It might be pure hell on the surface, but stick your head underground ARK Items and Aberration looks like it will be rich with exotic biomes, flora and tameable fauna. As the announcement trailer makes clear, we’re well out of dinosaur territory now, with Aberration’s wildlife taking more inspiration from James Cameron than Jurassic Park.

There are a few lingering shots of the phenomenal-looking Rock Drake—a gliding lizard thing that can camouflage itself completely, and which I cannot wait to stick impolitely to the walls of neighboring bases—plus the massive Cave Crustacean. There’s also a Lantern Pug, which basically appears to be a cheery torch. Aberration’s apex predator might be the Nameless Queen which, says Wildcard, can “impregnate your foes with a horrifying reproductive chest-burster.”

The studio says the expansion will introduce Buy ARK Items over 50 new craft-able Engram items, most of which have a militaristic flavour about them: there are hazmat outfits, charge lanterns, explosive rounds, batteries, glow-sticks, and rail-guns. Oh, and did I mention the rock climbing, zip lines, and wingsuits!? Wildcard is upping the action, and there are hints that Aberration will tie-in more closely with Ark’s recently introduced Tek Tier end-game content. Element, the hard-to-acquire resource that powers many of Ark’s desirable high-level sci-fi gizmos, will apparently feature heavily in Aberration, with Elemental chambers, and ferocious Element-infused creatures known as the Aimless making an appearance.