unofficial-setup-help

[brazen dragon]

it used to work though, i will log a ticket with my isp and if no joy then with ark

thanks to everyone for the help

[celest halo]

they shouldnt though, EOS gives 4 differnt ips for a ARK server

"ADDRESSDEV_s": "192.168.*.*,127.0.0.1",
"ADDRESS_s": "Public Ip",
"ADDRESSBOUND_s": "0.0.0.0:7777",
```  all the ips EOS gets for a ark server

[deft stone]

bound to 0.0.0.0 dont work too

[brazen dragon]

also, i am off the vpn now and can still connect to the servers

[celest halo]

nether does any ip in "ADDRESSDEV_s" lmao

[deft stone]

can you query"EmkioA's Cluster - The Island" please?

[celest halo]

why the servers send all the private ips the computer its running on i have no idea

[deft stone]

just want to see the info

[celest halo]

sent ya a dm

[deft stone]

ty

[compact reef]

any idea how long till console is fixed

[deft stone]

i have no idea what is "ADDRESS_s": "198.16.132.205", but i see my private ip and the public seem to be obfuscated as 0.0.0.0

[worldly mantle]

Does the super structures mod work for anyone? I think the server crashed

[static obsidian]

How to apply mods to single player on ps5?

[jade folio]

I just tested the Xbox series x and s on our server and no issues for primal chaos mod

[celest halo]

that should be public on that line

[frigid vine]

@proven prawn

The ARKathon is under way! Check out the tweet below and like the posts with your favorite ARK mod.
EXACTLY my humor. Advertising mods if after every bigger update servers are broken. And no: i do not use mods but i can understand the other owners.

[compact reef]

im guessing its up to the modmaker not WC to fix it in time?

[static obsidian]

I install mods for my singleplayer, and they won't show up at all within single player not any of the mod menus that show up when you create/resume a singleplayer

All this difficulty for official wild card mods and modded stacks

[wise kindle]

Go to Youtube and search “ark how to add mods to single player”. There are several videos that will walk you thru how to activate and run them. There is a video tutorial for everything.

[static obsidian]

Alr

[heavy jay]

When installing mods from curseforge onto my unofficial server do I have to configure each one or do I only need to download them

[wild crown]

Download, then activate

[wise kindle]

Just download and hit the save button. All clients connecting will then auto install the mods you added.

[heavy jay]

Thx guys

[deft stone]

if you configure the mod list with the mod id the ASA serer will automaticaly download/update the mod for you

[jade folio]

I did the server update and I removed shiny dinos but kept primal chaos, cryos, dino level, super spyglass, and dino colors mods active and the server started up no issues. So I logged in with both Xbox and no issue so maybe the issue is now patched

[static obsidian]

Is there an S+ or D+ for console on asa?

[late estuary]

Hey guys. Let's roll out an update that breaks all mods, and then announce a modding contest.

[wise kindle]

I laugh but then realize this just actually happened and then I cry.

[tawdry rain]

Ain't no way they're promoting mods and shit and people still can't log onto servers smfh 🙄

[distant hearth]

an they wonder why they get slated :/
well made my break a laugh lol, back to work

[smoky pecan]

@silver kayak See the message I replied to
sorry its a bit late for a reply Cx

[tawdry rain]

That's the same fix as the last time. It didn't work for everyone

[silver kayak]

Thx ill try and its never to late than never ^^

[ruby kindle]

That may or may not work for smaller servers but for higher pop servers that is an absolute nightmare. We have had high pop servers on ASE and now ASA since 2016 and they still doing the same stuff as before. It’s getting to the point where they need to discount the server rates until they get their stuff figured out imo

[marsh elm]

On Nitrado it said to back up with ftp is that just a full server backup ?

[smoky pecan]

Oh I do agree. At the bare minimum it might be able to get admins into their servers to test further.

[humble thicket]

How do I turn off hardcore mode on my Nitrado server does anyone know? I just rented my second asa server and it's automatically on hardcore lmao couldn't find anything on ini that says hardcore even in general settings

[wise kindle]

They have tutorials on their site that list the files to backup and their file locations.

[wise kindle]

Its a checkbox on the General settings page. I believe it literally says hard core mod or something.

[humble thicket]

Thanks a lot! I'll go ahead and try this after work

[humble thicket]

I used control F but no option is showing 🥲 anything I might be doing wrong? Lol it also don't show on my other asa server which isn't in hardcore

[smoky pecan]

Just note, I can't confirm if it works for console clients. I can confirm it worked for myself and another player of mine one steam clients.

[humble thicket]

Hopefully it does I'll give it a try but gonna back up first Nitrado support told me to restore a backup on my server from before loop restart and crashing happened but still crashing

[wise kindle]

What the heck is control F? I thought you were asking for the setting to disable hard core mode on a Nitrado server?

What was your question then?

[humble thicket]

Yes control F is if you click on keyboard will popup a box for u to search up any word on that page

So I used that to look for the hardcore settings in the general settings option on Nitrado dashboard but can't see the setting to turn it off

[wise kindle]

Just scroll and look man. Its on the General settings page. No need to search your inis.

[humble thicket]

No I searched on the general settings, but it's still not showing. I tried to filter it out as well does it specifically say hard core?

[wise kindle]

Hold on ill login to mine and give you the location.

[humble thicket]

Alright thanks I'm at work so replies might be limited I'm just on my 15 minute break lol I'm doing it on my work computer being sneaky

[wise kindle]

Ok, so its not there anymore. So turns out you arent blind, I am.

The setting is in your inis: ServerHardcore=False

[humble thicket]

Lol thanks, you think if I just place that on my ini it would work? I looked at game and gameusersettings earlier but didn't see that lol

[humble thicket]

Game or gameuser?

[wise kindle]

You making me work here. One sec

btw I found this in https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

you can Control F there and find alot of the answers you seek

I dont run hardcore and its not coming up in my inis. It has to be an added line. So you will need to search both files for the setting.

[smoky pecan]

it'll most likely be a GUS.ini

[distant hearth]

gus ini under [serversettings]

[wise kindle]

Is mod stability a category in the contest? If so I have some votes to cast.

Theres some really really nice mods out there. Then theres some really bad ones.

[celest halo]

That would be a hard category to vote in, is it the mod that's not stable or is it the game 🤣

[wise kindle]

Technically its both but in some cases tho, I dont think that person should be making mods. Some of the decisions are, well, questionable.

But true, the game is butt so can be hard to tell.

[celest halo]

Maybe some of them making the mods used to work for WC 🤣

[wise kindle]

OMG lmao
Imagine working for WC and being that terrible. Then making mods. OMG

I just realized Im probably calling out at least one person out there. Sorry man.

[celest halo]

Where else they learn the questionable decisions 🤣

[wise kindle]

lol so true.

[peak sapphire]

Anyone had a good play around with spawn weights? I noticed on ASE that the official maps worked differently than the modded ones. I’m hoping that’s not the case on ASA but that’s wishful thinking at this point.

[sacred kestrel]

Has anybody removed their mods and server actually worked afterwards?

[wise kindle]

My experience is only with a couple adjustments but those adjustments should have made a huge difference but they did not. I feel like they are either broken in ASA or just maybe decreased their relevance somehow?

[wise kindle]

Thats a mixed bag as well. Some see improvements, some have the same issues.

[celest halo]

"We appreciate your reports and patience. We know it's been a rocky few days, but the patch has been very informative and also helped us identify and resolve a number of issues that would have otherwise impacted the Scorched Earth release. We’ll continue to monitor the live game and keep you updated as we move towards the release of Scorched Earth!" Lmao thank you all for being alpha testers

[sacred kestrel]

Ahh, okay

[celest halo]

Hopefully one of the issues they identified is that dev kit should be released before game update and not 24+ hours after

[peak sapphire]

Well that sounds like my experience with the official modded maps on ASE. I’ll have my own little play when The Center launches.

[peak sapphire]

Or utilising the PTR. They could even repurpose the dead SOTF servers for it.

[celest halo]

Yeah would of helped some but still would of had issues without mods being updated

"These crashes were caused by technical changes we've made to the core game as we remaster Scorched Earth." Can't make technical changes to core game files and not give a way for mods to be updated for them and expect things to work 🤣

[wise kindle]

Someone said they stopped using the PTR cuz it got toxic.

Then use a closed TR with volunteers. Come on now. Did they not see the overall improvement in those few updates they put out after they went thru the PTR?

I have no doubt that it relates to them all "wearing multiple hats" and having no time to manage a TR, but my god. This would save thousands of overtime dev hours and then some. Not to mention morale and employee retention.

[broken ferry]

Anyone know hard ini ?

[deft stone]

Ask you question we are a bunch to have ini knowledge

[celest halo]

That's because they did an fully open PTR instead of having people sign up for it, fully open are always a mess

[deft stone]

they use the ptr for the winter wonderland, and it had 0 bugs on release...

[wise kindle]

Exactly. Thats a neanderthal level of genius right there.

[deft stone]

the only reason they dont test, is probably, because they are on a rush, SE is there next money income, and Snail must push hard on it...

[celest halo]

That channel should of been behind a discord role so only people with it could see it and not everyone in the discord

[shut bramble]

what is the creature id of gigantoraptor?

[deft stone]

Gigantoraptor ID: Gigantoraptor_Character_BP_C

[shut bramble]

if i spawn a wild gigantoraptor does it spawn only the raptor or the nest too?

[marsh elm]

I love how this chat is completely opposite of gen chat 🤣

[deft stone]

a little bit more technical, and less emotional 😉

[celest halo]

I don't even see gen chat lol

[marsh elm]

Better off 🤣

[olive talon]

Can bring it back on topic, on that note.

[wise kindle]

I think its only the raptor. You would need to spawn it in its native spawn area, leave the area for a bit and come back to see if it spawns a nest. 50/50 chance it does I would think.

Bee is gonna cage us guys.

[deft stone]

ho ho

[unborn jetty]

is there away to check if server is updated rather then always call the steamcmd update line on each start up?

[deft stone]

not realy

[celest halo]

Not easily

[shut bramble]

the thing its, we tried to find some, and on the original spots we didnt found them only on some spots where they are not supposed to be 😑

[deft stone]

i just look at the patch note and if it change i launch manualy the update command

[wise kindle]

Try those spots. They are based on theri spawns. Look those up and spawn them where theris spawn.

[unborn jetty]

if you know a method please let me know, im just not sure of away to retrieve the version

[celest halo]

I poll steam for update times on the public branch so I know when new release is on steam

[deft stone]

i was thinking of webscraping the upate notes on the forums...

[deft stone]

why dont you just launch the steamcmd command it does the job, nothing to valid nowhere...

[unborn jetty]

because it updates every restart even when theres no update, i have a discord bot that restarts the server every 24 hours and because its updating every restart depending on how many servers im running it can take a long time to complete the restart because its updating aswell

its either find away to check for an update an then update or i add a delay between each server so it doesn't take so long to update, those are the only fixes i can think of

[wise kindle]

Remove the check and readd when needed?

[deft stone]

ok i understand, if you have an update you will delay the restart of the server not having them all a the same time, and if no update all restart at the same time...

just add the delay between each, you will need to do it anyway

[wise kindle]

Or create 2 bat files, one with the check and one without.

Call the bat without the check one every day for normal restart.
Call the bat with the check manually when you want to trigger an update.

Just an idea.

[golden nest]

Look at the server terminal, it prints version near the top

[celest halo]

Knowing the servers version is kind of useless for checking if there is an update, steam only knows buildid

[golden nest]

That's why we're in the discord, to see when patch notes get updated. When they do, then we have an update

[celest halo]

Version number is good if you going to check patchnotes

And making something to check installed buildid against available buildid on steam while fun to do is pointless, easier to just run steamcmd and let it check and update it if it needs to be

[deft stone]

So, just add a delay between each server restart

you will need it anyway in case of an update

[celest halo]

i just check this and keep track of the timeupdated and have my bot send a message about a update being out, i dont check what version my server is already on ```
"public"
{
"buildid" "13719809"
"timeupdated" "1710293069"
}

[marsh elm]

Seen a server with 27-60 people online with klinger rustic mod active are some mods getting updated ?

