Ragnarok (2024)

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

Overview

Ragnarok was released on June 12, 2017 for the PC, Mac and Linux version of ARK, and for consoles on August 29, 2017.^[1] 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.

The Norse Map

New Creatures

Ragnarok adds several new creatures, such as the Ice Wyvern, Iceworm Male, Dire Polar Bear, and Griffin, as well as 4 new dungeon bosses: the Spirit Dire Bear and Spirit Direwolf, the Iceworm Queen and the Lava Elemental. 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 Megalania and Ovis (creatures that are harder to find on other maps). On Ragnarok there are unique Beaver Dams; they are bigger and look more like beaver dams in real life. Beavers can live in the Dams, too.

Creatures tamed and items received on official Ragnarok servers can be brought to the vanilla map The Island,^[2] except Polar Bears.

Unique Environmental Features.

• An active volcano that will erupt creating lava flows and cause meteors to rain down.
• Basilosaurus corpses scattered along the beaches.
• Boxes scattered around the beaches that can be broken to get equipment.
• 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 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

Approximate Spawn Locations

Data Maps

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  Strategic Resources

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  Exploring the map

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  Creature Spawns

Creatures

Unique Creatures

• Dire Polar Bear
• Griffin
• Ice Wyvern
• Iceworm Male
• Iceworm Queen
• Lava Elemental
• Spirit Direwolf
• Spirit Dire Bear

Other Spawns

• Achatina
• Allosaurus
• Alpha Carnotaurus
• Alpha Fire Wyvern
• Alpha Megalodon
• Alpha Mosasaur
• Alpha Raptor
• Alpha T-Rex
• Alpha Tusoteuthis
• Ammonite
• Angler
• Ankylosaurus
• Araneo
• Archaeopteryx
• Argentavis
• Arthropluera
• Baryonyx
• Basilosaurus
• Beelzebufo
• Brontosaurus
• Carbonemys
• Carcharodontosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Castoroides
• Chalicotherium
• Cnidaria
• Coelacanth
• Compy
• Daeodon
• Deathworm
• Dilophosaur
• Dimetrodon
• Dimorphodon
• Diplocaulus
• Diplodocus
• Dire Bear
• Direwolf
• Dodo
• Doedicurus
• Dragon
• Dung Beetle
• Dunkleosteus
• Electrophorus
• Equus
• Eurypterid
• Fire Wyvern
• Gallimimus
• Giant Bee
• Giganotosaurus
• Gigantopithecus
• Hesperornis
• Hyaenodon
• Ichthyornis
• Ichthyosaurus
• Iguanodon
• Jerboa
• Jug Bug
• Kairuku
• Kaprosuchus
• Kentrosaurus
• Leech
• Lightning Wyvern
• Liopleurodon
• Lymantria
• Lystrosaurus
• Mammoth
• Manta
• Manticore
• Mantis
• Megalania
• Megaloceros
• Megalodon
• Megalosaurus
• Meganeura
• Megatherium
• Mesopithecus
• Microraptor
• Morellatops
• Mosasaurus
• Moschops
• Onyc
• Otter
• Oviraptor
• Ovis
• Pachy
• Pachyrhinosaurus
• Paraceratherium
• Parasaur
• Pegomastax
• Pelagornis
• Phiomia
• Piranha
• Plesiosaur
• Poison Wyvern
• Procoptodon
• Pteranodon
• Pulmonoscorpius
• Purlovia
• Quetzal
• Raptor
• Rex
• Rock Elemental
• Sabertooth
• Sabertooth Salmon
• Sarco
• Spino
• Stegosaurus
• Tapejara
• Tek Parasaur
• Tek Quetzal
• Tek Raptor
• Tek Rex
• Tek Stegosaurus
• Terror Bird
• Therizinosaur
• Thorny Dragon
• Thylacoleo
• Titanoboa
• Titanomyrma
• Titanosaur
• Triceratops
• Trilobite
• Troodon
• Tusoteuthis
• Unicorn
• Vulture
• Woolly Rhino
• Yutyrannus

In other words, all creatures from The Island and Scorched Earth can be found somewhere on the map, except the Leedsichthys, the Alpha Leedsichthys, the Polar Bear (in the Snow Cave, Ragnarok has its own Dire Polar Bear), the Polar Purlovia, the Yeti, the Phoenix, the Rubble Golem, the Alpha Deathworm, the Attack Drone, the Defense Unit, the Broodmother Lysrix, the Megapithecus, and the Overseer.

