Red Biome Update and others!

Some very large biome changes to The Island are taking place. Part of this change would be introducing a new zone, known as the Redwood Forest and also slightly expanding the size of the Snow Biome.

This is a map you can use to help identify the areas where The Island will receive some changes and it’s makeover.

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The blue area represents the new size of the Snow Biome. The orange area represents the location of the new Redwood Biome and the green-area represents part of the Swamp that is also being turned into Redwood.

The in-game environment will be added with 3D Markers to help indicate areas that will be undergoing change. These markers will be brought into the game on Wednesday and here’s what you can expect them to look like!

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That’ll give you an idea of whether you need to make any plans to move your bases or not 🙂

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ARK: Survival Evolved Modding Contest Winners – Mods

MODs

1. Advanced Architecture Mod

Taking the top vote in the category, the Advanced Architecture mod is one of the most popular builder based mods in the workshop. We had a blast building castles and experiencing a royal setting while reviewing it!

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2. NPC Bush Peoples

This was, hands down, one of our favorite mods to review.  NPC Bush Peoples allows you to spawn a collection of humans to enhance your current ARK experience.  We were impressed with the level of talent that it takes to pull this off and are looking forward to the exciting future of this mod.

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3. Annunaki Genesis

There are enough balance changes and additions in this mod to make you think it were a Total Conversion.  The support from the community is undeniable and after reviewing this mod we understand why.  There aren’t really words to describe the experience this mod gives so we suggest you go check it out for yourself!

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4.Dino Racing: Evolved

I think all of us at one point thought of reliving our Mario Kart racing adventures.  Dino Racing: Evolved, is a completely customizable way of creating a race track that’s perfect for server events.  This entry definitely lets us know that someone knows there way around the development kit.

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5. MRRadTools.INC Content Pack

With a lot of competition in the structure/building types of mods, it’s hard to stand out in the crowd.  Well, MRRadTools.INC Content Pack is clearly one of the standouts!  Each asset displays his amazing artistry and level of detail he takes in his work.  It blends very well with the current game and deserves a place in the winner’s circle.

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Honorable Mention: Ark Futurism

ARK Futurism explores the advanced and futuristic side of survival on the island.  With tons of unique and beautifully made assets, we had to make sure that the work of this modder did not go unnoticed.

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ARK: Survival Evolved Modding Contest Winners – Total Conversions

TOTAL CONVERSIONS

1. Tribe Wars

Tribe wars is a thrilling game mode that offers a PVP-based experience that stays true to the core of what ARK is.  The objective is simple; defend your flag while trying to destroy your enemies flag.  The comprehensiveness of this total conversion and the talent that went into creating it did not go unnoticed.  It is tons of fun and we had the pleasure of taking it for a spin!

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2. ARK Moon Survival

There isn’t enough that can be said about the creativity and talent that went into creating this Total Conversion.  It’s an unbelievable entry and we were amazed by the user interface and subtle touches that were put into this experience.  Although it’s an astonishing feat in its current state, we look forward to what other experiences that will be created while trying to survive on the Moon.

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3. Otherworld

This total conversion pits you against waves of terrifying creatures as you try to escape what is known as the Otherworld.  It’s always nice to play a different game mode for ARK and Otherworld is  one of the few that are available in the workshop.  We loved the style of this entry with its distinct and unique level design.

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4. Cool 15 New Creatures

It’s always fun to see how modders use existing content and modify it to create new experiences.  Cool 13 New Creatures gives an exciting new way to look at some of the ARK creatures you’ve grown to know and love!

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ARK: Survival Evolved Modding Contest Winners – Maps

MAPS

1. Valhalla

You wouldn’t be able to tell the map is only 80% complete if you’ve ever had the pleasure of exploring Valhalla.  With land mass and water area 6 times that of the normal island,  it’s enough to keep you exploring for days.  The amount of work that went into creating this map is nothing to underestimate.  Beautiful vistas and abundant areas of exploration makes this a community and dev favorite!

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2. Roraima

Although Roraima doesn’t have the following of some of the other maps in the workshop, it absolutely blew us away!  The naturalistic land formations and the strategic layout of this map makes it a standout entry in the category.  While it isn’t as big as some of the other maps, it is clearly a map that makes you feel like you’ve been transported to a real-life area in the world. The team were literally shocked at the natural beauty in this map.

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3. Umassoura

Ummassoura is another massive map that is a truly unique entry in the map category.  We were taken back by the massive caves, breathtaking waterfalls, and diversity in the creatures that live in each of the uniquely placed biomes. The level of detail and care that was taken in creating this map was evident and greatly acknowledged by the team.

