ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

ARK: Valentine's Day!

Beginning tomorrow, February 12th until February 18th, love will fill the air as we celebrate Valentine's Day!

The ARK will be placed under Cupid's loving spell. With this event, creatures have also been affected by Cupid's spell in the following ways:

Red, Pink, and White colored wild creatures can be found wandering the ARKs searching for true loves kiss.


When mating, creatures have a 25% chance to drop an item. That item has a 50/50 chance to be one of the following:

Valentines Chocolate: Restores full HP, or knocks 40% off a creatures taming bar.


Valentines Candy: Gives your tame random dino colors when eaten.

All servers official and unofficial will also experience the following bonuses (auto-activated or can be toggled manu...

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

Attention Builders!

Fancy yourself a top tier builder? We want to see what you can do with the new structure changes!

Hop into the beta (details on how to do that below) and build to your heart's content using any of our officially supported maps (The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction). You can do this in your single player world or your unofficial server if you have access to one. We’ll be picking the best builds submitted to us for featuring in an upcoming video trailer showcasing the building changes to ARK similar to the announcement video we did for our latest mod contest.

Submit pictures and/or a video of your build, your map save and coordinates to your build to [email protected] so we can take a look. You can get the direct coordinates to your build location by enabling setchea...

MAINTENANCE COMPLETE

Following the EU maintenance from last night, there will be some additional maintenance on a subset of the servers from last night. Beginning at 2am CET on January 31st (8PM EST January 30th) we will be taking down some of our EU servers for maintenance. We will be performing successive hardware upgrades, therefore the affected servers will be shut down in waves across the maintenance period. A list of all affected servers is below by platform.

PC

PS4

Xbox

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

Upcoming Console Patch!

Xbox and PS4 will both be receiving a patch to fix a number of issues. The patch includes several optimizations for memory and lots of changes from the v289.100 PC patch. We'll have more details on the date soon. NOTE: The patch will be a large download! Patch notes for this upcoming patch are below.

Structures Plus (S+) & Kibble Rework Beta!

The Structures Plus and Kibble Rework beta is still available and we're looking for additional feedback as we get closer to release of these features. We will have another update to the beta branch soon, addressing some of the feedback and suggestions from our beta participants. Thank you again to everyone that has participated thus far and provided us with their feedback. Please check out the post below for all of the information on how you can get involved in pl...

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

Upcoming Console Patch!

Xbox and PS4 will both be receiving a patch to fix a number of issues. The patch includes several optimizations for memory and lots of changes from the v289.100 PC patch. We'll have more details on the date soon. NOTE: The patch will be a large download! Patch notes for this upcoming patch are below.

Structures Plus (S+) & Kibble Rework Beta!

The Structures Plus and Kibble Rework beta is still available and we're looking for additional feedback as we get closer to release of these features. We will have another update to the beta branch soon, addressing some of the feedback and suggestions from our beta participants. Thank you again to everyone that has participated thus far and provided us with their feedback. Please check out the post below for all of the information on how you can get involved in pl...

MAINTENANCE COMPLETE!

Beginning at 2am CET on January 30th (8PM EST January 29th) we will be taking down some of our EU servers for maintenance. We will be performing successive hardware upgrades, therefore the affected servers will be shut down in waves across the maintenance period. A list of all affected servers is below by platform.

PC

PS4

Xbox

So we're going to try and muster our inner artist today, stumble around in the dark for a bit and somehow end up with a pretty cool transition material. This is going to be the effect for any time out virtual creatures spawn in or out of the world.

You can find the specific commit for this video on the gitlab repo here: https://gitlab.com/ZenRowe/VSS-ARK/commit/c569d8801f0b545ec6e3354632bffb7e7073ad44
Spacescape tool:
http://alexcpeterson.com/spacescape/

Hello Survivors!
On January 28th beginning at 7am EST we will be conducting a small maintenance on a portion of our NA Official Servers. During this time the servers will go offline in succession therefore all will not be going down promptly at 7am. The servers will not be running during this maintenance period once they are down. We anticipate the full maintenance duration to take a few hours however the servers will be booted back up shortly after they are taken down, which should minimize individual downtime.
A list of all affected servers is below, by platform.

