ARK Server Rates, Settings & Mods

Rates

Weekend rates run Friday 5:00 PM ET through Sunday 11:00 PM ET.

2x

XP

Weekends: 4x

3x

Harvesting

Weekends: 6x

4x

Taming

Weekends: 8x

10x

Breeding

Weekends: 20x

2x

Mating

Weekends: 4x

Underdog Rate Boost

Smaller tribes automatically get better rates than the numbers above — these are the final in-game rates, base already applied. Check yours in-game with /showrates.

Size	XP	Harvest	Taming	Breeding	Mating	Combat
1	2.9x	7.8x	7.6x	15.0x	2.60x	+25% / -20%
2	2.7x	6.9x	6.8x	14.2x	2.52x	+20% / -16%
3	2.6x	5.9x	6.2x	13.4x	2.42x	+15% / -12%
4	2.4x	5.1x	5.5x	12.6x	2.32x	+10% / -9%
5	2.2x	4.3x	5.0x	11.8x	2.22x	+6% / -6%
6	2.2x	3.7x	4.6x	11.2x	2.14x	+3% / -3%
7	2.1x	3.3x	4.3x	10.6x	2.06x	+1% / -1%
8+	2x	3x	4x	10.0x	2.00x	Base

Breeding

Maturation and egg hatch speed. Faster growth means fewer cuddles needed for a full imprint. You must be in a tribe to get breeding multipliers — even if it's a solo tribe.

Mating

Mating speed. Smaller tribes also get a shorter mating cooldown and a longer imprint grace window, and lose imprint quality more slowly if they miss one.

Combat

Damage dealt / damage taken, for players and tames. Turret damage matches the damage-dealt bonus.

Why it works this way: solos and small tribes keep pace without being steamrolled.

Anti-Abuse

Leaving a tribe triggers a 4-hour cooldown before new rates apply. Rates and cooldowns sync across every server in the cluster — a member of an 8-man tribe can't be in a large tribe on one map and solo on another to gain an advantage, and you can't leave a tribe on one map and join a different tribe on another to dodge the cooldown either.

Stat Adjustments

Player Info

Food Drain	25% Less
Water Drain	25% Less
Health	1.25x Per Point
Stamina	1.25x Per Point
Fortitude	1.25x Per Point
Player Weight	3x Per Point

Dino Info

Tame Weight	6x Per Point
Tame Level Cap	450
Max Personal Tames	370
Max Tribe Tames	3,700

PvP Settings

Tribe Size	8-Man
Turret Cap	150 (includes Species X, Teslas, etc.)
Cave Building	Allowed (6x damage)
ORP + NPP	Enabled
Wipes	No-wipe policy
Crossplay	Enabled

Inventory Adjustments

Stack Sizes

Standard resources & consumables	10,000 (90% weight reduction)
Crystal	1,000 (90% weight reduction)
Element Shard	1,000 (90% weight reduction)
Kibble	500 (90% weight reduction)
Ammo	Vanilla (50% weight reduction)
Wyvern Milk	500 (90% weight reduction)

Installed Mods

Carefully selected to reduce grind, improve performance, and support relaxed-but-active PvP for working adults.

Quality of Life Mods

Cybers Structures QoL+ (Crossplay) — QoL support for structures and other essential items

Solo Farm Mod — helps solo players keep up on farming

Utilities Plus — reusable tools made simple

Awesome Spyglass! — a regular spyglass, but awesomer

Crafting Skill Potion — temporarily dumps stats into crafting skill without wiping engrams

Safe OSD & Element Veins — prevents damage to OSD and Element Veins, except from corrupted dinos

Wave Finder — QoL improvement for OSD/Element Node waves on Extinction

Gameplay Enhancement Mods

SurvivalEnhanced Community Mod

Hyper's Offline Raid Protection

Dino Depot — crossplay-enabled creature storage, no cryopods needed

Maewings — adds maewing spawns and the saddle engram

Dino Color Tokens — force-feed to recolor your dino

Applez Extinction Map Extension (+22 caves)

Custom Dino Levels — adjusted level distribution

Map Unlocker — fully unlocks the minimap, no reset risk

Death Recovery Mod — helps you recover your gear after a death

Convenience Mods

Auto Engrams! — auto-unlocks engrams as you reach the required level

Randi's Animal Traps — traps for all your taming needs

Mods, plugins, and features may adjust over time as needed for performance and balance.