unofficial-setup-help

[vital linden]

Can someone help me understand why I can't get the Ceratosaurus saddle to be in a loot crate? I'm spawning in a bunch of SupplyCrate_IceCaveTier2_C. None of them have the saddle or blueprint. I've tried increasiong the weight to 500.00, because I think that's the weight of other loot in there by default, but then I can't loot it when I spawn it in.

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
...At the bottom of this section I have below string...
ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems=(SupplyCrateClassString="SupplyCrate_IceCaveTier2_C",bAppendItemSets=True,MinItemSets=1,MaxItemSets=1,NumItemSetsPower=1.0,bSetsRandomWithoutReplacement=True,ItemSets=((SetName="Cerato",MinNumItems=1,MaxNumItems=1,NumItemsPower=1.0,SetWeight=1.0,bItemsRandomWithoutReplacement=True,ItemEntries=((EntryWeight=1.0,ItemClassStrings=("Blueprint'/Game/Mods/Additions_Pack/Ceratosaurus/Dinos/PrimalItemArmor_CeratosaurusSaddle.PrimalItemArmor_CeratosaurusSaddle"),ItemsWeights=(1.0),MinQuantity=1.0,MaxQuantity=1.0,MinQuality=1.0,MaxQuality=1.0,bForceBlueprint=False,ChanceToBeBlueprintOverride=0.50),))))

[simple sorrel]

Uhm, does anyone have an explanation on why all the dinosaurs are gone and I barely find one/two when yesterday it was full of dinos? Also I am leveling up very fast, I think it's cause I have a lot of skill points, not sure, kinda new to the game

[queen mirage]

guys how to let a friend join me in ark ._.

[grizzled meteor]

3sec lag? easy, I see 15sec lags ^^

[olive talon]

@queen mirage #general or #ark-survival-ascended. This is for setup help.

[sleek path]

!A-404!

[low dew]

@raven wigeon no problems in my server must be just you

@simple sorrel Try the destroywilddinos command

[distant hearth]

if its for asa then the drops changed ,the weights , items everything , it looks like the weights might be 1000 an 700 in that drop , try 1100 weight an see if spawns alot an adjust from ther

[simple sorrel]

And they will respawn?

[low dew]

@simple sorrel They should yes

[simple sorrel]

Hmm, okey, will try it

[low dew]

Unless you somehow managed to shut of the dino spawn which I'm not sure is possible

[simple sorrel]

I didn't do anything on the server, it's just me and my friend and I turned on this morning in case he logged on, which he didn't and then I told u, all the dinosaurs from where I know they were Dissapeared

I managed to find some dinosaurs but 1-2

[distant hearth]

is it a non-dedicated ?

[native wave]

disappointed I can no longer survive an internet outage with my server. Could with ASE....even a power outage

[simple sorrel]

No, it's dedicated

I am running it on an actual server

[distant hearth]

ok , i just got confused by the turned it on part sry

[simple sorrel]

Dw, it's okey

[distant hearth]

i cant even think of anything that wud make a server despawn dinos, any mods that affect dino spawns?

unless ure starting it with a dino wipe, then they take upto 10 mins to re populate fully

sometimes longer

[tiny steppe]

Was going to say make sure auto dino wipe isn't turned on for server restart.

[vital linden]

Check your GameUserSettings file to see if it has the parameter DinoCountMultiplier (example DinoCountMultiplier=1.0). If it is there and less than 1.0, that would explain it.

[simple sorrel]

The only things I changed to GUS is adding password and updating server name

[tiny steppe]

Are you using nitrado?

[simple sorrel]

No, I am not that rich, I used gsl launcher

I forgot the name, wait

It's an ark server manager I got from the internet and it's working, but I forgot the name

I am hosting on my own home server

[tiny steppe]

@simple sorrel I'm not familiar with doing that. But see if you see something like either wipe all wild dinos on restart or something.... or force respawn dinos. If you see anything like those make sure they are false or delete them out.

Should be in the gameusersetting ini if that is the problem.

[distant hearth]

nah it'll be in the launch cmd or bat file, or however the script runs from the manager , cant do dino wipe from ini

if that is the issue, just can think of anything else that cud cause it

[tiny steppe]

Hmm that what the wiki pulled up lol

[distant hearth]

for a dino wipe?

[tiny steppe]

Yelp

[simple sorrel]

Idk, there was also a trex, maybe it ate all the dinosaurs

[tiny steppe]

Said put in forcerespawndinos in the gamesetting ini to launch with destroy all wild dinos

[distant hearth]

heh learn something new every day , dint know cud be done from there

[tiny steppe]

Lol unless I'm reading it wrong lol.... either way look in the files for something along those lines. If it isn't that then idk what would cause them.

@simple sorrel You saying one area or the full map? If one area then yeah they could of gotten ate. But the full map seems like something else is going on.

[low dew]

forcerespawndinos goes into the command line as -forcerespawndinos

as far as i know it dosnt work in the ini

[vital linden]

Can someone tell me the full path where saddles are found? I'm not seeing it and search isn't finding it.

[simple sorrel]

One area

[tiny steppe]

That would most likely mean they got ate by something bigger/stronger.

[simple sorrel]

Oh, alr

[inner rampart]

How do you fix a saving issue on xbox

[nova pumice]

Hey quick question, I run a few mods none of them cause conflict but when someone uses a chainsaw, pick, or even the mining drill mod on my server they just crash right away the server is a 50x is there something I can change to stop this from happening or do I need to drop the boost rate

[trail quarry]

Can someone please tell me how to change the spawn rate of a specific dino?

[daring nexus]

@nova pumice it might be due to the count rate, i dont remember where to change it, but its whether the server counts up from 1 for each item you harvest, or just tells you the total. if its counting and your on 50x, itll prob crash

[frigid mirage]

Guys i can't find my server

I bought my server from nitrado

[nova pumice]

Beacon will help ya there

[nova pumice]

Alright I'll take a look into that ty my man

[trail quarry]

Beacon what?

[nova pumice]

It a app you can get on a PC called beacon Omni tool

It like $10 and you can change anything for your server but if your on single player then I'm not sure

[tiny steppe]

Considering they are on Xbox they may or may not have a pc to do beacon

[trail quarry]

I'm not really looking for something like that, the server is already set up. The only thing are the spawn rates

[tiny steppe]

I think under gameini

DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag=[NAMETAG],SpawnWeightMultiplier=1.0,OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=true,SpawnLimitPercentage=1.0)

First of all, replace the [NAMETAG] with the tag of one of the creatures you wish to adjust.

Next adjust the numbers after the multiplier and the percentage lines. They are both percentage numbers, so 1.0 is 100%, 0.5 is 50%, and 2.0 is 200%.

SpawnWeightMultiplier defines how frequently the game will pick that particular creature to spawn compared to other creatures which can spawn in that area. While SpawnLimitPercentage will place a hard cap on how many of the creatures in that area can be of a specific type

[trail quarry]

I'll try that👍

[tiny steppe]

I literally found that in less then 5 minutes searching on Google. So as you might not be able to use beacon. Google can be your friend sometimes.

[trail quarry]

I actually changed it a while ago, however I don't think it changed something
I checked it with listdinos but there's the same amount of dinos, I put DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag=”Gigant_Character_BP_C",SpawnWeightMultiplier=2,OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=true,SpawnLimitPercentage=0.5)
In game.ini
Is there a mistake

[tiny steppe]

Yes

" where it shouldn't be...

[trail quarry]

At gigant_character_bp_c?

[tiny steppe]

Yeah, Pretty sure.... that or when you do it make sure to destroy all dinos when you load up the game.

All wild dinos

[trail quarry]

Thanks for the hint, I just copy pasted this into the file

And then did a dino wipe

[wise kindle]

Use cheat listdinos to check your spawns btw, much easier than eyeballing your map

[trail quarry]

Already did this

[wise kindle]

then hit the ~ twice to see the list

Well then its here for all the other people to see 🙂

[tiny steppe]

You waiting about 10ish minutes after you destroy all wild dinos?

[trail quarry]

Sure

[nova pumice]

So adding in to my question earlier if I just turn on server opt for harvest that should help right ? It usual on does it when we harvest a body or a rock with our character

[solemn zephyr]

Global harvest multiplier of 50x or do you have individual rates?

[nova pumice]

I'll tell ya what I have where in the faming category
Crop growth:5 crop decay:1 resources respawn:1 regrowth ban player and structure:1 harvest health:0.5 harvest multiplier:50

[surreal grove]

can i turn off the colision for obstacle? i cant place a foundation when a treee or a stone is there...

[ripe jackal]

We are going to go to a different map. We have a server that will be doing it on. We also have a "host non dedicated session" save. Can I move dinos from the server to this non dedicated? Also, we have characters on the non dedicated, so will I need to send my server character there as well, or can I continue to use her on the server? I'm on Xbox console, my bf is pc. I'm trying to make sure before wasting time. Thank you!

[frigid mirage]

Plz help🥺

[hollow harness]

Is it normal for dedicated server to use less memory the longer the server is running, started it yesterday with about 9.5GB memory utilisation and now it's about 4.7GB

[hearty bison]

If I want to run 2 servers, one for the island and one for Svartalfheim, do I need to download the server files to two different locations or can you use one set of server files ?

[hearty bison]

depends on the amount of people in it

[hearty bison]

did you manage to find it ?

[wanton hinge]

Yes. It's 2 different maps.

[hearty bison]

Yeah I know I just wasn't sure if the server files can be used twice, since the map is dealt with via config and mods

[surreal grove]

can i turn off the colision for obstacle? i cant place a foundation when a treee or a stone is there...

[simple sorrel]

If I have an os with arkserver on it, and I have the server on an user, can I copy the whole user folder, upload it to my nas, install proxmox, install steamcmd and all dependencies and run the server again without any issues?

[wise kindle]

Spawn containers, in my experience, are completely broken and touching them in any way seems to break them further. The code might not work now, but may get fixed over time as they optimize and fix issues in the game.

[solemn zephyr]

You will greatly save harvest lag if you shut off your global multiplier (rolling numbers) and set the harvest rates individually.

You can do this in about 6-10 clicks using Beacon.

[nova pumice]

I got it fixed by turning on the optimization

[ebon cypress]

i cant get this stacking mod to work?

[solemn zephyr]

You lost me at stack mod 🤮

[eternal lance]

is it possible to add boss tributes to loot drops in ASA?

[solemn zephyr]

Yes.

[eternal lance]

how do we do it?

[solemn zephyr]

Same way you add anything else to a drop. Check out the wiki or get the Beacon app are my recommendations.

[grizzled crescent]

Do we know if the winter wonderland event items have been added to the base game files, so that removing the mod won't delete the items?

[solemn zephyr]

Many speculated the 7th, so I'd expect this week

[grizzled crescent]

Otay. Ty! ❤️

[potent storm]

What do I need to change so I can kill unclaimed babies and babies I don’t want or to harvest their corps on a pve server

On the official servers I can kill the babies that hatch and aren’t good but can’t on my private server

[solemn zephyr]

You can't kill unclaimed on PvE as they belong to tribe ID 2000000

[hearty bison]

friendly fire ?

[potent storm]

I have it enabled

So if I claim them and pve is enabled I should be good?

[hearty bison]

should think so, I have the controller from Automated Ark on mine and kill that way

[potent storm]

On Nitrado settings I see enable friendly fire but it says PvP in parentheses

[haughty ether]

WC advised not removing the mod until it was switched off on official- or you would lose your items as they won’t be in the base game yet

[naive panther]

is there a way to check if a mod supports crossplay? Cannot find any info neither on CurseForge nor ingame

[hearty bison]

are you hosting the server yourself or on nitrado ?

[naive panther]

myself

[hearty bison]

ah yeah not sure then, on nitrado they all have crossplay tags, kind of annoying they dont on curseforge

[frank egret]

just throw it in and have a console player join and find out

if it dont work move on

[naive panther]

that's the worst way to do it ^^

[frank egret]

how so?

