These are the changes of ARK: Survival Evolved’s Patch 179.0, grouped into categories for clarity. If not otherwise indicated, they’re quoted from the relevant Steam Thread.

Game Changes

• Only Wood, Thatch, and Stone required for Stone Walls/StoneFoundation now
• All pipes are now considered “foundation” and will not fall apart if a piece is destroyed

Server Features

• Server admins can now adjust the following values:
  • The Amount of overall dinos
  • The damage & resistance of tamed vs untamed dinos respectively
  • The relative weight of each dino species and maximum caps of each dino species per zone
  • The speed of taming
  • The speed of harvesting and a multiplier for how much resources are earned (overall, not per resource yet)
  • The amounts of player and dino stamina draining respectively
  • The amounts of player and dino food draining respectively
  • The amounts of player water draining
  • The speed of player and dino natural health recoveries
  • The time of Structure open-demolish on PvE (soon this will be per-structure class, but currently is global)

Bugfixes

• Fixed problem connecting to various servers, was a silly data networking mismatch
• Fixed issue with player growing… large… upon falling unconscious from dino such as Turtle (very amusing 😉
• Spawn Point UI will no longer improperly list buttons for beds that are on cooldown

(Original Announcement on Steam)

Here are the patchnotes of the previous patch (178.2)