Lumina Awakens! ✨

[StudioWildcard]

 

 

Today’s Major Version update is scheduled to deploy at approximately 2:00 PM Pacific, bringing a new wave of post-Genesis launch fixes alongside the arrival of Dragontopia’s newest tameable dragon.

The shadow meets its light. Lumina awakens in Dragontopia! Taking flight as Umbra’s radiant counterpart and bringing a brilliant new force to the skies! With celestial power at her command and a bond that burns brightest beside her shadowed kin, Lumina adds a new layer of speed, strategy, and spectacle to the battle above the clouds! 

The full patch notes are available below, covering gameplay fixes, stability improvements, bug fixes, and post-launch adjustments following the release of Genesis Ascended Part 1 and ARK: Tides of Fortune.

 

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Major version of Servers and Clients

DLC: Dragontopia Day One Content Update

• New Tameable Dragon
  • Lumina
    • The shadow meets its light. Lumina awakens in Dragontopia.
       
• Umbra / Dragontopia Fixes
  • Fixed several issues on Umbra’s Dragonhorn
  • Fixed cases where Umbra’s AI struggled to hit its target
  • Fixed an issue that caused Umbra to use abilities when using the Spyglass/Tek Binoculars while mounted
  • Fixed several Gamepad issues with Umbra
  • Fixed Umbra’s Gamepad Sprint control on the HUD
  • Fixed Umbra appearing too low when displayed in a Display Case
  • Fixed Deep Diver milestone not progressing with Umbra
  • Fixed mindwipe not refunding Dragon Skill Points invested
  • Fixed Tracked Dragontopia Milestones all disappearing after completing one of them

 

General Fixes

• Fixed inability to craft Cryopods/Cryofridges in Genesis Mission Terminals
• Fixed creatures getting stuck in Cryopods after starting the Gauntlet missions
• Fixed rain on the Genesis Ocean biome not refilling water stat or containers
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause foliage interaction not to work correctly on Genesis
• Fixed inaccuracies of player location on the Genesis Map
• Fixed an issue on Xbox where audio could be lost
• Fixed an entitlement issue with paid Cosmetics
• Fixed some missing Mission icons in the Mission UI
• Adjusted various Genesis Outpost mission text
• Fixed issues with HLNA’s Ocean Teleports: NE, N, E, W teleporting to the same island
• Fixed some localization issues with HLNA’s reactions
• Added some missing HLNA sound cues
• Adjusted some of Tides of Fortune’s Skill descriptions to be clearer
• Adjusted scatter limits on dreadlocks hairstyle to make dye colors truer on dark hair
• Increased Hand Cannon’s damage by 300%
• Fixed Hand Cannon having no water interaction when hitting a water surface
• Adjusted Grapeshot ammo crafting requirements to be more reasonable
• Fixed Corrosive Ship Cannonball not having an icon/name/description
• Improved Bounty Board’s map-specific creature whitelisting/blacklisting
• Fixed Treasure Map Bottles being lumped with generic loot crates when using the Treasure Hunter skill
• Prevented Bio-Grinder from working on mission creatures
• Prevented Wisp of Industry skill being activated while seated
• Fixed not being able to equip the Shovel when owning Tides of Fortune
• Added the Tek Bunker to the Tek Replicator’s inventory
• Megachelon Shell can now be grinded for Chitin
• Fixed Astrocetus not force-landing when flying above the Lost King’s city in Lost Colony
• Palaeoctopus
  • Improved Palaeoctopus attacks on low-performing servers
  • Increased melee swing radius on Palaeoctopus swipe attacks
  • Fixed an issue where Palaeoctopus would have weird targeting after being unclaimed
• Bloodstalker
  • Fixed Bloodstalker not being cloneable
  • Fixed issue where Bloodstalker would correct its climbing location due to the climbing location being stuck inside terrain
  • Adjusted Gamepad controls for Bloodstalker's Submerge ability from LB + L3 → LB + RT
    • More comfortable control to press, and no longer toggles voice as it did in ASE.
• Tidepup
  • Fixed Tidepup not retaining XP once evolving
  • Fixed missing "Ready To Evolve" VFX on Tidepup if it was activated on your shoulder in first-person view
  • Fixed shoulder-mounted dino HUD elements overlapping with shoulder-mounted Tidepup
• Genesis untameable ocean dino spawners will now not spawn close to shores or in playable underwater areas
• Untameable wild creatures are now named “Feral” instead of “Wild” on their floating name
• Fixed enemies sometimes spawning clipping the mesh during The Final Test Boss
• Hover Skiff
  • Fixed Hover Skiff’s ramp having no damage overlay
  • Fixed Hover Skiff damage overlay not displaying correctly
  • Fixed being unable to build on Hover Skiff sometimes
  • Fixed Hoverskiff not having a destructible mesh when destroyed
• Fixed Ammo Box looking filled visually in some languages
• Fixed Hammock Skin being automatically awarded on Tides of Fortune ownership
• Fixed an issue with orbit cam rotation when tapping on the Aquarium structure
• Revised settings for Aquarium SFX
• Skill Tree Menu hotbar highlight will now appear in the appropriate color for that Skill Tree when dragging an active skill
• Fixed issues where Lost Colony Activatable skills would cause ghost items to fill the player inventory
• Fixed several exploits
• Fixed several crashes

