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Progression Mode

Ark Survival Evolved ASE

Progression Mode is our unique take on Ark Survival Evolved — you start naked and afraid, conquer the Arks in order, and ascend to godhood. Earn a permanent place in our Hall of Fame and the lifetime Ultimate Ascender role.

How Progression works

Progression is completely optional — you must opt in. Once you’re in, you’re locked to maps in pairs until you beat the boss of that pair. You start on The Island + The Center, and the Alpha Overseer unlocks the next pair.

  • In-game and Discord name highlighting shows your progression status.
  • Prestigious stage trackers in Discord, plus an exclusive name + tag for completing all maps in progression.
  • You can leave progression at any time — but if you later want back in, your profile will be wiped to keep progression fair.
  • Maps complete in pairs; one map of each pair carries the next stage’s reward.

The map order

  1. Stage 1 — The Center + The Island
  2. Stage 2 — Ragnarok + Scorched Earth
  3. Stage 3 — Valguero + Aberration
  4. Stage 4 — Crystal Isles + Extinction
  5. Stage 5 — Lost Island + Genesis One
  6. Stage 6 — Fjordur + Genesis Two

Getting started

  1. Link your Steam account to our cluster via the link ark feature in #link-ark.
  2. Open a ticket in #make-a-ticket to request enrolment. We’ll check eligibility and help you begin.

Do this as soon as you roll the character. If you’ve already wandered around the cluster, we may need to wipe to enrol you.

Progression-only rules

On top of the normal cluster rules:

  • No tribing with non-prog players until you’ve unlocked the final arc (Gen 2).
  • Trading is allowed, but items and dinos must originate from maps you’ve already unlocked. You can’t accept an Aberration dino until you’ve personally unlocked Aberration. Same goes for free-map items — and the Fair Gifting rule still applies.
  • You can team up with non-prog players to fight a boss, but all prep work (breeding, crafting, resource gathering) has to be done on maps you’re allowed on.
  • You can opt out at any time by opening a ticket — you keep your items and progress. Opting back in later means starting fresh.
  • We can and will remove progression access if we find exploits or cheating.

Joining criteria

For an existing survivor to join progression without being wiped:

  1. Your survivor must have been made on The Island or The Center and must not have visited any other map.
  2. Low level — hard limit at level 20 in theory; we’re flexible case-by-case if you haven’t wandered off the start maps.
  3. Steam must be linked to our cluster via link ark in #link-ark.

If you progress through an ascension stage and the role or Hall-of-Fame ping doesn’t land, let us know — some maps are iffy about tracking the kill, and we can fix it quickly.

Rewards

Anyone who completes Progression Mode earns:

  • The Ultimate Ascender Discord role for the achievement.
  • A Hall of Fame role on the sidebar.
  • 20 MG Tokens.
  • One shiny creature of your choice — see the Stats page for the format and options.

Retroactive: this also applies to members who achieved Ultimate Ascender in the past.

Buffer-overflow workaround (temporary)

We’ve removed most item-related buffer overflows, but for other types you need to be on the preaquatica Steam branch in the meantime.

How to switch: right-click ASE in Steam → Properties → Betas → Beta Participation dropdown → pick preaquatica. Steam will download a small update and you’ll be able to join our cluster.