Popular FAQs Answered Issue #7

Good evening ARKaholics! Tonight we bring you more popular community questions answered by the ARK developers. These questions will be added to our ARK FAQ page on our website, so if you are a new follower to ARK, that’s a great place to get caught up.

Game Related Questions:

Can you hide?

Yes you can, you’ll be able to hide inside of bushes and behind trees given that they are large enough.

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Will we start out with tools?

You’ll start off using only your bare hands, though you’ll be able to quickly craft tools

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Will the time vary on the reason that you were knocked unconscious?

It’s based off of the level of torpor your character has which varies from what you hurt by (fists, tranquilizer arrows, etc) as they have different levels of applied torpor. You’ll be able to decrease it by eating or drinking certain items.

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Do trees actually fall down?

Yes they do, also large dinosaurs are able to trample tree by stepping on or around them. This means you can’t always use trees to hide from them.

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Can you grow trees?

Foliage re-grows over time and you currently are not able to play trees in the wild. Though, you will be able to plant trees on crop plots. Wild planting might be something that comes later on.

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Can you name a dinosaur after you tame it?

Yes you can freely change the name of a dinosaur as long as you’ve tamed it. Its name will also stay once you release it and another survivor tames it, then they’ll have the option to rename it.

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Can you throw feces?

Yes you can, just equip it in your hotbar.

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What use is there for dino feces other than fertilizer?

You can use it to suicide while enslaved.

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Are some wild dinosaurs naturally stronger than others, or all they all the same?

No, they are not all the same. They will vary within a genetic range, giving them different sizes, colors, strengths, etc. As a result, simply taming a dinosaur may not be enough if you didn’t tame the best one.

The devs also considered implementing a mating system that’d use this genetic variance, so the offspring would get a mix of attributes from the parents, potentially becoming stronger as a result.

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VOIP quality?

The quality is pretty good, also when speaking over a radio there is an actual radio filter on it to make it more immersive.

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Will nightime be pitch black?

In the direct moonlight, it’s a fairly bright night, as nights go. But, in shadows casted from mountains and such, it is significantly darker. Thought jungles tend to be pitch black, so be sure to bring your own light source.

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Does rain refill/water things?

Yes, if exposed to the sky, rain will refill your water meter, crop plots, and refills water tanks.

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More taming technology?

Yes, they have a air powered tranquilizer rifle planned for the summer.

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Creature tracking?

This is not currently in-game, but planned for this summer. This would include embedded GPS trackers which would be visible, but very tiny on dinosaur. This has many different possibilities, especially tracking your enemies to their base.

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Can you feed other players to dodos?

There is a hypothetical situation in which you could feed a player to a large group of dodos, yes.

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