Community Crunch 453: Eggcellent Adventure details, LiveOps Update, and more!

12 Apr 2025Developer post

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Last week, some unexpected guests clawed their way into the ARK, and if your base has a few more hairballs than usual, you can probably thank our mischievous feline friends for that.

But don’t put your baskets away just yet! Next week, the Eggcellent Adventure is hopping into gear! Expect pastel-colored mayhem, oversized ears, and more eggs than a dodo daycare.

And for those of you setting your sights on new horizons, the wait is over! Astraeos transfers have officially opened, so it’s time to pack your bags and bring your hard-earned progress wherever adventure calls.

Let’s bunny-hop right in!

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Eggcellent Adventure makes its debut into ARK: Survival Ascended next week! Follow the trails of wild Bunny Dodos and Bunny Oviraptors to collect Bunny Eggs scattered across the ARK. These festive finds can be painted for fun or used to craft special holiday-themed cosmetics, including seasonal costumes and chibis.

Get ready to hop into the celebration and make your ARK a little more eggstra!

Start Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
End Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

Weekend - Friday 1 PM PST to Monday 1 PM PST:

PVP/PVE: 3x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
Small Tribes: 5.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 5x Breeding
ARKpocalypse: 6x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

Bunny Dodo
Bunny Oviraptor

Bunny
Easter Chick
Jerbunny
Spring Shinehorn

Flower Wreath *new*
Bunny Egg
Festive Dino Candy (Eggcellent Adventure)

Shepard’s Crook Spear Skin (Spear) *new*
Egg Grenades Skin (Grenades) *new*
Lamb Costume Skin (Costume) *new*
Spring Tiara Skin (Headgear) *new*
Round Sunglasses Skin (Headgear) *new*
Dino Round Sunglasses Skin (Headgear) *new*
Flower Feeding Trough Skin (Feeding Trough) *new*
Flower Vase Skin (Small Decor Boxes) *new*
Chocolate Rabbit Club Skin (Club)
E4 Remote Eggsplosives Skin (C4)
Sweet Spear Carrot Skin (Spear)
Bunny Costume
Bunny Ears Skin (Headgear)
Bunny Tail Skin (Leggings)
Easter Chick Hat Skin (Headgear)
Easter Egg Hat Skin (Headgear)
Easter Egghead Skin (Headgear)
Marshmallow Hat Skin (Headgear)
Dino Easter Egg Hat Skin (Headgear)
Dino Bunny Ears Skin (Creature Hat)
Dino Easter Chick Hat Skin (Creature Hat)
Procoptodon Bunny Costume (Procoptodon)

Flower Toss Emote *new*
Bunny Hop Dance Tail

Light Green
Light Yellow
Light Orange
Light Red
Dino Light Red
Dino Light Orange
Dino Light Yellow
Dino Light Green
Dino Light Blue
Dino Light Purple
Dino Light Brown
DragonGreen3
WyvernPurple1
LightCement
LightPink
Peach
Mint
Lavender
PowderBlue
Glacial
Cream
LightWarmGray
DeepPink
Coral
Orange
Turquoise
Dino Medium Blue
WyvernPurple0
DragonFire
WolfFur
BigFoot4

From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.
Search for Eggcellent Adventure in the ARK Mod list and Install it. Mod ID: 877745
After it's installed, go back to your game setup screen and select 'Mod Settings'
You will see Eggcellent Adventure and any other mods you've downloaded in 'Available Mods'
Select Eggcellent Adventure and activate it.

If you would like to enable Eggcellent Adventure on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments (-mods=modID). No other changes should be necessary to activate the event. Mod ID: 877745

Get ready! On Wednesday, April 16th, ClubARK will be decorated with an Easter theme, and we have hidden 20 golden eggs! Each egg is marked with a number from 1 to 20 — and it's your job to find them all.

Hunt down all 20 golden eggs hidden throughout ClubARK.
For each egg, take a screenshot of your character standing next to it, clearly showing the egg number.
- We recommend using Photo Mode for some of the trickier ones!
Once you’ve found them all, submit your 20 screenshots as proof in a private thread in ⁠the dedicated channels on the Official ARK Discord.

The very first Survivors to successfully find and submit proof of all 20 eggs will receive a copy of ARK: The Animated Series Cosmetic Pack featuring over 75 exclusive skins, including, Mammoth, Tusoteuthis, Spinosaurus, Equus, along with Jane, Chava, Rebel Mei Yin, and New-Armor Mei Yin. Valued at $14.99 and a copy of Bob's Tall Tales!

Players can't collaborate.
Thread must be private (and stay private).

Happy Scavenger Hunt!

A patch that went out today included a fix for Cryo Fridges not updating their power state until opened. This should have been communicated in advance so it could have been prepared for and it was an error on our part that we hadn’t. Unfortunately, the outcome is that some cryopods have expired in cryofridges after their states were correctly updated with the recent patch. Our team took temporary measures to disable transfers while we reviewed the data to determine whether a rollback would be a viable option.

One key aspect that affects the decision of whether to rollback or not relates to transfers, and, given the timing with Astraeos, transfers are at an all time high. After reviewing our data to assess how much would be lost in uploads (in short: a lot), we made the difficult call not to rollback the saves as it would result in greater loss for a larger group of players. This preserves players’ uploaded items, creatures, and in many cases, their characters.

Honestly, this was a very difficult decision, rollbacks are never straightforward and they always come with some risk, however in this case the risk is guaranteed (due to the immense volume of transfers) and would cause more loss.

This wasn’t how we wanted the fix to land, and we really feel for anyone who lost dinos because of it so we’re going to make some imminent changes to our evolution event and easter rate plans to help compensate for the loss.

To support affected players, we’ll be running 3x rates this weekend including breeding, and also plan to continue 3x rates including breeding every weekend (Friday 1 PM PST to Monday 1 PM PST) during Eggcellent Adventures, with the planned regular event 2x rates including breeding throughout the weekdays while the event is active.

Thank you for your patience and we sincerely apologize to those impacted.

Official Astraeos transfers are now fully open, allowing players to move items, creatures, and characters onto the map without restriction! Please pack your dodos in bubble-wrap.

MODSPOLIGHTLINK

Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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