unofficial-setup-help

[distant hearth]

i guess you cud calculate the maximum amount point a player can get an put into one stat ,then adjust multipliers to cap it that way, but i dont think thats what your wanting to do an wudnt make for a good playing experience imho

[cinder jolt]

I think it was something with max points into a certain stat. Is there a command/config for that?

[jaunty vortex]

I'm looking in beacon, I don't see anything

You can change the multiplier per level

but I don't see anything to limit you

[distant hearth]

none that i know of , but theres so many i forget half them tbh, i just used search stat on the wiki page an cudnt find anything relating to capping a players stats , i dont ever remeber it being possible either

[cinder jolt]

Maybe it's a mod then I'll keep looking. I know for 100% fact I capped movement speed at 180% before.

It just doesn't let you put points in once you hit it

[distant hearth]

oh a mod if there is one wud be able to do it

[cinder jolt]

I hate ASA man ruins the search engine.

[distant hearth]

google has failed me, cant even find an ase mod to do what you want , sry and hopefully you figure something out

[cinder jolt]

thank you for looking around man I really appreciate it. Setting up a whole new cluster and getting everything right before advertising 😛

Lots to do

[worn kraken]

What are everyone's favorite discord bots for helping run their community discord? No links, just a name. Anything that would help moderate rogue server ads or other bad behavior. Thanks

[jaunty vortex]

Mee6 is one

[celest halo]

automod

[dreamy kelp]

Do anyone can doing the instantly candy so I can taming somes first dinos and horses because I'm playing solo mod and since the first map was uploaded they is not anyone creatings instantly candy so It be a little bit easier to players disables like and any many others who might not wanting creatings hate or discomfort with anyones I'm the same way I dont want hate either creating discomfort but I'm having many issues like there is less free mods like on ark first and the admin mode is not at all functioning for me on my steam playing so I cannot defending myself well since I'm getting killed either straight loging on or while I'm recoltings what I needing to doing my armors to be less vulnerable I'm playing on the first map the second map and third map #ark-survival-ascendedASAMODSHELPS

[haughty cairn]

Anyone know if it's possible to block specific items being transfered, without banning all transfers?

[distant hearth]

none that i know of ini configs, possibly theres mods that do it but again not heard of one,
what are you trying to block ?

[haughty cairn]

Eggs from a mod we have (Cyber structures). It was allowing non Ab dinos on Ab, It's all good I just blocked the dinos from being tamed so they still hatch, just can't be tamed/claimed

[distant hearth]

the mod itself might have settings to block it also , not one im familar with tbh

[haughty cairn]

It's basically S+, and it doesn't

[celest halo]

that would all depend on if this works for ASA PreventTransferForClassNames and items example shows dino lol

[lethal coral]

Anyone else having issues with Unofficial Aberration ASA servers? Outs crashes constantly. Just started about a hour a go

[distant hearth]

not really sure how it works but i suspect the mod wud over ride that if they were in a soul ball, prob wudnt work for cryos either tbh .

[flint oasis]

Hello! I am still trying to figure out why we have no loot crates in dungeons nor on the surface in aber 😦 anyone else have this issue? Should I turn on the tick skeletal thingy?

[celest halo]

eggs dont go in a soul balls

[distant hearth]

wud have to just disable each dino on the server you didnt want them on, this i think prevents them being thrown out of cryo

[distant hearth]

yea its late i need zzz haha , dam good point that 🙂

[lethal coral]

the drops on surface dont display the beam of light properly. i thought we didnt have any but they only are visible if youre there when they drop.

[flint oasis]

Thats annoying lol so we probably have loot crates just cant see them? O.o

[lethal coral]

you can still see them but they wont have the beam coming off of them. thats been my experience

[flint oasis]

Well shit lol I will keep looking and see if I can see them. Is this the same for the dungeons? Or is that just broken?

[lethal coral]

I havent been in any caves yet, so I am unsure. Our server seems to enjoy crashing a lot so I havent been on much 😛

[flint oasis]

Sorry to hear that. Nitrado or Your own server pc?

[lethal coral]

Nitrado. Ive asked around but theres no other reports. so idk.

[flint oasis]

Hmm I would remove your save file via Filezilla or whatever you use (make sure to snag the config file too) And reinstall. I had to do that with another server I run there. I hope y'all fix it 🙂

[lethal coral]

Thanks! Ill check it out. Happy hunting!

[flint oasis]

Thanks! Good luck!

[untold mason]

hello, question about my ded serv setup - i am gettting a TON of low lvl dinos and very very few higher level dinos - i have only ever seen 1 dino at level 210 and that was the first and only dino over lvl 189 i have seen all week. i litterally have hundreds of junk below lvl30 even in the "hard" areas... thoughts?

[distant hearth]

#1 150 max level is default , using higher max level gives a much broader range for the rng to choose from

#2 cannon maps i.e island,scorched earth, abberation have naturally a built in rng preference for the mid to lower levels

#3 you can do a load of coding in the ini an change the minimum spawn lvls for each and every dino and spawn (not easy and be a nightmare i think)

#4 theres a great mod called "custom dino levels" this has many configurable options to increase the % of higher levels dino that spawn , if you go this route , read through the documentation for it and set how u want (personally have the rag type dino levels setting as that suits me )

oh #5 i forgot , it doesnt really care about "harder areas " the dino spawns are rng

[untold mason]

thanks

[humble robin]

where can I get help with single player questions?

I started a single player with the ASA Svartalfheim with some mods that I normally use. I decided to take some of them out and add 3 different mods, one being the S Dino mod and none of the mods I add will stay on the active list. Also, none of the mods I deactivated will stay removed from the active list. I do not know what to do. I have tried multiple times and I have restarted steam, nothing is working.

[astral crest]

any other admins having crashing issues puttin in commands lately??

[spice pivot]

hey guys, so im sure you've heard of this situation a lot, so long story short
my partner and i wanna duo on our own private dedi server, the problem is that we have to play on the xbox/windows store versions since shes using my xbox and im on pc. now this has caused some issues as i can't seem to run 2 instances of the game (my specs are decent enough to, probably), which means that we're forced to deal with a tether on a non dedi host off my pc

what can we do other than renting a server? kinda strapped for money right now so itd be inconvenient to pay for it

[last hornet]

Spend a couple of hours and look for a server mate, there are tons out there. Some crap some really good

[jaunty vortex]

What are your specs? RAM will be the main issue. If you can get to 32GB RAM then running the server and game from your PC is possible

[hazy solar]

How do I join server

[spice pivot]

16gb, I've ran the steam version in 2 instances before which was pretty good most of the time

Problem is, Microsoft doesn't allow you into the files of the Microsoft version, so you can legit only have 1 instance playing

[jaunty vortex]

That’s not how you run a dedicated server. It’s completely separate to the game files. But if you’ve only got 16GB it’s not an option.

[gloomy blaze]

is your ini set to read only, preventing the mod list from updating?

[last hornet]

What server offical or unofficial ?

[hazy solar]

Either I’m on ps but can download on pc if needed

I just want to play one with lots of active people

[last hornet]

Check out #1110925695900713072 you’ll find a well populated server on here……

[pulsar river]

hey guys can anybody help me and my friend want to play ark together we tried creating non dedicated server and joining threw shift and tab on steam but nothing seems tom work pls dm me ifn u can help

[last hornet]

Other then that just load in select play game and choose offical or unofficial sessions, offical sucks by the way unless you can find a tribe

[jaunty vortex]

Server list in Steam is for ASE, not for ASA

[full sail]

The best solution is to find friendly dedicated server people and both join there, depends what region you're in but some great unofficial communties out there
Try the server ads section on here to start with

[dreamy kelp]

Why I'm being ignored while I asked before him and his girlfriend since no one is wanting truly knowing me and being a good friend with me i be always solo mod and be stuck with the same issue and be lossing interesting into dinos trues dino and be sad to ending the dinos era flame the is tiny alive still in me

[lilac lava]

Hello!
Does anyone know why the decay timer restarts every day with the daily resi?

[solar kiln]

Hey i have a question, can you play with your friends from epic games while your on steam? I want to play with them on singeplayer.

[fair kelp]

Hello, does anyone know what configuration to put there so that the oasisaur eats?

[rotund scaffold]

Hi do anyone know why the vault and small box still unlocked i got lock mod, pve no friendly fire and still open for everyone any help plz

[humble thicket]

Anyone know why I carnt build in ice queen cave rag can someone help with like a command or somet ark survival evolved

[unborn steeple]

@humble thicket
i can help you， My friend.

@humble thicket But I don't know how to operate your computer remotely.

[humble thicket]

yo im asking for a frined bro is ther anyway u can tell me how to fo it

[haughty cairn]

Anyone figured out a fix for the transfer duping yet?

[rich crescent]

If I start a private server with Astraeos free version next month, will I be able to upgrade it to the paid version in December without losing anything?

[woeful river]

Anyone know of a mod or a way to adjust the charge nodes on Abb? looking to either change the overload time or increase the slots

[distant hearth]

id expect you will fine too do that , svart map was like that but wud be best to ask nekatus himself or in his discord for confirmation

[rich crescent]

Thank you!

[broken halo]

There is an ini line for making all structures lockable no mod needed

Under GUS files in server setting header add ForceAllStructureLocking=True

Oops wrong tag

[broken halo]

Above was meant for you sorry to other guy

[distant hearth]

lol im forever doing that, just copy it, delete it then retag to the other

[broken halo]

Lol no joke I'm still on first cup of coffee 😅

[undone hearth]

Hello everyone, does anyone own the Survive The Night mod, is it possible to implement a transfer to vanilla cards there?

