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Genesis Chronicles
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, 
HLN-A will radiate a pulse of light and start talking.
- Genesis Chronicles I
HLN-A Discovery #1 (The Island) - Found in the Lava Cave (68.7, 85.9).- HLN-A Discovery #2 (The Island) - Found in the Upper South Cave (70.4, 59.3).
- HLN-A Discovery #3 (The Island) - Found in the Snow Cave (27.9, 27.6).
- HLN-A Discovery #4 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Old Tunnels (56.5, 44.7).
- HLN-A Discovery #5 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Ruins of Nosti (76.7, 79.6).
- Genesis Chronicles II
- HLN-A Discovery #6 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Northern Canyons (40.3, 47.8).
- HLN-A Discovery #7 (Scorched Earth) - Found in the Southern East Badlands (57.0, 56.2).
- HLN-A Discovery #8 (Aberration) - Found in the Luminous Marshlands (37.1, 60.3).
- HLN-A Discovery #9 (Aberration) - Found in The Spine (68.0, 66.0).
- HLN-A Discovery #10 (Aberration) - Found in the Mushroom Forest (27.8, 46.7).
- Genesis Chronicles III
- HLN-A Discovery #11 (Aberration) - Found in The Surface - Northeast (28.1, 76.2).
- HLN-A Discovery #12 (Extinction) - Found in The Sweeping Spires (84.8, 16.1).
- HLN-A Discovery #13 (Extinction) - Found in the Wasteland (27.8, 16.0).
- HLN-A Discovery #14 (Extinction) - Found in the Forbidden Zone (13.3, 57.5).
- HLN-A Discovery #15 (Extinction) - Found in The Trench (53.4, 76.5).
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 |
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ARK: Happy New Year! | January 1st, 2022 | January 1st, 2022 |
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ARK: Love Evolved 3 | February 9th, 2022 | February 16th, 2022 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 7 | April 11th, 2022 | April 25th, 2022 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Happy New Year! | January 1st, 2021 | January 1st, 2021 |
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ARK: Love Evolved 2 | February 11th, 2021 | February 18th, 2021 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 6 | March 31st, 2021 | April 14th, 2021 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2021 | June 30th, 2021 | July 21st, 2021 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 5 | October 26th, 2021 | November 9th, 2021 |
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ARK: Extra Life 2021 | November 6th, 2021 | November 7th, 2021 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 5 | November 23rd, 2021 | December 7th, 2021 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 6 | December 14th, 2021 | January 6th, 2022 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Love Evolved | February 11th, 2020 | February 18th, 2020 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 5 | April 7th, 2020 | April 21st, 2020 |
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ARK: 5th Anniversary | June 11th, 2020 | June 24th, 2020 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2020 | June 25th, 2020 | July 21st, 2020 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 4 | October 22nd, 2020 | November 6th, 2020 |
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Genesis 2 Chronicles | November 7th, 2020 | March 24th, 2021 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 4 | November 24th, 2020 | December 8th, 2020 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 5 | December 17th, 2020 | January 7th, 2021 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 4 | February 12th, 2019 | February 18th, 2019 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 4 | April 16th, 2019 | April 30th, 2019 |
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ARK: Summer Bash 2019 | July 2nd, 2019 | July 19th, 2019 |
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Genesis Chronicles | October 10th, 2019 | February 25th, 2020 |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 3 | October 22nd, 2019 | November 5th, 2019 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 3 | November 19th, 2019 | December 6th, 2019 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 4 | December 18th, 2019 | January 7th, 2020 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 3 | February 13th, 2018 | February 16th, 2018 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure 3 | March 29th, 2018 | April 10th, 2018 |
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ARK: ARKaeology | June 15th, 2018 | July 17th, 2018 |
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Extinction Chronicles | June 19th, 2018 | November 6th, 2018 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 3 | December 18th, 2018 | January 7th, 2019 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day 2 | February 12th, 2017 | February 20th, 2017 |
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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 |
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ARKs Two Year Anniversary | June 2nd, 2017 | June 5th, 2017 |
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The Witches Curse | October 30th, 2017 | November 1st, 2017 |
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Holiday Event | December 23rd, 2017 | January 1st, 2018 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Valentine's Day | February 14th, 2016 | February 22nd, 2016 |
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ARK: Eggcellent Adventure | March 25th, 2016 | March 31st, 2016 |
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ARK: Survival Devolved | April 1st, 2016 | April 2nd, 2016 |
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ARK: Awesome Anniversary | June 2nd, 2016 | June 13th, 2016 |
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ARKdependence Day | July 3rd, 2016 | ? |
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ARK: Fear Evolved 2 | October 28th, 2016 | November 6th, 2016 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial 2 | November 15th, 2016 for Xbox November 24th, 2016 for PC |
December 1st, 2016 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland 2 | December 23th, 2016 | December 30th, 2016 |
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New Year's on ARK | December 31st, 2016 | January 1st, 2017 |
| Image | Event | Start Date | End Date |
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ARK: Fear Evolved | October 28th, 2015 | November 5th, 2015 |
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ARK: Turkey Trial | November 25th, 2015 | December 1st, 2015 |
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ARK: Winter Wonderland | December 22, 2015 | January 5th, 2016 |
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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, Rock Elemental, and 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 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 and Rockwell when describing 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.
Gallery[]
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ARK: Fear Evolved
ARK: Turkey Trial
ARK: Winter Wonderland
ARK: New Year's
ARK: Love Evolved
ARK: Eggcellent Adventure
Other Holidays
ARK: Awesome Anniversary
ARK: Summer Bash
ARK: Extra Life
Other Events
2015 Tournaments
2016 Tournaments