PC

PS4

[MAINTENANCE COMPLETE!]
Hello Survivors!
On January 24th and 25th we will be conducting maintenance on a portion of our NA Official Servers, not all are affected (see lists below). January 24th at 3am EST there will be a network outage which will prevent players from joining the affected servers while we perform upgrades to our network. Network outage is expected to last no more than two hours. January 25th 3am EST through 11am EST we will be performing successive hardware upgrades, therefore the affected servers will be shut down in waves across the maintenance period.

A list of all affected servers is below by platform.

PC

PS4

Xbox

Alright, we've crammed our creature into a crystal somehow, now it's time to take it back out when we need it. (No WD-40 required)
I did make some changes to stuff that we did in the last tutorial, in particular:

Changed Sentry Tower Segments to be of inventory type structures


In the Virtualization Station Platform, our function for getting the dino data has been simplified a bit thanks to a new property on the struct.


We have removed the "Structure" aspect of the crystals. We have to go all in on them being equipable items for what I have planned.

You can find the specific commit for this video on the gitlab repo here: https://gitlab.com/ZenRowe/VSS-ARK/commit/664aefc220dd3499438c1a8f98b3cfbc70444758

Structures Plus (S+) & Kibble Rework Beta!

It is finally here! This is the first time we've done a public beta branch for ARK, so here is a lengthy but necessary introduction.

As a quick starting note: Before accessing a beta branch you should create a backup of any single player games, characters, or server files that you may have for ARK to prevent any corruption or loss of player data from occurring. When you’re done playing with the beta you’ll need to navigate back to the branch selection dialogue and opt-out of the beta (choose NONE). You cannot access your official server while on the beta because they are not the same version. Depending on your internet connection this process could take some time so if you’re doing anything time sensitive on your official server, be cautious of swapping!

How to access the beta:
From your Steam games library, right-click on ARK: Survival Evolved and choose Properties. From thi...

This is a thread dedicated specifically to the Kibble Rework changes currently testable on our beta branch.

Please leave all of your kibble-related feedback on this thread specifically so our team is able to read through your comments and reports efficiently.

When leaving bug reports be as specific as possible. Providing step-by-step introductions, pictures, and/or videos help us speed up the bug reproduction process and help us fix things faster.

How to access the beta:

[link]

This is a thread dedicated specifically to the Structures Plus changes currently testable on our beta branch.

Please leave all of your structure-related feedback on this thread specifically so our team is able to read through your comments and reports efficiently.

When leaving bug reports be as specific as possible. Providing step-by-step introductions, pictures, and/or videos help us speed up the bug reproduction process and help us fix things faster.

How to access the beta:

[MAINTENANCE COMPLETE] At 12:00pm Eastern on January 8th we will be taking down some of Asia servers for maintenance. We expect maintenance to last for approximately 2 hours. During this time the servers will not be running therefore time will not progress. Once the servers are back online, they will require re-adding to your favorites list as they will have new IP addresses. Below is a list of all affected servers.

PC

PS4

Hey Survivors! Welcome to the first (and also short) edition of the Community Crunch for 2019!

2018 in Review!

Happy New Year, Survivors! Thank you all for making us a part of your 2018. It has truly been an insane year for us. As always we are humbled by your support of all things ARK and we could not have achieved these milestones without you.

Let's bring in the new year with a roar, and keep on surviving in 2019!

Structure Plus & Kibble Rework!

We look forward to being back in the office this week and back to the grind so we can bring you more ARK this year. In case you missed our post about it, two of the main things we are currently working on in the month of January include Structures Plus and the Kibble rework, which you can read about here:

The extra exciting news is that we will be launching a public beta on PC for the next round of S+ implementation and the kibble changes...

PC PvE Legacy Saves have now been updated in the list!

I promise I will get these ready this week. It's been on my plate but a bit back burned due to many other ARK issues. I apologize that my "this week" has now been an extended week. I do have a reminder for it though that I see every day so I will not forget!

Yeah, I got in touch with their top people and made sure things go a little more smoothly in the future. I'm glad we got you sorted out

Apologies for the lack of communication on this. The client update wasn't in sync with the server update as intended. Due to it being in the middle of the night for most of our team, we were unable to deploy servers. The servers have now been deployed with the new version and you should be able to connect.

Fear Evolved is not supported in the ActiveEvent system as we only began using it this year and didn't have Fear Evolved this year. ActiveEvent can be used for: Easter, Arkaeology, ExtinctionChronicles, and WinterWonderland.