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

Eggcellent Adventure Returns!

Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday April 16th until April 30th, survivors will be able to experience our annual Eggcellent Adventure event on PC, Xbox, and PS4! During Eggcellent Adventure, survivors will be able to collect special "Bunny Eggs" across the ARK from wild Bunny Dodo's. These Bunny Eggs can paint or used in special Cooking Pot recipes to craft new holiday-themed item skins the Marshmallow Dodo Hat and Chocolate Bunny Club, as well as returning skins: Bunny Ears, a Bunny Costume for the Procoptodon, Knitted Chick Hat, and Egg Shell Hat!

Bunny Oviraptor's will also drop festive Dino Candy this year. Collect the candy and feed it to your tames for a special festive effect! To top it all off, wild creatures roaming the ARKs will also find themselves feeling eggcellent, sporting bright colours of Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue!

Quote New Items:

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Consumables/PrimalItemConsumable_EasterDinoCandy.PrimalItemConsumable_EasterDinoCandy'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoMarshmallowHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoMarshmallowHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_MarshmallowHat.PrimalItemSkin_MarshmallowHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_Club_ChocolateRabbit.PrimalItemSkin_Club_ChocolateRabbit'" 1 0 0



Existing Items:

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoChickHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoChickHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_EasterChick.PrimalItemSkin_EasterChick'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_DinoEasterEggHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoEasterEggHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_EasterEggHat.PrimalItemSkin_EasterEggHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Skin/PrimalItemSkin_BunnyHat.PrimalItemSkin_BunnyHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Leather/PrimalItemSkin_DinoBunnyHat.PrimalItemSkin_DinoBunnyHat'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Armor/Saddles/PrimalItemCostume_ProcopBunny.PrimalItemCostume_ProcopBunny'" 1 0 0

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Halloween/PrimalItemStructure_EasterEgg.PrimalItemStructure_EasterEgg'" 1 0 0

Eggcellent Adventure Patch Notes!

PC Patch Notes:

Quote Eggcellent Adventure 4 (2019)! Auto Activates 4/16-4/30 Not supported in Primitive Plus mode

Wild Bunny Oviraptors 50% of wild Oviraptors (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Oviraptors Cannot be tamed NEW! Drop Easter Candy as they spread Easter joy! Feed your candy to your tame for a fun festive effect!

Wild Bunny Dodos 50% of wild Dodos (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Dodos Cannot be tamed Drop Easter Eggs as they spread Easter joy!

Easter Eggs Can be placed in the world and painted

Easter Skins Craftable in the Cooking Pot from Easter Eggs Bunny Ears Skin Procoptodon Bunny Costume NEW! Marshmallow Dodo Hat NEW! Chocolate Bunny Club Egg Shell Hat Chick Hat

Wild creatures have a chance to spawn with additional colors: Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue Managarmr Drastically reduce frost breath range Freezing stops at approximately turret range Damage stops at approximately half turret range

Prim+ Fixed inability to craft Primitive+ specific resources in the forge

Fixed inability to harvest coal from obsidian

Fixed inability to harvest beeswax

Fixed problems with beehive functionality

Cauldron/Industrial Cooker can now craft new kibble

New kibble is now functional on dinos Meshing Hole fixes across Aberration, Extinction, Island, Ragnarok, Scorched Earth, and The Center

Iteration on metrics

Desert Titan now requires line-of-sight to do melee or lightning damage

Prevented cryoing Karkinos while they are carrying something Environment Added bottom cap to mushroom trees on Aberration

Fixed Aberration Surface Damage gaps

Fixed issue with blue mushrooms not allowing Ankylo to harvest properly on Aberration

Moved 4 spawn points to be out of potential geo on The Island

Fixed location where player could become stuck on Extinction Exploits Fixed exploit related to stacking physics impulses

Fixed exploit related to Rockwell Tentacles

Fixed exploit related to Tek Swords

Fixed exploit related to Fish Baskets Platform Saddle Enable platform build limits saddles PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier, can be used to increase this radius on unofficials

Prevent platform Saddles counting towards the max turret limit Taxidermy Now properly supports Weapons on Humans!

