unofficial-setup-help

[distant hearth]

for asa dont need to set them, it defaults to 7777 and the other query port for steam isnt used, but it shudnt really effect finding it

[scenic arch]

idk what happened, but it's showing up now

[frank egret]

sometimes you just gotta let the server run for abit

[distant hearth]

the lists take a while to populate

[scenic arch]

I let it sit for like 3 hours running earlier and it didn't show up at all

[tardy pine]

Was the check box selected back then?

[scenic arch]

but I just restarted it after redo-ing the forwarding, and it showed up after being online for like a minute

yes it was

[frank egret]

welcome to software trouble shooting lol

[distant hearth]

lolz

[tardy pine]

maybe you were forwarding TCP ports before and changed it to UDP? Either way it works now, go have fun with it!

[scenic arch]

lol I do drone tech suport for a living, you'd think I'd be able to figure this crap out

this 8 year old gaming laptop is bout to cry for a loooong time 🤣

[frank egret]

repaste and or liquid metal it, makes a huge difference in laptops whne the cooling is refreshed

[tardy pine]

Even getting the dust out goes a loooooooooooong way

[frank egret]

i threw some KPX on a brand new laptop and seen temp drops

[scenic arch]

not a bad idea. that and another stick of RAM and she'll be purrin

honestly though, it's running great on an i7-4700m and 765m

[tardy pine]

for just a few players that is probably all you need. But ram is so stupid cheap right now that you could boost that up to 16+gb for chump change

[earnest nexus]

Is there any free server hosts or is everything paid?

[frank egret]

lol

[distant hearth]

unles u got a spare computer/laptop capable with good internet then gotta cough up the moneies

[frank egret]

no ones gonna rent out hardware space for free

[scenic arch]

is there a place that has .ini files pre-made? I'll go through and change all these if I have to, but damn, If I could download a .ini with rates set, that would be wicked

or would my best bet be to start my own single player, set all the parameters in game, then copy the game.ini to my server?

[frank egret]

this is how i started m ine and then tweaked things here and there

[distant hearth]

both ways work, use singleplayer , then copy over, but its missing quite alot things , i recomend ark beacon app/program, the free version does a hell of a lot. the paid version pretty much everything .

in th eprogram set up your stuff, hit export button, then you can just copy the lines you want across.
it can also just auto upload them to nitrado servers an some toher things, i just prefer to do it manually

[scenic arch]

thanks! I'll give ark beacon a shot

[distant hearth]

yea mess around with a bit, see what stuff, change one thing at a time, hit export then u soon learn what each code line does,
its awesome for breeding settings as you can adjust them in the program an see what it does for each an every dino,
easiest way to get imprints perfect for your preferred mature rates and imprint intervals

[violet remnant]

can anyone help me? i just made a new server to test stuff on with my wife and i cant get admin? in nitrodo i put admin password as 1234 and i go to ingame and type in enablecheats 1234 and i cant do anything still

[wanton hinge]

Nothing is free. You can use your own PC, but that will cost you electricity and potentially data usage depending on your ISP.

[torpid escarp]

If i take all the cave supply drop. If i go back couple days later will the loot in the crate be the same

[distant hearth]

no, its rng through a large loot table, diffent each time

[tardy pine]

Did you set the password while the server was shut down? If not you should try shutting it down, setting the password. then booting it back up. If that doesnt work ask Nitrado

Has anyone found a setting to increase the storage capacity of the dedicated storage box?

[floral violet]

isnt it 1000 by default

[violet remnant]

is there a way to spawn in 298 swords instead of higher? i type this in cheat gfi WeaponSword 1 0 0 but i get like high ass swords im testing official stuff

[floral violet]

dose it not only give you 1

[violet remnant]

like 298 damage

[distant hearth]

1 = amount 0= quality 0= xp shared or not

[distant hearth]

if its unofficial or single player its not capped like official

you need to add the ini lines to cap the loot quality ,

official item clamping

gameusersetting.ini

[serversettings]
ClampItemStats=True

game.ini

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
ItemStatClamps[1]=19800
ItemStatClamps[3]=19800

[solemn zephyr]

Note, you will still be able to spawn them in higher. They will cap on server restart.

[night yew]

is there someone who has experience in setting up ASE on linux ?

[vocal widget]

join Dinomight 5man 10x! freshly wiped, modded and my admins tuned server for hours for great gameplay, come check out the server and have fun!

[celest halo]

nope

[celest crown]

is there a problem with unofficial server listing rn?

why does it take so long to load

[empty comet]

I think the servers need the updated .37 version to show but it's not released yet for unofficial

[solemn zephyr]

This is literally a place for server managers to discuss setups, you won't get a single player from here.

[celest halo]

they tried in general first dont think that worked out for them either lmao

[dense osprey]

Does anyone know why I can't drag fish I killer anymore? It was working a week ago, but can't anymore.

[modern finch]

usually this is due to desync, ill leave the area and come back and it works, if its happening allot it might need a server restart, or if its nitrado rented it might be under heavy load

[dense osprey]

Tysm! I used a spear and that put it in my hands. I'll leave the area and come back : )

[frail ferry]

anyone know how to stop the 50 50 floating radnom stuff smashed together?

[celest halo]

nope

dont think there is a fix for the 50 50 bug

[modern finch]

are you talking about this "Fixed an issue where dinos would visually fly up into the sky" cuz it looks like thats in the latest patch but we likely have to wait for public to update first

[low dew]

@vocal widget keep posting in wrong channels your gonna get yeeted from the discord lol

[uneven willow]

UseItemDupeCheck=True helps

[frail ferry]

yea? will do

[uneven willow]

My server has that ini and not once have we had the 50 50 issue

[frail ferry]

nice i love you if it works

[uneven willow]

Lets hope it does

[uneven willow]

Let me know tho. 😄

[frail ferry]

no issues with mods using dupe check?

[uneven willow]

Not so far

[frail ferry]

sweet, ill let yaa know. gonna take 14 maps down now and put it on all of them

[uneven willow]

Maybe start with 1, my server isn't heavily modded. 😄

[wanton hinge]

If you use RCON for your server, don't use the command GetTribeIdPlayerList. It's crashing servers when used through RCON.

[celest halo]

lol, dont want them finding out the fun way

[wanton hinge]

Lmao

[regal star]

If ya don’t mine me asking I gave the admin password to a friend that plays Xbox and for some reason it’s not letting him get access. Is there a way I can fix that problem since I am the owner of the server?

[uneven willow]

Is he typing it into world chat...?

[regal star]

No

[uneven willow]

Ok lol 😄

[regal star]

I’m bing Fr guyz

[wanton hinge]

He has to enable the console on console

[uneven willow]

Console access yes, under options

[regal star]

He is going to be an admin on my server but when he type it in it won’t do nothing

[wanton hinge]

He is doing it wrong then

[uneven willow]

Yeap

Are you SURE he is not typing it into chat, it's a very VERY common mistake

[violet tide]

I've got dinos spawning at level 1 even though i have DifficultyOffset=1.0 and OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0. Anybody have any ideas what could be going on?

[regal star]

Let me tell him to try doing it again

It the island map low lvl

[drowsy dust]

its called early access lmao

[austere rune]

Anyone know why the -EnableIdlePlayerKick flag on command line might not work? We have it on ours but it's not kicking idle players. We do have KickIdlePlayersPeriod set in UserGameSettings.ini also.

[wanton hinge]

Where are you setting it at? Where in the settings.

[wanton hinge]

The server configuration works fine, has nothing to do with early access.

[drowsy dust]

eh

debateable

[uneven willow]

Hasn't worked since day 1 for me

[violet tide]

Server's been working fine ever since launch, i haven't changed anything, so this is new. But to answer the question, un GUS under [ServerSettings]

[uneven willow]

What's your status with maxdifficulty

[solemn zephyr]

Sounds like he's not typing enablecheats before the password

[solemn zephyr]

At difficult 1 dinos will spawn 1-30. Offset should not be used.

[wanton hinge]

The command has a phat question mark next to it on the WIki. Basically means its probably not working at the moment.

[violet tide]

incorrect

[uneven willow]

What's your maxdifficulty? True or false?

[wanton hinge]

If you want to see more startup parameters that work for ASA, check out the wiki: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[solemn zephyr]

Untrue. Ark has 30 levels of dinos.

Difficulty 1 means 1 2 3 4 5 etc

Difficulty 5 means 5 10 15 20 25 etc

[violet tide]

it's not set, Don't need to when using OverrideOfficialDifficulty and DifficultyOffset

[uneven willow]

Then set it to false

[violet tide]

yes but with the difficultyOverride, that puts it to 5, which makes levels in increments of 5. The offset is how much you're offsetting off of that

[wanton hinge]

For mine I have

DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=13.3333998

[uneven willow]

Not leave blank

[austere rune]

Hmm seems odd but maybe, thanks

[wanton hinge]

Not every starting parameter from ASE works for ASA. They actually changed a lot of the starting parameters for ASA, so you should really take a look.

[solemn zephyr]

In reality. For people who are new to this, they should only be adjusting max diff. Not offset. Trying to help the noobs here, not here to conflict with the educated

[violet tide]

I'm not new to this

Not sure why that was the assumption

[wanton hinge]

DId you install any mods as of late that control levels, etc.

[uneven willow]

Because you're having issues with very basic stuff

Hence the assumption, don't mean to insult

[violet tide]

I also said it's been running perfectly fine since launch, so it's not a settings issue

i just wasn't sure if there werre any bugs that the new patched introduced that anyone noted that makes odd-level dinos spawn.

I just did a wilddinowipe and they're still spawning in multiples of 5, so i'm going to keep an eye out for more level 1s

[wicked vigil]

On an unofficial server, does DestroyWildDinos also kill tames people have knocked out?

[violet tide]

no

[wanton hinge]

That would be funny af if it did

[wise kindle]

It should not no.

[violet tide]

Nope, only thing I changed lately was the platformsaddle structure limits.

[wicked vigil]

Be brutal if so lmao. I wanna clear the server, but we have a lot of people online and didnt wanna ruin anyones tame haha

[wanton hinge]

I would just set -ForceRespawnDinos on your server startup and restart the server every 12 hours or so.

[violet tide]

I'll just keep an eye on things to see if the wilddinowipe fixed it. Just strange seeing level 1s spawn with 0 stats

[wanton hinge]

That or have a bot that will run the rcon command for dino wipe every 12 hours.

[wicked vigil]

Noticed a couple lvl 1's on my server too. Very rare, but occasionally.

[wanton hinge]

Dino wipes daily are important.

[empty comet]

Depends on your playstyle. We never do them; then again we don't see any Spinos

[violet tide]

just go up and down the N/S river in between green ob and redwoods killing every fish in the water (gigas are great for this). It'll get at least 1 sino spawn on every pass

[empty comet]

We just tamed a 150 Giga so I could take it out for a spin.

We did clear a bunch of water areas with rexes to no avail

[dusk fossil]

kill all the fish

[violet tide]

good way to get barys to spawn too

when farming for spino sails i realized i've been going about looking for barys the wrong way, and THAT is the way to do it. So many barys

[cerulean thistle]

Is there an ini to have JUST auto turrets on platform saddles since they added heavies and Teks to that setting? Or is it just true/false

[low dew]

@cerulean thistle on or off that is all

[night yew]

can someone help me who is experienced with hosting ASE via linux ?

