On the 70+ player servers, your character, everything you built, and your pets stay in-game even when you leave. Death means permanent loss, and you can even enslave other players for your own purposes. Your inventory also exists in the persistent world, vulnerable to theft. When you leave the game, your character remains “sleeping” in the persistent world. Items have durability and wear out with use if not repaired.
Customize the look of your character with a complex character creation system. Level-Up your survivor by gaining experience through in-game actions to learn new crafting Engrams, or find higher level item Blueprints in the most dangerous parts of the ARK. These monstrosities provide an end-game goal for the most experienced Tribes and their Pets, and yield valuable items if they are defeated. Weapons, clothing, & armor gear can also be painted to express your own visual style.īring rare items to special Summon locations to awaken the ARK’s mythical creatures, who arrive ready for battle. Customize your base by painting it and placing signs that you can actually draw on. Build a massive base using modular pieces-ranging from Thatch, to Wood, to Stone, to Metal. Use your hands, a Smithy, or a Fabricator to craft increasingly complex and powerful gear. Harvest trees, ore, and more to become a master crafter. Craft clothing, build shelter, and use fire to protect yourself against damage & the elements. Inventory weight slows you down, and the day/night cycle and weather alter the environment. All actions drain food and water, and long-distance travel is draining. Or put more simply, breed & raise Dino Babies!Įat and drink to survive, with different foods having different nutritional values (including human meat!). Breed Pets through successive generations to generate the best traits. Fly a Pteranodon over the mountains, race through the jungle with a pack of Raptors, or chase down prey on a T-Rex! Experience a dynamic ecosystem with its own predator & prey hierarchies. Pets continue to level-up and consume food, and carry Inventory and Equipment. Once tamed, you can issue commands to your Pet, which it may follow depending on how well you’ve tamed and trained it. Weaken a feral creature to knock it out, and then nursing it to health. This ARK: Survival Evolved guide details everything you need to know about making dye, which is used to add color and customize structures and items, as well as characters, dinos and creatures. Over 50 creatures can be tamed using a challenging subdue-&-protect process.
TAME, TRAIN, BREED & RIDE DINOSAURS, IN A LIVING ECOSYSTEM Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate. Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive.