ARK Tides of Fortune, Dragontopia and Genesis Part 1 are out now!

Pull up a chair, Survivors. Everyone knows the legendary ARK veteran Bob, played by Karl Urban, but you haven't truly heard a tale until you've survived his swashbuckling exploits on the high seas. Hoist the sails and experience his next chapter of incredibly true adventures in ARK Tides of Fortune!






The simulated ocean of Genesis Ascended Part 1 has opened into a massive, map-wide nautical frontier. Chart a course across a vast sea, hunt for buried treasure, and clash with treacherous enemies in explosive naval combat. The new weapons, structures, cosmetics, and exotic creatures included in Tides of Fortune can be unleashed across the ARK universe, but the deep physics-driven waters of Genesis are where this swashbuckling arsenal truly comes alive.


• Naval Fleet: Construct customizable seaworthy vessels at the Shipyard, including the swift Sloop and the towering Brigantine. Transform your ship into a true floating fortress by building out the decks, painting the hull, flying your own Jolly Roger, and sailing into battle with sea shanties ringing over the roar of cannon fire!

• Ship Combat: Take the helm to manually aim and fire your broadside cannons, either solo or as a cooperative multiplayer team! Utilize specialty ammo like Incendiary and Corrosive Cannonballs to give enemy armadas no quarter and send them to Davy Jones' locker, all without micromanaging a crew.

• Ship Skill Tree: Customize your vessel's seafaring capabilities by investing your plunder across three distinct skill trees: Piracy, Merchant, and Luxury.


• Tidepup: As adorable as it is invaluable, this benevolent semi-aquatic salamander specializes in support, protection, and healing. Keep it as a Juvenile shoulder-pet to defend against incoming damage and dispel negative effects, or evolve it into a Mature rideable mount capable of creating a regenerative healing zone for your allies.

• Parrot: Your new feathery friend tracks valuable treasure sources like Cave Crates, Alpha Creatures, and enemy Ships. And by completing missions together, your Parrot can also earn Bonding Feathers, a wildcard resource which substitutes any imprint or passive tame requirement, with effectiveness scaling from your Parrot's stats.


Cinematic Cutscenes & Milestones: Track your survivor's journey through entirely new Milestones! Prove your mastery across a wide range of challenges, from commanding naval fleets and unearthing treasure, to conquering Genesis gauntlets and taming powerful X-Creatures. Achieve these milestones to earn points for deep specialization skill trees, while hitting major thresholds unlocks spectacular cinematic sequences starring Karl Urban as Bob and Auli'i Cravalho as Meeka, continuing the narrative into ARK's future!

Play as a Legend: Step directly into the boots of the myth himself! Tides of Fortune adds a third default character creation option, allowing you to play as "Cinematic Bob", featuring the likeness and voice of Karl Urban. You can also equip Bob's signature look as a full-body cosmetic costume to bring his legendary style to your existing Survivor. All existing costumes, armor, hairstyles, and other cosmetics are compatible with Cinematic Bob!


• Hand Cannon: A brutal, single-shot firearm loaded with unique Grapeshot ammo. It excels at close-quarters deck clearing, delivering massive knockback to forcibly launch boarding enemies and creatures right into the drink!

• Shovel: Bring your trusty shovel to sandy shores to unearth buried treasure caches revealed by drifting Treasure Map Bottles found across the ocean.


• Shipyard: A massive water-based drydock used to construct and deploy your majestic fleet.

• Aquatic Compartment: Build custom, water-filled enclosed rooms on land to breed your aquatic beasts or design the ultimate submerged smuggler's den.

• Cargo Ledger: Keep your plunder in shipshape order! This central logistics hub ties all your nearby storage crates together, letting you effortlessly track, organize, and pull exactly what you need from across your entire pirate haven.

• Market: Set up your own map-wide bazaar! This player-driven trading post lets you peddle your plunder, establish buy and sell orders, and cut deals using Hexagons. It also acts as an offshore Hexchange, giving you direct access to the HLN-A store across any ARK.

• Bounty Board: Turn your tribe into a crew of hired guns! This mission hub issues shared, repeatable dynamically-generated contracts to hunt down designated targets in exchange for a hefty haul of Hexagons.

• Fish Tank: Showcase your rarest ocean catches in an ornate aquarium adorned with detailing and customizable aquascapes, turning your favorite finds from the deep into a striking nautical centerpiece.


