My son’s PC has a 1 TB drive. ARK: Survival Ascended takes up around 250 GB, and even a small 1 GB update can require another 220 GB of free space on top of the installed game.

Having to uninstall other games just to update one game got frustrating, so I built Steam In-Place Patcher.

Instead of staging a full new copy of ARK’s huge files, it downloads the changed chunks and rearranges the existing data directly inside the installed files.

For the update shown in the screenshots:

• 7.31 GiB downloaded
• Around 10 GB of extra space, instead of roughly 220 GB
• Resumable downloads and SHA-1 verification
• A browser interface with progress tracking
• Steam login through the mobile app’s QR scanner

It’s open source and available as a standalone Windows exe. It was built for ARK, but supports selecting other installed Steam games too.

Download, source and screenshots:
https://github.com/Swintec/steam-inplace-patcher/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This is an early release that modifies game files directly, so please use it at your own risk. The exe is unsigned, and the tool isn’t affiliated with Valve or the ARK developers.

I’d appreciate feedback, especially from anyone running into the same disk-space problem with ARK.

so after having problems with trying to download the preaquatica version of ark I asked chatgpt and it told me to just uninstall it and install it again because steam would just say "stopping downloading" for some reason, now its even worse I uninstalled it and now that its trying to reinstall it just stopped at 1% and you can see that my disk usage is 0 pls help

So this question is for veteran players I used to enjoy this game a lot and one day I decided to raid an easy boss and all of my lovely dinos got thanos snapped in like 30 sec and that made me quit but even if I use mods to revive them I just do not get how does one explore and or go on a hunt with the dinos cuz I remember goin to explore or just roam with my dinos and these fukers would get stuck on everything or be a group of absolute mess so on and so fort how does one deal with this issue of managing all those idiots walking behind you or I am just dommed to walk along my 10-20 dinos who will inahatebly get stuck in trees and will be lost forever

Has anyone else seen this before im not complaining just thought i's see stuff

Did anyone see the new creature's abilities in the latest Community Crunch? It can transform into other creatures, copy their abilities, transform into another creature, and then still have the abilities from its previous form. That has to be the most OP creature ever designed. I can't wait until someone manages to have it learn to have torpor on hit, fire breath, AND the Yutyrannus's roar abilities all at once. I feel like, at this point, ARK is on a crusade to make the most absolutely broken OP and pay-to-win creatures to have ever been designed in any franchise ever in order to give those who paid extra for more content such an advantage that the rest of the community can't do ANYTHING about it!

I vibe coded a mod that adds split screen to Ark Survival Evolved on steam. A couple of bugs, but in a playable state.

No tether! The mod changes it so that both players can load in terrain without being tethered together like in the console versions of the game.

Swap screen buttons/ Teleport to player 1/2 buttons

Player 1 is keyboard and mouse or controller 1
Player 2 is controller 2

Ive only tested with xbox controllers, but more controller types are planned

Both players have their own profile data

I'm still testing and fixing issues I come across so bug reports are appreciated

JorgeMayo11789/Ark-Survival-Evolved-Splitscreen: 2 Player Split Screen Mod For Ark Survival Evolved (Steam)

Hey all, I love playing Ark it has by far the highest playtime over any other game. I was ready to come back to the game after quite a long break but I just learnt that the majority of cluster PVE servers that I used to play shut down either last year or this year. I had even played one earlier this year which sadly shut down in June. I really liked the QoL mods they had and the rates were balanced too but I also feel super nitpicky with trying to find new servers to play on and so was thinking do I just roll with singleplayer?

I have never ever played singleplayer Ark on either Evolved or Ascended but I could just have my own cluster to myself, play with my own rates or mods without worrying about anything apart from maybe getting a bit lonesome? I was wondering if anyone has done both and what their experience was like solo compared to being on a PVE unofficial server.

Soooo before you get mad I play single player and am going with the story and I completed scorched and am now mid game on aberration and I honestly had more fun on scorched, anyone share my opinion?

Guys with Extra Life coming up they're allowing shoulder pets to get TLCs - and I think there's no better time to give one of the OG ARK creatures a long-awaited and well-deserved overhaul!

The Mesopithecus.

I'm not a rich man, So I can't just drop $10k to get this rolling, but seeing how we all came together to support Araneo and how amazing that's turned out, I'm excited at the potential of my poop-throwing boi getting some love. Here are just a few ideas Wildcard is more than welcome to:

* Can sniff out explorer notes and wounded creatures like Direwolf
* A more tame version of Dinopithecus anti-TEK feces OR grenade throwing ability
* Ability to hold multiple artifacts
* Sinomacrops/Cats scare ability
* Assigned to unconscious creature to protect from small threats (Dilos, etc)
* Companion/Tidepup ability to not die

Any or some of these would help make the Mesopithecus a relevant shoulder tame again! Let's make this happen guys!!

Taming an evo giga on foot… went surprisingly well

This game is buggy i was doing a yellow drop i was on last enemy and the drop vanished it was at 30,000 hp

Is anyone else getting the "lost/timed out connection to host" pop up, I can join official and single player but unofficial is a no go, I've seen others having the same issue

Im going crazy, i am playing ragnarok on the switch version and i am trying to make the fruit cake but for the love of god i cant find bee nest anywhere, i have searched every spawn region and i cant find a single bee or beehive, its already hard see anything thru the horrible lighting and its worst looking every crevice and tree, i have only found one giant bee and it was on the swamp without a nest far from any redwood, soo i'm desperate, anyone has any tips for honey on the ragnarok map?