r/ARK 12h ago

MEME When the Ark Community gets burned by bad business decisions (P.S. Just posting for the lols)

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279 Upvotes

r/ARK 6h ago

Ark Moments Is Nekatus …Ok? (Affectionately)

116 Upvotes

The sheer scale of Astraeos blows my goddamn mind, and I stumbled on the Riverlands biome today while teleport hopping looking for places to move my base and it’s such a unique and gorgeous biome I can’t get over it.

Dude does not fail to cook every goddamn time.

This is a Nekatus simp post and I don’t even care. I’m in awe.


r/ARK 7h ago

Discussion Weird Jerboa I found

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94 Upvotes

Theyve got crystals growing out of their head/chest area, as y’all can tell, i thought it was a glitch or a skin or something so i killed it and bupkis. then i found a baby with the exact same crystal growth, claimed it, cryo’d it and released it again cause maybe it’s a visual bug but it stuck so, crystal jerboa (im on scorched earth) the baby is female i will be taking name suggestions


r/ARK 4h ago

MEME something something low effort slop

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68 Upvotes

r/ARK 7h ago

Ark Moments as someone who is a bit scared of the ocean, genesis ascended has been going swimmingly...

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56 Upvotes

(I know the octopus is passive, but can you blame me for being scared there?)


r/ARK 22h ago

MEME Comic from yesterday, colored, color vs no color?

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49 Upvotes

Colored the comic from yesterday, do you prefer color or no color, also changed a few things like clothes on bob, tried to do better water bubbles, still learning everything with drawing!


r/ARK 14h ago

Discussion I can't decide which color to keep. What do you think?

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40 Upvotes

I personally think green looks more interesting, but the blue one is awesome too


r/ARK 8h ago

Ark Moments Sheep (Ovis) are driving me crazy

33 Upvotes

I've now spent more than an hour screwing with them.

So... I had the bright idea, what better way to get more hide for saddles than to raise Ovis. Well, made them a little pen, surrounded with wood fence.

Had a couple little glitches where they would get stuck in the fence, but for the most part, no issues. UNTIL they started popping out babies. First issue, my server settings are apparently set in such a way that the little things die before they hit juvenile and can get fed from the trough. Thats with or without imprinting/claiming. Second issue, the little ones can fit THROUGH the fence. Like goats... only smaller. Escape artists. Third issue... kinda hard to see them with all the grass and whatnot - so I have the bright idea, I'll put foundations in the pen.

Hour or two later building thatch foundations, redoing the pen, putting up thatch railing on the bottom, with wood railing on top (looks good).... I think I'm good. But no, Ark is going to Ark.

Now, I have Ovis getting stuck in foundations, stuck in fences, etc. Remove the foundation to get them to pop up. three immediately sneak out. get one unstuck, replace foundation, get Argy, hut three down, air drop them back in... Now see two more stuck in a railing.

Rinse and repeat that mess a half dozen times. Now they are all set to not wander, no breeding and I'll deal with it later... (like when I actually need the hide).


r/ARK 8h ago

Help My beavers keep dying for no reason

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18 Upvotes

I’m at hidden lake, I turn on their wandering to farm wood, first one died in middle of the lake so I thought it drowned, second one died near the tree

I have sealed off the hidden lake from all three entries with bemonths doors so keep out predators even if any animal spawn in, I have my dilo (6 30+ and 2 90+) raptor (4 50+) on aggression and wandering too clean them up,

My animal keep dying idk what happened


r/ARK 22h ago

ASE Charred body

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16 Upvotes

This is what my character looks like after the ragnarok boss fight. Didn’t die but did get set on fire once


r/ARK 12h ago

ASA A really lucky tame.

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15 Upvotes

Just went to check on this fella and my god. 57 levels off the bat to me is just wild to me. Will definitely need to find a way to move this guy to genesis (when I get there).


r/ARK 4h ago

Help i can't play please help me

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11 Upvotes

r/ARK 15h ago

Ark Moments How to farm Slippery N’ Slidy Kairuku’s for Popsicles

6 Upvotes

I’ve farmed about 8,000 of them so far and if you’re trying to get a bunch, here’s what I’ve been doing (on The Island) that yields about 500 every 20-30 minutes:

Using a Desmodus seems to be the best mount since you can fly in all directions and they do a good amount of damage. They can also fly close enough to the water to kill them while they swim. After they swim into the ocean for a little bit they turn around eventually. They also only swim directly under the surface of the water so you can make their silhouette out and still hit them.

Use a Gene Scanner set to the Kairuku and it’ll point you in the direction of them. They seem to spawn in groups of 2-5, if you see one there’s a good chance more are around. They also make an almost “echo” scream when they die so don’t let it make you think there’s one under your feet, sometimes there isn’t, move on quickly. They can also get stuck in peoples bases and in behemoth walls where you can’t hit them.

They continue to spawn in the general area of you so you don’t need to travel the whole map. The best area of the map seems to be the West beaches of The Island anywhere from Lat. 40 Long. 9 - Lat. 80 Long. 9. I slowly hover back and forth between these points with the Gene scanner and look down onto them checking for their particle trails. You can see their particle trails from a long ways away so being high to check for a group of them is helpful.

Keep your mounts inventory low so the popsicles spawn into your mounts inventory on kill. I’ve also seen a decent amount of them spawn around Lat. 73 Long. 87. They Do Not seem to spawn nearly at all in the snowy parts like you may think.

