unofficial-setup-help

[distant hearth]

whats server name?

[grand hull]

I’ll dm you

[distant hearth]

kk

im not 100% sure , but i expect the blimp counts as a flying dino

[lost gust]

It does

But would be cool to be able to enable specific flyer gfis

[earnest dew]

Anyone else have an issue were the server works but console keeps having glitches

The mods work but when the person is running around the like beach and textures occasional spawn in and glitch the screen

[distant hearth]

hmm yea , i cant think of a way to block it then without stopping people use blimp

[wintry sail]

Haven't seen anything about it yet but it seems like the restart loop or something of the like is back. Transferred to our center map to grab a few things and crashed. Then when I got back in I had to re spawn and my inventory was completely gone. Then crash moments later and have to respawn when I get back. My character is now completely naked but have to re spawn at a bed every time. The map (Center) crashes every time I get on. This has been going on for hours. Tried restarts, tried a rollback. Nothing seems to fix it. Anyone else have this issue and know a possible fix?

[rain bobcat]

on nitrado does harvestamountmultiplier=4 make my dinosaurs gather 4x as much resources too or just humans. if not what do i need to do to make my dinos gather 4x as fast

[distant hearth]

yes its a global mutiplier, effecting all, see here for more info
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[bold forge]

Yeah still getting that, lag spikes, beach texture disappearing, grass not rendering in etc etc

[earnest dew]

Yes that is happening on mine a lot

any ways you have found to fix it

[bold forge]

Nah, I wish. By the looks of things we just have to wait for wildcard to sort it out.

It’s pretty much unplayable until they sort it out though

[earnest dew]

how is Abberition

is abberation have issues with console

?

[tall abyss]

Hi ! Someone know if it's possible to desactive the "Landslide" on Aberration ?

[outer blaze]

Were having this on our cluster yes
Nothing fixs it

We think it's the mods but aren't sure as not one mod creator has mentioned anything of the likes yet
No recooks
Nothing
I find that incredibly poor ettiquite

[fresh geyser]

what computer can run ark on around medium graphics

[valid ridge]

Is there a way to allow all custom cosmetics on my own server?

[bleak ivy]

just have the whitelist URL be URL. doesn't work with the dynamic download tho

[valid ridge]

I have that, but it doesn't work. even for my own client I cant equip anything

[bleak ivy]

do they show in the cosmetic menu?

button left of folder view in the inventory

[valid ridge]

Alright it seems to work on client side. but without dynamic download I think I will just use the whitelisted one from WC

[bleak ivy]

yeah, would actually need to setup the whitelist for dynamic download.

I don't know how to do that 🤷 I just use URL since its a private server.

[jaunty vortex]

What I really want is a dynamic allow list for players and admins so I don't need to restart the server when somebody new wants to join

[civic tinsel]

does anyone know if stucture skins cause pc lagg of server lagg my game laggs in my abb base

[frigid parcel]

Hey I was wondering if I could get some help regarding a dedicated server I’m trying to run through my pc. I set up all the port forwards and set the firewall inbound rules but for some reason my friends still can’t join. Their connection gets timed out. If anyone could give me some insight I’d really appreciate it

[jaunty vortex]

Can you connect to it locally? Is this on the same PC you play Ark from?

[fading marsh]

Hello peeps! 👋 A friend of mine has set up a cluster and the cluster shows up in the server list, but I can't join because I get the "Connection timeout" error message. He and his GF can log in just fine, so it seems to work locally (the server is on a separate machine in their apartment). We've never used our own hardware to set up a server before, so we've no idea what needs to be fixed.
I've tried to do what I can to make sure the issue isn't on my end. I've installed all mods manually, I've tested joining an official server and a random unoffical one and it works just fine.
I'm guessing it might be a port forward issue?

[main olive]

Yepp they need to port forward.

[fading marsh]

Thanks for the answer. He's doing that as I type and I hope we can get it fixed (really don't want to use Nitrado).

[leaden cedar]

Hello, I have an issue with passive tames on my server. It's impossible to complete them. The dinos don't ask for food after the first feeding, even after 10-15 minutes, or sometimes you can give them food twice, and then they lose all progress down to 0. The only setting I have related to this is: PassiveTameIntervalMultiplier=10.0. Does anyone else have the same problem or a solution, please?

[clever trail]

Players crash after traveling and then when they log back in char is gone, anyone else also having this issue?

[mystic violet]

Did you try to go back to your map that you got off of

[leaden cedar]

I don't understand what that's supposed to mean.

[young tinsel]

do you lose your items in your inventory once you ascend? I heard that you have to shove everything you got into your dino right before the cutscene starts (ase btw)

[bleak ivy]

that is making the interval 10 times as long.

[leaden cedar]

yeah i understand that now, but the fuck is the problem, i got this command since ASE and that just take like 5mn before every feeding

[frigid parcel]

No i play ark on console. And I can connect just fine locally. The computers only purpose is running the server

I’m assuming it’s a port forwarding issue but everything appears to be configured correctly so I’m at a bit of a loss

[stiff rain]

LevelExpereinceRampOverrides=
(ExperiencePointsForLevel[0]=7,ExperiencePointsForLevel[1]=17)
OverrideMaxExperiencePointsPlayer=18

Why dosent that one make me stop gaining xp when I reached 18 experiance? Isnt that suppose to do that?

[jaunty vortex]

I think you are right. By default you only need 7777 using UDP (not TCP) to be forwarded

[lean hinge]

Is anyone unable to join servers on Xbox series s been since Thursday night I just black screen evrey time

[outer blaze]

So who else is experiencing constant rollbacks and server shutdowns?
Unofficial obviously..
Modded as well
Could it be the mods need removing and reinstalling?
Recooking from creators end?
Some Xbox players experienced normal play
But us pc players literally haven't been able to do anything past 5 mins and then timeout
Server resets
Get another 5 mins
Is it the update?
The island seems to have worked most of last night and now is in the same restart loop as the other 4 maps
What's this nonsense?
Anyone experienced this and know a fix?
Google is NOT helpful anymore.
I keep getting snoop dog plays ark when I search a solution

[fading marsh]

Okay, we still haven't managed to fix the issue... I've read the router manual and it doesn't really help at all. I'll try to get my friend to post here since it's his server + router so he knows what he's tried. It's so draining though with two server-noobs trying to figure it out. 😅

[outer blaze]

Don't worry about the complexity of it
I spent a month trying to port forward my router when I was designing a multiplayer game using a new framework I found
Turns out my isp provider had actually disabled such capabilities within my wireless router so no matter what I did
Though it looked correct
Actually impossible to do.
So when all else fails.
Contact your isp
Because they seem to be making routers with wierd security features nowadays
Could be your issue
Just trying to add a suggestion
Maybe it helps.

[fading marsh]

Yeah, if nothing else works that's what we're going to do. We're halfway there, I just need to be able to connect and we should be golden. Frustrating when you want to play though.

[summer saddle]

is there a command or setting to let people build in that metal and ringed area near the far left green starting zone?

Would it be this: EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=false ?

[bleak ivy]

that defaults to false, and it probably only effects the island anyway.

[timber stirrup]

anyone having low level spawns on abberation? not seeing anything over 90 and a majority of them are 50 or below. vanilla settings, no override, and other maps with the same settings have higher levels. it's a self hosted server

[summer saddle]

So no way to enable building around that far left starting area?

[bleak ivy]

most likely.

[summer saddle]

That's too bad, such a good area.

[frigid parcel]

That’s sounds like a pain.

[fading marsh]

While waiting for my friend to drag his butt back, I'll post the router settings he made:
Service Protocol Ext host Int host Ext port Int port
ARK server TCP - UDP IP Local IP 7777 7777
ARK server TCP - UDP IP Local IP 7778 7778
ARK server TCP - UDP IP Local IP 7779 7779
Does this look correct or anything wrong? It's for an ASA-cluster with three maps. My friend and GF can both join without an issue and I can see the cluster (all maps) on the server list in the game, but I get connection timeout when trying to join. They host the server on a computer in their apartment.

[jaunty vortex]

protocol is just UDP

[fading marsh]

Okay, thanks.

[jaunty vortex]

it will be port forwarding. They will need to:

1. On their server, open a cmd prompt and run
   $ ipconfig /all
   make a note of the MAC address and IPv4 address. usually this will be 192.168.xxx.xxx
   The MAC address will look like 00-11-22-AA-BB-CC
2. on their router, find wherever they can reserve an IP address. Sometimes it is under DHCP. They should set the MAC address and IP address from 1) here. Pay attention to the format of the MAC address. Sometimes it is - separated, sometimes it is : separated
3. On the router, find the port forwarding section.
   Add lines like you have above for
   Protocol - UDP
   Int Host - What was reserved in 2)
   Int port - 7777-7779
   Ext Port - 7777-7779

every router is difficult so I cannot be more specific than what I have written

[fading marsh]

They have the IP numbers, I just didn't write them out but I'll tell him what you said.

[jaunty vortex]

somebody will likely have made a youtube video on port forwarding for their specific make and model of router

[vale fiber]

These server crashes are insane, they gotta fix this

[fading marsh]

I've searched for it and not found anything. Seems the router is a French model.

[jaunty vortex]

oh la la 😄

[fading marsh]

😆

[jaunty vortex]

I don't know if my schoolboy french would be good enough to set up a router

[fading marsh]

I've read the manual and while it's in English it's also super unhelpful... It's not for noobs at least.

I need a router manual for dummies.

[jaunty vortex]

that just says plug it in and switch on. If you're lucky, they tell you where the username and password from your provider goes

[fading marsh]

Yeah, it's about that helpful.

[jaunty vortex]

@fading marsh DM me the details and I’ll look at the manual if you want?

[fading marsh]

Okay, need to find it again.

[final eagle]

is there a way to allow flyers on aberration ASA? o.O?

[steel jay]

Does anyone know why I only get around ~25ish fps?
No matter if I use an ini or not. Also my CPU is at 15% usage and my gpu at around 35 ish %.

[jaunty vortex]

CPU sounds OK. GPU does NOT!

you're not using the iGPU by mistake, are you?

[halcyon token]

Anyone familiar with the spawnexactdino command?
I always get the correct amount of health but all other stats seem to be randomly generated

[raven hull]

bForceCanRideFliers=false
does this consider the zeppelin?

[steel jay]

Don‘t even know what that means tbh

[short eagle]

considering that I realize now it'll just get buried in other channels only after the fact, if you want shorter grass on game start without having to open the console, just have to add

[SystemSettings]
grass.sizeScale=0.5

to the Engine.ini

[white sand]

Can somebody please fucking help me. i have been trying to get a server running from my laptop and after pulling my hair for the past three days I have managed to start the server but it now only shows as Lan only. And yes, if any body decides to read my message, I have contacted my isp and they confirmed that Ports 7777, 7778, and 27015 on TCP and UDP have been forwarded. Also my firewall says that it allows The ark server. So, i am stumped, either people turn on their ports correctly or they just give up, I have not found someone who has done everything and found a solution to this problem. Please can somebody help I would greatly appreciate it

[verbal aurora]

admittedly my knowledge is limited but i have been hosting my own steam games servers for a couple years now (also off an old laptop) so i can try to help maybe. are you using a .bat file to start your server?
@white sand

[toxic hazel]

Adding on, on the firewall have you added rules to both in and outbound?

