unofficial-setup-help

[proud star]

Did you enter the command for the cheats? Put this in the console enablecheats YourPasswordHere

[lunar sorrel]

Doesn't seem to do anything, says nothing

[bitter bear]

is there any guides to clustering when using ptero panel?.

[proud star]

On pc it doesnt say anything you can just use the cheats

[olive talon]

It won't say anything, but it'll give you access. After that, just use

cheat command

[lunar sorrel]

I'm connected thru a PS5 and tried using cheat gcm

I've also tried AdminCheat but it says nothing and does nothing

Was difficult enough trying to get it to work on Ubuntu, wouldn't work on Docker so I just gave up and ran it on the laptop instead

[distant hearth]

stop the server, then check in the place u installed the server in gus.ini under[serversettings] header , see if the password line was actually saved and if it was theres not a duplicate of it.
restart sever , then in game
enablecheats yourpassword (hit enter)
cheat gcm (hit enter)

[lunar sorrel]

The server was off when I modified the ini, I searched for ServerAdminPassword first, didnt see one and added it in at the end of the file

[lunar cloud]

not sure thats the correct config path ?

Mines that work is under ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer

[glad lava]

is there a pvp offical sever on pc that is not dead

[lunar sorrel]

It autocorrected the path, but yes the path is true

[distant hearth]

it will need to be under the correct header , [serversettings]
some times theres other headers in there

[glad lava]

is there a pvp offical sever on pc that is not dead?

[lunar sorrel]

sigh always something stupid and basic that I overlooked lol

[distant hearth]

sods law that , it seasy to make mistakes

[lunar sorrel]

Well if that works, which I'm testing now, I'll try to fix it on Docker and use the config settings from this server

[distant hearth]

i dont know anything about docker but the ini files are setup the same whatever

[lunar sorrel]

Docker is a container used in Linux to separate it from the rest of the server is a way I look at docker

[lunar cloud]

to give you some advice, juts make your own two configs gameusersettings.ini and game.ini . Save them somewhere outside the server folder where you can manage them. Then set them to "readonly"
In your server start BAT file, before running the start command, run two copy comands that copies those two files to ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer

And litirally all you need in gus , is [ServerSettings] with your settings.
And game ini has [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] header with your settings.
I remove all the default junk and only have my settings in there so nothing interferes.

and i have a working docker setup for you if you are interested. on my github marcel-dempers/Ark-Docker
I run all my maps locally on docker-compose and my server that me and friends join run on k8s (same docker image)
works a dream

[lunar sorrel]

Wait... I think you are the one I used

[distant hearth]

does it not need the tempovverirde header that they added in game ini anymore? it was there fix for the death beams not showing

[lunar cloud]

interesting , i am not aware of that. I only have [ServerSettings] for GUS and [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] for game ini with my settings. i override the default ini always.
I have never seen a death beam though in ASA, just the "Last death" coords and bag on the floor.
Ive not seen a death beam on any streams either, are they still a thing ?

[lunar sorrel]

Nope, was someone else's github

[distant hearth]

they added this header and line in game.ini for death beams
[ShooterGameMode_TEMPOverrides]
bUseCorpseLocator=True

it was to fix the death bags not showing the old grean beam like ase did

[lunar cloud]

nice , will try it out , thanks !

[lunar sorrel]

I wget the docker-compose.yml to /asa-server an empty folder from your GitHub page, but it errors out on yaml.scanner.Scannererror: mapping values are not allowed here line 167 column 55

[lunar cloud]

you may need to clone the repo, as there are few volumes mounts for ini files and .cfg files.
the readme has a usage guide on how to setup a cfg file. Each map is a .cfg and ive written a command line tool that starts\stops\updates\restores maps

at very least if you dont want to clone, you need to satisfy the volumes for ini and cfg files

[lunar sorrel]

I'll figure out how to clone the repo gotta Google it rq

id pay for a server, but I put so much money into this damn box it better fricken work lol

[distant hearth]

theres enough people helpful in here im sure u will get it working

[lunar sorrel]

True, but I rather stumble through it myself first til I cant fix it anymore lol

[distant hearth]

yea its best way to learn i find, then ask questions when get stuck lolz

[lunar sorrel]

Why im here 😄

I have to make an account on GitHub?

[lunar cloud]

technically not, github allows you to download a repo az zip file without having an account

[waxen robin]

whats engram line for zepplin?

[last hornet]

EngramEntry_Steampunk_Zeppelin_C

[waxen robin]

thank you sir

[last hornet]

No probs you can find all this in the wiki

[waxen robin]

can you link me

i did google first but only found ase items

[last hornet]

I’ll try

[trim yew]

https://ark.wiki.gg/

[last hornet]

Actually I just pulled from beacon lol

[trim yew]

was already on it lol

[waxen robin]

that wiki does not have the engrams

[unique kernel]

Im having some trouble running a server for some friends on Xbox can I not use my PC for a crossplay server for them?

[trim yew]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Engrams

oh the engrams

not much info on the new ones even on Ark Unity

[distant hearth]

for ark ascended you can , for ark evolved wud have to do it through microsoft store version in game

[trim yew]

beacon gonna be the best place at this time

[unique kernel]

Do you know of any guides on how to set this up? I cant seem to find anything currently

[distant hearth]

for ark ascended or ark eveloved?

[unique kernel]

ASA sorry for the confusion

[distant hearth]

i'll dm you a guide i wrote in txt file, its a chunk of reading but explains what does what

my advice is read it through once to try understand whats going on , then follow the steps a syou read through the second time

[tough oracle]

Can’t see craftable inv in smithy or argy but can see my character inv, any fix?

Is there any settings that could do this, my friend can see everything but I can’t

[distant hearth]

turn folder view on or off , if that dont work, die in game, other than that no clue

[trim yew]

well, I have made a document with all the Bobs Tall Tales current Engrams names along with the lines you can add into Game.ini to remove these items from your server if you do not want access to these paid to win features on your server. can DM me for the document

[trim yew]

do people still have that issue of being stuck when logging in? sever was also just started so wondering if thats the issue as well...

[lunar cloud]

i get it all the time, like random rubberbanding and stuck in place. sometimes jumping eventually gets out of it. Otherwise use the implant to respawn

[humble thicket]

i have change the value of r.FidelityFX.FSR3.Enabled 1 on a friend nitrado serv and now i cant join again

i have restart the serv+ my game not work

[last hornet]

Double check your inv filter is on all

[hearty oxide]

is there an option to increase limit of link storage box?

[jaunty vortex]

That’s a client setting, not a server setting.

[lunar cloud]

i wonder if there is a "Dino Following" mod, that simply adds the ASE following mechanic back to ASA
I would like to meet the developer that built this dino following AI 🤦🏽‍♂️

[harsh vigil]

Hello there people I'm looking for some help I'm using this setting PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=1.0 on ASA but every time I restart the server it resets the timers how do I stop the timers from resetting

[clever trail]

Why are flyers allowd in Aberration?

[supple urchin]

That's a setting you can change, not sure how, but on the server I play on the owner managed to disable it

[storm cradle]

On ASE, what Override official difficulty do I have to put to get it to match official settings

like to get dino at level 150 max

[night jungle]

i bought ark on epic with a friend how can i play togheter with him?

[jaunty vortex]

under server settings in gameusersettings.ini

OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
DifficultyOffset=1.0

Will give you max wild level of 150, minimum of 5

Max level Formula is 30 x OverrideOfficialDifficulty x DifficultyOffset

That’s ASA, I think ASE should be the same.

[storm cradle]

thanks youre a legend

[jaunty vortex]

I’d leave difficulty offset alone. Just change OverrideOfficialDifficulty. 6 would give you max 180 for example. 4 would be the default for the Island of 120.

[acoustic cargo]

Does DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers work in ASA, or is it ASE only? We want to reduce the number of Yi Ling spawns on Aberration to a reasonable level... Like 5% of the current spawn rate.

[olive talon]

You can add this mod and limit them if you don't want to fool with weights
https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/spawn-blocker

[acoustic cargo]

Thanks for the response @olive talon. We are adding this to our server as we can't get DinoSpawnWeight to work!

[distant hearth]

something like this shud of reduced there numbers DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag="YiLing",SpawnWeightMultiplier=0.1)

[wise kindle]

You think this would work for the zeppelin or the SR5RM8? Their weight is poop.

[distant hearth]

no, theres nothing that can be done with them at the moment 😦

makes kinda crap for boosted un officals

[acoustic cargo]

This is what we tried and still had over 50 spawn after dinowipe:
DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag="YiLing",SpawnWeightMultiplier=0.2,OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=True,SpawnLimitPercentage=0.05)

We tried YiLing with and without quotes.

[distant hearth]

prehaps doesnt work then, asa is a bit like that, some stuff works some just wont for unknown reasons lol

[tough oracle]

Is there an ini setting to allow building when it clips into other structures, preventing the “closed is obstructed”

[distant hearth]

you can try this in game ini
bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=True

[wise kindle]

Yeah I figured. Sadness. Maybe a mod will magically appear.

[pseudo glade]

anyone else having issues learning the charged battery engram on aberation? It wont let me learn even know i have the glowstick

[marble cedar]

does steam cmd ark ascended server work on windows store version?

[distant hearth]

yes ark ascended servers are crossplay by default

[marble cedar]

I mean im setting up my own server and was wondering if the steam cmd thing will be able to install on the gamepass versions files. I suppose i can just try

[distant hearth]

not on the game pass files, stm cmd is a seperate prgram that is used to install the server files, once thats done properly u can run the server an join it from your windows store version

[rich berry]

aberration map name? Aberration_WP?

[marble cedar]

oh i see, i was just being dumb lol. i thought it worked in a different way. tyvm

[rich berry]

which port/s do i use for port forwarding

[distant hearth]

asa or ase ?

[rich berry]

asa

[distant hearth]

just the one udp port is what the server uses for players to connect , set with -port=xxxx command
they default to 7777udp with out that command but 7777 can cause issues

i always recommend 7778 to save running into trouble

[marble cedar]

Is there a site i can customize all my server settings then copy the ini to paste it into my server. The gameusersettings.ini is kinda a lot

[distant hearth]

ark beacon omni app/programme does that , the free version does fair bit stuff, the paid version everything

[marble cedar]

Oh that still works for ascended? Even if im hosting on my own pc

[distant hearth]

yea just hit export in the programme an copy paste across what you want

[marble cedar]

cool ty

[distant hearth]

np , only thing i dont know is what is limited to the free version as i have the paid

[dusky radish]

Whats the map name for Aberition for use in my steam cmd script?

[distant hearth]

Aberration_WP

[dusky radish]

Thank you!

[marble cedar]

yeah i have paid, used to do server stuff on ase

[distant hearth]

its changed a bit for asa, on a yearly fee , its cheap enough though for all it can do

[neon sky]

@proven prawn @low haven I have a question for club ark.
I know I can add hexagons to myself in club ark. I'm running a server an want to give each player that joins 2500 coins. Do you have a command for this?

[olive talon]

AddHexagons=100

[neon sky]

This will give players that join hexagons?

[marble cedar]

How do i find my ark mod ids that i want to add to my dedicated server on beacon. I heard you can load them into a single player and get the ids from an ini file but i cant find that file

[olive talon]

You asked how to give them to yourself, I don't know about players automatically having some upon joining.

[olive talon]

Can just look on curseforge.com

[neon sky]

No I said how to give them to each player that join

[distant hearth]

not sure , try the beacon discord, or just use the curseforge website, projectid=mod id

[marble cedar]

ty

[distant hearth]

afaik thats not possible, the old ase commands to give hexagons to players dont work

[olive talon]

Oh I misread it, sorry. Brain scramble. I don't even know if it's possible, afaik you have to play the mini games

[dusky thistle]

I think starter kit type things are only done with mods. even if that may include hex.

