If you're an Ark: Survival Evolved fan, you'll know that the wilds of the action-adventure game's regular servers can be a challenging place to tackle. To help bring newbies aboard, the game features beginner servers with lower difficulty and various limits, but to keep them ship-shape for their purpose, Studio Wildcard routinely wipes them clean. And, if you're playing on them or thinking of getting into Ark, it's worth knowing when these wipes will happen. The survival game's developer has just announced its latest beginner server wipe has now taken place (as of January 26), and that the next one's due to arrive in spring - March 23, to be exact. "These servers will be wiped periodically to help provide a fresh beginner experience for new players," the dev says on Twitter, explaining to newcomers that you can hop into a beginner server by searching "beginner" in the multiplayer game's server browser. If you're new to the game, it's worth noting that jumping in fresh just after a server wipe has happened can be a good way to get stuck into it for the first time. As SW explains in a previous dev post, "beginner official servers are an experience for new ARK players to test the waters without the threat of thoroughly developed tribes". Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best survival games on PC Ark: Survival Evolved devs are piloting a new community feature showing what players get up to Ark: Survival Evolved expansion includes new story missions and David Tennant