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Crystal Isles

The map Crystal Isles, formerly known as ISO: Crystal Isles, is a free, official, non-canonical DLC expansion map for ARK: Survival Evolved.

Crystal Isles on the ARK Wiki

Obsidian

446 marked locations

  • Surface

Spawn data from ARK: Survival Evolved, mined from the game files by the ARK Wiki. Creatures roam a little outside their areas.

What makes it different

  • Large Crystals coating the map giving it its namesake.
  • A Lovecraftian island constantly engulfed in darkness and thunder known as Eldritch Isle with floating water bubbles and an abundance of rare resources.
  • A massive cluster of floating islands known as Apotheosis.
  • An enormous bee hive in the form of a cave filled with honey and home to Giant Worker Bees and Dire Bears.
  • Giant Anthills that spawn Titanomyrma and can be harvested for resources.
  • Bogs filled with rotting corpses that inflict a Torpor-inducing debuff.
  • A Trench filled with Griffin Nests.
  • A cave within the desert that acts as a hive for Crystal Wyvern Heirs.

Creatures

Unique Creatures 7

Bosses 1

  • Crystal Wyvern Queen

Other Spawns 155

Event Creatures 15

  • Basilisk Ghost
  • Direwolf Ghost
  • GachaClaus
  • Mantis Ghost
  • Party Dodo
  • Rex Ghost
  • Skeletal Bronto
  • Skeletal Carnotaurus
  • Skeletal Giganotosaurus
  • Skeletal Jerboa
  • Skeletal Quetzal
  • Skeletal Raptor
  • Skeletal Rex
  • Skeletal Stego
  • Skeletal Trike

Found only on Crystal Isles

Resources

  • Primal Crystal

Consumables

  • Blood Crystal Wyvern Egg
  • Ember Crystal Wyvern Egg
  • Tropical Crystal Wyvern Egg
  • Tropeognathus Egg

Trophies and Tributes

  • Alpha Crystal Talon
  • Artifact of the Lost
  • Crystal Talon
  • Gamma Crystal Wyvern Queen Trophy
  • Beta Crystal Wyvern Queen Trophy
  • Alpha Crystal Wyvern Queen Trophy

Structures

  • Crystal Wyvern Queen Flag

Overview

Type
Expansion Map
Released in Evolved
Jun 11, 2020
Level name
CrystalIsles