Ark Survival Evolved Update 59.5 Patch Notes

Tuna Han

February 1, 2025

Update 59.5 launched for Ark Survival Evolved, which brings several fixes and improvements. The action-adventure survival video game was developed by Studio Wildcard in 2017. 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 Evolved Update 59.5 Patch Notes

ClubARK: Wasteland War is live! v154

• ClubARK has received a Wasteland makeover!
• Added a new Bob’s Tall Tales mission “Mad Mark”
• Added Scrap Golem (Rock Elemental variant) as a rare reward for completing Mad Mark on Alpha difficulty
• All Bob’s Tall Tales missions now award equipment traits on completion
• All ClubARK rewards have been updated to include Extinction & Wasteland content
• The Wardrobe has been updated to include Extinction & Wasteland content

Gameplay Changes

• Enraged Rex and Enraged Trike now award 3x more XP
• Enraged Rex and Enraged Trike now give Alpha XP type to allow chibi leveling
• Refactored SIR-5rM8’s sorting ability to be more reliable
• SIR-5rM8 can now collect sap from Sap Tap without needing a player to open the Sap Tap’s inventory first
• Meat Carrier trait now includes Spoiled Meat
• Moschops can now gather Sap from Sap trees in Scorched Earth
• Tamed Basilisks are now immune to radiation on Aberration
• Allowed Pegomastax deployment on Aberration for Gacha crystals
• Experience removed from creatures when respeccing them via the Makeshift Megalab reduced to 10% of current XP
• OSDs & Element veins will now highlight the last remaining 5 dinos of the wave
• Cooldown for cryopodding a damaged creature has been reduced to 30 seconds (down from 60 seconds).
• Reduced the damage transferred from structures placed on a platform-saddled dino from 100% to 10%
• Adjusted Tuso’s melee attack to hit closer to its head to prevent it from getting stuck on small creatures that it cannot hit
• Titanoboa no longer gains points in Oxygen
• Tek Giganotosaurus can now be cloned
• Added the current “Quick Ability” icon to Armadoggo’s whistle and colored the icon to show if the skill is on cooldown, active, or activatable.
• Added a health indicator to Armadoggo’s icon in Companion mode, showing current/max health on top of the buff icon when the extended HUD is enabled.
• Added Element-Imbued Gasoline engram to BattleRig Garage’s inventory, and Garage no longer requires Element-Imbued Gasoline to craft
• Added analog values for BattleRig’s gamepad controls for throttle/brake
• BattleRig carries over the percentage HP it previously had when changing equipment
• Prevented Water Reservoirs from being placed on platform saddles
• Prevented Gene Scanner from tracking corrupted creatures
• Extinction OSD and Element Vein audio stingers are now tied to the Music slider
• Tek Binocular UI will now display mutation count without needing to access the Ancestry page of the dino
• Items now display their item rating in the inventory UI which is the relevant value when using the Tinkering Desk
• DLSS defaulted to enabled for compatible cards

