ASA Unreal 5.5 Upgrade, Anniversary Event, and Astraeos Update are live!
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ARK: Survival Ascended just got an upgrade with the release of Unreal Engine 5.5, bringing improved performance, many bug fixes and quality of life improvements!
The Astraeos map expands with the new Lemnokis Island, a vast landmass full of new biomes, caves, temples, and even a double miniboss encounter. Explore fresh dangers and hidden secrets across this epic addition.
We’re also kicking off ARK’s 10-Year Anniversary Event with party-ready loot, a returning fan-favorite structure, the Egg Incubator, and a huge selection of new building pieces. And don’t miss the tropical Club ARK makeover, turning the party island into a sunny celebration hub!
Whether you're here for the tech upgrades, new content, or anniversary fun, there’s never been a better time to jump back in.
[h3]v66 (Steam v66, PS5 66, Xbox v66)- Major version for Servers and Clients - 06/02/2025[/h3]
- 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
- Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding "-Activeevent=birthday" into their commandline
- 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
- Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously
- 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
- Thatch (30)
- 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
- Fixed multiple lakes missing water volumes on Extinction
- Fixed several holes leading to the mesh on Extinction
- Fixed Mei Yin’s Note #28 on Extinction being under the mesh
- Fixed missing textures on Extinction
- Fixed water postprocess appearing erroneously on Extinction
- Fixed all of the Titan’s node VFX appearing missing
- Fixed cases where the BattleRig would sink into the mesh on server restart
- Fixed a client crash when entering photo mode after firing a BattleRig Flight seeker missile turret
- Fixed a visual issue with some of the Wasteland Structure skins
- Fixed the cooldown on “training” sometimes getting messed up on Managarmrs after transferring to a different server
- Fixed several creatures that were unable to base on platforms
- Fixed short player character’s legs deforming when walking or running up slopes
- Fixed LOD issues on various Animated Series Pack character skins
- Fixed a visual issue with the Animated Quetz skin
- Fixed Bladewasp Hive visual issue at far distance
- Fixed VFX issues with the Baryonyx and Thylacoleo roar
- Fixed Tek forcefield sometimes appearing to have multiple layers
- Fixed a visual issue with the level up animation on Phoenix
- Fixed Delivery Crate's balloon not visually inflating when deployed
- Fixed Charge Lantern material breaking when painted
- Fixed missing VFX for heat cooldown in some places on the Tek Railgun
- Fixed a visual issue with the Overseer's boulder in the Megapithecus phase
- Fixed several exploits
- Fixed several client crashes
- Fixed several server crashes
[h2]Astraeos Official Release v0.0.6[/h2]
[h3]New Additions[/h3]
- Added New landmass Lemnokis
- A massive new area with big, cold and warm areas. Beaches, redwoods, mountain ridges, temples, new caves and other exciting areas await you!
- Added New area: The Maelstrom
- Added Many new bigger and smaller caves
- Added Aberration fertile cave including Gasveins, Green Gems and aberration fertile biome creatures like Karkinos and Cosmo
- First Double-miniboss: Kalydonios & Erymanthian (Terminal can be found on Lemnokis)
- Added Claypiles for harvesting Clay
- Added Astral Direwolf which drops the same loot as yellow ice cave drops
- Added Astral Mammoth which drops the same loot as red ice cave drops
- Added Gas Veins all over Therokis
[h3]Changes[/h3]
- Adjusted Grassclutter meshes on high distance
- Adjusted Grassclutter density on close distance
- Adjusted Grassclutter colors
- Adjusted Bossfight tribute description
- Adjusted Cedar Tree colors
- Adjusted the lighting in every cave because of the engine upgrade
- Remade the temperature curve on the whole map
- Astral Deinosuchus now drops the same loot as red swamp cave drops
- Astral Megalodon now drops the same loot as yellow underwater cave drops
- Astral Mosasaurus now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops
- Astral Tusoteuthis now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops
- Lightning creatures are now immune to spike wall damage to prevent AFK farming
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- Fixed Meshholes
- Fixed Post process volume issues
- Fixed Physic volume issues
- Fixed a ton of technical issues with materials
- Fixed Missing foliage at some places on Therokis
Common name: Bison