Adjusted Desert Titan's dermis offset Homestead Icon Iteration

Fixed LODs for Tek Triangle Roof

Setup colorization for Fence Foundation

Setup colorization for Wood Railing Kentrosaurus Added a hard clamp to damage reflection Equus Fix preferred kibble GPS Transponders Fixed transponders disappearing

Placed Transponder Node no longer scales up after restart Mind Wipe Updated description of Mind Wipe to reflect 24-hour cooldown Cryopods Cryosick dinos are no longer able to attack

Now use players in-game name in the tribe log Industrial Cooker Now supports pulling water from any connected source

Never auto-activates when connected to water Extinction Removed GlobalCuddleFoodList Override array Turrets Use FastTurretTargeting system automatically for anything moving faster than 300 cm/s Sloped Wooden Wall Adjusted Left Sloped Wooden Wall to fit better with attaching to a normal wall C4 Can now place C4 near ORP protected structures, except near foundations Dino Leash Dino leashes no longer can be placed near enemy foundations LOD iteration for Basilisk

Flak Armor

Ghillie Armor

Xbox and PS4 Patch Notes:

Quote Eggcellent Adventure 4 (2019)! Auto Activates 4/16-4/30 Not supported in Primitive Plus mode

Wild Bunny Oviraptors 50% of wild Oviraptors (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Oviraptors Cannot be tamed NEW! Drop Easter Candy as they spread Easter joy! Feed your candy to your tame for a fun festive effect!

Wild Bunny Dodos 50% of wild Dodos (33% of wild Aberrant Dodos on Aberration) are Bunny Dodos Cannot be tamed Drop Easter Eggs as they spread Easter joy!

Easter Eggs Can be placed in the world and painted

Easter Skins Craftable in the Cooking Pot from Easter Eggs Bunny Ears Skin Procoptodon Bunny Costume NEW! Marshmallow Dodo Hat NEW! Chocolate Bunny Club Egg Shell Hat Chick Hat

Wild creatures have a chance to spawn with additional colors: Green, Magenta, Yellow, and Blue Managarmr Drastically reduce frost breath range Freezing stops at approximately turret range Damage stops at approximately half turret range

Prim+ Fixed inability to craft Primitive+ specific resources in the forge

Fixed inability to harvest coal from obsidian

Fixed inability to harvest beeswax

Fixed problems with beehive functionality

Cauldron/Industrial Cooker can now craft new kibble

New kibble is now functional on dinos Meshing Desert Titan now requires line-of-sight to do melee or lightning damage

Prevented cryoing Karkinos while they are carrying something Exploits Fixed exploit related to Rockwell Tentacles

Fixed exploit related to Tek Swords

Fixed exploit related to Fish Baskets Environment Aberration Fixed issue with blue mushrooms not allowing Ankylo to harvest properly

Platform Saddle Enable platform build limits saddles PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier, can be used to increase this radius on unofficials

Prevent platform Saddles counting towards the max turret limit Taxidermy Now properly supports Weapons on Humans!

Adjusted Desert Titan's dermis offset Homestead Icon Iteration

Fixed LODs for Tek Triangle Roof

Setup colorization for Fence Foundation

Setup colorization for Wood Railing Kentrosaurus Added a hard clamp to damage reflection Equus Fix preferred kibble GPS Transponders Fixed transponders disappearing

Placed Transponder Node no longer scales up after restart Mind Wipe Updated description of Mind Wipe to reflect 24-hour cooldown Rendering Artifacts Fixed rendering artifact in Scorched Earth Dust Storm

Fixed rendering artifact in Extinction Ascension Cryopods Cryosick dinos are no longer able to attack

Now use players in-game name in the tribe log Industrial Cooker Now supports pulling water from any connected source

Never auto-activates when connected to water Extinction Removed GlobalCuddleFoodList Override array Turrets Use FastTurretTargeting system automatically for anything moving faster than 300 cm/s Sloped Wooden Wall Adjusted Left Sloped Wooden Wall to fit better with attaching to a normal wall C4 Can now place C4 near ORP protected structures, except near foundations Dino Leash Dino leashes no longer can be placed near enemy foundations LOD iteration for Basilisk

Flak Armor

Ghillie Armor

Egg Painting Contest!