[shut bramble]

what to i need to type in the console? it doesnt work for me to spawn it

[wise kindle]

cheat summon Gigantoraptor_Character_BP_C

These codes are all listed in Dododex or https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Gigantoraptor

[unborn jetty]

what do you run to get the buildid? if u dont mind pming me

[celest halo]

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK

Steam>app_info_request 2430930
App info request sent.

Steam>app_info_print 2430930```

[shut bramble]

thank you

[humble thicket]

how much do i have to pay for me (pc) to play with my playstation friend

anyone know?

[distant hearth]

the easier way is to rent a nitrado server , but u still got learn how to set it all up an that . Must be ark ascended

if you spend the time learning how , you can set a server up from your own pc or a spare if its good enough an have good internet ,
is also possible to rent a virtual machine an set them up on that , just depends how much time you want to invest in learning how

[humble thicket]

thank u for such a good response... is there any chance crossplay is gonna be released in an easier way in the future?

[distant hearth]

i dont know , but probably not tbh

[jaunty vortex]

I think you will always need a dedicated server for cross play.

Official or unofficial.

[distant hearth]

oh yes ofc i shud of said, u can just join an official an play if its crossplay, or someone elses unofficial but i reccommend research going that route an finding a good one that has a discord thats active an the owner is letting everyone know whats going on etc

[humble thicket]

oh sweet thanks

[violet whale]

My game keeps crashing I think it's because of the creature amount in the caves but I can't even get in the world to Dino wipe because it keeps crashing

[distant hearth]

if its a server you can run a dinowipe before starting it,
singleplayer no such option that i know .
wud be an unusual crash though

[tepid berry]

I've got an odd question: Is it possible to install the client-side mods as server side, to force users to have them installed?

Like the mickey-mouse skins for example.

[violet whale]

So do I basicaly lose my world now?

[distant hearth]

custom cosmetics no, that is upto the client to choose what they want to add

[distant hearth]

is it singleplayer? if so goto bobs with probs, look in the pinned posts an there is a post by sythra on how to poteentially fix corrupted save files

[broken halo]

i have a cross play server but its currently down with the last update its US of Ark Cluster ur welcome to check it out and bring ur friends

[violet whale]

well i did just loose 6 hours of work but atleast i can acces my game again thanks

[pallid kestrel]

They're just posting random bullshit when people on console unofficial can't play 30 secs without crashing

Vote for your favourite map that doesn't work woo

[distant hearth]

its not just console, all platforms are affected, just depends on the mod

[compact goblet]

can someone explain this. its a little confusing what it means

-StasisKeepControllers

If enabled, the server will keep Unreal Engine actors (e.g.: creatures) AI controller objects in memory when actors go in stasis. This favours performance when a portion of a map is rendered by a player and actors go out of stasis. However, especially on large maps, it will result in higher memory usage even with few or no players.

[static obsidian]

How does one get 5x harvest on single player asa

I was told world section of advanced

Not there

[wise kindle]

This is best asked in #bobs-with-probs tbh. This is the channel for unofficial server setup.

[static obsidian]

I'll just look it up ig

[marsh elm]

Doing some testing on a test server has everyone got movement speed turned on ?

[wise kindle]

Better question is who actually has that turned off lol.

[marsh elm]

Right but here what my science figured out

I have it on my pve server was making a PvP for jokes and when I added movement speed it broke the server 🤷

Still testing but worth looking into for the guys who know more than me

[static obsidian]

Yeah I ran into a wall quickly

[marsh elm]

False alarm my bad 🤣🤣

[lavish gulch]

Can i do rollbacks on modded servers?

[distant hearth]

if you want to know an know how , ofc

[humble thicket]

I just add ServerHardcore=False under server settings right?

Cause it's not there lol couldn't find it but the server is on hardcore mode by defaul

[icy stone]

Does anyone know if these codes actually work and do I put them above or below shooter?
Bdisablevolumetricclouds=true
Bdisbalevolumetricfog=true

[distant hearth]

it shud not be hardcore by default, kinda odd, id check ure ini again, but ye add that

[silver thistle]

grass.enable 0 (Disables Grass) (Low FPS Impact)

r.ContactShadows 0 (Disables Small Shadows) (Low FPS Impact)

r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0 (Disables Lumen) (High FPS Impact)

r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 (Disables Lumen Reflections) (Medium FPS Impact)

r.MaterialQualityLevel 0 (Disables Textures) (High FPS Impact)

r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 (Reduces Triangles For Nanite Meshes) (Medium FPS Impact)

r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 (Disables Shadow Cascades) (Medium FPS Impact)

r.ShadowQuality 0 (Disables All Shadows) (High FPS Impact)

r.VolumetricCloud 0 (Disables Clouds) (High FPS Impact)

r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 (Disables Water Reflections) (Low FPS Impact)

r.volumetricfog 0 (Disables Fog) (Low FPS Impact)

[broken ferry]

anyone know an hard ini?

[humble thicket]

Yeah I did but players reporting when they die they reset to lvl 1 and lose all engrams but keep their stuff

But yeah I don't see anything that says hardcore mode

[icy stone]

I’m trying to figure out if the ini code works not the admin commands

[silver thistle]

ow my apoligies

[limpid glen]

Anyone been able to get their svartelhiem nitrado map working on consoles it’s still giving everyone a crash error

[icy stone]

No problem thanks for trying to help. I still haven’t figured this out. I guess I’ll just try it and see if it messes up my server lol

[silver thistle]

ill be shocked if u can play, i havent been able to run my server since the last update and if i start removing mods people will lose stuff structures taimes etc so not worth doing till they fix it all

[icy stone]

It’s just two of us and I just started it so it’s no big deal if it messes up. I removed the shiny mod and klinger and I’m able to play so far.

[silver thistle]

which klinger mod did u remove? i removed the shiny one

[icy stone]

The boat ferry one. That’s the only one I had

[silver thistle]

aww i dont have that one

[icy stone]

I just typed like a half a page code for a supply drop configuration . Wish me luck I have no idea what I’m doing 🤣

[silver thistle]

mate get Beacon, then you dont need to code anything u can add taims remove taims and chnage loot drops with a flick of a button

[sweet imp]

I couldn’t run my server either. I decided to roll it to Friday before the update and it popped up and works just fine. The pop on server agrees it’s better to be able to play than be stuck and waiting. The rollback was worth it.

[limpid glen]

What map?

[sweet imp]

The island

[icy stone]

Ehh i don’t really like spending money. Doesn’t that cost money. Im new to all this. After I change this drop and add the stat multiplier it’s basically good to go.

[distant hearth]

beacon has afree version that does alot things, i recomend it .
i have the paid becuase it cheap an had for years , but the free does hell of alot

[silver thistle]

yeah u pay a one of for 1 year it wasonly like £12 for the year or something like that and it has a discord to for surpport and what not butyeah i mean if u solid on coding on nitrado and ur happy with it then cool but yeah beacon allows you have make so many changes

[silver thistle]

free version dont allow drop chnages if i remember rightly

[icy stone]

That’s not bad. If my code fails I will def look into it.

[distant hearth]

pretty sure it does , but i wudnt be 100% on that tbh

[silver thistle]

but yeah beacon is deffo worth it so much easier than nitrado

[silver thistle]

your absolutly right its creature spawns thats not on the free version

[distant hearth]

i know alot the more advanced stuff isnt on free, but seemed remeber the reason i brought was becuase it coded my drops for free on ase an i felt it deserved the $

[silver thistle]

yeah i upgraded i asusme for creature spawns becuase i had fjor back on ASE - and wanted extra taims and R DIRE BEARS lol

[icy stone]

Welp my code worked for the green drop except wyvern milk and nameless venom. I’m assuming we can’t do that yet?

[sacred kestrel]

Arkomatic mod is what's crashing my server. Hoping a fix comes soon cause I don't wanna remove and everyone lose their stuff

[silver thistle]

probs not as its technically not in game yetonly via mod

[distant hearth]

for asa ? prob not, ase it shud work

[icy stone]

That’s what I’m assuming too. I’m happy though. Changed it to all kibbles, veggie cakes and honey without messing anything up 🤣

[distant hearth]

gg , thats pretty impressive without using beacon, getting them to work right

[silver thistle]

just a heads up, if u add the npc mod - they haver little hutsw and in them little hutsu can get get all that type of stuff to its a good mod to

[icy stone]

Thanks yeah I did a lot of research and copy and paste 🤣

[distant hearth]

yea thats how i learn stuff too .
but i still recommend you checkout beacon. its alot easier once u figure it out, especially if u want drops with random items to get the weights right

[icy stone]

The only thing that didn’t work was the cloud and fog codes. I guess I’ll do that manually every time.

[distant hearth]

oh yea there client side commands, im not even sure why it shows on servers, likely bad coding as it just pulled the file from singleplayer or summit

[icy stone]

I did actually watch a vid of that one. I do like it. I may add it when they figure out how to stop messing up the mods lol.

[broken halo]

I highly recommend my community loves that mod and his discord has a lot of help and a place to know what ini files to use and change to make it more .... say ark 2 ish

[shut bramble]

is there a respawn time for the gigantoraptor or is it just random that they appear or not?

[wise kindle]

Can be 15 minutes or an hour. Its kinda random.

[shut bramble]

its just we dont want to spawn a tamed one, and a wild one, doesnt build a nest (yet)

[wise kindle]

This should really go into the #bobs-with-probs but

Install the Der Dino Finder mod By Hacki_van_Bane on your map. This will add a dino finder to your inventory map interface.

Use this to find the wild dinos and their nests.

[worldly mantle]

Can someone tell me why when placing or picking up a wall or foundation my server crashes????

The server is at version 36.12

[wise kindle]

Ark is broken right now. If its a modded structure in any way thats likely the cause. Otherwise no idea.

Best to wait for the update mentioned in announcments.

[worldly mantle]

but on other unofficial servers that doesn't happen

[wise kindle]

Um, it does on my maps. So, yeah.

[worldly mantle]

oh

Could you tell me why when the server crashes, the character is lost, I have to create it again, it is not saved and the character cannot be downloaded, I only have to create another one, it happens to me on the island and in the svart

[wise kindle]

Single player?

[worldly mantle]

No, it's unofficial with more people, I'm not the only one that happens when you crash, the character is lost, and you can't download it

I have both maps, the island and svart.

[bleak ivy]

probably because the server you leave knows you left so you aren't there, the one you go to downloads you but if it crashes before it saves your survivor is gone

[worldly mantle]

but even so, any player disappears, not only it happens to me, in total on the server about 15 people have lost their character, I looked for the folder where the server save is made and I got a character save in svart and another in the island, I put the two folders together but it still keeps happening

[bleak ivy]

if they are being removed without transferring then the map isn't saving properly at all

[worldly mantle]

That's exactly what happens, the character is not saved, I don't know what else is going to make my head explode

[bleak ivy]

check your settings to make sure you don't have anything in there 🤷 changing the save location or something

is it nitrado or self-hosted?

[worldly mantle]

sefl-hosted

When enabling map transfer the map has started to be lost

[bleak ivy]

tell the server to save and see if the .ark file changes the creation date.

[distant hearth]

you might want to look into this , lil metioned to me it might help with the server save char issues
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/2023_official_server_save_files

however if u crash on transfer , its likely a differnt issue tbh

[bleak ivy]

thats a blank page lol. but that would be talking about the official server saves for ASE and how there are issues when running them since they are huge and old.

[worldly mantle]

If you save, I just did it and I get the date and time from now

[bleak ivy]

does the server console say its doing autosaves?

[distant hearth]

apologies i just updated it , missed an s ,
i was asking lil if he knew why the asa self host servers randomly wont save char data to the map after transfer, he suggested i try that save system to fix it

[worldly mantle]

and has it worked for you?

[bleak ivy]

that combines the survivor saves in the world save.

[worldly mantle]

Give me a moment, it's restarting and I'll see if it saves automatically.

[distant hearth]

i havent tested it , sry

[heady forum]

@humble thicket hey ik u

[distant hearth]

i havent looked into it yet to test , i presume the devs know what there talkng about, so just shared what i was told.

if it combines the player data to map though , im not sur ei like that lol, id have to learn how recover the .arkprofiles from it

[worldly mantle]

that's what you go through, the profiles are lost

[distant hearth]

yea they move from the shared cluster folder , but never get saved into the map save folder

[bleak ivy]

there is a commandline that auto-backups player transfers. -BackupTransferPlayerDatas
not sure if you need to be in the new file structure or if it works in ASA.

