bobs-with-probs

[sudden night]

besides all of this, is there any reason to possibly farm steinnbjorn? it's loot seems the same as the other minibosses?

[pseudo panther]

what affects the oviraptor egg buff?

[simple glen]

I think it needs to be set to wander and then it buffs dinos in range

[drifting void]

Yes

[pseudo panther]

no govverning stat?

[simple glen]

I think the buff is fixed. So you can't improve it by leveling a certain stat.

The S+ hatchery "provides the Oviraptor buff to nearby creatures". I think the description would be different if the bonus was variable, depending on Oviraptor stats.

[red olive]

If you have a velo, the cave is easier to defend from attackers while you do it, and it's pretty easy

If I was doing pvp, steinbjorn is the one I would farm

[sudden night]

any difference in loot tables tho

[stuck cave]

Another aberration question, ive been noticing that my gas collector thing has been losing its health? Why? Its not in the way and in an area with basically only passive dinos

[sullen hatch]

yeah
they do that

basically getting damaged by the gas itself
you need to replace it every once in a while, but it'll make plenty of gas balls in the time that it stays alive
I think the details about how mcuh damage it takes are on the wiki

[stuck cave]

Ohhh i google and check everywhere but the wiki sometimes ^^; tysm!

[sullen hatch]

wiki is the most reliable source out there, I'd advise to make it the first site you check

the official wiki is https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/ though, not fandom

they migrated from fandom about half a year ago, and it's no longer moderated or updated afaik

[stuck cave]

Most of the time i do check wiki or dododex but tysm!

[sudden night]

any real reason to tame a mosa if I already have a tuso in singleplayer? I always get a tuso first and then never tame a mosa despite kinda wanting to but I just never have a reason to tame one

[vast matrix]

Hella tribes got spoofed on Xbox

[simple glen]

How is it 'official'? Is it paid for by Wildcard?

[sullen hatch]

probably

[untold valley]

Hi, i need some help with gen two missions

want to know what do i need to bring for a few missions

[rocky escarp]

The wiki says anglerfish cant breed but I bred them. Their eggs are light blue with a red core. Was that part of a patch?

[sullen hatch]

the wiki does say they're breedable though

are you looking at fandom wiki?

[molten falcon]

does someone plays on EPIC GAMES? 😄 there is still not patch update! 😄 I am unable to play on my favourite unofficial servers! 😄 bloody hell

[vast matrix]

Spoofed servers
48
944
1230
1509
1562
883
1518
881
1105
55
1117
543
887
621
98
1564
886
1104
1567
1289
53
700
Have all been spoofed this week

On Xbox

[rocky escarp]

Yeah. Seems to have wrong info tho

[sullen hatch]

wdym

you said that it said that they can't breed, but wiki says that they do indeed breed

[rocky escarp]

No the opposite. Wiki says cant breed, game lets it happen

Same for equus. They can breed ingame

[sullen hatch]

that's... what I said

idk what wiki you're looking at but the official one says that they can breed

[rocky escarp]

I was looking at fandom

Wheres the official?

[sullen hatch]

^

official is https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/

[rocky escarp]

Thank you.

[hollow mesa]

my spino is exhausted despite the fact he has full stamina

why?

[vast matrix]

Did you try turning it on and back off? @hollow mesa

[primal cove]

Anyone able to link me to a motorboat taming build? Only found one so far on YT and it's a bit extra lol. Prefer something basic without it looking like an actual houseboat

Anyone know any good motorboat taming builds? Found one on YT but it's a bit overdone and looking like a PvE houseboat lol I just need something basic

That I can also put turrets under and above as I'm on PvP

[molten falcon]

Anyone else on PlayStation keep getting “unknown error” every time they try to connect to a server?

[prisma willow]

anyone has some tips to get some high level rexes & spinos on the isalnd sp? i only get very low levels, and kill them all of but new ones are also low, difficulty is set to 1 btw

[molten falcon]

Found a typo on your website

[prisma willow]

that wasnt my question, but where on the site?

[molten falcon]

Interact list you put pople istead of people

[prisma willow]

oh, ty!

[molten falcon]

No what days the server on? I’ve noticed usually the lower the day count the lower the level of dinos

[prisma willow]

iirc day 30 or smth

[hollow mesa]

i spawned on a 150 raptor in SP

the days dont matter

however i think its more days = more alphas

[stiff topaz]

do you use Krakens better dinos?

[stiff topaz]

nope

day count has 0 effect on spawns

[hollow mesa]

huh

also i was looking on dododex

tf is an enforcer.

they look like a horror movie.

[hoary bramble]

has this shi happened before on windows or steam with the spoofing

[molten falcon]

They’re decent mounts but I just kill them for electronics mostly.

[hollow mesa]

u can ride them?

[hoary bramble]

yea

[molten falcon]

Yea they can walk on walls and have a short range teleport ability

[hoary bramble]

pretty shit ngl like he said jus electronic mainly

[hollow mesa]

it looks like the thing from the alien franchise

[molten falcon]

Yea all kinds of exploiting has been going on on steam for ages

[hoary bramble]

how long shi usually take for a fix

i had my entire prefab in transfer

[hollow mesa]

what map does it spawn on apart from abberation.. im guessing thats where its from

i havent done that much research

[plain stag]

Extinction only

[molten falcon]

Depends on how big of a patch and how quickly the devs can code it in

[hollow mesa]

and are they aggressive?

[molten falcon]

You can’t tame them whatever level one you kill drops a blue print and you craft them

[plain stag]

Not usually, unless you hit them

[hollow mesa]

actually im more intrested in how big they are

[molten falcon]

Yes and no neutral unless you attack them or any other Dino near it even a dodo

[hollow mesa]

u... break and rebuild them?

[molten falcon]

Yep

[hollow mesa]

in like a smithy?

[plain stag]

Nope the city terminals or the tek replicator

[hoary bramble]

voidwyrm can break structures right?

[hollow mesa]

City TeRMinAlS!?

imma just play it :-:

[plain stag]

In extinction, yep

[hollow mesa]

im just gonna do SP the whole Ark story, start to finish

speaking of... what island creature is the best for caves?

[molten falcon]

Extinctions one of my favorite maps from the scenery to titans it’s a fun map

[plain stag]

Yep

[molten falcon]

Depends on the cave

[hollow mesa]

as far as ik i thought extinction was earth but with oblisks

[hollow mesa]

the ice cave in top right and bug cave near volcano

[plain stag]

Is it still baryonyx/megatherium/sabertooth for caving?

[molten falcon]

Nah it’s a barren wastelands with a city that remains intakes and a sunken Forrest everything else is a destroyed world

[hollow mesa]

sabertooth dosent fit in bug cave

[hoary bramble]

megatherium good for that cave but needs cryo

[molten falcon]

Is you use a frog you’ll get crazy amounts of cementing paste

[hollow mesa]

frogs get cementing paste?

[plain stag]

When they eat bugs

[molten falcon]

Yep

[hollow mesa]

why is all the weird sh-t the good sh-t im so confused

[plain stag]

Most dinos can fit through caves thanks to cryopods

[molten falcon]

Honestly no clue haven’t caved in ages just about to get back into ark after a much needed break

[hollow mesa]

i didnt even know frogs gave torpor till today

[plain stag]

Ah okay. I haven't played the island in years. If it's just the island dinos though I'd assume it's those.

[hollow mesa]

also why is the dienonychus saddle in the island engrams

if there is no dienonychus.

[molten falcon]

Well if it s a solo server just island Dino’s but I know the new desmodus can fly in caves so it’ll be good for almost every cave

[plain stag]

They added it to each map iirc

[plain stag]

Yes, but they only said the island so I was excluding it 😅

[hollow mesa]

they couldnt add it as a valguero exclusive or an exclusive drop?

[molten falcon]

They’re on more than val fjord has them too

[plain stag]

They probably just didn't feel like it.

[hollow mesa]

idk why i had to google "dienonychus on island where?"

fair enough

[grizzled verge]

.

[plain stag]

The wiki has creature spawn maps for each map

[molten falcon]

Anytime they release a free map all the engrams for that map are added to everybody the only engrams you have to unlock on a specific map are paid dlc maps

[hollow mesa]

the ark wiki dont work too well on mobile

[hollow mesa]

but in creative mode-

[plain stag]

Creative mode gives you access to every item.

[hollow mesa]

u can get the engrams of paid maps while in creative

[molten falcon]

Odd no clue I know with black ops 3 modders can delete your dlc wouldn’t be surprised if they figured out how to on ark as well

[grizzled verge]

Weird been having this problem ever since I got new Xbox

Never happened on reg Xbox 1

[plain stag]

It's just a bug atm, they'll get it fixed soon. Scroll down until the green search bar pulls up at the top.

[hollow mesa]

theres a search bar?

[plain stag]

Yep

[hollow mesa]

ur sure?