• High Seas Encounters: Take the fight to the open water! Engage in explosive ship-to-ship combat against hostile ships, then breach and sabotage massive Ocean Outposts in thrilling, multi-phase fortress raids.


• Structure Skins: Fully customize your pirate haven with the new Spanish Colonial Architecture tileset. Decorate your captain's quarters with pirate-themed storage boxes, a Hammock Bed, a Captain's Desk, oil lamps, and more!
• Player Outfits: Dress the part of a true buccaneer with the Scurvy, Fancy, or Captain Pirate outfits.
• Accessories: Complete your seaworthy look with the Eye Patch, Peg Leg, and a razor-sharp Cutlass Sword skin.

Every daring voyage begins with a map, a ship, and a fortune waiting beyond the horizon. Build your fleet, raise your colors, and boldly go to carve your legend across the ocean's tides!






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Awaken within a cloudbound paradise where the earth has fractured into a world of floating islands, and myths take flight. High above these magical grounds, Survivors must learn a new rhythm of survival alongside the true rulers of the sky: dragons. Across a vast aerial ecosystem, ARK: Dragontopia invites you to step off the edge and master the skies. Guided by the echoes of a lost order of dragonriders, you'll enter a land where legends breathe anew. As a fierce new threat claims the horizon, it is up to you to restore balance!


Between the sun and moon, the skies teem with draconic legends. Encounter titanic behemoths that devour resources and enemies alike, and elegant, wind-dancing steeds that gallop across the clouds. From deadly four-winged assassins, to multi-headed beasts of dual-breathed chaos, and loyal shoulder-drakes that guard you on your journey, every dragon in this realm demands its own path to taming. You'll need to observe, learn, and master each of these temperamental creatures' unique rhythms before they ever let you take the saddle.


To survive this new high-altitude frontier, you'll need to grow through the Dragon Skill Trees, a new progression system built around strengthening your bond with these mythical beasts. Craft highly specialized gear and wield potent tools, and expand your base with a draconic tileset, incubator backpacks, and mysterious potion stations. But these skies are actively contested, and you are the realm's last hope to break the vanguard of a ruthless airborne invader!

• [color=#e67e22]Eclipsar Umbra[/color]
  • Meet the legendary obsidian terror born to claim the night sky. Bound to your will through the mythic Dragon Horn, this shadow-forged executioner strikes with terrifying, unpredictable speed. Rain precision plasma from the cover of darkness, or slip through the void itself to ambush unsuspecting prey. As his fury builds in the heat of combat, Umbra awakens his ultimate form, a blinding surge of raw energy that shatters enemy defenses and renders him a near-untouchable terror of the skies.
• [color=#e67e22]Dragon Skill Tree[/color]
  • Unlock a brand-new progression path that lets you forge a deeper bond with your dragons. Push the limits of their gravity-defying acrobatics, amplify their shadow-forged plasma attacks, or tailor their defensive auras as you shape the ultimate apex predator around your exact playstyle.
• [color=#e67e22]Drake Claw Grappler[/color]
  • Wield this essential new tool for high-altitude traversal and midair dragon mounting.
• [color=#e67e22]Draconic Armor[/color]
  • Equip this cosmetic set and look every inch the legendary dragonrider.

Your journey into the clouds is just beginning. Secure Dragontopia now and you're locked in for a massive rollout of content over the coming months:

[color=#e67e22]July:[/color] Lumina awakens! Umbra's sun-sworn counterpart takes flight to restore celestial balance. Scatter brilliant celestial traps to punish your pursuers, or bend light itself to vanish in a flash and outmaneuver any threat. When pushed to the brink, Lumina erupts into her ultimate sun-flare state, stripping away technological defenses and rising as a blazing sovereign of the clouds. When united in battle with her shadowedkin, their celestial synergy ignites, forging an unstoppable alliance of speed, armor, and destruction.

[color=#e67e22]October:[/color] A colossal sky-behemoth rises. This heavily armored juggernaut dominates the clouds by inhaling everything in its path, drawing resources, enemies, and even allies into its cavernous maw. It can weaponize its consumed payload, violently expelling it as a devastating barrage to scatter targets below. As it consumes the battlefield, its sheer mass swells to absorb incoming fire, allowing it to anchor down and become an immovable bulwark against any siege.

