Genesis Chronicles

Genesis Chronicles
Event
Organizer	Studio Wildcard
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, 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

• Corrupted Avatar Helmet Skin

Genesis Chronicles II

• Corrupted Avatar Boots Skin
• Corrupted Avatar Pants Skin

Genesis Chronicles III

• Corrupted Avatar Gloves Skin
• Corrupted Avatar Shirt Skin

Calendar

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Happy New Year!	January 1st, 2021	January 1st, 2021
	ARK: Love Evolved 2	February 11th, 2021	February 18th, 2021

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

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

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

Image	Event	Start Date	End Date
	ARK: Valentine's Day 2	February 12th, 2017	February 20th, 2017
	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
	ARKs Two Year Anniversary	June 2nd, 2017	June 5th, 2017
	The Witches Curse	October 30th, 2017	November 1st, 2017
	Holiday Event	December 23rd, 2017	January 1st, 2018

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

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

Notes

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.