Community Crunch 348: Valentine’s EVO Event, Creature Vote Winner, and More!

Welcome to another edition of the Community Crunch!

We’re excited to announce that we’ll reveal a development roadmap across all iterations of the ARK Franchise next month.

With 65,870 votes, this Community Vote has been a popular one! Ideas from the past and new entries battled it out in RankedVote to determine the next creature. One of the entries returns to claim a victory and reminds us that bugs are mite-y cool creatures 😎.

Credit: Prehistoric Bugs and Insects

Rhyniognatha is an extinct genus of arthropod of disputed placement and is considered by many as the oldest insect known. It lived 35 million years before the first amphibians.

We are excited to get this to the creature design team and start working on Rhyniognatha! Look for Rhyniognatha to make a grand appearance in ARK: Survival Evolved later this year!

Voting Results

We’re expecting The Survival of the Fittest console to launch next week between Wednesday and Friday! Stay tuned for more information!

Our Love Evolved EVO event is live until February 17th! Unlike traditional ARK holiday events, only rates and wild dino colors will be active for holiday EVO Events.

Survivors on Nintendo Switch can experience a traditional Love Evolved experience until Feb 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
Magenta
Dino Dark Purple
Dino Light Red
Deep Pink
Dark Red
Lemon Lime
Red
Actual Black

Survivors on all platforms will be receiving an Valentine’s EVO Event! It will be active until Friday, the 17th 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: 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

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