AT A GLANCE
VOLUME
- •High
- •~78 mods
- •Several GB
- •Auto-installs
FOCUS
- •QoL — no pay to win, make the most of your time
- •Top mod dinos from the community to keep things fresh
- •Unique maps — exploration-based maps with flavor
- •Cryo ease-of-use — cryo overhaul to increase enjoyment
COMMUNITY-RUN
- •Server-choice
- •Vote to add or remove any
INSTALL
- •Mostly automatic on join
- •Fantastic Tames and Kukulkan, Hydrovanta, Nothosaurus, Anomalocaris and Edmontonia have premium paid installs required for taming / riding
THE FULL MOD LIST
Everything we run — categorised, documented, and always current. (78 mods)
78 mods
| Mod | Type | Status | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| JVH Garden Decor | — | Live | |
| Awesome Ark Tools | Admin | Live | Used to support players in cases of loss due to meshing, bugs or other inconveniences - hit up @solar for help |
| Inventory Backup Saver | Admin | Live | Used to support players in cases of loss due to meshing, bugs or other inconveniences - hit up @solar for help |
| Auto Engrams | Balance | Live | All engrams learned automatically upon levelling |
| Breedable Rhynio | Balance | Live | Rhynio is now breedable — Pairs with Speedy Rhynio — full Rhynio lovers package |
| Build radius 3x | Balance | Live | Forces playerss to build 3x further away in PVP and PVE environments to reduce encroaching upon each other |
| Dino Depot | Balance | Live | Reduce friction of cryopods - no cool down timer, no expiration date, cheaper, craftable in inventory, features in craft table and ball storage — Vanilla cryopods still work if you prefer |
| Easy Transferrable Element | Balance | Live | Makes Element more easily transferrable acrosss Arks |
| Oasisaur Tweaks | Balance | Live | Allows Oassisaur to be cryod, other qol |
| Speedy Rhynio | Balance | Live | Restores Rhynio to prior speed levels |
| Tapejara Improvements | Balance | Live | Tapejara QOL rework — improved handling and utility makes the tap worth flying again — Confirm exact mod name/link |
| Tristans Wyverns Tweaks | Balance | Live | Wyverns spawn in new T variants with different functionality including glide and improved flight, reduced land movement |
| Flyer Seatbelts | Core improvement | Live | Adds much needed interaction to disengage a flyer (longpress or double-tap) |
| Nitrado Transfers Fix | Core improvement | Live | Avoid items getting duplicated upon transfer |
| Cliffans Backpacks | FPS addition | Live | Adds stylistic and functional backpacks reducing weight requirements slightly — Many designs (esthetic), tier-system (functional) |
| Cliffans Wardrobe | FPS addition | Live | Adds clothing skin options + generous cheap storage. Seen on official servers |
| Cliffans Additional Critters | Immersion | Live | ***ADD TO ALL SERVERS*** |
| Day Indicator | Immersion | Live | Zelda-like new day indicator showing region your character is located at presesent |
| Fallen Heros | Immersion | Live | Headstone generated for your fallen tame to commemorate their life with you |
| Klinger Anti-radiation Mushroom | Immersion | Live | Home-grow your own mushrooms to allow for a no-radiation space for bases or shelters |
| Visual Storage | Immersion / structure | Live | Adds structures built through any smithy for all core resource types physicalizing into storage bins |
| JVH Pickup tool | Quality of life | Live | Tool to improve building allowing pickup, destruction and variant swap of placed structures at a distance with a management tool that is created in inventory for low cost |
| Search and pull | Quality of life | Live | Find your resources, gear, BPs and items remotely within a short distance for easy loading and management |
| RR-Homedeco | Quality of life/Structure | Live | Adds many functional household items that improve gameflow — Travel trerminal allows for cheap placable furnishing acting like tek-transmitter not requiring power for easy server transfer. Craftable bee hives are placable structuress and run on rare flowers without incuring player damage |
| AP+ Wyvern Tek Saddle | Saddle addition | Live | Adds Wyvern Tek saddles — Craft via auto-unlocked engram |
| Alfa Ocean Platforms | Structure | Live | Adds a seriess of platforms that can be built on the water with varying layouts to accomodate needs |
| Amissa Additions | Structure | Live | |
| Amissa Structures | Structure | Live | Temple/ruin/rustic set for buiding earthworks in heavy stone — Craft table for faster craft speed |
| Arkitect Structures Remastered | Structure | Live | ASR craft table allows creation of building materials for all core types but with alt sizes (steep/shallow) and additional functionality |
| Castles, keeps .. | Structure | Live | Huge collection of castle, keep and village parts with unique sizes and shapes for specialty builds — Crafted via table from auto-unlocked engram |
| JVH Gaden Decor | Structure | Live | Garden and indoor plants, rocks, bridges, paths and other landscaping tools — Crafted via table from auto-unlocked engram |
| JVH Landscaping | Structure | Live | Crafted via table from auto-unlocked engram |
