ASA WarRoom is a real-time server tracker and toolkit built for ARK: Survival Ascended PvP players. We turn raw, scattered server data into clear rankings, alerts, and guides so tribes can make smarter decisions about where to play, when to raid, and which servers to avoid.
Why we built it
ARK PvP lives and dies by timing. Player counts swing through the day, "offline" windows decide when a base is vulnerable, and choosing the wrong server can waste weeks of grind. The in-game browser barely hints at any of this. WarRoom was built to surface the signals that actually matter — population trends, surge moments, and offline patterns — in one place, across web, Android, and iOS.
What WarRoom does
- Live server rankings. Sort the most active ARK: Survival Ascended servers by current players, trending surge, or offline activity.
- Surge and offline alerts. Add servers to a watchlist and get push or Discord notifications when population spikes or drops.
- Population history. Every tracked server has a 7-day player-count chart so you can read prime time and decay at a glance.
- Tribe directory. A public listing of tribes and alliances so you know who runs a server before you commit.
- Trading board. A directory of shops and service communities — breeders, resource sellers, raid contractors.
- Tools. An INI preset manager, a Windows companion app with tribe-log alerts, and AI-assisted server recommendations.
How our data works
WarRoom collects publicly available server information — names, IP/port, player counts, maps, and mod data — and takes snapshots roughly every five minutes, around the clock. Those snapshots power the trend charts and the surge/offline rankings. The surge metric compares the last ~10 minutes of population against the preceding baseline; the offline ranking weighs low floors and long empty stretches. Because data is sampled periodically, figures can lag real-time by a few minutes and should be treated as guidance, not gospel. Where our numbers have limits — ghost players, queue effects, sampling gaps — we say so directly in the relevant guides.
How we write our guides
The guides are written by the WarRoom team — players with years of official and unofficial PvP between us — and edited against two sources: our own tribe experience, and the population data this site collects. We keep a few rules: mechanics that vary by patch are flagged rather than stated as eternal truth; "check your server's rules" appears wherever rulesets genuinely differ; and every guide gets a visible published and updated date. When a patch changes something material, we update the guide and the date rather than quietly leaving it wrong. If you spot an error, we want to know — see the contact section below.
Who we are
WarRoom is an independent project made by ARK players, for ARK players. We are not affiliated with Studio Wildcard or Snail Games, the creators of ARK. All game names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. The project is developed by a small team; running the tracker, the apps, and the editorial side is how we stay close to the game we've sunk thousands of hours into.
Get in touch
Have feedback, a bug report, a data correction, or a partnership idea? We read everything. Reach us at pss.team.support@gmail.com or through the Contact page.