unofficial-setup-help

[silver kayak]

Damn ok thx you

[opal sky]

have we got a linux solution yet?

[runic abyss]

having a weird issue with my ASA server. when it restarts it will load a save from day 1022. It was at day 1029 just now so i did saveworld command to test and reboot the server and its back at 1022

[distant hearth]

did you check the save files to see if it actually did save?

[runic abyss]

thats the weird thing TheIsland_WP.ark shows it was last modified yesterday at 10pm but it has backup saves from this morning TheIsland_WP_25.02.2024_14.19.28.ark

[distant hearth]

yea thats weird, for some reason its not overwriting the main .ark file

if its a self host , check it hasnt got set to read only somehow

[runic abyss]

it is self host. It is not marked as read only

[distant hearth]

hmmm , im not really sure then tbh , i know it saves data to like a temp folder somewhere then shud overwrite the .ark file every 15 mins by default

[runic abyss]

as a test i loaded in one of the back up from this morning too and it still loads as day 1022

[distant hearth]

well that dont make sense to me if the backup is showing a newer time /date

maybe one files got corrupted somehow an is preventing it from loading, asa likes to corrupt files

[runic abyss]

any ideas on figuring out wich one is corrupted?

[orchid parrot]

Hey there! I'd like my ARK Evolved character to have longer arms, but I can't start a new one since this one is at level 90. I'm in some PVE server and the admin is fine with changing my arm length, but he needs to know the exact admin command to do so. Does anybody know the exact admin command to grow character arm length? I tried looking it up, but find it all very confusing. Thanks in advance.

[distant hearth]

make a copy of the the entire folder to desktop for safety , then just load all the anti corruption backups in an hope , it works wud be how id try

maybe try just the .ark first as that the one seems be issue

[runic abyss]

alright will try that be back with results

[distant hearth]

admincheat SetTargetPlayerBodyVal 5 1 whilst looking at the player
5 is the region arm length
1 is the length adjust to suit

literally 2 seconds to google

[orchid parrot]

Thank yee, much appreciatedd

[runic abyss]

good news save world is no overwriting TheIsland_WP.ark so using all the backup files worked

[wise kindle]

Has anyone been able to tweak the megalodon balance in the water caves so they dont go insane, without breaking the container? Everytime I touch it all the spawns break and then nothing spawns in the ocean 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

Trying to give my players a break from the 200 sharks every 50 feet in those caves.

[distant hearth]

they have there own spawn containers, i can prob try do it in beacon, but there always finicky as hell tbh . plus im guessing asa uses differnt weights to ase like the drops are differnt weights

[wise kindle]

The megs have a separate container?

[distant hearth]

the caves

[wise kindle]

Ah yeah thats what keeps breaking.

I was going to try again cuz Im hoping they maybe touched it since the last time. Just curious if anyone has had success messing with them. They seem super touchy.

[distant hearth]

they have a seperate one for each , west ocean cave and east ocean cave, so unless it changed , that shudnt effect main ocean

[wise kindle]

Yeah it would just break and the water bit of the cave would be empty. So the caves became a full cake walk.

It was like touch just one thing and broken lol.

It did the same thing at launch when I applied my ASE code to decrease icthy spawns on the beaches. All my beaches became vacant of all spawns.

ASA is far too sensitive.

[distant hearth]

yep

even in ase i struggled with dino spawn weights , fun time when u get 2k snow owls in rag death snow lolz

[wise kindle]

Lmao

I totally didnt have 45 ice wyverns jumping players in Rag murder snow. Totally wasnt me.

[wide plover]

Hey quick question, for adding the custom cosmetics I have to use the CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL" right? But where do I find the URL for the mod, do they mean simply the ID or the actual link?

[distant hearth]

far as i understand, putting that line in , as is, will use the official mod whitelist
if u want a custom list , you have to host webpage with the mod ids an use that url

[wide plover]

yeah so I want a custom list, or well lack thereof, how do I go about adding that into the .ini's cause I am going to be honest, I do not understand this system haha

I'm hosting a server with only like 2-3 friends so I dont mind there being no list, I just want to be able to actually use the custom cosmetic system

[distant hearth]

for simplicity sake, add this line as is , to the game user setting ini
under the header thats already there , [serversettings]
CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"

this shud allow any cosmetic that officials can use on the server

[wide plover]

Problem being that I do want to make use of cosmetic mods outside of what the official network uses,
is the way to make it work outside simply to make a website with just the mod id's as a list in it and link the url to that on CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"?

[distant hearth]

yea far as i know

[wide plover]

Thank you, i'll try that out then

[distant hearth]

do the jelly fish spawn in the west cave if you happen to know ?

[wise kindle]

Ahh i dunno which cave is which for that 😂 I can look when i test stuff today tho.

Everyone needs more jellies.

[distant hearth]

lol ermm the one with the artifact brute in, has a land bit too

[wise kindle]

Ah i think thats west cave

Offhand i cant remember if they do now. They did on ASE tho.

[distant hearth]

yea i wonder if sharks are over riding them, anyway i sent you the code for ase cave , i reckon its worth a try just shoving that in

[wise kindle]

Ill give it a go and report back.

[solar pasture]

my pc crashed.. and later when i started ASA i noticed that all my settings where restored and mods disabled..now everything i had in the mods like my tamed snowowls are gone... anyone know a fix??

[unique sail]

How do i make a server

[deft stone]

search for this video on youtube : ARK: Survival Ascended Dedicated Server Setup | Host a FREE private server | Full Guide

[unique sail]

I’m on console

[deft stone]

nitrado (Rent a server) could be a solution

[round creek]

Don't give nitrado more money 😄

[wise kindle]

Rent one from Apex or Gportal then lol. They are all the same imo.

[native stag]

so nitrado never open the transfer or ? omg

[wise kindle]

No its broken as hell lol. They dont want that lost character ticket hurricane to hit them too.

[native stag]

broken by nitrado or from WC ?

[wise kindle]

WC.

You must not be watching the hundreds of lost characters complaints hitting them right now. They are auto deleting lost character tickets as a result. Thats just official right now. It will be in the thousands if they enable it on unofficial Nitrado and Nitrado will be flooded. This also affects Selfhosted maps as well so its not a Nitrado thing. Its a very very broken feature.

[viral night]

Guys do you have any idea how to solve the "Joining Failed Connection Timeout" problem? Happens when I try to host a server and my friends get this error but I also rented out a Nitrado Server and I cant even join that. I have deactivated BattleEye, VAC on it etc. No mods and all. Server Version and Game Version are the same. I checked my firewall and all ark programms have all permessions. I play on the Epic Games Version.

[wise kindle]

If this is ASE, this is a very common error that occurred very frequently and was a daily occurance early days.

Often we would simply fully restart the game and try again. After a couple of tries it will usually let you in.

So in short, close the game completely and try again. Repeat till it lets you in. (I know thats not a good answer but thats what we did for years)

[viral night]

yeah it's Survival Evolved

it's crazy how after all these years the problem still continues lol

[wise kindle]

yeah it was REALLY BAD back in like 2016 - 2018. Easily took 15 game restarts to get in. It was a nightmare.

[viral night]

jesus fucking christ

[wise kindle]

lol you planned for 15-45 minutes of server menu observation before you played the game every day.

Its gotten alot better but can still be a pain the ass.

[late estuary]

Reminds me of trying to join Conan Exiles servers back in 2016. I remember spending an entire hour just doing nothing but reattempting to join. Kinda dumb lol

[wise kindle]

Oh god. I remember having to join single player every single time for 2 years, cuz joining sp first was the only way to get on the map 😭

[late estuary]

You're triggering my ptsd

[severe copper]

Hello! Hope this is the right channel but I was hoping someone could help me setup some of the custom cosmetics on my unoffical server. I found the line CosmeticWhitelistOverride= so I was wondering about the URL part of it. Is that literally just copy and paste from the curseforge site?

[deft stone]

let just ="url" it will allow all cosmetic like that

if you want to filter them, you will have to host a web page and put the url

[severe copper]

Okay thank you!

[drowsy pawn]

I'm playing Xbox Series S ark survival evolved, is it possible to increase the distance for players, the second question is, how can I transfer my character to another save?

[deft stone]

you probably talk about non dedicated server, the distance is built in. In single player you mostly canot transfert cause you cant have 2 savegame on the same maps... but you can upload to the obelisk deltete the map and reupload but it will be a ne fresh map.

[thorny tartan]

Are unofficial evolved servers still popular? Looking to get back into the game

[grand sentinel]

Is there some recommended guide on how to get ASA Server running under Linux, without using Docker?

[native stag]

Hello guyz, since the nitrado clustering isnt working yet, is there a way to make transfert possible from one map to another ?

[lunar cloud]

I would just either use docker which eases the install since it packages up all dependencies, or if you prefer not to , just read the dockerfile and run those instructions manually on your linux host, it pretty simple

[native stag]

or as anyone tried the mod called " cluster mod " ?

[deft stone]

unofficial steam base server are working

[normal canyon]

Yeah they are working but you will lose your character if you call that working.

[distant hearth]

they work as well as official network

cant fix what wc has broken still

[normal canyon]

how is losing your character working

I have 5 servers up and tested and we keep losing characters.

[distant hearth]

i havent lost one yet , touch wood, but if does happen can fix it.
offical atm, ure fucked as they arent doing support for that

[normal canyon]

ok whats your config on transfers

[distant hearth]

both servers running on same system , on same drive, running out of seperate folders (server instances) using a shared cluster folder with -clusterdiroverirde=

[normal canyon]

Heres my config -NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=cluster1 -ClusterDirOverride=E:\ClusterSave

[distant hearth]

i dont use -notranserfromfiltering , i highly doubt thats an issue though

once u set a secure cluster id, nothing else can transfer into that cluster

[normal canyon]

I been ark servers for 7 years but this is not working for me.

[deft stone]

are you running the servers instance from separate config files? or frome the same?

[normal canyon]

Come to my servers and transfer a few times Obsidian Order Servers

yes I know how to run ark servers

[grizzled basalt]

Anyone know why I can't see my inventory items in vaults, refrigerators etc? They're displayed in the item counter as there and when I transfer all to player they are physically there but I cannot see them or craftable items in benches.

[distant hearth]

idk , probably like official an it randomly works or dont who the fuck knows with ark
if it makes a differnce i run very basic start batch files an do rest in ini

Start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?sessionname="xxxxxx" -port=xxxx -clusterid="xxxxx" -clusterdiroverride=D:\xxxxx -mods=xxxxx,xxxxx

[deft stone]

And i run it differently, i have on server folders, with one config folder, and i run everything on the same setting except a couples of different setting on the command line.

START C:\ASA\Servers\EmkioA\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?MaxPlayers=10?listen?Port=xxxx?QueryPort=xxxxx?RCONPort=xxxxx?SessionName="xxxxx"?AltSaveDirectoryName=xxxxx -culture=en -NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=xxx -NoBattlEye -mods=xxxx,xxxx,xxxx

that why i ask him if how he was running it...

[distant hearth]

couple mistakes in that not that it over matter as it ignores what isnt used ,
?listen not used,
?queryport is the old steam listing port an not used
?maxplayers=10 is now changed to -winlivemaxplayers=10
?port=xxxx is now changed to -port=xxxx

[normal canyon]

I was running 21 ASE servers with no transfer problems

[deft stone]

thank you, realy i was searching why the maxplayer was not working. Those are copied from ASE

[distant hearth]

aye use -winlivemaxplayer=xx to fix that
i spend like a couple days messing with the bacth file to work out what did what an how it worked

[distant hearth]

maybe try firing up couple test servers running from same .exe , an use the altsavedirectory an not the clusterdiroveride ,
ive no idea why its not working for some an does for others using clusterdiroverride

[deft stone]

i wounder if there is a difference into the cluster id, (maj min) , you can also open the files into the clusters folder with notepad, it will be mostly unreadable but you will be able to see if your things are saved into it or not...

