Community Crunch 493: It's Mate Boosting Season!

Something feels different out in the wild. Creatures are pairing up, breeding lines are getting attention, and Survivors may want to clear some space in their bases. With Valentine’s Day approaching, Love Ascended is right around the corner!

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Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is set to sweep ARK survivors off their feet with an array of enchanting new treats and delights. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine's Day, kicks off on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, and will continue to spread joy and affection until Wednesday, February 18, 2026, on Official Servers.

• Starts on Wednesday, February 11, 2026

• Ends on Wednesday, February 18, 2026

• 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

• Lovebirds

• Love Bugs

• Vday Coel

• Chibi-Lovebird

• Chibi Pair-o-Saurs

• Valentine’s Fishing Rod

• Love Bug Hearts

• Festive Dino Candy

• Box o' Chocolates (Now also reduce mating cooldown by 20% of current time remaining)

• Succubus Whip *new*

• Bouquet Club (Club) *new*

• Devil Horns (Helm) *new*

• Devil Tail (Accessory) *new*

• Dashing Rogue Shirt (Chestpiece) *new*

• Heart-Balloon (Parachute) *new*

• Lovely Lamp (Omnilamp) *new*

• Lovely Footrest (SmallStorageBox) *new*

• Lovely Armoire (LargeStorageBox) *new*

• Lovely Table (Table) *new*

• Lovely Rug (Rug) *new*

• Lovely Lounger (Bench) *new*

• Lovely Mirror (Mirror) *new*

• Rosebush (PlantSpeciesX) *new*

• Lovely Pillow *new*

• Lovely Balloon *new*

• Lovely Petals *new*

• Lovely Bouquet *new*

• Lovely Chandelier *new*

• Pillow-Club Skin 

• Loveseat

• Ottoman 

• Love-Chair

• Pajama Top 

• Pajama Bottoms

• SleepingHat

• PomPom Slippers 

• Friendship Bracelets 

• Bear Hug Swimsuit

• Odd Couple Swimsuit

• Sauropod Heart Swimsuit

• Cupid Couture Bottom Skin

• Cupid Couture Top Skin

• Halo Headband Skin

• Heart-shaped Sunglasses Skin

• Heart Spring Hat

• Cuddle Rex Sweater

• Bow & Eros Skin

• Heart-shaped Shield Skin

• Teddy Bear Grenade Skin

• Love Shackles Skin

• Heart Spring Hat

• Cuddle Rex Sweater

• Love-Bed

• Check Yourself *new*

• Proposal Emote

• Lasso Emote

• Flirty Emote

• Heart Emote

• Self Hug Emote

• Dino Light Blue

• WyvernBlue0

• PowderBlue

• Glacial

• DarkLavender

• MediumLavender

• Lavender

• DarkViolet

• Dino Light Purple

• LightPink

• Magenta

• DeepPink

• Red

• DarkMagenta

• Dino Albino

• Cream

• Jade

• LeafGreen

• From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.

• Search for Love Ascended in the ARK Mod list and Install it.

  Mod ID: 927084

1. After it's installed, go back to your game setup screen and select 'Mod Settings'

2. You will see Love Ascended and any other mods you've downloaded in 'Available Mods'

3. Select Love Ascended and activate it.

• If you would like to enable Love Ascended on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments -mods=927084. No other changes should be necessary to activate the event.

Official Network Tribe Wipes

Earlier this week, our enforcement team identified a significant exploit affecting the Official Network. This exploit has now been fixed.

Following our investigation, action is being taken today against approximately 100 tribes that were found to be abusing this method at scale. These tribes are being wiped from the Official Network.
The Official Network is intended to be a fair and competitive environment for everyone. Exploit abuse that creates a severe and unfair advantage undermines that experience, and we will continue to act decisively when identified.

As a reminder, all players on Official Servers are expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct, including rules around exploit abuse and fair play.

Thank you to the players who continue to report issues and play within the rules.

Know a method for a hack or exploit? 

We provide bounties for anyone who can report hacks or exploits of any kind (which are NOT aimbots/esp/speed hacks) that can have a serious impact on gameplay or server stability on our official, online servers. Feel free to reach out to the following email with details:

https://[email protected]

We'll evaluate EVERY submission that comes our way, and if we determine that the issue falls outside the scope of "hacks", but still qualifies as an extremely critical bug (such as wide-scale easy duping, or methods of crashing the server, etc.), we are happy to still pay out bounties. Please mention in your email subject you are contacting us regarding an exploit.

Thank you to the players who continue to report issues and play within the rules.

Server Adjustments

Next week, Valguero servers will be returning to their standard 70-player population cap. During the Valguero launch window, these servers were temporarily set to 100 players, and we are now reverting them to their normal limits.

In addition, over the next couple of weeks we will be moving a small number of Official servers as part of ongoing backend preparations for the upcoming Astraeos expansion. These moves are expected to primarily affect Astraeos servers, with most of the activity focused on PvE.

These changes are part of our regular infrastructure work to improve server stability and to prepare for future updates.

Level Design Fixes

These coordinates correspond to several unintended building spots (ratholes) that will be patched out on February 25th with the launch of Astraeos. Heads up to call your removalists if you're built in one of these locations: 

[c]Ragnarok[/c]

[c]cheat spi -241484 -152783 -11350 -31.40 5.31[/c]

[c]cheat spi -151183 -126133 31033 -64.83 -59.87[/c]

[c]cheat spi 10186 -134667 12335 4.31 -39.08[/c]

[c]cheat spi 253682 290662 -7150 -171.09 -48.87[/c]

[c]cheat spi -197635 364301 -24784 113.71 -72.57[/c]

[c]cheat spi 100866 -580070 -41427 179.32 -45.76[/c]

[c]cheat spi -4236 -182103 6528 80.33 -41.32[/c]

[c]cheat spi -59702 -144957 -362 -176.19 -50.38[/c]

[c]cheat spi 126901 -579704 -40968 57.92 -66.46[/c]

[c]cheat spi -400793 -88609 -5661 -130.45 -24.32[/c]

[c]cheat spi -148298 -128216 10739 109.59 -11.42[/c]

[c]Aberration[/c]

[c]cheat spi -106544 276958 20596 31.46 22.95[/c]

[c]cheat spi -29531 171922 290 90.05 17.28[/c]

Check out the newest mods in the latest Cross-Platform Mod Spotlight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-Wpsfi4j8

Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

This video features:

• Elven Structure Skins by Kocielapki (Premium)

• Gothic Citadel Tribe Tower (Evil Eye) by Sandi_00

• Microwave Oven Skin by MotoKawauso

• Starlit’s Roses are Dead by Ribbet

• The Beast Within by Trixt3r (New)

• Applez Island Map Extension by Applez (New)

• Applez Extinction Map Extension by Applez (New)

ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What is ARKpocalypse?

• ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates.

• Next wipe: March 6th, 2026

You can join them by typing "Arkpocalypse" in the server browser! Happy Surviving!
This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 9.

• 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

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