the four things people get wrong, in the order they bite
Population beats promises
A server advertising 100 slots with two people on it is a server that will be gone in a month, and your base with it. Sort by players and look at what is full on a weekday evening in your own timezone — this list is live, so that number is real.
Rates decide what you play, not how fast
x1–x5 is a game about logistics and breeding lines. x25 and up is a game about bosses and PvP, where a tame is an afternoon rather than a week. Neither is better; picking the wrong one is why people quit a server in three days.
A cluster is worth more than a map
Clustered servers let you take creatures between maps through an obelisk. One map on its own caps what you can breed and which bosses you can fight, so a cluster is usually worth more than a higher rate.
Check the mods before the wipe schedule
A heavy overhaul — Primal Fear, Omega, Eternal — changes every stat, tame and drop on the server, so base-game numbers stop applying. Filter for the overhaul you want to play, then read its own pages here before you join.
ASA server data from Wildcard's own published server list; ASE from Steam's master
server list. Both cached for one minute. Mod names from CurseForge. Not affiliated
with any server listed. Playing on an overhaul? The Modded ARK
section has its creatures, tiers and multipliers.
ASE.GG · server browser
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