[normal canyon]

ok i will try out the altsavedirectory

[humble thicket]

I'm having that problem as well, and I'm on Steam...

[grizzled basalt]

At least it's not just me then. Weird.

[snow fox]

nitrado now forces me to set a value for autopvestart/end, but i don't want to have pve because we can't kill baby dinos again. 0 and 0 for the values doesn't help :/

[humble thicket]

And now it keeps starting/stopping without me telling it to....

[wise kindle]

Does reinstalling the game fix it?

[marsh elm]

I am on Nitrado pve server which setting enables offline damage protection or is it automatic it doesn’t seem to be working on my server

[marsh elm]

Reinstalling all mods will fix this

[zenith prairie]

@clever tinsel

[wise kindle]

I wish this worked in all cases.

But this game hates easy solutions.

[wise kindle]

Im hearing its now tied to alliances like PVP. I have not confirmed this however.

[marsh elm]

I was hoping that wasn’t the solution

But doing boss fights with other tribes is a big think on pve 🤷

[silver lake]

Guys Hello, can someone write me a game indie or explain to me how to make it possible to transfer elements? Old Ark without mods."

[eternal lance]

are server transfers for unofficial live yet?

[wise kindle]

I just removed ORP and removed structure damage. I can revert back after its fixed.

[marsh elm]

How do I remove structure damage

[wise kindle]

I can look it up when i get home. Its just one ini setting.

[lapis quest]

Anyone whos hosting a server is able to make the glass wall custom skin work? There's a oficial link for whitelisted skins that wc hosts, the mod isnt there

Or theres two different lists (pve/pvp)?

[wise kindle]

The glass cosmetic is disabled on pvp maps.

[wise kindle]

StructureResistanceMultiplier=0

[lapis quest]

Founded It, theres 2 diferent hosted links for custom Skins, we were using the pvp one

[plucky hollow]

Hoepfully with this update I can now play bloody non dedicated with my friend

[gray rapids]

My server not updating to v35

and my client is v35 alrady so i cant play...

[deft stone]

someone have the dedicated server update?

[marsh elm]

Same

[gray rapids]

Probably like transfer.... will come next week or so...

[wise kindle]

Nitrados message changed, says transfers coming soon.

I'll let ya'll test those first lol.

[gray rapids]

officials alrady up with new patch..

[deft stone]

they are inteligent

they know the mess it will do if peoples loose their things...

[slate bridge]

are unoffical servers down

[primal geyser]

Where do I put the command line "-passivemods=[ModID],[ModID]" to get rid of the Love Ascended without losing my stuff please ?

[jaunty vortex]

unofficial servers are down to whoever runs them. But as the client update is out but not the server update, you can't connect from a new client to an older server

[jaunty vortex]

stick it at the end of the server startup string. Make sure the Love Ascended is the first mod on your list of mods though

[haughty badger]

Has there been word when the server update will be avail?

[wise kindle]

Usually takes a bit

[jaunty vortex]

You know as much as me. You'd hope they would keep the server and client in sync, but I guess they are prioritising official

[primal geyser]

In Game.ini or GameUserSettings.ini ?

[jaunty vortex]

no, at the end of the string of commands you run to start your server up

[wise kindle]

You have to wait for the Nitrado checkbox if you arent selfhosting.

[primal geyser]

Oh ok because I'm on Nitrado

[primal geyser]

Not on Nitrado then ?

[wise kindle]

yeah might be later today or on Wednesday for that

[jaunty vortex]

no idea, I host my own server, I don't use Nitrado

they should have instructions

[primal geyser]

No there's nothing about that yet

[native stag]

hello, so you might answer my question :)... Wish map are you running ?

[primal geyser]

But thanks for your answers guys 🙂

[wise kindle]

yeah just leave the mod on till the one for winterwonderland disappears, it should be replaced with a Love Evolved checkbox.

[jaunty vortex]

TheIsland

[native stag]

with mod ?

[jaunty vortex]

I have several mods. Do you mean the Love one?

[native stag]

no i am trying to find out the memory usage for a map

[jaunty vortex]

oh, ok. I have about 5 mods running including the Love Ascended one. It uses about 10GB of RAM

[late estuary]

Has anyone had success with the reinstall mods on server start console command? I have yet to hear that it does anything

[native stag]

yeah thats what i figured way more then evolved

[jaunty vortex]

I think if you estimate at around 10GB per map, it will probably be OK. But then the server I am running it on has 128GB of RAM in it, so I probably won't run out

[native stag]

yeah i still have that too but i am trying to figure out a cluster with 12 map in about 2 years

[jaunty vortex]

I think you'll need a new PC by then 😄

[native stag]

evolved was around 5 gb for a map with 12 mods and genesis 2 was 14 gb

[limpid trench]

Hey all

[native stag]

will need 2 or 3 to run all

[limpid trench]

Anyone hosting an ASA server with mods experience engrams randomly disappearing? On the one I play heavy and regular turret engrams disappeared and I believe it’s because of a mod

[tardy pine]

@native stag in his latest movie "Escape from the Island"

[native stag]

yeah baby, i am back from NY and i will again give the show

[tardy pine]

the server owner can also turn them off in configs

[marsh elm]

Not a thing

[limpid trench]

They haven’t disabled it and don’t know what it could be. I suspect it’s a mod

Just don’t know which one it could be there’s like 8 on the server I play on. Just curious if any other hosts have had issues and were able to figure out the cause

[wise kindle]

Its buggy at best. I cant get it to work. @distant hearth I believe has a method to get it to work.

[tardy pine]

@limpid trench they might not even know they did unless they know what they are doing. copying and pasting random configs can cause unexpected issues. It could also be a mod sure but I think the mod would have to intend for that to happen.

I havent had that issue personally but I suspect its in the configs. If you can get ahold of their game.ini file text you can post it here for us to look at

[wise kindle]

@limpid trench Sorry, If I missed this bit, but did you reinstall the mod to refresh it?

[limpid trench]

I’m not the server owner so no, but I’ve been vocal about it and they said they can’t find why only those two engrams disappeared

[native stag]

so now cant see any server in unofficial list...

[wise kindle]

This works on the client end as well.

Try removing the mod and then joining the map and letting the server install the mod for you.

[tardy pine]

game probably updated before the unofficial servers

[wise kindle]

Theres an issue with the update so we probably wont see the update for a bit.

[jaunty vortex]

they released the client update for official

[deft stone]

Ced — Today at 5:09 PM
We're looking into an issue with the latest patch that may be causing some modded servers to crash. We'll share updates when we have them!

[gray rapids]

Omg how long can it take to upload update for unofficial? usualy it happens instantly

[cloud sorrel]

Yes they updated the game not the servers so no one can play on dedicated servers right now... They been doing this for years don't know why this is so hard for them

[deft stone]

they have issues

[wise kindle]

yeah thats standard. We always get the update after its install tested on Official maps. But they have found an issue so it will be a bit yet.

[limpid trench]

Let’s try it

[gray rapids]

well that issue "may cause moded servers to crash" how do they know if they did not even relese it for downalod have not seen any unofficial server up yet

[tardy pine]

Ohh no, sometimes it takes hours.

Check the public branch here, when that updates then unofficial servers are able to update also.
steamdb DOT info/app/2430930/depots/

[deft stone]

if you look at the server list, you have 3 test server running

[jaunty vortex]

presumably they have their own private servers they can test on?

[wise kindle]

They have a PTR but no idea when its used.

[deft stone]

i just post a screen shot into #fanart-and-screenshots

[gray rapids]

btw is it anyway to test if my server is viseble for PS4 Xbox?

i think i did set up it corectly for crossplatfrom but i never had a player from console on

all mods are xPlatfrom

[deft stone]

not at the moment for sure...

lets play a game, Find the server pasword for QA Test 1 😄

server update avalaible

[jaunty vortex]

good spot

[dusty jay]

Anyone else having issues getting there servers up after this update

[hollow hemlock]

weird i can't link to messages in #announcements channel without message getting auto-deleted lol

but ya, my TI booted fine, but my SV crashes instantly on boot. but WC seem aware of it

[lofty thicket]

It looks like they are now slowly rolling back out

[dusty jay]

Not talking about official

Looks like my Island map came up, but svarta keeps crashing

[limpid glen]

You been able to get flyers in svarta

[brittle bronze]

yea, a look at my logs says access exception violation when trying to boot up Svarta ded-server

[lofty thicket]

Wasn't talking about official given this is an the unoffical section 😉

[wise kindle]

He hasnt enabled them yet. Probably next week or so.

[vital linden]

My Island crossplay and Svartalfheim crossplay started up fine. My Island PC only started fine, but my Svartalfheim Premium PC only is the one crashing with that unhandled exception. Hoping they give some info soon.

[wise kindle]

Seems to be a mod map pattern here

[vital linden]

Anyone getting the server crashing not on Svarta Premium?

[wise kindle]

Read up, yes.

[ashen stratus]

My servers wont even start lol

[weary rock]

The same here and it just keeps restarting and saying update but nothing lol

[distant hearth]

both mine update an boot fine, non nitrado

[brittle bronze]

what maps?

[distant hearth]

ones on island the other svart xplay free version

[brittle bronze]

ah, yea, my Island is running fine. It's the prem ver of Svarta that seems to be borked

[distant hearth]

😦 gonna trty it on a test one see if can see whats going on with it

[weary rock]

Mine is on nitrado the island map

[wise kindle]

Mine are fine so far, TheIsland and free Svart, Nitrado.

[distant hearth]

its svart premium has an issue, i imagine they will fix it fast since couple officals run that

[brittle bronze]

well, htat and it's a bad look to have yyour highlighted paid prem mod not working. 😉

[wise kindle]

Whats worse, they never tested an official map before release. Oof.

[distant hearth]

when do they ever test anything

pointless them having those ptr servers

[ancient pond]

My server is stuck in a loop of restarting on nitrado

[wise kindle]

Its funny, do they still use those? I feel like they arent using them anymore.

[wise kindle]

Svart Premium map?

[distant hearth]

dont think so

[ancient pond]

no i have not

[wise kindle]

Waste of a useful resource.

[wise kindle]

shut it down and roll back a save or two, then restart it

[ancient pond]

ok

[wise kindle]

So glad I wasnt talked into buying that map rn lol. All my maps came right back up again.

[ancient pond]

is there an issue with cross ark rn?

[wise kindle]

If you are Nitrado, no its not enabled yet.

[ancient pond]

could that be whats up with it? i have a cross platform sever with nitrado

[wise kindle]

you are mixing up cross ark with cross plat.

They arent the same.

[distant hearth]

crossark and crossplatform are differnt things

[ancient pond]

whats cross ark?

[wise kindle]

Cross ark is transfers. Crossplatform is multiplatform crossplay.

[ancient pond]

ahh ok

gonna sshut down my server for a few mins and turn it back on

[distant hearth]

anytime u shutdown a nitrado server, shud be waiting atleast 5 mins minmum
before doing anything else with it

[wise kindle]

And stomping on the refresh button.

[ancient pond]

[weary rock]

mine just keeps restarting i dont know what to do

[ashen stratus]

Same bro. nothing we can do Wildcard and nictrado screwing us over again

[wise kindle]

Shut it down.

Wait 5 full minutes.

