Ark Survival Ascended Update 1.077.063 Applies Temporary Fix for an Exploit

Studio Wildcard has released the first patch for Ark Survival Ascended for 2026, and it’s a minor update targeting a an exploit with the wheel, but it’s one the community will appreciate nonetheless.

Console gamers will see this patch appear as Ark Survival Ascended update 1.077.063, with PC gamers able to install this as version 77.62.

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For the complete details on today’s update, read on for the official word from the developers.

Ark Survival Ascended’s New Update on January 5, Applies Exploit Fix

Here’s what the devs had to say regarding today’s patch:

• Applied a temporary mitigation for an exploit.
  • This disables emotes/exit on the multi-use wheel while in Feline Form. In the meantime, please use the Feline Form skill to exit. We appreciate your patience while we work on a permanent fix.

(hi guys, sorry for the inconvenience with the wheel but the exploit was pretty nasty and we needed a quick fix asap. Also, belated Happy New Year! )

For reference, there was also a patch released on the last day of 2025, which was for version 77.61.

v77.61 – Minor version for Servers – 12/31/2025

• Thralls can no longer gain levels while possessed. This prevents a stat allocation issue that caused significant scaling, resulting in thralls becoming far stronger than intended.
  • New and old thralls that did not have any possession-based levels up are unchanged.
  • Thralls that had previous level ups applied via possession, will have their levels reset (needing to be reapplied) and stats re-distributed to eliminate the exploit.
    • Note: There is a known issue where these previously-bugged thralls will continually have their levels reset, needing to be reapplied on Cryopod deployment or server restart. Also, after the first restart the health stat will not be accurate on these thralls (lower than intended), but will be resolved in future restarts. We recommend not using a Thrall that previously had levels applied via possession.
• Unofficials should run their servers with -FixThrallStats to have the level reset and stat redistribution take place on the thralls that have incorrect scaling.

If Studio Wildcard releases another patch, which we’re expecting to within the next week or so, you’ll see it on here on MP1st.

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