As a man or woman marooned naked, freezing, and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, gather resources, craft items, farm, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primitive creatures roaming around. Group up or attack hundreds of other players to survive, dominate… and escape!
The following features are in the game on its first day of Early Access. We have many other aspects and refinements planned for the long-term development roadmap, and here’s what you’ll experience now in ARK:
DAME, TRAIN, BREED & RIDE DINOSAURS IN A LIVING ECOSYSTEM
Dinosaurs, Creatures & Reproduction! — over 50 in Early Access and over 100 planned for final release — can be tamed using a capture-&-affinity challenge, involving weakening a ferocious creature to render it unconscious and then healing it with food proper. Once tamed, you can issue commands to your Animal, which may follow you depending on how well you have tamed and trained it. Animals, which can continue to level up and consume food, can also possess Inventory and Equipment such as Armor, carry prey back to their accommodation depending on their strength, and larger animals can be ridden and controlled directly! Fly a Pterodactyl over snow-covered mountains, carry allies over enemy walls, rush through the jungle with Birds of Prey, crash through an enemy base with a giant Brontosaurus, or stalk prey on the back of a furious Tyrannosaurus Rex! Participate in a dynamic ecosystem with its own hierarchy of predator & prey, where you are just one creature among many species fighting for dominance and survival. Animals can also be united with the opposite sex, to procreate generations successively using a system based on genetic traits that will be inherited. This process includes both life cycles of egg incubation and mammalian gestation! Or more simply, breed & raise Baby Dinosaurs!
FOOD, WATER, TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER IN ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED TORRENT
You must eat and drink to survive, with different types of plants and meat having different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of fresh water for your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical actions have a cost of food and water, long journeys are fraught with the danger of subsistence! Inventory weighs you down and makes you move more slowly, and the day/night cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge, changing the temperature of your environment, causing you to become hungry or thirsty more quickly. A campfire or shelter and a wide variety of customizable clothing & armor help you protect yourself against locational hazards & extreme temperatures using the dynamic indoor and outdoor insulation calculation system!
HARVEST, BUILD STRUCTURES , PAINT INTENSIVE
By cutting trees from full forests and mining metal and other precious resources, you can craft the pieces to build massive multi-level structures made up of complex interlocking parts, including ramps, beams, pillars, windows, doors, gates, remote gates, trapdoors, water pipes, taps, generators, wires and all types of electrical devices and ladders among many other types. Structures have a weight system to collapse if the support support is destroyed, so reinforcing your buildings is important. All structures and items can be painted to customize the look of your home, as well as dynamically placing pixel-painted images on signs, text billboards, and other decorative objects. Shelters reduce weather extremes and provide safety for you and yours! Weapons, clothing and armor equipment can also be painted to express your own visual style.
PLANT, CULTIVATE AND GROW
Take seeds from the wild vegetation around you, plant them in plots that you build, and then water and nourish them with fertilizer (everyone poops after consuming calories, which can then be fertilized, and some fertilizers are better than others). Tend to your crops and they will grow to produce delicious and rare fruits, which can also be used to cook a multitude of recipes and make useful tonics! Explore to find the rarest of plant seeds that possess the most powerful properties! Vegetarians and vegans can flourish, and it will be possible to dominate and conquer the Ark non-violently!
