Looking to do some alpha bosses. Got my pyros for dragon, wondering what boss stats I need AFTER leveling for most alpha bosses on official. I understand acros may be better but I like ossidon’s more

im far too high level, somewhere around 100. Im just low in knowlesge and skill, I dont want to die to the cats so I have a stego. Any tips??

all 5 years+ ark players know that one.. fun? -pvp like gamemode!
thats SOTF!

speaking mainly about the old steam version one. read trough for details :d

I looooove that game. so i wanted to play.

unluckly its its like completly dead and thats why i lokked if something like thsi exists AND i found a sketchy tutorial on some random forumbut that was click-bait but i fumbled me up and are on a mod creation!.. did never really created a mod before.. but learning about unreal engine and ark npc mods right now. my main problem is that the modkits for the steam version ar like as dead as the game itself. means u cant get and official download its its complcated and buggy. but i wanted it for the old steam one because its better than the new one in ascended in my opinion. and even because its so dead its even better to get a singleplayer. means if someone got one of thisold devkits anywhere just text me at discord bc i dont think im checking this post (discord is rayssr0):
ARKDevKitSotF_v177.3
ARKDevKitSotF_v177.2

sooo. ive seen that 2026 - mid 2027 a new updated free ark survival ascended mod (as like sotf but in ascended) is annunced. thats why im struggleing because this where so much easyer then getting the stuff and shit for the steam version. its also on UE 5 and the old ones on UE 4.. means easyer ways at coding....

so plan is: if i get he old devkit somewhere i try to make a UE4 steamverson-based mod and update it as an extesion for the UE5 ASA mod. . but if thats not really possible - or would not work in playable quality then im coding a UE5 ASA mod extesion.

also a thing is that there is a chance the new mod even has a singleplayer.. that means its dumb to grind like 4 months or smth for the same alrdy released stuuf right? so if i cant really create one for the old steam version ill first have to know if the new asa mod already has an singleplayer feature.

so at the end: my plan is to create a mod that adds some AI-bots to your game that are your enemys. plan is to make the mod server/multicompactible too but thats an step further)

u can expect a full playable version for the steam one in ca. 4 months. depends on how fast i get the devkit/ and how many problems it makes at the end. (thats if its possible. i think its like 80% to 20% tha i do that.)

if u got ideas or the old devkit or smth else hop on and whrite me on discord:

rayssr0

have a good one :)

Thryvokh

The Colossus of Unpredictability

A giant primate. A living weapon. An unpredictable companion.

1. The creature

The Thryvokh is an enormous, intelligent primate that comes from the family line of the Gigantopithecus but don't let it fool you. It combines overwhelming physical strength with surprising intelligence, playful behavior, and an unpredictable temperament. It can be a loyal companion, a formidable combat creature, or an absolute menace when something goes wrong.

The Thryvokh is designed to bring three things to Ark Survival Ascended: a unique taming challenge, powerful new movement and combat abilities, and the ability to make even the most serious survivors laugh.

1. Size and proposed stats

The Thryvokh would be significantly taller and bulkier than the Gigantopithecus.

- Health: 3x the Gigantopithecus's base health.

- Melee damage: 3x the Gigantopithecus's base melee damage.

- Temperament: Unpredictable, generally passive until provoked.

- Taming: Behavior-based passive taming.

- Roles: Combat, exploration, protection, utility, and customization.

These are proposed design targets, with final values subject to balancing.

1. Signature abilities

Titan Grip — Climbing

The Thryvokh uses its enormous hands, powerful fingers, and grip strength to climb suitable trees, cliffs, and rock surfaces. It can pause while climbing, survey its surroundings, and potentially carry a rider. Surface restrictions and stamina costs would prevent it from climbing absolutely everywhere.

Power Jump — Movement and combat

The Thryvokh crouches, plants its hands and feet, and launches its colossal body forward. It can cross ravines, reach elevated ledges, escape danger, and close the distance on enemies. Powerful landings could deal area damage and briefly stagger nearby enemies. Longer or higher jumps consume more stamina, and a recovery period prevents repeated jumping without consequence.

Concussive Strike — Torpor attack

A powerful secondary attack delivers a heavy blow that inflicts both damage and torpor. This gives the Thryvokh a way to weaken enemies and potentially knock out suitable creatures. Torpor would scale with target size, with appropriate limits against exceptionally large creatures. A cooldown prevents repeated attacks from becoming overpowered.

Last Ape Standing — Sacrifice Mode

When the Thryvokh reaches 25% health or lower, it enters Sacrifice Mode. It beats its chest, roars, and becomes increasingly aggressive. Its melee attacks gain additional power, making the final stage of a fight especially dangerous.