[steel jay]

found out ! VSync was limiting my GPU for whatever reason

[jaunty vortex]

IGPU is the graphics chip built into the CPU

[white sand]

Thanks for replying. I dont k ow what a .bat file is. I have followed a couple of tutorials on ASM and have just been doing that.

[formal dagger]

is anyone have issues with crashing on the center anytime someone goes over the under world?

[smoky meteor]

Can you do this as well for the clouds and all that? I'd like to turn off the fog and clouds server wide.

Also is there an Abberation map ID?

[verbal aurora]

Aberration_WP

i was mis spelling it also

[short eagle]

Probably? you'd have to try it yourself though

[smoky meteor]

Is it generally the same command you run in game but as launch arguments?

[smoky meteor]

Thanks. I'm using that Github Server tool. It's nice.

[stiff rain]

Im going mental here on these ini files... Does anyone know how to set a lower maxlevel? Like if I want the server to have a max player level at 20.

[short eagle]

The only launch argument I use is -preventhibernation because I'm SP. If you mean through the console though, sure.

[white sand]

@verbal aurora

[verbal aurora]

hey

oh sorry, i dont have any experience using ASM =/

[coral steeple]

can anyone with devkit access tell me all the yiling spawn container names?

[verbal aurora]

i remember going down your same path tho, ended up finding some videos on youtube about setting up your own dedicated server without any apps etc. i was able to basically copy/paste his line of code that starts his server and get mine to work with some tweaks.

there is a section in that file that you can manually set your port is why i asked earlier

[bleak ivy]

wonder if this is gonna go to unofficial

[loud comet]

before abberation, i was running 3 servers and having no issues. now none of my servers show up in the unofficial list and when i try joining them manually, i just see a black screen in game.

[wintry skiff]

Has anyone checked the area including the underworld for spawns? Sometimes the spawning of wilds in an area as such can cause massive lag or crashing, because it's spawning surface, water, and underworld. If all seems well then there's something else that seems off. If on an unofficial and not admin can see if an admin can check it out or wipe wild Dinos

[formal dagger]

thank you we will try this cuz between the lag and the crashing its very hard to play

[wintry skiff]

If settings look fine and shows it is started and not in a restart loop may need to contact your servers provider be it Nitrado or one of the others if not Nitrado. On mine I had I found out mine was stuck in a restart loop and had to choose an old file before it started looping in hopes I didn't wipe my server.

[wintry skiff]

You're very welcome. If the spawn in either area is out of hand can also try lowering the spawn rate a bit to see if it balances out or individually code certain ones to not spawn as much.

[loud comet]

I don't use a service provider i'm self hosted

[formal dagger]

we just did a in game dino wipe and that seems to have help the lag so with fingers cross that helps

[wintry skiff]

Oh ok. See if it's been in a loop by checking activity if you have access to that

[wintry skiff]

Good and I'd still keep an eye on the spawn rate especially in underworld itself. Some caves do that too with snakes and spiders

[loud comet]

i'm looking at the server console and it seems to be running fine

it says "Server has succesfully started"

[formal dagger]

definitly will

[loud comet]

i'm wondering if it might be a mod thing?

i guess i can try removing all mods and seeing what happens. it's a fresh server anyhow

[wintry skiff]

That was my next suggestion check each mod and see if it's out of date

[loud comet]

its just weird that it doesn't even show up on the unofficial list

usually when that happens its a port forwarding issue

but i changed literally nothing in my first 3 servers, and they were all showing up when i was playing 2 months ago

[wintry skiff]

Yeah it's hard to tell on mine I did have certain mods I didn't realize were clashing with other mods causing my server to crash in the background after returning from 1 month no play until I checked over all activity and it was crashing and restarting that I literally had to stop go through my mods then manually start it a different way

[native wave]

they did not push the latest server patch to public yet

[jaunty vortex]

nope

come back in 2-3 days 😄

[native wave]

if ever

[wintry skiff]

😂

[jaunty vortex]

but the people renting servers from Nitrado aren't getting it either

[bleak ivy]

sometimes only officials gets them. nitrado and public are usually the same

[spiral heron]

Does anybody know if they fixed the island crashing on Xbox after transferring to Ab?

[native wave]

Alpha Karkinos no longer have wild babies
Fixed a bug where Tinkering Desk BPs were not respective BP caps (retroactive)
Fixed a bug where you could get infinite stone arrows from Cosmo
No longer able to use the GooGun on other tribe players/creatures in PvE
Tier 2/3 Traits now spawn on wild creatures

yeah I think I'd like those fixes on my servers
@zealous aurora

[jaunty vortex]

agreed

[bleak ivy]

I want that last one wonder what the tiers do

would explain why I thought the weight reduction was crap tho lol

I wonder if its higher versions of the current ones or different ones

[celest halo]

with being a minor version who knows could be 1 hour to never for unofficials

[bleak ivy]

yeah. just gonna go back to play lol

[celest halo]

yup, i play and wait for my bot to say its on steam lmao

[bleak ivy]

seems some officials haven't updated yet tho lol

[celest halo]

steamdb has that branch updated an hour ago

if officials dont have it must be some reason they havent restarted them to get it

[jaunty vortex]

Depends how they roll it out. Probably staggered?

Maybe they won’t start up after the update 🤔

[solemn geyser]

is there a way to disable auto effect quality on console. everytime i get on and off my tames my game starts bugging out

[jaunty vortex]

Public has updated.

[white garnet]

like just now? tried to update but it didnt download anything a couple minutes ago

oh yep shutdown and tried again and its downloading now

[jaunty vortex]

I go by the Steam DB

[white sand]

Ahh all right. Well, no worries, I'll hopefully figure it out tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestions though! @verbal aurora

[slender shale]

Are nitrado servers stable yet?

[wild cliff]

Hello everyone is there anyone that has good baby settings, i want to put the baby mature speed at 5 but im not sure how to put the rest. thanks im on a nitrado server

[wild cliff]

i have no problem with mine

[jaunty vortex]

get Beacon, it will calculate values for you

[wild cliff]

Thank you!

[humble bone]

Is anyone else's servers stuck in a complete restart loop/force stop-start since last patch? We can't get maps back up 😦

[haughty vigil]

I have mine with Nitrado and they say updating, than they restart and go back into updating server

[humble bone]

Yeah same. Lovely.

[haughty vigil]

well I guess at least now we know that we are not alone with this

[humble bone]

Hopefully they put another patch out soon and we can get the map(s) back up.

[haughty vigil]

Not getting my hopes up, mate

[humble bone]

Sadly, me either.

[cyan berry]

Same here, my backups are even destroyed

[humble bone]

We went back 3 or 4 backups and nothing. Starting to fear we're gonna have to do a full wipe 😔

[cyan berry]

the update did it for us 😓

[humble bone]

Yeah everything was fine until the update, now we have two maps stuck in a restart cycle. Just Ark things I guess. 😭

[white garnet]

not stuck in a restart loop but my server has crashed several times when thats never happened before 😦

[humble bone]

We were crashing earlier everytime someone died because of a death recovery mod. So removed that and had been fine until the update.

[vale fiber]

Even more crashes after this last patch

What is going on over there

[white garnet]

hmm i have death inventory keeper but my servers just randomly crashing with no deaths. maybe ill try removing it for now

[cyan berry]

you too your backup is like deleted?

[humble bone]

Worth a shot

[humble bone]

Our backups aren't deleted, but they are not working. Like they're corrupted or something. If that's what you mean?

[cyan berry]

My server reboots in a loop, but also when I look at my backup folder it is back to 0

but what is also weird is that the save file for aberration is named TheIsland

[humble bone]

Oh yikes. What in the world 😬

[native wave]

have you tried fully shutting down your server if you are boot looping?

like shut it down fully.....wait a bit, then start it

[humble bone]

Some of them wouldn't shut down. But we will definitely try to shut them down and leave them down for a while before starting them again. Thanks for the tip!

[native wave]

yeah I've heard it fixed nitrado servers before when they were boot looping. something to do with nitrado's setup. worth a try if you can't get it up and running

[humble bone]

Haha, it's always something.

[haughty vigil]

I let our Servers do their thing, now one is up two to go. So I guess it is more of overload prob on Nitrado site?

Did the shutting down and wait a few help @humble bone ?

[humble bone]

We had one map shut down. It started back up on its own and seems to be okay. We have stopped the other one now and letting it sit for a while.

[haughty vigil]

k, thx for the info

[humble bone]

Yep, hopefully it works for you as well 🤞

[frigid parcel]

I just discovered that I need a static ip to use port forwarding on my network. And they charge $16 a month for it. 😭 At least i know why this isn’t working now.

[jaunty vortex]

No you don’t. You are better with a static IP on your local network. But not on the internet side.

But mainly because if your server IP is dynamic and changes then it will break your port forwarding.

[humble bone]

We left the map down for like a half hour and it started up no issues. So thanks for the tip @native wave

[frigid parcel]

How do you set that up.

[jaunty vortex]

On your router. How depends on the router, because they’re all different.

Google it. People will make videos on how to do address reservation.

[haughty vigil]

They restart themself after a few minutes and go back into the same loop for me. How did you manage to keep em down for 30 min?

[humble bone]

We had the option for a force stop and it stayed down.

[native wave]

awesome

[haughty forge]

Can someone dm I just got a server and would love some help and have a few questions don't want an over kill experience but still would like a fast pace cause work life ect

[outer sluice]

yo how can i fix my client crashing when i try to loud into the server?

[craggy apex]

Check dm if u still need help 🙂

[distant hearth]

it might of got lost in general chat, try this to remove pyro
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
in game ini , if doesnt work after a dino wipe, then can prob just replace them with summit else using the full paths

[icy viper]

can anyone help me when i try to play ase all the sev are emty

[craggy apex]

Thanks

[icy viper]

w.. can you help me

[native wave]

I'm wondering if they'll be the same class name considering I think someone said they were uniquely blue on aberration

[distant hearth]

shud be , i pulled it from beacon an the ypull the info from dev kit

[native wave]

is the dev kit updated for aberration?

[distant hearth]

yea

[native wave]

cool

[distant hearth]

thats how they got all the data for the added stuff

[icy viper]

can anyone help me im trying to play ark sur evolved but all the suv are empty

[distant hearth]

id suspect the uniquely blueness is the map light effect, but not 100%

[icy viper]

idk if it my region or what

[distant hearth]

eveolved is unofficial only now, try a website like battlemetrics an search for ase server that suits you prehaps

[icy viper]

its bc i got in steam

[distant hearth]

if not #1110925695900713072

[native wave]

the more people that play ASA the less people will play ASE...just how it's gonna work. keep looking and I'm sure you'll find active communities running clusters and such

[native wave]

battlemetrics . com/servers/ark
just remove the spaces..that's their seach engine for ASE servers

just from the first page of results there plenty of servers with active players

[frigid parcel]

Just talked to my isp. Apparently they have it set up so that I can’t use port forwarding unless my internet ip is static. Which sucks.

[blissful cave]

Anyone else nitrado servers having issues after Aberration release?

[sudden sierra]

Yup, it's brutal right now

[manic heath]

Render issue is absolutely a game ruiner right now

They gotta fix that like, yesterday

[brittle creek]

Hello,

I am writing to report an issue, I am experiencing with all the characters I have created in Ark. The problem began with my main character, who is at level 125. It started during the "Summer Bash" event when the skins began to multiply unexpectedly. Every time I switched servers, the issue worsened, and even after the event ended, the problem persisted. This week has been the worst; the skins multiplied to the point where they reached a black weight limit, causing me to lose everything in my inventory and the character's implant.

