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 brings its own wondrous array of abilities to your tribe, with Fantastic Tames Season 1 granting access to three new additions: the Burrowbuck, Cerberax, and Enigmasaur.

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 disorienting dust clouds and leave behind concealed hazards for enemies reckless enough to follow.

The Burrowbuck thrives on misdirection, making it an indispensable asset for your tribe's tactical superiority. Step into the unknown and outsmart your foes with this master of guerrilla warfare!

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Behold the Cerberax, a monstrous frontline bruiser designed for heavy tribe combat and multi-rider synergy!

This terrifying beast features three distinct heads that each bring their own vicious specialty to the fight, with each head individually controllable by either the main rider or up to three additional passengers. One head tears into enemy defenses with corrupting force, another scorches targets with relentless flame, while the central head acts as an electrical catalyst, detonating these afflictions and spreading the carnage to nearby targets. In the hands of a coordinated cooperative team, these effects can be chained, combined, and consumed to unleash explosive combo attacks.

Cerberax is the fearsome anchor your frontline needs to dominate the battlefield. Lead the charge and watch your enemies crumble!

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Shrouded in secrecy and whispered about in passing rumors, the Enigmasaur is an enigmatic master of disguise.

This mysterious entity possesses the incredible ability to store the form of any nearby creature after observing it from the shadows, allowing you to transform into the other creature at-will. Once hidden within a new shape, the Enigmasaur gains all of that creature's unique abilities. Capable of hoarding a handful of stolen forms simultaneously, the Enigmasaur is a highly rewarding tame that allows cunning Survivors to master the unknown and adapt to any situation.

Mimic the power of the ARK's diverse roster and strike when they least expect it!

Tunnel through the earth, tear through the front lines using multi-headed attacks, or mimic stolen creature-forms with ARK Fantastic Tames Season 1!

The wait is over. The first community-voted Extra Life TLC creature has officially emerged from the shadows.

The Araneo TLC is now live in ARK: Survival Ascended, transforming this once-overlooked crawler into a far more capable ambush predator. These overgrown spiders no longer cling to the ground alone, using web-lines to traverse elevated terrain, reposition through the environment, and descend on unsuspecting prey from above with unnerving precision.

Armed with new mobility options, updated saddle functionality, and more versatile webbing, the Araneo now fills a unique role that blends traversal, control, and tactical support. Whether you're weaving through difficult terrain, setting traps, or stalking your next target from the ceiling, this eight-legged menace is ready to spin a very different story across the ARKs.

Thank you again to everyone who supported Extra Life and helped bring this TLC to life. Next stop, Therizinosaurus!

• 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 disorienting dust clouds and leave behind concealed hazards for enemies reckless enough to follow.

• The Burrowbuck has been added to:

  • The Center

  • Scorched Earth

  • Aberration

  • Ragnarok

  • Extinction

  • Valguero

  • Astraeos

The Araneo TLC is now live in ARK: Survival Ascended, transforming this once-overlooked crawler into a far more capable ambush predator. These overgrown spiders no longer cling to the ground alone, using web-lines to traverse elevated terrain, reposition through the environment, and descend on unsuspecting prey from above with unnerving precision.

Visual & Movement Update

• Fully updated model, animations, and locomotion

• Added full wall & ceiling climbing

• Added strafe movement while grounded

• Can now descend vertically from ceilings using web lines

• Wild Araneo can now spawn attached to walls and ceilings

Stat Changes

• Base Health increased from 150 → 200

• Base Stamina increased from 100 → 150

• Base Weight increased from 100 → 150

• Base Food increased from 900 → 1200

• Increased base Melee Damage by 50%

New Passive - Ambusher

• After attaching to or detaching from a surface, the Araneo’s next ability becomes empowered:

  • +50% damage on next Melee or Web Shot

  • Instantly applies maximum Webbed stacks

New Mechanic - Webbed

• Araneo’s attacks now apply Webbed, a stacking debuff that cripples prey over time.

  • Slows movement

  • Reduces attack speed

  • Increases incoming damage

  • At maximum stacks, targets cannot sprint or jump

  • Targets overwhelmed by Webbed will spread the effect to nearby enemies upon death

Web Shot Rework

• Araneo’s ranged attack has been completely redesigned.

  • Increased range and accuracy

  • Toggles between:

    • CosmeticWeb Shot/Damage-focused
    • CosmeticPoison Web Shot/Torpor-focused

  • Applies Webbed stacks on hit

New Ability - Web Tether

• Araneo can now deploy versatile web lines for traversal and combat control.

• Web Zip Lines

  • Create traversable web lines between surfaces

  • Function similarly to player ziplines

  • Araneo can naturally traverse web lines

  • Temporary web structures decay over time

• Creature Grappling

  • Grapple creatures and players with web tethers

  • Pull small targets toward the Araneo

  • Pull the Araneo toward larger targets

  • Can tether prey to anchored web points for repositioning

    • Pull strength scales with the Araneo’s Weight stat

New Ability - Web Descent

• While attached to ceilings, Araneo can:

  • Descend on a suspended web line

  • Fire Web Shots while hanging

  • Attack while suspended

  • Instantly detach to drop onto prey below

New Passive - Silk Harvesting

• Araneo now generates Silk from creatures slain while Webbed

  • Higher Webbed stacks increase Silk yield

Additional Changes

• Added Turret Mode support

• Taming reworked to standard knock-out

• Wild AI updated

• Fixed Tek Spear teleport inconsistencies that could occur on poor performing servers

• Fixed an issue that caused the Tek Spear's Dash to be inconsistent on poor performing servers

• Fixed a desync issue that could occur when watching another player dash with the Tek Spear

• Fixed missing arms on the Forest Titan taxidermy

• Fixed invisible Ice Titan taxidermy

• Fixed Pheromone dart consuming itself when crafting

• Fixed Fire and Ice Wyverns from being considered in the same group when copying settings

• Fixed Thralls not visually seated correctly when riding creatures

• Fixed Kairuku overspawning on The Center

• Fixed a mesh hole on Lost Colony

• Fixed multiple GPU crashes that could occur on PC

• Fixed a crash that could occur during Scorched Earth ascension

• Fixes

  • Fixed Landscape collision issues

  • Fixed Floating statue issues

  • Fixed Meshholes

  • Fixed Dinospawn issues

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