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As an uncompromising survival game, ARK: Survival Ascended shines most when you play with a friend or seven in a tribe. But for that, you’ll need to discover whether ARK: Survival Ascended has dedicated servers, and we have the answer!

Will ARK: Survival Ascended Have Dedicated Servers?

In the previous game, ARK: Survival Evolved, playing on a community server instead of an official was commonplace. More often than not, official servers were rife with cheating, glitching, and item duping, which often led to frequent resets. But a community-run server often had a tough-as-nails admin to keep players in line. So, will ARK: Survival Ascended have the same setup?

Yes! Developer Studio Wildcard has once more partnered with game server host Nitrado to offer…

ARK: Survival Ascended has officially been released, but before you can get lost in The Island, you’ll need to join or create a server. If all the official servers are full or you don’t feel like joining a bunch of strangers, here’s how to create a private one.

Studio Wildcard, the people behind ARK, are in an exclusivity contract with Nitrado, a server hosting service. That means the only way to create a private, non-dedicated service in ARK: Survival Ascended is through them. Does that mean you can’t self-host in any other way using your own hardware? Let’s explore how all server types can be created in ARK: Survival Ascended.

All ARK: Survival Ascended Server Types

These are all the server types you can play in ARK: Survival Ascended:

• Single-Player…

To play Ark Survival Ascended with your friends, you need some kind of server. One option is a dedicated server.

In this guide, I’m going to tell you how to create a server in Ark Survival Ascended and let you know which server type you need based on what you want to do.

Related: Does Ark Survival Ascended have cross-play and cross-progression?

Ark Survival Ascended: How to create a dedicated server

I’ll explain all the servers, their differences, and how to make them later in this article, but if you want the quick answer, you make a dedicated server by buying one from Nitrado, the official place for Ark Survival Ascended hosting.

There are several different options when it comes to buying a dedicated Ark Survival Ascended server. You can pay a subscription or buy a prepaid…

Ark: Survival Evolved‘s official servers will switch off later today, at midnight UTC on September 30th (1am BST October 1st). The closure is part of paving the way for the piecemeal remake Ark: Survival Ascended, which will release in Steam Early Access in October.

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Ark Survival is one of those survival-oriented games that is actually fun. You can enjoy the biomes and all the magnificent creatures that the game has to offer without stressing out about grinding for stats or items. These factors have made the game incredibly popular, and it has been going strong since its release in 2015. Now, you know how you can host your own dedicated servers, right? A lot of players do so, and since you clicked on this article, we are assuming that you host your own server as well and are in fact looking for a way to change the server map. Well, your search for answers is over because, in this article, we will share the details to do the same.

Hosting, if you didn’t know, is when you create your own private server in the game. This way, you can enjoy the game…