I have tried everything to resolve the issue—I killed the character, deleted the game, and even formatted my PlayStation, but nothing has worked. I have created new characters, but the same problems continue to occur. I need to know if you can assist me with this issue. I am playing on the PlayStation 5 platform.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[ebon matrix]

what are aberation days/nights in seconds?

[humble thicket]

lets say I want the command r.streaming.poolsize 6000 loaded each time I enter the map. Where would I put that? GameUserSettings or Game and what section?

nvm, I found the solution. consolevariables.ini

[amber cloak]

i need help i have 2 servers one ive had for couple days no issues i just baught anothe one so i can have multiple maps to play i have them clustered but everytime i try to load into the new server or move from original to the new i get dashboarded now i cant find either server or my charicter

anyone?

[untold spear]

Has the AllowForeighnDinoDownloads setting not been implemented into ASA yet i cant find it

[native wave]

yes it's CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads
confirmed it worked on ASA last night

[untold spear]

yes i know what the setting is called i dont know where it is

[native wave]

GUS

[untold spear]

?

[native wave]

GameUserSettings.ini

if it's not in that you have to add it

[untold spear]

do you know if its line specific because it isnt there by default

[celest halo]

nothing in the ini is line specific, it only has to be under the right heading section

[untold spear]

thanks

[grand hull]

I added the damage number command in my GUS.ini but I still can’t see damage numbers, does anybody know why?

[amber cloak]

i need help i have 2 servers one ive had for couple days no issues i just baught anothe one so i can have multiple maps to play i have them clustered but everytime i try to load into the new server or move from original to the new i get dashboarded now i cant find either server or my charicter
anyone?

[brittle creek]

Hello,

I am writing to report an issue, I am experiencing with all the characters I have created in Ark. The problem began with my main character, who is at level 125. It started during the "Summer Bash" event when the skins began to multiply unexpectedly. Every time I switched servers, the issue worsened, and even after the event ended, the problem persisted. This week has been the worst; the skins multiplied to the point where they reached a black weight limit, causing me to lose everything in my inventory and the character's implant.

I have tried everything to resolve the issue—I killed the character, deleted the game, and even formatted my PlayStation, but nothing has worked. I have created new characters, but the same problems continue to occur. I need to know if you can assist me with this issue. I am playing on the PlayStation 5 platform.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[native wave]

turn off "Give Default Surviror Items" in the settings menu, Advanced tab (3rd column of settings). you can throw away the extra items you don't need

[hollow ravine]

Anyone else on nitrado server having it re rendering all the time basically making unplayable?

[brittle creek]

Thanks! It was also one of the things I did and I didn't have a solution either.

[native wave]

I figured out why when I started my center server I had a bunch of cryoed dinos die off. When I moved to Center I brought over all my dinos....and some (less important dinos) I just put in storage still in their cryopod. Well as I just found them tonight...they had 1D 7h left on their charge capacity left. Reverting my save back 5 days definitely gave me some time to discover it. Since moving to center I started using dino depot, but I hadn't converted over all the cryopods yet.

[broken nova]

Where should I install the Beacon, the root folder of ark? or anywhere

E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK

[olive talon]

Anywhere, it does not have to be in ark at all.

[broken nova]

ok

[grand hull]

I added the damage number command in my GUS.ini but I still can’t see damage numbers, does anybody know why?

[humble thicket]

on ps5 yes

oh oops

answered a very old question apparently

[broken nova]

After deploy the Beacon, I see my GameUserSetting.ini has totally changed........why

Luckily I back up before, but do I have to merge both again everytime when I deploy the Beacon?

[olive talon]

You do not have to deploy each time. You can simply click "export", and copy/paste anything you want added.

[broken nova]

You mean the part under "[Beacon]" is what I need?

[smoky wren]

What is the event code for easter colours?

[broken nova]

I see

🫡

[olive talon]

I had to use a random image from Google, since I am not at my pc. Sorry.

[broken nova]

So for GameUserSetting.ini we just need the part under [Beacon],
for Game.ini we can copy paste all, right?

[olive talon]

You can copy both beacons game.ini to your game.ini, and beacons gameusersettings.ini to your gameusersettings.ini

You don't have to have [beacon] in there. Just make sure to delete copies of the same config line, otherwise it will act weird.

Don't have two of the same
BabyImprintAmountMultiplier=100

You said you couldn't read too much English easily in #ark-survival-ascended, so I tried to make it easier for you with the spacing.

[broken nova]

Got it, no two of same.
I mean we don't need any part of code in GameUserSetting.ini except [beacon] right, like [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameUserSettings]
[ServerSettings]
These parts looks different with my original GameUserSetting.ini, it will make my game return default somehow, ALL settings are back to default if I copy them

[smoky wren]

Colour event commands for unofficial servers don't seem to be working.

[grizzled plover]

I'm running an unofficial server cluster on my dedicated server however one snag is one of our members plays on a ps5 so i was looking for a way to turn on crossplay for the server so this person can play also found what i think is the right command line argument -ServerPlatform=<plat1>[+<plat2>[...]] in the wiki notes say steam dedicated can only support pc or all so the question is would the correct argument be -ServerPlatform=<All>

[native wave]

-ServerPlatform=All

like on mine I use -ServerPlatform=PC

[grizzled plover]

ah thank you very much

also is it worth getting a server manager program or do you just run yours from the bat files?

[native wave]

I run mine using pterodactyl on linux using proton to run the servers. A bit more involved setup than most have

server managers are useful and can help with stuff like reboots or updating mods

[grizzled plover]

well thanks again really appreciate the help

[jaunty vortex]

I think if you don’t specify server platform then it’s cross play by default.

[native wave]

pretty sure that's the case, why I had to add what I did to my server

[jaunty vortex]

Yes, I think so too. I am surprised there’s no way to specify Xbox only or PS5 only. But I think it’s ALL or PC with ALL by default.

[native wave]

in fact, I remember it saying PC (Steam), Playstation, Xbox on battlemetrics for mine, which is why I added the pc only option

it may be the console only ones are reserved for official

or maybe nitrado too...not sure

clarified it a bit more on the wiki

gonna do some testing with my club ark server

can definitely use only Xbox

that restriction for the steam version doesn't exist

my club ark server is allowing PS5 and Xbox right now only

and now windows store too, but no steam

cool...wiki now accurately reflects what you can actually do with a unofficial server for ServerPlatform

[jaunty vortex]

Top man, thanks

I’ll let the dev I work with know for his server manager.

[glacial creek]

try this
https:// asadedicatedmanager .eu/

[pseudo solstice]

Does anyone know a way to bring an older save back after today's update? It seems that none of the rolled back that have been tried are making it "live". We are still being asked to make new characters and on day 1.

[bold forge]

Anyone on PS5 with Nitrado servers managed to get their servers to run smoothly after the update? Even with the latest ps5 patches my game has become super laggy and graphics/rendering are absolutely terrible with grass and textures loading in and out constantly.

[severe hull]

even though i have force max difficulty for some reason all my dinos have levels in increments of 4, anyone know why?

[valid island]

Is there a fix for the darkness for consol yet as when I log is I can't see anything it's so dark n even adjusting settings isn't helping?

[tacit linden]

Is the mod server down? Server cant check for mods- says cant connect

[peak sapphire]

“Content failed to load” I’m assuming this is a mod issue with Overwolf?

[tacit linden]

Yeah started 5 mins ago. Anyone who is ingame better stay ingame or they wont be able to get back on

[tribal trout]

So are we broken again?

[tacit linden]

Were we ever fixed? 😜

[tribal trout]

Fair point!

[regal osprey]

So is structure decay timers broken where they reset every day a wildcard thing or do we have the codes wrong.

[lone slate]

Anyone having issues with content failed to load?

[haughty ether]

curseforge is down

[meager lily]

@lone slate yes

[celest halo]

they need to do something about that, so the game is still playable even if curseforge is down lol

[olive talon]

Agreed but nothing we can do but wait

Here I'll just

Use this to keep track of how long curseforge has been down, as this is why you're getting "content failed to load" messages
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/curseforge

[dark bay]

Hi, so me and my friend have a problem with joining server (connection timeout) but few months ago (with release of scorched earth) we were able to play together without any problems, today we wanted to play again, but now I cant join, he tried to port forwording again, disabling firewall etc but I still cant join, any suggestions? (btw, he is hosting the server on his own pc)

[jaunty vortex]

read the post before yours 🙂

[final isle]

Hi guys, how do I increase the timer of my bag so it will stay longer om the ground if im killed on my server? I cannot find it in one of the .ini's in my server

[hard rapids]

should be GlobalItemDecompositionTimeMultiplier in game.ini?

[final isle]

Ah great thanks i will look there

[last moon]

Is anyone else getting message "content failed to load" when joining an unofficial server on XBox? Others are able to join it on XBox fine.

[forest ravine]

yes

everyone has this issue

i created a ticket on Curseforges website

[marsh elm]

Mine been like that a month now can’t find a fix

[regal osprey]

@marsh elm ok thanks

[flint oasis]

thanks 😦

[last moon]

Thank you. Someone else was able to log onto our server with Summer Bash mod on Xbox, but now others are getting the error when trying to join.

I have heard that it is a CurseForge issue and that they are working to resolve it.

[forest ravine]

yea i reported it here

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/ please do the same

under server outage

[ionic shell]

Idem

[fallen jolt]

💩

[hasty hatch]

Same here it happened hour ago, i was playing on my dedicated server and i left and when i come back to join started to do content failed to load now i cant join any modded server not even official with mods, i can join only no modded servers

[lethal coral]

I can not post an image here but Curse is aware and they are working on it. Directly from their Discord Mod

[hasty hatch]

nice

[jagged garnet]

Anyone else out ther having a good number of people connecting to the server and then leaving within less than 120sec? sometimes its only once other times they reconnect 3-4 times.

[forest ravine]

@lethal coral can u invite me to that discord

in pm if possible

[lethal coral]

I will DM you

[last moon]

Is it a private CurseForge Discord?

I just googled it and was able to join.

[rotund scaffold]

Anyone has the same issue try to log on my server but don't let me said content failed to connect? 😕

[dusky thistle]

scroll up just a little bit

[last moon]

It is a CurseForge issue. You can go to their X account or join their Discord for updates. They are currently working on fixing it.

People are discussing it on the Nitrado Discord, too.

[analog badge]

Anyone having trouble joining servers or playing singleplayer ? Cant join anything without crash.. EXCEPTION_ACCES_VIOLATION 0x000001e778cf11c and CL:580830.. GF can join via PS5 but icant on PC

[tepid swallow]

How often does curseforge go down like this? I have been lucky enough to not see it more than twice but how long does it usually take to fix.

[glacial creek]

sunday morning gaming central canada ruined by curseforge!!! for fk sakes just make it so we can redirect the mods download to the already mods installed rather then try to update them everytime, as not everytime the mod needs updating to join!

[dusky thistle]

This is the first time ive seen this issue

[glacial creek]

2nd for me on a weekend wakeup want to play.. ahhwell call of duty is always backup so no bigdeal to me, just not for my community LOL

[celest halo]

its like 3rd or 4th time i have seen

[meager lily]

Servers on??

