ASA Cluster Settings
Server Settings:
Server Difficulty = 7
Harvest = 3x
Taming = 15x
Experience gained = 4x
Loot crate quality = 2x
Fishing quality = 3x
Breeding = 15x
Egg Hatch = 15x
Baby Mature = 15x
Server Dino Cap = 5k
Tribal Dino Cap = 250 AWAKE Per Tribe Per Map.
Tribal Dino Cap in Storage = 1800 Stored Per Tribe Per Map. (Soulpods)
You will find your tribal Dino cap in the center of your inventory screen. (Your total cryochamber count will not show in any screens. You will have to keep track via folders and checking your storage inventories)
Other Server Settings
Character Levels:
As of March 2025, the maximum player level is 195: survivors start at level 1, 104 levels can be gained normally, 15 by defeating the 
Overseer on Alpha difficulty, 15 for defeating the 
Manticore on alpha difficulty, 15 for defeating 
Rockwell on Alpha difficulty, 15 for defeating the 
King Titan on Alpha difficulty 10 for collecting all Explorer Notes on The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction, 5 by levelling up a Chibi, 5 each for collecting all of the Bob's Tall Tales explorer notes on each map the DLC is featured on (Scorched Earth, Aberration, and Extinction).
Normal levelling
104
105
Slaying the Alpha Overseer
15
120
Slaying the Alpha Manticore
15
135
Collecting all Bob's Tall Tales Explorer Notes on Scorched Earth
5
140
Slaying alpha Rockwell
15
155
Collecting all Bob's Tall Tales Explorer Notes on Aberration
5
160
Slaying the Alpha King Titan
15
175
Collecting all Bob's Tall Tales Explorer Notes on Extinction
5
180
Collecting all normal Explorer Notes
10
190
Levelling your Chibi to level 6
5
195
Creature Levels:
Tameable Creature Max Levels:
Wild Dinos/Creatures spawn with a level of 5 to 210 in our arks. The max level for most wild creatures is 30 times the difficulty value (215 on our servers) and 30 times the difficulty value plus 1 for Tek Creatures (253 on our servers). After taming, the additional levels coming by taming efficiency can increase the tame level by half of wild level value minus 1.
However, in certain areas of the game such specific challenging caves, wild creatures will spawn at higher levels, nevertheless such creatures cannot be tamed.
The following dino/creatures are an exception: (Other levels apply like every other dino based on difficulty setting however.)
Wyvern, Rock Drake, and VoidWyrm - 5 to 266
Specific event creatures like GachaClaus - 50 to 900
All Corrupted Creatures - 1 to 500+ (If spawned from Orbital Supply Drop or Element Node, depending on difficulty.)
All Tek Creatures - 20% higher level (7 to 253)
All Titans - 1500 to 2350
Titanosaurs - 1 to 7
Leedsichthys, and Alpha Leedsichthys - 1 (ignores difficulty setting)
POST Tamed Dino Levels:
Creatures can level up 88 times. Once your creature has reached this limit, they will not be able to level up anymore.
Tek creatures - As stated above, they can naturally spawn up to 253 with a maximum taming efficiency of +89 levels and up to 88 levels after taming, making their max possible level 430 outside of breeding.
Reaper Kings - Queens spawn at a maximum level of 210, but their offspring can receive up to 75 additional levels during pregnancy and another 88 once matured, making their max level 372.
Enforcers and Scouts - Spawn naturally up to level 210 and can receive an additional 88 levels after being assembled, making their max level 298.
Deinonychus Egg - naturally spawn up to 210 and can receive an additional 88 levels after maturation, making their max level 298 outside of breeding.
Breeding Level Caps: On our servers, Creatures have NO hard-capped limit on breeding. Levels of 1750 to 1800 is possible (maxing all stats at 254 x 7 +1 =Maxed out dino of 1750) .
PLEASE NOTE: Once you have reached a Dino with 255 in each stat value. You realistically cannot add any more domestication level points into that specific stat. If done, the stat will revert to a LEVEL ONE DINO value in that stat. And you will lose all the value of months of breeding.
Dropped Eggs:
Dropped Eggs do not interfere with any egg laying mechanics of the wild creatures! When the egg enters your or your dino's inventory the blueprint path changes from wild egg code to a new one which includes the name of the entity that dropped it, and when dropped it no longer creates an impediment for the wild dinos to spawn eggs.