[neon sky]

I tried the addhexagontoplayer but didn't work🤮

[olive talon]

Can you even use mods with club ark servers? Afaik you can't

[neon sky]

Don't think so

Didn't have curseforge option

[olive talon]

Then I doubt you can have players start with coins

[rich berry]

can i have a game.ini preset to fill out somewhere?

[distant hearth]

there isnt a preset as such , the default is blank ,

its then changed as to what you want to change for your game/server

[dusky thistle]

Look up the config on wiki and change just what you need to change/add ideally.

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

[rich berry]

thanks

[lunar sorrel]

What ports need to be forwarded for Ascended Dedicated server to work?

[distant hearth]

for players to connect just the one udp port that you set

[rich berry]

PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[<integer>]

how do i fill this out

[distant hearth]

click the link it gives you in its description , then it will give more info an examples in the section related to it further down , but its like this

PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[7]=2.0```

[last hornet]

ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE ID DEFAULT VALUE
Health 0 1.0
Stamina 1 1.0
Torpidity 2 1.0
Oxygen 3 1.0
Food 4 1.0
Water 5 1.0
Temperature 6 0.0 (Unused stat)
Weight 7 1.0
MeleeDamageMultiplier 8 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased)
SpeedMultiplier 9 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased)
TemperatureFortitude 10 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased)

PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[0]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[1]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[2]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[3]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[4]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[5]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[6]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[7]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[8]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[9]=3
PlayerBaseStatMultipliers[10]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[0]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[1]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[2]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[3]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[4]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[5]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[6]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[7]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[8]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[9]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[10]=3

PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[1]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[2]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[3]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[4]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[5]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[6]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[7]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[8]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[9]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[0]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[1]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[2]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[3]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[4]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[5]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[6]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[7]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[8]=3
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[9]=3

[rich berry]

thanks!

[marble cedar]

Im trying to install mods on my server, i have the ids in the acvtive mods line of my gameuserini and also have -mods=mod id,mod id, etc in my bat file but when i start the server it says couldnt load mods library from disk and my server doesnt have mods

[distant hearth]

copy past the text from the bat file here, will take a look, just use=xxxx for any info u dont want shared

[marble cedar]

start ArkAscendedServer.exe Aberration_WP?listen?MultiHome=xxxx?Port=xxx?QueryPort=xxxx?MaxPlayers=2?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True -ForceAllowCaveFlyers -EnableIdlePlayerKick -NoBattlEye -forcerespawndinos -crossplay -PublicIPForEpic=xxxx -nosteamclient -game -server -log -MinimumTimeBetweenInventoryRetrieval=3600" -mods=935408,928621,929785,939228,929713,961601,949521,939819,933099,928708,929420

[distant hearth]

gimme a sec to clean that up, its got a load of old commands in it that arent used or relevant to asa,

[marble cedar]

okay ty

[last hornet]

Hope that helps lol

[amber cloak]

HELP i downgraded 2 of my 3 servers now they are stuck in server shutting down mode for past 30 min is there a way to fix this and get servers back up

[distant hearth]

start ArkAscendedServer.exe Aberration_WP?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True -ForceAllowCaveFlyers -EnableIdlePlayerKick -NoBattlEye -forcerespawndinos -winlivemaxplayers=2 -port=xxxx -mods=935408,928621,929785,939228,929713,961601,949521,939819,933099,928708,929420

you will need to enter the port number u was using where i put xxxx, youre also not naming the server, usually best to do that on the bat file tbh , you cud also simplfy it more as , forceallowcaveflyers and allowcratestospawnontopofstructures can be set in the ini files

tghis line likely caused issue, -MinimumTimeBetweenInventoryRetrieval=3600"
if u want to use it remove the " from the end but again can be done in ini

[lunar sorrel]

is that how you "add" the mods to the server? use the number in the start for a commandline switch?

[marble cedar]

so what about port query

[distant hearth]

ascended doesnt use it, was the old steam query port for server listings, asa uses eos an is done through the standard port

[amber cloak]

Ayone ??

anyone?

[distant hearth]

mods are added with -mods=<modid>,<modid>

[lunar sorrel]

No files needed locally? Clients handle all that?

[marble cedar]

ty, i did everything you recomended. Ill let you know if mods start to work or not

[distant hearth]

with that command on server start , it will automatically connect to curseforge , check for updates download an install the files for each mod listed with that command

[amber cloak]

HELP i downgraded 2 of my 3 servers now they are stuck in server shutting down mode for past 30 min is there a way to fix this and get servers back up

[lunar sorrel]

@distant hearthI forgot to say it yesterday, but thank you for your help 🙂

[marble cedar]

ty! the mods are showing up now!

[lunar sorrel]

my laptop is dying from the dedicated server lol

needs more RAM lol

[distant hearth]

16gb is enough to run just one server and the o/s

[lunar sorrel]

I assume that when I want to move boxes, I can just FTP the files to the new box and it'll work fine

[distant hearth]

yea

[lunar sorrel]

Figured. Thank god for that 😄

[distant hearth]

just move the save folder over

[lunar sorrel]

Heard, how big can that folder get?

[amber cloak]

HELP i downgraded 2 of my 3 servers now they are stuck in server shutting down mode for past 30 min is there a way to fix this and get servers back up

[distant hearth]

quite big if it got loads backups in it , but you can reduce them down when moving an keep the backups on the pc they came from till u know its all good

[lunar sorrel]

that sounds like an idea to cut down on traffic

Is there an ini line for limiting the backups or is that tied to the save world state?

[distant hearth]

i dont actually know tbh sry, ive never seen anything on it but also never looked

[last hornet]

Try force stop, then redeploy settings. Happen to me the other day

[lunar sorrel]

thats alright, I mean as long as it's not like....terabytes... lol

[distant hearth]

oh no, just like couple gb per map save

[lunar sorrel]

ive only been running it on the lappy for about 24 hours total runtime

I assume it just saves like you mentioned and does not auto delete older saves

[distant hearth]

oh its prob not that big atm anyway , look in shootergame\saved
the saved arks folder is where the data stored, obv the ini files are stored elsewhere but there tiny anyway

[distant hearth]

its does delete older saves after a certain point keeps like 20 or summit like that

[lunar sorrel]

oh it does? hmm. should probably set up an rsync then

I have a strange question, if a savefile is an "old update" and I updated the server, can I use that old savefile from the old update?

[distant hearth]

i guess it cud cause an issue in some weird ark do ark things scenario but generally fine.
its very rare u need them anyway tbh

[lunar sorrel]

yeah that's true, I mean. it's likely id need say the last 3 or 4 savefiles, but after that im reaching back pretty far id guess. God knows we hate rollbacks lol

[amber cloak]

@last hornet how to force stop i cant find that anywhere on the web interface tab

[distant hearth]

yea i mean it depends how far u wanna get into , i mean you shud backup an move to a spare drive to avoid issues like that , i only do it like once a week though, prob bite me one day when a drive fails or summit daft lmao

[lunar sorrel]

lol yeah I feel you about backups. It's great that drives are finally at 20TB and nicely priced, but omg. when I want to move to an SSD it's like it's 1997 all over again. Drives be TINY AND EXPENSIVE per TB!

[distant hearth]

if you dig about, theres a few powershell scripts around ,theres one in the pinned messages that can be setup to auto back as often as u want and compress the files then overwrite them every so often etc etc

[lunar sorrel]

Nice!

[distant hearth]

i do it manually , but one theese days i will look into doing it that way lmao

[lunar sorrel]

Honestly, you're better off asking your Hosting provider for the game server where the force stop is. Lots of providers now, but I assume you're using Nitrado

[lunar sorrel]

Ive been told it's not hard to make a shell script to rsync the files when there are new ones and removing the older backups (It feels wierd when people talk about powershell, im so used to windows being... terrible and non-linux friendly)

[distant hearth]

been told the same but im not great with computers so its something i have to set aside some time an get around to actually do lolz

[lunar sorrel]

heh, yup. Havent seen how I can download dempseys git into a zip so I can try loading this repo and seeing if his Docker container works

Requires reading and fiddling with things, it's already 4pm 😦

I mean.. it's working right now but I cant use the laptop for anything else lol

[cyan trail]

Can anyone explain the difference between Active Mods and Inactive Mods? Like, if I want people to be able to transfer their modded creatures to Aberration, but I don't want those modded creatures to spawn on the Aberration map...would that be an example of a mod id to move to the Inactive mods?

[distant hearth]

yes exactly that , just u wud also need to set the server to allow foreign dinos onto ab too

however it may or may not work, its not something thats been tested much afaik

[cyan trail]

hmm okay. Guess I'll be the guinea pig for our cluster haha. Thanks for your response!

[distant hearth]

it shud work fine but hey , its ark

[rich berry]

im getting one shotted by dinos and i dont know what settings changed that

[distant hearth]

cud be one of many , what have you changed?

[rich berry]

i for one changed player resistance multiplier to 4

also player damage multiplier to 5

tamed dino damage to 2 and resistance to 4

[tall chasm]

Someone know a fix? https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/744068-arksa-server-crash-windows-server-2019/

[last hornet]

It’ll pop up after a little bit, if not contact nitrado, if that’s who you use

[distant hearth]

this mod is known to cause issues at the moment ,
Death Inventory Keeper (Cross-Platform) (929902)
otherwise not sure

[jaunty vortex]

try Death Recovery Mod (930404) instead

[tall chasm]

I will replace him thank you

[tall chasm]

thanks

[jaunty vortex]

I'm using that one with no issues on The Island. It's on all my maps but nobody has been on the others yet

[lunar sorrel]

cant migrate server to a linux host?

[pseudo glade]

Anyone know a mod or setting I could use to speed up the time it takes for power nodes to function in between element crafts?

Aberration element is crazy slow with the current power nodes.

[celest halo]

ASA dont have linux binaries

[rich berry]

is there a list somewhere with mod codes

[lapis pine]

can anyone direct me somewhere to see how to allow foreign dinos on abb but not flyers so we can transfer dinos from other maps to aberration?
We dont want to allow flyers but we want our thylas and yutis and stuff lol

i assume it may be in the nitrado expert settings? Then turn off cave flyers? that will solve it?

[distant hearth]

you will want to turn off all flyers , side effect on asa it might effect the zeppelin thingy in bobs tales dlc

[celest halo]

its called curseforge's website

[distant hearth]

look for theese two lines in the game user setting.ini , under the header

bForceCanRideFliers=False
CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True```

they need to be set the way i have them there to do what u want , 
if they are not there u can add them, but be sure to search for them first , duplicate lines from adding stuff causes headaches

[coral steeple]

is there an ini setting/mod to allow building in drake trench?

[distant hearth]

maybe this in game ini wud work ,
bIgnoreStructuresPreventionVolumes=True

prob not a good ide to allow building down there though, likely block spawns

[coral steeple]

thanks, will try
ive got yi ling spawning down there lol, too difficult to tame in rad without a trap

[coral steeple]

did not work unfortunately

[distant hearth]

try this one along with the other one, this is gus ini under [serversettings]
EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False

obv check if the commands are there first and alter them if they are , or add if there not

[coral steeple]

let me try

[marble cedar]

Why can i not see my friends on the map, i could at first but after we died. I no longer can

[coral steeple]

nope, still not, checked if both settings were in the files before adding

[distant hearth]

sry dont know any others , u can scan through this list see if there one ive missed i guess , it has them all that are known

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

[coral steeple]

fair enough, guess it might not be changeable, thx anyway

[distant hearth]

check for this line in gamusersetting.ini under [serversettings]
ShowMapPlayerLocation=True
if false change it , if not there , add it

[marble cedar]

what happens if i change stuff like that while the server is on

[celest halo]

it wont work

[distant hearth]

nothing , it wont take the setting

[marble cedar]

its on

[distant hearth]

then it shud show u players in your tribe or allied players

[dusky thistle]

I think that only shows your own arrow/location doesnt it?