[brittle creek]

I just lost all 19 rex and 1 yuty, due to the game crashing, the game is really frustrating, it doesn't relieve my stress at all, on the contrary.

[broken halo]

It's the madness we all love to hate. sorry to say you got arked. Always keep backup breeders

[brittle creek]

If I already have 19 eggs hatching 😓

my saddles hurt

[wintry crag]

Will events change the colors of Aberrant dinos?

[flint oasis]

Hello once again lol I was wondering if anyone has found a fix yet for the healing plants not healing? (in the wild) thanks 🙂

[weary patrol]

how do i active a custome cosmetic mod for solo?

[late hearth]

How do I make it show my server so my friends can join?

[flint oasis]

nondedicated through your pc?

[flint oasis]

Single player custom? Should be activated via settings.

[late hearth]

Non dedicated on my ps5 I don't really care if it's a server or not I just want my buddies to be able to join

[distant hearth]

no fix, just have wait for wc to sort it with an update, they broke something

[flint oasis]

Single player then?

[late hearth]

Idk

[flint oasis]

Lol thanks! Wild card as usual XD

[flint oasis]

Okay so via PS5 if you start a game do host a game. Then they can join. They cannot use said server if you are not on. You can also go to Nitrado and buy a server through them you pay for it per month 25 bucks and crossplay it. the settings are pretty easy to go through.

[late hearth]

It doesn't say host or anything

[late hearth]

Can it be crossplay?

[flint oasis]

If you set it up that way yes. Nitrado writes out their settings pretty well to let you know what you're clicking and if you have questions the people in here are cool peeps 🙂 They have a button to click for crossplay from xbox to ps5 to pc etc

[late hearth]

I'm broke

[flint oasis]

Have you guys looked into other private servers that have crossplay?

[distant hearth]

find an offcial server, give your buddies the server number an all join

[late hearth]

No we both started a couple minutes ago

[flint oasis]

Oh welcome 🙂

[late hearth]

I dabbled in evolved back in my day

[flint oasis]

It is a shitshow but its like a bad relationship... they keep fucking things up but we stay because the game is good 😛

[flint oasis]

Very nice! @distant hearth even had an idea about going official 🙂

[distant hearth]

ive left it alone since ab released, the joys of ea, sometimes just got wait

[flint oasis]

A lot of people have servers that are private they open up to others 🙂 they are modded private

[flint oasis]

Nah! Gotta get them Drakes and Megalos 😄

[late hearth]

Nice

[flint oasis]

check the recruitment channel in here 🙂

[grave shale]

anyone else having 300-400 ping on their nitrado server 🤷‍♀️

[woeful river]

Anyone know of a way to increase the crafted out come ?

[flint oasis]

Didn't WC say they were fixing the picks to not kill you or send you to 50/50??? Is there a way to turn off the anti mesh bullshit? thanks! (Yes it just killed me, my shoulder pet and lost everything on my person just now and I have to roll back and then forward again to get it all back) 😡

[bleak ivy]

-noundermeshchecking and -noundermeshkilling (checking turns it off entirely)
both are Command line (launch options) so for nitrado there would be a toggle somewhere.

[flint oasis]

That doesn't work for Nitrado I have tried it

[bleak ivy]

then you can't for nitrado. if they don't have a toggle then you can't.

[flint oasis]

Usually there is an ini when no toggle is available

[bleak ivy]

lots of command line don't have an ini equivalent. nitrado just picks and choose which to give a toggle to.

nitrado does whatever nitrado wants 🤷

[flint oasis]

Can't stand using them 😦 I need my server pc lol

My Crypod nerf keeps turning itself on too lol

[bleak ivy]

yeah, I'd just use a cryopod mod lol

almost no reason to use vanilla pods on unofficial. can make them work exactly like vanilla pods if you want the nerfs too.

[spiral palm]

is there a setting in either the gus.ini or the game.ini to disable the "cannot capture recently injured" bs

[bleak ivy]

not that I can find. cryopod mods can tho.

[spiral palm]

yay... mods... -.- at least A:SA makes mods easier to implement

ty though

[tough oracle]

Is there an ini setting to enable building by rock drake trench? Or is perma disabled by the game

[sage mesa]

Was literally about to ask the same thing. If not ini, possibly a mod to allow it?

[bleak ivy]

can try bIgnoreStructuresPreventionVolumes in game.ini. that is for portal

[sage mesa]

Doesn’t work for Grave of the Lost

[bleak ivy]

probably not possible then

[last skiff]

[dreamy kelp]

I'm playing ARK: Survival Acendent solo on all the maps they relased to today I can't find any free mods like the instentable tamming candy like on the first Ark ASE Also, the admin mode in my Steam game doesn't work, and I can't defend myself. I get killed right after I log in or while I'm collecting resources. I really need some armor to make me less vulnerable. #ark-survival-ascendedASAMODSHELPS

[humble thicket]

i am about to host my own dedicated/vps server. does anyone know if this settings are good for ASA Scorched earth?

2 vCores CPU
4 GB RAM
120 GB SSD

[jaunty vortex]

Not a chance in 4GB

16GB for one map and Windows. Then about 10-12GB per extra map, depending on mods and number of players.

[lapis quest]

Yeah, map wont even start

[jaunty vortex]

You’re lucky if Windows boots in 4GB 😂

[humble thicket]

never mind seeing the prices for those ram servers i guess nitrado is doing just about fine hahhah

[humble thicket]

Is anyone else still having the issue where people occasionally lose their character?
If so, does anyone know how to fix it so it doesn't happen as often?

Yesterday, for example, 3 people lost their character.
What’s weird is that the character is still visible on the map, but they can neither download it nor spawn with it.

[lapis quest]

Common 'bug' from asa

We tried this oldnew save mod and so far, its been 2 days since no one loses their character

Yeah, so far is working? I'm not sure lol

Map savefiles and .arkprofiles still the same

No loses so far, only from people who left their characters to be downloaded from cloud

[humble thicket]

Okay, thanks for the info.
If the oldnew save mod works well, you can write to me and I might try it out.
or how do you set it up so that saving is different

[lapis quest]

Its just commandlines, ill get it for you

Shutdown your servers, do a backup just in case something bad happens.
First add these commandlines on your startup:
-converttostore -usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas
Converttostore is supposed to change all savefiles you have from the map on the first time you start the map
Usestore is the new savemod
BackupTransferplayerdatas, we still dont know how that works, still testing.

Leave the map running for a few hous using those 3 commandlines, next time you shutdown the map, remove -converttostore from the commandline and leave only -usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas

[last magnet]

if no players have been on the map yet, would just using the last two commandlines work?

[lapis quest]

Yep, since our map was up since asa launched, we had many many files to convert

It should work the same way as official servers work and no one loses their characters

[last magnet]

okay, I was wondering

I had to wipe my maps thanks to corrupt saves

I'm also wondering how to type

[distant hearth]

im still messing about with it to try figure out , was just testing ,moving a .arkprofile direct out of one map to another to see what happens lol

[lapis quest]

It works, only thing i noticed is that you lose your tribe

[last magnet]

yeah i'd imagine it's not picking up the tribe file, just the profile

[humble thicket]

Okay, then I'll make backups later and test it because my maps have been running for 2 months and it wouldn't be good if everyone lost their progress

[lapis quest]

Structures are gonna be there, you just get expeled from it, needing an admin to help using givetome commands

[distant hearth]

ok so i deleted the .arkprofile from a map and the char stays there without that data, now to test what its doing without -backuptransferplayerdata 🙂

[lapis quest]

🤔

[humble thicket]

Oh, okay, I just have to re-invite all the new In Tribes using the admin command.

Then I won't do it until the weekend where I can be there 24/7 so that someone doesn't want to play and then they're no longer in the tribe and I don't have time ^^

[lapis quest]

No ones is gonna lose progress, that i'm pretty sure it wont happen

We changed the commandlines on all our clusters, worked just fine

[lapis quest]

Lmk what happens without the line

[distant hearth]

will do

[humble thicket]

Yes, but everyone will be kicked out of the tribe. That's what I'm concerned about and if they want to play then but they're no longer in the tribe and I'm not there, they can't play so I'd better do it on the weekend

[lapis quest]

No, thats another matter

[humble thicket]

oh ok

Then I'll set it up and test it later

[distant hearth]

sry i shud of stated that im just messing with it to try an break it, thats why i ended up losing the tribe when i essentially duped a charachter onto another map that it wasnt supposed be on

[jaunty vortex]

-BackupTransferPlayerDatas enables an extra char profile backup on transfer, useful for easy char recovery in cases of crashes or corrupted saves.

Hmmm. Might be worth adding 🤔

[distant hearth]

now playing about with it to figure out what its doing

[lapis quest]

We just dont know whats that does lol

Or where are the backups going

Savedarks folder still the same after changing the commandlines

[jaunty vortex]

Cluster folder?

Looks like it was needed for the saves produced when they shutdown ASE last year.

[gloomy venture]

ark: survival ascended +GFN
I have a problem, I play through GFN cloud games. on all maps everything is super on high settings, but on Aberation the fps in many places drops to 1 and only a reboot helps, this only happens on the official Aberation servers! I wrote in support of GFN on their part, there are no problems, all games work well, I wrote in support of ARK: Survival Ascended, they are silent! People say that you need to reinstall the drivers (but I don't have access to the drivers!) What should I do?!

[lapis quest]

Aberration is fked up, rendering issues after the''fix'' last week. Ive seen a lot of people playing on gfn having this 1fps problem

[lapis quest]

Did a quick search, nothing was found lol

[celest halo]

Aberration is killer on the GPU

[lapis quest]

It runs better than TI for me, just that render thing is making the map unplayable

[gloomy venture]

Thanks for the answer, but what should I do?(

[jaunty vortex]

It’s possible it’s an ASE thing?

