Fear Ascended has arrived in Ark Survival Ascended on October 29 across PC and consoles. The seasonal Halloween event flips the biomes’ spooky side up with a pile of ghost dinos, costumes, event-only items, and quality-of-life fixes for servers and clients. The event runs from 10/29/2025 to 11/12/2025. Event rates differ by server type: standard PVP/PVE get 2x harvesting, taming, experience, and breeding. Small Tribes and ARKpocalypse modes get boosted multipliers up to 5x for specific rates. New ghost variants and dozens of seasonal skins and chibis spawn on their native maps while the event is active.
How to enable Fear Ascended on single-player and private servers
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- From the main menu open the Mod tab and search for Fear Ascended (Mod ID: 877752), then install and activate it from Mod Settings.
- For private servers add the mod ID to server launch arguments (-mods=877752), no other changes are required.
We covered earlier bug-fix and tweak work in a prior patch; see the 1.069.004 bug-fix update for recent stability notes.
Patch Notes – 1.074.003
v74.5 6 (PS5 v74.3) 6 Major version for Servers and Clients 6 10/29/2025
Fear Ascended is now live!
Fear Ascended Gameplay Changes
- New Event-Only Weapon: “Ecto Lantern” available to craft in the Smithy, used to help weaken wild Ghost creatures
- Wild Ghost creatures have increased damage and resistance
- Wild Ghost creatures no longer directly drop their costume when killed
- Instead, they now drop Ectoplasm, which can be used to craft their costume in the Smithy
- TMNT Mousers have been spotted across the ARKs; defeating them yields Mutagen Ooze, a new resource needed to craft event cosmetics
New Wild Ghost Creatures:
- Ghost Cat
- Ghost Gigantoraptor
- Ghost Ankylosaurus
- Ghost Ceratosaurus
- Ghost Angler
- Ghost Veilwyn
- Ghost Drakeling
- Ghost Yi Ling
- Ghost Argentavis
- Ghost Spinosaurus
- Ghost Megalodon
- Ghost Otter
- Ghost Deinonychus
- Ghost Snow Owl
Valguero
- Added Tusoteuthis, Mosasaurus, and Dunkleosteus spawns
- Added Aberrant creature spawns in red zone cave
- Fixed not being able to place Gas Collector on some gas veins in multiplayer
- Fixed some floating rocks
- Adjusted the poison damage inside the Spider cave to act as it did in ASE
- Changed the Megaraptor’s “Isolated” check to only consider Wild enemies of the same species
Ragnarok
- Fixed a missing rock material
Elderclaw
- Fixed body not dissolving gradually when harvested
- Fixed the glow remaining on Crop Plot after harvesting
- Fixed the overlay color around player/dino reverting back to blue once totem disappears
Template Hammer
- Added “Edit” function to change the info of saved templates
- Fixed “select all” not selecting some building pieces
- Fixed Tek Bridge not working with templates
- Fixed not being able to use template of ceilings to snap to walls or pillars
- Fixed sometimes not seeing other player’s placed templates
- Fixed selecting pillars being difficult
- Fixed the preview image for “Anniversary Cake”
- Fixed placed structures sometimes having shorter decay timer
- Improved the time it takes skins to load in the skin tab
- Fixed sometimes Custom Cosmetics skins not loading in the completed skins tab
- Fixed completed template not skinning with custom cosmetics on server
- Fixed preview image of “Artifact Pedestal” not showing in template
- Fixed sideways pillars building beyond normal limit
- Fixed an intermittent crash when placing a template
Club Ark
- Added description to “Fear Wave” club ark mission
- Fixed missing ground geo when teleporting to “Fear Wave” mission
General Fixes
- Added an option in Single-player to destroy wild dinos while loading into a Single-player save
- Fixed Midas touch skill sometimes not receiving extra resources
- Fixed a flicker with Hazard Helmet after opening container on low settings
- Fixed Tek Giga’s feet disconnecting visually from body when defecating
- Fixed the client auto rejoining server after leaving when invited by another client
- Fixed Deinonychus’ Latch Buff remaining on mount after killing a latched Deinonychus
- Fixed dynamic downloads not displaying correctly after user rejoins a server
- Fixed Deinonychus’ missing texture on its quills
- Fixed Virtual Cursor disappearing when using Start/Options gamepad button to go to tribe tab
- Fixed gamepad’s D-Pad navigation skips over crafting menu in inventory
- Fixed Speedy Harvester Skill’s speed buff not applying correctly on servers
- Fixed DefeatBoss command not giving related tekgrams
- Fixed Tek Bunker’s placement preview destroying harvestable foliage in Single-player
- Fixed an exploit
- Fixed a crash
Astraeos Official Release v0.0.9
Changes
- Switched out the landscape material for performance improvement and preparation for the desert area
- Switched out rock material
- Increased Ammonite spawn in ocean deepwater
Fixes
- Fixed mesh holes
- Fixed stair walking glitches
- Fixed water creatures getting killed when being close to a buildable underwater clam
With a patch this big, expect Studio Wildcard to release follow-up fixes. If the idea of ghost Argentavis, a Skeletal Giga, or a Zomdodo sounds like a good time, dive in. If not, maybe avoid the red zones for a couple of weeks.
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