ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Update: 8 Aug, 2023 @ 12:09am

Revamped weather system, 3 ascension options, and new forest biome:

Biome: New Forest:
New Forest biome 99% complete.
Moved all the sandworms to the desert.
Added all Gen1 variant dinos.
Dinos are colored based on biome.

Weather:
Weather completely redone.
Swarms moved to swamp biome only.
Rain, snow, and hail can occur anywhere depending on temperature.
Hail and volcanic strike damage is random in extreme hot and extreme cold conditions. Watch out. (This will continue to be a both beatiful and difficult map.)
Lightning storms now active, impacting players and structures similar to Scorched Earth.
Most weather effects moved to buffs and are more efficient on PC. Almost no more per frame ticks.

Fixed:
Fixed some mesh collision in City and Snow area.
Fixed ice wyvern spawn.
Fixed queen bee spawner, now in the mountains.
Fixed two holes in the swamp caves.
Fixed Manticore boss teleports and ascension.
Fixed Super Cold not going away.
Fixed floating grassland foliage.
Fixed a lot of supply drop locations.

Added:
Added 1 missing base Artifact.
Added AB Rockwell modified arena with teleports and ascension.
Added OSD x1 (Orbital Supply Drop) for Legendary difficulty.
Added ice ascension cave with 3 difficulties and related functionality. Cave still needs work.
Added 3 Zelos scroll collectibles for testing.
Added built-in map teleportation, spawn points need updating.
Added baby dinos and nests with Nest levels for rewards and challenges.
Killing the Manticore boss grants a 1 of 40 random world buff each time.

Other:
Set up cave functionality, streaming, fog, post process for ice ascension cave.
x3 ascension possible with Overseer, Manticore, and AB Rockwell.
3 Zelos scroll collectibles added for testing only.
Each player now has Nest level buff that upgrades and downgrades based on success.

Update: 16 Jul, 2023 @ 5:51pm

'Biome-related changes and additions'

Almost completed Swamp biome.
Reduced very loud waterfall sounds in swamp.
Repainted underwater landscape in grassland.
Updated Missing desert mesh.
Removed floating foliage from grassland.
Relinked all rainforest flower materials.
Updated Aurora material.


'Bug fixes and improvements'

Increased render distance of large grassland waterfall and other meshes.
Fixed collision in grassland cave meshes.
Fixed hole in grassland cave wall.
Increased render distance of full grassland cave.
Fixed land dinos spawning in water outside Ice area at ocean.
Fixed ocean underside material.
Fixed super heat perma buff. Had to create custom heat buff that casts to the Zelos day cycle, not the SE one.
Cut super heat length in half.
Super cold now gives a visual icon.
If temperature drops below freezing and it rains, rain will now automatically turn to snow in any biome.
Fix baby phoenix spawn.
Fixed rock drake nests.
Fixed lunar buff. Recreated most Gen1 biome buffs and linked Zelos day cycle.
Fix collision to 4 meshes in lava area.


'New additions and expansions'

Added ambient sounds to grassland and rainforest.
Added heatwave post-process to desert.
Added Zelos Scroll collectable. Scrolls not yet in map.
Copied Ice Wyvern and fixed Ice Wyvern Spawns.
Added ocean visuals.
Added 10 out of 11 base Artifacts. Last next update.
Added the 4 AB artifacts and 3 EXT artifacts.
Added 3 SE artifacts.
Move all beehive locations so they are not mostly under the map.
Added 56 Rock avalanches to the lava area.
Added 32 Oil Vents to the lava area.
Added penguins outside ice area in the ocean.
Added Griffins back to the map.
Added volcano with effects (Work in progress).
Added Magmasaur egg locations.
Extended lava zone. (Large Work in progress).

Update: 8 Jul, 2023 @ 2:47pm

'Fixed'

Replaced missing mesh in grassland.
Fixed crystal gatherable by hand, now needs tools.
Fixed infinite lunar buff.
Fixed mountain music, again. Tested working. Mountains are quiet now.
Fixed doesn't rain and storm inside stuff.


'Updated'

Finished Mountain biome!
Updated render distance on Grassland Meshes and waterfalls.
Updated northern lights so it's farther away and less bright.
Updated gas veins.
Updated rainforest dino spawns.
Updated grassland cave dino spawns.
Updated Earthquake strength is now random and changed based on biome. Different biomes have different loot.
Updated increased sandstorm damage and loot.
Updated rainforest terrain meshes.
Updated the Ocean plane underside water.


