252.6

• Ended Turkey Trial Event! (deprecated items)
• Reintegrated PhysX 3.4 for larger performance gain. Fixed PhysX memory leak!
• Taking various Eggs now aggro the respective species
• Improvement to Dino movement physics accuracy when riding a Dino

252.61

• Crash fix for servers when loading save games with certain Mods!

252.4

Fixes & Improvements

• Dedicated Server: Temporarily rolled-back PhysX version to 3.3 in order to resolve Memory Leak. Recommend upgrading to this version until 252.5 is ready which will fix the leak Requires Server Update.
• When run with ?DestroyUnconnectedWaterPipes=true or official servers always, after two days real-time the pipes will auto-destroy if unconnected to any non-pipe (directly or indirectly) and no allied player is nearby. (edited)
  (you don’t have to test that 😉 )
• Spam-structure building is now rate-limited to help out slow servers.
• 80% improvement to foundation testing calculation to reduce server stalls when building on slow servers.
• Fixed a Moschops ambient harvesting crash
• New GM Commands:
  • TakeAllStructure: gives your tribe all the structures of the team you’re currently looking at.
  • TakeAllDino: gives your tribe all the dinos of the team you’re currently looking at.
  • GMBuff: gives you god, infinite stats, AI ignorance, and a bunch of experience.
  • GMSummon: summons a tamed dino that isn’t cheat-tamed, so still requires a saddle.
•  “OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0” can now be set in [ServerSettings] INI, not only via the launch commandline (“?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0”)

252.5

• Changed Item stack size limits to Beer Barrel: 3, Catapult: 1, Wind Turbine 1

252.1

• Raised proximity structure limit to 10,500 (the structure limit is actually working now with the new PhysX!). Renamed the server variable to “TheMaxStructuresInRange” so that all servers get a one-time reset to the new value: ?TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500 (or in the [ServerSettings] of GameUserSettings.ini). Requires Server Update
• You can now put Leech Blood in your quick item slots in order to feed it to the Moschops. Requires Server Update
• Reintegrated the Item Quantity limits for various structures that was lost in the merge from v251. Requires Server Update

252.2

• Fixed issue with ragdolls falling thru the ground (new PhysX inverted ray trace direction on terrain heightfields :-P).  Requires Server Update
• Fixed Megalosaurus losing its Tame Affinity whenever it wakes up due to Night-time. Requires Server Update
• Signed additional PhysX DLL’s to help resolve some BattlEye connection issues, and removed some unnecessary PhysX DLL’s.

252.22

• Fixed PhysX crash on TheCenter with large overlaps. Requires Server Update.

New

• ARK: Turkey Trial 2! New challenge and cosmetics! Earnable Emotes! (this system also enables Mods to add more Emotes to the game!)
• New Dinos:
  • Achatina
  • Megalosaurus
  • Pachyrhinosaurus
  • Moschops!
• New Mechanic: Breeding Phase 3: Random Mutations and Family Trees. At last!!!!
• All-new Caves on The Island, redesigned with proper shipping-quality layouts and graphics & increased challenge (ALL Cave Structures will necessarily be wiped in this version). (Still to come beyond this are the Underwater Caves & Tek Cave.)
• 2 new mythos Explorer Notes for each character
• Whistle Ordering Groups! Create groups by class, or specific-dino! Awwww yeah! (also Whistles to group-set Follow Ranges)
• New Whistle Type: “Move To”, point at an arbritrary location and tell your dinos to move there!

Changes

• Tamed Giganotosaurus HP & Damage reduced by approximately 15%

Fixes & Improvements

• 20% server performance increase due to massive replication & physx efficiency improvement
• VFX indicators for whistle commands: Move To, Attack, and Group-Selected Units. ARK RTS?
• Extra Option to “stream” in “Far” map sublevels, for large memory and performance gains (but reduced visual quality & draw distance).
• Fixed Dinos falling thru bases/floors on client
• Fixed server option ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts to work properly for inventories that have been loaded from saved game (so it works properly now ;))

251.2

• Made Spoil Timers retain their realtime values thru CrossARK transfers. Requires Server Update.

251.3

• Unversioned Hotfix: Client-side changed Dino Tamed-On/Uploaded-From HUD info to only be visible on Unconscious Dinos, even if they’re your own team. Also hid that info when “Hide Server Info” option is enabled.
• Fixed a CrossARK inventory transfer crash. Requires Server Update.
• Made Flyers dismount in Scorched Earth caves properly. Requires Server Update.

CrossARK

• On CrossARK servers, your Dinos will now indicate the server they were Tamed on when you look at them (and you can see this on dead enemy dinos as well, along with the server they were previously Uploaded from, if any, useful for tracking points of origin.) Requires Server Update.

Fixes

• Fixed a case of Dinos falling thru bases/floors on client
• Fixed server option ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts to work properly for inventories that have been loaded from saved game (so it works properly now Requires Server Update.

Server Transfer related

• Enabled full Cross-Ark Survivor/Item/Dino transfers between all Official Servers of a specific game mode (PvP, PvE, Primitive).
• Added new server commandline/ini option ?MinimumDinoReuploadInterval=1000 for number of seconds cooldown between allowed Dino re-uploads (defaults to 0, set to 43200 on Official Servers which is 12 hours). Remaining cooldown time is displayed on the Dino Upload UI.
• Official Server Transferred Dinos now display the name of the server they were transferred from when looking at them (only displays this info when dead if a non-Tribe Dino).

Fixes

• Fixed issue with Wild Dinos spawning inside bases (may still be an ‘edge case’ if you have a very long fence with few nearby structures; requires at least 15 “core” structures within a 6000 unit radius to prevent spawn, or tamed dino within a 4000 unit radius, but otherwise will work properly now).