- Fixed dedicated server memory leak
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ARK: Survival Evolved – Worldwide Mod Contest
There will be a modding contest from Studio Wildcard for ARK: Survival Evolved in this New Year 🙂 This time all modders can be part of and not only one part of the world like the last time! The price pool is over $60,000!
Modding Categories:
- Mods: Extensions of current gameplay functionality
- Maps: These are new ARK’s to play on.
- Total Conversions: These are complete ‘overhauls’ of the game which change core functionality.
Key Dates:
- Submission: January 14th – March 15th
- Top Mod Selection in each Category: March 16th – March 17th
- Public Voting: March 18th – April 1st
- Winner Announcement: April 15th
Prizes– Fifteen (15) prizes will be awarded. 1st thru 5th, places for each category:
- 1st Place: $10,000 in each category
- 2nd Place: $5,000 in each category
- 3rd Place: $3,000 in each category
- 4th Place: $2,000 in each category
- 5th Place: $1,000 in each category
- $63, 000 TOTAL PRIZE POOL.
Voting/Judging
Studio Wildcard will select 5-10 submissions they consider high quality in each category to be voted on by the community.
40% of the judging score will be calculated by the community through a public vote. 60% of the judging score will done by the ARK: Survival Evolved development team.
Development Team Judging:
This will be done by select expert judge(s) on the Studio Wildcard team. They will award scores (1-100) in three categories:
- Originality/creativity
- Overall graphical or functional quality/polish
- Entertainment value (how fun is it to play/use?)
We are curious what the results will be 🙂 and we´ll keep you updated about this topic! Stay tuned!
PS: Our Site doesn´t host this contest if you´re a modder and interested to participate with your mod then click on the source at the bottom of this Page!
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 232.3 & 232.4
232.3
Changes
- Made Berries have a much longer spoiling time in Beer Barrels
- Made Beer Barrels not lose their stored items on server restart
Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed Dimetrodon Eggs creating Sarcos 😉
- Enabled Animation & Garbage Collection Multi-threading on Dedicated Servers for significantly increased dedi server performance
232.4
- Dimetrodons (and Kairuku) now insulate Eggs!
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 232.2
- Set Beer Crafting time to its intended speed: 6 hours!
- Fixed Dimetrodons drowning in shallow swamp water
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 232.0 & 232.1
232.0
New
- New Dino: Dung Beetle!
- New Dino: Dimetrodon!
- Beer Barrels. Beer. Hangovers.
Changes
- Battle Tartar & Enduro Stew can no longer be stacked (one cancels the other). Battle Tartar damage buff reduced to +60%, Enduro Stew damage buff reduced to +35%.
- Large Storage Box HP increased to 2400 and number of item slots to 45. Smithy HP decreased to 1500.
Fixes & Improvements
- Garbage Collector performance improvements (less stalls)
- Fix for disappearing Quetz‘
- Fixed a memory leak
- Fix for remaining issue involving falling off your Dinosaurs! (/ passing thru dinosaurs)
232.1
- Beer Barrel no longer requires Beer Barrel to learn 😉
Dino Dossier: Megalosaurus
Base Stats and Calculator
Xbox ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 729.9
Server
- “Full” Servers are now listed! Also increased server list size to 250 so that ALL Official Servers are listed (100-server search limit causing some servers to not appear)
- Server Bookmarks now save!
- Server Bookmarks are automatically added for any servers that you join (to help you find your server if you didn’t remember the name
Changes
- LB+Start now opens Tribe Chat (text chat)
- Reloading ( X ) with the hand-held Map out now opens the UI to Apply/Remove Map Pins
- You can now Press Start in the Inventory of an activateable structure to toggle its active state (campfire etc)
- Doubled the Slider Ranges on the ‘Host Game’ UI (in a future patch will uncap it with editboxes ala PC)
Fixes / Improvements
- Session List Ping should work properly now (and the servers are now default ordered by Ping)
- Plugging in a controller no longer signs you out of your gameplay
- Hidden Engrams are no longer displayed on client (Primitive servers etc)
- Server Broadcast messages now respect player communication privilege
- Player Actions Wheel now only shows the Poop option if you can Poop (tee hee hee).
- Improved Structure destruction vfx
- Fixed issue where you couldn’t interact with some nearby Dinos / Access Inventories in Singleplayer / when Hosting
- Fixed a singleplayer crash that could occur randomly when moving through the world
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 231.8 & 231.9
231.8
Fixes
- Fixed issue where you could fall thru Quetz/Dinos when unboarding them (requires server update)
- Fixed rare case where water Dino would appear on a client to fly off into the air when unboarding it
- Fixed a few Dev Kit related things
231.9
- Fixed issue with slow-loading/stalling Total Conversions
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 231.7
Changes
- Made “Accept Tribe Invitation” require holding the Action Wheel option, rather than Activation Quick-Press (was too easy to trick enemies into accidentally joining your Tribe).
- +25% Bronto base HP and +20% on its platform-saddle Armor Rating
- Base HP of Ptero and Arg +20% each
- Ptero attack damage +25% and its barrel roll damage by 40%
- Carno Head Butt Damage +25%
- Harvesting a Giganotosaurus now gives mostly prime meat (and killing it gives much more XP)
Fixes
- Fixed issue where you could accidentally get unboarded from Procop Pouch on terrain slopes
- Fixed issue where you could unboard through house-boat/dino-platform walls
- Made Cages give no damage to punching prisoners
Server
- New server option to prevent spawning of Loot crates (artifact creates will still spawn):
WindowsServer\Game.ini
(or LinuxServer)
[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
bDisableLootCrates=true
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 231.6
- Fixed issues with boarding Procoptodon Pouch through walls, or being pushed through walls while on it (or any passenger seat).