Games / ARK: Survival Ascended

Fresh Start

ARK: Survival Ascended

Nine PvE maps and counting, in one cluster that never wipes.

How to join

About five minutes, the first time

  1. 1

    In Discord, open #get-connected and tap Get connected.

  2. 2

    The setup walks you through installing Tailscale on the PC you play on. Then you're on the network.

  3. 3

    Launch ARK: Survival Ascended, open the server browser and search JCBX.

Join the Discord

The server

Game
ARK: Survival Ascended
Server
JCBX Cluster
Mode
PvE
Wipes
Never
Players
Up to 24 per map
Region
North America
Platform
PC
Fresh Start
October 8, 2026

Built by JCBX

Made here, not bolted on

The chat, transfer protection and every dashboard on this cluster are JCBX’s own systems, built and run in-house. None of it is a plugin or an outside bot, and it all runs on our side, so there’s nothing extra for you to set up.

One chat, every map

Talk to the whole cluster from any map, or from Discord on your phone. Your Discord name rides along with your character, so everyone knows who’s who.

In game · Valguero

[Ragnarok] Mara (stonefern): anyone up for a wyvern run tonight?

#ark-cluster-chat

stonefern (Mara) · Ragnarok
anyone up for a wyvern run tonight?

  • Maps on demand

    Ragnarok, Astraeos and Valguero always run. Wake any of the other six from Discord or the Dashboard, and it’s ready in about a minute.

  • Transfer protection

    JCBX keeps its own copy of every transfer between maps, the moment it happens.

  • Looked after

    Morning restarts count down in game at 20, 10 and 2 minutes. Updates install on their own, and backups run through the day with a copy offsite.

Coming soon

  • Protection dashboard

    Every transfer protection keeps for you, right on the Dashboard.

  • Dino uploads

    Send tames between maps through JCBX itself.

  • Player dashboard

    Your survivors and tames on a page of your own.

The maps

Every map within reach

Always running

  • Ragnarok

    Rolling highlands and volcanic slopes.

  • Astraeos

    Marble cliffs and ancient temples.

  • Valguero

    Green valleys above a glowing trench.

About a minute away

  • The Island

    Where it all began.

  • Scorched Earth

    A desert of sandstorms and wyverns.

  • The Center

    Waterfalls beneath a floating island.

  • Aberration

    Life beneath a broken ARK.

  • Extinction

    Earth, long after the fall.

  • Genesis Part 1

    Ocean depths to lunar landscapes.

Coming soon

  • Lost Colony

    A forgotten colony ARK.

  • Dragontopia

    A sky world ruled by dragons.

  • Genesis Part 2

    A colony ship bound for Earth.

  • Fjordur

    Norse realms and frozen fjords.

  • Lost Island

    Jungle peaks and hidden ruins.

  • Crystal Isles

    Islands of crystal and color.

  • Svartalfheim

    A dwarven realm of gold and mithril.

    Community map

  • Forglar

    A sunken kingdom beneath the waves.

    Community map

  • Bjarnheim

    A Nordic land gripped by Fimbulwinter.

    Community map

  • Nyrandil

    Floating mountains, coral beaches and deep caverns.

    Community map

  • Althemia

    A world built by the ARK community.

    Community map

Community and non-canon maps may run apart from the main cluster, to keep its balance and progression steady.

Also planned

  • PvP modes

    Room to fight other tribes, alongside the PvE maps.

  • Events

    Community events that bring the whole cluster together.

Rates

Experience
3×
Harvest amount
3×
Taming speed
5×
Item stack sizes
3×
Crop growth
3×
Resource respawn time
0.5× · 50% shorter

Breeding

Time between matings
0.2× · 80% shorter
Egg hatching
15×
Baby growth
15×
Time between cuddles
0.07× · 93% shorter
Imprint per cuddle
3×
Who can imprint
Any survivor

Game

Mode
PvE
Wild creatures
Up to level 225
Friendly fire
Off
Spoiling
Usual speed

Tames and building

Decay
Off for tames and buildings
Tames per tribe
No limit
Flyers carry wild creatures
Yes
Building in caves
No
Picking up buildings
The usual short window
Mindwipe Tonic
The usual cooldown

Transfers

Between maps
Survivors, tames and items
Uploaded survivors
Never expire
Uploaded tames and items
Kept for 90 days
Dino Depot terminals
Upload points too
Dino Depot balls
Can’t be uploaded

On screen

Third person view
On
Crosshair
On
Your spot on the map
Shown
Damage numbers
Off

Mods

Quality of life, built in

  • Super Spyglass Plus

    Size up any creature, egg or supply drop before you commit to it.

    • Level, stats and gene traits from a distance
    • Stat comparison built in
    • Taming food and egg details
    • Night vision, predator vision and GPS coordinates

    Kept fairOutline mode is off.

  • Dino Depot

    Pocket your tames in Dino Depot balls, and let a powered terminal run the nursery.

    • Stored tames stay exactly as they were
    • The terminal gathers fertilized eggs with an Oviraptor, hatches them and catches the newborns
    • Fertilizer spread to nearby crop plots every five minutes
    • Mating pauses on its own when the terminal is full
    • Terminals double as upload points

    Kept fairThe terminal runs on power and makes no poop or eggs by itself. Balls can’t be uploaded.

  • Cybers Structures QoL+

    A building overhaul for bases that look and work the way you want.

    • 200+ building pieces, with better snapping
    • Crafting stations that pull from nearby storage
    • A Mutator that can pause a baby’s aging
    • Map-specific engrams you can learn
    • Extra machines for tames

    Kept fairNo wild-creature scans. The Mutator’s mutation, gender and breeding modes and the Transmutator are off, clones can’t be cloned again, and vivariums make no resources or eggs.

Ideas welcome

The cluster is open to more mods. New ones are on hold until ARK moves to Unreal Engine 5.8, and we’ll pick them back up after. Requests for mods, settings, events or anything else are welcome anytime in #ark-general on the JCBX Discord.