'New'

Completed 90% of desert biome!
Completed 40% of swamp biome!
Made 6 new Forest biome materials for large meshes.
Removed floating oil veins and added regular ones.
Made 3 swamp mini caves.
Made 2 desert mini caves.
Rockdrakes moved to swamp.
Modded 30+ desert foliage.
Added sandstorm visuals.
Added waterfalls and trees to swamp.
Added waterfalls to grassland and rainforest.
Added small chance for mega megalodon.
Added small chance for mega Basilisk.
Added small chance for mega reaper king.
Added small chance for mega crab.
Map now has Superheat with visuals.
Created custom Phoenix to spawn during Zelos super heat. Regular phoenix doesn't work.

Update: 29 Jun, 2023 @ 3:01pm

'Fixed'
1. Spawner in the grasslands now only spawns otters.
2. Waterfall at the northeast now has the correct material.
3. Fixed collision issues with the pavilion.
4. Fixed resources for the potato plant.

'Tweeked'
1. Added more trees and extras to the mountain area.
2. Adjusted bulb bioluminescent plants on the mountain, reducing the amount of organic polymer and adding rare flowers, mushrooms, and fibers.
3. Updated rainforest materials.
4. Updated dino spawners and removed most corrupted dinos from the lava area, snow area, city, and forest.
5. Quetzles now spawn all over the map.
6. Reduced volume of daycycle transition music by 60%.
7. Moved deathworm spawn out of the grassland.
8. Updated multiple missing meshes to Zelos file meshes.
9. Updated the Larch mountain tree billboards to reduce shakiness.
10. Updated grassland colorful vines.
11. Updated multi-color EXT trees in mountains.

'New'
1. Added electrical storms from SE.
2. Added sandstorms that give you sand and a custom buff with random items, but you get hurt in the storm.
3. Added space whales.
4. Added R-Quetz.
5. Added tags to meshes all over the map for vertical dino spawning.
6. Zelos pylon can spawn Zombie Dodos if it paints a dino and lightning hits.
7. Added water to the lava lake.
8. Added lunar buff to the oasis area, allowing you to bounce around and tame space creatures.
9. Bees now spawn in the mountain, forest, and city, with fixed floating bee hives.
10. Gorilla boss now spawns in the wild.
11. Updated the ice lake.
12. Added large trees to the forest for sap.
13. Added Magmasaur and X-Rock Elemental to the lava area.
14. Added all crystal wyverns to the floating island at the new Blue obe.
15. Added a floating island biome.
16. Northern lights now fade in and out.

Update: 22 Jun, 2023 @ 5:45pm

'Fixed'

- Various holes in the Mountain biome
- Overspawn of Quetz in Mountain biome
- Collision on most large meshes
- Updated render distances on most large meshes
- removed boss music from some biomes
- removed map dependancies, loads faster


'Tweeked'

- New foliage on Arias Meadow
- Mountain biome has 30 new custom foliage
- Updated main landscape material with new colors
- changed biome tempuratures, more coming
- map updated clutter grass colors
- opened large cave under mountain, needs fixing still


'New'

- Mountain biome 90% done
- added 5000 more dinos to map
- Rignognata added to Grassland cave
- 3 Unicorns added
- Gigas now in south east
- painted oasis landscape
- painted desert landscape
- meshed out most of desert
- meshed out more of mountain
- meshed out some of city, more coming
- meshed out some of oasis
- created 10 new materials for desert large meshes

Update: 7 Jun, 2023 @ 3:17pm

Update fixes lighting, again. Adds lilypads to grassland water, add bushes, trees, rocks, metal and obsidian to mountain, new custom glow foliage to mountain, reduces over glowing foliage, added Stonehenge, updated dino spawns, landscape painting in mountains and South, New meshes in the south with lakes and waterfalls.

Update: 6 Jun, 2023 @ 8:13pm

Lighting broke.

Update: 6 Jun, 2023 @ 3:16pm

Mountain landscape painting and foliage add, reduced glow, grassland foliage. oasis landscape changes

Update: 4 Jun, 2023 @ 10:37am

Lighting update and test

Update: 31 May, 2023 @ 3:16pm

Some minor adjustments to lighting and expand the mountain biome. Added manticore, dragon, spider, gorilla area. added green obe.