👻 It’s spooky season, shellheads. Time to mutate, meditate, and maybe not get eaten.
Tie on your ninja masks, grab a slice of pizza, and unleash your favorite half-shelled heroes or diabolical villains with the ‘ARK x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Cosmetic Pack filled with over 40 bodacious cosmetics! See what’s oozin’ onto the ARK right here.
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We’re thrilled to share that the community has raised $59,000 for Extra Life! Thank you to everyone who has contributed. It has been inspiring to see the community come together for a cause with the energy and dedication only ARK players bring. Your generosity has helped us reach our first donation milestone and will reward the community with a brand-new Dino TLC pass. We’re less than $1,000 away from unlocking the second creature TLC, while supporting the incredible work of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Together, we’re making a difference for kids and shaping the future of ARK!
While we won’t be able to host our usual 24-hour Extra Life livestream this year, we’re still going all-in on what matters most: uniting as a community to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and unlocking something special for the future of ARK: Survival Ascended.
For every $30,000 raised through the Studio Wildcard Extra Life charity campaign, the community will unlock a Dino TLC pass to be released throughout 2026, breathing new life into a classic creature of the ARK with updated gameplay and style. Up to four TLCs can be unlocked at the $120,000 milestone!
⚌ Quetzalcoatlus
⚌ Giganotosaurus
⚌ Megalosaurus
⚌ Araneo
⚌ Gallimimus
⚌ Thylacoleo
⚌ Allosaurus
⚌ Brontosaurus
⚌ Carnotaurus
⚌ Plesiosaur
Donate now to any team member listed here to ensure your vote counts!
When donating to anyone on the Studio Wildcard Extra Life Team, not just Studio Wildcard directly, include a message with your chosen creature’s full first name preceded by a hashtag, like this (we’ll do our best to identify typos, but try to spell them correctly!):
#Giganotosaurus
Hello #Giganotosaurus
Please give #Giganotosaurus a TLC!
If no hashtag vote is included in the donation message, the donation will still count towards the TLC total, but it won’t advance any particular dino’s voting tally.
Every $1 donated = 1 vote
A $50 donation with #Giganotosaurus = 50 votes for Giganotosaurus
Five $10 donations with #Giganotosaurus = 50 votes for Giganotosaurus (10 x 5)
To keep the vote balanced and consistent, eligible creatures must meet the following criteria:
Must be a creature from The Island
Must be tameable
Must be rideable or a shoulder pet
Must not have previously received a TLC pass
The following creatures have already had a TLC pass and are not eligible:
Argentavis
Dire Bear
Direwolf
Gigantopithecus
Mammoth
Parasaur
Procoptodon
Raptor
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Sabertooth
Sarcosuchus
Spinosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
To accommodate the new launch date of Valguero Ascended, we have adjusted the reveal dates.
November 14 – First Winner
November 21– Second Winner
November 28 – Third Winner
December 4 – Final Winner
All donations go directly to UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, a nationally recognized cornerstone of the UF Health Shands campus. The hospital provides expert care across more than 20 pediatric specialties and is home to the community’s first emergency department dedicated solely to children, the UF Health Shands Pediatric ER.
Serving children and families throughout Florida and beyond, UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital is a leading destination for pediatric patients from across the United States and around the world who need specialized care for complex medical conditions.
UF Health Shands recently celebrated the ribbon-cutting of Unit 44, a fully renovated pediatric medicine and surgical floor designed with children and families in mind. The unit features all-new private rooms with tech-enabled amenities for families, dedicated gathering spaces for siblings, and brand-new toddler and teen playrooms equipped with four large TVs, allowing patients to use each screen independently or sync them together to play their favorite games on what might be the biggest screen they’ve ever seen, perfect for jumping into ARK and other games. Interactive healing walls and an upgraded procedure room further enhance the patient experience. The $30 million+ transformation was funded through a combination of hospital budget, state appropriations, and private philanthropy, including over $4 million from Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals supporters (that’s you guys!).
We’re bringing extra color to the chaos this spooky season! The community’s favorite creature colors are now live alongside the Fear Ascended color palette on the Official Network.
And that’s not all — Survivors can also enjoy event items and delicious cake slices from now thru November 10th.
Taming Cake Slice
Breeding Cake Slice
Imprint Cake Slice
EXP Cake Slice
Harvesting Cake Slice
ID5 Cyan
ID 94 Teal
ID68 DeepPink
ID36 Dino Albino
ID96 Glacial
ID4 Yellow
ID6 Magenta
ID84 Mint
ID95 PowderBlue
ID76 Peach
ID57 DarkTurquoise
ID67 LightPink
ID58 MediumTurquoise
ID91 Lavender
ID2 Blue
ID92 DarkTeal
ID19 Dino Light Red
ID53 Dino Medium Blue
ID50 WyvernPurple1
ID54 Dino Deep Blue
ID11 Light Yellow
ID88 LeafGreen
ID59 TurquoiseafGreen
ID27 Dino Dark Green
We’ve turned up the saturation for Extra Life—more colors, more variety, and more chances to spot rare shades roaming the wild. Expect your world to be brighter, bolder, and packed with some of the community’s favorite hues! 💙
The next winner of our Community Creature Vote will be featured on Genesis Part 1. Get your endlessly creative submissions ready, and you might see your creature making its debut with the release of the Genesis Part 1 map in ARK: Survival Ascended!
