Anunnaki Genesis: Ascended Mod Guide

Anunnaki Genesis: Ascended is a creature overhaul for ARK: Survival Ascended by DaRealMaffle and SlayerXtreme (CurseForge ID 943030). It is a fan-made rebuild of Psycho's Annunaki Genesis from ARK: Survival Evolved, remade from the ground up for ASA and deliberately made harder. Our database holds 189 creature entries, 221 items (71 of them fertilized eggs), 139 engrams and 6 crafting stations from the mod.

Before you start

• Expect a fight: the authors describe a world that fights back, with power that has to be earned. The familiar tiers return rebalanced, alongside new variants.
• Not the ASE mod: every system was revisited for ASA, so details from the old mod may not apply. If you played the original, our Annunaki Genesis guide covers that version.
• Official help: the CurseForge page links a Discord, a guide document and a spreadsheet kept by the authors. The mod's item texts are empty in our data, so those are the place for taming details.
• For admins: the mod's files sit under AnnunakiAscended and most of its class names end in _GNS, which helps when you search spawn or item codes.

The creature groups

Our data sorts the mod's creatures into these groups by their blueprint folders. The mod also gives most of them a tier rank from 1 to 5, shown where it is set.

The Badass species with a Mountain form are the Ankylosaurus, Castoroides, Doedicurus, Pelagornis, Therizinosaur and Beelzebufo. The Badass Drake comes in Fire, Frost and Poison. Two more rank-5 bosses stand outside the groups: Tyrant, The Omega, and Avatar, Master Of The Elements, whose attacks come in fire, frost and poison. There are also three baby DodoRex creatures, Blaze, Frosty and Toxio, each called "The Badass Baby", and a ZomDodo.

The Wardens

Each of the nine Wardens is built on a vanilla species, which we name from its blueprint folder:

The Wardens' base health in our data runs from 17.5 million (Euraka) to 43.5 million (Rawaiim). The Primal bosses sit between 6.45 and 10.5 million, and all four have a summon attack. Odracir, Warchief Of The ARK, also summons minions (Odracir's Disposal).

Progression and bosses

The recipes in our data show how the end game links together:

1. Primal bosses: tribute engrams for the four Primal bosses unlock at level 50. Each Primal boss has a head item: Primal Dragon Head, Primal Dodorex Head, Primal Megapithecus Head and Primal Broodmother Head.
2. Wardens: nine Warden tribute engrams unlock at level 90. Each Warden has an Essence named after it, from Essence Of Nilloc to Essence Of Karkinos. The mod also has Warden Tokens.
3. Warchief: the Warchief tribute is the highest of the tribute engrams, at level 100.
4. Celestials: each Celestial Matrix takes 5 of every one of the nine Warden Essences, 100 Warden Tokens, the Celestial's own Essence and 5 Primal heads. Elegon, The Celestial Dragon Matrix and Primodius, The Celestial Dragon Matrix use Primal Dragon Heads; Raphus, The Celestial Dodorex Matrix uses Primal Dodorex Heads.

So every Celestial needs Essences from all nine Wardens plus Primal heads. All tribute engrams cost 0 engram points. Two more matrices, for a Celestial Broodmother (Slithia) and a Celestial Megapithecus (Tibetan), are in the mod, but their recipes cannot be read in our data.

Taming and knockout

Our sources do not say which food tames which tier, so check the authors' guide document for that. What our data does show is a set of crafted treats built on the mod's tokens and Alpha Blood:

The knockout gear has its own ladder of unlocks:

• Javelin (level 2) and Lance (level 25): melee weapons made with Narcotic.
• Annunaki Tranquilizer Arrow (level 21): a vanilla tranq arrow upgraded with Narcotic and a Narcoberry.
• Annunaki Tranquilizer Dart (level 62): a tranq dart plus 5 Narcotic.
• Tranquilized Metal Arrow (level 79): an Annunaki Metal Arrow plus 50 Annunaki Narcotic.
• Annunaki Tranqulized Sniper Bullet (level 83): an Annunaki Metal Ingot plus 15 Annunaki Narcotic.
• Annunaki Narcotic (level 82) and the Sedative Elixir (level 50).

Items and stations

Stations

Annunaki materials

Most mod gear runs on upgraded versions of vanilla materials. The Annunaki Metal Ingot is one Metal Ingot, one Crystal and one Obsidian. Annunaki Crystal, Annunaki Polymer and Annunaki Electronics unlock at level 48, and Annunaki Paste and Annunaki Gunpowder at level 82.

Alpha saddles

Alpha saddles are made from Alpha Hide and Annunaki Metal Ingot, with Black Pearl or Silicon on some.

The four Uber saddles (Dragon, Megapithecus, Broodmother and DodoRexy) share one recipe built on 150 Uber Hide and 300 Annunaki Metal Ingot. The Special Badass Saddle (level 50) uses Special Badass Hide. The three Celestial armors, Elagon's Armor, Primordius's Armor and Raphus's Armor, unlock at level 90 for 100 points each. Each needs 1,000 Uber Hide, 5,000 Metal Ingot, the matching Celestial Essence and a Warden Token.

Gear and consumables

• Weapons: Annunaki Crossbow, Bow, Sword, Shotgun, Longneck Rifle and Sniper Rifle, the Caveman Stick, an Annunaki Pick and Hatchet, and the Annunaki Raft.
• Arrows: Fire Metal Arrow, Frosted Metal Arrow and Tranquilized Metal Arrow all unlock at level 79.
• Armor: Alpha, Warden and Warchief sets. In our data each Warchief piece carries its own buff.
• Elixirs: Health, Stamina, Stimulant, Sedative and Oxygen Elixirs at level 50, plus Small, Medium and Large Experience Elixirs.
• Costumes: bone costumes for eight species and Original costumes for the Raptor, Carnotaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Tips

• Stock Alpha Blood early: the treats and the broth need 100 to 750 each.
• Get the Annunaki Metal Ingot going early. Most saddles, stations and weapons use it.
• Keep every Warden Essence. One Celestial Matrix needs five of each, plus 100 Warden Tokens.
• Keep Primal Dragon and Primal Dodorex Heads; each matrix needs five.
• Read the authors' guide document from the CurseForge page before you farm for treats and tributes.

Every creature, item and spawn command of the mod is listed on its mod page.