[granite jungle]

use AMP

[rocky cedar]

whats the best way for my fiance to host a dedicated server on the same machine she plays on?

[granite jungle]

AMP

[rocky cedar]

whats AMP? and the server we are trying to host is for ASE

[granite jungle]

PM you the link for you to check it out

[rocky cedar]

how much does it cost? we already rent a server with shockbyte and are trying to avoid more $ so we can just have a secondary server to play on

im so lost lol surely theres gotta be a way to setup a dedicated server for free and for her to be able to play on it too (on the same pc)

[lone lodge]

Question Oh Wise ones. So after putting in the new Mod codes for winter wonderland and updating the server this evening the loading code has changed. It now says ( ushooterengine : : loadgamemods with 7 mods.) Is this Normal?

[lone lodge]

How much Ram is on your PC? It takes 16gb to run the game and I personally would not run it on a PC you are playing on.

[rocky cedar]

32gb of ram, im pretty sure she will be fine running it. I just need to learn how😭

[lone lodge]

There is a few videos out there.

[rocky cedar]

We do have an xbox tho but idk how mods work with it

[lone lodge]

No idea sorry I have 2 servers and adding 2 more in few weeks. Good luck.

[deep flower]

Anyone getting insta-crash after updating their servers?

This platform requires cooked packages, and audio data was not cooked into SoundWave /Game/Maps/TheIslandSubMaps/TheIsland_WP.TheIsland_WP:PersistentLevel.Back_To_Nature.

Getting this crash error but I don't understand how....

[nimble wagon]

How do i bump up stats health ? in ini settings?

[quartz pewter]

So did they fix -exclusivejoin yet or am I just going to have to blacklist everything and just whitelist IP address's on my firewall that I want to allow to connect?

[frank egret]

thye added more logging to the server console

[proper condor]

Does anyone know where the checkbox would be to disable winter wonderland and keep the Dino’s and all

[rocky cedar]

So i got my server to run through steamcmd and it says it successfully started but when i add it to my steam servers its not letting me add it?

[native wave]

sorry, read up...for ASE. make sure you are using the query port when entering it into the steam server list

[floral violet]

Did you sort it

[celest halo]

If you running ASA it don't use steams network so it won't work in steams server list

[raven wigeon]

so, any1 thinks that this game is completely fked up? invisible dragon and every1 can kill it with a stego!! how good is this game?

time to uninstall this piece of junk and go back to ark evolved!!!

it's a shame i can't refund it anymore... oh well

[lone lodge]

Thank you. I was thinking oh no what did I do now:)

[fleet stratus]

What’s the command to take terrain out to find a mesh foundation

[rose coral]

So I have to have the Winderwonderland modid in mods and passive mods for it to work right?

because I have that and raptorclaus is still coming.

[north nova]

Anyone here able to help me with some settings? What level do we need for max difficulty and how do we get the taming speed and baby speed set up? We had everything right on a non dedicated server but with swapping to a private ran dedicated one some of the settings just are not lining up and working as we want

On the non dedicated we had taming at 4x and baby mature time at 42 with a cuddle time of .03 and we had breeding time at .01

Want to try to get these onto the dedicated one but struggling

[scarlet ermine]

Anyone have a suggestion for a good Ammo box mod? I see that Automated Ark has one but I would need to disable the rest of the engrams as im using Arkomatic already and I love their small form buildings.

[peak moon]

Make sure Single Player settings aren't on

[scarlet ermine]

Also, what does this mean in the server log? "Garbage Collection Triggered!"

[north nova]

Do you know how we would do that on a dedicated server the way it settings work are alot different in comparison which is what I think is throwing us off

[peak moon]

There's a game.ini setting called bUseSingleplayerSettings, make sure it's set to false

[north nova]

Alright thanks and would the tame speed and other times we were using for breeding and maturing be the same numbers or would it translate differently, and for difficulty to be max do we want 1 or 5?

[peak moon]

That setting, if enabled, applies a hidden multiplier to many settings in order to reduce some of the grind for single players. If it is off, then your settings will be whatever you set them to. OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5 in GameUserSettings.ini will give you level 150 dinos, I believe.

All wild dinos spawn with 30 different level possibilities. You can think of that setting as how large the increments are on wild dinos, ie. difficulty of 5 will mean dinos spawn in multiples of 5 up to 150 (30 * 5)

[north nova]

Yeah I know the main thing we want outside of the difficulty is faster Tames and babies because the group of us only get a small amount of time to play here and there so default times are to slow for us

[peak moon]

Are you asking how to adjust taming/baby settings?

[north nova]

Yes we want to use the same settings we had it set to as a non dedicated

On the non dedicated we had taming speed at 4x with baby maturing 42 cuddle .03 and breeding intervel .01

Swapped to a dedicated because of the stupid tether lol

[peak moon]

Was bUseSingleplayerSettings set to True or False? If false, use the same exact settings you used before. If True, you'll need to divide by the multiplier to get back to the values you want in accordance with the table on the wiki (not sure if links allowed, will try right after this)

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Single_Player_Settings

ie. 4x Taming was only a "true" 4x if Singleplayer settings were disabled

[north nova]

Ok on the non dedicated I had single player settings set to off so it would be same values if I'm understanding correctly

But if it was on I would have to do the calculations

[tardy pine]

Is anyone aware of a way to expand the size of the dedicated storage container past 180k?

[north nova]

Also last question the unofficial dedicated servers can do crossplay right? Because I know non dedicated could not

[peak moon]

Yep!

[nova pumice]

so im haveing issues with gigas / carchas being a problem is there a way i cna make them two dinos take way more damge like you coulf in ase?

[solemn zephyr]

Yep, easy to do if you use beacon. Can adjust their resistance or damage multipliers.

[subtle roost]

does anyone know what ini file command i need to add to allow cryopods in boss arenas?

[coarse nimbus]

I have a question - if anyone might be able to help.
XBOX series X Nitrado unnofficial
If I reactivate the Winter Wonderland event, then spawn in the Krampus skin, will the skin remain once I use the new checkbox to 'turn off' the event? Or is there no other way to get the Krampus skin without running the actual event?
I hope that makes sense - basically, nothing I am doing will spawn the Krampus skin in, (tried gfi Krampus 1 0 0) and I'm trying to reobtain it without running the full Christmas event indefinitely. Thanks, everyone. ❤️

[solemn zephyr]

Read the latest announcement.

[coarse nimbus]

Thank you, I have. There doesnt seem to be anything reguarding the Krampus skin in particular, which is the one I am attempting to spawn in..

[solemn zephyr]

You have to keep the mod installed to keep the assets. They're not adding them until the end of the month.

You can do the passive line to make raptor clause stop however.

[urban crystal]

ASE unoffi down?

[solemn zephyr]

Closed months ago if you mean official

[urban crystal]

Unoffi????

No xD

I mean unoffi

[tardy pine]

Shouldn't be but the last time I looked there are more ASE players then ASA players, WC could see that as lost money for Nitrado and "fix" another "exploit" to force players in to ASA

Kinda like they "fixed" an "exploit" to make sure 90% of players stay on Nitrado unofficial servers with the "Player Servers" check box

[peak moon]

The AutoSavePeriodMinutes setting determines how often a server autosaves, but that save just continuously rewrites over the TheIsland_WP.ark file. How do I configure a dedicated server to create separate backups?

[frank egret]

that shouldnt be the limit, we have like 2mil plus items in several dedi storages on the vanilla containters so...

[tardy pine]

Batch file, you can run a backup every hour with this method, how you execute the script is up to you, I would suggest windows scheduled task (google is your teacher there)

Obviously you will need to fix the path (D:\Steam_Servers\ArkSA) in my script to match your own

set hour=%TIME:~0,2%
set hour=%hour: =%

::Delete the old backup in this path
del D:\Steam_Servers\ArkSA\Backups\%date:~0,3%\%hour%\* /Q /S

::Create a new backup
xcopy D:\Steam_Servers\ArkSA\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP\* D:\Steam_Servers\ArkSA\Backups\%date:~0,3%\%hour%\* /Y /Q /S

exit

[short phoenix]

Hey so im tryin to join my friends private server but i keep losing connection/timing out. Can anyone help me fix this?

[tardy pine]

You sure those are vanilla containers? My vanilla containers max at 180K... Kind of a weird number to cap out on I think

[frank egret]

ye ai dont have structure mods

[tardy pine]

Have you actually been able to join and play at all?

[short phoenix]

I verified game files and restarted my pc already

[frank egret]

ill double check tho

[short phoenix]

no. i load into the character creation screen then time out

[tardy pine]

I'd say it's a connection issue, maybe if you are on wifi, move closer to the router.

Do you know if your friends server is hosted on Nitrado or in his house? If in his house is it on wifi?

[solemn zephyr]

Dedis respect stack sizes now, so you can have 1800 slots

[short phoenix]

Nitrado and im connected via ethernet

[frank egret]

that might be y then i have my stack sizes boosted

[tardy pine]

What message do you get exactly?

[short phoenix]

one sec ill take a screen shot

[tardy pine]

Interesting, thank you for that

[solemn zephyr]

Cant post images here

[short phoenix]

oh

ok ill get the message then

[frank egret]

look yet another update we dont get wtf

[short phoenix]

Lost/Timed out connection to host

[short phoenix]

^thats what its saying

[frank egret]

if its running on nitrado this isnt surprising

[short phoenix]

It is

I’m assuming a lot of people have this problem with nitrado since you said that?

[tardy pine]

Maybe have your friend reboot the server. Try and join some other servers to see if it's a you problem or a server problem

[short phoenix]

Ok he is streaming rn so I’m gonna try to join a random server first

Same problem with a random server

[distant hearth]

restart pc an hope for best .

[short phoenix]

i did once but ill try again

still nothing🙂

can anyone else help?

[solemn zephyr]

I would load into SP, stay there 5m, go to main menu and then try

Also you could clear your cache

[short phoenix]

clear my cache how?

thru steam?

[short phoenix]

Still no😭

[humble thicket]

Hey is there anyway to get more storage for ark mods or no?

[late estuary]

Is it known that setimprintedplayer admin command isn't giving the imprint buff like it used to in ASE?

[cunning urchin]

im playing on a hosted unofficial server, i have access to console command but shoudl only the admin be able to? I can change my grass height i know but doesnt that mean i could like destroy all dinos and everythign too? is there different levels of acess?

i like being able to change setting like fog and weather and grass heigth for performance issue but i dont think everyone should have acess to nuts things. (andno i havent tried yet because i dont wanna screw anything up)

[scarlet ermine]

Nitrado down again?

[celest halo]

there are some none admin commands

anyone can open the console

[cunning urchin]

oh ok 👍

[peak moon]

Can anyone recommend a server manager (with RCON) tool for ASA?

