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Important announcement regarding Genesis 2 map

jdab — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:13:34 +0000

The new, clean Genesis 2 migration map is now open - available to join after the midnight restart.

Our Genesis 2 map has been so over built, over used and abused since it's launch 18 months ago that its save file is a bloated lagfest - and there is nothing I can do to fix that. I'm working on getting us new hardware (will be in the new year, possibly early spring)... but that is unlikely to fix the problem.

But I'm not letting the FS have a bad map - so we are going to make Genesis 2 a playable space again - playable for harvesting, doing missions, game progression, bosses, collecting explorer notes/etc.

The only way to do this, is to get rid of the all the historic overbuilding and worldfile bloat.

So we are going to migrate to a new, clean Genesis 2 map.

THIS IS NOT A WIPE. YOU WILL LOSE NOTHING.

This isn't a "wipe"... it's a migration. You will have THREE MONTHs... until Easter 2023... to move your stuff to the new map.
We have developed an S+ Dedi Storage Moving tool to help with this process.

Genesis 2 specific rules

The Rules have been updated... see our rules page. Near the bottom of the list - rule 32 details the additional restrictions that apply to Genesis Part 2.

These are:

32. Genesis 2 is reserved for map gameplay content only - taming, harvesting, note collection, missions and bosses. No bases.

Players will be allowed one very small outpost for the purposes of enabling the gameplay - maximum size:

one platform with shield (no walls)
or one foundation build max 100 foundations and max 4 walls high (or 1x S+ "large" wall) (plus roof)
or one mushroom hut with external non-build structures (tp/geny/transmitter/etc) within an area of 100 foundations total size

Shields on foundation or mushroom structures must not exceed 10x10. No shields permitted on the bridges. No building in air-locks.

Minimal internal structures "within reason" for gameplay - such as beds/tp/geny/transmitter/basic storage/etc/etc... but not breeding, mass storage, mass processing.

Outposts can be pretty, some decor is OK but keep it small and simple.

The Philanthropist returns

jdab — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:12:43 +0000

Today, we have been graced by a visit from our great friend The Philanthropist.

During our conversation it was revealed that, a long time ago, he travelled to the Exiled Lands and embarked on many adventures in that place. He has many stories to tell. As we have exiles within the Friendship of the FS - he has decided that he will also share some of his great treasures with the Exiles of Conan. He may, in the future, share some of his stories too.

We reviewed the treasures he left with us in the Arks, and found that most of his statues had been found, but not claimed. Which is rather dismaying - but he is undeterred and has left us with new treasures for the Arks too.

For now - he has left us with 5 treasures to find in the Exiled Lands, and 12 Treasures to find in the Arks. They are listed below. He has promised to return again in a few weeks.

Each treasure is represented by a token, held in a statue of the philanthropist, located somewhere within our maps. When you find a statue - take the token and bring it to Phokxx to swap it for the treasure that he has left us.

In the Exiled Lands

A prying kit (removed kits from gear) (token #1)
A Healing Waterskin - fill it with water and each sip will heal you. (token #2)
The Pokey Pokey. A unique weapon, once owned by the leader of a secret peoples. There is only one Pokey Pokey. (token #3)
An everburning torch - a torch that never burns out. (token #4)
A spyglass - a handheld telescope that lets you see great distances (token #5)

In the Arks

A Spectral Polar Bear, Level 350
A Plum Lipstick Holographic Kentrosaurus, lvl 350
A Bare Metal Taser Tek Raptor, lvl 365
A Burnished Copper Revitalising Kaprosuchus, lvl 350
A 1.3 sized, Rideable, Vanta Shinobi Hyaenodon, lvl 345
A Bolstering Burning Pygmy Dimorphodon, lvl 365
A Spectral Titanosaur, level 250
A Black & Gold Endurant Allosaurus, level 364
An Iced-Wine Tazer Tardis Ice Wyvern, level 360
A Tek Refridgerator, taken from the laboratory of Edmund Rockwell
A Psychotropic Rubber R-Xenomorph, level 350
A 2.7 size Rare Sabertooth Salmon, level 350

TFS mod updates

jdab — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:10:49 +0000

The two Friendly Server server mods will be updating on the servers within the next half hour.

Please make sure you resub to the modpack to pick up both updates.

Amongst other backend thingies - these updates bring:

A nice new little feature for giving prizes being premiered at the GREAT BIG CHRISTMAS PARTY tomorrow night.
A feature for a new Arena event we'll be testing out in the next couple of days.
A new mini-challenge feature being added to the Market Map

and...

An S+ Dedicated Storage Moving Tool
With this tool - you can pack up the entire contents of any S+ Dedicated Storage and move it elsewhere... just across the room, across the map, or to another map.