[marsh elm]

So anyone ever found a fix for decay timers not working 🤣

[distant hearth]

on ase it was, i think it same on asa but also show the other players when u track them ? i might be wrong tbh

[olive talon]

Enable both pve and pvp timers

[marsh elm]

And then they stop resetting every day ?

[olive talon]

Afaik yes

[marsh elm]

If it works I owe you one 💯

[fathom basalt]

Quick question I would love to host 1 or 2 servers however I just checked a redit and they say I should get a mini pc or a older full pc. Any advice?

They say I need 10 gigs per server

[distant hearth]

depends on what you want to do, can rent from nitrado , can host your own , lots options

[fathom basalt]

Yeah I want to host my one

Own

I just don’t want to spend 200+ on something I can’t use

And I just want something nice to play with a few of my friends

[distant hearth]

well u need to learn how to setup the server , how to port forward your router an firewall, have good enough internet and then , each map on asa uses like 10-16gb ram an couple cpu core for low player counts upto 10, cpu useage vary

[fathom basalt]

Yep

Any tips?

Or suggestions for computer?

[distant hearth]

learn about setting up servers an the ini files etc first, decide if u want to invest the time and money , then start looking for suitable hardware

u will be needing to spend more than 200 to run a couple servers unless u get some sort of amazing deal

[fathom basalt]

How would I go about that?

[distant hearth]

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

those are a good start , i can send u a txt file guide on setting up asa servers on windows , but it can also be done on linux somehow, i dunno nowt bout linux though

ark beacon omni app/programme is also a very good tool, the free version does quite a bit to help with ini files, the paid version is awesome, theres a link for it in pins of this channel

you can also look server managers an things like that on google but i reccommend learning how do it manually first tbh so u understand whats going on .
you can also google to learn about the save files,how they work and backing them up, fixing issues etc

[fathom basalt]

Thanks that would be perfect thank you so much

Is nooblets a credible source

[distant hearth]

yes an no , the method used for servers on his videos isnt great , 99% youtube videos for ark server setup are just plain wrong for asa last i checked . but that was like 9 months ago so maybe they getting right now

[fathom basalt]

Even the most recent one?

[distant hearth]

how recent is it ?

[wise kindle]

Ive stopped watching their videos tbh. The info is often not accurate or the method isnt effective. Theres just better sources of info. I look to TeachersGameToo or even Ninjakiller in some cases.

[distant hearth]

ive just watched the most recent easy server setup guide from nooblets, utter trash lolz, its basically an advert for some vps windows host he affiliated with lmao

and some awful looking server manager software

[wise kindle]

Yeah their vids aren’t very good and they arent getting better unfortunately.

They had one for ASE on taming basilisks that literally had me facepalming. Like what are they doing lol.
Theres just waaay better videos out now. Even the small time streamer videos are getting really good now.

[distant hearth]

yea have to say i used like nooblets years ago, i dont watch much stuff on ark anymore, but this was bad.
only one i watched recent was rassclark when ab dropped, was good imo

[fathom basalt]

Who do you recommend I watch

[distant hearth]

for server setup no one, read the info i supplied earlier an it will give u a good understanding

[fathom basalt]

Also do I have to port forward?

[distant hearth]

yes

[fathom basalt]

Which ends up requiring me to go into my WiFi network correct?

[distant hearth]

if you dont , then no one outside the local network can access the pc that the server is hosted on

[distant hearth]

well into your router, if running a server ideally you want be hard wired

[fathom basalt]

Ah

[distant hearth]

im not saying wifi dont work, it will , but you have to consider the data useage , how much is used by the server an people connecting to it, plus your local network useage etc etc

[woven delta]

I have Maewing mod on unofficial from center but I can’t unpod it on my abb server can I change that?

[distant hearth]

you wud have to add the mod to aberation map, then allow foreign dino downlads

[woven delta]

Okay thanks

[undone bloom]

Any word on The Aberration Map? As to why when I try to load the map I can't even get to the Character Creator before it Crashes?

[distant hearth]

amd gpu by chance?
#announcements scroll up a bit

[undone bloom]

@distant hearth Huh?

[bleak ivy]

if you are on a series S, use less mods.

[undone bloom]

One S@bleak ivy

[bleak ivy]

so xcloud? less mods still, if you aren't using any then its a problem with xcloud.

[undone bloom]

@bleak ivy got it I'll look into that

[lunar sorrel]

Taking a super long time to get AsA dedicated to run, it's stuck on ticking loop

[distant hearth]

ticking loop is its normal state , on the left shud see the lil dot i s green , usally i just go by whats in the server window txt though

[lunar sorrel]

Yellow, hasn't said anything yet about server advertising

Which is what I'm waiting for it to say

[distant hearth]

sounds broken to me , mine rarely take longer than a minute, two at the most if downloading mod updates

[lunar sorrel]

Not even sure what to fix on that, it's a fresh win10 install and all I changed was the port forwarding for the IP the server is running on

On the firewall

[distant hearth]

whats it up to in the server window? might also be worth trying a restart coz shit happens, also check crash stacks incase it has one

[bleak ivy]

likely the wrong map ID the server itself won't care if its port-forwarded or not

[distant hearth]

oh thats a neat new line they added when its fully running, server has completed startup and is now advertising to join, never noticed it before tbh, must be from the latest major version ?

now also say server ready instead of ticking loop lolz

[bleak ivy]

yeah, never noticed that.

I just look for the green dot

[lunar sorrel]

I ran it like I do on the win11 laptop, just run the dedicated server no changes to config files cause I wanted to see it work first

[distant hearth]

gotta be the latest major update they added , nice touch tbh , make seasier

[lunar sorrel]

It's done the full startup in 90s but just sits at number of cores I did a restart when I couldn't fix it)

[bleak ivy]

make a bat file to choose a map. could be choosing nothing instead of defaulting to the island.

[distant hearth]

double check commandline for any typo issues etc, failing that run the update again with verify in the batch file

if u want can copy the txt from the batch files and paste here an xxxx any info you dont want to share , for both update an start

when ever i setup a new server i use the most basic batch file i can , then add to it after i got it all running an joinable
Start C:\arkserver1\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="xxxxxx" -port=7778

[lunar sorrel]

Honestly it should've worked the first time with no configuration at all. Like it did for the laptop

[distant hearth]

shud but .... didnt lol

[lunar sorrel]

Why I'm so damn confused lol

[distant hearth]

what exactly did you do ? i got confused on that part

[lunar sorrel]

I installed win10, installed vc++distributions, installed steam app, downloaded dedicated server for ASA... Ran it with the first option. That's it

[distant hearth]

what you mean by ran it with first option ?

[bleak ivy]

its probably not running a map.

[distant hearth]

oh ure just clicking the .exe?

[bleak ivy]

steam has 2 options when launched from it.

its probably not running a map

[lunar sorrel]

There are two default options in the steam app, run the exe, or run with the island and battleye, both options literally do the same things. They both run the island and battleye

[bleak ivy]

try running with a bat file. the only time I've seen the server get stuck right before starting is the map not being right.

unless it downloaded wrong at least

[distant hearth]

ah this is my bad sry , i didnt realise u were installing a server with the steam app , i thought it was stm cmd install

[lunar sorrel]

Verified the files and everything, even tells me it's loading the island in the bottom bar, then goes away, tells me the server name, but no server advertising just sits there

[bleak ivy]

make sure you aren't using ASE's dedicated server

[distant hearth]

im just updating steam dedicated server tool, will test it see if it working or got broke

[bleak ivy]

thats where I run my server and its running fine.

restarted it a couple hours ago cause it crashed

[lunar sorrel]

Dont know how to get it to launch the island via CMD line, keeps telling me windows cannot find the island

[distant hearth]

yea its fine for double confirmation , i dont use that method so its complete blank , just clicked start an launched with battleye

[distant hearth]

i send u a txt guide i did on install via steam cmd, its a lot reading though , however not likely help this issue you have atm , does ssytem have enough ram etc?

[lunar sorrel]

It's a dual Xeon e5-2650v3 with 48GB of ddr4 ECC RAM

[distant hearth]

that shudnt be an issue then at all for few maps , 48gb ram seems weird to me but i imagine servers are fine with it

[lunar sorrel]

If I could afford more RAM I'd have bought it and populated all the slots for 192GB lol

[distant hearth]

is the o/s a windows server version? if so what version, i seem rem it wont run on older than 2019 for some reason but not exact sure why

[lunar sorrel]

Just basic windows 10 home

[distant hearth]

oh shud be fine then, im kinda grasping at straws now tbh

[lunar sorrel]

Hahah, I didn't realize wget worked on windows 10

[lunar sorrel]

I've got no idea... Although I didn't register this windows install, I doubt it'd have the ability to actually block anything though

It let me install Firefox, discord, steam...

[distant hearth]

shudnt matter tbh, on the first run u allowed the server through the firewall?

[lunar sorrel]

Yeah, I grabbed the IP on the box, changed the firewall rules and disabled windows defender, although honestly before I changed the fw rules, it'd still work just wouldn't accept outside the WAN clients

(it's what happened on the laptop before I forwarded ports)

Commandline: TheIsland_WP?listen TheIsland_WP? -NoBattlEye

Server: "Wolfcat's ARK Adventures" has successfully started!
Commandline: TheIsland_WP?listen TheIsland_WP? -NoBattlEye
Full Startup: 92.08 seconds
Number of cores 10

I can run it without the commandline additions, it'll still have the same problem :\

[distant hearth]

this is an issues TheIsland_WP?listen TheIsland_WP? -NoBattlEye

ure adding something to the launch argument?

[lunar sorrel]

First time I added nothing

Then I tried to turn off battleye

Then I tried the cmdline arg with the Island in it

Restarted server with just -NoBattlEye

says Loading mao /Game/Map/TheIslandSubMaps/TheIsland_WP

[distant hearth]

dont need -nobattleye from the way ure doing just choose no battleye when u launch it from steam

nvm i dint read properly ignore me

[lunar sorrel]

There is no option like that, Just the Launch ark Dedicated, and Launch Ark Dedicated with The Island and Battleye, which is what the first option does stupidly enough.

[distant hearth]

ye sry i wasnt reading it properly

[lunar sorrel]

thats alright

[distant hearth]

mine will work on both options in under a minute

[lunar sorrel]

It does on the laptop, I just ran it the first time with the first setting and it would just hang there (on the server) So i tried moving the Saved folder over from the laptop

does the same thing, so I dunno why the laptop works, while this server does not

[distant hearth]

i have no idea what cud be blocking it , out of sheer just for the hell of it , check in task manager that all your ram etc is showing, i wonder if running a server board on a home pc windows version is acting up

[lunar sorrel]

nah, I checked that. it shows all 48GB

although, I discovered that win10 home will ONLY use one CPU, id have to use win10PRO to use both CPUs lol

[distant hearth]

10 pro keys are cheap as shit anyway if u dont wannna google how get around it , think i payed like £8 for the last one i brought .

its late here an im at a loss, have a flick through the guide i sent you via dm, read once an then follow instructions to install via stm cmd , i dunno if it help but it the better to do the server installs anyway

[lunar sorrel]

I'll run it anyways perhaps it'll work for whatever reason

[distant hearth]

its like my last resort , as i have no clue why it no working the way you are doing it but im also not used to doing it that way , shud be same damm thing though lmao, its just the server files installed differntly

[lunar sorrel]

thats what I just said lol

to myself that is 😛

Would be nice if I could cache https content...

[vale sierra]

After the update v52.19 the server still crashes. Is it happening to you too?

[simple ruin]

Because of my increased resource stacking , when using SIR5RM8 , it seems to encumber its weight before it can sort or put away into vaults , is there a weight fix for the robot via .ini settings ? Thanks for any help .

