If you want to improve your Ark Survival Ascended experience, developer Studio Wildcard has approved 120 new mods for crossplay
Ark Survival Ascended had a rocky launch, with the Unreal Engine 5 remake of the beloved dinosaur survival game impressing with its visuals and some of developer Studio Wildcard’s improvements, but falling short for many players due to performance issues, crashes, and bugs. Despite its current mixed Steam user rating, things are looking up for Ark, and the developer has now announced that it has approved 120 mods for cross-platform play, which means you’ll be able to use community-made upgrades across all platforms.
The best Ark mods have always been a fantastic way to extend your dinosaur adventures. Mods for the original Ark: Survival Evolved range from new and improved creatures to entirely new maps and biomes, challenge modes, and even references to other games. As a result, we’ve been looking forward to seeing what mods for Ark: Survival Ascended can bring to the UE5-powered remake of one of the best survival games on Steam.
“We’re thrilled to share that we’ve given the green light to over 120 fantastic new mods for cross-platform play.” Studio Wildcard says in its latest Ark community crunch. That is an impressive list, with all of them becoming cross-platform compatible on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation when that version is released.
Among these are many of the most popular mods, some of which have already surpassed one million downloads in the month since Ark: Survival Ascended’s release. These include important quality-of-life updates like Automated Ark, which automates some of your more mundane tasks, SuperSpyglass, which provides quick and easy dinosaur analysis and stats, Utilities Plus, which provides reusable versions of many useful tools, and the TG Stacking Mod, which allows for much higher inventory stacking to increase your carrying capacity.
There are also all seven Additions Ascended mods, each of which brings one of the additional dinosaurs from ‘Garuga123’s’ Ark Additions collection from the original game, all of which are lovingly modeled and animated with their own taming encounters. The towering Brachiosaurus, the vicious Ceratosaurus, and the massive, turtle-like Archelon are among them. There’s also ‘Nekatus_Modding’s popular dwarven-themed map Svatalfheim,’ a massive landscape with unique resources (including pure gold and mithril) and custom alpha dinosaur variants.
The complete list of Ark: Survival Ascended approved cross-platform mods can be found on the official Studio Wildcard blog. While PC players already have access to a wider range of mods (many of which were ported over from the original Ark), it’s nice to be able to use your favorites on a cross-platform Ark server. “There’s more to come in the next few days,” the team adds, so hopefully that number will grow even larger soon.