[uneven willow]

GSA

Gameserverapp

[tidal hazel]

why does m,y armadilo stop gathering stone halfway on his storage like his storage is 805 he stops at 400

[teal cargo]

Hey some1 know how to allow ur friend to build in dedicate server ?

[celest halo]

because most dinos that auto gather only gather till they reach 50% of there weight limit

[tidal hazel]

ohok ty6 for that info bro i didnt kno das

[peak moon]

FYI, the mod "Solo Farm Mod" by kavan87 is designed to help with this annoyance

[edgy temple]

Yep.

[brittle echo]

Is it safe to remove winter wonderland without losing your stuff? Their post is confusing

[celest halo]

no

[brittle echo]

So what is this whole passive mod thing they are saying to put in to your server? Is it like disabling the mod but not removing the files for cosmetics

[celest halo]

yup

[brittle echo]

Alright, thanks

[nimble wagon]

Is there a setting i can use as a code in ini that slow taming down instead of increasing it food when we are trying to make taming speed slower as it seems to slow and increase food needed.

[open trellis]

the cloud and fog commands everyone has access to. The admin commands you need the server admin password to imprint and grow or spawn things in.

[cunning urchin]

thank ya!

[tardy pine]

any reason cheat enablespectator wouldnt be working?

[wise kindle]

“Cheat enablespectator true”

[native wave]

If you want to remove the mod: leave the mod in your modlist but add the passivemod list to your command line with the mod id. That will disable the mod in game but will preserve the items people have gotten from it.
If you want to continue running the mod: leave the mod in your modlist and DO NOT add the passivemod list to your command line. The mod will continue to run and nothing will happen to the mod items.

[crystal scarab]

Does anyone have a updated list somewhere for console commands that work on xbox ? A bunch got disabled on single player

[eager pasture]

Can anyone help me, I have a private nitrido server and can’t enable commands, I’ve tried everything I can find yet still no commands work, not even volumetricfog

[brittle echo]

So prior to server transfers opening up, if I download all my stuff to the obelisk and change the map on my server I should be able to download on the new map?

[low dew]

@eager pasture as far as i know the debuging stuff has been removed so those commands no longer work because well some of them are cheaty

@brittle echo if both servers allow it

[eager pasture]

It’s a unofficial server

[low dew]

@eager pasture dosnt matter lol

we as server owners dont have control over the debugging tools of the game someone can correct me if im wrong

[frank egret]

the fog commands and stuff still work

u cant just flat out turn like grass off anymore but theres a workaround fro that as well

[low dew]

maybe its a good mod idea turn debugging back on again

[crystal scarab]

For Single player too

[quartz pewter]

Its Unreal Engine, there will always be a work around.

[frank egret]

certain ones still work just not the game changing ones

[low dew]

some of them are pretty harmless for sure but theres others that literally look like they greybox the entire world lol

[frank egret]

yea that was trash

and turning grass off is cheaty too

i will say they made that shit way to damn tal to begin with tho but i get the reason behind it

[low dew]

yeah i feel like it was done intentionally to force you to use mounts or maybe not to use short disfigured characters

but obviously wildcard dosnt know human nature

[quartz pewter]

At launch the password for admin on official was pass123... let us not forget.

[frank egret]

that and the whole ghillie comflauge thing dont work if theres no grass lol

[low dew]

i remember when the admin password was figured out on atlas and it rained whales

[frank egret]

to be fair i 1000% blame nitrado for that one lol

[brittle echo]

Im going to be changing my own rented server from island to Svart. I wanted to know if I download to obelisk and then change the map will my stuff still be in the obelisk

[quartz pewter]

Its attention to detail like that that makes Ark what it is.

[low dew]

@brittle echo they should be yes

the real question is are they gonna open cross ark travel with these server transfers

[quartz pewter]

Imagine the possibilites.

[frank egret]

thats literally what transfers are lol

[low dew]

@frank egret i wouldent put it past wildcard to pull a fast one and be like oh yeah you can upload and download but no you cant have clusters yet

[frank egret]

you can already do that

im seen ppl already cluster island maps already

[low dew]

without cross ark travel activated its not really a cluster is it :/

[frank egret]

if you can travel from on island map to another id say thats transfering

[quartz pewter]

Im still waiting for exclusivejoin to do the other half of the functionit exists for, and actually let people join.

[frank egret]

and that woul dbe a cluster

[low dew]

yeah but its not just hit 1 button and you and your stuff is in the next ark you gotta do it the hard way

[frank egret]

the official network has it disabled but all the stuff to make it work is there if you know how to manipulate stuff

[low dew]

upload then join the new server go to the obilesk and download

maybe i havent played ark in a long enough time but my understanding is when you clustered maps together it was almost like teleporting between them without any extra steps

[frank egret]

your not wrong but its still available to do

[low dew]

and being exclusive to the cluster you didnt have to worry about cheated in dinos or characters getting downloaded

[frank egret]

have you tried givng your map a cluster id? i mean all the rest of th eold game is still here so idk y its not possible, we have all the server files to go in and look, knowing how lazy they are i bet theres a setting toggle somewhere that enables the full transfers

[low dew]

but yes i see what your saying you can still upload and download

[frank egret]

the wholle we remastered teh game fromt eh ground up is bald face fucking lie tbh

[low dew]

@frank egret they will probably change it to somthing else for clustering somthing stupid like

crossarkid lol

[frank egret]

they ported it all over and retextured shit turned on a few ue5 toggles to make it look pretty and redid the terrain a bit thats it

the biggest thing they did was rework the structures

and they already did that in atlas so there another copy paste thing to do

[low dew]

tell me about it i do like the extra level of pretty though just like ill be infront of the line to buy all there skin packs there gonna sell because i am obviously stupid lol

[quartz pewter]

Google how to convert real engine 4 game to real engine 5 and you will get the epic games official instructions

It consists of right clicking, and converting UE4 project to a UE5 project file.

[frank egret]

yep

there might be a few things they had to change up a bit so that the u5 stuff would work correctly but nothing they did was even remotely hard

[low dew]

honestly theres nothing wrong with ue4 they could have done everything in ue4 they did in the remaster

[frank egret]

someone with a basic modding experience coulda done it

[quartz pewter]

volumetric fog and clouds, along with weather and lighting are all part of the engine by default.

[frank egret]

eh the water physics wasnt there in ue4

[low dew]

@frank egret atlas was in ue4 and the water was spot on

[frank egret]

yea but it wasnt the same as it is in here

[quartz pewter]

I downloaded UE5 and made a little ghetto map for fun, it wasnt remotely difficult. Crashed less too lol

[frank egret]

this engine its a click of a check box, ue4 you had to do it all manually

if they woulda used the nanite stuff this would perform way better

[low dew]

wish atlas would make a come back DX

[quartz pewter]

same button

[frank egret]

infact ue5.3 just aded in lanscaping using nanite

[low dew]

atlases failure was the fact it was trying to be somthing it had no buisness trying to be and thats a mmo

[frank egret]

i mean they had a great idea just piss poor execution

if they woulda stuck to it being more arkish rather then mmo is woulda been way better

[low dew]

100%

[frank egret]

basically ark but pirates and missions

the stuff they did right they did amazing the stuff the did wrong was just too wrong

[low dew]

you only needed to have a big server block of your own built or spend 280$ to get the full experience

thats per month

[frank egret]

my dual xeon build i have would ran at least half the official map

thats with 64 threads and 256gb of memory, all cost me less then $800 to build too

[quartz pewter]

pretty sure its only single thread anyway...

[low dew]

yes it is per server

[frank egret]

per map chunk yes

[low dew]

you needed atleast 9 server to have all the content cramed in

[celest halo]

there is some multi threading, but its heavy on a single

[frank egret]

6x6 grid woulda had the official feel to it at least

[quartz pewter]

you would have to put a hypervisor on the bare metal and just virtualize each individual server using numa.

[frank egret]

the server grid thing was fucking spot on tho ill give them that

[low dew]

when it worked and didnt eat your ships and characters

[frank egret]

never had it do tha to me

[low dew]

would happen to people with bad connections alot more

would ping out in the transfer and oops bye bye ship

[frank egret]

yea i havent had a shitty internet connection for over a decade so...

yea whoever was doing the hosting needed a pretty good connection as well

like id say im probably in the top 1-2% of homelab owners with the right network capability that hostes stuff liek this

i have a bad ahabit of going straight over kill lol

[low dew]

i live in a school bus so thats not me

[frank egret]

is it at least magic?

[low dew]

when i do a fist full of shrooms it does become the magic schoolbus

[frank egret]

i got guys from aus that play on my stuff and they get better ping then the servers in the same towns as them

[quartz pewter]

I have a pretty good homelab rack set up and full duplex gigabit fiber.

[frank egret]

i wen the ubiquiti route, dream machine, 24port switch and AP's

[native wave]

same

[frank egret]

i will never use another brand of networking gear as long as they keep this up

ive even gone as far as watercooling all 3 servers i have in my rack

all in one big loop

[native wave]

I've limited myself to their base level cameras for the NVR functionality of the Dream Machine. Going other brands for higher end cameras because their higher end are insanely priced

[quartz pewter]

same with the ubiquity stuff.

[frank egret]

gota love that ad blocker too lol

whole network with no ads is amazing

i use reolink cameras, for the money their pretty damn good imo

[native wave]

have one server in my rack aside from the UDM Pro and 24 port switch. want to move two servers that are sitting next to me down to that, but funds are limited

[quartz pewter]

I have unifi protect also

[frank egret]

mix those with blueiris and its a security nerds wet dream lol

[native wave]

have one reolink so far in the attic to watch for racoons. Have home assistant setup. trying to get rid of some eufy cameras I bought

[celest halo]

UDM SE here and 16 port poe switch and 2 APs

[quartz pewter]

I run the cameras a couple places, I have it running into my homeassistant for the triggers and a custom python service I wrote for computervision with object and people tagging with facial recognition using opencv and yolo8

nerd stuff.

[frank egret]

check out blueiris

adds all that into one nice package

[quartz pewter]

I have used it, I dont need the nvr ability because of the nvr

[frank egret]

i just dont trust anything google lol

[rocky cedar]

if i used the gamesettings file to replace a creature on the creature list with something else, lets say like snow owls on the island replacing troodons. do the snow owls still spawn in the snow or do they just spawn where the troodons normally would

[frank egret]

id rather have my stuff standalone and in house

[quartz pewter]

wouldnt have a homelab if I did lol

[frank egret]

im pretty sure homeassistant still communicates outside just saying

[native wave]

still ASE right....they would spawn where troodons spawn

[celest halo]

depends on the intergration

[native wave]

my phone alerts go through their online service...which can be quite slow

still looking for a better way to do that

[celest halo]

most of my homeassistant still works if my internet goes down

[frank egret]

like i said blueiris does all that as well

can get multiple alert types as well, text messages, email all that stuff and its pretty quick, my dad uses it and when he comes to visit his notifications are within seconds of the trigger

[native wave]

the biggest thing for me is keeping my dad watching my media server even if the net goes down

[north nova]

anyone good with the settings and able to help me and my friend out we have turned on everythign we should need in the ini file for the dedicated server but somethign still not working

like we set mature speed to 42 and cuddle time to .03 and its still saying it wants care in 6 hours and not maturing faster

[frank egret]

what ini did you put it in?

