Dazzling Ark: Survival Ascended Player-Made House Looks More Like GTA Than Ark

An player has impressed the community with a creation that looks like it could have been pulled straight from rather than a dinosaur-filled survival game. Building is a primary component of and its remake,, as players gather resources out in the open world to build massive, customizable, multi-leveled structures with varying durability depending on what building tier players are on.

Redditor Kenny_mcalpin took to the r/ARK Subreddit to share a video of one of their creations, an extremely highly detailed, domesticated house that some commenters described as looking like it had come from games such as or jokingly asking if was out yet.

Kenny_mcalpin stated that they were on the console version of the game, and the creation was made in about 4 to 5 days roughly with several mods on their server "" with tyereliusprime helpfully providing a link to the modlist.

Ark: Survival Ascended is a graphical revamp of Survival Evolved using UE5, but questions of what else has changed are worth exploring.

improved the building mechanics from in many ways, with better snap points for certain structure types that added some much-needed creative freedom as players could better align items and rotate them in a variety of different ways to create impressive and unique structures. It also reduced the overall number of engrams required to build a structure so players are no longer required to spend hundreds of points just to learn every variant of one type of structure and only need a handful to switch between variants instead.

The remake also greatly overhauled 's plumbing and power systems to make it far easier and reduce the number of items needed. Whereas before, irrigation and power generation required placing multiple pipes or electrical wires to channel water or electrical currents from one place to another, these are now more clutter-free as players only need to place a Water Intake or Power Generator item within range of their base, and it will automatically take care of