[celest halo]

Don't for me island I set around 80-100 fps, aberration I get 20-60 fps 🤣

[lapis quest]

The commandline?

[gloomy venture]

I tried every possible command! Maybe there are secret ones)

[lapis quest]

A friend of mine who plays primarly on geforce gaveup, nothing he does work trying to fix that 1fps problem

[jaunty vortex]

Yes

[gloomy venture]

+++
Me too(, now I have found ways to move, but not everything works 100% on them either((

It turns out that you need to wait until AMD fixes everything they did and Welkard does not apply this update

[distant hearth]

@lapis quest @jaunty vortex
ok so here's what happens,
without -backuptransferplayerdatas
after transfer i get an,<eosid>.arkprofiletemp file
this gets inserted into the world file(.ark) upon a server save

with -backuptransferplayerdatas
it make the temp file that gets injected into the .ark file and a <eosid>.arkprofile that can be used as a backup ,
ialso have a .arktributetribe file , that is likely a backup of the tribe data .

so with this option , you get the best of the old save method if something did go wrong and the save getting injected into the world file too (which it what seems to fix the issues everyone gets with disapeering players)
hope that helps

now i just have to test the best way to get the server to take a .arkprofile an pass it into the world save file, i suspect it wud be as simple as dropping it in the cluster folder , so that the player cud just download to the map, but i also want to test changing it into a .arkprofiletemp becuase well why not lolz

[lapis quest]

Both ways are created on savedarks?

[distant hearth]

yea the files get stored in the shootergame\saved\savedarks<mapname_wp> location

[lapis quest]

Perfect, thanks a lot for that

We went ahead and added those commandlines on our ase servers also

[distant hearth]

no problem, got rained off work so gave me time to do some testing that ive been meaning to do for 6 months ;lolz

[distant hearth]

shud do the exact same thing, but i havent tested ase so dont know for certain

[lapis quest]

Theres -newsaveformat that must be on commandlines for ase

_
You should be able to change that tempfile into a eosid.arkprofile to restore in case someone loses the character

[jaunty vortex]

Should…

[distant hearth]

probably but that file vanishes as soon as the world saves

[jaunty vortex]

None of this is documented.

[distant hearth]

im now about to test the best ways to change between them two file types and see what i can break

[lapis quest]

Wc things...

[distant hearth]

ok this is gonna take some time, my computer dont like running two servers the game an all my other shit in the back ground hahaha, i'll tag u both later with my findings

[lapis quest]

It doesnt make sense deleting the tempfile if you dont use the line, if someones end up not running -backp..., whats left to do in case someone loses the character?

Unless

All arkprofiles are now merged into the world save?

[distant hearth]

i guess that why the extra command exists , tbh never managed to break it using -usestore and i tried lol, i did all sorts randomness when transfering to try break it , from closing servers mid transfer to cutting the internet connection to blackboxing my inv in gcm an transfering etc

[lapis quest]

I like the way this sounds lol

We run 15 ASA maps (non nitrado), that bug was happening constantly

[ashen stratus]

Bought a new server from Nitrado. Been stuck in a restart since 2pm. Hasnt even got past the installing screen yet. Absolute joke of a company 🤣

[distant hearth]

@lapis quest @jaunty vortex sry for another tag but i figure you both want to know this .

with the .arkprofile created when using -backuptransferplayerdatas after a server transfer.
Just putting it in the cluster directory does not work, changing it name does not work .
just put into the same place the .ark save is .
on the next world save very briefly i see some sort ark_journal file(happens to fast for me to see the full name ) then that gets migrated into the .ark world save .
i removed my .arkprofile before a world save and it behaves like the char isnt there(not that you would ever do this, was just curious)
if you remove it after the world save (again not that you wud ever do it), the char is still there as its been migrated into the world file

hopefully that helps, as you can just do extra backups of the <mapname>-WP folder like normal an store it on another drive/computer what ever if u want to be extra safe
took a while i kept crashing my game oops hehe must get more ram

[left nimbus]

Hi Vynlann, i am having the same problem on our dedicated cluster setup.... Did you ever figure it out?

[hoary bane]

yes, I had tribute downloads off like an idiot to the map I was going to
once I turned them on, it was fine

I thought the setting was so people couldn't externally download from like single player, but no its just from map to map

[distant hearth]

that super common,
notributedownloads=true
blocks all downloads to a map

[hoary bane]

yeah just the way ASA does it is weird

ASA lets you download your survivor, but upon spawning it just never does

so it grabs your character from the cluster folder, then refuses to spawn so it goes poof

ASE it would just say you can't transfer to that map

[distant hearth]

ase was same, once u have a unique cluster id set no one can join ure cluster anyway , if your paranoid add -notransferfromfiltering to command line aswell

[hoary bane]

yes the cluster unique ID prevents this

but my quote was that you can still upload/download survivors from SP

it was my understanding this setting turns this off

so it must be another setting, or its not an option in ASA anymore

[distant hearth]

this is true if no cluster id is set, which was why people wud use that line to block all downloads

[hoary bane]

Hm, I thought a cluster ID had to be set no matter what, I guess not

[distant hearth]

it does if you want to cluster two or more maps, if u only have the one map , not needed. it goes back to before they activated clustering in asa

[hoary bane]

gotcha

I never just had 1 map 🤷

[jaunty vortex]

So is that a vote for or against using that option?

[distant hearth]

100% use it, yea its an extra backup incase summit goes wrong

[lapis quest]

🫡

[lapis quest]

Funny thing is, wc never, ever, mencioned this for the uno owners

[distant hearth]

they never mention much tbh, i only found out about -usestore after bugging one the server devs in general about the costant player data going missing issue

[merry root]

How do you enable zeppelines on unofficial aberration?

[distant hearth]

if you own the bobs tale dlc they shud just be enabled on default settings

[merry root]

Weird, cant seem to drive it anymore.

[distant hearth]

it just stopped working or you made changes an it stopped?

[merry root]

I dont believe I did. It just randomly stopped xD

[distant hearth]

might be a bug, maybe try spawn another one in , just to test an see if your og one is glitched

[merry root]

Yeah, I tried that. I was wondering if there was a setting to allow flying but idk

[distant hearth]

there is , but if you dint change no settings then it seems a bug

[merry root]

Which setting is it by chance?

[distant hearth]

gus.ini under [serversettings]
bForceCanRideFliers=True

but it shud be set that by default if the line isnt there

[radiant mauve]

good evening, I have a problem, I have no sound on ark survival evolved, I installed it today and to try to resolve the problem, I checked the files that's all, thank you for your help in advance

for information I use steelseries nova 7p and gg application

[hardy marten]

hey sorry for the late response I've been busy lately. if your servers aren't showing up then its either your port ranges might need adjustment or you just need to check the box on the unofficial page that says "show player servers" down on the bottom right near the join button

[rich rapids]

Hello I was looking for some assistance with my dedicated server I'm running on my pc for asa. If I leave it as pvp, it will show up on the server list for me and my friends. However, if I try to put serverpve=true the server starts up and says it is being advertised and also says it is pve at the top but I can't find it in the server list. Any help would be appreciated.

And I have changed the server listing to pve and all modes and it still won't show up.

[distant hearth]

sounds like its not taking the pve setting, stop the server , make the change in the gameusersetting.ini under the header [serversettings]
serverpve=true

if its in there but set to false , change it to true, if its not there, add the line
save the file , then restart server

[rich rapids]

That's what I've done multiple times. It doesn't have it in there so I add it to the bottom of server settings and then save and close out of the settings. When I reboot the server it says pve at the top next to my server name.

[distant hearth]

shud be pve then, what the server name? will look it up

[rich rapids]

I don't have it running right now. I'm currently at work and was just looking for something to try when I get home in a little bit.

[distant hearth]

honestly i can only think you have the in game search filters set wrong, send me the name i can look it up on battlemetrics see what it shows as , then check again later or in the morning in game when u have it online

[rich rapids]

The server name is "Screw Nitrado" I honestly can't remember if I switched it back or not just to run it as pvp for now.

[distant hearth]

last time it was online it was island map, pve, max player limit of 70, running on port 7777udp

[rich rapids]

Sounds right but it wouldn't show up on server list. I'm pretty sure I checked all the right boxes because I can find it as pvp but not as pve and I know I tried all modes and pve.