[north nova]

the dedicated server one where we have changed everything else like the difficulty and etc.

[native wave]

that stuff should be in game.ini

[north nova]

so far everything we have changed has worked expect for the babies

[frank egret]

read the wiki itll tell you what ini to put thing sin

[celest halo]

there is more then one ini for the dedicated server

[north nova]

alright sorry its our first time and my friend is doing it so i only get what he streams to me xD

so baby settings all go in the game ini correct?

[native wave]

yes

[north nova]

thanks for the help

would the egg like how fast they lay and stuff also go there

[frank egret]

make sure to add the settings header to that file as its blank by default

tell your freind to go to the wiki and read

[north nova]

do either of you want to join the discord we are in real quick and watch the stream and tell us if we are missing something with doing this

does the header need to match from the game and the normal one?

[frank egret]

look in the wiki itll tell him

this is for trouble shooting not ppl to lazy to read a website

[low dew]

@north nova download a program called beacon from there all your questions will be answered

[frank egret]

or that lol

kep forgetting about that app, still doing it the old school way

[native wave]

here's the link to it (in the pinned comments)

[low dew]

@frank egreti do to but breeding settings and what not are multiple settings to get the right balance so i had to use beacon for those

[frank egret]

eh i just make it a single imprint and done

im lazy

[serene ibex]

Sup gang, i have a question im doing a rotate map (map changes every 2 months) and my question is the buildings on the map are they going to get deleted by a switch or can i still use them after the map comes back?

[low dew]

i do 3 i thought it would help not have my server members hit there tame cap boy was i mistaken

@serene ibex as long as the save file for each map isnt comprimised

[frank egret]

granted on my pve server for some reason it snot doing the full 100% per imprint and i cant figure out y lol

[serene ibex]

Thanks man

[low dew]

@serene ibex also if you do multiples of the same map they might overwrite eachother but maps with different names from eachother will be ok for example theisland and theisland will overwrite but theisland and thecenter will be fine

to remain in the savedarks file

[frank egret]

just to be safe it snot a bad idea to copy the save files to a safe place just in case shit goes south

[tidal hazel]

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000001a00000077

CL: 477835
0x00007ff6c9a216aa ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12DescriptorCache::SetRootConstantBuffers() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12DescriptorCache.cpp:598]
0x00007ff6c9a5df7f ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12StateCache::ApplyState() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12StateCache.cpp:565]
0x00007ff6c9a1adcd ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12CommandContext::RHIDispatchComputeShader() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Commands.cpp:152]
0x00007ff6c9bd2af5 ArkAscended.exe!FRHICommandListBase::Execute() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:587]
0x00007ff6c9bd425f ArkAscended.exe!<lambda_c3c45769530a4e2f62785b74e714d2da>::operator()() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:899]
0x00007ff6c6a096ba ArkAscended.exe!TGraphTask<TFunctionGraphTaskImpl<void __cdecl(void),0> >::ExecuteTask() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\TaskGraphInterfaces.h:1311]
0x00007ff6c92e32ae ArkAscended.exe!FNamedTaskThread::ProcessTasksUntilQuit() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Async\TaskGraph.cpp:648]
0x00007ff6c9c36121 ArkAscended.exe!FRHIThread::Run() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp:334]
0x00007ff6c946f726 ArkAscended.exe!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:149]
0x00007ff6c946f57c ArkAscended.exe!FRunnableThreadWin::GuardedRun() [E:\dave_WC-PURPLERAIN_NVidia\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:79]
0x00007ff9513a257d KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff95240aa58 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
I NEED help with this always happens

[north nova]

ok well we got everything working now except for now our password broke and wont work it just keeps making it not password protected now

[quartz pewter]

I just ascended again, and noticed in the credits there is like 15-20 "QA Analysts". It did give me a good chuckle I have to admit.

[peak sapphire]

Is the dino drop inventory for bosses the same on ASA as it was for ASE despite there being a supply crate now. And if not, can anyone point in the right direction?

[serene ibex]

@frank egret and @low dew i love you two thanks for the infos 🫶 hold them cheeks tight

[night yew]

Hey can someone help me, when I try to travel with my char to another sever in cluster it forces me to create a new char

[livid latch]

Hello all! Anyone else getting crashed from garbage collection on dedicated Asa server? I play on the same pc i host from and its only me and my friend but im getting kicked everytime this kicks in. Alot.

My specs. 5950x/rtx4090/32gb ram/Windows 11 on an m.2/steam is on a 2tb ssd. All temps are way below high.

[humble thicket]

is your friend being kicked from the server? is it the ark ascended dedicated server tool, steamcmd or non dedicated game?

[livid latch]

@humble thicket only me being kicked (host) Asa ascended dedicated server tool...plus we have been playing for over a week with no issues till last night.

[humble thicket]

do you have dlss and frame generation on?

[livid latch]

@humble thicket yes

[humble thicket]

turn them off they are main causing to the game crashing on rtx cards.

[livid latch]

I can definitely do that...but i think the garbage collection is causing most of my crashes when hosting,do you know of any way of turning it of and just doing it later on? Or do you think the frame generation and dlss is creating too much garbage?

[humble thicket]

if it was garbage collection your friend would get yeeted too. and since its just your game doing it. its dlss and frame gen. i crash every 10 mins jsut stood there doing nothing with dlss and fg on

[livid latch]

@humble thicket whats pointing me at the garbage collection is it says on the server screen garbage collection triggered evertime i crash.

[humble thicket]

right and when you crash out what does the crash log tell you that shows when you crash out

[livid latch]

@humble thicket hmm ill check that in a few,the logs should still be there? Easiest way to find them?

[humble thicket]

not really that i can see. but next time it usually crashes out with something pertaining to dave_purplerain/nvidia

[livid latch]

@humble thicket ahh yes definitely all that stuff,makes me want to break out some Prince! Lol

Ill log in and see if i can get it to crash,which SHOULD be easy

[humble thicket]

try the dlss off and fg off after the fact see if you craSH

[livid latch]

@humble thicket ill try ty

[open trellis]

Is anyone here also having overspawn issue in water caves on their unofficial servers?

[serene ibex]

Hello guys i have some really serious mental health damaging problems bc i cant find any servers its searching for like 10min and then it says no servers found 🤓🤓 my friends uave the same problem any solution? Already checked router,internet,ps+ and reinstalled ark

[humble thicket]

is console only server ticked?

[serene ibex]

Ticked? Sorry my english kinda bad but server is only for ps

[tepid berry]

Anyone else having an issue with the server freezing up when using the replicator on unofficial? I'm losing connection to my own local server after using/attempting to use rep.

I'm on 33.34

[humble thicket]

on the server list it should show console only server checkbox. make sure its not marked with a tick✅

[serene ibex]

But i cant find any unofficial servers its on old ark btw

[serene ibex]

Ok gonna check that thanks man

[humble thicket]

ohhhh ark evolved has no official servers anymore. the game is end of life support.

[serene ibex]

Yes i know i mean unofficial

[humble thicket]

strange as ase has tons of unofficial servers

could be a ps netowrk issue im nt sure

[serene ibex]

Okey i mean on unofficial ark (old) it searches for server but finds none (i have a own one to so there has to be servers) also some of my friend find servers

[humble thicket]

yeah ark survival evolved unofficial servers right?

[mild lily]

Hey guys with the dino discovery mod, does anyone know is there nests and stuff spawn with the wyverns and magmas on island or is there another way to tame them on there?

[distant hearth]

usually best to check in the mods own discord for info like that

[mild lily]

Ohhh any idea where I could find there dc?

Sorry bit of a noob to the mod thing

[distant hearth]

ussueal if you search the mod on curseorge website, in the description it will have a link

[mild lily]

Sweet ty

[serene ibex]

Yessir

[humble thicket]

streange let me do some research for you

[tribal depot]

Nitrado down?

[north nova]

we are also having server issues everything worked last night before bed when turned it off when we all went to sleep and now that we woke back up and turned it on none of us can connect

[humble thicket]

yes even their webpage is 505 error

[night yew]

Hey can someone help me, when I try to travel with my char to another sever in cluster it forces me to create a new char

[wanton hinge]

I don't think transfers or clusters are enabled right now.

[night yew]

Its on my own Server on ASE

[distant hearth]

1 are they clustered correctly
2 is chrachter downloads set true on the one you transferring too

[night yew]

Yes, i think the Problem has Something to do with the clusterDirectory

[native wave]

When you transfer, a file with your steamid should show up in that directory. If it's not...check write permissions

[night yew]

What do you mean by Transfer a File with your steamid ?

[native wave]

Commas are important...oops

[night yew]

Oh dw, ye there is No File

How do I Check the File permissions ?

I Just created the path via filezilla

[austere thunder]

Does it happen to anyone else that the chibi's and notes levels don't go up?

[frank egret]

It’s a setting you have to do that will point the servers to a shared folder that they can both access that’s how the transfers work, basically one map will write you data to the file then that server passes off to the other where the new server grabs the files out of the folder and loads them in. If that folder isn’t identified in the settings correctly it won’t work

Also are you running off rented server or is this your own hardware?

[night yew]

i rent a root server

[frank egret]

ah so a baremetal rental

are they all runing in the same vm?

[night yew]

vm ?

[frank egret]

you rented a server that you can do whatever you want with correct? what os is it running?

[night yew]

ubuntu

i also use amp for easier configuration

[frank egret]

ok so then your servers are ran on the same vm

[night yew]

ye

[frank egret]

ok hang on a sec

let me remember where to put the info im about to give you

[tribal depot]

Same

[frank egret]

in the start parameters for each server you need to add these lines, clusterId="whatever you wanna name your cluster"
clusterDirOverride="directory you point clustered servers to so they can communicate"

[night yew]

yes i already have set those

not in the start parameters tho cuz amp is doing it

[frank egret]

amp is a general server maanger so it might not do it right for ark

but the start params is where that needs to go or it wont work

[night yew]

ye i know i just think somethings wrong with my directory

bc the server show up when i travel so the clusterid is fine

[frank egret]

yea the cluster id is just what tells the game theyre connected

[night yew]

/home/amp/.ampdata/arkcluster this is my current dir

[frank egret]

when you made the directory did you set file permissions to read and writeable?

[night yew]

no isnt that default when I make it via my ftp ?

[frank egret]

not neccessarily

[night yew]

I just checked permission

[frank egret]

ubuntu does wierd stuff sometimes

[night yew]

group and public werent able to write

maybe thats why it doesnt work ?

[frank egret]

how familiar with ubuntu are you?

[night yew]

haha if I would be familiar with it I wouldnt be here I guess

i normaly use windows

[frank egret]

so chmod 700 the file, can look that command up on how to use but it changes the file permissions for linux

i would think amp would do all that but i dont use amp i use linuxgsm so i dk what amp does by default

[night yew]

ye im a complete bob in that, I use amp since yesterday

[frank egret]

all good man i was in the same boat when i started using linux lol

[night yew]

but I dont think that its an amp problem

[frank egret]

nah its a config issue

[night yew]

im trying it now with the new permissions

[frank egret]

i have mine setup even more complicated then what your trying to lol

got all my maps in thier own containers so they cant fight over system resources

[night yew]

oh i would go crazy without amp haha

[frank egret]

imo linuxgsm is easier, its the second game manager ive used for linux tho

before that i was using pterodactyl

[night yew]

ah

[frank egret]

does amp have a setup guide for specific games?