After you've managed to hunt down a Bunny Dodo and find yourself an egg, place the egg down on the ground and take out your paint brush and dyes. You'll be able to paint select regions on the egg as well as free-hand paint it with the brush to paint any design on it. Be creative!

There will be three competitions with a prize to the winner of $100!

PC Egg Painting

Console Egg Painting

Real-life Egg Painting

The first two are self-explanatory and make sure in your entry to state whether you're a PC, Xbox, or PS4 user. PC players will be in one category (using a mouse) and console users (using a controller) in another category to make things fair. Players are expected to paint their own designs and downloading templates or images to use is not allowed.

In the third category, we're looking for you and your tribe mates to get together and paint some eggs in real life that somehow reflect the world of ARK! Screenshot or photo quality won't be taken into consideration but try to get a picture that best shows off your egg.

The entries will be judged by our community team. Submissions are limited to three eggs per survivor, so choose your best egg. You'll have the month of April to enter, with April 30th being the final day to enter. Submit your images in the comments below, and we look forward to seeing your creativity!

Update on Meshing...

“Meshing” is the common term used to reference a variety of exploits in the game that involves going under terrain or behind walls to access unintended areas. While under the terrain, an exploiter may build bases, turrets, and a multitude of other things that prevent fair and fun gameplay for everyone. There are many ways that a player can access these areas but one of the easiest and most common are holes in the mesh itself. The term “collision” in games is what prevents players from being able to go through what would otherwise be hollow 3D objects. Some areas and objects have incorrect collision and provide easy access to areas behind terrain. Other cases of meshing can happen as a result of items in the game or the gameplay functionality they allow. Items like chairs, climbing picks, and platform saddles can be susceptible to exploits like meshing due to how they manipulate the player character.

Meshing has been a hot topic within the community for some time. Behind the scenes, we have been identifying these vulnerabilities by attacking them at different vantage points. Our ideal goal is to prevent players from getting into the mesh in the first place. We actively look for areas in maps where collision can be improved or tweaked to avoid the occurrence from someone purposefully or intentionally getting under the terrain. We are happy to report that this upcoming patch (patch number) has considerable improvements in this area. Since prevention is the preferred method to tackle meshing, bugs in items that allow players to access areas behind terrain are a priority for the gameplay team.

Players in unintended areas are in violation of our Code of Conduct and it is something we take very seriously. The Enforcement Team has employed the use of new data and metrics in an effort to combat meshing and investigate each case thoroughly. In many cases, they are preventing minor issues from becoming substantial ones. The mesh detection tool has provided the Enforcement Team with new data that enables them to act quickly and efficiently. If the mesh detection tool becomes more refined, we plan to integrate it on other platforms (like console) to reduce meshing exploits in a more automated fashion. The Enforcement Team has seen a noticeable drop in reports related to meshing because of these implementations and we feel we are making positive strides towards eliminating this issue as a whole.

If you are aware of meshing or exploits that are happening on PC, please report them here by selecting Report Abuse and filling out a quick report:

https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/requests/new#

We will continue to keep you updated with any significant advancements on the topic. It is and has always been, an important topic for us.

Update on Recent Lost Characters...

Please see our recent announcement if you were affected by the recent rollback that occurred on the Official Server Network. If you have not submitted your ticket yet, please do so here. The Customer Service team is still actively working through tickets.