Genesis: Part 2 is the fifth and final paid DLC Expansion Pack for ARK: Survival Evolved and is available for purchase through the Genesis Season Pass.
Genesis: Part 2 has survivors exploring a vast world filled with strange new biomes, story missions, and exotic creatures. The map is set aboard the massive Genesis-Ship with two rings: on the right side is a regular ring with green terrain as well as normal creatures and the left side is a corrupted ring full of purple terrain and horrifying creatures. The ship is traveling through deep space looking for a habitable planet.
Asteroids in between the two rings that change after hyperspace.
Unique missions that grant graded loots, including Tek items.
New Creatures
The map contains various new creatures, from an unusual but helpful Maewing, down to a small but horrifying Noglin, the smart and curious Astrodelphis that wanders space, the robotic and ever-searching Stryder to be tamed, the sneaky Shadowmane that can turn invisible at will, the flying robotic sentries known as Voidwyrms, and the horrifying Summoner that can spawn other creatures to aid themselves.
Moreover a brand new variant of creatures called R-Creatures can be found across the ship, each possessing boosted stats from their original counterpart.
Unique Environmental Features
Hyperspace, an event that appears during the night, this makes the sky go purple with millions of stars passing by and the ship will eventually arrive at another planet. This event causes the asteroids in the -Space- area to change afterwards.
Eden Zone, a starter area for survivors, filled with plateaus, mountains, rivers, and waterfalls, providing all necessary Resources needed for survival.
Tek Trenches (Rock Tunnel) that act as technological bridges between biomes, and the two Rings.
Corrupted Gardens, an aberrant and twisted region created by Rockwell filled with his eerie creations.
The S.U.M.P, an underground ocean located underneath the Eden Zone, which contains ocean-based creatures and resources.
An area in between the two rings known as -Space-, while low in biodiversity it does have asteroids that transform after a hyperspace event has occured.
Regions
Afflicted Clearing
Aries Sector
Ashburn River
Barebone Creek
Barebone Falls
Barren Wetlands
Bleak Hills
Bleaksight Mire
Bloodhorn Mountains
Bloodhorne Vale
Boros Sector
Brightfell Pond
Charnel Spring
Corrupted Gardens
Creeping Leaf Bog
Desolate Mound
Dreaded Pass
Fallen Cliffs
Foulcreek Marsh
Fractured Lake
Gorevale Lake
Gravemere Reservoir
Harrowing Dam
Hungering Heights
Hungering Slopes
Ironbeak
Ironbeak River
Ironbeak Rock
Isolation Peak
Isolation Valley
Lake Shivermore
Lifeless Lake
Noxiousdew River
Placidview
Placidview Canyon
Placidview Heights
Placidview Lake
Plains of Desolation
River of the Fallen
Rockwell's Proliferation
Rugged Bluff
Shattered Loch
Stillwater Expanse
Stillwater Fen
Stillwater Peaks
Sunless Lake
Tempest Crag
The Afflicted Swamp
The Cracking Cliffs
The Elusive Peaks
The Fallen Mount
The Murkey Pond
Traitor Rock
Uncanny Hollow
Velvet Shores
Vile Creek Glen
Vile Creek Loch
Vile Creek River
Alderwood Spring
Aquatic R&D Center
Arnia's Bowl
Baleview River
Barefoot Plains
BerkBrook Height
Calamity Vale
Castle Sector
Cold Point Drop
Coldwater Hollow
Credence Falls
Crimson Peak
Crown Ridge
Crown Ridge Highlands
Crown Ridge Lowland
Daydream River
Driftwood Beck
Echo pond
Echo Sector
Eden Trench
Edgeriver Mountains
Evergreen Approach
Evergreen Peaks
Evergreen Valley
Fallen Oak Lake
Fallen Oak River
Grimfall River
Hammerfalls Creek
Hideaway Lake
Holson Creek
Jubilee Creek
Lookout Ridge
Mistwood Creek
Mistwood Loch
Moonshade Falls
Moonshade lake
Mount Greyhill
Mystic Spring
Nightwell lake
Norfall Cliffs
Norfall Lake
Norfall River
Norfall River East
Norfall River West
Norfall Shores
Norfall Spring
Norfalls
Pale Peak
Paradise Sector
Peaks of Solitude
Pink Lotus Rill
Remembrance River
Restless Geyser
Rimrock Lake
Riverrock Expanse
Roaring Rock
Rolling River
Rolling River Falls
Sandfoot Plains
Silentbloom Brook
Silentbloom Mere
Silky Peak
Silverrock Tarn
Skyreach Cliffs
Skyreach Summit
Sleeping Lake
Slopes of Solitude
Soot Peak
South Peak Mountain
Spireblade Ridge
Spout Island
Stonefist Mountain
Stonefist Spring
Stonefist Valley
Stormgrove Aqueduct
Stormgrove Mountain
Stormgrove Slopes
Summerworth Bay
Summerworth Lake
S.U.M.P
Sweetwater Lake
Talking Trees Forest
Tally's Lookout
Talon Geyser
The Cold Point
The Last Ridge
