Give every survivor more life, personality, and presence through visible equipment, responsive animations, deep customization, and roleplay systems.
Dynamic Survivors connects gear, animation, weather, customization, and roleplay into one character-focused system.
Supported weapons and hotbar items appear directly on your survivor, with placement based on item type and hotbar position.
Designed to work across Cliffan’s wider collection, with confirmed support for most Cliffan weapon and gameplay mods.
Survivors interact with crafting stations and react to injuries, low health, rain, cold, snow, and heavy wind.
Equipment matters too: helmets that conceal the face or hair can protect your survivor from the elements and change which weather reactions play.
Conceal your displayed character name for mysteries, roleplay events, and disguised identities.
A simple roleplay tool for masked characters, secret identities, events, and encounters where a survivor’s name should remain concealed.
Stack scars, tattoos, makeup, eyes, idle animations, and options such as visible shields and quivers.
Mix more than 40 stackable scars, tattoos, and makeup options into well over 100 combinations, alongside more than 10 distinctive eye choices.
Write a character biography and show a live roleplay status that updates for nearby survivors.
Showcase collectibles and titles alongside your bio. Live status text updates above your survivor in real time for nearby players, making it a flexible roleplay tool.
Earn roleplay-friendly titles and showcase up to four beside your bio to express your survivor’s history.
Collectibles are currently earned through milestones, with more ways to discover and unlock them planned as the system expands.
This is a normal gameplay mod—not a custom cosmetic—and must be enabled server-side.
Enable it on your server or single-player session.
Respawn or fast travel if the survivor buff or customization option does not appear.
Place supported items in your hotbar and their visible models will be positioned on your survivor.
Custom cosmetics are different. ARK handles custom cosmetic skins separately from normal gameplay items, so they cannot currently be added to visible gear through the same method.
Search every gameplay reference in this mod. The same browser is ready to expand with resources, structures, gear, and weapons on future wiki pages.
While worn, your survivor’s displayed name becomes (Hidden) client-side. The original name should remain unchanged server-side.
cheat gfi DisguiseMask 1 0 0cheat giveitem "/CliffansVisibleWeaponsASA/Items/Mask/PrimalItemArmor_Accessory_DisguiseMask.PrimalItemArmor_Accessory_DisguiseMask" 1 0 0 falsePlans may change as development progresses. A roadmap listing is not a guaranteed release date.
Refined animation replacements, weight-based movement, and armor-aware walks.
Lingering wounds and a more expressive injury system for hurt survivors.
Improved eating, drinking, hunger, and thirst reactions.
Corpse harvesting, sitting, and additional physical interactions.
Additional customization, interface, animation, and theme options.
Admins will be able to create custom collectibles and assign them to individual players.
Other mods may work as well; these are the integrations confirmed so far.
Follow the mod’s evolution from visible equipment into a full survivor immersion and roleplay system.
Optional settings for server owners and single-player sessions.
[CliffansDynamicSurvivors]
DisableHotbarItems=0
DisableImmerssiveAnims=0
DisableInventoryAnim=0
DisableImmersion=0
DisableCustomization=0
UnlockAllCollectibles=0
DisableFloatingText=0DisableHotbarItemsControls the visible hotbar item system.DisableImmerssiveAnimsControls immersive survivor animations.DisableInventoryAnimControls inventory-related animations.DisableImmersionControls broader immersion features.DisableCustomizationControls character customization.UnlockAllCollectiblesUnlocks the full collectible collection.DisableFloatingTextControls floating status and collectible text.Quick fixes for the most common setup, Premium, animation, and single-player issues.
Make sure the required survivor buff is active. Respawn or fast travel if it is missing.
Fully restart the game after purchasing Premium.
Weather interactions can depend on the equipped helmet. If a helmet hides the survivor’s hair, rain-protection animations may not play.
Single-player sessions may occasionally lose the required buffs. Respawning usually restores them.
Include your platform, game mode, mod version, steps to reproduce, and any useful screenshots when reporting an issue.