[plain stag]

Looks like this

[hollow mesa]

yeah that dont pop on mine
gimmie a sec

[plain stag]

But that's where it's buggy for me, I can't use that search bar, I have to scroll down until this one shows up (even when dismissing the notice at the top)

[hollow mesa]

i cant even add images

descriptions i choose you

[plain stag]

You can dm me

[hollow mesa]

i dont even have the wiki pop up when i search for ark wiki

[molten falcon]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/ARK_Survival_Evolved_Wiki

[frail patrol]

launched in a legal partnership, and endorsed.

[frail patrol]

wtf?

[plain stag]

I don't know, I've been making do with it though and just having others scroll down to use the green search bar. It won't allow my keyboard to show up with the top pic.

[frail patrol]

you know, i'd expect the green bar to not work rather than the default one.

what phone + system?

[plain stag]

Galaxy S21 Ultra, Android

[frail patrol]

best part is, works for me, so this is going to be hell

Ah wait, I got it to bug out when scrolling down and switching to the sticky header. But not to the point of it being unclickable.

[plain stag]

Here

[frail patrol]

🤨

[plain stag]

See

[frail patrol]

added to the roadmap, I'll take a look probably in the evening. it's going to be an annoying one for sure.

[plain stag]

Tyty alex

[frail patrol]

thanks, and sorry

[plain stag]

It's okay, I didn't even think to report it tbh

I forgot that I could 😂

[polar sandal]

BSOD when loading ark on PC ?

er

(Blue Screen of Death)

[sacred bramble]

when i try cloud gaming its just blue

[polar sandal]

now, they did make changes that effect cloud gaming today but they did specially say you should still be able to play single player.

idk if that's accurate or not but

typically the blue screen of death is a hardware issue. best place to start is by updating your graphics driver's and making sure direct x is up to date

also a chance that trying it in windowed mode may help

[prisma willow]

no, and my pc will explode if i use more mods lol

[stiff topaz]

not if it's 0.019mb
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182894352&searchtext=custom+dino+levels

[dense sorrel]

My game keeps shutting down with a string of codes and I think it's one of my mods and I don't download anything out of date

Alot of it says lost island but I'm playing fjordur

[stiff island]

prob bc the mods dont support fjodur

maybe idk

[stiff topaz]

Send the crash message

[dense sorrel]

If they didn't couldn't they just not load for fjordur

[stiff topaz]

mods generally don't need support for specific maps

[dense sorrel]

Yea that's what I was thinking

[stiff island]

idk what else then lol

[dense sorrel]

Some of them are like oh we will spawn the Phoenix in other maps (cause it's a scam its only one I love the Phoenix:()

[stiff topaz]

exceptions are
-spawns are different so mods that add spawns may have little or none of their spawns on the map, but wont be broken (generally)
-it's a map extensions that should NOT be run on ANY map other than what it was built for

[stiff topaz]

Phoenix: reborn? Great mod that one, one of the first i used and very, very few i still use today

[dense sorrel]

I think so

[stiff topaz]

Lostisland is just the build name in most messages

[lapis frost]

What's going on with this connection timeout issue lately ? I have read so far 27 remarks that have those on both official and unofficial 👀 💦 even a friend of mine is having it

[dense dagger]

Can anyone help me out with my Ark ingame sound please? I have always played without any issues with my sound untill a couple days ago, it just completely stopped working. I checked my settings (both Ark and Windows (11))and they were set correctly. My sound works on any other game or program or webbrowser

[hollow mesa]

i always have a problem with headphones if thats what your using

[tight thorn]

Has anyone set up their rules so all dinos never rise in health or damage but their base stats are higher, same for player so the only way to up your damage or lose less heatlth is to get just stronger weapon or better armor.

Like irl if i saw a wold die to gunshot I would expect another same looking wolf not survive a bazooka launcher just because it had 120lvl

If you get what I mean otherwise ur dumbo

[dense dagger]

i am but i never had the problem before

[sullen hatch]

you wouldn't be able to progress very far with that

only gear dinos have is saddle
ark isn't really meant for realism

[tight thorn]

What does that mean?

[sullen hatch]

I don't really know how to explain that sentence

[hollow mesa]

i mean tbf we dont progress far in life

[hollow mesa]

i didnt mean for this to be a ping. i am sorry

[brazen robin]

you already need good armor on saddles for bosses, removing health and damage would make it so they are impossible

[tight thorn]

Wouldn't it also affect bosses?

Wait human isn't able to do anything to boss?

[sullen hatch]

you could change boss resistance separately but at that point you might as well play a different game

[tight thorn]

Seems like you just don't want me to play game the way I enjoy

[brazen robin]

you can try, all the settings are in the singleplayer menu. just it isn't gonna work out lol

change the stat multipliers to 0 🤷

they might reset at 0 so set it to a small number

[sullen hatch]

at a certain point you just play a different game to get the experience you want

like if you wanted to enjoy ark as a shooter game
everyone would go tell you to go play an actual shooter game instead of ark, because that's not what it is

[tight thorn]

I don't think ark is all about shitty leveling system

[sullen hatch]

"shitty levelling system" makes a good bit of ark's end game

[tight thorn]

It will still be ark but better

[sullen hatch]

by late game you just get dinos with the best stats you can find, then breed them for better stats so you can use them for things like bosses

and even just good stats for general usage

[tight thorn]

Bosses suck

You just spend gazilion hours watching how dinos grow to see them do everything for you

[sullen hatch]

and that stat finding, breeding and grinding makes a good 60% of ark's pve gameplay

[sullen hatch]

kinda, I guess

eh, people like us find it fun

[tight thorn]

If I wanted play strategic games I would play strategic game that doesn't suck because that's what bosses seem here

[stiff topaz]

if you have a really good shotgun there are cheeses that involve standing where the boss cant get you

[sullen hatch]

but I'm not fond of cheeses and not one to ever suggest them to others, whih is why I didn't mention it

[brazen robin]

I'm pretty sure its actually impossible if you change all the stat multipliers for health and melee to 0 (or as close as you can.) you'll be stuck at the base stats which even with the best armor would make bosses impossible.
if you don't change the wild leveling stats, mutations will be the norm like normal 🤷

[sullen hatch]

though you CAN shotgun bosses to death
but velona superiority

[tight thorn]

I'm convinced bosses in this game are just for advertising and not engaging at all

[sullen hatch]

so... basically you don't like this game
don't play it, simple

[stiff topaz]

most of them are just rex/theri rush and not that interesting. Rockwell and CMC are exceptions (probably rockwell prime too though i havent done it)

[sullen hatch]

but advertising part isn't the bosses
it's the dinosaurs with fucking lasers

look you can't have dinosaurs with fucking lasers and have that not be the selling point

[stiff topaz]

ark combat is mostly too 'spam more damage to win' for deeply mechanical bosses

[tight thorn]

At least the building is fun

[raw frigate]

can i be impregnated by a reaper queen on my rock drake?

[tight thorn]

What the fuck?

[sullen hatch]

yes

[stiff topaz]

[brazen robin]

only if the reaper is agroed on you not the drake

[sullen hatch]

it's how you get new reapers
a queen impregnates you

[raw frigate]

any thing special about that?

[raw frigate]

ok

[sullen hatch]

try dismounting and mounting oyur drake so the queen aggros to you, not your drake, like pumpkin said

[stiff topaz]

Im actually considering trying to make an ini that has wild dinos stronger, and breeding heavily nerfed. but ill probably have to rebalance bosses to make it work. I can let you know when i start on it if you like

[sullen hatch]

special about what

[raw frigate]

makes sense thx

[raw frigate]

like if she have to agro on me

[tight thorn]

I'm cloud gaming so i can't mess with files. By the time I'll get capable PC i'll probably buy ark 2

[sullen hatch]

basically what I said, not much else I don't think
also have a shield

[sullen hatch]

speaking of, I remember you mentioning the hunted, was it any good

[sullen hatch]

OH I completely forgot to mention actually,
play another game OR use overhauls, those might have something you want

[stiff topaz]

buggy, crashing, remaps about everything

ini will do a better job even though the concept was solid

[sullen hatch]

like I remember you mentioning it as buggy

rip

[sullen hatch]

sadly ini can't rework the dino taming system with eggs I don't think

that was the most interesting part about hunted for me, though I could also see it becoming super grindy later in the game

[molten falcon]

i'd love it if wildcard made their game not run like a potato

[fierce comet]

@molten falcon u & everyone else, bud, join the club 😄

[molten falcon]

this game is probably gonna go through the same fate as tf2 did

[stiff topaz]

kbd can

[sullen hatch]

yeah but that's a mod

[scarlet pelican]

Dododex has me confused.
It says an Allosaurus is best for farming angler gel?
I get it in terms of Deathworms but I have a hard time imagining them making their way to the bottom of the ocean.

Would a Basilosaurus work?