[tepid swallow]

Servers on, mods off :) Curseforge is down so modded servers are gonge

[meager lily]

Lol

[tame heron]

Although I can't actually test anything, I was wondering if anybody could help with a server setting. I test in single player that it's not the same but idk what setting to look at... If I have say, a Bulbdog, on the floor in my house, and I go to pick it up by tapping triangle (I use ps5 controlller on PC), then it will pick up the structure. But on single player, I have to hold triangle and select "Pickup"... Any ideas of what setting I should look at?

[tepid swallow]

Does curseforge do anything good for us other than guarantee modded servers being unjoinable if it goes down?

[last moon]

Yes, we can add the event mods with CF.

[tardy pine]

You sound like every CISO in the world that uses CrowdStrike a few weeks ago. 🤣

The answer is, eh it keeps mods updated automatically, that's about all the benefit from it.

[worn kraken]

How long do these outages typically last?

[flint oasis]

It was an hour the last and right now we are sitting at 3 hours

[worn kraken]

Nap time <.<

[jaunty vortex]

just had one, was hoping it would be fixed 😄

[frigid vine]

Hi guys,
since CF is down since hours, players are unable to join because of summer bash mod (our only one).

Anyone tested what happens if we remove this mod? 🙂
Ofc items like skins/chibis get lost but something else?

[olive talon]

You can safely remove it without losing items

[wise kindle]

The bash mod has nothing to do with it, its Curseforge causing the issues.

Unless its your only mod, then that would unblock login access.

[frigid vine]

I know sir, thats i wrote CF is down 😄

[frigid vine]

That sounds good. We will double check before we have unhappy players 😄

[wise kindle]

Ah I misread sorry!

So many repeated questions they all blur together.

[frigid vine]

np 🙂

okay specific summer bash chibis and skins still there, also after removing. Thats a good workaround then

[tepid swallow]

What could be a common cause for a PC to restart after being on for a while with a bunch of servers running? Memory leaks? I don't see any signs of overheating. Just a restart and event viewer telling me a couple of things that doesn't let me conclude what caused it to crash vs might have just crashed server prior to the restart

[pseudo glade]

come on curseforage

let me fucking play

[fossil scaffold]

always during weekend lmao

[empty peak]

this is only like the second time right ?

[frigid vine]

Btw. after Summer Bash Mod we still have no auto-decay timers. Is there any workaround? 🙂

[olive talon]

Uh wdym

[frigid vine]

Wildcard patches some weeks ago and disabled the auto-decay. Then they re-enabled but with summer bash was again disabled.
So we (inofficial) has still the issue that we have no functional auto-decay. WITH summer bash timers reset with server restart. So nothign decayed.

Now without the SB mod the timers completely disppears

[olive talon]

Oh, you want decay timers. I know that there's a bug going on where they are turned on when people don't want them to be, so to fix it people are turning off both pve and pvp decay timers. Try turning both on and see

[frigid vine]

Okay damn. So we have to wait for a patch to get auto-decay work great (again) 🙂

[olive talon]

Did you try it?

[frigid vine]

Yes. There are no timers when pressing "H". And yes, i have advanced hud enabled in settings

[kindred ledge]

Any word on a fps or fixes to help ps5 can play ab with out constantly lagging due to it trying to rendering everything every two seconds

[fossil scaffold]

i dont think this is related to nitrado...

[obsidian sandal]

has nothing to do with them......it's curseforge

[olive talon]

It's not, they're just spamming.

[ebon matrix]

It's on nitrado. Wonder when it will get fixed

[olive talon]

It's curseforge. #announcements.

[fallen jolt]

4hours curseforge is down 🤡

[glacial creek]

i think you need to be in this channel
https://discord.com/channels/729837326120910915/762871715305881631

[amber cloak]

anyone know y enablecheats wont work on aborition map ???

[ebon matrix]

How long until it's fixed you think?

[fossil scaffold]

it work

[dusky thistle]

It does

[olive talon]

No idea

[fossil scaffold]

check your admin password

[glacial creek]

petetion to bring on the command param settings -AutoManagedMods meaning you need it, and without it the mods dont update, and sometimes the mod creator cooked the mod in a way the server is still joinable even if your steam client updated.

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle nope ive typed it in several times on my server

[flint oasis]

Someone said they hit try again a few times and got in maybe that will work?

[fossil scaffold]

try and let us know lol

[flint oasis]

Ugh It didnt work for me the guy said he did it a ton of times tho 😄 I dont have the patience

[fossil scaffold]

he lie to you i think lol

[ebon matrix]

I tried 3 times and gave up

[humble thicket]

haha

[fossil scaffold]

if you not have crazy mod, just do a save of your server and delete all mod

[humble thicket]

abortion map

[amber cloak]

@humble thicket yeah enablecheats dont work its my server

[humble thicket]

Are u using the admin password aswell?

[amber cloak]

yes

[humble thicket]

Enablecheats <password>

[amber cloak]

do i need the arrow thins before and after password

[humble thicket]

no you dont need, it was just as an example

[amber cloak]

yeah dont work works fine on my other server

[dusky thistle]

Check the config and make sure the password is the same and didnt end up with a typo in it or something.

oro that it isnt accidentally double-called in ini

[amber cloak]

??

[dusky thistle]

ServerAdminPassword= in GUS

[round mist]

@weary lantern

[amber cloak]

im new dont know what ur saying there

[dusky thistle]

Is the server on nitrado?

[amber cloak]

yes

[dusky thistle]

at dashboard, to go "config files" option. change dropdown to GameUserSettings.ini, load file. Look for ServerAdminPassword=

[marble condor]

This new modding system with curseforge sure aint running as smooth as god ol steam workshop, thats for sure...

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle yes its set

[dusky thistle]

ctrl+f and search for serveradmin to make sure it's not in there twice. can also copy / paste the password into game and see. Don't know of any reason it wouldn't work otherwise.

[frail ferry]

so which mods does NOT work well with nitrados itemn dupe check settings?

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle yep only in there once

[dusky thistle]

try stopping the server, changing it to something super simple like 123 then save, launch, try again. There's no real obvious reason it shouldnt be working

Just checked again to make sure im not crazy and it def does work on ab server

[edgy turtle]

Is the problem for you only that you cannot log in with the password? For me the problem is that after clicking on "Join" it just reports "Content failed to load"

[dusky thistle]

Thats because curseforge is down atm.

[tepid swallow]

VoteSkip requiring Curserforge :C

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle now i cant get back into server at all

[edgy turtle]

Does that mean Nitrado sucks again or is curseforge independent of Nitrado?

[dusky thistle]

Separate totally. Two different companies

[edgy turtle]

Thx

[dusky thistle]

If youre running mods, curseforge is down atm. no one can

If youre not running any mods that would have a big impact removing you can remove them temporarily and play.

[trim yew]

oh is this why my own dedi I cant log into?

[dusky thistle]

Correct. Even modded officials arent accessible atm

[trim yew]

guess i could take the stack mod off for now... its the only one I have on my server lol

[dusky thistle]

Back it up first, stack mods generally don't go quietly.

Since they remap most items

[distant hearth]

stack mods are bad anyway, take advantage an get rid, do the coding via ini

but you will lose all resources collected

[dusky thistle]

Yea only thing you cant replicate is weight via ini, but you can supplement by adding more weight per point. Any other function of a stack mod can be done via vanilla ini stuff

[trim yew]

not everyone wants to spend the time in INI files... they just want to play lol

[distant hearth]

well thats a fai rpoint i guess

[distant hearth]

yea thats how i always do it too, just up the weight per level for dino an player

[obsidian sandal]

absolutely the truth. at release I ran a stack mod for months without any issues, then all of a sudden the server was crashing with the mod installed, and so I had to remove the mod and re-code everything. Everyone lost their resources but there was nothing else I could do. Will never use a stack mod again.

[dusky thistle]

Counterpoint tho is that ini stuff doesnt break crafting recipes or break on a bad update

But if youre playing solo the risk is neglible and only to yourself anyway

[distant hearth]

yea it happens to most people at somepoint, then they release its worth the effort to ini code it

[bleak ivy]

I didn't use stack mods because I was on console ASE 🙃

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle yeah no mods i can get in but enablecheats wont work

[distant hearth]

same, had to learn, then realise its actually quite easy

[dusky thistle]

You can make non-stacking items stack via ini etc, not just increase global stack size

[bleak ivy]

I do both, having stackable prime/mutton is so nice lol

also when did they fix mutton stacking for ASA

[dusky thistle]

About halfway thru SE i think

Been a while now but was broke af early on

[bleak ivy]

huh, its been that long since I killed an ovis then lol

[distant hearth]

how do you know it dont work? try this to see,
enablecheats yourpassword
cheat gcm

[amber cloak]

done that

[pseudo glade]

Any news on curseforage ?

[distant hearth]

hmm only other thing is to look in the gus. ini make sure the line for is under the correct header,
[serversettings]
ServerAdminPassword=xxxxx

[dusky thistle]

ngl, i am not sure at this point. It should work, nothing I can think of that would prevent it

[dusky thistle]

Tried that earlier and it was in there and correct

[distant hearth]

i have no clue either then other than dont use a capital letter to start it , some people have issues with that on console

[short crane]

Is it curseforge that are working on the fix for unofficial servers?

[distant hearth]

yea

[short crane]

Is there a time frame ect mind you no point even asking that is there 😂😂😂😂

[short crane]

Thanks

[distant hearth]

not that i know just got wait an see, can try the cursforge discord or there twitter see if there any more news other than working on it

[short crane]

Nice one thanks

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle just noticed in gameusersettingini ConsoleAccess=False does that need to be true

[dusky thistle]

Possibly. Worth a shot. May be console thing to make it work.

[edgy turtle]

Would be a thing, deactivate mods on Nitrado for a while?

[dusky thistle]

Yea worked for me. Just backup first. Depends on what mods you run and whether you can just delete them without losing half your base.

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle thT FIXED IT

[edgy turtle]

Sure?

[amber cloak]

sorry caps

[dusky thistle]

Sweet. Must be related to accessing it from consoles. I checked and its false on mine and works fine, so never thought about it. Glad it worked tho.

[dusky thistle]

Yea im on rn, deleted my mods since i dont run any that do much of anything to the game. I lost my hairstyle for a bit, thats all.

[brave idol]

Wildcard need fix that shit

[dusky thistle]

WC didnt break it for a change.

[brave idol]

How i will play on console?

[dusky thistle]

Only way you can play right now is without mods, ~~so SP with no mods or ~~on a unmodded server.

[celest halo]

nope but they do need to fix how they handle things, a 3rd party site being down should not stop people from connecting to a server

[bleak ivy]

SP should work with mods. fairly sure it doesn't check when you launch

[celest halo]

SP does work, it dont need to check you have same version of the mod as the server

[brave idol]

What is SP?

[trim yew]

single player

[obsidian sandal]

lol someone deleted my comment 😦

[brave idol]

I just wanna play unofficial with mods

[dusky thistle]

So do everyone else, waiting on slow ass CF atm

[edgy turtle]

Bro..chill..we all want to... Wait and grab a tea

[tepid swallow]

So do they work on weekends? I heard they don't do stoff on weekends.

