Ever since its release on February 11 this year, Lost Ark has gained massive popularity worldwide. Within a day of its release, the game had become the second most played game on Steam.

The MMORPG focuses mostly on PvE and exploration, but for those interested, features some PvP action as well.

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Having said that, we at PiunikaWeb have covered several issues such as broken or unfair matchmaking and many experiencing micro-stutters, FPS drops and performance problems.

And as it turns out, Lost Ark players are now reporting (1,2,3,4,5) that the Stronghold Lab secondary research slot is missing after the March 3 update.

Many said they tried restarting the game and verifying files but nothing works. You can see in the image below that the secondary research slot in Stronghold Lab is missing and greyed out.

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After last night’s maintenance, my stronghold’s second research slot appears to be missing. An alternate possibility, I believe I had two things researching when the servers went down. One should be finished, and indeed the screen tells me research complete, but I can’t “accept” it because the one that’s displaying actually does have ~3 hours left. I see at least 2 others in the area chat with the same issue. Character Deuvult, server Enviska (NA West).
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Can’t find my second research slot progress (stronghold)
Recently I acquired the second research slot for my stronghold. But now when trying to obtain the research that I did in that second slot, it’s nowhere there. My grid says there’s only 1 slot, the research that I’m doing randomly says it’s already complete, but I can’t find anywhere where the completed research is.
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Thankfully, the developers have acknowledged the issue and said it is under investigation.

Greetings to all! Yes we are already aware of this issue, you can refer to this message posted by @Roxx As soon as this issue is resolved we’ll inform you! Thank You so much for your time, patience and support We’ll see you in Arkesia!
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In the meantime, a user-reported workaround seems to be helping some. It involves changing the drop-down from Available to All Research. Players can then use the second slot as intended.

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We hope Lost Ark developers soon find out the root cause of the problem and fix it in the coming days.

Rest assured, we will be keeping tabs on the matter and update this article as and when we come across more information so stay tuned to PiunikaWeb.

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Anurag Chawake
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My fascination with technology and computers goes back to the days of Windows XP. Since then, I have been tinkering with OS, mobile phones, and other things. When I am not working on anything, you will find me enjoying video games on some Discord server.

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