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Ark: Survival Ascended's first expansion recruits the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen for some flashy, anime cutscenes


It seems like no matter where you go, Mappa is right there, ready and waiting with an anime something-or-other you weren't expecting. This time, you'll find the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen in Ark: Survival Ascended, of all places, specifically in its first expansion pack Lost Colony. Studio Wildcard revealed a teaser of the expansion yesterday, set to be released November this year, showing off one of "numerous" anime cutscenes that it will feature focusing on the character Mei Yin.


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Community Crunch 449: Introducing Deinotherium from ARK: Additions!


We’re having a blast bringing more of Garuga123’s ARK: Additions creatures into the base game. They add new challenges, new ways to play, and let’s be real—some absolute units to tame (or run from). These creatures may see some adjustments along the way, but one thing is certain—they're here to leave their mark on the ARK!

The mighty Deinotherium is stomping its way into ARK. Tough, towering, and ready to shake up your world! Better have a game plan.




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Towering over even the largest mammoths, Deinotherium will dominate the open plains on March 26th. Agitate one, and you may find yourself on the receiving end of a devastating charge—but the real danger lies in their ability to rally their allies with powerful, morale-boosting calls, making a single confrontation quickly escalate into an all-out stampede.

Keep up with the development on ARK: Additions in Garuga's Discord!




Journey through the breathtaking landscapes of Astraeos and capture its mythic beauty! Whether you’re a master of in-game photography, an expert builder, or a talented artist, this is your chance to showcase your skills and win exclusive prizes including the ARK: The Animated Series Cosmetic Pack!

  • Entries Open: Friday, March 14th
  • Entries Close: Wednesday, March 25th
  • Winners Announced: Friday, March 28th
  • Screenshots/Vistas – Capture the stunning scenery of Astraeos (or your own beautiful mug).
  • Builds – Show off your most impressive in-game creations.
  • Art – Create original artwork inspired by Astraeos’ landscapes, ruins, creatures and mythology.
  • Category Winners: Receive a copy of ARK: The Animated Series Cosmetic Pack featuring over 75 exclusive skins, including, Mammoth, Tusoteuthis, Spinosaurus, Equus, along with Jane, Chava, Rebel Mei Yin, and New-Armor Mei Yin. Valued at $14.99
  • Grand Prize Runner Up: ARK: The Animated Series Cosmetic Pack plus a Fantastic Tame of your choosing.
  • Grand Prize Winner: All of the prizes above plus your artwork featured as the server banner on the ARK Official Discord for one week!
  • Your submission must be Astraeos-themed.
  • You need to have the rights to the image you submit. No copyrighted material or artwork made by others without consent.
  • One submission per user. No multiple submissions or submissions across multiple categories.
  • Content must follow server rules:
    • No NSFW, derogatory, discriminatory, or disrespectful content.
    • PG-13 only.
    • No AI-generated content.
  • Submit your entry in ⁠the dedicated channels on the Official ARK Discord.
  • Include a brief title or description of your submission.
Unleash your creativity and let Astraeos inspire you! We can't wait to see your submissions.


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Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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Quick update on Black Screen reports we’ve had on console. We found that one of the main causes of black screens when connecting to Astraeos servers was related to how much memory was available when playing on the map. The latest updates on the map resolved the existence of an invalid actor, as well as significantly optimised the map to increase available memory by about 40% across all consoles. This should significantly cut down on crashes while playing in-world and help resolve some issues when connecting to Astraeos servers.

We're still actively looking into reports that might impact other maps and working with platform partners to resolve these cases.




Update on the Official Network: we're still experiencing heavy DDoS attacks and our hosts are aware and are doing everything they can to mitigate them, including working with other external specialists.

We have to be delicate about how much information we share, as too much can make us vulnerable to more attacks, or even just provoke the attacker to go further. It's possible that this message alone could cause us to receive a heavier attack.

The teams working on this are doing everything they can to mitigate the attacks and keep the servers online and some excellent progress has been made over the last week. We’re unlikely to share much going forward outside of alerts when an attack has disrupted services but rest assured it’ll continue to remain a top priority for the teams and partners involved.

Appreciate folks understanding the complexity of this situation.
As a token of our gratitude, we are extending the triple rates for the Official Network until Wednesday, March 19.



Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for "Expire" in the session filter.

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on March 24th. We're preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto a new map temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on March 24th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.

As a token of our gratitude for your patience during the server stability issues, we are extending the triple rates for the Official Network until Wednesday, March 19.

