ARK: Survival Evolved/Patch/338.23

 ARK: Survival Evolved

  

338.23

Type

Major version

Availability

Client

Server

Yes
Oct 15, 2021

Chronology

Balance
 Bloodstalker

• Reduced piercing damage from 85% to 65%.
• Players grappled now get a 20 second immunity buff from being webbed by the  Bloodstalker again
• No longer unequips player’s melee weapon when webbed

 Wyvern

• Reduced  Wyvern  Health gained per level by approximately 20%
• Reduced armor penetration on  Lightning Wyvern beam attack by approx 20%
• Buffed  Fire Wyvern, Rmb, , attack by approx 30%
• Prevented  Voidwyrm from performing Rmb, , unless mounted by a rider
• Adjusted  Wyvern base drag weight to match  Crystal Wyverns so that they behave similarly against items that take this into consideration, such as the  Net ammo. (Therefore  Fire Wyvern,  Lightning Wyvern, and  Poison Wyvern can now be  Netted).

 Noglin

• Now targetable by  Plant Species X
• Takes reduced damage from  Plant Species X when attached to a player

 Net Ammo

• Increased durability usage on  Harpoon Launcher for net ammo specifically. Cost per net fired increased by approx 250%
• Increased weight of weight ammo from 0.2 to 2.0

 Mammoth

• Prevented being dismounted from creature when you are buffed by the  Mammoth
•  Mammoth war drummer now gets 40% damage mitigation whilst drumming

 Shadowmane

• Reduced the range the stun attack can target horizontally by 20%
• Increased the (holding Space, , ) jump distance by 20%
• Reduced how many targets the  Shadowmane can chain stun when right-click is held to 7 targets from 15 targets
• Increased cooldown of teleport attack from 4.5 seconds to 15 seconds and each target added increases the cooldown by 2 seconds rather than 1 second - Increased the length of the immunity buff after a player has been stunned by the  Shadowmane from 30 seconds to 50 seconds.
• Reduced passive creature armor from 124 to 80 and reduces its armor gained per level by 35%

Global Stun Immunity Buff
The following dismounts will now respect an overriding dismount immunity buff when the effect is created by any of the following creatures and items:

•  Voidwyrm
•  Shadowmane
•  Net Gun
•  Flashbang

Miscellaneous Balance

• Prevented the  Exo-Mek from filling turrets that have recently fired
• Increased  Megalosaurus damage with the night time buff by approx 25%
• Increased  Tek Turret  HP by 100%

Quality of Life and Misc.

• Increased slots on the  Industrial Grinder from 60 to 120
• Expanded the  Cloning Chamber register range by 3x
• Reduced  Tek Surveillance Console Stack Size from 100 to 5
• Display a HUD (whilst holding H, , ) with  Tek Gauntlets equipped displaying player location and upload timer
• Increased  Magmasaur’s smelting output by 100%
• Allowed  Mining Drill to harvest underwater
• Enabled auto-harvest on  Ankylosaurus
• Enabled breeding on  Rock Drake
• Enabled breeding on  Achatina

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed some exploits
• Fixed a bug where  Stryders and  Meks would not regain  Health in stasis
• Fixed a bug where  Mek modules would lose durability when released from  Cryopod
• Two new admin commands:
  • cheat drainwater <number>
  • cheat drainfood <number>
• Fixed a bug where the  Tek Dedicated Storage would ignore stack modifiers in server config files
• Fixed a bug where caused  Plant Z to no longer heal dinos
• Fixed a bug where  Soap would remove textures from some structures
• Fixed a bug where Cosmetics on the  Shadowmane would not retain their colour