Community Crunch 444: Love Ascended, Mods Spotlight, and more!

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Love Ascended is returning to ARK next week, bringing a wave of romantic and delightful rewards in honor of the world’s biggest mate boosting holiday! But that’s not all, we’re also gearing up for the launch of Astraeos, the first-ever Official Partner DLC, landing on February 12th!

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Can you feel the love in the air? Love Ascended is set to sweep ARK survivors off their feet with an array of enchanting new treats and delights. This love-filled event, celebrating Valentine’s Day, kicks off on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, and will continue to spread joy and affection until Wednesday, February 19, 2025, on Official Servers.

Starts on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:00am PST

Ends on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 10:00am PST

PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding

Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding

ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

Lovebirds *new*

Love Bugs

Vday Coel

Chibi-Lovebird *new*

Chibi Pair-o-Saurs *new*

Valentine’s Fishing Rod

Love Bug Hearts

Festive Dino Candy

Box o’ Chocolates (Now also reduce mating cooldown by 20% of current time remaining)

Pillow-Club Skin *new*

Loveseat *new*

Ottoman *new*

Love-Chair *new*

Pajama Top *new*

Pajama Bottoms *new*

SleepingHat *new*

PomPom Slippers *new*

Friendship Bracelets *new*

Bear Hug Swimsuit

Odd Couple Swimsuit

Sauropod Heart Swimsuit

Cupid Couture Bottom Skin

Cupid Couture Top Skin

Halo Headband Skin

Heart-shaped Sunglasses Skin

Heart Spring Hat

Cuddle Rex Sweater

Bow & Eros Skin

Heart-shaped Shield Skin

Teddy Bear Grenade Skin

Love Shackles Skin

Heart Spring Hat

Cuddle Rex Sweater

Love-Bed

Proposal Emote *new*

Lasso Emote *new*

Flirty Emote

Heart Emote

Self Hug Emote

Dino Light Blue

WyvernBlue0

PowderBlue

Glacial

DarkLavender

MediumLavender

Lavender

DarkViolet

Dino Light Purple

LightPink

Magenta

DeepPink

Red

DarkMagenta

Dino Albino

Cream

Jade

LeafGreen

From the Main Menu, select the mod tab.

Search for Love Ascended in the ARK Mod list and Install it. Mod ID: 927084

After it’s installed, go back to your game setup screen and select ‘Mod Settings’

You will see Love Ascended and any other mods you’ve downloaded in ‘Available Mods’

Select Love Ascended and activate it.

If you would like to enable Love Ascended on your private servers, please add the mod ID to your server command-line launch arguments (-mods=927084). No other changes should be necessary to activate the event.

The next winner of our Community Creature Vote will be featured on Valguero. Get your endlessly creative submissions ready, and you might see your creature making its debut with the release of the Valguero map in ARK: Survival Ascended!

Please note that this creature will be released for Valguero, so ensure your real-world submissions align with that map’s theme! As mentioned earlier, we will introduce an additional real-world creature for each expansion pack map release in ARK: Survival Ascended.

Check out the Creature Submission Guidelines for more information on the submission process, and hop over to the Creature Submission Forum to see the current entries. We are looking forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

The entry period will end at 1pm Pacific on February 20th.

The voting will begin at 1pm PST on February 21st and end on February 28th at 1pm Pacific.

The winner will be announced in the Crunch of February 28th.

Make sure to check our Twitter on February 21st for the RankedVote link!

*Note that the proposed features for the creatures from the submission entry are meant to inspire their design, but certain aspects may still be modified.

Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week!

This video features:

Shins Cosmetics: Statue Pack by Shinygati

CustomKTCharacter by Horrgamer

Rhyniognatha Dragonfly Costume by Lhannan

Simple Chibi Display by Kokou_kohiro

Astraeos Structures by Nekatus_Modding

Heroes of the ARK by Jams_uWu (premium)

Big Al’s Meraxes TLC by BigAl_Swagbob

Aussie Additions: Muttaburrasaurus by Nickbs2

Mechanical Apostle by Boqi111111

Reinforced Storage Box by RHBallistic

FlameBearMOD by TeamMIROKU

Get the Power Rangers’ Premium Cosmetic Pack Wave 2 now

It’s Morphin’ time! Get ready to suit up and unleash your inner hero—or villain—with the ARK x Power Rangers Cosmetic Pack Wave 2!

Suit up and morph into legends with the iconic looks of the Green Ranger and White Ranger, or embrace your dark side as the nefarious Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, and more. But the power doesn’t stop there—your dinos are getting an epic upgrade with Dinozord skins, turning them into fearsome, battle-ready beasts. Equip yourself with Power Weapon skins worthy of a true Ranger, and with unique emotes that let you strike poses bold enough to feel the power surge! And, once you’re worthy, show off your zordplay by conquering the King Titan as a towering Megazord!

Thanks to ASA’s dynamic cosmetic system, even if you don’t own the pack, you’ll still witness these dinomighty skins in action during online play.

It’s time to choose your side, Survivors. Will you be a hero or a villain?

Features:

POWER RANGERS — 7 unique skins for the Green Ranger, White Ranger, Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, Goldar, Alpha 5 and Putty

POWER EMOTES — 7 unique emotes for each character skin: Green Ranger, White Ranger, Lord Zedd, Rita Repulsa, Goldar, Alpha 5 and Putty

POWER WEAPONS — 6 unique weapon skins; transform supported weapons into a Green Dagger, Green Sword, White Saba Sword, Rita Staff, Zedd Staff, or Goldar Sword

DINOZORDS — 4 unique dinosaur emotes; transform supported dinosaurs into the Thylacoleo White Tigerzord, Bronto Titanus, Giganotosaurus Green Dragonzord, or MegaMEK/MEK Megazord.

ARKpocalypse servers have been wiped today!

What is ARKpocalypse?

ARKpocalypse are monthly-wipe servers with higher than usual rates and monthly-curated mods.

Next wipe: March 7th 2025

For the second round, the following mods will be included:

ARK Wilds: Cockatrice by wildwaghorn

Super Spyglass Plus by kavan87

Solo Farm Mod by kavan87

Desmodus: Ported by EclipseModding

Change Dino Gender by R3cursiv3

Scrap Age: Weapons by ScriptosaurusCR

You can join them by searching in the server browser! Happy Surviving!

This weekend, the Official Network will be receiving bonus rates! It will be active until Monday, February 10.

PVP/PVE: 2x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience, and Breeding

Small Tribes: 4.5x Harvesting, Taming, and Experience + 4x Breeding

ARKpocalypse: 5x Harvesting, Taming and Experience, and Breeding

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Creator: The Survivors Handbook

The Survivors Handbook reviews three fun mods to add to your gameplay!

Heat Ray by @falco_luna

ARK Tattoo by tnfireman

Managarm Tribal by @SS38529630

Barbatos the Loud Mouth King by Robinson Vronti

Art doll Dilophosaurus by sayvaris

Ark Pachyrhinosaurus redesign by ShatteredReaIity

Speed paint: Ark by FlawlezFalcon

ARKxPowerRangers by @MedusaGeek

Power Rangers Survivors by @LAMEBOY81390688

Photo Mode by @Vattghornn

The new Power Ranger mod is fire by @TheAx3Man

It’s Morphing Time! by @DragonHeart7998

Enjoy your weekend! Studio Wildcard

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