Ark Survival Ascended Update 66.38 Patch Notes

Update 66.38 was launched for Ark Survival Ascended, which brought several fixes and improvements. The action-adventure survival video game was developed by Studio Wildcard in 2023. Generally, the game has a regular update schedule and offers players a better gaming experience. For instance, the latest version arrived a while ago and fixes crashes. Here are the details.

Ark Survival Ascended Update 66.38 Patch Notes

Ark Survival Ascended Update 57.13 Patch Notes

Fixed various crashes

If you missed the game’s previous update, check out below.

Fixed various crashes
If you missed the game’s previous update, check out below.

Stack size multiplier fix
Fixed various crashes

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ARK 10 Year Anniversary event is now live!
- Unofficial server owners can apply this to their servers by adding “-Activeevent=birthday” into their commandline
- Added a drop-down option to enable Active Events in Host/Single-Player mode under Game Rules > Rules
- More info can be found here
ClubARK has received a new tropical makeover for the anniversary celebration!
Migrated from Unreal Engine 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.5 to improve Ark’s foundation towards better performance, stability, and visual quality
Individual DLC maps are now able to be installed and uninstalled separately from the base game
Added Single Player Backup Saves (beta)
- Create, restore, and auto-generate backups across all platforms
Added a new “Performance Only” graphics preset on PC, which disables certain features to boost frame-rate at the cost of visual quality
Dino QOL (as inspired by AvianApexY of Curiosity)
- Wild and Tamed creatures will look around curiously
- Wild creatures will sometimes play animations
Added returning structure: Egg Incubator
Added new structure pieces, variants and skins:
- Thatch (30)
  - Barn Door, Cellar Door, Double Door, Double Doorway, Fence Foundation, Fence Support, Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Hanger Door, Hatchframe, Ladder, Pillar & Beam, Quarter Ceiling, Quarter Foundation, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Quarter Wall, Ramp, Ramp Corner, Railings, Shallow Sloped Wall, Staircase, Thin Pillar, Trapdoor, Triangle Ceiling, Triangle Foundation
- Wood, Stone, Metal (30)
  - Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall
- Adobe, Tek (22)
  - Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Inverted Quarter Roof, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall
- BTT’s Frontier Showdown, Steampunk Ascent, Wasteland War (30)
  - Half Beam, Half Pillar, Half Railing, Half Thin Beam, Half Thin Pillar, Quarter Ramp, Quarter Roof, Quarter Stair, Ramp Corner, Shallow Sloped Wall

Bug Fixes

Fixed a client crash that could occur during the Extinction ascension cinematic
Fixed several ground conforming issues with various creatures
Fixed several creatures and saddles having messed up LODs at low graphic settings
Prevented the Aquatic trait from appearing on flyers (when bAllowFlyerDinoSubmerging is false)
Fixed “Join Last Session” sometimes not working as intended
Fixed inability to “drop all” on a creature inventory when the player’s inventory is slot capped
Fixed lots of structure lights causing shadow flickering
Fixed water flickering after transferring a character to a different server
Fixed Snow Owl’s dive bomb impacting mid air with a Companion equipped
Fixed various visual issues with the preview window while painting a structure
Fixed Pyromane not becoming doused from touching water after teleporting out of a Vacuum chamber
Fixed visual artifacting when using spyglass and scuba helmet
Fixed Industrial Cooking Pot gaining water without irrigation
Fixed gamepad inability to rotate on the spot with a Tuso, now works with A/X
Fixed Reaper and Basilisk bury mounts not matching the terrain
Fixed Biogrinder not providing mutton when grinding Ovis
Fixed Extinction’s Sunken Forest location where creatures would spawn in the mesh
Fixed multiple lakes missing water volumes on Extinction
Fixed several holes leading to the mesh on Extinction
Fixed Mei Yin’s Note #28 on Extinction being under the mesh
Fixed missing textures on Extinction
Fixed water postprocess appearing erroneously on Extinction
Fixed all of the Titan’s node VFX appearing missing
Fixed cases where the BattleRig would sink into the mesh on server restart
Fixed a client crash when entering photo mode after firing a BattleRig Flight seeker missile turret
Fixed a visual issue with some of the Wasteland Structure skins
Fixed the cooldown on “training” sometimes getting messed up on Managarmrs after transferring to a different server
Fixed several creatures that were unable to base on platforms
Fixed short player character’s legs deforming when walking or running up slopes
Fixed LOD issues on various Animated Series Pack character skins
Fixed a visual issue with the Animated Quetz skin
Fixed Bladewasp Hive visual issue at far distance
Fixed VFX issues with the Baryonyx and Thylacoleo roar
Fixed Tek forcefield sometimes appearing to have multiple layers
Fixed a visual issue with the level up animation on Phoenix
Fixed Delivery Crate’s balloon not visually inflating when deployed
Fixed Charge Lantern material breaking when painted
Fixed missing VFX for heat cooldown in some places on the Tek Railgun
Fixed a visual issue with the Overseer’s boulder in the Megapithecus phase
Fixed several exploits
Fixed several client crashes
Fixed several server crashes

Astraeos Official Release v0.0.6

New Additions

Added New landmass Lemnokis
- A massive new area with big, cold and warm areas. Beaches, redwoods, mountain ridges, temples, new caves and other exciting areas await you!
Added New area: The Maelstrom
Added Many new bigger and smaller caves
Added Aberration fertile cave including Gasveins, Green Gems and aberration fertile biome creatures like Karkinos and Cosmo
First Double-miniboss: Kalydonios & Erymanthian (Terminal can be found on Lemnokis)
Added Claypiles for harvesting Clay
Added Astral Direwolf which drops the same loot as yellow ice cave drops
Added Astral Mammoth which drops the same loot as red ice cave drops
Added Gas Veins all over Therokis