[tepid swallow]

Does anyone have a automated messenger for ark clusters that can automatically share relevant info like last server restart is in x time or a recent rollback occurred x hours ago due to reason. Outside of getting a discord bot to write it into a channel that can write to all servers in a cluster.

[white hazel]

I dont know if anyone else is having this issue, I have a cluster with each map that I run, every single map is fine except aberration.

This is where my main base is (which has alot of turrets / tesla coils around it. Whenever my character wakes up in my base I get timed out from the server.

This can be bypassed by having a team mate kill me but whenever I choose to go back to my base, I get timed out when I load in. Im not sure if maybe I have too many turrets? (250) or maybe the new tesla coils are causing an issue (16 of them). I have 2 other tribe mates and ONE of them has the same issue but the other does not.

Also sometimes I get "Reliable buffer overflow" error but 8/10 times it just says connection lost to host

[last hornet]

Maybe your system can’t handle your base 🤣🤣🤣

[sand lion]

hey anyone else having the issue with the invisible inventory??

[wispy egret]

Tell me something with no issue, it would be quicker 😅

[sand lion]

do you know how to fix it @wispy egret

its so frustrating

[wispy egret]

I know, but i can't even login today. Check mods updates.

[olive talon]

It's a known issue, not server setup help either. Sometimes relogging fixes it, re-rendering, or taking all out, etc.

[marsh elm]

Anyone using custom reaper pregnancy times and how do I set it up

[clever trail]

Can i get some recommendations for best server managers for ASA. Absolutely LOVED ASM for ASE

[jaunty vortex]

I use Brad’s ASAM

[sand lion]

do you happen to have any other fixes?

I have tried everything I swear, even reinstalling and Im actually going to go insane at this rate lol

[olive talon]

Nope, try #bobs-with-probs.

[tacit linden]

Can someone help me with PVE offline damage protection settings but are still able to have alliances like Official PVE? (Nitrado settings panel says you cant have both. wtf.) Thnx

[jagged arch]

Can you make a cluster with 20 slots or do you need a package for each map ?

[rotund scaffold]

Yea more than before

[rotund scaffold]

Some inventory mod are lag and that happens 😕

[olive talon]

One map per server, if using nitrado

[jagged arch]

Ah, so would need two 20 slot packages to cluster 2 maps and connect those?

[dim totem]

In-game Admin Panel or something like the Helena Bot that managesthings betweenthe discord and server?

[marsh elm]

What does the admin panel do ?

[dim totem]

If you're an admin of the server, you can open it and it's an easy way to give or spawn items to different people in-game without typing any commands...

It also let's you do dino color changes, give player certain stats/engeams, etc

I use Admin Panel mod for that
It saves time and I don't have to go through 100 commands to find what I'm looking for

[clever trail]

No like a actual server manager like Ark Server Manager for ASE but for AS:A

[dim totem]

Hmmm I'd say Beacon

That's what a lot of people use
I don't have much to manage so I just use the Nitrado web interface
The cluster I play on uses Beacon for their server manager though

[dim totem]

@clever trail

[clever trail]

Oky awesome thanks will have a look

[dusky radish]

is clusting the mechanism to use if I wanted my characters to jump from server to server using steam cmd servering on a local laptop? Would a i 7 11th gen with 32 GB of ram be able of clustering 3 maps or so for like no more than 4 people?

[celest halo]

3 maps with 32gb ram would be pushing it

[dusky radish]

Maybe 2 then? Want to do abberition but still want a map to boss like island or scortched

[celest halo]

Each map uses around 10-16gb

[jaunty vortex]

Depends which maps. Club Ark is only about 4. The Island for me is about 10-11GB. I think 3 is feasible in 32GB if they’re all not in active use at the same time.

Depends as well on number of players and mods.

[celest halo]

Still think it would be pushing it if windows takes up 8 of them 32 on its own

[jaunty vortex]

If you’re not going to have people on different maps, e.g. all 4 moving from one to the same map then you only need to have two running at the same time. If everyone is on a different map then yes, it’s more of a struggle. Especially if Aberration is one of them.

If the third map is club ark I think it’s feasible.

[celest halo]

If it's club yeah, if it's one of the others I don't think 3 will work well

[dusky radish]

Yeah we would all play the same map at the same time. We just want to be able to move dinos and loot / engrams from server to server with the same character.

[jaunty vortex]

Then you can have as many maps as you have storage for. Just only run the two you are moving between.

[last hornet]

If your looking at trying one I’d highly recommend wolf mods admin panel, it pulls all your mods items and you can spawn,color, spawn things to players directly and so much more

[marsh elm]

Thanks appreciate the advice I need that badly

[last hornet]

They are really helpful in there discord too, also no ini config it’s all in game setup

[marsh elm]

Love that keep it simple 🤣

[trim relic]

What is the best place to host a Server for ASA?

[jaunty vortex]

You have three choices.

1. Nitrado
2. a Windows server you rent
3. A spare PC you own.

[hoary bane]

is anyone familiar with an API that creates psuedo clusters. For example maps a, b, and c are fine for upload/download, but maps d and e you can download characters but no items, but can upload items/dinos/character from d and e to a/b/c. I would like to be able to create a psuedo cluster for maps d & e so they can transfer items/dinos/characters between them freely but not items/dinos from d/e to a/b/c? Hopefully that makes sense

[slate stag]

I'm trying to get my ASA server cluster set up on a second computer - ran ASE servers for a long time with Ark Server Manager, but they have no plans to support ASA, so I had to find different tools.

As far as I can tell, I've got everything set up properly - servers installed, GUS.ini/Game.ini are configured correctly, firewall rules added, antivirus exceptions added, ports forwarded via the router (since it's the same ports as ASE and I know that worked, there shouldn't be any problem there), all that fun stuff.

The problem I'm having is that I can't connect to it. It shows up in the server browser correctly, but when I try to connect, it just attempts to connect for a while before saying "Joining Failed - Connection Timeout". Has anyone encountered this problem, and what should I look at for a solution?

My gaming PC is able to connect to other servers without an issue, so the problem would seem to be server-side.

[toxic hazel]

Defo IP/Port related it sounds, if cant even get on locally then firewall also

[tough oracle]

Two questions

1. How do I enable locking on vaults in dedicated server
2. Can I allow more than 3 gens in an area in ini settings?

[slate stag]

1. "ForceAllStructureLocking" could work for that but I'm not sure
2. the ini option for this is LimitGemeratorsNum - just put in the number you'd like generators limited to within the given range (LimitGeneratorsRange)

[tough oracle]

What heading would those go under?

I tried force lock under server settings I think and it didn’t work

“ForceAllStructureLocking=True”

[slate stag]

The generator settings actually go into Game.ini under [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode], ForceAllStructureLocking goes in your command line I believe, let me double check

[lunar sorrel]

I could never get the server to work, I'm all out of ideas rn. I don't think steamcmd works properly on win10 home, I'll test my theory out on a laptop I know has an authentic windows install of win10

[tough oracle]

What is the command line?

[slate stag]

It's what you use to start your server, you can add things to it - how you edit it will depend on whether you run your server manually or if you use some kind of software

[tough oracle]

Oh I see, do I just add it to the end?

[toxic hazel]

It goes in GUS under ServerSettings but if a known bug like the exclusivejoin list then startup command should be fine

[slate stag]

if you were just running The Island and had no other command line arguments, the syntax would be "TheIsland_WP?listen?ForceAllStructureLocking=True"

[lunar sorrel]

I've been having issues getting ascended dedicated server to run on my actual server rather than my gaming laptop

[slate stag]

so you'd add it after the map, within the quotations

[lunar sorrel]

Does anyone have a dual Xeon CPU setup that runs it?

[tough oracle]

I have a bunch of mods and stuff does it matter where it goes?

[pure haven]

dont need to add it to command line. if you on nitrado you probably cant even edit it. just add this 2 lines to GUS.ini - ForceAllStructureLocking=true
LimitGeneratorsNum=0

[slate stag]

it does also go in GUS.ini, yes. I'm not sure if it's required to be in both or not. I'd recommend using Beacon for GUS.ini/Game.ini config, to make it a little simpler to figure out how your files and command line need to be structured. It's free, gets the job done for most people

[tough oracle]

Dedicated server

I have the gen limit in GUS ini and it isn’t working

[pure haven]

yeah just add those 2 lines to the ini under [ServerSettings]

[olive talon]

Yes, sorry was asleep

[pure haven]

set it to 0 for unlimited gen numbers

[pure haven]

oh i have them both in GUS and Game.ini lol. wasnt sure where to put them so just added them to both

[tough oracle]

I have gen under server settings and had it under shooter game in GUS and it didn’t work and I put the lock one in start script and it didn’t work and had it under server settings

[slate stag]

Generator settings go in game.ini

[tough oracle]

Oh

Ok let’s try this

LimitGeneratorNum=0

[tough oracle]

Is this right

[toxic hazel]

Missed an s on Gen

[tough oracle]

It still is limited

Ah

Ok gen limit is gone now just locking structures

ForceLockAllStructureLocking=True

Under server settings

That right?

I did server and shooter game heading and nothing has the option to lock still

[lunar sorrel]

Does anyone run a dedicated server on an Xeon CPU?

Does anyone ever have an issue running a dedicated ascended server where the default settings used in either steam app or steamcmd will not advertise the server and stay in ticking loop with a yellow circle?

[slate stag]

ForceAllStructureLocking=True under [ServerSettings] in GUS.ini, and then the same in your command line

to be clear I'm not sure if it's required to be in both or if one or the other is fine, but doesn't hurt to do both

[distant hearth]

just this part is fine ,ForceAllStructureLocking=True under [ServerSettings] in GUS.ini, no need for it to be in command line,
only thing im not certain of is if it works on a pvp server

[distant hearth]

sry , as to your earlier message they they used work fine on win 10 home as thats what i was using when first learning about setting them up last year

[frail ferry]

Anyone have a setting that combat the transfer dupe? Dm me if so please 🙏

[distant hearth]

just so ure aware the command line for asa is not the same as ase , asa only uses the one udp port set with -port=xxxx for client connection , a simple asa line that works is ,
Start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="willz laptop" -port=7778 -winlivemaxplayers=10
ran from the same location as the .exe will start the server, call it willz laptop and run on port 7778 udp with a max of 10 players
if u look for your server on battlemetrics, prob find its not running on the ports u think they are , they default to udp7777, then the next instance opened runs on 7778 etc

if a port isnt set

[jagged arch]

Can you run a server on an email you dont own the game on?

[slate stag]

I'm using Ragonz Ark Server Creation Tool, combined with Beacon to help configure inis and command lines - the command line does look, basically, like the example you gave (with some extra info for clusters and launch options)

[distant hearth]

ok sry didnt know u were using a tool, im not familiar with those, alot of them wernt setting the port correctly , but suspect theyve been updated by now, id still go on battlemetrics , search the server name an double check its on the port u think it is

[slate stag]

For sure, I definitely appreciate the help anyway. I've been trying to get things running smoothly since last night lol

It's gonna end up being something silly I overlooked I'm sure, that's usually how these things go

[distant hearth]

can you explain more, im not sure i understand about running a server on an email ?

[jagged arch]

We are with three people and we want to run a server on an email all three of us have access to

[distant hearth]

do u mean rent a server from nitrado or what ever using a shared email adress?

[jagged arch]

Yeah, to rent a nitrado server

[distant hearth]

it shud be fine if ure all happy to use the same email adress an trust each other

[analog oracle]

Guys, are people finding armor, tools & weapon bps on aberration in your servers? We can only find saddles in ours, the guns and armors are always primitive and ramshackle, while saddles are ascendant and mastercraft

Feels like something is wrong

Broken somehow

[jagged arch]

Yeah we do, i also know where they live so they better behave 😆 ... Thanks for answering

[slate stag]

To give further information, the server does appear on BattleMetrics and appears to be responding to queries just fine, I just can't actually connect to it.

