unofficial-setup-help

[ornate raptor]

Anyopne seeiong this when launching ASA servers? I dont have any mods configured in my launch command

Failed to read mods directory C:\ASMA\Servers\TheIsland\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ShooterGame\Mods\83374

[little shore]

how do you add mods to a 3rd party hosted ase server? I have the "-mods=x,y,z" in my batch file

[dusty kiln]

Where is it then do i gotta find it?

[olive talon]

Yes, go find it. This channel is for setup help, not looking for unofficials.

[solemn zephyr]

Sorry if I over stepped, just was many times.

[dusty kiln]

Huh i only asked once but ok

[ornate raptor]

I dont know about everyone, but I know several self-hosted dedicated people are having a lot of trouble getting servers going. Hopefully yours isnt one of them and is able to gewt up and running.

[solemn zephyr]

Sorry, it could have been others then. No offense intended.

[boreal jetty]

whats the plan 😭

[dusty kiln]

Tbh im prolly gonna quit now cuz i put like all my effort into that server

No more ark for me then

[boreal jetty]

bros gonna quit

[dusty kiln]

Fr

[boreal jetty]

why

[ornate raptor]

Yeah, I am pretty close to my breaking point with ASA too. I am spinning my ASE cluster back up.

[ornate raptor]

Because WC and Nitrado teamed up to step on the private community and extort as much money from the players as possible. Its just not fun any more

[dusty kiln]

Im alr missing my spino

I cant play in official cuz my friends cant fet the same server as ne

Me

[prime thunder]

anyone know how I would add speed leveling to my ark?

[untold ginkgo]

Anyone else having issues with the pride colors code not working on their server? We tried it 2 different ways but still nothing spawns with the color after multiple dino wipes

[sly python]

Hi i have a question i was playing and all my stats got reset and all my dinos stats also got reset i tried restarting the game but nothing helped

[distant hearth]

bAllowFlyerSpeedLeveling=True
bAllowSpeedLeveling=True

[distant hearth]

it needs to be the first -command in the batch/start command file

[prime thunder]

And where would I put that gameuser or game.ini?

[distant hearth]

sry , game ini

[prime thunder]

Ok thanks 👍

anyone know why I cant level up my dinos past 108?

they get capped at xp of 22213970

[pine mirage]

How do I make a ticket to report this guy

TheCenter9292

I have a cheating tribe fobbed at my doorstep I would like some assistance

[echo pecan]

#reporting-players

[deft snow]

Hello! I'm trying to add tributes and arts to a few dinos in ASA island/SE. The code Beacon generates isnt working. Anyone have a good code that works. I can alter dino.

[trail elm]

Would that be in the gameuser or game.ini section?

[distant hearth]

neither its a server startup command, presume ure nitrado? if so u cant use it

[trail elm]

I suspected that's would be the case, thank you though.

[lucid solstice]

Noticed a bug in the server ui for unofficials with the same name but different maps. Say you have a server named "This" that is an island, and one that is "This" that is a center. Run both on the same machine, same ip, but different ports. Both servers will run successfully and allow you to join, but the ingame ui for finding said servers will show one (whichever started first) as the only one of that name. But if you switch to the specific maps itll find the one with the right map. Both are joinable, but they are a bit wierd.

[real coral]

Anyone else having issues with Global chat not activating at all?

[spring loom]

for clusters do you need multiple servers?

[bleak ivy]

do you mean do you need to buy multiple servers from nitrado?

[spring loom]

that or if im running my own

[bleak ivy]

each map is its own server yes

[spring loom]

figured, thanks

[lunar cloud]

you can share server between maps too. If you have enough compute you can run a few maps on the same server hardware with same server executables. Just have to set separate save directories for each and different ports so they dont clash

[spring loom]

yeah i dont think my computer can handle more than 2 running at once or more than 1 while im playing thanks tho

[lucid solstice]

You can set up a cluster ID for multiple servers, play one, start the second, transfer over to it, turn off the first. If you are playing alone. That way you can play all the maps with only capacity to run 2 at a time

[spring loom]

makes sense but rn im playing by myself so im just gonna do singleplayer

[lucid solstice]

I mean, single player has a lot of loading issues, a server doesn't. When I play alone I always do it on a server instead of so

[spring loom]

yeah i was doing a cave not too long ago and used the flame boost on my pyro and fell through the ground

also spawns are weird on singleplayer i feel like

[lunar cloud]

yeah they are.. also the difficulty is way easier than on a server. I dont believe those single player difficulty settings work properly as I see too many YT vids of average dinos (only few mutations) beating Alpha bosses which would be impossible on a server with official max difficulty settings.

[spring loom]

yeah but you can disable it

[lunar cloud]

i mean i see videos of single player where person states they have it disabled, then proceed to beat Alpha dragon with sub par theris.
On my official it took over 800% mellee to get that thing down and even then it was clutch

[spring loom]

maybe it is broken lol

[lunar cloud]

yeah i never trust single player settings. I followed RaasClarks streams on the Island , and I found it to be way easier than server and he disabled singple player settings too

Have you tried to run a server on your pc and game at the same time ?

[spring loom]

yeah it worked fine

but its a little laggier than singleplayer so i stick to it for now

[arctic basin]

hello there, someone can help with ark ascended cluster with linux server ? MP please

[cosmic merlin]

hi im trying to play vanilla ark with my friends saw that with non dedicated you cant go too far from host. so we thought making dedicated server would be the best bet for our experience but it seems so complicated? how do u go abt making a dedicated server?

[spring loom]

@cosmic merlin use this tutorial

[cosmic merlin]

alr tyty

[distant hearth]

sent dm

[surreal grove]

when i use the command give all structure to give structures back to tribe member that have lost there server profile... is there a way to take me off the personal ownership of structures after i have give the things back to the player?

[echo fractal]

How can I set fix amount of loot while harvesting. Like ever loot stacks are 100.

And how can I increase the stack size? for example 10k stacks

[naive pilot]

Asking to see if it’s maybe an us problem or WC problem. But players weight on our cluster keeps changing. We haven’t made any changes to our stats. But it keeps fluctuating since the release of center

[naive pilot]

It doesn’t seem like it. We have this problem as well

[surreal grove]

Yea it does… annoying

[haughty cairn]

is there a way to increas spawns on the center, the ocean is just empty

[rapid blaze]

Hey, so I have an issue with my ASE (NOT ASA) dedicated server right now if there is anyone to help out here. I have for the past half hour tried turning off friendly fire after having successfully set my server on PvE, and it seems that nothing has been working. I have tried putting in bPvEDisableFriendlyFire=True into Game.ini and GameUserSettings.ini just for good measure but none of it is working. Does anyone know of a fix to this problem?
(if you do have a fix it would be appreciated if you pinged me!)

[native wave]

so a little update on my efforts to spawn rhynios on the center:
tweaked it a little more as I wanted a few more spawning. this ini code produces between 5-8 of them around the swamp around the floating island. This feels pretty good to me. Long term plans are to clean this up, but that will take a bit more work to duplicate in a simpler form.
ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesSwamp_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="Rhyniognatha 6",EntryWeight=0.005,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C","/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C""/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C""/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C""/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C""/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C"),NPCsToSpawnPercentageChance=(0.0001,0.0001,0.0001,0.0001,0.0001,0.0001),ManualSpawnPointSpreadRadius=2500.0)),NPCSpawnLimits=((NPCClassString="/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Rhyniognatha/Rhynio_Character_BP.Rhynio_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.001)))

[true wave]

Great stuff, thanks for this. I was using your config from yesterday or the day before on my server and after about 18 hours i'm up to 10 in the wild atm which is more than i'd like 😂 gonna try this see if it reduces them! (Although looking more closely it looks like you have increased EntryWeight from 0.001 -> 0.005 and MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow from 0.0001 -> 0.001 so this might spawn even more for me 🤔)

[clever trail]

Anyone know why my servers join button says waiting to join and i can't press it?

[ebon plank]

hello so ive set up my server but it says 358.25 ark ue4 shooter game crash? how do i fix it

[native wave]

major version....has hit asalive and steam client out, but public and nitradopc haven't updated

[ebon plank]

it was like this since yesterday

[lone temple]

Anyone know how exactly to get the pride colors to actually show up. Our server can't seem to get them to work.

[native wave]

nitrado?

[distant hearth]

if your on nitrado, you wait for them to add a button, if your self host make sure its the first -command in start batch file

[lone temple]

I'm asking for our server host. 😊

[dusky thistle]

Hello,

Our team is already working to implement the Pride Event as soon as possible, we apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience.

Should you have further questions or issues, please contact us again.

Have a great day.
Regards
Josué Reyes

From support ticket about it.

[lone temple]

She doesn't know which command line

[dusky thistle]

If its self hosted its just the launch .bat file

[distant hearth]

thn likely its a nitrado server, so u just cant atm

[eager patrol]

Is the R-Direbear in ark ASA? was wondering if i could add it to spawn

[lone temple]

It's nitrado

[jovial walrus]

Some off my players can't get om after opdate

[distant hearth]

its not, maybe there mods... dunno havent kept up with the mods for asa

[distant hearth]

major version, so server needs update too

[eager patrol]

Darn was kinda hoping it was cause it was cool to have more color options

errr pattern

[native wave]

Skittle — Today at 2:00 PM
we always hold for a little just incase shit hits the fan

[distant hearth]

that sounds about right

lack of testing

[native wave]

I've had my servers off cause I'm adding some mods, so might as well finish that work up

[raven wigeon]

updated the server now they dont show up lol

[native wave]

public and nitradopc have been updated. there may be a delay on nitrado servers getting the update as they have their own process

[raven wigeon]

mine is selfhosted, none of the maps appear now!!

[timber cloud]

My SteamCMD is still stuck at 45.21

[distant hearth]

check again for update, shud be availble now

[native wave]

mine is updating

[raven wigeon]

its updating again

[distant hearth]

🥳 🍻

im still d/l game update lmao , prob be another 3-4 hours haha , slow ass internet sux

[native wave]

just 1.7GB for the client update

mine is at 46.3

[distant hearth]

6-10mb d/l speed average, its slow atm more like 4mb as peak time

[timber cloud]

nvm mine updated aswell now

[uncut talon]

we still don't have the update on nitrado...

[native wave]

yeah they slow

[blissful trout]

I just got mine but it wasn’t here right away. Maybe wait a few minutes more and then try another restart.

[native wave]

they have to do their own deployment....so there can be a lag time. you are on a different branch from official and the rest of us with unofficial servers

[uncut talon]

it's not being slow, it's not professional

[humble thicket]

Damn its so long

[native wave]

agree...but since they have a monopoly on hosted servers...they don't give a crap

[humble thicket]

forced to wait for the nitrado update to restart the nitrado servers?