Blueprint Quality:
Blueprint Max Capable: Before using a player crafter with 100% efficiency.
MaxBlueprintItemQuality = 400 // For all items/blueprints.
MaxBlueprintDinoLevel = 400 // Only for Meks and Enforcers when spawned.
MaxBlueprintDinoQuality = 400 // Only for Mek/Enforcer blueprints and Enforcer spawner items
MaxBlueprintScoutQuality = 2000 // For Scout weapon and blueprint.
The PACK CrossARK Transfers
There are limitations as to how items, creatures and survivors can be transferred through the normal mechanism: They can only be transferred within the same server cluster. 50 stacks in the Data tab, 30 Dinos in the Dino tab and only 250 in your inventory if you transfer (INCLUDING your Custom Cosmetics tab items).
Temporary Restrictions on CrossARK transfers:
If you’re transferring or ascending to another server with an Armadoggo or Veilwyn in Companion Mode, be sure to exit Companion Mode first. Leaving it active may cause issues during the transfer.
Please avoid transferring while you have a template in the incomplete phase to avoid potentially getting into a bugged state.
Epic Online Services:
EOS has been randomly experiencing an outage which is impacting the ability to join servers and resulting in Unknown Error/unable to join, content failed to load, and issues with servers listing. If you fail to transfer servers, please check Epic's Status Page here: https://status.epicgames.com/
No transfer items:
Specimen Implant; Boss Heads; Element {Any type}; Gacha Crystal; Event items; Bee hive; Filled Fish Basket; Apex drops.
Transfer Workaround - place the items inside a dino then use the SCS pod to cryo the dino. You may now transfer with the item in the inventory of the dino while in your inventory.
No Foreign Dinos allowed transfer into Aberration.
Flying creatures of all kinds and gliders from other maps. Large carnivores. Modded dinos are not allowed on Aberration. Except for any mod specifically meant for Aberration. These dinos will not unpod once on Aberration. Only the creatures listed below, and all their variants, can be downloaded on Aberration
SUBSCRIBED MODS
There are two ways to get the mod for the servers.
Just load into ASA, go to the server browser, find The Pack servers, Click Join on the one you want, it opens a menu with a list of all the mods, Click Join and it will then install all the mods before loading into the server. If it times out, repeat the process. After all the mods are installed you can just join.
OR Add one by one from the Quick List below, (this is a bit tedious by the way).
Quick List of Mods
Click on a Mod's Card to go to the Curse Forge Page.
Draconis Glaucus: ID#955932
How to Manually Update Mods in ARK: Survival Ascended.
To update mods in ARK: Survival Ascended, you need to navigate to the Mod Settings within the game's main menu. From there, you can access the "Get Mods" section, where you'll find a list of installed mods. If a mod is out of date, it will be indicated with a recycling symbol; clicking on it and then selecting "Update" will initiate the update process.
Detailed Steps:
Start the game and go to the main menu. Navigate to "Create/Resume Game".
Select the "Mod List" tab.
Go to the "Installed Mods" tab.
Locate the mod you want to update. If it's out of date, it will have a recycling symbol next to it.
Click on the out-of-date mod.
Click the "Update" button in the top right.
B+ Structures Disabled:
These items are either overly OP for our cluster, OR we already have systems in place that make them redundant.
B+ Harvester; B+ Item Collector; B+ Propagator;
B+ Tek Alarm; B+ Transmutator; B+ Vivarium
B+ Saddles; and B+ ARMOR.
B+ Tips and Tricks:
For Dedicated Storage, If you are using them, put your materials down in another box, take 1 of each, and organize it the way you want. When done with said set up, hold e, click consolidate, and it will pull all your materials to the boxes.
SCS Automated Farming:
Fertilizer SCS terminal Use SCS terminal with 3-5 podded beetles. The easiest way to obtain large amounts of medium animal feces is taming 3-5 Phiomia, pod them up and put in a terminal. A good ratio is 1 Beetle to 1 Phiomia. Set the terminal to collect poop. It will then make fertilizer and put it in the plots in its range. Use the B+ Omni tool to move the fertilizer into crop plots out of the terminal range. You can also upload the fertilizer to a B+ Dedicated Storage.
