What is the Ark Dev Kit On Steam?

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I tried getting into modding Ark about a year ago but I ended up taking a break from Ark but am now getting back into it and would like to run a sever and modding is extremely interesting to me. Before the Ark Dev Kit required Unreal, Github and Steam to work I believe. Now the Unreal Engine engine download is 118+ GB which is a slighlty behind version of the Github Dev Kit files but what is the dev kit on steam under tools its 37GB. Do I need this for anything?

Sorry for the dumb question I was not able to find any install tutorials made within the past year.

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No, the file on steam is completely outdated. Easiest route is to get the Epic Launcher. If you want to be completely up to date, download & overwrite the files from the epic launcher install w/ the files from github.

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Ok Thank you.