Update v61.66 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 v61.66 Patch Notes
Current ARK Official Server Network Servers Version: 61.72
v61.66 – Minor version for Steam Client – 03/14/2025
- Fixed an exploit
v61.65 – Minor version for Servers and Astraeos DLC v61.64 – 03/14/2025
- Fixed an issue where having an ActiveModMap in your settings by mistake would cause your server to not boot correctly.
Astraeos v61.64
- Fixed Element Veins being damageable in PVE
- Fixed Wrong Destruction Material for Element Veins
- Fixed Element Veins not being fully destroyed when leaving area
- Fixed Lightning Deathworm spawning
- Potential fix for Cave buttons being invisible
- Removed invalid actors that were incorrectly increasing the memory footprint of the map, this will eliminate a significant number of crashes/black screens players are experiencing on console.
v61.62 (v61.57 Clients) – Minor version for Servers, Clients and Astraeos DLC – 03/12/2025
- Fixed a few exploits.
- PS5 – Fix for map saves not working correctly after coming back from rest mode.
- Xbox – Fix for Mek pistol aim being off.
- Fixed an issue where running an Astraeos mod server would instead host the DLC map.
Patch Notes (Astraeos)
Added
- New Weather effects for rain
- Added Rhyniognatha & Maeguana Saddle to Hard & Legendary OSD loot
- Added Liopleurodon to Deepsea areas
- Added Deepsea Drops (13 Locations, 4 Crates at the same time max)
- Added More Metal, Obsidian & Crystal to deep sea areas
- Added Red Sap Trees to Therokis
- Added More possible spawn locations for wyvern eggs outside the wyvern cave
Changes
- Cyan Drop is now green and has a green ring effect for better visibility
- Adjusted Map Temperature distribution
- Adjusted Northern map border location
- Adjusted Underwater fog visibility
- Opened two more building caves up for building in PVE
- Shortened the way of some of the OSD walking paths to avoid NPCs losing aggro to the OSD
- Moved Worldborder to fix building prevention on one of the smaller islands
- Updated Some of the big statues on the map with new models for better quality & less meshing
- Replaced one easy OSD drop spawnpoint with a legendary OSD drop spawnpoint to increase legendary spawn chance
Fixes
- Fixed Cyclops 360 attack not hitting correctly
- Fixed Cyclops Wrong damage multiplier which makes it possible to fight him without playing his eye mechanic
- Fixed Element Vein harvest does not scale correctly with tool item damage
- Fixed Element Vein material issues
- Fixed Element Vein & OSD spawn under the landscape
- Fixed Lightning Creatures glowing purple instead of yellow
- Fixed Meshholes
- Fixed Water physics issues
- Fixed Snow mask issues
- Fixed Groundrock graphic issues
- Fixed Moschops can’t harvest sand on wandering
- Fixed Lightning Creatures spawning with wrong colors
- Fixed Flying be allowed in artifact caves by default (You can still allow it via server settings)
- Fixed Underwater Rocks giving less stone than expected
- Fixed Lava Damage Volume issues
- Fixed Teleport to Therokis West & East not working
- Fixed Cave Lighting issues
v61.44 – Minor version for Servers and Clients – 03/05/2025
- Fixed abnormally big heads on baby Maeguanas
- Fixed a hang in Club ARK
- Fixed the ability to use Dino Cosmetics