Resource Gacha SCS Terminal No more tall towers of gacha and snow owls! Gachas can generate resources in the terminal!! NOTE: ONE Gacha Farm Terminal per Main base limited to 50 gacha! Turn on resource gathering in terminal. Don't turn on poop or there won't be room for the resources. Set each gacha to the specific resource before podding and placing in the terminal. Or set the terminal selector for each gacha. Use the B+ Omni tool to move crystals to the crackers, then wirelessly send items to storage units within 80 foundations.) NO CROP plots needed, NO PELLETS needed. Terminals will fill up, and after 300 Full slots and gachas will no longer produce resources.
*These settings are on each Gacha in the terminal.
You can add the following tames for the additional allowed resources they produce, either gender. Depending on specific dino placed within the terminal. Upload to dedicated storage is enabled. Dinos shown will generate Cement paste, golden eggs, honey, bison milk, cerato spines, bio toxin, algae, and feathers.
Kibble Farm
Place 2-3 females of each kibble dino or 5 Maeguna along with a oviraptor to boost egg production. Turn on unfertilized egg gathering in terminal. Don't turn on poop or there won't be room for the eggs.
You will have eggs for kibble / extraordinary kibble in a few days. (Maeguna make the eggs for extraordinary kibbles!) You can move eggs to the Refrigerator or into Dedi storage with the B+ Omni tool.
*Image is from ASE, but you can use whichever dinos currently exist in ASA for eggs.
Runic Wyverns
The 'Elemental Runic'
Are the Flame, Venom, Spark & Glacial and only spawn in the wild. They don't interact with Runic Crystals at all. All Elemental Runic Wyvern (Flame, Venom, Spark & Glacial) are knock out tames! You can put any of the following items in a knocked out Runic Wyverns' inventory to tame, listed from most effective, to least! Exceptional Kibble, Raw Mutton, Raw Prime Meat, Wyvern Milk, Cooked Prime Meat, Raw Meat.
The 'Crystal Runic'
Are the Ruby, Emerald, Quartz & Sapphire, and ONLY the Quartz spawn in the wild. They are equivalent to the Crystal Isles Crystal Wyvern- hence why the Quartz is a passive tame. After taming, the 'Quartz' variant can be force fed a special Runic Crystal of a certain color/type to transform it into one of the other Runic Crystal variants. (FYI: Stats/Points will be different on the newly transformed Wyvern. Mutation points will get shuffled between stats! Note: Be sure to remove any & all items from them BEFORE YOU DO THIS!)
The 'Runic Halo Wyverns'
Are the Lantern and the Standard Halo. Only the small, 'Lantern pet' variant spawns in the wild! THEY ARE A PASSIVE TAME at player level 15! To tame, they will eat any mushrooms, berries, meat, or seeds (in that order of effectiveness). They are omnivores & will eat all of these things after taming as well. Just like a regular Lantern pet from Aberration, they can ride on your shoulder, and their light can be toggled on/off. To transform the Lantern Pet version into a Standard Halo; the 'Lantern pet' variant can be force fed a Runic Crystal of the Chromatic variant to PERMANENTLY transform it into the larger, ridable variant. (FYI: Stats/Points will be different on the newly transformed Wyvern. Mutation points will get shuffled between stats! Note: Be sure to remove any & all items from them BEFORE YOU DO THIS!)
Runic Queen Crystal Wyvern'
Hatched from an egg dropped by the new Boss: Bismuth, Runic Queen Crystal Wyvern
Runic Void Wyvern'
Has a chance to spawn (20% chance) when you kill a wild Elemental Runic Wyvern (Flame, Spark, Venom & Glacial). Passively tamed with element, electronics, silica pearls, metal ingots, or metal at Survivor level 50. Killing them will give you a few RuneTek Shards. This is a new resource in the mod that is currently used to craft Queen Bismuths Dimensional Prison Boss Item, and will be used later for other advanced items. ONLY EATS Raw Metal.
The 'Runic Ghost Wyvern'
Is a boss level wyvern, spawned from the "Ghost Spawner" created from the Runic Wyvern Shrine. You have to collect Ghost Ectoplasm from killing Runic Wyverns in the wild to create the spawner. The Ghost is equivalent to the Crystal Isles Boss. ONLY ALLOWED to spawn on SE.
Bismuth, Runic Queen Crystal Wyvern'
Is a boss level wyvern, spawned from the "Queen Bismuths Dimensional Prison Boss Item" created from the Runic Wyvern Shrine. You have to collect RuneTek Shards from killing Runic Void Wyverns in the wild to create the spawner. The Queen is the hardest Wyvern Boss to date. ONLY ALLOWED to spawn on SE.
