ARK Digest #11 Highlights

Hey guys! Had a short break the past two days as I was preoccupied with some stuff at school :P

ARK Digest #11 was just published, so here are the Highlights!

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DX12 is in the works and the aim is to release it by mid-August!

Per-pixel painting is going to get the new additions of being able to flood-fill a canvas with paint, as well as saving logos and decals for easy replication on multiple surfaces, as well as improvements for the UI!

We will get to see one or more of the smaller cousins of Spinosaurus :D

Mate-Boosting tamed animals now makes the females twice as likely to lay eggs!

When the Snow Biome is introduced, Mammoths will be shifted there, while Paraceratherium will generally replace Mammoths in the warmer areas!

Herbivore taming will be updated very shortly, and with it will come a Berry equivalent of Prime Meat!

Rare Animals, which seem to be semi-boss versions of the normal creatures, will be added soon! These unique animals will grant a lot of experience and drop lots of resources, and can be easily identified by their unique names, colour schemes and boosted stats! For now, they will not be tameable to prevent stat inflation.

Proper guard rails will be arriving in time to come!

With the upcoming revamp to the taming system, non-torpor Carnivores like the Bat, Piranha and Spider will be tameable!

Smaller creatures that can be tamed by knocking them out are arriving soon!

DodoRex will make limited-event appearances on certain, very special days this year!

The wall glitch, in which dinos could be killed from the outside of enclosures because some parts of it were sticking out, will be tackled in the coming week!

With the new Biomes, there will also be unique clothing added to go with them! For example, there will be a Mammoth-based clothing for use in cold weather, like the Snow Biome, as well as a skinsuit for hot weather!

Instruments are coming, including drums! Just imagine building drums on the Platform Saddles, and playing the war drums during a battle! So cool!!!

The sea will see (pun not intended) many creatures being added, including smaller ones!

Bread and Beer will be coming, and they will have beneficial purposes!

Pressing the U key, which will tell all pets to unfollow you, will now only affect those that are actually currently following you! No more unfollowing your friends' pets!

Phiomia will now defecate!

There will be an industrial version of the cooking pot!

Procedural dino damage skins, which will probably be skins for dinos, either based on how much damage they have taken when alive, or how much of their dead bodies have been eaten or harvested.

There are massive loading improvements!

The upcoming Machined Sniper Rifle will be able to fire Tranquilliser Darts (which are upcoming as well)!

A Sickle will be added next week, and its main use will be to harvest Fibre! Also, Therizinosaurus was confirmed, and it, together with Gigantopithecus, will specialise in harvesting Fibre!

Soon, small creatures will be able to be perched on players, like the Mesopithecus clinging to a survivor's back, as seen in its dossier!

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To end off this Digest Highlights post, there is an update from the developers regarding the awesome Platform Saddles! I wasn't sure about this previously, but initially, it was planned to limit the building to only Sleeping Bags and Turrets...

It's really awesome that they decided to go all out instead, allowing us to build anything we want on the platforms, because it would have been a real waste of potential if it was limited to just Sleeping Bags and Turrets!

I'm even more pumped for it now that it is confirmed that we can build anything!!!

-Skyhawk :D