Code of Conduct Changes, Great Migration, Cooking with Zen & More!

Earlier in April, our Enforcement Team announced some changes made to the Official ARK Code of Conduct, as well as how players can make reports on PC. Thanks to your reports, we have been able to take action consistently against rule breakers and cheaters on our Official Servers. Today we would like to announce some changes to the ruleset, we'll be listing the specific changes beneath but it's recommended you check out the entire code here[survivetheark.com].

Hacking and Exploiting

Revision

Exploiting - examples are not limited to but can include attacking and living in unintended game-zones (under the mesh or above the map), duplication of tames, items and characters, unintended building mechanics (such as floating structures, using the world barrier as a snap point), building a box around your quetzal (or other platform creatures) to completely prevent it from taking damage, modifying your game files to remove key graphical components (water, fog, etc), attacking or blocking players through the terrain with dinosaurs, and intentionally crashing users or servers (through DDoS or otherwise).

PvE Specific Griefing

Additional rule

Intentionally using wild creatures to destroy a player's assets when not in a tribe war.

Player, Steam, and Tribe Names

Revision

Impersonate - pretending to be someone else with intent to impersonate Game Masters ("GM") or Studio Wildcard employees.




Just a reminder that there are just under 2 weeks left for the next stage of our Legacy migration.

Here is a quick breakdown of how this process works:

Taking Down Low Pop Servers
With calculations based on sustained player-count as well as the popularity of game mode, we will be removing lower population legacy servers, most of which retain a 0-1 player concurrent population. These servers will be taken offline on June 12th. Any existing server that is not considered a low pop server and is not taken down at this time will still exist on the Legacy network.

Legacy servers will continue to remain on a separate cluster from the new cluster, which means you will not be able to transfer anything between Legacy servers and the new servers.

Servers Up for Deprecation
Below is a complete list of the LEGACY servers that will be deprecated come June 12th. You have from now until then to move your belongings onto a server not present on this list. Please click one of the links below.

Legacy PC Deprecation List[survivetheark.com]

Most Popular Servers
To avoid players having to move again in future, we're publishing the most popular servers across all platforms. These servers are the top 30 most active Legacy servers on each platform and are ones most likely to be safe from any future server removals.

napveragnarok14
thesapveofficialserver505
napveragnarok13
theeupveragnarok35
napveragnarok50
thesaofficialserver502
theeupveragnarok33
theeuragnarok24
theeupveragnarok59
ocpveragnarok39
theasiapveofficialserver526
pveeuaberration905
primitivepvpofficialserver455
naragnarok45
naragnarok2
pveeuaberration904
theeuragnarok26
ocragnarok38
naragnarok47
naragnarok1
theeupveragnarok34
ocpveaberration909
theasiapveragnarok41
theasiapveofficialserver523
theeupveisolatedragnarok60
theasiapveofficialserver511
officialserver5
officialserver37
thesaofficialserver501
theeuragnarok21

We have another Wildcard Workshop tutorial for you today. We're going to cover cooking and uploading your mods as well as managing and protecting your workshop linkages in the ARK Dev Kit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkQmWvBSxmk

Wildcard Workshop #7: Cooking with Zen[survivetheark.com]

Don't forget that the submission period for the current Mod Tutorial Contest closes on Thursday (31st)! The award increase went into effect for the current contest and beyond, so make sure to get your submissions to me before then.

ARK Modding Tutorial Contest[survivetheark.com]




Survivors across ALL Platforms will be receiving a special Evolution Event perk this weekend! It will be active from the Friday the 1st of June at 3 PM EST until Monday the 4th of June at 3 PM EST. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

2x Harvesting Rates
2x Taming Rates
2x Maturation Rates
2x Mating and Egg Hatching Rates
2x EXP Rates




On May 24th we had our second Community Livestream. Thank you to all of those who attended and participated! The community team had a lot of fun and we hope you did as well. If you weren't able to catch the stream you can watch the video-on-demand on our Twitch page or by clicking on the video below.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/265052275?t=

This week Mod Community Manager ZenRowe showcased Saddle Emporium and Crystal Isles.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=804312798

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1208371689

These mods are part of the Sponsored Mod Program and are definitely worth checking out! Saddle Emporium redesigns the ARK saddles and adds multiple variants to them. Crystal Isles is a massive original map by ISO that features crystals and floating islands unlike anything seen before.

Our special guest this week was JayEx23 who gave us some PVP tips on the PS4 Pro. From base design to dino choices, we talked about how you can make it as a new PVP player or a player in a smaller tribe in the great big PVP universe. 

A reminder for next stream, we are accepting bases for a Base Tour section! If you want to show off your base please send some screenshots to the email below and include your server name/number. Unofficial server bases are also accepted as long as your server admin will allow us to come tour on your server. All platforms are welcome to participate. We look forward to seeing all of your base designs!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1391754339

We are 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: [email protected]

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

We'll be hosting our next Community Live Stream on Thursday, June the 7th! We hope to see you there :)

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