[distant hearth]

dont worry after the update , will be the influx of nitrado servers boot looping

[crisp nymph]

the god damn highlight to my day. im very annoyed if you could not tell lmfao

[bright fractal]

When unofficial goes down does the owner have to put the server back up? Or does it do it on its own

Just trying to figure out why some unofficial servers are up but mine isn’t

[jolly python]

It goes up by itself sometimes the owner can restart it and it might help but other times it can take longer

[distant hearth]

two type of unofficial, player owned/ hosted and nitrado servers.
nitrado generally take a little longer to get the update rolled out

[crisp nymph]

my server says it is updating but then it force stops and now when i hit start the server is stuck restarting. who ever allowed this to take place needs to be fired. if i was working there these things would not happen. no one has time for this slow process in 2024

[bright fractal]

Thank you guys

[jolly python]

It’s not a big company as some it’s smaller so they probably don’t have the resources that bigger companies that have and just trying their best

[humble thicket]

Me too

[distant hearth]

nitrado has a discord, please direct the frustations there....its there shite hardware /overcrowded vms that ure using

[bright fractal]

Idk what my server runs from

Either way I’m stuck waiting bc the owners at work

[marble condor]

same

[olive elbow]

Same though

[narrow quiver]

If they can't handle it, they should not make exclusive contracts

[humble thicket]

Exactly

[olive elbow]

I understand people are frustrated because they can't log into the servers let the patch roll out not everything is gonna be fast

[distant hearth]

nitrado was just as bad on ase when it dint have exclusivity

[crisp nymph]

that is a excuse and i am not buying it they have exclusive console hosting rights they should be more efficient and not as slow as they currently are we do live in 2024 not 2000. hire me and i would fire who ever is in charge of this slow system and replace them with someone who could do a better job. size of the company does not matter

[olive elbow]

Tommy chill it's only a game, they are doing their best to get everything fixed not everything will be instantly fixed

[distant hearth]

they no longer have exclusive console hosting thanks to asa , anyone can fire up a server if they know how an have good enough internt /hardawre or rent and set it up them selves

[olive elbow]

Nitrado has poor equipment as is and it takes longer due to that

[crisp nymph]

im as cool as a cucumber i am just calling them out on this sillyness it happens every update they need to change the process because this is not working well. if we could go to another server host a lot of people would have ditched nitrado at the start but us console players are stuck with nitrado it is ridiculous

[jolly python]

If you are so hell-bent on calling them out on it and want a fix they have their own discord

[distant hearth]

you are not stuck with nitrado, you can rent a server anywhere or host your own an set it up yourself,
all nitrado does is give you a laggy u/i that makes it easier to setup server

[olive elbow]

Actually there are different server hosting companies then nitrado and they work with xbox I've done it several times with ark and dayz

[silk seal]

is mine the only server stuck in the update again?

[distant hearth]

i even wrote a guide in txt file to setup asa servers, its not great as im bad at explaining but many people have used it to get a server working.
Requirements = a bit of time an patience,half decent internet and a laptop or pc on windows with a minimum dual core cpu .16gb ram

or to rent a dedicated machine with windows server 2019 or newer with same specs

[crisp nymph]

any chance you could tell me another company i am more then happy to check them out thanks in advance

[native wave]

nitrado is the only ASA server host. there are others out there, but they are risking getting taken down if they are offering the same services. Nitrado is the only one that is authorized by snail to offer ASA server hosting...where they setup the server for you.

[jolly python]

He’s afk rn but I’ll let him know to check the server when he’s back

[native wave]

there are other server hosting options out there...those are all considered self-host as they require you to setup the server software yourself

[jolly python]

Okay good to know sorry I didn’t see your reply until after I sent the message

[olive elbow]

Some companies depending on their certificates they pay for idk which ones since I used old ark for servers but I'll see which ones are good

[lucid solstice]

Only nitrado can commercially host asa servers. Anyone else doing it is in for a pile of legal issues

[lucid solstice]

I want to see it. I already have mine going, but I know there are tricks to it that I don't know yet

[olive elbow]

I've had apex hosting they haven't had legal issues yet that I know of

[distant hearth]

will dm, its prob not useful for you though, it just covers the basics of downloading and getting a server running.
happy to dm an get thoughts on it though as like i say, i dont really explain things clearly

[bright fractal]

Anyone looking to join a server? Or have experience and want to help run one

[crisp nymph]

i am in australia there is no such thing as decent internet our government screwed all of us aussies with out taking us to dinner first it is sad

[lucid solstice]

Doing asa? Yeah, legally the only host that can is nitrado

[lucid solstice]

So you want to self host. Global internet won't matter if you can do it lan

[distant hearth]

im uk, i live in area with very bad internet too so i feel the pain

[crisp nymph]

i dont have time for that life is a little busy i just want to be able to rent a server that wont break every update it seems i am asking for to much lmfao

[lucid solstice]

If you don't have time, then this is the best option. It'll have good ping, it's way easier than ase servers, and you are in control of it

It's $20 monthly for the cheapest nitrado, and running your own literally would cost $120. It's like 6 months for a permanent setup vs paying for nitrado to give you bad uptime

[crisp nymph]

if i did not have to travel around every couple weeks for work i would but it is easier to just rent a server. thanks for the info though

[solemn heath]

Hey folks, anyone else having trouble with their Nitrado server? Mine has been updating for almost an hour.

[olive elbow]

Nitrado takes awhile for the updates

[solemn heath]

I'll say! lol - ok, thanks.

[haughty cairn]

nitrado servers are just bootlooping, they be broken

[lucid solstice]

Oh, that does change it I guess. Rip

[humble thicket]

Where can i buy this $120

[clever trail]

can anyone tell me why i can see my ark server but cant join, only get the Connection timeout message?

[haughty cairn]

still booting?

[clever trail]

nope shows online

it says joining (not going black screen) then says Joining Failed Connection Timeout

No mods

[native wave]

the server I run off now was about $350 off of ebay. I can also run my entire cluster on it though with some of my other network services on the side. Older enterprise hardware can be found on ebay and is perfectly good for running ark servers. A server that would run a couple of ark servers can be had for under $200 easily. Shipping will add to the price, but if you can find a local electronics recycler that deals on ebay, you can do a pickup option like I did.

[chrome timber]

Why after update can i not find my server?

[echo pecan]

apex hosting is also owned by nitrado so they are allowed to provide server hosting

[ornate raptor]

What are you guys using for RCON on ASA?

[native wave]

haven't really used it for a while. Used to use Arkon....but I remember someone saying that may not be working anymore

[flint laurel]

Anyone know how to fix dolphin spawns it's been at least two days now that they haven't spawned owner tried spawning them in and I crashed the servers we have both center and the island and it's the same in both he's put in a ticket and have yet to get any kind of answer or fix for it

[haughty cairn]

server needs updating?

[chrome timber]

I did but i will ry again

[lucid solstice]

I got it with a refurb pc off Amazon. 16gb minimum, no gpu, a moderate cpu

Unless you are running for a larger group that's more than enough

[lucid solstice]

Yeah, I got mine for 180, and I can run 3 servers. Could probably handle as many as 15 to 20 total people. So definitely doesn't work for larger groups but for the private servers it's fine

[native wave]

running 4 servers on it for ASA now. had a 9 server cluster with ASE. runs on DDR3 ram so I maxed that out. Just for me and my small group of friends

[narrow berry]

same ive been trying for at least an hour to get back on

[lucid solstice]

For a server with a small group ddr3 is just fine

[native wave]

yep....only issues I've had were because of Gen 2.....that became a bit laggy after building a bit

space engineers and enshrouded don't like my server though. I run those on one of my old gaming pc's that I use for various things

[lucid solstice]

Same. Although I have found that Asa servers can take up to 10 to 12 gb ram, so I recommend 32 to most people

[bright fractal]

Ok so I see some people are able to update and such my game already updated but I’m still not seeing my server :/

It’s been 3 hours

[native wave]

regular self-hosted unofficials can be updated directly from steam. nitrado has their own branch and does their own deployment. It may be they have their own issues going on. I would check with nitrado if your server runs on it to see what the status of the patch deployment is.

this was not a large patch, so I really wouldn't expect a lot of mod issues, but if you're running a large mod load, that could cause issues. Mods do sometimes break and will do things like cause boot looping

[clever trail]

Does anyone have a port list is i want to host 3 maps from windows?

[plain swan]

My nitrdo server won’t restart 🙈

[humble thicket]

Wtf nitrado

Its so long

[livid latch]

Does steamcmd take longer to get the update?

[bleak ivy]

then nitrado? depends on the update.

[livid latch]

I got an update for my steamcmd the center map,but it only updated to 45.15...so i cant see it on the server list...

[bleak ivy]

I have the current update so just try again

[native wave]

non-nitrado unofficials should be able to update now. the public branch has the update

I updated 3 of my 4 maps....the 4th I just haven't messed with as it's holding my scorched character for now

[livid latch]

yeah i thought it was odd since my the island has the update,but thats through the dedicated server option on steam.

I cant get scortched earth or the center to update passed 45.15...seperate steamCMD folder installs

[distant hearth]

shud be on 46.3, example of a working update batch file , change file paths to suit your install locations

[livid latch]

gonna mess with that..i had a feeling it has to do with that

[distant hearth]

start - needed to make batch file auto close, not needed but makes batch command window auto close

C:\SteamCMD\steamcmd.exe -the part that tells it to open and run location that steamcmd.exe installed

+force_install_dir "C:\Arkserver1" - tells steamcmd the location of the folder my server is installed, just point it at the folder(important)

+login anonymous +app_update 2430930 -login and download latest version of ark ascended

validate -verfify files artfer installation, not strictly needed but i prefer to use it

+quit-closes steamcmd once done , not beeded but saves manually close the window

[livid latch]

This is whats in mine.

......"@echo off
start steamcmd.exe +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit

[distant hearth]

seems to be missing the part to tell it where to install

[livid latch]

Messing with it now.lol

[distant hearth]

that wud also need to be run from the same location that stmcmd.exe is located, mine can run from desktop

[rocky kestrel]

Help someone, I am hosting my own servers and I have setup a cluster for all 3 maps. However, when I try to transfer my character from one server to the other, it takes me to create a new character instead of transferring my current one. I have all of the "PreventDownload...." and "PreventUpload....." settings set to false and all my my start.bat files have the same clusterID in the command line as well as the same clusterdiroverride path. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong or what t o look for?

[distant hearth]

double check the gameuserseting.ini and the startup command linehas this set false
notributedownloads=false

[rocky kestrel]

Yes it does, i have it under the "serversettings" section on all three GUI.ini files

[distant hearth]

hmm shud work fine then from what info you gave , if the clusterdiroverride= file path has a space in it name you will need to wrap in quotes like this ,
clusterdiroverride="c:\my cluster save"

[rocky kestrel]

Ahhh that might be it, let me try that

[distant hearth]

anything with a space in the name needs be wrapped in quotes for batch file to work , names , locations etc

if not it ignores anything after the space

[hardy river]

Anyone else having problems with Nitrado server, Connection times out every time

[distant hearth]

it might not have latest update yet , not sure if nitrado has implemented, server needs be on v46.3

[hardy river]

Mine is on V46.3 😦 , says the ping is fine but when I connect it times out 😦

[distant hearth]

😦 not sure then, check client is updated too, other than that i can only think to try restarting server

[hardy river]

Thanks for the help!

[rocky kestrel]

That fixed it, thank you so much!

[prime thunder]

is that the line? just making sure

[distant hearth]

yes, just change the file paths to what you use

[prime thunder]

paste it straight in and jsut the paths ok thanks

[distant hearth]

couple posts down explains what each part does

[prime thunder]

Ok thanks 👍

[prime thunder]

now one more question the location where it says "Arkserver1" is that where the "Ark Dedicated Server" file is at where it holds everything?

[distant hearth]

yes

[prime thunder]

Ok

[distant hearth]

its important that it points at the right location, otherwise it will install a new server to the location thats specified

[prime thunder]

it says please use force_install_dir before logon

wait im looking in my directory and it shows another "steamapps" folder inside the ark adcended dedicated folder

Do i have to make sure its outside the folder or in?

[distant hearth]

im not really sure what u mean, it need to point at the location of the install folder , post the file path here an i will edit the btach file for you

oh i bet you have installed in steamcmd\steamapps\common\arkserver

[prime thunder]

ok so this is the folder where my ark dedicatedd server is:

C:\Users\alex\Downloads\steamcmd\steamapps\common\ark server

[distant hearth]

start C:\SteamCMD\steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir "C:\Users\alex\Downloads\steamcmd\steamapps\common\ark server" +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit

you will still need to change the location of where your steam cmd is installed

[prime thunder]

I run it through cmd?

and also for the ark server its inside the "common" is that ok because Then its the server files

so maybe I have to change it to "C:\Users\alex\Downloads\steamcmd\steamapps\common"?

[distant hearth]

make it into a batch file
if u trying do it through steam cmd it self you wudnt need the first part an have do seperate

[clever trail]

Does anyone have a port list is i want to host 3 maps from windows?