  • PVP/PVE: 3x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
  • Small Tribes: 5.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 5x Breeding
  • ARKpocalypse: 6x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding


Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form



Creator: Xeridae
Xeridae attempts to survive 100 days conquering Scorched Earth with only one life.
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Creator: Chasun_
Make your very own Hobbit base with the help of Chasun!
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Bulbdog by @k3zk_627


Spoon by jammacle


Neo with his Tek Parasaur and Trinity with her raptor by cheshiregengarart


DLC Design by @dudziari


^-^ by KOKOC


Dodorex Funko custom by Moocow4life


Cyber Parasaur by Mon-ban-Delta




Photo Mode by godzilla402


Titan Trophy by @walken_a


Photo Mode by nesvog


Photo Mode by acq.mp3


War for the Wastes by cosmicman5455


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Community Crunch 448: ARK The Animated Series Cosmetic Pack Coming Soon!


Last week, Megaraptor took the crown in the latest community creature vote and will be stomping its way onto Valguero when the map launches in ARK: Survival Ascended later this year. While you wait, a new animated skin pack is on the horizon, giving you more ways to customize your ARK with a fresh new look.



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Get ready to complete your animated collection on March 26th! This massive pack is packed with a vibrant lineup of creatures and characters, ensuring you're well on your way to a full set of skins based on the ARK The Animated Series. Soon, you’ll be able to bring stunning new animated looks to your ARK and create your own adventures—all for $14.99!

This pack includes...
  • Jane
  • Chava
  • Rebel Mei Yin
  • New-Armor Mei Yin

Creature Skins:
  • Anglerfish
  • Araneo
  • Archaeopteryx
  • Baryonyx
  • Basilosaurus
  • Carbonemys
  • Castoroides
  • Chalicotherium
  • Compy
  • Dimetrodon
  • Dire Bear
  • Dung Beetle
  • Electrophorus
  • Gallimimus
  • Giant Bee
  • Hesperornis
  • Hyaenodon
  • Kaprosuchus
  • Lystrosaurus
  • Megalosaurus
  • Megatherium
  • Mosasaurus
  • Onyc
  • Ovis
  • Pachyrhinosaurus
  • Pegomastax
  • Pelagornis
  • Piranha
  • Procoptodon
  • Purlovia
  • Rhyniognatha
  • Terror Bird
  • Titanoboa
  • Titanosaur
  • Troodon
  • Tusoteuthis
  • Woolly Rhino
  • Achatina
  • Allosaurus
  • Arthropluera
  • Beelzebufo
  • Carcharodontosaurus
  • Carnotaurus
  • Coelacanth
  • Dilo
  • Dimorphodon
  • Diplocaulus
  • Diplodocus
  • Direwolf
  • Dunkleosteus
  • Equus
  • Ichthyornis
  • Ichthyosaurus
  • Iguanodon
  • Kairuku
  • Kentrosaurus
  • Mammoth
  • Manta
  • Megaloceros (Male + Female)
  • Megalodon
  • Microraptor
  • Moschops
  • Oviraptor
  • Pachy
  • Paraceratherium
  • Phiomia
  • Plesiosaur
  • Pulmonoscorpius
  • Sabertooth Salmon
  • Sarco
  • Spino
  • Tapejara
  • Therizinosaur
  • Thylacoleo
  • Vulture




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Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What is ARKpocalypse?
  • ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates.
  • Next wipe: April 4th, 20205
For this round, the following mods will be included: 
You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!




This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, March 10.

  • PVP/PVE: 3x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
  • Small Tribes: 5.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 5x Breeding
  • ARKpocalypse: 6x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding


Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form



Creator: Second Wave Survivors
Second Wave Survivors built a 5.6km long—totally safe—slide in ARK without any mods.
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Creator: Jimbob
Jimbob gets his first carnivore mount on Primal Astraeos—small but mighty!
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Forest Titan by @falco_luna


Ark art of the tamed gotten by Underdash by dinosareneat


Ark redesign is the T-Rex by shatteredreaiity


Chibi Murder Chicken by ellies-space36


3D printed Riffle with stand by posejdoon


"The Trike" Oil on canvas by TELLES


Deinonychus art doll handmade by sayvaris




This is Big John and Bertha by trench-surfer


Photo Mode by frozen_soap


Photo mode by izziekathryn


Photo mode by evildragon6058


I've been looking for a long time and finally found one... I'm so happy by @Moni8mok


Enjoy your weekend!
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Community Crunch 447: Community Creature Winner, LiveOps Update and more


Survival takes a sharp turn this week as the community-voted winner sinks its claws into the spotlight! With its lightning speed and razor-sharp instincts, this prehistoric predator is set to shake up the ARK in ways we can’t wait to dive into! Meanwhile, on the LiveOps front, we’ve been kept on our toes. We’ll break it all down, along with the steps we’re taking to keep things running as smoothly as possible.





With over 32k votes, Megaraptor will be the new creature added to Valguero for ARK: Survival Ascended. We are looking forward to sharing its concept and dossier in the weeks to come!

If you are interested in seeing exactly how the voting went, check it out here.

* Note that we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change.

Our hosting providers are facing a severe, ongoing DDoS attack, which has caused recent outages, including those over the past 48 hours. We're actively working with our partners to mitigate the issue, but as with these types of attacks, we don’t yet have an estimated resolution.

