255.1

• Fixed issue seeing the tooltip for Fertilized Eggs
• Fixed issue with MaxPersonalTamedDinos value not decrementing when Unclaiming Dinos that were loaded from save data.

255.2

• Ammonite Blood can no longer be applied on Fishing Rods (for now)
• Wild Thylacoleo now properly attach to trees
• Tamed Thylacoleo can now pounce-grab wild creatures on PvE
• Increased item stat clamp on Official Servers to better reflect top-tier items (and properly clamped items in CrossARK Tribute Storage).
• Added menu to list and download monthly Sponsored Mods
• Fixed an OpenGL crash that could affect Linux/SteamOS/Mac

New

• Dinos:
  • Electrophorus!
  • Microraptor!
  • Ammonite!
  • Thylacoleo!
•  Structure:
  • Tek Forcefield
  • Tek Tileset
  • Tek Doors
•  Additional head head hairstyle and additional facial hairstyle
• 30 new Explorer Notes

Changes

• Rocket Launcher & C4 rebalance: C4 now does approximately 70% more damage to Structures than Rockets. Rocket Launcher can no longer have Item Stats (though its base Damage has been increased 20% to compensate). Rocket Turrets now take a slight amount of damage when they fire, and can not fire under 5% HP.

Fixes & Improvements

• C4-carrying Flyers now move at a fixed slow speed.
• Item Stats on all Official Servers are now clamped to negate the old no-longer-achievable OP items generated by then-unbalanced Fishing Rod.
• Various network optimizations. Major rendering and threading optimizations to come in subsequent minor version update.

Server-Stuff

• Added option for per-Tribe Dino Tame limit, enabling on Official PvE servers with a max of 500 Dinos Per Tribe (with on-screen indicator of Tribe Dino count). To use it, run with ?MaxPersonalTamedDinos=Number
• Added option to auto-destroy claimable decayed dinos on load, rather than have them remain around as Claimable. To use this, run with ?AutoDestroyDecayedDinos=true. Official PvE servers now have this enabled.

• Fixed various cases where Auto Turrets would not fire or improperly miss.

254.94

• Troodon now have 50% less night-time targeting distance to players on-foot, and 15% less run speed
• C4 attached to Dinos or Platform Saddles can no longer be remote detonates through world geometry
• Fixed harvesting resources not properly adding to completely-filled stacks

254.944

• Fixed issue with Harvesting saying “X Item Removed.” (Requires Server Update!)
• Added server “?ClampItemSpoilingTimes=true” which will clamp all spoiling times to the items’ maximum spoiling times. Useful if any infinite-spoiling exploits were used on the server and you wish to clean them up. Could potentially cause issues with Mods that alter spoiling time, hence it is an option.

• ARK Valentine’s Day Event until February 20

Fixes & Improvements

• Reduced lag on Inventory Menus
• Hair now reacts to being underwater, phyiscs and materials
• Fixed various misaligned or missing water physics volumes on TheIsland
• Server custom “HarvestAmountMultiplier” now works as it used to, to bias towards yielding rarer items. This is more costly for server performance, so if you want a more “optimized” server with high HarvestAmountMultiplier (but less rare items), you can launch with ?UseOptimizedHarvestingHealth=true