Information
Who are we?
As a group of dedicated, year long unofficial ARK players we found ourselves bored and tired of existing ARK clusters that either made the game way too easy or just didn't hit the right spot for our taste. With Avalanche, launched in December 2019, we are trying to find the balance between keeping ARK challenging and at the same time, make it less grindy or frustrating than the official or unmodded servers. While we include Quality of Life (QoL) mods like Super Structures and Kraken's Better dinos in our setup, we still try to balance them by limiting or removing completely automated features like Nanny, Mutator mutation pulses and the like.
Our rule set and philosophy points in one direction: Play the game to achieve whatever your goal is. While some players initially dislike the idea of having to work for their own success, most of them turn around at some point telling us it is their best ARK experience they have ever had and that earning their own progress made the game so much more fun than just buying things cheap or getting carried for free and ending up bored of the game with nothing to do a week later. Many players on our cluster have been around for several months and are still finding something to do.
Our friendly and mature community is active, helpful and will welcome you if you're up for the challenge on Avalanche.
– Avalanche Staff team
INFO
gENERAL aSSISTANCE
Hardware
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
- 128GB RAM
- 2x 2TB NVMe SSDs in RAID0
- 1 GB/s Internet Connection
Tribe Limits
- Max 10000 Structures
- Max 16 Tribe Members
Discord
https://avalanche-ark.com/discord
Website
https://avalanche-ark.com
Made by VA
Development by VA
You can quickly connect using the Join button on our Servers page, but if you're having trouble with those, here's the steps to favorite our servers!
Follow the steps one-by-one to quickly connect, if you have issues, you can make a ticket on our Discord and we'll help you out!
Step 1. Subscribe to all of our Mods, you can do that above or here once you've downloaded and installed all the mods (look bottom right of ARK's main menu screen)
Step 2. Find the Map you want to connect to and copy the IP
Island – 65.21.92.240:27015
Ragnarok – 65.21.92.240:27017
Extinction – 65.21.92.240:27019
Aberration – 65.21.92.240:27021
Genesis – 65.21.92.240:27023
Genesis 2 – 65.21.92.240:27025
Center – 65.21.92.240:27027
Crystal Isles – 65.21.92.240:27029
Scorched Earth – 65.21.92.240:27031
Valguero – 65.21.92.240:27033
Step 3. Open Steam and click on "View" in the top left, from the dropdown click "Servers"
Step 4. From the pop-up window, go into the "FAVORITES" Tab and click "Add A Server"
Step 5. In the new window, paste the Server IP and click "Add this address to favorites"
Step 6. On ARK's servers list, click sort by in the bottom left and select "Favorites"
Getting Linked to Discord is really quick and easy!
It gives you access to things like in-game chat, giveaways and suggestions! And if you're a donator, it'll show your chosen role color in-game!
To get linked follow these 4 steps!
Step 1. Join one of our servers
Step 2. Open the in-game chat and type:
/setdiscord <username-tag>
Example: /setdiscord KuroNekoshi#0001
Step 3. You will now receive a code from our Avalanche Gaming Bot, copy that code!.
Step 4. Open the in-game chat again and type:
/setdiscord <code>
Example: /setdiscord 1234
Congratulations! You're now linked, so you can enjoy chatting to people from Discord, participate in giveaways or suggest new mods and features to us!
Support
To make a ticket, follow these simple steps!
Step 1. Join our Discord
Step 2. Head to the channel "🆘｜support"
Step 3. React to the message
Your ticket will now pop up at the bottom of the Discord!
If you lost items after transferring before the server crashed
DO NOT TRANSFER TO OTHER MAPS!
Make a ticket, these tickets immediately go to high priorty and we'll assist you, simply provide us with the following information:
Server you transferred from:
Server you transferred to:
Steam Name:
If you lost your items after getting kicked during a transfer
Type "/download", in the in-game chat then your items should come right back to you!
Voting
To vote for our server go to these 3 links:
Once there, simply sign in with steam and you're done!
Vote Rewards will be available a few minutes after voting.
Vote Rewards and Claiming
You'll be rewarded with Points for voting!
To claim these, just wait a few minutes after voting, then type "/claim" in in-game chat
Extra Vote Rewards
Soon you'll also be able to get Extra Vote Rewards which gives you bigger rewards such as:
Recolors, Imprints, Growths, Dinos, Dino Respecs.
As you reach voting Milestones
Map Specific
The following dinos are disabled on Aberration
- Any Flyer
- Managarmrs (Tek included)
- KBD Unicorn (Flying)
- Gasbags
- Blood Stalkers
- Shadowmanes
The following dinos are disabled on Genesis
- Any Flyer
- Rock Drakes
- Managarmrs (Tek included)
- KBD Unicorn (Flying)
Disabled features/Dinos
Gachas are disabled for the following reason:
We have found many people surprised by that but I know of nobody who has left because of it.
Many players agree that Gachas make the game an "Idle-while-Gachas-do-the-work-simulator". Considering that we've got x2.5 harvest and custom loot tables, not having Gachas enabled is keeping players more active and interested in playing the game without making it too grindy.
It gives resources a proper trade value and gives many dinos their purpose back, like Ankies.
These Dinos are Blacklisted from the Mutator.
- Rock Drakes
- Griffins
- Mek
- Astrocetus
- Magmasaur
- Ferox
- Megachelon
- Titanosaur
- Zombie Wyverns
These Pulses are Disabled on the Mutator.
- Mutation Pulse
- Corruption Pulse
- Age Freeze
- Aberrant
- X-Mutation
These Engrams or Features are Disabled from Super Structures.
Engrams
- Rocket Turret
- Charge Station
- Charge Injector
- Ballista Turret
- Cannon Turret
- Flame Turret
- Minigun Turret
- Tranq Turret
- Converter
- Planetary Shield
- Element Catalyzer
- Crystal Cracker
- Gacha Gavager
- Item Translocator
- Blueprint Maker
- Ocean Foundations
- Nanny
- Plant Species X
Features
- Tek Generator on Platforms
- Teleporters on Platforms
- Shields on Platforms
- Turrets on Platforms
- Vivarium on Platforms
- Vacuum Compartments outside Water
- Transmitter Dino Scan
These features from Krakens Better Dinos are disabled.
- Corrupted Rock Drake Egg Laying
- Corrupted Wyvern Egg Laying
- Luck Potion
- Shark Repellant
- Valyrian Reins Engram (drops from Loot Crates, Wyverns, Rock Drakes)
- Swine Flesh
- Reindeer Gift Poop
- Tamed Wyvern Milk
- Corrupt Costume Buff
- Candy
These dinos/buffs from Krakens Better Dinos are disabled.
- Phiomia
- Cnidaria
- Meganeura
- Basiliosaurus
- Coels
- Titanoboa
- Leech
- Lamprey
- Pulmonoscorpius
- Piranha
- Mek
- Eurypterid
- Ferox Stashing
- Megalosaurus Daytime Buff
- Deinonychus level buff
These features are Disabled from the Mods.
HG Stacks 5000
- Travel Element Shard
- Travel Element
Awesome Spyglass
- Outline
- Crate Targeting
Mods and Staff
Mods
STAFF TEAM
Admins
Liam
Arca
Phixel
dEVELOPERS
va
Moderators
Hollie
tHEOTHRASTUS
Matthew
Killumin471