[night yew]

ye

[frank egret]

mind sending a link to it?

[night yew]

hm it still doesnt seem to work, when i travel it still forces me to do a new char

[frank egret]

yea theyre not communicating with that file then

[night yew]

sec

i sent u in dm

[gloomy trellis]

Is there anyway to disable players from using specific console commands or console commands in general?

[distant hearth]

nope , not till wc put something in place to stop it

[gloomy trellis]

That is crazy... that they even allow that.

[distant hearth]

i dont play pvp, but can see it its game breaking and agree crazy they left it in for pvp

[gloomy trellis]

majorly for pvp for sure. but even a simple pve server like mine. Complete killer of balance and eliminates scav hunts anymore or hiding anything on the map xD

[distant hearth]

hmm true never event thought of that, i once hid like 100 boxes with varying amounts of elemnt in on rag, even i forgot where most were an i think only bout 75 got found lmao

months later people wud message the discord like , oooo found another on e

[north nova]

what setting do we want to mess with to fix raising babies we wanted to speed up how fast they matured and make it to where 1 imprint would do the imprinting but we messed something up to where its scaling way to high for example a baby level 1 raptor has 400% movement speed

[distant hearth]

i imagine you messed with imprintscalequality

[north nova]

i think we changed that one thkning it would make 1 imprint do the 100% so to fix that what do we need to put the scale quailty to and what setting is the one that actually would make the imprinting faster

[distant hearth]

dm your game ini an i can check it, if you want to do it yourself look at getting the free version of ark beacon program/app

its imprintamount setting you want, gimme a sec i find the roght line

[north nova]

yeah ill dm it to you

[pine topaz]

Hello. I am kinda new to hosting unofficial servers. I just noticed a new notifications popping up on my Server log. "Garbage Collection Triggered". Does anyone know what that is in relation to ASA server? Is this an issue I should take note of and what steps should i take if so? Never noticed this before today

[celest halo]

it can be ignored, and is part of Added additional logging for server management they added

[pine topaz]

Ah thank you. Im slowly learning so Appreciate it

[celest halo]

grabage collection is normally clean up of unnneded items to free up ram

[pine topaz]

That makes sense. Thank you

[compact goblet]

Hey guys, setting upy own server. Does anyone know how to setup auto restarts of the server with a warning message before the server restarts?

[vocal nest]

I'm trying to make the level of the wild dinos higher and ik having problems

Everything is level 10 to 75

[distant hearth]

server or singleplayer?

[vocal nest]

Server

[distant hearth]

OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5 in game user settings
do a dinowipe in game or start the server with a wipe

i think it is actually working though as you have level 5 increments, the island is just bad for levels

[vocal nest]

I'm trying to do that but when I stop the server and started again the wild dinos are the same

[distant hearth]

i recomend a mod called custom dino levels
set it to hav raganrock type levels
this gives better chance for higher levels to spawn

[vocal nest]

Just to confirm if I stop the server and started again they should spawn new dinos or I have to do a restart of the server

[distant hearth]

it will only spawn new dinos if you use the cmmand line to do a dinowipe , other wise it just starts where it left off

[vocal nest]

I also try to use commands but Idk why the game doesn't activate the cheats mode and I follow a guide step by step

[distant hearth]

enablecheats yourpassword
cheat gcm

wud give you creative mode, have to use cheat
before any cheat cmd on a server

[wanton hinge]

Oh thought you meant ASA. Nevermind lol

[vocal nest]

Do u have the id?

[distant hearth]

928708

[vocal nest]

Thanks I'm going to try that cause the commands aren't working

[wanton hinge]

So we can't get tribe and alliance chat through game logs or rcon 🙂

[dull oyster]

Genuine question for the ark devs, was it really worth giving nitrado sole hosting rights and making those of us with our own boxes work that much harder to have our servers seen?

The nitrado discord is an absolute mess and the services are a scam

[wanton hinge]

They own exclusive rights to ASA. There is nothing that can be done.

Nitrado can make any decision they want when it comes to how the servers are hosted. They pull all the strings. Just be happy we can even self host. The launch was a mess with self hosting.

[dull oyster]

Well yes I know that, I was just curious if the ark devs regret that wholehearted mistake lol

And yes I agree I run my own box and it's been a struggle

[wanton hinge]

I doubt they would answer that question.

[dull oyster]

Yeah but I can at least try, just wild to me the services nitrado are feigning to offer are consistently interrupted and down and offer no compensation

Kinda blows me away

[livid latch]

@humble thicket ok..tested with and without dlss+frame generation. ..crashed with,didn't crash without...but the crashes didnt happen when the server did the garbage collection...in fact i had to force command one. Still didn't crash when i did tho.I was solo tho cause my friend wont be on till later..maybe..that will be the true test. Is there a command to shut it off just incase I start crashing when they log on? Cause its almost unplayable then.

[distant hearth]

well i doubt they wanted to be stuck with nitrado, i think there was some contract stuff involed with borrowing money

[latent finch]

if you use the Hardware Performance-Upgrade option on nitrado, is that just a RAM upgrade? or does it upgrade other things as well?

I can't seem to find the answer on their website or google

[humble thicket]

are you or your friend spawning in alot of stuff?

[distant hearth]

i dont know for asa but ase was just a bit more ram

[latent finch]

ok. says RAM upgrades are exclusively for Minecraft so just didn't want to waste my money

[celest halo]

dont think they regret getting $4 Mill lol

[dull oyster]

They've made that in abundance at this point

[distant hearth]

they did but presumably they needed that money badly before release or they wudnt had to do it

[celest halo]

yeah without that money there prob would not of been a release

[distant hearth]

i think it why officials shut down long before asa release too, less out going expenses

[livid latch]

@humble thicket nope dont ever spawn anything in.We are pack rats but we are only level 70ish and only 4 tames.Plus it happens everywhere. Close to base or out running around.

[celest halo]

not to count all the back money they owed for official servers

[distant hearth]

yea , i gues sthat was the case , cant be cheap running thousands servers

[floral violet]

i thought offical was free

[delicate fiber]

if i wanted to change the map on my personally hosted server i'd just change the text in the bat file right?

[floral violet]

chage as in how

[delicate fiber]

like from the island to lost island

id just have to change this string of text to change the map or do i have to do something else?
start ShooterGameServer.exe "LostIsland?SessionName=Westfalen?MaxPlayers=6?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0?DifficultyOffset=1.0?AltSaveDirectoryName=LostIsland?QueryPort=27015?Port=7777?listen" -NoBattlEye -NoTransferFromFiltering -active

[distant hearth]

that shud work fine

[glad sequoia]

Is anyone else having an issue accessing the admin panel on Xbox? I’m playing on series X, it worked fine up until last week when it randomly stopped working have been unable to find a fix for it

[delicate fiber]

Ty

[split yoke]

Hey guys, after playing ASE for a long time I picked up ASA now. I only noticed I'm not able to turn up Harvest Multiplier to anything higher then 10. 😔 I play solo in single player. Do you guys have any clue what's going on? Do I reinstall or won't that do anything? Appreciate any help. 🙏

[frank egret]

if anyone here uses AMP holy shit i feel bad for you lol

[echo frigate]

Is it possible to enable transfers right now? IE have a server clustered with Island & Svartalfheim?

[floral violet]

are you on offical or unoffical

[frank egret]

thats not even a valid question to ask lol one of those maps isnt even available on official netork lol

[floral violet]

i didnt no that

[frank egret]

its not an official map its a mod map so...

[delicate fiber]

so when i change the map on the server the ark data should migrate over right? Like items or dinos that i've uploaded through the obelisks

[wise kindle]

Admin panel? You mean showmyadminmanager?

[fresh python]

anyone found a fix for mods not installing at all? stops at 35% and nothing.

have reinstalled and deleted mods folder

[wise kindle]

What platform?

[fresh python]

Steam.

[humble thicket]

Does anyone know if you can clear you cheat command list?

[fresh python]

Got it to work. Apparently there's an issue with installing ark and mods to an external hard drive that causes them to stall instead of install properly?

Had to install to the internal

[tidal hazel]

I need help with this

[drifting oxide]

anyone here have experience running dedicated servers on Ark SE?

[violet stag]

(ARK SE) sry i dont rlly know where im supposed to ask but, i cant see my bfs non-dedicated session anymore no matter what i try. like even restarting the games multiple times for both of us, i was able to see it with no problems earlier and yesterday its just entirely nonexistent now.

[drifting oxide]

Did you add a filter by accident to the server list?

[violet stag]

the only filters i have are non-dedicated sessions and sorted by name so i can see it easier

like idk what im doing wrong but i just cant see his server at all

[woven zenith]

Is there a way to transfer a singleplayer non-dedicated server to a dedicated server using a host service?

[solemn zephyr]

Fun fact, Purple Rain is just the PC's name that that part of the game was made on. All errors regarding that is "Purple Rain". It's not the error code itself.

It's called that because that's what they named the checkout. that's all, there's no why.
One of my build machines was named "Ovis" for years```
-Zen

[ocean timber]

It's an issue with Steam's network. Try doing Join Game from Steam friends list, and if that doesn't work, try getting him to give you his IP and you can try joining via IP:PORT -- but honestly, this is a major reason why people end up renting dedicated servers. @_@ Good luck.

[ocean timber]

Yes, by uploading your single player save to the server in question. Most of them do it by FTP.

[woven zenith]

what if I'm going to be buying the server and the single player map is my brothers?

would that cause an issue? and I plan on using hosthavoc if that's easy/hard

[ocean timber]

Then either he would need FTP access to your server, or he would need to send you the file for you to upload.

[woven zenith]

okay thanks for the help! gonna go ahead and get that sorted then

[drifting oxide]

I don't know if anyone can help with this but, I'm hosting a private dedicated Ark SE server and I'm having issues with data downloads.

Despite having,
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadDinos=False
NoTribeDownloads=False

I can't download anything off of the ark.
To clarify, i've been hosting the server on the Island and we wanted to switch to Rag so I restarted the server and changed the map.
I've uploaded my character, items and dinos into the obelisk and they're all visible on both Rag and TheIsland within the obelisk but my server has ark data downloads disabled and I can't seem to find a way to enable it.

[celest halo]

you have -clusterid or -NoTransferFromFiltering in your start script

[drifting oxide]

I don't have either of those

I tried using a clusterid earlier but i may have done it wrong.
I also didn't think it was necessary because i'm technically only using 1 server

[celest halo]

whats the Upload version of the download settings set to

[bleak ivy]

I'd use them, otherwise it uses singleplayer uploads and that can cause issues
just make sure you get anything out of upload before switching else its gone.

