Ragnarok was released on June 12, 2017 for the PC, Mac and Linux version of ARK, and for consoles on August 29, 2017.[1] Half of the map was finished at PC release date and 75% at console's release. The map was declared 99% finished for PC in December 2017 and consoles in January 2018.
Ragnarok adds several new creatures, such as the Ice Wyvern, Iceworm Male, Dire Polar Bear, and Griffin, as well as 4 new dungeon bosses: the Spirit Dire Bear and Spirit Direwolf, the Iceworm Queen and the Lava Elemental. It's a whole new map that boasts an expansive 144 sq. kilometer environment, an active volcano, species from DLC Scorched Earth, and higher than average spawn rates of Megalania and Ovis (creatures that are harder to find on other maps). On Ragnarok there are unique Beaver Dams; they are bigger and look more like beaver dams in real life. Beavers can live in the Dams, too.
Creatures tamed and items received on official Ragnarok servers can be brought to the vanilla map The Island,[2] except Polar Bears.
Unique Environmental Features.
An active volcano that will erupt creating lava flows and cause meteors to rain down.
Boxes scattered around the beaches that can be broken to get equipment.
Massive Beaver Dams.
Ruins and sunken viking boats scattered around the map including a castle overlooking viking bay.
Occasional Wind Storms.
Various easter eggs such as a Shrek hut and Jats face scattered around the map.
Hot springs with stone benches on which you can sit and get the rested buff.
Size
Ragnarok is approximately 2.5x the size of The Island, in terms of land mass, and roughly 4x in total size. These calculations do not account for the significant, wide-ranging cave networks, and sizable dungeons.
Here you see some pictures taken in the editor at same scale to show you how big Ragnarok is.
The map was never truly completed, remaining at about 98-99% complete. Most ambient sounds are missing, the reef biome offshore of the Deathsands remains barren, buggy and nearly uninhabitable due to lack of life and resources, and several other issues that affect the world. There seems to be no current effort to complete it.
In Norse mythology, Ragnarok refers to doomsday, in which a series of future events take place and the universe is reborn.
Like Scorched Earth, the creatures that Ragnarok adds are primarily based on fantasy.
This is the first map to have custom Mini-Bosses.
All 3 Mini-Bosses made for Ragnarok don't have a unique dermis, they instead are of the basic creatures, so the Lava Elemental dermis will show a rock elemental instead, the Iceworm Queen will show a deathworm, and both the Spirit Direbear and Spirit Direwolf will show their normal counterparts.
Ake Ridge
Asgeir Waters
Balder's Pass
Barnji Plateau
Blizzard Peak
Dark Deeps
Dawson's Bridge
Donovan Bridge
Egil Throughway
Erlend Rocks
Freyja Plains
Frozen Dungeon
Frozen Falls Pass
Glacier Hall
Hibbert's Summit
Ice Queen Nest
JackKnife Glacier
Jarl River
Jinx Point
Jungle Dungeon
Kamaka Cave
Kamaka Ice Lake
Knuffel Lake
Kuri Cave
Lair of The Mask
Monkeyheim
Olga Beach
Oluf Jungle
Oluf Jungle Cave
Opal Cave
Pirate Cave
Raven's Peak
Ruinous Jungle
Ruins of Etain
Skellet Canyon Cave
Slosher Slope
The Forbidden Grotto
The Monkey's Puzzle
The Old River
The Passages
The Pit of Dreen
The Tyrannogon
The Water Tunnels
Thea Cliffs
Twoshuk Bluff
Twoshuk Forest
Upper Dagmar Lake
Vali Ridge
Vali's Earthfall
Viking Bay
Wedlock Peak
Whisker's Flats
Zelus Reef
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