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ARK: Survival Ascended

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Game details

  • Description A next-gen open-world survival where you craft, build, and form tribes to tame, train, and breed dinosaurs while exploring massive maps and fighting or cooperating with other players.
  • Genre Survival, Open World, Multiplayer, Dinosaurs, Base Building
  • Developer Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games, Instinct Games
  • Publisher Studio Wildcard, Snail Games USA
  • Release Date Oct 26, 2023

Latest Updates

Client v87.4 (Updated: 05/20/2026)

v87.11 - Major version for Servers and Clients (v87.4) - 05/20/2026

Fantastic Tames Season 1: Burrowbuck is now live!

  • Meet the Burrowbuck, a swift and evasive utility creature perfect for mastering map control, misdirection, and brilliant ambushes! Carve out hidden, bunker-like underground dens and open temporary gateway tunnels for rapid long-distance travel, giving prepared Survivors new ways to reposition, retreat, or spring a trap. When danger closes in, the Burrowbuck can kick up...

Client v86.11 (Updated: 05/01/2026)

v86 - Major version for Servers and Clients - 05/01/2026 Gameplay Changes, Balance & QoL

  • On Lost Colony: Ruins of the Ascendant Cavern, Cavern of the Whispering Needle and Cavern of the Sapphire Cascades have had their entrances reduced in size
    • Note: These entrances were very open and easily accessible, particularly for larger creatures, so this change is intended to improve PvP viability and make them more defensible
  • Equipment Traits can now be upgraded in the Megalab: ...

Client v85.28 (Updated: 04/01/2026)

v85 - Major version for Servers and Clients - 04/01/2026 Eggcellent Event is now active!

  • New Eggcellent Adventure Content
    • New Event Creature: Flovis
      • If you can catch them, they may drop Flovis Seeds… surely these grow something useful?
    • New Emotes:
      • Sunbathing
      • Watering Can
        • Might come in handy when dealing with Flovis seeds…
    • Weapon Cosmetics:
      • Trowel Skin (Axe)
      • Hand Rake Skin (Sickle)
      • Hand Hoe (Pickaxe)
      • Rake (Pike) ...

Client v85 - Server: v85 (Updated: 04/01/2026)

v85 - Major version for Servers and Clients - 04/01/2026 Eggcellent Event is now active!

  • New Eggcellent Adventure Content
    • New Event Creature: Flovis
      • If you can catch them, they may drop Flovis Seeds… surely these grow something useful?
    • New Emotes:
      • Sunbathing
      • Watering Can
        • Might come in handy when dealing with Flovis seeds…
    • Weapon Cosmetics:
      • Trowel Skin (Axe)
      • Hand Rake Skin (Sickle)
      • Hand Hoe (Pickaxe)
      • Rake (Pike) ...

Client v84.4 - Server: v84.5 (Updated: 03/06/2026)

v84.5 - Major version for Servers and Clients (v84.4) - 03/06/2026

Client v81.6 - Server: v83.25 (Updated: 03/05/2026)

v79.7 - Minor version for Servers and Clients (v79.9) - 02/10/2026

  • Fixed a crash that could happen when launching the game if your saved game had active Outpost Missions.
  • Unofficial: If your Lost Colony server was stuck in a loop where the game kept crashing on startup, this patch should resolve it.