[distant hearth]

is the port number the same as the one u had forwarded , thats the main thing to check

[slate stag]

Yes.

[frail heron]

I want to setup a server cluster. I'm using the same cluster-id for all maps. When I try to travel to another map, it shows me all the inofficial servers in the list. I think it's supposed to show only the maps in my own cluster. What could cause this?

btw: I'm using steam cmd for starting the ark servers

[distant hearth]

make sure its a unique cluster id not something daft like mycluster

[celest halo]

That's what happens when everyone just copy's and past from a guide all your server show to everyone else that used same guide 🤣

[distant hearth]

hmmm its usually a port forwarding problem with the issue that you describe tbh , something blocking the incoming connection , router,firewall or anti virus . wud have try use a tool to check i guess, theres one called nmap ,
i cant rem the command from it to just check a udp port though

[celest halo]

You should read the guides and try to understand them not just copy and paste, it will help you in the long run if you know how things work

[distant hearth]

yea 100% its why in the guide i did is so much reading as it explains what each thing is an what it does lol . the only people i find have issues with it are those that didnt read it properly an just try rush through

[celest halo]

Yeah, I don't make guides for that reason

[slate stag]

Are the steam ports (27015) still required to be port forwarded in ASA? They were in Ascended, and I have them done still, but in my Evolved servers I had to define them in my program to make sure each server was using a different Steam port. I don't see anywhere on my current program that I can do that, and also don't remember seeing any mention of it on any guides

[celest halo]

Asa don't use steams networking

[distant hearth]

asa runs on eos so the steam query ports arent needed

[slate stag]

Okay cool

[dusky radish]

What mods do yall like to spice up a server with like 4 players? We like base building and bossing. No pvp. Top 5 mods?

[slate stag]

So, to be clear, is it just the server ports (7777-7778 for one server) themselves that are needed? I saw a guide that said you also need 25147 and 27031-27036

[celest halo]

Asa only uses 1 port, if your not using rcon

[slate stag]

Doesn't need the peer port, even?

[celest halo]

Nope

Just the port you set in settings

[slate stag]

Ah. That makes things easier. Although still doesn't explain why it's not working as it should

I'll do more troubleshooting

[distant hearth]

shiny dinos, custom dino levels, utitlities plus and dino depot wud be my go to mods

[dusky radish]

thanks ill take a look

[celest halo]

Shiny and dino depot are a must

im still testing out Arkitect Structures Remastered version for ASA to see if i want to add it to my cluster, had it for ASE

[lunar sorrel]

Excellent guide, too bad it couldn't fix whatever issue is blocking the ability to advertise the server lol

[distant hearth]

yea i have no clue on your issue , never seen that happen before is like the server gets to a point an just stalls for w.e reason, did u try look in the crash files see if that showed anything?

[lunar sorrel]

If there was a crash, sure. Where should they be located anyway?

[distant hearth]

shootergame\saved\crashes
and
shootergame\saved\config\crashreportclient

[slate stag]

I don't have Crossplay enabled via my server software, but my servers show as being crossplay on battlemetrics - could that potentially be an issue?

[celest halo]

full crossplay is enabled by default

[distant hearth]

they default to crossplay , wont be an issue

[celest halo]

you use a server edition of windows

[slate stag]

I have 24 mods and I'm not sure they're all cross-platform. Functionally, I don't think that should be an issue since I'm expecting to be the only one on my server, but right now I'm just looking for inconsistencies to figure out why I can't join lol

Could a mod potentially be causing an issue that would make players unable to join?

[distant hearth]

potentially, id remove them all , start out with a bare bones server that you can join , then start playing with it

[lunar sorrel]

No. I don't.

Tried Ubuntu in Docker, kept having issues regardless if it was 24 or 22, tried Vbox win10, wouldn't work.

Installed win10 home as primary OS, wouldn't work.

However... It works perfectly fine on win11 home on the gaming laptop, even without ports forwarding

Does not work in either Steam app, or steamcmd

[slate stag]

That's gonna be my next step... 🥲 oh well, I'm no stranger to troubleshooting mods

[distant hearth]

yea can also check the port is open , with a online scanner , ipvoid udp port checker to see if something is block connection

[slate stag]

hm. According to a port check tool, it's not actually open, even though I can see the server on the server browser and on battlemetrics. Gonna have to troubleshoot this further

[lunar sorrel]

I found it strange that it worked right away when I tested the server on the laptop in win11, didn't even change any settings. Just ran the server. Wouldn't let anyone outside the WAN in the server but LAN clients were fine, and it actually advertised the server in the game and on battlemetrics

[distant hearth]

that be an issue , shud show as open filtered , yea they show on battlemetrics even when not forwarded, i presume it allows outgoing connection to ping the eos system an tell it that its online

its incoming connections that get blocked when not forwarded

[lunar sorrel]

Sounds like a working firewall to me lol

[distant hearth]

im hopeless at networking , but thats my guess lmao

[slate stag]

Yeah, I know for a fact the port forwarding is good because it's the same ports from ASE and my ASE servers had no issues, so it's gonna be a firewall deal. That's usually what gives me problems with servers anyway

[distant hearth]

windows firewall is easy enough ,
To allow it through windows firewall, search windows defender firewall, open it,click advanced settings,click inbound rules on the left , then new rule on the right,select port then click next,select UDP ,then in the txt box type 7778 for our example, change the number to what ever number you defined with -port=xxxx,click next, we want to allow connection so just click next again, we will allow everything so click next again, now we can name the rule , i just call it what ever port i forwarded , i.e 7778, click finnish and that part is done.

if your running some sort weird a/v or malware program dont forget that has to be setup too, google that for what ever u use

[lunar sorrel]

I might suggest looking at your ISP, some providers will block ports like ATT and Comcast

[slate stag]

My server software automatically created windows firewall rules, so that should be good (although I'm going to double check them), and while I did set my av to allow the server programs, I'm gonna try running the servers with the av down completely to see if it's still somehow blocking it

ISP is Spectrum and I haven't had issues with them before for server hosting, so that shouldn't be causing an issue

[distant hearth]

i wudnt trust the software to have opened the ports , especially not when running an a/v aswell, likely to block it

[lunar sorrel]

Whole time I'm secretly hoping he has the same problem I do 😦

[distant hearth]

nah ures is odd, im hoping someone like stolen can help further with yours, ive only done them from home pcs .
my last thing to check wud be have task manager performance tab open at same time an see if the cpu or ram is weirdly spiking high an freezing the server program

[lunar sorrel]

Lol i admit I like watching my CPU usage... Something about graphs. Shrugs

[lunar sorrel]

CPU acts normal, say 10-20% CPU and walks up from 6GB slowly to 10GB just like the laptop does holds at about 10.4GB

[slate stag]

well. I actually managed to get in now, so apparently avast is still blocking something

[lunar sorrel]

Does Windows have an anti virus or is that defender?

[slate stag]

By default, Windows just has Windows Defender

[lunar sorrel]

Remember when they didn't? (I feel old now)

[slate stag]

I do not... lmao

to be fair the oldest Windows OS I've used was, I think, Vista? or maybe it was XP, but that would've been quite a long time ago

Vaguely remember having a big CRT monitor in my bedroom

[lunar sorrel]

Lol

I think the oldest windows I actually used was the first windows and before that, menudriven software called PCSHELL, I think was around the DOS era.

[distant hearth]

honestly i wudnt bother with any extra a/v especially not if its just a free version , windows defender does a fine job on its own now days

[lunar sorrel]

I too had a massive CRT that weighed 48 pounds.

[distant hearth]

i had old black n white tube tv lolz

[slate stag]

yeah, I know... and I don't make a habit of bad web practices (clicking suspicious links, etc), but it's mostly just been automatic for me to install Avast when I'm setting up a system. I do have a slightly premium version of it, primarily for the purpose of updating drivers automatically, but there's probably a better tool out there that would cause me less headaches

[lone temple]

Anyone know how to get transfers to Abb to work, we're having characters getting lost permanently and can't figure out why.

[distant hearth]

gonna need more info, nitrado or self host ? etc

[lone temple]

Not Nitrado. Not sure the provider. I'm trying yo help server owner

[lunar sorrel]

Would need to know who it is really

[topaz flume]

Ps5 users

I hear that their a new update

Plz tell me that this fix the crashes?

[lunar sorrel]

Depends on what you were crashing in

[distant hearth]

#patch-notes

[full crane]

Anyone having an insane amount of server crashes on ab with Nitrado? Like many times per day

[topaz flume]

Enter in single player

And between 25 or 30 seconds

My game crashes

And the game closed

[lunar sorrel]

What map? Did you use climbing picks?

[topaz flume]

All?

[lunar sorrel]

Honestly the climbing picks thing is hilarious

[topaz flume]

Like every map happens

If i build somethig crashes

If i tamed a creature crashes

[lunar sorrel]

Any mods running?

[topaz flume]

As far ik dino depot seen its have conflict with the original depot of ark

But i dont use it

And its still crashes

With or without mods

[lunar sorrel]

I don't actually use mods myself, are they installed and loading?

[topaz flume]

Looks all okay

Most are mods creatures

[lunar sorrel]

I would suggest slowly removing each of the mods until nothing is left, still have issues pick a map that you don't play on in single player and delete that save and start fresh. See what happens. Best suggestions I've got.

[dapper spear]

Hey with the release of the forth map did they extend the port ranges supported for server owners? and forwarding ports incrementally.
Server instance Game port (UDP) Peer port (UDP) Query port (UDP) RCON port (TCP)
Server instance 1 7777 7778 27015 27020
Server instance 2 7779 7780 27016 27021
Server instance 3 7781 7782 27017 27022
Server instance 4
(completely different ports) 9999 10000 37015 32330

Is there a 5 th now?

[jaunty vortex]

you can use whatever ports you like

[distant hearth]

those are old ase ports , asa only uses the one udp port for player connections

[topaz flume]

I play single player

I dont play online

[dapper spear]

so in I could use 7783- 7784 and 27018 ?

[lunar sorrel]

You have multiple maps for single player, the island, Scorched Earth, the center, Abberration. Mods can still be loaded single player (although I don't mess with them)

[olive talon]

There are a lot of issues with PS crashes atm, none of which are setup help. Best you can do for now is wait for updates.

[distant hearth]

dont need too , asa uses only the one game port set with -port=xxxx,
so u cud use
server 1 port 7778
server 2 port 7779
server 3 port 7780
server 4 port 7781

or9999 0r 8888 or 8000 aslong as the port isnt used by something else its fine

[topaz flume]

I can show the mods i have now

Oh wait i cant send pics 😊

[dapper spear]

So you are saying if i port forwarded 7777 and 7778 i could use 7777 for map one and 7778 for map two?

[topaz flume]

Okay

I hope all get fix

[distant hearth]

generally best to avoid 7777 though , it seems to cause some people issues, no idea why

[lunar sorrel]

I'm told if you whisper CountryBee 3 times you can Beetlejuice a bee to show up in your server.

[dapper spear]

interesting that explains why the bat file only calls for one port lol

[distant hearth]

yep lol , set it with -port=xxxx though, ?port=xxxx does not work on asa so the servers just default to 7777,7778,7779,7780 etc, generally not a good idea as they switch between ports depending which server instance is opened first

[lunar sorrel]

You know what? I'm gonna try that when I get home, force something not to 7777

[dapper spear]

@distant hearth What about QueryPort=00000 in the bat?

is this used?

[distant hearth]

worth a try i guess, but yours isnt a port issue so i dont see any correlation .
server doesnt need a port open to start an run

[lunar sorrel]

After that I need a live chicken and a bat wing....

[distant hearth]

not used in asa, its the old steam query port for listing servers on ase, heres a simple batch file that works for asa ,
Start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="willzlaptop" -port=7778 -winlivemaxplayers=10
if run from same place as the .exe will open the server, call it willzlaptop, set it to 10 players an run on port 7778

[dapper spear]

Ahhh so my old habits from ASE are useless. . . thanks for the help broski

[lunar sorrel]

Willz, champion of the Week!

