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Extinction Chronicles
The Extinction Chronicles is a series of routine content drops adding new Explorer Notes, Tek-themed Creatures, and Skins related to the DLC Extinction. It ran from June 19th, 2018 until November 6th, 2018.
Gameplay Changes[]
Explorer Notes[]
The Extinction Chronicles adds in multiple Explorer Notes connected to Extinction.
- Extinction Chronicles I
??? #1 (The Island) - Found in the Overseer Arena.- ??? #2 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Manticore Arena.
- ??? #3 (Aberration) - Found in the Rockwell Arena.
- Extinction Chronicles II
- ??? #4 (The Island) - Found on Far's Peak (36.1, 79.0).
- ??? #5 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Southeast Badlands (63.2, 61.5).
- ??? #6 (Aberration) - Found in the River Valley (29.3, 58.4).
- Extinction Chronicles III
- ??? #7 (The Island) - Found in the Southern Islets, on the side of a cliff facing the river (75.6, 60.4).
- ??? #8 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Southern West Mountains, the next valley NW of Red Obelisk Valley (63.3, 29.4).
- ??? #9 (Aberration) - Found in The Ancient Device, on the ceiling SE of the Red Ring Arm (47.5, 21.8).
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- ??? #10 (The Island) - (44.4, 23.7)
- ??? #11 (Scorched Earth) - (30.6, 56.2)
- ??? #12 (Aberration) - (69.1, 46.4)
- Extinction Chronicles V
- ??? #13 (The Island) - (89.2, 24.4)
- ??? #14 (Scorched Earth) - (24.4, 29.7)
- ??? #15 (Aberration) - (85.0, 69.8)
Tek Creatures[]
The Extinction Chronicles adds in new breeding lines of dino variants known as Tek Creatures.
- Extinction Chronicles I
- Extinction Chronicles II
- Extinction Chronicles III
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- Extinction Chronicles V
Tek Eggs[]
The Extinction Chronicles adds in Tek Eggs which can be used as an alternative ingredient to their regular counterparts in 
Kibble.
- Extinction Chronicles I
- Extinction Chronicles II
- Extinction Chronicles III
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- Extinction Chronicles V
Unique Skins[]
The Extinction Chronicles adds in new, unique skins related to Extinction, obtainable by unlocking Extinction-related Explorer Notes.
- Extinction Chronicles I
- Extinction Chronicles II
- Extinction Chronicles III
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- Extinction Chronicles V
Special Colors[]
The Extinction Chronicles adds unique colors for wild Creatures.
- Extinction Chronicles II
- Purple
- Black
- Grey
- Dark Blue
- Extinction Chronicles III
- Red
- Black
- White
- Grey
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- Green
- Black
- Extinction Chronicles V
- Black
- Red
- Green
- Purple
- White
Level Cap[]
The Extinction Chronicles increases the Level cap by 1 each month until the release of Extinction.
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Extinction Teasers are released each month with the Extinction Chronicles.
- Extinction Chronicles III
- Extinction Chronicles IV
- Extinction Chronicles V
Tutorials[]
Calendar[]
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Happy New Year! | January 1st, 2022 | January 1st, 2022 |
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ARK: Love Evolved 3 | February 9th, 2022 | February 16th, 2022 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 7 | April 11th, 2022 | April 25th, 2022 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Happy New Year! | January 1st, 2021 | January 1st, 2021 |
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ARK: Love Evolved 2 | February 11th, 2021 | February 18th, 2021 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 6 | March 31st, 2021 | April 14th, 2021 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2021 | June 30th, 2021 | July 21st, 2021 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 5 | October 26th, 2021 | November 9th, 2021 |
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ARK: Extra Life 2021 | November 6th, 2021 | November 7th, 2021 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 5 | November 23rd, 2021 | December 7th, 2021 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 6 | December 14th, 2021 | January 6th, 2022 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Love Evolved | February 11th, 2020 | February 18th, 2020 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5 | April 7th, 2020 | April 21st, 2020 |
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ARK: 5th Anniversary | June 11th, 2020 | June 24th, 2020 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2020 | June 25th, 2020 | July 21st, 2020 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 4 | October 22nd, 2020 | November 6th, 2020 |
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Genesis 2 Chronicles | November 7th, 2020 | March 24th, 2021 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 4 | November 24th, 2020 | December 8th, 2020 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 5 | December 17th, 2020 | January 7th, 2021 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 4 | February 12th, 2019 | February 18th, 2019 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 4 | April 16th, 2019 | April 30th, 2019 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2019 | July 2nd, 2019 | July 19th, 2019 |
