# ARK: Survival Ascended Community Crunch 494: Shell Yeah! - Product: ARK: Survival Ascended (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ark-survival-ascended) - Vendor: Studio Wildcard - Date: 2026-02-14 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2399830/view/503976001435336785 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ark-survival-ascended/releases/2026-02-14-community-crunch-494-shell-yeah What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Grand Tortugar creature arriving with the Astraeos expansion on February 25th, a mobile amphibious stronghold capable of walking the ocean floor and harboring multiple riders within an openable carapace - **added** — Official Lost Colony transfers fully opening on February 20th to allow players to move items, creatures, and characters onto the map without restriction - **added** — Temporary Expire servers available until March 2nd at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST for farming, taming, and experiencing new content with character download restrictions but free item and creature transfers - **added** — Dedicated in-game Mod-browser to download and play custom community content including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes across platforms - **added** — Love Ascended event running February 12-19, 2026 on Official Servers with 2x harvesting, taming, experience, and breeding multipliers for PVP/PVE - **added** — Love Ascended event providing 4.5x harvesting, taming, and experience plus 4x breeding for Small Tribes - **added** — Love Ascended event providing 5x harvesting, taming, experience, and breeding for ARKpocalypse - **added** — Love Ascended event creatures including Lovebirds, Love Bugs, Vday Coel, Chibi-Lovebird, and Chibi Pair-o-Saurs - **added** — Love Ascended event items including Valentine's Fishing Rod, Love Bug Hearts, Festive Dino Candy, Succubus Whip, Bouquet Club, Devil Horns, Devil Tail, Dashing Rogue Shirt, Heart-Balloon parachute, and Lovely themed furniture and decorations - **changed** — Box o' Chocolates now reduces mating cooldown by 20% of current time remaining The ocean doesn’t belong to the fastest. It belongs to the last one standing. With the Astraeos expansion arriving **February 25th**, the **Grand Tortugar** emerges as a mobile stronghold built for endurance. Beneath its massive armored shell lies something more than protection. Open its carapace and it becomes a living command post, allowing multiple riders to shelter within while defending from behind natural plating. Close it, and the Tortugar transforms into a near-impenetrable bastion with your crew breathing freely inside. It moves with steady purpose across both land and seabed, capable of walking the ocean floor and harvesting valuable resources. And when the waters crackle with danger, the Tortugar remains… shockingly unimpressed. Whether you’re exploring the scorching sands of Pyranthos or staging an amphibious assault, the Tortugar is ready to carry your crew and hold the line. [Download in full resolution](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YSaVoLiFZKagOK6MPWW3QZngDMz4txqY?usp=drive_link) Moving day is near! Official Lost Colony transfers will fully open on **February 20th**, allowing players to move items, creatures, and characters onto the map without restriction! Please pack your dodos in bubble wrap. Expire servers are temporary servers across the network that will eventually be removed, and you can find them by searching for **"Expire"** in the session filter. These servers will be online until 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on March 2nd. We're preemptively using our allocation for future maps to host some additional sessions that players can travel onto to farm, tame, and experience the newest content Gameplay. The same transfer restrictions apply in that you are only able to download your character, but you can freely take anything off. This is to help reduce load off some of the other servers, or provide players an option for those who just want to jump onto a new map temporarily. Please note that **these servers will no longer exist after 10 am PST / 1 pm EST on March 2nd**, so if you intend to use them, remember to transfer your items/creatures/characters off before that date, as nothing will be saved beyond that time period. MODSPOLIGHTLINK Download & play new custom content created by players, including new maps, creatures, items, and game modes, through a dedicated new Mod-browser directly within the game. Enjoy an endless stream of new ARK content as the creativity and talent of the community is fully unleashed for the first time across gaming platforms and stay tuned as we spotlight more Cross-Platform Mods each week! This video features: - [TRIBAL ROMAN: Premium structure Set](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/ancient-roman-iv-premium-estructure-set) by J26arkitecto - [Stylized Structure Skin](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/stylized-structure-skin) by Snowytrain - [Vampire Knights](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/vampire-nights) by Jams_uWu - [Deluxe Dreamhouse](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/deluxe-dreamhouse-modern-classy-cosmetic-pack) by Fernandess, Dani_fm - [The Three Tribes: Structure Skins (Content update)](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/search?page=1&pageSize=20&sortBy=relevancy&search=the+three+tribes) by Happybara - [Modern Concrete Structure Skin](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/modern-concrete) by Happybara - [Happybara Basic Environment Structure Skin](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/happybarabasicenvironment-structure-skin) by Happybara - [Furniture Catalogue - Modern & Deluxe Furniture Cosmetics](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/furniture-catalogue-modern-deluxe-decor-pack) by Dani_FM - [Isle of Myths: Suchomimus](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/isle-of-myths-suchomimus) by BlueSucho - [Piggle’s Adasaurus](https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/piggles-a _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2399830/view/503976001435336785]_