Ship Fixes

• Optimized & improved ship physics
• Improved ship buoyancy
• Reduced Sloop’s max speed and steering forced by approximately 10%
• Fixed Shipyard not correctly checking for obstruction when placing
• Fixed an issue that could cause a docked ship to be destroyed too easily from the Shipyard
• Fixed an issue with the Shipyard where ships could teleport to previous dock teleport location when launching
• Fixed custom keybindings preventing Ship functionality
• Fixed Steam gamepad controls not working with custom KBM keybindings
• Fixed Ship Skill: Smokescreen not working against Outpost NPC Pirate Ships
• Fixed NPC Pirate Ship’s inventory being accessible
• Fixed an issue that caused newly crafted ships to not auto-collect floating cargo
• Fixed ships crafted at Shipyard anchored visually and don't unanchor after moving on Singleplayer
• Fixed desync that could occur while piloting a ship
• Fixed a rare issue that caused structures to appear invisible on ships
• Fixed an issue that could prevent snapping structures on top of each other on a ship
• Fixed damage overlay not displaying on the ship’s decks correctly
• Fixed an issue that could cause the ship’s steering wheel to take damage
• Fixed inability to use Soap on ships
• Fixed a location near the ladder of ships that could cause you to control the cannons instead of using the ladder
• Fixed various Vacuum Compartment incorrect snapping logic
• Fixed water post-process not being removed when entering a Vacuum compartment placed in the Genesis Ocean biome
• Fixed a jitter that would happen when a player observed a character with armor on an anchored or docked ship
• Fixed Ships Ladder Cover not being destroyed when ships go out of replication range
• Fixed other tribes being able to steal Outpost mission loot with ships on PVE
• Players can now fire the cannons while in first-person view on the ship wheel, for a more immersive experience
• Repair resources required are now displayed on the Shipyard’s repair MUW option
• The cannon selection pulse has been disabled; the glow indicating selected cannons on ships is now static.
• Fixed combat music during ship combat not advancing sometimes
• Removed Vehicle HUD tooltip from ships
• NPC Pirate Ships and Outpost Towers now target Rafts and can be damaged by player-built Cannons using Regular Cannonballs
• Raised Brigantine structure limit to 200
• Raised Sloop structure limit to 75

Since the initial publication of these patch notes, several additional fixes have made it into the build. They have been added below:

• Fixed custom-painted structure not displaying correctly with cosmetic mod attached 
• Fixed Structure cosmetics displaying as black or flickering
• Fixed a crash related to mods on PlayStation
• Fixed an issue where vehicles could be healed by dino abilities
• Performed a one-time cleanup of Feroxes to address an exploit and remove any unintended advantage gained from it.

 

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Alongside today’s Major Version update and Lumina’s arrival, we also want to share an update on character restoration following the recent Official Network rollback.

Since the rollback, the team has been manually restoring impacted characters, and approximately 20% of reported characters have already been restored through that process.

Alongside that work, we’ve also been improving the restoration pipeline itself so the remaining impacted characters can be handled more quickly and at a much larger scale and fortunately had a breakthrough. We are now successfully able to systematically identify lost characters reported through our form and programmatically restore them in game. This significantly eliminates the amount of time a single restoration would take, and also lays the groundwork for this process to become automated in the future.

With these improvements, we now expect to have 95% of impacted characters restored by the end of the day, with the remaining complex cases which require manual investigation to be restored by the end of the weekend. We know this has been a frustrating situation for players who have been waiting to get back to their characters, and we appreciate everyone’s patience.  
 

If you believe you are still missing a character and have not yet submitted a report, please use the character restoration form here.

Before submitting the form, please check your other servers and the cloud to make sure the character is not already available elsewhere. Once you open the form, follow the steps provided and make sure the information is accurate before submitting.

Please include the following details:

1. EOS ID
   To find this, enter Single Player, open the console, and type whoami. This should display a long string of numbers and letters beginning with 000 (three zeros).
2. Account name
3. Implant number, if available
   This is helpful, but restoration can still be completed without it.
4. Official Network cluster
   For example: PvE, PvP, Small Tribes, Console Small Tribes, or another Official cluster.

