Draconic Chronicles Mod Guide

Draconic Chronicles is a dragon mod for ARK: Survival Ascended by Ave (CurseForge ID 929489). It adds more than twenty dragons and wyverns plus other draconic creatures, a set of draconic structures, healing potions for your tames and a portal that summons bosses. Ave puts balance first for the creatures, weapons and structures alike, and the mod is marked as crossplay. Our database holds 17 creature entries, 183 items and 69 engrams from the mod. The creature entries are mostly its wyverns; the larger dragons show up in our data through their saddles, eggs and essences.

Before you start

• Maps: the mod works on every map, The Center included.
• Spawns: it uses its own spawning system and does not replace any other spawns.
• Craft the Draconic Guide first: it unlocks at level 1 and costs 5 Stone. The guide structure explains how to tame the dragons in game, and server admins set the mod's options from its admin page.
• If the mod shows as invalid: uninstall it, restart the game and install it again.
• Spawn codes and support: the author keeps spawn codes and mod information on the mod's Discord, linked from CurseForge.
• Active development: the mod is updated often, so expect changes.

The creatures

Wyverns in our database

The list also has a Dodo entry, filed next to the Elder Wyvern Nest in the mod's files. The wild-card group is named after the mod folder it sits in.

The rest of the draconic roster

The mod's items name many more creatures. Each one below has at least a saddle, an egg or an essence in our data:

• Dragons: BloodStorm Dragon, Polar Dragon, Sand Dragon, Flameforge Dragon, Glowveil Dragon, Hydro Dragon, Tidal Dragon, Rejuvenating Dragon and Undead Dragon.
• Wyverns: Elder Wyvern, Shadow Wyvern, Inferno Wyvern, Ice Wyvern, Tropical Crystal Wyvern, Chaos Wyvern and the Wyvernicorn.
• Others: the Headless Hydra, the Wyrm and the Dragonkin.

A few have clear roles from their item text:

• Polar Dragon: its Platform Saddle (engram level 50) lets you build on its back as a mobile base. The recipe is 620 Hide, 400 Fiber, 1,810 Metal Ingot, 220 Silica Pearls and 120 Cementing Paste. Polar Dragon Milk raises its babies.
• Headless Hydra: Headless Hydra Head I to V are armor pieces for it. Each stage unlocks more attacks, and Head V unlocks all five. A Hydra Head item creates a Headless Hydra saddle, or upgrades the one already in your inventory.
• Rejuvenating Dragon: it produces Rejuvenation Crystals. Its saddle (level 70) takes 125 of them, and the higher healing potions use them too.
• Hydro Dragon: its Tek Armor raises a shield on Q (D-pad down on controller).
• Wyvernicorn: fed Sparkle Dust, it makes an offspring with one random mutation.
• Elder Wyvern: babies are raised on Elder Wyvern Milk, and a tamed Elder Wyvern may eat a Draconic Heart. The Elder Wyvern Nest structure comes with an egg so you can raise your own.
• Skeletal dragons: babies drink Ghostly Milk.

Draconic Essences

Essences are the mod's creature foods. You brew them in the Draconic Cauldron (engram level 25). Each essence's description names the creature that likes it:

The higher essences chain into other systems:

• Pure Draconic Essence takes 15 each of the Draconic Fire, Lightning and Poison Talon plus 2 Eternal Ice. Each Draconic Talon is made from two vanilla wyvern talons of the same element (engram level 1). Eternal Ice drops from a Frost wyvern.
• Sanguine Draconic Essence takes 25 Blood Packs plus 10 each of Dino body, Dino brain, Dino head and Dino leg. The body parts come from the Draconic Dino Murder Potion (level 50), which sacrifices one of your tames to the Draconic gods and gives you a body part in return. The potion kills the creature, so use it on a tame you can spare.
• Draconic Blood Pack (level 15) is made from five Blood infused poop.
• Chaotic Draconic Essence is 30 Chaotic Crystals.
• Draconic Shadow Essence takes 1,250 Draconic Steak, 100 Black Pearls and 30 Motes of Shadow.

Turning wyverns draconic

The CurseForge page says the Draconic conversion crossbow and arrows turn vanilla wyverns, and wyverns from other mods, into draconic ones. Our data also has a Draconic Converter structure (level 1) that converts some creatures into draconic creatures.

Saddles and wyvern armor

• Tek Armor: the Draconic Fire, Ice, Poison, Tropical, Ember and Blood Wyvern Tek Armor raise health and damage by 15%. Most wyvern saddles and armors unlock at level 18.
• Skeletal saddles: for the Fire, Ice, Lightning and Poison wyverns and for the Blood, Ember and Tropical crystal wyverns.
• Dragon saddles: BloodStorm Saddle (18), Dragonkin Saddle and Dragonkin Brawler Saddle (18), Inferno wyvern Saddle (50), Draconic Flameforge Dragon Saddle (60) and Rejuvenation Dragon Saddle (70). The Draconic Sand Dragon Saddle is available from level 1.
• Wing effects: the Fire Wyvern Fire Extinguishing Crystal and the Lightning Wyvern Lightning Rod Crystal go in the cosmetic slot and remove the fire or lightning effect from the wings. The Effect Muter structure does the same for every draconic wyvern of your tribe nearby.

Structures

The CurseForge page says all draconic weapons and structures are crafted at the Draconic Shrine. It unlocks at level 5 and costs 250 Stone.

Chibis are optional. The Draconic Chibi Resizer (level 1) changes the size of draconic chibis; re-equip the chibi after using it.

Healing and breeding potions

The mod's potions heal your tame over a few seconds:

The lower potions are made from Amarberries, Tintoberries and vegetables such as Savoroot, Rockarrot and Longrass. The Supreme and Pure potions drop the berries and use Rejuvenation Crystals with the vegetables. Separately, the Draconic Gender Swap Potion (level 50, 100 Element) changes a creature's gender.

Tips

• Place the Draconic Guide on day one. It is the mod's own manual.
• Save vanilla Fire, Lightning and Poison wyvern talons. Pure Draconic Essence for the Polar Dragon needs all three Draconic Talons.
• Look after a Rejuvenating Dragon. Its crystals go into the top healing potions and its own saddle.
• Elder Wyvern and Polar Dragon babies drink their own milk. A Milk Fridge keeps that milk from spoiling.
• Build the Draconic Portal only when your army is ready. It is a level 100 engram and summons the mod's bosses.

Every creature, item and engram of the mod is listed on its mod page, with spawn commands.