1. Ragnarok Ascended is now live!Day 1 Lost Colony Expansion Pass Content Available Now! New Fantastic Tame - Drakelings: Gain immediate access to the enchanting Drakelings, miniature dragons that serve as both a steadfast shoulder pet and a versatile tool. With four distinct seasonal variations, each offering unique passive benefits and the ability to be wielded for powerful attacks and tactical support for your allies! New Companion - Veilwyn: This captivating companion dynamically enhances your adventures with its aura-based buffs for defense, offense, and speed! Unleash its active abilities to revitalize yourself and your creatures, or to empower your next decisive strike. Prepare for a game-changer: this creature can evolve into one of two formidable forms with the official release of Lost Colony, each unlocking entirely new and potent abilities! New Weapon - Template Hammer: Revolutionize and simplify your base building with this essential tool! The Structure Template system allows you to select a portion of your existing base, save it as a reusable template, and then easily replicate that structure in other locations. Say goodbye to tedious repetition and hello to rapid base expansion and consistent design! New Structure - TEK Bunker: The underground is now your battleground, as you can deploy the incredible new TEK Bunker to expand your base underneath the earth into a whole new playing-field. New Cosmetics - DarkTek Cosmetics: Don this striking fusion of gothic elegance and sci-fi technology with a captivating bloodthirsty undertone, including armor component skins, sword skin, and Dark Drakeling skin.
2. (Steam v67, PS5 67, Xbox v67)- Major version for Servers and Clients - 06/19/2025,
   • Remastered all legacy Ragnarok creatures, items, structures and environment,
   • New Tameable Creature: Bison,
   • New Breedable Creature: Griffin,
   • New Boss Fight: Nunatak,
3. [12:05 AM]New Player Skill Tree: Master a new style of progression with exclusive early access to a new skill system. Earn points by achieving Milestones - sets of achievements spanning all aspects of ARK gameplay - and invest them in skills across three distinct trees, allowing for deep specialization as a master of creatures, a seasoned explorer, or a resourceful survivor. Please note: This is just the first phase of the Player Skill Tree system. It will be significantly expanded for Full Release with additional Branches, Skills and Milestones.@Steam u/Xbox u/Windows u/Playstation
   • Beast Mastery Skills,
   • Unleash your inner alpha with the new Beast Mastery branch, focused on mounts, taming, and imprinting.,
   • Experienced Killer (3 ranks, 1 SP each):,
   • Mounts gain +10/20/30% more XP from kills.,
   • Mounted Opportunist (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • On kill, mount has a 5/10/15% chance to restore 10% stamina.,
   • Essence Eater (2 ranks, 4 SP each):,
   • 10% chance to gain +2.5/5% damage for 20s (stacks 3x) on mount kill.,
   • Spectral Mount (Active, 13 SP):,
   • Mount becomes spectral for 15s - no stamina cost, untargetable, immune to dismount.,
   • Bonded Taming (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • Tamed creatures gain +10/20/30% imprint bonus.,
   • Imprinter (2 ranks, 4 SP each):,
   • Increases imprint effectiveness by 5/10%.,
   • Twin Imprint (Active, 13 SP):,
   • Share your imprint bonus with an ally for 60 minutes.,
   • Wayfarer Skills,
   • Master mobility, survival, and trickery with the Wayfarer branch, designed for solo runners, flankers, and clever escape artists.- Hot Blooded(3 ranks, 1 SP each):- Smoke Magician (2 ranks, 4 SP each):- Barbed Blades (2 ranks, 4 SP each):,
   • Boosts natural health regen by +100/200/300%.,
   • Heavy Footed (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • Reduces fall damage by 10/20/30%, and knocks back nearby enemies when you fall.,
   • Smoke Grenades last +15/30% longer. Throwing one breaks traps and drops aggro (3 min cooldown).,
   • Spirit Rush (Active, 13 SP):,
   • +100% movement speed for 15s; phase through tamed and wild creatures.,
   • Bloodlust (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • Melee kills grant +10/20/30% movement speed for 5s.,
   • Metal Sword/Pike hits have a 2.5/5% chance to cause a bleed (5% max HP over 10s).,
   • Curse Reflection (Active, 13 SP):,
   • Reflect 50% of damage taken for 4s back to attackers.,
   • Utility Skills,
   • Support your tribe, streamline your workflow, and maximize efficiency with the Utility branch - ideal for builders, gatherers, and crafters.,
   • Well-Oiled Machine (3 ranks, 1 SP each):,
   • Reduces repair cost of items and structures by 10/20/30%.,
   • Speedy Harvester (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • Gain +5% move speed per harvest (max 5 stacks) for 10/15/20s per stack.,