Gameplay Fixes

• Fixed a server restart issue where creatures in the middle of taming would lose their taming effectiveness and become untamable
• Fixed Heavy Turret requiring an Auto-Turret for repair
• Fixed SIR-5rM8 inability to repair Heavy Turret without Auto-Turret in inventory
• Fixed SIR-5rM8 accessing the inventory of structures picked up by Rhynio
• Fixed SIR-5rM8’s item input not copying to other turrets when using copy settings to all nearby turrets
• Fixed SIR-5rM8 accessing sealed Barrels
• Fixed SIR-5rM8 bypassing certain container restrictions
• Fixed a multiplayer desync issue with SIR-5rM8 that could occur when changing modes
• SIR-5rM8 should no longer slot cap or overweight himself when sorting and rerendered by a player
• Fixed cases where SIR-5rM8 would get stuck when navigating around certain structures
• Removed Dreadmare requiring Alpha Raptor and Carno on Extinction and replaced AlphaRex trophy entry to Enraged Rex
• Fixed Tek Binocular UI not updating baby progress correctly
• Fixed Goo Gun blueprints having a number of limited crafts
• Fixed issues with painting Basilisk’s saddle
• Fixed railings not correctly snapping to the top & bottom of triangle roofs 
• Fixed Corrupted creatures pushing through Tek Forcefield and causing damage inside it
• Fixed Bio-Grinder inability to grind tall creatures like Giga/Carcha
• Fixed an issue that caused crafting Unstable Element Shards via the Makeshift Megalab resulting in a loss of materials
• Improved the visuals of the Homo Deus skin
• Fixed Homo Deus Skin jittering when moving the camera
• Fixed the Train engine interfering with in-game sound
• Fixed session list UI elements appearing offset on ultrawide monitors
• Fixed frame stuttering related to frame generation when toggling UI elements
• Fixed a client crash related to harvesting resources with Extended HUD enabled
• Fixed a client crash related to starting split-screen
• Fixed an issue that prevented equipping items from inventory after viewing the crafting or cosmetic tab
• Fixed an issue that would cause structures to float above the Battlerig Garage
• Fixed a level discrepancy with dropped Mek blueprints
• Fixed Enforcer and Mek stats displaying incorrectly in some languages
• Fixed a camera issue when jumping while riding a Thylacoleo
• Reduced Deinosuchus gravity to match Sarco
• Fixed Yutyrannus, Direwolf and Armadoggo LOD issues at medium and low graphic settings
• Fixed Bucket Face Helmet Skin LOD issues at medium and low graphic settings
• Fixed inability to access R wheel while mounted on a Reaper King
• Fixed Snow Owl using foot attack while walking, causing it to slide
• Fixed Snow Owl’s ability to ice crash in the air when stamina is depleted
• Fixed multiple cases of Enforcer accidentally teleporting under the map
• Fixed Managarmr jumping forward immediately after being uncryopodded
• Fixed Ice Titan breath killing mounted players
• Fixed Dreadnoughtus EMP roar killing enemy riders
• Speculative fix for Dreadnoughtus legs sometimes appearing messed up
• Fixed player rotating back and forth rapidly when standing on the saddle of a Dreadnoughtus as a passenger
• Fixed Dreadnoughtus legs stuttering when rotating
• Adjusted Dreadnoughtus’s EMP breath attack to be more accurate at hitting larger enemies
• Fixed Armadoggo eyes turning black during sniffing animation
• Speculative fix for Armadoggo’s chance of disappearing during player respawn or disconnect
• Fixed a case where using Armadoggo’s whistle would break some interactions with creatures, structures or items
• Fixed spawning several skeleton pieces by spamming Armadoggo’s dig emote
• Fixed Armadoggo scaring off tamed creatures with “Who’s there?”
• Fixed Armadoggo getting stuck trying to unbury while in swimming state
• Adjusted Armadoggo’s taming affinity to improve taming effectiveness
• Fixed Baby Rock Drakes sometimes falling through the mesh when hatched from a Gigantoraptor saddle by adjusting their gravity scale
• Fixed BattleRig getting stuck in a rubberbanding state after hitting an object
• Adjusted BattleRig’s damage VFX to improve FPS
• Fixed BattleRigs disappearing in stasis
• Fixed BattleRigs falling through the mesh when upside down and no driver
• Fixed inability to look around in first-person view in a BattleRig when using a gamepad
• Removed BattleRig Garage duplicate options for “open car inventory” and “tribe rank” options
• Fixed some Text overlapping in BattleRig Garage UI
• Fixed inability to move while driving on Ice with BattleRig
• Adjusted gamepad controls in BattleRig when a weapon is equipped
• Fixed newly built BattleRigs spawning with ramshackle and apprentice parts
• Fixed BattleRig sometimes rubber banding after hitting some collisions such as foliage/rocks
• Fixed BattleRig colliding and flipping too easily when running over trees and rocks
• Fixed a case where a Mek could spawn in the mesh when crafted from a Tek Replicator
• Fixed the inability to hide the BattleRig Garage roof after removing structures that were blocking it
• Adjusted the player’s seated position when accessing the BattleRig Garage with the roof hidden so they are no longer floating
• Fixed projectile weapons not firing accurately when seated in a passenger seat
• Fixed a case where Desert Titan saddle would be missing collision
• Fixed broken Winter Wonderland icons
• Fixed camera getting messed up when grappling another player that is mounted and in photo mode
• Creatures that have consumed Mushroom Brew can now be cryopodded in the radiation zone on Aberration
• Fixed the Forest Titan AI to prevent it from attempting to navigate outside its arena
• Shirt skins are now unequipped when applying the Glider to prevent the Glider from appearing invisible
• Fixed a case where Tribe Tower was applying buffs to characters that were not in the tribe
• Fixed cases where creatures would deal more damage with no rider
• Prevented item skins on cart saddles
• Fixed an issue with Explosive Spear/Primitive Spear which would sometimes prevent it from being thrown
• Fixed several typos
• Fixed several exploits

Environment Fixes

• Fixed various mesh holes, rat holes, and floating objects across all maps
• Fixed several false positive anti-mesh spots on The Island, including areas around the Volcano
• Removed the erroneous Tribe Tower floating in the middle of the sky on The Island
• Fixed multiple cases of supply drops falling through the ground on Aberration
• Fixed cave supply crate spawning in the mesh on Aberration
• Fixed lava not dealing damage to large creatures on Scorched Earth
• Fixed Snow Ramp rendering gray in color on Extinction
• Fixed a case where the Tamed Forest Titan would slide when turning
• Fixed Meteors not damaging tamed creatures on Extinction
• Fixed a buildable area in Scorched Earth’s boss arena
• Fixed heat visuals displaying erroneously in the southwest surface entrance on Aberration
• Fixed some locations where Red Gems were spawning in the green zone on Aberration
• Fixed a waterfall missing audio on Aberration
• Fixed Aberration’s Green Obelisk having two beams