contest #3 is currently underway and still accepting entries until Friday. Remember that for this contest I am looking for tutorials for ridiculous and wacky buffs. I would also like to announce that the winner of the mod tutorial contest #2 is Xanjis! He has made an excellent tutorial for making a material/blueprint combo react to the time of day in ARK. Using a system like this, you could have a material do any number of things. It could shift textures, change values for stuff like roughness or specular or any dynamic parameters that you have set for your materials. You could have the entire world look light and fluffy during the day and nightmarish at night! Have fun with this kind of system in your mods! Next week I will have a new Wildcard Workshop tutorial ready for you. We'll be diving into and breaking down replication for you all. You get a detailed look at how to build your mods with multiplayer in mind while keeping them performant. Official PC Legacy PVE Savefiles! Download 'em here! Attention PC PvE Legacy Survivors! We've made the current Legacy PC PVE Savefiles available to download. This has been a community request for some time from our player base as some of you have expressed interest in moving on to your own dedicated servers. The snapshot was taken on the 3rd of April 2018 and we're going to see if we can also make console PVE legacy saves available. Please keep in mind that we won't be offering this on our regular Official Network or PvP Legacy servers. Notification Settings on SurvivetheARK! There have been some changes made to the email notification settings on our community hub. You can read more about the changes in Chris' latest announcement: ARK is on Sale for PS4 & Xbox! ARK is available on sale in the PS4 Europe region with discounts across all titles! ARK: Survival Evolved ARK: Scorched Earth ARK: Aberration ARK: Explorer’s Edition ARK: Season pass ARK is currently on sale in the Xbox Digital Store until 9th of April 2018! ARK: Survival Evolved - 40% off Explorer's Edition - 40% off and later on in Spring, there will be some more awesome Xbox sales available! Community Contests! Future Contests Going forward, we're going to be pausing our weekly community contests (ARKitect & Nvidia Ansel). We'll be looking at new ways which we can directly engage the community, as well as share the best content that you guys produce through different initiatives. We enjoy hosting these contests and love seeing what you've come up with, so hang tight to see what we have in store! Now without further ado, let's check out this week's submissions! NVidia Ansel Photography Contest ARK: Survival Evolved now includes support for NVIDIA Ansel -- a revolutionary new way to capture in-game shots. Learn more about these features from the NVIDIA blog. Now let’s get to the contest! There were 3 potential categories for survivors to enter their shots into and they were the following: Three Categories Super Resolution & Freestyle: These can entries using both Super Resolution (8x resolution) or Freestyle filters. Players can optionally use Depth of Field effects accessible in Spectator mode by pressing the [Delete] key. Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D: These should be taken at 4x Super Resolution, in 360 Stereoscopic 3D mode. We will crop them to 2D for web display, while also providing the 3D version for viewing within VR display. Freeform: Any settings, whacky and creative use of Ansel filters are encouraged. Adding humorous titles/captions in Photoshop is also acceptable for this category! Super Resolution & Freestyle! Winner! pitsmat - Spotlight Honourable Mentions! BlueDragon - Bulbdogs Playground BlueDragon - Caged BlueDragon - Drop of Light BlueDragon - Ringworld pitsmat - Killer Slap pitsmat - Melting Walls pitsmat - Scorch pitsmat - Teeth and Scales pitsmat - Watching roguewolf91 - Ambush roguewolf91 - Bird Watching Valoule - First encounter Wolf Amaterasu - Angelic Wings Wolf Amaterasu - Charge! Wolf Amaterasu - Dodo Crossing Wolf Amaterasu - Ghost Island Wolf Amaterasu - Raptor Isle Wolf Amaterasu - Sunrise Watcher Panoramic 360 Stereoscopic 3D! Winner! Wolf Amaterasu - Crystal Isles Sunset Honourable Mentions! BlueDragon - Welcome to Ringworld roguewolf91 - The Duel Valoule - Burning tree Wolf Amaterasu - Evening at the Beach Wolf Amaterasu - Stream Junction Wolf Amaterasu - Tropical Sunset Wolf Amaterasu - Where the Rivers Meet Freeform! Winner! Valoule - 3D Spear Honourable Mentions! Valoule - Scratching the surface Wolf Amaterasu - Survivor ARK Evolved 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 126 is… ThePilgrim for their Jumping Spider Tek base We'd also like to wish a huge congratulations to our runner-up! captainfatdog and their Figure of 8 Race Track! If you'd like to check out the submissions from the rest of the entrants, you can do so here: Fan Feature! Bronto Mansion by Valoule You can check out the full album here: https://imgur.com/a/igFuU How Nameless become Alpha by Shockal https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1355244772 A raptor couple by Phenix220 (Fr) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353813466 Hulk and Superman! by CyanPug Dodo Wyvern by 드찌/어찌 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352125879 Thylacosmilus WIP 2 by Laelamcpitty https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1354582952 Introducing the Archelon! by Nokryn https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353983928 Introducing the Sea Cow! by Nokryn https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352375132 That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on: Twitter: twitter.com/survivetheark Facebook: facebook.com/survivetheark Reddit: reddit.com/r/playark Instagram: instagram.com/survivetheark All the best, Studio Wildcard View full article

Yup, that'll be fine.

Yeah we'll likely still share em in Fan Features going forward as they'll be sent to us, but may have some different specifications for us to display em (still to be determined). I am hoping we'll be able to bring back the video contests soon though, once we know which avenue to take with them. Perhaps we'll have a theme for certain weeks, give it a longer period than a week to work on a video, etc

Hey guys! We decided to skip out on ARK Video this week and will be withdrawing it from contests going forward for now. By the submission end-period, we hadn't received many entries and think it's time we rethink the competition. We've been running it for over 2 years, have seen a lot of great entries, though we want to pull it back a bit and rethink how we handle it going forward Thank you for all your video submissions over the past 2 years! If anyone has any suggestions regarding further video contests or other ideas, don't hesitate to let us know -- we're all ears