A short comparison of the damage of ranged weapons
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Spear (thrown): 80 |
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Slingshot: 14 |
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Flare Gun: No damage, blinds |
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Bow: Stone arrow: 15 Tranquilized arrow: 20 |
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Simple Pistol: 80 |
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Longneck: 220 |
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Shotgun: Depends on distance (1m: 160, 8m: 30) |
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Fabricated Pistol: 35 |
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Assault Rifle: 40 per shot |
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Auto Turret: 50 per shot |
These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 174.0, grouped by categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.
(Original Announcement on Steam)
This short tutorial explains the dyeing process in ARK: Survival Evolved. It will tell you about the crafting and mixing of colors and explain how to apply them.
Before you can actually dye your clothes, you’ll have to produce dye. Its base ingredients are berries (their color will determine the colour of the product). You also need some water.
Put the water and the berries into the inventory of a cooking pot and ensure that there’s some fuel too. Ignite the fire below the pot (key “E”), and wait a short time. The dye will now appear in the cooking pot’s inventory.
To actually dye an item you have to drag the dye onto the item inside your inventory. If it’s possible to dye that kind of item, a dialouge window will open. In it, please select the appropriate region. After a click on “Dye now” your garment will be dyed, and the neccessary pigments removed from your inventory.
ARK: Survial Evolved knows the following basic colors:
| Blue | Red | Black | Yellow | White |
| Azulberry | Tintoberry | Narcoberry | Amarberry | Stemberry |
As far as we know, the following recipes exist:
If you find any other recipes, please comment below! We’ll add them to this article as soon as possible.
These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 173.0, grouped by categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.
– Spinosaurus! Fear the beast!
– New Structures: Spike Wall (great for defending against incoming tribe dino attacks) and Food Preservation Bin items, and Beef Jerky!!! (Sparkpowder+Oil+Cooked Meat or Cooked Prime Meat+hour wait == SUPER LONG LASTING FOOOOOD!)
– Added Rich Metal and Regular Metal Mountain Rocks
– Rare Limited-Edition Cosmetic Item Skin drops: Nerdry’s Glasses (from the bellies of Dilo’s) and Rex Bone Helmet
– You and dinos can attack when no stamina now, however doing so will increase your torpidity
– Grenades rebalanced, ~60% damage reduction vs structures and now also require oil to craft
– Metal Tools’ durabilities fixed
– Upped bullet damages by about 20%
– Land dinos now lose stamina when swimming while mounted, Amphibious dinos (turtle, sarco, etc) now regain stamina much more quickly in water
– Pteras now land better when out of stamina, won’t eject you as soon
– Broodmother will now give Dossier and Steam Achievement correctly when defeated
– Base Carno damage buffed from 30 to 50, base Rex damage buffed from 50 to 80
– Rate of health recovery from mounts consuming corpses or trees is reduced (was previously essentially granting mounts nearly instant health recovery)
– After login you now get a message indicating how you died if your character was killed when you were logged out (needs more details added)
– Slight purple overlay when torpidity is increasing
– Character bodytype presets
– “Find Mods” button added to Host Game Menu
– Fixed bug where Generator with cables attached could not get its inventory accessed
– Realtime time and current map now indicated on pause menu
– Downloading mods at the Host Game screen now indicates download progress, mods that have been updated on Steam Workshop will now redownload
– You can now set the temperature scale to Fahrenheit in the Options menu
– Your current Biome/Temperature now updates correctly when riding a mount
– “Transfer Tribe Ownership” button is now clickable properly
– PvE structures that haven’t had a Tribe/Creator nearby in one week are now auto demolished. Can be disabled on player-run servers.
– Structure Limit now configurable for player-run servers
– Non-Tribe Flyer Carrying now an option for PvE servers
– Spoiling timer exploits fixed
– Various ways to teleport into people’s houses seemingly fixed
– Unconscious dinos being tamed no longer can be harmed by non-tribe players in PvE
– Tribe ID’s and Player ID’s are now guaranteed to be unique. Should eliminate future cases of player/tribe body snatchers.
– General GPU optimizations plus new graphics configuration options: Mesh LOD slider, High Quality Materials checkbox (disabling this and restarting will have tremendous perf savings at the cost of less detailed terrain materials), Subsurface Scattering Checkbox (disabling this will make plants and skin material look a little less good, but also save a lot of perf)
(Original Announcement on Steam)
Today, in the fifth issue of the âARK Digestâ-Series, representatives from Studio Wildcard confirmed the release date for the Linux and Mac Clients to their game.
