Host ARK: Survival Ascended on dedicated hardware with full crossplay (PC + Xbox Game Pass), CurseForge mod support, and 32 GB memory ceilings — because ASA's Unreal 5 engine eats every GB you give it.
Transparent pricing for ARK: Survival Ascended server hosting. All plans include NVMe storage, DDoS protection, and our modern panel.
Our modified Pterodactyl panel gives you everything you need to manage a dedicated game server from any device.
Every server you run, on one screen. Live CPU, RAM, network, and player counts update in real time — no refresh, no terminal, no hunting through tabs. Start, stop, or restart any instance with a single click.
13 data centers across 5 continents. Pick the location closest to your players at checkout — switch anytime.
ARK: Survival Ascended is Studio Wildcard's Unreal Engine 5 remaster of ARK: Survival Evolved — same dinosaur taming, base building, and tribe PvP, rebuilt on modern rendering and engine systems. Released in late 2023 with a staggered map release schedule (The Island, Scorched Earth, Aberration, The Center, Ragnarok, Extinction), it's now the current ARK for most communities. Server caps are officially 70 players; cluster setups span multiple servers sharing an economy for larger tribes.
ASA modding moved off Steam Workshop onto CurseForge — a mixed blessing of more robust versioning at the cost of easy browsing. Our panel's mod manager resolves CurseForge mod IDs and auto-installs them; no more hand-editing Game.ini mod lists. The template ships with the correct crossplay configuration for Steam (PC) and Xbox Game Pass clients out of the box. PlayStation ASA servers use separate infrastructure.
ASA is RAM-hungry. Studio Wildcard officially recommends 16 GB minimum for 70-player official-size servers; in practice, 24–32 GB is where ASA stops tick-spiking on busy worlds with multiple tribes and heavy base construction. CPU scales with entity count (every dino ticks). We run ASA on Ryzen 9 7950X / 9950X with 32 GB nodes as the baseline; Dedicated plans offer 64 GB for community clusters.
“Setup was instant. I was uploading my world within two minutes of checkout.”
“Latency from the EU node is under 30ms for my whole squad. Zero rubber-banding even on intense sessions.”
“Support actually knows the games. Had a config issue resolved in 20 minutes at 2am.”
“Backups saved a 200-hour save after a mod broke it. One-click restore, worth the plan by itself.”
“Panel is miles better than what I was on before. I don't even miss SFTP.”
“Switching between games without paying again is the feature I didn't know I needed.”
ASA uses CurseForge for mods. Our panel has a CurseForge mod manager — paste a mod URL, we resolve the ID and auto-install. No more hand-editing Game.ini.
Yes — between Steam (PC) and Xbox Game Pass clients, which share the same ecosystem. PlayStation ASA runs on separate infrastructure; our PC-compatible servers don't connect to PS5 clients.
Wildcard says 16 GB minimum; we recommend 24–32 GB for 70-player official-size servers, especially with multiple tribes and heavy base construction. Dedicated plans offer 64 GB for clustered communities.
Wildcard rolls out ASA maps on a content cadence — Scorched Earth, Aberration, The Center, Ragnarok, and Extinction are all available. Map switching is a panel dropdown; your save data is per-map.
Yes. Our Dedicated plan handles cluster setups where multiple servers share the same save directory and tribe data, enabling dinos/items to transfer between maps.
ASE is the original Unreal 4 version with Steam Workshop mods; ASA is the UE5 remaster with CurseForge mods. The ecosystems don't share saves or mods. We host both — pick the version that matches your community.
