ARK servers

ARK server list covering Survival Evolved and Ascended: PvE and PvP clusters, boosted rates, modded maps and small-tribe servers.

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The basics

Game, where it lives, how busy it is.

Name, IP, tagline or description.

Which game. It decides which filters below even apply.

What kind of server it is. Pick several; any of them will do.

Where the machine is. The closer, the lower the ping. Pick as many as you like.

Languages spoken in chat.

players

How many players are on right now. Give a floor, a ceiling, or both.

Tick a rough time of day, or set the hours exactly below. Several windows all have to be true at once.

1Busy window

Between and o'clock Players to on average

Hours are read as UTC, not your local clock.

The same samples the "Players · last 14 days" chart on a server's stats page is drawn from, averaged per hour of the day. Say when you play and how many people you want to find.

Answered the last ping.

Ownership proven to us.

Unclaimed listings were imported and have no owner looking after them.

Average review score. Servers with no reviews at all are excluded.

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The version the server advertises. Type any version: 1.21.4, 1.26.2, 25w14a. “1.21” also matches every 1.21.x.

From up to

A range of versions that can join. Leave “newest” empty for that version and everything after it.

How it plays

Difficulty, grind, protection, rules.

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Whether you need to install anything.

Whether other players can kill you.

How much faster than vanilla you gather and craft.

How many people are allowed to team up.

Which map it runs.

out of 5

How punishing it is, 1 chill to 5 brutal.

How long it takes to get somewhere.

What happens when someone grief-hunts your base.

What the rules actually permit.

Economy & P2W

What the store sells and how much it matters.

What the owner says the store does to the game.

The reality check: what voters report after playing.

Tick what you are happy to see for sale.

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How money moves between players.

Rewards

What you get for voting, and for turning up.

The owner has said what you get for voting.

Servers choose this. More often means each vote is worth fewer ranking points.

A one-off kit for turning up from here. Only counts when the server's plugin is running and set up to hand it out; we never give anything away ourselves.

Reported by the server plugin. Servers that do not run it are hidden by this filter, not ranked low by it.

The people

Who plays there and how they behave.

Somewhere to ask a question before you join.

Rules, shop and staff list you can read first.

Somewhere you can see the place before you join, not just read about it.

A video of the server rather than a description of it.

Pictures of the actual builds, not just a banner.

Whitelisted servers you can actually apply to right now.

Read and write in-game chat from Discord.

Voted on by players after they vote. Owners cannot set it.

Voted on by players: how the chat feels.

Voted on by players: whether staff are around.

Voted on by players: who you will actually be playing with.

The age group the server is run for.

Older than but under

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

How long these people have been playing together.

Older than but under

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

How long the listing has been on this site.

In the last but not the last

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

The owner has touched the listing lately. A dead listing usually means a dead server.

🦖 ARK only

Application-only servers are quieter but you must apply.

Proximity or server-wide voice.

Technical

Accounts, software, performance.

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TPS

Average ticks per second. 20 is perfect, under 15 is felt.

Reported by the server plugin. Servers that do not run it are hidden by this filter, not ranked low by it.

A web map of the world you can browse.

World & wipes

How old the world is and when it resets.

🦖 ARK only

In the last but not the last

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

A fresh map means everyone starts level.

Within the next but no sooner than

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

Do not join a world that resets on Friday.

How often the world resets, in the words the owner picked.

days

How many days between wipes. Measured from the last and next wipe dates where the owner gave both.

In the last but not the last

Days, or 12h · 6w · 3m · 2y.

How old the current map is.

Hide servers with…

Anything ticked here is removed from the results, whatever else matches. Every filter that can be asked for can also be refused.

Common complaints

Everything else

Type
Country
Language
Vanilla or modded
PvE or PvP
Harvest / taming / XP
Tribe / cluster
Map
Progression
Build protection
Tribe & raid rules
Pay-to-win (declared)
Pay-to-win (players say)
The store sells
In-game economy
How often you can vote
Where else they post
What players do there
Chat
Admins
Crowd age (players say)
Aimed at
Wipe schedule

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