What changed in ARK: Survival Evolved in 2018

Legendary Drops have increased difficulty and quality of loot.

Gacha Claus spawns on all maps, accepts Coal and Mistletoe for holiday items and Dino Candy.

Increased accuracy of AOE attack while reducing damage to compensate.

Fixed issues with King Titan environmental effects restarting after boss despawn.

Mek sword damage increased approximately 9x and pistol damage approximately 3x.

Fixed bug that allowed only one event at a time in a session.

The Winter Wonderland event begins on December 18th and lasts until January 7th, featuring Raptor Claus and Gacha Claus.

Raptor Claus flies over maps between 0am and 2am in-game, dropping Holiday Gifts.

New command added to make flyers land nearby.

Prevented dropped items and eggs from falling through structures on load.

20% of wild dinos will spawn with holiday colors during the event.

The group ranking number has been increased by 5.

The third expansion pack for ARK, 'Extinction', is now available, bringing players back to Earth with new challenges and creatures.

An exploit involving bodybags has been removed.

Includes new Corrupted skin, Explorer Notes, and Tek dinos.

Preview of new creatures and features in the Extinction expansion.

Added 3 new Explorer Notes and the corresponding unlock of Corrupted Gloves.

Introduced special colored dinosaurs in black, red, green, purple, and white.

Fix for failure to cleanup structure placers.

Increased damage range for players/dinos on the surface of Aberration.

Implemented pre-emptive API for server structure cleanup improvement.

Added Tek Quetz with a new breeding line, 5% spawn chance, and 20% higher base level.

Better handling for low fps server dino attacking.

Maximum player level increased by 1.

Special Evolution Event with 2x Harvesting, Taming, and EXP Rates from October 5th to October 8th.

A new tutorial covering bitmasks in modding is available.

Submission period for the ARK Modding Contest ends on October 5th.

Tribes are limited to a maximum of 25 players.

Formal tribe alliances are disabled, but informal alliances are allowed.

New PvP player experience focusing on large-scale PvP with specific rules and enhancements.

There will be a total of 36 servers in the Conquest cluster.

Conquest servers will not experience Evolution Events.

Opportunity for tribes to brand themselves and be spotlighted in community articles.

Each server can host a maximum of 100 players.

Players can transfer between servers within the Conquest cluster.

Experience gain, taming, gathering, breeding, hatching, and raising rates have been doubled compared to standard Official Servers.

Enforcement team will actively patrol the new cluster to maintain fair play.

Fliers will be allowed on the Extinction map, with new challenges for them.

Current event system does not allow running multiple events simultaneously.

Individual improvements from the S+ mod will be considered for integration post-Extinction.

Titan battles will take place on the live map instead of separate arenas.

Cliff Platforms will work on all maps, enhancing gameplay across the board.

Community Livestream featured the Auction House mod for item trading.

A new Tek Raptor was introduced in the Extinction Chronicles III update.

Special Evolution Event with 2x Harvesting, Taming, and EXP rates from August 24th to August 27th.

Dinosaurs will now appear in red, black, white, and grey.

Plant-Z range increased by 300%.

Fixed issues with crop plots on Scorched Earth.

Current event featuring new Corrupted skin, Explorer Notes, and Tek dinos.

New previews of the upcoming expansion pack ARK: Extinction, showcasing Element-infested Earth and its mutated creatures.

Maximum player level increased by 1.

Special Evolution Event with 2x Harvesting, Taming, and EXP rates from August 17th to August 20th.

New breeding line with a 5% spawn chance and 20% higher base level.

New Explorer Notes unlock the Corrupted Pants.

Introducing a new mysterious creature in the game.

Special Evolution Event with 2x Harvesting, Taming, and EXP Rates from August 3rd to August 6th.

Revisions to the Code of Conduct regarding hacking and exploiting.

Studio Wildcard announces the release of ARK's third expansion pack, 'Extinction', set to launch on November 6, 2018.

More powerful Tek-themed Dinosaur variants will appear within the ARKs each month leading up to the Extinction release.

Routine drops of Extinction-related Explorer Notes will be available on The Island, Scorched Earth, and Aberration, unlocking new skins.

