Good evening ARKaholics! Tonight we bring you issue #8 of Popular FAQs Answered. Expect this to be added to our ARK FAQs page on the website shortly after this is posted. If you are a new follower to ARK: Survival Evolved, that is a great resource to have to get caught up on everything to expect in the game that’s been asked by the community.

Game Related Questions:

Amount of meat from different sized dinosaurs?

You’ll be able to find more meat from larger dinosaurs, including differences in quality occasionally.

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Spawning

The map will be broken down into regions, and you can pick a region to spawn in when you start a new character. This allows you and your friends to spawn relatively close to one another, though you will still need to search after that.

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Erupting volcanoes?

It’s unconfirmed if the volcano will be working properly at early launch, but it could be on the list of things to be done. It will be something planned if not right at early access. They plan on experimenting with eruptions or other “large-scale environments” but it is unknown how that will work out.

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Can you use a corpse of a large create as a temporary shelter?

Corpses do have collision and can block bullets, so technically yes.

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Will your pets gear be customisable?

Yes it will, you’ll be able to paint their saddles upon early access release. Later on more accessories and saddle types will be added. Early access release adopters will also get a few special things which will be announced later on.

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Will we see swords, shields, morning stars, and other dark age weapons/armor?

They do plan on adding some swords and shield later on as the game develops. However there will be full plate armor sets and other types of armor available at early access launch.

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Will food spoil over time?

Yes most organic foods do have spoiling times so be sure to use them as soon as you can, especially when using it for recipes. Would hate for that rare ingredient to spoil for you.

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Item durability/object destruction

There will be item durability and you’ll be able to repair it. You’ll obviously be able to destroy objects not only manually, but demolishing is also a thing where you’ll get some of the resources back from it.

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Trophies in-game for kills?

There will be some trophy items which you can earn at early access launch, including apex predator items which have a quest purpose.

Skulls are also likely, at early access launch there will be a unique trophy item you can collect from dead players. It is uniquely keyed to a survivors unique ID, including some of their vitals info.

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Will rain put out campfires or other open light sources?

As of right now no it will not. It is something the team can easily do, but they believe that it would take the fun out of some things. This is something that can be reconsidered if the players really want this feature.

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Will there be a in-game camera we can use?

Not for early access launch, but it is very likely to show up over the summer as the game progresses. There will also be some achievements related to them.

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General Questions:

How will mods work?

Through steam workshop. It’s unclear what level of support there will be at EA launch, however they plan to have an option to auto-download mods when connecting to a modded server to make the whole thing as seamless as possible. Additionally, modders will have full access to their editors and the game’s source code, so the potential for mods is essentially unlimited.

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Will the game really update every two days?

That is what the team is aiming for and they’ve said it could even possibly be more frequent depending how things go.

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