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Gigasaurus

An ARK: Survival Ascended companion — browse the entire creature, armor, weapon, and resource glossary, import your tamed creatures from in-game export files, and explore breeding stats with a built-in solver.

What is Gigasaurus?

Gigasaurus is an open-source ARK: Survival Ascended companion app. It pairs a browsable glossary of every creature, armor set, weapon, and resource with a local-first creature manager that imports your in-game .ini dino exports, runs them through a stat solver, and renders them in their true colors.

All game data is also exposed as a public, type-safe REST API so other tools can build on top of it. Imported creature data lives in your browser's IndexedDB; nothing is shared server-side unless you opt into Google Drive AppData backup.

Highlights

My Creatures
Drop in .ini exports from ShooterGame/Saved/DinoExports/. Stats, levels, breeding values, and ancestry are solved automatically. Stored in your browser — optionally backed up to your own Google Drive AppData.
Stat Solver
Imported creatures are run through an ARK Smart Breeding-style solver: wild levels, tamed levels, and breeding value per stat — with a level-sanity check against the export.
Live Color Render
See your imported creature with its actual coat painted on, region-by-region — composited live from ARK Smart Breeding-style mask images.
REST API
Every page on this site is backed by a public, fully-typed REST API. PokéAPI-style endpoints with interactive Scalar docs at /api/openapi.

Browse the glossary

For developers

Public REST API
Every page is powered by an Elysia-based REST API with full schema validation. Try it interactively at /api/openapi.
GET /api/creaturesJSON
GET /api/creatures/:slugJSON
GET /api/armorJSON
GET /api/weaponsJSON
GET /api/resourcesJSON
Open-source
Built with Next.js 16, Elysia, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, and Bun. All scraping scripts and creature data live in the repo — contributions welcome.