Ascended Utility

Warning: This mod is still in development. Use it at your own risk.

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The next major update can be expected in late October/early November 2026.

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Ascended Utility adds building pieces and quality-of-life structures that ARK is missing. Everything is unlocked through normal engrams and can be crafted in your inventory, at the Smithy and at the Tek Replicator. All items are marked "AU:" and carry an AU badge on their icon, so they never get mixed up with vanilla pieces.

🪟 Glass Metal set — the greenhouse, but crystal-clear

A complete metal-framed glass set with truly transparent glass instead of the milky greenhouse glass, as durable as metal (only explosives hurt it) and with the full greenhouse effect for your crop plots.

• AU: Glass Metal Wall & Doorways — wall, doorway, short doorway, double doorway
• AU: Glass Metal Ceiling
• AU: Glass Metal Doors & Windows — door, short door, double door, window, trapdoor
• AU: Glass Metal Roof
• AU: Glass Metal Sloped Wall — left / right, normal and inverted
• AU: Glass Metal Triangle Ceiling
• AU: Glass Metal Triangle Roof & Corner — triangle roof (normal / inverted) and all four roof corners

🔭 Observation set — slim frames, one big clear pane

Hand-modelled pieces with a slim metal frame and a single uninterrupted pane — for panoramic windows, aquariums and sky lounges. Metal durability and greenhouse effect included.

• AU: Observation Wall and AU: Large Observation Wall (3 m × 12 m, one pane over four wall heights)
• AU: Observation Ceiling and AU: Large Observation Ceiling (12 m × 12 m, one pane over 4 × 4 ceiling tiles)
• AU: Observation Doorways — doorway, short doorway, double doorway
• AU: Observation Doors & Windows — door, short door, double door, window, trapdoor
• AU: Observation Roof, AU: Observation Sloped Wall, AU: Observation Triangle Ceiling, AU: Observation Triangle Roof & Corner

🔥 AU: Olympian Brazier

A monumental fire bowl in Greek style — dark marble, a golden meander band, a laurel wreath and four eagles carrying the bowl. One foundation wide and man-high. Light it with wood like a campfire and watch the towering flames; it warms like a fireplace but is purely decorative — no cooking.

⚙️ Utility structures

• AU: Small / Medium / Large Elevator Platform — identical to the metal elevator platforms, but with practically unlimited carry weight (1,000,000,000).
• AU: Tek Forcefield — up in 0.5 seconds instead of 5 minutes, maximum radius ×20, runs on Tek Generator power or Element, and is a normal learnable engram (no Tekgram).
• AU: Tek Jump Pad — same as vanilla, up to 10× launch force.
• AU: Player Anchor — keeps the area around it alive as if a player were standing there: tamed creatures within about 300 m stay out of stasis and keep producing, even on dedicated servers. A diamond on top shows the status (green = keeping a creature awake, yellow = active but no tame in range, red = problem), and kept creatures get a diamond symbol at their name.

💎 AU: Transferable Element

Crafted from Element at the Tek Replicator (unlockable engram). Works exactly like Element in Tek recipes, the Tek Generator, Tek Replicator, Tek Forcefield and Tek armor — but it can be uploaded for cross-ARK transfers.

Singleplayer and dedicated servers are supported.

Compatibility: PC