[low mountain]

Basilosaurus are great because they naturally ignore stuns from Jellyfish and Eels, and they have an insane health pool

If you’re stung by a jellyfish on an basilo, you won’t be dismounted or stunned. Your Basi won’t be slowed down by eel shocks either

[scarlet pelican]

Right that's what I thought. They take a bit of deep sea damage but it's not much.

Thanks 🙂

[low mountain]

Yes, they do take deep sea damage but it’s quite a low amount, not enough to put yourself or your basi in immediate danger

[zinc geyser]

my loadout mannequin just ate two of my cryo pods with dinos in them

[dense sorrel]

Wh

[low mountain]

Thats scary

[dense sorrel]

Guess he hungy

[zinc geyser]

yeah

[dense sorrel]

Or she idk

[zinc geyser]

and I demolished the structure and no cryo pods in the bag

[low mountain]

Every telltale sign of a good horror game has something to do with animate mannequins

Are you on official or unofficial?

[zinc geyser]

sad part is I was gabbing them to clone them because I know how ark is and wanted to keep them safe

official

[low mountain]

Okay. I would maybe report that to the devs. Sounds like a bug. Either that or double and triple check your inventory and make sure you didn’t put them in your hotbar

[zinc geyser]

i literally checked every box crafting station and dino three times lol

wgere do i report it ?

[low mountain]

#bug-reports

[tight dock]

How can I search for a server that fits me? Want to get into ark

[dense dagger]

just try some stuff out and see if it fits you

[pine token]

Could there be more than one loot bag?

[scarlet pelican]

Hopefully someone can answer this for me.

Why is it that when I'm firing from the back of a mount, sometimes I can shoot 360, other times it refuses to let me shoot behind me

[stiff topaz]

yeah but its not crashy

[zinc geyser]

No I kept looking everywhere there was nothing

[valid trout]

Hi, so... I am at a loss. We have been grinding deep sea crates and snow/swamp cave for a rex saddle blueprint and we havent gotten a single one. Meanwhile we have 2 full sets of riot gear, 4 giga saddle blueprints, every single version of a platform saddle blueprint, and tsueo saddle blueprints.

[hollow quartz]

you can run the hide and sink mission on gen1 for "decent" rex saddles in the short term

[valid trout]

This is island

[hollow quartz]

i didn't know you were playing on only one map

[valid trout]

Yeh. Sorry, shoulda said that

[hollow quartz]

try running the underwater caves

[pine token]

Was asking because I've demolished things before and found the loot bag in unexpected places, like up in the air or one level up in base

[hollow quartz]

also deep sea crates don't give rex saddles

[valid trout]

Really? Fuck, wiki lied

[hollow quartz]

i'm using wiki to check at the moment lol

[valid trout]

So does all the red quality loot crates in snow and swamp caves are good right?

[hollow quartz]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Loot_tables

yes, red in swamp+snow, but also blue or yellow in underwater caves and red supply drops on the surface

actually no

snow cave loot pool is different

you want non snow cave red cave drops

[valid trout]

Ok

I hate the snow cave, so much

Knockbacks somehow causing even rexes to get punted by a tiny little purlovia

[hollow quartz]

yea
well as mentioned, on the bright side you dont need to run it for rex bps

[zinc geyser]

thing is I found the loot bag with the dermis and if there was another loot bag sadly it would be long gone

[flint monolith]

Can someone please tell me how Giga stats work?

I Just tamed a giga that has 37 Points in damage but only has 205%.
I've tamed gigas before that have had like 220%+ but with only 20-25 points in damage?

[low mountain]

Not exactly sure. Usually the higher the points, the higher the stat. Was the 20-25 points with 220% pre-tame?

[flint monolith]

Was after I think

Might’ve been like 27-28 or 30

But definitely less than 37

[low mountain]

Like were you using a mod (Ex: Awesome Spyglass) that allows you to see pre-tame stat points or are you on official?

[flint monolith]

205 with 37 points does not seem normal

[flint monolith]

Was unofficial

[low mountain]

Depends on whether it was tamed or not when you saw the 220% dmg

Gigas get an insane health and melee stat reduction post-tame

[flint monolith]

220 was after tame

[low mountain]

You can have a wild Giga with 82K Health and 250% melee, but when it’s tamed, it’ll have roughly 18k-19k Health and 190% melee

It wouldn’t make sense for the melee to be lower with a higher stat point

[flint monolith]

It’s just confusing me

Because with 37 melee I’d expect like 230,240,250%

Not 205?

[low mountain]

Having higher melee/lower points pre-tame and lower melee/higher points post tame makes sense

Yeah idk

If you tame another Giga with 37 points into Melee, it’ll have the exact same Melee

[pine token]

Anyone use an Xbox Elite Wireless controller on Steam? Having a hard time with menu/item selections, and I'm not finding any Elite configs in the Steam import menu.

[flint monolith]

It wouldn’t though, that’s what I mean

Because I’ve had ones with like 35 melee at 240%

[low mountain]

Maybe Gigas are special then because in my years of breeding, a pair of dinos with the same amount of points into a certain stat will have an identical stat. For example, if you tame a Raptor with 45 points into health, giving it exactly 2,000 health on regular rates, and you tame another raptor with the same 45 points into health, they will both have exactly 2000 health

Did you tame the other Giga on a different server?

[flint monolith]

That’s what I know too

[flint monolith]

Yeah

[low mountain]

Then that’s probably why

[flint monolith]

I’ve just watched a video and @sullen berry tamed a giga with 210% melee and 38 points so maybe it’s me being weird

[low mountain]

The server owner probably messed with the tamed Dino multiplier and dropped the amount of melee a tamed Dino has after being tamed

[flint monolith]

Maybe or upped it

[low mountain]

The other server you tamed the other Giga on probably had a higher tamed Dino stat multiplier rate on the melee stat

[flint monolith]

Yeah maybe I’m just weird

[low mountain]

Other than that, on the current server you tamed your current Giga on, if you tamed another Giga with 37 points into melee, it’ll have the exact same melee

You’re not weird, it’ll all about the multiplier scaling. The other server you were on had tamed Dino damage boosted

[flint monolith]

Ahh probably, okay thanks man

[proper swan]

How to I enable the event fear evolved to where the Dododex spawns

[brazen robin]

can't until the event is active or use mods if on steam.

you can enable the events but event creatures(and most event items) aren't in the game.

[proper swan]

Oh damn what was the point of the event things then?

[brazen robin]

its to start them while they are active. only singleplayer auto-starts events (by default) servers need to input that setting. sometime later this year all events will be including in the PC version and should work when started

some events do work when they aren't active like the summer event and I believe the birthday event works as well despite having creatures.

[proper swan]

Oh ok thx

[round musk]

are there any known issues with ASM?

major issues that is

[brazen robin]

not that I know of. its just like running a server without ASM just with a GUI for settings you can even just edit the ini like normal

[round musk]

ok thanks. Still trying to solve my flyer lag issue

im starting to think it may just be normal

[brazen robin]

are you hosting on the same PC you play on?

[round musk]

yes

[brazen robin]

then its normal. when command prompts aren't the active window they slow down. I don't know if there is a way to change that.

[round musk]

I guess I could move it to another machine T_T

How easy is it to move the server?

can I just copy the whole thing and move it?

[brazen robin]

there are only a few things you need to move. the saves and ini files. everything else will just be remade

[round musk]

is there a guide for this anywhere?

just wanna make sure I dont lose anything

[worldly olive]

What stat should I put my giga levels in?

[languid matrix]

only ever buff melee on a giga and weight if absolutely needed

all other stats buff in such a small amount it's not worth it even with a max level with good rolls in that stat

[worldly olive]

Ok thanks

[azure flower]

how long does it take for a Trike to harvest mats?

asking cuz I tamed my very first one and set it to wander/harvesting enabled but it hasn’t gathered anything in 30+ minutes? not sure what else to do. I’m playing in single player on Lost Island while hosting my own non-dedicated server on PS5.

[brazen robin]

trikes don't auto-harvest

[plain stag]

Trikes don't have an auto harvest unless you have a mod that adds it.

[languid matrix]

still not worth it imo

if i want a tanky meat runner i prefer to take a reaper or rex

[covert belfry]

U need deods and anky for auto harvests stone,metal

[plain stag]

You definitely always want to imprint your gigas.