If you are on console, you may need to use a keyboard to enter the whoami command. If you do not have access to a keyboard, this helper mod can be used instead.

After your form has been submitted, there is nothing else you need to do while restoration is processed. Once restored, your character will appear in the cloud, so you can check there periodically.

While waiting for restoration, you may continue playing on other characters, but please avoid the following actions:

• Do not transfer other characters through the cloud.
• Do not transfer items through the cloud.
• Do not upload or download items through the cloud.
• Do not upload or download tames through the cloud.
• Do not play Club ARK.

We keep a limited number of character backups, and repeated cloud-related actions can overwrite the save data needed for restoration.

Today’s update also includes a range of fixes across gameplay systems, bugs and stability, with more post-launch improvements already in progress. We’ll continue monitoring the live environment closely, working through your valuable player reports, and releasing follow-up patches as we move through the launch period.

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[helioss9]

I hope the now called feral creatures changes are temporary cause we really don't need this kind of creatures in the open ocean, it limits the usability of many creatures to go to  island to island, like the megachelon or the shasta and from what im reading in this patch note there is no changes to their max lvl, si yeah slow water creatures would just get shreded by those. So yeah it would be great if you could bring something else instead of the feral creatures. I think regular agressive creatures could do the job in my opinion, especialy because the ferals are really limited in the amount of diferent creatures they spawn, there is like only the megalodon, the dunkleosteus and the paleoctopus(and why would there be a feral ichtiosaurus ? It's not even agressive...).

[JIDAIT]

Did you not readjust the difficulty of the Gamma outposts? Because it's clearly impossible x)

And regarding Tidepup, is it normal for it to be so hard to evolve? I mean, it takes an incredibly long time.

[Metzy2]

Guys, please, we need you to stop decay timers until chars are back please. You have no idea what people are losing. 

 

[Aachimgirl]

Discord may be a writhing mass of screaming and abuse but there are many of us who wait patiently as we know we will get there in the end. Looks very exciting now, thank you for your hard work and well done to whoever discovered how to fast track restoration of lost characters 💪

Of course, the outrage at lack of Genesis servers will continue…  brace yourselves 🤭

much love and respect from a veteran Ark player 🩷

[Lise]

The change of [Untameable wild creatures are now named “Feral” instead of “Wild” on their floating name] is pretty cool if it applies to other maps too, no more guessing if that cave creature on the Island is tameable or not. Like the time I tried to tame dung beetles in the Cavern of Lost Faith and they weren't accepting any food.

Wonder if any of ship related changes mentioned going forwards will also apply to the raft or if the raft is counted separately.

I kind of wish that the ammo box also worked with fertilizer so you could top up all your plants from one spot and benefit both pvp and pve.

[biggie1986]

awesome. really enjoying the map and dlc so far. one thing id like to see is if there could b something done to help with the ship getting beached . one cool thing maybe is to add a small boat we could put on the side so that we could get to shore without having to swim lol. but all in all i love this map and dlcs

[Balwick]

There's just no need for the obnoxiously high levels on the now "Feral" sea creatures.

If someone falls off in ship combat, they're likely enough to die to regular x-megalodons and xipachtinus - especially with their pack bonuses. You don't need the overpowered creatures. We get that you don't want us looking too closely at the ocean floor you didn't bother with, but it just limits you to travelling on boat or raft when this should be THE map for people to experiment with water tames.

[EndlessDuck]

Can we have a tamable Shrek as next paid dlc? Oh and a donkey/dragon breeding skill line?

Edited July 10 by EndlessDuck

[MMaas]

4 hours ago, EndlessDuck said:

Can we have a tamable Shrek as next paid dlc? Oh and a donkey/dragon breading skill line?

You forgot to state a pricetag, is $59.99 decent?

[Lalara]

This 'How to train yo... I mean, Dragontopia' DLC is an actual slop garbage. The 2 revealed dragons are ugly af, don't fit the game AND are clearly a blatant Toothless and the Light Fury knockoffs. I hope they get sued by DreamWorks and they learn their lesson.

29,99€ my a*s.

[Shonsey1]

Hello! Is there any chance you'd consider turning off decay in transmitters while this is going on? I've got 22 hours left on tek I uploaded to build a base on another server before the gen 1 release and still no character. Thank you!

[Mewpooloo]

If the tides of fortune dlc was like 10-15 Dollars it would be more acceptable, or if the sloop or a smaller boat that actually worked well on the ocean was free. Its a massive struggle to cross the ocean on a raft/motorboat or with a tame because of the aggressive creatures and slow speeds. Wish we could of atleast gotten something.