[grave shale]

for me to see an unofficial server especially if its own hosted u have to make sure “player servers” or something along those lines is enabled, if ur server does not have a password then uncheck “show password protected” and in the console type “Ark.showserver list 0” then type in ur server name in unofficial, and refresh

my hosted server has been performing horrible the last few months as if the ping is over 1000, rubber banding and getting stuck in place, so a friend of mine got a nitrado server and the ping is constantly 300-400 so nothing seems to be working at the moment 😅

[subtle gyro]

how do i make it so theres no item/player/dino upload/download delay on a cluster im hosting

if there is even a way

[lunar cloud]

never experienced any significant delay, usually takes less than a millisecond per transfer. Using the mouse to hover over the item and "T" helps to make it faster

[subtle gyro]

i just didnt know if there was like a cooldown

where you have to wait a significant amount of time

also how can i make an ark server utilize less ram

[lunar cloud]

There shouldn't be, if you lets say have 30 stacks of metal to upload, you press T on every stack and it will go with about 10-20 millisecond blips between key presses

[subtle gyro]

3 servers is eating up all 32 gigs rn

well, almost

[lunar cloud]

its expected to use about 10GB ram per map. I would always suggest to keep sufficient virtual memory too, incase the OS runs out of physical RAM and can swap to disk. If your CPU is decent, you can run 32GB physical and 32GB virtual and run 4-5 maps with no issues if its only you and a few friends playing

[subtle gyro]

virtual ram?

how do i do that

[lunar cloud]

if you google virtual memory (swap) for windows you'll see how to configure it. by default its something like 4GB.
Adding too much of it means you'll see little more disk IO when ram is needed. So having a fast NVMe helps and if you run too many maps you will start to see CPU bottleneck.
But the VRAM helps regular RAM breathe a little and allows you to run 1-2 extra maps.
Just be aware you cant keep adding more of it and will eventually need more physical 😉

[subtle gyro]

side note - say i have two servers on a cluster, and each has a character on it already with bases and tames and a tribe.....whats the best way to um, merge that

i would assume id need a second person and then do merge tribe right

and id just delete one of my characters

[subtle gyro]

sorry having another issue now

i can connect to all 3 of my servers

friend can only connect to one

[lunar cloud]

i would choose a char to keep, and xfer it to the map you want including all items \ dinos

[subtle gyro]

ports are forwarded and also different but ips are the same...is it because the ip?

my server pc is on a static ip so not sure how to get different ones since i know the static ip is necessary for it to work

[lunar cloud]

its likely either a port forward issue, or firewall issue which means other two are not connectable from the public internet
You can use same IP, thats not an issue. Issue is with the port

[subtle gyro]

strange

what about the query port?

does that have to be the same or different

@lunar cloud

strangely they cant connect to the original server now either

aaaand now its...working?

but only on one server

im so confused

[lunar cloud]

Query port is not used in ASA, only -port as per WIKI and this port must be UDP.
Verify your server firewall and port forwards to ensure you are not setting it as TCP as TCP is not used in ASA for connecting players
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Command_line_options

[subtle gyro]

its TCP/UDP port forwarded

lemme switch it to UDP only

[lunar cloud]

sometimes windows firewall also sets to TCP, so verify that too. Also Windows firewall could be set to allow private connection and then you can connect but others can't, so make sure the firewall is set to allow public connections

[subtle gyro]

can the port be the same?

or does it have to be different @lunar cloud

[lunar cloud]

no port needs to be unique per map, so map 1 can be 30000, map 2 is 30001 etc, just increase number at end

but these ports need to match their command line bat file like -port=30000 etc

so would recommend to review each maps start command

[lunar cloud]

to make sure its setup correctly once all maps are started, wait 5-10min then check on battle metrics website and make sure you can see the server name there as online and IP + port number matches what you set for each map

[rich rapids]

Ok, so I was talking to someone earlier about my dedicated server on my pc and now i have it up and running and battlemetrics says it is online but i still cannot find it in the server list. I'm searching all maps, all modes, show password protected and show player servers are checked. Any ideas?

[olive talon]

Did you make sure to host the correct ASA/ASE server depending on which game you're playing? Also, sometimes servers can take a bit to show in the browser, make sure to type the name and sometimes you need to hit refresh.

[rich rapids]

It's an ASA server and its been up for about 20 minutes now. I've hit refresh about 20 times. If I leave it PVP it will list it but as soon as I change it to PVE it will not list it.

[olive talon]

Changing the server type from pvp to pve should have no bearing on it showing in the list, unless your server is a pvp server and you're trying to find it in the pve server list..

[rich rapids]

I'm searching all modes and all maps

[olive talon]

If you're shutting down the server, making changes, and then starting it back up, yes, that will take time for it to show up in the list. Changing the game mode from pvp to pve does not prevent the server from showing.

[rich rapids]

I understand that but what is making it not list my server is the question. It's been running for almost 30 minutes without shutting it down and it still won't pop up in the list.

[olive talon]

@distant hearth if you're online, I believe you were helping them earlier

[rich rapids]

I went back and made sure that the game file was updated to the latest version and it is listed now

[subtle gyro]

adding -port= fixed the issue

[lavish gulch]

Is the summer event already on the base game, can i take it off the server without worrying?

[errant fox]

If I want the thanksgiving or xmas colors from last year does it require the mod too? I don't see the color events listed on Nitrado. Only Easter, Pride, and Olympic

[cinder jolt]

Hey guys my Startup Commandline isn't working properly.

Commandline: rmv() { echo "stopping server"; rcon -t rcon -a 127.0.0.1:${RCON_PORT} -p ${ARK_ADMIN_PASSWORD} saveworld &&rcon -t rcon -a 127.0.0.1:${RCON_PORT} -p ${ARK_ADMIN_PASSWORD} DoExit && wait ${ARK_PID}; echo "Server Closed"; exit; }; trap rmv 15 2; cd ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux && ./ShooterGameServer Ragnarok?listen?SessionName="AGC | Ragnarok | FRESH WIPE | 10x | Shop | All Maps"?ServerPassword=test?ServerAdminPassword=test?Port=0000?RCONPort=28000?QueryPort=27000?RCONEnabled=True?MaxPlayers=69?GameModIds=1404697612,924619115,1941328406,731604991,2742479076,1609138312,1896198862,2693727499,1327835335,889745138,1428596566,2809980171$( [ "$BATTLE_EYE" == "1" ] || printf %s ' -NoBattlEye' ) -server -automanagedmods -NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=not4u -ClusterDirOverride="/cluster" -EnableIdlePlayerKick -ForceAllowCaveFlyers -servergamelog ?FastDecayUnsnappedCoreStructures=true?NonPermanentDiseases=true?PreventSpawnAnimations=true?TribeLogDestroyedEnemyStructures=true?AllowCaveBuildingPVE=true?PreventTribeAlliances=true?ServerAutoForceRespawnWildDinosInterval=86400 -log & ARK_PID=$! ; until echo "waiting for rcon connection..."; (rcon -t rcon -a 127.0.0.1:${RCON_PORT} -p ${ARK_ADMIN_PASSWORD})<&0 & wait $!; do sleep 5; done

I adjusted the passwords and numbers of course. The server loads up no problem, but all the additional arguments I added don't work. Such as ?PreventSpawnAnimations=true or ?NonPermanentDiseases=true or ?ServerAutoForceRespawnWildDinosInterval=86400 does anybody know what is going wrong?

[lunar cloud]

you cannot have the command line options ? after the flags -
You need to maintain format ?option=value?option2=value -option=value -option2=value.
I.E you need ? params first, then end with - params
After your -servergamelog you have a space then start again with ? which is incorrect

See format on wiki https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Command_line

[cinder jolt]

Okay that raises questions with Pterodactyl panel I'm using on my dedicated server then. Because my "additional arguments" start at -NoTransferFromFiltering Everything else is kinda auto filled in

[cinder jolt]

For anybody who searches this in the future, go to your "Servers" -> Select server -> "Startup" -> Slip it in before the mods. Works perfectly now.

Thanks @lunar cloud 🙂

[olive talon]

Use the mod for those events since they're not in the nitrado event panel

[errant fox]

Thank you CountryBee

[frail heron]

We are running ASE on a dedicated server, using SteamCMD and starting up the servers with a simple batch file. Now we would like to have a procedure to shut them all down via another batch file, for example to send a message to all users, that the server is going down in x Minutes, then shutting down the server. We need this to have more control, when we need to restart Windows for Updates. Is it possible to do that via a Windows batch file?

[thorny jacinth]

@undone cipher dms

[humble thicket]

Is it possible to cluster two nitrado servers if they are not on the same account?

[celest halo]

Probably not, but that would be a question better asked to Nitrado

[distant hearth]

yes, just have to use the same clusterid

[bleak ivy]

would it not have any problems with ark data or would nitrado do all that automagically.
clusterID itself only does transfers, ark data is the folder.

[distant hearth]

when creating a cluster id on nitrado, i think it at the same time creates a shared data folder.
ive clustered servers in the past, from london data centre to germany data centre and from different accounts

[bleak ivy]

weird wonder if that causes any lag issues with ark data.

thats nice for them tho. allowing different accounts to create one cluster

[distant hearth]

nothing terribly noticeable, nitrado isnt as fast a my own servers but not as slow as official so..
id think its probably just a byproduct of how clustering works as its unlikely that one account even has two servers on the same machine through nitrado

[bleak ivy]

true. especially since one account could create servers in different locations including countries.

probably just easier to make it all shared.

that folder must be huge tho 😂

wonder how much space all of nitrado cluster's ark data takes up.

[distant hearth]

i dont know what they use to create an share the clusterfolder data , but id doubt its much space compared to all the other data they have to handle

[bleak ivy]

true. but I bet its still a lot since its gonna be a ton of servers.

ASE has what 50k servers on battlemetrics (obviously not all nitrado)
I wonder how much space their ark data all take up lol.

[distant hearth]

its possible the data folder is just made on the same machine that the server is installed too an linked somehow to the network.
im not even sure how they handle installs, wether on windows machines or vms or some sort linux port

[celest halo]

Probably not much at all most of the data in a cluster folder gets added and deleted when transferring/uploading

[bleak ivy]

well yeah, but them all adding up could be more then you think

[bleak ivy]

even if each of the servers just had 1 MB that'd still be 50GB.

[celest halo]

My biggest thing with it is there file permissions with default having them read/write by all accounts 🤣

[distant hearth]

50gb is less than a grain of sand to a data center, id think it be higher than that anyway but even if it was 1gb per server its drop for them

[bleak ivy]

yeah, but I mean in my terms lol

50k servers would be insane for a normal person 😂 and those are just steam/epic public ark servers.

[distant hearth]

yea n thats just one game

[bleak ivy]

on one platform.

epic does not get full platform rights 😂

[distant hearth]

mmhmm , the amount unused space they have must be unreal, i was looking through hetzner server auctions the other day an they have thousands of old servers just waiting to be used

[jaunty vortex]

Wonder if the server data is even held on the same machine that runs the server? Or is it on some sort of storage area network.

[distant hearth]

not a clue mate, cud be either or , its such a small amount data per server compared to the server data and world save data etc , its possible they even have all the server save data on dedicated storage units, networks too i guess

its something i know very little about an only just really started figuring a few bits out recently as i look for the best/cheapest/easiest way for me to rent a dedicated machine for some game servers

[jaunty vortex]

Oh I meant the entire server folder. Game files, world saves, the lot. If the physical machine running the servers goes down, it’s easy to get another one up and running.

[distant hearth]

it wud make the most sense to me if all that data was held on seperate storage machines , i dont think they do though, as they somehow deleted one of my servers once an lost all the data

[humble thicket]

What are your ping values ​​on unofficial servers?

[celest halo]

That would make one big over head on the network, all that traffic for the server to load the map and save it

[bleak ivy]

I mean.... nitrado servers are laggy

[jaunty vortex]

It’s not that much for auto saves and the rest of the time, it’s in memory.

[subtle gyro]

i logged on to my self hosted cluster today and for some reason im at the character creation screen

im not sure exactly what happened but im confused as nothing has been changed on the server overnight

....not sure what exactly i am supposed to do here its weird this would happen on my own server

this is the same server i logged off on last night, too

[distant hearth]

it happens, more so after transfering server an logging off before a world save ,
if u have backups just use one those,
if you havent been doing backups its gonna be a bit of a pain

[subtle gyro]

so

if i dont have a backup then....

[distant hearth]

aslo if u had transfered, worth trying the server u came from

[subtle gyro]

logged onto both servers nothing there

nothing in the download survivor screen, either

i dont remember transferring off the server last night i was easily on it with that character for like an hour

[distant hearth]

without a backup , ure gonna have make a new char , then use cheats to claim back what you had an regain the xp for the level your at

[subtle gyro]

how can a character just vanish into the ether

if i logged off on that server and it saved the character should be there, no?

[distant hearth]

ark do ark things , its an e/a game , running an unofficial server , likley with third party mods and you didnt make backups

[subtle gyro]

not using any mods on my server

just plain old windows GSM

[celest halo]

Ark be ark and forgets characters now and then

[distant hearth]

theres a differnt save format some of us are testing , seems to help with that issue buts its pretty much un documented an were winging it whilst testing

[lapis quest]

We have been asking this question for almost 6 months

[subtle gyro]

ok so say i have an old backup with the character daya on it

how do i transfer that characters data

but not the entire map

[distant hearth]

then u just move it back into the save data where it needs go an all good

[subtle gyro]

what file am i moving specifically

[subtle gyro]

pain.

[lapis quest]

its been 5 days since our server started using this new save format, 0 problems so far

[subtle gyro]

whats the new format

[lapis quest]

#unofficial-setup-help message

[distant hearth]

theres 3 save files and some automated backup files that i never seem to get to work properly on a normal save,
.ark -this is the world save file
<eosid>.arkprofile -this is the player data
.arktribe -this is the tribe data(i might got the name wrong on this one but its something like that)

[subtle gyro]

how do i know which .arkprofile is mine

[lapis quest]

Are u admin?

[distant hearth]

its not a new format just an alternate one , so far its been working fine for me.
never needed to do anything, but having figured out the backupplayerdata command its now even safer imho , im lazy an only take full server backups once every few days , i really need to sort out an automated version.
theres a pinned message with details on doing so.
i will also write a guide on the alternate save method when i get chance

[subtle gyro]

when i enable it, yeah

[distant hearth]

you can type whoami in single player command console, or open the .arkprofile in notepad an look for the char name

[lapis quest]

While you are on the server with a character, use showmyadminmanager on console, its gonna show your eosid there

[lapis quest]

Or that

[distant hearth]

your way works too 🙂

[subtle gyro]

okay so i see a arkprofile and an arikprofilebak

do i need both?

[distant hearth]

arkprofile.bak that one is just an anticorruption backup file, it shud work if you rename it , but no need if you have the actual .arkprofile

[subtle gyro]

theres an arktributetribe file on the server i lost my character on, what does that do?

i have pasted the .arkprofile into the server save

[lapis quest]

Thats your tribe

[subtle gyro]

so if i paste my character data into that

ill still be in the tribe?

since that file is present?

and it matches the eosid

[lapis quest]

Yep, it doesnt work if you paste eosid from scorched into the island as example

The backup file must be placed on the same map

[subtle gyro]

ah

see the backup isnt from the same map

its from the island

but its the same character i lost on abberation

[lapis quest]

If you do that, admin commands are gonna be needed

[lapis quest]

Recover on aberration, transfer, profit

[subtle gyro]

to force myself as the tribe owner again i assume

[lapis quest]

Yes, givetomeaoe also

[subtle gyro]

but does that make sense? really old island backup. Same character i used on abberation. but the character data file isnt from that map

[lapis quest]

Once the backup is made, that eosid file remembers which map it was created and which tribe it was part of

if you change that into a different map, nothing works as intended

[subtle gyro]

the file is pre abberation

but there is an eosid for arktributetribe on the abberation server matching my id

so whats gonna happen?

[lapis quest]

Did you created a new character?

[subtle gyro]

nope

guess we boutta find out i backed everything up so

cant mess it up worse can i

[distant hearth]

you can put it on the ab map, but it'll be a snapshot of when it was taken on the island, so u will need to force ownership of tribe , possibly building and dinos. it will also be at what ever level the char was when the backup was taken

[subtle gyro]

ok so what command forces me to join a tribe/become leader

i have other people in my tribe and dont want them to lose ownership of stuff

[lapis quest]

Now that we know how -backuptransfer... works, should write a guide and ask a mod to fix

[lapis quest]

forcejointribe should put you back on, it that doesnt work (theres the tribe0 bug in case the tribe gets empty), make a new tribe and use givetomeaoe commands to take your structures back

maketribefounder makes you the leader

[subtle gyro]

okay so

weirdest thing

went into server with the data. was not in the tribe- flew back to base and game crashed

log back in and im dead (because i was flying when i crashed) and now.....i can spawn at my beds???

im so confused???

[lapis quest]

🤔

The game remembered that you were on the tribe lol

[subtle gyro]

also rip my items i guess from when i lost my character i guess

[distant hearth]

likely the server saved an updated the eos id in recognition with the old data

[lapis quest]

Yes, thats the worst part when doing backups

Everything that was on your inventory is deleted

[subtle gyro]

so my pterodon that was in cryopod

heck

ok so make ANOTHER server with the old island backup and snatch all the gear i lost and my pteradon and then bring it down lol

[distant hearth]

yea never cud figure out why a full server rollback will fix that, it must save some data on the world file and some in the player save, i also know some is stored locally lmao like notes and map uncoverage

[lapis quest]

We just ask our players to deal with it, it's just itens

Theres nothing we can do about those bugs

[subtle gyro]

ascendant gear ;-;

[distant hearth]

cheat gfi it back if your that bothered

[subtle gyro]

how do i find the gfi for a pteradon that doesnt exist

i like your funny words magic man

[celest halo]

You must have some weird backups, I never lost what was in my player inventory when loading one

[subtle gyro]

oh wait you were talking about the items smh

[lapis quest]

Doing eosid backups?

[marsh bobcat]

Are the Green Death Beacons still a thing in the server settings or is that just a mod again. They had it when they first released ASA.

[celest halo]

I make my own backups and have "hot" loaded player profiles before without losing inventory

[native wave]

well let's see if my crash on aberration is fixed with the non-beta drivers now

[lapis quest]

We always used the basic ark files as backup (map/characters), never seen a player backup respawning with items back without using inventory mods

[native wave]

21 days since I had my aberration server running

[celest halo]

Never had that issue I make tar.gz backups of the saved folder and have a few times extracted a player profile and put it back on a server while server was still running and logged in and had all my inventory still from when it was made

[subtle gyro]

so what exactly does -converttostore -usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas do?

[celest halo]

Moves all player data from the .profile file to the worldd.ark file

[lapis quest]

-converttostore is gonna merge everything into the .ark savefile once you start the map
-usestore keeps doing this save into the .ark
-backuptransfer creates eos.id files so you can use as backup in case something worse happens

[celest halo]

The backup one keeps a profile file in the cluster folder on transfers till a world save happens

[spice tendon]

Super weird problem. On my nitrado server, I get a memory leak crash/shutdown two hours after the automated daily server restart task. This is during a time no one is on and it never happens after a manual server restart or if the server is going for hours and hours. No new mods have been added either

“Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:59:14 -0700 Memory Leak detected. Current memory usage exceeds the limit (65756MiB out of 65536MiB). Stopping the server to preserve system stability.”

[distant hearth]

no it dont use the cluster folder, i tested this just yesterday , i really need to do a write up on it

essentially it just creates a .arkprofile that also gets stored in the same place as the world

[jaunty vortex]

Isn't that what we had before -usestore though?

[distant hearth]

no , using just -usestore creates a .arkprofiletemp that gets merged into the world file, that then disappers upon a world save

[lapis quest]

Its gonna look the same way as before using -backuptransfer

[jaunty vortex]

that's what I was thinking

[lapis quest]

I thought it wasnt working at first lol

[native wave]

yay no crash...and my aberration server appears to be fine

[jaunty vortex]

No mention of Ark in the AMD release notes...

And AFMF2 now appears to be mainstream

[native wave]

yeah noticed that....my guess the fix is aimed at a technology rather than specific to the game

[jaunty vortex]

Yep

[native wave]

which is why amd would be the one to fix it

no doubt benefits more than just ASA

[distant hearth]

heres the thing with -usestore i cudnt break it lol.
normal save method i can break an lose char so never actually needed a backup of the .arkprofile with use store
using -backuptransferplayerdata u also have a .arkprofile so if the worst did happen its like a extra loss prevention, creating a backup of that file is then triple protection

my god im bad at explain things, how about
it JUST works

[native wave]

thinks apple also has problems explaining things....that's why they go with "it just works" too lol

[distant hearth]

i will spend the time an write out what i found in testing properly, but it takes me like an hour to make anything make any sense to anyone else

[lapis quest]

Quick fix for those server owners suffering from missing player characters on Ascended/Evolved self hosted servers(After crashes, shutdowns, transfers or anything that can delete .arkprofiles).
This isnt ''new'', it was just undocumented (Thanks to WC, now ''documented'' on patch v57.12'), heres how to setup:
First, do a backup, you never know when something can go wrong, better be safe.

With your map turned off, go into your commandlines and add those 3:
-converttostore -usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas
Turn your server on and leave it running for a while, on the next time you shut down, you are free to remove -converttostore. That is used only once to make your old profile/tribe files get merged into the main file, your server is gonna be always running with these new commandlines -usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas.

Explaining how they work

-converttostore: This is gonna take all your .arkprofile/tribes and merge them into the main .ark file on your map, thats why you only use it once on the first time you change into these commandlines.

-usestore: Thats gonna keep saving everything on your .ark file, if it's the first time ever you boot a server, theres no need to use "-converttostore".

-BackupTransferPlayerDatas: Thats the tricky one, after many tests it was found that:
* Using it creates a eosid.arkprofile on the savedarks folder, the same way as before, not that you gonna need, but they are there as an extra step in case you ever need to do a character backup.
* Not using it creates a .arkprofiletemp after transfering, that file is merged into the .ark world file upon a server save, so no backups are created if you ever need them.
We recommend that you use it, .arkprofiles doesnt take that much space and its an extra protection in case you need.
At the first sight using these commandlines, its gonna look like nothing was changed, but trust, it's working. No characters will be lost again.

[distant hearth]

that looks right 🙂

just drop the quotes off this part ,
"-usestore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas"
people will enter it with quotes i bet lolz

and also thank you very much, that wud of taken me ages to write out will see if we can that pinned , then can easy point people at it

[lapis quest]

Hey @bleak ivy, Could you pin this on this channel? Might help some server owners with this problem.

[distant hearth]

yes please it will 100% help alot self host owners , most if they havent had the issue will run into it

[young stream]

This might be a dumb question but is there any possible way to upgrade and increase ram/memory for servers? Idk if this question has been asked already or not

[distant hearth]

what sort of server? but yes anything shud be upgradeable

[young stream]

I have a pve ark ascended server that struggles a bit due to lack of memory and high ping and was hoping there was a way to upgrade it a bit more I removed quite a few mods it does better than it did but still struggles sometimes

[distant hearth]

rented from nitrado ?

[young stream]

Yes

[distant hearth]

it used be if you had a higher slot count server i.e 50 slots instead of 20 they allocated more ram to it,
prob best to ask in the nitrado discord, or there support though tbh

[young stream]

That’s what I thought just didn’t wanna do that till I knew for sure thank you 🙏

[lunar cloud]

great write up!

I would be curious to know if a server owner would like to restore some character because lets say it got messed up somehow or for whatever reason you want to restore a profile and you have the backup character profile whilst using the new -usestore method . Some steps in the foot notes of this post How to restore a ark profile when needed would be great.

[distant hearth]

#unofficial-setup-help message

basically its a long winded way of saying, you just put in the same save location as the world file (.ark)

i just went a bit ott with testing to figure out exactly what was happening

you can drop it into a differnt map than the profile came from an it will also work, if someone wanted t move a char without being clustered

you can dupe a char with it too but i dont reccomend that as it might have long term weird effects , i tested that it worked,not any after effects lol

[lunar cloud]

nice! so you just take the backed up player profile and drop it in the save folder next to the .ark world file and start the server. And upon starting it "imports" it into the world. Does it then remove the profile file you dropped in ?
I would imagine it should , to prevent it from re-importing it again when server reboots

[distant hearth]

i think i did it both with the server running just dropped it in as if a player had transferred to the server and did it not running too. i shud of wrote stuff down damm it , i was having issues coz kept crashing(two servers an the game wasnt happy on my pc)

now i need to do more testing , i never did check if it overwrote the .arkprofile on server save, suspect it might. i will test again when i get chance an keep better notes

[lunar cloud]

I would expect if the "Wildcard intended way" for restoring character is to just drop the backedup profile in the save folder, that it would consume the file upon "import" and dispose it. It would be very problematic if it kept it there as the file could become out of date and erroneously re-imported later and rollback what it had in the ark file

[celest halo]

the point of -BackupTransferPlayerDatas is to keep one there, so dont think it will delete it, think it will update it

[distant hearth]

the .arkprofile stays after the other file gets combined into the world save, i need to test if gets updated or if when it makes that ark_journal file an imports that into the world file , that tells to ignore that player id maybe

be easier for it to just update the .arkprofile like it wud normally on a world save

i'll run two scorched earth servers next time i test,
that map seems use the least ram atm
likely i can test better then

[lunar cloud]

id be keen to know how it assures what is considered latest. If It has one it thinks is latest, but i'd like to restore an older one, it would need some smarts to pickup the "overwritten" restored profile and know to reimport it and then write it back to the "-BackupTransferPlayerDatas" file..
So some way determine the "source of truth". I'd imagine the source of truth is in the .ark when using the new store, so interested to know how it selects when to pickup a character to reimport in case of restore

[distant hearth]

depending on the weather tomoz , i will let you know lol if not it prob be the weekend, ive made a note to tag you with what ever i find out

[lunar cloud]

ill do some tests as well when i find some time over the weekend. I do have local clones of all my server maps i can toy around with

[tepid berry]

@distant hearth The whole thing with -BackupTransferPlayerDatas is that it will create a .arkprofile for that person on server xfer. The next time the server saves, it deletes the .arkprofile - so unless you have a script running or something to 'snatch' that file out of the directory and back it up, it's not really useful except in a circumstance where maybe power is lost after xfer, but before server save. It's still recommended to have it enabled - it's just not nearly as useful as I initially imagined it.

[distant hearth]

it did not delete the .arkprofile after server save for me

[tepid berry]

It does for me, I can watch it when it happens. I don't have .arkprofiles for new players any more.

Hell, my entire Aberration_WP folder, has not a single .arkprofile in it, despite many players transferring on/off regularly

[distant hearth]

ok good to know thanks, i have to do more testing then it seems, do u mind post a copy of your batch file here ? just xxx any data u dont want to share

[tepid berry]

Can I PM it to you?

[distant hearth]

yea sure

[tepid berry]

Good point; I'll remove -converttostore but, that makes me wonder if I need -converttostore should I ever need to restore a ,arkprofile if that's the case.

Not that I've needed to -- the new save method has been bulletproof

[distant hearth]

no , once ure running with -usestore if you drop a .arkprofile in , on the next world save it briefly makes a ark_journal file (happened to fast for me see full name) that gets merged into the world file

[tepid berry]

Ah okay. I can confirm though, new save method is WONDERFUL. And it needs to be set to the default for people.

[hollow robin]

ok so im not sure how to set this up i used to have my cloner speed faster than it is and its been so long i forgot how to do it is there a way to speed up cloning in the ini

my stuff is set to 750 dino lvl and cloning a rhynio is 8hr is there a way to speed that up

[distant hearth]

not with a default one iirc , i seem to rem on ase it was something that cud be changed with the s plus mod version

[hollow robin]

ya i had it on my ase servers lowered i think it was incubation speed but i have no clue on asa

and redit is usless lol

[distant hearth]

google says its related to babymaturespeed
so i guess u need that really high to make cloning fast
explains why i needed a modded version to do it as wudnt of wanted to change my baby mature speeds at the time

[hollow robin]

it aint that my mature speed is fast as it is about 5 min and it says 8 hr for cloning

[distant hearth]

no idea then sry

[hollow robin]

that would suck to have to make that faster lol

all good m8 ty

[tepid berry]

Cybers Structures has a cloner, and it's a pretty complete replica of S+; and I think it's even actively developed; I'd check that. As far as I know it also replicates all of the old ini files for S+ as well; so you should be able to use that to speed it up if you have control over mods.

[hollow robin]

ty

[hollow robin]

maby ur right i found this but its weard on my server idn ill keep looking in to it The Cloning Time is calculated the following way:

{\textstyle CloneCost\times {\frac {TimePerElementShard}{BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier}}=CloningTime}

[distant hearth]

some things that worked in ase just dont in asa m ark do ark things

[hollow robin]

right

[somber mauve]

anyone have a solve for "unable to query server info for invite" on ark server manager?

its also set to "LAN only" which makes it so my friends cant add it to their server list

[shadow tulip]

can anyone help me, everytime anyone asks in general its avoided like the plague. Is there a fix on unoffical for club ark items not being transferable even though its all unblocked and has same cluster id

on nitrado server

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

this is all in my ini, so i dont see how its not allowing it'

[distant hearth]

both servers have this set?

[shadow tulip]

yes

the map they are trying to transfer it to allows transfer from every other map in the cluster

just not club ark

[distant hearth]

do u see the club ark server from the obelisk on the other maps?

[shadow tulip]

yes

[distant hearth]

shud work then , the players are joining from pause menu , then selecting club ark option

[urban pelican]

Anyone that has a Nitrado ASA Aberration map, that’s having a bunch of issues?

[last magnet]

I have a question about NPCReplacements. Does that stop admin spawns as well? or just wild spawns?

