Community Crunch 458: Introducing Bison!

16 May 2025Developer post

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This week, we’re giving you a closer look at the thundering titan of Ragnarok’s wilds: the Bison! Don’t let the fluff fool you—this burly heavyweight is all muscle, attitude, and herd-first loyalty. Whether you're looking to trample threats or milk a little extra value from your meals, the Bison brings both brawn and utility to your ranks

The Bison will stomp into ARK: Survival Ascended for free with the launch of Ragnarok Ascended on June 18th!

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Common name: Bison
Species: Bison matrislac
Time: Early Pleistocene
Diet: Herbivore
Temperament: Territorial

After dealing with the endless parade of strange creatures on the ARKs, it might feel like a pleasant surprise to run across some ordinary-looking buffalo! Just make sure to enjoy the local bison at a distance, if you’ve brought along anything as big as an allosaur -- they become aggressively territorial around larger predators.

Once provoked, you can expect these stubborn slabs of meat to fight until the bitter end. An agitated bison will throw that massive weight around to defend its herd even when overmatched. I watched one knock a T. Rex senseless before tossing the dazed king of the dinosaurs off a cliff!

Breaking one of these overstuffed bovines is tougher than you might think... All that extra bulk makes bison especially difficult to knock out. These loveable meatballs are worth taming, because they’ll fight for you as fiercely as their own herd. Your bison may not end fights quickly, but it will take a beating and tussle with just about any threat.

A tame mama bison will prove to be a useful dairy animal for your tribe, as long as she’s nursing. That milk is extremely nutritious and actually pairs well with some of the more interesting recipes Survivors have concocted. Any nearby baby creature will want some, once they smell it… Heck, even baby wyverns treat it like their own mother’s milk!

Hey Survivors, after careful assessment of our data, we've opted to commence the process of sunsetting a selection of our inactive official servers.

Our goal is to ensure that we're always delivering the best experience possible, and official servers exist to give the community a shared space to play without the need for private hosting. When we launch fresh content, typically, we put up more servers than we need in the long term to match the peak in user capacity; over time, these servers become ghost towns as players have dropped off and are waiting for the next major content release.

On the 20th of May, we will be sunsetting these inactive servers:

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We still intend to provide larger capacity at launches as much as possible to meet the higher need during those periods.

We’re working with our partners at Nitrado to offer these saves after the scheduled sunset through Nitrado’s interface. Please stay tuned for more details.