ARK: Survival Ascended Game Server Hosting
Our ARK: Survival Ascended server hosting plans come with the features you need
Your game server will come with the following, instantly available features:
Access to our custom ARK: Survival Ascended Game Server Management Panel
The in-house Survival Servers game control panel allows you to configure and customize your ARK: Survival Ascended game server. Install CurseForge mods and maps in a few clicks, switch official maps and locations instantly, and change any setting with our easy one click form. Customize your server even further with our ARK: Survival Ascended Server Config tool with 100s of variables. Everything stays automatically updated too.
World Map, Tribe Log and Dino Companion come with every server
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World Map Your survivors, bases, tames, alphas and artifacts, read from the world save. -
Tribe Log Tames, deaths and raids from the game's own log, with a Discord feed per tribe. -
Dino Companion Taming food, times and effectiveness at your server's own rates. -
Level tables Wild, player and tame levels with XP and engram points, from your settings.
- World Map
- Tames + Tribes
- Clusters
- Tribe Log
- Discord Alerts
- Taming + Breeding
- Levels
- Share page
Every Official Map, One Click
The Island comes pre-installed on every server. Switch to any other official map from the control panel — each map keeps its own save, so you can switch back later without losing progress. Map updates are released the same day, no waiting around.
Waiting on a classic map? Fjordur, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island have not been remastered for ARK: Survival Ascended yet — track their status on our Fjordur, Crystal Isles, and Lost Island pages. The moment Wildcard ships one, it goes live on our panel as a one-click map switch.
Global Network, Multiple Hosting Locations
Switch locations any time. DDoS protection available.
What is ARK: Survival Ascended?
ARK: Survival Ascended is the complete Unreal Engine 5 remake of ARK: Survival Evolved. Hunt, harvest, craft, tame dinosaurs, and build shelters to survive — with full crossplay between PC and consoles.
ARK: Survival Ascended Server Settings That Matter
Every gameplay option in GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini is editable from our control panel with the ARK: Survival Ascended Server Config tool — no file editing required, though full FTP access is there whenever you want it. These are the settings that change how your server plays:
Rates & Progression
XP, taming, harvesting, and resource respawn multipliers let you run anything from a grindy vanilla world to a fast boosted weekend server.
Breeding & Maturation
Egg hatch speed, baby maturation, imprinting intervals, and mating cooldowns are among the most-tuned settings in ARK — shorten them when your tribe starts chasing perfect stat lines.
Difficulty & PvP
Set the difficulty offset and max wild dino level, toggle PvP or PvE, friendly fire, offline raid protection, and structure damage rules.
World & Environment
Day and night cycle speeds, weather intensity, platform saddle limits, and tribe size caps round out the world tuning.
Crossplay, Clusters and Full FTP Access
Every Platform, One Server
ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated servers support full crossplay — Steam, Microsoft Store, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 players all survive on the same server. Console players join through the in-game unofficial server browser.
Cluster Transfers
Add a cluster game server and transfer survivors, items, and dinos between worlds in a few clicks — run The Island and Scorched Earth side by side like the official cluster networks.
Automatic Backups
Your tribes, tames, and bases are backed up automatically up to four times a day. Backups are kept for six months, and you can restore them from the control panel.
Import Your World
Import a single-player world or one from your old host, checked before anything changes. Download the server save any time as a backup before a big patch.
ARK: Survival Ascended Server Requirements
What does it actually take to run a smooth ARK: Survival Ascended server? A lot more than the original. The Unreal Engine 5 rebuild simulates the full world server-side, and memory use grows with map size, mods, and tames.
Monetize Your Server with Tip4Serv
Sell packages, ranks and subscriptions to your players. Tip4Serv works with any ARK: Survival Ascended server hosted here and delivers purchases in-game automatically.
From the SurvivalServers Wiki
ARK: Survival Ascended Guides & Tutorials
Frequently Asked Questions about ARK: Survival Ascended Server Hosting
ARK: Survival Ascended is a complete remake of ARK: Survival Evolved built in Unreal Engine 5. It features dramatically improved graphics, cross-platform multiplayer, and enhanced mod support through CurseForge. It runs on current-gen platforms only, and its servers have much higher hardware requirements than the original game.
Yes. ARK: Survival Ascended supports full crossplay between Steam, Microsoft Store (Game Pass), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, and all of them play together on the same server. Console players find it in the in-game Unofficial list with Show Player Servers ticked. ASA is current-gen only; PS4 and Xbox One are limited to ARK: Survival Evolved. More in our ARK: Survival Ascended crossplay guide.
Open Join Game, pick Unofficial, tick Show Player Servers and search for your server's name. If the server has a password, tick Show Password Protected Servers too. It works the same way on PC, PS5 and Xbox. See our step-by-step guide: How to Join an ARK: Survival Ascended Server.
Yes! ASA has robust mod support through CurseForge. Add mod IDs in our control panel and they download automatically when the server starts, staying updated after that. Console players can only load mods marked for crossplay on CurseForge, so a server with PS5 or Xbox players should run crossplay mods only. Custom CurseForge maps and Club ARK are supported too.
All 10 official maps: The Island, Scorched Earth, The Center, Ragnarok, Aberration, Extinction, Valguero, Genesis: Part 1, Astraeos, and Lost Colony — plus any custom CurseForge map. Switch between them in one click from our control panel, and each map keeps its own save so you never lose progress.
Plans start at 10 slots and go up to 255 on every map, the paid Astraeos and Lost Colony included, so a small tribe only pays for the slots it uses. You can add slots later from the control panel as your tribe grows.
ARK: Survival Ascended servers require significantly more resources than the original — 16GB of RAM is the working baseline, with more for large maps and heavy mod lists. Our servers use NVMe SSDs and the latest high-clock Intel/AMD processors to handle ASA's demanding Unreal Engine 5 simulation.
The fastest way is renting a managed server: it is online in minutes with a control panel, a CurseForge mod browser and a map picker. To self-host instead, download the free dedicated server with SteamCMD (app 2430930), start ArkAscendedServer.exe with your map and server name, and forward the game's UDP port. Our guide covers both: How to Create an ARK: Survival Ascended Dedicated Server.