It is a lvl 90 engram and requires the dedi-storage being unlocked to learn it.

This should make your base relocations much much easier, as well as payments for Auction in non-element currencies.

Enjoy.

Announcing The Paint Shack

jdab — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:25:13 +0000

We've got something new added into the mix from this month!

Every month - from today - all paid patrons will get one additional free self-service paint per month.

There are two paint-shack locations on the Market Map:

one for land dinos behind the lockers (where the old market used to be)
one in the water for aquatics

There is a portal between them.

Make sure you've figured out your colours in single-player first then stand / fly / float your dino over the ring and use the terminal to paint your dino.

One go per month and it's self-service/automatic so... please make sure you get your colours chosen first time, 'cos if it's wrong you'll need to wait til next month (or spend a paint point)!

HAVE FUN!

Two days of boosts this weekend

jdab — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:18:33 +0000

Huge thankyou to our voters - we've got two days of boosts this weekend because you racked up over 2000 votes during July!

ARK

From midnight tonight - double harvesting on all server except Genesis 2, (24 hours)
From midnight tomorrow - double taming and boosted shiny's on all servers (24 hours)

Conan

From midnight tonight - double harvesting (24 hours)
From midnight tomorrow - double XP (24 hours)

Enjoy, with thanks!

Fjordur open to transfers at midnight on 12th August

jdab — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:51:41 +0000

Fjordur will unlock for transfers at the end-of-day/midnight restart on Friday 12th August.

You will then be able to transfer back and forth with gear and resources.

Event rescheule due to Fjordur launch

jdab — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:01:52 +0000

Due to the the Fjordur map being predicted (haha) to drop on the same evening as the Auction was planned... we've moved the auction date back a week... other events have been shuffled about a bit to accommodate.

The Auction will now be held on the 19th June. Submissions can be placed anytime before end of Friday 17th.

Genesis 2 is back up

jdab — Mon, 02 May 2022 20:41:24 +0000

We've worked on bases and souls, and have got the map down to 1.9gb save file.. and that is stable again.

Today's work has included removing a huge base which took over 45Mb off the file size all by itself... but it's not a one-base problem.

This map is the most over-resourced map, is the biggest filesize and is the fastest growing map on the cluster.

Being a map with so much resource.. it's become the "one stop shop" map... but if we don't stop the rapid unfettered growth - we'll be crashing again in no time.

So... I'm... discouraging Genesis 2 from being the main base for big-build breeding. For breeding - folks will have to disperse around the cluster from now on.

Starting immediately on Genesis 2 only:

No mutation pulses with the mutator
Propagator mutation and gender cost 1000/female and max 1 pulse
Baby growth speed reduced from 7x to 1x

Next weekend (on Genesis 2 only):

Propagators will be disabled
Mating cooldown will be massively increased
Baby growth will be practically halted

Sorry folks... in order to keep Genesis 2 as a viable map for living, gathering, missions and looting on... we're going to have to stop such hefty use for mass souls and big breeding bases.

Breeders - please make sure to clear your breeds out of propagators before weekend, and to make sure that no dino's are on cooldown by Friday night. It's time to start making more use of the other maps for breeding folks.
When moving your breeding to other maps... remember to use Ark-Data and not personal inventory and to not transfer too many at once.

Everyone: please check your soul counts. One base had over 6000... it's easy to lose track. Remember to keep them below 2000 per map.

Genesis 2 is safe to join again.

Genesis 3: First Landings

jdab — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:58:55 +0000

After our journeys across the cosmos in suspended animation on the colony ship... after our release, and our battle against the final Rockwell... we survivors found ourselves in charge of an old colony ship filled with homeless souls.

At the bridge, we receive a distress signal from another Colony Ship in the Fleet. This was the first ship to have set sail across the universe... and the first ship to have found an inhabitable planet.

We do not know how old this distress signal is... but we must follow it.

We have arrived in orbit around Pandora - the planet that these early survivors colonised.

Will they still be alive? Is their colony thriving.. or have they perished on a hostile world.

Descend onto Pandora... now it is our turn to colonise this world.

Welcome... to Genesis 3: First Landings.

Your modpack can be found here.

Some notes: only spawn on Pandora... do not spawn on Boneless, or you'll need to kill yourself. Don't carry more than needed into the marketplace... there's a feature - if someone else joins you'll crash... (we'll work this out as we go)

Good luck survivors... your adventure awaits.

March quest is now live

jdab — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:51:19 +0000

The next quest is now live.

From now on, Quests will run from the 15th to the 15th of each month... so this will close on the 15th April.

These take a lot of effort to put together, and month-end is just too much.