Use the "Start with Backup:" drop down and pick a backup that doesnt look corrupt, maybe 1 or 2 back.

SAVE

Restart your map.

Did I mention you WAIT 5 full minutes? Be sure to do that.

[ashen stratus]

Yeah that doesnt work lol

[wise kindle]

Try another backup

[ashen stratus]

Tried all of them. None of them work lol

[wise kindle]

Thats fast. I have like 25 backups. You went thru all of them already?

[ashen stratus]

Ive been doing it since 9:30,

[wise kindle]

So, this started before the update?

[ashen stratus]

The update was 9pm.

[wise kindle]

YOu gotta excuse me man. Its 4:30pm here. I have no idea when it started. I just waited for issues, then rebooted my maps.

I have 11 maps up with no issues. If that didnt work I got nothing.

[lofty thicket]

was 9pm UK time, so that was just over 3 hrs ago

[ashen stratus]

I have 4. All of them down. constant restart loops. Backups dont work. Serverbackups dont work.

Theyve screwed us again

[wise kindle]

I know if they arent TheIsland maps, thats a known issue. The Free Svart map seems ok tho.

[distant hearth]

For anyone on premium svart , from NEKATUS

Since todays ARK update Svartalfheim causes server and client crashes. Wildcard told modders to reupload the mod to fix that.

Right now I have to wait for a new devkit update before I can upload the map to fix it.

I'll let you know if I know more. Thanks for your patience.

[wise kindle]

Although, my Folgar map is fine too. So it just really hates Premium.

Oof

[weary rock]

my server keeps restarting even zhen i shut it down

[distant hearth]

shud eventually give option to force stop

[ashen stratus]

Wildcard 🤡. The only people i know who break there game by trying to fix it 😂 absolute joke. NItrado are just as bad lol

[ashen stratus]

It doesnt. Ive had one restarting for an hour now.

[wise kindle]

Nitrado will auto stop a map after it detects it has rebooted 10 times in a row. You could just leave it alone and wait for that.

[bleak sun]

anyone else's server not showing up after the update?

[ashen stratus]

Its been over an hour lol. It just restarts it again without going you any options

[ashen stratus]

Yeah wildcard have screwed us lol

[distant hearth]

server running latest version ?

[wise kindle]

Time for Palworld or Enshrouded lol.

[weary rock]

you sais shut down wait ( min choose new save lol

[wise kindle]

I was answering the other guy

[weary rock]

haha okay lol yah it just saying now shutting down and stays there

[wise kindle]

This is probably something for general chat tbh

[wise kindle]

If you have alot on a map it takes ages. I have a map that takes 20 minutes to shutdown and 20 to get back up again.

Just depends on how much you have built on it.

[weary rock]

only 8 payers so 8 bases 22 by 22 lol

[bleak sun]

yeah

[wise kindle]

They arent actually. Official Svart are a mess atm. So its not all roses for them either.

[ancient pond]

my server is still stuck restarting

[wise kindle]

How many mods?

[distant hearth]

double check if it has over written your ini an switched it pvp or summit an ure searching in pve prehaps,
asa likes to change ini files for fun on updates

[ashen stratus]

Will be for a while. Nitrado have seriously effed up.

[weary rock]

20 around 3 gig but had to reload page and then got a force stop

[umbral jackal]

Can anyone tell me how to get the decor box to show up in the engrams list on my server? I have nitrado. All the skins work except the decor box doesn't show up to learn.

[bleak sun]

will do

[wise kindle]

Watch the how to video by Ark GPGP on Cosmetics. He does a good job walking thru everything.

[ancient pond]

what they do?

is nitrado messed up for anyone else? my server is stuck resarting

[distant hearth]

@wise kindle you test out that thing for fixing , water cave over spawn ?

[wise kindle]

Nah I lost power most of the day yesterday. I'll try it tho.

[distant hearth]

no worries , was just curious if it worked

[ancient pond]

something popped up and it said something about updating

[wise kindle]

This is another reason I dont selfhost. My area is known for great internet but crappy power lol.

[distant hearth]

lol funnily enough mines been playing up tonight, we was out for 3 hours, its rare here though, maybe once/twice a year

[wise kindle]

We were out for a week one time, usually its down a day or two. Its been getting better tho.

[hybrid river]

yo where can i get some help about a craash loop?

[distant hearth]

here , but will need more info, what sort server, nitrado or self host, what mods are on it etc

[hybrid river]

oj ok

so i have couple mods honestly quite some mods but i was playing normally for like 4 days now but today i tried to join and then it happend

i can giv the crash msg give me one sec

uh i cant send pics shpuld i just paste the full msg?

[frank sand]

Anyone happen to know if patch 35.7 (just posted) fixes the modded servers crashing issue that was mentioned earlier today in announcements?

[distant hearth]

it doesnt, its client side , meaning doesnt effect server.

[distant hearth]

is a server you have issues with or single player game ?

[frank sand]

Oh, you're right. Thanks.

[twilit knot]

is character loss on transfert fixed ?

[hybrid river]

its a local

[distant hearth]

try in #bobs-with-probs then , also look in the pinned notes there for one by sythra, explains how fix crashing singleplayer game

[hybrid river]

oh ok tyvm

[bleak sun]

is my server supposed to be in version 34.72? it isn't showing up when I search it's name after the latest update

[trim yew]

is there a way to save server game stat before a server restart? i miss the old Saveworld command...

[distant hearth]

no , shud be on v35.6

[distant hearth]

saveworld works fine last time i used it

[bleak sun]

any idea why it isn't updating? I've told it to update multiple times

[distant hearth]

is your own server hosted at home ? what the update batch file you using ?

[trim yew]

it doesnt like it in game use then, maybe i should try from the server console

[bleak sun]

it's hosted on my pc

[distant hearth]

i do it in game from the command console

[humble thicket]

Has the save bug been fixed????

[trim yew]

in Acended the command dont work in game

[bleak sun]

batch is steamCMD\steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir D: \ASADS\server\ +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit

[distant hearth]

i havent checked since the last update but was working fine on my server

[trim yew]

okay, ill play with it later on. thanks for the info

[distant hearth]

that shud work fine if the server is located there, check in that location an see if you arent missing an extra file path , if you are missing a path likely will see another install folder in there named, ark

[bleak sun]

it's worked for every other update and when I do run the update it just verifies install and says it installed successfully

its probably not an error I can fix and a steam issue

[distant hearth]

yea maybe try it a few times , i literally just did mine like an hour or so ago

the only time ive seen isues is, the file path is wrong, or some people were trying to run it an the the server start command line from the same batch file

[trim yew]

my issue shown in "building-screenshots" channel

[distant hearth]

if you on a server always need admin active an cheat before any commands , so

enablecheats youradminpassword
cheat saveworld

[trim yew]

you need to put the "cheat" infront. i dont remember doing that with the old ASE...

[distant hearth]

yep an yes, was admincheat first on ase iirc

[trim yew]

things you forget when you step away for a little over a year lol

[distant hearth]

yea easy to do

[limpid glen]

Anyone been able to get their nitrado server to stop restarting. I’ve done back ups from the last few days but it keeps doing it it’s actually annoying I spoke to them on chat earlier and they said they would sort it but didn’t and now I’m only able to put in a ticket

[peak sapphire]

It’s hilarious to me that my Svart (free vers) is fine and updated to v35 but my Island server is playing up. Not looking for help just finding the situation amusing.

[analog solar]

@limpid glen we are experiencing the same problem.

[wise kindle]

SAME. Im 💀 its hilarious. I wont buy the premium cuz of the neverending updates and Im so damn glad I didnt.

[plush dust]

removing daily restart need a restart or i can when server run ?

don't have the update on mine so dont want my auto task run

anyone know or im not the only new in here lol

[peak sapphire]

If your server is fine then running the auto task should also be fine however if you’re client version is higher than your server version, you won’t be able to play on it anyway.

[plush dust]

my game version on ps5 on pause for update and my server have a auto task dailky reset at4ham so not want him to do it

so my question it need to stop to remove auto task or can made it when server run ?

[peak sapphire]

You can alter the auto tasks while the server is running

[fallow parcel]

Hello, on Ascended, am I able to have a private cross play server with my friend if I’m on PS5 and she’s on PC?

[sharp vortex]

anyone got love ascended to go passive? does this look correct?

TheIsland_WP? -mods=927084 -passivemods=927084

[distant hearth]

yes but only if its a dedicated server,

[distant hearth]

thats the correct way to do it yes, just make sure the mod you want passive is first in the mods list if you have multiple mods

[frigid vine]

Good Morning guys,
whats your experience without modded servers and server transfer?
I test it now since the release of open transfer and had so far no issues. But i read here and in other forums often about lost characters and items. Whats your opinion, is stable enough or should we wait?

please reply only non-modded servers for better comparision

[twilit knot]

50% of the time .profile is lost for us x)

[frigid vine]

That sounds really really bad... not worth then to open the transfer, yet.
How about recovering? Still the same like in ASE?
So you need to find the HASH.arkprofile and restore it into .../saved folder?

[fallow parcel]

Does that mean it has to be one of the servers that's online all the time? Or it can be offline? Sorry not sure what dedicated means for sure.

[sharp vortex]

thanks, guess I need to force a respawn as well

[distant hearth]

it means it wont work from the in game singleplayer part of the game that has non-dedicated button

[twilit knot]

some people have vanilla cluster that work but i dont know how or why ^^.

[twilit knot]

i recover it from backup, i set custom script to auto backup servers saves, for now i just disabled cluster.

[frigid vine]

That hurts. I'll let it disabled too. Its just enabled on my two test-servers.

[ashen stratus]

Nitrado are just a joke 🤣 along with Wildcard. Nitrado are seeing ALL Mods need to be reworked with the new Devkit. But Wildcard wont release teh new DEvKit lol

[muted raven]

It takes a couple days to make a new DevKit as it is a LOT bigger file!

And my mods I made and the ones I run on my Nitrado server are fine.
Svarvaltheim and a dino mod have issues.. that's not all mods.

[ashen stratus]

Theres more issues than that though isnt there. The fact Wildcard have cause this with there "Patch" and arent even prepared to fix it is an absolute joke. Game is dead.

[muted raven]

🤣 yeah dead on pc maybe. My PS5 downloads are 20x higher then pc.. and around 10x higher then Xbox.

People expect the move to new engine version to go flawless...it's clearly early access....how the also released and sold it. So come back in a year and see again. 😘

Mods on console even with all the issues adds a lot for people to play with.

Trust me I'm done with all the issues also and hope they finally learn from mistakes in the past. But we all know WC by now

[ashen stratus]

Console Numbers are dead too lol. Wildcard just dont give a damn

[muted raven]

You have no numbers to back that up! If you feel that way fine... Enjoy a game that is alive!

[ashen stratus]

It really isnt alive though lol.

[olive talon]

Can move it to #general or #ark-survival-ascended.

[wraith fulcrum]

Any mods that are known to crash the servers? Beside Svartalfheim and a beast mod or something?

[lone lodge]

Did they release a patch or work around after servers with mods crash on boot? Not running Svelt, Running Temptress map and a island map., Both crash

[wraith fulcrum]

Which mods do you have?

[lone lodge]

Lot of single dino mods by Garuda, Moro etc backpack, utilities+(same as Official modded server) on a temptress map, then we have island with project zodiac, backpack, utilities+ and a cryo mod on each server

[wraith fulcrum]

Almost non of the mods match with my mods 😦 Hard to pinpoint the one that cause the crashes then

[distant hearth]

alot of mods got broken with the latest update, problem is wc needs to release an updated arkdevkit to fix,the mod authors need to then redo them push the new version through curseforge , likely gonna be a few days :/

[lone lodge]

Ok thank you Willz, I appreciate you and good morning, I was hoping you were here this morning.

