These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 187.0, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.

New Items / New Structures

• Titanomyrmas: designed to ruin your sunday picnics!
• Dimorphodons: designed to harass other dino riders!
• Crossbow: use underwater to ping sharks from a distance!
• Machined Shotgun: less powerful than primitive, but more shots before reload and tighter spread!
• Double the number of dyes. You want Pink? You got Pink!

Dino Changes

• Scorpions/Carrion eaters will now prefer to eat spoiled meat rather than raw meat after being Tamed
• Stimberry consumption now reduces Food on Tamed dinos
• Only Female Dinos lay eggs now — it had to happen 😉
• Fixed Saber gender bits — heh, “fixed”

Game Changes

• You can no longer level up sleeping allies (so mean)
• You can unwire and rewrire placed traps — while leaving them placed and remembering what they were wired to — making it easier to leave your own base after setting traps up (we don’t want to make traps completely ignore you when wired, however, to avoid the incentive to turn your base into a zone of infinite numbers of traps)
• You can no longer build for 30 seconds in the immediate damage radius where a structure has been destroyed by an enemy team (helps sieges play out more naturally)
• There’s now an “attack that” whistle which will send all dinos in a nearby radius to attack the specific target you’re pointing at
• In PvP, structures within caves/cave-entrances now take 6x damage
• Auto Turrets track about 3x as fast, to be more effective
• You can now light standing torches in shallow water
• Grenade damage is reduced by 33% generally and an additional 33% vs dinos (so about -45% in total vs dinos)

UI Changes

• You can now drink by pressing E when just standing in water, if there’s nothing else to activate. You don’t have to be immersed anymore.

Server Features

• Custom servers can now specify whether they want downloadable individually: characters, items, dinos.
  ?PreventDownloadSurvivors=false?PreventDownloadItems=false?PreventDownloadDinos=false
• Note: for custom Primitive Servers, there is a new Game.ini here.
• [Split up]The PvP-Cave Structure multiplier can be set in the steamapps\common\ARK\Projects\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer\Game.ini) as PvPZoneStructureDamageMultiplier=6.0
• New Game.ini options:

  [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
  bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true/false

  Defaults false. If true, any Engram not explicitly specified in the EngramsOverride list will be Hidden. Useful for maintaining primitive servers even as we add new Engrams in Updates.

Bugfixes

• Keypads now work in densely packed bases (was a “too-many-overlaps” issue)
• Fixed case of “invisible until you move” Structures on Client
• Fixed losing Oxygen when swimming at water surface
• The massive spam of “item removed etc” notification texts when viewing a dino’s inventory is now fixed
• Industrial Grill now consumes gas properly

Performance

• Approximate +25% Dedicated Server performance gain… PHYSX rewrite! >:-P — and nice client performance gain in dense cities as well!
• Server Memory Leak analysis

(Original Announcement on Steam)

Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (186.3)

These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 186.2, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.

Dino Changes

• After being successfully Tamed, Tamed Dinos will now bias towards consuming the least-nutritious food in their inventory (that is still edible by them). Thus for example a carnivore will eat all inferior Raw Meats before eating Prime Meat within its Inventory, making it more viable to store high quality food on your Dinos over lengthier periods of time for the long haul.
• Put all meats taming speeds/values exactly where they originally were. Made Kibbles 40% faster for Taming than Raw Meat ever was, and it’s got SUPER AFFINITY (if you use the right kind of Kibble for your Dino — for example Raw Prime Meat may net you a 70% effective tame now, whereas using the right Kibble can get you close to 100%!). May continue to buff Kibble, but let’s take it one step at a time with seeing how useful it is now 🙂

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue replicating network data on Structures (Sign strings, etc)
• Fixed a general issue placing structures (mortar and pestle, crop plot, etc)
• Metal Water Tank is now buildable again ;-P
• Fixed a client connection Timeout case
• Fixed edge case where players weren’t quite recovering enough Oxygen when popping head above water at lower server FPS

(Original Announcement on Steam)

Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (186.1)

These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 186.1, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.

Game Changes

• Allied Dinos are now immune to your Gas Traps
• Made Eggs about 200% more likely to be found, and they now last for 8 days in regular inventory, rather than 2 — store them in a Fridge to keep them nearly forever.
• Rebalanced some taming speeds: Raw Prime Meat is 70% as fast as it was originally, and appropriate Kibble is now as fast as Raw Prime Meat originally was. (non-Prime meats are the same speed as originally, as is the non-nutritious Cooked Prime Meat)
• Disallowed engrams/items are now automatically destroyed on primitive servers (or any server which uses a custom item list), retroactively. Primitive Servers online again.

Server Features

• Updated & posted new Server Game.ini for Primitive Servers to correspond to new Engram layout. In the future, we will change this to name-based list rather than indexed list, so it will not become outdated again.

Bugfixes

• You can place the Preserving Bin again.
• Fixed a server inventory-related crash with the Multi-Grill

(Original Announcement on Steam)

Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (186.0)