[distant hearth]

its a live service so prob some sort skeleton crew, even if remote access

[dusky thistle]

There was a tweet and announcement a while back that they were "working on it"

For what that's worth

[stiff onyx]

Hello, i try to join a server like other days but when the mod list are charging appears a message that says "content failed to load"

[dusky thistle]

curseforge is down

[long grove]

Curseforge has found the issue and working on a fix

Was gunna post a screenshot but cant

[short crane]

Was literally just about to say that hahha

[long grove]

No eta posted

[north valve]

Is it safe to remove all mods from server bat file and relaunch or that’s a bad idea?

[distant hearth]

depends on the mods tbh

[celest halo]

all depends what the mod does

[long grove]

If you are built using mods or have molded tames I wouldn't do it

[celest halo]

why not, you dont want to login and see you base and dinos gone lmao

[long grove]

Shoot server I play dint use mods like that tbh

[distant hearth]

thats always ammusing when one breaks

[north valve]

We’ve literally just started on aberration so haven’t used any modded stuff yet

[long grove]

Saaame

[distant hearth]

stack mod? just to be sure before you remove, other wise, shud be fine then

[celest halo]

was really fun to watch in valheim, you could log in and watch buildings break/fall down

[distant hearth]

i rem when it happen on ase with splus, it caused some fun an games

[north valve]

No stack mods, we use visual storage which also links resource transfers to other storages but we haven’t placed any of them yet

[distant hearth]

nice, shudnt be an issue to remove them then 🙂
take a backup first just incase as ever

[dusky thistle]

It does work to remove mods to play as long as they arent ones that will delete half your base. Im playing right now after deleting my hairstyle

[edgy turtle]

Poster on X?

[cerulean reef]

Why does it say server full on every single server even if it says 9/70?

[trim yew]

yeah, i disabled my stack mod, lost all collected items, not crafted lol... so restored my back up and waiting

[turbid scaffold]

Yo how long does this glitch take?

I want to play with some friends

But can’t

[heavy jay]

What glitch?

[mild cypress]

My server changed from allowing dino downloads to not, and now I have 2 dinos stuck in an obelisk

[turbid scaffold]

That I can’t join a nitrado server with mods

[tepid swallow]

Seems like they fixed it now

[trim yew]

really?

[celest halo]

yeah mine is working also

[wise fern]

oooh curseforge seems to be working for me also

[pearl pecan]

Same here!

[edgy turtle]

Yes, it works , finally ❤️❤️❤️

[dusky thistle]

Time to put my hair back finally. The struggle has been real.

[jaunty burrow]

Is there an INI command line to allow the Spotlights to be placed on Platforms (Rafts/Zeppelin/etc) ?

[rotund scaffold]

Question I'm new on abb map and I try to put the tek gen and don't let me put elements on it ?

[amber cloak]

@dusky thistle so new issue i put my mods on my server now i ant load in i get dashboarded when trying to load any suggestions

[frail ferry]

do you have tek gen engram?

[rotund scaffold]

Yes

I build everything's but won't grab it

The repl said need fuel but won't grab any element

[amber cloak]

im on a series s y am i getting dashboarded everytime i try to get on one of my servers

[frail ferry]

ranks preventing access? modded to not use element? try element shards?

[rotund scaffold]

I have no mod for element is weird 😕 cuz the tek chespiece grab element just the generator and the replicator ect...

[amber cloak]

anyone?

what the hell is the deal with getting dashboarded everytimei tyr to load into my new server

guess im the only one this is happening to \

[distant hearth]

series s struggles with asa anyway, mods cause issues anyway,u added mods an the server makes you crash, now lets think about what the issue might be

[amber cloak]

same mods on my other server i dont dashboard

[ripe matrix]

Hello! Anybody else having the issue or know of a fix, downloaded the update last night and the same has happened with todays update on Steam, getting stuck at 1 or 2% installing? Updates downloaded and patched, its just the last phase?

[distant hearth]

doesnt mean anything, there mods, might work fine on one map but not another

[distant hearth]

its too do with the way steam patches the game on dual drive systems, if u leave it alone it will install, you can look in task manger, perfomance yab an check disk activity , you will see its use one as a staging drive an that will have high activity

[ripe matrix]

righto, thank you kindly

[sour merlin]

Any recomendation of mods to host local?

[undone bloom]

Why is it everytime I try n load Aberration map it crashes?

[static hamlet]

anyone else have a dedicated server thats defaulting to PVP when set to PVE? specifically aberration

[distant hearth]

no, check the gus.ini an make sure serverpve=true is there and under the correct header [serversettings]

[static hamlet]

yep, its been copied from 3 other successful servers

was fine until today

no matter what I change, it refuses to switch to pve

[distant hearth]

maybe a new bug then , rather than copying id go in an manually make sure tbh

[static hamlet]

Yep, been doing that, been working on this for a few hours now

[distant hearth]

is it a nitrado server?

[static hamlet]

no, custom

I have a Center server up and runnng that works fine

its like its ignoring the GUS

[distant hearth]

custom as in , you host it?

[static hamlet]

Yes

[distant hearth]

make sure you dont have anything in the start batch file/commandline that might override it

[static hamlet]

same exact batch file (other than obvious changes) for all my servers

I did have a player say the server crashed last night... could there be something corrupt im not accounting for?

I'm going to attempt a cold boot of the server, there might be something in memory thats messing it up

[distant hearth]

its ark , anything is possible, at your point id make a simple batch file, fire up a new server an test if it changes to pve ,
Start ArkAscendedServer.exe Abberation_WP?SessionName="willzlaptop"?serverpve=true -port=7779 -winlivemaxplayers=10
something like that shud do it as a test,

backup first so u dont lose anydata

[static hamlet]

Ill give that a shot if the cold boot doesnt fix it

[distant hearth]

it shud take from the ini file tbh,thats how mine are, but maybe the commandline override can help

[maiden tapir]

anyone know how to set up max level to current max i think 155 is max rn but i any code i put into game ini aint working

[broken willow]

Does nitrado still have exclusive server hosting rights?

And how much USD is a 10 slot server for 30 days?

[jaunty vortex]

Yes and don’t think they will do less than 20 slots.

Why not look at their website if you want to know costs?

[static hamlet]

I solved the issue, a reboot revealed that there was another folder called "aberration" that was hidden for whatever reason it was pulling data from. All is now restored

[broken willow]

Thx

[distant hearth]

good to know 🙂

[static hamlet]

LOL, just lost my character to the infamous transfer bug... i hate this game so much

[distant hearth]

oh i use a differnt save method to most an dont get transfer issues

look up the -usestore command, but make sure to resarch properly

[static hamlet]

Will do

[distant hearth]

theres 3 u wud need to learn about, -converttostore, -usestore and -BackupTransferPlayerDatas,
it changes the way the player data is stored, it combines .arkprofiles into the .ark file basically .
pretty sure its what officials use,
a few of us are using it now an not getting transfer issues

[static hamlet]

yeah, i'm looking at that now

[distant hearth]

obv if you try, backup all your current servers , an mark them as before the conversion, as u cannot go back after using convertostore

[static hamlet]

Ok, makes sense, do I need to use -newsaveformat as well?

[distant hearth]

no , none of us have used that

[static hamlet]

oh, it says use only if necessary

[distant hearth]

i think that was something to do with loading the old ase world saves when they shut down official

[cloud heath]

hello there does Anyone know what "settings" on single player make itso you can increase IMPRINT percentage??? (we highered the maturation rate but imprints are barelt there)

[distant hearth]

i was asking one the server devs, lilpanda if he was aware of the unofficial transfer issue, he suggested i convert to that format, no issues since an that was back in like feb

[distant hearth]

there isnt a setting in single player for it, you wud have to go in the ini an change it there

[static hamlet]

Nice, I will make the change then

its funny that im only hearing about this today after years of running my own ark servers

[distant hearth]

do the backups beforehand just incase issues, but shud be fine

[distant hearth]

yea ikr, its not really known , after the first run using -converttostore an -usestore, next time servers are down you can remove the -converttostore command]

[static hamlet]

Good to know

[civic lion]

Hey all. I’m pretty new to Ark server hosting and have some questions on ascension and moving from maps.
Is anyone ok with me pm’ing to ask some questions? Or just asking questions here?

[distant hearth]

just ask here, someone can likely help

[civic lion]

First.

If I want to start on “the island” Can you move between maps with out beating all the bosses?

I’ve recently setup a server and I idea I have is to have 2 servers.
1 where it will be “the island” and 1 where it will be maps that will rotate every month or so.
The idea would be to keep “the island” as your main area, and then you can go to the other maps to get Dino’s and materials while the other maps are temp and will be rotated out.

I’m trying to figure out if this idea is possible to do at all or if to ascend, you would need to beat all the island bosses

[distant hearth]

its fine if you have two servers(maps), cluster them together an you can transfer between them at any point you want using the obelisks, or drops , or transmitter when u get that far

[civic lion]

AWSOME thank you so much!

Now as a new question for more advanced settings.

If I wanted to make it so that when you go to the new map you can’t bring anything at all. But you can bring things back to the “island” after your done with that map?
Basically let everyone experience the new maps from the beginning, but allow them to bring things back to the island (home area)

No idea if what I wrote makes any sense

[distant hearth]

yes thats possible , you set up the filters for the maps correctly to do it , allow item, player and dino uploads from the rotating map , disallow item an dino downloads to it

this will make so only player can transfer to it , nothing else, but everything can transfer from it back to the main map

[civic lion]

AWSOME thank you so much!

[distant hearth]

np , happy arking

[frail ferry]

anyone else having trash ping on maps?

[stiff dawn]

so i loaded into a unofficial server and downloaded my character then after the intro i crashed and now i don't see a character to download it just keeps saying loading. any tips ?

[midnight lynx]

are you guys getting bad lag/ rubber banding on y'alls server after the curse issue

[fresh nexus]

Help, how to turn on rays on xbox s plz

[hearty idol]

Anyone got problems with refreshing inventory bug? 2 people on my unofficial can't download anything from their transmitters?

[bold thicket]

What is the ini command to be able to pick up beds again

[distant hearth]

gus ini under
[serversettings]
AlwaysAllowStructurePickup=true

[bold thicket]

Ty

[distant vine]

hey so im hosting an unofficial server and i can join no problem but when one of my friends tries to join it just says joining for around 30 seconds and then times out, but he can join other unofficials no problem

[broken nova]

Anyone know the Beacon downloading link? thanks!

[distant hearth]

if its a dedicated server, check your port forwading is correct

[distant hearth]

its in the pinned messages of this channel

[distant vine]

yeah its a dedicated, port forwarding is good i used to run a server for ase, even checked ports again recently and theyre still good

[broken nova]

got it

[distant hearth]

asa doesnt work same as ase, it uses only the one udp port , set with -port=xxxx , where xxxx is the port number, search the server name on battle metrics an see what port its actuallly running on , they default to 7777udp

[distant vine]

says its port 7777, i have 7777 open for udp and tcp

[distant hearth]

asa doesnt use tcp for the game port , but try 7778 , others have issues with using 7777

heres a simple batch file that works in asa, if port 7778 is forwarded through win firewall and the router(plus any crappy a/v, malware blockers might use for what ever reason)
Start C:\arkserver1\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="willzlaptop" -port=7778 -winlivemaxplayers=10

its alot differnt to an ase one
edit i left my file path in , but you get the idea

[distant vine]

ok thanks ill try it out rq

[distant hearth]

yea just make sure to change the fle path or just use ,
Start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="willzlaptop" -port=7778 -winlivemaxplayers=10 from the .exe location

[broken nova]

I want to add few things into the loot drops, but beacon seemed override the default drops

How to make it "Add" instead of override?

