These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 179.0, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.
Game Changes
- Only Wood, Thatch, and Stone required for Stone Walls/StoneFoundation now
- All pipes are now considered “foundation” and will not fall apart if a piece is destroyed
Server Features
- Server admins can now adjust the following values:
- The Amount of overall dinos
- The damage & resistance of tamed vs untamed dinos respectively
- The relative weight of each dino species and maximum caps of each dino species per zone
- The speed of taming
- The speed of harvesting and a multiplier for how much resources are earned (overall, not per resource yet)
- The amounts of player and dino stamina draining respectively
- The amounts of player and dino food draining respectively
- The amounts of player water draining
- The speed of player and dino natural health recoveries
- The time of Structure open-demolish on PvE (soon this will be per-structure class, but currently is global)
Bugfixes
- Fixed problem connecting to various servers, was a silly data networking mismatch
- Fixed issue with player growing… large… upon falling unconscious from dino such as Turtle (very amusing 😉
- Spawn Point UI will no longer improperly list buttons for beds that are on cooldown
(Original Announcement on Steam)
Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (178.2)