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Genesis Chronicles | October 10th, 2019 | February 25th, 2020 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 3 | October 22nd, 2019 | November 5th, 2019 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 3 | November 19th, 2019 | December 6th, 2019 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 4 | December 18th, 2019 | January 7th, 2020 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 3 | February 13th, 2018 | February 16th, 2018 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3 | March 29th, 2018 | April 10th, 2018 |
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ARK: ARKaeology | June 15th, 2018 | July 17th, 2018 |
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Extinction Chronicles | June 19th, 2018 | November 6th, 2018 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 3 | December 18th, 2018 | January 7th, 2019 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 2 | February 12th, 2017 | February 20th, 2017 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 2 | April 15th, 2017 for PC April 26th, 2017 for Xbox & PS4 |
April 22nd, 2017 for PC March 3rd, 2017 for Xbox & PS4 |
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ARKs Two Year Anniversary | June 2nd, 2017 | June 5th, 2017 |
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The Witches Curse | October 30th, 2017 | November 1st, 2017 |
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Holiday Event | December 23rd, 2017 | January 1st, 2018 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day | February 14th, 2016 | February 22nd, 2016 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure | March 25th, 2016 | March 31st, 2016 |
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ARK: Survival Devolved | April 1st, 2016 | April 2nd, 2016 |
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ARK: Awesome Anniversary | June 2nd, 2016 | June 13th, 2016 |
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ARKdependence Day | July 3rd, 2016 | ? |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 2 | October 28th, 2016 | November 6th, 2016 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 2 | November 15th, 2016 for Xbox November 24th, 2016 for PC |
December 1st, 2016 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 2 | December 23th, 2016 | December 30th, 2016 |
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New Year's on ARK | December 31st, 2016 | January 1st, 2017 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Fear Evolved | October 28th, 2015 | November 5th, 2015 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial | November 25th, 2015 | December 1st, 2015 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland | December 22, 2015 | January 5th, 2016 |
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ARK: Happy First (Half) Year! | December 31st, 2015 | January 1st, 2016 |
Notes/Trivia[]
These are what the explorer notes are summarized as and how they are described in Extinction's lore.
- Extinction Chronicles 1
- Note #1: A mysterious voice (later known as the One Who Waits/Homo Deus Helena) greets the reader and says that her thoughts are not the only touching the player but others as well. It is up to the player if they want to read them or not.
- Helena Walker is breaking the fourth wall as not only is the reader reading this note, but other players are reading this note as well.
- Note #2: The One Who Waits explains that everything has a limit and considered to be finite. She remarks at how players get through the game through either kindness or cruelty.
- Note #3: The One Who Waits tells the reader that humans, whether alone or together, are helping each other. She also gives a hint of conditions: time and space in her point of view is more flexible than people previously thought.
- The One Who Waits is Helena Walker who has become a Homo deus and because of that, things such as time and space are more understandable in her new state.
- Note #1: A mysterious voice (later known as the One Who Waits/Homo Deus Helena) greets the reader and says that her thoughts are not the only touching the player but others as well. It is up to the player if they want to read them or not.
- Extinction Chronicles 2
- Note #4: The One Who Waits explains that she can easily deduce cause and effect with her reasoning but trying to deduce time itself requires all of her concentration. She notes that because she is somehow feeling seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, and centuries all at once, she doesn't know how long she has been waiting.
- Helena notes that she can now understand what causes something and its effects, but trying to understand time puts a strain on her. As a Homo deus, she can perfectly see things in great detail upon millions of images.
- Note #5: The One Who Waits explains that the universe people and creatures live in is simply math the universe is an equation where the things inside that universe are a value that helps to factor in its equation. Futures has probabilities where there are infinite outcomes and she calculates for the most likely outcomes.
- As a Homo Deus, Helena has been endlessly calculating outcomes and she presses on outcomes that are most likely.
- Note #6: The One Who Waits wants the player to refer to her as the given moniker because she has waited for a seemingly endless amount of time.
- Her explorer note section for the Extinction Chronicles is labeled as ???.