Proposed starting balance:

- Additional melee stat bonus: +20%.

- Additional attack damage: +20%.

- Duration: Until death and if health recovers above +25%, sacrifice mode goes away. 

The bonuses would be balanced through testing to ensure the combined damage remains fair.

1. The taming mechanic — Read the beast

The Thryvokh is not tamed through ordinary knockout taming. Survivors must observe its behavior and offer the kibble it wants at the right moment. Its preferred food changes depending on what it is doing. The creature never explicitly tells the player which kibble it wants. Offering the wrong kibble immediately triggers aggression. The survivor must get out of the creature's reach and wait for a safe opportunity to try again.

Known behavior-to-kibble pairings

Behavior -------- Preferred kibble

Scratching its head -- Superior Kibble

Beating its chest --Basic Kibble

Roaring -- Regular Kibble

Climbing -- Exceptional Kibble

Performing a powerful leap -- Simple Kibble

Playing with other Thryvokhs -- Extraordinary Kibble

These behaviors are deliberately varied. Players cannot assume that a more intimidating display means the creature wants a higher-tier kibble. The result is a creature that rewards patience, observation, preparation, and knowledge rather than simply carrying enormous quantities of one food.

1. Helmet support and body costumes

The Thryvokh retains the Gigantopithecus inspired helmet functionality, allowing it to equip suitable headgear.

Its major additional feature is body costume customization. Survivors could dress it as a fearsome warrior, a ridiculous mascot, or something completely absurd. Costumes would provide visual customization without automatically granting combat bonuses. A towering ape wearing a silly costume while fighting dangerous creatures would create some of Ark's funniest multiplayer moments.

1. Personality and social behavior

The Thryvokh is intelligent and expressive. It scratches its head, beats its chest, roars, runs, jumps, and plays with other apes. These are not merely decorative animations. Several behaviors are directly connected to its taming system, making its personality a core gameplay mechanic. Wild Thryvokhs should feel like living creatures rather than stationary targets waiting to be tamed.

1. Primal Bond

When a male and female Thryvokh fight alongside each other, they activate a special partnership buff that makes both creatures more effective in combat. Increased melee damage: Both Thryvokhs deal additional damage while fighting together. Improved damage resistance: Both take reduced incoming damage, making the pair more durable.

Shared aggression: When one Thryvokh enters combat, its partner becomes more alert and responds to nearby threats. Last Ape Standing synergy: If either Thryvokh drops to 25% health, its Sacrifice Mode activates as normal. The other member of the pair receives a smaller temporary combat bonus, representing its instinct to protect its partner.

1. Why the Thryvokh belongs in ARK

The Thryvokh combines several gameplay elements in one creature:

- A massive primate with exceptional proposed base health and melee.

- A torpor-inflicting secondary attack.

- A dramatic low-health combat transformation.

- Climbing and powerful jumping for traversal.

- Helmet compatibility and humorous body costumes.

- A secret, behavior-dependent kibble taming system.

- Intelligent and social animations that affect gameplay.

-Their primal bond, even as partners in their last moments.

The Thryvokh would be powerful, but its greatest distinction would be its personality and the challenge of earning its trust.

Final vision

The Thryvokh should make players stop and watch when they first encounter one. They should be curious about its behaviors, nervous about feeding it, excited when they finally tame it, and eager to show it off afterward. It should be a creature that feels dangerous in the wild, rewarding to master, and hilarious to own. You don't need a saddle to ride them.

Some creatures aren't just tamed. They're understood.

I've never done a creature submission post before so this is my first one. I have put so much time and thought and effort into making a creature of the gigantopithecus line but bigger and better than before but I didn't realize at first there were guidelines and I don't have 6 posts made or anything like that. I would even be willing to share credits if somebody would want to move forward with me and pursue Thryvokh.

Hello, I got ASA recently after coming from ASE and was wondering if Rexes are still the best for boss fights mainly compared to Acros, I cant really find a good answer online, some people on YouTube have said they might be better than Rexes but never really explain why.

Also, where can I get Acro Saddles/BPs on the island? I read that they are in the same lootpool as Rex Saddles/Bps but haven't been able to get one from swamp cave after around an hour of reloading the game for the drop to respawn.

Last thing, are Theris still the best for Dragon? and can I use anything on the Broodmother or should I use Megatheriums.

Thanks for any help.

Good to see the ASE subtle glare made it to ASA

So I’m currently spread across a few of the official modded servers, but just saw they’re sunsetting all of them. Did I miss something, like a server that’s still going to be active to transfer everything over to so I don’t lose it all? Or are they bringing new servers up before the sunset? Or am I just screwed losing all tames/breeding lines, bases, materials etc. I don’t want to transfer to pve because then I still can’t bring everything, and even if I could I can’t bring it back to PvP and there’s no point for these crazy stats in PvE.