[wraith fulcrum]

Thanks for giving some clarity about it. My servers were working fine after the big update, the small one broke them sad enough

[distant hearth]

sry had to re edit that as i wasnt typed out right

[lone lodge]

I got it:) I type between the lines, i learned how to read it long ago 😛

[distant hearth]

im so bad at typing, well, stabbing at keyboard

[olive talon]

Grab the modding role at id:customize to keep up with the #modding-announcements for this update.

[olive talon]

Please take rants and venting to #general or #ark-survival-ascended. Leave this channel for setup help itself, rather than other content, similar to how #bobs-with-probs is not for ranting or venting. Thanks.

[lone lodge]

The crash log reads that it is trying to load a blueprint that is not there. (hence the new update to the DEV Kit )

[twilit knot]

ok after a lot of testing vanilla transfert are working, that was an issue with my system. be sure to test everything before enabling it i know some other people still have issue ^^"

[sharp vessel]

Hi everyone !
One of my servers is trying to start but it kept crashing after the launch with this error since the last update : Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000020d84367af8

I can assume there is a problem with the last update ? I checked some threads and channels here, it seems to be that but I'm not sure if it's mods compt. or not tbh

Nevermind, it seems to be a problem with Svart, the only server that have this problem is the server with Svart on it, so, I'm assuming, with what I read before, it's a mod compt. problem

[ashen stratus]

I had 4 mods causing me issues.

Colossuscorpion
Velos
Galvarex
Abberation Add On

Standard Crossplay Svart works fine for me

[sharp vessel]

Weird, except Svart, which is "PC Only" for my side, I don't have these mods, maybe Svart (PC Only) has problems with compt.

[ashen stratus]

It could be. Is it the Prem version or standard?

[sharp vessel]

I'm checking this, I saw some modifications on CurseForge, I'm searching for the similar Mod Id

Bruh, as I said, the map was "Svartalfheim Testversion [PC Only]", before it was not this

I'm assuming the problem is maybe from this lmao

Hmm, weird, the 2 versions for PC Only and Crossplay are in "TestVersion", so, it's not a real problem so, the premium is not more important, but the PC Only version can be the problem

I can't tell, some persons tell it's Svart some not 😢

Okey, I had read more and the problem is Svart. Premium but I don't have it, so in my mods, there's one which causing problem

[deft stone]

from NEKATUS :

Since todays ARK update Svartalfheim causes server and client crashes. Wildcard told modders to reupload the mod to fix that.
Right now I have to wait for a new devkit update before I can upload the map to fix it.
I'll let you know if I know more. Thanks for your patience.

[sharp vessel]

Fine, my crashstacks didn't help me to find the mod which causing crashes, I will find myself which one does that

[ashen stratus]

What Mods have you got installed ?

[sharp vessel]

For this server, obviously, there is a lot lmao :
Svartalfheim (PC Only) | Ceratosaurus | Xiphactinus | Helicoprion | Shiny! Dinos Ascended | BetterTranqs | Pelayori's Cryo Storage | Moros Indomitable Duo | Death Inventory Keeper | Super Spyglass + | Better Dino Healing | Industrial Dehydrator | Gaia: Fishery | Arkitect Structures Remastered | K+ ASA | Tek Creatures | Circa's RP Deco | Suprise Machines | Hybrids | StarSeaHorse | Marniimods Hairstyles | Admin Panel | S-Dino Variants | Dwarven Builders Mod | Svartalfheim Armory | RR-StarFarmAnimals | RR-StarAnimals | DinoCloud

[ashen stratus]

Looking at that. Theres some i know work.

Ark Additions work, Cryos work, S dino & Dwarven builders. Best bet is to take then all aeay and add then back one by one. You may lose stuff thiugh

[sharp vessel]

Lucky me, I have back-ups for that 😏, I will try that and see which mod causing problems

Or, I'll just wait few days to see if modders do their job after the error of WildCard

[feral ibex]

Current solution - Utilized the "search by mod" option on yalls server search list. Search each mod you run individually. If you find a mod has 0, 1 or less then 5 open servers at the moment that is going to be your mod that is creating the server restart loop. Remove the mod and it should come back up.

If its a dino mod or building mod you will lose everything, if you dont want to lose stuff wait for the mod dev to release an update or nitrado to say something further.

I deleted rr star farm animals and rr star animals and I was able to immediately start my server again and now we are back to playing

you can do this so easily just load up ark and search the mods. Stop deleting random mods because thats nitrados suggestion to a situation they have no control over

[olive talon]

Not yet for Nitrado

[feral ibex]

yes there is

but its not working properly. i lost every character i tried to transfer to my other map. you can enable crossark and downloads but be careful

[sly perch]

I have no issues with cluster or transfer

[hollow hemlock]

The cluster I'm on has also had 0 issues with clustering or transferring characters, and we've been using it since it became available for unofficials.

Some key things that could be making the difference for us is that we're a PC-only server, and we're utilizing Items+ in conjunction with transferring - we use Crossark for actually transferring and Items+ for uploading/downloading items. But we've had a community transferring freely between our TI and SV and have lost 0 characters or had any issues with it.

[humble thicket]

Hello I am from Asia Taiwan
Since English is not my main subject, I really need help.
I set up ARK: Survival Of The Fittest sv
I read this article on steam guide→ARK sotf Unofficial Private Server←this article
I successfully set up the sv but I still can’t get in.

@stark warren

Can you add me as a friend? I really need help.

[slate cosmos]

i'm sorry but i cannot help you with that as i have never set up my own server before , tho this is the right channel to ask in

[humble thicket]

Then who should I ask?

[slate cosmos]

just ask here , just like you just did

[humble thicket]

I use Google Translate to communicate with you

@hallow heart

@royal jetty

[feral ibex]

im on nitrado and am

[humble thicket]

can any of you help me

[plush thicket]

What do you need help with?

[humble thicket]

Hello I am from Asia Taiwan
Since English is not my main subject, I really need help.
I set up ARK: Survival Of The Fittest sv
I read this article on steam guide→ARK sotf Unofficial Private Server←this article
I successfully set up the sv but I still can’t get in.
This game sv problem has been bothering me all day and makes my eyes so tired qaq

[plush thicket]

When you’re opening Ark from Steam, does another prompt show up asking which version to play?

[humble thicket]

Can I add you as a friend?
Because pictures and URLs cannot be posted here

[hollow hemlock]

from what i thought, nitrado has not yet enabled clustering as an option for their servers. it works for non-nitrado dedicated servers though

[plush thicket]

Sure thing dm me

[humble thicket]

Why don’t game developers update the SV of ARK: Survival Of The Fittest? Is this intentional?

Please, your official sv is closed. Why haven't you opened the sv tool so that players can download it normally, but you want players to rent sv? This design is terrible.
If this is the case, then I will definitely tell Asian players not to buy ark2

[feral ibex]

im sure that you have good intentions here but theres too many unknowledgable people answering questions. It is enabled, they released it this morning which is why Im here asking for a solution to the problem

so again, for NITRADO server owners, is anyone actually able to transfer or we all experiencing the official bug

[wise kindle]

Tbh I think alot of us are scared to try it. I have 11 maps that miraculously made it thru the update yesterday and ill be damned if Im gonna jump straight into enabling that. Ive seen the thousands of characters lost so Im planning to let others be the guinea pigs. Just my take, apologies as i realize its not helpful to answer your question but others might share my reluctance OR they may be preoccupied trying to recover their maps atm. Ill hush now.

[feral ibex]

ya i tried it because im the owner so i can just create my characters. I knew it was early on I was just trying to confirm it was happening to others and wasnt just something ive missed setting it up

thankyou ❤️

[wise kindle]

The update mentioned a fix but sounds like its untested on our end.

Maybe its fixed? Its time for science i guess lol.

[feral ibex]

just another mess but so used to it at this point that it dont even phase me

[wise kindle]

I say “our end” cuz their testing is non existent so only our testing matters lol.

True that.

[gleaming merlin]

i just setup a ASE server everything is up and running but it will not allow me to place MODDED structures. I get the green prebuild but it wont place. Only Vanilla structures are allowed. What am I missing?

[wise kindle]

Try removing the building mod folder and reinstall it. Try this on your client first, then your server if that doesnt work. Might be a bad install.

[gleaming merlin]

I thought it was SS mod only but its also Primal & Accessories plus structures wont place. so you think it might be a bad Server install

[severe bison]

if i don't update my server will there be now bugs?

[wise kindle]

You wont be able to play it. Updates are kinda required since your client will auto update.

[distant hearth]

if it has mods, chances are the update breaks it, if you took the client update, you wont be able play it anyway , as the major version has to match

[wise kindle]

What mods are you running?

It seems to effect RR Animals, Premium Svart, Prehistoric Beasts and Svart Builders mostly.

[severe bison]

fr?

[severe bison]

Dam it!

[severe bison]

i'm running a lot of mods 😅

[wise kindle]

Any of those or from those mod authors?

[severe bison]

mods="941697,929420,946536,928793,937184,928708,940022,935528,940786,928597,931047,935408,928501,931874,969258,930032"

[severe bison]

No

[wise kindle]

Then update and enjoy. You might be ok.

I had 0 issues on my maps 🤷🏻‍♀️

[severe bison]

alright!

i hope it doesn't break it bc there is so much progress in my world i'm almost going to beat the alpha overseer with my friends

[distant hearth]

take a full backup copy of the save file before updating, shud do that anyway really

[severe bison]

NOOOOO

man i just did the update and then saw your message like really??????!!

[distant hearth]

its fine, do it before starting the server

[severe bison]

fr?

[distant hearth]

aslong as server isnt started the savefile doesnt change

[severe bison]

ah okey thank you!

What files should i save?

[simple ledge]

Is there a way to overwrite blueprints where the "Crafts remaining" is removed? I'm trying to make a blueprrint of a fully upgraded piece of tek armor with the "Upgrade Station" mod. But every time I make a blueprint, it has only 1 craft remaining. WHich kind of defeats the purpose of having the blueprint addon in the first place.

[distant hearth]

take a copy of theisland_wp folder located at ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP

this has all the world data, player data an tribe data

[wise kindle]

Best to ask this in the Upgrade Station mod discord tbh.

[severe bison]

DON'T click on that

[simple ledge]

Fair enough. Though the Upgrade station does not have an .ini setting for this. I checked. But I figured maybe there was an Ark (SE) setting for it

[severe bison]

even mod data?

[simple ledge]

Also, seems like they don't have a discord

[wise kindle]

Ah yeah. I dunno. I dont use that mod.

[severe bison]

@hallow heart

@pulsar orbit

[pulsar orbit]

Tyty

[severe bison]

np

[simple ledge]

The question remains if there is an Ark default way of turning off "max crafts" on blueprints I guess

[distant hearth]

mod data is kinda stored in a differnt place , but aslong as you have a copy of the folder i said, you can move it to any server and install the mods fresh and it will work

[wise kindle]

There may be a mod that does this. I dont know of a setting for this. I have looked in the past and never found one.

[severe bison]

ah okey but like mod structures won't be gone?

[humble thicket]

How can I send one of those big messages on top to the whole server?

[wise kindle]

In ASA that is no longer available. In ASE its Cheat broadcast (message)

[humble thicket]

Oh oki

[distant hearth]

aslong the server isnt started with broken mods, they will be fine
but since you have a copy of the save , you cud fix it again by reloading that save anyway , the save just has to match up to any installed mods at the time the save was made

[severe bison]

Alright i will anyways not start the server today

[humble thicket]

Can I do it from nitrado without being in game?