- Note #4: The One Who Waits explains that she can easily deduce cause and effect with her reasoning but trying to deduce time itself requires all of her concentration. She notes that because she is somehow feeling seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, and centuries all at once, she doesn't know how long she has been waiting.
- Extinction Chronicles 3
- Note #7: The One Who Waits explains to the reader that her existence is where she has nearly perfect information while players have a finite amount of knowledge. She wants the reader to trust her intentions as well as not forcing the reader to believe in her but having the reader believe in her by their own free will.
- Note #8: The One Who Waits tells the survivor that the ARKs (referred to as the System) have AIs that she can speak with, but can't alter since they too have their own will. She has changed each ARK system by tiny amounts that ended up making the player amongst the thousands of code and pieces.
- In Extinction lore, Helena has endlessly experimented, tested, and implemented protocols that allowed survivors to be revived upon death and soon, the player was her success of survivors endlessly dying and respawning though at a fixed amount based on the ARK's resources.
- Note #9: The One Who Waits explains that the ARK's guardians feel like tests but they are tests that play by broken rules. She advises the player to leave the ARKs because they are beginning to malfunction. She refers to herself, Mei-Yin and the Tek tribe that escaped through the Gateway Project.
- Extinction Chronicles 4
- Note #10: The ARKs have existed for billions of years. It is like an organic being by understanding the struggle to reach its goals, but it struggles on a larger, and far longer scale. She explains that the ARK can make effortless and quick calculations but time has caused it to make more errors, making it a finite system.
- In Extinction lore, all the ARKs have a Reseed Protocol that calls all of them back to ground, but another prerequisite, Element toxicity rating, has caused the ARKs to become increasingly dangerous with the fantasy and sci-fi creatures.
- Note #11: The One Who Waits explains that everything the ARK does such as leveling entire cities, and adding creatures based on fantasy, is for the greater good in achieving its goal. However, a mysterious force is constantly moving its goal out of its reach, causing it to make more erratic actions, and more errors that makes the ARK poisonous to life.
- In Extinction lore, Element has constantly grown to a point the ARKs aren't able to remove all of it and as a result, the ARKs are in prolonged orbit.
- Note #12: The One Who Waits says that the player is the only one capable of fixing the ARKs. She explains more of her living conditions as she isn't a carbon-based life form who lives in a different reality where she can't directly affect the physical world. She tells the player she has a gift in the form of a powerful weapon if they head down and enter the map of Extinction.
- Helena, as The One Who Waits in the Extinction lore, says that she is living in a different reality and that she uses the survivors as her active force as she can't directly affect the physical world. The gift she mentions is the Mek, a creation made by Santiago.
- Note #10: The ARKs have existed for billions of years. It is like an organic being by understanding the struggle to reach its goals, but it struggles on a larger, and far longer scale. She explains that the ARK can make effortless and quick calculations but time has caused it to make more errors, making it a finite system.
- Extinction Chronicles 5
- Note #13: The One Who Waits advises the players to take shelter in the city of Sanctuary, and the Proto-ARKs that surround it as anywhere beyond their area is filled with death and dangers. She tells the player that the obelisks in the new area are proto-types of the ARK's obelisks.
- Sanctuary, in-game and in-lore, is a relatively safe location for both the players and the survivors that will soon make Camp Omega while the Wasteland is a highly dangerous and hazardous area.
- Note #14: The One Who Waits explains that the entire universe is just cause and effect where something had a beginning as the Proto-ARKs are a firm foundation of every ARK that is up in orbit.
- Note #15: The One Who Waits notices that everything that happened on the mysterious planet (Earth) will either end where it began or sprout a new beginning, but she says that the outcome is still up to the player. She gives a fact that survival of a species requires the expense of another and remarks that where Homo Sapiens pushed the Neanderthals to extinction, a mysterious force is using powerful forces to push humanity to the same fate.
- In The One Who Waits lore in Extinction, Element is the force that is pushing humanity to the same fate and is the enemy that the survivors will face.
- Note #13: The One Who Waits advises the players to take shelter in the city of Sanctuary, and the Proto-ARKs that surround it as anywhere beyond their area is filled with death and dangers. She tells the player that the obelisks in the new area are proto-types of the ARK's obelisks.
Spotlight[]
Gallery[]
Tek Raptor pouncing.
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