[distant hearth]

can use what ever you set as long they dont clash, mine run udp 7777,7778,7779,8000

[prime thunder]

ok so when I did that it started to create another steamapps folder inside of the ark server so maybe do i change the directory one out?

[distant hearth]

yea seems like, must be the right location or it will just install another server

[prime thunder]

Ok I iwll try it out

[distant hearth]

the force_install_dir part makes it create a folder if there isnt one in the location its told to look

[clever trail]

so no other port not 27015?

[distant hearth]

not if its asa , thats the old ase steam query port

[clever trail]

so if i have 10 maps the i have to forward a range from 7777 - 7787?

[prime thunder]

it says please use force_install_dir before logon

[distant hearth]

well every map you have needs a port forwarded that you set, so cud be say 7777,8888,8654,6543 etc, it just cant clash with another port

[clever trail]

Oky and rcon port is only if i want to use a tool to manage the map from outside the game?

[distant hearth]

did you make it into a batch file, or you trying run that line from stm cmd window?

[prime thunder]

steam cmd window

[distant hearth]

yea rcon port is for rcon commection, asa only needs the udp to be seen and joinable

[prime thunder]

so do I just put that line in a batch file?

[clever trail]

Oky ty i will be testing and see because i can see my server but i can't join just says Joining Failed Connection Timeout

[solemn zephyr]

BattleMetrics for months without a hitch

[distant hearth]

dm

[lucid solstice]

Its funny that nitrado takes like 10 minutes to restart after a crash, but my personal server takes 53 seconds lol

[distant hearth]

one mine thats empty comes up that quick too, half time i dunno if nitrado is that bad or it is the fact u/i is super laggy

[prime thunder]

"windows cant find "force_install_dir"

[naive pilot]

Question! Our island stats keep reverting back to official stats. ANy clue why or how to stop it??

[distant hearth]

if your on nitrado , they have a option in the general settings that will aloow it to use official settings from dynamic config, that needs to be off

[naive pilot]

I will give it a look. Thank you

[naive pilot]

It was disabled already.. any other ideas 🫣

[astral belfry]

I have been playing on an unofficial server with the default small tribe settings. I am wanting to change my settings to the boosted rates we had over the weekend (5.5x taming, harvesting xp. 5x maturation hatching and imprinting. 0.6 cuddle) that’s what they have listed as what they changed. Are there any other settings anybody would recommend being changed also?

[livid latch]

@distant hearth Got it! THANKS ALOT!

[obsidian jetty]

This lol, it is also funny how long Nitrado take to update loool

[terse kraken]

Has anyone played Moro’s indomitable duo mod?

[worthy finch]

I have

very nice but dosnt keep up with my servers primal chaos and descended mods

[lucid solstice]

I updated my servers today, it took less than 2 minutes for 3 servers.

[terse kraken]

Did you ever tame either the rex or raptor?

[worthy finch]

I did the rex

[viscid hound]

Anyone have any clue? I'm having the same trouble

[worthy finch]

The raptor no because of it constantly waking on me my friend did tho without it waking up

[terse kraken]

Which way did you knock it out cause I kept shooting the Raptor and the Torpor “forgive me idk how to spell it” kept going down so fast I couldn’t even knock it out? Which tranq method did you use and how? Please lemme know I’m loosing my mind trying to do this.

[haughty ember]

this is unrelated to setup but I am having trouble finding a PVP server known as "SquirtleArk" for PVP on the Fjordur map

It keeps saying "No sessions found!" after loading for a gruling amount of time

[worthy finch]

i think my tribe mate just used the primal chaos ones for the rex i just normally knocked it and it instantly tames

[worthy finch]

This is happening to my servers for phoenix ark they all wont show up for us

[worthy finch]

Id say watch videos on it if you can because im having issues too for some reason he managed to get it but i think its just keep knocking it out idk personally but dont put food until your 100% sure its out

[haughty ember]

hmmm okay gotcha

Had this issue last night as well

[flint laurel]

Anyone know how to fix dolphin spawns it's been at least two days now that they haven't spawned owner tried spawning them in and I crashed the servers we have both center and the island and it's the same in both he's put in a ticket and have yet to get any kind of answer or fix for it

[latent yarrow]

Has anyone got any experience with the kilimger snow removal skin mod? I’ve got it start arguments with the rest of my mods and in my server console it shows that it recognizes it but then it just doesn’t load it. Can provide a picture of what I’m talking about but not in this channel.

Really wish wildcard could just implement a feature to base game that things check if there is a roof above and not have the snow show on those structures

[wise kindle]

Isnt that a Custom Cosmetic mod? If so you dont add it to your server. Search youtube on how they work, they dont work like regular mods.

[latent yarrow]

Ah ok I’ll give that a try. Thanks for the info

[night shale]

gotta question
the ark server tool on steam how well does it work?
what are the requiments for a own ark server?

anyone have experience and can tell me how it is?

[latent yarrow]

Idk I use the steam cmd method and I run it on a computer that that is all it does

[night shale]

whats that

i mean i want a privat server for me and some friends but own hosting

[latent yarrow]

I’m sure there is someone in here that could explain it way better than I could. I figured it out with following YouTube videos, and there was a lot of trial and error.

[night shale]

so u got own server?

wabu crossplay?

[latent yarrow]

But yes I host a cluster with island scorched and center on my own hardware without nitrado. It is something you can do

And it is crossplay compatible

[night shale]

oh cool

[latent yarrow]

I just am not knowledgeable enough to explain how to do it.

[night shale]

what like cpu gpu? and yk what requients i need

[latent yarrow]

That machine i host on is like 5 years old and it runs it fine. I can’t remember cpu of top of head but gpu is just a 2060rtx and I have 96gigs of ram if I remember correctly. I never have any issues with lag or crashes of any sort from the server side.

[distant hearth]

an ark server uses a couple cpu cores and upto 16gb ram, also need half decent internet, thats just the server, if you want to play game and run server need 32gb ram an might have lower settings a bit ,
the dedicated server tool isnt great, better to do it through stmcmd, still free to do

[night shale]

how stmcmd work

[distant hearth]

is program you download that can install the server

[night shale]

link?

[night shale]

think and amd r7 370 would work

[distant hearth]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup

ark servers are more ram intensive than cpu especially for just a few people , my old r5 3600 barely noticed running a server

[native wave]

the xeons in my server are more than 10 years old and they run it fine

Launch Date Q3'13

[lucid solstice]

I am using an i7 6700 for mine, on a refurb pc, and it is way overkill for running small servers

[lucid solstice]

You don't need a dedicated gpu for ark servers though

[latent yarrow]

Never claimed you did.

[radiant oracle]

Can anyone please tell me the line for adjusting tamed creature food and torpor

[fair matrix]

when i upload my wyvern eggs and download them on my main they pop out lvl 1 does anyone know why that would be? its SE and island. same configs and mods

[dusky radish]

Is there a server setting or value to change how far you can build without foundation support?

[magic echo]

I had the red drops on Center working yesterday and now today after the update they are not working anymore any ideas

I have got the level60_TheCenter_C

[oblique pewter]

No

[proud crest]

Can anyone help out with how to set up my nitrado for pvp. Trying to find the damage and resistance multipliers sweet spot. I don't want to use 500 tranqs on a giga but I also don't want to kill one with one shot from a primitive crossbow

[oblique pewter]

3x rates are great

[proud crest]

I don't know where to begin to set that up

[oblique pewter]

YouTube tutorials!

“How to set up rates on ark survival ascend”

[upbeat pier]

I can't harvest rare flowers on my singeplayer save for the center, is there anything I can do to fix it?

[grim roost]

Hello, I would need help.
My admin password is not working for me on all maps, but it's working fine for the other admin. I am the server owner.
I am typing the password correctly, it is working for the other staff, I have reinstalled the game, I've tried entering the password in the UI and dhte admin bar.... please help. :c

[odd otter]

any clue why i can connect to my island map, but my scorched earth and center maps both show but give a time out error, theyre all port forwarded the same way just with different ports

[mint turret]

Hello! I have a problem on my Nitrado server. When I pass objects and resources on my cluster maps, I duplicate all of them. Do you know what it could be due to? Thank you very much for your help!!

[wide talon]

Anyone know how to level creatures up more than 88 times I know how to get higher than the max normal level with spawning at higher levels but not how to level up more than 88 times?

[lunar cloud]

dont think there is a way, other than mutations. base points + mutations + the 88 levels = lvl 450 (is max i think).
there is a setting to allow beyond 450 i think but thats about it

[wide talon]

Thanks for that but I’m just trying to figure out if there’s a way to level it up more than the max 88 levels

[spiral palm]

Anyone else having issues with their center map not adjusting properly for HarvestAmountMultiplier and HarvestHealthMultiplier? Every setting I've set for my server is working except those.

I used Beacon to set the settings and I see them set in the server's GUS.ini file. yet the harvest amounts are default

[oblique pewter]

No issues on my cluster.

[spiral palm]

hmm i need to see if it's just my center map... I haven't tried my Scorched or Island maps yet.

just crazy cause it's litterally the only setting that the server didn't adjust for

[rigid maple]

not true my max wild dino is 600

[oblique pewter]

The max level is 1524

Because the max stat you can have is 254 on a stat

[lunar cloud]

That is setting max wild levels through difficulty settings, not the 88 levels the op is asking about i believe

[oblique pewter]

254 x 6 is 1524

[lunar cloud]

On official settings if you mutate up to lvl 449, you can only add 1 level via XP then the XP bar is disabled as max is 450

WIKI Official servers have it set to 450.

[oblique pewter]

This is a unofficial channel Marcel 😭

[lunar cloud]

Here is the question #unofficial-setup-help message

[oblique pewter]

Yeah what we are talking about is off topic haha

You can only level up 88 times. That’s base game blueprints

[timber cypress]

Good morning, has anyone managed to put the event on your uno server and how did you like it?

Happy Pride 2024

[viscid hound]

Bump

[obsidian jetty]

Anybody have any clue why my Island map is using 22gb, and my forglar map is only using 4 - 6gb. Its absolutely insane, and I have already done a fresh install of it a few week ago, and just copied peoples users and saves over :/

Both same mods :/

It was fine last week, was hitting around 12gb max

[native wave]

how many people playing on the island vs forglar, how much building?

any new mods introduced?

[clever trail]

Oky me again

After forwarding port 7777 i can see my server but i cant connect not with the open ip:port nor when i click join, it just loads and then says connection timeout joining failed and also in the server side in the console there is never a entry that says incoming so it's like something is blocking connection and i've also added port 7777 as udp and tcp to firewall inbound and outbound

Please please please can anyone help?

[plain swan]

Hello, new ish to having a nitrdo server. I just got on, and getting online has made the server show it’s gonna restart, then it says it’s updating then it starts the server back up, then 2-3 minutes later it does it all over again, different from yesterday were it was just stuck resetting,

But today the server is coming back in but only for 2 minutes before resetting all over again,

Any tips or tricks I could try to stop this?

Just adding on, after a total of 15-20 minutes and 7 auto restarts and auto server updates it’s stayed on for now to were I can log on now,

Is this normal after an update on the game or?

[fervent tree]

Just a wild guess, double check that you put it in the right section in die ini. You find the config option and in which ini, under what section to put it in the wiki

[south palm]

@vapid imp

[humble thicket]

Hi all

I have one question

the 150 represents the dino level, but what do the three 0 represent in this command? 👇

cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Raptor/Raptor_Character_BP.Raptor_Character_BP'" 0 0 0 150

[bleak ivy]

its distance away from you.

first is forward and backward (recommend putting 300 there)
second is up and down)
third is right and left.

[fair matrix]

I have a player on my server that is no longer able to place anything down. There are no tribe ranks. He reinstalled the game , updated the PC , etc. He can place things in single player. We do have mods but he is the only one that can't place anything not even a vanilla smithy. No one else on the server has issues. Helpp???

[wise kindle]

Can he place things on single player?

[fair matrix]

Yes he can

He was also able to place things down before. When it started happening he was only not able to place certain things. Now he cannot place anything

The silhouette stays red on everything , no matter what

[wise kindle]

Can he place on other clusters?