[naive panther]

I'd need to ask a player to do testing 😉

[frank egret]

lol you dont have anyone on a console that coul dhelp?

[hearty bison]

its defo a pain though eash time you want to add one, also means only being able to when they are online too. They should make it clearer on CF

[frank egret]

wouldnt be surprised if its up to the mod author to put that info themselves

[native wave]

At the very least every mod that is cross-platform compatible should say so in their description.

Curseforge has the data...they just aren't publishing it

[hearty bison]

it's obviously tagged somewhere if Nitrado can manage to display them as crossplay mods, so not sure why Cf doesn't

[frank egret]

theres probably a line of code that nitrado look sfor that curseforge doesnt

[naive panther]

curseforge knows for sure if the mod is crossplay

[frank egret]

curse forge is basically a file ecchange server

[naive panther]

you flag it in devkit and CF cooks files for xbox and ps

[naive panther]

it is not

they cook and verify the mods

[frank egret]

well then theyre slacking, did you expect anything different from a snail partner?

[fading timber]

can you use a password when doing OPEN IP:PORT

[bleak ivy]

the password is supposed to go after port

[fading timber]

hm ill try again

[bleak ivy]

heard it has issues in ASA tho

[mental narwhal]

Can someone help me with the Dino levels in my world on asa? I turned on maximum difficulty or whatever which is supposed to make levels increments of 5, but I turn it on and there is still levels like 32 etc, I did a dinowipe and they keep spawning like this, I made the difficulty slider 8, does that affect it?

[nova pumice]

Are you on single player or hosting through nutrado?

[wise kindle]

set maximum difficulty to false. That setting limits dino levels to 150.
Then restart and do a destroywilddinos.

[hearty bison]

are they baby dinos ? some spawn in with mutations

[solemn zephyr]

Difficulty 5 will show in increments of 5. 8 will show in increments of 8, etc.

[jaunty pelican]

anyone wanna do a playthrough of asa primal chaos on playstation

[lunar cloud]

Have any of you got rcon DoExit command as part of your graceful shutdown workflow and does it work for you ?
I have noticed it does log, and does terminate clients, but does not actually shutdown for me and I have to use kill option which i am trying to avoid

[celest halo]

works fine for me, you giving it time to shutdown

[lunar cloud]

How long does it take for you ?

[celest halo]

around 30sec, with noone on it when doing the command

[lunar cloud]

Ive given mine 4-5min , but does not shutdown. Good that it works for you, means i might have some other issue. I have using Linux proton to start it, it may be something with that not exiting (maybe ark is working fine)
I'll dig further , thanks 🙂

[humble thicket]

Any updates on the singleplayer save bug?

[wise kindle]

My most populus map takes about 10 minutes to go down, so that might be the issue there.

[frank egret]

jesus thats a long time

how many ppl are on that one?

[last terrace]

is there a server setting to enable counts to be visible on dedicated storage boxes for ps5/console players? they show for the PC players but not for the console

[frank egret]

thats a console bug then

[last terrace]

i read that it was off by default for console for "performance"

[frank egret]

well that woul dbe completely stupid so it might be true lol

[last terrace]

right lol

they see the icon but not the number

[frank egret]

way to go WC lets disable a very useful thing to reduce a 2 fps frame drop instead of doing something actually meaningful

[last terrace]

unless they go into it

exactly but dont let me hide grass!

[frank egret]

you can still hide grass

theres a back door way to do it

[last terrace]

yea but they tried to stop it lol

[frank egret]

and failed

[last terrace]

and it would have helped performance way more than hiding dedi numbers

[frank egret]

theres more then one setting that controls grass

[last terrace]

yea

[frank egret]

r.GrassSize, set it to 0 and grass is gone again

[last terrace]

nice mow the lawn

[frank egret]

devs are fucking stupid incompetent lazy pievces of shit any more, all of them the AAA teams are just as bad too

[steady hinge]

Anyone know of a mod that can make my single player world only spawn dinos in levels of 5 like on offical?
I want them to spawn at like 100 50 25 etc instead of random numbers

[humble thicket]

Hi does anyone know how to enable building on top of mountains on a server? Is there a particular INI command line to put in?

I'm having issues enabling it

[distant hearth]

building restrictions are related to these settings for pve in

gameusersetting.ini ,

EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False
AllowCaveBuildingPvE=True

PvEAllowStructuresAtSupplyDrops=True
AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True

game.ini
bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=True

[distant hearth]

shud not need a mod, in the single player settings, before starting the world ,
game rules , world,
Turn maximum difficulty to on
save setting
load game, type in the console cmd ,
destroywilddinos
enter it
play for a bit an you shud start seeing dinos in increments of 5

[humble thicket]

It is a pvp server though

[distant hearth]

there shudnt be any restrictions then far as i know , unles you have this set true
EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False

[inland lichen]

Hey, me and friends are trying to play, it seems like I can only have one friend at a time, it seems to be only a problem when we have s+ enabled, and when we launch the game we launch it with no battleye unofficial servers only. When said friends join an invites nothing happens for them.

[humble thicket]

I put that in some reason still didn't work

[distant hearth]

if it wasnt in the first place , it defaults off , far as i know,
is it just a specific place ?

#1110949794907684965

[humble thicket]

All mountains

[granite dragon]

didnt know just found it as you replied

[distant hearth]

double check through the game ini,
the only one i know relates to that is the extrastructureprevention
if its in there an set to true, it will block off building in those resource rich areas

[humble thicket]

Hmm ill check it out thanks

[chrome dagger]

Hello guys I’m looking for a good loot crate mod that has bbs in it I really just wanna copy and paste

[nova pumice]

I don't think there is one but are you just wanting custom drops all together? If so if you have access to a PC I would look into beacon Omni tool

[chrome dagger]

Or someone who has a server and can send my ini code lol

[nova pumice]

I mean I might be able to help let me get my server back in place first tho

Question for someone, ever since nutrado issue my server is back but it in a boot loop if I reinstall the server can I download a backup and put back up in it

[distant hearth]

if you know hot to connect via ftp and take the saved data for the world an players, tribe etc out and backup to your computer yes
if you just reinstall without , very high probabilty it wipes it all

[nova pumice]

I'll try the ftp hopefully I can fix this , I never had this many issues before but nutrado be really dumb lately

[wise kindle]

You would need to pull the ark files before you reinstall via ftp. Nitrado has guides on how to do this on their site.

[distant hearth]

i dealt with them for years on xbox servers for ark, its well worth learning how to locate the files and back them up via ftp.
Its simple enough when you know how and where to look for them .Take copies of both ini's too , plus note down the mods on there if any , or pull the data from mod file

[nimble wagon]

How can i change tame limit ? want at least 500 it still shows 250 i tried few options

[distant hearth]

MaxPersonalTamedDinos=250
is the line that locks it too 250 per tribe

[nimble wagon]

so i find this ini and change to 500 and would work ?

[distant hearth]

yea, gameusersetting, stop server befor change, save etc etc

[nimble wagon]

okay thanks i try find 😄

[nimble wagon]

i look in the gameusersettings in nitrado looks like it not added in what the correct code i can add it in manually ?

[distant hearth]

maxpersonaltameddinos=250 locks it to 250, change to what you want it to be

[wise kindle]

Under [serversettings] section in GUS.ini

[nimble wagon]

thanks i will add it in now thanks both of u

because this only part i could find but i add new setting in 🙂

MaxTamedDinos_SoftTameLimit=6000
MaxTamedDinos_SoftTameLimit_CountdownForDeletionDuration=604800

rebooting let you know how i go 😄

[serene ibex]

Hello fellas i have a question, is there a way to keep the Titans longer than 24h (feeding) with my gportal server?

Without mods btw

[nimble wagon]

it worked thanks so much 😄

[scarlet ermine]

anyway to ban IP on Nitrado server

or only through player list on admin manager in game?

[nova pumice]

Quick question, cause this one stumps me for nutrado there a data base what exactly should be in that cause after pulling the files and starting the server it still empty

[distant hearth]

AllowRaidDinoFeeding=True gameuser ini

[serene ibex]

Ah thanks i though that was only for the titanosaurus lol

[distant hearth]

database? im kinda confused by what you mean tbh

[nova pumice]

So on nitrado I have the file Zilla which you said to do I had a buddy do it as he good with that before resetting the server there a SQL data base that was empty, well after resetting the server then starting it bringing it down to put the saved data back it it throws a error in the console saying the data base is corrupt but there nothing in there either time nore has there been anything ever in there

[distant hearth]

im kinda lost on that one tbh ,
when ever ive done i just copy out whats in shootergame/saved/savedarks/
then the map name, so for the asa island , Theisland_wp
in there is the saved world file, TheIsland_WP.ark,
aswell as all the localprofile data an tribe data
plus the backups unless there told to save elsewhere

[nova pumice]

Idk he is better at all this not me 😅 he not in here either so it hard to explain everything

[distant hearth]

so what i do is ,stop server or force stop if needed
take the save data from server.
reinstall game, leave it 10-20 mins to boot up an do what it needs to do
stop server, move the data too it from old one,, activate the mods i want , paste my ini's in , saving them , each at a time
start server an shud do what its got do

[wise kindle]

Unless you are using a map mod. In that case, hold on to your ass and hope for the best 😂

[distant hearth]

lmao yea, in that case i install the mod an pray it boots

[wise kindle]

And then dont be shocked if it doesn’t :/

[regal star]

@olive talon can u send the videos u send a whole back bout setting up my server plz

[kind bloom]

Now that the winter wonderland is over, if I just remove the mod from the list, will everything I’ve gotten remain in the game?

My friends got a Santa hat he doesn’t want to lose 🙄

[distant hearth]

dont remove it yet

have to wait for a client side update that will put the assets in the game

[kind bloom]

Oh crap

[distant hearth]

likely be somepoint today

[kind bloom]

I removed it but added it back and no one has been on between those times. Am I screwed?

[distant hearth]

if you started the server between remove an add yea, might wanna consider a roll back to before you removed it

[kind bloom]

Okay. Is that in the backup files thing? Sorry I’m new to this, thank you for the help though!

[distant hearth]

if its a nitrado server you shud have some sort backup option in the general settings area ,
if its your own hosted server you will have to find where you tell it to save the save files

[kind bloom]

Great, I think I know what you are talking about! Thank you again!

[wise kindle]

You need to set a password to get admin to work properly.

[distant hearth]

might need to use admincheat if its ase

admincheat enablecheats yourpassword

then u will need admincheat before any cheat cmd

im going off memory, so i may be wrong, tbh its easier to just google it

just whitelist him then , google how for the server

[wispy crescent]

anyone able to assist me? All of a sudden, whenever I log into my private server after about 30 seconds I cannot interact with anything and 10 seconds after that, I get kicked with Host Connextion Timeout: Lost/timeout connection to host. pops up. Nobody on my server is having this issue but me. I have tried lowering graphics settings, reinstalled the game, cleared my steam cache folder. nothing seems to fix this.

[distant hearth]

try this, right click game in steam, manage, browse local files,
from there go through , shootergame/saved/localprofiles
delete the file called playerlocaldata.arkprofile

might help, sometimes that file gets corrupted

failing that , you can try loading the backup profile for your account on the server (never worked for me )
or delete your player data from the server an , then have to admin cheat back your levels etc >
google how , its not easy for me to explain

[wispy crescent]

so I have PlayerLocalData_guest1.arkprofile as well as PlayerLocalData.arkprofile

should i delete both?

