Changes

• Increased Mistletoe drop rate 2x
• DodoRex takes 166 coal to summon

Fixes

• PvE no longer get affected by enemy poison grenades
• Non-Winter creature spawns are fixed (Trikes, Pteros, etc)
• Non-Primitive Item Drops removed from Primitive servers (retroactive, any ‘hidden’ engram will be destroyed and not dropped anymore)
• Wild Dino AI will now flee if stuck, can’t reach target, or low on torpor
• Fixed sluggish movement that could occur when on the back of Platform Saddles

Server

• INI Options for server admins to scale tamed dino stats (for experimentation of balance).
  Example values that we’re currently considering:
  WindowsServer\Game.ini
  (or LinuxServer)
  [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[0] = 0.2f;
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[0] = 0.4f;
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0] = 0.4f;
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Add[8] = 0.2f;
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed_Affinity[8] = 0.4f;
  PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[8] = 0.4f;

  Health: 0
  Stamina: 1
  Torpidity: 2
  Oxygen: 3
  Food: 4
  Water: 5
  Temperature: 6
  Weight: 7
  MeleeDamageMultiplier: 8
  SpeedMultiplier: 9
  TemperatureFortitude: 10

v228.0

• ARK: Winter Wonderland Event begins!
• Massively improved game loading speed, & streaming times (reduced hitches), by using “seek free” packages (Note: this has added approximately 10GB to the game installation size)
• Rendering, & streaming, & CPU optimizations from console work
• Capability for mods to overwrite or add-to the ARK Island maps, which enables much more dynamic map mods (stackable too!)

Unversioned Hotfix: Client-side fixed an issue with crops appearing ‘super tall’.

Unversioned Hotfix: Server-side fixed Electric Prod blueprint being dropped by Winter Wonderland presents. Is not intended to be released yet 😉

V228.1

• Fixed crash that servers could get with some mod uninstallations
• Made server fail to start if LandscapeSublevel is missing (e.g. due to a failed content update), as that could cause all creatures to fall through the world.

• Fixed another Tribe issue with leaves/joins getting screwy, due to async file write order. Seems to be be the last of Tribe issues.
• Made Admin-only Cages only pickupable if you are Tribe Admin
• Made newly-placed Industrial Cookers that are located ‘on the ground’ not become destroyed if their attached pipes are destroyed.

New

• New Structure: Fireplace
• New Structure: Primitive Cage
• Industrial Forge can now quickly convert Wood into Charcoal
• Industrial Cooker now uses irrigation for its water craftings, so you can attach it to an endless water supply

Changes

• Catwalks can no longer attach to sloped roofs

Fixes

• Fixed floating/infinite item bags after structures were autodestroyed
• Fixed Plant Species X / Turrets attacking creatures you’re taming, or through Behemoth Gates
• Players who get stuck in foliage are no longer killed when the foliage is chopped down
• Fixed case where players could get-to and traverse under the world
• Fixed issue with Tribelogs getting reset

Server

• Added new Server Admin Commands:
  • destroytribestructures
    destroytribedinos
    destroytribeplayers

    Will destroy all instances of those things on the ARK, based on the Tribe owner (or player owner) of the thing that you are currently looking at.

• Fixed long-standing Tribe Merge / Player Removal issues (i.e. someone ends up in the wrong Tribe or can’t be removed from a Tribe). If it seems good, a big bounty is due to our most esteemed Survivor 🙂

• Attempting fix for issue where players randomly could not connect to servers they had previously been playing on (until such servers were rebooted).

Finally a new Patchnote – Patchnotes 227 will follow today

• Fixed issue where ‘activated’ Structure state (campfires etc) could become desync’ed on Clients.
• Also heavily optimized how Remote Procedure Calls are networked to increase server performance.
• v226.5 fixed issue where Structure spawn VFX weren’t playing, requires server update