Mods & QoL

ARK Survival Ascended Mods on Survival Enhanced

Survival Enhanced uses a curated collection of ARK: Survival Ascended mods to reduce unnecessary grind, improve quality of life, support balanced PvP, and add useful cluster-wide systems. This guide explains what each player-facing mod does and, where Survival Enhanced configures it differently from default, exactly what's changed. Not every mod here is about making things easier — some are PvP balance, some are infrastructure, and some are admin tooling.

Core Survival Enhanced Systems

SurvivalEnhanced Community Mod

Our own cluster-specific mod with the OSD/Vein locator, tribe tracker, and more.

Cybers Structures QoL+

Heavily customized structure and automation system. One of our most detailed configs.

Our primary creature storage system using Dinoballs and terminals.

Hyper's Offline Raid Protection

15-minute activation, 10× turret/structure protection. See our full ORP guide.

Read ORP Guide →

Player Quality of Life

Awesome Spyglass!

Enhanced targeting info for dinos, players, structures, and more.

Farm efficiently without a second player controlling your dino.

Randi's Animal Traps

Reusable trap structures sized for different creatures.

Reusable utility tools — some items disabled for PvP balance.

Crafting Skill Potion

Temporarily move your stats into Crafting Skill. 3-minute duration.

Reveals the full minimap without needing to explore first.

Automatically unlocks engrams as you level — respects hidden items.

Creatures & Progression

Custom Dino Levels

Equalizes wild dino level distribution across 5–150 — max level unchanged.

Adds Maewings to the cluster. Listed as passive, but fully active.

Dino Color Tokens

Recolor tamed creatures. Part of our donor reward system, not craftable normally.

Extinction / Event QoL

Safe OSD & Element Veins

OSDs are protected from player damage. Element Veins are not.

Helps locate stuck or wandering corrupted creatures during waves.

Applez Extinction Map Extension

Expands the official Extinction map with 22 additional cave locations, increasing exploration and base-location variety without replacing the vanilla map.

Recovery

Death Recovery Mod

The Personal Gravestone system, with PvP-sensitive items excluded.

Server & Staff Infrastructure

These mods support backend systems, integrations, and staff tooling. They don't require any player setup or configuration.

ASA Api Utils

Backend/client utility support used by server-side systems and integrations. No player setup is required.

MX-E Ark Shop UI

Supporting mod used by Survival Enhanced's ArkShop/in-game shop system. Players do not configure or interact with this mod directly. Looking for how to use the shop itself? See In-Game Shop.

ASA-Bot Companion

Supports Discord/server integration and administrative server functionality. No normal player configuration is required.

DinoSpawnItems

Backend utility used for automated/admin-controlled creature delivery systems. Players do not configure this mod directly.

Awesome ARK Tools

Used primarily as part of the server/staff administration toolset.

Admin Commands | Gaia Studios

Staff/admin utility. No player interaction is required.