[distant hearth]

hmm, ive never seen a guest one lol, copy it to have a safe place ,desktop, folder, w.e just incase im wrong, but yea id delete both

[proper condor]

I got a ? But it’s not server related may I ask

[distant hearth]

if its not related to unnoficial setup stuff, best to ask in one the other channels tbh
edit tag me in bobswith probs an i try answer

[proper condor]

Ok

[wispy crescent]

so after doing that, when I tried to join server i got a fatal error Unhandled exception: Exception_Access_Vi

[distant hearth]

wud need to see the rest of the error code but , likely seperate issue tbh
what i had you do just deleted the player profile from local machine
upon server connect it makes a new one

[wispy crescent]

no idea whats going on 😦 Now when I hit Join Game, it doesn't even show list of servers, it just instantly backs me to main menu

[distant hearth]

verify files, just becuase thats always fun , do the whole steam clear cache crap too after an restart pc after , coz thats fun too
then retry, arks fun , when it actually works ........ maybe lol ,
its a buggy arse mess atm

[frigid mirage]

How

[wise kindle]

When you are saying it didnt work, how are you verifing it isnt working? Hate to ask but there is no indicator that it works, you just have to try commands to verify. Did you verify this doesnt work (with a set password)?

Like trying to spawn something or checking that the admin gun pops into your inventory when you type cheat gcm

Things like that.

[distant hearth]

its on ase , so wud need admincheat

far as i know anyway, maybe non-dedi differnt

[wise kindle]

is that a pc thing?

Steam I mean

[distant hearth]

just a evolved thing, it always needed admincheat on servers

[wise kindle]

I never used that on Win10 maps. Might be a steam thing. Just used cheat or after that last update, just c gcm worked.

[distant hearth]

prolly they changed it then an i never realised, just rem thats how i had do it

[wise kindle]

It likes to focus the yuti most of the time. If you are on the yuti you might feel focused.

[distant hearth]

it will focus the stego as thats highjest drag weight

[wise kindle]

Never ran it with a stego, but what he says makes sense. Low drag weight.

[distant hearth]

naw , it will try to get the higher drag weight creature but get stuck from dino knickers in my experience

[wise kindle]

the amount of weight it takes to drag it

an elephant will have a higher drag weight than a mouse

bring stims and med brews, several flak sets to swap out

[distant hearth]

never tried do it on foot, might be it has a player targetting over ride in its code, no idea tbh

then i have no idea wtf ure on about sry

[wise kindle]

if you are the only one or one of the only player in the arena, its going to target you

just go in prepared for it

thats the "one of the only ones" part of it then

if you are asking a sure fire way to ensure you are never targeted by the boss again, I dont know a way to do that. I just know to go in prepared to handle getting hit by it.

[humble thicket]

I found the extrastructureprevention command line

It should work now thanks

[sweet bridge]

Hey everyone. Is it safe to turn off winter wonderland already? is it confirmed that the files are already a part of the core game?

[olive talon]

Not yet

[sweet bridge]

Not yet confirmed or not yet a part of?

Cause I sent the order to remove the mod for this morning's restart and i'm at work. does this mean I just cost my players all their event items?

[olive talon]

It means that it is not added yet.

[raven wigeon]

does any have baby spinos spawning on theyr private dedicated server?

[sweet bridge]

so it means if we remove the mod, all the last weeks of farming are gone?

[olive talon]

Yes, the files are not in the game itself yet.

[sweet bridge]

sorry could you point me to where this is written/specified for future reference? everywhere it says the event ends on the 7th and its the 8th already... where, for future events, can we check if wildcard has added the files to the game itself so this doesn't happen? I just cost a lot a of players many hours of farming and I would like to not do it again..... @olive talon

[plush ridge]

just got the game, when trying to load into a server its stuck on joining server. is their a fix?

[olive talon]

End of the crunch, "note for unofficials"
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/articles.html/winter-wonderland-is-live-r2222/

[sweet bridge]

Thank you. I had read that part already before but where can we confirm that the event files are added? is there a page? Even for future events, where can we check if it's safe already to remove the mod since we can't turn off the event without removing the mod.

[hollow jackal]

Hi guys, I m looking to get new setup for ArK. 7800xt, 7800x3d with 32 gb ram be enough to play on 1440 p/1080p without reducing the graphic settings much? Or could you suggest any combo since the recommended requirements seems to low to run it on good graphics.

[manic coral]

Got a 3070 and the same cpu/ram and i can play 1080p at medium with around 60fps. Cpu is definetly more then capable enough, gpu is the limiting Factor for sure

I can play on high with 45-50fps, but depending on the area it can drop below 30 so thats why i switched to Medium

[hollow jackal]

I see, so 7800xt is equivalent to 4070 I think, so should be better I suppose .

[hollow jackal]

What’s a good fps to run the game smoothly ? And also can u cap it ?

[sweet bridge]

I can go for 100 fps average but I capped mine at 60 and I have a great experience with it

[manic coral]

Yeah you can cap it, not sure what you mean with smoothly, if you can run 60fps consistently that would be smooth i guess?

[hollow jackal]

Yeah thanks, Yh fluctuations cause the stutters. Appreciate it

[heady pagoda]

So since it's past the scheduled end date, are those items added to the core game now?

[sweet bridge]

thats what I was talking about.. no it seems its not?

[heady pagoda]

I guess leave it run until the next community crunch? Would be silly for the mod to end on official before this is done but 🤷

[sweet bridge]

since they announced the event would end on the 7th, it would make sense (for me at least) that the files would be integrated into the core game before that...

[humble thicket]

No!!!!

[distant mirage]

it would. but this is wildcard we’re talking about, they dont do things that make sense

[sweet bridge]

Exactly.... trying really hard to keep it cool, its a game after all.... but I'm gonna have to tell all "my players" that theyve lost hours of grind and find a way to make it up to them.... oh Well...

[heady pagoda]

wouldn't a backup restore fix it?

[olive talon]

Content gotten from drops or gifts, tames and such, will stay. The only stuff that will be removed is skins, candies, and holiday items themselves, like trees and lights. They won't lose hours of progress unless you count decorations.

Regardless, you can add the mod back and restore a backup and it should fix.

[olive talon]

They won't be added until Wildcard lets us know that they're added, most likely in #announcements or the patch notes channels.

[olive talon]

In the future, I would just wait until they officially end the events and wait for an announcement.

[sweet bridge]

Tyvm @olive talon for your help

[celest halo]

The mod page on curseforge also has a important information part that says skins are not part of game files and tells you, you will lose them if removing the mod before they add them to game files

[haughty stirrup]

does anyone know the switch to assign more cores to server on startup

seems to just use 2 by default

[plush ridge]

does anyone know how to fix 'joining server', been stuck on it for ages

[sweet bridge]

yeah we all know that part... the point was: if the event officially ends on the 7th, we shouldn't need to keep it on the 8th

[reef charm]

Removed it off my server today, couldn't handle bright green and red dinos anymore. Most skins stay, but a few vanished. In particular the Krampus one is gone, but I still have the other skins. Kind of a mixed bag

Candy disappears too but that's pretty par for the course after the same thing happened for Turkey Trials

[wooden saffron]

hi all, does anyone know of a way to disable the destroy option for decayed structures? Id prefer the server auto destroy any old structures instead of players just being cheeky and destroying foundations to take things from the base.

[wanton hinge]

That's why I'm avoiding third party building enhancements and skins.

Imagine using a custom building mod and the mod updates and bugs out. Your server just had half its bases disappear lol

[native stag]

hello guyz, i am curious about the loot system... Our server have now 548 dayz and it seems no one can find any rex saddle blueprint. Of course i can spawn it but i dont want to go that way. So is there a different way to have them spawning in beacons because loot quality is already on 4 and it doesnt change the drop rate it seems

[wise kindle]

If your loot boxes are default and your pop isnt large thats expected tbh. Its meant to be rare and your players need to run more caves and hit more red drops. At official rates they are very hard to come by. Mega tribes on Official have zero issues since they have a million people running drops, but for a tribe or two on one map it will not be common or easy at all to find.

[native stag]

we did up the loot to 4 for 10 days now and we are now crying lol

[wise kindle]

yeah that just effects loot quality not the loot type. Just keep searching. Or you can get an easy app like Beacon and alter your drops. Link is in the pins if you want to go there. The app makes it really easy.

[native stag]

Wonderful, thanks you 🙂

[frank egret]

thats all the game is coded to use, you cant force it to use more

[opal reef]

Does anyone know why I crash every time I try join my server? I have updated and even reinstalled all of my mods and can’t think of anything else

[wise kindle]

series S?

[opal reef]

Yes but it’s only happening to mine, my boyfriend can join just fine

[wise kindle]

Yeah the Series S can have this along with the PS5. It seems to be a hardware issue as my Series X players dont see this.

Only thing that works for my players is to go into single player on the same map, run around for like 5 minutes then exit to main menu (keeping the game open) and then join. Make sure your single player has all the same mods running on it as well. If it crashes in single player, remove mods till its stable, then slowly readd them, going into the game each time till it can handle them all without crashing you. Then join on your map.

And even then it sometimes doesnt fix it.

[solemn zephyr]

I'd try clearing your cache as well

[opal reef]

Wow okay yeah I figured it had to be my console only since he can get in even with our mods installed and updated. Kinda annoying that I have to do all of that in single player before I can play 😩 but I’ll definitely try this and thank you so much!!

[wise kindle]

This usually happens after a large mod updates, so you shouldnt have to do this alot. Fingers crossed.

[lilac tundra]

I have an IP address for an ARK server, but no way to enter it to join the server. Pressing "Tab" does not open the command line for me from the Join menu. Steam PC

[opal reef]

Tbh we don’t have THAT many mods but yeah there’s always some small issue after updates so ur right. I appreciate the help mate.

[wise kindle]

np, good luck 🙂

[tardy pine]

Does the newyear event work on ASA?

[wise kindle]

If this is ASA, use the ~ button to open the command line. And you usually just search for the server in game now, even with Steam PC.

If this is ASE, ignore this.

[lilac tundra]

I don't know what ASA and ASE mean. Pressing the ~ button does nothing.

[sand bison]

ASA = Ark Survival Ascended ASE = Ark Survival Evolved

[lilac tundra]

ASE

Only 5 unofficial servers show up for me. Shouldn't there be dozens?

[frank egret]

check your search filters

[modern finch]

if you have an IP you want to select "View" in steam and go to "Game Servers" from there you click on "Favorites" and then the little "+" at the bottom, you can put in the IP there and join the server from there too.

[modern finch]

all this is done in steam, outside the game.

[surreal grove]

bAllowUnlimitedRespecs": true should i not be able to make as many mindwipe i want?

or do i need to change also anything with the potion to'? it says its just working once every 24 hour...

[solemn zephyr]

If you were already on a timer and you changed it it will not reset the timer

Goes in game.ini

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
bAllowUnlimitedRespecs=True

[tardy pine]

I think that only allow you to use it multiple times. In the past there was a limit of being able to use a mindwipe once per level.

If I'm wrong I'd love to hear how that setting works as well.

Well, per the wikiIf True, allows more than one usage of Mindwipe Tonic without 24 hours cooldown.

[surreal grove]

if thats true... why can i use it more then once every 24 hours

[tardy pine]

If you enabled the setting after a cooldown started, then the setting will do nothing until that cooldown is complete.

And there is no way to force the cooldown to reset. You can speed up time though I think

[potent fractal]

Anyway to see server list of people whos on?

[solemn zephyr]

In game via showmyadminmanager or via RCon

[lilac tundra]

I am unable to join any of the listed servers. I get: "Join failed; Connection Timeout" on all of them. ASE PC Steam. All of the needed mods appear to download first.

[ancient ibex]

I am trying to change to the max level cap on my ark server from 135 to something higher, I use to be able to do it on ASE but I can not do it for ASA. Has anybody had experience with this?

[solemn zephyr]

ASA is hard capped at 135, no matter what you set your levels to, sadly

[open cedar]

wut? did you use the leveloverride in the game.ini? im currently at level 250

ah no forget what i said, it only works for dinos

you are right, kinda dumb

[echo frigate]

Did everyone else lose the items from the wonderland event when mod was removed? We kept items from turkey trial on our server, but seems everything from winter wonderland poofed.

