ARK: Survival Ascended Adds Concavenator, a Pack-Hunting Desert Acrobat

What's arriving

The Concavenator — originally created by modder Garuga123 for the ARK: Additions project — is joining ARK: Survival Ascended as an official creature. It is one in a series of fan-favorite additions being folded into the base game.

The creature is framed as a desert specialist with a notably agile profile:

• Moves across sand dunes at high speed, described as "swimming" through them
• Capable of launching itself airborne in aerial maneuvers to close on prey
• Operates in coordinated packs, circling targets and generating obscuring sand clouds to disorient them
• Presented as a finesse-oriented creature rather than a raw-strength one

Solo, the Concavenator is described as elusive; in groups, it becomes a more serious threat through positioning and environmental disruption.

The announcement also briefly highlights the game's cross-platform mod browser, which surfaces player-created maps, creatures, items, and game modes. Several specific community mods are named in the source as featured content, though no details about them are provided beyond their titles and authors.

The Concavenator arrives August 26th — a concrete date for players planning around desert-biome content.