Our new US-East ARK: Survival Ascended PvP cluster is now online with four connected maps, crossplay support, boosted rates, dedicated hosting, and a long-term plan to grow alongside the community.

HqK is not being built as another temporary ARK server that disappears after a few weeks. Our goal is to create a reliable cluster where players can build tribes, develop breeding lines, compete for territory, make alliances, start rivalries, and become part of the server’s history.

Start on the Map That Fits Your Tribe

The HqK PvP Cluster currently includes four ARK: Survival Ascended maps:

• The Island
• Scorched Earth
• The Center
• Extinction

Every map is part of the same connected cluster. Players can build their main base on one map, travel for resources and progression, raise creatures, complete boss fights, and compete throughout the HqK network.

Four maps are only the beginning. We plan to add more ARK: Survival Ascended maps as the population grows and the community needs additional territory, resources, progression, and variety.

Real Bases, Real Territory and Real Competition

HqK is inspired by Classic Beta ARK PvP, when tribes built visible, defensible compounds instead of hiding their entire operation inside a cave.

We want to see tribes design strong bases, layer their defenses, control valuable territory, and build locations that other players recognize. Cave building is restricted to protect that style of gameplay and keep important progression areas accessible.

Creature and cryopod deployment remains available where needed for normal cave progression. The goal is not to make caves unusable. The goal is to bring meaningful above-ground base building back to ARK PvP.

HqK Server Rates

The HqK cluster uses boosted rates to reduce unnecessary grinding while preserving progression, breeding, farming, base building, and PvP competition.

Crossplay is enabled, along with player speed leveling and flyer speed leveling. The cluster also includes carefully selected quality-of-life mods for creature storage, stat inspection, mutations, Dino finding, and transferring Element and tributes.

Built for US-East ARK Players

HqK runs on dedicated US-East hardware rather than an overloaded shared game-server package. The cluster is monitored for performance, save behavior, transfer stability, backups, and resource usage as the population and number of maps increase.

No ARK server can honestly promise that the game will never experience a crash, update problem, or interruption. What we can promise is that HqK is being actively operated, monitored, and improved instead of being left unattended.

Support the Cluster Without Buying the Win

HqK offers supporter subscriptions, HqK Tokens, and an in-game server shop to help cover the cost of operating and expanding the cluster.

Our direction is to avoid dominant purchased breeding lines, selected-stat boss armies, instant raid kits, and store products that allow one tribe to simply buy control of the server.

We also offer 48-hour White Flag protection through the HqK Server Shop. White Flags give players temporary protection when real life gets busy, when they need time away, or when they want a short break from PvP without turning the entire cluster into PvE.

The HqK Cluster Is Growing Now

The best time to join a PvP cluster is before every strong location is claimed, before every breeding line is established, and before the server’s major tribes have already written its history.

HqK is currently in that early stage. Tribes are forming, bases are being built, and the future power structure of the cluster has not been decided.

Players who join now will have the opportunity to establish themselves before future maps are added and the population grows. Players who wait may enter those future maps against tribes that already have resources, breeding lines, alliances, and experience behind them.

Choose a Map and Start Building

Join the HqK Discord, meet the community, connect your ARK account, and choose your starting map. The cluster is online now, and there is still time to become one of the tribes that helped shape it.