[solemn zephyr]

It was documented in the community crunch that it would happen if you didn't wait for the update that adds the core assets to the game

[echo frigate]

yeah, guess i was silly for removing it when the event was supposed to end on the 7th x_x

[celest halo]

was also documented on the mod page on curseforge

[echo frigate]

Yeah just figured since it was also documented the event ended on the 7th it was safe to remove

[solemn zephyr]

Never count on wildcard to be on time

[celest halo]

im not removing it till i see its removed from officials

[wise kindle]

Have to wait for them to announce its removed from the official maps, cuz all the action happens there.

[solemn zephyr]

Same

[celest halo]

and even then waiting a day or 2

because we all know how unofficals dont get updates till after officials do

[wise kindle]

Rumored a couple big patches for xplay this week so should see that soon

[nimble wagon]

Is anyone having issue logging in unoffical server and when log in things vanish and then say host lost

[inner cloud]

does anyone know if WC have added the winterland event items to the core game files yet?

[wise kindle]

Nope

[inner cloud]

well then not going to remove the mod until they do i guess as I don't want my players losing their items

[placid knot]

may i still ask about survival evolved servers here?

[wanton hinge]

Read the channel title

[placid knot]

ok, I've got a cluster running on one machine, all the ports are different, but I can only join one through the server browser, but both through lan.

[opal sky]

is linux servers added yet

[wanton hinge]

You can run it on Linux using proton.

[wanton hinge]

Make sure all the proper ports are forwarded.

[regal star]

Can anybody help with video on how to fix’s servers

[solemn zephyr]

That's so vague. Helps to be specific when requesting help for free

[empty peak]

Are we able to remove the winter wonderland mod on private servers without losing winter wonderland skins yet ?

[celest halo]

No

[peak sapphire]

Keep an eye on Wildcard #announcements

[reef charm]

Not yet

[humble thicket]

so to all unofficial server owners Important Information: Some of the new event content skins available as rewards in this mod are not part of the core game files yet. This means that players will lose rewards that they had earned IF the mod is deactivated on servers (or singleplayer games) before we have migrated the content into the core game files in January. do not remove till wildcard have stated ww added to core files or you will lose your ww skins

[reef charm]

Honestly most of the Winter Wonderland skins stay. The only one I've seen disappear so far is the Krampus outfit. Santa outfit might disappear too but haven't checked if it's still in the box. Santa outfit, antlers, santa hats (dino and player), structure skins, and trees/lights/etc still exist

So more accurately, don't remove it or you will lose some of your ww skins

[empty peak]

I guess there waiting till the "significant updates" to remove the event from offical servers and add the rest of the skins into the core game files

[empty comet]

Kinda sucks tho we have to pretty much leave the event on until they actually update the game with the assets...

[celest halo]

Yup, and the event was posed to end on the 7th and it's now the 9th with radio silence from WC about why event is still active/extended or when that update will come so it can be removed

[grizzled meteor]

anyone else have the issue with spinos not spawning back? they spawn after wild dino wipe.. after they get killed they dont spawn again even if their spawnrate and spawnweight is set to 3 times multiplier

[empty comet]

Oh well if it's still active on Official then I don't mind it being still active on my server...

Well, I know I barely get any spinos, I think I've seend a total of 5 of them since ASA, we never do dino wipes...

[tardy lantern]

How much is it to set up an unofficial ark server

[grizzled meteor]

@Wildcard whats up with the spino spawns?

is this the built in Tek blocking mechanism?

[last kestrel]

Fish overspawn them i think.

[grizzled meteor]

they also dont spawn if we clear the rivers with gigas

[empty comet]

I've managed to make Otters spawn but not spinos; I figure I'll wait till abberation to breed them like I ended up doing in ASE

What sucks is when we started the server there was one 110 and one 135 which no one could tame/kill at first and they just vanished (everyone was racing to tame them :/ and we're too small a server to have someone trolling.)

[rigid creek]

Anyone know a good unofficial pvp server? 2man preferably

[wanton hinge]

#1110925695900713072

[open cedar]

could it be that nitrado is assigning resources on the fly for servers? as an admin i keep getting a slow frame detected message. The thing is, my sever CPU is always sitting at 90 to 94% when only one player is online. The CPU load never goes beyond that tho no matter how many players are online. In SP with hibernation deactivated my cpu only sits at around 20 to 30 %. I guess CPU power is getting assigned on the fly depending on how much is needed on nitrado?

[grizzled meteor]

I bet they host it on virtual environments, you wont get a real cpu indication there as the cpu's are virtual and adjust themself in the background

[heady pagoda]

are you using any backup mods? like the inventory backup or cryo mods with dino backups?

[empty peak]

I kinda see the same on my self hosted server if the server is empty cpu is around 5% as soon as a player logs in one core increases to 60 to 70% unless were away from our base then its lot less

[cursive gazelle]

do wc reajusted the harversting multiplier?

[hearty wedge]

without other problems, "slow frame detected" is completely normal and doesn't mean anything is wrong; if it's annoying, log in as non-admin and elevate only as needed (with relog in between) since it'll only display to admins

[trail quarry]

I changed the dino spawns with this ini setting: DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag=Gigant_Character_BP_C,SpawnWeightMultiplier=2,OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=true,SpawnLimitPercentage=2)
but after several dino wipes I looked into the amount of dinos with listdinos and the setting doesn't seem to work, is there something that I am missing? (Asa)

[empty peak]

what are you trying to accomplish with this?

[empty peak]

Try this not sure if it will give you more then 2 gigas tho but it will prob reduce the chance of a Carcha spawning

  DinoNameTag=Gigant,
  SpawnWeightMultiplier=10.0,
  OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=True,
  SpawnLimitPercentage=2
)```

[empty comet]

I haven't seen any carchas since I started playing ASA on my server, to be fair we only started being able to kill/tame the Gigas around xmas tho

[empty peak]

just unlucky I guess ive seen a few

[empty comet]

Frankly with Rhynios, taming gigas is a joke, knowing that we would have started sooner.

[empty peak]

? Rhynios make it easier how so

[empty comet]

you just aggro them and you can shoot from them no traps, maybe move a bit. took me like 5 minutes to tame our first one (150)

[empty peak]

ive not rased a rhynio on my server yet have on offical I still trap 🙂

[empty comet]

TBF we have a 500%+ Rifle BP, that helps speed up things

[trail quarry]

So I should just increase the spawn weight multiplier?

[empty peak]

no the giga and carcha share the same spawns so only the 2 of any can spawn by defult im not sure if the SpawnLimitPercentage will have a affect

but giving the giga a SpawnWeightMultiplier may result in lack of carcha I recommend testing to see if you get more then 2 if so add carcha with same SpawnWeightMultiplier

[pseudo latch]

Is there a code to put in game settings
To remove fog & clouds for all players on my server
I know me and my admin team can do it but would like all players to experience it

[wise kindle]

Wouldnt that be cool? But we cant have nice things.

[low dew]

@pseudo latch no

[distant hearth]

all players can use that code, they just have to put it in each time

[pseudo latch]

As per wild card 😂
Ty for replys

[hearty wedge]

I don't think it's particularly a "WC thing" to not have server settings to tamper with that level of client-side render behavior; the game looks way, way worse with fog turned off if you're using dynamic global illumination, so it'd be pretty crappy to have servers default clients to bad graphics if they didn't want it

[solemn zephyr]

There actually is a mod for that (and I'm not one to refer mods) made by a great dev

LIly's Tweaker

[olive talon]

That's amazing!

[dim zephyr]

Trying to raise max level wild Dino spawns, I have
overrideofficialdifficulty=6
Difficultyoffset=1.57

Still not getting wild spawns over 150, am I missing something?

[solemn zephyr]

Delilah does really solid work! Her dino one is basically dino storage v2 remade. And she's on top of it

[regal star]

@olive talon is it possible u can send me the video again

[solemn zephyr]

Sounds like you have maxdifficulty=true in your game ini.

Which caps you to 150

[dim zephyr]

Thanks I’ll look for that and change it.

[olive talon]

What's the name of the dino one?

[olive talon]

Which video?

[solemn zephyr]

Dino Depot

[weary trench]

I have been playing on an Unofficial PVE server "[US] Best Ascended Server 3x" but i haven't been able to find it since yesterday. Help?

[solemn zephyr]

You'll need to ask them.

[olive talon]

Ohhhh I actually was curious about that one. We're using Pelayori's legacy pods atm

[solemn zephyr]

Pelayori does great work, too! Dino Depot is worth checking out

[olive talon]

I've let my group know, thank you as always

[solemn zephyr]

No problem, I try to help when I can!

[regal star]

The one to set up the server u send it a while back but I can’t find it

@olive talon

[olive talon]

This?
https://youtube.com/@NitradoTutorialsEN?si=QEgwfZ6MwCxjzEZe

[regal star]

@ty

@olive talon Ty

[scarlet ermine]

When are they going to bring back the store mods for crossplay?!

[wanton hinge]

They aren't

[solemn zephyr]

That's not at all what CurseForge has said, but nice speculation!

Rust has crossplay in game purchases via Tebex, so don't be surprised if they work it out.

[wanton hinge]

Just run ark api with tebex. It works on asa for crossplay 😉

[mental narwhal]

How do I make loot drops better?

[scarlet ermine]

you can scale the quality of them using the multipliers but they will still be the same loot tables as official just better quality. but if you want custom I recommend you download the beacon app.

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=
FishingLootQualityMultiplier=

[pine topaz]

Does anyone know if you can turn off cryosickeness on private pvp server on ASA? I have put these in the correct place, but still getting the sickness EnableCryoSicknessPVE=False
CryopodNerfDuration=1
CryopodNerfDamageMult=1
EnableCryopodNerf=False

[distant hearth]

only with a cryo mod on pvp

[bleak ivy]

the cryopod nerf isn't the cryosickness. its talking about it taking more damage and dealing less damage when released.

[pine topaz]

Thank you

[pine topaz]

thanks. I dont really want any increase of decrease in damage with cryopods. is it ok to set that to 1 in that case?

[distant hearth]

just delet the lines an server will use default

[pine topaz]

legend. thank you

[cloud sorrel]

Players complaining they cannot pick up wild dinos for taming purposes? Is this a known new issue we could before winter event ended

[distant hearth]

check this line in gameusersettings . ini
AllowFlyerCarryPvE=True

if its false or not there, change or add as needed

[floral orchid]

Hey, does anyone run their own server. I started mine last month, and me and my buddy are just playing the game by ourself. However we are now breeding, and it seems exceedingly slow. I cannot find any good info that is working online on how to speed this up. I have changed breeding settings in the server but nothing seems to be speeding it up. Anyone got any ideas?

[distant hearth]

if its a nitrado server, check in the general settings for the events option an make sure its disabled.
otherwise it overrides your settings an uses the dynamic config.
To actually setup the rates to match your baby mature speed i highly reccomend ark beacon app, the free version will allow you to change the settings an see the effect on every dino

[floral orchid]

Yes it's a nitrado server.

[floral orchid]

Ahhhh! we are running the Winter Wonderland event. We are going to try disabling it.

[solemn zephyr]

That mod doesn't change breeding.

The extra life events do.

I second, get Beacon, it's your friend, and breeding multiplier settings are included for free.

[floral orchid]

Thanks, that did it! Woot!

[pine topaz]

Hey, so just removed the Winter Wonderland Mod from the server and now missing a bunch of stuff. Krampus Outfit, Smithy Skin, Forge Skin, lights, Chibis, emotes etc. Not really sure how to fix this, Xmass trees, and some other stuff still there

[solemn zephyr]

Only way you can is to reinstall it and roll back.

The official assets haven't been added to the core game, this was covered in the community crunch and at least 100 times here.

[pine topaz]

oh thanks, didn't have this issue with the turkey trial, will try and find the community crunch the talked about it

[frank egret]

there actually is just look on th ewiki

[celest halo]

its also on the cursefogre mod page

[pine topaz]

Thank you very much I found the info on curseforge "Some of the new event content skins available as rewards in this mod are not part of the core game files yet. This means that players will lose rewards that they had earned IF the mod is deactivated on servers (or singleplayer games) before we have migrated the content into the core game files in January."