[gloomy trellis]

Do you have your maps shutdown? Waiting for the final fix?

[distant hearth]

yea i will have to find some time to test more see what its actually doing, if only work wud slow down ....

[wise kindle]

Yeppers. I just have a test map I spin up to test things atm.

I'm crossplay so gotta wait for the fix to get the lowdown.

[gloomy trellis]

Yes… makes the most sense really. Thanks!

[jolly dove]

Anyone have custom PLAYER levels working on their server? I can't get ours figured out. I originally copied INI data from our ASE server and the DINO levels are working, but not player levels.

Anyone have PLAYER levels working?

[distant hearth]

they just dont work in asa atm, 135 i think it is is max

[jolly dove]

There are servers advertising 140+ levels on ASA servers in #1110925695900713072, so either they're lying or they do work and no one is sharing the information on how to set it up.

[distant hearth]

alot those servers in the ads just copy pasted old ase ads.
you can poke about on google i guess an see if someone worked it out , beacon discord wud be where i wud look /ask but afaik , its not working

[marsh elm]

Still nothing I take it ?

Made a new server for testing and every mod we use works on it perfectly

[distant hearth]

tried moving the anticorrupt backups into that server?

[marsh elm]

Nope just wanted it to run keep everyone happy until we get a fix

What are the anti corrupt files ?

[distant hearth]

supposedly a copy of the save files that arent corrupted lmao .
sometimes they work if one the current ones has crazy going on. mostly in asa ive noticed it corrupts tribe profile data for some reason

[worldly mantle]

One question, what ark manager do you use? We have Uaca's and I think it causes problems when transferring the character, it does not save in the folder that I selected it

When selecting the character save folder it creates another folder in another location and I think the problem is with the ark manager called Uaca's

[distant hearth]

i dont use one, i just do it manually .
so i have this added on each server batch file
-clusterdiroverride=<filepath> -clusterid=<myserverid>

then when transfer for the first time it will create a folder in that location on my drive,
inside that is another folder named with the cluster id ,
its inside there it saves the data from a transfer until it moves from there onto a server map file

lots , i suspect u cud work it out from battlemetrics website if u wanted exact figures

[worldly mantle]

Of course, it does create the transfer folder for me but not in the destination that I marked it, because I select a folder, but it creates another one in another address, which means that every time the server crashes it is lost character

For example, I have all the files in /program file x86, and it selects that the transfer folder be created and saved in the same place, but, when the character is saved, it is done in /C

No matter how many times I select the save folder, it creates the folder somewhere else...

[distant hearth]

if u want it set in a differnt place just alter the batch file manually then ,
why is server crashing wud be more the issue ? if you transfer an server crash before the save period, it will lose a char, just how it is .
you can setup manaual full backups somehow, but id more be concerened why server crash

[bleak ivy]

yeah, I'd just stop using the server manager. clearly something is wrong with it.

[worldly mantle]

The server was crashing due to a plugin problem, but that is now solved, I found the error and it was solved, now my big problem is saving the character.

[distant hearth]

no lol, there isnt even that many unoffical servers when there working

google battlemetrics website, search ark ascended, then in top right click on , game stats, from there u can see the differnt things an filter by day, 7day , 3 month

it doesnt show whats down , but i can see that there was 37404 unofficial servers , after the update it dropped to 32957 and is now back up to 36887

59867 max unofficial server count over last 3 months, at end december, steadily declining since

its nothing really, games stale, wil lsee a jump on each map release

[lunar oriole]

New to this 😂

[wise kindle]

Most of the ppl with crossplay maps are playing it safe and staying down right now.

Tell them its a 5 head move atm.

[distant hearth]

depends on what mods u running, some are still broken
by the numbers it sems alot are fixed

#announcements

Posted 7 hours ago
Hey Survivors,

Here is a quick update on this Major version patch that just rolled out. We're aware that there has been an increase in both client and server crashes - we've patched as many on the server side as we can (you'll have seen the various updates come through), and we've also addressed some client-side on PC (we're preparing these for console as we speak).

also alot more that i cant pasta

[kind whale]

No it's not , we are getting sick of wc's BS and are starting to leave a game we love, I will soon leave as well . I paid money for a product and I'm not getting that product 😞

[distant hearth]

thats your choice, everyone is free to do an think as they will
i played an ea game for 400 plus hours. i cud walk away tomoz an feel i got good value for money

[kind whale]

I purchased the game about a month ago, and have had nothing but trouble with it from load in to basic stuff in settings that you always have to change even though you've saved the changes , eventually it gets a bit much

[distant hearth]

usual ea stuff tbh, walk away , come back in a few months if its annoying you that much .
i havent played since january tbh , waiting on maps . im fine playing other games atm till more content

[wise kindle]

And more stability

[distant hearth]

yea i must just love punishment, been play nightingale a bit , eek thats bad
then skyrim when its annoying me

[wise kindle]

I just end up on Palword or Conan again. A little Destiny sprinkled around a bit.

[spring cairn]

Hey, anyone able to assist with hiding baby Dino death messages from tribe log. ☺️

[snow pecan]

Anything about unofficial

[distant hearth]

there isnt a way i know of, how ever if u run super cryo storage, u can have it set to auto pickup babys into pods, then u can delete them in that .probably not what u after though

[limpid glen]

Any word on a console update? Players are getting restless

[bleak ivy]

#announcements or #patch-notes they haven't said anything yet afaik.

[humble thicket]

Joined to ask the same question, same reason

[wise kindle]

SOON

[fierce nova]

Idk if this belongs here but anyone have a list compatible mods that make the game more challenging and newer. Im currently playing single player so would love to add in a few mods that work together that make it harder and more fun

[young stream]

I can’t even get into my server and I removed a total of 14 mods I would think are the issue and I crash as soon as I even enter the game then it says I died and I go to respawn and I instantly crash it doesn’t even give me the time of day to get through my character getting up cut scene ☠️

[robust nymph]

Do any of the mods you have contain items that can be turned on and off? On off function items from mods cause dashblarding

[pallid kestrel]

i wouldn't even bother removing mods, i haven't removed any and all our pc players can play fine, its just console players that crash

[humble thicket]

The certification for the console fix hasn't been approved. It's a waiting game. Not a mod issue. We have to be patient.

[jovial walrus]

Are you sure it will come I am getting nervous

[humble thicket]

It will there's just no time frame yet

[jovial walrus]

Okey thanks 🙏

[jaunty vortex]

Will be down to Sony and Microsoft I expect.

[viral kelp]

Any idea if there is a setting to stop people taking items across on a cluster? What used to work on ASE does not work on ASA because the skins are classified as an item, cryos are an item so even if you had no dinos or items to be transferred in ini settings you can take a cryopod and throw out a dino. A fresh start on a server is a much better experience and that is what the admin wants to do on our server for Scorched Earth but he has tested it and those ini settings don't work sadly. Any suggestions?

[distant hearth]

they know it an issue, not sure when they will fix it, likely they want it sorted for scortched release,
by fresh start you mean with the old levelled up characters?

[viral kelp]

Oh great to know they know it is an issue, that gives us hope it will be fixed before Scorched drops. Fresh start means just our characters can transfer and nothing else 🙂 Thanks for your response, much appreciated.

[jaunty vortex]

I did see settings in Beacon relating to what you can transfer. I’m not in my PC to look though.

[deft stone]

PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadDinos=False

those are not working?

-NoTransferFromFiltering must also be use on the command line and i think for those to work you must setup a cluster id

[viral kelp]

Yep the PreventUploadItems does not work because skins are considered an item. PreventDownloadDinos works but because cryos are an item you can just bring dinos over in cryos and throw them out

[deft stone]

its not realy coool

[viral kelp]

He has cluster ID but not sure about NoTransferFromFiltering

[deft stone]

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.

if he dont have it it enable transfert from singleplayer creative modes transfert to the cluster 😦

[pallid kestrel]

@viral kelp doesnt work atm, we just have them clustered but have players making a new character on the other map until its resolved

then we will allow people to transfer their stuff back to island when transfers work propery, wipe the alternate map and then let people back on

[viral kelp]

Well fingers crossed they will fix it, don't think people will want to create new characters.

[pallid kestrel]

oh shiet i just realised that theyll need to be able to upload their island characters in order to transfer stuff off

our players seem keen enough to play any map other than island that they would make a new chara every day 🤣

[deft stone]

rik dont think, they just have to upload the items into the obelisk open the first map and get them.. no char upload needed

FreyaB just make experience gain hyper high on the new server, they will level up in 15 minutes

[pallid kestrel]

but they wouldnt be able to download the stuff onto island using their island character

[deft stone]

they will cause their perso id is the same

i do it all the time 🙂

SteamID

the same you use to whitelist plyaer

im late on the news, i was thinking it was still the steam id...

ho ok thank you for the info i didnt remark the change

[hallow tiger]

Is it possible for the skins to not be classed as an item so PreventUploadItems=true will work without all the character hassels ?

[pallid kestrel]

problem is its the unremovable base empty skin slots that are being counted

[marsh elm]

No news still ?

[hollow sigil]

When will be the ps fix update ?

[jovial walrus]

Nobody know...

[spring cairn]

@shut bramble hey, did you manage to find out how to summon a wild Gigantoraptor + Baby + Nest

[shut bramble]

there is only a possibility to spawn the Gigantoraptor itself, but the Mod "Der Dino Finder" by Hacki_van_Bane helped me 100000% i finally find them on the map

so i recommend this mod

[spring cairn]

Ah, we have a bugged 150 so were hoping to replace it with another 150

All good, thanks for replying ❤️

Maybe it'll work after a server restart tonight.

[shut bramble]

ah damn:( no sadly you can only spawn it without nest and baby, and we left it alone that it maybe make a nest but it didnt :I good luck to you!<3

[surreal falcon]

I hope they do. We also want the cluster with only character transfer.. We found out about this because we have for the time being clustered with Svartalfheim, and could not travel without items 😢

[daring prairie]

is there a way for me as a admin to view a locked cryofridge ?

[worldly mantle]

Does anyone know how to stop trees and large stones from appearing inside your black base? Is there a way to configure that????

[lone slate]

Force join the tribe

[jaunty vortex]

Have you put down foundation stones?

[stray tangle]

Is anyone on ps5 still unable to get into their game servers? Still showing the love evolved screen right before it crashes!?

[worldly mantle]

Yes, I have foundations and everything, a built base, it happens to me on the map of Svat, the same thing happened on the island the first days when the map was opened

[stray tangle]

We are just on the island with 3 mods

[worldly mantle]

I am on the svart map and it happens to me and other people who play on my server in svarth

[jovial walrus]

They is a devkit opdate

[worldly mantle]

???

[wise kindle]

The crossplay update isnt out yet. Its coming. The last update appears to have fixed steam, so we just need to wait for the console side to get outta cert.

[worthy roost]

Is there a way to change the boss level requirements?

[wise kindle]

I dont think so. Maybe with a mod but not thru settings.

[worthy roost]

😔

[peak sapphire]

It’s a shame the level override isn’t working like it did on ASE. I would just lower the XP needed to get to lvl 100 then every level after that need crazy XP - but not official crazy XP.

[distant hearth]

there is a way to do , ive done it before for someone, probably i used beacon tbh

[slate bridge]

is there a way to change what the boss drops ?

[distant hearth]

yea , or you cud in ase so i wud assume it works same, beacon can do it

[olive talon]

Couple of days late but good news for console server owners

[wise kindle]

Im still shocked by this but very happy.

[worthy roost]

gotchu, i have beacon too so

[marble wing]

Dumb question what version should the game be on now for xbox? Mine are on 1.12 but my friend is on 1.4 but neither of us can update the game lmao

[shadow bear]

Anyone able to get transfers working with PreventUploadItems=True? Game keeps telling me I have items when I clearly don't. Only thing I can think of is the Custom Cosmetic placeholders are counting as items.

[icy stone]

Looks like some of the mods are finally working. I had to manually update but placing the draconic shrine doesn’t crash me anymore.

[distant hearth]

its broken at the moment , there aware of it, yep it some issue with custom cosmetics

[broken halo]

you have to have that set False or it prevents transfers

[shadow bear]

The problem is I want it to prevent transfers with items.

