Acolytes of FireARK: Survival Ascended

Credits and licenses

The tools on these sites stand on other people’s work. This page says who made what, and the terms we use it under. Always credit where credit is due.

The maths and the data

  • ARK Smart Breeding by cadon and contributors. The stat formulas, the way points are worked back from values, the taming algorithm, the species stat values, the taming-food tables and the kibble recipes behind our breeding and taming tools are ported from, or read from, ARK Smart Breeding. MIT License, Copyright © 2015 cadon.
  • arkutils. The creature pictures on the species pages come from their species-images project (MIT, Copyright © 2025 arkutils contributors; the pictures themselves are Studio Wildcard artwork). The values for the S-Dino Variants creature mod come from their Obelisk data repository, which declares no licence; we credit it and use it for stat values only. The Tek Cloning Chamber costs come from their Purlovia game-data extraction, as published on the ARK Wiki.
  • ARK Wiki and its editors. Recipes, item weights and stack sizes, spoil times, forge and trough figures, mutation rules, weapon torpor figures and creature facts used by our crafting calculator, Discord calculators and species pages. Wiki text is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the creature notes on our pages are summaries written in our own words.
  • Studio Wildcard. ARK and its artwork (creature renders, item icons, logos) belong to Studio Wildcard and its licensors and are shown here for identification only.
  • Mod authors. Recipes and values for the Cybers Structures and S-Dino Variants mods that run on the cluster.

Inspiration

The layout of our taming and stats pages follows the shape of Dododex, and the crafting calculator (its Desired Output button and breakdown) follows Ark Buddy’s. We use none of their code, data or artwork: the numbers come from the sources above and from this cluster’s own settings.

Software on these pages

  • qrcode.js by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT, Copyright © 2009 Kazuhiko Arase), for the authenticator-app QR code.
  • Cinzel (The Cinzel Project Authors) and Inter (The Inter Project Authors, Rasmus Andersson), typefaces under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from our own server.

The MIT License

This applies to each component above that is marked MIT, with the copyright holder shown for it.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 cadon                       (ARK Smart Breeding)
Copyright (c) 2025 arkutils contributors       (species-images)
Copyright (c) 2009 Kazuhiko Arase              (qrcode.js)

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Disclaimer

  • Acolytes of Fire is an unofficial, player-run community. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Studio Wildcard or its licensors, ARK Smart Breeding, arkutils, the ARK Wiki, Dododex or Ark Buddy. ARK, ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK: Survival Ascended and related names and artwork are trademarks or works of Studio Wildcard and its licensors.
  • The calculators give estimates from community-researched and datamined values and this cluster’s own settings. Game updates change numbers, so check in game before relying on one. Everything is provided as is, without warranty.
  • This is a non-commercial community project, which is also the condition of the ARK Wiki’s CC BY-NC-SA licence.
  • Missed a credit, or want something changed or removed? Tell us in Discord or through the Support page.