[wise kindle]

Not that I know of.

[green nebula]

Anyone know how to change max/min structure limit in a single game, trying to replicate official 5500 structures setting when testing out base designs.

[severe bison]

Doesn't singleplayer not have a build limit?

[green nebula]

Dont know about that, would love to know if it can be set....just to replicate settings of the official servers.

[severe bison]

but why lol?

[distant hearth]

TheMaxStructuresInRange=5500

[green nebula]

Like I said, Im trying to test out design for base builds that I might want in official where I normall play. So I rather test them out and find out if I get close to the building limit so I dont waste time trying it in official...and only get half done LOL. thx For the help 😄

[distant hearth]

nvm i gave the right one lmao

[wise kindle]

Just remove “the”, MaxStructuresInRange=5500

[distant hearth]

did they change it back to the old, old setting in asa then ? i havent tested it in asa

[wise kindle]

Ok now I gotta go look lol.

OH you right

Its the THE one

Im just gonna go drink my coffee.

[distant hearth]

its confusing, i rem they changed it, then when i looked on wiki it showed 3 lmao

[wise kindle]

Lol right? Why they do this? No logical reason I can see. Just to be different I guess. And make owners second guess all their settings. Ugh.

[distant hearth]

can only presume as differnt coders did things or took over , they had there own way of it doing it

[limpid glen]

Anyone have nitrados cross ark working for mod arks?

[wise kindle]

Oh good point. Logically anyway.

[wise kindle]

A couple ppl have tried it and seen success. Im havent yet. Im waiting for more positive reports.

People are rightly very cautious.

[simple ledge]

Nowhere is documentation on how to use the "ShowMyAdminManager"?

Most commands are quite self-explanatory, but there are plenty that do not have an explanation in their name, and I don't know how to use or what they should do?
What I'm looking for specifically, in my private server, is to duplicate a specific item in my inventory and leave the rest alone.
(Instead of looking for a way to remove the "crafts remaining" on blueprints, I figured I'd duplicate the specific blueprints instead. Given that it's a private server)

[karmic bridge]

the Wildcard Studio developers really don't care about the players!!! $45 for a piss-coded game just like ASE at this release.
we are not fooled, you only copied and pasted and added the mods for PlayStation and Xbox.
Continuous reports of each announced event.
Get your fingers out of your ass before the community disappears.
🤬🤬🤬

[peak sapphire]

I’m only enabling item/dino transfers for now. I’ll be testing that out in extensively before I even touch character transfers

[wise kindle]

Let me know how it goes please, specifically egg transfers. Im very curious how much Nitrados testing helped get things fixed. (If transfers are fully fixed Im crediting Nitrado for their intervention)

[peak sapphire]

Will do. And I’m in agreement with you. I’ll report back later this evening

[undone pine]

I'm not the server owner but the unofficial server I play on is down and on battlemetrics it says "Server failed to respond to query" over and over, just wondering what this means

[topaz rivet]

I have a server hosted on a box in my house with mods crashing over and over.

Should I be pulling the mods off one by one or do we think they are going to fix this today?

[distant hearth]

it likely be a day or two atleast before mods get fixed, wc have to do the updat, modders have to redo there stuff, then its got go through curseforge approval. lots time eaten up

[topaz rivet]

That’s what I was guessing as well 😣

[deft stone]

there is a post by @feral ibex at 9:18am. There is a trick how to find bad mods. But if you remove the mods, you lost the content. This is why you probably need to wait for them to be updated

[peak sapphire]

@wise kindle Every fert egg I’ve uploaded, the spoil time drops to 0:00 and spoils immediately on download. So there’s that

[deft stone]

i had this problem previously like a month ago, with cryopods. If i uploaded them into the obelisk, they exit with 0 on timer and creature dead.

[wise kindle]

Are you seeing this with pods as well? That was the other issue that was reported from Official maps.

[deft stone]

pods are fixed now

but i had the problem before the official transfert update

[peak sapphire]

Yeah I just tried with a throwaway Rex and the pod remained unchanged. Will test further though

[wise kindle]

Appreciate your efforts Sir. Tyvm.

[wise kindle]

Official vanilla or modded pods? I use Peyaloris pods.

[deft stone]

i transfered argys, doed, sabers, rex, anky and carno with no problem

i was on offical pods on dedicated server

[wise kindle]

Anything modded? Like modded dinos?

Ok i need to get modded items tested.

[deft stone]

good idea

i have only one mod (dinos level) cause i hate to search for a high level dinos 10 hours before to find one XD

[distant hearth]

love that mod

[wise kindle]

Same. Its a god send.

[wise kindle]

Psst. Test modded items and modded dinos if you can please.

[deft stone]

i fixed my dinos all at 150 so .. no searching for me.. it makes caves HARDER but its a tradeof

[distant hearth]

hardcore mode lol, have em set to ragnarock levels, but also have wilds with increased damage resistance slightly

[wise kindle]

I just went with vanilla cuz my players like the grind 😉

(Default mod settings)

[distant hearth]

i think it defauts to rag setting? iirc , was ages ago set it so cant actually rem

[wise kindle]

It defaults to a full even spread across 5-150. Or in my case 10-300. So its not swung to the low end like the official setting. You can find max levels in all areas as well, not just in the hard spots.

[limpid glen]

Best mod map atm?

[severe bison]

nah and then you find one with 50 points into oxygen or food

[severe bison]

on ASA there is not many

only swarth

[limpid glen]

Figured all the ones I see arnt complete. That one can’t have flyers otherwise I’d start a map

[deft stone]

dont know if you cant force them in ini files... just woundering

[distant hearth]

not on svart yet, i think its changing soon though

[limpid glen]

Didn’t svart change to a premium mod?

[distant hearth]

it did bu ttheres still the old test versions , not complete but playable

[limpid glen]

Hardly seems work making a server of an unfinished map tbh

[severe bison]

the sad thing is that i will never be able to buy a mod bc i don't have a credit card

and i don't know if you can pay via paypal

[rancid marsh]

Hi everyone - is there a code to increase only movement speed for dinos ?

[distant hearth]

probably not, once mor emaps release and other mod maps come through

[limpid glen]

My peoples are getting bored. The island is dead 😂

[distant hearth]

lol, good reason to use it then , its upto each person decide , theres some other mod maps might be worth checking out

[limpid glen]

Yeah think I’ll do that and fly around in single player see what’s decent

[peak sapphire]

Uploaded/downloaded modded items and no problems so far, same with modded dinos - both in and out of cryo.

[wise kindle]

THANK YOU

[peak sapphire]

I’ve noticed that for both uploads and downloads on Svart (free version), the time only takes a couple secs unlike on The Island when it takes almost 10 secs to do either function

[wise kindle]

Wait till Forglar updates on March 1st. Its a pretty nice map with that update it has a good chunk of the map done. No dumb flier or building restrictions either. Just dont use it till after the 1st, the modder warned it may wipe the map with that update. I like him so far cuz he communicates well with the community too.

[limpid glen]

Hmm maybe I find and install it to take a look

[wise kindle]

So looks like the only big issue so far is fert eggs. Or all eggs?

[distant hearth]

i just started that map downloading today, good to know, will hold off a bit

[wise kindle]

Hop in their discord. Alittle chaotic but you get info at least. Less “rug pulls” as well.

[peak sapphire]

To be fair I haven’t tested normal eggs yet lol I’ll report back soon

[wise kindle]

Sorry i keep giving you jobs lol. But ty again.

[peak sapphire]

It’s not a problem at all. You’ve helped out loads in this channel so happy to return the gesture 😊

[wise kindle]

And @distant hearth too. The man is an Ark encyclopedia.

[distant hearth]

lol thanks, i just have extra time on my hands in winter, soon comes busy season for work, then i wont be around much till november

[peak sapphire]

@wise kindle It appears to be anything with a spoil timer reverts to 0:00 once uploaded. Stackable items with spoil timers only lose part of the stack

[wise kindle]

This is great info ty. So its the old timer issue back again it seems.

[distant hearth]

its like battlestar gallatica,
Its happened before, It will happen again

[severe bison]

Wtf did they do i started my server and opened game and my game is terribly lagging even if i'm not on a server? and i have like 20 fps even in the main screen

[untold ginkgo]

Okay so today after this last patch we were finally able to enable transfers on our unofficial cluster. We only have 2 island maps (to avoid clutter and strain on one single map). I went to red ob and uploaded some fiber and a dodo to test and they had the regular 23h 59min timer counting down, I clicked on transfer to another server and after couple seconds my other map showed, I clicked and it started joining me. Once I was logged into that second map it just asked me to select a random location (don't have a base there) and then I clicked on downloading my character and the screen stayed frozen for a little bit and then I got kicked. When I loaded back in it prompted me to create a new character so I logged out and tried logging back in on the first map and it asked to create a new character as well and this time I did so just for the sake of continue testing. This time around I waited for 20 minutes and the screen still stayed on the same "downloading character" part so I logged out and back in to see if that would help and lost that character as well. To discard that I was the only one having issues (I play on PC steam) I had my tribe mate (plays on Xbox) transfer and same thing happened to her, screen frozen on downloading and after she logged out and back in her character was also gone

[wise kindle]

Ty for this. Were you both nakey then? And these were brand new characters correct?

I ask as a super fresh character that didnt catch a save point might have issues.

[untold ginkgo]

I was, I didn't want to risk any important dinos/items but I asked my tribe mate to have couple stacks of fiber with her to see if that somehow would make any difference, sorry I forgot to add that and also our maps only have the following mods: helicoprion, ceratosaurus, deinotherium, brachiosaurus, love ascended, deinosuchus and archelon exactly in that order

[wise kindle]

Hmmm

Do you get the same with a character thats been on the map for say 30 minutes (and caught a save point?)

[untold ginkgo]

Both maps are also console based, not sure if that makes any difference. Both our characters have been on the map since last night, this was our first time loading the characters in today

[wise kindle]

Ah ok ty. I dont think the platform should effect it but its good to know. Most clusters are crossplay so its important to know. Your mods shouldn’t affect it either. Appreciate you sharing this.

[untold ginkgo]

Absolutely, anything to help! For now we've decided to turn off character transfers but left dinos and items as those seem to work just fine so we can just spawn on either map and download things from a drop/ob and still make trades with other players that way which is what we were aiming for now until more maps get launched. Thank you as well for your time. If we decide to do any more testing I will surely post here how it goes

[wise kindle]

Yep just be careful of fert egg transfers or things with timers. They go poof.

[untold ginkgo]

So my tribe mate just created another character and spawned with her ptera in her inventory

The fiber is gone but she still had her ptera and character is a fresh level 1

[wise kindle]

I would be surprised but ive seen this before. Spawned fresh on SE with a new character and was overweighted with an inventory maxed with glowsticks! You cant make this stuff up 😂😂😂

[distant hearth]

just to double check, an i hate asking , but you do have the upload an download settings correct in the gameusersetting.ini ? for both servers
notributedownloads=false
PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventTribeAlliances=False
PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False

the upload stuff wudnt matter, sry i copy pasted

[untold ginkgo]

Lmao yeah I remember having that I thought she had uploaded her pt but said she kept it on her just in case she was indeed able to spawn she needed to move around but hopefully this can be fixed in the near future

[untold ginkgo]

I will get back to you on that shortly

[wise kindle]

Ok so THATS interesting

Its like some weird character recovery. Hmmm

[untold ginkgo]

It seems weird indeed as she had 2 stacks of fiber and the cryo with the pt but only the cryo stayed even thou she created a new character entirely on a different map than the one she logged out on while it was "downloading"

[untold ginkgo]

We have all those settings that way except for the survivor ones

[peak sapphire]

I have prime meat stacked on my server and uploaded 5, waited say about 20-30mins and it all spoiled after downloading. Going to try with a stack of 100 eggs over night and log in early in the morning.

