As some have noticed, it has become very common for people to breed powerful dinosaurs, and when they gain an army, the end-game is near, and it becomes boring.

Therefore, these boosts have been nerfed;

-3X Mating
-1.5X Egg Hatching
-3X Baby Maturing

And the day-cycle is set to default, so we can enjoy the nights as equally, making the game more challenging and offering the stunning views that torches in the night display, as well as letting the fireflies show.

The Center map, here we come!

The server will be coming back to life! I will post more updates and details soon enough, but we have two keywords here for you;

Dino Sounds Overhaul and The Center.

Due to the server having to be wiped, this weekend will have increased resources, xp and taming speed so people can catch up a little bit

Today when we logged in as you can see several people were stuck at "Failed to load mod map". This is a bug that an ark server will give you on connect if one of the mods on the server has been removed from steam workshop. The mod Natural Mod 2.0 was removed from steam workshop. It seems that it was banned from steam due to a Terms of Service Violation. Which automatically corrupted profiles and will not allow players to re spawn without forcing a new character to be made. We never planned to do a wipe unless something out of our hands came up. And well this is one of those times. We cannot control mods going out of date/or removed from workshop. I know a lot of users left last week getting mad when saves were reverted (due to another broken mod), I ask you to remember one thing, ARK is in alpha all these mods as much as they really enhance game play can break it at the same time. Just keep that in mind when you are getting upset with us at downtime or loosing items.. we cannot control devs or modders. After looking at our options Mephisto and myself have decided to remove some mods after this mandatory wipe. As the updates continue to come you can expect some mods to come and go. No mods will be added from now on that could force a whole server wipe. This is a complete wipe, levels, items, dinos. We are considering this a fresh start on the server and understand a lot of people will leave for items not being replaced. This would literally take me and Mephisto days to replace and with timezone differences almost impossible. Sorry for the inconvenience.