[broken halo]

as will said its broke so it prevent any transfer

[shadow bear]

Sorry only saw your reply first. Dang, hopefully it's fixed before Scorched.

[broken halo]

lol if we get it at this rate

[distant hearth]

we can hope, i doubt they want to release official transfers to scortched with item transfers

[broken halo]

ive had my servers closed for 3 days to keep dinos from being claimable and or starving

i still havent been able to use dev kit

[slim mortar]

Are server fixed yet

[limpid glen]

Anyone’s servers actually working again yet?

[lavish gulch]

anyone an eta on the servers? T.T

[wise kindle]

Steam maps/players seem fixed for the most part. Still waiting for console fixes.

[limpid glen]

Anyone know what’s actually causing the issue? I read something about it being lighting? For the first time in days I was able to get in my server but got kicked 10 seconds later but if I go to my island map I can run around aslong as I’m not near a base that has lights

[broken halo]

WC announced it was a shader value they added or changed causing it

[wise kindle]

Root cause are perf updates to the base game. Ced talked about it in his post.

Optimizations specifically

[glacial creek]

have you tried turning off the shaders, and light shafts, and light bloom in game settings?
i havent this issue, and my base is using the vanilla stand up lights.

[hot condor]

Where do I report a admin

For a server

[fierce nova]

What mods are you guys using for single player

[sacred kestrel]

The cosmetic mod wildcard added to base game makes it impossible to transfer when items are disabled unfortunately. Only work around is allowing full transfers. I'm disabling raiding engrams on my server till its fixed

[deft stone]

only dino levels to make all my spawn 150

i hate to search for a high level dino 2h

[jovial walrus]

Not our s...

[jovial walrus]

Same here ...

[jovial walrus]

We still can't...

[meager gazelle]

The electronic feed trough was the mod that was kicking me off

[cold rapids]

Sort out unofficial man we all getting bored out here

[viral kelp]

We had a discussion about this last night as our admin cannot get it to work either, correct it is the item skins that are the problem it seems, hopefully they fix it soon.

[gritty minnow]

I need help, is it still necessary to have the winter wonderland and love evolved mod active for unnoficial dedicated server(not nitrado)? If I remove the mods, the obtainable content is deleted, right?

[lone lodge]

I still have Xmas stuff but the Valentine's it seems did not get to dev kit yet. Also self hosted.

[limpid glen]

All that’s been off since day one

[slim summit]

Place your bets... Will the update arrive today so that console people can finally enter unofficial server with mods!?

[cold rapids]

We are not cared about

[robust nymph]

On/off items from mods.
Forges, lights, lamps, workbenches.

[robust nymph]

The messages we got from nitrado was that we were now able to remove winter wonderland and love evolved because the items from both had been included into the base game.
I would assume it's the same for dedi. But not my fault if it's not haha

[limpid glen]

Literally all of my mods work in one server and not the other the only issue in that server is when you go near a base you get kicked so it’s not a mod issue its a wildcard issue

[marsh elm]

If it’s not fixed today probably be Monday right ?

[marsh elm]

Is it possible to turn off cave building on a pvp server ?

[west plinth]

Allowcavebuilding=false

[marsh elm]

Add the to game .ini ?

[west plinth]

Gameusersettings.ini
Serversettings

[marsh elm]

Thanks for the help

[west plinth]

Np , if it doesn't work lmk I will be up for a little bit longer

@marsh elm my mistake it's allowcavebuildingpvp=false

[marsh elm]

Thanks

[abstract ether]

Hello!

Give you my players info, some of them help me testing. At my servers the issue was caused with D+ structures . After delete the mod , everything is working ok

[limpid glen]

Yeah I don’t use that mod

[abstract ether]

Some similar?

[limpid glen]

So it’s gotta be something else. Both my servers run the same mods and one of them works and the other doesn’t work at all. I use homedeco and small structures

[abstract ether]

Did you try to delete binaries mod folder too?

[limpid glen]

How can I do that on nitrado?

[limpid glen]

?

[robust nymph]

We can't even get on ours so the only kick we've been able to experience is as soon as we log on haha

[limpid glen]

Yeah I have that same issue with my svartelheim map but my island map which runs the same mods will let you play aslong as you have no lights near you. So if you’re out and about there’s no problem. If you get close to a base boom your kicked

[robust nymph]

That sounds like the on/off bug, but weird that it only happens on one map.
Maybe the update that nekatus done for dwarven map stopped the crashes. His patch notes said it did, but we haven't been able to check due to other mods that need fixing, or wildcard, whoever gets it done first.

[jovial walrus]

We don't have that mod and is still down

[jovial walrus]

Same here

[robust nymph]

It's most mods that have on/off function items. Some have had updates rolled out by the modders, some haven't.

[haughty ether]

just wait for the console patch guys...its not just one issue, its a mutitude. It's in certification, it shouldnt be much longer

[haughty ether]

we cannot access our only server using Dwarven..the rest we can

[robust nymph]

Been in cert for a day so it's gotta be close.
Some people dwarven works and others it doesn't. Kinda weird.
You're servers done a restart to apply to mod update?

[haughty ether]

yup, i apply mod updates as soon as they drop. it didnt help unfortunately, yet my Primal chaos island server is fine and my Forglar using Rustic builders is fine

[robust nymph]

It's a little funny that some things work for some and not for others.
The funny is slowly wearing out as we near day 4 of no ark

[jovial walrus]

Out server still don't work ..
We must just wait for a fix

[surreal falcon]

Same with us, dwarven after update, still not working, forglar no problem. Just waiting for the PS5 fix. It take ages 😭

[lament shale]

So i got the game last week for me and my sons and we upgrade from amd sapphire r9 to radeon rx 7600xt load game up it looks well so we look for a server to join sit for 2 hours on loading screen fast forward to this week i have been trying for 17 hours to get on a server and cant we can only log on single player so i tryed to make a server and its coming up with [2024.03.14-21.38.56:538][ 0]Log file open, 03/14/24 21:38:56
[2024.03.14-21.38.57:001][ 0]LogCFCore: SetSettings called:
{
"defaultLanguage": "en",
"gameId": 83374,
"apiKey": "1aZe",
"maxConcurrentInstallations": 3,
"modsDirectory": "ShooterGame/Mods",
"modsDirectoryMode": "CFCore",
"userDataDirectory": "ShooterGame/ModsUserData",
"isServer": true,
"isServerPcOnly": true,
"throttling":
{
"diskWriteBytesPerSec": 0
},
"premiumMods":
{
"publicKeyPem": ""
},
"logger":
{
"enabled": true,
"history": 8,
"maxSizeInMB": 2
}
}
[2024.03.14-21.38.57:002][ 0]LogCFCore: Warning: Couldn't load mods library from disk

[jovial walrus]

We can't do anything we have to wait

[nocturne citrus]

someone have info on how much data traffic a server needs?

[lament shale]

i dont sorry im still looking help to get on a server

[abstract ether]

You need to connect your servers with ftps, and get the save folder first. Send me dm I will try to help you

[inner sinew]

so server is back to working but for some odd reason console players that have been playing on my server crash when they connect. anyone else having this issue?

[balmy rivet]

Yeah, every other console player for the last week nearly.

[inner sinew]

also did the roleback disable console do i need to renable it on my server

[balmy rivet]

Scroll up my guy

[jovial walrus]

PS5 and x box are still not able to play on they uofficielle server s .

[olive talon]

Waiting for consoles to pass cert. #announcements.

[jovial walrus]

Yeah hope it will be soon 🙏

[tawdry rain]

Guys relax, it's only been 5 days. What other game can you say gets approved that fast? (Hint: literally any other game in existence is irrelevant 🤓) Anyway, what's the worst that could happen? Whole communities left standing around with a thumb up their a- oh....

[blissful trout]

Have they taken Love Ascended off officials yet?

[olive talon]

Yes

[ornate oxide]

Anyone has a good admin panel mod?

Unfortunately if it’s the same one we’re talking about it’s about to get deleted

Yeah

[high forge]

A new update has been submitted and be available Sunday most likely, best server admin mod available, just dont use the right hand side of the panal till the update is available as it will crash your game.

[ornate oxide]

I’m blind I didn’t see this! Tysm

[humble thicket]

any news about this new patch?

[high forge]

dunno i just tried updating my server and it still on .12

[humble thicket]

thank you! i wonder what this patch could be hopefully it fixes the crashes on console too

but even my pc players on my server are experiencing some crashes lately

[balmy rivet]

Also still on .12

[high forge]

yeh same here. I think when console users get there "patch" there probably have some problems still ;p

[marsh elm]

Yes still .12

[limpid glen]

Anyone know how to get the decor box on PvP?

[hearty olive]

Has anyone had any issues getting things like baby maturation time and hatching time to work properly? Feels like mine aren’t especially when trying to breed things that gestate

[high forge]

not tested recently but not had any complaints either from players.

[dusty jay]

anyone able to grab the new update

[high forge]

nope, been updating a test server every few mins to check lol.

[marsh elm]

My server worked perfect then I got a 3 second shutdown

[west plinth]

The update for xbox came out and the sever it up and running and everyone is on and isn't crashing

[balmy rivet]

Just got it. Looks to be live.

[high forge]

I'll let you guys test it first, gl lol

[high forge]

i tested on test server it updated but still says .12 Edit : at .18 now my mistake.

[jovial walrus]

Anyone do the opdate work ?

[humble thicket]

36.18 now for me finally

everything is working smoothly and no crashes console

[jovial walrus]

Oh thank God 🙏❤️

We are not home and cant try

You have a server ?

[icy stone]

Shiny Dino’s and klinger working again?

[jovial walrus]

In xbox they say yes

I need some PlayStation server owner who can tell me if it works again

[humble thicket]

maybe .18 is only for console for now?

my servers are now all on 36.18 xbox

Beast 👀

[heady forum]

Let's hope they don't break it again haha

[humble thicket]

lol

[heady forum]

@humble thicket hello 👋

[humble thicket]

hiii

[icy stone]

Yeah took a min to reflect after I updated too but finally getting the .18 on nitrado

[rare bear]

is ark cross play between epic and steam?

[icy stone]

I’m scared to put shiny Dino’s and klinger mods back on…

[distant hearth]

make a full backup , add in an crossfingers , easy to revert back if issues,
or just wait till monday, by then likely the modders update there stuff too

[olive talon]

Ark Survival Evolved is, yes.

[rare bear]

just making sure

[icy stone]

Yeah I was impatient yesterday and tried to put them back on because it was working fine on single player. Through my server into a restart loop and had to roll back like 7 hours of gameplay to fix it 🤣. I’ll have to research how to make a backup idk what I’m doing 🤦‍♂️

[distant hearth]

if its a nitrado server, look up how to make a copy of the save files via ftp

[icy stone]

Yes it is. Thank you I will look into it.

[muted raven]

Well a see quite the reports Nitrado said issues are resolved yet I see more people complain about restarts loops

[peak sapphire]

Anyone else on Xbox have all their mods uninstalled after the patch?

[high forge]

yep been plenty of complaints, seems to be console issue or just xbox maybe?

[peak sapphire]

I wouldn’t mind so much if I didn’t have such a slow connection. Oh well ha

[high forge]

just dont load your save without the mods and all be ok ;p

[peak sapphire]

Both my servers are stuck updating/restarting so I’ll have some time yet

[high forge]

yeh been there done that, moved on from nitrado lol never looked back. Took me like 5 days to get contact from support, since that i got myself a vps and can host multiple servers for just over £30a month.

[gaunt berry]

Any one got the server saying new update will be installed but not changing?

[peak sapphire]

Yep

[gaunt berry]

Do I just wait or can I force stop the server

[peak sapphire]

Either that or contact support. I’m gunna ride out the storm

[high forge]

Force it, if available it should update

Make sure you have back ups at hand, save world before.

[peak sapphire]

My servers haven’t had anyone on for a few days so I can keep trying previous backups. Usually when this happens, it sorts itself out after a few hours.

[gaunt berry]

I just force stop now start server will let you know if it works

[high forge]

Can you do rcon commands via nitrado ?

[wise kindle]

The stuck updating ones, are they mod maps?