TL;DR: Desmodus best mount, fly high to check for particle trails, on the island fly along the left side beach back and forth since more spawn, they swim directly under the surface so if they go in the water you can hover above them to kill them while they swim. Use a gene scanner set to Kairuku if you have one.


r/ARK 21h ago

Discussion How did Pirate outposts make it past the testing phase??

7 Upvotes

Before successfully completing the ship combat phase of my first gamma outpost, I tried it 3 times with a sloop before deciding I probably suck and built a brigintine to make life easier. I still struggled cause the steering is atrocious compared to games like sea of thieves but I eventually managed to enter the outpost. I figured it would just be a smaller version of Lost Colony outposts where ship combat is most of the combat so a good Bary would work since it's gamma. Funny enough I was right about the fact that my Bary was having a field day chomping on pirates but I then realized that I can't throw the dynamite so I have to dismount my tame. "No big deal" I thought as I killed these guys for like 5 minutes waiting for the trash mobs to stop spawning so I could safely dismount, but they never did. At that point it was clear that no progress would be made if i didnt blow up the explosive crates but I was almost dead cause for some reason, most of the trash mobs are armed with guns and hanging out in places unreachable by most dinos used for outposts so I said "fuck it i have shit to do" and just activated God mode so I can get this shitty mission over with. I then discovered that I had like 4 or 5 more crates to blow up which is crazy considering the infinite mob spawning constantly right up my ass but there's also a boss apperantly?? I wasn't expecting an actual boss for some reason but by all means my Bary with a very good saddle should've been enough to take a gamma outpost boss down so I decided to just take the time to wittle down its hp. The only problem is I wasn't expecting this edgy ass shithead of a pirate to have like 90% damage reduction like wtf. My bary was doing like 300 damage to the pirates and yet he barely did 25 damage to the pirate boss so I just decided to use a command to kill it and see if the loot is worth the insane grind you'd need to do even a gamma outpost which is way to much tbh. The rewards weren't bad but I could've gotten it with significantly less effort just doing normal genesis races... to make matters worse, I only had 60 seconds to escape the island, turn my slow ass brigg around, and get out of the blast radius before my ship got destroyed. By the end of this miserable experience my brig was at like 20k hp which is crazy since the rewards from the mission dont even come close to covering the cost of repairs😭

I don't really like using cheats so im probably gonna avoid pirate outposts for a long while until smth gets changed.


r/ARK 8h ago

Help Returning player looking for help

6 Upvotes

We have returned to ark after many years. I have over 1000 hours solo and pve in survival evolved. We have bought ascended recently and played scorched earth and loved it. The survival mechanics the dinos and the lore were incredible. We enjoy the game most at metal tier and aren’t too keen on the tek level of the game. We are looking for the next map to ascend to. I’m thinking aberration then extinction but unsure what would best suit us? We’ve played the island to death. Iv never played genesis and I only dipped into extinction. They seemed a bit much for me with all the tech.
Which maps do you think we’d both enjoy playing nondedicated by ourselves?


r/ARK 14h ago

Help Is there something wrong with my world?

7 Upvotes

I play ark survival evolved and I have been playing on this world for countless days and not a single giga had spawned

Are they really that rare?

Im on max difficulty and on the pre aquatic version


r/ARK 7h ago

Ark Moments Quarter reef

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6 Upvotes

r/ARK 11h ago

Showcase My days 15-20 update for my ASA: Scorched Earth playthrough

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3 Upvotes

r/ARK 7h ago

Help A strange T-rex...

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2 Upvotes

Okay...is that an Alpha T-rex? I'm playing on mobile and that guy seems a little bit too big for a normal T-rex and has a dark skin color,I don't have a spyglass and I red the wiki,but it said that the alphas have that specific aura which radiates off them,and I don't see any of the actuall aura itself,and since I already killed a normal T-rex I am kinda confused and puzzled.


r/ARK 7h ago

Help Is there a good solution in map hopping for Singleplayer?

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Hi there,

Wanted to start a fresh new round in ASA and asked myself, If Singleplayer will be a good experience for maphoppers Like me. Grab some wyvern eggs, Cosmos and bloodstalkers but build on TheCenter. (Just an example)


r/ARK 11h ago

Tribe Recruitment Alguien para pasarse todos los mapas de ark ase? Ya voy en aberration pero podemos volver a empezar.

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r/ARK 3h ago

ASA Can someone PLEASE make a mod that triples the brightness of the hunt markers?

2 Upvotes

These should be blinding beacons that can be seen from anywhere, not these dim little candles in the swamp.


r/ARK 3h ago

Help Ship skills for PVE

2 Upvotes

Hey,

Pretty new to the skill tree in Ark.

Tell me which skills i need for my ship in PVE. I mostly play solo. Im kinda lost.

Thanks :)


r/ARK 6h ago

Help Ark corrupted file

2 Upvotes

So I crashed and went back in time to a different point I was playing and now anytime I go do something the crash happens and I go back to the same loop all the progress I made was for nothing now I’m on pS5 any idea how it got corrupted


r/ARK 8h ago

Help Searching for a PvP server where you can play 4 hours a day and still compete.

2 Upvotes

I want to find an Ark Survival Ascended server where you can grow up calmly and then fight in pvp. For example, I like the idea of starting in a pve map and then travelling to a pvp map, so if you lose all in the pvp map you can recover easily. Does anyone know a server like this? I live in europe so I would prefer an european server given the lower ping. I would love a server like this with active players in the pvp map.