ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Content Types: Mod, Creatures, Rebalancing
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Feb 21, 2020 @ 8:20pm
Mar 1, 2024 @ 10:45am
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Prehistoric Beasts

Description
MOD ID 2003934830

WITH THE UPDATE THAT ADDS AQUATICA/ THE UPDATE FROM 07/15/2025 ARK HAS BROKEN MODS (MINE INCLUDED). IF YOU WANT TO USE MY MOD YOU HAVE TO REVERT TO THE PRE-AQUATICA BRANCH! PLEASE CHECK DISCORD IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS/ COMMENTS!!

Dinosaurs from A to Z! Land, air, river, sea, I have them all! Each dinosaur uses a unique, exciting model! Big and small, fluffy or scaly, Prehistoric Beasts is the mod for someone who loves dinosaurs.

I try my best to create interesting dinosaurs that fit where I think Ark is lacking. From adding more dinosaurs that allow rider mounted weaponry to more unique taming methods, each of my dinosaurs are special. So join along in my journey to add a few more beasts into this wild game!

Important Information

Spawn Codes[docs.google.com]

Mod Guide

DISCORD[discord.gg]

If you play single player, you have to disable hibernation to prevent spawn issues. I have code that controls spawns, but it does not work unless hibernation is disabled.

Currently in the mod:
  • Acheroraptor
  • Anzu (plus Aberrant, R and X variant)
  • Axelrodichthys (plus X variant)
  • Baculites (plus X variant)
  • Dearc (plus X and R variant)
  • Dilong (plus Aberrant and R variant)
  • Dolichorhynchops
  • Dracovenator (plus Crystal and X Variant)
  • Genyodectes (plus X and R Variant)
  • Giant Sea Slug (plus X Variant)
  • Hainosaurus (plus X Variant and Alpha for each)
  • Hyneria (plus X variant)
  • Inostrancevia (plus Aberrant, R, Tek, and X variant)
  • Jiangjunosaurus (plus R and X variant)
  • Kelenken (plus Aberrant, R and X Variant)
  • Koolasuchus (plus Aberrant and R variant)
  • Lirainosaurus (plus Tek variant)
  • Lualabaea (plus X variant)
  • Lythronax (plus R and X variant)
  • Mapusaurus (plus Aberrant, Asgardian, R and X)
  • Massospondylus (plus Paleo and R Variant) & Skeletal
  • Nasutoceratops (plus Aberrant, R and X Variant, plus Alpha for each)
  • Neimongosaurus (plus Aberrant, R and X variant)
  • Neovenator (plus Aberrant, R, X Variant and Alpha for each) & Skeletal
  • Ornithocheirus (plus X Variant and Alpha for each)
  • Ouranosaurus (plus Aberrant, Eden, and Tek)
  • Paraxenisaurus (plus Aberrant, Paleo, R and X Variant, and Alpha for each)
  • Pinacosaurus (plus Aberrant and R Variant)
  • Postosuchus (plus Aberrant and X Variant) & Skeletal
  • Prionosuchus (plus R and X Variant)
  • Pyroraptor
  • Saltasaurus (plus Aberrant and X Variant)
  • Scelidosaurus
  • Siamosaurus (plus Aberrant, R, X Variant, Alpha and Gustave)
  • Tsintaosaurus (plus Aberrant and X Variant)
  • Venenosaurus (plus Aberrant and X Variant)
  • Yangchuanosaurus (plus Aberrant, R and X)
  • Zuniceratops (plus Aberrant, Crystal and R Variant)

Ark Survival Ascended:

Huge thanks!
  • Patreons for your dedication to me and this mod.
  • Shadlos for helping me with code and bugs.
  • Arkraktor for helping me film and edit my trailers!
  • Trainspotting, Giga Raptor, Big Al, and others from the Modding Evolved Discord
  • and everyone on youtube and steam for following my progress and playing with this mod!!

Known issues:
  • Still have the Phoenix Pyroraptor size issue, unknown cause, working on resolving it.

Some models were purchased, here's more info below

*ScorchingKami: Axelrodichthys, Lualabaea, Venenosaurus, & Dolichorhynchops Anims

*Pxltiger: Pyroraptor, TLC Pinacosaurus, TLC Sceldiosaurus, Cryodrakon, and Lythronax

*cafnir: TLC Neimongosaurus

*Dinoraul: TLC Postosuchus, TLC Dracovenator, Dolichorhynchops Model

*Various store assets, either in the form of basic base-meshes or models. The ingame assets will vary from their store counterparts, as I either gave them new skins, edited the models, or altered them in some way/shape/form.



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Crysta
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May 1 @ 10:59pm 
this is my favourite mod in ark history
Apr 24 @ 2:10am 
guilty!
Apr 4 @ 10:13pm 
EU SO GOSTO DO DEARC
Mar 29 @ 7:27pm 
could you add creature from additional creature that been removed such as prognathodon and the others please
Mar 28 @ 12:53am 
Okay, thank you :steamthumbsup:
Crysta  [author]
Mar 27 @ 3:31pm 
In theory it should work. However, it has been a while since I've dug into the code. It could be caused by something ark did, or a mistake I somehow made.
Mar 26 @ 7:41pm 
Requesting help, why? I can't tame Dolichorhynchops, just like Equus, but every time it's feeding time, it puts me down, and it's not a baby.
Crysta  [author]
Mar 19 @ 1:57pm 
If there were more of me, I could see myself working one the ASE version. But unless I did a Pre and Post aquatica mod, then there would be issues lol. But alas, for now I'm sticking with ASA
Mar 19 @ 5:13am 
Thanks for your time. Love your mods. :steamthumbsup:
Crysta  [author]
Mar 18 @ 6:52am 
I have income from my job, so I could buy more storage. But not everyone uses aquatica branch, and I don't want to mess with both versions, which would eat into the storage I have now. I have 7TB of space on my computer. 5TB is just for modding if needed and already half of that is gone just for ASA modding. If someone wants to help me with the ASE mod side, they could offer to help.

ASA also has some nice upgrades on the modding side that make it easier for modding. I get that not everyone can upgrade to ASA, but modding ASE isn't as simple now that there is post and pre aquatica to mess with.