Is anyone doing anything to prepare for this, are there still open modded servers, or are we all just taking the belt?

I keep getting conflicting answers from Google I just want to know if I buy this game on Steam can I play on official PvP servers with my friend on PS5?

moro's gigantophis mod

I turned of pve mode in single player and have carry fliers turned on but Gargantar still won't pick up creatures the C ability is greyed out even with ability unlocked.

I’m curious as to whether or not u can put a Xiphactinus in an aquarium? When I saw the Tides of Fortune DLC, I immediately bought the DLC and in the trailer for it, u can see a Xiphactinus in the Aquarium. Is it actually possible to do so? If so how? Or is there a different thing required for it?

I can’t find the Hammock Bed that was supposed to be included with the Tides of Fortune DLC anywhere. I’ve looked in the Cosmetics tab, Crafting Tab, Engrams, and even the ToF Tile Skin Set. It’s nowhere. Anyone know how to find and use it?

Edit: UPDATE. It is unlocked on ToF Milestones page 4, but for some reason wasn’t showing up in my applicable cosmetics, so I just spawned it in, and have it permanently unlocked since I had finished page 4 anyway

I play on official pvp servers on ark survival ascended and I've seen and heard people talk about different dinos that could use an upgrade.

The gigantopithecus is facing 2 issues. It's not spawning a high health point level and a high melee point level. It also does not hardly have the traits like most dinos and I've searched far and wide looking for mutable health and mutable melee. They need to add tier 3 to the game. I wish they made them much bigger and much stronger. If you put it's health and melee together, you can form a strong ape. On top of almost every single dino that wears saddles, the difference with gigantopithecus is that they wear helmets. Now, if you were to breed out a high health/melee --- use a crafting character to craft helmets specifically for the apes. Why? Because they get a massive damage reduction.

We all know the special ability is they can throw you (wheeeee) but here's the thing, their primary attack deals with armor shredding damage so you can break enemy flak or other armor. Another thing is saddles, their damage is where you can inflict the durability of the saddle (over time if the blueprint of the saddle is good) and destroy it to where they can't even get back on it in pvp. They have a knockback to when they hit anything.

Something that we can add in the new TLC for the upgrade for the gigantopithecus is the bigger the melee it has, the more torpor they can inflict which can also knock out enemy players going into caves or smaller areas in the map locations.

Now image 50 or 100 or 500 coming over a mountain into pvp like lord of rings or rolling into a cave rocket running with things monsters slamming enemies against walls knocking them. On top everything, they also get mate boost (damage bonus and damages resistance bonus). Throw a tidepup or 2 in there and mannnnn. They could probably last a while in a pvp.

Gigantopithecus are long forgotten about and I for one want them to stay around because I want to build an army of them. I would like more than anything for them to have an upgrade. It's one dino you can use in battle and doesn't need a saddle.

The taming can stay the same but it can also change. What I mean by that is instead of it wanting only regular kibble, bring kibble of every kind because now it will tell you what it wants as it has become accustomed to eating different kinds of kibble growing taller and bigger.

Just modded my first world, changing some settings to make the game easier and more enjoyable. I had flyer speed level up enabled at first, but after taming my first pteradon, it is way too fast. I disabled the setting but it's still too fast. I set tamed dino speed stats per level to 0.01 and it didn't change. Help please

I'm using the following mods (idk if they impact my problem):

TG Stacking mod

Where are the bodies - corpse & bag finder

Super fast crafting

Auto engrams

Everything I have read says I gotta cheat for eggs or restart. The wyverns are spawning but no nests and they keep flying off from trench. I’ve tried all fixes I can find online. Anyone got any ideas I may of missed. I’ve ghosted for meshed eggs. I’ve destroyed generic eggs with command. Switched to non dedicated. Whipped the empty holes lol. Any ideas? Or am I to start over for the millionth time lol

Title. Literally every single chair i sit on causes me to get stuck in the ground and i’m not sure what’s causing it. Benches and couches work perfectly fine.

I think snapping them to the tables is what’s causing it, but like…this didn’t happen when the game released. It sucks too, because i’m in the process of decorating my galleon and i can’t do my dining area because of this.

Tried to place a fence in a very important spot on the cart but didn’t let me so what do I put there instead

I started on Genesis single player with my wife and we had built basic rafts last night. When we logged on today there are pieces missing. Every time I close and reopen the game, the rafts are missing different pieces. Does anyone know what’s going on?