Season 11

A lot of QOL changes to improve your experience.

Season 11 launches on Saturday 3rd October 2020. Our Ark Season 11 includes some of the biggest changes in a while!. Changes discussed and approved by the community to improve your experience.

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In summary, here are some of the main changes for Season 11:

General:
- Removed Tiered Boss System
- 50% decrease in Element harvesting on Extinction
- 6 member tribe limit
- Enabled Cryopod nerfs: Recently deployed dinos only deal 1% damage for 10 seconds.
- Player’s health reduced to x1 from x1.5
- Dino’s stamina reduced to x2 from x3.
- Made first player 100 levels easier.
- Make levelling globally slightly quicker.
Maps:
- All Maps except SE
- SE may be added at start / will be added based on population.
- No Duos.
Offline Raid Protection:
- Actives after 45 minutes on weekdays.
- Disabled on Saturday & Sunday. (Does not apply to Starter Server)
Item clamps:
- Saddle Armour Clamp (Tek/Non-Tek/Tank): 315/175/100
- Weapon Damage Clamp: 300%
- Flak Armour Clamp: 700%
- Max Durability Clamp (Tek/Non-Tek): 1310/855
Loot quality:
- Same as official:
- Chance of higher quality by up to 20% during No ORP weekends.
- White drop starter kit disabled for the first 48 hours.
- Indy forge + Grinder removed from yellow for first 48 hours.
- Flamethrower and Ammo removed from drops. Flamethrower ammo will cost 10x official crafting requirement.
Cave Damage:
- x6 weekdays
- x7 weekends
Building:
- Following spots have been unbanned:
  - Bear Cave
  - Aberration Tree (Non-ab dinos will be allowed, i.e flyers)
  - Extinction Tree`
  - Rat holes:
    - Any rat holes that don’t require grappling or knocking out will be allowed.
  - Artifact Caves:
    - The following artifact caves are banned:
      - All Crystal Isles Artifact Caves
      - Snow Cave (The Island)
      - Swamp Cave (The Island)
      - North East Cave (Carno Cave) (The Island)
      - North Ice Cave (The Center)
      - Lava Oasis Cave (Pearl Cave) (The Center)
      - Carnivorous Caverns (Dark Cave) (Ragnarok)
      - Lava Golem Cave (Ragnarok)
      - The Lair (Spider Cave) (Valguero)
      - The Lost Temple (Valguero)
Element Transfers:
- Enabled
- Official transfer is not supported on console but you will be able to transfer items which can be crafted into an element. For example, 1 compass costs 5 elements, with which you can craft 1 unstable element. The ratio will be 5:1.
Imprinting Bonus:
- Increased bonus to 35%
Dino Buffs:
- Stego: 150% increase in resistance to health.
- Paraceratherium: 75% increase in resistance to health,
- Carbonemys: 40% increase in resistance to health,
- Spino: 15% increase in resistance between health/damage.
- Velo: 25% increase in damage.
- Health resistance means dinos will take less damage per bite/hit and not that it will have an increase in actual HP stat. For example. 100% resistance means dinos will take half the damage than normal.
Dino Nerfs:
- Gigas – 10% reduction in HP/Melee.
Taming disabled:
- Enforcer
- Magmasaur (Taming and Melee Damage Enabled in No ORP only due to exploit)
Taming enabled after 36 hours after launch:
- Gigas
- Griffin
- Rock Elemental
- Managarmr
- Gasbag
- Megachelon (50% HP in week 1)
- Titanosaur
- Paraceratherium
- Ice Titan (cannot transfer off Extinction)
- Forest Titan (cannot transfer off Extinction)
- Desert Titan (cannot transfer off Extinction)
RTACoins:
- The balancing changes I announced previously will be in place therefore, anyone with coins above 5,000 will be capped at 5,000 RTACoins.
Rules/Punishment:
- New rules page
- Punishment breakdown: Example punishment breakdowns on the website to make enforcement more consistent and easier. Plus gives you an idea of what sort of punishments to expect.

Additional changes can be found on our ark server settings page.

Please make sure you are up to date with our rules. Failing to read/not understanding the rules is not excusable. So better safe than sorry.

Have a fun Season 11!. As always, we welcome all feedback and suggestions.