[azure flower]

ohhh derp 🤦🏻‍♂️ #noob

so they’re mostly sought for manual harvesting then? gotchaaa

[languid matrix]

i dont buff health on gigas at all lol just melee i like getting my 3k damage

i do imprint all of them

[plain stag]

Yep

[languid matrix]

i just dont buff health bc its still miniscule imo

[plain stag]

Imprinted gigas can get up to 30k health

Or higher

[languid matrix]

OHHHH i read that wrong

[covert belfry]

Good startee dino for earlygame later u can get better dinos that do everything better

[languid matrix]

i read it as "imprinted gigas get crazy buffs to leveling health stat" which is not true i was thinking of just a base 30k giga

[covert belfry]

Base gigas cant go above 20k hp no matter what u do

[languid matrix]

i think theyre saying w/o imprint

[covert belfry]

Wild giga max hp is 80k and they loose it on being tamed cause everything goes down to 25%

[languid matrix]

also its 15k usually 20k would be like a 100 point stat roll into health

highest ive ever rolled on anything was a 50

[covert belfry]

So u ultimately end up with max 18k hp if u tryhard it and get maximam taming effectiveness

[languid matrix]

you should tame them its fun (it is not fun)

[covert belfry]

Its a nightmare to tame

[languid matrix]

its super easy to tame its just like. i do not enjoy sitting there for 10 minutes pressing LMB

just use 4 metal gates and a bear trap

[covert belfry]

Rex are much less work and can do much more then giga for the time spent and giga is normaly overkill

[languid matrix]

you see no melee rexes in pvp anymore

[covert belfry]

Use a chainsaw if u can tame a giga for meat u can make a chansaw in much less time

[languid matrix]

just 60 breeder gigas shoved into a medium sized cave

[covert belfry]

I tamed a giga and found it to be undervelming

Well i still think a thylo and a chainsaw will gather much more meat in an hour then a giga

[lofty tapir]

My ark is stuck on primalgamedata_bp it’s loads it then it then it restarts

[languid matrix]

for most players its not about meat gathering its about DPS

gigas are going to just be fun apex tames on a PVE server, on PVP they are absolutely essential and you need to be pumping them out as fast as you can constantly

[covert belfry]

Bro i really tried liking giga i even tamed one but it was just not worth the time and resources spent to me

[languid matrix]

thats me with a skiff lol

[covert belfry]

As i understand gigas are pvp stuff

[languid matrix]

i cant fly a skiff ill just transmit around a stryder instead and use something like an astro or crystal wyv to get around

why meat run anymore though if you're on any server that's like x3 or higher unless you're an alpha tribe anymore? we have rockwell seeds

meat plant meat plant meat plant

[covert belfry]

I use a thylo and chain saw for meat runs seems to be really good

[languid matrix]

official outside of smalls is dying

[hollow quartz]

eh

it's fine, just more servers

and different playtime profiles

[languid matrix]

i couldn't manage x1 with my life so i've always played on x5+ lol

[hollow quartz]

lots of offi players that get on for event / big pvp

[languid matrix]

mts is the big new thing

i just dont wanna play a game where there's very little support to my knowledge of dealing with meshing and such

[sudden night]

any way to prevent tamed creatures in caves from glitching below the map everytime I unload a cave, this happens so frequently

I mean ofcourse I could always just pull the entire squad out of the cave but if I need to come back that is annoying, and if I happen to die in any cave it unloads as well and we are back to the same problem

its so darn annoying to ghost below the map each time

[hollow quartz]

if i had to guess, it's a singleplayer issue and has no real fix - but i could 100% be wrong

[sudden night]

oh this doesn't happen in servers?

[hollow quartz]

i don't see dinos fall through caves by derendering them, no

[sudden night]

honestly a large reason I feared servers tbh

glad it isnt a thing there

I still feel so dirty for having to cheat to get my tames back

but oh well

so I died in the skylord cave pits in fjordur

how do I get my loot back? I fell really close to the edge and I dont think I can hit a grapple

[hollow quartz]

i'd normally say fjordhawks, but they should die to the pit too

just grapple it from the other edge

[sudden night]

so I hit the lootbag with a grapple but I cant reel it back in?

[hollow quartz]

oh if it's a lootbag

you're probs fkd

because lootbags will grapple you to them rather than other way around

[sudden night]

how do people deal with this shit if you are on a server for real

[hollow quartz]

only thing you can try is sacrificing fjordhawks

[sudden night]

why did my body even turn in a lootbag fr

[hollow quartz]

at risk of sounding like a troll, "getting better or getting over it"

if you're going somewhere you're at threat of not getting your stuff back from, you shouldn't carry anything too valuable

[covert belfry]

We use death recovery mod especialy for those kind of situations

[sudden night]

welp I guess I have no choice and ghost to it >_>

so dumb you cant grapple bags

[covert belfry]

What tames are u taking into caves?

[sudden night]

usually a desmodus, rock drake and a thyla or andrew if needed

[covert belfry]

Oh

I pley single player never got stuck under caves .. did all the caves mon island multiple tiems... On bary mostly

[hollow quartz]

yes, but did you leave a bary inside a cave, go to the other side of the map, and then come back?

[sudden night]

I usually take my better gear on cave runs so I survive in the first place ;-;

the thought didnt even cross my mind to dump my stuff

[covert belfry]

Nope

[hollow quartz]

that's what makes em fall through the map

[covert belfry]

One time did die and had to go back in my thylo was alive and well got the artifact.... Maybey i been lucky

[sudden night]

I mean it isnt super common and it also depends on the cave

its just been especially bad on fjordur for me

[covert belfry]

Oh

[sudden night]

welp I grabbed my loot with ghost mode, didnt have much of a choice

[covert belfry]

Well i also build a small stone hut with bed and some items in it so i dont spawn halfway across map... Kaybe that can help?

[sudden night]

kinda annoying you gotta bring good gear to this cave if you want to survive the cold but then the game also hits you with "if you die you literally cannot retrieve your loot here without cheating lol"

[hollow quartz]

well, you can die in ways that the loot is recoverable

[covert belfry]

Normaly i have noticed that if you get thrown out of xave for dying then things in the cave respawn and there might be more or less stuff inside

[sudden night]

yeah I mostly meant that half this cave is made out of death pits and all the mobs here coincidentally have enormous knockback

[hollow quartz]

but the risk that you can't recover your gear is an intended part of the game's difficulty

[dense sorrel]

My ark is still crashing I need help I keep getting some lost island error I'm playing fjordur (sorry for whoever above needs help)

[sudden night]

I wonder my my body turned into a bag in the first place

[hollow quartz]

probably something ate it

[covert belfry]

Ur own dino would eat it if u died near it

One really bad way to farm free meat

[sudden night]

I mean nothing couldve ate because I fell into the death pit which also kills enemies

[covert belfry]

Oh

[dense sorrel]

I wanna send this crash image sob

[sudden night]

well there was this single purlovia that knocked me off my mount and thus I fell, but I fell quite far away from it

[covert belfry]

Try lowwring graphics

[dense sorrel]

I can't even load In the actual game

[sudden night]

I did notice that when I got back my mount got knocked below the world map and so did the purlovia, what if in like a 1 in million chance the pulovia broke the body somehow while it was glitching trough the map

[covert belfry]

Might be currupted files for some reason... Easiest should be to reinstall

Other ways to but have to know which excect error and why

[dense sorrel]

I checked file integrity it was all fine

I made a reddit post about it hold on

[covert belfry]

Well u tried reinstalling?

Also u don need to start game to lower graphics theres an option to start gane on lower graphics on steam when u try starting the game

[dense sorrel]

Oh hush

Can't send the link

I just got the game and I fear Uninstalling for progress reasons

[sudden night]

the people who came up with the limitations of this help channel truly have stupidity to be admired

cant send screenshots either

[dense sorrel]

The admins are active yknow 💀

[sudden night]

legit help channel 101 stuff

[covert belfry]

Well people might have been missusing them thats why limitations

[sudden night]

never in my life in even the biggest of servers have I seen a help channel where you cant send links nor screenshots

[pine token]

No need for name calling

[sudden night]

true but its just so frustrating

[pine token]

Yeah I get it.

[covert belfry]

Try reinstalling man and chill

Thats easiest option

[pine token]

I won't opt into dms for help-related issues on principle

I've been meaning to ask about the lack of a help-related screenshots channel, or something similar

[covert belfry]

Maybe asking admins would make it happen

Admins giveth admins taketh

[pine token]

I assume it's been suggested many times, as the issue comes up in discussion pretty frequently

[brazen robin]

you can always DM screenshots and links

[sudden night]

having to actively ask for permission from mods to send screenshots is a wack thing, and sharing something with a whole group of people is a lot better and easier than doing it to one person too

[brazen robin]

try to explain your issue, if somebody can help and needs more info they will ask for the screenshot in DMs

[dense sorrel]

It's hard to explain apparently it's a generic error

[brazen robin]

if its a crash report. you just need to send the first few lines.

[brazen robin]

have you tried verifying?

[brazen robin]

found the original comment. try reinstalling fjordur, verifying sometimes ignores DLC issues.

[stiff topaz]

right sorry i started fighting with the second worst issue in ark and completely forgot

checkin g your modlist rn

[dense sorrel]

😭

The singular person who knows the error

[stiff topaz]

the worst of course is your crash message

[dense sorrel]

I just don't understand why it would load yesterday but not now it's on and off

[sudden night]

damn, are all the feroxes in fjordur untameable?

