Bug Bounties
ARK's Bug Bounty Program
As of 31st May 2022, WildCard has distributed bounties totaling $65,780.
WildCard rewards those bringing attention to severe hacks or exploits impacting gameplay or server stability on official servers—excluding typical issues like aimbots, ESP, or speed hacks.
Share your discoveries at [email protected]. Recognized critical issues, even outside of "hacks", may still qualify for bounties.
Please specify "Exploit Report" in your email subject. While not every email will get feedback, each report is scrutinized. WildCard's priority lies with official online multiplayer server concerns.
Official Topic: SurviveTheArk - Bug Bounties
If you got patched or intended exploits to add to the list, feel free to let us know at [email protected]
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Godmode Exploits
In ARK, 'Godmode' refers to a state where players either become completely immune to damage or entirely invisible to enemies.
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Mesh Exploits
In ARK, 'Meshing' is a notorious exploit where players can slip outside the designated play area or even beneath the map. This gives them an unfair advantage, allowing them to hide, ambush, or evade threats in ways not intended by the game's design.
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Duplication Exploits
In ARK, 'Duping' enables players to clone items or resources. This act can provide substantial advantages by giving access to unlimited valuable resources or powerful equipment, bypassing the game's intended balance and progression.
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Crash Exploits
In ARK, there's an issue known as 'Crashes/Rollbacks'. These incidents force the server to shut down unexpectedly, and upon restart, gameplay reverts to the last saved state. This can undo player progress, erase recent events, and disrupt the continuity of the game, often causing frustration among survivors.
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Speed Exploits
In ARK, 'Speed' allows players or their tamed creatures to move at significantly increased rates. Such an advantage can help in quickly covering distances, evading defenses, or reaching destinations in a fraction of the usual time.
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Misc Exploits
In ARK, 'Misc Exploits' cover a wide range of unintended game behaviors, from modifying character stats to turning off enemy generators. They're the wild cards of the exploit world, unpredictable in nature, and can dramatically alter gameplay in unexpected ways.
Glide without Glider • Misc Exploit
This exploit was utilized by equipping a Glider onto a 'Taxidermy Base'. This caused it to be falsely equipped on your player without using the item, so you would not have the disadvantages like the weight or durability.
Requirements: Taxidermy Base, Glider
Intended: No
Status: Patched
Grapping Hook Glitch • Misc Exploit
This glitch is currently part of the game and not planned to be patched. It is a method to boost the grappling hook speed and is used for raiding all kind of bases.
Requirements: Crossbow, Grappling Hook
Intended: Yes
Status: Working
Survive The ARK Godmode • Godmode Exploit
This exploit allowed players to have unlimited health inside the "Survive The ARK" mission on Genesis 2. This mission had a bug that would not cancel the mission even if you had zero health left. This was achieved by eating organic polymer to set your health to 0, while at the same time you are possessing a Noglin. This would set your health to 0 while still being "alive". Exploiters used this exploit to finish the mission, and some meshed out of the arena and used it to raid bases.
Requirements: Noglin, Enemy/Wild Dino, Mission Terminal
Intended: No
Status: Patched
Andrewsarchus Godmode • All Maps • Godmode Exploit
This exploit allowed players to be invisible to turrets. When riding an Andrewsarchus, the saddle has no hitbox; for this reason, the player gets a buff that makes the player invisible to turrets. But it also applied another buff that made it "impossible" to dismount a player when being shot with a net gun. The exploiters now managed to unmount while being netted; this caused the server to think that you were still mounted on the Andrewsarchus, making the player invisible to turrets. The video that got sent to us is recorded after the first patch, which forced the player to dismount when moving far away from the Andrewsarchus, so the player kept dragging it around as a bypass.
Requirements: Andrewsarchus, 2 Players, Noglin
Intended: No
Status: Patched
Ghost Mode • Meshing Exploit
This ghost mode exploit was caused by the snow owl freeze, which would not dismount the player even if he fell off because he was knocked out. Glitching the hitbox of the character. Combined with a tek gauntlets flying exploit, it was usable like the admin ghost mode.
Requirements: Snow Owl, Grappling Hook, Tek Gauntlets, Other Gauntlets, Parachute, 2 Players
Intended: No
Status: Patched