Silvanor Joins Dragontopia December 10 as ARK Details Network Changes

By ZeroCool | November 14, 2026 | Comments Off on Silvanor Joins Dragontopia December 10 as ARK Details Network Changes
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ARK: Survival Ascended players have a crowded run of dates and network changes to track. The headline addition is Silvanor, a plant-covered dragon planned for ARK: Dragontopia on December 10, but the latest official update also sets out an Extra Life Creature TLC result, an additional community-funded TLC opportunity, official-server removals, Conquest rules, Arkpocalypse’s next reset and a temporary official-network event.

The practical takeaway is that December brings new content while several November deadlines arrive first. Players on affected official worlds have until November 29 before their servers are retired, Extra Life votes continue to influence an added TLC, and the current color-and-Cake Slice event ends November 23.

Silvanor arrives in Dragontopia on December 10

Silvanor is scheduled to reach ARK: Dragontopia on December 10. Official artwork presents a dragon whose green wings and scaled body are intertwined with moss and flowers, making it a particularly natural fit for the expansion’s fantasy setting.

Its temperament is the more consequential early detail. Studio Wildcard describes Silvanor as less immediately aggressive than comparable creatures: survivors may have an opportunity to disengage before provoking a fight. That should not be confused with a passive or harmless creature, however. The announcement makes clear that retaliating against it carries a defensive danger. Specific taming requirements, combat statistics and a fuller ability breakdown have not been confirmed in this update.

For players preparing bases or expeditions in Dragontopia, December 10 is therefore the date to watch rather than a reason to assume a particular role for the creature in advance. The available information supports expectations of a visually distinctive new dragon and a more measured initial disposition, but not confirmed mechanics beyond that.

Extra Life passes $175,000 and adds a fifth TLC vote

The Extra Life campaign has now exceeded $175,000, after previously reaching the $160,000 point. Brontosaurus has been named the first Creature TLC winner. The campaign’s original structure unlocks a classic-creature TLC for each $40,000 raised, up to four, but the updated total has also prompted a fifth bonus TLC that will be decided by donations and votes.

Donations made to a member of Studio Wildcard’s Extra Life team count toward the fundraising total. To direct a vote to a creature, donors need to put its complete creature name in the donation message with a preceding hashtag. Each dollar represents one vote; several smaller donations can accumulate exactly as a single larger donation does. A contribution without a hashtag still supports the charitable total, but it does not add support to a TLC candidate.

The eligible roster is limited to Island creatures that are tameable, rideable or usable as shoulder pets, and which have not received a TLC pass already. The announced ineligible list consists of Araneo, Argentavis, Dire Bear, Direwolf, Gigantopithecus, Giganotosaurus, Mammoth, Megalosaurus, Parasaur, Procoptodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Raptor, Therizinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Sabertooth, Sarcosuchus, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops. Giganotosaurus is noted as releasing November 5, while Megalosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus are still upcoming.

Further winners are slated to be identified on November 20, November 27 and December 4, following the first announcement on November 13. Funds donated through Team Wildcard go to UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. Across the campaign’s first 12 years, the ARK community has raised more than $1.2 million for children in need.

Official-network colors and Cake Slices run through November 23

From November 13 through November 23, official servers are receiving a curated set of dinosaur colors alongside Cake Slice bonuses for taming, breeding, imprinting, experience and harvesting. The update identifies Taming, Breeding, Imprint, EXP and Harvesting Cake Slices, but does not specify numerical rate values for those effects.

The active colors are Cyan (ID 5), Teal (94), DeepPink (68), Dino Albino (36), Glacial (96), Yellow (4), Magenta (6), Mint (84), PowderBlue (95), Peach (76), DarkTurquoise (57), LightPink (67), MediumTurquoise (58), Lavender (91), Blue (2), DarkTeal (92), Dino Light Red (19), Dino Medium Blue (53), WyvernPurple1 (50), Dino Deep Blue (54), Light Yellow (11), LeafGreen (88), TurquoiseafGreen (59) and Dino Dark Green (27).

Separately, the standard official-network bonus rates remain active until Monday, November 16. PvP and PvE have 2x harvesting, taming, experience and breeding. Small Tribes has 4.5x harvesting, taming and experience, plus 4x breeding. ARKpocalypse has 5x harvesting, taming, experience and breeding for this bonus period.

Inactive official worlds are headed for sunset

A selection of inactive official servers has entered the sunset process and is marked with a SUNSET prefix. Once renamed, those worlds no longer appear in the in-game Favorites list, so affected players must manually search for them to reconnect. The servers listed by Studio Wildcard are due to be retired on November 29.

Players with established characters, bases or inventories on those worlds should consult the official affected-server list and make decisions before the deadline. Studio Wildcard says it is working with Nitrado to make saves available through Nitrado’s interface after the retirement date, with further information still to come. That planned availability is not a replacement for checking a particular server’s status now.

Conquest, Arkpocalypse and Arkathon 2

Conquest remains a cross-platform, large-scale PvP offering on PC, Xbox and PlayStation. It uses 5x XP, harvesting, taming, imprinting, maturation, hatching, breeding and gestation, while mating intervals are set to 0.5x. Event periods raise XP, harvesting, taming, imprinting and hatching to 7x. Servers allow 75 players each and are split between separate one-month and two-month wipe clusters; transfers are available within each cluster from launch but cannot move between the two wipe schedules.

Formal alliances are prohibited. One-month servers have a 10-player tribe cap, while two-month servers permit 25 players. Neither rat-hole construction nor cave building is allowed. Each wipe schedule has 12 servers across The Island, Ragnarok, Astraeos and The Center. The one-month cluster has four Island servers, three Ragnarok servers, two Astraeos servers and three Center servers; the two-month cluster has three on each map.

ARKpocalypse has reset and will next wipe on December 11, 2026. These monthly-wipe servers can be found by searching for “Arkpocalypse” in the server browser.

For mod creators, Arkathon 2: Season of the Hunt is open for submissions from November 11. The ARK: Survival Ascended contest has a $30,000 prize pool spread across 44 winning entries. Gameplay and Custom Cosmetics each have $10,000 pools, with $20,000 for 20 main-category winners, $8,000 for four community-voted selections and $2,000 for 20 early-submission spotlights. The two tracks invite mods focused respectively on survival and exploration mechanics, or original appearances for survivors, creatures, equipment and structures.

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