Choosing Your Server Software
ARK: Survival Ascended only offers a single Public branch on the Software tab — there are no alternate or testing branches to choose between. Updates applied here still require a server restart to take effect, with a confirmation warning shown before you save.
Next Steps
Want to run Workshop mods? See Installing Mods on ARK: Survival Ascended for the spawnly-args.json setup. Given the manual mod process, take a backup before making changes to a live world — see Managing Backups & Restoring Your Server. For a comparison with the older game, see Getting Started with ARK: Survival Evolved on Spawnly.