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4. Madagaskar Evolved

There aren’t many maps that make you feel as if you are in a specific place in the world.  We fell in love with Madagascar Evolved and its ability to accomplish this with its stylistic approach in its level design.  Immediately we felt as if we were flown to a safari in the middle of Africa and left to survive with the vicious animals that call it home. We see a very bright future for Madagascar Evolved!

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5. WickWillow

Wick Willow gave us an unforgettable experience when exploring its unique set of biomes.  Each biome is distinctly different from the next which provides for an interesting set of challenges and gameplay experiences.  We walked away with an appreciation for the strategic vision that went into the creation of this stunning map.

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6. Honorable Mention – Epic Islands

We couldn’t think of a better name to describe this map.  It’s vast landmass provides the perfect opportunity for exploring and building an epic base.  Although it’s still a work in progress, one can’t help but to imagine what this map will look like once it’s complete.  I know we’ll be keeping our eye out!

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ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 241.3 & 241.4

241.3

  • Fixed ocean spawners continually overflow spawning on TheCenter
  • Fixed case where you could improperly use Vault drops
  • All Official PvE servers now have 0.25 structure decay time and 0.5 structure resource blocking radius multiplier

241.4

  • Fixed Dino PvE Auto-Claim time multiplier to use a separate commandline value (?PvEDinoDecayPeriodMultiplier=1.0) rather than the Structure Auto-Claim time multiplier.

The Center Map DLC is available!

The Center is now available for PC & Mac & Steamplay!

The Center is a free add-on for ARK: Survival Evolved that includes a massive new map for survivors to explore, nearly double the size of the playable geography of the standard ARK Island landscape making it about 70 sq. kilometers. The Center complements the current ARK biomes with a rich, hand-drawn Tolkien-esque aesthetic. Filled with stunning lighting effects, lava rivers, giant picturesque mountains, misty floating islands, ancient underground ice caves, and more, The Center is free for anyone who already owns ARK: Survival Evolved.

Drawn completely by hand without any auto-generated content, The Center uses its own save data, with separate options to reset the save data for each individual map.

Some of the amazing things to discover on the map include:

  • Floating Island
  • Edge of the world/GIANT waterfalls
  • A vast underground world with its own ecosystem/sun (Large enough to build huge cities in)
  • Lava Biome
  • Large underwater air bubbles found deep in the ocean for building bases in
  • Massive Ancient Ruins scattered throughout the world
  • Challenging End-Game Boss Encounters with Special Rewards!
  • Unique level design with tons of verticality
  • Features all of the regular ARK biomes from “The Island”
  • Vast Ocean Systems
  • Giant Ice caverns with etched out ice ruins
  • Lava caverns
  • Several unique cave systems, both regular and underwater

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ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 241.2

Changes

  • Reduced Wild Compy HP and Damage by 50%

Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed various TheCenter structure placement, teleport, collision issues, dino difficulty curve, and dino spawns
  • TheCenter clients now work properly on Mac
  • Fixed general case where you could place structures within world geometry
  • Generated shadow distance field data for the rest of TheCenter world geometry meshes (sorry for the large one-time update!!)
  • Saved some RAM on non-ShaderModel5 platforms by discarding unneeded distance field data

Upgrade Existing Center-Map-ModServer to DLC-Server

  • TheCenter is included directly with the v241 server update. No need to download “DLC” for the server. We’ve reduced the server size drastically from about 30 GB down to 4 GB so yeah 😉 Just change your server commandline to host ?TheCenter rather than ?TheIsland or whatnot. No need to specify any Mod ID’s.
  • You shouldn’t have to do anything to get your old savedata to work on the new official map, should you have old savedata from a TheCenter mod server. However, given that foliage has changed and some geometry has changed, all foliage will likely reset and your bases may get overlapped by some geometry in certain places (though geometric changes were minimal).
  • If they don’t already have the DLC installed, when players attempt to join your server, they will be automatically prompted to install the free TheCenter DLC via the Steam Overlay.That’s pretty much it. The Anonymous ARK Dedi Server App and TheCenter DLC will be updated in tandem going forward, typically along Major version releases of ARK, so it will be much easier to keep the map in-sync if you host long-running servers.

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Switching from The Center Mod to DLC

Some people having problems with deinstalling the Mod.  Here is a quick tutorial how to get the Center Map running 🙂

If you played The Center previously, you need to remove the mod in order for the DLC to function properly in these cases.

  1. Back your savings before proceeding with the steps 🙂
  2. Remove the mod ->
  3. Navigate to your mods folder.
    \Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Content\ModsDelete the folder and file named “614734500”.
  4. Download the DLC:
    Click here! (and press Download or Play)

If you are a server administrator running The Center pre-DLC, you must delete the mod folder in your server files and switch over to the DLC in order for your players to join properly. Make sure to remove “ActiveMapMod=614734500” from your GameUserSettings.ini.

In this article you finde the important points for server admins of a CenterMap-ModServer.

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