Community Crunch 347: Black History Month, Valentine’s EVO Event, and More!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

We’re making significant process on The Survival of The Fittest console launch and are expecting for it to launch next week. Stay tuned for more news!

Don’t miss your chance to participate in the Community Creature Vote. Voting is open now and ends on February 6th at 4 PM Pacific.

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Although traditional events, like Love Evolved, ended last year we still plan to do themed EVO events that are timed around the same time we would do the traditional ARK events. In this case, we’re kicking off a Valentine’s EVO Event in place of Love Evolved. The skins and cosmetics from past events are available in the HLNA Shop.

Survivors on Nintendo Switch will experience a traditional Love Evolved experience from Feb 9th – 16th!

2/10/23 – 2/17/23

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

Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x 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, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
ARKPocalypse: 5x XP, 5x Harvesting, 5x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Classic: 6x XP, 6x Harvesting, 6x Taming, and 5x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval

Dark Lavender
Dark Magenta
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Dino Dark Purple
Dino Light Red
Deep Pink
Dark Red
Lemon Lime
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Actual Black

Ragnarok, a popular community ARK Expansion Map, makes its way to Nintendo Switch on February 7th. Ragnarok is a free update for anyone that owns a copy of ARK on Nintendo Switch. Multiplayer servers for Ragnarok go live at 10am EST February 7th.

Click here to check out the patch notes for Nintendo Switch and here to follow the Grove Street Games Twitter account.

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an EVO Event! It will be active until Monday, the 6th of Feb. 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