New New Item: Photographic Camera. Take photos and apply them onto in-game onto Painting Canvases! New Dinos: Cnidaria! Troodon! Tusoteuthis! Pegomastax! Therizinosaurus! 2 New Full-Scale Underwater Caves (progression-oriented with Artifacts!) Winter Wonderland 2 Event! Follow Raptor Claus around The Island, Scorched Earth, and The Center as he drops items, coal, and the occasional tough-as-nails creature […]
Category: Patchnotes
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.9 & 252.95 & 252.96
252.9 Unversioned Hotfix: Fixed client-side crash associated with Brontos. Changes Bronto attack AoE reduced by 30% for Tamed/Ridden Brontos, Bronto incoming damage multiplier from Explosions changed to 100% (from 50%) and from Fire to 75% (from 40%) 20% per Tamed Ptero Level reduction in Speed (~15% average reduction in Ptero Speed to Tamed Pteros) Fixes […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.83 & 252.84
252.83 Made turrets shoot C4’s attached to enemy dinos. Made all Flyers except for Quetz and Wyvern become ‘grounded’ if you put a C4 on them. To disable this behavior, launch server with ?ForceFlyerExplosives=true 252.84 Fixed issue where attached Transponders were grounding Flyers.
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.8 & 252.82
252.8 Requires Server Update. Changes Veg cakes should no longer be auto-consumed for Food by any dino except Achatina Veg cakes WILL be auto-consumed by any Dino for Health if their HP is below 85% (yes, even Carnivores, though to minimal benefit on them). The Dino will consume one Veg cake every 10 seconds until […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.7
Manually-used Veggie Cakes now heal 15% (over 10 seconds when manually fed) in addition to +500 HP (on Herbivores), have cooldown interval reduced to 10s, and take 4x as long to spoil Herbivores now have 55% damage reduction from explosives and 62.5% damage reduction vs fire (due to their thick hides). Fixed some rare crash […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.6 & 252.61
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!
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.4 & 252.5
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 […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.1 & 252.2 & 252.22
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 […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 252.0
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 […]
ARK: Survival Evolved Patch 251.2 & 251.3
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 […]