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

Dino Dossier: Cnidaria

Common Name: Cnidaria
Species: Cnidaria omnimorph
Time: Cambrian - Holocene
Diet: Carnivore
Temperament: Passive, but aggressive at close range
Domestication
Tameable: No
Rideable: No

  • Wild: Cnidaria omnimorph is another example of a creature which should not exist. It has traits that seem to come from many types of jellyfish. It posses the size and shape of large egg-yolk jellies, the powerful sting of certain box jellies, and the bioluminescence of deep-sea jellies. This all combines to make a dangerous creature that lights up the deepest reaches of the ocean.

  • Domesticated: As Cnidaria is barely more intelligent than a plant, there's no effective method to tame one. though dangerous as they can be, a few tribes even keep schools of them around to harvest.

  • Known Information: Cnidaria is not generally an aggressive creature, because it lacks normal perceptive senses. it generally just floats on the current until something gets close enough to sense, at which point it attacks. While its attacks are not directly powerful, its sting injects an incredibly strong and fast-acting sedative. Most tribes kill Cnidaria on sight, then collect its reserve of powerful sedative, to use in technically advanced long-distance tranquilizers.

Drops

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Base Stats and Calculator

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Big Taming Calculator Overhaul

We’ve updated the taming calculator. Now it supports efficiency calculation, non violent taming, it has a much improved narcotics calculation and it even the new animals have been added. If you find anything non correct, please inform us in the comments.

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Swamp and Snow Biomes: Informations and Locations

The Ark has been expanding and now offers two new biomes: the swamp and the snow – of course with a complete own flora and fauna.

 

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The snow biomes offer a very cold area at the top left of the map. These areas are very hostile and should only be visited with proper equipment. Of course you’ll find more “cold – loving” animals up there – like the Mammoth or the new Direwolf.

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The swamp on the other hand is a very humid place on the Island with normal to hot conditions which will host animals like the Sarcosuchus or the new Beelzebufo.

swampBoth are a huge increase in the variability of the Island. So visit them as soon as possible.

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 216.1 & 216.2 & 216.3

216.1:

Changes

  • Official Servers: Relaunching with -ForceRespawnDinos to destroy all wild creatures to flush out NPC’s to new Biome configurations. (this will only destroy wild creatures that are NOT currently being tamed 🙂
  • Dimorph Kibble is now cookable from Dimorph Eggs 😉

Fixes

  • Fixed a couple server crashes
  • Re-added missing “Small Crop Plot” Engram
  • Improved Stag jump animation
  • Fixed an NPC Spawn Zone that had improper spawning configuration
  • Fixed issue with not being able to climb ladders on certain platform structures/rafts
  • Fixed Mac rendering issue in Snow Biome (black screen

216.2

  • More server crash protection

216.3

  • Added a function necessary for Servers hosting ‘Survival of the Fittest’ Total Conversion. If you want to host SotF 4.0, you should upgrade your Server to 216.3. (Clients don’t need to).

ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 216

New

Changes

  • Whitelisted Admins are now allowed to join full games and they also don’t count towards the player limit
  • Human and Dino Level Caps Raised +5 each

Fixes

  • Fixed Dino unboarding offset
  • Fixed a case where you could push your character through structures
  • Fixed a ladder issue
  • Fixed issue with Turrets mounted on Rafts/Dinos not being able to hit targets reliably when shooting down
  • Fixed some Admin Manager SteamID’s display on Mac
  • Fixed SotF crash
  • Fixed double hud overlays when in spectator mode and showing long-range HUDs and near HUDs
  • Fixed issue with client & server steep slope climbing desynchronization when riding a Tamed Dino
  • Fixed issue where dinos wouldn’t follow an ally target a moving platform structure
  • Fixed IK issue where dinos legs could latch onto surfaces above them
  • Fixed issue where Total Conversion custom Maps weren’t listed in the Host Session UI

Dino Dossier?: The ???? (Dodorex)

Today a new dossier has been released… or has it? Unlike the other dossiers, this one doesn’t give any informations. Maybe it’s a tiny preview for the upcoming halloween. The dossier itself resembles the well feared dodosaurus rex, which has been rumored a few times and even got a fanmade dossier.

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Dino Dossier: Pachyrhinosaurus

Common Name: Pachyrhinosaurus
Species: Pachyrhinosaurus Mitisaura
Time: Late Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Temperament: Evasive
Domestication
Tameable: Yes
Rideable:

Yes

  • Wild: Pachyrhinosaurus Mitisaura is a medium-sized herbivore, found almost everywhere but the island’s mountains. It is generally calm, and ignores all other nearby creatures unless it is attacked, at which point it usually tries to flee.

  • Domesticated: Pachyrhinosaurus is an excellent starting mount for anyone new to taming. It is fairly easy to train, can carry enough to be a simple pack-animal, and is not as deadly as some of the larger herbivores. Additionally, Pachyrhinosaurus can release it’s unique checmial on command to protect itself and it’s rider from nearby predators, or draw attention if desired, making it a potential life saver in a pinch.

  • Known Information: Of the island’s varied creatures, Pachyrhinosaurus may possess among the most unique survival skills. When threatened, it’s massive nasal boss releases a chemical into the air that calms other nearby creatures, making them less likely to attack it. Affected creatures are sometimes hungry enough to ignore the effect and humans seem immune to it. Conversely, it can seemingly invert this phenomenon at will and induce creatures to become more aggressive towards it!

Drops

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Base Stats and Calculator

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ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 215 – 215.4

215

New

  • Carryable and Hawk-Style Throwable Dimorphodon (attacks whomever you throw it at 😉
  • Paraceratherium & accompanyingPlatformSaddle
  • Wall-mounted paintable canvas
  • Dev Kit: Mod authors can now custom-script their own new “Use Menu” options, with networking and saving of values, as well as override/remove any existing “Use Menu” options as they see fit. This will let them make much more powerful in-world items and character interactions 🙂
  • Structure Auto-Decay Enabled on Official PvP servers

Changes

  • (Non-Platform-Mounted) Ballistas can no longer be placed near enemy foundations, and their damage has been reduced by 50% relative to structures, range reduced by 20%. They also no longer damage Plant Species X.
  • Reduced Crop Plot Fertilizer consumption rate by another 50%

Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect Female pose when mounted on Ballista Turret
  • Saddled Dinos can now accept SCUBA gear, equipments etc into their Inventories
  • Fixed extra conflicting Input binding for flyers
  • Fixed Shoulder-Mounted Dimos and almost certainlyMonkeys disappearing randomish
  • Players can no longer get stuck in an inputless state if reconnecting when mounted on a dino
  • Fixed a bug with losing collision if you were knocked unconscious while being carried by a flyer
  • Fixed a crash related to new Dev Kit features (ModifyStatusComponent, etc)

215.1

  • Fixed PvP Decay Timer starting at 0
  • Fixed several kinds of Server crashes

215.2

  • Fixed another potential Server crash upon loading a savegame

215.4

  • Fixed more server crash cases!
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