[fair matrix]

We aren't clustered , just 2 servers running we upload items between. Idk if that matters. I will ask him to check another dedicated server

[wise kindle]

Not what i asked but nvm. Can he place foundations?

[fair matrix]

He cannot place foundations

[wise kindle]

He is the only player with the issue? All other players are good?

[fair matrix]

Yes everyone else is working 100% normally

[wise kindle]

Yeah have him jump on a random unofficial and try to place a campfire or something.

[fair matrix]

He is not able to place foundations on either of our 2 servers fyi

I am having him check another unofficial now

[wise kindle]

Another thing to try is to leave his tribe and relog, then create a new tribe and see if it lets him place in a new tribe. His current tribe could be corrupt, this will rule that out.

[fair matrix]

Ok so he is able to place things on other servers. Just not our 2 servers with different characters on each server

Anything he tries to place remains red , foundations whatever

[wise kindle]

Id try to get him in a new tribe and play around with that. If none of that works, you have to wonder if his character is corrupt.

[manic iron]

Anyone having issues with Nitrado web interface? Tried adjusting the settings on my server, but everything is gone. Redid all the settings again and everytime I save I get a bad gateway error

[native wave]

make sure you're shutting down the server before you make changes

[manic iron]

Still getting the bad gateway error. Seems to be a host connection issue. Tried on my phone as well and still same issue so it’s not my internet

[distant hearth]

nitrado has its own discord, can check on there see if there having problems

[worn fractal]

still no way to activate event colors on nitrado?

[distant hearth]

try there discord, they will have to add a check button for it

[jaunty vortex]

You'd think as a big investor they'd get warning about promotional events happening

[distant hearth]

even if not , it aint hard for them to do, they have the code already setup from easter, they just have change one line

[jaunty vortex]

I know. Rocket Science it ain't

[distant hearth]

im sure the devs hate wc as much as us ,id not bother telling them hahaha, but even so, some one upper mangement shud be passing the info to them as the sole host provider, its not a good look for the game if half the unofficial cant get the event colours

[jaunty vortex]

Yep

Anyone want to bet on how long before dedicated and unofficial gets 45.4? ASA Live has it

[distant hearth]

meh im gonna bet they just skip us for this one, friday coming up an they like to drop patches then too hahaha

[jaunty vortex]

usually a big client one to upset the console players

[little shore]

what is the map name of scorched earth in asa? (i.e the island is TheIsland_WP?)

[distant hearth]

scorchedearth_wp

[jaunty vortex]

don't make my mistake and spell Center the UK way and wonder why your server won't start 😂

[distant hearth]

that ? at the end is not part the name, its the start of the first server start command,
there are two types command, starting ?command
must all be backtobhack and
<spacebar>-command , that need a space in bewteen

[distant hearth]

luckily i checked , becuase i nearly did that

[native wave]

saw a few peolple doing that at launch

even had one instance of someone telling a person the map name....using the UK way....had to correct them

[distant hearth]

i presume if the name is wrong it just defaults to the island? never tried putting it in wrong

[native wave]

I....think so....not sure

[distant hearth]

trying it now lmao, becuase well, i wanted to know..

[native wave]

2 days in a row I added a mod for testing on my center server based on a syntac video

[distant hearth]

find out in 5 mins, when it shows up on battle metrics

full startup 38.36 seconds, its a clean map though lol

does have bout dozen mods on it

[rose frigate]

"minor version for servers..." 40 minutes later, still can't update.

[native wave]

minor version...not as critical we get the update

still good to get bug fixes though

[jaunty vortex]

it will be stuck permanently in booting

[distant hearth]

i will give it half hour with name spelt wrong , but hasnt showed up on the lists, interesting as server booted fine, shows status green and in ticking loop ....

[jaunty vortex]

did you get the explorer notes message?

[native wave]

can recommend Ark Nucleus.....nice mod to give an interface for your unofficial server. Also has some good interface tweaks to show levels in the dino intentory interface. Like it so far

[distant hearth]

no, my last line is
number of cores 6

[jaunty vortex]

yeah, it's not finished booting then, as far as I remember

[distant hearth]

yea ure right for sure ... but it was a fun test , shows cant go by ticking loop status green

[jaunty vortex]

Last thing I see is
No spawn additional explorer notes to spawn

Actually I get the stuff for the SCS mod after that, but a bare server would have that as the last line

[native wave]

my last line is Shiny's spawn timer

[distant hearth]

oh yea , i changed it back to correct an get load scs stuff plus a load other crap warning about invalid item class and spawn category lolz
This server has a load random mods on it that i was testing for someone to see if it wud boot with them

[native wave]

sounds like Dino Depot....that's the other mod I'm testing

[jaunty vortex]

I have a test server which is pretty much a clone of my Island server to check things still boot after mod or ark patches before I shut down my main server.

Had an issue with Nevermore Taxidermy and SCS not getting on

[distant hearth]

yep server now shows up, so the answer is, if map name spelt wrong, server will not boot correctly 🙂

[native wave]

good to know

[bleak ivy]

I could have told you that lol.

[distant hearth]

oh dam it why dint ya lmao , wasnt sure if it wud just default to the island ,so tested it

[bleak ivy]

nah, if you don't put a map name it doesn't load any map

[distant hearth]

pretty much any other thing in the command line thats wrong, alsong as format correct, it will just ignore it or set it default

[bleak ivy]

yeah, the default map is no map instead of the island for some reason.
so far this question has popped up after every map release 😂

when scorched came out somebody was here for hours trying to figure it out they spelled scorched wrong

[jaunty vortex]

it doesn't help when your native language instinct is to spell it the non-American way 😂

[bleak ivy]

I forgot center is centre for some places

don't think that one is just american tho

[distant hearth]

colour and color

[bleak ivy]

fun fact about that. the wiki uses both 😂

[distant hearth]

i guess coz wiki gets edited by english and american so depends who edit

[bleak ivy]

yeah, most of it is color but a bunch on the server config page is colour (not the settings lol)

[native wave]

anyone know what the dino tag for the x fish is?

[bleak ivy]

Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C
is that a dino tag? or do you mean the shortened name?

[native wave]

shortened name....it's not the full name I know that

not Xiphactinus

and we don't have it on the wiki

[distant hearth]

gimme sec can pull path from beacon

[bleak ivy]

what is a dino tag?

[native wave]

what you use to modify the spawn weight....it specifically calls for that

trying to turn down the X Fish on my maps

[bleak ivy]

oh magic spawner stuff

[native wave]

they outnumber megalodons

[bleak ivy]

its better that way

[distant hearth]

"/Game/ASA/Dinos/Xiphactinus/Dinos/Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA.Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C"

[bleak ivy]

beacon does not work for me

[jaunty vortex]

those fish look evil

[native wave]

don't need the path...need the Dino Tag

those fish are the reason I hate the water again

was just getting used to it thanks to disabling the fog underwater

wait, I think dollie posted it at some point

[distant hearth]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C",ToClassName="")
this one? is what it spit out if i disable it

[native wave]

nope, doesn't work, that's what I have now

not using npc replacements anyway

DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag="Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C",OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=True,SpawnLimitPercentage=0.01,SpawnWeightMultiplier=0.25)

my current line which doesn't work

[distant hearth]

aye was just trying get the right code, ermm i can try change its loot drop see if that gives the dino tag

nvm i cant , it dont have one lol sry

[native wave]

might be:
cheat sdf xiph 1 0 1? Given by dollie when it was first introduced in response to someone asking for the spawn code

[bleak ivy]

are you should its not just Xiphactinus?

[native wave]

yes, I tried that already

[bleak ivy]

thats just its name. sdf uses name part

[native wave]

ah

[jaunty vortex]

Public just updated, BTW

[distant hearth]

did you try using the full path ? out of curiosity as seem need now that to change spawns

[native wave]

still trying just Xiph....then I'll try the full path

[bleak ivy]

that was the mod's name tag

just found its wiki page

[native wave]

so far these don't work:
Xiphactinus_Character_BP_ASA_C
Xiphactinus

thalassaphobia is a pita

[native wave]

Not Xiph

[plain swan]

Hey, is there a command to increase the level of the Dino, in this case I tammed a Dino but it spawned it in at a pretty low level, was hopeing to Increase its level before breading,

Well perhaps to increase the level past it’s maxed level if a level 10 dino only goes to 100 or there abouts 😅

[jaunty vortex]

increasing levels won't matter if you're breeding. It goes with ones it tamed at

[humble thicket]

I just started an ASA server using nitrado on Xbox how do increase the stats per level upgrade for both tamed Dino’s and the player

[glad flax]

Hello everyone, has anyone experienced any issues around Tusos and food troughs by chance?

[distant hearth]

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

[fierce ferry]

Client not responding error ??

Battle eye ??

[distant hearth]

fuck battleye , run the server with -nobattleye commad

[proper frigate]

ASA anyone have a problem with their server spawning unkillable lvl 1 dinos

[viscid estuary]

Anyone having issues loading your servers after latest update? "mods not loading" issues?

"mods failed to install"

[spiral palm]

So I asked this earlier and have tried a few things since, but am still having no luck. I made these changes in the GUS.ini file: ClampResourceHarvestDamage=False, HarvestAmountMultiplier=2, HarvestHealthMultiplier=2 and they seem to be having absolutely no affect on the server. I did try googling this and only found one other person that resolve dit by staticly setting each resource. I'm trying to just increase the globals, not specific resources. Also, an interesting thing I just found is I set the rates to .5 just to test and the server set them back to 2 on its own. Anyone else had this issue? Never had this issue with A:SE, but this is affecting my A:SA cluster

found this is affecting why whole cluster, not jsut a speciofic map

[jaunty vortex]

ClampResourceHarvestDamage=false goes under server settings in GameUserSettings.ini

not sure about the other two

I can only see HarvestXPMultiplier in Beacon

I just exported a beacon config, it has this in GameUserSettings.ini if it is any use?

[ServerSettings]
ClampResourceHarvestDamage=False
DifficultyOffset=1.0
HarvestAmountMultiplier=2
HarvestHealthMultiplier=2
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
UseOptimizedHarvestingHealth=False

[inland dune]

Apply official server rates needs to de disabled or it will stay on what ever official setting you have

[spiral palm]

yeah this is what mine looks like. and I used Beacon to set it up. "Harvist Rates" is an option on the side bar of a project, not in the general settings option.

Ty for the help and suggestions though. I MIIIIGHT have gotten it to work. I just hadta completely delete the .ini file a few times and repopulate it from beacon a few times... and restart the server software 🙄

[native wave]

not the full path

[rancid river]

probably a stupid question but where do i put the pride command in? i have a nitrado server

[native wave]

they have to implement an interface option for you to add it. they do not expose the command line for you to edit.

[rancid river]

they stated Unofficial severs can use this by adding the arg "-PrideColors" to the server commandline

[native wave]

unless you're on nitrado because of what I said

they = nitrado

[rancid river]

should be able to put it either in game ini file or server settings?

[celest halo]

no

its a start command flag not an ini setting

[native wave]

nope. command line is the command string that is normally used in a batch file to run the server itself. Nitrado implements this entirely on the backend and presents you options to configure command line options. the -PrideColors flag is a command line only option they have to implement

[rancid river]

oh alright, thanks for the answer makes sense, i couldnt figure it out and been scratching my head for hours 😛

[native wave]

yeah they are being very slow to add the option, ya might bug them in their discord to add it. I know there's been quite a few people asking about it here.

[rancid river]

will do 😄 again thanks for the help and have an amazing day 😄

[native wave]

you too

[lucid solstice]

So I got me a new issue on my self hosted cluster if anyone has encountered this before. When transferring, after clicking spawn on map it gets stuck on downloading, and sits there for an hour now. If I exit out of the screen it resets the character level to 1, but keeps all the items from before transfer. Anyone have any ideas? I am suspecting the reset level is due to corruption

[robust sky]

Anyone know why my servers aren’t showing Easter colors even though I have the Box checked in the settings?

