Community Crunch 443: Club ARK Update & Community Creature Submission!

01 Feb 2025Developer post

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Hey Survivors, Today, ClubARK: Wasteland War drops, bringing a whole new post apocalyptic look along with the brand-new Mad Mark mission! This major version update also delivers a massive wave of fixes and improvements, tackling many of the issues players helped us identify. Plus, there are big XP boosts, quality-of-life upgrades, and even a new rare reward—the Scrap Golem variant!

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The next winner of our Community Creature Vote will be featured on Valguero. Get your endlessly creative submissions ready, and you might see your creature making its debut with the release of the Valguero map in ARK: Survival Ascended!

Please note that this creature will be released for Valguero, so ensure your real-world submissions align with that map's theme!

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. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

The entry period will end at 1pm Pacific on February 20th.
The voting will begin at 1pm PST on February 21st and end on February 28th at 1pm Pacific.
The winner will be announced in the Crunch of February 28th.

Make sure to check our Twitter on February 21st for the RankedVote link!

*Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified.

We're shifting the transfer date for Official Extinction servers to give you more time to enjoy full freedom before the upcoming launch of Astraeos.

Extinction Transfers Open: February 7th (Allowing you to transfer your characters, items, and creatures to and from Extinction servers)
Extinction Expired Servers Offline: February 28th, so take this time to wrap up your adventures, make final moves, and prepare for what’s next.

See you in the Wasteland!

This update brings a Wasteland makeover to ClubARK, a new Bob’s Tall Tales mission (Mad Mark), and the Scrap Golem variant as a rare reward. Gameplay improvements include XP boosts for Enraged creatures, QoL updates for Armadoggo & BattleRig, and various balancing tweaks. Also a massive wave of bug fixes addresses taming, UI, multiplayer desync, environment bugs and more.

ClubARK: Wasteland War is live! v154

ClubARK has received a Wasteland makeover!
Added a new Bob’s Tall Tales mission “Mad Mark”
Added Scrap Golem (Rock Elemental variant) as a rare reward for completing Mad Mark on Alpha difficulty
All Bob’s Tall Tales missions now award equipment traits on completion
All ClubARK rewards have been updated to include Extinction & Wasteland content
The Wardrobe has been updated to include Extinction & Wasteland content

Gameplay Changes

Enraged Rex and Enraged Trike now award 3x more XP
Enraged Rex and Enraged Trike now give Alpha XP type to allow chibi leveling
Refactored SIR-5rM8’s sorting ability to be more reliable
SIR-5rM8 can now collect sap from Sap Tap without needing a player to open the Sap Tap’s inventory first
Meat Carrier trait now includes Spoiled Meat
Moschops can now gather Sap from Sap trees in Scorched Earth
Tamed Basilisks are now immune to radiation on Aberration
Allowed Pegomastax deployment on Aberration for Gacha crystals
Experience removed from creatures when respeccing them via the Makeshift Megalab reduced to 10% of current XP
OSDs & Element veins will now highlight the last remaining 5 dinos of the wave
Cooldown for cryopodding a damaged creature has been reduced to 30 seconds (down from 60 seconds).
Reduced the damage transferred from structures placed on a platform-saddled dino from 100% to 10%
Adjusted Tuso’s melee attack to hit closer to its head to prevent it from getting stuck on small creatures that it cannot hit
Titanoboa no longer gains points in Oxygen
Tek Giganotosaurus can now be cloned
Added the current “Quick Ability” icon to Armadoggo’s whistle and colored the icon to show if the skill is on cooldown, active, or activatable.
Added a health indicator to Armadoggo’s icon in Companion mode, showing current/max health on top of the buff icon when the extended HUD is enabled.
Added Element-Imbued Gasoline engram to BattleRig Garage’s inventory, and Garage no longer requires Element-Imbued Gasoline to craft
Added analog values for BattleRig’s gamepad controls for throttle/brake
BattleRig carries over the percentage HP it previously had when changing equipment
Prevented Water Reservoirs from being placed on platform saddles
Prevented Gene Scanner from tracking corrupted creatures
Extinction OSD and Element Vein audio stingers are now tied to the Music slider
Tek Binocular UI will now display mutation count without needing to access the Ancestry page of the dino
Items now display their item rating in the inventory UI which is the relevant value when using the Tinkering Desk
DLSS defaulted to enabled for compatible cards