[hasty cradle]

Mine back up

[gaunt berry]

No I'm on island

[peak sapphire]

Island and Svart. The only change I made was uninstalling Love Ascended on both

[gaunt berry]

Now I'm stuck on the server will now restart

Dam I might go back to the first game lol

[high forge]

That's just cause your on nitrado. It's why I left them as any problems you have can take far to long to fix with zero compensation.

[gaunt berry]

Thanks guys for help server started now 👍

[unborn jetty]

has the 36.18 been released yet for updating? seems my servers arnt updated yet

[jovial walrus]

Hope ours will start to 🙏

[icy stone]

Yes

[high forge]

Yep

[shadow bear]

Has anyone experienced this running two different server instances on two separate machines on the same network? I have a "Test" server and a "Live" server. They are not clustered. Both of them show up separately in the Server browser. But if they are both running, no matter which one I connect to in the server browser, it will always connect me to the "Live" server. Only when the "Live" server is down will it actually connect me to the "Test" server. They're using different ports, the ports are forwarded correctly to the separate machines. It's driving me nuts!

[high forge]

If you changed the ports, it would me too, sorry.

[severe bison]

So i did the alpha brood and alpha megapithicus and yea my game crashed while teleporting the dragon area so i loaded a backup that was from when i started the server but i still have the engramms and the Notes i think but i don't have the element do i really need to do them again?

[shadow bear]

Yeah they are set to use different ports. And the ports are definitely working. When theyre each running individually they connect and function fine. Its only when I run them at the same time that I have this issue.

[high forge]

Very strange 🤔

[shadow bear]

Saw some threads where people were talking about the -MultiHome flag. I played around with that hopeing that would solve it but nothing so far.

[high forge]

This home hosted ?

[shadow bear]

Yes, using a static ip. I have a dedicated machine I use for my normal servers. Trying to set up a "Test" set for working on my server management tool.

[lunar cloud]

@shadow bear whats your bat file start command look like for the two servers ? just remember you dont need QueryPort anymore and would recommend to make sure there are no ports in your ini files. Then use -port on each server start command

You may have issue where you might have a port in your ini file or something interfering

[shadow bear]

No ports in my inis but I am utilizing query ports. Theyre all different though would that make a difference?

Test Server:
cmd /c start '' /b ASAServers\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe Svartalfheim_WP?SessionName='My Cool Cluster - Svartalfheim(Test)'?AltSaveDirectoryName=KCSvartalfheim_WPSave?Port=7791?QueryPort=27052?RCONPort=32344 -clusterID=MyCoolCluster625765480 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=20 "-mods=908148,942355" -NoTransferFromFiltering -NoBattlEye

Live Server:
cmd /c start '' /b ASAServers\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe Nyrandil?SessionName='[HIDDEN]'?AltSaveDirectoryName=KCNyrandilSave?Port=7779?QueryPort=27016?RCONPort=32332 -clusterID=[HIDDEN] -WinLiveMaxPlayers=20 "-mods=,908148,929420,914844,912902,933576,934878,941145,916922,939228,959391,927131,949521,965599,975282,968943" -NoTransferFromFiltering -NoBattlEye

They look a little funky cause I have a script that builds the execution command. I'll try taking out the query ports.

[lunar cloud]

Query port removal is just a cleanup, but should not be causing your issue. Its an old port used by steam infra in ASE. ASA uses Epic infra instead so you either need to use ?Port=xxx or -port flags.. Yours look fine to me

You say they both appear in the server list with correct map name and different days etc ?

[shadow bear]

Yup, all the info in the browser is correct.

Just when I log into the Test one, it sends me to the live one instead.

Ive tried with separate clusters too. I'll boot up the test cluster. Login. Then boot up the live cluster. And from the test cluster I'll transer to another Map on the test cluster, but it will transport me to a map on the live cluster.

[lunar cloud]

ok , what i would do , go onto Battle metrics website and filter for ASA and try to find your server. This site once you select your server from the list will show its public IP and port that it has registered as

We just want to make sure its same IP and different port for the listing

Because I would assume both sit behind your router IP .. the battle metrics website will help confirm this

[shadow bear]

Woah, had no idea this existed. Taking a look now.

[lunar cloud]

because Ideally from the outside, a server should have unique IP\port combination, in your case xxxx:7791 and xxxx:7779

If that correct from the outside, it may be forwarding internally incorrectly and may be a router config issue

[shadow bear]

My test servers arent showing up on Battle Metrics. I did just spin them up today, you think that would be an issue?

[lunar cloud]

yeah it very well could be. All servers registered to epic should show there
I run local ASA test servers on docker and it shows , even shows when my server is offline as "dead"
So they keep an active and inactive listing

I think the search is Case sensitive, so just be sure its not a search mistake

[high forge]

It's not case sensitive.

[lunar cloud]

I just did a test, and if i search with lowercase, my servers dont show

If I use the correct camelcase, it shows 🤷🏽‍♂️

[high forge]

Mine do, strange

[shadow bear]

I'll just leave my Test servers up for a bit to see if they get picked up by BattleMetrics. Hopefully that will provide some insight if they show up.

[high forge]

If your servers not showing, it's your ports most likely, if your behind a router make sure it's linked to your internal IP.

[shadow bear]

Believe me, I have checked my ports and restarted my router so many times. And the servers work fine individually. I'm just getting forwarded to the wrong server when they are both running.

[lunar cloud]

yeah it could be a case of which ever server started first, won as it claimed the port and registered and the second server maybe is not registering correctly

[high forge]

yeh i understand your pain ;p have you tried the ark server manager haruhost, its what i use and forwards ports in firewall etc for you, i dont home host so not much help sorry.

[lunar cloud]

One other thing if you're into networking, you can install nmap and netstat
Then go into each server when they are running and run netstat to check and ensure each server is listening on the right port. While they are both up
then use nmap from an external server (outside your network) and test like nmap -sU <IP> -P <port> to see if the port is open from the outside
You should see open ports from outside with your server public IP and the two ports

This will test the network packet can hit your public IP and go down the stack all the way to the server and hit the port

If port shows as filtered\unknown\closed and not open then thats an issue

[shadow bear]

I will definitely try this. I appreciate the help!

[high forge]

are you forwarding ports in your firewall also ? guessing you are 😦

[lunar cloud]

all good. These health checks will ensure there is nothing getting into the way. It sounds like either your test server is not listening correctly on correct port (server \ windows firewall issue), or the router config
Last option, You could test with a simpler TEST server, by just running the Island, no mods and as little as possible changes just to test that server and network to rule out Ark is not getting in the way too

[tawdry rain]

Is anyone else running into the issue where their server crashes/restarts every 30 minutes?

[chrome tinsel]

Ours has done 2 random unplanned restarts tonight 🥲

[icy stone]

I just had mine randomly switch to PvP 🤦‍♂️ I’m getting tired of nitrado and ark already lol

[errant fox]

Is the Valentines mod good to be removed yet?

[shadow bear]

This one I can answer! Yes. As long as you have the recent builds.

[errant fox]

Thanks I will remove soon!

[broken halo]

thats a nitrado issue they keep having gus and game ini rewrite from what ive run into

what back up programs are most running with succes?

[icy stone]

Yeah it happened after I went into setting and didn’t change anything. I’ll just stop messing with it until everything is fixed. I had to restore a backup again to fix it.

[broken halo]

@distant hearth i know ur not playing much but you have a server up i think any who you always seem to know lol

[marsh elm]

How do I stop a restart loop ?

[shadow bear]

BattleMetrics picked up my test server just now. It's saying my server is using a different port from the one I specified in the startup command though...

[lunar cloud]

Interesting , so its different than ?Port=7791 ? what is the port number its showing ?

[shadow bear]

Showing 7777, and its showing on BattleMetrics as if it was my Live server. Showing my uptime for the past 3 months or so.

7777 is one of the ports I use on my Live cluster

[lunar cloud]

Hmm, it is using the default port, check your server log ShooterGame/Saved/Logs/ShooterGame.log and look for Commandline: and ensure its correctly printed there. It seems like your bat may be wrong. Something could be cutting it off and it never reaches your ?Port
and then it uses default

My guess is your session name

[broken halo]

wwhat program are you useing to host?

[shadow bear]

You mean like the program I'm using to automate the servers?

[lunar cloud]

7777 is the default port. if there is something wrong in the command line, it will fall back to default. The log file will tell you the command it received during startup

[high forge]

Think so

[shadow bear]

The log is showing my correct ports.

[lone slate]

Why are my servers randomly shutting down???

[high forge]

Noone will know, your have to try give some more information.

[broken halo]

like steam cmd launcher or windows gsm

[lone slate]

I’ve had both of my servers just randomly shut down. Not crash, shut down. Like I’ve pressed stop server but I haven’t. On one occasion it deleted all server settings and I had to re-enter them all. This week has just been awful with wildcard and nitrado

[tawdry rain]

"Here's an update that should fix it, have a nice weekend!" Type 💩

[high forge]

yeh nitrado is your biggest enemy here ;p

[lone slate]

Honestly I’m so tired of the whole setup it’s a joke

[shadow bear]

I use my own script. I'm a bit of an automation nut. So I like writing all my own stuff for game servers.
It's "HeyKrystal/asa-server-manager" on GitHub

[broken halo]

i self host and love it it does take a leaning curve to figure out though

[high forge]

if your hosting more than one server, get a vps it works out cheaper and you have full control, on nitrado your stuck on long ass waiting times on support etc.

[broken halo]

ooh snap ill check it out im a noob but i have been learning

[high forge]

I use the haruhost server manager, its new but its being worked on and works well, also forwards your ports etc. edit: has rcon, backups , automated tasks.

[shadow bear]

I wanna build more features in but, Ive been using it for 3 months now. And basically never have to mess with it. It just runs the servers and restarts them on crashes.

[marsh elm]

I’ve been getting random shut downs and one server is in a constant restart loop

Trying to update

[broken halo]

ive been looking for a better option i use gsm currently it works good but i kinda want more ease of use

[broken halo]

try killing server and then do update and validate before starting

[lone slate]

Literally the same

What is with these random shutdowns??

[marsh elm]

Can I update with server shut down

I’m on Nitrado

[broken halo]

thats all on nitrado end im sure i havnt had issues like that since self hosting

[shadow bear]

Mine doesnt have a fancy interface, but I like that it runs in the background and I never have to see it lol.

[high forge]

a simple restart should force the update.

[broken halo]

sasme shere thats why i use gsm

[lone slate]

There’s nothing ever simple with nitrado…

[marsh elm]

Should normally but this is sickening non stop give me the option to force start or stop then continues 🤣

[broken halo]

ibelieve thats what causes loop on nitrado not sure though

[high forge]

thats why i left them 38 days ago ;p

[marsh elm]

Self hosting is that hard to set up ?

[high forge]

i rent a VPS rather than self host, but no, its easy to set up if you kinda know what your doing.

[lunar cloud]

can you share here what its showing, ive seen this issue a few times. The game is not parsing your cmd correctly. Mostly due to SessionName not being set correctly in bat file. You posted SessionName='My Cool Cluster - Svartalfheim(Test)'? earlier. Could you try SessionName=\"My Cool Cluster - Svartalfheim(Test)\"? instead ? Note I replaced single with double quotes and I also escaped it, in batch you have to escape quotes as the process will get those as different strings and not deal with the entire session name as a string

If you have this all correc,the log should display as [2024.03.15-21.08.01:401][ 0]Commandline: Svartalfheim_WP?SessionName="My Cool Cluster - Svartalfheim(Test)"? and have correct strings in the log

If this parsing is not correct, the server will fall back to default ports or sometime not even listen on a port at all and just hang

[broken halo]

no not really but you do need a decent rig if you plan to run multiple maps

[high forge]

biggest issue people have with self hosting is forwarding ports correctly ;p

[broken halo]

if you wanna run one just about any older setup can handle that from 16g of ram

[high forge]

with a low usercount, yep. Think mine runs at 13 gb now it was at 18 gb when i had more players ;p

[broken halo]

I dmed you @marsh elm i didnt want to seem like im useing this channel to advertise

[shadow bear]

You're onto something. I just realized my Live clusters aren't using the ports I designated either. 7777 was correct for the first server in my cluster. But I space them out by 2. 7777, 7779, 7781, etc. But in BattleMetrics they are showing as back to back. 7777,7778,7779. So they ARE Overlapping. Its just assigning them incrementally and not using the port pool I designated.

