[08/19/15] Introducing the Lystrosaurus & ARK Digest 14! [Read the posts on the first page!]

Dino Dossier

ARK Digest!

Modding Contest and ARK Development Kit update

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Spotlight: Gigantopithecus!

Community Crunch Contests!

ARK Digest Q&A!

Survivor, Darktrooper117 asks, “Will we ever be able to put Gigantopithecus into a suit of battle armor, give it a mace, and use it as a shock trooper in warfare?”

Survivor, WarlordofRome asks, “Any updates on instruments? I need bagpipes to play 'Amazing Grace' for my dead dinos.”

Survivor, Major Premise asks, “When we get to the 'Tek' level of Sci-Fi technology can we get something a bit more fitting than the thatch bed we've been using for respawn/fast travel? Maybe something like a healing tank (ala Star Wars), a cloning chamber or a auto-doc type bed? :)”

Survivor, Jewels400 asks, “Will there ever be a siege tier of tameable dinosaurs that could actually do damage (not too much) to stone structures? They could be slow moving and large to help balance them out such as an argentinosaurus or a different large sauropod dinosaur.”

Survivor, .vNz asks, “When the sabers will stop doing raptor noise when something hurt them?”

Survivor, Tyrannogon asks, “Will creatures ever leave footprints? It would be useful for tracking.”

Survivor, Tyrannogon asks, “If more islands are ever added, will some creatures/resources only be found on certain islands?”

Survivor, Sn@pple asks, “Will anything ever be implemented for a way of resetting engram points?”

Survivor, Sn@pple asks, “Will we be able to flip what way walls face when placing them?”

Survivor, Sn@ppl3 asks, “Will there be an option to make tribe alliances?”

A new Dino Dossier has been revealed, this one is everyone’s favorite inspiring poison-resistant herbivore, the Lystrosaurus!Hello Survivors!Welcome to the fourteenth issue of the ARK Digest! For those who missed the previous issues, check out the Announcement forum section on the Steam Community Hub and be sure to catch up with what you’ve missed as there is tons for you to catch up on!Earlier this week we launched an updated development kit in partnership with Epic Games, which includes a streamlined version of the UE4 Editor to simplify the creation and sharing process of ARK Mods! You can get it for free here! And with those updated tools, came out new modding initiative! We’ve partnered up with Alienware and NVIDIA GeForce to host our very own modding contest!The contest objective is to use our development kit and create your very own ARK Survival Evolved mod! The more creative and in depth the mod can be, the better it is! For those who enter the contest, here’s what you have a chance at winning!$15,000 USD, Alienware Area-51 Desktop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 TI Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers!$5,000 USD, Alienware X51 Desktop, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers!$2,500 USD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Graphics Card and a Sponsored Server listing on TopARKServers!Special thanks to Alienware and NVIDIA GeForce for providing these extra prizes to the winners! We’d also like to give a shout-out to TopARKServers who have kindly offered to provide the winners of the contest a sponsor listing on their website for life! These servers are displayed on the front page so it’s a fantastic prize!So good luck to all those enter and we cannot wait to see what you come up with!For those extra details, click here! For those who hadn’t seen earlier we recently added our new apelike friend to ARK Universe! Including a little spotlight of what this new strange creature is capable of.The Gigantopithecus Fibrarator is a strange creature. It is usually quite passive, but it has a very short temper when it comes to it's personal space. Once, another creature gets close, this gentle giant quickly becomes a rampaging beast! It can be tamed via careful, non-violent feeding without raising its aggression, when domesticated the hairy-apelike creature can don a helmet on it's head and ride it's survivor on it's shoulders to utilize its tremendous strength and throw them over enemy barricades and walls!Let us know if you enjoyed seeing content like this and we can work on producing more for you guys! <3Hey guys!We’re still running our weekly Community Crunch Contests! We want to see what you guys can create in our game, whether it’s a cool base or an beautiful painting - share it with us! We’ll be rewarding the winners with cash prizes each week!You can read more and enter here! This will be an extended Q&A due to the fact that last week’s was cut because of other commitments and time constraints! Sorry about that guys, hopefully you’ll be able to pick up a lot from this weeks and thanks for being so cool about it <3!so here it goes!Answer:So we’ve launched the Gigantopithecus with the ability to equip headgear, this is the first step we’ll be taking into introducing armour onto creatures! In the future you’ll be able to have fully weaponized and armoured pets to take into battle. We’ll see about a full suit of armor and melee weapons for the Gigantopithecus, but never-say-never ;)Answer:We’re still working on these, concepts and actual implementation, but we’ll roll out of the first of them -- war drums -- in September.Answer: Yup! The Tek Tier will introduce many cool things, including a teleportation chamber. So that’s something to look forward to, however it’ll be very, very, pricey!Answer: Not likely a dinosaur, but there will be non-explosive primitive tech to damage stone structures soon. The reason we don’t want to allow a dinosaur to damage stone structures, is that would undermine the usefulness of stone structures in providing effective offline dino-raid defense (since a dinosaur can repeatedly attack forever without repercussion).Answer:This week ;)Answer: Yup, that’ll happen! Just a matter of time :)Answer:As we progress through the Early Access period we’ll be making a lot of changes to the map, updating biomes, adding new biomes, working on the islands, and as we get to completing the map layout we’ll apply more-specialized locations to the increasing array of flora and fauna.Answer:Yes! This is something we’re still planning on doing, however we need to fully-flesh out the process and ensure all the content is in the game ready, for someone to be able to reset their engram or stats.Answer: Yeah, we’ll add that quite soon. It’s annoying not to be able to do that, right? ;)Answer: We won’t have Official Tribe alliances per-se, however on PvE servers you will specifically be able to have mutuually agreed upon Tribe Warfare!