[wraith sun]

I think to avoid all that nonsense use a mod for it. I use Any Colour Sets and it is really good, works perfect even though it hasn't been updated in a while.
This way you can set whatever colors you want.

[native wave]

good option

[plucky agate]

Anyone else having this issue on their dedicated server after the most recent update? Pop-up window with this:

"Not all mods were installed. Mods failed to install"

The server console shows no errors with any of the mods, but still exits when the pop-up window is closed. No mod changes were made. Happens on all our maps (Island, SE, Svartalfheim).

[lucid solstice]

Still haven't figured this out. All 3 servers are running fine, and it remembers the items I carried, just resets me to level 1 everytime

[bleak ivy]

in ASE, dinos would sometimes reset if they were non-clustered uploaded and downloaded.
so it probably is a type of corruption.
do dinos also reset when uploaded/downloaded?

[bleak ivy]

wipe the mods folder for the server? Make sure to backup the saves before doing so.

[lucid solstice]

This is character getting reset

[bleak ivy]

I was making a comparison.

[lucid solstice]

The dinos are fine.

[lucid solstice]

Yeah, I just got that a bit late

[bleak ivy]

new issue then isn't happening to me, although when center came out my survivor got overwritten by a new survivor I didn't make.

[lucid solstice]

Hmm, I'll check if it does it to scorched as well. I just remade my cluster and put a center in. And that's when it happened

The big issue is how long it takes to download to map once it's already there. I timed it to an hour before it timed out trying to respawn after a transfer

I didn't have this issue before so I don't know what I did to it

It is having it on scorched too. I am 90% sure everything is configured right.

@supple crest, any clue?

[plucky agate]

I'm having this issue too, but haven't really dug into it yet

[plucky agate]

Thanks, I'll give that a try in the morning.

[grim roost]

Hello, I would need help.
My admin password is not working for me on all maps, but it's working fine for the other admin. I am the server owner.
I am typing the password correctly, it is working for the other staff, I have reinstalled the game, I've tried entering the password in the UI and the admin bar.... please help. :c

[plucky agate]

Just tried it and clearing the mods folder didn't help, but it looks like it might be an issue with one of my mods because it stopped downloading them about halfway through. I'm going to see if I can narrow it down tomorrow... Thanks for the tip!

[shrewd spire]

What's up with the center database issue and mods

[jaunty vortex]

What is your command line? Are you using the -port option or trying to do it with ?port ?

[odd otter]

running into a cluster issue, it will upload the survivor from one map, but it will not allow a download back down from the cluster, i can see the profile in the cluster folder. my ini file doesnt have the download or the uploads prevented on anything either. also when i upload dinos they just disappear, any clues?

[crisp horizon]

Hello, some ppl always loose character on my cluster, anyone else have this pb?

[atomic adder]

Is there a way to run the Ark SA server without it opening in the new stupid GUI, but instead stays running in the terminal it was started in?

Edit: I remembered, its -OldConsole

[supple crest]

not really

[fringe lava]

Yes, I'm having the same problem. After going through every mod I discovered it is all the mods created by Sandi_00 these are mainly modern furniture mods including western decor, modern furniture set etc. Once I uninstalled these mods the error disappeared. Not sure on why these mods specifically and not sure what to do since I personally have used a fair amount of these mods on one of my maps. @plucky agate

[true birch]

Hi, same problem Here failed to install mod. Arf every ark update break the game

[viscid estuary]

I solved it by removing a mod from the "-mods=xxxxx" launch command, a custom cosmetic mod I was testing and I forgot to remove.

[plucky agate]

Ohhhh, I'm using the Western mod also, so that's interesting... But only on our SE instance, yet the problem's also happening on Island and Svartalfheim, neither of which has that mod. But definitely a good place for me to start - thank you!

[plucky agate]

That's my next plan of action - yay, process of elimination. Appreciate the advice, thank you!

[viscid estuary]

anytime

[solemn zephyr]

You have to do

Enablecheats yourpassword

On asa

[rancid marsh]

Anyone else facing multiple server crashes on the island ? (nitrado)

[ornate raptor]

I am having an issue where players are transfering between servers and losing tribe access upon return. Does this have to do with not having an alt save directory?

[lucid solstice]

Probably. You should have that

[distant hearth]

depends how the servers are run, if there out of seprate folders for each .exe, then u just need the clusterdiriverride=
If there run from the same folder with the same.exe using differnt batch files, you use altsavedirectory

asa seems to have alot of issues with save files, its worth looking into what -converttostore and -usestore commands do to the way it saves the data.
lilpanda mentioned it to me when i asked about the issue.
In testing i cannot it make it break the saves using this alternate save method ,
but it is just me on test servers, pulling the connection half way through transfer, transfer with out all mods download , powering it off when transfering etc, that sort of thing to test breaking it

[lucid solstice]

You might know. My cluster is having transfers that take longer than the timeout to connect, and it's making my character level/tribe get reset withiut losing any items. Is that something you know how to fix, or at least what might be causing it?

[distant hearth]

not an issue ive heard of before tbh, how is it set up ?
connecting to each server outside the cluster doesnt causes issues?

[lucid solstice]

I have no issues connecting to the servers, they all show up just fine and run really well. I can play on any of them without any lag/crashes or any other issues. The only things I set in the batch file is the cluster info, name and the ports.

[ornate raptor]

I an running each server in its own directory the exe is in the server directory. I though the alt save directory was for the new save format, which I am not using.

[distant hearth]

you can dm me if prefer, as im gonna be in an out for next few hours , but what i am needing to know is if each server runs out of seperate installs or if from just the one install
can also dm me the batch files used if u want , also one of the gus.ini so i can check the filters are set right,

[distant hearth]

no ?altsavedirectory is if you run the server from the same install

[ornate raptor]

I am about ready to just give up on ASA. Been pretty disappointed all the way around.

[distant hearth]

before u give up try this then ,backup the saves first an can always revert back .

lil —
are you using -usestore by chance? that fixes a lot of issues but you'd need to convert the data to use this if you aren't already using it.

Me-no havent heard of it

lil -
backup your data, startserver with -converttostore and -usestore and then on your next server start you can run with just -usestore and should be okay going forward. hope that helps!

all server in the cluster wud need to run the same method

[ornate raptor]

I will give it a shot

[distant hearth]

make sure to the backups somewhere safe first, preferably with a copy of each batch file , so you can quickly an easily revert back to the state its in now

[ornate raptor]

already done

[distant hearth]

fingers crossed it solves your issues , if not then just revert back, nothing much lost, just a bit time

[lucid solstice]

Just dmed it to you

[turbid kernel]

Hey, I have been trying to Add the Pride event to my server but there is no option for that in general setting. The announcement states that just add -Pridecolors to ur command line, while it does not specify which on or how ! should I just paste -Pridecolors as it as in game ini or usersetting ini ?

[lucid solstice]

Its a commandline option, you can put it anywhere in the batch file like a normal setting

[distant hearth]

if your on nitrado, they have to add a checkbox for you to use, try in there discrod to see when they might do this

[native wave]

probably plenty of people in their discord asking for the same thing. I know I've told 10+ people to go to their discord already

[turbid kernel]

Thanks 💗

[turbid kernel]

Thanks 💗

[clever tendon]

How would I go about raising melee and health and such because the health on tames and dinos right now have apparently stopped going up? people are no longer able to put points into various stats anymore do any of you might know why?

[flint laurel]

Any word on when missing dolphin spawns will be fixed we haven't had any dolphins or shasta whales standing in almost a week now a ticket was placed but haven't gotten anything yet except for it's a knowen problems and their working in fixing it

[vital lodge]

has anyone managed to get the pride colours event working on unofficial servers?

[celest halo]

It's WC they'll have fixed sometime 5 years from now

[flint laurel]

@celest halo your saying it's gonna take them five years to fix dolphin and Shasta spawns so people can tame them again thats highly unlikely they will let it go in that long

[celest halo]

This is wc we talking about theres still broken stuff in ASA that was broken in ASE

[grim roost]

That is exactly how I am writing it. The password works fine on all maps for everyone, except me, on these two specific maps.

[white garnet]

is there any server setting to turn off baby dino kills tracked in the logs? my players want to make a organic polymer farm and it floods the tribe logs...

[solemn zephyr]

Actually, don't ask me why, it works fine if you put the argument in the game.ini

[distant hearth]

the pridecolours event thing? i mean it shudnt but if it works that what everyone needs do then 🙂

[lucid solstice]

Don't claim them?

[solemn zephyr]

Yessir, right under the first header and if actually works

-ActiveEvent=PrideColors=True

[lucid solstice]

That works? Does it need the =True? Because that looks very strange

[tawdry python]

any know why i cant use admin commands?

i cant even do enablecheats and stuff

[distant hearth]

you get the command console come up in game?(tilde key by default)if not there is a setting somewhere in game pause menu to enable the console, sry cant rem what it called

[tawdry python]

yeah

but then i type the password and stuff it wont let me use cheats and stuff

[distant hearth]

you have an admin password set ?

[tawdry python]

yeh but it wont let me use it

[distant hearth]

if its self host needs to be the last ?command

[tawdry python]

self host

[distant hearth]

in the batch file make ?adminpassowrd=<mypassword>
is the last in that line

[tawdry python]

i use asct

[distant hearth]

Start C:\arkserver1\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="willzlaptop"?ServerAdminPassword=<admin_password> -port=7777 -winlivemaxplayers=10 -nobattleye

example

[tawdry python]

alrighty ty

[distant hearth]

for some reason it needs to be the last in the list of ?commands used

[tawdry python]

kk thx

[distant hearth]

or you can set in gameusersetting.ini

[tawdry python]

i tryed but wont let me use it ingame

[distant hearth]

dunno then, works fine for me if i do it in gus, i guess just try it in command line last

[tawdry python]

can u cluster server that way too?

[distant hearth]

from the command line ?yea sure , depends on how there setup though on how you do it

[white garnet]

no thats the problem, the unclaimed ones being killed puts a log entry in the tribe log.

[lucid solstice]

Make a secondary tribe, set to pvp, and leave them on breed in said tribe.

[white garnet]

ill try that, but i have a feeling itll still put an entry for unclaimed dinos being killed

[solemn zephyr]

Yes it works typed how I put it

[lucid solstice]

If they belong to another tribe it shouldn't

[plucky agate]

For anyone experiencing the "mods failed to install" issue after the latest patch, for me it was mod 972492, which is the Krazy Cosmetics mods from WildCard themselves.

Removing that from the load list made my instances come back up

[ornate raptor]

Thank you for this. My players are reporting good things

[distant hearth]

i was just lucky to ask the right question at thr right time in general chat an get a dev respond

shout back in a few days , then again in a week , even if still no issues... im interested to know the long term use continues to work good

[ornate raptor]

I will try to remember. Feel free to metion me if I dont

[sick mountain]

Can anyone help me im trying to enable frame generation on ark but its greyed out for me im able to use this option on different game also on the side of setting it says Nvidia does setting setup i don't have nvidia i have amd

[livid reef]

frame generation is an nvidia thing. that's why your amd card wont allow it

[plain swan]

Hey, trying to change my dinos colour for the first time, clearly missing something stupid, could anyone give me an example of a command, I’ve been trying this one or something similar…

setTargetDinoColor 0 76

[wooden tartan]

@plain swan Shot you a pm.

cheat SetTargetDinoColor <ColorRegion> <ColorID>
cheat SetTargetDinoColor 0 0

[wise kindle]

Some colors dont work unless you add a 0. Try cheat settargetdinocolor 0 076

I have to do this for albino 36 as well, 036

[humble thicket]

I own a nitrado Xbox server I turned the cuddle interval up to 40 still has original “wants care in 2 days” how do I get that turned down to quicker intervals

[celest halo]

that setting only affects new times, not ones that where started before making the change

[humble thicket]

Thank you so god damn much I was about to put a hole in my tv over this

[bleak ivy]

what is your mature rate?

and do you have singleplayer settings on

[humble thicket]

Mature rate is set to 200 now babies mature in 5ish mins

[bleak ivy]

set the cuddle interval to 0.01 should let everything get 100% (besides Achatina, dodo, lystro, and Archaeopteryx)

don't know if you can go one further place but 0.005 for everything to get 100%.

