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ARK: Aquatica and A.S.E. Progress 10/20
October 20, 2025by AlphaNav
Good Afternoon,
Studio Sirens remains dedicated to providing updates as issues are being logged or addressed. We are primarily utilizing the #「❗」bug-reports」channel on the Official ARK: Aquatica Discord.We would like to thank the community for continuing to help us make improvements to ARK: Aquatica by reporting issues that have appeared after release.For the sake of identifying issues, please provide as much information as possible on your report for visibility and accurate reporting (ie: version number, platform and all applicable logs or information).We are happy to announce that the ‘preaquatica’ game branch will remain a permanently available branch for all users on ARK: Survival Evolved.Patch notes v360.35
Dino/Tame Fixes
- Fixed some Abyssal dinos having points in Oxygen
- Note: This only removes the Oxygen from new dinos, not existing[/*]
- Increased Alpha Abyssal Rex health[/*]
- Added ability for most dinos to equip Infected Barnacle augments. Water and amphibious dinos will get reduced benefits from swim speed augments
- Note: New dinos will not get the attached infected mask visual[/*]
- Fixed Infected Barnacle mask not being visible on Pachyrhino and Megalosaurus [/*]
- Fixed water dinos not being able to target Alpha Corrupt Tridacna[/*]
- Fixed Monodon not using their cuddle animation[/*]
- Fixed Monodon getting too much taming ineffectiveness when taming rates are boosted[/*]
- Reduced aggro notify neighbor range for Megalodon, Malleocephalus, Dakosaurus, and Seahorse[/*]
- Fixed Sinomacrops and Noglin buffs not applying correctly to players when mounted[/*]
- Fixed buffs not getting applied to riders of Tropeognathus, Magmasaur, Exosuit, Tek Hoversail, Dinopithecus, and Stego[/*]
- Reduced spawn rate of Liopleurodon in Aquatica[/*]
- Wild Basilosaurus will no longer get targeted by wild Megalodon[/*]
- Wild Anglers will no longer target, or be targeted by, other wild dinos[/*]
- Water Wyvern adjustments: improved nest/egg spawns, slightly increased alpha spawn chance in wyvern cave, removed Alpha Water Talon requirement from Alpha Pygocentrus
- Note: Alpha water talons will not be used for that boss anymore. It is still used for the Vulcanithys boss however.[/*]
- Dakosaurus hibernate ability now increases health regeneration[/*]
- Tiktaalik can now harvest Earthworm piles using their primary attack[/*]
- Fixed Homarus falling into the ground when killed[/*]
- Fixed Homarus not being able to breed inside water Hydrospheres[/*]
- Fixed Homarus dino dossier icon[/*]
Item/Structure Fixes
- Fixed Aquatica Helmets not appropriately showing or hiding beard hair[/*]
- Renamed the Thalassian Rocket Propelled Energy Blast to Thalassian Propelled Rocket[/*]
- Fixed Underwater Crop Plot material[/*]
- Fixed Hydrosphere bubbles having collision[/*]
- Fixed Hydrospheres interfering with placement of other structures[/*]
- Fixed the Hydrosphere unlocking during server restarts
- Note: Existing Hydrospheres will need to be relocked after the update[/*]
- Added Element as a valid fuel source for Hydrospheres[/*]
- Updated Pearl structure descriptions to better indicate they increase water pressure acclimation speed[/*]
- Fixed snapping and scaling issues with the Pearl building set[/*]
- Fixed Tek Tridents having a random chance to break when used[/*]
- Fixed Infectarium destroying water containers when crafting[/*]
- Fixed Infected Barnacle descriptions on servers[/*]
Other Fixes
- Fixed various issues in the Aquatica map; including floating foliage, lava volumes, and mesh holes.[/*]
- Removed empty news box from Main Menu[/*]
- Removed empty UI box in lower right of screen in singleplayer games[/*]
- Fixed various Aquatica UI colorization issues[/*]
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