Author Archives: jdab

Fjordur DLC launch FAQs

With the new Fjordur map DLC right around the corner, we’ve compiled a list of the most common questions asked by our server players regarding the launch. Will The Friendly Server be hosting the Fjordur map? Yes! We endeavour to host all official maps and do so on their launch dates. How will Fjordur be…

Genesis 2 is back up

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…

Genesis 3: First Landings

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…

Pancakes Aplenty!

For a chance to win 5 S+ Tek Crop Plots, 1 of each fish/meat R-Seed, an S+ Harvester, ascendant hatchet, pretty-painted Phiomia, 2 Dung Beetles and an S+ Dedicated Storage filled with gasoline, make a custom consumable recipe in ARK that gives the most benefit for the cheapest ingredients! There are a couple of requirements:…

Lost Island screenshot competition

We would like some gorgeous landscape images of Lost Island… both for the banner, and for the website. Please could you take some pictures of Lost Island and post here.. something iconic to the map (not builds/people though). Could be interesting landscapes, gorgeous vistas, interesting ruins, boss arenas, map-specific dinos etc. All entries should be…