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ARK Fantastic Tames Season 1: Burrowbuck and Araneo TLC are out now!
Expand your exotic menagerie with the first season of Fantastic Tames for ARK: Survival Ascended! These extraordinary oddities are forged from the ARK’s most mystical anomalies in defiance of nature. Each Fantastic Tame…
Community Crunch 507: Tunnel, Tear, and Transform!
Next Tuesday, expand your exotic menagerie with the launch of Fantastic Tames Season 1 ! These extraordinary oddities are forged from the ARK’s most mystical anomalies, bringing a wondrous new array of tactical abilitie…
Community Crunch 506: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
We’ve teased the legends and shared the data, but today we’re finally pulling the Burrowbuck out of the hat. Once you’ve earned its trust, and finished wiping the dirt out of your eyes, the map becomes your playground.…
Community Crunch 505: Deep Dives & Technical Strides. What’s Surfacing Next!
This week’s a big one. We’ve just rolled out a major version update for Lost Colony, packed with a mountain of fixes, improvements, and under-the-hood tuning. A lot of what you’ve been flagging, reporting, and asking ab…
Community Crunch 504: From Shoulder to Savior
Making a splash this summer with Bob’s True Tales: Tides of Fortune, the Tidepup is set to shake up the dynamics of Genesis 1 in a big way. Whether it stays perched on your shoulder or grows into something much larger,…
Community Crunch 503: Burrowbuck, The Tunnel Trickster
You’ve already caught a glimpse of the Burrowbuck… now it’s time to dig a little deeper. This peculiar horned hare may seem like nothing more than a fleeting shape in the dust, but those who’ve taken the time to observe…
Community Crunch 502: Claim the High Ground
The Araneo TLC is taking shape, and it won’t be long before we can show you what’s been lurking in the dark. Voted in by the community during our Extra Life charity event, this eight-legged menace is getting more than j…
Community Crunch 501: Down The Rabbit Hole
Meet the Burrowbuck, a peculiar horned hare that seems pulled straight from folklore. Skittish but clever, this elusive creature is quick to vanish when threatened, kicking up blinding dirt before burrowing out of sight…
Community Crunch 500: Springing Into Eggcellent Adventures!
Spring’s in the air on the ARK, and Eggcellent Adventure is about to bloom once again. Whether you’ve got a green thumb or just like collecting what you find along the way, there’s something new waiting for you this tim…
Community Crunch 499: Threading the Needle: The Araneo Zips Back In!
You voted, you donated, and now it begins. Thanks to the incredible support shown during our Extra Life charity event, the first Extra Life TLC creature is almost ready to descend from its shadowy lair. The Araneo is ev…
Community Crunch 498: Introducing Acrocanthosaurus from ARK: Additions!
We’re thrilled to welcome yet another long-awaited creature from Garuga123’s ARK: Additions into the official world of ARK: Survival Ascended. These incredible creatures continue to bring fresh gameplay, new challenges,…
Community Crunch 497: Boar to be Wild
The wilds of Astraeos keep getting wilder. Arriving this summer , Boaratos is not your typical forest brute. Towering at nearly twice the size of a Daeodon, this fiery juggernaut’s massive tusks carve through trees with…
Community Crunch 496: Release the Kraken
Beneath the waves, something new is lurking… Arriving later this year in Genesis Part 1, the latest community-voted creature brings a new kind of intelligence to the depths. Download in full resolution When exploring th…
Astraeos Mega Update is now live!
Explore the vast new desert landmass of Pyranthos , shaped by myth, ruin, and survival. Far from an empty wasteland, Pyranthos is a hostile, ancient region where shifting sands give way to forgotten structures, buried p…
Community Crunch 495: Pyranthos awaits you!
The dunes of Pyranthos are not getting any friendlier. Alongside the Deathworms you already know to fear, a new threat now prowls the sands: the Scorpion King and Queen. Massive and bloodthirsty, they are absolutely not…
Community Crunch 494: Shell Yeah!
The ocean doesn’t belong to the fastest. It belongs to the last one standing. With the Astraeos expansion arriving February 25th , the Grand Tortugar emerges as a mobile stronghold built for endurance. Beneath its massi…
Community Crunch 493: It's Mate Boosting Season!
Something feels different out in the wild. Creatures are pairing up, breeding lines are getting attention, and Survivors may want to clear some space in their bases. With Valentine’s Day approaching, Love Ascended is ri…
Community Crunch 492: A Herculean Challenge Arises!
This week, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the major challenges awaiting players with the next Astraeos update. Buried in the ruins of Pyranthos, this ancient, multi-headed monstrosity awaits. Defeating all fiv…
Community Crunch 491: The Sands Stir on Astraeos
Astraeos expands in a big way on February 25th with the arrival of Pyranthos, a vast new desert landmass shaped by myth, ruin, and survival. Far from an empty wasteland, Pyranthos is a hostile, ancient region where shif…
Community Crunch 490: The Future is Bright!
Steam post imageWe hope your year’s off to a good start, and that you’ve had a chance to spend some time recharging over the holidays, whether that meant catching up with loved ones, getting outside, or sneaking in a fe…
ARK 2025 Content Year-In-Review
Steam post image 2025 was a huge year for ARK: Survival Ascended. From epic new maps to creatures inspired by the community and massive expansions, players got to explore, tame, and battle like never before. This post…
