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When it comes to ARK: Survival Ascended PvP, every second counts. Whether you’re scouting enemy bases, taming powerful creatures, or defending your own territory, Quality of Life (QoL) mods can make a huge difference.
The best QoL mods don’t give unfair advantages - they simply make gameplay smoother, smarter, and less tedious. In 2025, the ASA PvP community has clearly gravitated toward a small, balanced set of mods that improve information, organization, and efficiency without breaking the competitive balance.
This article highlights the most recommended QoL mods for PvP, why players love them, and how to use them fairly.
1. Super Spyglass - The Community Favorite Check stats
Super Spyglass (and its “Plus” variants) is by far the most commonly recommended QoL mod for PvP in ASA.
What it does
- Shows detailed information when looking at creatures: health, torpor, stats, food needed for taming, color regions, and more.
- Great for scouting tames, checking enemy dino stats during raids, or planning your next big hunt.
Why it’s the top pick
This mod offers a lot of useful information without automating anything, so players still need to fight and tame manually. It helps both solo players and tribes gather intel faster, and it’s especially valuable on large PvP servers where scouting plays a big role.
To keep the game balanced, many server admins adjust the settings. They often limit the spyglass range to prevent “x-ray” vision, turn off structure information through walls, and hide mutation details on enemy creatures.
📝 Super Spyglass is essentially the “backbone” QoL mod for most PvP clusters.
2. Cybers Structures QoL+ - Expanded Utility for Advanced PvP Bases Check stats
Cybers Structures QoL+ adds a wide range of building, crafting, and quality-of-life upgrades to ASA. With over 200 new structures and recipes, it focuses on making bases more efficient and manageable without fully automating gameplay.
What it does
- Better building tools – cleaner placement, better snapping, and the option to pick up structures without destroying them.
- Wireless Crafting and improved crafting stations that are smaller, quieter, and easier to customize.
- Built-in Pull System & Omni Tool for smarter resource transfers, similar to Pull It but part of the mod.
- Upgraded industrial structures with faster crafting, larger storage, and better performance.
- Useful base structures like hatcheries, gardeners, advanced troughs, grinders, and improved forges to make base work easier.
- Optional Tek and utility structures such as shields, turrets, and teleporters, with full admin control.
- Extra QoL features like reduced noise for loud machines, resizing large structures, mindwipe retention, and dino stat resets.
Why players like it
Players enjoy this mod because it combines many useful QoL features in one place and is well supported. It makes base building and upkeep faster, cleaner, and easier, which is especially helpful for large PvP tribes. Built-in tools like the Multi Tool and resource pulling help keep bases organized without needing extra mods. Admins also have a lot of control, allowing them to enable or disable features to keep PvP balanced.
📝 Cybers Structures QoL+ is a popular building and utility mod. With the right settings, it gives PvP players better efficiency without making the game unbalanced, which is why many competitive ASA servers use it.
3. Dino Finder - Locate and Tame Strategically Check stats
Taming high-level creatures is key to PvP dominance, but searching for the right dino can take hours. Dino Finder (or Simple Creature Finder) solves this without being overpowered.
What it does
- Lets players search for specific creatures on the map.
- Marks their locations so you can track and tame them.
- Perfect for finding rare spawns or lost tames.
Why the community recommends it
This mod saves a lot of time during breeding and taming, making it easier to find the creatures you need. It also helps tribes compete more efficiently for high-value tames.
📝 This mod is excellent for competitive tribes that want to stay efficient without skipping the hunt entirely.
Bonus QoL Mods Worth Considering for PvP Servers
While the three mods above form the core setup, there are a few other QoL mods that can complement your PvP experience if configured carefully. These aren’t mandatory, but they’re frequently used by experienced server admins to smooth out the rough edges of ARK: Survival Ascended.
4. TG Stacking Mod Check stats
Stack mods increase the maximum stack size of resources and reduce their weight, cutting down on constant inventory trips. For PvP, modest stack increases are ideal:
- Cuts down on grinding while keeping resource management meaningful.
- Makes raiding and defending smoother, since players spend less time moving materials.
5. Pelayori's Cryo Storage (Crossplay!) Check stats
Pelayori's Cryo Storage is one of the most popular mods for managing large dino collections on both Steam and console crossplay servers. It gives tribes a clean and efficient way to store, organize, and interact with cryopodded creatures without overcrowding bases.
- Reduces server lag by keeping dinos stored instead of rendered.
- Lets players sort and manage their cryo creatures more easily.
- Works on crossplay servers, making it ideal for mixed platforms.
6. Solo Farm Mod Check stats
Solo Farm Mod is designed to make farming easier for solo players and small tribes, and it fully supports crossplay. It adds tools that let creatures automatically farm resources without needing multiple players.
What it does
- Solo Farm Remote lets you put creatures into “farm mode,” where they continuously gather resources until their inventory is full.
- You can set up custom lists of items to keep or remove, save presets, and apply them to any creature.
- Farm mode can be enabled for dinos that don’t support it by default, using a simple in-game menu.
- The Farmmode Enabler gives creatures a buff with extra radial menu options, making it easy to manage farming behavior directly.
This mod is perfect for solo or duo PvP servers, helping players gather and manage resources efficiently without giving big tribes an unfair edge.
7. Auto Engrams! Check stats
Auto Engrams! automatically unlocks engrams for players as they level up, so they don’t have to spend points manually. This is a simple but very effective QoL improvement for both new and experienced PvP players.
- Removes the hassle of unlocking engrams one by one.
- Keeps progression smooth, especially during early game or fresh wipes.
- Works well on all server sizes and doesn’t affect PvP balance.
The right QoL mods make PvP smoother without breaking balance. Super Spyglass, Cybers Structures QoL+, and Dino Finder cover the core needs of intel, building, and taming. Adding stacking, cryo storage, solo farming, or auto engrams can polish the experience even more. With smart settings, these mods keep PvP fast, fair, and fun.The right QoL mods make PvP smoother without breaking balance. Super Spyglass, Cybers Structures QoL+, and Dino Finder cover the core needs of intel, building, and taming. Adding stacking, cryo storage, solo farming, or auto engrams can polish the experience even more. With smart settings, these mods keep PvP fast, fair, and fun.
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