[open trellis]

anyone else having issues with the water caves overspawning? I have pictures of the spawns for the brute artifact and they are insane...

[eternal lake]

ASA server on my hardware - would no longer start the morning after a power outage.
Noted likely corrupt .ark file after finding that it was complaining about SQL - so did renaming to work with most recent backup before power outage.
Now constantly get Purplerain errors ending with Unknown Functions in kernel32 and ntdll .dlls
have tried multiple backups of .ark world files
mods / no-mods - doesn't make a difference

Anyone experienced with putting a steamcmd server back together? 🙂

[celest halo]

you verify/validate the game files

[eternal lake]

I did. I even did a parallel install and moved over the saves.

[celest halo]

hmm im not sure then, have you tried without any of the tribe files maybe one of them got messed up also

[eternal lake]

I haven't, but I'll try that in a bit. Would be great if there was a way to validate those files to determine if one got borked. Would also be cool to know what's actually stored in each of them. thx

[inner cloud]

@eternal lake what I can tell you from my experience is that the success of replacing the saved game and tribe files does depend a lot on how and when you backup the files. If you (for example) simply zip the files up while the game is live and the server is busy you do run the risk of having a corrupted file if a file write happens during the compression process... I tend to do a file copy of the whole save directory prior to archiving. I also had a saved game issue a while back after a power outage. The end resolution that worked for me was to backup the current saved files and reinstall the game files from scratch, copy the configs and saved games back over and revert to a previous saved game - I think we lost approx 15 - 20 minutes of game time as a regular save had occurred not long prior. The active world file was corrupted. One of the player tribe saves was corrupted but I was able to restore that from an archived backup

[eternal lake]

Thanks - That was what I was trying for with the parallel install. Basically determining if it was game files vs. save files. At this point, I think I've realized that while there are multiple backups of the .ark files, the tribe and profiles are...well still not obvious to me. If I can dig out from this, I'll have a better idea of just what to archive and when.

[eternal lake]

So, with just the .ark file the server stands up.
Now I need to know if each of the .profilebak files represent a player (and should just be copied over and renamed to .arkprofile), and if each of the .tribebak files are unique as well (and should just be copied over and renamed to .arktribe).
My current work will be to try the above one by one and test server start until it fails.

[inner cloud]

yes they do represent the player and tribe backup files

make a copy of everything first of course should go without saying

instead of renaming move the player and tribe files out and just bring them back one by one until the server crashes

then you will know which file to replace with its backup

my backup script copies out the whole saved directory including subdirectories so it gets all mod saves as well

To do this I use xcopy in a batch file - this is only a small part of the hourly backup process I run on my servers
xcopy /S /Y C:\asaservers\theisland\ShooterGame\Saved C:\ASA_Server3_CopyTo\

[restive pebble]

Not helpful for your current predicament, but for the future if you’re going to make a backup up your save files while the server is running, make sure you force a world save just prior. That will give you the best chance it’s successful. Also the best insurance is to keep multiple backups, that way if one is bad, you’ve got a dozen more and at least one should be good.

[humble thicket]

Guys

Can anyone pls tell when will ark mobile come back 😭

Bro...

It's been like 2-3 months 😭

[ornate pendant]

Hello, I'm new in ark and I really need help. I had a lot of tamed animals, a house and a lot of things build. The game crash and when I got back everything were gone! I started all back to day 1 !! OMG!! I still have the same level in my user but all my animals and things are gone. What can I do to fix this? Does anyone here went to the same issue? I'm playing on my Xbox serie X.

[tardy pine]

Single player?

[eternal lake]

Yep, I think I'll set up a job to do just that a couple times a day. Keeping a week rolling per @restive pebble and then use what I've learned today. For future, I'll definitely approach with a binary t-shooting process rather than file by file, but I didn't want to miss anything.
All that said, I found the culprit, it was a .arktribe file, and I recovered it from it's .tribebak and the crew is testing that everything is as it should be now. Thx to all for the advice!

[violet dock]

Does anyone know what setting to use in the ini files to remove the 255 post-tame stat limitation on dinos??

[inner cloud]

@eternal lake if you want feel free to copy and use this script however you feel... It generates a datetime stamp for the archive filename then uses an external script that runs rcon to save the world then it performs the copy out and archives the copy using 7zip (that's the 7z.exe part of the script) and finally moves it off the server to a raid 6 storage solution which is accessible as a network mounted drive on the server. 🙂

@echo off
For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)
For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ("%TIME%") do (set mytime=%%a_%%b)
echo Creating Backup %mydate%_%mytime%

c:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_SaveWorld.bat
xcopy /S /Y C:\asaservers\theisland\ShooterGame\Saved C:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_CopyTo\
c:\users\me\7z.exe a -r "ASA_Server3_backup_%mydate%%mytime%.7z" C:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_CopyTo*.*
del /S /Q C:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_CopyTo*.*
copy "c:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_backup%mydate%%mytime%.7z" Z:\ASA\Server3\
del "c:\Users\me\ASA_Server3_backup%mydate%_%mytime%.7z"

[distant kite]

Does anyone know why melee is scaling so high on our server? I haven't tweaked and dino stats except for weight on tamed, but both health and melee seem to get crazy amounts per level up. Have a wooly with 4k melee :/

[distant hearth]

only thing i can think off the top my head is it might have singleplayersettings on , check the game ini , for this line
bUseSingleplayerSettings=true

if its there switch it to false

[distant kite]

okay, ty

[distant kite]

it's set to false, we do have 1.5x imprinting bonus but I can't imagine that would make that much of a difference would it?

[distant hearth]

yes it makes a reasonable diffence as its a multiplier so probably your issue

[distant kite]

okay, we will try with out. Most things after inprint were getting about 50% or melee on melee per level up, is wacky

[clever bluff]

is there a setting to enable locking the smithy? the vanilla smithy is unlocked and no lock option on it

[distant hearth]

you can use this in gameusersetting.ini
ForceAllStructureLocking=True

it locks some other too though , boxe,vaults an other stuff i prob forgot

[clever bluff]

thank you, and the player can still unlock if they need/want with that command at true?

[distant hearth]

yes can set it unlock through radial wheel

[clever bluff]

perfect thank you for a quick respons on it too

[distant hearth]

no problem

[frank egret]

might be a corrupted player or tribe save, had this happen a few times

just seen that you figured it out, guess i was late to the party

[kind bloom]

With the new PS update, can I disable the winter wonderland mod now?

[distant hearth]

no not yet , there still having issues

[kind bloom]

You a real one

[distant hearth]

wait for an update in #announcements

[spark ivy]

how i can get free server

[humble thicket]

Use your moms creditcard

[dawn aurora]

Абоба

[empty comet]

? You just need to host on your own hardware; you just need a free computer though. Anything with an i5 and 16gb of ram should work for a low pop server. I don't know the AMD equivalents

If you want serious MP though that's a different conversation

[supple pulsar]

Hello, i have a issue with ARK Server. my .bat command "start ShooterGameServer.exe TheIsland?listen?SessionName=[SHHHH]?ServerPassword=?ServerAdminPassword[SHHHH]?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=20 -NoBattlEye
exit" but when i try to connect to the srv from singler player with this command "open [IPPPPP]:7777" he tell me this error "Attention connection with host expired"

[distant hearth]

is it a server set up via stmcmd on your own computer /server ?

[supple pulsar]

stemcmd

[distant hearth]

ok the bat cmd looks wrong to me, does the stm cmd turn green bottom left an show ticking loop?

[supple pulsar]

Where the SteamCMD have a green bottom left and a ticking loop?

[distant hearth]

start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=(x) -WinLiveMaxPlayers=20 -NoBattlEye

this is how my asa bat file looks, everything else is done in the ini's . x is my server name

this is for ark ascended

[supple pulsar]

ok now i try

[distant hearth]

i have the bat file where i installed the ark ascended server

[supple pulsar]

same for me

I dont have a file called "ArkAscendedServer.exe" but "ShooterGameServer.exe"

[distant hearth]

try that then maybe u re named it , but sounds like u have d/l the evolved server not the ascended one

u cant link here

[supple pulsar]

I have followed these instructions "ark.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup"

[supple pulsar]

Why?

[distant hearth]

auto blocks links so people dont put malicious ones

[supple pulsar]

Oh ok

[distant hearth]

you have installed an evolved server not a ascended server

[supple pulsar]

Ah....

😭 where i can download ascended server?

Ahhhh

No wait, have Survival Evolved

[distant hearth]

so you trying setup an evolved or ascended server?

[supple pulsar]

Evolved

[distant hearth]

ok , ignore everything ive said , it was for ascended setup

[supple pulsar]

ah ok

So how can i solve the issue? 🙂

[distant hearth]

in the stmcmd , does the status turn green and say ticking loop (bottom left)

[supple pulsar]

But i need to run it?

[distant hearth]

yes

[supple pulsar]

Can i DM you for send a screenshot?

[distant hearth]

yea np

[supple pulsar]

Thanks

[pale jetty]

where was the anoucnement about crossplay no longer allowed to have shops?

[distant hearth]

pinnede messages in this channel

[undone hearth]

Hello, does anyone know Blueprint for a Krampus costume?

[elfin forum]

Hey do anyone know if it will possible to transfer tames which are from a mod to an other Server when it has the same mod?

[solemn zephyr]

cheat gfi krampus 1 0 1

[solemn zephyr]

Once transfers open, yes

[supple pulsar]

Can i put spaces in Sever Name?

[solemn zephyr]

Of course

[undone hearth]

@solemn zephyrNot issued

[solemn zephyr]

Works for me. Do you have the mod installed?

[undone hearth]

@solemn zephyrI'm trying to issue it without a mod or is it not in the game database?

[solemn zephyr]

It is not yet, sadly.

[distant hearth]

shud be due anytime , there having issues or sum shit, pinned messages in general

[undone hearth]

@solemn zephyrIt’s just that after the event was turned off, this skin disappeared from the players

[solemn zephyr]

Right, because you removed the mod before the assets were added into the base game.

[supple pulsar]

ARK Server Manager tell me that WebApi Key Is Missing but why he need a web api key?

And i need also Port Forwarding the Peer Port? "7778"

[elfin forum]

Thank you. That is a good information.

[undone hearth]

@solemn zephyrTurned on the event, registered the command, still does not issue

[solemn zephyr]

You added the mod ?

[undone hearth]

Yes

[solemn zephyr]

Try

cheat giveitem /WinterWonderland/Items/Skins/PrimalItemSkin_Costume_Krampus_Craftable.PrimalItemSkin_Costume_Krampus_Craftable 1 0 0

[undone hearth]

Yea

Work good THANK YOU

[solemn zephyr]

Np

[supple pulsar]

Can someone tell me?

[low dew]

@proven prawn bring back workshop trashforge sucks the big one

[languid forge]

Is there any way to speed up the Beer making from 6 hours in real life to maybe 1-2 hours?

[solemn zephyr]

Nope, can only make it instant or normal

[languid forge]

How to make instant?

[solemn zephyr]

Change the beer jar recipe to be only berries

[distant hearth]

wow they really fucked up summit with the winter mod, gonna get loads people in with issues i bet

[solemn zephyr]

Yeah, that is far from ideal

[distant hearth]

not only do it have be run as a passive mod it also needs to be active still lmao

[sweet bridge]

I've ran different private servers from different games troughout the years... I've never seen anything like this 🤦 gg wildcard

[distant hearth]

its kinda crazy, makes no sense to have be passive and active in my mind ,
it works as active now, so why then need passive too lol

[solemn zephyr]

The way I read it is you can remove the mod but keep the passive setting?

[distant hearth]

Failure to use both launch parameters will result in the loss of the event cosmetics/items.