[wise kindle]

Whats the character ones?

[distant hearth]

ermm you have charcter set true?
edit as in survivor

[untold ginkgo]

After losing our characters yes, we set that one to true for now

[distant hearth]

ah i see, but they were false, when you lost survivors was what i was asking sry

[untold ginkgo]

Yes they were

[distant hearth]

ok thanks, helps alot with trying to narrow down issues, apreciate you taking the time to check

[untold ginkgo]

Sure thing!

[peak sapphire]

What’s interesting about the whole spoil thing, is that I tested kibble and organic polymer first and after uploading on one server, I immediately downloaded on the other and 2 of the poly spoiled but only 1 of the kibble but the next in stack had only a sliver left until spoil. The kibble originally had a full timer before the initial upload.

[scarlet ermine]

bring back store and currency mods!!!! so dumb

[distant hearth]

not happening for consoles, ms an sony dont like it

[peak sapphire]

My guess is that the spoil timer isn’t reset back to the full time so it’s spoiling one after the other while in the cloud but not immediately.

[wise kindle]

How big are your stacks?

[peak sapphire]

Not all stacks are the same size but for eggs specifically, I have them set to 100. I’ve stuck 100 in and will check again in around 8 hours from now when I get up for work.

I doubt they’ll last that long

Hopefully I’m wrong

No wait tell a lie, my egg stacks are way higher but I’ve only stuck 100 in 😅

[wise kindle]

Ah ok ty yeah im wondering if time is excellerated or some weirdness.

[peak sapphire]

I reckon it’s accelerated because the 2 organic poly spoiled in a few mins. The kibble didn’t though but has a much higher spoil time. Time will tell but I’ll post in here tomorrow morning.

[deft stone]

i tested it with meat .. and they will all spoiled at once when you download them

[finite inlet]

Disable downloading player information of remote servers. Does this need to be on to stop people bringing there own stuff from personal servers with cross ark

[azure jetty]

Question for the hive mind 🐝
I have an unofficial server with mods(private not nitrado). I can’t get it to populate in the search bar. Is my only option is take them all off and go through one at time?

It’s really difficult to look shizz up for this game

[deft stone]

you host it on a pc?

[azure jetty]

Yes

[deft stone]

did you forward the port into your firewall?

[azure jetty]

Yes

[deft stone]

i mean into your internet router.. this is the hard part

[azure jetty]

Yes. Its done

It was working before the update. I just made a back up and will now attempt to remove each mod one by one

[deft stone]

this is probably the problem

but be warned if you remove a mod you loose its content 😦

[azure jetty]

I know!

That’s why i backed it up. I hope its not peyories (sp?) or dwarven

[deft stone]

i have a clue that dwarven is problematic

[azure jetty]

Say it ain’t so

[deft stone]

thats realy bad

[azure jetty]

Lol. Well Good thing I made another base out of stone.

[deft stone]

but youll have to wait a couple of day wildcard must update is devkit and the modder must update their mods with it...

[azure jetty]

With the way the mods are i don’t trust anything. Lol

Or kill it and move on. It will just take away my castle. I’ll survive. I hate that the building mods aren’t very stable. I’ve only been playing for about 3 mos and have realized you can’t get too attached to things

I would like to keep my cryod dynos though. So we will see. Starting one by one now. Wish me luck 🍀

Thank you for answering @deft stone

[deft stone]

the mods are not the problem, wildcard bugged the devkit 😦 and wait a bit they will fix it ... i hope 😄

[olive talon]

https://server.nitrado.net/en-US/news/ark-survival-ascended-crossark-and-server-transfers-news

[azure jetty]

Got it working!

With all the mods I use! Finally

[deft stone]

lucky you are 🙂

[wise kindle]

Dwarven builders, Svart premium map, prehistoric beats, Annunaki, RR animal and colossus scorpion are known affected mods.

[azure jetty]

Dwarven is working fine

As of right now. My castle is still intact. I don’t use any of the others so I can’t speak to them

[wise kindle]

Nice! Im just going off what the modders discord says.

I dont run any of these.

[sacred kestrel]

How do you ban players now. Used to be through nitrado but that's not possible anymore

[olive talon]

You can ban people through the showmyadminmanager panel ingame

[azure jetty]

I only use this one after many other issues with devkit bugs and decor mods. And this is why my latest creation is stone. Just in case I need to remove it.

[sacred kestrel]

Thank you so much

[untold ginkgo]

I believe that’s how we have it enabled for us, that’s the same way it was on ase

We also had the issue about a month or so back that after the daily restart, for 3 times in 1 week, one of our maps got entirely reset to default official settings and PvP mode just out of the blue, about 2 weeks ago happened to our second map and today after disabling the transfers and having to do a small rollback on our first map it happened again, all the settings got deleted. Not sure if anyone has had this happen ever but figured I’d mention something about it because that also enabled the single player transfers somehow but luckily we caught it in time so no one was able to get anything

[wise kindle]

That can happen anytime tbh, just have to be ready to recover with a rollback and a beacon update.

[pliant fog]

Has anyone ever encountered another player bringing over their dinos from a completely different server to yours? I just had this happen on my server and was wondering if someone else also had this happen to them. If so do you know how to fix this issue? (ASA)

[olive talon]

Turn off downloads for your server or enable a clusterID if available.

[wise kindle]

Also notributedownloads=true used to prevent this. No idea if it helps now.

[pliant fog]

Do I also enable all the restrictions? Or will this prevent my community from traveling to different maps in our own cluster?

[olive talon]

If you've got a cluster, just set up the cross ark thing

[wise kindle]

notributedownloads=false
PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventTribeAlliances=False
PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False

[untold ginkgo]

It's rather scary that can happen anytime to be frank. We have stacking 2x on our server so players took a big loss but less than what it could've been. Unfortunately when that happened last for some reason the closest rollback was from 16h only

[wise kindle]

yeah its annoying. The game corrupts and just resets to day 1 and wipes everything.

[pliant fog]

So just setting that up should be enough and other players won't be able to transfer their dinos from other clusters to mine?

[wise kindle]

notributedownloads=true used to do this in ASE - I have not tested this in ASA

[olive talon]

Should be fine yes, at least on Nitrado. I don't know how clustering works on dedicated servers/clusters or if it's the same.

Pinned messages has info

[pliant fog]

Thank you very much, didn't know this was a thing on ASA until now

[olive talon]

It wasn't, until today

At least not for Nitrado

[wise kindle]

try that setting as false first, if you can still bring things from single player, set it to true

[pliant fog]

Will do thanks

[olive talon]

That'd be easier to attempt ^

[pliant fog]

Makes sense then, thanks again

[frank egret]

this is what kept ppl from transfering from solo and other servers to yours in ASE -NoTransferFromFiltering

[wise kindle]

yeah we cant use that in NItrado tho. We have to use the other setting.

No access to batch files

[frank egret]

it allowed only files from servers with the same cluster id

sounds liek something nitrado would limit

they dont have ftp support?

[wise kindle]

Yep, but not to batch. If the setting still works as it did in ASE, it wont be an issue tbh.

[frank egret]

if i remember right notributedownloads blocked specific items being transfered i could be wrong or they coul dhave changed it i suppose

[wise kindle]

The definition never made sense but it worked, so we didnt question it lol.

[frank egret]

yea the wiki says disables downloading characters from other servers which i interpret that as no transfering between maps

they could just have worded it wrong i guess

[wise kindle]

More than likely.

[frank egret]

wouldnt surprise me lol they cant get info out on time let alone correctly to begin with lol

[wise kindle]

Alot of the server config page is so misleading too. So you cant even trust what you read in the page they point you to. I can only imagine how confusing it must be to work there lol.

[frank egret]

so that explanation was from the old wiki

[river comet]

Anyone running a nitrado server having issues with constant high pings daily sometimes as high as 800

[frank egret]

this is from the new wiki. If True, prevents CrossArk-data downloads inCross-ARK Data Transfer.

[wise kindle]

oh god I hope it doesnt work like that, cuz then we have no way to prevent singleplayer uploads

[frank egret]

so from the wiki itself it appears nitrado has screwed its customers on protecting themselves from ppl pulling stuff in from solo. -NoTransferFromFiltering Prevents ARK Data usage between single player and servers who do not have a cluster ID. Even with a cluster id set, it is suggested to keep this option to completely disable code path allowing it.

has checks next to both versions of the game too

if nitrado was smart (which they arent) they would have that line auto added when you enter a cluster id

[wise kindle]

Well there a new one there now "Disable Downloading Player Information".

Which I dont ever remember seeing before in Nitrado. That might be it? I dunno.

[frank egret]

ppl are better off renting barebones servers and just running the server in windows vm, its also cheaper lol

[wise kindle]

I live in the mountains and suffer from power outages, this is not a thing lol.

[frank egret]

it is a thing

you can rent raw server space

and install whatever os you want

[wise kindle]

yeah I hate technology. I'm not into working that hard tho I appreciate your efforts.

[frank egret]

the only down side is you dont have the fancy gui but if you use the beacon app then its not an issue to setup manually

thats a fair point lol to each their own but for the server resources you get from nitrado your talkinga 1/4-1/2 the price per month

and you can run more then one map

[wise kindle]

eh, player donations cover it. When that stops happening I'll go play Palworld full time.

[frank egret]

lol

[wise kindle]

Sorry I'm retired and not much is really that important to me technology wise. I just play games and have fun.

[frank egret]

i understand just throwing it out there for other ppl as well

i went the self owned route lol

[cunning trail]

After traveling to another server on my cluster "respawn survivor" goes to the create a character screen then my character is deleted. Anyone know a fix?

[frank egret]

you dont have the cluster directory right on one or both maps @cunning trail

are you also on nitrado?

guess i wont help then lol

[cunning trail]

Sorry, no self hosted on pc

[frank egret]

so the servers need a shared directory to point at that they will use to transfer data between maps

[cunning trail]

How do I set that

[frank egret]

you dont have to create one just name it in the server settings and the servers will create it where ever you told them to

[cunning trail]

Where in server settings

[frank egret]

hang on looking for the settings line

im assuming you have this set already? -clusterid=

[cunning trail]

Yes

[frank egret]

add thsi also, -ClusterDirOverride=

[cunning trail]

Then I can see my server name in the obelisks

Nothing after the =?

[frank egret]

are both servers runing on the same machine?

you add where you want it to share after the =

[cunning trail]

No.

[frank egret]

so seperate machines

that makes it a bit more challenging

[cunning trail]

Yes seperate. I have Dropbox on both.

[frank egret]

are they in the same location?

[cunning trail]

Yes

[frank egret]

so you can make a folder in dropbox and point them to that

the other way is make a network sharable folder on one of them and point them to that location

[cunning trail]

Ok, thank you

[frank egret]

is there a specific reason you dont have them both on one machine?

[cunning trail]

Also do a need -notransferfromfiltering if I have the cluster id set?

[frank egret]

they say its not required but its good practice just to be sure

[cunning trail]

No, just to keep the machine running smooth. More hardware for the server

[frank egret]

i have it on all 26 of my servers

[cunning trail]

I actually have 22 pcs lol

[frank egret]

so the server is only gonna use a set amount of resources

i wanna say they stop at 4 threads i believe

they will not use any more then that even if you say use all cores

[cunning trail]

But it seems like the server lags more if the computer bogs down with alot going on.