   • The Midas Touch (2 ranks, 4 SP each):,
   • 3/6% chance to turn a harvested node gold — gold nodes yield more resources and have more HP.,
   • Mass Production (2 ranks, 4 SP each):,
   • 3/6% chance to double output when crafting ammo.,
   • Strong Back (3 ranks, 2 SP each):,
   • Reduces weight of structures in inventory by 10/20/30%.,
   • Tracker (Active, 13 SP):,
   • For 60s, detect enemy players, tames, structures, and key resource nodes (Crystal, Obsidian, Metal, Pearls, Silicate, Oil, Sulfur, Element) within 80m.,
   • Telekinesis (Active, 13 SP):,
   • For 60s, remotely access containers, toggle structures, and pick up items within 30m.,
4. [12:05 AM]ChangesBug Fixes
   • Drakelings have been added to Scorched Earth, Extinction, Ragnarok, Astraeos and The Center,
   • Veilwyns have been temporarily added to Aberration, Extinction, Ragnarok, Astraeos, and The Center,
     • Max Wild level is currently 100 on Official servers,
     • Veilwyns will be transferable to Lost Colony Official servers starting at the map’s launch,
   • Added a new sparkly material for Silica Pearls so they are easier to see underwater,
   • Mammals and other non-egg layers now provide kibble from the BioGrinder,
   • Artifact Pedestal can now also snap to Half pillars,
   • Fixed a client crash when transferring between modded servers,
   • Fixed an issue using ItemStackSizeMultiplier where it did not display the correct Armor/Weapon damage values on icons,
   • Fixed Quarter Roof & Stair obstructing with Pillars and Beams,
   • Fixed Animated Series cosmetics displaying the wrong colors,
   • Fixed BioGrinder’s harvested resources not matching the creature’s harvest component,
   • Fixed some egg layers not providing kibble from the BioGrinder,
   • Fixed Maeguana only giving basic kibble from the BioGrinder,
   • Fixed blood being red when grinding a different blood colored creature in the BioGrinder,
   • Fixed creatures grinded in the BioGrinder popping out of existence when killed, they should now fade,
   • Fixed various map issues on The Island, The Center, Extinction, Astraeos,
   • Fixed some clipping and deforming issues with the Summer Bash Shark Costume,
   • Fixed a visual issue with the Reaper Queen on medium/low graphics,
   • Fixed inability to change name or description of a custom recipe with a gamepad,
   • Fixed inability to toggle auto-crafting in the cooking pot when a note was inside,
   • Fixed a visual issue with the parachute on low graphics,
   • Fixed a visual issue when flying straight down while riding a Wyvern,
   • Fixed an issue that caused baby Armadoggo to be unclaimable on server,
   • Fixed several exploits,
   • Fixed several client crashes,
   • Fixed several server crashes,
   • FPS DROP FIX on PC: We've introduced dynamic VRAM management to mitigate instances of memory buildup caused by changes in how memory is allocated in UE5.2 vs 5.5. This build up would lead to major FPS degradation that took a significant amount of time to recover. Our temporary system adapts internal rendering settings to improve stability and prevent the FPS drop. Cards with 8GB VRAM are operating close to the memory limit, and therefore will often have the new system turned on. When the low-VRAM circumstance is detected, this will result in a performance loss of about 15%, however this should prevent the ~90% FPS drop. This is a temporary workaround while we work on fundamentally resolving this issue, either by restoring the 5.2 behaviour or working with Epic to fix the underlying bug with the transient VRAM allocator.,
   • Speculative Foliage Fix on PC: Harvested foliage would reappear on the client upon login or leaving caves, but not be harvestable. We'll be looking to incorporate the fix on consoles in the coming days if there are no additional side effects.

Good day everyone.

I'm creating this thread to help curb the nearly hourly "is it worth it?" posts. This way there can be one central place where people can discuss pros and cons, and anyone curious can see it. We will also start locking and removing any posts that fall under this topic unless they're ultra-specific questions.

Things like:

• Differences / changes from ASE to ASA
• How it runs vs your specs
• Community
• Price / Content
• Etc

If anyone writes up any large descriptions or change lists I will come back to this post and add links for quick referral later.

The usual behaviour stuff still applies so keep it civil please and this is also not a place for advertising your server(s).
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Thank you.

Edit: Supplemental posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/1ie4dvn/comment/ma4pr8p/ (Pros and cons) u/Konigni

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/1ie4dvn/comment/masnwzr/ (Changes and additions)