Event Creatures

Creatures that only spawned during an Event:

• Bone Fire Wyvern
• Bunny Dodo
• Bunny Oviraptor
• Direwolf Ghost
• GachaClaus
• Mantis Ghost
• Party Dodo
• Rex Ghost
• Skeletal Bronto
• Skeletal Carnotaurus
• Skeletal Giganotosaurus
• Skeletal Jerboa
• Skeletal Quetzal
• Skeletal Raptor
• Skeletal Rex
• Skeletal Stego
• Skeletal Trike
• Super Turkey
• Zombie Wyvern

Items

All items from the base game, and most items from Scorched Earth (not all Tekgrams) are unlockable on Ragnarok.

Consumables

• Wyvern Egg (Ice)

Weapons and Armor

• Tek Shield
• Tek Sword

Structures

• Tek Light

Artifacts

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  Brute

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  Clever

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  Cunning

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  Devious

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  Devourer

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  Hunter

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  Immune

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  Massive

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  Pack

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  Skylord

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  Strong

Spotlight

Notes/Trivia

• The map was never truly completed, remaining at about 98-99% complete. Most ambient sounds are missing, the reef biome offshore of the Deathsands remains barren, buggy and nearly uninhabitable due to lack of life and resources, and several other issues that affect the world. There seems to be no current effort to complete it.
• 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 Lava Elemental dermis will show a rock elemental instead, the Iceworm Queen will show a deathworm, and both the Spirit Direbear and Spirit Direwolf will show their normal counterparts.
• A unique harvestable resource in Ragnarok are the beached Basilosaurus, found in the Highlands on beaches. They yield Spoiled Meat, Hide, Keratin and a little bit of Oil.
• 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 and Genesis: Part 2 maps are bigger.
• 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 Ice Wyvern was remodeled and was now uploadable.
• There is a total of 183 regions on Ragnarok
• Despite being younger than the center, Ragnarok is the only mod map available on the Nintendo switch.

Original Creator Team

• Excited_Kangaroo
• Jackson_Lawrence
• Matt and Earthmark ^[3]

Changelog

Patch	ARK: Survival Evolved Changes
258.8	Added new Expansion ARK support, Ragnarok.
258.81	Fixed Ragnarok spawn counts being too low.
258.86	Fixed Ragnarok not loading on Mac & Linux platforms.
262.0	Ragnarok singleplayer data has moved to SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal.
262.12	Fixed an issue where clients would crash when joining Ragnarok map.
264.0	Ragnarok update.
265.0	1/4 sized Ragnarok map update (the "Southwest Update").
265.3	Ragnarok map fixes and addition of dual boss arena.
265.284	Ragnarok map fixes.
266.0	Ragnarok Hotfixes.
272.0	Big Ragnarok update: 20% more map area, various changes and fixes.
272.1	Fixed an issue where old Ragnarok Landscape sublevel randomly wasn't getting properly deleted when updating the build on some servers & clients.
273.2	Optimized spatial partition logic for large-worlds (i.e. Ragnarok) to boost server performance.
275.31	Fixed case where Ragnarok Endboss sometimes wouldn't appear on clients.
276.0	Added Ragnarok 99%-complete expansion.
276.11	Updated Ragnarok with several over-spawn and level-of-detail fixes.
276.12	Fixed Landscape collision issue on Ragnarok.
276.21	Fixed Ragnarok over-spawner issue and trigger issues.
276.48	Fixed disconnect issue on Ragnarok.
277.0	Updated Ragnarok with various fixes and tweaks.
279.22	Ragnarok update Streaming bounds fix to help with memory. Fixed multiple holes, bugged beacons, and floating foliage. Better lighting around LL dungeon.
280.114	Ragnarok optimizations.
283.101	Hole fixes on Ragnarok.
295.102	Hole fixes across Ragnarok.
300.1	Fixed overspawn on Ragnarok.
343.7	Fixed an issue that required players to install The Center DLC to play on Ragnarok.
343.12	Fixed issue with Epic Games players not being able to start Ragnarok in singleplayer.

Gallery

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  A part of Ragnarok's desert

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  Custom Map by PiTi (a-calc.de)

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  In Ragnarok you can find a chest

External links

• Ragnarok - ARK Expansion Map on Steam
• Ragnarok - ARK Expansion Map on Epic Games

References

v e h Official DLCs
Only the official DLCs are listed here. For various mods, see Mods.
Base Game Map	The Island
Expansion Packs	Scorched Earth • Aberration • Extinction • Genesis: Part 1 • Genesis: Part 2
Expansion Maps	The Center • Ragnarok • Valguero • Crystal Isles • Lost Island • Fjordur
Total Conversions	Primal Survival • Primitive Plus • Survival of the Fittest Super Steamboat Willie
Adventure Packs	Frontier Adventure Pack

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