[distant hearth]

no problem , funny thing you can actually run an asa server with just double clicking the .exe , will open a server , name it something random in the gus.ini an default to port 7777udp

[topaz flume]

Not gonna lie

I have 58 mods of creatures

[proud violet]

Anyone have any idea why my unofficial nitrado server isnt letting me transfer from the center to ab?

[topaz flume]

😅🤣

[lunar sorrel]

Lolol

[topaz flume]

And 59 now xD

[distant hearth]

do you have the cluster id an filters setup correctly? both need the same clusterid an then to alloww downloads an uploads

[proud violet]

yeah, it all says its correct. we had the island set up and just transfered to the center then switched the island server to a new Ab server and now we cant transfer to it

[lunar sorrel]

They also need to be very unique, start with 6 characters.

[jaunty vortex]

00000 is not a valid port. Range is 1-65536. But I’d stay well clear of the first 1000 as they are used for standard services.

[distant hearth]

do you see the ab server from the obelisk in your other server?

[proud violet]

no thats where the problem is. we can log straight into the ab server from the ark home page but it wont show up at the obelisk to transfer

[rich berry]

when i start my dedicated server with mods, i get an error querying mods and it stops. any help?

[distant hearth]

cluster id isnt set the same then ,
stop the server wait 5 mins, copy the id from the other server , paste it in the ab server , save it, wait 1 minute, restart server, shud be good

[proud violet]

okay, i will try that. thx!

[lunar sorrel]

I forgot to ask you, for multiple servers can they be ran off the same box, dont need another steam account to launch another server?

[distant hearth]

id run them from seperate stm cmd installs for multiple servers , but if u do want to from the steam app, then u wud just use multiple batch files pointing at the same .exe , the issue with this is all the server share the same ini , so it isnt as easy to change things from one map to another then

[lunar sorrel]

Well I can strip the server name and designate that in the cmdline args, port, server, map. Rest of ini should be just like ark official.

[outer quiver]

Ps5 stutter fixed right?

[lunar sorrel]

You mean that graphical spaz attack that happens every 4 steps?

[outer quiver]

Yes

There was an update just

[lunar sorrel]

Not sure. Haven't played in a few days lol

[outer quiver]

@lunar sorrel yh it seems fixed I play on official btw

[rich berry]

when i start my dedicated server with mods, i get an error querying mods message in the console and it stops. any help?

[lunar sorrel]

What's the whole message?

[rich berry]

ill try to get it on a screenshot

[long hemlock]

guys me and my friend want to play in ark non dedicated server but when someone of us ty to join it say timeout conection failed

[lunar sorrel]

You can't post links or images on this discord

You can in DM

[rich berry]

Error querying server mods: ApiError: Processing (server unreachable)

and then it shuts down right after

[long hemlock]

hi bro do you know how to join in non dedicated server

its say timeout conection failed

[rich berry]

it could be a normal error try to try again and again

[long hemlock]

bro i try like 10 times

[rich berry]

are you trying to join your friend

[long hemlock]

yes

[distant hearth]

non dedicated can be finicky at the best of times, some peoples internet blocks the connections, u all need to be on the same platform, i.e all steam or all ps5, try a few times, if it wont work have someone else try host

[long hemlock]

we on epic

we try

[distant hearth]

even worse there notorious for being awful

[long hemlock]

oj i will try tnx

[distant hearth]

see here

[distant hearth]

server has a connection to the internet? seems like its unable to connect to download the mods, works fine without mods?

[rich berry]

yeah without the mods its fine

[distant hearth]

server is running latest version ?

[rich berry]

updated it too before doing this

can i manually install them into the server

[distant hearth]

ark version 52.19 check it says this in the server window

[rich berry]

yes 52.19

i think i fixed it myself

i made a ShooterGame/Mods folder and put them all manually in there

[distant hearth]

can u copy the txt from start batch file an post it here ? xxxx anything u dont want to share, i have seen them do that once before when it wasnt set right

[distant hearth]

never tried that way but if it works then thats a plus lolz

[rich berry]

"Aberration_WP" "-port=7777" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=2 "-mods=928793,927090,929868,929110,928548,929578" "-clusterid=123" "-ClusterDirOverride=C:\Users\lazym\OneDrive\Pulpit\ARK SERWER\InstalledServers\ClusterData" -ServerPlatform=ALL -log -servergamelog

well it started

im going to test it

[distant hearth]

oh your using some sort of server manager i guess

[rich berry]

yes

[long hemlock]

bri we try and its say joining failed conection timeout

[distant hearth]

yea no idea then , they cause weirdness to happen

[rich berry]

ill test it and ill probably figure it out myself, thanks for the help

[distant hearth]

i dont understand why some commands are wrapped in quotations an some are not, also -serverplatform=all not needed they default to it , server gamelog and log arent really needed

[rich berry]

lol yeah its automatic probably

i didnt set them they do it themselves depending on what i change in the gui

[long hemlock]

is the dedicated servers pay?

[rich berry]

you can make them for free provided your pc has decent ram

[long hemlock]

i have 3tb

[rich berry]

ram not disk space

[long hemlock]

oh i have this

[rich berry]

you also need to port forward your ip adress so it shows up in server list

[long hemlock]

but can my friend join in the server

[rich berry]

yes if you port forward it

[long hemlock]

becuse we cant join each other in non dedicated

idk why

we try for so much time

[rich berry]

maybe you try hosting

instead of your friend

[long hemlock]

i will

try

[rich berry]

steam should be more stable

[long hemlock]

i know

but idk why i buy it from epic

[rich berry]

worst case youll have to buy it on steam

or host a dedicated server

[long hemlock]

i can join some non dedicated servers but not all

[runic cypress]

hello I don't know if I'm in the right place for a violation of the rules regarding structural spam outside their base. I am installed on the official PVE server number 5836 my base is installed 31.3/50.4 we would like to connect to the river to have the water connection the spam of the pillar of the hell kitchen tribe + the tribe of cherry. Would it be possible for an admin to intervene for pillar spam?

[rich berry]

it probably has something to do with crossplay

[distant hearth]

wrong place, u might notice ure in #unofficial-setup-help the important part here, is unofficial

[long hemlock]

we both on epic

[frail heron]

I have managed to setup the cluster, but for some reason I cannot download the character. I always get only the screen to create a new player. what am I missing? I got it working with server manager, but I need to set it up via steam cmd.

[long hemlock]

can someone say me how to do dedcated server

[rich berry]

try to join each other with hamachi enabled

do you know what hamachi is

[distant hearth]

do u see the the other server when trying transfer ?

[long hemlock]

no

[runic cypress]

In which server ?

[rich berry]

hamachi is basically like it connects you to one place and maybe it'll work then because it will recognize you as if you are playing locally

in one place

[long hemlock]

how to turn it on

[rich berry]

ill give you the link

[long hemlock]

ok

[rich berry]

dms

[runic cypress]

Thx

[frail heron]

yes I can see them and I can transfer. I can just not download the character. The shared cluster folder is responding (meaning, it has created a folder with the name of the clusterid). I think the problem is that the server just cannot download the character.

[distant hearth]

your using a shared cluster folder ? its set the same for both servers if u have two seperate .exe installs .
other than that check these filters in gus.ini on both servers

PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False

PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False```

alot people miss that notribute downlads must be set false or it blocks all downloads

[frail heron]

thanks. I totally missed that one. I'll give it a try.

[frail heron]

I just changed that, but it still don't work. The strange thing is, that I also cannot download anything that is uploaded in ARK Data

[distant hearth]

gonna need more info on how the servers are setup, there on the same machine ? that sort thing?

if ure using batch files, copy paste the txt from them here , use xxxx for any info u dont want to share

[frail heron]

this is the startup command:
start ShooterGameServer.exe Ragnarok -listen -SessionName="Pyro Ragnarok" -Port=7777 -QueryPort=27015 -NoTransferFromFiltering -ClusterId=Pyrocluster1 -ClusterDirOverride="C:\asmdata\ARK-new\Shared-Files"

I am using steam cmd, while I copied the whole steam cmd over for every server. I'm using a symbolic link for the whole Content folder, which works fine as these are only the map data and the mods. In each copy of steam cmd I have the startup batch file with a different map and session name (and different port addresses). The clusterDirOverride seems to work fine, as I can find a folder named "Pyrocluster1" in the shared-files directory.

[hoary bane]

has anybody found any settings related to the gene scanner and creature tracker levels?

[distant hearth]

using some sort server manager programme i presume ? as that wudnt work as an ase batch file ,
when transfering u shud see the .arkprofile go into the shared clusterfolder , only reason to use sym links wud be if the servers arent on the same machine

[distant hearth]

nothing that anyone knows yet, likely not possible atm

[frail heron]

i had it running on server manager, but it's too buggy, so we want to set it up natively without this tool. I have set up steamcmd from scratch and created all servers manually. Symlinks are used to prevent copying large Gigabytes of files over and over for 12 maps if they will all be the same and don't change 🙂

[distant hearth]

if done manually then your batch files shud look more like this
start ShooterGameServer.exe Ragnarok?listen?SessionName="Pyro Ragnarok"?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015 -ClusterId="Pyrocluster1" -ClusterDirOverride="C:\asmdata\ARK-new\Shared-Files"
no transfer from filtering is not really needed if u have a unique cluster id

[frail heron]

thanks. I just got a similar idea, because it seems the start procedure needs some parameters separated by ? and some by hyphen. Your suggestion just did the trick 🙂 Thanks for the help.

[distant hearth]

the servers use two types of command ,
?command?command , not seperated then after ?commands comes the -command -command , - commands need the space between them and come after ?commands

[frail heron]

thanks. that was my problem, that I did not knew that. now I'm happy.

[distant hearth]

great , glad u got it sorted

[slate stag]

question related to command lines - if I have settings already defined in Game.ini or GUS.ini, is there any reason they'd need to also be in the command line? for reference, this is the command line that Beacon generated:

"TheIsland_WP?listen?AllowAnyoneBabyImprintCuddle=False?AllowFlyerCarryPvE=True?AllowFlyingStaminaRecovery=True?AllowHitMarkers=True?AllowMultipleAttachedC4=True?AllowRaidDinoFeeding=True?AutoDestroyDecayedDinos=False?AutoDestroyOldStructuresMultiplier=1?ClampItemSpoilingTimes=True?ClampItemStats=False?DisableImprintDinoBuff=False?FastDecayUnsnappedCoreStructures=False?ForceAllStructureLocking=False?IgnoreLimitMaxStructuresInRangeTypeFlag=True?MaxPersonalTamedDinos=10000?MaxTamedDinos=10000?MinimumDinoReuploadInterval=60?NonPermanentDiseases=True?OnlyAutoDestroyCoreStructures=False?OnlyDecayUnsnappedCoreStructures=False?OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6?OverrideStructurePlatformPrevention=True?OxygenSwimSpeedStatMultiplier=5?PersonalTamedDinosSaddleStructureCost=1?PreventOfflinePvP=True?PreventOfflinePvPInterval=300?PreventTribeAlliances=False?PvEDinoDecayPeriodMultiplier=1?PvPDinoDecay=False?PvPStructureDecay=False?ServerCrosshair=True?ShowFloatingDamageText=True?TheMaxStructuresInRange=50000?TribeLogDestroyedEnemyStructures=True" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=10 -NoBattlEye -noundermeshchecking

if all or most of that is already defined in an ini file, is there any reason it actually needs to be in the command line?

