Discord Banner Competition 5 – Caves
The winner for the fifth Discord server banner competition is Soph (UnicornDust)! The topic was caves. Here is Soph’s winning entry:
Discord Banner Competition 4 – Colour
The winner for the fourth Discord server banner competition is Eldyo! The topic was colour and vibrancy. Here is Eldyo’s winning entry:
Loss of inventory bug
There’s an old ark bug that seems to have resurfaced a lot lately – people logging in with their inventory gone, and/or logging in dead with inventory lost. We strongly recommend at the moment, that everyone put their inventory away before logging off. We can’t recover items lost to ARK bugs. Obviously this is a…
Discord Banner Competition 2 – The Fight for Survival
The winner for the second Discord server banner competition is FOXShadowOps! The topic was the fight for survival. Here is Sam’s winning entry:
Discord Banner Competition 1 – Landscapes
The winner for the very first Discord server banner competition is Epic_Fail! The topic was landscapes. Here is Epic’s winning entry:
A fresh start for The Friendly Server
Originally posted by Phokxx in The Friendly Server’s Discord. We have the most amazing community in gaming – without question. You folks, are incredible. I have never seen any other server with a community as incredible as what we have here. The Friendly Server is special – it’s worth fighting for. It’s worth taking risks…
Full update on Ragnarok crashes
A month ago – our Ragnarok map started crashing and failing to save, with no indication of a cause. Literally hundreds of hours of testing between a team of 5+ admins got the map stable and returned. We eliminated the hardware, the operating system, the base game files, the mod files. The problem was in…
Crystal Isles down for maintenance
On Tuesday 25th May (next Tuesday), there will be scheduled maintenance taking place at the datacentre to replace a top-of-rack switch with newer generation hardware. We have one box in that rack, which is currently hosting Crystal Isles. The maintenance will begin at 7am GMT+1 (UK time) is expected to last approximately 1 hour. All…
Ragnarok back open
Background On 3rd May, Ragnarok crashed. Overnight it crashed multiple times – indicating something wrong. Initial measure included reinstalling all mods, running a steam patch/validation, wiping beehives, running windows updates, rebooting the server machine, and running checks with the datacenter. After this…. we temporality whitelisted Ragnarok for investigation. Investigation Since then, myself, jdab, JR, Eldyo…
The Friendly Server celebrates its third birthday!
Tomorrow is the 3rd birthday of The Friendly Server! I think we should celebrate! So, from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow night, ARK Unmodded: Double Harvesting and Double Taming ARK Main Cluster: Double Harvesting (excludes Extinction), Double Taming, Boosted Rare Sightings (higher levels, more sightings) Conan Exiles: Double Harvesting, Double Kill XP HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRIENDLY…