This is a list of features announced or mentioned by the developers to possibly come to ARK: Survival Evolved. Due to the shifting nature of development, there is no guarantee they'll be implemented.

Items

• Gaslight lanterns^[1]
• Indoor lighting^[2]
• Some light tier between standing torch/lamppost^[2]
• Flashlight^[3]
• Reinforced Stone Box^[4]
• Tek Tier^[5]
  • Cloaking Devices^[5]
  • Multi-HUD Visor (magnifying glass for the distance, maybe with more stat-infos)^[6] (somewhat added with HLN-A for Genesis)
• Wall banners (Flags hanging from walls) ^[7]

Tools

• Shotgun beanbag ammo^[8]
• Warhorn^[4]
• Electrical Keyboard^[9]
• Xylophone^[10]

Weapons

• Knives^[1]
• Colored Smoke Grenade^[4]
• Disease trap^[11]
• Tripwire doors^[11]
• Tek Tier
  • Tracking Bullet^[6]
  • Laser Trip wire^[11]
  • EMP-weapon to disable electrical devices^[6]
• Torpedoes^[12]

Armor / Clothing

• Dinosaur armor^[13]
  • Dino mounted cannons for primitive^[10]
• The ability to add armor to the Training Dummy^[14]

Structures

• Half-walls^[1]
• Colorization pass on older structures^[8]
• Flipping Sloped Walls Upside Down^[10]
• Wall mounted coel for base decoration^[15]

Consumables

• Bread and Jam^[13]
• Laxatives^[16]
• Coffee^[15]

Vehicles

Environment

• More underwater harvestables^[15]
• More seeds, and making seeds only appear in certain biomes^[17]

Map

• Additional caverns and biome development for The Center^[11]

Weather

• Hail and other weather cycles^[1]
• Maybe a rough sea^[4]

Game mechanics

• Mechanized transportation system^[8]
• Potential airships/airship bases^[8]
• Naming items^[18]
• Carrying weapon and torch together^[11]
• Tribe-leveling^[13]
• Alliance rankings/privileges^[11]
• Localized injuries and bleeding (and bandages)^[19]
• Hold breath while in scope function^[16]
• Ability to stop babies from growing(Tek Tier)^[16]
• Craft from remote-inventories (i.e. using resources of a storagebox directly instead of transfer them first)^[20]
• Auto Flight/Run key^[21]
• More creature tracking options^[22]

Behavior

• Carnivores more active at dusk and dawn^[2]
• A fix to Pteranodon's spazzy nature^[2]
• The Carbonemys will have the ability to retract into their shells^[17]
• Possible sibling boost^[16]
• Alarm Trap can cycle aggression on nearby dinos^[16]
• Possible breeding stat^[15]
• Dino support of arbitrary gear^[22]

Scope

• Roaring feature for all dinosaurs^[2]
• Sound pass^[23]

Appearance

• Footprints^[13]
• Different sounds for walking on different surfaces^[17]

Creatures

For specific creatures see the section of Unreleased Creatures at the Dossiers.

• Alpha herbivores^[13][11]

UI

• Improved server browser^[8]
• Separate use key while mounted^[22]

Other

• ARK: Primal Survival
• Disc Edition available after release^[23]

References

^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [17] [6] [7] [13] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [15] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]}