[distant hearth]

only reason to have them in comand line is if you run multiple servers from one .exe and want differnt settings for each map

otherwise most can just be set in the ini files

[slate stag]

okay cool, because the program i use automatically manages the command line, and having to have that long-ass command line was a pita lmao

[distant hearth]

?listen command is also not needed or used in asa servers, luckily the server will just ignore commands it doesnt use aslong as the format is correct

alot of the false commands in that are also not needed as server defaults to the few i read through from it

[slate stag]

Yeah, I didn't write out all of that myself, it's just what Beacon generated from my configuration

[distant hearth]

nm i read more an some wud be needed, if there not set in ini

[slate stag]

I thought it seemed unnecessary lol - I do believe all of it is in the ini files

[distant hearth]

oh never use beacon for command line on self host servers unless done from the same .exe, its just for setting up ini files

that command line isnt even setting a port number

[slate stag]

Good to know - I appreciate it, I'm having to learn some new things since the old Ark Server Manager automated a lot of it where I never had to mess with it

The full command line on my server has the port number, I just pasted the part that Beacon generated, which doesn't include port and cluster info

[analog oracle]

Any server owners out there hearing reports of loot quality being really poor in aberration? Even with SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier working perfectly on other maps with the same value

[neon sky]

@proven prawn @low haven when will club ark be fixed???

[neon sky]

Yes we had to change settings again in file

[analog oracle]

What is your value atm?

We're changing it constantly to see at which point loot starts to look normal

Right now we're at 0.6

And if i may ask, what were the reports about?

Like, poor loot in what capacity? Saddles? Armors? Tools/Weapons?

In our case, saddles are perfectly ok, ascendant & mastercraft are very easy to find, but armor/tools/weapons are always primitive and ramshackle

[lapis pine]

Has anyone successfully transferred their character from center or island to aberration?

We can transfer out of abberation to the cluster but lose characters transferring in

[oak yarrow]

I’m having the same issue. ^

[distant hearth]

you both need to provide more info, how are the servers setup , self host, nitrado, asa or ase, if self host what method , etc etc ,
cant really help with just transfers dont work

[lapis pine]

Nitrado

Ark ascended. Center and island to aberration, we can come off abb but we lose our characters going back to aberration

We get stuck on the spawn selection screen and when we hit download survivor it gets hung up and we lose character
We have tried from transmitters as well as Obelisks.
When transferring out of abb, it’s fine. It works. We do it from drops

[keen monolith]

What’s the code for the imprint, my imprinted Dino’s stats go up way to my much, and I don’t know which code to change

[distant hearth]

so transferring into ab causes the problem everytime ? if so check theese settings on the ab map ,

PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False```
also worth checking if item trasfers work , if they dont, suspect the top line i just posted

[heavy juniper]

Heya How can i disable Flyers on aberration?
bForceCanRideFliers=false also disables zeppelins, so thats not cool
also wanting the foreign dinos enabled! so thats not an option either

[lapis pine]

Just checked, those are all correct like you wrote

[distant hearth]

you would have to disable each flying dino download onto the map seperately

[distant hearth]

do item downloads work ?

[lapis pine]

We went naked. We have to try again to test that.

We can transfer out with our characters. Just not in

[distant hearth]

yes you said , that makes me think the transfer settings are not set correctly in the gus.ini

but youre telling me there fine , so its a weird issue, just trying figure out if u issue or nitrado issue

[zinc bloom]

Am on 1 multiplier getting apprentice /mastercraft/purple saddles all around

[lapis pine]

Yea we can transfer in, we get to the region select menu on abb. We select our spawn location and hit download. It gets stuck on “downloading” and just sits there till we have yo back to the main menu. In which we have no character to download and upload. Just character create screen and no options in the character download cloud

[distant hearth]

hers an example to disable argy downloads , goes in game ini , you wud have do it for every flying dino ,
PreventTransferForClassNames="Argent_Character_BP_C"

[analog oracle]

What about armor and weapons?

[zinc bloom]

Got purple chitin stuff so far

[heavy juniper]

thank you very much!

[distant hearth]

yes i understand your problem, its not normal, something is wrong, u need to check the server gus.ini file for the lines i said and also test if item an dino transfers work. or you can just contact nitrado support an hope an prey they fix it for you

[heavy juniper]

so you how it behaves with said dinos in cyopods and possible modded scs balls? or would i have too look into that seperatly?

[distant hearth]

ughh i dont know about scs , as that might over ride the setting, u wud have to test it, try it with downloading an argy through ob, then with pod, then with scs ball, sry i just havent tested it .
make sure its put under the correct header in game ini ,
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forgot to say that before

[heavy juniper]

thats alright! thank you for helping out!

[distant hearth]

np hope it works for you, i cant think of any other way now zepplin added as a flyer

[heavy juniper]

yea they kinda made it far to complicated for server owners in that matter now XD

[distant hearth]

yea they dont care much about unofficial aslong as there officials work , were just left to , test things an see if it works or not

[jaunty vortex]

Bruno runs a good discord for SCS. join it and ask 🙂

[distant hearth]

why the zeppelin is classed as a flyer beyond me , surely they cud made it a special class , item or something

its a flying raft make it a raft lolz

[heavy juniper]

ya already in it, gonna be my next step to look and ask there 😄

[lapis pine]

Thanks for your help! I’m sure it’s a Nitrado thing cause we triple checked the settings. Everything is good as far as those settings. So everything works leaving abb, nothing coming back

[distant hearth]

np , i gues su got suffer shitrado support then, good luck 🙂

[lapis pine]

Haha. All good. We disabled cluster for now on abb 🙂

[heavy juniper]

now to solve the mystery - works like a charm, also hinders deploymend for cryopods and modded scs balls 👍

[distant hearth]

you good to find the other codes right? just replace argentavis part with the other dino codes add each to a sperate line 🙂

ive never heard of that host provider, supposed be only nitrado for asa , but anyway if u scroll up you will the see the methods i went through to check whats happening with the other user an same issue

[heavy juniper]

yep all done and tested 😄

[lapis pine]

Yea Nitrado is not the only host anymore

[distant hearth]

there supposed be , there still contracted to only nitrado for another couple years , unless those providers are owned by nitrado then they cud take them down at any time

other than self host where u rent dedi machine or own the machine an set it up yourself

[olive talon]

So far the only 2 hosters (renting) that i know of for ASA are Nitrado, and Apex, which is owned by Nitrado.

[native wave]

any other where they setup the server for you....run the risk of getting taken down at any point

[lapis pine]

I assume most are probably privately ran.

[native wave]

server providers that give you the machine and allow you to setup the software yourself are in the clear, as that is considered "self-hosting"

[distant hearth]

the host providers that set it up an give u a ui to change ini files are kinda risking it big time

[main apex]

I’m having an issue with lagging but only when riding Dinos. I can go into fly mode zip across the map and nothing happens. Mount a Dino and lag. Any suggestions to rein that in?

[neon sky]

We are set to 1.5

[stiff snow]

how do i get access to my "router" for the self server setup

[distant hearth]

google your router model an see how ,

[stiff snow]

ok

[lone temple]

It's Qonzer

[lunar sorrel]

I want my flying carpet now...

I can show you the world.... Shining shimmering splendor...

[steady kettle]

500+ ping on my Aberration server. Yall experiencing the same thing?

[last hornet]

70

[inner adder]

hey, on ASE i cant get mods to load. I have them in my GUS and start.bat

[bold mason]

Anyone had any issues with an xbox player keeps getting put in "Tribe of playername" even after joining another tribe?

he cleared his xbox game cache and had to create a new character O.o

[lunar sorrel]

Is the server in your LAN or is it hosted on the web by a provider?

[steady kettle]

Nitrado

[lunar sorrel]

Probably Nitrado and it's crap network, I honestly dont know what they have for connections but I dont really care for the company at all.

[steady kettle]

It's just Aberration. I was just wondering if yalls Ab servers were high ping as well

Those of you using Nitrado

[dusky thistle]

Mine hovers around 60-80 most of the time

[steady kettle]

How many users

[lunar sorrel]

@distant hearth So... it was the ports, I have to designate the ports and forward them, working absolutely fine rn got The Island, The Center, Scorched Earth and Aberration running on a cluster 😄

@distant hearth But it takes so much RAM lol, I need more now 😦

[jaunty vortex]

That’s about 40-50GB worth of RAM for those servers. If your PC has 64GB of RAM it will be ok.

[lunar cloud]

if your CPU and disk I/O is adequate you can allocate some swap memory. I run 4 maps on 32GB mini pc without any issue and its runs very well.

[frail ferry]

How can I stop this delayed spawn dupe glitch on servers? Anyone got a fix

Transferring and emptying, then all reappears in inventory again after few seconds or so

[jaunty vortex]

And if some servers are running with no players then having Windows swap them out to disk is not a problem.

Or indeed shut them down until needed.

[shadow tapir]

Did you get answer to this?

[hearty oxide]

nah

[distant hearth]

there is no known option, likey just isnt one

[shadow tapir]

Booooo that sucks

[wind adder]

Guys, I have a problem with my dedicated server running Aberration ascended map:
GUS.ini - ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=0.5 (around 45min), StructurePreventResourceRadiusMultiplier=1
Game.ini - ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=1, ResourceNoReplenishRadiusStructures=1.
I have changed the values, deleted game.ini variables keeping gus.ini variables and in the opposite way and still the resources respawn okay 1 or 2 times and then no more for an extra long period, the last time took 1 real day and now they are not coming back after 1.5 days. this happen inside my base, I did check for pieces of structures around, the terrain is big enough to hold a good amount of resources. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

[fleet flare]

im trying to turn on the fear evolved event in single player, im using -activeevent=FearEvolved in launch options but its not working. any suggestions

[jaunty vortex]

Presumably on ASE?

[turbid aspen]

Anyone having issues sending "broadcast" commands via RCON? (ASA)

[visual skiff]

Hello there !!
I've tweaked mating interval & mating speed from .ini files
And now I can't ride my dino's :(

Idk why

[lapis pine]

On aberration?

[visual skiff]

Nevermind I may have find out
I had (somehow) disabledinoriding to true, I don't remember setting that to true

[dapper spear]

This update took down my abb Server. . . All the others still work. . .

[tough oracle]

Can I remove the word filter

[olive talon]

No

[tough oracle]

I can’t type the word ammo

It thinks it’s bad

[slate bridge]

can we increase the weight on the sir 5rm8?

[stiff bloom]

guys can someone help me? for some reason everytime i try to host a dedicated ark survival evolved server for some reason it just kicks me out of ark and opens up a command prompt, i was told to wait till it says "server has started" but when that happened the server wasn't showing for me or my friend (for reference im on PC playing ARK on steam, my friend is on PS aka playstation)

[distant hearth]

no

[distant hearth]

evolved is not crossplay , only ark ascended is

[stiff bloom]

aw really?

well does steam ARK evolved have splitscreen?

[distant hearth]

i dont know sry

[stiff bloom]

oh ok

[bold mason]

Anyone have any idea why an xbox player on a crossplay serverwould be loosing his character on aberration when he logs out? my pc players have not had this issue, yesterday i had to force him into his tribe twice, the forst time i watched him relog and he was immediately returned to the previous tribe when he reconnected. He cleared his xbox game cache and he was forced to make anew character again.

[bleak ivy]

I think it is, probably only works with controllers tho

[stiff bloom]

i know, most splitscreens only work with controllers anyways -_- im asking does ark survival evolved even has splitscreen

[bleak ivy]

I think it was added to all platforms. but I can only say console definitely has it.

I'm pretty sure I had seen it before but I played both versions. so could just be bad memory

[stiff bloom]

alright

[frail heron]

We want to connect some ASE maps from GPortal with a dedicated server. I could start the map on the dedicated server and have added the same clusterId as we have on GPortal. But when we try to travel from map to map, we only get the option to create a new player after we arrive on the other map. Is there something special that I need to set up, maybe on the gPortal side? When we have all maps on the dedicated server, travelling works fine. Just to travel from dedicated to gPortal (or back) is not working, even when we can see the other maps and travel to them.

