ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 7/22

Good Morning community,

We continue our efforts to provide updates as we address issues for both ARK: Aquatica and ARK: Survival Evolved. Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates daily as issues are being logged or addressed. We are maintaining visibility regarding bugs reported into the** #「📩」support** channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord .

In continued support of transparency, continued showcase of progress as well as Aquatica DLC specific content, Studio Sirens developer, Z_Swell will look to continue streaming live this week!

• The plan for these streams is to review the updates from the latest efforts, preview upcoming fixes and answer player/community questions.

• Current plan is to have live streams every day this week, Tuesday until Friday, (07/22 - 07/25)

• Stream timing will also remain the same at 2PM PST

• **Stream link: **[dynamiclink href="https://www.twitch.tv/Z_Swell"][/dynamiclink]

Our top priority remains to fix an issue with the game engine on the live version of ARK: Survival Evolved (360.1) ; proving to be complex, a solution continues to be developed in order to address mods from instantly crashing and we look forward to posting an update when possible. Today, we have included a fix that will continue to be tested, currently tested mods are listed below in the Patch Notes section.

The **“preaquatica” **beta branch is still live and will remain available until further notice.

Patch notes for the next update (v360.1 Live Branch)

• **A Game engine fix is a part of today’s patch. Progress will continue to be made, some mods will be functional. This will continue to be addressed in waves. What follows is a list of mods that we have confirmed are working, we will continue to test more and more mods that have been reported via the community broken mods sheet listed here: Broken Mods **

• Additional Emotes

• Advanced Rafts

• ARK: Omega

• ARKomatic

• Awesome Spyglass

• Awesome Teleporters

• Capitalism Currency

• Capitalism Player Trader

• Castles, Keeps, and Forts Remastered

• Death Recovery Mod (v1.13)

• Dragons Evolved

• eco In Wonderland

• eco's RP Decor

• Human NPC's

• Immersive Taming

• Items+ Companion

• Kanga Core Library

• Kanga Culinary

• Kanga Husbandry

• Lethals Reusables

• MarniiMods: Hairstyles

• MarniiMods: Wildlife

• More Narcotics & More Tranq-Arrows Combined v3.0

• Party of Six

• Primal Fear

• Primal Fear Bosses

• RP Enhancements

• RR-MedievalRoleplayDeco

• ShapeshiftingThe Last Grapple

• Travi Transformations

Patch notes (continued)

• Fixed Takifugu textures when inflated.

• Addressed a few issues causing server instability.

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Mantis Shrimp a second time while taming.

• Fixed not being able to feed wild Kathreptis a second time while taming. 

• Fixed Tridacna taming issues, should now be tamable in PvE.

• Made several improvements to the Vulcanithys boss encounter.

• Fixed Kibble Mash not being craftable in player inventory.

• Lighting Optimization and Level Streaming Optimization done to address low FPS performance.

• Note: FPS level streaming fix may cause objects/foliage to pop into view from a further distance, some mesh resources (rocks etc). This is intended to try to address the level streaming causing lower fps. This issue is a work in progress and will be optimized in future updates. Polishing render distance and popping visual issues will continue to be a priority.

• Broadcast system for this update and moving forward which will generate warnings every minute starting at 15 minutes before the server is shut down.

• Fix for mixed water/air volume on the far right side portion of the map/level that is causing swimming in the air/mobility issues.

• Patched more gaps and mesh holes across the map/level.

Other issues in the pipeline

• There is a newly reported bug for this update where players may experience increased dinosaur spawning in single player mode. This issue will be addressed and a solution is being developed.

• Players falling off the map when crossing big pools of lava.

• Tames/ships disappearing when logging off, with no tribe logs posted for said tames/ships that disappear.

• Water Vehicle Updates in general.

• Skiffs disappearing between updates.

• Rafts/motorboats shooting players into the air.

• Stinger issues (placement issues, missile issues, etc.).

• Ocean platforms placement issue.

• Hydrosphere issues.

• Vulcanithys fight update.

• Addressing more gaps and mesh holes across the map/level.

• Boss battle music fix.

This update will require a minor server downtime of 1 hour to official ARK: Aquatica servers. Servers with the highest population will be prioritized. This update will be pushed starting:

8:00 PM UTC 4:00 AM CST 1:00 PM PST 4:00 PM EST

Look forward to more updates soon as we are dedicated to making sure that fixes continue to come.