Sovira

I wanted to say thank you SO MUCH to all of you for your kind words and support for Maevia! I cannot thank you enough, I actually ran out of reacts for the day so I can't even react to your posts! I'm so very grateful and humbled with all of your support and passion towards getting Maevia, OUR jumping spider to Ark! I feel like this may be her finale, and greatest chance to make it this time as so so many have told me she'd be so fit for Aberration specifically rather than the other maps! If any of you have any suggestions feel free to share I will slap them on the post itself with the others! I cannot believe how far she has come and it's literally because of YOU GUYS!!! I've been in a very difficult spot in my life the past few weeks and may or may not not be able to continue posting her if she loses, so I want you all to know you absolutely can continue to support our Maevia and post for future events if there is any chance that I cannot! Just know that there is nothing short of endless appreciation for your help with getting her this far!!! I am beyond grateful. ❤️

oh wait, I have no idea I just read where you're an actual member not an early bird! strange

[Artwork done by myself.] 🕸️Hello allies of the Ark! My submission here is a jumping spider species that is said to have lived once between 23 and 15 million years ago, and the excitement of that discovery led to its last name, eureka! I genuinely hope to see Maevia eureka find its way to Ark some day, any support for it is infinitely appreciated, please take a moment to toss it a vote if you would like to see it around in Ark! These are my thoughts on how Maevia eureka could fit into the world we play in, in a way that reflects real life jumping spiders combined with genetic modifications from other spiders, and how they might fit into Ark in a fun and meaningful way that reflects other creatures of Ark and how important each and every one of these creatures is. I felt that, as Maevia is more of a taming companion, this gives us a different way to tame creatures using a non-harmful method! As it is in Aberration, there are many risks you take while engaging with your targets due to the fact that aberration can be quite chaotic so having to be weary of your surroundings at all times is one thing, but the larger the creature, the weaker the bola... You may find yourself having to maneuver around an area and keep your targets attention while allowing for your jumper to gather enough venom to ensnare it once again. 🏞️Habitat This is a creature that is capable of being added to any map in the game due to its likeliness of living in caves, but also as jumping spiders can be found in so many different environments, there particularly are no limits to where they could be found! 🕷️Ability - Prey Lure You're out roaming around on your two equus when one of them begins to pick up an irresistible scent coming from a nearby cave wall. Your equus is nibbling on a suspended droplet when you notice the faint glinting coming off the web it's attached to, within an instant a jumper has lunged at your equus covering it with its bola and is quickly wrapping it up in its webbing, but in order to free your companion you need to tear at the webbing, as a few good hits will send that jumper scurrying up the wall to hide! 🕷️Ability - Tranq Bola The thought is that jumpers could take the droplets they store and work them into their webbing to create venom-coated webs that could be thrown like a bola. The webs would have a tranquilizing effect whenever touched, thus causing their target to build up torpor and eventually go unconscious. 🕷️Ability - Latching As a jumping spider, they have outstanding agility and the ability to crawl on walls, but at a more rapid pace, maybe even with the cost of stamina drain for balance! An optional thing I had given thought to was the ability to fully latch onto its target in order to accurately cover them with their readied net. 🕷️Ability - Locking On This is the single feature that would make this creature so invaluable, and even possibly make it require a very difficult feat for taming it due to that power, as with the spiders extreme accuracy, it has the ability to lock its attention onto its prey, much like our real world jumping spiders who wait for the right moment to pounce, and this could also be useful for when using its projectile web net, or if grappling with a single web possibly! This is a pretty big part of what makes them 'jumping' spiders after all! 🕷️Trait - Scary Face This spider was designed in thought with evolving to be able to terrify larger than normal predators, making it an incredibly useful tame for bases, keeping your creatures better protected when having to move them around the map, I imagined it could come with an extra ability to raise its back legs with its abdomen to stay in this stance on the ground, or you could enable an option within the radial menu allowing it to find and hang down from a nearby pole, perhaps even a new item for the spiders and flyers alike, akin to a perch? 🕷️Trait/Ability - Dance! Jumping spiders in the real world have very little differentiation on sizes between male and female. The idea was that the males would be the ones that allow you to get close enough to tame them, while females will try to kill you if you do this, and when you find a male companion, he has the ability to dance when you find a female, you can engage in this dance, maybe a left/right/up/down type of button combination you have to get right in order for her to find your boy worthy of her prescence, and in the meantime you can shower her with presents of food until she wants your boy to dance for her again, gradually gaining her trust. When a movement is not corrected quickly enough, she would become hostile and attack, and you may have to wait for her to cool off before you can attempt this ritual again! There is a last minute really nice alternative way of taming these and obtaining females specifically that I would like to add, suggested by an ally of maevia! Alternative method for obtaining females! This would make it to where you would need to take your male that you tamed into the wild, and challenge it with a female! If you win the dance, the female will allow breeding and allow you to stick around, defending her in her vulnerable moment, giving you an egg (or web-wrapped little gift sac with a jumper in it or an egg or two)! This egg sac could provide a male or female you could have! 🕯️Dossier!🕯️ If there's one thing I can say about Maevia eureka, you do not want to be caught in its sights! I once witnessed a jumper locking onto its prey with the most incredible accuracy, lunging at it with lightning speed and within the blink of an eye, its prey was being saved as a snack for later. They seem to have the genes of a few other spiders like that of the ogre spider, as it can cast a gathering of its webbing along with a little dab of the venom droplet it keeps stored on its head, working that into its web to create paralytic bolas that seem to render its prey unconscious. I have reason to believe the hairs that grow on its back legs came from the peacock spider, but due to its need for protection, it also uses these 'feathers' as a menacing face that can scare off large predators, I've seen some tribes set up posts that they can hang from around the fronts of their bases. I will say one thing is for certain, though they are nearly the size of a dire bear, they are quite the cuties, especially for being a spider, there is a certain intelligence you can see when you look into their eyes, I just can't place it, but they truly make remarkable companions with the ability to rapidly scale walls, caves, cliffsides and such. By no means are they a beast of burden, however they make up for this with their abilities to constrict or assassinate their targets. Maevia eureka can take down much larger prey with its torpor inducing bola, the net cast, and this makes them remarkable allies for taming other creatures. Though I haven't been able to get close enough to befriend one of the females, the males don't seem to mind me being in a remote vicinity with them as much. I wanted to add some other suggestions in a simplified form, key points from what Ark allies have mentioned before! - Droplets could be used as a nameless venom alternative, slower to produce but useful in situations or great when you have a plethora of jumpers. - Alternative where the male is small, female is massive, male used as a shoulder buddy that has major utility such as making ziplines, grapple, and large bola, where female is the tamer albeit slow with a few things to keep the balance. - Gacha coccoons, small creatures could be snatched and turned into coccoons, hung up and could produce goodies or other useful materials. - Radial menu where the production, torpor, and other things could be enhanced, as well as weight of creatures depending on torpor percentage, for how small/medium/large the taming capability could be for jumpers. - Torpor resistance due to thick fur/hairs. - Potentially immunity to radiation, which would help a tremendous amount when seeking rockdrake eggs.