The first Extinction-related skin, 'Corrupted Helm', has been released along with the Tek Rex.

Increased threshold for being knocked out and natural insulation from fortitude by 8%.

24 hr cooldown on tribe slot reuse, disabled dino unclaiming, and disabled non-tribe pin code access to structures.

Fix for ambient occlusion rendering issue and emissive when moving the camera.

New in-game event where players can excavate fossil mounds for bones and skins.

5% of wild Rex spawns are Tek and have a 20% higher wild level with a new breeding line.

Max level increased by 1 to 131.

Fix for server performance in certain situations.

Performance optimizations for the Ragnarok map.

Four new skins: Brachiosaurus (Brontosaurus Costume), Stygimoloch (Pachycephalosaurus Costume), Styracosaurus (Triceratops Costume), and Dilophosaurus Mask (Hat Skin).

Many hole fixes across all maps.

A new bionic battle beast, the Tek Rex, can now be tamed, ridden, and bred.

Announcement of upcoming new content and challenges for the community.

Special Evolution Event active from June 1st to June 4th, featuring 2x rates for harvesting, taming, maturation, mating, egg hatching, and EXP.

Changed the weight of Cloth, Hide, Chitin, Flak, Fur, Desert, Hazard, and Ghillie armour.

Reduced the amount of durability damage taken from projectiles when a Glider suit is equipped by approximately 60%.

TEK Saddles can no longer be shot during lightning storms.

Fixed a bug with Tamed level 1 Griffin causing them to have negative HP.

Flyers no longer do circles into the air when attacking each other.

Fixed a rare physics crash related to destruction.

New reporting system currently in beta for reporting misconduct on Official Servers.

Fixed a bug causing Ascension character loss if you hadn't interacted with a terminal.

Karkinos can no longer be grabbed by Quetzal.

Reduced Pachyrhino head armour from 0.15 to 0.25.

Wild Raptor now pounces players in PvE.

Fixed a bug which would cause the Leech to be stuck on a player's screen when they die.

Fixed a bug that caused Pachyrhino gas to give swamp fever.

The HP increase is not retroactive, and will only affect new structures.

Reduced Flak armour scaling by 7%.

Fixed multiple holes, collisions, and general bugs across all maps.

Reduced HP of Argentavis by 20%.

Moschops damage (and harvesting) buffed by 30%.

Fixed a bug with ladders which would desync a character's client from the server.

Reduced the resource cost of Fabricated Sniper recipe scale by 25%.

Fixed a bug causing the chainsaw audio to loop infinitely.

Updated guidelines for our Official Servers, now listed as the Code of Conduct.

Fixed a bug where the Poison Wyvern would loot player bodies from direct hits.

Reduced the speed of Plesiosaur and Ichthyosaurus by approximately 35%.

Fixed a bug which would cause flyers to flee from players when attacking water.

Vault storage slots increased from 150 to 350.

Introduced tighter limits on the number of nearby cliff platforms.

Fixed a bug with Otter weight limit.

Cliff platforms can no longer be built on top of Obelisk terminals or world barriers.

The Triceratops receives a charge and ram attack, improved herding instincts, and a visual reskin.

The charge attack has a wind-up time, builds speed and damage, and can knock targets back.

Previously named Extinction servers are now ARKPOCALYPSE servers with increased rates for taming, harvesting, and XP.

Final warning regarding the deprecation of some legacy servers on March 9th, with new Official Servers launching.

Triceratops can now perform a charge and ram attack with a wind-up time, increasing damage and knocking back targets.

Final warning regarding the deprecation of some legacy servers on March 9th.

A building contest for PC Survivors hosted by Firespark81 & GGFizz, with rules and sign-up forms available.

A building contest hosted by Survivors Firespark81 & GGFizz for PC players.

Nearby ally Triceratops receive a 'Rivalry Buff' when in range of large therapods and carnivores, increasing their stats.

Extinction servers renamed to ARKPOCALYPSE with increased rates for various gameplay mechanics.

Nearby ally Triceratops gain increased stats/damage when in range of large theropods and carnivores.

The Triceratops will receive a charge and ram attack, improved herding instincts, and a visual reskin.