Upcoming features

This is a list of features announced or mentioned by the developers to possibly come to ARK: Survival Evolved. Due to the shifting nature of development, there is no guarantee they'll be implemented.

Items

 * Gaslight lanterns
 * Indoor lighting
 * Some light tier between standing torch/lamppost
 * Flashlight
 * Reinforced Stone Box
 * Tek Tier
 * Cloaking Devices
 * Multi-HUD Visor (magnifying glass for the distance, maybe with more stat-infos) (somewhat added with HLN-A for Genesis)
 * Wall banners (Flags hanging from walls)

Tools

 * Shotgun beanbag ammo
 * Warhorn
 * Electrical Keyboard
 * Xylophone

Weapons

 * Knives
 * Colored Smoke Grenade
 * Disease trap
 * Tripwire doors
 * Tek Tier
 * Tracking Bullet
 * Laser Trip wire
 * EMP-weapon to disable electrical devices
 * Torpedoes

Armor / Clothing

 * Dinosaur armor
 * Dino mounted cannons for primitive
 * The ability to add armor to the Training Dummy

Structures

 * Half-walls
 * Colorization pass on older structures
 * Flipping Sloped Walls Upside Down
 * Wall mounted coel for base decoration

Consumables

 * Bread and Jam
 * Laxatives
 * Coffee

Environment

 * More underwater harvestables
 * More seeds, and making seeds only appear in certain biomes

Map

 * Additional caverns and biome development for The Center

Weather

 * Hail and other weather cycles
 * Maybe a rough sea

Game mechanics

 * Mechanized transportation system
 * Potential airships/airship bases
 * Naming items
 * Carrying weapon and torch together
 * Tribe-leveling
 * Alliance rankings/privileges
 * Localized injuries and bleeding (and bandages)
 * Hold breath while in scope function
 * Ability to stop babies from growing(Tek Tier)
 * Craft from remote-inventories (i.e. using resources of a storagebox directly instead of transfer them first)
 * Auto Flight/Run key
 * More creature tracking options

Behavior

 * Carnivores more active at dusk and dawn
 * A fix to Pteranodon's spazzy nature
 * The Carbonemys will have the ability to retract into their shells
 * Possible sibling boost
 * Alarm Trap can cycle aggression on nearby dinos
 * Possible breeding stat
 * Dino support of arbitrary gear

Scope

 * Roaring feature for all dinosaurs
 * Sound pass

Appearance

 * Footprints
 * Different sounds for walking on different surfaces

Creatures
For specific creatures see the section of Unreleased Creatures at the Dossiers.


 * Alpha herbivores

UI

 * Improved server browser
 * Separate use key while mounted

Other

 * ARK: Primal Survival
 * Disc Edition available after release