I will definitely! I'm working on one right now, just need to finish the other half, may even do a baby one but it would be the sized up one, I will be changing up the global submission very soon and adding quite a bit to it, I have the pictures and text saved right now on my discord server so it should be okay! Thanks for taking the time to write this out again, if I do post all of it on aberration I'll immediately add suggestions as comment but put a reference text for 'shoulder buddy variant idea' to grab peoples attention who would prefer that up top because of how many would like that! Also I should probably explain this prior to posting, the only reason I will be doing the artwork with both large jumpers is increased visibility as well as sticking to how the games creatures keep to their realism (mostly), as jumping spiders are extremely intelligent and are unlike other arachnids, they do not have extreme size differences, that which Araneo would for sure have, however that doesn't take anything away from it being a terrific suggestion and something that deserves consideration and to be seen! ❤️ I will definitely get the post cleaned up and fix some things in it, as well as putting the notice at the top for variational ideas like yours!

They do it because what they want is being heavily threatened by this post, those who toxic downvote most likely deal with a lot of insecurity issues and jealousy, I do feel sorry for them because that has to be miserable.

Sadly we have an influencer who submitted a creature and actively abused their reach to thank for this, they would have votes in the thousands otherwise which is unfair to quite literally everyone else who submitted creatures it's super unfortunate that it hurt those who have been around for a long while too. I really hope the whole entire voting system in itself gets a change, it badly needs it ❤️

I certainly hope it would help melt some of the hate and fear off of many! especially the BABIES! I saw a lot of people crying in the comments on some of the youtube videos last time about the influencers not posting a 'trigger warning' so people could skip the whole submission and I had a MAJOR eye roll at that, one even threatening to unsub because of it, truly sad.