[brazen robin]

are you checking via awesome spyglass?

[dense sorrel]

One time because of a mod I had like 200 griffins flying around and I about cried

[sudden night]

that and the wiki

[brazen robin]

it could just say its untamable. ferox have a strange taming method. makes mods think they are untamable.

[stiff topaz]

That's the nature of flatent

So, none of the mods that I've observed causing the issue are in your modlist. However, you've got several overhauls stacked togther, as well as a few other unstackable mods, some of which are old enough they're broken in the best of situations. Probably comes from the stcaked overhauls overloading your pc

[sudden night]

I wonder, in caves with untameable creatures, are only the ones above level 150 in the default settings' case untameable or are they all untameable

[stiff topaz]

further evidence toward 'literally just means the pc can't handle what it's running' theory.. scribbles notes

[dense sorrel]

I mean like I tried dividing them so they were all original and new and their all so unique and 😭

[stiff topaz]

genuinely impressed ark is booting at all, though

[pine token]

I'm not sure untameable versions of creatures give any explicit indication of such. (E.g. dung beetles in certain Fjordur caves.) No idea about Fjordur Feroxes, though.

[dense sorrel]

It's a 2000$ computer what do you expect

[stiff topaz]

On singleplayer they don't say Wild. on dedicated this is broken

[pine token]

Oh ok. Subtle.

[dense sorrel]

Idk what to delete now 🥲

[brazen robin]

heard if you look at the creature with a magnifying glass it shows torpor if its tamable (for KO tames only I assume) is that true?

[stiff topaz]

Not heard or tested tbh

[brazen robin]

I'll just go see 😂 beylas cave has untamable bears right?

[stiff topaz]

Pugnacia, annunaki, reclamation, gaia, parados, supreme, celesital

all of them are overhauls, as well as primal fear, but PF is the only one i'd keep

All colour dinos won't stack with any of them, there's also no need for two tame colouring mods but that's unlikely your issue

[brazen robin]

doesn't seem to be true. the bears in beyla didn't have "wild" (singleplayer) but showed torpor

[stiff topaz]

Wasnt sure sorry lol

Ive not played much fjordur

[sudden night]

In caves with untameable creatures, are only the ones above level 150 with the default settings' untameable or are they all untameable?

[pine token]

I was going to ask about the bear levels

[brazen robin]

doesn't matter their level. any and all of them are untamable I believe.

its the spawn node thats marked not the level

[pine token]

I just mean that if the level seems high, then the dino is definitely untameable

[brazen robin]

unless they forgot

[sudden night]

I uh

checked a 290 ferox, it did give a "give element" popup

[brazen robin]

like I said before, ferox aren't a normal tame so they probably say untamable despite being tamable

[sudden night]

im not talking about the spyglass mod here

[stiff topaz]

Overhauls do not stack

[pine token]

Iirc the dung beetles I mentioned did have a prompt to feed to begin tamig. They just weren't feedable (nothing would happen).

[dense sorrel]

But I like those 🥲 primal fear doesn't have everything those have

[brazen robin]

thought dung beetles and snails were the 2 that could be overleveled and are tamable they are on scorched

[scarlet pelican]

Without spending weeks getting the right mutations, how do people get Ovis to have 5k+ health?
Mine are breeding with like 600 health

[stiff topaz]

Every overhaul requires first spot in load order. annunaki actively breaks even basegame stuff, it's that outdated. At absolute best you'll get a mess as overhauls different balances clash and random things don't work because they require first in load order. more likely, you'll see crashes as overhauls fight to do their thing and trample each other's toes

You'll find your load times significantly less terrible too, nothing kills load time like one overhaul, let alone 9

[dense sorrel]

Fine 😢

[stiff topaz]

oh, and oblivion

[red olive]

You set breeding times to be very fast and use the s+ mutator. There might be a mutation mod that I don't know about though

[stiff topaz]

Random Configs

[scarlet pelican]

Ah bummer. I don't have tek yet. I've seen many people use them to tame Fjordhawks but they always use admin codes to gve them exp and thus, level up points. I don't wanna cheat to get the hawk though 😦

[stiff topaz]

random configs lets you just change a bunch of mutation settings in INI, no Tek needed

[dense sorrel]

I Cleaned them up so I'll see how it does

[red olive]

Wait, you can change mutation stuff in ini?

[stiff topaz]

with Random Configs mod

[red olive]

Ooohh, okay

[ornate marsh]

so today apparently when ark was updating it failed and all of my ark files were gone and there was corruption in my disk. I ran a check and the corruption was fixed and all the files were gone and yet the space that ark took up was still taken up as if there were phantom files

[red olive]

The files are gone even in file explorer?

[ornate marsh]

yes

[covert belfry]

Prolly steam has that space set aside to install ark again

[red olive]

How old is your hard drive

[ornate marsh]

sadly that is not the case as it thought ark was still downloaded but it would not validate or open

[red olive]

I am pretty sure steam only does that when you are downloading something

[ornate marsh]

i got this micro SD 2 days ago

[red olive]

Hmm

[covert belfry]

Oh

[red olive]

Were any other files affected?

[ornate marsh]

everything else is fine it seems as if it was the ark download that may have caused the issue

[red olive]

Hmm, try opening cmd and running the command chkdsk [drive number]: /f

It might take awhile to run

[ornate marsh]

i actually already did that too lol

it said there were no problems and no actions needed

[red olive]

Hmm, weird

And the whole ark folder is gone?

It's an external ssd?

[ornate marsh]

there was the steamlibrary folder but nothing inside of it

[ornate marsh]

uhhh its popped into the ssd slot

[red olive]

But it says the storage is taken up?

[red olive]

Okay, so internal then

[ornate marsh]

yes

[red olive]

Maybe you can try to use the cmd to navigate to the files to see if it is just file explorer being weird

Other than that I am really not sure. Usually hidden files mean a failing drive or a virus, but on a 2 day old drive both of those are extremely unlikely

If you can't find anything else, and there isn't anything super important on the drive, you could try formating it and trying again

[ornate marsh]

hm ill retry the cmd command again and see if either it was being dumb or smthn ig?

[stiff topaz]

Could try reinstall steam

[red olive]

I wouldn't try chkdsk again if you already tried it. But using dir to find the drive and file system maybe helps

[ornate marsh]

well i think i may have been dumb tbh.

so when doing chkdsk you have to specify the other drive otherwise itll use the c drive correct?

[red olive]

Yeah, so if it's the f: drive you would use chkdsk f: /f

[languid matrix]

what would you guys say is the best wood getter nowadays, since for some reason the stryder is ass at it

[ornate marsh]

mammoth

[hexed dawn]

my ping is going to 141 when i play while i look at the server list it says 39 ping an the game slutters a bit when i play it like freezes for a sec or mili second

[ornate marsh]

weight reduction with great weight

[hasty moth]

Is there a way to not download all the dlc files for content you don't own? Like a singleplayer only download?

The stuff I don't own. So I know you can choose to not download maps but the base game still downloads all the dlc files for PVP servers

[ornate marsh]

if its in the download then dont think so.

[hasty moth]

I just wanna mess around in singleplayer mode and am not trying to make 300+gb space to do that

[ornate marsh]

welcome to the land of ark where the only thing you gain is pain and disappointment

[hasty moth]

I just don't see how the devs have got away with not dealing with this glaring issue

[red olive]

In steam for the game, there is a section called manage my dlc, click it and you can choose which to keep or get rid of

[hasty moth]

@red olive Yeah that's only for maps it still makes you download all dlc files like monters/items/assets etc

[ornate marsh]

their way of dealing with it is throwing new stuff at us to keep everyone occupied as well as making ark 2 :p

[hasty moth]

I have 230gb space maybe that will be enough

[red olive]

Ah, in that case I don't think there is anything you can do

[stiff topaz]

for
-spawn commands
-spawn ini
-your dinos not disappearing if you take them to another map then remove the DLC

Fun fact, Valg golem was unique to Valg files for a while, it caused crashes.

and dinos are a tiny amount compared to maps.

[ornate marsh]

i had to get this micro sd bc when i had ark i would play and only have like 10 gb or so free

[hasty moth]

Yeah one game needing me to get an extra ssd is kinda obnoxious

[stiff topaz]

Also, they DO remove event assets after the event ends

This caused crashes in the STA mission because of the dodorex 😄

in fact, it still crashes in STA on Genesis 2 if you don't have Rag installed. because the ice wyvern is only in the Rag files download

[hasty moth]

.....maybe I just won't download it

[stiff topaz]

So tl;dr creatures being unique to the dlc files is an incredible fucking mess and wildcard shouldn't be doing it to the 3 or so creatures they currently are to samve about 200mb space

[hasty moth]

Starting to feel like that might be the way to go

[stiff topaz]

Compress the files

Or just don't install the maps, which is where the bulk of the space is

[hasty moth]

Have you done the compression?

