Phoenix Mod (TQMAZZ) Guide

Phoenix mod TQMAZZ is a creature mod for ARK: Survival Evolved by Mazzz (Steam mod ID 2976497103). It sticks to ARK's own creatures and gives them new versions in a ladder of tiers. Each tier comes with its own taming treat, meat and hide, the main tiers have bosses, and most tiers lead to a side tier that you can only reach by evolving a tame. Our database holds 324 creature entries and 463 items from the mod, including 12 stations and other structures with an inventory. The Workshop page was last updated on 1 May 2024.

Before you start

• Load order: the author wants the mod at the very top of the mod list.
• With or without other mods: it is designed to run alone or next to other creature mods, and the author describes it as compatible with the known creature mods.
• Spawning: the author recommends adding the Simple Spawner mod so that all of the mod's creatures spawn.
• After installing: verify your ARK game files in Steam, as the Workshop page advises.
• In-game help: the Phoneix Book item carries the mod's own notes.

The main tiers

There are six main tiers, from Void at the bottom to Destroyer at the top. The first five are tamed with their own treat. Destroyer creatures work differently: you have to kill the wild one first, which gives you a tameable version, and only that one takes the Destroyer Treat. Our database lists a summon item for each tameable Destroyer.

Main-tier creatures are also where the tier's materials come from. Their bodies give the tier's hide and meat, and Void creatures drop the Void Egg that goes into the Void Treat and the other treats. Each tier also has a Heart, which its item note tells you to keep.

Side tiers

The mod's spreadsheet marks the Drowning, Evil, Dark, Holy and Cursed creatures as not tameable. You get them by evolving a tame from the tier below.

Side-tier creatures have dangerous abilities that can kill you. The mod's blockers protect you: the Drawining Blocker covers the drowning effect, the Dark Dust Antidote covers Dark Dust infection, the Rouge Radiation Blocker covers Rogue radiation, and the Phoenix Blocker covers all three.

The V.T.C.B extra tier

V.T.C.B stands for Vampire, Tek, Corrupted and Bone. You do not tame these in the wild. Kill them for a chance at a special blueprint, which can be crafted only once, in the Phoenix's inventory.

Our database also lists the Bone Summnor, Corrupted Summnor and Vampier Summnor, which each spawn a random creature of their group, plus a Mechanical Summnor.

Taming and knockout

The Workshop page says arrows and darts are how you build torpor on the tiered creatures, and the mod gives each tier its own knockout gear:

• Arrows and darts: the Void Arrow, Infernal Arrow and Twilight Arrow add torpor fast. The Rogue Dart, Soul Dart and Destroyer Dart go in the Longneck Rifle and do not take attachments.
• Advanced bows: the Void, Infernal and Twilight Advanced Bows shoot advanced arrows that you switch with R between damage, explosive, torpor and flame. The Void upgrading tool turns a Void bow into an Infernal one, and the Infernal Upgrading tool turns that into a Twilight one. Upgrading crafts a new bow, so the old bow's stats are lost.
• Phoneix Bola: adds 10 torpor per second for 30 seconds.
• Void Posionthrower: up to 2,000 torpor, best on small creatures. It runs on Phoneix Posionthrower Ammo.
• Harpoon Dart: up to 20,000 torpor, fired from a Ballista or a harpoon gun.
• Potions: every tier has a health, a taming and a torpor potion. Torpor potions work best in arrows and ammo. Taming potions cut the food a creature needs: 10% for Infernal, 15% for Twilight, 20% for Rogue, 50% for Soul and 70% for Destroyer.

Evolution

Evolution is how you reach the side tiers. Our item notes and the spreadsheet describe the route like this:

1. Tame a creature of a main tier.
2. Gather the DNA items and craft the evolver for the side tier you want at the DNA Station. Phenox Tokens, which drop from killed creatures, are needed to get creature DNA.
3. Put the evolver in your main-tier creature and use it. You get a blueprint for a random creature of the side tier, and the original creature is sacrificed.
4. Craft the evolved creature from that blueprint in the Phoenix's inventory.

The evolver for each side tier has its own DNA item, such as Dark DNA for the Dark Evolver or Vagabond DNA for the Vagabond Evolver.