[distant hearth]

tell it to add item sets to default then balance the weights properly

[broken nova]

Just click the "Add item sets to default" when in customize loot drop page?

[distant hearth]

yea

[broken nova]

👌

[distant hearth]

messing with loot drops is a bit effort and advanced so sometime u need play with the weights of things to get it how u want though, not everything will work with one click

[broken nova]

I see, it took me a night for studying and testing☠️

[distant hearth]

yea i spent weeks learning how do it, but im kinda dumb so dont learn fast

[broken nova]

Then u are a man with firm will👍

[granite vigil]

Has Anybody figured out how to fix xbox s lighting? My buddy can't see much, mainly just bright things that are almost blinding for me

[distant hearth]

yea haha, if i want to do something, i keep trying, reading things an testing till i get it to work

[broken nova]

So any idea how to set the weights? is there a standard or something

I add a new item set, but the default weight is 10

[distant hearth]

no there all differnt,
when u load the drop , tick load default contents when available, then it will show all the stuff in that drop and what weights they use

modifying drops is a headache, beacon has its own help section, look in that , or you can try ask in there discord,
im not the best at it an always struggle

[broken nova]

Hold on, what does this "weight" mean in the beacon, the percentage of items and priority in all item sets or, the item itself gravity physics weight?

Sorry English is not my first language😂

[distant hearth]

load a drop with the default loot contents ticked, then look at it an understand how there set up

there are many weights involved

[broken nova]

Oh I see, its the priority

[distant hearth]

yes thats a way to put it , more weight = more likely to be chosen

[peak sapphire]

I view weight as the probability that will be picked over something else. I don’t use beacon for that stuff and just allow each item in a set in a loop drop to have an equal chance

[distant hearth]

there trying to add to the official drops , beacon makes is easier by a mile imho

[broken nova]

This is a great setting, valuable item get less chance

[peak sapphire]

I’ve never used the append setting. I might learn something lol

[distant hearth]

yes, then as you learn the sets involved, an the weight(probability) of a set to be chosen, its even more complex but , allows many more customising

[broken nova]

The blueprint chance is weird, I set it to 10% and some time it gives me a bunch of blueprints

Like spawn 20 advance bullets, and simulation tells me 20 advance bullets BP🤣

[peak sapphire]

Did you put 10 or 0.1?

[distant hearth]

use the no duplicates option an it shud sort that , likely that blueprint weight is wrong

[distant hearth]

good point 🙂

[raven sun]

Hey guys,, what does the restart server button in the asa server manager do? Does it just turn it off n turn it back on or does it wipe everything?

[distant hearth]

simulation u have to press 100 times to get an average result

[broken nova]

Preventing duplicated is on

But each item inside chance have duplicate

[distant hearth]

ok, like i say best way is just look at the default contents an try understand what each is doing, theres many settings that change what happens .
its alot harder to add things to a default drop , than to just make your own

there are two prevent duplicate options in beacon, one for the item sets and one for the things in each set

[broken nova]

Right, where can I check the default contents in beacon loot drop?

[distant hearth]

add new drop , then has option, load default contents if available

[broken nova]

👌 Thanks

[distant hearth]

or you can right click the drop an select load default contents

[ashen nebula]

Is there any way to turn off the timer in the Tek cave?

I'm used to SP and just had a very bad time due to the timer and the fact that it wasn't displayed on the UI. Just wiped us without us even knowing it was ticking down.

Fortunately I had pelayori's cryo mod which has a built in admin back up for dinos so it wasn't a total loss.

[trim yew]

have you tried using bUseSingleplayerSettings=True in your game.ini?

[humble thicket]

Hi, i need an advice, i have a xbox serie S and i crash not all the time but i crash, i Can buy the Xbox série X soon ( i cant a pc for the moment but i want one), its really better than thé S, for Ark ascended especially ?

[last hornet]

I think it will be much better tbh

[humble thicket]

Ty brad

[amber cloak]

whats going on with theserverv

[trim yew]

want to elaborate on that? lol

[young stream]

Can anybody tell me the code to put into the config to allow flyers on ab 😅 pretty plsssss😭

[last hornet]

Go into your cross ark and tick the box to allow, then just restart abb

[young stream]

Allow Foreign Dino downloads?

[bleak ivy]

yes

[young stream]

Omg yes thank you both so much 🥹🥹

[bleak ivy]

you may also need to do allow cave flyers don't remember

[young stream]

What’s the code to implement that into ini? I didn’t see where I could do that with just a checkmark

[bleak ivy]

are you nitrado?

[young stream]

Yes

[bleak ivy]

gonna be a button somewhere on the UI. its a command line option iirc.

[young stream]

Hmm

[last hornet]

CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=true

Add this to game user settings

[last hornet]

If you use nitrado, settings tab> bottom you will see Cross ark> that’s what you want those are your clustering settings

[young stream]

Thank youuuu!!!

[last hornet]

No probs

[muted jackal]

How do i fix the ue4-shootergame game has crashed and will close ark error i can dm a ss of the error if you dm me but this server doesnt allow links

[jaunty vortex]

It has more ram (16GB compared to the 10GB in the S) and is 3x more powerful.

[hoary bane]

Anyone know how to increase max level gene scanner can search for creatures? Our cluster does max wild dino of 300, so being able to search for half of that is pretty rough.

[vocal nymph]

Question, what setting in single player do I use to get resources to spawn eight next to my base?

[static hamlet]

Hey I tried out these commands, but I can't seem to see any difference? how do I know it worked?

[lone slate]

Is there a known issue with players stuck in a disconnect loop when using central spawns on scorched?

[jaunty vortex]

You won’t until you transfer maps. Then you’ll get files in your cluster directory. And you won’t have player profiles in the new map savedarks folder.

[static hamlet]

Yeah, I see that my profiles are not updating when they normally would, so it must be working

How to turn off the summer bash event, is it as easy as removing the mod?

[jaunty vortex]

Yes. Just remove the mod from the list.

[static hamlet]

perfect, thanks

[ashen nebula]

Yup

[fiery yoke]

Hello everyone. I see abb is available in the drop down now for nitrado. If I change from custom(it was abb but it was custom and I entered abberation_WP) to Abb will it wipe my server? Can I continue from the current save?

Well I tried it and it stays the same. It didn’t wipe the server. Not sure if that will help someone else.

[topaz flume]

Someone knows how to not get crashes in ark ascended?

Any command or something?

[chilly coral]

No - Arks crashing due to many different reasons. There's no command to tell it not to corrupt or glitch. But you can reduce your FPS to help!

[dim matrix]

Haven't been able to find the direct cause yet myself, but we have players on scorched as well as center maps that have dealt with this all weekend since the Ab update.

[bright mist]

Hello Guys,
We (a friend of mine and me) have a Rock drake egg, we are trying to breed it, but nothing happens.. and it stays at 100% Incubation. What can we do that the egg hatches?

[chilly coral]

I had to do a reinstall and load my most recent save to get my restart loop to stop. Even no mods at all was still looping. One of the updates caused a corruption somewhere. I hope this helps!

[green veldt]

Hi, in my server Carcha don't spawn. I include it in the shop plugin but when somebody buy it the server crash

[ashen nebula]

Cave mobs invisible until you're on top of them

I have an unofficial server running on my PC (same machine I play on) and often in caves it will look as though there are no creatures, but as I progress the just appear out of thin air. It's as if they're physically there the whole time but invisible until they start moving.

This hit me pretty hard in the TEK cave when a giga appeared out thin air in my face.

It's not just me this happens to. All the other players who are on my server experience the same issue.

Is this a settings issue within the server that I can fix in .ini? Or a settings issue within the game? Or is this just ark jank?

[wintry skiff]

Check to see if it is too hot or too cold. Add standing torches or AC if so if too hot use less heat.

[bright mist]

Thank you very much ❤️

[clever trail]

Zeplin on my server in Aberration is not rideable and i dont know why

[topaz flume]

How?

[chilly coral]

I personally use Nanohs Spyglass and it has an FPS setting so I don't know the codes offhand.

[topaz flume]

Help a lot?

With not get crashes a lot?

[chilly coral]

I mean... it reduces the strain on my console so I can play more smoothly. Nothing can stop crashes. They happen with a game like this. Esp right now with the new map added. If you play single player it may help but as a whole, crashes can't be avoided.

It's just something that WC can try to improve when the cause of the trash is identified but it's hard in millions of line of code to see any errors.

[topaz flume]

Oh okay

[wintry skiff]

Yvw

[oak geode]

anybody know a good guide for server settings? im trying to set up a server for my friends an i, some of us only have a few hours to play each week so i want taming/breeding to be fast enough for them but not too fast. im thinking 30 minutes to tame a max rex.

[tepid swallow]

Is there any hope of changing settings for what slots skins take and utility "skin" items do? I really wanna use skins + glider on my chest.

[dusky thistle]

Depends on what food type and max level youre basing it on / running. A default max 150 rex will tame in almost exactly 30 min using kibble on 2x taming.

[upbeat compass]

anyone know why windows (xbox game pass) wouldn't be able to see my unofficial sever? all console and steam players can see them except the windows player?

[jaunty vortex]

the trick is getting the breeding multipliers right

[jaunty vortex]

are you on PvP?

[upbeat compass]

yes

[jaunty vortex]

Xbox Game Pass on windows certainly can't play official PvP

[upbeat compass]

pfft well that sucks

[dusky thistle]

He said unofficial though

[upbeat compass]

yes, unofficial, they can however join when joining an xbox player session. but that's the only way

[toxic hazel]

PC Game Pass does not have Battleye Anti-cheat and is therefor only allowed to play PVP with other PC Game Pass users

[upbeat compass]

changing to PVE, hopefully that solves it then

[hoary bane]

if I'm looking to buy/build a custom server for ASA and other games (but we'll focus on ASA) How many cores should I dedicate to a single ASA map? would 1 core of the cpu be fine or do I need to do multiple?

I know I'll need to set aside at least 12gb of ram per map, I was thinking 16gb per

[celest halo]

I have most of my maps set to 2 cores

[hoary bane]

whats your player count and how is it performing?

[celest halo]

Very low, only 3 of us play on it, hasn't seem to have had any issues

[jaunty vortex]

why set aside cores? let windows deal with that and worry about having enough RAM

[celest halo]

Mine don't run on a windows machine 🤣

[hoary bane]

I guess technically I could do that until it becomes a problem

I'm not experienced in Linux to want to take a shot at it.

[jaunty vortex]

my server is currently toddling along with 5% CPU usage, although there's not many playing on it. 5 Ark maps, 12 minecraft servers

it's RAM it needs more than anything

[hoary bane]

Right

I'm thinking a 12 core CPU long term. I have an old ryzen 3600 that should be fine for now

[brittle creek]

Hello,

I am writing to report an issue, I am experiencing with all the characters I have created in Ark. The problem began with my main character, who is at level 125. It started during the "Summer Bash" event when the skins began to multiply unexpectedly. Every time I switched servers, the issue worsened, and even after the event ended, the problem persisted. This week has been the worst; the skins multiplied to the point where they reached a black weight limit, causing me to lose everything in my inventory and the character's implant.