[olive talon]

Just wild spawns

[last magnet]

Awesome, I'm going to use that instead of a mod

[random stirrup]

Hi guys! I am struggling to get my ASA dedi working on LAN without internet connection. I'm on a LAN tomorrow - no internet. The dedi works fine via LAN (using open ip:port console command from the client). I set the MULTIHOME stuff in config and commandline of the server. But as soon as I disable internet (via router setting) for either client or server, I can't connect anymore. Any advise?

[lofty cedar]

Hey guys, please tag me if replying to me

So having a really annoying issue on the server i help run

People are logging out on the center ASA and logging back into the center with them being forced to create a new charater with there old charater being in the base/spot they logged out at, its also happening when transffering servers please any help would be greatly loved, as we are out of ideas to whats causing it

[jaunty vortex]

#unofficial-setup-help message

[last hornet]

Have a chat to nitrado if you use them

[undone hearth]

Hello everyone, please tell me how can I view the fps of my server? The server is installed on a separate machine

[clever trail]

Any Beacon "pro's" online?

[clever trail]

Hi hi, not sure if you are able but have a look at Kals Plugins, they allow for FPS and a bunch of other amazing things

[olive talon]

Better to just ask what you need help with XD you can also use Beacon's discord if it's a specific Beacon issue

[clever trail]

Oky thanks

Well there is not really many vids on "Getting Started" with Beacon and i used ASM for ASE and have been doing everything via .bat files for ASA and many people recommended i switch over to Beacon

So i want to know where i can get a resource that shows hot to setup beacon for a cluster from scratch. I see many vids on how to manage Nitrado servers but i want to setup and manage from scratch on a dedicated windows machine

[distant hearth]

beacon is just a tool to help with creating the two ini files once a server is running , its very good at what it does. but you seem to be more looking for an asa server manager/

[clever trail]

Ohhhhh oky so not a complete server manager, got it. No wonder my searches yielded no results🤦‍♂️

Can you perhaps suggest a good server manager for ASA like ASM was for ASE?

[distant hearth]

personally i cant as dont use one and everyone that does seems to use different ones that ive seen in here

[lapis quest]

I dont think there's any ''good'' managers like ASM so far, we have been using batfiles since launch

[clever trail]

Oky i understand thanks, it's just a lot of tedious work to change stuff like the rates for different servers each week when we have events.

[distant hearth]

you will want to look at using a dynamic config to do that

[clever trail]

Yea probably but ohh well thank for the imput

Then lastly. In my ASA server every now and then a players game will crash (PC and Console) and when they log back in the game tells them to create a new character. They dont have the option to download their char. When i log in to check their old char still lies where their game crashed, sleeping. This has happened more than 12 times to 1 players and i cant seem to replicate the issue

[lapis quest]

Check the pins, theres a way to fix this problem

[clever trail]

O M DAUUM
Thank you very much going to apply it right now

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

[lapis quest]

Most of the credits goes to @distant hearth, he has been testing a bunch

[spiral bluff]

Hello everyone I play on a cross play EU server. They are in the process of starting a cluster. I'm having a problem transferring from one to another map . I'm able to transfer to aberration but can't transfer to scorched earth. I keep getting a timeout/lost connection any idea how to correct the issue. I've had my Internet provider check all my connections and have no problem with my Internet. Any suggestions would be helpful for me at the moment. Also I had this problem with the island map but something happened and I was able to transfer to the island and after I Ascended from the island we no longer have that map.

[feral hull]

Is it a known issue for engrams to just get messy when you set them up with bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=True and ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=(...?

For instance Trike saddle doesn't show at all but this is the written config. Some other items are not in their listed levels.

EngramEntryAutoUnlocks=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Saddle_Trike_C",LevelToAutoUnlock=16)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Saddle_Trike_C",EngramHidden=False,EngramLevelRequirement=16,EngramPointsCost=0)

[distant hearth]

it shudnt but ark do ark things, why change them both anyway? if u want it to auto unlock use the top line
if u want it to manually unlock but not cost any points, use the bottom line

[distant hearth]

this is just you with the issue or everyone? self hosted server or nitrado ?

[random stirrup]

Anyone? Any advise would be much appreciated!

[feral hull]

Will the autoUnlock line also count them as "specified"?

I use OnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams to get rid of all the nonsense without adding lag c:

[distant hearth]

im not the best at networking, but the router is needed to direct the traffic where it needs to go, disabling a device from the router means it no longer connected to the network afaik.
you wud have to check this , some routers also have issues with nat loopback im told, i know nothing on that . can you just disconnect the router from what ever it uses to connect to the internet? thus leaving the router doing its thing on lan

[distant hearth]

not sure what you mean by this?
if u use all the unlock lines like this it doesnt give lag that i can notice
EngramEntryAutoUnlocks=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Saddle_Trike_C",LevelToAutoUnlock=16)
Edit i suppose a better question would be, what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[random stirrup]

LAN still worked. could ping the dedi. but i am trying that anyway. unfortunately there is no option to disconnect from the internet in my router so i need to pull the cable. BBIAB

[feral hull]

I use bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=True so that any engrams I don't specifically list don't show because setting EngramHidden=True creates massive engram menu lag on server. I use the autoUnlock to save people clicking every engram per level and I use the OverrideNamed to set the engrams I want to show in said specified list. I never tested to see if autoUnlock would set them as specified tho, if it did that'd half the config. 😂

And maybe(?) solve some weirdling issues.

But I've got this setup and I have missing engrams, as well as engrams in levels they're not set to. Some kind of weird array bug maybe.

[distant hearth]

ok , i just use beacon for it as so much easier tbh, its done a few button clicks but engram control is prob only in paid version .
to hide an engram it shud just be fine like this ,
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_MachinedRifle_C",EngramHidden=True)

then shudnt need need to use the allow specified engram entry line
there are some things in asa that were a bit janky and cud only be hidden if you set them like this though , i think thats fixed now though ,
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_CryoFridge_C",EngramLevelRequirement=999,EngramPointsCost=1,EngramHidden=True,RemoveEngramPreReq=False)

[feral hull]

I use Beacon too and it pumps out both entries for you, you can't use engramhidden without massive lag after the first few.

I'll play around and see what I can work out.

[distant hearth]

in beacon i use auto control, unlock all except tek when levelling,
then any entry i want hidden i just find it in the list an disable it.

the lag issues were caused with use of bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=true
even then it isnt that bad, but also unlocks tek at lvl 100 which i didnt want

[grizzled plover]

have they announced anything about a halloween event for this month?

[feral hull]

Will give it a go, hopefully playing about with combinations will get the engrams back in line. 😂

[distant hearth]

hopefully, if you get any further issues , beacon has its own discord too, there very helpful there with random weird issues

[spiral bluff]

@distant hearth it's just me that I know of not sure if it is anyone else.It's a Nitrado server in the UK region.

[random stirrup]

ok so: disabled port forwarding for the dedi, plugged out cable: no connection / reaction from client. reconnected to internet: no connection. restarted the dedi and client (and only then the line "Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join" will pop in dedi console): i can join by "open LANIP:PORT" just fine - seeing my client LAN IP on the console. Appears to me LAN only dedis no longer work

[distant hearth]

yea i dont know , ive never tried to do it via lan, it might be due to the way server uses eos id now that it needs an internet connection i guess

[jaunty vortex]

try just unplugging your internet connection. It sounds like your router is no longer routing

[random stirrup]

Thank you anyway, mate! So question to anyone: Is anyone here able to run a dedi where client and server have no internet connection?

[jaunty vortex]

but actually, W1llz makes a good point, It likes to talk to curseforge

[distant hearth]

i cant even make mine boot without internet connection just get an error querying server mods an it shuts down
edit nvm , ofc it wont boot with mods lolz, now trying without

[celest halo]

It also likes to register with EOS

[distant hearth]

yep needs to connect to eos , with out interwebs it just sits with status as a yellow dot, just connecting internet back, no good

HAD to restart server with internet to make it work properly, get the green status dot and advertise join

[random stirrup]

appears LAN only just got lost and nobody noticed / complained... Thanks a lot guys! Giving this up after 10 hours of troubleshooting this. If Google could parse Discord servers I could - maybe - like it ;-p Packing for LAN - Cheers!

PS: pm me if you know how to get a LAN (no internet at all) dedi + client running 😗

[jaunty vortex]

Don't think you can 😦

[gilded copper]

What is the difference between:
MaxAlliancesPerTribe and MaxTribesPerAlliance?
If I allow a tribe to have 2 alliances, that is 2 other tribes right? Or is that part of 2 other alliances that are part of many tribes?
So, if i only want 1 tribe to alliance with 2 other tribes, what would I put?

[jaunty vortex]

1st one is how many other tribes you can be allied with. So only applies to each tribe.

Second one is how many tribes can be in one alliance

[distant hearth]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration
what john said 🙂

[gilded copper]

Ok. MaxTribesPerAlliance would be 3, if I want 1 tribe to ally with 2 others, right?

[jaunty vortex]

that would be the case if all were in the same alliance

[gilded copper]

I have not done alliances before, so this part is new to me.

Can a Tribe A ally with Tribe B, if Tribe B is allied with Tribe C, will Tribe A be automatically allied with Tribe C, or would that fall under MaxAlliancesPerTribe? Do different alliances show up differently?

Can A and B be allied, and B and C be allied, and A and C NOT be allied at the same time?

[jaunty vortex]

Are we allowed to discuss politics in here? 🤣

I'm not actually sure what the answer is to your question. In theory yes? But I don't know

[gilded copper]

Ok. I'll give it a go and see how it goes

[jaunty vortex]

Let us know, I'm curious to find out 🙂

you would want MaxAlliancesPerTribe=2 for this for tribe B. If not more

[gilded copper]

Gotcha, thanks.