[scarlet juniper]

Why does Battle Eye only work on Nitrado servers, and on other servers it simply does nothing??🤡

I can go to any server that isn't on Nitrado without Battle Eye, even if its Battle Eye icon is there

[half galleon]

How do you spawn a tamed shastasaurus on PS5

[lilac gorge]

Can anyone copy and paste their ini file if they have reasonable breeding/taming rates? I'm trying to get x2 harvest rates too and it's just not working

[solemn zephyr]

Use the wiki or get beacon, it's not hard to do either of those things and it's much better that you learn.

[south jackal]

when i set matinginterval to 0 and restart the game its back to 1, any fix or is it just ark?

[fervent tree]

Afaik you can't just set it to 0, you have to set it to a small number instead. 0.1, 0.01 or something like that

[clever trail]

Does anyone know what the dns or ip is of ark asa if i have to tracert

[south jackal]

i was told 0 is possible, beacause 0 is no cooldown and other settings are also at 0

[spice tendon]

Try: cheat gmsummon “Shastasaurus_Character_BP_C” 150 0 0

[clever trail]

Does anyone know what the dns or ip is of ark asa if i have to tracert

[celest halo]

there is no one ip every server has a differnt ip

[fervent tree]

That's my only guess, sorry 🤷 The server is shut down when you do the change?

[lost siren]

Guys, can anyone help me. I run a cluster with 4 maps and last week I tried to remove 2 unwanted mods from my setup. After doing that, the transfer between crossArk maps are not working for The Center and Svartalfheim. The player leaves The Island but is stays in the cloud and never arrives at the other two maps. For Scorched, there is no problem, the trasferring is working as expected. Someone have some tips on what should I do?

[fervent tree]

You can check battlemetrics for ips for some servers. But as stolenvw said, there is not one ip that anyone could tell you

[bleak horizon]

Anyone know why tps won't give us option to unlock for players to use ? Have the small medium and large, not one has enable public transportation option 🤔- ASA

[wise kindle]

What mod?

[wise kindle]

You need to be tribe admin to unlock (make public) tps.

[bleak horizon]

i feel so thick, i completely forgot 😂

[lost siren]

I removed Dino+ and Super Structures Ascended.

[wise kindle]

Its happens. This game has so much to it.

[lost siren]

I put them back again, but the problem remains.

Sometimes it takes forever to download your items from the cloud, but now, it never finishes.

It seems that your character is in the cloud forever. I can't even deploy cryopods. It is like my char is never in the new map.

[wise kindle]

Yeah i dont think a structure or creature mod would affect that.
Double check your transfer settings and cluster ids and then reapply your settings.

[lost siren]

Good idea.

I will double check if in anyway the ID for the cluster got changed during my restoring backups to see if I fix the problem.

[sterile oak]

heya, looking to get a server for me and my friend on ase, we were planning to play modded on steam. is there any good hosters? need cheap and mod capabilities

[south jackal]

its singleplayer

[fervent tree]

In that case I'm a bit lost. There is some form of Singleplayer option in an ini that overrides a lot of the settings. Make sure that isn't set

[warped sable]

whenever i go in third person, my npc doesnt move with my mouse, how can i fix this?

[cosmic merlin]

hey quick question does anyone here understands port forwarding???

[pure haven]

Does anyone know if hiding engrams with OverrideNamedEngramEntries also removes it from drops or do i need to remove them from drops manually?

[wise kindle]

You will need to manually remove from drops.

[marble condor]

Curseforge troubles again? Can't connect to any modded server

[atomic adder]

Hi All 👋 I'm using Glorious Eggrolls proton to run ArkAscendedServer.exe, and it just returns without error, no logs, nothing. Any ideas on making this work or at least getting logs? I'm running {path/to/proton}/proton run {path/to/asa}/ArkAscendedServer.exe

[plucky agate]

Looks like it

People are chatting about it in #bobs-with-probs

[celest halo]

you check there github page to see how to turn on debug logging

[celest halo]

WC made an #announcements on it also

[humble thicket]

Wyf What happen with nitrado again ?

[plucky agate]

It's not Nitrado, it's CurseForge's mod API being inaccessible

[foggy turret]

I accidentally downloaded a mod I didn’t want on my server and when I deleted it, I am now no longer able to join it. Can anyone tell me how to fix this

[clever tendon]

So I am having problems with the breeding right now. I keep breeding 2 lvl 970 gigs and constantly getting lvl 955 eggs any Ideas why?

[lucid solstice]

This is more a question for bobs with probs, it's not really a setup question

[native wave]

got in my server, so the api is coming back

[clever tendon]

this has to deal with setup since its connected

[loud comet]

my servers acted like they updated but still on 46.3 and i'm stuck at downloading mods when trying to join

[native wave]

server setup, not gameplay related, it's a #bobs-with-probs issue @clever tendon

[native wave]

the mod api is having issues, but seems to be slowly coming back

[humble thicket]

What is api mod?

[celest halo]

It's what the game uses to talk to cursforge and get the mods

[humble thicket]

Ok thanks bro

I see my server but i cant connect me 🥲

[loud comet]

are you also stuck at downloading mods Yaya?

[humble thicket]

So many day nitrado have problem omg..

[native wave]

this isn't a nitrado issue

[humble thicket]

Yes bro

[loud comet]

yeah for once it's actually not nitrados fault

[humble thicket]

Ah

[dim geyser]

personal unoffical lan owner here, I have a hard time joining. Non-Nitrado. Just have to keep clicking join I guess until it comes up

[sharp oriole]

Im not it literally asks me my password and after that says no sessions found

[humble thicket]

what should be done ?

[sharp oriole]

Wait

[humble thicket]

Ok

[loud comet]

i run my own servers and i'm having the same issues, just gonna have to be patient, things will resolve themselves eventually

[celest halo]

Not WCs fault either they posted about it way to quickly 🤣

[humble thicket]

Or remove any mods ?

[dim geyser]

this is a backend issue on ARK's end, there is no fix.

[native wave]

official players are hammering the api and it's struggling under the load. every time they try to connect with any mods loaded (including client side mods)...they have to get info from the api. That is hammering the api causing it to be inaccessible and fail on requests

[sharp oriole]

So no one’s taking the blame for it ? How can this not be arks fault ?

[native wave]

I lay the blame at all the people who rightfully want to play the game. nothing can be done about that

[celest halo]

It's not arks fault when curse forged is not responding to request

[spare pier]

me neither

[dim geyser]

This is a backend issue that us server owners do not have capability to resolve. But a workaround is keep clicking join until the screen comes up to join. If it says purchase, back to the main menu then try again. Eventually it will say Join.

Adds only like two minutes to log in time at most.

[loud comet]

mine is working now

[sharp oriole]

You have mods on it ?

[loud comet]

yes

[sharp oriole]

Ok ok I’m trying mine back

Nope didn’t let me join should I restart my servers ?

[dim geyser]

did you try my advice?

[sharp oriole]

I am

[spare pier]

works now

[sharp oriole]

Let me join my open server

[proper frigate]

Does asa cluster have cross chat

[rain wolf]

hi, Is there a way to put a mod on some animal and block its spon?

[chilly coral]

Look into spawn Blocker by hexenlord

[chilly coral]

Yes in game

[jaunty vortex]

It’s Friday evening (well it is for me) what time does the major patch come out? 😂

[glossy mural]

What is a good Breed rates for rexs about every 4 or so hours Mating interval multi and baby rates so not to fast but decent

[proper frigate]

how do you turn it on?

[proper frigate]

10x is every 7-9hrs so it would be slightly more than that

[humble thicket]

Is it better to use a server manager for asa or just do it my self

[distant hearth]

anyone struggling with breeding settings, get the beacon omni app/program, link in pinned messages, the free version with do all the calculations for you an show the effect each setting has on every dino

[digital haven]

Hey just wanted to say were running two *8 Time servers with 20 slots each scorched and center for low key pvp players if anyone is interested dm me

[lunar cloud]

https://discord.com/channels/729837326120910915/1110949794907684965

[rancid marsh]

Anyone else's island map in continuous restart loop?

Having a nightmare on nitrado lately 😕

Our scorched and center maps work fine just the island.

[rain wolf]

hexenlord? is it a program? I can't find it on beacon?

[faint acorn]

We are running an unofficial server.
If you upload a dinosaur to the transmitter, the server will not respond and you will be forced to log out. Then, when I access the transmitter again and pull out the dinosaur, all the statuses become level 1. Is there a solution?
I'm in a lot of trouble.😿

[stuck leaf]

i've not paid much attention to asa since launch, but has the setting to change item/stat clamps changed? i've used the same settings from my ase server, but im getting flak bps with like 600+ armour and stuff, but cap should be in 400s, unless its raised or a command change right?

[jolly plaza]

So the customer support services have been suspended. How do we kick in tickets or ask questions?

[lunar cloud]

I dont use the those settings much, but item stats clamp ItemStatClamps[<attribute>] and ClampItemStats have an unknown status on the config WIKI
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

✅ for ASE , ❔ for ASA

[rigid maple]

Put in a ticket on nitrado

[compact rain]

Is there gonna be an update for console unofficial servers anytime soon?

[dense hamlet]

Ever resolve that issue?

[cinder hare]

anyone seeing their server but getting connection timed out? (just came back from vacation and started the center map)

[compact rain]

My server hasn’t showed up for 3 months since the last server updates

[sterile oak]

heya, i asked something yesterday, but it wasnt answered, whats a good hosting service for modded steam ase servers?

please help when someone can

[sterile oak]

nvm

i simply went with nitrado

[lunar cloud]

oh ho, with all the Nitrado issues, most would agree they are the worse.
I've heard good things about GPortal, but maybe others here can vouch

[sterile oak]

ive had nitrado issues in the past, but its the thing im most familiar with, im only doing a few tweeks and a few mods

[proven nest]

The only issue I had with Nitrado is a reset loop when trying to start up the server, the work around was to take off a mod wait 10 mins boot the server up wait 10 mins then add the mod back on. Make sure you have a useless mod on that doesn't affect anything in game, hope this helps in the future 😃

[fringe dome]

I'm having an issue after update yesterday, my server shows in the list and other people can connect, but I am unable to. It starts to join then puts me back at the main menu and nothing happens. I have verified integrity, reinstalled game and mods, and tried using a different internet connect/turning off firewall

[arctic basin]

hello there !
You know if its possible to use CustomDynamicConfigUrl locally ?
like
CustomDynamicConfigUrl="http://127.0.0.1/home/ark-admin/ARKSERVER/dynamic-config/Current/dyn-conf.ini"
without webserver ?

[bleak sun]

does anyone know how to fix the "mods failed to install" error when starting ur asa server?

[bleak sun]

nevermind fixed it

[lunar cloud]

unfortuntely it looks like it supports HTTP protocol which needs a web server. If you are hosting on Windows, you could simply enable IIS feature and open that , and place the config file under its default site location. It would become accessible under localhost http url or 127 IP as you posted.
Alternatively you could place the file in a public google drive, or S3 or somewhere else, but that needs HTTPS support and not sure if that would work as i have not tried it

[arctic basin]

hey, i'm on linux

[lunar cloud]

For linux you could just use SimpleHTTPServer library. If you have python installed, which comes with most distros, you just run python3 -m http.server 80
It will serve any files in its current working directory on localhost port 80, then you just drop the ini files in that directory and it would be servable.

[arctic basin]

yeah i find it maybe last hour ! very interesting !

the idea for the moment is to point to a folder, which will be useful for the dyn conf, whitelists, and other things that require http.

