ARK Atlas
Pick your map
Every official ARK map, with the caves, the notes and the artifacts laid out so you can find them mid-session. Start with the map you are playing.
Mapped and ready
FreeThe Island
ModerateWhere every survivor starts. Beaches in the south, snow and swamp in the north, and a volcano in the middle hiding the road to ascension.
11 caves, 234 notes, 40 resources2017
Paid DLCScorched Earth
HardA desert map that fights you with the weather as much as the wildlife. Heat, sandstorms and electrical storms make water and shelter the real bosses.
3 caves, 145 notes, 55 resources2016
Paid DLCAberration
BrutalA broken underground ARK of glowing biomes and radiation. No flyers, plenty of things that climb, and a surface that will cook you alive by day.
6 caves, 164 notes, 68 resources2017
Paid DLCExtinction
BrutalEarth after the ARKs, ruined city and wasteland, roaming Titans, and orbital drops that turn into fights over element.
4 caves, 168 notes, 61 resources2018
Paid DLCGenesis Part 1
HardFive biomes stitched into one simulation, run as a mission board. Ocean, bog, arctic, volcanic and lunar, each with their own rules.
1 cave, 155 notes, 80 resources2020
Paid DLCGenesis Part 2
BrutalA colony ship split between a garden and a corrupted half, wrapped around a central space biome. The end of the story arc.
119 notes, 86 resources2021
FreeThe Center
ModerateFloating islands, an underworld, and a lava arena. Beautiful, vertical, and famously easy to fall off.
9 caves, 40 resources2016
FreeRagnarok
ChallengingA huge free map that borrows from everywhere: highlands, desert, jungle and a canyon full of wyverns.
10 caves, 60 resources2017
FreeValguero
ModerateGreen, generous and beginner-friendly on the surface, with an Aberration trench underneath for when you want a fight.
9 caves, 69 resources2019
FreeCrystal Isles
ChallengingFloating crystal islands and rainbow biomes, home to the tameable Crystal Wyverns and some of the prettiest building spots in the game.
5 caves, 67 resources2020
FreeLost Island
ChallengingA big varied free map with its own creatures, wide open plains and a rich cave set that rewards exploring.
9 caves, 81 resources2021
FreeFjordur
ChallengingNorse-themed and enormous, with three separate mini-realms you teleport to and more caves than any other official map.
17 caves, 88 resources2022
Not mapped yet
Listed so you know what is coming. These open as soon as their data is checked.
- FreeComing soonSvartalfheim is not mapped yet, so it cannot be opened.
Svartalfheim
HardThe dwarven underworld. An ASA-era map of caverns, mushroom forests and tight underground routes.
Data being mapped2024 · ASA only