[h1]Survivor, Ebrim asks, “Are bleeding and disease/infection mechanics something that is being planned for the future?”[/h1] Answer: Yes! This is something we definitely want to include in the ARK world. In fact, we’re working on it right now and hopefully you’ll be able to see the fruits of our labour in a few weeks. We actually spoke about this a little while back, during a twitch stream! We’re increasing the variety of things that can happen to you if you don’t look after yourself! There could be some potential “long term” illnesses, such as catching the flu if you’re hypothermic for too long, or getting heatstroke and hallucinating! Definitely something we think would be cool and want to work for ARK. Of course with this there will be new added items and tonics to help counter these effects! [h1]Survivor, Jon1812 asks, “When will private property be integrated into the game? Currently if you have a tribe you have to share everything with your tribe. At least having pin codes work for anyone other than the creator would be nice…”[/h1] Answer: This Friday! The release of our epic Jurassic ARK content patch will include: [b]Tribe Governance Features: Do you want to be a full utopian Communist where everything is shared, rapacious Capitalists with absolute private property, or something in between?[/b] [h1]Survivor, Vantus asks, “Will mounts be able to walk backwards?”[/h1] Answer: Yes! Fairly soon. We’ve just gotta finish working on the animation and with that we’re planning on a full “realism” second animation pass in the future as well! This will help enhance the feeling of movement and weight. [h1]Survivor, Creesball asks, “Multi-Person mounts?”[/h1] Answer: Straight and to the point: Yes :) [h1]Survivor, awsomepizzaman asks, “How will we explore the depths of the ocean? Scuba Equipment maybe?[/h1] Answer: There are plenty of options available to you to help explore the depths of the vast and mysterious ocean which surrounds the ARK! Survivors are equipped with an oxygen stat, you’ve got creatures that can be tamed to provide assistance, special food that you can cook which will give you an added benefit when going down-under and of course, we’ll be implementing Scuba gear! [h1]Survivor, peng asks, “Will a "sleep" mode for DIno's be added? It's difficult to be a player who only plays on weekends and plays alone as Dino's you time are likely to starve to death before you return. A sleep mode where the Dino does not consume food but is also practically unconscious would be very helpful and useful IMO[/h1] Answer: This is actually a very good idea! We’re going to look into it, and most likely do it soon :). [h1]Closing thoughts[/h1] That’s it for this week’s ARK Digest guys! Thanks for tuning in and hopefully you’ve walked away learning something new about the game :). We really appreciate all the support that’s been shown and you can expect some big things.. real soon. We mean it. In fact.. Let’s just say, tomorrow you might want to put your creative game designer hats on ;) All the best, Your Community Manager Jat & The ARK Team!