[color=#e67e22]December:[/color] Prepare to take flight into a boundless, map-wide skyworld. Explore fantastical floating landmasses surrounded by countless procedural shattered isles, unlock the secrets of aerial phenomena, conquer enemy outposts, gain a tremendous variety of new items, new vehicles, and cosmetics, and most important of all, bond with the complete mythical roster of dragons! Repel the onslaught of a merciless invading legion, and face off against an apex threat unlike anything ARK has ever seen!

The dragons are waking, the islands are calling, and the Skies of Dragontopia are yours to claim!






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Awaken within a fractured virtual simulation, a forbidding world unlike anything you've seen before. ARK: Genesis Ascended Part 1 represents a story-oriented beginning in ARK's epic saga of survival. With your holographic companion, HLN-A, you must overcome the simulation's rigorous tests. Only by fighting, building, taming, and exploring will you uncover the dark secrets behind this place.


Your guide, HLN-A, offers a wide array of missions at varying difficulty levels for you to tackle at your own pace. Gun down waves of enemies with the aid of power-ups, escort vulnerable baby creatures, track powerful bosses, or compete in high-speed Dino Races. Earn extra credit by fixing the glitches scattered throughout the world, and spend your rewarded Hexagons on resources, TEK items, and more.


The simulator tests your mettle across beautiful biomes ripe for exploration, but they all want you dead. Survive fetid alien bogs, dive into deep undersea trenches, endure frigid mountain peaks, brave dangerous volcanic hellscapes, and float across the wild low-gravity surface of an alien moon. Conquering each area requires preparation, smarts, and the ability to improvise so that when a volcano rains fire from the sky, an avalanche buries you, or a whirlpool pulls you into the briny deep, you're ready to meet the challenge!


Dive into a massive, map-wide ocean biome built on a completely overhauled water physics system. Prepare for a true maritime experience with dynamic waves and realistic buoyancy as you navigate the high seas. Discover islands and hidden fortresses that set the stage for chaotic, wide-scale ocean warfare. Whether you are leading a pod of deep-sea beasts, braving dynamic new weather systems on a makeshift raft, or clashing with enemy armadas, the waters are yours to conquer.


The environments may be dangerous, but they are nothing compared to the beasts that call ARK: Genesis home:

New with Ascended, Palaeoctopus: Master the ocean depths with this cliff-climbing cephalopod that uses its crushing tentacles to seize dual targets and supplies your tribe with limitless colored ink.

• Bloodstalker: Swing through the treacherous canopy of the bogs on this web-spinning terror.
• Ferox: Seek out this cute companion that shape-shifts into a deadly, Element-fueled behemoth.
• Megachelon: Command an island-sized sea turtle that serves as the ultimate foundation for mobile ocean bases.
• Magmasaur: Ride this fiery lizard that acts as a living, breathing industrial forge.
• Astrocetus: Take your tribe to the stars by taming an immense, hyperspace-capable space whale.


As you brave the many dangers of the simulation, craft powerful new gear. Wield combo-capable Plasma Claws and remote-guided Cruise Missiles. Master tools from Fishing Nets to Mining Drills, or pilot advanced new vehicles like the Hover Skiff. Build interactive structural elements such as pressure plates, alarm systems, jump pads, ocean platforms, and more. Whether you're a go-it-alone survivalist, a weapon-making warmonger, or a base-building architect, this expansion has a crafting project suited for you.

ARK: Genesis takes your story in an all-new direction, and your skill determines your success. Everything is turned up to the highest setting: the challenges, the dangers... and the vast rewards. Only the toughest and smartest survivors will pass all of the simulation's many tests. Will you be one of them?

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[color=#66ccff]ARK Tides of Fortune: Galleon[/color]

The Galleon will not be available at launch and is currently planned for release in August.

As our largest ship to date, we’re taking a little extra time to refine it further and make sure it’s ready for a smooth release across all platforms.

Alongside the Galleon, we'll also be introducing new technical systems that will increase the number of player-built structures that can be placed on ships by up to four times, depending on the ship class. This will allow for even larger and more elaborate ship builds once the Galleon is ready to leave port. 

v89.24 - Major version for Servers and Clients (Steam v89.25 / Xbox, PlayStation v89.19)

[color=#3498db]ARK GENESIS: PART 1 LAUNCH[/color]

Updated all legacy Genesis creatures, items, structures and environment.

