Obsidian spikes and flowing lava structure skins to create a villain's lair worth brooding in!!

Accented with rough iron, dark stained glass art, and twisted metal wire.

Major Update 1/25/26: New Lost Cathedral set added!

This new set does require Lost Colony ownership to use, as required by Wildcard, since it uses some Lost Colony art assets. If you do not own Lost Colony, you will still be able to use the rest of the sets as normal. This set is meant to "bridge the gap" style-wise between Lost Colony and Lava Lair sets, by combining elements of both. Currently there is just one skin for each structure, but I do plan to add more variants in the future as I am able to dig into the new assets more.

**MINOR UPDATE 1/21/26: Recook post LC.

Added several additional variants to Obsidian skins set; lots more full obsidian including doors, where applicable full brick sets, and more quarter wall variants. Fixed some UVs (material placement). Made some changes to paintable lava material to allow it to display painted colors MUCH better. Also temporarily removed snow effects for all structures due to changes in the LC DLC to the snow system. **

This mod contains 4 structure skins sets:

Obsidian: Paintable skins for all base building pieces, plus furniture, decor boxes and lights (apply to the Wasteland Lights)
Lava: Skins for all base building pieces, metal details are paintable
Paintable Lava: A copy of the lava set but with white lava that can be painted any color
Workstations: Skins for almost all workstations including BTT! Cookers, benches, forges, garage, storages, generators, and much more! Almost all have paintable elements.

Major thanks to @the handyman (discord) / @TheHandymanbuilds (YouTube) for the amazing video!!!

For a fantastic, in depth explanation of how to use cosmetics in Ark, watch this awesome guide by Mikie's Gaming Oasis: https://youtu.be/-CGz7dpEyj8

A full list of all skins can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iEEhOGR0J43FcPDr2PannSZMPFzIsKVKPBIjt9XsC3A/edit?usp=sharing

Check out my other Structure Cosmetic mods!

Stylized Egypt Structure Skins
Royal Structure Skins
Lava Lair Structure Skins

To stay up to date on all my mods, flag bugs or get help with an issue ASAP, join The Rose Garden on Discord here: https://discord.gg/ZeqQREZwAx

FAQ

Q: How do I use your mods? A: My structure skins are custom cosmetics, so they are only installed on the client side; they should not be installed on servers. There are no engrams or crafting needed, just select my mod from your custom cosmetics menu, equip it in your hotbar, and then hover over supported structures to apply. I HIGHLY suggest using the amazing Automatic Base Skinner mod from Quellcrest for easier use of the variant system and skinning large bases. That mod does have to be installed on your server (ID: 1104175)

Q: Why do my textures look blurry in game? A: While I am always working to better optimize textures and materials, there are some limitations depending on your hardware. If your textures don't look like the ones in the pictures/videos, please try adjusting your graphics settings or using console command r.streaming.PoolSize 0 (PC) or r.streaming.PoolSize 3000 (console).

Q: I can't equip the skins to my hotbar, how do I fix this? A: Go to the "Item Cosmetics" tab in your character menu. It's right next to "Apply Cosmetics". If there's a skin in there, drop it and then go back into the "Apply Cosmetics" tab and try putting skin into hotbar again. ( Big thank you to Pick1e for figuring this out!!)

Q: I found a bug, how do I report it? A: First check out ⁠known-issues to make sure that your bug has not already been reported. Head over to ⁠bugs-suggestions-requests after completing verification and you'll be able to submit a bug. Thank you for helping make the mod better!

Q: Why doesn't your mod work on _ structure piece? A: While I aim to make skins for as many structure set pieces as possible, I can't cover every single one. If you'd like to request a skin be added for a specific piece, you can submit a ticket in the Discord.

Lava Lair Structure Skins