As a man or woman stranded, naked, freezing, and starving on the unforgiving shores of a mysterious island called ARK, use your skill and cunning to kill or tame and ride the plethora of leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land. Hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements and store valuables, all while teaming up with (or preying upon) hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
An Epic T Rex
Behavior Tyrannosaurus is highly aggressive and will attack most living creatures in sight aside from other apex predators. They're extremely bulky, having nearly double the Health of Spino of the same level. They also possess surprisingly good Stamina for their size, of which is also greater than that of any same-leveled Spino. What Tyrannosauruses lack in attacking speed (when compared to a Spinosaurus) they make up for in sheer Health. Tyrannosaurus generally ignore mounted tamed animals and choose to attack wild animals instead, but will attack tamed mounted animals if they get too close. However if they see a helpless tame or dismounted Human in the open, they will begin to attack.
Appearance Tyrannosaurus is an exceptionally large (and often colorful) two-legged dinosaur found on the island. It comes in a wide range of colors, from brown, to greyish-purple and even dark red. They are covered in small, pebbly scales that are often interrupted with large osteoderms. Their underbelly, however, is smooth and tan with small rectangular scales. Along their neck and back there is a large ridge of large bony scutes that may be used to protect their vertebrae from the jaws of other carnivores (including other T. dominum). They have proportionately long legs that end in three thick, padded toes, each decorated with one large claw. T. dominum regularly exceed seventy feet in length, however, they possess disproportionately small arms. Strangely, these arms are heavily muscled and extremely thick. When tamed and ridden almost no dinos except for creatures such as other Rexes, Spino, Giganotosaurus, Megalodon, Yutyrannus and Therizinosaurus will attack you if you don't attack them first, which makes it easy to travel with the Rex without being hunted by other animals.
Color Scheme and Regions This section displays the Rex's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Rex. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Rex will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
An Epic Beaver
Behavior Wild Castoroides will build dams containing large quantities of Wood, Cementing Paste, Rare Flower, Rare Mushroom, and Silica Pearls. Giant Beavers are very protective of their dams and will come to their defense should anyone threaten them. This includes taking stuff out of the dams. You will be attacked if you do so. Per dam, it is possible to find one to three beavers. See Giant Beaver Dam for a map of locations.
Castoroides will not attack any entity (whether it be player or creature) unless aggravated to do so. Often, Giant Beavers who reside close to swamps will be forced to defend their territory and fight against wandering Dilophosaurs and invading Titanoboas. Sometimes they can be seen grouping up against larger predators like Carnos or swarms of smaller predators like Raptors and Terror Birds. If a player attacks one, the entire Giant Beaver population in the immediate area will attack. Unless injured by the player, a player can get as close as they would like to a Giant Beaver. If the ability to kill a Beaver in a single hit by a powerful mount is available, doing so will not make the other Beavers attack.
Appearance The Castoroides is a giant species of beaver found commonly in the rivers and ponds of the island's interior. It also appears at the Hidden Lake. It has waterproof fur and a flat tail for swimming. With their powerful jaws and sharp incisors they can gnaw through many of the trees found throughout the island, using the resulting wood and other raw materials to construct their dams.
Color Scheme and Regions This section displays the Castoroides's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Castoroides. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Castoroides will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.
Giganotosaurs will 'casually' stroll about the Island, slaughtering anything in their path. This can lead them to wander just about anywhere on the Island. Their lack of natural predators - or any form of threat to them - allows for their safe voyages across the Island. With no natural predator, the Giganotosaurus is considered the apex predator of the Island with its strength and size. One could argue that it is the driver of evolution on the maps they can be found on. Those that are strong enough to take one down or tame one are guaranteed to thrive nearly unchallenged. Those that can’t manage it end up with significant resources lost at best, and ripped to shreds while possibly even losing everything at worst.
The Giganotosaurus is an aggressive creature. Due to its rage mechanic, it will become enraged when being attacked, which makes its attacks deal more damage. It also regains stamina faster when enraged. If it builds up too much rage, it may even eat its own rider, right off the saddle!
Its rage mechanic is not a health-percentage-based trigger; it only occurs if enough damage occurs quickly enough. It will also trigger even if the server is set to the friendliest possible PvE and no friendly-fire settings, in which normally it is not possible to hurt anything not wild.
Due to its large stride, allowing it to walk over most obstacles, and naturally high movement speed, the Giganotosaurus can outrun just about anything on the island. Combined with its very large aggro range, this means it is a fast and dangerous predator.
On Mobile, just like Tyrannosaurus, they will completely ignore mounted animals and don't wander. If there's no prey in the vicinity, they will stand in one place forever.
Behavior: Shadowmane travels either alone, or in groups up to 3. They can pack up with other Shadowmane in close enough range, but the highest level male will always be the alpha of the pack.
If they find a target, they will chase after it, teleporting and shocking it. The shock will dismount survivors off of their mounts when given the chance. When it reaches nighttime, most will cloak with invisibility akin to the Rock Drake, but perfectly invisible to the eye, the only thing you can identify them by are glowing footprints corresponding to the gender of the Shadowmane wherever they walk. When provoked in this state, they will have no problem uncloaking to lash out at the target.
Though during the day, Shadowmane will rest for the majority of the time the sun is up (since 8 AM), but this does not stop them from being just as dangerous at day as they are at night.
Appearance The Shadowmane is feline in appearance, and bears a strong resemblance to Lions. Shadowmane have a frill, which is more pronounced among males, the male's frill bear a resemblance to the Lionfish, and Catfish, making it look semi-aquatic. It also features a small finned tail which presumably helps make them a good swimmer.
In darker places, Shadowmane have spots on it where it glows like an Aberrant creature. This section displays the Shadowmane's natural colors and regions. For demonstration, the regions below are colored red over an albino Shadowmane. The colored squares shown underneath each region's description are the colors that the Shadowmane will randomly spawn with to provide an overall range of its natural color scheme. Hover your cursor over a color to display its name and ID.