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Genesis Chronicles
Genesis Chronicles
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Start date
October 10th, 2019
End date
February 25th, 2020

The Genesis Chronicles were a series of routine content drops that added new Explorer Notes and Skins related to the DLC Genesis: Part 1. It ran from October 10th, 2019 until February 25th, 2020.

Gameplay Changes[]

Explorer Notes[]

The Genesis Chronicles adds in multiple Explorer Notes connected to Genesis: Part 1. When a Note has been discovered, Mini-HLNA Skin (Genesis Part 1) HLN-A will radiate a pulse of light and start talking.

Genesis Chronicles I
Genesis Chronicles II
Genesis Chronicles III

Unique Skins[]

The Genesis Chronicles adds in new, unique skins related to Genesis: Part 1, obtainable by unlocking Genesis-related Explorer Notes.

Genesis Chronicles I
Genesis Chronicles II
Genesis Chronicles III

Calendar[]

Image Event Start Date End Date
Happy New Year ARK: Happy New Year! January 1st, 2022 January 1st, 2022
ARK Love Evolved 3 ARK: Love Evolved 3 February 9th, 2022 February 16th, 2022
Eggcellent Adventure 7 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 7 April 11th, 2022 April 25th, 2022

Image Event Start Date End Date
Happy New Year ARK: Happy New Year! January 1st, 2021 January 1st, 2021
ARK Love Evolved 2 ARK: Love Evolved 2 February 11th, 2021 February 18th, 2021
Eggcellent Adventure 6 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 6 March 31st, 2021 April 14th, 2021
Summer Bash 2021 ARK: Summer Bash 2021 June 30th, 2021 July 21st, 2021
Fear Evolved 5 ARK: Fear Evolved 5 October 26th, 2021 November 9th, 2021
Extra Life 2021 ARK: Extra Life 2021 November 6th, 2021 November 7th, 2021
Turkey Trial 5 ARK: Turkey Trial 5 November 23rd, 2021 December 7th, 2021
ARK WinterWonderland 6 ARK: Winter Wonderland 6 December 14th, 2021 January 6th, 2022

Image Event Start Date End Date
Love Evolved ARK: Love Evolved February 11th, 2020 February 18th, 2020
Eggcellent Adventure 5 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5 April 7th, 2020 April 21st, 2020
5th Anniversary ARK: 5th Anniversary June 11th, 2020 June 24th, 2020
Summer Bash 2020 ARK: Summer Bash 2020 June 25th, 2020 July 21st, 2020
Fear Evolved 4 ARK: Fear Evolved 4 October 22nd, 2020 November 6th, 2020
Genesis 2 Chronicles Genesis 2 Chronicles November 7th, 2020 March 24th, 2021
Turkey Trial 4 ARK: Turkey Trial 4 November 24th, 2020 December 8th, 2020
Winter Wonderland 4 ARK: Winter Wonderland 5 December 17th, 2020 January 7th, 2021

Image Event Start Date End Date
ARK- Valentine's Day 4 ARK: Valentine's Day 4 February 12th, 2019 February 18th, 2019
Eggcellent 4 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 4 April 16th, 2019 April 30th, 2019
Summer Bash 2019 ARK: Summer Bash 2019 July 2nd, 2019 July 19th, 2019
Genesis Chronicles Genesis Chronicles October 10th, 2019 February 25th, 2020
Fear Evolved 3 ARK: Fear Evolved 3 October 22nd, 2019 November 5th, 2019
Turkey Trial 3 ARK: Turkey Trial 3 November 19th, 2019 December 6th, 2019
Winter Wonderland 4 ARK: Winter Wonderland 4 December 18th, 2019 January 7th, 2020

Image Event Start Date End Date
Valentine 2 ARK: Valentine's Day 3 February 13th, 2018 February 16th, 2018
Eggcellent 3 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3 March 29th, 2018 April 10th, 2018
ARKaeology ARK: ARKaeology June 15th, 2018 July 17th, 2018
Extinction Chronicles Extinction Chronicles June 19th, 2018 November 6th, 2018
Ark Winter Wonderland ARK: Winter Wonderland 3 December 18th, 2018 January 7th, 2019