While our partners work on it, we've taken steps to protect player progress:
  • Increased the upload timer to 72 hours (and we’ll extend it further if needed).
  • Temporarily disabled decay timers to prevent loss of player progress.
  • Taken certain regions offline to protect player data when necessary.
  • Extending the time on Expire Servers to give everyone a chance to retrieve their characters and items. Once things are more stable, we’ll announce a date—don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of notice.
We're closely monitoring mitigation efforts with our partners, but please keep in mind that the situation may continue to evolve.

We’ll be holding on running an EVO event this week in light of the instability–we’ll look to do something nice for players in that regard when this is all resolved. 

Thanks for your patience and support while we work through this!



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Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

This video features:
Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form



Creator: Etholdir
Etholdir guides you a tour of his beautiful gardens on Astraeos!
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Creator: JoeLaFritt_ *international corner* JoeLaFritt has a helpful guide to help you start right on the mod ARK Descended!
JoeLaFritt te guide afin de t'aider à partir du bon pied sur le mod ARK Descended!
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Amidst the barren earth... by @ewo_zaur


Federation airborne by @TekARK_01


Fan Art by ._rosiiee_.


Mae-chan by @cat22nyaa


My fav yuty by widetyranitar


Fan Art by akeunyub


They're so silly and I needed to doodle by savvytabby




Photo Mode by godzilla402


Omg by tkgoji230


Juagku-style architecture by @oititukumono


A Greek Starter House! by lolsatlance


Photo Mode by targaryenreignn


Enjoy your weekend!
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Community Crunch 446: Community Creature Vote, Astraeos Update, and more!


Survivors, we’re thrilled to see so many of you enjoying Astraeos! While we continue working on fixes to smooth out your adventures, we’ve got a little more love to share—Love Ascended will now run through Monday, giving you extra time to revel in the romance. And speaking of passion, we’ve got some words from Astraeos’ creator, Nekatus, about the journey so far…



I want to thank everyone for the support and love for Astraeos. I am very proud to bring another official map to the game and I am very excited to bring more content to Astraeos. Our journey has only just started! We are aware of the technical issues and we are very actively working on resolving them to bring you as bug-free a map as possible.

Thank you for your patience, your feedback, and for your reports! I also wanted to give you an idea about what to expect from the next major content update. Here are the details:




The conclusion of the Valguero Community Creature Vote is just around the corner, and the competition has been fierce! The submitted creatures have been nothing short of incredible. You still have the weekend to cast your vote and decide which creature will make its mark on Valguero in ARK: Survival Ascended!
  • The second round of voting ends on Friday, February 28th at 1 pm Pacific.
  • The winner* will be announced in the Crunch on the same day.
  • Rank the creatures in order of most preferred to least preferred
  • The vote is limited to 1 submission per person (duplicate entries will be discarded)

Below are the candidates that have made it into the final 10. Find out more information about the creature by clicking on the hyperlink attached to the name. Cast your vote here.

Overview of all the finalists here.

* Note that once the winner has been determined, we'll be reading through these threads and using them as inspiration for how the creature will be designed; aspects suggested may change.



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Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is now extended until Monday, February 24, 2025. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine’s Day brings an array of enchanting new treats and delights!

To view all the event details, click here.



[previewyoutube]MODSPOLIGHTLINK[/previewyoutube]
Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

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Periodically we perform maintenance on our Official Server Network. During this time the servers will not be running therefore time will not progress.

Here are the dates for the upcoming maintenance:
  • February 25th at 8:00AM PT / 11:00AM ET
  • February 26th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET
  • February 27th at 7:30AM PT / 10:30AM ET
To see if your server will be affected follow this page.






Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for "Expire" in the session filter.

These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th. We're preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto a new map temporarily.

Please note that these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on February 28th, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period.




Please note that some locations will be made non-buildable with the patch coming mid-next week. Inside the caves as well as the areas around the cave entrance will be affected. If you built in this area, make sure you move location before then.

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This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 24.

  • PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding
  • Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding
  • ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding


Fan Art Gallery | Screenshot Gallery | Artist Feedback Form



Creator: Savkyn
Build your very own Greek estate on a secluded island of Astraeos with this tutorial and tour!
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Creator: BEYPlaysGames
BEYPlaysGames takes a dive into what are the best and most useful creatures to tame for beating Astraeos.
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Metchup the Lystro by chepedukduks


Titan Trio by nezuyu


Maewing by @kinosei_x2


Maeguana by @SS38529630


Happy Valentine's Day by @falco_luna


Quetzalcoatlus by Snotty


Ark: The Animated Series, Wakíya Natá Ú by Tostín




This is where you came from lil guy! by lhannan


I Built a Giant Car by antoniopepperonio


Desolablue by acq.mp3


This thing's pretty neat by cosmicman5455


Photo Mode by frozen_soap


Enjoy your weekend!
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