Dragontopia Expands With ‘Gargantar’, Fantastic Tames Season 1 Adds ‘Cerberax’, and the Community-Voted Therizinosaurus TLC Arrives Free for All Survivors
SEATTLE, WA – OCTOBER 1, 2026 – Get your taming gear ready! Studio Wildcard today unleashed a massive triple-threat creature drop for ARK: Survival Ascended, bringing the enormous Gargantar Dragon to ARK: Dragontopia, the three-headed Cerberax to Fantastic Tames Season 1, and a community-voted Therizinosaurus TLC free update featuring new animations, combat, harvesting abilities and more.
For ARK: Dragontopia expansion owners, the skies just got considerably heavier with the arrival of Gargantar, a massive dragon whose appetite directly fuels its strength. The more Gargantar packs away down its gullet, the tougher it becomes to bring down, transforming a well-fed dragon into a formidable battlefield presence. And what goes down can come back up: Gargantar can vomit and spit acidic goo at enemies, turning the contents of his enormous belly into an offensive weapon. That enormous belly has other uses too: trusted allies can tuck themselves safely away from danger, while unfortunate enemies swallowed whole will find the accommodations considerably less comfortable. Gargantar joins the Dragontopia adventure ahead of December’s launch of a boundless, map-wide skyworld.
The Cerberax joins the Burrowbuck as the latest creature addition for the ARK: Fantastic Tames Season 1. Taming this hulking three-headed hound means winning over the heads separately, each with very different approaches: one wants to wrestle, another can be won over with food, and the third would rather join you on the hunt. Once tamed any one survivor can jump on for a ride, although Cerberax is best handled by three Survivors, each managing a head, with the right head breathing fire, the left spitting venom, and the center head acting as a lightning catalyst that amplifies the other two for devastating combo attacks. The three heads of Cerberax all use separate tactics, but their real strength is working together for maximum potential!
Rounding out today’s creature drop is the iconic Therizinosaurus, selected by the ARK community for a TLC glow up. The infamous long-clawed creature returns with a more expressive presence in the wild and a new bounding hop for tackling difficult terrain. A quick look at each Therizino now reveals its harvesting specialization, shown through dynamic claws that evolve based upon what type of resource it gathers. From a safe distance you’ll notice a Therizino adapted to delicate foraging will flash longer, sharper claws, while the rippers of a power-harvester get worn and chipped. Get too close, and whichever style of claws it has will tear into you with the same vicious double-swipe attack. No two hardworking Therizinos look quite the same, with seasoned harvesters proudly wearing the marks of their trade, with claws and posture reflecting the work it does best.
About ARK: Dragontopia
Available now, Dragontopia ($29.99) is an all-new premium expansion pass introducing Survivors to a vast aerial ecosystem where dragons rule the skies. To survive this new high-altitude frontier, you’ll need to grow through the Dragon Skill Trees, a new progression system built around strengthening your bond with these mythical beasts. Craft highly specialized gear and wield potent tools, and expand your base with a draconic tileset, incubator backpacks, and mysterious potion stations.
About ARK Fantastic Tames Season 1
Expand your exotic menagerie with Fantastic Tames! These extraordinary oddities are forged from the ARK’s most mystical anomalies in defiance of nature. Each Fantastic Tame brings its own wondrous array of abilities to a tribe, with Season 1 granting access to three new additions: the Burrowbuck (available now), Cerberax (available now), and Enigmasaur (Q4 2026).
Create a Survivor, form a tribe, and then tame, train, breed & ride dinosaurs in the definitive survival experience ARK: Survival Ascended! ASA is now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Epic Games Store and Steam.
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ABOUT STUDIO WILDCARD
Since revealing its flagship game ARK: Survival Evolved in 2015, Studio Wildcard has tirelessly strived to bring its dinosaur-filled vision to the masses. With millions of players worldwide, the team has delivered an amazing amount of new content and leveraged cutting-edge technology to keep fans engaged. With a transmedia universe, the ARK story can be discovered on all gaming platforms, within spin-off titles, and now as a new epic narrative featuring a star-studded cast in ARK: The Animated Series on Paramount+. www.studiowildcard.com