Tranquil Gorge
Twin Tears Drop
Twin Tears Woodlands
Unscaled Mountain
Westwell Geyser
Whaletale Lake
Whitemarsh
Whitemarsh Moor
Whitewater Marsh
Windless Canyon
Windshire Loch
Space Bridge
VR
-Space-
Approximate Spawn Locations
Approximate Spawn Locations
Summerworth
Coldwater
Moonshade
Remembrance
Twin Tears
White Water
Foulcreek
Fractured
Creeping Leaf
Afflicted
Barebone
Uncanny
Data Maps
Strategic Resources
Exploring the map
Creature Spawns
Missions
Like Genesis: Part 1, Genesis: Part 2 includes missions. These missions include hunt missions, races, gauntlet missions, and more. These missions give hexagons and non-grindable loot upon completion, as well as certain effects, such as taming speed increase & more. Missions can take place in the Genesis Simulation (where you will not lose your items if you die), and some outside of it. Each mission has a gamma, beta, and alpha difficulty, with each higher difficulty providing better rewards.
All missions of a respective difficulty level must be completed before the Rockwell Prime boss fight can be started on that difficulty.
Genesis: Part 2 introduces new biome variants of 19 creatures, called R-Creatures, similar to the X-Creatures. Unlike the X-Creatures, these biome-specific variants spawn alongside their normal variants. This means that you can find both the R-Dino as well as the basic dino variant on the Genesis ship.
As Genesis: Part 2 is part of the story of the ARKs, Explorer Notes can be found across the map. These Explorer Notes document the ARK lore. For more in-depth information, see Explorer Notes.
Include a main menu that changes, depending on if you have defeated the final boss or not.
Not have a new Specimen implant rewarded for defeating the final boss on that map.
pre-equip the survivor with armor
This is the last canon map to be added before moving onto ARK 2.
Survivors come pre-equipped with a Federation Tek Suit upon entering the Genesis-Ship, and it does not need fuel to use its abilities, although slightly weakened.
Just like Genesis: Part 1, Genesis: Part 2 has HLN-A alongside the Player, providing access to the Hexagon Exchange.
Unlike Genesis: Part 1, Genesis: Part 2 allows the use of flying creatures.
You can spawn a Mission Dispatcher for Genesis: Part 2 with console command: cheat summon missiondispatcher_gen2_c
At midnight in game time (00:00) the ship moves throughout the galaxy, giving the sky across the map a interesting effect. This is known as Hyperspace.
This is the second map that allows players to tame Reapers without cheating, the first being Aberration.
This is the second map to include an underground ocean, the first being Valguero.
Along with first big reveals of the expansion, Genesis 2 Chronicles had begun, adding several new Explorer Notes every few weeks to story maps in chronological order.
Unlike Genesis: Part 1, this map has traditional Explorer Notes alongside proximity-activated HLN-A / Rockwell notes.
Asteroids found in the center space ring only spawn when the Genesis-Ship is out of hyperspace. You can tell what these asteroids will be by the color of the drops around the area. For more details please visit the -Space- page.
This map is the largest in the game.
The setting of Genesis: Part 2 has similar settings to various media as well as texts:
Halo
The biome-laden rings connected to the Genesis-Ship have a similar appearance to that of the Halo Array from the Halo Series.
The Eden Zone has a similar appearance to a normal Halo Array from the Halo Series
Additionally, Rockwell's Proliferation is similar to areas of the Halo Array that is infected by the Flood from the Halo Series.
Elder Scrolls
Rockwell's Garden resembles Sheogorath's Daedric realm: The Shivering Isles with strange looking plant life, and a root system that is connected to the entire ecosystem.
Both creators of Rockwell's Garden and Shivering Isles, Rockwell and Sheogorath respectively, have many similarities.
The biomes they live in and made as mentioned above.
Their biomes have highly dangerous inhabitants that are of their own creation, and have loyal servants.
Have a personality that revolves around madness and insanity. Before their personality change, both were orderly and logical as Rockwell used to be a normal human who was thinking clearly and Sheogorath was formerly Jyggalag, the Daedric prince of order and logic.
Ramble on to the player, yet they effectively make some good points about the player's motives.