Gameplay Fixes

Fixed a server restart issue where creatures in the middle of taming would lose their taming effectiveness and become untamable
Fixed Heavy Turret requiring an Auto-Turret for repair
Fixed SIR-5rM8 inability to repair Heavy Turret without Auto-Turret in inventory
Fixed SIR-5rM8 accessing the inventory of structures picked up by Rhynio
Fixed SIR-5rM8’s item input not copying to other turrets when using copy settings to all nearby turrets
Fixed SIR-5rM8 accessing sealed Barrels
Fixed SIR-5rM8 bypassing certain container restrictions
Fixed a multiplayer desync issue with SIR-5rM8 that could occur when changing modes
SIR-5rM8 should no longer slot cap or overweight himself when sorting and rerendered by a player
Fixed cases where SIR-5rM8 would get stuck when navigating around certain structures
Removed Dreadmare requiring Alpha Raptor and Carno on Extinction and replaced AlphaRex trophy entry to Enraged Rex
Fixed Tek Binocular UI not updating baby progress correctly
Fixed Goo Gun blueprints having a number of limited crafts
Fixed issues with painting Basilisk’s saddle
Fixed railings not correctly snapping to the top & bottom of triangle roofs
Fixed Corrupted creatures pushing through Tek Forcefield and causing damage inside it
Fixed Bio-Grinder inability to grind tall creatures like Giga/Carcha
Fixed an issue that caused crafting Unstable Element Shards via the Makeshift Megalab resulting in a loss of materials
Improved the visuals of the Homo Deus skin
Fixed Homo Deus Skin jittering when moving the camera
Fixed the Train engine interfering with in-game sound
Fixed session list UI elements appearing offset on ultrawide monitors
Fixed frame stuttering related to frame generation when toggling UI elements
Fixed a client crash related to harvesting resources with Extended HUD enabled
Fixed a client crash related to starting split-screen
Fixed an issue that prevented equipping items from inventory after viewing the crafting or cosmetic tab
Fixed an issue that would cause structures to float above the Battlerig Garage
Fixed a level discrepancy with dropped Mek blueprints
Fixed Enforcer and Mek stats displaying incorrectly in some languages
Fixed a camera issue when jumping while riding a Thylacoleo
Reduced Deinosuchus gravity to match Sarco
Fixed Yutyrannus, Direwolf and Armadoggo LOD issues at medium and low graphic settings
Fixed Bucket Face Helmet Skin LOD issues at medium and low graphic settings
Fixed inability to access R wheel while mounted on a Reaper King
Fixed Snow Owl using foot attack while walking, causing it to slide
Fixed Snow Owl's ability to ice crash in the air when stamina is depleted
Fixed multiple cases of Enforcer accidentally teleporting under the map
Fixed Managarmr jumping forward immediately after being uncryopodded
Fixed Ice Titan breath killing mounted players
Fixed Dreadnoughtus EMP roar killing enemy riders
Speculative fix for Dreadnoughtus legs sometimes appearing messed up
Fixed player rotating back and forth rapidly when standing on the saddle of a Dreadnoughtus as a passenger
Fixed Dreadnoughtus legs stuttering when rotating
Adjusted Dreadnoughtus’s EMP breath attack to be more accurate at hitting larger enemies
Fixed Armadoggo eyes turning black during sniffing animation
Speculative fix for Armadoggo’s chance of disappearing during player respawn or disconnect
Fixed a case where using Armadoggo’s whistle would break some interactions with creatures, structures or items
Fixed spawning several skeleton pieces by spamming Armadoggo’s dig emote
Fixed Armadoggo scaring off tamed creatures with “Who’s there?”
Fixed Armadoggo getting stuck trying to unbury while in swimming state
Adjusted Armadoggo’s taming affinity to improve taming effectiveness
Fixed Baby Rock Drakes sometimes falling through the mesh when hatched from a Gigantoraptor saddle by adjusting their gravity scale
Fixed BattleRig getting stuck in a rubberbanding state after hitting an object
Adjusted BattleRig’s damage VFX to improve FPS
Fixed BattleRigs disappearing in stasis
Fixed BattleRigs falling through the mesh when upside down and no driver
Fixed inability to look around in first-person view in a BattleRig when using a gamepad
Removed BattleRig Garage duplicate options for "open car inventory" and “tribe rank” options
Fixed some Text overlapping in BattleRig Garage UI
Fixed inability to move while driving on Ice with BattleRig
Adjusted gamepad controls in BattleRig when a weapon is equipped
Fixed newly built BattleRigs spawning with ramshackle and apprentice parts
Fixed BattleRig sometimes rubber banding after hitting some collisions such as foliage/rocks
Fixed BattleRig colliding and flipping too easily when running over trees and rocks
Fixed a case where a Mek could spawn in the mesh when crafted from a Tek Replicator
Fixed the inability to hide the BattleRig Garage roof after removing structures that were blocking it
Adjusted the player's seated position when accessing the BattleRig Garage with the roof hidden so they are no longer floating
Fixed projectile weapons not firing accurately when seated in a passenger seat
Fixed a case where Desert Titan saddle would be missing collision
Fixed broken Winter Wonderland icons
Fixed camera getting messed up when grappling another player that is mounted and in photo mode
Creatures that have consumed Mushroom Brew can now be cryopodded in the radiation zone on Aberration
Fixed the Forest Titan AI to prevent it from attempting to navigate outside its arena
Shirt skins are now unequipped when applying the Glider to prevent the Glider from appearing invisible
Fixed a case where Tribe Tower was applying buffs to characters that were not in the tribe
Fixed cases where creatures would deal more damage with no rider
Prevented item skins on cart saddles
Fixed an issue with Explosive Spear/Primitive Spear which would sometimes prevent it from being thrown
Fixed several typos
Fixed several exploits

Environment Fixes

Fixed various mesh holes, rat holes, and floating objects across all maps
Fixed several false positive anti-mesh spots on The Island, including areas around the Volcano
Removed the erroneous Tribe Tower floating in the middle of the sky on The Island
Fixed multiple cases of supply drops falling through the ground on Aberration
Fixed cave supply crate spawning in the mesh on Aberration
Fixed lava not dealing damage to large creatures on Scorched Earth
Fixed Snow Ramp rendering gray in color on Extinction
Fixed a case where the Tamed Forest Titan would slide when turning
Fixed Meteors not damaging tamed creatures on Extinction
Fixed a buildable area in Scorched Earth’s boss arena
Fixed heat visuals displaying erroneously in the southwest surface entrance on Aberration
Fixed some locations where Red Gems were spawning in the green zone on Aberration
Fixed a waterfall missing audio on Aberration
Fixed Aberration’s Green Obelisk having two beams