[stiff topaz]

LI is ~60gb, CI is ~58. LI has no unique creatures, CI has one: bees (which probably use a lot of basegame assets anyway)

[ornate marsh]

hey zero you got a switch?

[hasty moth]

Na a laptop but it's only 500gb

[ornate marsh]

hmmm mk. was gonna say if you did arks getting updated in a month on there so :p

[stiff topaz]

i've heard the install with no DLC is 160gb

[obsidian lotus]

[stiff topaz]

Creatures are not the issue.

[hasty moth]

@stiff topaz If that's the case I'll be fine

[sudden night]

sinos are LI's unique creature

[hasty moth]

I want to play on Rag which I've heard is 25gb so if Rag plus base game is in the 180 to 200gb range I'll be fine

[stiff topaz]

as well as dinopith and amarga, none of which are unique to LI download

you can spawn a sinoma, or dinopith, or amarga, on island, or ab, or gen1, just fine

[ornate marsh]

welp i formatted the drive and all space is now free thanks @red olive for the help

gonna have to download ark now tho so this will be fun

[red olive]

No problem, hope you don't see any more issues

[ornate marsh]

so how do you remove map downloads from ark installation?

[brazen robin]

if you are on steam, right click ark on steam, properties, DLC, uncheck them.

[ornate marsh]

jeezus

mine was at 307

unchecked them and now its 159

[brazen robin]

mines over 400 I don't even have all DLC downloaded lol

[ornate marsh]

i dont have money so it was all just the free ones

[brazen robin]

the size is mostly the free ones and genesis

[ornate marsh]

lost island is so big smh

[brazen robin]

crystal, lost island, and genesis are the 3 biggest genesis and lost being over 60GB each 😂 crystal being 47

[ornate marsh]

ye. thanks for the help haha wont have to sit for 4 hours installing it now maybe now itll make it 3 hours and 59 minutes :)

[rare berry]

My friend's computer crashed today, and now whenever he tries to join my server, he gets the mod version mismatch message. He tried resubscribing to the two mods that updated today and he's still getting the message. Got any ideas?

[stiff topaz]

Update mods on the server's end

[rare berry]

I already did. There are none to update.

[stiff topaz]

Fully reinstall the mods that updated recently on both ends- check pins for how

[random glade]

Hello, when I try to join my Ark Server (Self hosted) it doesn't show up in the server list. Says mod versions are mismatching.

I've restarted the server software, it downloaded all the mods and whatnot, and it should be up to date.

[stiff topaz]

@random glade

[random glade]

Alright, sure thing. Thanks.

Do I need to unsubscribe or can I just close steam?

I don't understand the benefit of unsubscribing if steam is shut down.

[stiff topaz]

You need to unsub, so that you can resub

[random glade]

Shouldn't the mod redownload when I launch ark?

I thought the workshop handler handled all that stuff

[stiff topaz]

Not if it thinks you already have it downlaoded

[stiff topaz]

workshop handler can't handle updating mods properly

[random glade]

Wouldn't it be removed completely by deleting the mods folder?

[stiff topaz]

But steam thinks it's still installed because you never told it you uninstalled it.

[random glade]

I see.

[stiff topaz]

Resubbing even when you're still subbed does make it install anyway sometimes, but sometimes it simply will not download the files no matter what you do, so better safe than sorry

a few times i've spent 2 hours just trying to get it to fucking download i clicked subscribe DOWNLOAD-

[random glade]

Alright, thanks a ton. I might write a script that automates all this honestly this is a bit of a pain. I have to write some server software for managing ark tomorrow anyways so might as well knock out two birds with one proverbial stone.

[stiff topaz]

..when trying to help someone who was also having that issue

There's an unsub all button

[random glade]

I don't even know why I sub to ark mods

[random glade]

it makes me download the damn things when I join my server anyways.

[stiff topaz]

It'll add them to your subscriptions when you do

[random glade]

I see

[stiff topaz]

Steam collections help keep them neat (and make re-subbing easier) when steam pull this crap

[random glade]

Right.

[stiff topaz]

i have a collection that's just 'everything i want to download' so it's easy 'unsub all' 'resub all' and then hope it works 🙄

[random glade]

I know the linux server downloads the mods when the server software launches

so I assume it's not on server side since my fiance can join

I however cannot, so im gonna go wipe my mods folder real quick.

[stiff topaz]

Or, you're the only one who's up to date

[random glade]

Lol, fair enough.

Lets just assume I'm not though for now for sanity sake

fixcing it on her pc would be a pain in my ass.

[round musk]

is there a way to turn off flyer screeching/noise

its pretty annoying

[random glade]

oops aight nvm

saw you posted a photo didnt know it was a rule haha

[stiff topaz]

Yeah images are restricted for most people, ambassador role is why I can

[random glade]

No worries, wasn't a big deal anyhow.

[stiff topaz]

there's a couple image channels but they're strictly for building or ingame screenshots

[random glade]

I unsubbed and resubbed gonna try that for now, it's downloading like 6 gigs of mods.

[brazen robin]

fanart

[random glade]

I'm just gonna post midjourney ark images and claim I hand painted them

./s

[stiff topaz]

and fanart but not stats*

[random glade]

Out of curiosity, I have been running a server for like a year now and I'm only able to run a single map on my "cluster" at a time. Is there a place for people to unite some servers into the same cluster? I'm not exactly attached to my rates so I can adjust them as long as they're not ridiculously slow.

[brazen robin]

yeah, gotta type stats manually into one of the discussion channels

[stiff topaz]

was there any consideration of a 'help images channel' btw?

lot of cases where it's easier to show the issue than tell

[stiff topaz]

A 'place'? I don't follow sorry

[brazen robin]

I would imagine it has, but can always message dodomail if more people want it, it'd be more likely.

[random glade]

Well like a channel or discord server.

[stiff topaz]

Is it just not working when you try, or is it hardware limitations?

[random glade]

I just have the one machine.

[stiff topaz]

I've seen a lot of people mention it in here

I think I did dm dodomail about it but I didn't get any word on it since

[stiff topaz]

There's #unofficial-setup-help for setup help

[stiff topaz]

It all needs to be run off the same machine I believe- Needs to be in the one folder? i've not looked much at clusters though so may be wrong

[pine token]

I think I might understand the confusion here. You used the word "cluster" to describe a non-cluster, I think.

[sudden perch]

Are there tropical crystal wyvern eggs at the heir place? I have only found bloods and embers

[stiff topaz]

Nope they're bugged

[random glade]

@pine token ah yes, my server is not part of a cluster currently. I was wondering if people recruit hardware owners to their clusters.

I wouldn't be interested in cheating or whatever I just want to be able to transfer my dinos between maps without killing morale since noone can access their builds or dinos if they aren't uploaded. I'm basically solo at the moment with my fiance.

[sudden perch]

How do I fix my spawn

[stiff topaz]

Mods. So, being on xbox, you can't

[random glade]

We had like 10 people on Ragnarok but it's been dead since I switched to fjordur, well dead a bit before that hence I didn't care for switching to fjordur.

[pine token]

Is you server dedicated? @random glade

[brazen robin]

can't on console. its a nest issue. gotta tame them wild

[random glade]

@pine token yeah it's hosted on contabo vps

It runs great though, Fjordur and Ragnarok.

94% uptime in 90 days, took it down for a week to play Minecraft with my fiance.

Just curious if there is a discord community for this, definitely don't want to clog up bobswithprobs

[pine token]

Sounds like a paid hosting platform. If that's the case they should have cluster setup info somewhere on their website.

[random glade]

Oh it's just a server provider they don't do game servers or anything along those lines.

[stiff topaz]

#unofficial-setup-help

[sudden perch]

Are alpha blood crystal wyverns bugged

[brazen robin]

no idea, I've only seen tropical alphas but thats just where I've been.

[sudden perch]

Tropical alphas don’t exist

[tropic meteor]

what do you mean by bugged

[sudden perch]

Don’t spawn

[brazen robin]

whichever they were, they spawned where the tropicials were lol

[pine token]

Sorry, was this a request to move the convo, or just a suggestion for where Skullfurious might have more luck asking their question?

[lofty tapir]

how do i change my single player save to an old save that i have

[sudden perch]

Oh

[brazen robin]

replace the file

[sudden perch]

it’s only bloods that have an alpha I think

[stiff topaz]

Suggestion

[lofty tapir]

dont know how to

its in a folder the old ark save

like seperate folder from the current ark save i have rn

[brazen robin]

you do the same thing you did to backup the save but backwards
copy and paste the old save into the new folder

[stiff topaz]

https://discordapp.com/channels/729837326120910915/762871715305881631/996817113488556044

[lofty tapir]

i think i did that and i was still in my old save

[brazen robin]

so that was what those are

[tropic meteor]

it’s rare but I’ve seen an alpha blood recently

[lofty tapir]

um that looks confusing i barely knew how to load ark

[stiff topaz]

so rename a file to the file ark reads

[lofty tapir]

um

i have the photos of the folders

i think that can help

[pine token]

Quick google search pulled up a walkthrough I can't link to on playservers.medium.com, entitled "Ark: Survival Evolved Server Cluster Guide". Looks like it might cover what you're looking for. (Most of the other results I saw seemed to be tied to specific gamehosting solutions.)

