ARK: Survival Evolved (the original, not Ascended) is the long-running dinosaur survival game that launched in 2015 and spawned a genre. Tame dinos, build tribes, raid bases, and survive across official maps (The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Genesis) and community maps (Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, The Center).
Our ARK template supports the full 100-player cap with Steam Workshop mod auto-sync. Popular mod stacks — Structures Plus, Stackmore, Automated ARK, Primal Fear, ARK Additions — install with one click. Cluster setups span multiple servers sharing dino transfers; the panel handles the shared tribes/items directory.
ARK is RAM-heavy at scale — every dino and placed structure ticks server-side. 8 GB handles 20-player vanilla; 16 GB for 50-slot modded; 32 GB for full 100-slot communities with major mod stacks. Our Ryzen 9 nodes maintain frame times during mass tame sessions and tribe wars.