Author: Krim

Dino Dossier: Iguanodon

Common Name Iguanodon
Species Iguanodon vicissitudinis
Time Late Jurassic
Diet Herbivore
Temperament Reactive
Domestication
Tameable Yes
Rideable Yes
  • Wild: Of the many creatures I've yet encountered the island, the Iguanodon vicissitudinis has the distinctly versatile ability to change its primary method of locomotion according to its momentary needs. While bipedal, it can employ rapid stabbing attacks with its distinctive thumb spikes. In quadrupedal stance, conversely, it seems to have an endless supply of stamina, even while sprinting!

  • Domesticated: Interestingly, the Iguanodon's thumb spikes also provide it with the capability to pick seeds out of fruits, allowing a farmer to handily convert stacks of fruits into stacks of seed for planting. Combined with its highly effective fruit harvesting and substantial carry weight, the Iguanodon's excellent mobility in bipedal stance makes it an ideal field-hand that can also pull off a quick get-away, or an agile defense, when needed.

  • Known Information: Primarily a rather lethargic quadrupedal herbivore native to the island's many grasslands and forests, in situations where increased speed or maneuverability is called for, it will quickly shift its posture into bipedal stance and behave like a very different creature!

Drops

  • Raw Meat

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ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 219

New

  • Creature Breeding & Babies First Pass! Yes, they grow dynamically in real-time! See this cutee lil Raptorbabies!

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Triceratops-BabyBildschirmfoto 2015-10-14 um 11.06.08

Direwolf-Pup (not added yet- but it stealthed in this thread ;))Bildschirmfoto 2015-10-14 um 11.06.22

 

  • Sit on chairs & benches
  • Apex-Kill Trophy Wall-Mounts, Artifact Pedestals
  • Mosasaurus! Terror of the Deep!

Changes

  • Changed savedata loading code to support super-large saves.
  • Antispeedhack now has a commandline bias you can use on your server (can cause more rubberbanding on laggy players). Defaults to 1.0, you can launch with it such as:
    -speedhackbias=0.25f
  • Tranq Darts reduced crafting cost to 1 rifle bullet, 2 metal ingots, 3 narcotics, and buffed tranq dart Torpidity by 20%

Fixes

  • Characters no longer bunny-hop when swimming up from the water surface
  • Fixed misc level bugs, including bad physics zones, non-buildable submerged ice caves, unreachable supply drops etc

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 218.7

Changes

  • Shotgun base damage increased by approximately 30%
  • Player engrams no longer count towards “max” inventory items
  • Shotgun networking further changed: clients will need to update to have working shotguns on Official Servers specifically 😉

Fixes

  • Dinos can no longer damage structures through “underneath” ceiling pieces
  • Getting stuck under terrain will once again properly teleport you back above the terrain

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 218.5 & 218.6

218.5

Changes

  • Anti speedhack detection is now enabled by default — to disable it, use the server commandline “-noantispeedhack”
  • Server player-move-physics optimization is now enabled by default (improves perf) — to disable it, use the server commandline “-nocombineclientmoves”
  • Reduced Damage of Guns & Projectiles onto Argentavis/Ptero by 25% (3.x multiplier rather than 4.x multuplier)

Fixes

  • Fixed Turrets’ Quetzal targeting when you have Quetzal Structure-Armor around body. Head will be shot.
  • Dead insects now stop animating if you enter the area after they’re killed
  • Fixed a case where you could get stuck on the painting templates save/load screens
  • Fixed Server Direct Connection (from Steam/Browser such as ARKServers.net ) logic to not fail, and also fixed a crash if direct-joining a server fails
  • Improved how shotguns are networked

218.6

  • Fixed the global limit on # of Platforms-with-Structures being incremented by Rafts, which are not supposed to use the global limit
  • Fixed a client-side PhysX crash

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 218.2 & 218.3 & 218.4

218.2

  • Fixed Mac issues with ‘El Capitan’ OS (thank you Steam Users “Brefin” and “Kyr” for your help in solving it!!!)

218.3

New

  • New server option defaulting disallowed, Quetzal platforms will not allow any non-allied dino to base on them when they are flying. If you want your server to allow non-allied dinos to be able to stand on the Quetzal platforms:
    Game.ini
    bFlyerPlatformAllowUnalignedDinoBasing=true

Changes

  • Quetzal platforms now include the weight of all pawns based on them, including the inherent pawn carry weight, causing encumbrance when carrying very large dinos.
  • Tranq Dart Torpidity effect increased by 100%
  • Poison Grenades add 25% more Torpor and have 20% more AoE
  • Alpha Dinos can no longer be picked up
  • Quetzal reduced damage by 33% and damage scaling by 20%
  • Spectator Player List now can sort by Player or Tribe and also Search by Player or Tribe

Fixes

  • Raised Max KillZ being too low causing some characters to die on a high-flying Quetz platform
  • Fixed Quetzaldamage / warpaintoverlay
  • Improved walking on dynamic platforms, Quetz, Raft, etc
  • Beezlebufo fall damage speed threshold raised to avoid taking damage on long jumps
  • Fixed a case where Player disconnected from the server could become unsleeped
  • Fixed standing on Rafts
  • Fixed Dino XP level #, extra 0

218.4

  • Fixed client side issue where clients wouldn’t see other players “Wake up” from sleeping state

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 218 & 218.1

Patch 218

New

  • SotF Enhancements: Immediate Warpaints (freepainting doesn’t require any items), Six Player Tribes, Mesopithecus, Broodmother!
  • Quetzalcoatlus & Flying Platform Saddle. (Airship?!)
  • Machined Sniper Rifle
  • Tranq Darts

Changes

  • Option to Remove the default “sail” from the Raft 😉
  • Raised Player and Dino Level Caps by +3 each
  • You can now lock and/or pincode Elevators
  • Sarcos now swim in shallow swamp water, making them speedy deadly creatures in the swamp
  • When aggro’ed, flyers no longer wander to a random point before attacking
  • Swapped Fria Curry/Calien Soup Food-Water buff effects, as originally intended

Fixes

  • Reduced rubber-banding and camera-flickering when moving upon a platform saddle.