I'm so sorry, I went to apply those to the original submission from before the last creature vote event, and realized they were wiped out of the finalists discussion!

Don't worry, not much of the suggestions we do submit will go to finals, the best you can do is comment what you do think it should be like and how you think it would fit really well into Ragnarok! There were many last time suggesting it be like a black widow rather than a jumping spider in the sexual dimorphism part, where the male would be tiny enough to be a shoulder buddy and the female very large, so there are definitely others that would love that being suggested too!

You got it! ❤️

I definitely agree it certainly fits there, however it still could potentially lose on Aberration due to several already laid out designs for dinos over there, so it's more than fair for it to be submitted to other maps, as even if it were to win it could still be placed into cave systems throughout most of the maps and even on aberration, and could even by chance be selected as a secondary win rather than a primary for the map, being that it does apply to all the maps rather than just one.

Wanted to say THANK YOU for posting Maevia and supporting her! I was asleep so I couldn't in time for sure, PLEASE do not take her down this is perfectly fine! I totally did not expect Ragnarok to be the next, I expected Aberration! And so soon too! I feel it's so important for her to have a chance anywhere she can get, seeing as how there are wonderful ideas already for aberrant creatures meaning she could very well lose the aberration vote, but maybe have a chance on other maps!

I definitely am! Got a nice aberration concept going right now working up the background and displaying two jumpers male and female with it, going to do other images (maybe sketches) showing the jumper as a shoulder buddy, and definitely going to focus on illustration rather than text this time!

Thank you so much it is very appreciated! I agree, and though all too many have told me that it would be better on aberration, ASA is coming out before this creature will be added, and at that time they will be working on the remastered aberration, so if it did make it, it could just as easily have the chance to be put into aberration, though I feel this point is too late on many, as they've already said they'd vote on something else since "this would be better on aberration"

appreciate this so much! ❤️

Just wanted to say I am genuinely hoping you may consider allowing for more than one winner this time around, and the other vote you guys could even be the one to decide as a team, voting against each other! There are WAY too many good dinos this round and many agree over the discord, we've been talking about it for quite a while ❤️ Thank you also for the oppertunity to have and be in this event! It is genuinely more than appreciated!

Oh man, if it were to be put in and WC made it to where they snatch that male right out from under you while you're doing the dance.... BRUH 💀💀💀 I'd be so horrified and sad if it happened to me but if I'm watching and it happens to my friends I wouldn't be able to stop laughing ngl. People would be posting screenies of the females treating themselves to those peoples pets like a good snacc 🤣

Thank you!!! I appreciate that! If it does somehow make it, I think Wildcard would have their hands full with the potential of it combined on the new UE5 stuff! Honestly, my favorite creatures have never been the ones with you at the end, they've always been the ones that brought me to that point in the first place. I'd say they are very underrated! ❤️

Have not heard of that!

This is so fricking CUTE! lol

Omg I would love the ability for the spiders to just, go up to the ceiling and hang by a thread down to the ground whenever they wanted to!

I edited the main post to reflect your changes on this!

I do appreciate that! There were a good few comments of disgust about the spider on Youtube Ark videos, and so many saying it would be better off in Aberration, so I could see where so many would deliberately put it last. Honestly, both the beetle and the gorgan have been through a lot, I honestly wish that if certain submissions reached a number of these events that they didn't win but were always close enough to have the chance, they would by default at least get put on a 'to be added at a later date' type of thing, rather than just continuing to have that chance to suffer loss after loss after loss, but I understand it does take costs and such as well as time, but there will always be new maps, player-made ones too in the future in which they could certainly be added to, so can hope at least!

Here it is! I think it would've been pretty sweet for Scorched Earth too, maybe it can win on another map or if not, we can see it in the future, heck maybe they will do another round of these on the maps even! Also thank you for your understanding I really appreciate it!!! ❤️

These are wonderful, thank you! I do know the cheetah submission did have the prey tripping mechanic, I might leave that just out of the main post out of respect for them in case the cheetah ever does make it into Ark, I hope that is okay! They made it super close so we might just see that mechanic put to use with them in the future! (please let me know if I am wrong for this, just doing my best to try and be respectful ❤️) All the others are on the main post!