ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Content Types: Mod, Creatures, Rebalancing
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Feb 21, 2020 @ 8:20pm
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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  [author] Nov 28 @ 8:15pm 
If I added a new creature it would be to the ASA version
ZTARGAZER Nov 27 @ 11:25pm 
can u add tanystropheus or crassigryinos or anyone
Serúcipé Nov 21 @ 5:35pm 
I haven't played ARK in several years, but I'm glad this mod still works.
Crysta  [author] Nov 17 @ 6:18pm 
Again, if I don't have the files, there's nothing anyone can do. If I did have the files, it would depend on who they were and what their plans were. If I gave them ASA files that wouldn't work because I've made countless changes (bug fixes, new features, new models, new dinos, etc)
Mimoso Gutierrez Nov 17 @ 2:06pm 
that's sad, besides that, would you allow someone else to un-officialy update your mods? i heard there's a group that wants to keep ASE modding alive by remaking and keeping updated current-old mods, maybe if they ask you and allow them they could take care of it and maybe they could even let you decide things around their remake/update
Crysta  [author] Nov 17 @ 1:51pm 
This mod is currently Pre-A (afaik) as it hasn't been updated in a while. I do not know if I still have the ASE files. I get that many would love for me to update the ASE mod, but personally I don't want to try to balance both ASE and ASA. ARK isn't very optimized and with all the changes I've made to the ASA variant of the mod, just swapping stuff into ASE wouldn't work.
Mimoso Gutierrez Nov 17 @ 12:23pm 
you may not even see this but after reading the comments below me, if you find a way to, just update the mod for pre-A, just make a last update for this mod remaking the creatures and leave it like that, even tho they aren't bad they kind of mismatch with other mods or even the game itself, since basically all modders are moving to ASA you could give this mod a final touch and atleast make it better for the people that keeps playing ASE
[Myuu] 9 Neneko Oct 25 @ 9:22am 
Could be either case (on my end it feels like a mix of different dev team + major update). For ASA I feel like if they really want people to buy and play ASA they would not even revive the servers temporarily and just delist ASE from future buyers and kill normal multiplayer like with GTA San Andreas classic.

Will never touch ASA though if that was their intent, I play on a budget pc and picky when games can cost a months worth of groceries.. + I loved my low polygon dinos whenever the game is still loading hahaha
Crysta  [author] Oct 25 @ 9:00am 
Some think it was intended. So that it would encourage more people to move to ASA. It could also be that they didn't care if mods were broken. Or it just could be that pretty much any major update almost always does this anyways so it was bound to happen
[Myuu] 9 Neneko Oct 24 @ 10:31pm 
Mhm, good idea. + I could imagine that having all 3 games and their dev kits in one pc would be too much too for a solo developer. What a shame tbh that the new devs somehow broke mod compatibility with their updates when the other mod maps that became official worked just fine. There can also be a poll I suppose if the few remaining players would prefer to see this mod on Pre-A or Post-A if the mod were to be updated with new additions again.

Still thank you again for the reply and confirmation! :LWN_Nobeta: