ARK: Survival Ascended is shutting down a batch of low-population official servers on June 19

Studio Wildcard is retiring a long list of official ARK: Survival Ascended servers on Friday, June 19, citing low activity. The change mainly affects quieter servers, including some in less-populated regions, as the studio trims back worlds that aren’t seeing much use.

According to the official post, Wildcard says this usually happens after new content launches, when fresh servers go up and older ones end up mostly empty. This round appears to be one of the bigger cleanups, with PvP and PvE servers across multiple maps and regions on the list.

If you’re on one of the affected servers, now’s the time to move. Wildcard says players should transfer off before the shutdown date if they want to keep their survivors, creatures, and items. Once those servers go offline, access will be gone.

The full list is pretty long, so it’s worth checking the announcement directly to see whether your server is included. For regular official-server players, especially anyone on lower-pop worlds, this is the part that matters: June 19 is the cutoff.

ARK: Survival Ascended is the Unreal Engine 5 remake of ARK: Survival Evolved, and like the original, its official server network shifts over time as new maps and modes roll out. This latest pass is less about a game update and more about server maintenance, but it could still be a big disruption if your tribe has settled on a quiet shard.