Hey Survivors! Welcome to the latest edition of the Community Crunch!

Upcoming Mindwipe!

PC player will receive a free forced mindwipe this upcoming patch. This mindwipe is being conducted due to changes that were made in our last patch regarding the altering of weight values of armor. In the interest of fairness we would like to allow players to redo their characters to compensate for the altered weights of these armor sets.

This free mindwipe will come to console in the patch that correlates with these weight changes, which will be mentioned in the respective console patch notes threads at that time.

Xbox Sale!

ARK and its expansions are currently on sale on Xbox during the ID@Xbox Game Fest sale! Sale ends today, May 21st, 2018.

ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Explorer's Edition

ARK: Season Pass

ARK: Scorched Earth

ARK: Aberration

KochMedia France ARK Day!

KochMedia is hosting a private ARK-themed community event in Paris. The ARK Day event will be taking place on Thursday, May 24th from 6 pm to 10 pm and they'll be giving away 10 tickets for lucky ARK fans. Lead Community Manager and Associate Producer Jat will be present at the event alongside influencers and Koch to greet ARK fans.

If you're in the area and are interested in attending, reply to the tweet below with your reason on why you'd like to attend and KochMedia will be picking their favourites to receive an invite to the event, though you will need to arrange your own travel and accommodation!

Community Livestream #2 This Week!

This Thursday May 25th and continuing every other week on Thursdays, the community team will be doing our second biweekly livestream.

During these livestreams Zen Rowe, Chris, and Jen will be bringing you ARK news, celebrating modding, and the community as a whole every other week. We'll be playing ARK, showing off mods, and showing off your community creations for all to see. Survivors are invited to join us in the chat (and sometimes even in-game) to play and talk with the community team and other developers.

This week we will be reviewing ARK mod Saddle Emporium and ARK map Crystal Isles!

We are still accepting any type of ARK related fanart to be featured in the Showcase section of the stream and entries are always open. This can be drawings, videos, builds, ANSEL screenshots, handmade crafts, anything ARK related!

You can submit your ARKwork to our streaming email address: arkfans@studiowildcard.com

Be sure to follow us on our Twitch page so you don't miss a stream! twitch.tv/survivetheark

The Great Migration #3!

In case you missed our new post last week, be sure it check out it for all of the information regarding some legacy servers being removed:

Upcoming Speciality Servers!

Beginning in June we plan to begin launching Speciality servers. Speciality servers are alternate game modes for ARK that last for a short period of time. Each new theme will bring on a new set of challenges different from that of servers currently available. Commonly a speciality server will last for a period of 60 days, and a new type will be released each month on all platforms. Modes may return for multiple months if players enjoy them.

If you have a game mode that you think would be fun to play, be sure to leave your comment in the thread. Changes will revolve around edits that can be made to the existing config. These types of changes can include many things like: tribe/alliance size, anything related to dino stats and taming, server rates, etc.

ARK: Evolution Event!

Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the 25th of May at 1 PM EST until Tuesday the 29th at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

2x Harvesting Rate

2x Taming Rate

2x EXP Rate

That's it for this post guys! As always if you’ve got anything to share please get in touch and be sure to follow us on:

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All the best,

Studio Wildcard