# ARK: Survival Ascended Community Crunch 507: Tunnel, Tear, and Transform! - Product: ARK: Survival Ascended (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ark-survival-ascended) - Vendor: Studio Wildcard - Date: 2026-05-16 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2399830/view/659358246189925216 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ark-survival-ascended/releases/2026-05-16-community-crunch-507-tunnel-tear-and-transform 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** — Launch Fantastic Tames Season 1 with the Burrowbuck tame, which can create underground dens, open temporary gateway tunnels for rapid travel, and create blinding dust clouds - **added** — Cerberax, a three-headed frontline tame, coming in Q3 2026 - **added** — Enigmasaur, a shadow-veiled master of disguise tame, coming in Q4 2026 - **changed** — Araneo receives a community-voted TLC overhaul with a completely terrifying new design Next Tuesday, expand your exotic menagerie with the launch of **Fantastic Tames Season 1**! These extraordinary oddities are forged from the ARK’s most mystical anomalies, bringing a wondrous new array of tactical abilities to your tribe. Bounding onto the scene first is the Burrowbuck, an adorable, clever, and aggressively skittish fluffball that serves as a master of guerrilla warfare. Cunning Survivors can use the Burrowbuck to carve out hidden, bunker-like underground dens, open temporary gateway tunnels for rapid long-distance travel, and kick up blinding dust clouds to leave pursuing enemies in the dirt. [Download in full resolution](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YSaVoLiFZKagOK6MPWW3QZngDMz4txqY?usp=drive_link) With the pack officially launching next week, we are also thrilled to give you your very first look at the next two mythical anomalies joining the lineup later this year: **Cerberax (Coming Q3 2026)**: A monstrous, three-headed frontline terror, each maw carrying its own kind of carnage. **Enigmasaur (Coming Q4 2026)**: A shadow-veiled master of disguise, rarely seen in the same form twice. As a bonus dropping right alongside the Burrowbuck in next Tuesday's update, a classic creepy resident is also getting an upgrade: the community-voted Araneo TLC officially crawls onto the scene with a completely terrifying new overhaul! Hey Survivors, after careful assessment, we've opted to begin the process of sunsetting a selection of our inactive official servers. Our goal is to ensure that we're always delivering the best experience possible, and official servers exist as a way for the community to play together without having to host their own. When we launch fresh content, typically, we put up more servers than we need in the long term to match the peak in user capacity; over time, these servers become ghost towns as players have dropped off and are waiting for the next major content release. As part of this process, the servers will be renamed with the “SUNSET” prefix, following the same approach we’ve used in the past. Please note that once renamed, these servers will be removed from the in-game Favorites list, so you’ll need to search for them manually to reconnect. After further evaluation, the following servers have been **removed from the sunset list**: [expand type=showmore,expanded=false] NA-PVP-Aberration2438 EU-PVP-Aberration2451 NA-PVP-SmallTribes-ScorchedEarth9229 NA-PVE-Aberration5682 NA-PVP-Aberration2443 OC-PVP-Aberration2472 NA-PVP-Aberration2434 NA-PVP-TheCenter2399 NA-PVP-Aberration2447 EU-PVP-ScorchedEarth2267 NA-PVP-Aberration2439 NA-PVP-ScorchedEarth2369 NA-PVE-TheIsland5414 Asia-PVP-SmallTribes-ScorchedEarth9217 EU-PVP-SmallTribes-Aberration9370 OC-PVP-SmallTribes-Aberration9357 EU-PVP-SmallTribes-Aberration9353 EU-PVP-SmallTribes-Aberration9341 OC-PVP-Consoles-TheCenter1154 EU-PVP-Consoles-Aberration1167 OC-PVP-Consoles-Aberration1172 Asia-PVP-Consoles-Extinction1206 NA-PVP-TheCenter2415 OC-PVP-SmallTribes-Aberration9358 EU-PVP-SmallTribes-ScorchedEarth9195 EU-PVE-ScorchedEarth5566 On **June 19th**, we'll be sunsetting these inactive Island servers, **click on Show More** to see the updated detailed list. 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