I've been kinda inactive when it comes to ARK but I heard that they're increasing the harvest, taming, and xp rates by 2x. This is honestly a great change but I was wondering if the rates for the speedrun should be turned down accordingly. The only one that'd need turning down would probably be harvest due to the rest being 1,000,000,000 but that's down to preference by the mods ig. But yeah, I've wanted to do another run for a bit but this has me wondering about everything, thanks!

When ARK devs increased the harvest, taming, and xp rates by 2x? Is that mean that on default x1 settings in singleplayer you will pick up 2 stones instead 1? Or that changes was on official servers?

Basically, when you pick up a stone at 1x you used to get 1 rock, but they upped it so at 1x you pick up 2 rocks. But with this recent update it went from 2 rocks to 4 rocks (I believe). So a simple dividing gather rate in half would resolve the issue

Just now i begin my trainings on default settings runs on Island, Scorched Earts and Aberration maps. Setting "Use Single Player Settings" is defaulted on in single player in ARK and it increases all of your multipliers: Taming Speed: 2.5 XP Multiplier: 2 Egg Hatch Speed: 10 Baby Mature Speed: 36.799

I still pick up 1 stone. But on default settings run now we can use Eggs ... omg.

Holy crap. I read ARK news.

Official Rates Increase:

"With the major update on Tuesday, August 25th, we'll be doubling the fun by doubling the Official Rates across PC, Xbox and PS4 as standard, along with some changes to our specialty servers. From the next major version, Official Server rates will now have increased default rates for Harvesting, Taming, and XP. What was previously ‘2x rates’ prior to today, will now become the new base rate (1x).

The increased 2x rates will be implemented directly in the game build itself. This means that Non-Dedicated Servers, Single Player Sessions and of course Unofficial Servers will also feel the increased rates. Therefore, if you’re currently using customized rates, it’s something you will want to keep in mind before this change is in place -- specifically upon the release of the next Major Version on each of your respective platforms, you may wish to reduce your server/game rates by 50% to have the same effective values as before.

Official rates will be adjusted accordingly:

Standard Official Servers: 1x harvesting, taming, and XP (which is equivalent to 4x when considering our old values) Small Tribes Servers: Smalls will have their taming, harvesting, and XP changed to 2.5x (which is equivalent to 5x when considering our old values) Apocalypse Servers: These will remain at 3x harvesting, taming, and XP (which is equivalent to 6x when considering our old values)"

Now we have no one completed run on default or official settings. That is good. But we already have some runs with boosted rates (Easy mode). When new patch will come out, i will change rates in rules. I want to make the same rates for all run modes as before.

Ok, that answers my question perfectly. Thanks!