ASA Dinos, and Where they Spawn!
Our ASA Cluster Sports Unique ASA Creatures that spawn only on certain maps. While only spawning on certain maps, these creatures can be transferred to most of our other maps. We have used server settings to move some map Unique dinos to our different Cluster maps.
We also offer Unique Modded Creatures that spawn specified maps. Denoted with a 💎symbol. MOST Modded Dinos can be transferred to any other map, EXCEPT Aberration.
Aberration Downloadable Creatures Only certain creatures can be downloaded on Aberration. See CrossARK Transfers for more details and a full list.
List of Creatures by MAP:
Archelon Cat Ceratosaurus Deinosuchus Deinotherium Draconis Glaucus 💎 Gigantoraptor Helicoprion Seahorse -T-💎 Myth Shastasaurus Xiphactinus
Ceratosaurus Crystal Wyvern 💎Runic Deinosuchus Deinotherium Dreadmare Fasolasuchus Flame Wyvern 💎Runic Halo Wyvern 💎Runic Glacial Wyvern 💎Runic Oasisaur Pyromane Spark Wyvern 💎Runic Venom Wyvern 💎Runic
Aberrant Fasolasuchus Aberrant Gigantoraptor Aberrant Megalania Aberrant Oviraptor Cosmo Veilwyn Yi Ling
Armadoggo Ceratosaurus Deinosuchus Deinotherium Drakelings Dreadmare Dreadnoughtus Elderclaw Gigantoraptor Pegomastax Tek Creatures Veilwyn
Cat Ceratosaurus Cyclops -T-💎 Myth Deinotherium Draconis Glaucus 💎 Drakelings Dreadmare Dreadnoughtus
Elderclaw
Gigantoraptor Helicoprion Maeguana Minotaurus -T-💎 Myth Pyromane Seahorse -T-💎 Myth Shastasaurus Tek Creatures Veilwyn Xiphactinus
Arabian Horse 💎 Archelon Asharian Horse 💎 Bison Cat Ceratosaurus Circadale Horse 💎 Clydesdale Horse 💎 Courser Horse 💎 Deinosuchus Deinotherium Destrier Horse 💎 Draconis Glaucus 💎 Draft Horse 💎 Drakelings Dreadmare Fasolasuchus Featherlight Fjord Horse 💎 Friesian Horse 💎 Garron Horse 💎 Gigantoraptor Helicoprion Pinto Horse 💎 Pony Horse 💎 Pyromane Rhyniognatha Seahorse -T-💎 Myth Shastasaurus Shire Horse 💎 Veilwym Xiphactinus
Archelon Autumn Drakeling Basilisk Bison Cat Ceratosaurus
Chalk Golem
Cosmo
Deinonychus
Deinosuchus Deinotherium Draconis Glaucus 💎 Dreadmare Elderclaw Gigantoraptor Helicoprion
Ice Golem
Megaraptor Nameless Pyromane Reaper Queen Rhyniognatha Rock Drake Seahorse -T-💎 Myth Spring Drakeling Summer Drakeling Xiphactinus Winter Drakeling
Custom Cosmetics to Enhance your ASA Experience.
The new "Custom Cosmetic" system allows players to dynamically apply player-generated costumes to players and dinos, end-user-created skins to armors and weapons, and end-user-created skins to all the game's structures. In most cases your client will automatically download them in the background when encountered during gameplay. NOT the full mod but an OVER view so you may see them in your subscribed mods in the Client Mod Panel.
The PACK has curated a Free list that is available to download that is approved for use ("Whitelisted") on our Servers. We have disabled Dynamic download to just the official mods, and our curated list. Due to the many issues around the COSMETIC system.
Approved for use on The Pack cluster.
Default Structure Skins
A custom cosmetic mod that applies vanilla structure skins to many structures.
Arkitect's Paradise
A custom cosmetic mod that will try to make your old prehistoric world a bit more modern. All building skins are perfectly seamless which means your base will look like one structure. Approved for official.
Western Decor Skins
Now you can decorate your Ark with western-style items, all available as skins for your existing structures.
Helpful Guides to ASA Play
All content on this page has been accumulated from several places including the Wiki, The PACK Admin Team, and Players from The Pack cluster.
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