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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic project

A PvE cluster built by its players, for its players: our own plugins, our own mod, a real in-game economy.

Mesozoic is not an ARK server that was "set up and forgotten". It is a project under constant development, with one simple idea: everything you do in game counts, and the tools that make it possible are built in house.

What we build ourselves

Rather than stacking third-party plugins and mods we don't control, we write our own. Every tool is tested on a separate map before it reaches the cluster, and it is fixed as soon as a player reports a problem.

  • MesoRewards: the heart of the project. It turns your actions in game into Mesocoins and runs the quests.
  • MesoUtilities: the convenience commands (/feed, /grow, /dupli, /rename, /sdc...) and the tokens that go with them.
  • MesoLink: links your character to the website automatically on your first login, nothing to type.
  • MesoPermissions, MesoTokenBank, MesoChat, MesoDinoLevels, MesoAutoEngrams: staff rights, tokens, cross-map chat, wild dino levels, automatic unlock of every engram.
  • The Mesocoin mod: the copper, silver and gold coins in your inventory, and soon the Mesozoic Market and the Quest Board built on top of them.

Mesocoins: a real economy

Mesocoins cannot be bought. You earn them by playing:

  • Harvesting, crafting, hunting: every action pays, with an hourly cap so nobody runs away with it.
  • Quests: daily, weekly and permanent, for every level.
  • Loot: some creatures, crates and bosses drop coins.
  • Genesis: missions pay in Mesocoins, not in hexagons.
  • In a tribe: the coins of an action are shared with the tribe members around you.

And you spend them between players, at the market, or by selling them to the in-game shop for points. The details (what pays, what doesn't, the caps) are in the guide Earning Mesocoins.

How it moves forward

  • A test map (Island Test) gets every new feature first. Everyone is welcome to come and try it.
  • Player feedback is the roadmap: an imbalance reported on Discord is usually fixed the same day.
  • Nightly restart around 6 am, wild dino wipe at 8 am with in-game warnings, map saves every 30 minutes.
  • The shop pays for the machines and the development, nothing else. A pass gives comfort (tokens, coin multiplier), never an advantage you cannot get by playing.

What's coming

  • The Mesozoic Market: buy and sell between players, in Mesocoins, with our own interface.
  • The Quest Board: missions to pick up on a structure, with coin rewards.
  • The Genesis vendors in Mesocoins, with the coin shown instead of the hexagon.
  • And whatever you ask for on Discord.

Want to know how it all works in detail? That's what the guides are for. Got an idea? So is the Discord.