I have tried everything to resolve the issue—I killed the character, deleted the game, and even formatted my PlayStation, but nothing has worked. I have created new characters, but the same problems continue to occur. I need to know if you can assist me with this issue. I am playing on the PlayStation 5 platform.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😭 😭 😭

[maiden tapir]

anyone know what timezone nitrado uses for server bacckups

[brittle creek]

Hace 5 horas atras

[maiden tapir]

you can turn off spawning with skins in ur settings it should be in setting advanced n i think third row

[brittle creek]

Believe me, I did it too, and I have no results, my new characters' implant disappears.

[proud maple]

can someone try to log in to my server, so I can test if my port configuration is correct? I'm on epic game

[craggy loom]

got a question, breeding stats not working properly on unofficial servers? set mating interval to .1 and my anky's are taking 4 and a half hours to want to mate again. i set it to .01 and they wanna take 30 minutes, that doesn't seem normal? before that would be very fast was something changed

[celest halo]

Seams about right to me. my interval is 3 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours with a .2

[craggy loom]

hmm

thank you then will just adjust it to be a bit faster i don't mind waiting 15-20 minutes :D

[celest halo]

Normal is 18hours to 2 days 😂

[flint oasis]

Anyone having issues where structures are randomly taking small amounts of damage? Thanks!

[cunning urchin]

How does hosting a server work exactly, like do i HAVE to have a pc? Our server host says he could give me the saves because they cant continue hosting. I dont have a good pc, just a laptop but i have a series x. Can it do anything? Maybe thats whats nitrados for?

[foggy plinth]

Will the port 7780 work for Ab?

7777, 7778, 7779 are used for the other 3 maps

[celest halo]

Any none protected system port/ or one not in use by an other program will work

[dry shoal]

Anyone having crashing issues on AB? Players transferring from other maps on cluster to Aberration for the first time only (subsequent transfers are fine) is causing the map to crash and cause player death screen on player that was transferring.

[foggy plinth]

alr thanks!

[deep flower]

Yes this is a big problem right now but you can try unchecking "Give Default Survivor Items" in your settings.

[brittle creek]

Thanks, but I tried that too

[devout lintel]

Anyone else's server stuck on restart after the update?

[steady kettle]

I'm restarting my server just fine but it's not updating.

I'm looking at the server list and I don't see any unofficial servers that are on thew newest version. I think Nitrado hasn't caught up yet.

[toxic hazel]

Mine updating lel

[devout lintel]

Thanks, will try just waiting a bit

[steady kettle]

Lmk if you're able to get it to 52.15

plz and ty

[dim matrix]

Fortunately/unfortunately we're not having server-wide restart loops, but on a player to player basis, they are experiencing disconnect loops when spawning or TPing into their bases. I will give this a shot though and see if I can clear things up, thanks!

[fringe drum]

anyone having issue where Aberration map isnt following OverrideOfficialDifficulty=
our difficulty is set to max level 190 dinos and yet ab is only going up to 150
all of our other servers using different maps work, just not ab

[chilly coral]

I hope it helps!

[toxic hazel]

Its on this version

[hollow ravine]

With nitrado and aberration is anyone else having issue with it lagging heaps and re-redering everything after you move. Can barely play and can't figure what's the real issue?

[rotund scaffold]

I think is the map I got the same

[hollow ravine]

It's making it unplayable. I tried offical and it didn't happen on there. So are the nitrado servers just to crap to run the map? And we all need refunds?

[hoary breach]

I want to someone to check if they can join my server or not

ASE ragnarok map with s+ mod

[rotund scaffold]

Yea I got a server with nitrado and I got a lot of problems

[rotund scaffold]

People crash just for get in the inventory set up is mess up fix this other thing broke like 🤮

[distant hearth]

check in game ini for ,
maxdifficulty=true, that will lock it to 150 dino, has to be set false if u want to go over

[hoary breach]

please won't take a moment

[rotund scaffold]

I tried that and no work for me I hope for komples doit

[rotund scaffold]

I'm PS5 I can't help you there

[rotund scaffold]

Try to restart the server

[hoary breach]

it's up for me but idk if that's because I'm running the server on my pc or not so I need someone else to try to join and see if they can or it fails

[rotund scaffold]

Host?

[hoary breach]

trying to host a dedicated server on my pc

so far it's working for me but I have no body to test for others yet

[rotund scaffold]

Don't have pc to join

[brittle creek]

Hello,

I am writing to report an issue, I am experiencing with all the characters I have created in Ark. The problem began with my main character, who is at level 125. It started during the "Summer Bash" event when the skins began to multiply unexpectedly. Every time I switched servers, the issue worsened, and even after the event ended, the problem persisted. This week has been the worst; the skins multiplied to the point where they reached a black weight limit, causing me to lose everything in my inventory and the character's implant.

I have tried everything to resolve the issue—I killed the character, deleted the game, and even formatted my PlayStation, but nothing has worked. I have created new characters, but the same problems continue to occur. I need to know if you can assist me with this issue. I am playing on the PlayStation 5 platform.

• I also play on a Nitrado server
  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[tough oracle]

Is there an ini setting to increase wyvern spawns? Or is that possible? Or egg spawns, I have regular wyverns, s wyverns and the more wyverns mod. I went to scortched and there is maybe 4 wyverns spawning in the whole trench

[brittle creek]

I started with the same problem, then the character's implant disappeared.

[steady kettle]

K thank you

[slate bridge]

Anyone else having problems with the rockdrakes not gliding properly on unofficial ?

[distant hearth]

its a game bug, just got wait for wc to fix it

[slate bridge]

Thought so! They work ok on single player tho haha

[distant hearth]

yea who the hell knows what they f up along with the many other issues

[dusk lava]

Having an issue with Improved Egg Incubator (cross play) mod. Anyone else ?

[rotund scaffold]

I put away the stack mod an fix the inventory an implant

Anyone know why all my generators and closet remains open?no lock just pin like pvp?

[wise kindle]

What do they say in the modders discord?

[topaz flume]

Wildcard please

Fix the crashes

A lost my saves and i have to start all over again

[indigo grove]

Hello First time Setting up a Server and i need help setting up certian settings like Harvesting and stuff like that but idk how to do that via the files 😦 anyone possible able ot help?

[amber cloak]

any suggestions for a discord bot for ark somehing with a store maybe?

[distant hearth]

this page has all the server settings what they do an where they shud go, if you rent from like nitrado or w.e they usually have a description in the general section to set up the easy stuff though,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[indigo grove]

Nitrado sucks and not paying them a dime lol ive used there services before for other things and there customer support is BAD, hence why im trying to do a server with something else

[distant hearth]

yea not a nitrado fan myself either lolz , just most of the new people use them, u never stated . beacon ark omni app/programme is also another good tool for setting up ini files, the paid version is amazing but the free version does alot

[indigo grove]

sent ya private DM

[rain island]

is anyone having a problem with a 90% day/ 10% nights? I feel as though all of my days and nights are 50/50 every time

[tidal zephyr]

some creatures that we uploaded to the terminal are greyed out and can't be downloaded on aberration, is there a way to bypass this for my server?

[distant hearth]

CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True
in gus.ini under,
[serversettngs]

[distant hearth]

ye athey seem to have messed it up

[tidal zephyr]

Tysm 🙏

[rain island]

So its not working correctly for anyone?

[distant hearth]

not afaik

[lilac osprey]

The clock doesnt move the way it did in ase, but the day and night cycle seems to be working. Just the in-game time doesnt move accordingly

[swift gulch]

@indigo grove use beacon

[hexed anchor]

Anyone able to spawn Zeppelin in his dedicated server ? It's impossible for me on my own. It's working on solo but not dedicated server.

Any fix ?

[rain island]

yeah like in ASE the 90% nights took up 90% of the day/night cycle for that day, but in our current server even when it says 90% night its still 50/50

[trim yew]

is there a actual way to replace or remove the paid animals from the maps? not cool seeing the pyromain and the cosmo I do not want to see in my servers. Ive used the dino replacement script for some of the pesky stealers lol but not sure if can be done with those paid ones i dont want on my maps

[distant hearth]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="JumpingSpider_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

if those dont work , use full file paths n chnge them to shinehorns or summit good

[fringe drum]

tried it both on and off, nothing helped

still locking creatures on Ab to 150, but all my other servers are going to 190 like they are supposed to.

ive only ever had the issue on Ab

wondering if the map itself is messing with spawn levels

[trim yew]

oh, guess i should have looked for their character names before hand lol... thank you

[distant hearth]

well somethings , not right, if its a nitrado server check the actual ini files are taking the changes , otherwise check for duplicate lines etc

[fringe drum]

its a server im hosing on my own hardware, ive already checked for that. idk whats causing the issue.

[distant hearth]

do you have any mods that mess with levels, i.e custom dino levels

[maiden tapir]

yo anyone seen deinosuchus on abb yet

[fringe drum]

i am using Custom Dino Levels Mod but its setup the same as all other maps. i legit just copied the settings from my Island server and pasted them for Ab

[distant hearth]

pretty sur ethat mod overirdes whats in the official override, double check its settings and that there under the correct header

[fringe drum]

[CustomLevelDistrib]
MinLevel=1.0
MaxLevel=30.0
MaxDrakeLevel=38.0
MinDrakeLevel=1.0
MinDeinonLevel=1.0
MaxDeinonLevel=30.0
MinMagmaLevel=1.0
MaxMagmaLevel=30.0
WantsEqualLevels=True
WantsCustom=False
WantsRagLevels=False
WantsHighLevels=False
TinyWeight=1.0
LowWeight=0.5
MediumWeight=0.25
HighWeight=0.1
PreventBee=False
PreventTitan=False

looks to be correct

[distant hearth]

dont think thats right , cant rem its math off top my head,
presume ure OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6.3334

[fringe drum]

that value is for server settings not mod settings. but that already what i have in server settings

DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6.3334

[distant hearth]

so in custom dino mod u have , MaxLevel=30.0
looking at its conFigs thats x5 , so 30x5 =150

[fringe drum]

correct if my difficulty offset was set to 5

but its set to 6.3334

[distant hearth]

remove the mod an se what happens, id bet its causing issues

dino wipe after remove

[fringe drum]

why would it only cause issuse on the 1 map though when all of my other hosted servers have no issue?

[distant hearth]

its ark its buggy asf, an ure using a mod ? idk lol, just trying help narrow down the issue , sry its all i got

[fringe drum]

sorry if that sounded rude, was just looking for a deeper explination... but saying "its ark" is an explination enough lol

[white garnet]

hey all, im pretty sure the mod death inventory keeper was crashing my server. can anyone suggest a good alternative? just want to keep my stuff if I die...

[distant hearth]

haha yea , sry i didnt mean sound rude, never assume becoz a mod works fine on one map it does on all

[fringe drum]

do you use a teleport mod? most of them have a death recovery function

[white garnet]

i dont, mostly vanilla except i added dino depot and utils+ i think its called

[fringe drum]

i fixed the issue... i noticed that the docker for my server wasnt fully shutting down so the settings werent being saved...