[drifting oxide]

I'll try, worst case i can revert to an old save

Stolen, i'm not sure what you mean

[celest halo]

all them Prevent should also have a Upload version

[drifting oxide]

I will try PumPum's suggestion and get back to you

[tidal hazel]

i need help fixing it n makign it stop doing that bro lol but ty

[harsh raft]

Is it possible to setup an offline LAN server on ASA? Our internet cuts out so we need it just over the local network. We had one setup with ASE but I can't find anything on setting one up for ASA

[tidal hazel]

in dododex on a dinoit says 2 numbers ones on the top ones on the bottom which1 is the amount to kncok it out with

[little fractal]

Anyone else having a issue players being booted from server every 15ish minutes? Its happening on pvp server we have

[frank egret]

if you don topen ports it should still be accessible in your local network

ther is no real setting i dont think

might have to use the local ip and port number to manually log in tho

[harsh raft]

it needs to be offline though without being connected to internet

[frank egret]

yea thats what local network means

like with mine even if my internet drops out i can still access my server cuz its in my local network

everyone else would be shit out of luck tho

[naive owl]

I need help to understand why when I try to make a non dedicated server so my other friend on ps5 (like myself) can play together bc when she joins it says it requires password and I never get the option to put one besides admin password so I’m confused what I’m supposed to do

[frank egret]

its nondedicated meaning its running on your playstation so y would you need a password?

or you mean in setting config you cant find a spot for a password?

also which one are you playing ase or asa?

[naive owl]

Bc I’m essentially making a private server for me and my friend to play together

[frank egret]

so if shes getting asked for a password that means you set one so...

admin password is the password she uses to get in

so watever you put there is what she needs

[naive owl]

She did that and still doesn’t let her join so idk what is even happening

[frank egret]

its case sensitive so make sure its exactly as you put it

and are you clicking the private match box?

[naive owl]

To find the server?

[frank egret]

no when you go to launch the non dedicated

theres three options right before you go in, seession name, admin password then theres a check box

[naive owl]

Yes I click it before

[frank egret]

uncheck it and try again

idk if playstation has this or not but is there a way for you to invite her to play?

[naive owl]

Yes but like few times she puts the password and it says the password isn’t valid

[frank egret]

has she been able to connect at all to you?

[naive owl]

Okay so I made my friend to make one to see if it worked and nope still says invalid password

[frank egret]

alright try this dont put a password, check the private session box and then invite her once your in

checking that box should make it so no one that you dont invite can join

[naive owl]

Okay so I did it again with her server and it worked but idk why she isn’t joining mine for some reason

[frank egret]

no clue

its console, kinda outside my wheel house

[naive owl]

Yeah she still can’t join my server for no reason

[nova pumice]

So my server is hosted through nitrado we can get on it for like 30 seconds then it kicks us randomly? Any ideas

[night yew]

Did U restart it ?

[lusty hemlock]

does the ark offical server build affect which non dedicated servers you can join like for example if i'm on version 33.47 and my friend is on v33.29 and he sets up a non dedicated server will I be able to join it?

[nova pumice]

Nope not even touching it , it just does it as soon as someone try to lvl up or even hit anything

But when no one is online it perfectly fine like nothing is happening

[night yew]

Reach Out to Nitrado Support

[nova pumice]

I have been they don't even know , so I thought I would ask here maybe someone here would know

[night yew]

Do U have Importamt Progression on the Server

If Not Just reinstall it

[nova pumice]

I literally just did that... Done it like 5 times today cause it what they tell me to do and it still don't work soo

[night yew]

Try after reinstall wothout any cinfigurstions

[nova pumice]

I did , still does it

[night yew]

Then U should ask for an refund

[wise kindle]

When you rebuilt the map, it takes around 20-30 minutes for the rebuilt to complete, with the server rebooting several times to complete the process. If you tried to join while these processes were running, you would have had a very bad time. Were you allowing the map to finish these processes before trying to join?

[nova pumice]

Yea I let the server run for 2 and half hour before I even touched it

[distant hearth]

other people have tried an it kicks them too?

[nova pumice]

Yea

And we have done it with mods and without mods , same issues so it make me think nitrado might be having issues but everyone in there discord just tells us to make support ticket and even the support ticket people wasnt much help

[distant hearth]

you can try installing a differnt game on it, then reinstall ark as sometime nitrado doesnt reinstall the same game properly if you try to just say reinstall ark .
be a good test if you had the game that you installed other than ark, if it still did the same thing , but if not just try it that way before then reinstall ark

[nova pumice]

Could I do this with say ark SE then try again with asa ?

[distant hearth]

yea. any other game

[supple ginkgo]

Anyone had any issues with the Overseer fight on dedicated servers? Our server, alot of characters refuse to download after the ascension process, and its generating alot of headache

as in, after the fight, they download the character, and cant spawn on any beds. After spawning random, they are in tribe again, but if they log out, some has to recreate a new character while the old one just lies there on the beach

[north nova]

i think with how much settings we messed with even though we have maxed settings there are so many low levels we barely see the high, ive heard about a wipe command just curious on how to do it and if it gets rid of tamed dinos or only wilds

[distant hearth]

who ever has admin password can do it in game via the console cmd

enablecheats yourpasswordhere
cheat DestroyWildDinos

onlt destroys wild dinos , you shud be seeing them in levels of increments of 5
i.e 15,25,30 upto 150

[north nova]

alright i know ive seen a 150 dilo like 2 hours ago and have been looking for a 150 argy since and the highest argy ive seen is 70

most im seeing have been going 1-7 then 8-23

[distant hearth]

yea u need to dino wipe that, it has some the old level creatures on it ,
but high levels are rare on the island

generally on isalnd anything 110 -120 up is semi decent , just becuase of how rare it is to find the higher level stuff .

[north nova]

yeah i would be ok with 110+ lol but over the past 12 hours of playing ive seen maybe 1 that way

[distant hearth]

yea try again after the dino wipe , but it can be that bad ,sometimes days to find what you want at a good level tbh

we use a mod on ours that alters the ratio of higher level spawns becuase of it , but it makes the game fractionally harder, just less time spent finding half decent dinos

[gaunt tangle]

Why does my server only show up if i check the show player servers box??? is this because i'm not using nitrado to host?

[distant hearth]

yes

[gaunt tangle]

thats pretty silly. drowning out the small fish.

[drifting cypress]

Beacon can no longer update Nitrado. Discuss

[floral violet]

is it a dedicated one

[mint hill]

anyone know any cross play no wipe fiber

[distant tiger]

Since there is downtime due to mods not showing when trying to load ARK. Has anyone figured out how to get -exclusivejoin to work in ASA yet or are we still waiting on Wildcard to add proper support for it?

[spice sedge]

Im on ps and i cant join unofficial ..it starts the load and then says no sessions found and then im back to the lobbh

[distant tiger]

it's probably the same issue most are having. the mods are not showing in the launch process so this fails and returns you to the menu. Something may be down on Curseforges end.... just a guess there.

[spice sedge]

Ah so theres no solution then?

[distant tiger]

atm no sadly.

[tribal depot]

Nitrado down again and server's not working?

[deep flower]

Anyone's servers not booting up?

[tribal depot]

Yep

[deep flower]

JESUS

[tribal depot]

It's bad

[deep flower]

Yours is insta-crashing aswell yeah?

[tribal depot]

Tries to load but goes back to the main menu

[gleaming kite]

official Curse Forge Web : Yes, we are detecting problems with CurseForge that began 55 minutes ago.

if server have mods it might not boot up

[distant tiger]

Which makes sense as most servers, including official, have winter wonderland on active or passive load atm.

[worthy rapids]

I'm hosting a private non nitrado server and it fails to boot up. Saying that it fails to load mods in the log file. I only have winter wonderland installed. It's a global problem?

[brave aspen]

yes

[worthy rapids]

ok thx

[brave aspen]

it seems like its on curse forge's end

[inner cloud]

seems to be fixed according to my playerbase

in discord chat with one of my players who had the whole issue (no mods available) present when he went to login and was just now able to login as the mods appeared on the join screen for him

funnily enough the whole time, I was in a boss fight with one of my other players and we come out of the boss fight back into the main map without any issues 🙂

[distant hearth]

yea ive been on for like the last 4 hours, think its only affecting those trying to join

[inner cloud]

yeah it was only those trying to join - previously mentioned player had a client crash then when he went to rejoin saw the issue

which is resolved now

[worthy rapids]

I can confirm that my server is able to boot back up with winter wonderland.

[tribal depot]

Mods are downloading for me now it should work for everyone else

[inner cloud]

another player - from xbox playerbase who just come online was able to join with mods no problem

[thorn musk]

I confirm that all my servers are restarted, the problem is over wouhou

[radiant tiger]

still my cam't see my server 🤔

anyone have still problems ?

[vital linden]

Regarding cluster servers, are we thinking the problem with single player uploads will be resolved when Wildcard goes live with officials on January 24?

[distant hearth]

yea as soon as you can have a uniquie cluster id that issue goes away

[livid latch]

@humble thicket I didnt crash once! I cant believe dlss and frame generation is causing so many issues in this game,especially with the setup I have! Optimization needs to be a priority!
Thanks alot man! 🤘🤘👍👍

[torpid onyx]

Does anyone if Shiny dinos are allowed in boss arenas?

[distant hearth]

thye will be fine aslong as there normally allowed in , as they use the base model dino .

[torpid onyx]

oke

[humble thicket]

Yw have fun

[floral violet]

what it ment to do any way

[carmine cipher]

hello, i am not sure where are the server saved files is in the folders, i had crashes in the morning and now i try to make a rollback, but i think Shootergame - Saved -Savedarks TheIsland_WP and the i cancel the newest and start from oldest one ?

[distant hearth]

yes thats the location, in that folder you will see TheIsland_WP.ark

this is the current world its loading from ,

if you have others with a date and time stamp, these are the backups
so you can rename the current world file as , TheIsland_WP.old or just move it w.e .
Then name the nearest backup file to TheIsland_WP.ark
this well make it run that file as the world upon server start

[primal lantern]

My flyer carry setting won't stay enabled I save my settings but each time it goes back to disabled, I got the game a week ago idk what's wrong

[solemn zephyr]

You happen to be using the Svart map?

@primal lantern

[elfin sapphire]

Can someone help me I’m hosting an asa server and tamed dinos take way to little damage I have resistance and dino damage set to 1 i tries setting resistance to 0.2 and damage to 5 but it dosnt change anything my tamed Dino’s take wayyyy to little damage like a giga did 30 for a bite but player take normal damage can someone help fix this

[primal lantern]

I don't think so, I'm not really sure what that is, I can't go on other maps on asa if that's what you mean

[serene ibex]

can sm tell me why tf mek rockets only do 1 dm on forest titan how am i supposed to tame this bitvh?

[solemn zephyr]

Sounds like a #bobs-with-probs question to me

[serene ibex]

ah thx man

[solemn zephyr]

NP

[dusk hound]

Need help w figuring out a potential issue w a nitrado server!

I help moderate a server and we recently changed some settings with our breeding via Game.INI on the site. We had some minor settings reset after changing some settings and adding "MatingSpeedMultiplier" (or something of that sort) but nothing that couldnt be easily re-checked and fixed.

today i was told taming wasnt working. KO tames wouldnt eat, and even tried force taming and nothing. Tames we have wont breed either. Disable taming is not activated and should be working but wont.