Image Event Start Date End Date
Valentine 2 ARK: Valentine's Day 2 February 12th, 2017 February 20th, 2017
Eggcellent 2 ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 2 April 15th, 2017 for PC
April 26th, 2017 for Xbox & PS4
April 22nd, 2017 for PC
March 3rd, 2017 for Xbox & PS4
AwesomeAnniversary ARKBirthdaySuit ARKs Two Year Anniversary June 2nd, 2017 June 5th, 2017
The Witches Curse The Witches Curse October 30th, 2017 November 1st, 2017
Holiday Event Holiday Event December 23rd, 2017 January 1st, 2018

Image Event Start Date End Date
Valentine ARK: Valentine's Day February 14th, 2016 February 22nd, 2016
Eggcellent ARK: Eggcellent Adventure March 25th, 2016 March 31st, 2016
Survival Devolved ARK: Survival Devolved April 1st, 2016 April 2nd, 2016
Ark Awesome Anniversary ARK: Awesome Anniversary June 2nd, 2016 June 13th, 2016
ARKdependence ARKdependence Day July 3rd, 2016 ?
Fear Evolved 2 ARK: Fear Evolved 2 October 28th, 2016 November 6th, 2016
ARK- Turkey Trial ARK: Turkey Trial 2 November 15th, 2016 for Xbox
November 24th, 2016 for PC
December 1st, 2016
Ark Winter Wonderland ARK: Winter Wonderland 2 December 23th, 2016 December 30th, 2016
New Year's New Year's on ARK December 31st, 2016 January 1st, 2017

Image Event Start Date End Date
ARK- Fear Evolved ARK: Fear Evolved October 28th, 2015 November 5th, 2015
ARK- Turkey Trial ARK: Turkey Trial November 25th, 2015 December 1st, 2015
Ark Winter Wonderland ARK: Winter Wonderland December 22, 2015 January 5th, 2016
Ball Drop ARK: Happy First (Half) Year! December 31st, 2015 January 1st, 2016

Notes[]

These are what the explorer notes for these chronicles are summarized as and how they are described in the Genesis: Part 1 Lore and lore of previous maps.

Genesis Chronicles 1[]

  • Discovery #1 notes on HLNA following the survivor as a way for it to "understand" Helena.
    • In Genesis: Part 2 Chronicles, it is revealed that Helena copied all of her memories into HLN-A.
  • Discovery #2's reference to punching trees relates to Minecraft's early game. It mentions that survivors will have to be creative when setting up bases in harsh environments such as volcanoes and oceans. A visual of a survivor punching a dodo, rex and tree with the effectiveness is shown.
    • In Genesis: Part 1, players manage to find ways to build a base in all five of the simulation's biomes.
    • In Genesis; Part 1 and 2, HLN-A notes that the harsh biomes in the simulation is to help train survivors for the Arrival.
  • Discovery #3 claims there is a high fatality rate amongst survivors on the Island- 30% of survivors not making it past the first day; 55% for the first week. Picture of a pile of human bones are shown to support the claim.
    • In Genesis: Part 1, HLN-A notices that the death rate in the Genesis Simulation is exceedingly higher than any known environment.
  • Discovery #4 refers to survivor's habits about taming and hunting the various creatures of Ark. An awkward visual where a tamed raptor sees one of its brethren in a cooking pot.
    • In the Genesis: Part 1 Tidbits, HLN-A reveals that the dinosaurs are genetically engineered all the way down to their behaviors, causing them to be highly obedient. HLN-A refers to taming dinosaurs to show how survivors learn better after a failure than a success.
  • Discovery #5 mentions that the ARK creators had a vast amount of knowledge about past life including mythology, hence the Wyvern Wyvern, Rock Elemental Rock Elemental, and Phoenix Phoenix being present on Scorched Earth. The note has a picture of the Ferox and a mysterious creature.
    • The mysterious creature with multiple eyes ends up being Astrocetus.