[frank egret]

i have 24 of my servers all runing on the same machine lol

whats the specs?

[humble thicket]

Having issues with a server. When we kill Dinos, they just disappear, and when we log in we start at lvl 1, anyone know whats going on??

Any help would be amazing

[frank egret]

thats a new one honestly lol havent heard that on ebefore

[cunning trail]

Wide range. Low end i5-6500, 16gb ram, 500ssd. Upper end 17-7700 64gb ram, 1tb ssd

[frank egret]

so the i7 should be good for at least 2 maps if you dont have anything else on it

[cunning trail]

Nope. They're all running ase. Actually 24 pcs running. 2 are asa

[frank egret]

the i5 would only handle one

[cunning trail]

I'm not cool enough to understand server racks. Great at building a pcs tho

[frank egret]

so yea for you your best bet is one of the two shared options i suggested

oh if you wanna see a rack just dm me lol i got a 27u one fully watercooled lol

[cunning trail]

I have dropbox all set up so that'd be easiest for me I think

[frank egret]

on eof my few expensive hobbies

got 4 systems in it with 128 cores and 380gb of memory total

[cunning trail]

That's awesome

I'm a bargain buyer and not too many server racks used in my area lol

[frank egret]

hit me up if you ever wanna learn how to do it

i picked mine up new for like $200

[cunning trail]

Doesn't sound expensive lol

[frank egret]

and its a brand name

[bleak sun]

does anyone know why my dedicated server won't update? it's stuck on version 34.72 and the update batch file worked for every other update

[short crane]

Has anyone else’s server crashed since yesterdays patch and if so have you managed a work around

Thanks in advance

[ashen stratus]

Its your mods that are causing the crash. We had 4 mods causing issues for us

Love Ascended
Collosscorption
Velonosaur
Galvarex

[weary rock]

My mods crashing were annunaki descended shiny and ultimate tranq some said omega dino storage but it works on some server aswell on mine

[true niche]

Anyone have a list of mods causing crashes?? Mines still crashing after trying all the fixes and suggestions ☹️

[tidal cosmos]

Tbh gotta wait for this #modding-announcements to happen sadly

[true niche]

Yea so an entire week for servers to come back up then and a fight with nitrado for credit for a useless map awesome 😭😭😭

[odd cosmos]

Beast mod and that new map is a mod also the servers who didn’t have that map seem okay

[wise kindle]

Its only the premium Svart btw. The free version has no issues.

[gloomy trellis]

Love Ascended is not an issue. We have a modded and non modded server. Only mod on the non modded was LA, it was fine. No issues.

[wise kindle]

Second this. Have 11 maps running Love and no issues.

[ashen stratus]

Not the case for me. Love Ascended was causing crashes on all 4 of mine

[distant hearth]

i have an interesting test for transfers atm, travelling to a map without the mods installed. Its auto downloading them , so we shall see what happens lmao

i expected it wud time me out of the transfer but it hasnt

[peak sapphire]

For those wondering; a message from Nitrado:

Thank you for your support request.

Disable downloading player information of remote servers

This means that all information (level, skill points, etc.) relating to the character itself is also downloaded.
If you disable this setting, you may not be able to travel between servers or your player information may not be transferred.

I am afraid that it is possible to download the char from the single player.

My question is why that setting would exists at all.

[distant hearth]

sounds like they dont know what the fuck there doing to me, like wtf

an that support guy is like might not ? maybe? errmmm i dont know i just picked up the fun while cleaning the floor

[peak sapphire]

Surely it will fool more people into thinking they are protecting their servers by having that option available. I thought it might have something to do with the preventing singleplayer transfers as the description given for the setting is poorly worded

[distant hearth]

have you looked in the ini after activating the setting? see what its actually doing?

[peak sapphire]

I don’t enable any settings that I’m unsure of without thoroughly researching beforehand. The setting is new so I ignored it but the description was vague. I just hope others renting don’t accidentally enable it.

[humble thicket]

.

[wise kindle]

Ok wtf. How are we supposed to prevent sp tranfers?

Ok im enabling the old setting and trying that.

The no tribute downloads one, cuz that was the only thing that prevented that before. This is so confusing.

[gloomy trellis]

Do you have any clue as to what others could be causing issues? Do you have modded servers?

[wise kindle]

Yeah i run about 21 mods atm. I know of prehistoric beasts, svart premium, annunaki for sure have issues. Ive also heard reports that shiny dinos and dwarven builders are causing issues but I dont see that outright confirmed. Some mods were broken by the update but did not cause server issues at well. I dont run any of the above so had no issues.

Well, 22 mods. All my maps run Love Evolved atm.

[gloomy trellis]

dang lol. I thought I had a lot. you got me beat by alot. I do not run any of those either.... so yea. Just a crap shoot. I do not really have crashing issues just SUPER LONG up/down times when server does go down.

[distant hearth]

its kinda pot luck with nitrado servers how well they run i found , im from uk , we always chose german servers over uk ones they just work better

[gloomy trellis]

weird thing is I am testing some dedi servers with same mods and it is starting and stopping just fine xD no crashes....

[distant hearth]

yea lol im messing with couple for testing, i was suprised to see they start in under a minute most the time

[gloomy trellis]

YESSSSS

makes you wonder

[distant hearth]

its not really suprising to me, they always gonna use bare minimum resouces to fire one up an cram as many as they can on one box

[gloomy trellis]

Yeah you right. They are also a middle man... just still mind blowing the choice to go with Nitrado as exclusive.

after the track record with xbox/windows on ASE

[distant hearth]

its not as such, can rent any vps or dedi machine from other companies an , stick your own on it, just dont get the fancy ui

pretty sure thats the only way they can get around the fact otherwise they wud have full monopoly on

[gloomy trellis]

That is why I say middle man and exclusive. Not that you cant get a dedi or vps.... most dont even know how to do the dedi or vps route and the unlimited potential it has

[distant hearth]

added bonus, stick -notransferfromfiltering in the start command an , boom no single player joiners lolz
allthough as far as i knew , soon as u put a clusterid , single player cannot join. thats how it worked in ase anyway

[gloomy trellis]

but just simply not letting others host like they do on ase via steam.

[gloomy trellis]

correct but they JUST NOW added that months later... craziness

[peak sapphire]

@wise kindle looks like I overcooked those 100 uploaded eggs. The good news is that after downloading them some 20 hours later, I only lost 1 egg from the stack to spoil and the next egg had a sliver of spoil time remaining.

[wise kindle]

ty! This is great info.

I'm still testing to see how to stop sp transfers. Getting my test maps online.

Well, I set notributedownloads to true and I dont get the option to download my uploaded sp character on spawn, so thats good lol. I'll report back later.

[distant hearth]

that setting shud block all upload an download

[wise kindle]

Thats the problem. It didnt in ASE.

Its how we stopped ppl from sp downloading from Win10.

Thats why we are so confused right now.

We cant use that setting.

We cant use -notransferfromfiltering
We cant use the new Nitrado checkbox either.

[distant hearth]

they must of changed something, soon as you set a cluster id in ase , it stopped sp downloading to server form anything outside that . even stand alone servers i wud set a cluster id

[wise kindle]

Yep. So I'm looking to see if they fixed Win10 downloading. If they did then no issue. If they didnt... which they never did fix that in ASE, then we are in trouble.

[distant hearth]

wait , cant you just block win 10 altogether ? or you not wanting do that ?

[wise kindle]

so far my characters are getting eaten tho so I need to recruit my admins to help lol

[wise kindle]

oh thats like 40% of my players

[distant hearth]

aye fair enough

[wise kindle]

I admin on Win10

oh well nvm. My character showed up on the map I was going to. Its really glitchy tho.

that was with the setting set to True btw

[distant hearth]

lol , well i guess that aint working right either then

[wise kindle]

I need to test this more tho. Need a bigger account test pool. I'll tally and report back

It does seem to successfully block single player. I'll test without too, to see if its even needed now.

[true niche]

Soooo is it not clustering as easy as it was with ase at all then??

What im reading is freakin me out now!

[wise kindle]

its not clear is all - and it does have issues as in lots of ppl reporting deleted characters. I'm trying to see if its real or not - or if they have their settings wrong.

[distant hearth]

it shud be , but it seems not for what ever dam reason
like i dont get why on my two stmcmd test servers i cant make it break , yet other people have alot issues

[wise kindle]

They havent said how to do it yet, it appears the same but we had to figure out how to block single player last time so Im cautious there. Trying to find out if they changed how this works or not.

[wise kindle]

I honestly think its somehow account specific. Some ppl have zero issues, its lightning fast and they jump around all day.

Others get every single character eaten every time.

I'm getting a bunch of ppl to try it tonight. Accounting for platform, net speed, location etc.

[true niche]

Yeaaaa nah we all gonna live on Island like a big happy family till they fix it now 🤣🤣

[wise kindle]

Well, if its a setting issue I'll let you know lol.

[true niche]

Yea please do! Bc i would like to add another map but not with these issues

[eternal lance]

Are any of the modded maps for ASA stable? Whenever Ive played on a modded ASA map the server permanently restarts until the mod is removed

[distant hearth]

depend son who runs the server , some people randomly throw a load mods on an hope they work

[wise kindle]

@distant hearth Initial findings with just me testing, you will find this hilarious.

[slow crane]

Ngl wish the infinite server restart loop would end on my server 😆

[wise kindle]

@distant hearth I hope you find this as funny as I do:

If you set the map up as we did in ASE, it will eat almost every character you upload.

If you ignore this and set it to your Steam settings, it works. At least for my account.
notributedownloads=false <- confirmed it now works correctly in ASA for Win10 sp blocking

this is initial testing tho... Just me messing about. Its opposite of ASE console settings 🤦‍♀️

[onyx gale]

I have an interesting problem with transfers.

I set up our two maps to be like they were on our ASE cluster. That's PvE which has downloads for items/tames disabled and PvP which has enabled uploads/downloads for everything.

I double checked my settings and only items and tame downloads are disabled on PvE.

I transferred into PvP just fine as expected. I brought a single bola to make sure I didn't get blocked with an item. When transferring back to PvE however, I verified 10 times over my inventory is completely empty, but I'm getting blocked. The error says to the effect of "the server you're attempting to go has item downloads disabled, drop your inventory and try again." My inventory is empty. I tried rolling out my implant. I tried fast traveling. I guaranteed my inventory is absolutely 100% empty. Still can't transfer. Still getting the same error.

Tried both transmitters and an ob. Can't get back to PvE.

Mods:

• Alfa Ocean Plat
• AA: Deinosuchus, Brachi, Archelon.
• Maewing
• Gyrosphere
• Svartl armory
• Primal incubator
• Dwarven builds
• Cliffans Wardrobe
• Love Ascended

[distant hearth]

check your cosmetics tab, anything in there?

[onyx gale]

Nothing. Checked it all multiple times. Also tried after a respawn and also tried after a fast travel.

[wise kindle]

Something to note so far in my testing @peak sapphire

[onyx gale]

I see you're conducting some testing and I'm curious if you'd be interested in seeing if you can reproduce the problem I'm experiencing?

[wise kindle]

I'm looking at that. I have no idea. But the spoil timers for ASA are REALLY weird. Is it possible there is a character related timer here? Like PVP has timers on everything... like spawning and such. Far fetched I know but tbh, I got nothing.

[distant hearth]

post the transfer settings here if you want we can check for the millionth time there correct. If they are then it wud be likely a bug with the game code from wc side

pull them from the ini files , not just what nitrado ui is set too

[onyx gale]

Okay let me have a look

[wise kindle]

I forgot to ask, can you go to PVP from PVE with a fresh character? That works correct yes?

