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2-map PvP cluster · 2 servers

2 maps · 2 servers · 0 playing

These servers share no common name, so this heading describes the cluster rather than naming it. What it says is first-party and exact; a name taken from whichever server happens to be busiest today would not be. The busiest one is called When Potatos can.

Read from the server names. Not checked against the game.

Running a server that isn’t on this site? Add it — but search for it first, in case it is already here under a name you did not expect.

Why Is it Dark - (v94.25)

In ARK: Join ARK → Unofficial → paste the name into the filter. We will ask you in a week whether it was any good — that answer is the only thing on this site that comes from a player rather than a name.

busiest right now — Why Is it Dark

Vote once every 24 hours — the server rewards you in game. See the vote leaderboard →

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Population, counted by us

0average players
0on right now
3highest of each server, added up
7 days agobusiest point on this chart: 2now

Watched 166.3 of the last 168 hours — 99%. Gaps below are pulls that did not happen.

Across the day

Busiest around 11:00 UTC — 0.4 on average

UTC. A server’s own timezone is inferable from where this peaks — that is why observations are stored with an offset — but inferring it is not done yet, and labelling these as local would be a guess.

Counted by us, about every eleven minutes. A gap in the line is time we were not watching, not a server nobody was on.

Rates, as the names state them

Gather
not stated
Taming
not stated
Breeding
not stated
Tribe cap
not stated
XP
not stated

Read out of the server names by our parser. Where a name said nothing, this says “not stated” rather than guessing.

Rules

Wipes
not stated
Wipe date
not stated
Launch or event date
not stated
Offline raid protection
not stated
Playstyle tags
not stated

Read out of the server names by our parser. Where a name said nothing, this says “not stated” rather than guessing.

First-party facts

Mode
PVPfrom the first-party SessionIsPve field, not the name
Platforms
PC (Steam)
Language
not stated
Region
not stated
Discord
not stated
Mods
71 across the cluster
Accuracy
not statednothing in these names was checkable against first-party data
First seen
2026-08-24we were already watching, and it was not here - so this is an arrival

From Wildcard’s server list, not from the name. Nobody typed these and an owner cannot change them here.

The 2 servers

MapNameOn nowAveragePeak
AberrationWhy Is it Dark0/260.22
The IslandWhen Potatos can0/260.01

Mods71

From the server record, not from its name. Names come from CurseForge and are cached here; a mod we have no name for shows its project id, which is still what you can filter and search on.

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