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Top 5 Creature Mods for ARK: Survival Ascended (February 2026)This video showcases five new and exciting creature mods for ARK: Survival Ascended, released in the past month. It covers their unique features, taming methods, abilities, and spawn locations, providing valuable insights for players looking to enhance their gameplay experience.
⚠️ The bleed effect works even against bosses, making it very powerful.
⚠️ The movement of the Suchomimus is a little jittery and needs polishing.
1. 🦖 WAK Spino Small: A Rex-Tiered Versatile Mount with Unique Abilities
- ✅ The WAK Spino Small is a smaller, Rex-tiered version of the original WAK Spino mod.
- ✅ It comes in different variants depending on the map (regular, scorched earth, aberrant).
- ✅ Taming requires brewing fish soup (unlocked at level 74), consuming it, and then killing carnivores on foot to gain taming affinity.
- ✅ It's a strong, versatile mount with fast sprinting speed on land and agility in water.
- ✅ Receives the hydrated buff (+15% damage, +20% movement speed, +25% health regeneration) when in water.
- ✅ Has a primary bite attack and directional secondary heavy attacks (claw slash with armor penetration and open wounds debuff, romper stompers that slow targets, double tail swipe that slows targets).
- ✅ Features a charge-up attack called "rip and tear" that deals heavy damage and inflicts the deep wounds debuff, granting the Spino the Blood Frenzy buff (25% movement speed, immunity to stun and slow).
- ✅ Can enter boss fights and is especially effective in arenas with water.
| Stat | Effect |
|---|---|
| Hydrated Buff | +15% Damage, +20% Movement Speed, +25% Health Regeneration (lasts 30 seconds after leaving water) |
| Blood Frenzy Buff | +25% Movement Speed, Immunity to Stun and Slow (after using Rip and Tear) |
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1. 🦖 WAK Spino Small: A Rex-Tiered Versatile Mount with Unique Abilities
- ✅ The WAK Spino Small is a smaller, Rex-tiered version of the original WAK Spino mod.
- ✅ It comes in different variants depending on the map (regular, scorched earth, aberrant).
- ✅ Taming requires brewing fish soup (unlocked at level 74), consuming it, and then killing carnivores on foot to gain taming affinity.
- ✅ It's a strong, versatile mount with fast sprinting speed on land and agility in water.
- ✅ Receives the hydrated buff (+15% damage, +20% movement speed, +25% health regeneration) when in water.
- ✅ Has a primary bite attack and directional secondary heavy attacks (claw slash with armor penetration and open wounds debuff, romper stompers that slow targets, double tail swipe that slows targets).
- ✅ Features a charge-up attack called "rip and tear" that deals heavy damage and inflicts the deep wounds debuff, granting the Spino the Blood Frenzy buff (25% movement speed, immunity to stun and slow).
- ✅ Can enter boss fights and is especially effective in arenas with water.
| Stat | Effect |
|---|---|
| Hydrated Buff | +15% Damage, +20% Movement Speed, +25% Health Regeneration (lasts 30 seconds after leaving water) |
| Blood Frenzy Buff | +25% Movement Speed, Immunity to Stun and Slow (after using Rip and Tear) |
04:07 - 09:11
2. 🧬 Mysterious Geno Pack: A Powerful Tyrant with Stealth and Support Capabilities
- ✅ The Mysterious Geno Pack adds the Geno Tyrant to the game, with the Genaptor coming in the future.
- ✅ Regular variants spawn on mountains, tundra, snow areas, badlands, the blue zone, and the sunken forest/snow dome.
- ✅ Alpha variants drop high-quality saddles, blueprints, and chibis.
- ✅ Can be tamed in two ways: challenging it after consuming the challenger's breath concoction (unlocked at level 80) and feeding it raw mutton, or crafting an egg directly from the inventory at level 100 (requires endgame ingredients).
- ✅ The Genot is a powerhouse with high health and damage, fast sprint speed, and the ability to jump and climb vertical surfaces.
- ✅ Has a directional primary bite, a secondary claw swipe that inflicts bleed, and can grab targets below a drag weight of 250.
