Fear Ascended Event Guide

Fear Ascended is the official seasonal event mod for ARK: Survival Ascended, published on CurseForge by StudioWildcardMods (CurseForge ID 877752). It brings a spooky event to a server: ghostly and skeletal creatures, cosmetic rewards and the return of the Dodorex and its Scorched Earth counterpart, the Dodowyvern. Our database holds 36 creature entries and 105 items from the mod. Most of the items are cosmetics, plus the resources you use to craft them.

Before you start

• An official event, not a content overhaul: the CurseForge page sums up the rewards as skins, emotes, chibis and tameable creatures. Our database lists no engrams and no crafting stations for it, so it adds no new tiers or progression.
• Installing it on a server: event mods install the same way as any other mod. On a dedicated server, add 877752 to the -mods= list in your start command and restart. If you run several mods or events at the same time, separate the IDs with commas.
• Short CurseForge notes: the official description is only two sentences long. Most of what follows comes from the mod's own data in our database: names, recipes, stats and spoil times.

The creatures

The 36 creature entries fall into four groups.

Ghost creatures

Twenty-three entries are ghost versions of familiar creatures: Ghost Angler, Ghost Ankylo, Ghost Argent, Ghost Basilisk, Ghost Cat, Ghost Ceratosaurus, Ghost Deinonychus, Ghost Direwolf, Ghost Gigantoraptor, Ghost Lantern Pug, Ghost Mantis, Ghost Megalodon, Ghost Otter, Ghost Owl, Ghost Rex, Ghost Spino, Ghost Xenomorph, Ghost Yi Ling and Ghost Young Ice Fox Dino Companion. Ghost Shoulder Dragon is listed four times, with blueprints named for spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Ghosts matter because of what they drop: Ectoplasm, which is explained further down.

Bone creatures

Ten skeletal creatures make up the second group: Bone Gigant, Bone Jerboa, Bone Mega Carno, Bone Mega Raptor, Bone Mega Rex, Bone Mega Wyvern, Bone Quetz, Bone Sauropod, Bone Stego and Bone Trike. Our data has base stats for only two of them. Bone Trike starts at 5,625 health and Bone Stego at 8,550. The Bone Gigant's bite, gnash and tail sweep are each listed at 1,000 damage.

Dodo Rex and Dodo Wyvern

These are the event's headline monsters, and their numbers show it. In the event version both have a base health of 666,666.

With that much health, plan these as group fights. Bring a team and creatures you can afford to lose.

Mouser

The last entry is the Mouser, with 700 base health, 1,000 stamina and a 55-damage melee attack.

Which ones can you tame?

The CurseForge page says tameable creatures are among the rewards, but it does not name them, and our database does not record this reliably. Check in game before you plan a tame around any one of them.

Ectoplasm and Mutagen Ooze

Two resources drive most of the mod's crafting.

• Ectoplasm: a paranormal resource that ghostly creatures drop. Besides a plain Ectoplasm there are twenty kinds named after the ghost that drops them: Ectoplasm (Anglerfish), (Ankylosaurus), (Argentavis), (Basilisk), (Bulbdog), (Cat), (Ceratosaurus), (Deinonychus), (Direwolf), (Drakeling), (Gigantoraptor), (Mantis), (Megalodon), (Otter), (Reaper), (Rex), (Snow Owl), (Spino), (Veilwyn) and (Yi Ling). Each weighs 0.1 and spoils after seven days.
• Mutagen Ooze: the item itself says it is used to craft various Fear Ascended items. It spoils after only 30 minutes, so do not stockpile it.

The two come together in the ghost items. For each Ectoplasm type there is a matching item named after its ghost, such as Ghost Rex Craftable or Ghost Veilwyn Craftable. Each one costs one Ectoplasm of that type and 20 Mutagen Ooze. In the game files these twenty items are costume items. To collect them all, you have to hunt every kind of ghost.

Crafting with Dinosaur Bone

Almost everything else the mod adds is paid for in Dinosaur Bone, the game's own bone resource. Costs in our data:

The pumpkin hat also has a second version for creatures, FE Pumpkin Hat Dino Craftable, at the same cost.

The Ecto Lantern

The Ecto Lantern is a lantern that weakens ghostly creatures, which makes it the one piece of gear in the mod with a combat use. It comes in two versions. One costs a single Ectoplasm. The other, the Craftable version, costs 10 Dinosaur Bone and 10 Mutagen Ooze. Both weigh 5. Carry one when you go ghost hunting.

Tips

• Plan your ghost hunts by the Ectoplasm you need. Each ghost craftable takes the Ectoplasm of one specific creature.
• Craft right after you collect Mutagen Ooze. It spoils in 30 minutes, while Ectoplasm lasts a week.
• Save Dinosaur Bone for the expensive pieces: the werewolf outfit and Horror Species X cost 200 each.
• Do not fight the Dodo Rex or Dodo Wyvern alone. With 666,666 base health, both are built as group fights.
• The mod is still being updated (its CurseForge page shows a change in late October 2026). If something here differs in game, check the latest version.

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