I have nothing to do other than create a service that points to this folder and boom, the story seems to be resolved

the cool thing is that I use wine, which already installs Python for me, so I have nothing to install

[lunar cloud]

just worth mentioning that these simple web servers are common to being exploited and abused, so i would just make sure you can only access it over your private network, and not accidently have it exposed over the servers public IP. So if your router not forwarding that port, and its only on your private LAN, then all good. Linux does not always have firewalls enabled by default

[arctic basin]

Cant acces to the web and with my another local computer, only with server

[arctic basin]

thanks for ur feedback my friend

[sterile oak]

anyone know the expert code line for player heal rate? ase

[distant hearth]

PlayerCharacterHealthRecoveryMultiplier=1.0
is default , higher number increases recovery rate , all listed here ,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[sterile oak]

tyty

[sterile oak]

game user settings?

[narrow apex]

If I host a server and purchase a mod will that mod be available for others who play on my server without them having to also purchase said mod?

[distant hearth]

no not atm , if server has paid mod, all need to buy to log on server

[lost siren]

Is someone having cluster problems when you try to travel from one map to another and the player never gets uploaded?

[proper frigate]

So my asa server did a daily restart and everything was fine until someone else logged in like 6hrs later and it randomly teleported tames and buildings ect to a random spot in the air and i lost 2 fabricators that went missing others lost tames ect any idea what happened?

[jaunty vortex]

Coordinates 50,50 by any chance?

[distant hearth]

if self hosted an from seperate installs must use shared cluster folder with command -clusteroverridedir=<LocationOfFolder/dir>

[lost siren]

It is in Nitrado

[distant hearth]

ive not heard of that happening on nitrado, make sure both cluster ids are same in cross ark section.
If still an issue you will have to contact there support

oh side note also make sure the filters are allowing transfer

[lost siren]

The cluster ids are the same, I passed trough all these verifying steps already. I have like 45 mods installed. The problem only happens when traveling to the new map The Center.

Yes, they are allowing transfers. Like I said, it works as expected in The Island and in SE. The problem only happens in The Center.

[distant hearth]

ok sry im gonna bail here sry , 45 mods is insane ... they might work, but good luck if they dont

[lost siren]

I hope this is not the case, but whatever, it may be.

[terse kraken]

Are there any pokemon mods for ASA cause I tried looking for some but can’t find any, maybe I’m googling the wrong thing. Can anyone let me know if there are any pokemon mods?

[jaunty vortex]

45 mods is crazy. You’re depending on each mod dev being on the ball and not messing anything up in their mod AND not treading on another mod’s toes. All this on top of a game that can crash without any mods installed.

[distant hearth]

yea u know it, im betting half of them are tripping over each other

[pale sentinel]

Hello I'm on ASA and I'm having issues finding resources on my server. The resource map shows at 89.2,68.8 there is a sillica resource but it's simply put not there haha I don't know if it's a setting or something along those lines.

[maiden niche]

any experts here know, how to increase the max player level in my server? Right now, it is just 155 if you played the tek boss

[serene pelican]

Hello there, how can I add the pride event on my nitrado server, I didn't understand the line command... Where do I have to put it? Where is the startup Line servet in nitrado ?

[pale sentinel]

There is no command line access. You wait for them to add support for it.

[serene pelican]

Oh... even if they wrote this on thier community crunch? "Unofficial severs can use this by adding the arg "-PrideColors" to the server commandline."

I don't know how to find the server comandline ^^'' thanks for your answer anyway 🙂

[jaunty vortex]

You can only do that if you run your own server 😦

[distant hearth]

two types of unofficial server, self hosted and nitrado rented
command line access is not availble on nitrado .
i am told by a releiable source that adding this exactly as shown to game.ini will work on nitrado , dont ask me how or why
-ActiveEvent=PrideColors=True

under the header, [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]

[serene pelican]

Thanks a lot I'll try 🙂

[distant hearth]

i havent tested it myself but trust the person told me it works

[maiden niche]

anyone know how to increase max player level to 300 ?

[chilly coral]

hey all i am adding some ini settings for Tigers Ascended Mod. I tried asking there but no answer yet.
If im putting in spawns for a dino (so in this case, celestial tiger - codes were provided) do i add those settings in the GAME.ini or the UserSettings.ini?

the GAME.ini right?

Also, is there a way to configure ini to encourage higher level spawns?

[distant hearth]

most mod settings go in the gameusersetting.ini but under a header specific to the mod (check there documenation or discord for that info)

easiest way to do higher level spawning bias is via the mod, custom dino levels, its great i reccomend it

[terse kraken]

Are there any pokemon mods for ASA cause I tried looking for some but can’t find any, maybe I’m googling the wrong thing. Can anyone let me know if there are any pokemon mods??

[marble patio]

What’s the command for supply crates in Asa

[chilly coral]

thank you! ill give that a go 🙂

[native wave]

unlikely there will ever be as nintendo is extremely litigious

would have to be a knock off like palworld is...even they are treading a dangerous line

[stuck leaf]

Has anyone figured out item clamp settings for Asa yet?

[distant hearth]

there same as ase
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#ItemStatClamps

[stuck leaf]

i've tried these settings on my asa server, but im finding flak bps that are coming out at 600 and 1000+ armour

but with same settings on my ase server im getting what old ase cap is

[broken stream]

Hello, someone have info about this setting MaxStructuresInSmallRadius=40 in gus.ini? What this limitation? Some player on my server have a message who say they are limited to build du to this limitation and the wiki say : Defines the amount of max structures allowed to be placed in a RadiusStructuresInSmallRadius from player position. Official set it to 40. Undocumented by Wildcard.

[carmine shale]

i fighted with toxic tarantula and got a status effect i dont know it looks a radioactive sign and my dino loses 75% of his stats

i cant send a picture hope some can help me

[bleak ivy]

#bobs-with-probs or #pve-discussion this is for settings related questions. should also include whatever mod(s) you are using.

[distant hearth]

do u have the line set in gus ini that activates them ?

[carmine shale]

sry wrong channel

[stuck leaf]

in game user i have it set to true, then in laucher parms i have ?ClampItemStats

[distant hearth]

try doing clampitemstats it in game.ini , asa might not exccept the ?launch parameter for it, is hit an miss what does and dont work

[serversettings]
ClampItemStats=True

game.ini

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

[stuck leaf]

i've just checked that, and everytime i start server, in gameuser it auto turns it from ClampItemStats=True to false

[stuck leaf]

thanks, i found out the launch parm was clashing with game user which is why it kept changing

after removing parm gameuser stays and clamp works properly

[distant hearth]

glad u got it fixed

so u had a launch parameter setting clampitemstats=false or it was just being ark an playingh up/

?

[stuck leaf]

just ark playing up

the param was ?ClampItemStats, which is how i did it in ase

which for some reason was forcing the setting to false instead of true

[warm knot]

hello, on my ASA unofficial server there are almost no wild dinos spawning, any fix for this?

(in comparison to ASE)

[dawn coral]

Question I’m in a server and have a bunch of mods but for some reasons the texture will not load

[distant hearth]

what happens if you load into a server with no mods or not many, official prehaps as a test

[ornate raptor]

Is there anything tyhat can be done for reequent host timeouts?

[robust nymph]

Anyone got an ini to put all the element in the boss loot crate for centre, like they have on island and scorched?
Players prefer it that was as it's harder to snag the element from the boss runner.

[desert crown]

Hi! Whats the best server provider for me and 2-3 friends for ark survival evolved?

[fickle basin]

I keep getting an error message that freezes me and i have to totally reboot just to happ0en again. How do I fix this?

[obsidian jetty]

does anybody have some sort of list of high ram using mods? my island map just lately is running super high

[jaunty vortex]

How many mods do you have?

[mystic fractal]

Has anyone else had an issue after playing for a Premium Mod, and after installing it it tells you to pay for it again?

[late estuary]

Me and my buddy finished overseer last night and looks like we got hit with bugs. I'm not in my tribe anymore and it looks like his character is completely gone now. Is there anything I can do to help, as server owner?

[haughty badger]

anyone speak crash logs in here? My Island server keeps crashing when I try to start it. My other 3 (scorched, center, and Svart) all started with no issue. I run the same mods on all servers and deleted them all and let them fresh install when this started so its not that.

[autumn hornet]

Crash on server start or join? Corrupted save is a possibility

[haughty badger]

on server start

I tried reinstalling the mods just to rule out a bad install there, and tried to rollback to a prior save and that didnt do the trick either

I dont know if this by itself helps but at the top of the crash log it states:

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000018

[bleak horizon]

anyone who has beacon know best way to turn colour events on? ASA?

[lime matrix]

Becon as far as I understood it is just an ini management utility....it dos not start/stop/monitor server processes. You need to add the event switch -PrideColors to launcher arguments like those added to a bat file.

[bleak horizon]

do you know specific code for it?

[lime matrix]

code for what? I just posted it...

[native wave]

-PrideColors

[bleak horizon]

yeah thank you sorry i mean like is there nothing before it or anything? i just put it in as it is?

[lime matrix]

It's appended to the end of your launcher string

[bleak horizon]

thank you

[bleak horizon]

so dont laugh but launcher string? 😅 still learning beacon sorry

[distant hearth]

are you self hosted or nitrado?

[bleak horizon]

nitrado

but use beacon to deploy settings 😊

[lime matrix]

Well, id post nitrado

just search for that on google, Nitrado server events ark

it'll bring up a video how to

[distant hearth]

thought as much , so this might possibly work, im told it works but havent been able to test it
-ActiveEvent=PrideColors=True
exactly like that in the game.ini
in beacon you cud add it as custom

[bleak horizon]

thank youu

[oblique pewter]

Imma see if I can get help with this. On my cluster we are seeing a extreme case of people losing their toons. This has been a thing for us forever but im trying to find a resolution.

Players will randomly lose their connection to their character and be greeted with a create toon when they log in. On the backend side we are seeing the .arkprofile file being missing from their folder. Has anyone dealt with this

[late estuary]

Are there ini settings for trains besides max train cars?

[distant hearth]

there is a pontential way but you will have to decide if you want to try it ,
i asked a dev about it an was told ,

are you using -usestore by chance? that fixes a lot of issues but you'd need to convert the data to use this if you aren't already using it.

Me-no havent heard of it 

lil -
backup your data, run server with -converttostore and -usestore and then after  you can run with just -usestore and should be okay going forward. hope that helps!```

the downside is, this changes the way player data is stored, it combines it into the .ark file
so if a person loses char im not certain how you retrieve it an add it back into the worlds. i.e with normal save you can just add the .arkprofile back to the world from a backup .

What i can say is i tried to break the game after using this commands, i cud not, was cutting internt halfway through transfer, trying to transfer without mods installed,cutting the power during transfer, that sort thing during testing

[oblique pewter]

I appreicate this, regardless of the downside people are completely losing their toons. To a point we've created a excel sheeting that you just throw in their implant ID and it gives them all their bosses/chibi xp back.

and hearing the internet has almost 0 info on this. So this is a very specific issue to server to server basis

[distant hearth]

if you do try it, please report back how it works, ive passed the info to a few people now an never heard nothing back, i dont have an asa cluster yet , so unable to fully test

just a couple test servers i mess with on my own

[oblique pewter]

Of course, ill let my partner know and see if he wants to go down this path

[chilly coral]

Is there a way to turn off the vanilla cryo ball decay timer? So the dino inside never spoils.

[distant hearth]

not that i know of without using a mod, i reccomend super cryo storage if u go with a mod

[chilly coral]

That's the one we are using I love it 😀

[manic tapir]

Hello, whenever I attempt to create a singplayer/non-dedicated game it loads me into the character creation menu and then freezes and stops responding...

As well as shows xbox controls to navigate, I have a screenshot but cannot post it in here. if anyone knows a fix to this please do share!

[north valve]

anyone know of a mod that allows you to build without pillar support?

[distant hearth]

foundation ceilings

[north valve]

we have a redwood treehouse base and want to build another makeshift platform off to the side, without any pillars, that will do it?

