Patch v66.36

Client

• Stack size multiplier fix

• Fixed various crashes

v66 (Steam v66, PS5 66, Xbox v66)- Major version for Servers and Clients - 06/02/2025

• ARK 10 Year Anniversary event is now live!

  • Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding "-Activeevent=birthday" into their commandline

  • Added a drop-down option to enable Active Events in Host/Single-Player mode under Game Rules > Rules

  • More info can be found here

• ClubARK has received a new tropical makeover for the anniversary celebration!

• Migrated from Unreal Engine 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.5 to improve Ark's foundation towards better performance, stability, and visual quality

• Individual DLC maps are now able to be installed and uninstalled separately from the base game

• Added Single Player Backup Saves (beta)

  • Create, restore, and auto-generate backups across all platforms

• Added a new “Performance Only” graphics preset on PC, which disables certain features to boost frame-rate at the cost of visual quality

• Dino QOL (as inspired by AvianApexY of Curiosity)

  • Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously

  • Wild creatures will sometimes play animations

• Added returning structure: Egg Incubator

• Added new structure pieces, variants and skins:

  • Thatch (30)

    • Barn Door, Cellar Door, Double Door, Double Doorway, Fence Foundation, Fence Support, Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Hanger Door, Hatchframe, Ladder, Pillar & Beam, Quarter Ceiling, Quarter Foundation, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Quarter Wall, Ramp, Ramp Corner, Railings, Shallow Sloped Wall, Staircase, Thin Pillar, Trapdoor, Triangle Ceiling, Triangle Foundation

  • Wood, Stone, Metal (30)

    • Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

  • Adobe, Tek (22)

    • Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Inverted Quarter Roof, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

  • BTT’s Frontier Showdown, Steampunk Ascent, Wasteland War (30)

    • Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Extinction ascension cinematic

• Fixed several ground conforming issues with various creatures

• Fixed several creatures and saddles having messed up LODs at low graphic settings

• Prevented the Aquatic trait from appearing on flyers (when bAllowFlyerDinoSubmerging is false)

• Fixed “Join Last Session” sometimes not working as intended

• Fixed inability to “drop all” on a creature inventory when the player’s inventory is slot capped

• Fixed lots of structure lights causing shadow flickering

• Fixed water flickering after transferring a character to a different server

• Fixed Snow Owl’s dive bomb impacting mid air with a Companion equipped

• Fixed various visual issues with the preview window while painting a structure

• Fixed Pyromane not becoming doused from touching water after teleporting out of a Vacuum chamber

• Fixed visual artifacting when using spyglass and scuba helmet

• Fixed Industrial Cooking Pot gaining water without irrigation

• Fixed gamepad inability to rotate on the spot with a Tuso, now works with A/X

• Fixed Reaper and Basilisk bury mounts not matching the terrain

• Fixed Biogrinder not providing mutton when grinding Ovis

• Fixed Extinction’s Sunken Forest location where creatures would spawn in the mesh

• Fixed multiple lakes missing water volumes on Extinction

• Fixed several holes leading to the mesh on Extinction

• Fixed Mei Yin’s Note #28 on Extinction being under the mesh

• Fixed missing textures on Extinction

• Fixed water postprocess appearing erroneously on Extinction

• Fixed all of the Titan’s node VFX appearing missing

• Fixed cases where the BattleRig would sink into the mesh on server restart

• Fixed a client crash when entering photo mode after firing a BattleRig Flight seeker missile turret

• Fixed a visual issue with some of the Wasteland Structure skins

• Fixed the cooldown on “training” sometimes getting messed up on Managarmrs after transferring to a different server

• Fixed several creatures that were unable to base on platforms

• Fixed short player character’s legs deforming when walking or running up slopes

• Fixed LOD issues on various Animated Series Pack character skins

• Fixed a visual issue with the Animated Quetz skin

• Fixed Bladewasp Hive visual issue at far distance

• Fixed VFX issues with the Baryonyx and Thylacoleo roar

• Fixed Tek forcefield sometimes appearing to have multiple layers

• Fixed a visual issue with the level up animation on Phoenix

• Fixed Delivery Crate's balloon not visually inflating when deployed

• Fixed Charge Lantern material breaking when painted

• Fixed missing VFX for heat cooldown in some places on the Tek Railgun

• Fixed a visual issue with the Overseer's boulder in the Megapithecus phase

• Fixed several exploits

• Fixed several client crashes

• Fixed several server crashes

Astraeos Official Release v0.0.6

New Additions

• Added New landmass Lemnokis

  • A massive new area with big, cold and warm areas. Beaches, redwoods, mountain ridges, temples, new caves and other exciting areas await you!

• Added New area: The Maelstrom

• Added Many new bigger and smaller caves

• Added Aberration fertile cave including Gasveins, Green Gems and aberration fertile biome creatures like Karkinos and Cosmo

• First Double-miniboss: Kalydonios & Erymanthian (Terminal can be found on Lemnokis)

• Added Claypiles for harvesting Clay

• Added Astral Direwolf which drops the same loot as yellow ice cave drops

• Added Astral Mammoth which drops the same loot as red ice cave drops

• Added Gas Veins all over Therokis

Changes

• Adjusted Grassclutter meshes on high distance

• Adjusted Grassclutter density on close distance

• Adjusted Grassclutter colors

• Adjusted Bossfight tribute description

• Adjusted Cedar Tree colors

• Adjusted the lighting in every cave because of the engine upgrade

• Remade the temperature curve on the whole map

• Astral Deinosuchus now drops the same loot as red swamp cave drops

• Astral Megalodon now drops the same loot as yellow underwater cave drops

• Astral Mosasaurus now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops

• Astral Tusoteuthis now drops the same loot as red underwater cave drops

• Lightning creatures are now immune to spike wall damage to prevent AFK farming

Fixes

• Fixed Meshholes

• Fixed Post process volume issues

• Fixed Physic volume issues

• Fixed a ton of technical issues with materials

• Fixed Missing foliage at some places on Therokis+