Ragnarok



Ragnarok is a free, official, non-canonical DLC expansion map for ARK: Survival Evolved.

Ragnarok was released on June 12, 2017 for the PC, Mac and Linux version of ARK, and for consoles on August 29, 2017. Half of the map was finished at PC release date and 75% at console's release. The map was declared 99% finished for PC in December 2017 and consoles in January 2018.

Access
Players in single player mode on consoles do not have to complete the Ascension to be able to access Ragnarok map.

Creatures
Ragnarok adds several new creatures, such as the, , , and , as well as 4 new dungeon bosses: the and , the  and the. It's a whole new map that boasts an expansive 144 sq. kilometer environment, an active volcano, species from DLC Scorched Earth, and higher than average spawn rates of and  (creatures that are harder to find on other maps). On Ragnarok there are unique ; they are bigger and look more like beaver dams in real life. can live in the Dams, too.

Creatures tamed and items received on Official Ragnarok servers can be brought to the vanilla map The Island, except Polar Bears.

Unique Environmental Features.

 * An active volcano that will erupt creating lava flows and cause meteors to rain down.
 * corpses scattered along the beaches.
 * Massive Beaver Dams.
 * Ruins and sunken viking boats scattered around the map including a castle overlooking viking bay.
 * Occasional Wind Storms.
 * Various easter eggs such as a Shrek hut and Jats face scattered around the map.
 * Hot springs with stone benches on which you can sit and get the useless "rested" buff.

Size
Ragnarok is approximately 2.5x the size of The Island, in terms of land mass, and roughly 4x in total size. These calculations do not account for the significant, wide-ranging cave networks, and sizable dungeons.

Here you see some pictures taken in the editor at same scale to show you how big Ragnarok is.

Regions
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Data Maps
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Other Spawns
In other words, all creatures from The Island and Scorched Earth can be found somewhere on the map, except the, the , the (in the Snow Cave, Ragnarok has its own Dire Polar Bear), the , the , the , the , the , the , the , the , the , and the.

Event Creatures
Creatures that only spawned during an Event:

Items
All Items from the base game, and most items from Scorched Earth are available on Ragnarok in addition to the items below.

Notes/Trivia

 * In Norse mythology, Ragnarok refers to doomsday, in which a series of future events take place and the universe is reborn.
 * Like Scorched Earth, the creatures that Ragnarok adds are primarily based on fantasy.
 * This is the first map to have custom Mini-Bosses.
 * All 3 Mini-Bosses made for Ragnarok don't have a unique dermis, they instead are of the basic creatures, so the dermis will show a rock elemental instead, the  will show a deathworm, and both the  and  will show their normal counterparts.
 * A unique harvestable resource in Ragnarok are the beached, found in the Highlands on beaches. They yield , , and a little bit of.
 * In the Swamp, a house in a rock can be found as well as an outhouse. This is a reference to the movie Shrek.
 * At the south of the map, there is an island that is united to land by a bridge, this is based on the Gaztelugatxe, in Spain.
 * this is the first official mod map to introduce new creatures.
 * this is the first official mod map to use scorched earth creatures.
 * despite the acclaim for its size, the new Crystal Isles map is 6 square kilometers larger, though it is not yet known which map has the most landmass, since the size of the Aberration map, with its multiple layers, has never been released.
 * There was a known bug when the water in redwoods could turn blood because devs used the code of rag water for the forbidden zone on Extinction.
 * On Patch 267.0, the was remodeled and was now uploadable.