New Creatures

• Palaeoctopus
  
• X-Acro
  
• X-Deinosuchus
  
• X-Archelon
  
• X-Xiphactinus
  
• X-Cryolophosaurus

New Breedable Creature

• Astrocetus

New Changes

• Massive overhaul of the Genesis Part 1 Ocean biome
  
• Added support for multi-layer maps across the various Map UIs
  
• Added new character hairstyles and facial hair options:
  
  • Dreadlocks
    
  • Viking
    
  • Romantic
    
  • Ponytail with Bangs

[color=#3498db]ARK TIDES OF FORTUNE LAUNCH[/color]

New Features

• Wind-driven sailing and naval combat
  
• Genesis: Part 1 Milestones and Ship Skill progression

New Tameable Creatures

• Tidepup
  • A regenerative shoulder pet that heals allies, removes debuffs, and can protect itself from fatal blows.
• Parrot
  • A treasure-hunting shoulder pet that can detect valuable loot and mimic nearby player speech.

New Structures

• Sloop
  • A fast, highly maneuverable sailing vessel designed for exploration, scouting, and hit-and-run naval combat.
• Brigantine
  • A versatile medium-sized sailing ship offering a balance of speed, durability and firepower.
• Shipyard
  • Construct, repair, and dock sailing ships.
• Aquarium
  • Display and customize your favorite fishbasket-stored aquatic creatures.
• Cargo Ledger
  • Monitor and withdraw items and resources stored across nearby containers from a single interface.
• Bounty Board
  • Accept procedurally generated tribe-wide contracts for Hexagon rewards.
• Market
  • Buy and sell items and resources with other players through a server-wide marketplace.
• Aquatic Compartment
  • Create enclosed water-filled spaces for keeping aquatic creatures, building underwater habitats, or constructing swimming pools.

New Weapons

• Hand Cannon
  • A devastating short-range firearm capable of dealing massive damage and knocking back enemies.
• Ship Ammunition:
  • Reinforced Ship Cannonball
    
  • Incendiary Ship Cannonball
    
  • Corrosive Ship Cannonball
    
  • New Cosmetic Structure Tileset
    
  • Spanish Colonial Structure Tileset

New Player Character Cosmetics

• Karl Urban's Bob Character Appearance
• Scurvy Pirate Set
  • Includes Hat, Shirt, Pants, Gloves and Boots
• Fancy Pirate Set
  • Includes Hat, Shirt, Pants, Gloves and Boots
• Pirate Cutlass Sword Skin
  
• Milestone Progression Rewards:
  • Captain's Set
    • Includes Hat, Shirt, Pants, Gloves and Boots
  • Eye Patch
    
  • Peg Leg
    
  • Scurvy Mask

New Server Configs
Unofficial server owners can override these settings in the GameUserSettings.ini under [ServerSettings]

• Ships:
  • MaxAnchoredVesselsInRange=50
    
  • AnchoredVesselCheckRadius=30000
• Aquatic Compartment:
  • NeedsPowerToActivateAquaticCompartments=True

[color=#3498db]DRAGONTOPIA DAY ONE CONTENT[/color]

New Tameable Dragon

• Umbra
  • The legendary obsidian terror born to claim the night sky. Bound to your will through the mythic Dragon Horn, this shadow-forged executioner strikes with terrifying, unpredictable speed. Rain precision plasma from the cover of darkness, or slip through the void itself to ambush unsuspecting prey. As his fury builds in the heat of combat, Umbra awakens his ultimate form, a blinding surge of raw energy that shatters enemy defenses and renders him a near-untouchable terror of the skies.

New Tool

• Drake Claw
  • Fires a claw that provides a speedy dash to targeted Tame or location.

New Feature

• Dragon Skill Tree
  • Unlock a brand-new progression path that lets you forge a deeper bond with your dragons. Push the limits of their gravity-defying acrobatics, amplify their shadow-forged plasma attacks, or tailor their defensive auras, as you shape the ultimate apex predator around your exact playstyle.

New Player Character Cosmetics

• Draconic Armor
  • Equip this cosmetic set and look every inch the legendary dragonrider.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cases where Dino LODs were not correct on medium settings
  
• Fixed Maeguana when set to passive flee not jumping and gliding away to safety
  
• Fixed connected gamepad causing scrolling issues within the inventory when also using KB&M
  
• Fixed cases where an equipped Glider could cause the glider and hair to jitter
  
• Fixed a light flickering at Lost Colony's bossfight terminal
  
• Fixed Araneo's Web zipline sometimes appearing invisible on servers
  
• Fixed Jerboa's desert cloth helmet misalignment when placed on Pet Stand
  
• Various optimisations
  
• Fixed several crashes
  
• Fixed several exploits