The Phoenix and the helper creatures

• Void Phoenix: the creature the mod is named after. It is summoned with the Phoneix item, and evolved creatures and V.T.C.B blueprints are crafted in its inventory. It can evolve into Infernal, Twilight, Rogue, Soul, Destroyer and V.T.C.B forms: put the matching Phoneix EVO item (for example Phoneix Twilight EVO) in its inventory and use the multi-use option.
• Phoniex Ankylosaurus: harvests more Metal, Copper and Obsidian.
• Phoneix Dung Beetle: turns the poop of the tier creatures into sweeteners. Sweeteners slightly restore health and food, and they make potions stronger.
• Phoniex Iguanodon: crafts the tier seeds for farming and helps collect Wooden Silk.

Bosses

Each main tier has a boss, summoned with the tier's summon item (Void Boss, INFERNAL Boss, TWILIGHT Boss, ROGUE Boss or SOUL Boss). The Boss Tarminal is the mod's boss station. The summoners are crafted with that tier's Boss Essence, which is harvested from the tier's creatures. The Vampire, Bone, Corrupted, Mechanical and Destroyer groups have a Boss Essence of their own, harvested with the Phoenix.

• Drops: each boss leaves a Boss Crystal and its Boss Blood. Boss Blood only comes from the boss kill, and its item note calls it essential for crafting seeds.
• Rogue boss: summon it in deep water only. Spawned at the surface or on land, it deals four times the damage.
• Special bosses: four bosses are named after YouTubers: The Mighty Aimantora (a Dinopithecus), AL King AL Dragon (a Dragon), KMOTION (a Megapithecus) and Saud11X (a Fenrir). Each has a normal summon item and a tameable one, plus a trophy, an armor set and a flag.
• Other summons: our database also lists summon items for an ARK Broodmother Boss, Dragon Boss and Megapithecus Boss, a DodoReaper Boss, a DodoWyvren Boss, Moira the Punisher and a set of Forsaken creatures. The mod's notes do not describe these fights.

Items and stations

Stations

• Phoneix Station: the mod's smithy, where most of its items are crafted.
• Phoneix Forge: smelts Metal, Copper, Obsidian and Glass ingots.
• DNA Station: crafts everything you need to evolve creatures.
• Boss Tarminal: where the bosses are summoned.
• Meat Dryer: turns tier meat into dry meat.
• Phoneix Meat Spoiler: spoils meat quickly. Spoiled tier meat goes into potions.
• Fermentation Station: home of the fermented fruit jars, which are used in potions and treats. Do not drink them: they make you drunk.
• Phoenix Crop Plot: a large plot that reaches 900% with a greenhouse. PHNX Fertilizer makes crops grow with ten times the effect.
• Phoenix Tek Forcefield: a shield generator that keeps enemies out. Its fuel is Phoenix Flam.
• Luban Tree Sap Tap: attach it to a large tree to collect Luban Sap over time.

Armor and tools

For gathering, the Phoneix Pick harvests more Metal, Stone and Copper, and the Phoneix Hatchet more Wood and Thatch. The Phoenix Sniper runs on Phoenix Flam and can switch with R between damage and torpor.

Server settings

The mod reads a [PhoenixMod] section in GameUserSettings.ini. Each key is a multiplier with a default of 1.0, and higher values speed things up:

• Forgecraftingspeed: the forge's crafting speed.
• fermetationspeed: fermentation speed.
• CropGrowthSpeedMultiplier: crop growth speed.
• CropHarvestAmount: how much fruit a crop gives.
• Drymeatcraftingspeed: the Meat Dryer's crafting time.

Tips

• Tame a spare of any creature you plan to evolve, because evolving costs you the original.
• Get the Void Phoenix early. Every evolution and every V.T.C.B blueprint is finished in its inventory.
• Kill each tier boss as soon as you can. Its Boss Blood is your way to the next tier's seeds.
• Carry a Phoenix Blocker when you hunt side-tier creatures.
• Only summon the Rogue boss in deep water.
• Do not throw away tier Hearts. Their item notes say you will need them.
• Phoniberry grows mostly on beaches.

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