[native wave]

that's the way I read it....passivemod is necessary if you are taking the mod out of your mod list. the last part is the confusing part

[distant hearth]

i wonder if ced is just high again an fucked up

adding it as passive wud make sense to remove it as full mod

[solemn zephyr]

Would be great if they spoke specific to this game, instead of disable I'd love to read "Before removing the mod"

[distant hearth]

jus the typical , cant organise a piss up in a brewery bull shit we all know an love

[solemn zephyr]

When turning off/disabling Winter Wonderland: Add the Winter Wonderland ID to your server launch parameters (-passivemod=927090). Make sure to also keep the Winter Wonderland active until content migration happens later this month (-mod=927090). Failure to use both launch parameters will result in the loss of the event cosmetics/items.

Here's our official description of disabling an event... "Keep the event active"

[distant hearth]

lmao yea, but wtf need to add passive too is what gets me

[solemn zephyr]

200mb of assets could be added with any patch easily, not like we aren't used to patches - yet here we are!

[distant hearth]

i just dont get it , lol , i need to sleep anyway, im sure they might change there mind by time i wake up.
he already edited out something about nitrado servers that i glanced over an is now gone

[native wave]

@proven prawn Can we remove the WW mod from the mod list? Is passivemod only necessary if we do this? If we are leaving it running do we need passivemod to keep the items? Or is simply not removing the mod from the modlist necessary to keep the items? Language is confusing in your announcement

can at least try to clear it up

[weary trench]

I have been playing on an Unofficial PVE server "[US] Best Ascended Server 3x" for The Island Map but i haven't been able to find it listed for the past few days. Help?

[solemn zephyr]

Ask in their discord.

[weary trench]

how do i find that?

[solemn zephyr]

I'm just waiting for a new ini setting thats like:

bDoKeepDisabledDisabledWinterWonderlandDisabledAssettsBeforeAddedToCoreFiles=???

[distant hearth]

lmao

[wise wraith]

@proven prawn what about nitrado server? where to put that launch parameter

[uneven willow]

Don't joke D:

[solemn zephyr]

Nitrado would have to add a check box as we can't control launch parameters on Nitrado natively.

However he edited that part out of his message, so.... no clue

[wise wraith]

i hope so.. my players already lost all their stuff and thay are not happy about that...

[cosmic prism]

This company couldn't develope a damn cold. how hard is it to manage mods and event costmetics ffs.

[native wave]

looks like I'm gonna add passivemod....not removing WW or TT...and really don't want to lose items. About as clear as mud.

[uneven willow]

What if I am not here to add passivemod in the next 30 minutes?

[solemn zephyr]

The mod will still exist

[wise wraith]

i stopped the mod at monday and all beautiful stuff just gone after that 😄

[uneven willow]

Yeah but if we need both after the patch..?

[wise wraith]

so now i need to activate again to reimburse my players and after that to put it on passive 😄 good fitness

[uneven willow]

Why'd you pull it on Monday anyway

[distant hearth]

if u already had it off, id just wait tbh lmao

[native wave]

Should read something more like this:
If disabling the mod: Add passivemod to your launch parameters to preserve your items.
If not disabling the mod: Don't do shit. Keep the mod running until the patch where we add the shit.

[uneven willow]

That would make sense

[solemn zephyr]

Facts. How about actually mentioning the MOD since it's a MOD lol

[wise wraith]

Because of this: "The epic winter-themed holiday event begins on December 21, 2023 and will be live until January 7, 2024 on Official Servers."

[cosmic prism]

How about they think about this before releasing mods instead? clearly a **** up on their side that we have to dodge and fix

[uneven willow]

Should've read the fine print at the bottom 😄

[solemn zephyr]

"WW is being removed from official, before removing the WW mod, add this parameter to keep the cosmetics on unofficials"

Would have sufficed

[wise wraith]

yepp its kinda my fault 😄

[cosmic prism]

Wait hold up. Server admins removing official mods and having items lost is their fault? In what world does that make sense.

[ornate marlin]

hello so bc ark ascended sucks ive decided to host and play on evolved once again, was just wondering if it was possible to host a dedicated server through an ark survival server manager and make it microsoft/xbox?

[native wave]

because they posted not to remove it until the patch to add the items. it's your fault for removing it early

[solemn zephyr]

possible? Yes. Will you show up in server lists? no. Is it a fk ton of work? Yes. If still interested, look up Vertyco

[wise wraith]

In the Wilcards world 😄

[ornate marlin]

long day, so best bet would be to have the game on microsoft store right>

[solemn zephyr]

For xbox/MS store, your only option to show up in game server lists is Nitrado on ASE

[distant hearth]

no, thats just a xbox version only plays like shite , aboid like the plague

[cosmic prism]

I haven't removed it. I run two servers. I'm not dumb enough to think WC can develop anything. But if you even try to put this on server admins you're clearly an idiot. this is piss poor from wildcard again.

[ornate marlin]

oof okay i was thinking more running dedicated on xbox, so that cuts out microsoft?

[ornate marlin]

i prefer microsoft/xbox version if im honest

[native wave]

the admins that removed it despite the ample warnings not to are the idiots

[distant hearth]

the windows version for pc, through ms store , plays awful, buggy as hell

[ornate marlin]

yeh thats the version of which i dont mind lol

[native wave]

the admins that followed DATES FROM WILDCARD are the idiots

[ornate marlin]

im just not a fan of ascended really until the centre and more maps come out the island just isnt for me

[native wave]

not saying Wildcard aren't idiots for their lack of and poor communication

[ornate marlin]

but thanks for the help Duckets much appreciated

[cosmic prism]

No you're an idiot for blaming server admins. How in the $$$$ is this on them. it's an official mod! the cosmetcis should be baked into the base game. the whole mod systems for events is a joke and lazy.

[uneven willow]

Isn't ASE pretty much abandonware for WC?

[native wave]

yes

[cosmic prism]

No you clearly are. Blaming everyone else apart from WC

What if they arent' on socials or Discord. What if they run a server for fun

[ornate marlin]

i dont really care about all that if im honest i miss the old way ark looked etcv

[native wave]

paying attention to devs of the early access game you run a server for is important

or at the very least reading the mod page of the mod you are loading

[cosmic prism]

Early access! o so they get to hide behind that BS now too. Ok so you're on their pay role too! ffs grow up. You give them money like the rest of us. Stop blaiming the wrong people! the games been out for like 8 years!

[uneven willow]

Sheesh you two, this is such a lame fight.

No blood or anything.

[cosmic prism]

you're right but him blaming server admins is comical

[clever bluff]

just contacted Nitrado, support said "To avoid this situation a new option in the Web interface will be introduced to pause the Winter Wonderland Event. This will keep the cosmetic items but disable the gameplay elements.

The user must KEEP the Winter Wonderland Mod AND enable this pause checkbox in order to keep their data."

[solemn zephyr]

Interesting.... Imagine if Wildcard was that clear.

[wise wraith]

i dont want to keep 500+ MB of data that is not used...

[potent storm]

what does this mean exactly where do i add the parameters on nitrado?

[clever bluff]

they dont have it implemented yet, support said nitrado site should list a notification when its added Support: "We are not sure on when this is going to be implemented to the Web Interface but shouldn't take long
It should be in General i think but that will depend on the developers of the Web interface"

[potent storm]

so make sure the addon is still installed? otherwise couldi manually add it to the game.ini or gamesettings.ini?

[clever bluff]

yes keep it installed, wait for the check box, then just check the box to disable the mod but keep installed

[native wave]

if your users have items from the WW mod....keep the mod running and add the passivemod parameter to your command line (non-nitrado servers)

also a good idea to backup your server's save files before this happens

well now that patch notes looks like you shouldn't put the passivemod command line option to a server you want to keep running the event on

[solemn zephyr]

Yeah, just use the passive if you dont want raptor clause and krampus to run.

Either way, you gotta leave the mod installed.

[native wave]

yeah

[wise kindle]

And now we wait.

[distant hearth]

makes more sense now, been easier if he just said, leave the mod active or, u can use the passive parameter to hide the effects of it

[native wave]

yeah, still hasn't hit public

I still want it active, so taking the new parameter off now. Definitely still backing up before applying the patch

[raven wigeon]

so this update is only for officials?

[native wave]

no

we'll get it when they push it to public...just have to wait for them to do that

[empty peak]

how come we did not have to do this with the last event mod ?

[languid forge]

Is boss battles crashing anyone elses server?

[uneven willow]

What mods do you have?

If you have deinotherium that's probably why

[languid forge]

Multiple, but have been seeing people on Social Media saying they are bugged

[uneven willow]

If you have prehistoric beasts, that's another one

[languid forge]

Removed deinotherium a long time ago, it is only crashing while someone in in a boss fight

[uneven willow]

Hmm, any specific boss fight or all of them?

[languid forge]

All

[uneven willow]

Yikes, yeah no clue D:

[muted sinew]

So dont blame me if I understand it wrong, first event while running ASA Server here! But if I did this means as long as I want the WW event running, I dont do any shit as admin? And one Nitrado makes that check box for like pausing it then I do that and restart my server?

[native wave]

correct. leave event running until they implement that checkbox. once they do, check it and you can restart your server for it to take effect

don't remove the mod from the server, just check the box...it will disable the mod in game but keep the items

[muted sinew]

Okay nice thanks for clearing up

[native wave]

no problem

[velvet lodge]

I really need help. Can tell me how to allow my friend to make things and host him.

[wanton hinge]

Huh

[velvet lodge]

How to admin my friend in game

[native wave]

dedicated server?

[velvet lodge]

Non dedicated

[native wave]

you should have an admin password....give them that password, tell them to open the console, type
enablecheats thepassword

replace thepassword with whatever password you set

[velvet lodge]

Tnx my bro ❤️

[native wave]

no problem

[tardy pine]

I wonder why it's so hard to just deploy a patch with the new skins in it instead of keeping a mod on the server and clients that is turned off (that required extra work to even create as an option).

[modern finch]

this is 100% due to console cert process

[tardy pine]

The only logical explanation I can think of is that there is a delay in the console patch certification process. Other then that it's just absurd

[celest halo]

this is WC we talking about here, only took them days after the event was posed to end to even make an announcement about it

[tardy pine]

Nah, they had said something about it before

I forgot where but it was back in December

[celest halo]

not about the event ending 3 days late

[tardy pine]

true, they left that part out

[celest halo]

and its been 3 and half hours since patch note, and almost 5 hours since announcement about event ending in an hour and unofficals still dont have the patch to even beable to end the event

[tardy pine]

I'm leaving it on until there is a real solution. Can't imagine my players will be mad about boosted rates and extra drops

[celest halo]

lol who know how long that will be

i like to know how turkey trials was the "test event" for doing events as mods and that worked fine, but next event they took everything they learned from the "test event" and threw it out the window

[nimble wagon]

Anyone know how i can buff the fortitude abit? in settings or ini/userinisettings would be great help if someone knows thanks 😄

[empty comet]

that's cauz the previous event assets were already in the game prior to the mod

[muted cliff]

You mean like points?

?-WinLiveMaxPlayers=100 -NoBattlEye -AutoDestroyStructures -noundermeshkilling -mods="927090,947033,929912,929902,932365,934899,933668,933099,928708,928597,950584 -passivemods=927090" what am I doing wrong? Is the Winter Wonderland supposed to still be running?

[hearty wedge]

you still have in the (active) mods part, so yes

[celest halo]

need to wait till WC pushes the patch for unofficials

[celest halo]

it needs to be in both

[hearty wedge]

oh, that's odd -- but I retract my statement

[muted cliff]

So there is no option to remove winter wonderland as of yet? It just stays active correct?

That is if we want to keep the items?

[modern finch]

firstly the patch has not droped yet,
Secondly, the patch notes state this "where the passivemod's ID is listed first."

[modern finch]

correct, we are all egarly awaiting the patch to drop, im refreshing the repo page every 5 minutes waiting to patch my server

[muted cliff]

Thanks @modern finch I just want to make sure I am not going crazy haha

[celest halo]

we all waiting for the overloards to bless us with v33.33 lmao

only 5 hours and counting since officials got it

[modern finch]

it has been 3-4 hours in the past, whats taken so long

unless they borked something on official and are brewing a hotfix

[celest halo]

they normally do that in first hour, and there test builds are 12+ hours old

[modern finch]

i never underestimate the players ability to breaks stuff xD

[celest halo]

the players dont need to WC is good at doing that lmao

[inner cloud]

nice of them to run the patch out on officials and nitrado servers but not make it available to non nitrado hosted unoffical servers

[celest halo]

nitrado unofficials dont have it either

[polar kettle]

Does anyone know if there’s a way to add more storage for mods for nitrado servers?

