Community Crunch 345: A Day in the Life!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

Since the announcement of ARK 2, we’ve watched the community’s excitement and anticipation rise as we continued to work diligently in the background to define the new survival experience. Despite anticipating our next showing of ARK 2 to be a gameplay showcase, we see the hunger and eagerness for more ARK 2 information, and we get it. We’ve decided to give you a peek behind the curtain and begin showcasing more ARK 2 tidbits regularly as we lead up to the first gameplay trailer. We hope you enjoy these appetizers, and we can’t wait for you to get your hands on the main course !

As always, we love seeing the passion of the ARK community on display, and we look forward to getting more information in your hands beginning this week!

Introducing Stegosaurus: A noble guardian from a foregone epoch.

Introducing Brachiosaurus: An aloof behemoth.

Creature submissions are still live until 1 PM Pacific on January 23rd!

Once the forum is closed for entries, we will round up the top 10 upvoted submissions and enter them into a second round of voting using RankedVote, similar to the last creature submission process. We’ll announce the timing in the next Community Crunch!

Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries.

Ragnarok, a popular community ARK Expansion Map, makes its way to Nintendo Switch in early February. Ragnarok features new biomes, environmental traps, and unique ruins, combined with a beautiful world to explore!

In other ARK Nintendo Switch news, locally hosted non-dedicated sessions are now available. Click here to check out the patch notes.

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, the 23rd of Jan. All Official Servers across each platform will be undergoing this evolutionary change which includes:

*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game’s standard 1x rates.

Official Servers: 2x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers: 4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 2x Hexagon Bonus
Classic: 6x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval