Celebrate a Decade of Dino Survival in ARK: Survival Ascended

It's been a decade since ARK: Survival Evolved released into Steam Early Access. That means 10 years of decade of survival, taming, and epic community stories. To commemorate this latest milestone, Studio Wildcard is inviting everyone to the 10th Anniversary celebration. The festivities run from June 5 to June 17.

During the anniversary event, Survivors get to collect cake slices for buffs and discover a flashy set of Party Dinos. They can even show up in style with new cosmetics like the Birthday Suit and Party Hat skins. Everyone can also enjoy a DJ Party emote, a Rave Dance, and a Club ARK tropical Island makeover to keep the celebration going.

Check out these details:

Event Rates

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

Event Creatures

Party Dodo

Event Skins

Armor: Birthday Suit Shirt Skin (Chestpiece)

Armor: Birthday Suit Pants Skin (Leggings)

Armor: Party Hat Skin (Headgear)

Creature Hat: Dino Party Hat Skin

Weapon: Torch Sparkler Skin (Torch)

Event Items

ARK Anniversary Surprise Cake

Cake Slice (Resource)

Cakes (Consumable & Event Items)

Taming Cake Slice

Breeding Cake Slice

Imprint Cake Slice

EXP Cake Slice

Harvesting Cake Slice

Anniversary Festive Dino Candy

Event Emotes

DJ Party

Rave Dance

Event Chibis

Party Dodo

Party Rex

Party Saber

Party Pego

Party Ankylo

Wild Dino Colors

DinoAlbino

DarkViolet

MediumLavender

Actual Black

Cyan

LemonLime

Vermillion

PowderBlue

Mint

WyvernPurple1

Turquoise

DeepPink

WyvernPurple0

Blue

Dino Dark Purple

LightYellow

WyvernBlue

New Features

In addition to the anniversary celebration, there's also the Unreal Engine 5.5 update which introduces a performance boost for the game. This allows for improved rendering, faster load times, and a smaller base installation size. Learn more about it here.

The studio also released the first major content drop for the Astraeos DLC. The highlight is the release of the Lemnokis update which adds another massive and visually stunning island crafted by renowned ARK modder Nekatus. Read more about it here.

ARK: Survival Ascended offers the ultimate survival experience as it invites players to design their own Survivor, tame dinosaurs, and unravel the true nature of The Island and worlds beyond. There are also quality of life enhancements that include a refreshed user interface, intelligent creature pathfinding, wild babies, new map system, updated tracking system, new structures, creatures, and much more. Get ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam now.