[MrFunnyBones]

Why does the mining drill only have 1 craft? That makes no sense at all, please remove the crafting limit.

Also, why are the sea creatures over level 300 it’s insane. Cant even tame up a normal sea creature because they get smoked so quickly by a pack of level 350+.

On a postitive note, this map is fun and enjoyable if y’all make some adjustments.

[AvocadoAlien]

This Lumina dragon looks like the light fury from How to Train your dragon : the hidden world.

Can you add a giant dragon alpha boss for Dragontopia?

How many dragons will be coming to Dragontopia because if there are lots of dragons I will buy.

[NarcoDexXx]

While I understand the whole "hybrid" and 2 distinct types of dinos/dragons, NOT making Lumina and Umbra traits interchangeable was an absolute FAIL on your part Wildcard.  95% of the time, the male dinos are the ones traited for breeding.  You've literally made these guys almost impossible to breed up and mutate.  Such a huge dissatisfier and IMO a waste of my $30.  I could have just stuck with some modded dragons it won't take me a year and a half to breed up.  Trust, after this latest debacle of a release with Genesis, Dragontopia AND BTT coming out on the same day with the amount of bugs, crashes, rollbacks, etc...  I won't be spending another dime on any of your DLCs until you get your act together.  Literally release a dino you can't use on a map you just released.  What were you guys even thining?  Oh wait...  you weren't thinking about anything but the $$$

[Apocalipsis18500]

Very unique creature, perfect for the Dragontopia DLC.

[AnantaBoga]

On 7/9/2026 at 7:33 AM, JIDAIT said:

Did you not readjust the difficulty of the Gamma outposts? Because it's clearly impossible x)

And regarding Tidepup, is it normal for it to be so hard to evolve? I mean, it takes an incredibly long time.

Yes, but if you hold x button I believe they had intended health buffer to go up to 250 and covert that damage to healing to make it evolve faster. However it only calculates a 100 health buffer to activate its ability so far then theirs 30seconds of cooldown. Since you can change the health buffer to 250 this leads me to believe it might go up from 100 to 250 maybe soon in the future.

also please get the word out it’s still very slow, but it’s more efficient to put your campfire on the middle of a stair structure then stand on the upper part of the stair and walk repeatedly down on top of the campfire to evolve your tidepup. This can be done while watch a show on a device consider it a life hack for the ark community. I really love everyone’s builds and wanted to share an easier way.

 

 Once tamed it no longer heals Dino til it evolves i don’t know if this was intended or how they want tidepup to work i like it very much so far doh, but looking up fast ways to evolve it only shows how to tame it so I kept getting confused is it supposed to heal Dino’s only during the tamin processs and after it evolves or was it intended to heal Dino’s and the player to evolve or just player. I believe it’s not entirely finished being cooked yet so we’ll see in time. I don’t know if the want player health regeneration to be to broken either. If 200 healing ain’t bad doh with 1000 to 1200 health and player armor. Add modded dinosaurs then even 250 healing is very nice.

Edited July 26 by AnantaBoga

[AnantaBoga]

Shaded in somehow
 

 

Edited July 27 by AnantaBoga

[AnantaBoga]

On 7/10/2026 at 7:29 AM, Lalara said:

This 'How to train yo... I mean, Dragontopia' DLC is an actual slop garbage. The 2 revealed dragons are ugly af, don't fit the game AND are clearly a blatant Toothless and the Light Fury knockoffs. I hope they get sued by DreamWorks and they learn their lesson.

29,99€ my a*s.

So someone modded and added a Godzilla mod fans are excited and happy, but a company avoids using exact titles, names or their exact design their shouldn’t be a problem. how are we expected to get to enjoy the full use of modding/creativity : / complaining about references at that point that takes the fun stuff away their used to be an All Might skin like from hero academia on the hero cosmetic it’s gone. Which was a cool skin, but Fortnite can get away with it not cool.

It was announced it was inspired by how you train your dragon even before its release by the news.
 

i already seen a mod for a cosmetic to put on lumina and umbra that gives them a different look not sure if it’s published yet, but I seen one. if you think their ugly that’s understandable just change it or dont buy it. Modding freedom has been killed by comments before.

Palworld has used a references and the name of Terraria and Fortnite has done references too infact all games have. All around player happiness deals with opinions over the whole game rather they overlook references or complain a lot. I’d say Adapt or it’s not a game worth playing cause it isn’t fun if the game isn’t adding new content.

[Apocalipsis18500]

The Dragontopia DLC is a little bit weird, but the only reason I like it is because it reminds me of How to train your Dragon.