[shadow bear]

Gonna mess around with the escape characters to see if that fixes it.

[broken halo]

gsm auto assigns is your program set the same ?

[lunar cloud]

so far in my startup i only use escape character for session name. You want to triple check shootergame log every start to make sure the output there is formatted correctly as i stated, else you bat file needs tweaking

[shadow bear]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would mean its parsing the command correctly right? This in the entry from the log.

[2024.03.15-23.49.19:995][ 7]Server: "My Cool Cluster - " has successfully started!
[2024.03.15-23.49.21:848][ 7]Commandline: "?SessionName=My Cool Cluster - ?AltSaveDirectoryName=KCSave?Port=7789?RCONPort=32342" -clusterID=MyCoolCluster625765480 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=20 -mods=908148,942355 -NoTransferFromFiltering -NoBattlEye
[2024.03.15-23.49.21:848][ 7]Full Startup: 3.26 seconds

@lunar cloud

[high forge]

I'd say so, but im no expert, can take a bit if time longer to start and join the game tho.

[lunar cloud]

no thats the issue right there.
the session name in the resulting output is not wrapped in quotes

If you have this all correc,the log should display as [2024.03.15-21.08.01:401][ 0]Commandline: Svartalfheim_WP?SessionName="My Cool Cluster - Svartalfheim(Test)"? and have correct strings in the log

[shadow bear]

Oh shoot, hold on that log is incorrect cause I was trying something really dumb when I copied that. Let me check it again.

[high forge]

You have good eyes ;p mine may be bit blurry ;p

[broken halo]

wow i need to learn more you guys are on a whole new lvl for me

[lunar cloud]

im a software architect by trade and see this stuff all the time
The devs who wrote this should be validating all inputs and crash the server immediately with log message like "invalid session name" or port etc.
Atleast we have the command line output in the log but unfortunately it means we have to validate it ourselves

[high forge]

know where im heading when i have an issue ;p

[broken halo]

for real

[shadow bear]

You familiar with PowerShell? I'm gonna drop my command here to see if anything jumps out at you. Forgive me, I tried to do discord code markup but I have backticks in my command so its just screwing up the formatting lol.

$commandLine = "cmd /c start '' /b ASAServers\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe $($maps[$activeMapIds[$i]].apiName)?SessionName='"$($properties.SessionHeader) - $($maps[$activeMapIds[$i]].label)"'?AltSaveDirectoryName=KC$($maps[$activeMapIds[$i]].apiName)Save?Port=$($portPool[$i].instancePort)?RCONPort=$($portPool[$i].rconPort) $($respawnDinoArgument) -clusterID=$($properties.ClusterId) -WinLiveMaxPlayers=$($properties.MaxPlayers) "$($modIds)" $($properties.AdditionalCMDFlags)"
Write-Host $commandLine
Invoke-Expression $commandLine

Oh my god the formatting. It hurts my eyes.

When I add quotes around my SessionName, theyre just being removed when I look in the log.

I tried escaping them with backticks and the server did not like it.

[lunar cloud]

oh boy, yes i am familiar with powershell. The challenge you face here is you are building the command line as powershell variable string and that has quotes, then the string itself has quotes, then those quotes need to go to the ArkAscendedServer.exe so it will be fun escaping escape quotes lol

[shadow bear]

lmao

[vocal crypt]

Anyone got a fix to a frozen ark screen( loading screen)i alr tried restarting (old ark)

[shadow bear]

omg I got the quotes. I had to do a silly combination of escapes.
`"'SessionName`"'

And of course the escapes are working here in discord too so I cant show them lol.

[shadow bear]

You a baller dude. Gonna see if this works for the ports.

[lunar cloud]

I have had similar fun, since i run my servers in docker. I have config files that become bash, then pass that to proton then proton passes it to ArkAscendedServer

[shadow bear]

Haha, thats awesome. Nice to see fellow code nerd out here. I'm a DevOps Lead for work.
ALSO IT FREAKING WORKED! Its logging me into the right servers now.

[lunar cloud]

a tip is always check shootergamelog,
The command line should show below, no trailing quotes or any quotes in random places

[2024.03.15-21.08.01:401][ 0]Commandline: mapname?SessionName="servername"? etc etc quotes around session name and string inputs, ports and number are integers they dont need quotes

[shadow bear]

And see here I was thinking it was fine because the Server Browser was showing it correctly. Lesson Learned: don't rely on the game as proof that my stuff is working lol

[lunar cloud]

The more you automate and script, the less you will trust haha

[clear pebble]

Is there anyway to input an argument for Nitrado config to passivemod the active mods. I believe PC has commandlines but I would like to put it in the ini

[sturdy ledge]

Anyone else having issues with their server showing up in the recent update? It was open just fine, we updated, and now we can't find it.

[icy stone]

I know mine switch to PvP randomly and my server name was set to numbers.

I had to restore a backup and the server came back up with the right name and pve

[cedar plaza]

Does anyone know if any of these mods are going to be problematic on my server? I had heard structures were an issue, so I wanted feedback.

Cliffan’s Western Weapons, primitive weapons, visual storage, Alfa oceanic platforms, Norse longships, upgrade stations, jerky and spoiling bins, Randi’s Animal Traps

Wish I could post the mod thumbnails for clarification.

[shadow bear]

I recommend checking the comments on mod pages. A lot of times you can see which mods are problematic from reading those.

[cedar plaza]

The CurseForge mod page?

[shadow bear]

Yeah, although some pages dont actually have comments enabled. But I feel like the good mods do have them enabled.

[broken halo]

visual storage is good i use it

[quiet trellis]

Cliffan, Visual Storage, Alfa Oceanin are good to go, I use them

[broken halo]

-passivemod (modid) is how it should be in bat as for ini not sure

config should be same as bat i would think

[elder bridge]

Anyone know if nvidia filters where disable ?

[sturdy ledge]

So, everyone else can join my dedicated server, but I can’t. Ive been joining it fine, but now it just isn’t showing up on my list. Hosting from my pc, playin on my laptop. Any ideas

[bleak ivy]

I'd join from the IP instead of the list.

[sturdy ledge]

Its password protected. Is there a way to use the “open” command with passwords?

[bleak ivy]

after the port

Open IP:port Password

[sturdy ledge]

Its telling me invalid

[bleak ivy]

really

[sturdy ledge]

And I know the password is right

[humble thicket]

Not sure if this is the right place but i got the manor mod the other day but i can not for the life of me figure out how to apply the skin to the structures, the structure section in the cosmetics tab says "ITEM NOT YET USABLE" but its now on the spotlight yet i cant use it, ive tried dragging it to the custom skin structure thing an nothing happens, no structures show up when i put them both on structures, but if i do it with the armor it shows my armor and i can drag the skin to the armor, idk where else to ask

[sturdy ledge]

open XXX.XX.XXX.XX:XXXX Password

[bleak ivy]

Oh, try Open IP:Port?password wiki says that

[sturdy ledge]

Still nothing

[broken halo]

first make sure you have both boxes for player sesions and for password protected i had a buddy with same issue buy he never checked those

[sturdy ledge]

Yup

Ive been able to join it for the past couple days but every time an update drops something royally messes up that I have to fix. For some reason today it’s just me not being able to join

[broken halo]

thats wierd and sorry for the bob aproach but sometimes we overlook the obvious

this last week has been hell on server setups

[sturdy ledge]

Fr

Pulling my hair out while my buddies raid all my stuff🤦‍♂️

[broken halo]

what hosting service? or home based

[sturdy ledge]

Home

[broken halo]

are you using a ui?

[sturdy ledge]

Nope

[broken halo]

like gsm

[sturdy ledge]

Batch file

[broken halo]

so bare bones files then and bat file for start

[sturdy ledge]

Yup

And bats clearly fine cause everyone else can join

[broken halo]

i would try a updater then validate through cmd

[sturdy ledge]

Its just me that cant find it, even though I am hosting. I also cant IP join because it says invalid password

[sturdy ledge]

Done. It runs with the bat

[broken halo]

have you tried removing password even just temp?

[sturdy ledge]

Nope, they are online and whining about me doing that

[broken halo]

you run from seperate machine im guessing?

[sturdy ledge]

Yeah. Running on pc, playing on laptop. I got the specs to play and run on pc, just dont wanna be sitting in the office. Tried joining on pc (local host) and still nothin

[broken halo]

dang im outa ideas ive been learning more as i come across stuff but i havent had that issue i could always connect from host pc

the last thing i can think is maybe laptop version isnt updated

it should still show your session i would think

[sturdy ledge]

Both show 36.18

[shadow bear]

Have you previously been able to connect to a server hosted on your network? Or is this your first time?

[sturdy ledge]

^

Not on this update no. But yes I have

[shadow bear]

I was gonna say maybe a loopback issue. But if you've already connected successfully before then thats prolly not it.

Have you tried "Ark.UserServerList 0" in the console? Sometimes that makes certain servers show up that were previously hidden.

Console of the client, not the server.

[sturdy ledge]

Nothin

[shadow bear]

You have "Show Player Servers" checked in the Server List?

[glad bluff]

Does anyone know how to get the "Clean Glass Wall" mod working on a Nitrado server?

[broken halo]

did you code it in the config Or are you talking about the custom cosmetics mod

[glad bluff]

I haven't changed anything in the config, but we all have the custom cosmetics mod installed

It shows up in-game but can't be applied to structures

[broken halo]

yeah that one i never messed with but should be able to apply in cosmetics tab in inventory before placing structure

[glad bluff]

Yeah, that's how it works in single player, but not on the server. Thanks anyway!

[broken halo]

thats a client side mod it doesnt need loaded to server

[glad bluff]

That's what I figured. It just seem like something on the server is blocking it from working. Someone else suggested that it may be because we have pvp enabled

[broken halo]

possible but yea not 100

[bleak ivy]

yeah, I think its the official cosmetics list thats doing it. the PvP officials doesn't allow it.

[distant hearth]

did you check what port they run on as for asa it shud be -port=xxxx
they changed it from ?port=xxxx

[jovial walrus]

Our server is up and running again did not lose no mods

[marsh elm]

Morning peeps quick question I have my Nitrado pve server running fine I can access and play (ps5) but a steam player can even find the server or can’t join from ip address any ideas

I’ve been reading the above problem not sure if it’s the same

[distant hearth]

in you nitrado server panel general settings is options, for xplay, make sure there set correct to allow the other p;latforms

If those are set ok, have the player double check he is using all the correct search parameters, password protected or not, pve/pvp at the top set it to all etc

[distant hearth]

if you check what port your on its prob not working, it wudnt work for me on asa anyway. i was doing from the batch file i manually made, had to be -port=

weird

[lunar cloud]

I run with ?Port in ASA. According to WIKI , the ?Port is alternative to the GameUserSettings.ini Port field.
Some ini are allowed on the command line as ?

Probably best to use -port because I beleive the ? will inject it into the ini if you dont set it to readonly, then other instances could pick it up if you are running a cluster and not have things under control

[marsh elm]

I did all that before no good 🤷

He can’t even search by ip

[distant hearth]

whats the server name, will look if i can find it

[shut plover]

does anybody know how to make the valguero temple cave buildable?

ase of course

[wheat gazelle]

Quick questions about Mods, don’t know id this is the right place. Anyone use K+ or is there a better one then K+. I’m playing solo so…

[marsh elm]

Sent you a message thank you

[old musk]

So when I was finally able to logon on my unofficial server. It appeared to have rolled back but only for me. When I went to prior save files it was still only the rollback from like weeks ago I lost gigas, carchas quetz brontos. My argi was missing her saddle my base was way smaller. Actually now that I’m thinking that argi is cryoed and I need myself a better one that has my ascendant saddle on it

Bred* not need

[marsh elm]

Weird stuff happening 🤣

[old musk]

I am so 😡 if I can’t get my stuff back I will leave the game for good. That was literal weeks of countless hours

[jovial walrus]

Can I roll back to another place....
Or

[sacred kestrel]

Does anyone know forsure if disabling engrams wipes those things off the map?

Or just stops them from being made further

[marsh elm]

How do I stop a restart loop it’s driving me mad 🤣

[sacred kestrel]

I usually have to roll the server back if nothing new has been added because a file got corrupted somewhere. I try 3 prior saves and then submit a ticket to nitrado

[marsh elm]

Thanks I’ll try now

[shadow bear]

When I did it in the early days of Ark ascended it did NOT remove the items themselves if they were already crafted. But I also always recommend backing up your save before making a change like that. Just in case.