[random glade]

Alright, I'll take a look. I think the only solution I have is to join someone elses cluster if I wanted to go that route servers aint cheap after all.

[stiff topaz]

If you're looking for how to set up a cluster? this vid has a section on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dcWkSzGd4

i haven't watched the clustering bit, only skimmed the parts I needed, but what i watched was pretty solid so probably does well there too

[lofty tapir]

how do ik if i did it correctly

i have the local arkprofile.bak and profile.bak

and a bunch of numbers.bak

and then ragnorak.ark

is that all i needed to do

i think i lost the save file ill just give up

[pine token]

Check your recycling bin. And for future reference, it's a good idea to back the saves and inis up (just copy/archive the entire folder(s)) before making any changes. @lofty tapir

[stiff topaz]

Just rename the most recent one to Ragnarok.ark

And yes always back up regularly.

[hexed dawn]

Why can't I fly my pteradon on Vanheim

[lofty tapir]

Ok I’ll try Tmmr night

[brazen robin]

can't fly in realms besides the desmodus they count as caves

[rare berry]

Are the three different attack keys for Theri's left click, right click, and c?

[languid matrix]

yup

[slim egret]

What is going to hapen to the things in my data when the rolback get in?

[tall ravine]

Help

[slim egret]

Whats your problem dude?

[tall ravine]

I’m playing on official an my server not popping up

An I just grinded a whole month for 50 bps an 28 tames

[swift gate]

All pc/cross play servers are down due to exploitation. #announcements

[tall ravine]

An I can’t find my server my heaaarrrertttt

[slim egret]

Yeah thats a little problem look at #announcements

[tall ravine]

My heart hurts Lmaoaoa

[swift gate]

It will be back up Friday hopefully.

[slim egret]

Even if tou find it you cant play lol

[tall ravine]

All official servers down?

Like every single one

What about unofficial can I still play on that

[slim egret]

Yeah

I think arkpocalypse still on but not sure

[brazen robin]

some might've also stopped. the issue effects both officials and unofficials I heard.

[frail cipher]

I’m trying to log in to my server in ps4 official and it says no session found

[eager knoll]

Yea my unofficial server owner shut the servers down just to be on the safe side

[brazen robin]

playstation shouldn't be effected, restart your router and playstation.

[scarlet pelican]

Is the cave in the eastern side of Fjordur the only place to find nameless venom?
I'm having a hard time getting them to respawn. Everything else respawns, just not them.

[brazen robin]

I believe so yes.

[late halo]

Yes in the orange kinda rocks.

[pine token]

Oh, btw, you can maximize venom from those rocks by using a chainsaw.

[scarlet pelican]

Crap, I've already gathered them all and they won't respawn

[late halo]

It takes a while for stuff to respawn.

[twin meadow]

I have 'Force Allow Cave Fliers' on, but Im still not able to fly dinos in caves

Whats the fix for this? (its non-dedicated server btw)

[hexed dawn]

my chat keeps switching to global every message anyway to disable that its annoying when i am talking on tribe an accidently type on global

[vernal haven]

CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True
This keeps getting set to true when I want it false I save it then start the server but it's still set to true help please 🥺

[sudden night]

do any of you guys use custom recipes? and if so what do you use for it?, the more I look at the possible recipes the more I think that element dust is the best choice for custom recipes, otherwise maybe use an egg in a recipe?

[soft crow]

Best is high crafting skills, focal chili, and cooked meet for food (5per), OR vegetables for water

[sudden night]

crafting skills and chili is a given

and most types of meat are worse no matter what your crafting skill is than eating them normally

[soft crow]

Egg will make the receipe very heavy

[sudden night]

yeah thats why at every angle I look at now, the only real worthwhile recipe is element dust

[soft crow]

2days spoil timer and can be eaten in addition

[sudden night]

it stacks with regular food the same way as regular food with itself though, the only reason to use meat in custom recipes is for the spoil timer then

[soft crow]

And that reason your dino don't accidantely eat your food

[sudden night]

never in all my time have I had that issue tbh

except kibble

[soft crow]

5cooked meat give 90 food and 50 health (on 1200% crafting speed), in my terms its better than decay every 40 min. Fresh rare mushrooms would maybe an alternative for you

[proud ermine]

Tailor the recipe to your characters food stat no point wasting resources on a recipe that has more food or water than your character

I use a lvl 135 crafter and 10 raw meat for my food and 4 corn for my drink and even that replenishes more than my character stats are

[floral shuttle]

I have some dinos in a CrossPlay Server and i'm on xbox will those be rolled back too or is it just xbox offical servers.

(Cause I haven't fed them in a bit : / )

(Keyword 2 days and I don't think the maewing is gonna make it)

[naive dust]

Make sure it’s PvE

Or PvP

[hexed dawn]

my ping is going from 40 to 200+ any fix to this ?my wifi seems to be working fine

[sudden night]

today I learned the power of an equus kick and also learned that they are hilarious for caving

[sudden night]

I wonder, in the fordur hunter artifact cave, is there any way to escape the cave if you do not have a grappling hook or a desmodus?

[brazen robin]

realm teleporting

[winter elm]

Use fjorhawk

[sudden night]

I mean I got a desmodus and grappling hook so I could just escape but I really wonder if a player is just straightup screwed if he goes in without a grapple, fjordhawk or desmodus in a server

[winter elm]

Hold R key or reload button and tp out

[sudden night]

you cant do that on a lot of servers

[brazen robin]

if I'm thinking of the right cave, yes.

they'd probably have to ask somebody to help

[sudden night]

glad I sure go in prepped everytime I go into caves since the last few fiasco's

[brazen robin]

always keep a pocket desmodus.

[sudden night]

also learned that you cant retrieve loot quite often if you fall into a death pit, now I know to completely strip myself naked everytime I see one nearby

[brazen robin]

isn't there that one cave that kills you if you fail at the parkour

ah

[sudden night]

somehow that never crossed my mind tbh

well mostly the fact I wouldnt really survive if i was naked in that cave but still

so I finally found a use for my equus, if you net a creature its just a free knockout like that

wish I realised that earlier

any other neat tricks?

[brazen robin]

if it has a saddle its a mortor and pestle

[sudden night]

lasso is more important tbh

[brazen robin]

nah, lasso bad

[sudden night]

I also found out that equus is hilarious for caving

[charred vale]

also lasso works on quetzal if they knocked out at a bad spot

[sudden night]

so I went to the fjordur ferox cave to see if they were tameable

it gave a popup to feed the ferox element

I game it the element, it consumed the element, but it did not get any taming progress, which is kinda a middle finger from the game honestly

but I guess they arent tameable here

wait what the shit, they ARE?

it only gained progress after it detransformed

[charred vale]

Back few months ago we tamed alot high over lvl ferox from that caves ranges about lvls 300-400, not sure if its patched yet or not

[sudden night]

im worried about them despawning if I tame one over 450 tho

[charred vale]

its 300-400 post tamed

[lavish quarry]

Guys I have a problem that's been going on for some time, when I wanted to change the max level, so I searched it up on YouTube and they said to write it in the server settings thing. So I did and I even changed the difficulty offset, save and exit the file load ark in and nothing happens, mostly on the island since there are way too low levels, please help I looked everywhere and couldn't find the answer

[plain stag]

Check pinned messages in #unofficial-setup-help for OverrideOfficialDifficulty. Levels on the older story maps are bugged.

[lavish quarry]

Oh......

Well thanks, that's why I find huge levels on fjordur and other non story maps, but not over 150

[proper latch]

god mode glitcher in official server right now, barcode name so idk how to report him exactly. any help?

[pine token]

Can the message "Please ensure the Server you are attempting to join us running the latest version of all Mod content." also potentially mean that it's the client that's behind on mod content updates?
(The server just updated/restarted and my client hasn't grabbed anything.)

[azure flower]

Hi all! Is there a capacity on how much water a tap can provide to farming or limits to coverage? I have a 2x6 foundation grid of large plot boxes and all of them but one is receiving water. The one that isn’t is still listed as irrigated though, which feels weird 🤔🤔

[river wolf]

no. add a tap closer to it, or it might take a moment for it to update and get the water

if youre using a water well, it might not be able to keep up

[stiff topaz]

yeah it can be on either end

[pine token]

Figured

Thx

[azure flower]

Thanks! I was just about to add another, but wanted to be sure. The plots are right near the beach

[pine token]

Also just in case it's unclear, there is no water consumption cap if you have a good source like a pond, creek, etc.