- ✅ Receives the blood rage buff (+50% damage, +20% movement speed, health regeneration, immunity to stun) when the grabbed target dies.
- ✅ Features a ram attack with high damage and knockback, and a rock drake-like cloaking ability.
- ✅ Receives the Apex Slayer buff when fighting larger threats.
- ✅ Has a team interaction buff that increases damage and resistance for nearby pack creatures.
- ✅ Can sniff out targets low on health and regenerate health up to 50% of its max health.
| Buff | Effect |
|---|---|
| Blood Rage (Max Stacks) | +50% Damage, +20% Movement Speed, Health Regeneration, Immunity to Stun |
| Apex Slayer | Increased Damage Output and Resistance (vs. larger threats) |
⚠️ The bleed effect works even against bosses, making it very powerful.
09:12 - 10:38
3. 🐾 Smilodon: A Balanced Big Cat with Bleed Attack and Pack Buffs
- ✅ The Smilodon mod adds the Smilodon, an alteration of the saber-tooth, to the game.
- ✅ It has a 20% chance to spawn in place of the vanilla saber-tooth in the same locations.
- ✅ It's a simple knockout tame that prefers superior kibble.
- ⚠️ The taming process is currently bugged, causing taming effectiveness to drop significantly.
- ✅ It's a bigger and stronger version of the saber-tooth and a better harvester of hide and pelt.
- ✅ Shares the same attacks as the saber-tooth but has a secondary claw swipe that inflicts bleed.
- ✅ Has pack buffs that go up to +3 in a group of four or more Smilodons.
10:39 - 12:01
4. 🦅 Gliding Argentavis: A Stylish Way to Carry Heavy Loads with Griffin-Like Gliding
- ✅ The Gliding Argentavis mod remaps the vanilla Argentavis, giving it the ability to walk backwards and glide like a griffin.
- ✅ Existing Argentavis can be converted to gliders via the radial menu and back to vanilla versions.
- ⚠️ Uninstalling the mod will cause converted Argentavis to disappear unless converted back to vanilla first.
- ✅ Adds a rare new variant called the Bold Eagle with higher damage output and speed.
- ✅ Bold Eagles can be converted back to vanilla Argentavis, but not vice versa.
- ❌ Cannot dive while carrying creatures.
12:02 - 14:55
5. 🐊 Suchomimus: A Versatile All-Rounder with Venom, Stun, and Underwater Capabilities
- ✅ The Suchomimus mod adds a new take on the Suchomimus, a large semi-aquatic ferropod.
- ✅ Spawns around rivers, swamps, and coastlines, sharing spawns with Baryonyx and Kaprosuchus.
- ✅ Has an aberrant variant in the aberration blue zone and a rare alpha variant.
- ✅ Taming requires using bolas to knock it out after it performs its roar animation.
- ✅ Prefers superior kibble for taming.
- ✅ It's a great all-rounder with fast sprinting speed.
- ✅ Has a primary bite attack that inflicts venom and a secondary double claw swipe attack (first swipe slows and stuns, second swipe deals bonus damage).
- ✅ Instantly kills fish and receives the energized buff (+15% movement speed, +50% damage, +30% damage resistance) which can be extended with more fish kills.
- ✅ Can harvest raw prime fish meat from larger aquatic creatures.
- ✅ Has a decent swimming speed, lacks an oxygen stat, and can use its secondary attack underwater.
- ✅ Has a roar that scares away small to medium creatures.
| Buff | Effect |
|---|---|
| Energized (from fish kills) | +15% Movement Speed, +50% Damage, +30% Damage Resistance (Max duration: 300 seconds) |
⚠️ The movement of the Suchomimus is a little jittery and needs polishing.
14:56 - 16:00
6. 🐺 Honorable Mention: The Beast Within - Transform into a Neomorph!
- ✅ The Beast Within mod allows players to transform into a Neomorph.
- ✅ A talisman can be unlocked at level 85 and crafted inside a Desmodus saddle, requiring Sangrid elixir and red elements.
- ✅ Activating the talisman transforms the player into the beast within for 10 minutes or until taking 10 instances of damage.
- ✅ All Neomorph attacks become available, including the ability to fly.
- ✅ Requires owning the Lost Colony DLC.