[onyx gale]

I have not tried that. I was only trying to go back and forth with the same character

[wise kindle]

see if a freshy works, might help isolate the issue - and lets also see your ini entries too.

[onyx gale]

It seems I can't post images here...

[distant hearth]

just copy paste the lines

[onyx gale]

Here is the PvP server. Nothing disabled.
PreventDownloadDinos=false
PreventDownloadItems=false
PreventDownloadSurvivors=false
PreventOfflinePvP=False
PreventSpawnAnimations=False
PreventTribeAlliances=False
PreventUploadDinos=false
PreventUploadItems=false
PreventUploadSurvivors=false

---

And here is the PvE server, tames/item downloads disabled.
PreventDownloadDinos=true
PreventDownloadItems=true
PreventDownloadSurvivors=false
PreventOfflinePvP=False
PreventSpawnAnimations=False
PreventTribeAlliances=False
PreventUploadDinos=false
PreventUploadItems=false
PreventUploadSurvivors=false

[distant hearth]

there fine for what you want , just check that both servers have this aswell ,
notributedownloads=false

[onyx gale]

Yes both have that set to false. UI also reflects the settings accordingly.

[distant hearth]

id say its a bug then in wc code then tbh , you cud try it the other way an have the pvp map as
preventuploaditems=true
preventuploaddinos=true

the pve server as all false

hmm , i gues sthat wudnt work actually for what you want nvm

oh wait no it shud im confusing myself

[wise kindle]

Try a freshy to confirm from pve to pvp tho.

[distant hearth]

also that

[onyx gale]

It would work for the sake of testing but ultimately is not what we want to keep. We like to have a cluster of multiple PvP maps with a single PvE "fallback" map that's limited. Reversing it wouldn't be in line with what we do. But I could definitely try it later for the sake of a test.

Also I will try the fresh character as well. I'm at work right now, doing this from my lunch break, but when I'm home later I will give it a go.

[wise kindle]

Cuz if that works we know theres something its doing to the character. No idea what it is but it narrows it down - also if you dont rule that out and mention it in the bug, any bug you file will get looked at with a side eye lol.

[onyx gale]

That's fair and makes sense. I will try that later tonight.

Thanks for the help!

[candid heath]

So modded servers on ps5 still crashing for yall? They still haven’t fixed this!?

[distant hearth]

loads mods got broke, i wud be suprised if its fixed before monday tbh

[wise kindle]

Nah will be a mid next week at the earliest

[onyx gale]

No crashes on mine. 10 mods but nothing insane.

[obsidian sandal]

Hey all. Anyone use a server manager that they like? I see a few of them out there but not sure which one might be the better equipped one.

[gloomy trellis]

Without having to scroll through all that chat. Even if I have no other maps to cluster, I thought the "cross ark" with a clusterID was a guarantee to make sure no single player upload/downoad issues.

Is this not the case anymore?

[distant hearth]

it shud be , but there seems to be some concerns that it isnt working. If you want to be 100% just add or change the lines to switch off all transfers to the gus.ini

[gloomy trellis]

Well I had them off initially just to be safe, no issues and no complaints. So really I may just leave it that way lol. What issues would arise if I left it that way for good?

[distant hearth]

none at all presuming you never want to cluster the map with another

if you ever want to cluster then you wud have to change them for it to work

[gloomy trellis]

Gotcha... I will def have a cluster but who knows when with all the issues xD

[distant hearth]

fingers crossed its all sussed out an fixed by then 🙂

[gloomy trellis]

Thanks for the info broski! You been a good help today

[rugged dove]

Thank you so much for this hint with the Star-Animals... I used to have the same mod installed, and suffering from a server-startup crash. Removing it from the mods-list resulted in a working server again. Thank you so so much 🫶

[raw glade]

@daring hawk

This channel is for discussions about unofficial (or single player) server setups including mods and other relevant topics. You can find recruitment and server advertising channels under the #bulletin-board-rules channel.

[unborn bison]

how do you know if a mod has less then 5 open servers? where do you find that information?

[distant hearth]

battlemetrics website

[dusty pike]

Hi, I'm trying to rent an XBOX/GamePass ark server for some friends and I. I've been looking around and it looks like Nitrado is the only platform that supports these servers. I've been trying to buy a server through their windows nitrado app but it is litterrally impossible to use and won't let me click anywhere. Does anyone know of any other platforms that will let me rent an XBOX server?

[distant hearth]

is it for ark evolved?

[dusty pike]

Yes for Ark SE

[wise kindle]

Try gPortal or Apex

[distant hearth]

only nitrado then, they have exclusive rights

[dusty pike]

ugh

[wise kindle]

Not for SE

[distant hearth]

for xbox /win 10 they do , unless that expired now ?

[wise kindle]

I never tried them but Im told you can use gPortal for SE console

[dusty pike]

Gportal looked like it only has servers for playstation and windows

[distant hearth]

playstaion is g portal iirc,

[wise kindle]

Whelp guess they get it all then

[peak sapphire]

Nitrado has had a monopoly on rented Ark servers for Xbox since 2017!

[dusty pike]

It's honestly so frustrating, like the app is unusable

[wise kindle]

Ok guys I see lol

[dusty pike]

yeah it's pretty ridiculous, I don't know why Wildcard puts up with them and even outright supports them

[distant hearth]

money

[wise kindle]

I just always had ppl in my face telling me im dumb for using nitrado and to use gPortal lol

[dusty pike]

id be so much happier to use gortal

[peak sapphire]

The Nitrado ASE exclusive deal came from Microsoft

[wise kindle]

Idk i hate them too lol

[dusty pike]

ah, fair enough then

[wise kindle]

Gportal loves to f over my Conan maps ritualistically

[sharp vortex]

why would microsoft get involved in any of this? proof please

[distant hearth]

huh thats weird, never had an issue with our conan on gportal

[peak sapphire]

Microsoft wouldn’t allow Xbox users to use other rented providers as they wanted their 30% cut to go through their store and Nitrado were the official providers for Ark so they got the deal

[wise kindle]

They wiped the wrong maps, not once but twice. Even after we told them not that one … THIS one. The one named THIS. Nope. Wiped the other map. Twice. 3 months apart 🤦🏽‍♀️ Then the billing issues omg. Dont get me started.

[sharp vortex]

that's just not true at all, nitrado paid money to complete the development of the game, loaned the money to complete it actually and in return got exclusivity for server hosting

[dusty pike]

I had to uninstall andd reinstall the nitrado app twice before I was even able to click or even buy a server just now. Lol

[peak sapphire]

Not for ASE they didn’t

[wise kindle]

For ASA.

Not Ase.

[distant hearth]

lmao, seems like there all as bad each other then.

[wise kindle]

We talking about ASE atm.

[sharp vortex]

apologies, read that wrong

[wise kindle]

Thats what i been sayin lol. When ppl complain im like its all the same.

[peak sapphire]

@dusty pike do you have an Xbox at all?

Never mind you figured it out. Bare in mind their UI is awful through the MS store

[wise kindle]

On your xbox? Cuz you have to order it there, tie it to your account then you can manage it from anywhere.

[distant hearth]

well gl im off to bed, im sure theres gonna be a whole ton people asking why they cant find new dino lol
gl with explaing its a mod an they got activate it

[peak sapphire]

I believe they’re using the Win10 version which is crossplay with Xbox for their buddies

[wise kindle]

Can you order from there? I never tried. I was scared of getting a steam map lol.

[olive talon]

On ASE, you have to download the Nitrado app from the Microsoft store, regardless of it being Win10/Xbox.

[wise kindle]

Nice. I just used the console. I trust these guys very little.

[olive talon]

Yeah i know, it was so annoying. As long as its the Microsoft store, it'll be an Xbox server.

[wise kindle]

Can you tell who got a Steam map once? Totally wasnt me guys.

[peak sapphire]

@dusty pike once you have ordered a server, you’ll get an option to open your server directly on their website. You’ll only need to use the Nitrado app when purchasing more run time or changing player slots.

At least with ASA I can do everything from their website and MS don’t get their 30% cut. People say Nitrado are bad but MS made ASE more expensive than it already was for Xbox/Win users

[wise kindle]

Have a good night Sir.

[gray rapids]

hmm where do they spawn, i did 2 dino wipes and cheat fly whole map idk.

anyone found spawncommand? i look in mod files and cant figureout

975282

[wise kindle]

I heard Green ob

[restive pebble]

Can't post links for some silly reason, but the format for the file is single line comma separated list of mod IDs ex:
````1001,1002,1003```

EDIT: Adding CosmeticWhitelistOverride so people can search for it

[peak sapphire]

Grassland’s from I’ve seen so far, or maybe jungle biome. Hard to tell as might be either or both.

[void vapor]

any spawn in my server

[onyx gale]

Another player on my server tried while I was at work. He just got no sessions at all. Also another admin from a different server that has a unique configuration like ours reached out and said they're experiencing the same thing. Game says they have inventory when they don't.

[wise kindle]

Do both maps have the same clustered session ID?

[onyx gale]

Yep, confirmed

[wise kindle]

Cuz thats weird. Unless he is lagging alot.

the Inventory thing sounds like it may be a bug then. I'd get something filed #bug-reports

[onyx gale]

I've disabled character uploads and downloads at this time to prevent any accidents among my community. We'll hang tight and wait for a patch as it does indeed seem to be broken.

[onyx gale]

Sounds good thank you.

[upbeat solstice]

So I downloaded the new gigaratpr mod but I can spawn one but I can't seem to grt wild ones to spawn

[median wadi]

whats the spawn command?

[gloomy trellis]

Okay so with the mods issue. Are servers that are having the issue not able to come up at all? Mine seem to be okay until this morning. Now constantly up and down. Been down for almost 12 hrs now.

[unborn bison]

mine had an update about 17 hours ago and just has the restart glitch

i even deleted 5 mods but that didnt fix it

[late estuary]

Probably need to do a wild dino wipe to speed up seeing gigantic raptors?

[wise kindle]

If they are rare, one wipe should do it. Then its a long wait till they pop up again.

I wouldnt sit and repeatedly wipe the map, it wont have a chance to spawn.

[willow crystal]

unfortunately no wild gigantoraptors spawn on our live server, what could be the reason? mod is of course installed.

[wooden tartan]

Any known issues for the new dino mod for unofficial servers. I'm almost a little hesitant to install it lol.

[wise kindle]

Check with Cheat Listdinos to make sure it is indeed not spawning.

PC or Win10 command btw ^^

[primal sequoia]

anyone know if theres a steam mod id for the gigrapt? or do we have to actually install it on the server

[wise kindle]

its on curseforge dot com

[primal sequoia]

yeah i know the files are there, my question is if there's a steam mod id so we can just launch the server with the mod= param instead of installing those files

[wise kindle]

yes

its on that page, on Curseforge, right side

Honest lol

[solar silo]

For some reason I can't seem to connect to my server... My server is running. Netstat shows the port is being used. But I can't add it via steam game servers and it doesn't show up in the unofficial server list even with "Show player servers" and "Show password protected servers" checked 🤔

[hazy silo]

do you have mods on the server?

[solar silo]

No

[gray rapids]

Did u update server to lastes version? if client version and server not same u wont see it

[solar silo]

Ya they're the same version.

[gray rapids]

should be 35.11 @solar silo

[solar silo]

interestingly when i do open 127.0.0.1:7777 it just crashes...

[languid plank]

anyone having issues with thier server crashing with the mod loaded

[solar silo]

Figured it out. Save was corrupted. Deleted it and it's working now