Previously asked about the matter by fans, developer /u/jatonreddit now confirmed:
Yes! Weâre excited to announce that we can finally confirm the release date of the Mac and Linux client to be the 25th of June! We canât wait to see our buddies from other platforms join us on the ARK! Hopefully youâve all kept in touch and informed via the announcement page and youâre ready to begin your journey ?
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Once you start to craft large amounts of items, your inventory will invitably fill up. That is in and of itself not a tragedy, though certainly annoying. As it turns out, some players have had to face a much more drastic problem: Their items simply vanished. Having counted the items before, they were sure that they had everything in their inventory when they started. But it wasnât there anymore!
Now, it is not impossible to misplace something once in a while, and yet, the more often this happens in-game the more suspicious one gets. Are there thieves at work? One wouldnât have put it past the developers to add the elves from the Shoemakers Tale into the game. Unfortunately though, the end-products were missing too.
This prompted a reddit user to investigate, and his findings are truly enlightening (and should certainly put some minds at ease):
The inventory has a hidden limit of 146 slots. If you use put any more than that into it, it will delete those items!
So keep that in mind or you risk losing the items you have worked so hard for. So far there hasnât been a comment from the developers on the matter, however the general consent is that this, in its current form, is a bug and not a feature.
I dont know why so many people want to know this, but because ARK is a Steam Game, it’s pretty easy to get the information how many people are currently playing the game.
You can just visit the page “SteamCharts”: Link
Currently (June, 9th) there are ~65.000 Players playing the game. But this number alone is not really meaningful, if you don’t compare it to other games. So let us compare ARK with Team Fortress 2: Link.
There are currently 67.000 Players playing team fortress 2. The interesting point is the all time peak. The peak of people playing TF2 was 117.000 Players. ARKs playerbase is rising every day. So it’s pretty likely, that ARK will get more players than TF2 – albeit being in ALPHA (Early Access) and as a paid game (TF2 is Free 2 Play).
It looks like ARK is a huge success. Let’s hope it gets even better. đ
A short tutorial for giving yourself items, as long as you’re an admin đ
Log in with your password:
enablecheats passwort
Use the following command
admincheat giveitemnum 1 1 1 false
The first number is the itemid. You can use this list to lookup the items
The second number is the stack amount
The third number is the quality of the item
There are a few situations, in which an adminstrator is forced to cheat on his own server. Some examples: repairing something destroyed by a bug, recover items, track down misbehaving users or just testing the server. This is a list of commands, which can be used to cheat in the game. These commands also work in multiplayer, if you just swap the “cheat” to the “admincheat” command.
| Command | Effect |
| ShowMyAdminManager | Enables the Admin UI |
| enablecheats <password> | Logs you in as the administrator |
| requestspectator <password> | Allows anyone with the password to login as a Spectator |
| cheat enablespectator | Destroys your character and puts you into Spectator mode (Used for Whitelisted Admins) |
| stopspectating | Cancels spectating |
| setcheatplayer true/false | enables/disables the cheat menu |
| cheat AllowPlayerToJoinNoCheck <Steam64ID> | Whitelists the persons Steam ID |
| cheat DisallowPlayerToJoinNoCheck <Steam64ID> | Removes the persons whitelist |
| cheat SetMessageOfTheDay <message> | Sets a message of the day that appears when people join the server |
| cheat broadcast <message> | Broadcasts a message to everyone on the server, and forces their chat window to open |
| cheat ServerChatToPlayer <“PlayerName”> | Sends a private message to the player associated with that name |
| cheat ServerChatTo <“Steam64ID”> | Sends a private message to the player associated with that ID |
| cheat god | Enables godmode, you can not die except you can still drown |
| cheat fly | Allows you to fly |
| cheat walk | Deactivates flying and allows you to walk again |
| cheat teleport | Teleports you to coords 0 0 0 (X Y Z) |
| cheat teleporttoplayer <id> | Teleports to the specificed player, use showmyadminmanager to get the 9 digit number to fill in the field |
| cheat slomo 5 | Changes the speed on the server such as player movement, use slomo 1 to revert to normal speed |
| cheat playersonly | Freezes absolutely everything except players, this even includes crafting |
| cheat ghost | Turns on noclip, you are able to walk through walls and objects |
| cheat forcetame | Instantly tames a dinosaur, you can even ride it without a saddle |
| cheat forceplayertojointargettribe <id> | Forces the player to join the targeted tribe, get the 9 digit id of the player by looking at the connected players in the showmyadminmanager list. |