[languid forge]

Can anyone help me?

The server has been running for days without a single crash but the moment someone in the server starts fighting the BroodMother with 2-4 of the fight the server crashes. The server rolls back to before the fight. They wait and no problems but when entering a second time 2-4 minutes and the server crashes. So now they are waiting again and now there are no problems with the server.

Why is it only crashing in the boss fight?

[modern finch]

wow i didnt know they limited in on their end, i know xbox and ps5 are limited to 10gb hard cap limit.

[polar kettle]

It’s the same limit but with all these mods getting updates they keep increasing size

[modern finch]

Trust me, im hoping they increase it, i found out that my console players have a limit with about 3.5gb mods running and we have stopped adding any until they do something about the mod size on consoles

[modern finch]

unfortunately you might have to trim your mod list :C

[polar kettle]

Yeah I’ve have starting to do that already unfortunately but hopefully when Winter wonderland gets saved to the game I can get rid of that mod and free up so much space. Just sucks since I’ve had most of the mods for a while now. Sad to get rid of them

[modern finch]

one of my ps5 players said that after they uninstalled a mod they didnt get the space back, they had to reinstall the game on the ps5 to get the space back x.x

[polar kettle]

Oh my, hopefully it doesn’t do that. So far the servers been good at updating and so far on Xbox it hasn’t given me problems. I still have the other mods installed besides the ones I use. I’ll have to keep an eye out

[modern finch]

since no one has replied to you ill give you the generic responce,

Try to verify server files and try again

If your running mods it might be one of them causing the crash, i would try disabling ones that you think might be interfering with bosses

[languid forge]

What do you mean verify server files?

Any way to tell what mod would crash? I cannot remove many mods because people have built their bases using them.

[polar kettle]

I think it’s an on going problem with ark at the moment. I’ve heard that happen to so many people

[modern finch]

if your renting from nitrado i cant help you since i dont know their interface, if your self hosted you want to add " validate " to the update line in steamcmd

[languid forge]

I have seen a few videos on Tiktok but cannot find any others having problems on Google, or YouTube. So figured I would try here.

[languid forge]

I am using Steamcmd & batch file

@modern finch can you show me how that would look in the Steamcmd line?

[modern finch]

steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir "LOCATION" +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 -beta public validate +quit

[languid forge]

It would be - beta public validate?

What would this validate? Just curious.

[polar kettle]

Ah I see. Most mods have discords so you should definitely join them and see if others have the same problems with the mods. I’ve been able to find problems that way and saved me from deleting mods that we use. You can find the discords usually from the description and from their curseforge pages. It’ll help finding solutions

[modern finch]

probably just validate, the beta is because the game is a beta and the public is the brach you update from normally

[modern finch]

qa_stanging updated 20 minutes ago, might be a hotfix brewin O.o

[nimble wagon]

was hoping to turn heat wave down abit and the cold without using points if possible? just turn tad down thats all 😄

Anyone know how i can adjust how much kibble/food dino needs while taming it?

[modern finch]

taming multiplyer

[nimble wagon]

okay thanks do i do up or down? for reduce

[modern finch]

higher makes it take less food/time i run x7 on my server and the longest tame is just over an hour

[nimble wagon]

okay thanks i do that thanks for the info 🙂

is it this one ? Taming Speed Multiplier

[modern finch]

guess i should add i run 300 max level on my server too xD

[nimble wagon]

our one max 500

[modern finch]

yes that one

[nimble wagon]

it on 0.5 atm yikes lol

[modern finch]

oh YIKES that twice the normal time/food

[nimble wagon]

yeah i was trying make taming takes longer but didnt know it slow speed also haha first time running a server for my mate been helping him so for lvl 500 reckon 7 is good or different speed?

[modern finch]

i have defaulted to 7 for allot of my ark playtime, it really depends on what your going for on your server, i dont like thinks taking forever 😄

[nimble wagon]

yeah i trying make less food but make tame abit slower cause we have 50x/100x taming paste that drains food didnt want make ppl tame to fast

[modern finch]

i was about to say, maybe running default and using a mod to make the dinos hungry faster

[nimble wagon]

as try default 1 see how i go so keeps inbtw okay i try that 🙂 thanks

@modern finch quick question do you know how i can increase dino Torpidity so dont get knock so easy?

[modern finch]

no way to do it in game settings, i run a tranq mod, i dont like OP tranqs so i ended up finding this one "QxS: Tranquilizers" because it expands the vanilla ones and it works the same, just cost more for the better ones.

[nimble wagon]

thanks for the mod info i look into it 😄

also when i have rebreed setting i got on 0.1 but abit slow what next number i can do without making too fast i tried 0.01 seems alil too quick

[modern finch]

you should be able to set it to 0.05 or somewhere inbetween.

[nimble wagon]

okay i try that thanks so much because 0.1 was abit too slow and 0.01 was too quick haha

[modern finch]

what time range are you looking for?

[nimble wagon]

0.1 was 3h was hoping for 1h 1h30m

and 00.1 was like 20m i think was to fast lol

[modern finch]

just ran it in beacon, 0.05 is 55 minute to 144 minutes, so about 1-2 hr

also check out beacon if you want to mess around with allot of settings, it makes it ez mode

[nimble wagon]

is that the beacon light mod? when ppl die u see there beam? i tried it and kept crashing server unless there another?

[modern finch]

its a pinned message but i replied to it here if you can click on the reply

[deep flower]

Anyone know where to go to delete old mod files off a dedicated server?

[modern finch]

serverfiles\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ShooterGame\Mods\8337\

[deep flower]

Thank you so much ❤️

[nimble wagon]

oh i downloaded that the other day couldnt get it to open trying work out how to use it

[modern finch]

poke around with it a bit, once you get a project setup it can take allot of the guesswork out of server settings

[nimble wagon]

okay i give it a try how i load my nitrado setting into it? or that not how it works?

[modern finch]

tbh i just start a blank project and test the settings im wanting to change in it, then manually change it on the server files when i know the right numbers

[nimble wagon]

oh that how we do it okay thanks 😄 can i use offline mode what mode i need to be in to play with it?

[modern finch]

yes

[nimble wagon]

thanks so much for your help today i appreciate it very much 😄

[modern finch]

theres that hotfix i thought was coming, hope we get the patch soon, i want to disable winter wonderland

[native wave]

yeah pretty much think they forgot that not everyone on unofficial wanted to continue running the event

[potent storm]

any reason why this wouldnt work?
ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemConsumable_Egg_Hesperonis_Golden_C",Quantity=(MaxItemQuantity=1000.0, bIgnoreMultiplier=true))

[modern finch]

it looks right. i have not tired to increase that egg stack myself so idk if its working right

[potent storm]

goes in game ini right?

[native wave]

maybe the .0 on the quantity....think it needs to be an integer

[modern finch]

yes

[native wave]

yes

[potent storm]

ill try that. Thank you 🙂

negative did not work lol

[scenic jolt]

@everyone I Beat Ark: Survival Evolved Fjordur Hardcore A Number Of Months Ago And Now I Am Setting Out On A New Adventure, This Means That I Have To Delete My Hardcore Save File, I Just Wanted My Fellow Adventurers To Know About My Amazing Feat, Because It Will Soon Be Gone But Not Forgotten, For I Will Keep It Close To My Heart, I Encourage All The Other Friendly Adventurers To Start Your Own Journey And Do Great Things With This New Information, Because You Have Incredible Power Within, Dont You Forget That, Ta Ta For Now

[dawn geode]

Case #40383 @scenic jolt has been muted for 2 hours.
Reason: Mass Tagging

[native wave]

spamming in every channel too

[native wave]

could be the opposite of mutton....tell it not to ignore the multiplier

bIgnoreMultiplier=false

[potent storm]

so switch to false then possibly

[native wave]

worth a try

[potent storm]

cool ill shoot that a try too thank you 🙂

[native wave]

trying that on my own, just to check

[nimble wagon]

@modern finch i sent you pm of screenshot if able to help 🙂 if not all good

[native wave]

nope

[wanton hinge]

Tell people to update their servers with a new parameter, but don't actually push said updates.

[orchid flint]

okay so im not crazy. I've been waiting for the update!

[native wave]

neither patch has been pushed to public yet. though the second one is primarily meant for official

exploit patches usually stack up. I would have expected them to push the WW patch though

[modern finch]

there is a pinned message in this channel with a steamdb link, you can watch for the public depot to be updated so you dont have to keep trying

[wanton hinge]

My bot lets me know automatically

[deep mountain]

Im a lil bit confused about the announcement for winterwonderland

What exactly kind of parameters have to be inserted where (unofficial nitrado) and can the event then be switched off directly or does it have to continue running until a later point in time they mentioned so that nothing is lost? Unfortunately my English is too bad for that 😦

[modern finch]

First off, we are still waiting for them to patch public with this update so we can even do it.
Secondly
In the launch params put this after the mods "-passivemods=927090"

[deep mountain]

And than you can take out the mod directly or need to wait... they said something about a point later on tame with month

[modern finch]

dont take out the mod yet, they still need to patch the core game with the assets

[distant hearth]

leave the mod running and keep it on , or you will eventually have a button in nitrado , to set the mod hidden, but it must be also still running

[modern finch]

oh nitrado. i didnt see that part, what @distant hearth said is correct for you

[empty peak]

its so strange they can add this new param but not add the assets to the core game

[deep mountain]

So the mod MUST remain installed internally?

[distant hearth]

i dint explain it very well but basically, 2 choices

1. leave it running an dont worry about it

2. once nitrado do an update be an option in the settings to hide the mod effects in game , but it must be still active on the server

[modern finch]

console. its gotta be, they need to patch the game files on our clients, and until everyone can get it they wont move it.

[empty peak]

ahh yes makes sence

[distant hearth]

what they have done is basically a weird work around, becuase for some reason there haing trouble getting the assets into the main game

[deep mountain]

But there will be a date where we can uninstall the mod without losging stuff? (Cause you havent much space for mods on ps5 xD)

[distant hearth]

eventually yes , just could be a while

[modern finch]

no date yet, we will have to watch for their news about it.

likely once they get the next patch for console thru cert process.

[deep mountain]

Ok thank you very much, so if we change map we still have to keep the mod to not Lose stuff... just turn it passive... until they say we can uninstall the mod

[distant hearth]

if you change the map on the server you will lose all progress, everything , unless you know how to make your own backup of world save files

[wanton hinge]

The passive mod just allows you to keep the data and not have it active.

[deep mountain]

2nd server

And transfer

[modern finch]

i might end up using passive mod setting later for other mods if it works with them correctly to run some sort of custom events on my server

[deep mountain]

I dont understand whats the diffrent between turkey and Winter wonderland... we kept everything from turkey after uninstalling... but Winter doesnt work... lol

But im glad you have explained in to me 🙂 thank you very much again

[empty peak]

what KiaOtter said realy makes sence

[haughty ether]

I have been questioning this as well...makes no sense to me.

[haughty ether]

"Launch params" is that the area on a Nitrado server wher all the MOD ID's are listed?

or is that in my game user ini?

[distant hearth]

no, nitrado will be differnt, they will add a button for you to use in the general settings , once the update comes through

[haughty ether]

oh ok...thankyou for clearing that up , it's not explained very well!

[languid forge]

Does anyone know how to open the secret menu to spawn items, tames, and etc. I have opened if before on Xbox but cannot remember what I pressed and my mate that told me is sleeping right now.

The New Admin Panel was both LS + RS, but not working.

[tacit ether]

All of these patch notes.. anyone getting them to download?