[jovial walrus]

Force stop 🛑

[sacred kestrel]

Okay thank you

[knotty trellis]

hey guys I got a problem that my server is not fetching the mods from Curse
Getting this error in the log.

Server is normally started with -Mods= no extra spaces, etc
Someone can help me.

[2024.03.16-13.57.37:276][  0][Warning]        Couldn't load mods library from disk    [installed_mods_info_service_impl.cpp:296]
[2024.03.16-13.57.37:276][  0][Log]        User context not loaded from disk    [user_context_service_impl.cpp:76]
[2024.03.16-13.57.47:303][294][Error]        Error querying server mods: ApiError: Failed (serverUnreachable)    [client_server_library_shared_impl.cpp:83]

[west plinth]

It's ark , kind of have to get use to dealing with stuff like this

[distant hearth]

server is running latest version ?

[knotty trellis]

yes, its fresh installed

[distant hearth]

does it run fine with out mods installed?

[knotty trellis]

yes

it worked with the same mods like an hour ago on another machine

just moving to another machine and switching the manager behind

[distant hearth]

if you changed machine you will need to redo the windows firewall

[knotty trellis]

same start command like before

[knotty trellis]

firewall is deactivated atm

[distant hearth]

likely summit is blocking it from connecting seems

unless curseforge is down again , that happens too

[knotty trellis]

on the old machine the server is starting and installing the mods, I'm so confused 😄

[west plinth]

Anyone have any information about the sunlit message for trying to place crops in caves? Is this a core game thing or an ini setting? 🤔 asa

[distant hearth]

has to be some sort connection issue then, try deleteing the mods folder an moduserdata prehaps,? they will do that if one is mnessed up , or if a mod id is wrong somehow

[west plinth]

Is your new machine a fresh install?

[distant hearth]

its a core game thing, greenhouse effect dont work in caves

[knotty trellis]

already done, reinstalling the whole asa server too.

[knotty trellis]

no the machine is running for over 2 years now on (Win Server 2022, latest updates on)

[west plinth]

It's stats that crop can't be placed because requires sulit area

[distant hearth]

double check the server start batch, make sure isnt a mod id wrong, cant see what else to think of

[distant hearth]

no idea then, thats a new one on me

[west plinth]

I dm you a screenshot just for information. And thanks, I'm not to pressed about this one

[knotty trellis]

ok will try all again, thanks for your help 😉

[distant hearth]

hopefully it summit daft, you can manually add the arkasecnededserver.exe to firewall too if it dint already

[west plinth]

Don't forget about anti virus

[knotty trellis]

Sad that there are no more information, like the endpoint the server is calling to check the connection to the curse api and cdn manually

[severe bison]

@distant hearth Hey so i did the alpha brood and ape on my server with my friends and yea in the dragon boss arena i crashed ... so i set back the World with a backup when i started! But my character still has all the engramms and notes?

[distant hearth]

yea its a weird thing with the save files, for some reason, the notes an that are stored client side

[severe bison]

Hmm okey i still have to do the Bosses again so yea not a problem but it was weird

[knotty trellis]

@distant hearth I don't get it to work 😦 firewall off, virus scan off, minimal configuration, only one mod, clean install of ASA files. The only thing that could medd it up now is the multi home, cause the server has 2 external IPs

[distant hearth]

yea sry not familiar with multihome use, mine from one ip adress but on differnt ports

try using -port=xxxx to change the port, on the one with an issue, maybe there conflictiing all though i dont think it shud from two differnt ip

[sturdy ledge]

How do I set up a whitelist? I can’t find a ton online. I know the IDs are different and how to find them, just not establish the actual whitelist

[high forge]

i think in \ShooterGame\Save theres some txt files in there about it. just a guess.

[distant hearth]

do you mean exclusive join list or admin white list , is self host or nitrado?

[sturdy ledge]

Self host, and just exclusive join so I dont have to set up a password. I am having issues with my server appearing in the list (this is just a me problem, nobody else is having it.) So i figured I would just remove the password so I could use the open command. Only issue is we dont want random ppl joinin

[distant hearth]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#GameUserSettings.ini

use ctrl+f and search exclusivejoin it explains how for two ways, i had to read it through a few times as it kinda confusing but i did get it working using the eos id

easiest is prob just add to the batch file
-exclusivejoin=<eosid>,<eosid>,<eosid>

[sturdy ledge]

Alr, thx

[scarlet ermine]

Has anyone figured out how to fix the 50/50 glitch?

[distant hearth]

you can add ,
useitemdupecheck=true
gus.ini , under [serversettings]

helps a bit but still the odd thing ends up there, its on wc to sort that

[pallid kestrel]

battlemetrics says that my svart server is dead, any idea what that means? its hsoted via nitrado and is the cross play verison

[wise kindle]

Nitrado has been changing ips and ports a ton with these updates. Be sure to double check your battlemetrics for old port and ip settings.

[distant hearth]

if the server is online an working fine then its just a glitch on battlemetrics end

[pallid kestrel]

its not working, unable to find it on console and pc while it is online, tried several restarts

[wise kindle]

6 out of my 11 maps jumped ips and ports out of the blue.

[distant hearth]

host services like to do that , always a fun time

[distant hearth]

then u need to go into server page in nitrado an see whats going on

[wise kindle]

Yeah threw me off a bit. Kinda shocked cuz it was out of the blue.

[distant hearth]

they dont do it often, but i had it happen more than once, i think its when there upgrading machines or when one just shits out an they have to transfer

[wise kindle]

I think they moved a ton of ppl to different hardware to prep for more mod space. I speculate of course lol.

[distant hearth]

possibly yea , would make sense

[pallid kestrel]

only thing i can think of is that its been moved to the bottom of the mod list, ive moved it to the top and restarted again and it got an update

has not helped though lol

[wise kindle]

You are verifying with battlemetrics?

[pallid kestrel]

no i have nitrado up and im searching for the server on both pc and console, battlemetrics is just up in a window and says the server is dead and i wasn't sure what it meant, that was more of a sidenote

[wise kindle]

Yes but did you see what i was talking about above?

Double check in battlemetrics that your ip and ports didnt change in Nitrado

If you still cant connect then you know the server isnt actually up. Cuz right now it may not be connected properly.

[pallid kestrel]

Okay so the IP on battlemetrics is different to the one on nitradoo

[wise kindle]

Yeah

Update it in battlemetrics

Also check the port and password.

[pallid kestrel]

Port is also different, not gonna lie though i havent a clue what that actually means

[distant hearth]

the port will have likely changed if they did the ip too

[wise kindle]

If you have verified its all correct and it STILL wont connect then the server is actually down/offline.

[pallid kestrel]

sorry to be an idiot but how does one update it in battlemetrics and how will that affect whether or not players can join the server

[wise kindle]

It doesnt. It tells you if your map is actually ABLE to be seen in the game and if your map is actually up or not. Nitrados interface is terrible, battlemetrics doesnt lie.

Nitrado will show a map as green when it’s actually down.

Battlemetrics will tell you the truth.

[pallid kestrel]

Ahh okay i'm with you, welll this mofo definitely aint up thats for sure hahaha

[wise kindle]

You can now open a ticket and say battlemetrics shows this map as down with the correct ip configured. This goes a long way when making your case lol.

[boreal meadow]

Trying to set up my fisrt map and cannot seem to get the configs rite or something. Dino's not spawning, not able to place foundations or items on ground. and just can t seem to get everything straightened out. Any help would be appreciated!!!

[distant hearth]

wud need alot more info,
1-nitrado or self host ?
2- ase or asa?
3-pvp or pve?
4- mods or no none?
5-what settings are you using/ where did you get them from ?

[boreal meadow]

self host, ase, pve, can give a mod list momentarily, and i used setting from MRmeola.

[distant hearth]

first thing to try, dump the mods, get the map working without any , then add them in

[boreal meadow]

did that ans still not working. the map is running but nothing is spawning and cant place anything on the ground

[jade pecan]

Do you know how I can activate construction in artifact caves? Is there a configuration?

[distant hearth]

allowcavebuildingpve=true
or
allowcavebuildingpvp=true

in gus ini , under [serversettings] header
add it or modify as needed

[distant hearth]

at that point id try to reinstall, get a standard map working before adding mods

/messing with any settings

[jade pecan]

ty

[boreal meadow]

did that as well lol. Then we added the mods after making sure the server was running good on vanilla and it just wont act rite

[rancid forge]

I'm tryna set up a server on Xbox how do I go Abt that? I don't see one for Xbox on nitrado so I've tried both PS4 and PC and still no luck

Am I doing something wrong?

[distant hearth]

so the map works fine with no mods and its default settings?

[distant hearth]

if its for ark evolved i think you have to do it buy through the nitrado app on the xbox

[boreal meadow]

correct and yes

[distant hearth]

then u have an issue with mods or mod load order, simples

[bleak ivy]

ASE or ASA? xbox will always use nitrado to rent a server. ASA only has one server type tho as all platforms are crossplay.

[rancid forge]

Ase

[bleak ivy]

you need to download the nitrado app on xbox there you should find on of the arks being for xbox.

[boreal meadow]

how do you fix the mod load order?

[rancid forge]

No Xbox option

[wise kindle]

Its an app you download onto your xbox.

[rancid forge]

Ik I have nitrado on my xbox

[distant hearth]

the server wil load the mods in what ever order u specify in the batch file ,
or by whatever order you add them to the list

[wise kindle]

the only option to rent a server from the xbox app is an xbox server.

[distant hearth]

glad ure heere was gonna tag ya, but figure u show up soon enough to help 🙂

[boreal meadow]

would you mind hopping in my disc if i invite you rq?

[distant hearth]

no sorry , i cant atm

[wise kindle]

lol np. Ive made this mistake and rented a steam map accidentally so I know all about this issue. Its very annoying.

[rancid forge]

Am I able to switch the server from PC to Xbox from my Xbox?

[boreal meadow]

ok bud was just going to ask if i host/local through the game instead of hosting on my own server if it mattered what order the mods are in when i add them

[bleak ivy]

if you mean the microsoft store/gamepass version then they use the same servers.

[distant hearth]

yea it matters for both, ase can be fussy over its mod load order and if it has conflicting ones

[rancid forge]

Then why when I did it on my phone it doesn't show up?

[bleak ivy]

the xbox servers are only on the xbox and microsoft store app on PC. your phone got the steam/epic server

[boreal meadow]

so far it seems like if i do it that way it is working but its takiing its time loading all the mods into the world. So i guess it will eventually load all the mods?

[rancid forge]

So then how do I switch?

[bleak ivy]

I don't know if you can switch 🤷 never used nitrado. but you need to buy the server from the nitrado app on xbox or the microsoft store for PC.

[distant hearth]

depends on the amount mods an the drive used, ase slow on mods,
one server i played had 21 mods, it wud take me 20 mins to load in .

i cud start the login, walk away, make a coffee , drink it , an still have wait

[boreal meadow]

I just setup a single player world for now to see what it does and it seems like its doing the thing but just taking its time i hope

[wise kindle]

You have to contact Nitrado and ask for a refund cuz you ordered the wrong map. Then order it thru the Xbox app to get the correct platform.

[boreal meadow]

i can play in the world just waaiting for everything to do its thing i guess

[rancid forge]

Ok thanks

[distant hearth]

once your loaded into the world, it works or doesnt . i suspect you have,
1- too many mods of the same type(conflicting)
or
2- a random load order causing issues

[boreal meadow]

As of rn the world is running just fine. Just havent been able run around much to see if all the mods have been running properly

[distant hearth]

single player and servers arent the same, they work a lil differnt tbh .

but if u get it to work in single player, check the mod load order is the same on the server

[boreal meadow]

ok bud ty!!!!

[distant hearth]

np, gl and hope u get it workin how u want

[onyx gale]

I posted about this a little while back and I'm curious if anyone ever ended up having any luck. I concede I haven't set my settings to try it again recently, as the patch notes themselves haven't referenced the problem.

Transferring to a character-only server in my cluster. As in item and tame downloads are disabled. Players have a confirmed completely empty inventory but are blocked from transferring the map, getting the "this map does not allow item downloads, drop your inventory" error.