Server

  • Improved server perf by 15% using server-side movement optimization
  • Server Admins can now set in their Game.ini:
    • CropGrowthSpeedMultiplier=1
    • LayEggIntervalMultiplier=1
    • PoopIntervalMultiplier=1
    • CropDecaySpeedMultiplier=1

Patch 218.1

Fixes

  • Fixed a savegame loading crash

Dino Dossier: Procoptodon

Common Name: Procoptodon
Species: Procoptodon vivencurrus
Time: Plestiocene
Diet: Herbivore
Temperament: Reactive
Domestication
Tameable: Yes
Rideable: Yes
Saddle:  
Command:  
  • Wild: The first marsupial I've encountered on the island is the Procoptodon vivencurrus. Standing nearly three meters tall, it is also the largest jumping creature I've ever heard of. It is a fairly peaceful herbivore that only fiercely attacks if aggressed upon.

  • Domesticated: Procoptodon's dry pouch makes it an excellent beast of burden that can carry far more than other creatures of its size. But more importantly, many tribes use it as a two-seater transport by having a secondary rider nest in the pouch. Since this passenger doesn't have to worry about controlling the Procoptodon, the pouch-warrior can focus on firing his or her weapons.

  • Known Information: One of Procoptodon's most unique features is its pouch. Unlike many pouched marsupials, Procoptodon's pouch is relatively dry, and has little in the way of sticky or oily fluids. I assume this is good for the joey, but I have not figured out exactly why yet...

Drops

  • Raw Meat

Video

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Dino Dossier: Diplocaulus

Common Name: Diplocaulus
Species: Diplocaulus Natatorianutrix
Time: Permian
Diet: Piscivorous
Temperament: Skittish
Domestication
Tameable: Yes
Rideable: No
Command:  
  • Wild: Presiding almost solely within the island's swamps, Diplocaulus Natatorinutrix is a small amphibian that primarily eats minor fish. It rounds out what I consider the middle-bottom of the ecosystem, feeding on the tinier non-insect creatures of the island while itself being a common snack for the larger carnivores.

  • Domesticated: There are only a few uses for tamed diplocaulus. It is primarily used the (rather disgusting) practice of employing Diplocaulus as an oxygen bag. Diplocaulus stores air in the bladders of its head, and divers can suck from these bladders to take deep breaths while submerged, supporting long-term underwater exploration without the use of external gear.

  • Known Information: Because so many creatures prey on it, Diplocaulus has become very skittish and often flees at the first sign of trouble. It uses its amphibious nature to escape into whichever enviroment its predator isn't native to. Diplocaulus' unique capability to retain vast quantities of oxygen allows it to effectively remain submerged for hours at a time, usually outlasting even other amphibious creatures that might otherwise prey upon it.

Drops

  • Raw Meat
  • Chitin

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ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 217.1 & 217.2

217.1

Changes

  • Re-enabled ‘Raw Socket’ support on Linux/Windows Servers (use at your own risk, we believe there are stability issues with raw sockets but some hosts seem to like them 😉

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with “Rain” & “Snow” visuals only ever appearing once
  • Fixed RCON performance issue on Linux/Windows (we think ;))

217.2

Changes

  • Reduced effectiveness of primitive club on players by 10%
  • Increased poison grenade gas duration and effectiveness by 15%
  • Sloped Roofs now count for “indoors” insulation calculation

Fixes

  • Fixed respawn rate & yield rate on Species X wild plants
  • Fixed dino-player pushing through walls case
  • Fixed inability to climb ladders at some angles
  • Female Megaloceros don’t grow horns anymore in singleplayer 🙂

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 217

New

  • Hornless female Megaloceros added
  • Inventory Quality of Life: You can now sort inventory lists by many factors, and also text-search them dynamically.
  • Craftable Consumable Bug Repellent. Yes!
  • Poison Gas Grenade *cough cough cough*
  • Primitive Club (great for conking people on the head and knocking them out, regardless of armor)
  • Trophy System (including the SotF Trophies!!!)
  • New Option (default true) to automatically open Engram Window after applying all available Level Ups
  • Inventory Slot counter
  • Server Valve Anti Cheat (VAC) enabled! Auto Banhammmmerrr Go!

Changes

  • Overstocked Snow Metal Rocks now yield Metal Ore at the same approximate rate as “Rich Mountain” Metal Rocks
  • You can now double-click an Engram to Learn It
  • Jerky crafting time reduced by 33%
  • Furniture and Gravestones are now dye-able

Fixes

  • Various bug fixes TDB
  • Foliage fillrate performance optimization
  • About +25%-30% server CPU performance gain due to Spatial Octree optimization
  • Radios no longer take over Tribe Chat. Tribe Chat always functions as normal on its own “Channel”.
  • Fixed aquatic creatures following targets across water zones
  • Fixed pop-in of underwater rock/canyon meshes
  • Fixed snow-cave blockage, and ice mini cave o’ doom killin’ dinos/teleportin
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