Community Crunch 430: Introducing Archelon from ARK: Additions!

The ocean is about to get a new denizen. Deep beneath the waves, a powerful force stirs, ready to protect its allies and defeat its foes. With armor as strong as its resolve, this creature brings both brute strength and unexpected utility to the ARK.

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Dive into the depths with the Archelon—a mighty, shell-armored guardian of the ocean that’s part tank, part underwater farm, and pure powerhouse! This ancient Cnidaria-slayer is primed for battle, gaining fierce strength and durability with each jellyfish defeated. But its power doesn't stop there; tame an Archelon, and it becomes your personal algae farm, providing rich taming food for herbivores and an underwater breathing zone for you and your allies. With room to carry four passengers and a knack for turning the tides against ocean threats, the Archelon is the ultimate undersea ally for those ready to rule the waves!

Get ready, survivors! The versatile Archelon from ARK: Additions is officially coming to ARK: Survival Ascended on October 16th. While we may make a few tweaks to its design, this hard-shelled tank is set to shake up your gameplay experience!

Keep up with the development of ARK: Additions in Garuga's Discord!

It’s that time of the year again and we’re gearing up for another Extra Life stream to support children’s hospitals through games and the strength of gaming communities.

We are excited to be going live from our Seattle office Saturday November 2nd at 10AM Pacific for 24 hours of entertainment, amazing giveaways, and much more!

If you are interested in donating, click on the button below! All donations go to the Extra Life organization and contribute to raising the Official Network rates for 24 hours!

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We will announce all the final details in a future Crunch, but here's sneak peak of what you can expect:

• Reveals of upcoming game content, such as ARK Extinction and Bob's Tall Tales Part 3
• Preview of 'ARK Ultimate Mobile Edition' from Grove Street Games
• First Looks at ARK The Animated Series Part 2

Stop by on November 2nd and hang out out in our Twitch stream or Discord for an opportunity to win a cool giveaway!

Alternatively, you can join the Studio Wildcard Extra Life Team and help raise money for children in need! By teaming up with us on Extra Life Gameday, not only will you be part of 24 hours of epic reveals, giveaways, and entertainment, but you'll also be giving back to those who need it most!

Ankizy: Pal Park is a new single-player experience set in Madagascar where players learn about paleontology, Malagasy dinosaurs, and the Malagasy people. As an apprentice paleontologist, you dig up dinosaur bones and rejuvenate the island's unique dinosaurs. Unlock Engrams to use in Ankizy: Dino Pack.
Ankizy: Dino Pack adds three new-to-science dinosaurs to ARK: Ascended, along with clothes, structures, and more. Discover Masiakasaurus, a smaller theropod with sharp, forward-facing teeth; Majungasaurus, a powerful predator with a wild attitude; and Rapetosaurus, a gentle giant towering over the landscape.

This video features:

• Ankizy: Pal Park by skymapdev
• Ankizy: Dino Pack by skymapdev

Nekatus, the creator of Fjordur and Svartalfheim, returns with a new map—Astraeos! Set in a vast Greek-inspired world, you’ll explore ancient ruins, sail with custom Trireme ships, and face powerful new bosses. Gear up with custom skins and mods as you uncover mythological secrets hidden throughout the landscape.

Astraeos free version and companion mods are available now for crossplay!

• Astraeos - Map
• Astraeos - Structures
• Astraeos - Wardrobe
• Astraeos - Trireme Ships

As a reminder, we will start of sunsetting some of our inactive official servers after a careful assessment. Our goal is to ensure that we're always delivering the best experience possible, and official servers exist as a way for the community to play together without having to host their own. When we launch fresh content, typically, we put up more servers than we need in the long term to match the peak in user capacity; over time, these servers become ghost towns as players have dropped off and are waiting for the next major content release.

On October 15th, we'll be sunsetting these inactive Island servers:

The following servers will remain available:

We still intend to provide capacity at launches as much as possible to meet the higher need during those periods.

We’re working with our partner at Nitrado to offer these saves after the scheduled sunset through Nitrado’s interface. Please stay tuned for more details.

On April 8th, we deployed a new type of server across the network (for the various game types) that we refer to as "Expire" (which is what you can search for in the session filter).

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on November 15th. We're preemptively using our allocation for Extinction to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience Aberration Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto Aberration temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on November 15th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.

ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What are ARKpocalypse?

• ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates and monthly-curated mods.
• Next wipe: November 8th 2024

For this round, the following mods will be included:

• MarniiMods Hairstyles by MarniiMods
• Moros Nothosaurus by MoroNada
• Creature Compendium: Barsboldia by RealJimmyBaguette
• Draconic Chronicles by Ave
• Additional Munitions by snappin
• ATJ Resource Extractors by Jams_uWu

You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, October 14.

• 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

Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form

Creator: XxStevieLad87xX
Stevie gets jump scared multiple times while gathering resources for his new base!

Creator: Willow
Willow shows you how to tame and take care of a Roll Rat!

Yi Ling by @falco_luna

Ark the animated series but its in my art style by @StudiosGoji

Yi Ling by @k3zk_627

ARK-SPINOSAURUS by dsw7

Dodorex by mrshayleyquinn

Raging River Dweller by @alkonavi

Sketched rock drake-me bust by @RanoRoanoke

Photo Mode by @PortalChameleon

Is this mushroom dangerous? by @SANYUN_SOUCO

Photo Mode by @HotaruIkaMC

I’m just slithering through life, fang you very much! by @kodeations

Photo Mode by flobs.

Enjoy your weekend!
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