Studio Wildcard used Community Crunch 517 to detail the Therizinosaurus TLC, the rework chosen by players through the Extra Life vote. The stated goal is restraint: the creature keeps the role survivors already rely on, but gets improved combat responsiveness, reworked controls, better traversal and a much stronger visual identity. The same post confirmed a new dossier for the species and announced the shutdown date for ARK: Survival Evolved’s official servers on Nintendo Switch.
Switch official servers are shutting down
The hard date first: on the Switch side, both the original ASE release and the Ultimate Survivor Edition lose their official servers on August 31, 2026. Unofficial servers and single player remain fully playable. Wildcard says more than a million players passed through those servers since the 2018 release and the 2022 rebuilt remaster.
How the Therizino changes
The rework touches behaviour, appearance and movement rather than the creature’s function:
- Wild ones now telegraph. Before committing to an attack, a Therizino locks eyes with you and spreads its claws — a single, unmistakable warning window.
- Claws reflect the job. Specimens tuned for delicate foraging show longer, sharper claws; heavy power-harvesters end up with worn, chipped blades. No two working Therizinos look identical anymore.
- The attack itself is unchanged in principle — the same brutal double-swipe, regardless of claw type.
- Taming stays simple. Knock it out, feed it enough, and it falls in line.
- Mounted mobility is the big win. It turns almost in place and hops over obstacles that would stall an Allo or a Rex.
Wildcard also notes that tribes no longer treat expanding Therizino populations as a threat — the creature is described as adapting to human presence, though a provoked one is more lethal than before.
The new dossier
The reveal came with a fresh dossier: Therizinosaurus multiensis, Late Cretaceous, herbivore, territorial. It reinforces what the creature has always been in practice — a tireless harvester whose reaping blades double as a serious weapon, and a mount that shields its rider from predators and raiders alike.
What this means for players using software
A TLC is never cosmetic from a tooling perspective. New mesh, new skeleton, new animation set and a fresh layer of visual variation all ship inside a client update, and client updates move offsets. Anything reading memory — creature ESP, tamed-dino highlighting, stat and level readouts — will either go silent or print garbage until the build is rebuilt against the new binary.
There is a second, subtler issue. Aimbot and hitbox targeting depend on where the model actually is during an animation. The new double-swipe and the pre-attack warning pose change that geometry at exactly the moments a fight is decided, so even a build that technically attaches may aim slightly off until bone mappings are refreshed.
The sane routine hasn’t changed. Skip official servers on patch day entirely — ASA client updates frequently arrive alongside anticheat updates, and the first hours after a rollout are the worst possible time to be a test subject. Check the software update statuses before you load in; if ASA isn’t marked as supported on the current build, wait it out rather than gambling an account. If you run a DMA setup or a spoofer, verify the HWID side separately — anticheat pushes tend to break that component before they break the cheat itself.
Private and unofficial servers give you more slack on detection risk, but not on offsets: you still need an updated build. Current builds live on the ARK: Survival Ascended page, and the moment to check it is when the TLC actually lands on live servers — not on announcement day.
Dominate ARK: Survival Ascended with our software
Verified cheats and software — updates within 12–48 hours after major patches, with guarantees and 24/7 support.