From beneath the frozen wastes, a new evolution rises to challenge the malevolent shadow of its darker twin.
Sharpened by the strange forces that fuel its transformation, this swift guardian glides across ice fields, creates fleeting pathways, and moves through frozen hazards with confident precision and grace.
Their unrelenting protectiveness drives the Solwyn to fiercely guard their bonded rider. It follows a single rule: to keep you safe from the darkness behind you.
Which evolution will you choose to have by your side when ARK: Lost Colony comes out on December 16th?
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We’re thrilled to share that the community has raised over 190K for Extra Life!
Giganotosaurus steps up for the third TLC pass!
Since 2015, the ARK community has been showing up for Extra Life, and this year, you’ve helped us shatter our previous fundraising record of $188,000. With the event still underway, donations have already surpassed an astounding $190,000 for kids in need!
We’re baking up a special little treat in celebration of breaking the fundraising record, so keep an eye out for when more info lands on the menu.
The ARK community continues to amaze us with its kindness, passion, and willingness to come together for a cause that truly matters. Your contributions will make a real difference for the kids and families supported by Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Your generosity has helped us reach all of our donation milestones so far and will reward the community with five brand-new Dino TLC passes to be released throughout 2026! There is still time until the fourth creature is locked in, so get your votes in!
🔒 Araneo
🔒 Quetzalcoatlus
🔒 Giganotosaurus
⚌ Therizinosaurus
⚌ Megalosaurus
↑ Allosaurus
↓ Gallimimus
↓ Pelagornis
↓ Thylacoleo
↓ Brontosaurus
Donate now to any team member listed here to ensure your vote counts!
Syntac & Heather – $56,364
Raas, Aaron & Friends – $30,342
HillbillyWilly – $19,500
Sandi – $9,482
PVE Official Modded – $8,000
Garuga’s Modding Workshop – $6,667
MysticKorea / Mystic on Ark – $5,536
Loaded Crysis – $5,004
Phlinger Phoo – $3,321
ARKADE – $3,095
GP – $2,922
Ark Community Charity Giveaway – $2,101
Dragonheart – $1,560
Veno – $1,525
ARKATRAZ III – $1,500
Ninja & Friends – $1,199
crispnugget and friends – $1,100
Trafalgar – $826
BEYPlaysGames – $760
The ARK Art Ascended Team – $730
Etholdir – $501
NomadARK – $466
Alsano – $300
Meepachan – $270
Wild Hyenas – $247
Larry Smith – $225
Eaglelite30 – $212
Zyraphyre – $207
Yggstraordinary – $185
Find the rest of our roster here!
When donating to anyone on the Studio Wildcard Extra Life Team, not just Studio Wildcard directly, include a message with your chosen creature’s full first name preceded by a hashtag, like this (we’ll do our best to identify typos, but try to spell them correctly!):
#Giganotosaurus
Hello #Giganotosaurus
Please give #Giganotosaurus a TLC!
If no hashtag vote is included in the donation message, the donation will still count towards the TLC total, but it won’t advance any particular dino’s voting tally.
Every $1 donated = 1 vote
A $50 donation with #Giganotosaurus = 50 votes for Giganotosaurus
Five $10 donations with #Giganotosaurus = 50 votes for Giganotosaurus (10 x 5)
To keep the vote balanced and consistent, eligible creatures must meet the following criteria:
Must be a creature from The Island
Must be tameable
Must be rideable or a shoulder pet
Must not have previously received a TLC pass
The following creatures have already had a TLC pass and are not eligible:
Argentavis
Dire Bear
Direwolf
Gigantopithecus
Mammoth
Parasaur
Procoptodon
Raptor
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Sabertooth
Sarcosuchus
Spinosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Each winner will be locked in at 1 PM Pacific on that date and revealed the same day in the Crunch.
December 5 – Fourth Winner
December 12 – Final Winner
Ella Grace’s journey began with a mysterious limp, leading to a four-year search for answers. Multiple surgeries and misdiagnoses left her family feeling lost. After finally getting a one-in-a-million diagnosis of Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (CRMO), she was relieved to hear that UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital could provide what she needed for her rare bone disease.
Though incurable, the hospital’s specialized care and treatment plan brought stability and progress. Thanks to donations through CMN, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital provides specialized care and a comforting environment, empowering Ella Grace to face CRMO with strength.
You can read the full article about Ella’s journey here!
All donations go directly to UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, a nationally recognized cornerstone of the UF Health Shands campus. The hospital provides expert care across more than 20 pediatric specialties and is home to the community’s first emergency department dedicated solely to children, the UF Health Shands Pediatric ER.
Serving children and families throughout Florida and beyond, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital is a leading destination for pediatric patients from across the United States and around the world who need specialized care for complex medical conditions.
UF Health Shands recently celebrated the ribbon-cutting of Unit 44, a fully renovated pediatric medicine and surgical floor designed with children and families in mind. The unit features all-new private rooms with tech-enabled amenities for families, dedicated gathering spaces for siblings, and brand-new toddler and teen playrooms equipped with four large TVs, allowing patients to use each screen independently or sync them together to play their favorite games on what might be the biggest screen they’ve ever seen, perfect for jumping into ARK and other games. Interactive healing walls and an upgraded procedure room further enhance the patient experience. The $30 million+ transformation was funded through a combination of hospital budget, state appropriations, and private philanthropy, including over $4 million from Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals supporters (that’s you guys!).
Hey Survivors, after careful assessment, we’ve opted to begin the process of sunsetting a selection of our inactive official servers. Our goal is to ensure that we’re always delivering the best experience possible, and official servers exist as a way for the community to play together without having to host their own. When we launch fresh content, typically, we put up more servers than we need in the long term to match the peak in user capacity; over time, these servers become ghost towns as players have dropped off and are waiting for the next major content release.
At the conclusion of the Bonus Rate Event on Monday, October 20th (around 1 PM Pacific), we’ll be opening transfers out of Isolated servers to the main network for items, characters, and creatures, as well as character transfers into Isolated for those who wish to move.
As part of this process, the servers will be renamed with the “SUNSET” prefix, following the same approach we’ve used in the past. Please note that once renamed, these servers will be removed from the in-game Favorites list, so you’ll need to search for them manually to reconnect.
After further evaluation, the following servers have been removed from the sunset list:
On December 8th, we’ll be sunsetting these inactive servers:
Non-Isolated servers:
Isolated servers:
We still intend to provide capacity at launches as much as possible to meet the higher need during those periods.
We’re working with our partner at Nitrado to offer these saves after the scheduled sunset through Nitrado’s interface. Please stay tuned for more details.
Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for “Expire” in the session filter.
These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on December 8th. We’re preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto a new map temporarily.
Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on December 8th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.
This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, December 8th.
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
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form
Creator: DarkEdgeTV
Check out DarkEdgeTV’s deep dive into everything this beautiful Freemium modded creature can do!
Creator: Phlinger Phoo
Phlinger Phoo shows you how to complete the Turkey Trial and get all the cosmetics!
Rockwell spinning the Aberration ARK by @TekARK_01
Deinonychus by @kinosei_x2
Bear-chan by @NAMCOOo
Starter Pack, Land, Air, and Sea by Tox
Oh, what a happy land we live in by @nanoStel
Entrance Granted, Locke. by @TekARK_01
Photo Mode by frozen_soap
Photo Mode by jimmybaguette
Photo Mode by foodplz021
Photo Mode by tsukumono01
Photo Mode by monsieur_jam
Enjoy your weekend!
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