I Made a Save Viewer for ARK Ascended
I found save parsing tools useful back in ASE on various occasions, didn't find anything like what I wanted for Ascended so I've been working on my own, the Save Prodder.
Reads structures, dinos, cryopods, tribes, fertilised eggs and players, plotted on the map and in sortable / filterable tables.
Windows, one exe, nothing to install, just unzip and run. Free, open source: https://github.com/dawilsh/ark-save-prodder/releases/latest
What it shows
- Dinos both wild and tamed with levels, stat points, colours, gene traits and imprint. Does cryopods, tested with SCS, your mods may vary
- Structures, inventories, who placed them
- Players and tribes, with tribe logs
- Fertilised eggs, on the ground and in containers.
- Ancestry as a family tree, just to see if it was interesting
- 'Territory' tab - thought it would be cool to see 'who owns where', but the reality is more like 'here is all the detritus'
- generated 'teleport to' admin commands for most things
- 'find stuff' one search to find them all
Also bolted on FTP, so grabbing the latest save from a nitrado or other is a couple clicks.
Save safety: it works on its own copy. Your real save is only ever read from, never written to, so nothing Prodder does can damage your world.
Maps
A moderate selection of topographic images built in. I've also stitched 'high-res' maps from in-game screenshots, in-app as a separate download to keep download size down, only for Island, Ragnarok, Valguero & Genesis currently. Will be adding other maps as I play them, or if demand points a different direction.
Antivirus
It's unsigned, because certificates cost money and this doesn't, so Windows will warn you about an unknown publisher. That's about the missing signature, not the file — it scans clean, 0/68 on VirusTotal, and there are checksums in the README if you want to verify.
Happy to hear what's broken. I've only really tested on the maps I've played and with the mods I use, so there's a lot of room for Weird Stuff to happen.
Not affiliated with Studio Wildcard. Hope it helps, enjoy!