[late estuary]

Anyone know if there's a server or .ini setting that changes font size for signs? We want more signs but the text is so small they're mostly pointless and not very useful unless you play in first person. I know there are signs mods, wondering about settings.

[mortal ravine]

I need help with an issue setting up a personal dedicated server

I have setup everything correctly to my limited knowledge but every time I start the server and join it has required mods that I haven't even downloaded or enabled in the server settings and I don't know how to un-require them

plz halp

[wise kindle]

Id roll back your changes and re-evaluate what changes you made. It sounds like you removed hunger and maybe added some mods that are conflicting? I cant tell with this limited info, but with this many things gone wrong, whatever you changed, I would simply change back and perform one change at a time moving forward.

[wise kindle]

There is not, this would be something you could get with a mod tho I dont know of any that do this specifically.

[north nova]

so our server swapped to local and now people cant connect and we cant figure out how to get it back off of local

[wise kindle]

If this is a selfhosted dedi or non dedi from your machine, you likely have some mods enabled that you dont know about.
Not sure how thats configured as I dont selfhost non dedis, but you will need to take very close look at your settings as thats the only way this can happen.
If this is a selfhosted dedi, you should have an ini entry that looks something like "mods=xxxxxx,xxxxxx" This is where your mods are being set.

[dusk hound]

the hunger isnt the issue. theres something likely just straight up not allowing us to tame?
friend watched a 150 procoptodon starve to death while he was trying to tame it (kibble, rare mushrooms, ect) and even forcetame wont allow it. 😔

ive tried enabling "Disable dino taming" restart, disable, restart and still nothin.

only mods we have are additions and cosmetic related. we would like to avoid a rollback but i suppose it might be the only way

[wise kindle]

Id rollback your settings first to figure out what went wrong. What exactly was changed and what mods were added? Start there and roll all those changes back, then test.

And mods can affect alot of things you wouldnt think they can touch so dont discount those without looking at them very closely.

After you have figured out what caused this, THEN rollback your map to restart gameplay.

[north nova]

i have still yet to figure out to get our server working again lol it can be joined on lan, it shows up on the unofficail servers but outside of lan noone else can join

it was all fine until the power flashed off and on earlier

[north nova]

i think the host pc just died so on that note does anyone know how i can transfer the save from old server to a new server if i for example do the paid one?

[wise kindle]

Theres info on how to do this on the Nitrado website I believe.

[north nova]

alright ill look into that and see if i can find it

we have been trying to trouble shoot it not letting anyone connect for 3 hours now so at this point im just annoyed with the host pc we have lol

[wise kindle]

I can dm you the link if you need it

[north nova]

please do

[naive narwhal]

A hacker invade my server, use adm comand and destroy all things, the log file dont show anyone usando commands. This happeng with someone?

[wise kindle]

Disable character and item downloads

And dino downloads as well

[naive narwhal]

This was not the problem, i allready disable that since day one.

He use adm cheats, fly and admin weapon.

[wise kindle]

Change your admin password and hope they don’t get it again. Otherwise no idea. The only time Ive heard of this happening is when ppl transfer their character in while its in gcm.

[naive narwhal]

yes, i will chance my adm password. but have a problem, in log file, dont show anyone using admin chets to get fly, gcm ou admin weapon, and the log file show all things that happeng, show chat conversation, dinos freeze, dino die, show when I use admin commands, but when this hacker use dont show nothing.

[lavish gulch]

when can i take the event off without it erasing everyhting we had on our unofficial server

[sage spear]

Could someone help me and a friend? Earlier today we were playing and his internet went out for a sec so the server closed. When he opned the server back up and i tried to join all i get is a "Connection Timeout" and we have tried. Restarting Server, restarted my game, restarted my PC and his PC, restarted his router, verified my game files, and uninstalled and reinstalled ark. I feel like we have tried everything and nothings worked. Please help

We are using the Ark Ascended Dedcated Server tool in steams library

[supple ginkgo]

did something change when his internet went out? ISP changing something, router update or something. I'd check with isp etc because they could have changed something

[sage spear]

can u change that in the Ark Ascended Dedcated Server tool?

[supple ginkgo]

No. Im more thinking something changed internally at the ISP, or with the router port forwards

[sage spear]

we didnt do the CMD version

there is a tool in steam that starts a server for you

[supple ginkgo]

It doenst have anything to do with the tool. SOmething is blocking the connection so it times out

[sage spear]

right but how would one change that, we did not port foward anything. There was no need to

[supple ginkgo]

but it seems something changed when his internet died. Hance I would check with ISP

[sage spear]

if u happen to know where would you check?

[supple ginkgo]

I dont remember the netstat command to check ports. Someone in here is probably way smarter than me on this topic

[hallow veldt]

okay guys i have two problems with my single player world, one is that the taming time is ridiculus and i need faster tames, two is that theres so many dinasaurds which are below level 30 like its impossible for me to find a lvl 100 monster(im playing ark ascended)

[bleak ivy]

the first one is just finding the multiplier for taming speed you want. (also remember kibble exists so account for that if you don't just want instant tames)
the second one will require you to use the custom dino levels mod.

[hallow veldt]

how do i make insta tames, ive been playing ark for 3 years and have never made kibble once, i set the spawn for dinos to be higher i think thats why im finding low levels do u have any suggestions for the dino mod??

[bleak ivy]

insta tames just means raise the taming speed multiplier to like 50x or an insane number to make it only require one feed to tame.
custom dino levels is the name of the mod, it gives a couple options to change the levels the mod page explains or ask here once you check for more help

[hallow veldt]

it doesnt let me raise it that high for my single player but i have found the custom dino mod

[bleak ivy]

if you change the difficulty make sure you dino wipe and turn off the max difficulty checkbox.

make sure you use the box instead of the slider. on PC you can also edit the ini directly.

[hallow veldt]

max difficulty is not on, and how do i dino wipe

[bleak ivy]

destroywilddinos

its a command

[hallow veldt]

and to bring them back what do i do

[bleak ivy]

they just spawn back normally.

takes a while on singleplayer tho

[hallow veldt]

perfect thankyou so muchh

after i dino wipe i assume i use the dino mod??

[bleak ivy]

download the mod and decide which mode you want,
WantsEqualLevels, WantsRagLevels, or WantsHighLevels. it defaults to equal levels I believe

then once you are in dino wipe.

[hallow veldt]

where can i go to decide which levels i want

[bleak ivy]

its in the ini, gameusersettings, under [CustomLevelDistrib] (probably need to add it.

[distant hearth]

ermm ok, thats kinda weird, curseforge website is a banned link ?

[bleak ivy]

wasn't whitelisted

[hallow veldt]

sorry but im abit confused

[bleak ivy]

ini is a config file it allows further edits to the settings. most mods use them (some are moving ingame to allow consoles control over them tho)

[distant hearth]

kk

[hallow veldt]

where do i access ini

[bleak ivy]

the ini is in steamapps/common/ark survival ascended/shootergame/saved/config/windows

if you manage it on steam, you only need to go through the shootergame part

[hallow veldt]

okay found it

so many lines of random things

[bleak ivy]

yep, just scroll to the bottom and find the header [CustomLevelDistrib] if its not at the bottom then type it

[hallow veldt]

[CustomLevelDistrib]
MinLevel=100
MaxLevel=150
WantsEqualLevels=True
MaxDrakeLevel=150
PreventTitan=True
PreventBee=True
MaxDeinonLevel=30
MinDrakeLevel=100
LowWeight=0.5
MediumWeight=0.25
HighWeight=0.100000001
TinyWeight=1
MinDeinonLevel=1
MinMagmaLevel=1
MaxMagmaLevel=30

[minor skiff]

@bleak ivy no mods are required. you only need to alter the ConfigOverrideNPCSpawnEntriesContainer's under [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]

[bleak ivy]

then type the one you want as =true and the others as false

[hallow veldt]

this look good?

[bleak ivy]

that would require you to edit everything wouldn't it? its much easier to just use custom dino levels 🤷

[minor skiff]

beacon can do this for you automatically. only 71 lines of text to restrict dino spawns from level 100 - 150

[hallow veldt]

[CustomLevelDistrib]
MinLevel=100
MaxLevel=150
WantsEqualLevels=True
MaxDrakeLevel=150
PreventTitan=True
PreventBee=True
MaxDeinonLevel=30
MinDrakeLevel=100
LowWeight=0.5
MediumWeight=0.25
HighWeight=0.100000001
TinyWeight=1
MinDeinonLevel=1
MinMagmaLevel=1
MaxMagmaLevel=30

does this look alr??

[bleak ivy]

not everybody wants to download an app to do it. custom dino levels is a extremely simple

[bleak ivy]

probably yeah

[distant hearth]

not easy for the average joe to do,plus they need to pay for beacon or spend time searching google .
i can do it both ways , yet prefer the mod using rag type levels

[minor skiff]

For the sake of his server performance, he should be using what is no more than 50kb of text instead of a mod. stop suggesting these alternative methods.

[hallow veldt]

its single player

[bleak ivy]

its singleplayer and a single mod won't make it lag lol

[minor skiff]

ok. i'll be on my way xd

[hallow veldt]

i just want high level guys i dont think we need a deabate lol thankyou for the help pum pum and vortex

[bleak ivy]

unless you are doing a public server it won't matter anyway thats where you'd want to limit everything (it probably won't change anything anyway)

[minor skiff]

it will matter. ASA is not a finished game, it has countless compatibility and optimization problems. Mods are really not viable imho

[bleak ivy]

running fine for me private tho. maybe 3 people on ever.

I think I have 3 or 4 mods and am running the event. no noticeable difference.

then again I'm not on nitrado so that is a big help Lol

[onyx portal]

Anyone know why I my server won’t send rcon broadcast messages? Can do dinowipes/ save world/ list players but thats about it. No other commands work. Any ideas why no other commands would work?

[serene ibex]

Ummm guys if i wanna allow the feeding for titans (extencion)do i just have to AllowRaidDinoFeeding on and then i can feed him?

[inner cloud]

anyone having any player issues with the xbox players not seeing the mods at this time?

[distant hearth]

yea 99% sure set that true allows to keep them

[raven wigeon]

quick question, how does the whitelist works?

i have it enabled

but it kicks me out

[humble thicket]

you have to add your epic id to the whitelist. only people to the whitelist can join server

you can see the epic id of each player when they join your server in the server console

[raven wigeon]

@humble thicket doesnt work

[humble thicket]

Have you put in yoyr epic id numbers saved the file and restarted your server

[raven wigeon]

yep

[waxen umbra]

Does anyone know how to make a server on Xbox for me and my mates cuz we want to play no host barrier and are own rates/mods

[distant hearth]

you cant, rent one or play as you are

[waxen umbra]

That’s ass

Will host barrier be getting deleted from Xbox?