| Kaluga's fences | Structure | Live | Adds new fence types to existing vanilla structures under alt style. — Good for pens or yards |
| Klinger Additional boats | Structure | Live | Adds BPs for larger and more impressive catamaran and other more functional boats |
| Klinger Additional Reinforced Concrete | Structure | Live | Adds skin set alongside craftable high duability concrete material for PVP or high defense bases. — Craft table for faster craft speed |
| Klinger Additional Rustic Building | Structure | Live | |
| Klinger Additional Structures | Structure | Live | Large defense walls and other much needed build items — Crafted via table from auto-unlocked engram |
| Low Tek Forcefield walls | Structure | Live | Adds cheap early game tek doors at stone-tier durability to allow for more convenient enter/exit functionality — Durability low, minimal balance impact - mostsly QOL |
| Modern Plaster Structure Set | Structure | Live | MP craft table allows creation of plaster build type good for pvp |
| Ark Wilds: Cockatrice | Tame | Live | Smaller violent bird |
| Ark Wilds: Sivatherium | Tame | Live | Larger herbavore great for travel with nice passives |
| Arketypes: Draconyx | Tame | Live | Smaller herbavore for variety |
| Aussie Additions Diamantinasaurus | Tame | Live | Large herbivore for transport and caravan activities with great build saddle |
| AussieAdditions: Minmi | Tame | Live | Adorable mini dino |
| BigAls: Wak Spinosaurus | Tame | Live | Alpha spino variant — big and small variants |
| Clay'sAnkyloEdit | Tame | Live | New anky rework - replaces existing spawns |
| Clay'sPatchyRhinoEdit | Tame | Live | New Patchy rework - replaces existing spawns |
| Dragon's Kingdom | Tame | Live | Many dragon types with advanced mechanics |
| Feral Fauna: Walliserops | Tame | Live | Avoid unwanted encounters and pests with this isopod shoulder pet |
| MarniMods Griffins | Tame | Live | 3 types available with craftable saddle in inventory, smithy ability like Argentavis |
| Moro's Indominable Duo | Tame | Live | Endgame bio dino |
| Neo Ark: Auroch | Tame | Broken? | |
| Paleo Ark Ascension | Tame | Live | Large dino pack |
| Pygmy Hippo | Tame | Live | Use to store honey, kibble, raw or perishable items while being adorable |
| S-Dino variants | Tame | Live | Adds S variant to most existing tame types |
| S-Dino Variants - Fantastic Tames | Tame | Live | Adds S variants to paid dinos types |
| Scotoharpes | Tame | Live | Primitive jetpack for touriung, metal weight reduction, passive metal production and easy building with hover |
| Xyphias Charnia | Tame | Live | Underwater algae type creature |
| Xyphias Dickinsonia | Tame | Live | Water creature for harvest |
| Xyphias Hatzegopteryx | Tame | Live | Large endgame flyer |
| Xyphias Meiolania | Tame | Live | Harvest and place in water to make your water tames move much faster in that area |
| Xyphias Vetulicolians | Tame | Live | 5x new tameable fishes |
| Xyphias: Enantiophoenix | Tame | Live | Birds for vibes, tameable |
| Additions Ascended: Anomalacaris | Tame (PAID) | Live | Water tame with scuba capabilities |
| Additions Ascended: Edmontonia | Tame (PAID) | Live | Mid sized utility and battle anky |
| Hatzegopteryx Kukulkuan | Tame (PAID) | Live | Large flyer |
| Moro's Hydrovanta | Tame (PAID) | Live | Stingray, underwater support tame |
| Moro's Nothosaurus | Tame (PAID) | Live | Small utility hybrid tame |
| Moro's Supercephalosornis | Tame (PAID) | Live | Bird with a science kit |
| Kaluga's Appalachian Denizens | Tame Collection | Live | Lots of reworked Kaluga dinos added alongside the existing vanilla versions for variation, specialty chitin and platform saddles available across all hyperborea servers |
| Kami's Feral Critters: Origin pack | Tame Collection | Live | Newer mod adds mid sized field grazers |
| Paleo Ark - Apex Predators | Tame Collection | Live | Carnivore pack of tames — ***ADD TO ALL SERVERS*** |
| Paleo Ark - Evolution | Tame Collection | Live | Reworks of vanilla favorites |
| Paleo Ark - Evolution | Dangerous Depths | Tame Collection | Live | Aquatic tames |
| Paleo Ark Evo+- Native Aquatics | Tame Collection | Live | Water pack of tames |
| Paleo Ark Evolution | hard hitting herbivores | Tame Collection | Live | Theri rework |
| The Sunken World Additions | Tame Collection | Live | Pack of water tames for diversity |
| Klinger Additional Ferry Boats | Vehicle addition | Live | Larger customizable boats added — Craft via auto-unlocked engram |
WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT
YOUR TIME
- •Auto engrams
- •Search & Pull
- •Cryo with no timers
- •The chore-grind is gone
YOUR TAMES
- •No cryo expiry
- •Breedable Rhynio
- •Flyer seatbelts
- •Headstones for the fallen
YOUR HOME
- •No wipes
- •3× build spacing
- •Homestead kit
- •Build like you’re staying
YOUR STYLE
- •Wardrobes
- •Backpacks — slight weight reduction
- •Boats
- •Castles
YOUR BESTIARY
- •Paleo ARK
- •S-variants
- •Dragons
- •More creatures, vanilla balance
- •Paid dinos optional
HELP SHAPE THE MOD LIST
Every mod decision here is made by the community. Tell us what you’d add, cut, or rebalance — your vote counts.