| cheat forceplayertojointribe <id> <tribeid> | Forces the player to join the tribe, use showmyadminmanager for the required information |
| cheat giveexptoplayer <id> <how much> <tribeshared> <preventsharing> | Gives experience to another player, use showmyadminmanager for the required information. Unable to test currently. |
| cheat addexperience 1000 0 0 | Gives you 1000xp, you can change the value and if you change the second 0 to a 1 it will share the xp among your tribe |
| cheat giveresources | Gives you 50 of all resources |
| cheat infinitestats | Gives you infinite hunger, stamina and infinite ammo |
| cheat listplayers | Shows a list of all players on the server with their SteamID |
| cheat kickplayer <Steam64ID> | Kicks the person from the server |
| banplayer <Steam64ID> | Bans the user from the server |
| unbanplayer <Steam64ID> | Unbans the user from the server |
| cheat destroyallenemies | Destroys all enemies, they respawn eventually |
| cheat hurtme <amount> | Deals x amount of damage to yourself |
| togglegun | Toggles the visibility of your currently equipped weapon/tool |
| cheat settimeofday <timestring> | Changes the time of day, for example cheat settimeofday 12:00 |
| cheat setplayerpos 0 0 0 | Allows you to teleport to coords coord map[jdimensional.com] |
| cheat saveworld | Saves the current worldstate |
| cheat quit | Exits the current world, use after saving for a safe shutdown |
| cheat execsetsleeping true/false | Puts your character to sleep/wakes them up |
| cheat enemyinvisible true/false | Makes all creatures ignore you even if you attack them |
| cheat DestroyWildDinos | instantly destroys all Wild Dinos. Useful if you want to force repopulation of the ARK |
| cheat destroyall <classname> | destroys all objects/dinosaurs of a classname, refer to the dinosaur or item lists for specific classnames, also works with structures dino list |
| cheat killplayer <id> | Immediately kills the player, get the id for the player by opening showmyadminmanager and looking at the 9 digit number next to their name in the connected players list |
| cheat summon <classname> | Summons a dinosaur at your location. A list of all dinosaurs can be found dino list here. This command can also be used to summon structures, structures will be rotated depending on the players viewing directio |
| cheat GiveAllStructure | gives every structure thatâs connected to the current chain to you |
| cheat SetTargetPlayerBodyVal int (0-30), float (0-1) | changes a characterâs body scaling for that region |
| cheat SetTargetPlayerColorVal int (0-2), float (0-1) | changes a characterâs body color for that region |
| cheat giveitemnum <ID> <QTY> <Quality> <True/False> | Gives you an item, the list of items with their ID’s can be found here example giveitemnum 1 1 1 false gives you a simple pistol and giveitemnum 1 1 100 false gives you an ascendant simple pistol |
| cheat MakeTribeAdmin | Allows you to force yourself as an Admin within a tribe |
| cheat MakeTribeFounder | Allows you to force yourself to be the tribe founder |
| cheat RemoveTribeAdmin | Allows you to remove admin from the tribe |
| cheat givetome | Makes any structure/dino you are currently looking at yours |
| stat fps | Shows your fps, usable by anyone. commands do not need to be enabled for this |
| stat unit | Shows your GPU and CPU stats, usable by anyone. commands do not need to be enabled for this |
| pause | Pauses the server (LOCAL ONLY) |
| GiveColors <QTY> | Gives all avaiable colors |
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
| destroytarget | Destroys the object / dinosaur you are looking at, it can however destroy the entire floor of your world. Do not risk using this command *Broken* |
| cheat damagetarget <amount> | Deals damage to the creature you are aiming at *Broken* |
| debugstructures | Shows debug information of a structure if you look at it, information has no use at the moment |
| switchlevel | testing |
| giveengrams | gives you all crafting recipes but can and probably will crash your client/game server |
With the current implementation the character files for Up- and Download from the ARK are accessible to the player. In practice that means that players can arbitrarily manipulate them, cheating as they see fit.
Obviously you will want to avoid that on your self-hosted servers. As it turns out, that is actually quite easy, since there is an option to disable character imports onto your server in the server settings. Itâs called NoTributeDownloads (set it to True) and saves you all this trouble. If youâre not sure on how to set this option to the correct value, please consult the Server Settings Overview Page.
All of this does of course go to show is a larger principle in preventing cheats: Donât trust any data provided by the player. Why this principle wasnât observed in this instance is unclear, but given the amount of patches they have produced so far Iâm fairly confident that we will see a patch reacting to those issues soon.