[distant hearth]

prob not, but i dont know for certain

[waxen umbra]

Ah

[celest halo]

only way to run one is on a PC

[waxen umbra]

So there’s absolutely no way

[distant hearth]

not an xbox no , i told you this already

[waxen umbra]

Calm down lad don’t be cheeky

So does it cost money if you were on pc

[distant hearth]

if you have a pc good enough , good enough internet an the knowledge , you can setup a dedicated server ,
im a dinosaur an learned how , so i presume most people can with a few hours google an youtube search .
i think its like quad core cpu, 16gb ram an 30gb drive space to run a smaller server prob upto 30 or so slots

[waxen umbra]

Alr you recon someone could run it for me🤣

[celest halo]

theres a youtube video on how to set one up in pinned messages

[distant hearth]

im sure they wud if you pay them

[waxen umbra]

I ain’t got money tho I spent it all on asa💀

[distant hearth]

shit out of luck then 🙂

[waxen umbra]

Damn

[distant hearth]

get all ya mates to chip in poclet money an rent a shitrado server, there like £20 a month

[humble thicket]

no you can use steamcmd.

[humble thicket]

do you not have a laptop with atleast 16gb ram and 4 core cpu?

[harsh umbra]

How do I make a cross play server (without those website still that you have to pay for)

[hearty wedge]

See stickies for a video (and linked text guide from there, more useful IMO) walking through SteamCMD setup. As long as you have a computer with 16+ GB of RAM and a CPU that isn't abject ass, you can probably run a small server for a few people far better than officials run for their target pops

[harsh umbra]

Where is stickies

And is there a way to do it when a server is already made

[olive talon]

Pinned messages has a video guide for setting up a server.

[hearty wedge]

If you get the files, sure, you can re-home existing saves

[harsh umbra]

Ok

[sage spear]

would being on the same DNS server help this situation?

[sage spear]

Could someone help me and a friend? yesterday we were playing and his internet went out for a sec so the server closed. When he opned the server back up and i tried to join all i get is a "Connection Timeout" and we have tried. Restarting Server, restarted my game, restarted my PC and his PC, restarted his router, verified my game files, and uninstalled and reinstalled ark. I feel like we have tried everything and nothings worked. Please help
We are using the Ark Ascended Dedcated Server tool in steams library

[errant fox]

Got a question. I use beacon for most of my configuration but someone was able to transfer dinos and structures onto my server but from what I can see I have that setting turned off. Any ideas?

[flint socket]

Someone Know why i cant install the winterwonderland mod? Ps5? .. Not working

[wise kindle]

disable dino, character and item downloads in the general settings tab of beacon

[distant hearth]

check the server gus.ini files to make sure , downloads to are off,
noTributeDownloads=True

PreventDownloadDinos=True
PreventDownloadItems=True
PreventDownloadSurvivors=True

[solemn zephyr]

You also want to do uploads, or people will be able to upload stuff but not download it

[errant fox]

I got it set now thanks guys.

[wise kindle]

pS has space issues, as in deleting mods isnt clearing up space on the console. If this is what is causing your issue, reinstalling the game locally can clear up all the space again. Its a really annoying issue.

[distant hearth]

i never do uploads tbh, im fine if people wanna take stuff off into there single player

[wise kindle]

I mean yeah but dont need to tell me that lol

[solemn zephyr]

I pissed off quite a few players as they uploaded dinos and could never get them back lol

[flint socket]

Oh no reinstall need to Download Agaim

[solemn zephyr]

Haha you know damn well that wasn't for YOU 😄

[distant hearth]

ah lol, yea i never even considered it, be fine once we get cluster ids

[solemn zephyr]

For sure

[wise kindle]

I actually just disable the uploads and the downloads are enabled, but the notributes setting stops those.

[flint socket]

Thats really shit but i Think i Need to do it

[wise kindle]

shakes fist yeah well..... I havent had my coffee yet lol

[distant hearth]

what i dont get is why they have either disabled or changed the cluster id stuff, they knew mod maps were gonna be a thing

[wise kindle]

oh they get bad as hell that their little escapade ended in them losing everything lol

[wise kindle]

remember they didnt even do this on official till day 5... they arent the brightest bulbs.

Most of us seasoned folk had this stuff disabled on first startup.

[distant hearth]

luckily i only ever had or look after small community clusters so everyone is great, before xmas i was sick for 3 days,
server went down an no one told me, as they knew i was ill bless em

[distant hearth]

true

[wise kindle]

You are lucky lol. You get to sleep in.

[distant hearth]

haha yea , not often

[wise kindle]

If you have installing and uninstalling mods alot, thats probably whats happened.

Also note: NEVER use the "Uninstall all mods" button.

It doesnt uninstall anything and just removes the visuals. Its very broken. Just uninstall each mod one at a time.

[distant hearth]

there is also a way to clear the cache on ps, google it as i dunno how lol , just know it can be done

[flint socket]

Thx .. i try it now ..60 gb Download 😭

[wise kindle]

Its painful I feel you. A bunch of my PS players ran into this one. Its terrible and they arent telling people how to fix it which makes it worse!

[distant hearth]

i think series s got it worst, them things can barely play the game

[wise kindle]

Oh, if you have any game files associated with Ark, be sure to wipe those too. @flint socket

[wise kindle]

Both the PS and the Series S got the shaft imo.

[flint socket]

Thx for your help!

[wise kindle]

Tho if the S players load one mod at a time, playing it in single player each time, they can usually get thru and get back on the maps. Its not fun tho.

[distant hearth]

it was always gonna be an issue tbh, mods causes enough issues on pc, let alone console with no file access

[wise kindle]

On Steam ASE it took me about 25 minutes to load into the game with 20 mods. God that was terrible lol.

[distant hearth]

lmao , i had one guy that was mod obsessed, his server had summit like 45 mods , im like nah you gotta cut back
30 odd mins loading in

it was one those frined, of a friend of a friend told me , you can fix servers, im like, i dunno, i made the ones i wanted to work using google haha

[wise kindle]

Right? Almost all the info is out there. I tell people, the answers are all online. Nothing I do is magical. Very little about servers, mods and how to run them is a secret. Just LOOK lol.

[lavish gulch]

Why are mods so much in console, and why is there so little room for crossay. Please rise it up to 20/30gs at least…

[flint socket]

So deinstalled all c.c .. now 2 Hours downloading.. Shame on wildcard for that Issue

Yesterday 6 Hours Server down, now cant install the Winter mod because .. „Something Go wrong“ ..

[distant hearth]

welcome to ark, have a nice stay 🙂

i freaking love the game, but sometimes just wanna bang head against wall

[flint socket]

😁 its make to much fun, thats the Problem. ase dont have „cant join bug“

[flint socket]

Yep

[celest halo]

ASE just had the we going to update clients and not give you the server update for 5 hours so you cant join your server

[calm roost]

Is their a way to increase mod allowance rn our server is 10 gigs was wondering if their is a way to increase it

[olive talon]

Nope

[wise kindle]

Pester Nitrado to expand the space. Its a default allowance and its too small imo as well. I dont think anyone would argue against it, except them lol.

[solemn zephyr]

AFAIK the limitation came from Sony and MS

[olive talon]

We still have like 8gb and we have 22 mods

[loud lotus]

I have one server running the Dwarven map, and that mode is 1.5GB and another one of his is 1.5GB, so it will fill up fast adding map mods

[wise kindle]

Yeah its the map mods that do you in. Especially when you are trying to have the same mods on every map, then the modded map on top. It adds up fast and we are only a couple months into ASA with so many more mods coming out. Most of the new deco mods and build mods are going to be coming out as 4+ gigs each. Its not going to be a good time.

[peak quartz]

so can i ask how to lower breeding and egg hatchen thought i did but its still for example griffens still take like 40 mins i was trying to get it down to like 5mins or 10mins

[north nova]

2 questions is there settings I can mess with to increase mutation chance? And is there a way to disable handcuffs from working 2 of my friends are being petty and kept handcuffing each other when they don't get on at the same time forcing us to get someone else to come in to un handcuff people

[supple ginkgo]

1, not without mods. 2, get older friends

[north nova]

1. Do you know what mods I would need? And 2. Yeah they are both 30 just being petty lmfao

[supple ginkgo]

Have no idea

I just know you cant modify it in the server files

Technically you could disable the handcuff engram on Survival Evolved, but Im not sure if that works in Ascended

also, they drop from loot drops, so you had to remove them from there aswell

[north nova]

Dang alright lol thanks for the info I'll look around for that mod info

[supple ginkgo]

good luck

[shy dust]

I don't know about mods, but I use Beacon to manage my server and you can do it there.

[wanton hinge]

Beacon is great

[wise kindle]

Just put your stuff in a box and suicide before you log off. They cant handcuff what isnt there.

[wanton hinge]

Put this in your Game.ini
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Handcuffs",EngramHidden=True)

[solemn zephyr]

Dude is trolling you for no reason.

Use the wiki or get the Beacon app and you can see all of the breeding multipliers down to the second.

[late estuary]

Is there a way to increase smithy or replicator slots? Wondering if we can get around the unvraftable ascended blueprints

*uncraftable

[north nova]

Alright thanks for all the info and help

[wise kindle]

Increase your stacks so you need less stacks in your rep or smithy.

[supple ginkgo]

Wireless crafting

[late estuary]

That's a good idea, and a readily available setting on Nitrado's site isn't it?

[wise kindle]

no but there are stack mods or you can easily do this with the Beacon app

[late estuary]

Beacon app?

[wise kindle]

there is a link to it in the pins for this channel, its a server configuration app. Easily the best out there.

[late estuary]

Thank you, I'll look into it. There a guide? Pins?

[wise kindle]

The pins for this channel or you can just go to beaconapp.com

[calm quiver]

Does anyone know if you can put your gus in the .bat file? I have 2 servers and I want them to have different mod setups I host from my pc through steamcmd

[lucid solstice]

No you can't put gus in the bat. You would need a second install of the server files I believe

[merry grail]

Any1 know if any popular servers going up

[peak terrace]

not my server

[low dew]

@calm quiver they should have seprate server files and save files so they will have seprate gus

[empty peak]

you can put some stuff thats in your GUS into command line arguments and mods are one of them for a full list look on the ark wiki but to be honest it much easier with two diffrent installs of the server files would be 100% better if wildcard allowed us to change config and save location with a command line argument

[frank egret]

there ashould be mods that have mutation stuff, i know in the old game there where mods with mutation generator type thing that would garante a mutation every time

[shell leaf]

Tired of fighting to legally install mods on your server? If it says it's on the server, but you can't connect to it, go to Masu's Xbox Dashboard. Do you have any ideas to fix this problem?

[frank egret]

it should be a readily accessible setting in the server settings with nitrado its in the SP setting as well so i dont see why nitrado wouldnt have a spot for it

[distant hearth]

it is , at least for the global stacking modifier
people to lazy to figure out the overrides for stacking poly, prime meat etc, so tend to just throw a mod

[frank egret]

i stay away from mod sif i can, thats just asking for unnecessary processing

[distant hearth]

i absolutely hate stacking mods with a passion, they cause nothing but trouble in my experience

[frank egret]

specially this early on when not all the materials are even in the game yet

[wet heart]

Is there a way to set up transfers from two nitrado maps? Doing a modded map and the island...