[distant hearth]

yes

[north valve]

ty

[sharp vessel]

Hi everyone !
I'm asking myself something today.
I have a cluster on ASA and I remembered something from ASE, the "cluster-chat" where everyone can talk when servers are in the cluster.
Do we have the same thing on ASA ? I'm kinda curious to know if it's possible.

I thought Better Chat will do this but the mod seems to be outdated from November, so, that's a nope for me

[chilly coral]

I have the server set to 15 seconds for Specimen implant suicide.
We see the timer ticking down, but when it's done, we hit our Specimen implant, we can't suicide. It's useful if we are stuck. Not in admin or gcm or anything. It's only on Center it isn't working.

Is there a setting in have to enable as well?

[lime matrix]

Is the mod ceiling for ps5/xbox still 10Gb? I'm doing some mod trimming to make things more crossplay friendly across our cluster

[chilly coral]

I believe its 20gb

[late estuary]

is it better to upload dinos in a cryopod, or should I take them out?

[pale sentinel]

How do I enable crossplay?

[wise kindle]

I think this is one of the many center only map bugs

[chilly coral]

I was afraid of that. Thank you ❤️

[pure willow]

are the default settings for creating a singleplayer the same as official? if not, what do i have to change to get the settings like official? thanks!

[celest halo]

you dont want singleplayer to be same as a server

[pure willow]

im testing stuff

or if im testing what do you think would be ideal settings then?

[celest halo]

that all depends on what your testing and how many hours you want to just sit afk in game

[pure willow]

fair

ill just play default settings then and see how it goes

[celest halo]

raise a Giganotosaurus on official servers is 244 hours, so it about 10 days 4 hours, if you had same on a single player and you play for 8 hours a day it would take a month to raise one

[pure willow]

what about non dedicated?

[celest halo]

non dedicated i believe uses singleplayer settings so its about 6 and half hours instead of 244

[bleak ivy]

singleplayer has a lot of stuff different compared to servers. gotta know if what you are testing is just different because its singleplayer. like breeding distance

[worn seal]

Recrutando para não oficial, chama privado

[gilded copper]

trying to think of dinos best fit for farmers. i have 3 level ups per role, apprentice, expert, then master
for farmer i have
Apprentice: dodo
Expert: Phiomia or Ovis, 4 Dung Beetles
Master: ? What's a good high tier tame befitting a farmer?

[wraith hemlock]

Unsure if anyone has answered , but yes there is an option to be able to do this

[spring loom]

What is the difference between mating speed and egg lay interval?

[wise kindle]

Mating speed is the speed they “do it” and the bar goes up. Egg lay interval is how often they actually lay an unfert egg.

[spring loom]

ohhh

why is mating speed not on the ark settings but its in ini

also what is the ini called for setting max difficuty

[wise kindle]

If I knew that Id be driving a much better car.

[spring loom]

lol

[wise kindle]

Maxdifficulty=false

Setting it to true caps spawn levels at 150

[spring loom]

im not seeing that i only see difficulty offset, overrideofficialdifficulty and bHasSetupDifficultySP

i see it on my singleplayer file but on my server manager it doesnt show up

i just put it in manually

thanks

hm the levels still arent 150 max

nvm got it working

[lunar cloud]

To get lvl 150 as max wild dinos you only need 2 settings in GameUserSettings.ini
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0
DifficultyOffset=1.0

[spring loom]

I just stuck the maxdifficulty into the ini and it worked

[lunar cloud]

That setting does not seem documented to me in the WIKI, so i would prefer the OverrideOfficialDifficulty and DifficultyOffset as those have been set to tune levels for years. You can use those to go higher levels too if you want

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

[spring loom]

Thanks

[grim orbit]

hey I accidently force closed my ark server and now the file is corrupted, and when I try to use any of the backups I also get an error.

Anyone know anything that might help?

[lunar cloud]

How have you been taking backups in the past ?
doing a saveworld command with RCON will save data to disk, then you can simply zip the save folder (some files can be excluded to minimise size)
You should then easily restore to a new Ark server install by just simply extracting and placing the save data into the new servers save location.

[grim orbit]

All of my backups were via server auto-saves

[lunar cloud]

oh no, im not too familiar with auto saves as i dont trust anything Ark does 😄
i generally take a zip of the save folder and send it offsite to cloud storage. That restores fine for me every time

[grim orbit]

I just got a save working from 42 hours ago, I'm going to see how early I can go, my friends and I made a lot of progress within 48 hours. I'll def start using manual saves now as well dear god.

[lunar cloud]

It sounds like the save corruption has corrupted future auto-saves then, yeah i guess you can only try go as early as you can and see where the corruption happened

[grim orbit]

The corruption was from me accidentally force closing the server about 4 hours ago

Suprised more people haven't accidentally done this, I tried searching b4 coming here and just nothing

[fervent tree]

One of the character or tribe files maybe became corrupted. Good (but not reliable) indicator for a broken character/tribe file is a file size >10KB. If that's not the case, check each and every one of them (remove one, check if the server starts, put it back, next). If you found the perpetuator you can try the profilebak file to restore the affected file. But as @lunar cloud said: Don't trust anything that ARK does so good luck

[lunar cloud]

ahh yeah ive dont that too before, during an update and i wanted to change a setting and sent a kill command, instead of gracefully waiting for startup and shutting it down

i was forced to restore from my backup i made before the save

if you're building your own scripts \ scheduled backups, take a look at cheap S3 storage.. like $5 a month and you can send your saves offsite. You could use other means as well, I use s3cmd and have a cron job that saveworld and sends the zip file to cloud

[grim orbit]

I considered

but the file sizes aren't too big so I'm just storing everything locally.

[grim orbit]

SErver file sizes im refering too lol

[lunar cloud]

yeah its not too crazy big. You can script up few things

1. create timestamp folder yyyy\mm\dd using a script
2. script up : select certain extensions to backup , copy to a temp folder + zip that and rename as timestamp so your backups are listed in desc order nicely
3. script then copies this to storage

Each backup of my maps are about 30mb
You could plug 2 memory sticks into your server and do 3 copies (1 to each stick and 1 local), just for redundancy incase 1 memory stick giving issues, memory sticks are dirt cheap these days

Every large update, i restore my latest restores to a test cluster, then confirm they all work, then wipe off old backups

[grim orbit]

Do you host for yourself or a proper unoffical? Thats cool af but a lot of management

[sharp vessel]

There is an option ?! Which one ? I'm not finding anything about that when I'm searching...

[lunar cloud]

I host myself, i have a decent mini-pc that runs linux. I have everything scripted so its automated

[sharp vessel]

Okey, so, I checked more, and nope, there's no option to do a cross-server chat for ASA, maybe I'm wrong, I don't know 😭

[astral lotus]

Hello, looking for help to gain admin access on a server I set up via Nitrado for my PS5, but I am not able to access admin commands as expected. I did have the console window up but typing in EnableCheats AdminPassword doesnt work or do anything. I tried other commands to verify like c gcm or admincheat gcm. EDIT: figured it out config file needs the line bEnableCheats=true in the GUS.ini under [serversettings]

[arctic basin]

hello people, someone know if its possible to only have my custom dino colors when i use ColorSet with my dynamic config please ? (ASCENDED)

[arctic basin]

ActiveEventColors=custom work on ASA?

[sharp vessel]

Hello everyone ! I'm asking once again my question, there is a way to make cross-chat (Chat for cluster) on ASA ?
I know it was possible on ASE but, it possible on ASA ?

[tidal cosmos]

Yes there are mods that do this

[sharp vessel]

I saw "Better Chat" on CurseForge but, the option is not created and the mod seems outdated from November, have you another one to show me ? Because I didn't find anything else except Better Chat lmao

The mod GameServerApp.com integration seems to be a mod with this, but not sure, I need to test it to know

[lunar cloud]

According to WIKI, its not supported for ASA
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#DynamicConfig

[arctic basin]

so it is impossible to force the game to use only our DynamicColorSet?

already read bro ^^

[lunar cloud]

my guess is since they are porting all these events to mods one by one, they may be yet to implement custom

[arctic basin]

it works but I have the impression that all the dinos do not only take my colors on all of their zones

[compact goblet]

Would be nice to have a line that adds and removes all the official mods without having to go in and change it something like -modofficial

[plucky agate]

For anyone running a dedicated server, do we know of optimizations that can be done for the server instances? Are there certain config settings that can improve memory and CPU utilization?

A Google/Reddit/Steam Discussion search hasn't really yielded anything useful

[maiden niche]

Hi, I was forced out of my base yesterday accidentally, so I became admin, and entered the command, giveallstructure, and now I can access everthing.
But somwhere in the base or nearby is a structure, that didnt become part of my tribe. So because of this I cannot place any new things in my base, because it says, building near enemy foundation.

Is there a way to do GiveAllStructure in a radius? or destroy enemy structures nearby?

[late estuary]

Have you tried asking or looking in the AnyColourSets discord?

[late estuary]

Yes there's a command for a radius to add structures to tribe I think

[arctic basin]

this is a mod ?

[plucky agate]

If you're looking at a structure that isn't owned by you and need to claim it, you can run this console command: cheat TakeAllStructure

[forest solstice]

Hello I just purchased my first nitrado server and am looking for help in setting it up.. I’m wanting people to be able to claim Dino’s after a timer goes off and sets decay to double official servers how do I do that and what would the numbers be

And I need max level Dino’s to 300

[wraith hemlock]

In the server im in we can chat from server to server to discord. Channels are in one for global

[sharp vessel]

Could you tell me which mod the owner has set ?

[wraith hemlock]

Off the top i am not sure , i figured id half answer since no one had said anything. But i play on the menatwork server

[sharp vessel]

Gonna check

Yeah, I was sure it was the mod I think about, it's GameServerApp Integration 😭
For me, I can't set up this mod and it's API, I exploded my brain to understand why it's not working, so I gave up for now

[foggy plinth]

i did a .bat file with Chatgpt that makes backups of my server and deletes the oldest one after 3 back ups

[wise kindle]

Its likely a structure thats not attached to your main base building. Like a campfire or transmitter. Just find it and do givetome.

[lime matrix]

The only method I knew of for crosschat on servers was via using a plugin talking to a local sql database and a bot application to handle the discord stuff. Which is the setup I use on my own cluster

Hadn't checked if there was a mod for that at all...

[pulsar spire]

I run an ASA server with a few friends, and I would like to know if there is any way to whitelist all Custom Cosmetic Mods, instead of just using the "default" whitelist or adding the mod ids one by one. Thanks in advance!

[bleak ivy]

just put CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"
instead of an actual URL.

[pulsar spire]

Oh, thanks!

[maiden niche]

yes, but there is one structure that isn't connected to my base, and I cannot find where it is, as my base is very huge, so I am looking for a command something like,
TakeAllStructureRadius 25, somehting like that. Is there any command that does this?

[maiden niche]

My base is very big, and I tried so much and couldn't find it.

[maiden niche]

do you by anychance know what it is?

[plucky agate]

Hmm...you could use cheat TribeStructureAudit to see if you can track it down

[plucky agate]

OH what about this -- if the structure isn't connected to anything, this command should help: cheat DestroyTribeStructuresLessThan

Which does this: "Destroy all the structures owned by the given tribe that have less than the given connections (snapped structures). The given example below would remove all the lone structures owned by the tribe matching the 1234567890 ID."

Their example is: cheat DestroyTribeStructuresLessThan 1234567890 2

So you could do something like cheat DestroyTribeStructuresLessThan <TRIBE ID> 1

But that's a risky command...you could unintentionally destroy a lot of things

[mint wasp]

Does anyone know with these premium mods if the server owner needs also to purchase the mod? Or can we include the mod ID in ActiveMods=? Do server owners need to do anything or whoever buys the mod would just access it?

[maiden niche]

thank you, but I do not know that tribe's ID, we abandoned that tribe, and made another tribe with the same name.

[solemn zephyr]

cheat givetomeaoe 2000

2000 is about 7 foundations