ARK: Survival Evolved - Nintendo eShop EUROPE Digital Key
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a
mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items,
grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements.
Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs
and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on
hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Dinosaurs, Creatures, & Breeding! -- over 100+ creatures can be tamed using a
challenging capture-&-affinity process, involving weakening a feral creature to
knock it unconscious, and then nursing it back to health with appropriate food.
Once tamed, you can issue commands to your tames, which it may follow depending
on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Tames, which can continue to level-up
and consume food, can also carry Inventory and Equipment such as Armor, carry
prey back to your settlement depending on their strength, and larger tames can
be ridden and directly controlled! Fly a Pterodactyl over the snow-capped
mountains, lift allies over enemy walls, race through the jungle with a pack of
Raptors, tromp through an enemy base along a gigantic brontosaurus, or chase
down prey on the back of a raging T-Rex! Take part in a dynamic ecosystem
life-cycle with its own predator & prey hierarchies, where you are just one
creature among many species struggling for dominance and survival. Tames can
also be mated with the opposite gender, to selectively breed successive
generations using a trait system based on recombinant genetic inheritance. This
process includes both egg-based incubation and mammalian gestation lifecycles!
Or put more simply, raise babies!
You must eat and drink to survive, with different kinds of plants & meat having
different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of
fresh water to your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical
actions come at a cost of food and water, long-distance travel is fraught with
subsistence peril! Inventory weight makes you move slower, and the day/night
cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge by
altering the temperature of the environment, causing you to hunger or thirst
more quickly. Build a fire or shelter, and craft a large variety of customizable
clothing & armors, to help protect yourself against locational damage & extreme
temperatures using the dynamic indoor/outdoor insulation calculation system!
By chopping down forests full of trees and mining metal and other precious
resources, you can craft the parts to build massive multi-leveled structures
composed of complex snap-linked parts, including ramps, beams, pillars, windows,
doors, gates, remote gates, trapdoors, water pipes, faucets, generators, wires
and all manner of electrical devices, and ladders among many other types.
Structures have a load system to fall apart if enough support has been
destroyed, so reinforcing your buildings is important. All structures and items
can be painted to customize the look of your home, as well as placing
dynamically per-pixel paintable signs, textual billboards, and other decorative
objects. Shelter reduces the extremes of weather and provides security for
yourself and your stash! Weapons, clothing & armor gear can also be painted to
express your own visual style.
Pick seeds from the wild vegetation around you, plant them in plots that you lay
down, water them and nurture them with fertilizer (everything poops after
consuming calories, which can then be composted, and some fertilizer is better
than others). Tend to your crops and they will grow to produce delicious and
rare fruits, which can also be used to cook a plethora of logical recipes and
make useful tonics! Explore to find the rarest of plant seeds that have the most
powerful properties! Vegetarians & vegans can flourish, and it will be possible
to master and conquer the ARK in a non-violent manner!
By bringing sufficient rare sacrificial items to special Summon locations, you
can capture the attention of the one of the ARK’s god-like mythical creatures,
who will arrive for battle. These gargantuan monstrosities provide an end-game
goal for the most experienced groups of players and their armies of tames, and
will yield extremely valuable progression items if they are defeated.
Create a Tribe and add your friends to it, and all your tames can be commanded
by and allied to anyone in your Tribe. Your Tribe will also be able to respawn
at any of your home spawn points. Promote members to Tribe Admins to reduce the
burden of management. Distribute key items and pass-codes to provide access your
shared village!
All items are crafted from Blueprints that have variable statistics and
qualities, and require corresponding resources. More remote and harsh locales
across the ARK tend to have better resources, including the tallest mountains,
darkest caves, and depths of the ocean! Level-Up your play