Genesis Chronicles 2[]

  • Discovery #6 refers to the survivor's ability to wear different Clothing in order to cope with various temperatures. The typical desert weather decorates the note.
  • Discovery #7 refers to the Magmasaur Magmasaur when talking about a "fire lizard" and how it was originally tested on the Scorched Earth map before being removed. Visuals of the magmasaur being experimented on and of it at different stages of maturation.
  • Discovery #8 talks about the dangerous conditions on Aberration and vaguely refers to Diana and the Tek survivors messing up with the Ark.
  • Discovery #9 refers to the Ferox Ferox and Rockwell Rockwell when describing Element Element. It can turn animals into monsters and the latter describes it infecting minds. A Ferox's metamorphosis is shown.
    • In Genesis: Part 1 lore, HLN-A noted about how Element is a double edged sword in being the means to raising human technology to its pinnacle while also being its nail in the coffin with its corruptive nature.
  • Discovery #10 talks about HLNA being a simple hologram without the capability to fight or hold weapons but merely "short -range scanners, diagnostic software and a charming personality", clearly being an imprint of Helena's personality.
    • In Genesis: Part 1, HLN-A can identify the creatures in the map for you, scan an area for a certain object, and can give cheerful remarks from time to time.

Genesis Chronicles 3[]

  • Discovery #11 talks about whether it is survivors who are using Element or Element using survivors and the dangers of Element adaptation and corruption. A process of a DNA strand being broken up and being fit back together with Element decorates the note.
    • In Aberration before it became the present-day map, the ARK had nodes of Element ore, as if to test what survivors would do with it.
  • Discovery #12 mentions the horrible condition of earth and the ARKs, Homo Deus and the Genesis simulation as methods for humans to escape the Element corruption,wars, and other troubles. The ARKs seem to have been the primary option. HLN-A notes that survivors confront and endure their problems rather than escaping. In the visual, the ARKs are symbolized as a prism, the Genesis simulation as a crystal and Homo Deus is in the middle supplying both.
    • HLN-A summarizing what most people do when are facing troubles is a dark reference to how people today want to escape from today's world: thinking of how to escape through space travel, virtual worlds, and many other methods. All of these methods is to find a way to escape a world that is being ripped apart by violence, wars, corruption, pollution, natural and artificial disasters, and dissolved human values.
    • In Genesis: Part 1 lore, HLN-A noted that the URE and Terran Federation fought a great war that caused both sides to exhaust each other.
  • Discovery #13 potentially foreshadows humans being extinct on Earth, excluding survivors and others, and that they were around at the time when Element has started to spread. It also mentions that there should be a settlement of humans that were present on the barren planet or on a different plane of existence other than the Homo Deus at the time of the Element corruption, such as the Genesis simulation. A visual of multiple nuclear explosions are shown.
  • Discovery #14 refers to lore of the game in which Helena ascended herself to Homo Deus, while her companions, Diana, Mei Yin, and possibly others, sought after a place elsewhere on earth called "Arat Prime" and managed to send Helena into the Genesis simulation. The visual shows a human's point of view entering the realm of Homo Deus and there seems to be no end, a similar view Helena had when she began to ascend.
    • When HLNA mentions Helena's friends, the only ones were Diana and Mei Yin because the Futuristic survivors who were with Mei Yin and Helena were all killed by the King Titan and his minions. For the latter, there could be other human survivors they met along their journey to Arat Prime.
    • Since Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2 takes place on a Terran Federation colony ship, it is uncertain on the connection between it, Arat Prime, and the Genesis Simulation.
  • Discovery #15 , HLNA mentions that Helena made her and then suddenly left the Genesis simulation afterwards. HLN-A is excited that it and the player will pass all of the Genesis Simulation's tests. The visual shows the pieces that will make HLNA.
    • As of the end of Genesis: Part 1, the player passed the test and transitions into Genesis: Part 2 as Rockwell grabs them.

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