ARK: Survival Ascended/Patch/66.0
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Jun 5, 2025
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YesJun 5, 2025
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Previous
- ARK 10 Year Anniversary event is now live!
- Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding "-Activeevent=birthday" into their commandline.
- Added a drop-down option to enable Active Events in Host/Single-Player mode under Game Rules > Rules
- ClubARK has received a new tropical makeover for the anniversary celebration!
- Migrated from Unreal Engine 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.5 to improve Ark's foundation towards better performance, stability, and visual quality.
- Individual DLC maps are now able to be installed and uninstalled separately from the base game.
- Added Single Player Backup Saves (beta).
- Create, restore, and auto-generate backups across all platforms.
- Added a new “Performance Only” graphics preset on PC, which disables certain features to boost frame-rate at the cost of visual quality.
- Dino QOL (as inspired by AvianApexY of Curiosity).
- Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously.
- Wild creatures will sometimes play animations.
- Added returning structure:
Egg Incubator. - Added new structure pieces, variants and skins:
- Thatch (30)
- Barn Door, Cellar Door, Double Door, Double Doorway, Fence Foundation, Fence Support, Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Hanger Door, Hatchframe, Ladder, Pillar & Beam, Quarter Ceiling, Quarter Foundation, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Quarter Wall, Ramp, Ramp Corner, Railings, Shallow Sloped Wall, Staircase, Thin Pillar, Trapdoor, Triangle Ceiling, Triangle Foundation.
- Wood, Stone, Metal (30)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall.
- Adobe, Tek (22)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Inverted Quarter Roof, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall.
- BTT’s Frontier Showdown, Steampunk Ascent, Wasteland War (30)
- Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall.
- Thatch (30)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Extinction ascension cinematic.
- Fixed several ground conforming issues with various creatures.
- Fixed several creatures and saddles having messed up LODs at low graphic settings.
- Prevented the Aquatic Trait from appearing on flyers (when
bAllowFlyerDinoSubmergingis false). - Fixed “Join Last Session” sometimes not working as intended.
- Fixed inability to “drop all” on a creature inventory when the player’s inventory is slot capped.
- Fixed lots of structure lights causing shadow flickering.
- Fixed water flickering after transferring a character to a different server.
- Fixed
Snow Owl’s dive bomb impacting mid air with a Companion equipped. - Fixed various visual issues with the preview window while painting a structure.
- Fixed
Pyromane not becoming doused from touching water after teleporting out of a 
Vacuum Compartment. - Fixed visual artifacting when using
Spyglass and 
SCUBA Mask. - Fixed
Industrial Cooker gaining water without irrigation. - Fixed gamepad inability to rotate on the spot with a
Tusoteuthis, now works with 
/
. - Fixed
Reaper and 
Basilisk bury mounts not matching the terrain. - Fixed
Bio-Grinder not providing 
Mutton when grinding 
Ovis. - Fixed Extinction’s Sunken Forest location where creatures would spawn in the mesh.
- Fixed multiple lakes missing water volumes on Extinction.
- Fixed several holes leading to the mesh on Extinction.
- Fixed Mei Yin’s Note #28 on Extinction being under the mesh.
- Fixed missing textures on Extinction.
- Fixed water postprocess appearing erroneously on Extinction.
- Fixed all of the Titan’s node VFX appearing missing.
- Fixed cases where the
BattleRig would sink into the mesh on server restart. - Fixed a client crash when entering photo mode after firing a
Battlerig Turret Flightseeker Missiles. - Fixed a visual issue with some of the Wasteland Structure skins.
- Fixed the cooldown on “Training” sometimes getting messed up on
Managarmrs after transferring to a different server. - Fixed several creatures that were unable to base on platforms.
- Fixed short player character’s legs deforming when walking or running up slopes.
- Fixed LOD issues on various Animated Series Pack character skins.
- Fixed a visual issue with the Animated Quetz skin.
- Fixed
Bladewasp Hive visual issue at far distance. - Fixed VFX issues with the
Baryonyx and 
Thylacoleo roar. - Fixed
Tek Forcefield sometimes appearing to have multiple layers. - Fixed a visual issue with the level up animation on
Phoenix. - Fixed Delivery Crate's balloon not visually inflating when deployed.
- Fixed Charge Lantern material breaking when painted.
- Fixed missing VFX for heat cooldown in some places on the Tek Railgun.
- Fixed a visual issue with the Overseer's boulder in the Megapithecus phase.
- Fixed several exploits.
- Fixed several client crashes.
- Fixed several server crashes.
Astraeos Official Release v0.0.6
New Additions
- Added New landmass Lemnokis.
- A massive new area with big, cold and warm areas. Beaches, redwoods, mountain ridges, temples, new caves and other exciting areas await you!
- Added New area: The Maelstrom.
- Added Many new bigger and smaller caves.
- Added Aberration fertile cave including Gasveins, Green Gems and aberration fertile biome creatures like
Karkinos and 
Cosmo. - First Double-miniboss: File:Kalydonios.png Kalydonios & File:Erymanthian.png Erymanthian (Terminal can be found on Lemnokis).
- Added Claypiles for harvesting Clay.
- Added File:Astral Direwolf.png Astral Direwolf which drops the same loot as yellow ice cave drops.
- Added File:Astral Mammoth.png Astral Mammoth which drops the same loot as red ice cave drops.
- Added Gas Veins all over Therokis.
Changes
- Adjusted Grassclutter meshes on high distance.
- Adjusted Grassclutter density on close distance.
- Adjusted Grassclutter colors.
- Adjusted Bossfight tribute description.
- Adjusted Cedar Tree colors.
- Adjusted the lighting in every cave because of the engine upgrade.
- Remade the temperature curve on the whole map.
- File:Astral Deinosuchus.png Astral Deinosuchus now drops the same loot as red swamp cave drops.
- File:Astral Megalodon.png Astral Megalodon now drops the same loot as yellow underwater cave drops.
- File:Astral Mosasaurus.png Astral Mosasaurus now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops.
- File:Astral Tusoteuthis.png Astral Tusoteuthis now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops.
- Lightning Creatures are now immune to spike wall damage to prevent AFK farming.
Fixes
- Fixed Meshholes.
- Fixed Post process volume issues.
- Fixed Physic volume issues.
- Fixed a ton of technical issues with materials.
- Fixed Missing foliage at some places on Therokis+.
