ARK Survival Evolved Dev Tracker

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we're preparing for Fear Evolved 5 which will run from Tuesday, October 26th until Tuesday, November 9th! We'll be sharing the full event details in the next Community Crunch. In addition to Fear Evolved, Extra Life is right around the corner!

If you've never tuned in for our 24-hour ExtraLife stream, you're in for a treat! As usual, we'll be sharing upcoming ARK info, playing games, and most importantly raising money for kids in need for 24 hours! It all goes down on November 6th at 10am PDT. Join us for our seventh ExtraLife event and help us raise some money #ForTheKids!

If you are interested in joining our team to help raise money, we'd love to have you! ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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Have you met our feisty and featherweight flier, Sinomacrops?  In Community Crunch 282, we released the Sinomacrops dossier for the upcoming Lost Island free DLC map.  Although our new friend may seem to mostly have its strength in traversal, Sinomacrops brings substantial utility for players of all types. A secondary inventory is available to players whilst it is shoulder-mounted and Sinomacrops packs a significant weight reduction on the items it's carrying for you!  Who's ready to say hi to their new backpack buddy!?
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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

We're getting the weekend started with an EVO event and taking a look at some amazing community art!



An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday the 4th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

• 2X Taming
  
• 2X Harvesting
  
• 2X XP

Creator: The Johtunn Bandit
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we rolled out the optimized Dedicated Storage change to PlayStation. We're working on rolling those changes out to XBOX next week.

Take a look at some community content from this week as we prep for an action-packed end of the year!



An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday the 27th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

• 3X Taming
  
• 3X Harvesting
  
• 3X XP

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week, initially on PC, we rolled out a refactored version of the dedicated storage structure. Our impetus for doing so was optimization and performance improvements for dedicated servers.

Previously, Dedicated Storages used to hold up to 1800 stacks of a single item. On a typical popular server, there are usually thousands of dedicated storage boxes across an entire save, many of which are filled with stacks. On some of our most populated Official Servers, we see save files with over 65,000 dedicated storages -- many of them full (these were PVE servers). As you can imagine, this is a lot of items, like... a lot, a lot. How does this impact our servers? In our worst-case scenario, taking a server with 65,000 dedicated storages, let’s assume 70% of these are full; that means we’re talking 81,900,000 stacks, just from dedicated storage boxes alone. These all contribute to how well the server runs in terms of fram... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

This week we're taking a look at what's happening in the community in the Community Corner. Things may seem quiet on the homefront, but we're gearing up for a great close-out to the year! Lost Islands, three new creatures, another community creature vote, Extra Life, holiday events, and more will give everyone something to enjoy this holiday season!




An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 13th with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

• 2X Taming
  
• 2X Breeding (mating interval, egg hatch speed, imprint, and maturation)
  
• 2X Harvesting
  
• ...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

In the lead-up to the release of the Lost Island, a free DLC map coming later this year, we've been engaging the community and seeing what creatures you'd like to see on the upcoming release. During the first-ever official community vote, we saw a heated race as we narrowed down which creature would be one of the 3 new creatures that release with Lost Island.

Although Dinopithecus emerged as the clear winner, today we may have an addition that's fairly familiar to the community and the final creature being add... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings Survivors!

This week we'll be taking a look at some great community art in the community corner and kicking the weekend off with an EVO event! Internally, we're keeping an eye on the live-game and addressing issues with patches as they arise. Thank you for submitting your bugs to the bug tracker and reporting any server issues you are having.

We're all gearing up for an exciting end of the year for ARK!




An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 23rd with the following EVO perks on all Official Servers!

• 2X Taming
  
• 2X Harvesting
  
• 2X XP

... Read more

Greetings Survivors!

In this Crunch, we will be covering the opening of Genesis II transfers on our Official servers and a special little Evo Event including breeding and hexagon rewards!

Genesis Part II Official Server Transfers


On Friday, September 3rd, we will be enabling full server transfers into Genesis Part II on our Official Servers across all platforms. Once enabled, players will be able to download items and creatures onto the map without restriction!




An ARK Evolution Event is active until Monday, the 16th with the foll... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/346110/announcements/detail/4151742578015338917]here[/url].

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/346110/announcements/detail/2979680118217066942]here[/url].

Behind the scenes, we've been busy with the upcoming Lost Island map, new creatures, stability patches, and much more. With the live-game, we've identified an issue that results in a crash when releasing tames from cryopods on Player Dedicated and clients on Win10. We are working on a resolution and hope to have more news early next week!


The recent voting process for the Lost Island creature submission was not only fun and engaging for the community, we engaged and had fun with it internally as well. With that said, we'd love to do it again!

If you missed your chance to participate in the creature submission process you haven't lost your opportunity! We'll be opening up the entire process (submission of ideas, upvoting of ideas, narrowing to a top 10, and commencing a final vote) later this year for a creature that will be adde... Read more