It seemed the implant or the cosmetic skin buttons were registering as an item.

Anyone else experiencing this or see any solutions yet?

[distant hearth]

known issue wc need to fix it there end, custom cosmetics messes it up

[wise kindle]

Known bug with disabling items/creature transfers. Not much we can do about it but wait for a fix. It appears to be related to costmetics.

Solution is to disable all transfers or enable all transfers for the moment.

[onyx gale]

Cool that's the answer I needed thank you. Given there were like 3 patches since my initial inquiry, I thought it might be worth flipping the switch and trying again. Figured I'd ask though before I wasted my time. Thank you!

[wise kindle]

I would keep trying after each major patch tho, the fix will come just dont know how long it will take.

[onyx gale]

Hopefully soon, my community is itching to have our old setup back

[distant hearth]

id suspect when scortched release tbh, cant see they want officials having all transfers on

[onyx gale]

Right? You'd think it would have been prioritized given Svartlsjdhehegfff is available, The Center should be soon, Scorched should be right around the corner... Transfers need to work right yo.. lol

[distant hearth]

oh u have been away a bit, centre is delayed , no news on for how long

[onyx gale]

Yeah I'm bad about keeping up. I understood it was delayed but I didn't think it would be more than a month beyond the initial expected date. One month past would only be like 2 weeks from now, yeah?

[distant hearth]

scortched is due april 1st
centre is delayed till??? they had a another dev team woring on it an supposedly wasnt happy with the results

[lament shale]

any one know why mods are stopping me from joining servers?

[onyx gale]

Right who knows. I was just being optimistic thinking an extra month would be sufficient for the project. But I'm not a developer, I have no idea what to expect.

[distant hearth]

expect the worst , no dissapointment that way

[lament shale]

How can one fix this???? [2024.03.14-21.38.57:017][ 0]LogCFCore: SetSettings called:
{
"defaultLanguage": "en",
"gameId": 83374,
"apiKey": "1aZe",
"maxConcurrentInstallations": 3,
"modsDirectory": "ShooterGame/Mods",
"modsDirectoryMode": "CFCore",
"userDataDirectory": "ShooterGame/ModsUserData",
"isServer": true,
"isServerPcOnly": true,
"throttling":
{
"diskWriteBytesPerSec": 0
},
"premiumMods":
{
"publicKeyPem": ""
},
"logger":
{
"enabled": true,
"history": 8,
"maxSizeInMB": 2

[shadow bear]

That looks like a normal log output to me. Have you tried adding a single mod at a time to see which one prevents you from joining? Or is it litterally any mod you add prevents you from joining?

[full barn]

Has anyone gotten CHARACTER ONLY Transfers to work in a cluster - No item or dinos? - ASA

[gaunt berry]

Is nitrado gunna improve the server ping thing on the old ark when it me and 2 people I have the ping around 15 to 20 now on asa I get like 80 ping with me and 2 others when I have nearly full it's full ping like over 200 and impossible to play keep rubber banding. Anyone know how to fix it or it's gunna stay like that forever.

[distant hearth]

id suggest trying in the nitrado forum or there support

[distant hearth]

known issue, broken atm, just got wait for devs to fix it :/

[deft stone]

there is a bug items cant be filtered out from transfert 😦

[full barn]

Let's hope the fix it by scorched Earth!

[raven wigeon]

is it me or the gfx changed on ascended?? haven't played for a wile and try it today and it looked weird!

[deft stone]

me to i remark that couple of weeks ago

[vapid jay]

Can someone pm me I’ll pay for a fibercraft code I can use

[raven wigeon]

lol, gfx are much worst than before, almost like evolved!

WC is sc re wing everything!! It's shame!!

[hasty valley]

i can't seem to find the option to allow transfers between island server and svartelheim server i'm running.

[lament shale]

i have tryed but the server knocks off and i still cant log on official servers

[hasty valley]

I tried -ClusterKey like ASE, no joy

[shadow bear]

Do you have "-clusterid=<CLUSTER_NAME>" in your startup parameters?

[robust rain]

has anything changed to get a server running and visible on the server list since when the game came out? My updated server files aren't appearing anymore (on the server browser)

[lavish gulch]

so, just a question. how many of you were not able to get their servers back since the last fuck up? cuz my community and i lost EVERYTHING since lunch..... E V E R Y T H I N G. and havent even been able to get our server back. we try no mods. uninstalling. reinstalling. taking on one mod by one. nothing gets the server going....

[robust rain]

well that doesn't look good for me then hahah

[hasty valley]

Yes, same string for both servers, but i can't transfer between them

Anyone have a working cluster hosting your own servers in ASA?

[shadow bear]

Yeah my clusters have been working fine. Your servers are both running out of the same project folder right? They have to be able to both access the shared cluster folder. Are they both showing up in the server browser at least?

[hasty valley]

yes - they both show up int the browser.... i used a nas share for the cluster data and i can access the folder from both servers and write a test file there from both servers....

strange. i'll keep at it.

[sturdy ledge]

I can't connect to my own server when the password is on. The server doesn't appear in the list, even though it appears for everyone else who is playing. I can't use the open command, because it says invalid password. I can turn on exclusive join, and the password off. After I add the user ids to the prompt I can join, but it no longer appears for them. They are all playing on console, meaning they have no way (to my knowledge) of opening the console to use the join command. I don't understand why, and if anyone has any ideas, I am all ears. I have been troubleshooting this for the past 48 hours.

[hasty valley]

I saw some documentation saying only nitrado servers can cluster so as long as that isn't true i should be able to figure it out.

[shadow bear]

Can confirm that is definitely not true. I host 2 clusters at home.

[wise kindle]

Selfhost can 100% cluster maps.

[lunar cloud]

i just setup a cluster locally, i have two instances running from the same server install. using only -clusterid and -ClusterDirOverride and works a charm

Have not played with the other settings like "Preventxxx" to restrict it

[west plinth]

Make sure your batch file is correct, then make sure they both have access to the location then make sure you have the transfer enables in the ini. Putting the cluster ID should let you see maps but not transfer.

[shadow bear]

I just realized you said you use a nas for the shared cluster folder. How are you pathing to them? Ive noticed if you try to map the network drive sometimes they dont play nice. You usually have to use UNC paths.

[spice pollen]

Hi i was wondering if other people where having the same issue im having. When we adjust the settings on our nonoffical server, no matter how small or big the change it does not work. We cant change any of the breeding or egg hatching timers.

[shadow bear]

Youre changing them while the server is not running right?

[spice pollen]

correct

[shadow bear]

Hmm, is the server changing them back to the original values in the .ini's when the server shuts back down again? Its supposed to dump its values and save the .ini on shutdown.

[spice pollen]

ill have to check but i do believe it keeps reverting them back. im asking this in place of a freind who runs their own server

[shadow bear]

And youre making it in Game.ini right? Thats where breeding and egg timing goes I believe.

GameUserSettings is for different configs.

[spice pollen]

they said yes they are using the config files

they make sure that both sets of files match up and it still dosent work ingame

im inviting the person who owns the server so you can talk to them directly

@plucky crystal

[boreal yew]

Anyone know how to turn on the unfertilized egg option in the server config for Dino storage v2 like what I need to put in the configuration

[formal isle]

I'm trying to change my hotkeys for mouse & keyboard on my xbox, but it's very difficult to consistently get them to take

[rose kelp]

hey quick question, im on pc, on a singleplayer world. Difficulty slider set to 1, overrideofficialdifficulty set to 5 and maximum difficulty box checked yet wild dinos are spawning with increments of 4 levels, does anyone know what im doing wrong?

[gilded copper]

I need help. My nitrado log files dont seem to be logging. I remember they use to log when people log on, log off, what they say in global chat, etc etc. now there is nothing being logged like that, is there a code i need to adjust or something?

[peak sapphire]

Have you run a DestroyWildDinos command?

[rose kelp]

yes

many, many times

[peak sapphire]

Try it again with max difficulty off

[rose kelp]

okok

what should offset difficulty be?

[peak sapphire]

I don’t know why it wouldn’t work with what you have now but just change around those settings and see what sticks

[rose kelp]

okok

im plkaying the island btw

[peak sapphire]

Keep offset at 1.0

[rose kelp]

still not working

not sure whats going on

[lunar cloud]

im no expert in single player, but dont you have to turn some "singleplayer settings" off in order to be able to override these difficulties ?

i think single player settings overrides most multipliers in the game if im not mistaken and that could be a reason why settings may not take affect @rose kelp

[rose kelp]

ive unticked that box already

[rose kelp]

It’s a map problem, I’m playing on the island and it doesn’t work but I switched to rag and it does

I wonder why the island doesn’t work 🧐

[tulip bridge]

can someone pm me to help me with server rates i have adjusted some multiplier in nitrado but nothing has changed???

[high forge]

Your best of closing the server, then make the changes and start the server, i think the settings your after (breeding etc) are in the game.ini you can manually change or add them there.

[tepid swallow]

My server dont show up in list help. Think it is related to ports. It is open according to firewall.

Am trying to host while using no-ip to bypass static IP

[high forge]

If home hosting I'm guessing you forwarded ports in your router also.

[tepid swallow]

Most likely not.

I got options to port forward games from a preselect list ranging from Age of Empires to CSGO but ASA is not listed in it and the port forwarding and adding rules manually asks me for "Service", "Protocol", "External host" "External Port" I guess I can just select any option in the service list and add the ports I want allowed through?

[high forge]

Just Google your router on how to port forward of watch a video on it, there be plenty of guides.

[tepid swallow]

I think it is setup now since my friend could connect but the portforward website tells me connection timed out so I guess this is fine. Next up is SteamCMD or just how to run this on a seperate computer. Can I have my server computer use my Steam login when hosting while my gaming station is logged in to the same Steam acc to play ASA?

Because I was using the steam ASA dedicated server app and will have to set up some stuff there. But everyone seems to be following tutorials that is for steamCMD using Batch files to start and update.

[distant hearth]

no you cant, will dm a guide a wrote in a txt file on how to do stm cmd , its pretty easy once you figure it out, i suggest read through once first

[old musk]

I need someone to help me ASAP so after the crashed on the 11th after I was finally able to get back on my friends privately hosted server. It was like I was rolled back to weeks possibly months prior I lost tames equipment etc. I was told to uninstall mods and reinstall them so l did. My friend then did backup saves all the way back to then 10th of March and still nothing came back

[keen bluff]

So does cross ark work now? Is the setup for it different than ASE?

[wise kindle]

This needs to be put into a ticket with Nitrado. There isnt anything we can tell you to do to fix that.

[wise kindle]

Be sure to shutdown the map, wait 5 minutes, make your changes, hit SAVE, then start the map up again.

[marsh elm]

Anyone still getting random host timeouts ?

[wise kindle]

Not atm, usually only see that when the map needs a restart refresh or my internet is bad.

[plucky crystal]

can anyone help with my problem...i can change every other setting but anything in the baby section...does anyone else have a problem with this?

[distant hearth]

when you change the setting they go in game.ini with the server switched off.
thye will not efect any eggs or baby already in the world, only newly laid, /produced babies

[wise kindle]

Make sure your map is fully shutdown when making these changes

[limpid glen]

Anyone on pc having issues joining a server? My friend verifys the mods and then just hits a black screen

[plucky crystal]

i did that and it still didnt fix the problem when i got new eggs and tamed new babies

[distant hearth]

then u did something wrong,
is it a nitrado server?

[plucky crystal]

yes

[distant hearth]

shutdown server , wait atleast 5 mins
make the changes in the game.ini file, save it, wait 1 minute
restart server.
try with fresh eggs/babies.

what settings are u trying to put in , and what do u expect the outcome to be ?

[broken halo]

nitrado or self hosted?

self hosted i can help with nitrado you would need to put in a ticket for help

[wise kindle]

With Nitrado its basically the same thing in ASA.

[plucky crystal]

well i dont want baby hatching and cuddle time to be over 5 to 12 hours anymore

[distant hearth]

yea thats fine, but what actual lines are you changing in the game.ini ?

[hasty valley]

I actually mapped them to drive letters and used that. i find it's typically the most compatible.

[lament shale]

same

[lament shale]

im like that my server is running but cant see it and i cant join ark servers

[wise kindle]

Id probably reinstall your client maybe.

[shadow bear]

Try using UNC paths instead if you havent already.