[distant hearth]

you would need to contact g portal, i highly doubt they will let you do this , the cluster needs acess to a shared folder to work

[frail heron]

that's bad news 😦 but thanks for the help

[lunar sorrel]

Oh shit, I gotta fix that...

-clusterdiroverride=path

[onyx gale]

Random question.

Say I have PvP maps with important complex structures on it like an admin shop, an arena, a community center with starter kits etc etc. And the community requests a wipe.

Could I theoretically FTP into my server, wipe out all of the tribe and character data with the exception of the admin tribe, and effectively have wiped a map without wiping admin structures? Or is that idea nonsense?

[lunar sorrel]

Ive never heard of a way of doing that considering the files are in the Saved directory\

[onyx gale]

Gotcha, makes sense. Perhaps a mod would be the answer for that scenario

A mod that gives a list of all tribes, then allows structures and dinos to be deleted selectively. Only these tribes or all tribes but these - sort of thing

[lunar sorrel]

Probably hasn't been made yet lol

I do like the idea of it though

Yeah. Gonna need more RAM, I should just populate all the RAM slots

[jaunty vortex]

What’s your specs and what do you need?

[vital perch]

If you put up a flat mod map for those structures you can avoid this issue. I use darks its got a premade arena and obilisk for easy transfer

[onyx gale]

Interesting. So you build the structure there and then you can place it again later?

[vital perch]

You build it there and you wont have to wipe it since its a map without resource and anyone can join it

[frigid parcel]

Hey is there anyway to disable the cryofridge requirement to deploy a cryopod

[flint oasis]

Is there a way to allow for more than 4 linked boxes in a tribe via ini files? Also, the bed timer, is there a setting for it? I tried a few and its like the nitrado server is ignoring my ini files for settings.

[flint oasis]

Are you private server or nitrado?

[frigid parcel]

Private

[flint oasis]

Via single player or runningyour personal server?

[frigid parcel]

Personal server

[flint oasis]

Let me look at mine where it is 🙂

[flint oasis]

GameUserSettings INI

[flint oasis]

DisableCryopodFridgeRequirement=true
DisableCryopodEnemyCheck=true

[frigid parcel]

Thank you so much really appreciate it/

[flint oasis]

No problem 🙂

[last hornet]

Yes in your settings, on sp I’m not too sure

[neon gorge]

Guys, are your servers also lagging and do ppl dc like every 2 minutes?

[languid jewel]

Hey all I'm trying to get my server to pve but for some reason it doesn't switch from pvp to pve

[nova pumice]

hi all asa question is there a way for me to set up the server when a tribe is offline that the turrets do 2x ore damge ? i dont wnana add orp just wnana make it so turrets do more damge

[oak geode]

Hey I'm looking for breeding rates that let babies be grown and imprinted in only a few hours if anyone can help

[stray axle]

mine is also crashing a LOT with the new update. i also dont know why notting els is new.

[heavy jay]

anyone got a command that helps with the flickering grass and trees

[neon gorge]

What mods you have there? I tryed some other servers and they seem to run ok. Not sure why ours is so bad 😦

[last moon]

Does Aberration ASA allow flyers and rexes now? I am able to throw them out and fly/ride them now. I don't know of a setting that I change to allow them.

[stray axle]

i have like more then 15 mods but notting new sinds 1 day ago and jesterday everything was fine.

[worthy elk]

Looking to set up a cross play server that allows for PS5 Xbox and PC, any suggestions for affordable servers?

[olive talon]

Nitrado (and Apex, also Nitrado owned) is the only rentable host. You can rent hardware from other places for a dedicated though.

[worthy elk]

Pain

They’re so expensive lmao

[peak sapphire]

Disable foreign dino download

[carmine cradle]

is the server update out for unofficial yet?

[distant hearth]

yes

[jaunty galleon]

I just got the update for my self hosted server but rock drake gliding doesn't seem to be fixed

[last moon]

Thanks, that did it.

[austere rune]

Does anyone know what the setting is to allow using all dinos on Aberration?

[wintry sail]

Same here. I've tried everything. I give up

[distant hearth]

CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True, in gus.ini under [serversettings]
notrado has a button for it in there crossa ark bit iirc

[austere rune]

Cool thank you!

[bleak ivy]

you may also need to allow cave flyers. not sure on that

[distant hearth]

nah, it dont count as a cave, presume becuase otherwise pvp wud have the cave damage multipliers on permenantly

[bleak ivy]

is cave damage innate or something they need to add?

[distant hearth]

the caves inside of ab are caves afaik yes, so thats good point if they wanted to fly in the actual artifact caves

[lunar sorrel]

@distant hearthCommandline: "Aberration_WP?SessionName=Wolfcat's ARK Adventures @ Aberration" -port=7778 -clusterid=therecanbeonlyone -Clusterdiroverride=C:\ArkCluster
that last line does it need the extra \

and now I gotta change that id.

[distant hearth]

oops haha, dont you run your servers all off one .exe? or you running it from seperate ones?

[lunar sorrel]

seperate ones like you said I should 🙂

also, id like to urun the club, whats the mapname for that?

[jaunty galleon]

BobsMissions_WP

That's what i use for mine

[distant hearth]

i dont use the extra backslash, doubt it wud matter though, might just make itself another flder in that folder is all,
BobsMissions_WP iirc

lemme check that

[wind crane]

does anyone have an .ini file for a 50x server that i can use for my single player game?

[lunar sorrel]

Heard

50? jesus. I was gonna run mine at 5x.

[jaunty galleon]

the backslash is fine i'm using that for my setup

[wind crane]

its for primal chaos, i think 5x would be a lil too low

[lunar sorrel]

Im sorry I dont know what that is, im sure if i experienced it id know more lol

"3 wood? I NEED TO BUILD A WALL D@MMIT!"

[bleak ivy]

if you are on ASA, I think you can only go to a max of 10x even with changing the ini (only tested with harvesting I think) breeding should still be more.
most likely its just harvesting that is locked, it tends to be the worst setting in terms of lag.

[lunar sorrel]

I wanted to change the decay timer on items in ASE, So they'd stay longer, structures, bags... yknow...

I didnt realize that'd work the same way with poop.

so theres.... everywhere.

super long decay timer.

[jaunty galleon]

It might be worth downloading beacon for ark, theres alot of configs that makes it very easy to setup but some features are locked behind a paywall

[lunar sorrel]

w1llz123 is my expert cmdline guy.

[distant hearth]

iirc the harvesting stuff is not in the free version, not 100% sure on that though as have paid

[main halo]

We do this on our server and also increase number for poop interval - things pool less often but since it sticks around, there's still plenty to collect for composting.

[distant hearth]

i still use beacon for ini configs, its worth every penny to me

[muted fox]

how to get mini ui on the right that shows you controls

[distant hearth]

i used do it all manually an its a lot of typing, that is easy to make typo

[jaunty galleon]

Idk where i'd be without beacon tbh so many things would be hell to manually setup.. lol

[lunar sorrel]

@main haloSo that part was fine, but the timer was super long. Like months. We had this silo with the fat pigs, the ones that shit often... on official it was great, on what I did... not so much.

[bleak ivy]

I only use beacon for breeding and drops both are free.

[main halo]

Offhand I think we have 10X spoil and 1.75 for poop interval.

[bleak ivy]

crafting costs, creature adjustments, creature spawns, engram control, harvest rates, and levels/XP. are the paid tabs.

breeding, day/night, decay/spoil, difficulty, general settings, item stat limits, drops, stack sizes, and stat multipliers are the free tabs.

[distant hearth]

good to know, i never remember

[bleak ivy]

breeding, day/night, decay/spoil, difficulty, general settings, item stat limits, drops, stack sizes, and stat multipliers are free.

creature spawns and levels/XP are the only 2 paid ones I'd actually want lol. levels are still capped in ASA tho so it doesn't matter yet.

[lunar sorrel]

I remember someone saying they use a Windows Server version who was that?

[distant hearth]

theres a few that do, has be server version 2019 or newer an i think theres an extra step to be done with some certifcates or sum shit to make it work, you wud have google that part

[lunar sorrel]

pretty sure there's a RAM limit to the win10/11 versions even at PRO

[distant hearth]

The maximum amount of RAM that can be used with Windows 10 Pro is 2 TB for the 64-bit version

good luck exceeding that

Windows 10 Home: 128 GB for the 64-bit version

[lunar sorrel]

Is that a challenge sir? 😄

[distant hearth]

id just get a key for pro as u ned the two cpu thing anyway right? i got mine off cd keys or summit for like £8 , its updated itself to win 11 recently though grrr . i forgot an shud of just stopped it doing updates , but am slowlying get used to 11

[lunar sorrel]

id pay 8bux for a win10pro key for s ure 😄

[distant hearth]

i dunno the conversion tae, prob like 10$ in ure money

for a server prob get away with just unlicensed anyway tbh

[lunar sorrel]

I dont know where you get em, the last time I tried to buy a cdkey online it was a scam

Also not sure whats making The Island balloon up from 8GB to 10GB with only 2 players

[distant hearth]

it'll do that mor eplayers more ram useage

[lunar sorrel]

Wildcard is in cahoots with the BIG RAM lobby.

[distant hearth]

gamers outlet is where got mine, used them quite a few times , no issues , just search for a retail version not an oem one

[bleak ivy]

in my experience. if you keep the server running for a few days it'll go way down. my ab server is at 8.9GB ram right now but before I restarted it to update, it was only 3.6GB.
thats with one person regularly playing and my alt rarely playing (my alt just renders things when I need it to, and test things lol)

[lunar sorrel]

Well I gave them admin obviously so they have some... Uh... Large bases. I also allowed more structures in the area so that might have added to it

[bleak ivy]

yeah, larger bases is gonna keep that way up.

[lunar sorrel]

So... 2tb sounds like a normal ark cluster lolol

[bleak ivy]

This is for unofficial settings/setup help. go to #pvp-discussion

[river talon]

Sry

[robust nymph]

Is there a giveimprint command that also gives the claim buff?

If we give imprints, when a player rides, it doesn't show the fistbump

[visual skiff]

I have an AB map running, and I want to add maybe Scorched Earth as Cluster (ab wasnt installed as cluster)
Is it possible to add ab as cluster and add scroched too ?
Or will it wipe ab stuff ?

[marsh elm]

Tried turning on pvp structure decay on my pve server to fix the decay timers resetting at daily restart it didn’t work anyone else having this problem ?

[robust nymph]

Ark busted the decay when they turned it off on official for a but and then forgot to turn it on for unofficial. There hasn't been much word on a fix

[marsh elm]

So I’m not going crazy just waiting on a fix ? 🤣

Thanks

[lunar cloud]

it can run off the same install with a separate bat file and separate port, just have to set alt save directories in the bat file so it has its own save folder, then add cluster id and cluster folder as per wiki page instructions and you're good

[visual skiff]

alright ill try ty :D

[jaunty vortex]

I'd recommend making a separate install and just make a cluster folder that's shared.

[verbal cove]

Hi, got a problem on my scorched map, every pit doesn't have any water, you can see water at spyglass when you are far but when you go on the pit, water is gone.
Anyone with a solution please?

[hardy pelican]

is anyone elses ab rockwell boss terminal not interactable

no one on my server can open it

[distant hearth]

known issue wc got fix it

[arctic mica]

Is the ingame ping counter incorrect? If I ping my server directly I get 18ms and if I do the command statfps ingame it shows an average ping of about 20-30ms, but the pause menu ping shows about 100+

[distant hearth]

prob not accurate, you see them crazy high sometimes yet no lag in game, u wud be constant rubberbanding on high ping

[jaunty vortex]

I think it’s ping from your server to whatever created the server list in game. Because I host my own server and there’s no way it’s 80ms to transit 3-4 feet under my desk.

[distant hearth]

prob coz it has ping eos first or summit?

not really sure how that works tbh