[languid forge]

Nope still on ARK Version: 33.28, even after trying to update twice

[lone stream]

suppose that they will wait with the rollout for the private servers until Nitrado has updated their web frontend to set the new launch parameter. Nitrado users can't access launch parameters directly.

[tacit ether]

Nitrado is such fuckin garbage.. who the fuck is using them :/

gunna take so long for them to roll out updates.. and ark will break em anyways

[celest halo]

It's WC they haven't released it yet

[rose coral]

i needed help for my server

this come as error low level fatal ```LowLevelFatalError [File:E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterGameInstance.cpp] [Line: 831]
Requested mods failed to load on server.

CL: 477391
0x00007ffec012f19c KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff777185157 ArkAscendedServer.exe!FWindowsErrorOutputDevice::Serialize() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsErrorOutputDevice.cpp:91]
0x00007ff777131840 ArkAscendedServer.exe!FOutputDevice::LogfImpl() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Misc\OutputDevice.cpp:70]
0x00007ff7768e9738 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UShooterGameInstance::StartGameInstance() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterGameInstance.cpp:839]
0x00007ff774312ddb ArkAscendedServer.exe!FEngineLoop::Init() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:4850]
0x00007ff774305506 ArkAscendedServer.exe!GuardedMain() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Launch.cpp:168]
0x00007ff77431814a ArkAscendedServer.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:118]
0x00007ff774318bb8 ArkAscendedServer.exe!LaunchWindowsStartup() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:258]
0x00007ff774318c8b ArkAscendedServer.exe!WinMain() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:299]
0x00007ff77a16d5ca ArkAscendedServer.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() [D:\a_work\1\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
0x00007ffec1f24de0 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffec27bedab ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []

[low dew]

@rose coral Locate your crash stack file in logs it gives more detailed info

@rose coral Also judging by the log you posted you have a broken mod I suggest finding it and removing it

[rose coral]

what you mean ? the dmp file ?

i am in folder saved -> crashes -> uecc-Windows-......

[rose coral]

on my old server is ark server on starting and running and on the new server is the same ark server crashing

[hearty bison]

does r.volumetriccloud/fog 0 work in the GUS ini at all ? Game runs much nicer without those and would like to avoid having to have people enter it every time they join

[distant hearth]

unfortuneately not, just got enter it each time, however i believe there is a mod that does it now if u wanted to go that route

[hearty bison]

Ooh that might be handy then, I'll take a look thanks, it's just for some of my less techy console friends who haven't got the game yet, wanna make it more enjoyable for them and the lack of clouds really helps FPS generally

[rose coral]

LowLevelFatalError [File:E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterGameInstance.cpp] [Line: 831]
Requested mods failed to load on server.

on new server status invalid by modsuserdata and old server normal status

[uneven willow]

Got the same error when I tried to carry a deinotherium with a rhyniognatha

99% it's the deinotherium mod

[rose coral]

i have delete the mods folder and the modsuserdata ordner in binaries and is working

[low dew]

@rose coral your logs folder will be in saved arks under logs

be its already been determined its a mod

just need to get rid of the mod

[rose coral]

its working now by deleting both folders

mods and modsuserdata

[low dew]

you dont have to delete all your mods just the one thats causing the issue

[native wave]

my guess is that them pushing to unofficial is dependent on when nitrado implements their checkbox for their unofficials. Why non-nitrado would be linked doesn't make sense to me...but that could be the reason they haven't pushed to public.

[manic coral]

I assume its something to do with Nitrado having to get things first or at least at the same time

[native wave]

yeah that too

[violet dock]

Anyone know how to bypass the 255 stat limitation?

[low dew]

@native wave the reason wildcard hasnt pushed to unofficial is the same reason they dont push to unofficial any other time its not a major patch and official servers take priority

[native wave]

for exploits...that makes complete sense. the patch prior is a feature patch though....and is still dependent on nitrado servers getting that checkbox to implement that feature

[low dew]

its a minor patch you may see it being released in the next day or so or the next week or so

[celest halo]

Or not at all

[swift pollen]

Gentlemen, I'm having a bad graphics problem in ARK, can you help me?

Even if my settings are high, the trees look very bad. What should I do?

[low dew]

or what @celest halo said lol

@swift pollen is your resolution scaler turned way down

[swift pollen]

I did

[low dew]

if its way down your graphics will look like crap just fyi slide the slider all the way up

[swift pollen]

Bro, can I send you the image of the game and my graphic settings via DM? I can't send it from here.

[low dew]

@swift pollen whats your system specs by the way

[swift pollen]

my gpu rx 580 8 gb

[low dew]

and you can sure

oof

[swift pollen]

have 16 gb ram

idk others

[celest halo]

That will not do high for graphic settings

[low dew]

ya

your way below minimum spec@swift pollen

[celest halo]

I have a 2080ti and have mine on medium

[low dew]

@swift pollen AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 1080

is the minimum for asa

[swift pollen]

Guys I play evolved not asa

[low dew]

oh

people still play evolved well then

[celest halo]

670 is min for ASE

[low dew]

@celest halo thats gtx he has a amd

[celest halo]

And I haven't played ASE in so long I don't remember it's video settings

[low dew]

his card is with in the specs for ase

[celest halo]

They finally pushed patch to unofficials

[craggy holly]

Is using the passive mod line is supposed to make Winter Wonderland load, but be disabled? Or is it correct that I'm still getting Raptor Claus, can craft holiday items and everything?

[distant hearth]

using the passive shud hide the effects of the mod, raptor clause etc, but keep the assets in game, until they put them into the core game files

[craggy holly]

Hmm. I'll try updating again. I'm still getting everything as if the passive line isn't even there.
Thank you.

Yup! I guess the last patch just wasn't available when I updated earlier. 😅

[lone lodge]

Is this the way you have it? I have it in my command line but still see raptorcause etc. -mod=927090 -passivemod=927090

I updated at 6am pst.

[hollow hemlock]

Then you need to update again. The patch wasn't released for unofficials until a little after 7AM PST.

[kind wing]

hi im new , i have an question that there are several mods thats are on steam but currently didnt appear on epic games rn , is there any way can i add mods or play it properly without using other apss ?

[daring pewter]

Hello I have the problem since today that in cabinets vaults and dinos nothing is displayed item are in it but not visible.
does anyone have the same problem or a solution?

[sleek apex]

Hello i have an unofficial 5x pvp server. Im encountering an issue where cloning chambers request an absurd amount of shards to begin cloning. Max wild is 300 max tamed is 450. This is when attempting to clone a 450 We have shards stack to 2500 and even with this we can only get about half of whats needed is there must be a setting that is causing this cost increase but i cant seem to figure out what it is anyone else able to assist with getting the cost requirement down? Thankyou in advance

[empty peak]

looks like the only thing you can change is the speed you would probaly need a mod to change the cost

[lone lodge]

ty ty:)

[uneven willow]

Just increase the shards stack size

High level tames absolutely require a ridiculous amount of shards, it's called balance

[native sluice]

Have they fixed auto decay for unofficial servers?

[distant hearth]

fixed as in , the ini code wasnt working?

[native sluice]

Correct, like auto decay wasn’t working

[distant hearth]

presume its fine now , one im playing on has it off

[drifting juniper]

This is related to clustering unofficial servers and a conversation I've been having with Nitrado, am I wrong in thinking The Center is coming out in Feb?

[distant hearth]

some time in feb wc saying atm, #announcements

clustering shud be out before then

[drifting juniper]

Right I thought so, I'm not going mad. Okay. According to Nitrado there is no clustering until feb and no map until march

At least I can go back knowing I've got the right info

[distant hearth]

maybe they know better , the wc devs arent known for keeping dates

[drifting juniper]

That did cross my mind

Thank you anyway 🙂

[earnest nexus]

Can I setup a ps4 server to have a map cluster or no? Because I haven't found anyway to and I don't wanna be stuck on rag

[distant hearth]

this is dedicated, non dedicated?

[earnest nexus]

Dedicated

[distant hearth]

so the ps4 runs as a dedicated server?

[earnest nexus]

Yeah

[distant hearth]

did not even know that was possible, bu tanyway it will be like any other server , one map per server instance .
so unless you can have it running two servers how wever your doing it then u wud need multiple ps4

[earnest nexus]

I'm using my secondary ps4 to run the server and I'm playing on my ps5

[wise kindle]

Oh so this is ASE

[earnest nexus]

Yeah

[distant hearth]

i will shut up an leave it to someone else sry, i did not even know cud do that

[wise kindle]

Yeah idk either, ive never heard of clustering 2 consoles. I only know you can cluster 2 servers, pc or hosted. I dont think consoles offer this feature.

[earnest nexus]

I'm running rag as a dedicated on my ps4 on an alt acc

[distant hearth]

im suprised console does it as no file access

[wise kindle]

Yeah ik I just dont know that its a feature. You can run servers on a console stand alone but unless you are seeing a clustering feature in your setup, I dont think thats a thing between consoles.

[wise kindle]

This would be a setting or batch file but of course theres no file access. So yeah, i dont think its a thing.

[distant hearth]

i tried google but from the info i think people confuse dedicated with non-dedicated

basically there just hosting non-dedicated an leaving it running 24-7, from what i cud find

[frank egret]

if its like the steam dedicated server launcher then ther should be a settings ui that pops up on launch, to cluster them however they have to have a shared folder to transfer info between consoles so you would need two consoles at very least to even run more then one server

there are however rentable console servers that might be the way to go but for you the player to do a console cluster its just not possible on ASE

[languid forge]

Is there any GameUserSettings.ini or Game.ini to increase the number of Generators in an area?

[frank egret]

havent seen one

[distant hearth]

yea

[languid forge]

Can you tell me what the command is?

[hollow crypt]

how do i type in the peramiters? and what box?

[distant hearth]

gimme a sec i find them

[languid forge]

LimitGeneratorsNum= in the game.ini file, thank you

[tardy pine]

Can't on a console, with the way clustering works you would need file access and a file sync tool. or a way to configure the storage location for serialized dinos/items/characters to a networked drive/NAS.

Even for PC the NAS option is risky because there is no built-in redundancy or file integrity testing, there is a high chance for corrupted data and lost dinos

[distant hearth]

in game ini , these two effect generators

LimitGeneratorsNum=3
LimitGeneratorsRange=15000

num=3 , is how many in the range (increase for more)

range=15000 , is how close they can be in the range , setting this to 1 , = unlimted generators

[tardy pine]

Cluster and a server are different things, you can't cluster with consoles. Unless you crack them and install a respectable operating system and even then, its sketchy as hell

[thin abyss]

Does anybody know if it is still possible to start to host an unofficial server on Ark 1 on PC ?

[frank egret]

for pc?

[thin abyss]

Yes

[frank egret]

yes

[thin abyss]

Okay thank you 🙂

[frank egret]

i still have two full clusters running and rent out a map that i started after the official server went down

[scenic arch]

Any networking whiz's wanna help me figure out why my ASA server can't be seen? Got everything set-up. Ports forwarded on my Eero network, Firewall disabled on server. Everything I thought I needed to let it be seen, but it's just not there.

[tardy pine]

Did you hit the infamous check box in the server browser?

[frank egret]

sometimes it atkes a bit before it will show up

[tardy pine]

Check box is on the bottom right, says something about "Player Servers"

[frank egret]

also dont search the whole server name

[scenic arch]

yea I have that checked

[distant hearth]

i noticed that , search the first 3 letters an hit eneter

[scenic arch]

when I do a port check, it says the ports that I have opened, are closed.

[tardy pine]

Are you forwarding UDP ports?

[scenic arch]

even though in eero, I have all the ports forwarded

I can't attach a photo here, but I have 7777-7778 and 27015-27017 opened

[distant hearth]

far as i know to show up, asa only needs port 7777udp forwared unless you told the server to start otherwise using launch parameter -portxxxx ,
where xxxx is the port u told

[scenic arch]

parameters are set for 7777 and 27015 in the .bat

WAIT A SECOND

[tardy pine]

Ark survival evolved? Or ascended?