Hi all! It has been a while. Since 2016, we all have been through a lot in life. The same on this end. I wanted to provide an update and go through and fix out of date information on all the various platforms that ARKFans is on to let people know that we STILL EXIST!

1. The official Discord is still active, but suffered a setback when discord.io shut down, which in essence killed the invite link. The official invite link is now:
   https://www.arkfans.info/discord
   Be sure to update your bookmarks and let anybody you know that plays in our community of this update! All other links are likely to be invalid or not work!
   
   
2. Our community Discord has went through some updates including the pruning of inactive members. We are still just shy of 100 active members, so be sure to come over and meet a fantastic group of people from various games and streaming platforms who have made ARKFans their hangout.
   
   
3. With the announcement that the Official ARK servers will be taken offline permanently on September 30th, we are reaching out to those legacy players looking for a new home to come try playing on our unofficial servers. ARKFans has no plans to shutdown our unofficial servers as people still continue to play every day on them!
   
   
4. Our servers no longer run mods due to the complexity, bugs, and stability. Please do not ask for mods or plugins. They simply ruin uptime and the positive gaming experience overall when a server cannot be accessed due to the frequent updates.
   
   
5. We are also working on improving stability to implement a restart every 24 hours to ensure the ARK servers are always updated and available. Join our discord for the latest progress.
   
   
6. With the big announcement of ARK Survival Ascended (referred to as ASA), our plans are to roll out unofficial servers to support the new release! Join us on Discord to keep updated on the progress as well as relevant news from other platforms that will be shared. Be sure when joining our Discord to select the proper interests you have in order to see relevant chat and information!
   
   
7. Earlier this year, ARKFans launched an experimental Rust PvE server. We have a few regulars on it now. If you have Rust and want to do some PvE come check it out! Links and more details are available on our Discord channel under the Rust section.
   
   
8. Within the last month, we launched two servers for the game Sons of the Forest. One server is official, normal gameplay mode while the 2nd server is for building and learning without enemies. Server Details and more information are on Discord under the Sons of the Forest Section.
   
   
9. We are looking into starting a PvE server for the game "Heat" (by Codehatch). Although the game has been around for years and further development/updates is questionable, the official servers are no longer online. Join Discord for the latest updates on the progress.

That's all for this update, although quite a bit to share! As always feel free to join us on Discord and provide feedback or questions there as we don't always monitor the Steam, Facebook, or other groups!

If anyone is curious, yes many are going to attempt Atlas today and beyond. If you're interested come join us on our ARKFans/AtlasFans Discord if you are already not a member as we work through details and explore together! We are also looking into hosting under Atlas when those details come out.

tinyurl[dot]com/atlasfans

We are excited to announce several new things happening. Coming up November 6th (approximately) is the release of the new World "Extinction" We will be adding a server for Extinction as soon as Wildcard releases.

We are also happy to announce today the resurrection of the Ark Fans Scorched Earth server as PvE and a new map "Crystal Isles" has been added.

All Ark Fans servers can be found by searching "arkfans" on the ARK search, Steam, or find the direct steam launch links on our Discord server.

ARK Fans Discord Server[discordapp.com]

At 6:00 pm tonight central standard time an archery competition will be taking place on Abberation. Location will be next to Joey's base and will have transport available if you are unable to find it. Coordinates are 43.3 by 41.7. Bows and arrows will be provided. 1st place will have a choice between 2 prizes and 2nd place will get the remaining prize. If 8 or more people attend then a third prize will be added. Hope to see you there!!!

steam://connect/38.130.192.54:27018

We will have an ARKFans community meeting Monday evening at 7pm central time. The meeting will be conducted on Discord voice and text and extend to the worlds as well for those that cannot join Discord. It's been a while since we have had one and there's a few things that we will look at addressing with this meeting:

1) Plans for the Abberation map release coming Tuesday (Yes we will be hosting an abberation server!)

2) General review of the feedback so far that's been provided in #ark-feedback If you have not put your feedback in, please feel free to do so between now and Monday. So far specific topics we will focus on are:
a) Revisit of breeding/maturing/cuddling intervals - There's been mixed feedback so we want to make sure to the majority this is either acceptable or still needs tweaking
b) Decay rates for structures and Dinos
c) Finding admins is sometimes difficult. We have had quite a few that have offered to help. We would love to hear from you at the meeting!
d) Revisiting events. We had talked about having events in previous meetings but never executed.
e) Discussion on raising max level for players to 300 based on feedback.