The second round of voting ends on Friday, November 7th 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.
Palaeoctopus
Irritator
Abyssosaurus
Crinoid
Atopodentatus
Rhomaleosaurus Aestosalus
Saivodus
Tullimonstrum
Giant Stick Bug
Giant Lobster
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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Darkness creeps once more across the ARK…
Fear Ascended returns from now until November 12th, bringing with it a spine-tingling celebration packed with new skins, eerie creatures, and haunting surprises to discover.
We’ve turned up the saturation for Fear Ascended—more colors, more variety, and more chances to spot rare shades bleeding through to the wild. Expect your world to be brighter, bolder, and packed with some of the community’s favorite hues!
Stay close to the fire, Survivors… you never know what’s lurking in the dark.
Check out all the spooky details here.
Hey Survivors, after careful assessment, we’ve opted to begin the process of sunsetting a selection of our inactive official servers. Our goal is to ensure that we’re always delivering the best experience possible, and official servers exist as a way for the community to play together without having to host their own. When we launch fresh content, typically, we put up more servers than we need in the long term to match the peak in user capacity; over time, these servers become ghost towns as players have dropped off and are waiting for the next major content release.
At the conclusion of the Bonus Rate Event on Monday, October 20th (around 1 PM Pacific), we’ll be opening transfers out of Isolated servers to the main network for items, characters, and creatures, as well as character transfers into Isolated for those who wish to move.
As part of this process, the servers will be renamed with the “SUNSET” prefix, following the same approach we’ve used in the past. Please note that once renamed, these servers will be removed from the in-game Favorites list, so you’ll need to search for them manually to reconnect.
After further evaluation, the following servers have been removed from the sunset list:
On December 8th, we’ll be sunsetting these inactive servers:
Non-Isolated servers:
Isolated servers:
We still intend to provide capacity at launches as much as possible to meet the higher need during those periods.
We’re working with our partner at Nitrado to offer these saves after the scheduled sunset through Nitrado’s interface. Please stay tuned for more details.
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 December 8th. 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 December 8th, 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.
The Official Network will be receiving bonus rates until Wednesday, November 12.
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
Mystic On ARK will be going live on November 1st at 8 AM Pacific to help raise funds for Extra Life!
The stream will feature three exciting ARK-themed events: a race, a build-off, and a game show testing your ARK knowledge. Viewers and players alike will have the chance to participate in the game show and there just might be a special prize waiting for the winner!
Tune in on YouTube, join the fun, and help support a great cause!
Join Garuga and UpFromTheDepths on November 1st at 9 AM Pacific for a special Extra Life Modding Workshop!
You can expect a chill 24-hour stream where a group of talented ARK modders will come together to collaborate on projects, share progress, and showcase their creative process live!
Catch the stream on Twitch and Youtube.
If you love mods or want to learn more about the creation process, this is the perfect stream to tune into and show your support for Extra Life! For more details, join Garuga’s Discord!
Welcome to The Hot Seat! 🌶️
On November 6th at 8 AM Pacific, for every $100 raised, Loaded Crysis will be testing a new hot sauce — each one hotter than the last — all while playing ARK: Survival Ascended with subscribers!
The community is raising money for Extra Life, supporting children’s hospitals through gaming.
Come hang out on YouTube, donate, and watch the heat (and chaos) rise for a great cause!
Join over 25 Ark content creators during Aaron Longstaff, Raasclark and Friends 24 Hour Extra Life Livestream!
The event will kick off at 11 am Pacific on Friday, November 7, and will continue until the next day at the same time. Make sure to mark your calendar so you don’t miss it!
If you have any questions, want to stay up to date, or are interested in volunteering behind the scenes, direct all inquiries to @SongbirdGaming on Discord.
The party starts at 10 AM PST, November 8th, for Extra-Life Gameday! Come donate to help the kids for your chance to get your hands on some awesome, one of a kind, items including a fully custom build and painted Dino army from the incredible Boylei Hobby Time YouTube channel.
For more info, join HillBillyWilly’s Discord.
You can catch HillBillyWilly on Twitch and YouTube.
Creator: OnFire944
OnFire944 goes over everything you need to know about this year’s Fear Ascended event!
Creator: CapnMcRummy
Looking to explore some Halloween-themed mods? CapnMcRummy put together a detailed review of MSVV Halloween Freemium mod!
Managarmr doll by @Azany_artist
ARK-O-Lantern by praline_anorexik
Happy Halloween by yuukuro07
Dodowyvern and Dodorex Flags by nezuyu
Lampmantria by mazdatiger
Ossidon Fan Art by santiagoosorio54
I carved this for Halloween by fancydude111
Things are starting to get spooky by sugarrayne
Photo Mode by tomboynerdy
Photo Mode by cosmicman5455
Dreadmare by anhagath
Photo Mode by shadowqauntlet
Enjoy your weekend and Happy Halloween!
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