The corrupted survivors resemble giants or lurkers from Skyrim
The barrier of space between the Eden biome and Rockwell's Garden and its presence of Voidwyrms is akin to the Elder Scrolls universe Dragonfires, a ward that keeps the Elder scrolls realms of Nirn and Oblivion separate.
Terraria
Rockwell's Proliferation slightly resembles the Terraria Crimson biome, and that of the Wall of Flesh boss.
The Bible
The biome in the Eden ring is a nod to the Garden of Eden in the Bible where the land is a peaceful paradise.
The entire Genesis Colony Ship is like a literal ARK, where it acts like a lifeboat for all life and the surviving humans.
DLC of Genesis itself is a nod to the Bible's first book: Genesis.
As of current Voidwyrm spawns are bugged and Fire Wyvern (normal and Zombie) spawns instead.
In previous Fear Evolved all Aberrant, Corrupted, X, Ice Wyverns and Tek Creatures (Lunar-only) were bugged and regular creatures, including normal Megalania on Aberration, Deathworm on Extinction, Giga on Genesis 1 and even the super-bugged Nameless Queen.
While Surface Reaper Kings don't spawn on this map, Surface Reaper King Ghosts do.
Throughout the gameplay of Genesis: Part 2, the rings are constantly rotating around the ship's center. This is seen when you see a part of the ship moving over the playable section of the ring and later see it in the scenery of the non playable sections of the rings.
Griffins were seen in the teaser image for Hoverboard in the Eden zone but they are not found there
Genesis: Part 2 had been available on Google Stadia from Sep 1, 2021 until Dec 14th, 2022 due to the platform shutting down.
According to the Nintendo Eshop Genesis pt 2 has an estimated switch release date of late may. Possibly delayed due to survival ascended updates.
Fixed being unable to navigate onto the Genesis 2 Engram filter
Server Configuration values related to Genesis 2 World Buffs
bDisableWorldBuffs=True This will disable world buffs entirely
bEnableWorldBuffScaling=True This dynamic setting will cause world buffs to scale their benefits multiplicatively, rather than additionally. (Official Servers have this set to false/use additional).
WorldBuffScalingEfficacy=1 This dynamic setting will act as a global scalar to reduce/increase the effectiveness of world buffs. 1 would be default, 0.5 would be 50% less effective, 100 would be 100x more effective.
Multiple TEK Engrams (Replicator, Teleporter, Trough, Forcefield, Dedicated Storage, Armour, Rifle, Turret, Generator) were added to the Genesis Part 2 boss fight
Removed some invalid items from the Mission Loot & Supply Crate tables on Genesis Part 2
Updated some mission objective text on Genesis Part 2
Updated some descriptive text for items on Genesis Part 2
Fixed some cases where the Explorer Notes would not unlock properly on the server (to get the first HLNA explorer note, make sure to hit the reset cinematics button in your options - note that you only unlock Explorer Notes once HLNA has finished all her lines.)
Fixed a bug where the WorldBuffScalingEfficacy would break harvesting rates
Fixed a bug where Explorer Notes would not unlock properly on Genesis Part 1 and Genesis Part 2. Any missing Genesis Part 2 note can be re-collected, and Genesis Part 1 notes should be fixed retroactively however may require you to respawn on Genesis Part 1.
Gallery
Logged out of Genesis: Part 2 Map from a survivor who has not defeated Rockwell Prime
Logged out of Genesis: Part 2 Map from a survivor who has defeated Rockwell Prime
Afflicted Clearing
Aries Sector
Ashburn River
Barebone Creek
Barebone Falls
Barren Wetlands
Bleak Hills
Bleaksight Mire
Bloodhorn Mountains
Bloodhorne Vale
Boros Sector
Brightfell Pond
Charnel Spring
Corrupted Gardens
Creeping Leaf Bog
Desolate Mound
Dreaded Pass
Fallen Cliffs
Foulcreek Marsh
Fractured Lake
Gorevale Lake
Gravemere Reservoir
Harrowing Dam
Hungering Heights
Hungering Slopes
Ironbeak
Ironbeak River
Ironbeak Rock
Isolation Peak
Isolation Valley
Lake Shivermore
Lifeless Lake
Noxiousdew River
Placidview
Placidview Canyon
Placidview Heights
Placidview Lake
Plains of Desolation
River of the Fallen
Rockwell's Proliferation
Rugged Bluff
Shattered Loch
Stillwater Expanse
Stillwater Fen
Stillwater Peaks
Sunless Lake
Tempest Crag
The Afflicted Swamp
The Cracking Cliffs
The Elusive Peaks
The Fallen Mount
The Murkey Pond
Traitor Rock
Uncanny Hollow
Velvet Shores
Vile Creek Glen
Vile Creek Loch
Vile Creek River