Oh, and iirc a single tap should suffice for a 2x6, if the tap is in the exact center.

[foggy talon]

Can rexes spawn at swamps

Alpha rexes on Ragnarok

[sudden night]

are flamethrowers any good?

[tepid crescent]

I've never liked them. Range is kind low. Flame arrows are my favorite.

[covert belfry]

so for taming blood stalker if my taming dificulty is lowered will i need less bloodbags?

[flat jolt]

so i have my dedicated server started, and i have 27015, 7777 and 7778 port forwarded, and it doesnt show up in the in game server browser or in the steam server browser after i have added it to favorites. any ideas how to fix????

[languid matrix]

For the Rag mini-bosses, what is the additional loot buff rate per additional person in the fight?

I wanna know if it's worth doing duo or if it's just better to have one guy do it

[sudden night]

how do green gem or crystallized sap compare to feeding stone to gachas

my gachas gave me so much spare of that stuff that I usually just feed it back to them

[tepid crescent]

Feed the gachas seeds. Get a iguanadon and turn berries to seeds. Also use owl pellets.

[river tinsel]

i recently got into modding my dedicated server, however i'm running into an issue.
every custom/modded engram that is purchased on a character, gets refunded the next time the server restarts. the items we built with the engrams are all in place, and its affecting all mods, not just one.
is there a line of code or smth that im missing to keep it from doing that?

[stiff topaz]

Sounds more likely to be a mod doing that

[river tinsel]

my SP runs all the same mods as my server, and i'm not having that issue on SP
(unless SP doesnt behave the same way server does in how server restarts?)

[pine token]

Some mods have ini settings for toggling mod features on and off and such.

[covert belfry]

for some reason nothing is spawning in genesis 1 for me

couldnt find bloodstalker so i did a dino wipe and now no dinos spawn

[flat jolt]

i keep getting connection timeout when i try to join my dedicated server, how do i fix????

[covert belfry]

i think my game has wrong spawns for bloodstalkers

instead of bloodstalkers frogs and iugnadons are spawning on the trees

[late stag]

Have you tried looking in the middle of bog?

[lofty tapir]

ca somebody help me put my old save for rag its in a seperate folder

i transfer everything from the folder and it aint work

um its the world but i lost my character and levels and dinos and it says it isnt my base

oh well

[round musk]

I tried connecting to the server on a different PC with the server cmd running as an active window as the only thing running on the host machine. Did not affect the issue at all

[sudden night]

alright ive tamed like 4 shadowmanes no frigging problem so far

but there is this one shadowmane that just randomly wakes up no reason

[brazen robin]

click on the prompt and hit enter? if not then you're just getting the dedi lag

[sudden night]

and completely resets my progress despite me going from the behind

I am at a loss for ideas here

[round musk]

I guess I could try jumping on a random dedi server and seeing if its the same. but I wouldnt have a flyer

[brazen robin]

not sure, whenever I start lagging on my server. I click on the prompt and hit enter and it usually stops 🤷

[round musk]

I'll do some more testing

[lofty tapir]

does anybody know while when i loaded my old save my stuff was there except my charcter?

[brazen robin]

make sure you move your character save as well

[covert belfry]

itried everything

[lofty tapir]

Whats that called

i moved the rag save

[covert belfry]

they just dont spawn and when i do dino wipe then nothing spawns until i reload

[late stag]

Not sure then sorry

[brazen robin]

the entire folder the .ark file is in is the save.

[late stag]

Especially with it being singleplayer

[lofty tapir]

is it ok if dm u the folder where i have the old save?

[rare berry]

When spawning in a creature, is the sex random, or do I have to enter some sort of value to get a male or female?

[brazen robin]

.ark is the world
.arktribe is your tribe's saved data
.arkprofile is your survivor

the bak are backups :P

[lofty tapir]

yes i had that in the ragsave and it aint workwai

[simple glen]

how long does it take for an artifact to respawn?

[sudden night]

is it possible for shadowmanes to glitch or something, these guys keep waking up and ive never struggled this much to tame them

[lofty tapir]

i bassically had what u told me to add and the numbers arktribe

do u want me to also have localplayer and the numbers or only localplayer?

[brazen robin]

the local player is for singleplayer. the numbers is your steam ID

if you are on a server

[sudden night]

I noticed that for some reason the fjordur ice realm has different battle music but everywhere else fjordur uses the default one, is this a glitch or something?

[lofty tapir]

oh ok thank u

[brazen robin]

the numbers.arktribe is your tribe ID. numbers.arkprofile is your steam ID sorry

[lofty tapir]

i think i prob hav the local player corrupted

[sudden night]

still trying to tame these 2 shadowmanes, ive never struggled with manes like this before this is insane

game genuinely giving me a middle finger

[flat jolt]

so my friend keeps getting connection timed out or gets in for a couple of seconds before the game kicks them. how do i fix? im using pteradactyl to run a dedicated server

[past whale]

i need help

[carmine rapids]

@past whale hey so what is your friend trying to join

[past whale]

even with no mods my friend cant join me

non dedicated

[carmine rapids]

On steam?

[past whale]

ye

[carmine rapids]

if so get your friend to friend u on steam and join that way

[past whale]

didnt work

[carmine rapids]

Did he just friend u and rejoin ark and try?

[past whale]

he did

[carmine rapids]

if so see if you can get him to join game through steam and not launch ark

[past whale]

its been 2 days we tried that 2000 times

still dosent work

[carmine rapids]

Hmmm

[past whale]

bro why the game hates us

[carmine rapids]

Iv had this issue before and just friending each other worked

[past whale]

it didnt work for us

we have friended for 2 months

[carmine rapids]

Setting on the non dedicated might be jank

Do u have like whitelist and stuff on or?

[past whale]

wat

i dont have time for dedicated stuff

oh its seems that you left i think

[carmine rapids]

Nah currently sick atm so I’m having coughing fits

[past whale]

oh i hope you get better soon

[carmine rapids]

Thanks.

[past whale]

np if people dont be kind to each other who will be ?

[carmine rapids]

I’m sorry but I don’t know how to fix your issue.Iv gone though everything that we tested for our non dedicated and I guess non of it worked for you.

[past whale]

aright ty for help

well im trying to do wat you said

i hope it fixes

[placid hawk]

Is there an ini configuration setting to adjust repair costs?

[plain stag]

If you change the crafting costs it will change the repair costs. Higher quality will still mean higher costs though.

[placid hawk]

I want to keep the crafting costs though =/ like i want to make thingsexpensive to craft, but like only 20% to repair

[plain stag]

If there is anything like that, it would be in the server configuration pin in #unofficial-setup-help

[placid hawk]

Thx!

[past whale]

i need help man

the game time outs my friend when he tries to join my non dedicated

[foggy talon]

Guys was sacrificing my only dire bear (level 100 before i tamed him) worth a megalosaurus (level 135 tame)

[raven temple]

Anyone have issues launching on cloud play lately? I just get a blue screen like 95 percent of the time so it takes forever to be able to play

[topaz finch]

Ice queen. What's a good dino to bring to the fight? I've never done the queen in ragnarok

[graceful escarp]

No tribe is hard knock life

[marble pelican]

Does anyone known any non know base spots can you DM me I’m the biggest bob ever and haven’t survived survived for more then 5 days on any server for the past 4 months

[foggy talon]

Hide in probably the high lands top right at like THE VERY EDGE

[marble pelican]

In the water?

[foggy talon]

No

[marble pelican]

Like I’m so good at pvp and raiding but when it comes to building I always get wiped

So on land?

But it will be hard to defend

Do you know any base spots that no one knows about

Like in any map

[foggy talon]

Wslp

Welp the tunnels

The forbidden place

[marble pelican]

The what?

[rare berry]

Is there a way to disable snapping for structures.

?

[tough jolt]

anyone know why perhaps i can't carry wild dino's with flyers? i can carry tamed dino's, i have the box checked and i set it to true in the game files (pve)

[late halo]

I dont think so.

[sudden night]

honestly at a loss of ideas for gigas on fjordur, I am playing on that map and despite me killing a whole bunch of gigas and dino wiping quite a lot of time, every single damn giga I've seen is a very low level one, I am already nearing endgame and at this point I might have to skip taming one all together

[pine token]

Some structures, yes

(G key)

[red olive]

Velo if you can get it down there

[neon coral]

are there any ark mods that make it so all dinosaurs spawn at level 150
or do i have to go into the game files

[slate void]

how do i add modds to my single player from epic games?

[prisma hedge]

I can’t join servers

It just says joining session for like 15m and then just says join failed

[plain stag]

Epic games ark does not have mods.

[prisma hedge]

Also whenever I search for servers their just gone

Like just typing Ark says there’s 0 servers

[molten falcon]

mind if i dm you instructions on how to configure a certain mod to get that working?

actually, i'll just put it here