[distant hearth]

@fringe drum they changed asa a bit on how it uses the dino levels an difficult compared to asa for the other maps, but it wudnt suprise me if they forgot to add that change into aberattion

[fringe drum]

even though it said it was saved

[distant hearth]

ah well , operator error haha , theese things happen 🙂 its why i always say to double check whats actually in the ini files , glad u sorted it

[fringe drum]

the ini was showing it was saved

[distant hearth]

yea it overwrites on shutdown if i rem right

[fringe drum]

i run my servers using docker, and docker wasnt fully shutting down and so it never updated the settings

had to use task manager to force close it

even though the ini itself was saved it wasnt being loaded

[distant hearth]

i have no idea about using that sort set up , its something i have to look into an learn more

[fringe drum]

i fixed it, its fine now

just my Server Rack being stupid...

[distant hearth]

🍻

[fringe drum]

ty for the help though

after talking with you it made me look at it from another angle

[distant hearth]

np , just glad it was easy fix

[white garnet]

anyone use the AP: Death Recovery mod and know if its good?

[fringe drum]

shouldnt be causing any issues

key word shouldnt

any plugins?

[distant hearth]

im not sure if its that exact mod, but i helped some one yesterday, there server was crashing everytime someone died, it was one the death recovery mods cause it,
easy test , remove the mod an see what happens

[distant hearth]

just looked back, it was "death inventory keeper mod " that was causing server crashes

[white garnet]

yeah thats the one i had and it was crashing my server, removed it and no more crashing, so i was just looking for an alternative mod that does the same thing lol

[distant hearth]

ah sry i got confused, i think the person i was helping might of switched to that one tbh, they never came back so presume it worked lol

[worn kraken]

Anyone having an issue with structures not being placed after recent update?

[white garnet]

lol sounds good ill give it a shot

[distant hearth]

yea, atleast you know if adding causes issues then you got remove an look for another 🙂

[worn kraken]

Seems to be an ASR issue

[distant hearth]

was just gonna say thats nearly always a mod issue, the joys of mods, they sometimes break, then you got remove them or wait for an update

[worn kraken]

Hmm.. The question is. . . what to do. . . Bleh

[distant hearth]

flip the coin lolz, asa is early access use as few mods as possible otherwise every major update likely to cause issues and minors might too

less mods= less headaches

[native wave]

no issues with ASR here

[amber cloak]

help my baby dragonkin are dieing what do i feed them

[unique kernel]

Does anyone know if the account hosting a dedicated server on Xbox needs a active gold subscription?

[heavy jay]

Anyone else's server crashing when players die?

[waxen robin]

how do i disable photo mode?

[distant hearth]

are use a death inventory keeper mod?

[trim yew]

okay, so i got the pyromains and cosmos removed from the server... now how would I go about removing the Bobs Tall Tale items/engrams.... just was testing and got one of them goo guns... but wants me to buy bobs... so i dont want to see it in the server.

[distant hearth]

summit like this ,
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Steampunk_GooGun_C",EngramHidden=True)

pulled from beacon omni app, highly reccomend it

just asa can be a bit funky with engram overrides though so sometimes have try differnt formats

[trim yew]

i got beacon(free version) so i may not get all access to some stuff

[distant hearth]

maybe im not sure, i have paid so not sure whats not in free

[trim yew]

kinda forgot about beacon lol

[distant hearth]

its like $20 a year for the asa one , worth every penny imo

[trim yew]

yeah, i remember looking into buying it, but im sure when i did i was broke lol

[distant hearth]

yea fair i get everyone cant afford it, all the info can be found on google , just its much harder work haha

[heavy jay]

Yes I am

[trim yew]

engram control does require omni payed

but i get to see the entire list 😛

[distant hearth]

so if we think logically, we have a server that crashes on player death, which is unusual right, what cud cause it ?

[jolly thicket]

Anybody know if there is an ini setting or a mod I could install to increase the structure limit on spotlights?

[distant hearth]

it might be related with the flags , that seems to effect small items, just guessing though

[distant hearth]

IgnoreLimitMaxStructuresInRangeTypeFlag=true
gus.ini under [serversettings]
im just guessing though so might not work

[heavy jay]

🤔 I see what you getting at 🤣🤣🤣 I go and remove it for right now thanks

[jolly thicket]

OK I’ll give it a try thanks.

[distant hearth]

🙂 , sry i prob seem like an arse , but i prefer to teach people how fix there servers when they go wrong than just spoon feed

[trim yew]

oooo... beacon has 50% off when bundled ASA and ASE... making if $25 for both for 1 yr 😛

[distant hearth]

pretty sure ase is a one off fee, so u get that for life, the asa is on a year purchase

[trim yew]

for first year buyers only though lol

[distant hearth]

i cant rem tbh, i just know its pretty cheap for what it does

[trim yew]

yeah ASE is lifetime

to be honest... $36 canadian for both is not bad...

[distant hearth]

yea , i doubt i ever need the ase part again, but ya never know ..

[trim yew]

i still have some ASE servers as not all maps are out yet on ASA

[worn kraken]

Somehow, the ASR mod files got corrupted during the server update. Delete and reinstall fixed it

[fallen jolt]

abe's boss is bug in the implant

[tidal zephyr]

Is there something I can put into the ini to disable or replace pyromane spawns on ab?

[lunar cloud]

you can try NPC replacement in game ini

#unofficial-setup-help message

[tidal zephyr]

ty 👍

[lunar cloud]

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

Some example there, if setting to "" doesnt work, just make em dodo's or something else

[vocal furnace]

not quite unofficial setup but Idk where else to turn 😭 I can't join my friends' unofficial cluster at all. I get "timed out/lost connection to host" every time. He can log in fine and others can join the server but I without fail cannot. I have restarted computer, verified integrity of files, tried different wifis. Tried launching with and without battleye. I am at a loss. I can join officials no problem.

[late rose]

Does anyone know how to surconvey the soft level cap, I tried adding more levels to my server, however it won’t go past lvl 155 (ASA)

[stray axle]

Those servers can make an exclusive white list of people who can join maybe they can add you in there. Also update your game and instal the same mods before you join. If downloading of a mod takes to long its kicks you out of the server join queue.

[vocal furnace]

I noticed only a little bit after I posted that that there's a pinned msg in general explaining there's server troubles with east coast US, which is sadly where I am

[quiet trellis]

Just started hosting again after a long break, is the lag in Aberration "normal" atm? The server ping is super high, ping sits around 80 when empty but as soon as someone join it jumps to 160-200

[glass jay]

Hello i have one little question i would like create a little serveur cluster just for me and one friend do you say how many ram for all maps of asa ?

[rose frigate]

anyone have the new creature restriction ini settings? since the update, all servers are disallowing all podded creatures to be tossed out in my cluster, and it's happening to others i've spoken to.

[quiet trellis]

12Gb/map

[jaunty vortex]

40-50GB, depending on mods and number of players. 64GB RAM will be comfortable.

[glass jay]

Ooomg 64gb by map ? Or 64 for all maps

[jaunty vortex]

No, 64GB will let you host all the current 5 official maps and probably the next two after that. Not 64GB each 🙂

[glass jay]

Oooh k nice i can easily create a cluster for me and one friend i have 128go ram and one Xeon 😋

[jaunty vortex]

Oh, you’re laughing then.

Assuming each map is not maxed out with players then with 128GB you’ll probably get away with more maps than you’d think because it will just dump out anything not actively in use to the page file.

[celest halo]

With 128 ram you'll probably run into CPU limits first depending on how many cores you have

[jaunty vortex]

Likely. Maybe not if the maps are running but not being played on.

[tidal zephyr]

Would switching a server from PC only to crossplay with Xbox effect it's performance in any way?

[jaunty vortex]

no

server doesn't care what the client is as long as it's an allowed type to connect

[tidal zephyr]

Alr ty

[desert plover]

Anyone having trouble with their servers? Timed out in game so thought I'd do a quick restart and now server won't start up, just stuck on restarting

[fallow jasper]

yes

[desert plover]

Kinda glad it's not just me! Anything we can do or just wait it out?

[fallow jasper]

i think just wait i first had like 900 ping and got kicked out

[desert plover]

Fair enough! Typically I was just about to die when it happened

[fallow jasper]

ye i was next to a karki

[charred vector]

Is there a setting to make flame damage weaker ? Like flames in my server almost insta kill anything I’m wondering if there is a certain setting for this or if there’s a setting that affects this ?

[celest halo]

Should probably add if your using Nitrado/selfhosting when asking this question, a lot of people that self host will tell you there servers are fine

[desert plover]

Ah yeah of course! Definitely a nitrado problem

[warped spindle]

Anyone else have their private server lagging af! Can’t even play and it’s been since the update 😭 I have a notrado server

Nitrado*

[proud star]

My issues has been after about 50 mins of my private server running. A garbage collection starts and the server locks up and crashes. It has been like this for more then 48 hours. I am hoping the devs figure out the issues and get us an update. 😄

[celest halo]

that sounds like a hardware issue

[proud star]

We thought so to but have had it happen on different servers. One Nitrado and the other a personal server.

It only started happening after the curseforge issue.

[young stream]

I have the inventory bug and idk how to fix it…. Anybody have any ideas? That works?

[signal sparrow]

Is there a way to host a dedicated unoffical server on the windows store version of ark ascended without using nitrado?

[jade elbow]

Hello, I’m building a dedicated server for Ark Evolved and I noticed there’s a crossplay feature yet when I set it up it’s only pc not pc and other platforms. Are any ark games cross platform?

[olive talon]

Steam's Ark Survival Evolved is only crossplay with Epic Games without mods.

Ark Survival Ascended is crossplay on all official*/dedicated/unofficial servers, just not on nondedicated sessions.

*this excludes the Microsoft store version on PC, as it has been removed from official pvp.

[jade elbow]

So does this mean if I created an ascended server will it be able to be cross platform with like Xbox?

[distant hearth]

yes but not through windows store, the servers are crossplay so just install one via stm cmd an run that if you have a good enough pc

[olive talon]

Yep!

[jade elbow]

Ok then. Very helpful thanks. Yeah I can create my own dedicated ascended server with no issue glad it’s cross platform. Just bought evolved first thinking I could do it there so now I’m a tad broke needing to buy the newer game haha

[olive talon]

There are occasional sales, and I think there's like an upgrade bundle still? If you've got ASE it's a little cheaper?

[jade elbow]

Oh ok! I’ll look into it.

[signal sparrow]

ah ok, so I'll need to buy the steam version of ark ascended?

[distant hearth]

no, u install via stm cmd program to do it with out needing to own the game

[tall chasm]

Maybe someone knows a solution. Since yesterday, I've had the problem that the server with "The Island" crashes if it's
fully loaded. Im hosting "The Island", "The Center", "Aberration", and "Scorched Earth" all with the same settings and mods,
but only "The Island" crashes. When I restore a backup, it runs normally for a few hours and when I restart it again, it
crashes once it's fully loaded. I've noticed that the savegame size grows quite quickly.. is after 2 days 70 - 100MB. (Only 2 players play)
is that normal?

[olive talon]

Yep you're welcome. If the upgrade bundle isn't available still, I'm sorry. I haven't checked in a bit

[signal sparrow]

ohh ok thanks!

[proud maple]

can someone please try to log in to my non-dedicated server so I can test if my router port configuration is correct? (Epic games)

[lunar sorrel]

I'm using a windows Ark ascended dedicated server, I changed the settings in /shooter game/saved/config/gameusersettings.ini

And added in Serveradminpassword=12345

I'm unable to use admin, or at least I can't figure out how to log in as an admin