With a mix of sadness and excitement for the future we will be closing our United QoL cluster and starting a brand new replacement cluster.
Sadness because the cluster has given us 4 years of fond memories, but also a sense of excitement at all the possibilities a reset unlocks for us as a community..
While starting again seems a bit daunting at first, I hope that you will all come along on this exciting journey with us while we wait for Ark 2.0..
The new cluster – Kewee.net reborn
Our replacement cluster will be started in the coming weeks featuring: QoL settings, minimal mods, and regular planned community weekend events
It’s designed to fix the boss & mission imbalance that we have on the current cluster, and hopefully improve performance to reduce the intermittent lag spikes we often experiance
No longer will you need to mutator/stat breed for months to be competitive against the alpha bosses and ascend into your Ark adventure!
The cluster will start with just TheIsland map, and will be expanded in map story order (We’re aiming to add a map approx. every month and a half)
Reborn cluster opening timeline
~server opening dates are approx. The cluster will be expanded as the majority of the community progresses through the maps
| NOW | admin testing configuration |
| February 25 | Kewee.net Reborn TheIsland opening for Public |
| ~April 15 | ScorchedEarth opening for public |
| ~June 3 | Aberration opening for public |
| ~July 15 | Extinction opening for public |
| ~September 2 | Genesis 1 opening for public |
| ~October 14 | Genesis 2 opening for public |
| ~December 2 | Fjordur opening for public |
Servers will open early for VIP players – watch discord for your queue to jump on and secure your base spot
United cluster closing timeline
servers will be closed over the next 3 months based on their popularity/importance to the ARK story..
timeline updated 7/4/23 due to player activity
| March 6 | Valguero & Crystal will close |
| April 15 | Aberration, Extinction, Genesis 1, and Scorched will close |
| June 3 | Fjordur, The Island, Genesis 2, Ragnarok, and Lost Island will close |
| TheCenter VIP |
FAQ
Why are we restarting our cluster?
The united cluster is configured difficulty 10 (max level 300 dinos) with additional 150 post tame levels. This created an unbalance where bosses and some genesis events were unachievable without some serious stat breeding or exploits.. The reborn cluster will be near official settings – difficulty 5 with full time EVO 3x rates and other QoL settings and mods.. this brings all game content accessible to everyone without the breading grind…
What about the other DLC maps on the replacement cluster? (Lost Island, Valguero, Crystal Isle, TheCenter, Ragnarok)
These DLC maps don’t add anything to the core ARK story, and often provide shortcuts or meta’s that break the game (in my opinion) For this reason we’ve opted to leave them out – at least until we’ve run all the story maps.
Why does the United cluster have to close?
Unfortunately keeping the cluster alive would fragment our small community, and we don’t have the physical hardware (or admin energy) to run dual clusters on going. We’ve tried this before with the Classic and United clusters, and found hosting 19+ servers is no fun..
I read ARK 1.0 is getting an Engine upgrade soon, will we have to reset again?
The new cluster is designed with minimal mods, and nothing that if removed would affect us in any way
But Kewee, our tribe has planned to do something and your timeline doesn’t work for us
Get in touch, we’ll see if we can’t accommodate what you’re doing somehow.
