ARK: Survival Ascended

ARK 10 Year Anniversary event is now live!

Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding "-Activeevent=birthday" into their commandline

Added a drop-down option to enable Active Events in Host/Single-Player mode under Game Rules > Rules

More info can be found here

ClubARK has received a new tropical makeover for the anniversary celebration!

Migrated from Unreal Engine 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.5 to improve Ark's foundation towards better performance, stability, and visual quality

Individual DLC maps are now able to be installed and uninstalled separately from the base game

Added Single Player Backup Saves (beta)

Create, restore, and auto-generate backups across all platforms

Added a new “Performance Only” graphics preset on PC, which disables certain features to boost frame-rate at the cost of visual quality

Dino QOL (as inspired by AvianApexY of Curiosity)

Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously

Wild creatures will sometimes play animations

Added returning structure: Egg Incubator

Added new structure pieces, variants and skins:

Thatch (30)

Barn Door, Cellar Door, Double Door, Double Doorway, Fence Foundation, Fence Support, Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Hanger Door, Hatchframe, Ladder, Pillar & Beam, Quarter Ceiling, Quarter Foundation, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Quarter Wall, Ramp, Ramp Corner, Railings, Shallow Sloped Wall, Staircase, Thin Pillar, Trapdoor, Triangle Ceiling, Triangle Foundation

Wood, Stone, Metal (30)

Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

Adobe, Tek (22)

Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Inverted Quarter Roof, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

BTT’s Frontier Showdown, Steampunk Ascent, Wasteland War (30)

Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Extinction ascension cinematic

Fixed several ground conforming issues with various creatures

Fixed several creatures and saddles having messed up LODs at low graphic settings

Prevented the Aquatic trait from appearing on flyers (when bAllowFlyerDinoSubmerging is false)

Fixed “Join Last Session” sometimes not working as intended

Fixed inability to “drop all” on a creature inventory when the player’s inventory is slot capped

Fixed lots of structure lights causing shadow flickering

Fixed water flickering after transferring a character to a different server

Fixed Snow Owl’s dive bomb impacting mid air with a Companion equipped

Fixed various visual issues with the preview window while painting a structure

Fixed Pyromane not becoming doused from touching water after teleporting out of a Vacuum chamber

Fixed visual artifacting when using spyglass and scuba helmet

Fixed Industrial Cooking Pot gaining water without irrigation

Fixed gamepad inability to rotate on the spot with a Tuso, now works with A/X

Fixed Reaper and Basilisk bury mounts not matching the terrain

Fixed Biogrinder not providing mutton when grinding Ovis

Fixed Extinction’s Sunken Forest location where creatures would spawn in the mesh