[lapis quest]

Another major, no render fixes mentioned, we are doomed

[prisma slate]

The rendering for my server atleast has improved since update v53.11 going into 53.13. Things have been running fairly well no major issues. However I've had atleast one of my users show me a screenshot of some graphical problems they've been encountering. Seems textures were missing on some creatures or coming in blurry for them. Hoping whatever that is it'll flesh out with this update or soon? Been keeping my eye on these updates myself, hoping to see some more news on things of the sort.

[subtle gyro]

just updated my game and i cant even see my servers in the unnofficial list

could see them just fine pre update

[distant hearth]

servers need updating too, it was a major version

[subtle gyro]

i thought i just update them but

ill do it again

[distant hearth]

just check if there on latest version ,
v54.3

[subtle gyro]

theyre on version 15894428

oop theyre updating

yeah that worked

[subtle gyro]

ive noticed with this update one of my servers is using almost 2 gigs LESS ram than before

[somber mauve]

can anyone help me set up an ark server for me and my friends? ive gotten as far as have ASM set up and all but whenever i start the server it either gets stuck at "unavailable" or it tells me "unable to query server info for invite"

[jaunty vortex]

Have you allowed access through your firewall and forwarded the ports through your router?

[somber mauve]

i tried completely turning my firewall off, and i don’t know how to forward my ports through my router

[jaunty vortex]

You’re not going to be able to do anything without port forwarding. I’d google your router make and model and port forwarding because likely somebody has made a video.

[ionic anvil]

hey, i have an ark acended server on linux, and i was wondering how to change the name

[plain atlas]

anyone having trouble updating the server even after using update.bat still wont update top v54.3 statated above

[ionic anvil]

where do you go to update it?

[distant hearth]

you might just be able do it in the gameusersetting.ini , prolly depends how the server was installed

[ionic anvil]

ok, thanks

[distant hearth]

mine updated fine,have u updated the server before?, what batchfile u using to update it?

[plain atlas]

same like last time you send me on mssg

[ionic anvil]

I changed the session name, but when i use the command to find it its still the same

[distant hearth]

you wil have to do with what ever you used to setup the server then, im not familar with linux or any tools that are used to setup server on it

[ionic anvil]

Ok

[distant hearth]

on windows we do it in the start command line

[gilded copper]

if i have admin town in a tek forcefield, and put a teleporter inside it, can anyone be able to teleport inside the shield?

[ionic pier]

53.5 servers not visible anymore?

makin it real hard to troubleshoot why my new 54.3 servers are not responding to clients

[celest halo]

clients can only see servers from the same major version

[subtle gyro]

is there a command to force the server to save

before bringing it down

nvm i got it

admincheat saveworld is the command

[lunar cloud]

once you are comfortable with your server management process, you could look into tools like rcon if you are not already using it.
it allows you to run remote commands to servers. For example instead of having to log into all your maps and enabling cheats and running these commands manually, you can just make a .bat file similar to your startup file

Example: rcon -a <ip-address-of--server>:<rcon-port> -p <admin-password> saveworld

Note rcon is TCP where game is UDP and you need to enable RCON and provide each map with unique tcp port to use it , i.e ?RCONEnabled=True?RCONPort=20000

Graceful shut down and save

rcon -a <ip-address-of--server>:<rcon-port> -p <admin-password> saveworld
rcon -a <ip-address-of--server>:<rcon-port> -p <admin-password> doexit

[broken halo]

@lunar cloud sorry for the tag but seen you was recent on do you know of an admin command to give explorer notes to someone else they lost their character in the save but I know they had done the explorer notes prior was hoping to give em a boost back up or am I just gonna have to give a temp password for admin privy?

[last hornet]

There is a command I’ll see if I can find for you

[broken halo]

Feel free to pm it to me or tag me so I can refer back thanks 😊

[last magnet]

it's GiveAllExplorerNotes iirc

[lunar cloud]

Here is the WIKI for console commands, i often just do a ctrl+f to find relevant stuff and its well documented

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Console_commands#GiveAllExplorerNotes

[broken halo]

That one gives to self

[lunar cloud]

ahh yeh, it does.. do you backup arkprofile files ?

you could restore their character by restoring the profile from a backup if you have a recent one

[last magnet]

Oh poo, I didn't think it was only to self

[iron bronze]

Is anyone else having issues with Deinosucus spawning? I have both the offical and the modded versions on our servers, but I have blocked the modded versions from spawning. The official version should be spawning and they do now and then but they are very, very rare.

[jaunty vortex]

You’d be better converting the mod ones to in game and then removing the mod.

[iron bronze]

The issue is that the mods have the different variants that the base game once don't have. Our community want the modded ones as well as the official ones

But it shouldn't be an issue because the blueprint for the official ones have ASA in the name and the modded ones have AA in the name

[tranquil pewter]

Does someone maybe know how to become a server stable or crashless with highest usable difficulty, so OverrideOfficialDifficulty=1531? I want that all dinos spawn have there maximum possible stat points = 255 per stat, and because wildcard removed with one of the last patches the stat point overflow, it should be now possible. But such servers are extremly crashy, with a savegame they mostly crash everytime on startup with -ForceRespawnDinos command, without this command they crash randomly, i think when server let respawn wild level dinos with this minimum and same time maximum level. I tried also CustomDinoLevels mod, setting OverrideOfficialDifficulty=52 and MinLevel and MaxLevel=30, but of course also very much crash happens. Relative stable is with this mod OverrideOfficialDifficulty=30 and MinLevel and MaxLevel=30 but... its not the goal from me (and i dont want change resistance or damage multiplier, by the way)

[fierce meadow]

does anyone know how to fix REFRESHING INVENTORY ERROR 006, i cant play anymore. everytime i log in, i open some inventory, 1 fps infinite loading inventory and game blocked. help me pls !!!

[feral hull]

Does anyone know the cause of a couple lines of previously Tek-tier engrams now showing at level 0?
Seems I can't move the last few Tek engrams I have into the Tek-tier without bugging out the engram list entirely.

[thorny steppe]

hi so i got a server for me and my friend. its his first time playing ark so i need good settings for the server anyone got a good ini? we playing on fjordur

[runic abyss]

I'm trying to set up custom paintings but I can't figure out where to put the pnt files. Tried putting em C:\Island\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame\Saved\MyPaintings but nothing

[errant fox]

Anyone have a link or anything for available chibi commands that are working?

[iron bronze]

Does anyone know if it is at all possible to set up "roles" within the server to allow certain people to use certain admin commands? Or is it just all or nothing?

Mods will be considered if it is an option

[strong lake]

hello, i am trying to change the ini files for singleplayer ark but they do not apply at all. i still get too much damage per level and hp per level even though they are set at .14

does anyone know what i should do?

[flint oasis]

Heyooooo Anyone know how to allow for Paracers to go into Rockwell? Isn't there a drag weight requirement or something that I can change? Thanks! 😛

[empty peak]

is there anyway to customize the rewards in a private clubark server ?

[olive talon]

You can enable stuff like that with pod mods, like dino depot

[olive talon]

Not currently

[flint oasis]

Trying to avoid that lol But thanks! I tried out a mod a bit agho on my tiral server and I cant use the turrets anyhow 😄 they suck in Rockwell 😛

[zinc cliff]

does anyone know the rates of mature speed and cuddle interval as it was before they changed it

before at 1x rate cuddle it took like 14 or 15 minute between the intervals now its almost 8hrs

[zinc cliff]

i think there is a bug in these settings i set interval to 0.5 and its about 7minutes but i started the game at 1.0 and it was 8hrs

but it does not change the time interval on a baby dino that was already claimed before you changed it

[gilded copper]

Is there a way i can make it to where i can place structures at the Portal location on Ab? It's probably the safest place to put admin town but I can't build there.

[ionic anvil]

I have an ark survival acended server on linux that im setting up, im new to linux can anyone help me find the config files, the guide im following says they should be at these locations

asa-server_cluster-shared/
asa-server_server-files-1/
asa-server_steam-1/
asa-server_steamcmd-1/

and i also says the location is inside of this /var/lib/docker/volumes

[celest halo]

ini files normally dont show up till you start then stop the server

[ionic anvil]

yeah i already have

I don't know how to get to the files

[lunar cloud]

those file paths are relative paths, not full paths and they will be inside a docker volume
Your best bet is to look at a docker compose file if they provide one to see where the mount point is. Or use the docker inspect command on the container ID of the server when its running to get the volume mount point. Then you will know where it is inside the container and can use docker exec command to get in

[ionic anvil]

Yeah I have two compose files

[ionic anvil]

what should i look for in the compose file

[feral hull]

/var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer

You're using mschnitzer's docker script, so it'll be stored here. ^

[ionic anvil]

how would i access it? sorry, im new to linux

[feral hull]

With the cd command or an FTP like Filezilla.

[ionic anvil]

ok

[feral hull]

Recommend looking into those and general linux commands, get an idea of the environment.

[ionic anvil]

when i try to cd into /var/lib/docker it says permission denied

[ionic anvil]

do you know how to get past this?

[lunar cloud]

you may need to prefix your commands with sudo so you get access these folders

or make yourself part of the docker group

[feral hull]

Make sure you're using the account you made when you installed the docker

And familiarise yourself with permissions and permission commands

I'm not the guy to run you through Linux, sorry

[ionic anvil]

you can't use sudo

[lunar cloud]

did you install docker with your account in linux and are you logged in with that same account ?

[ionic anvil]

yeah

[lunar cloud]

easiest way is to make yourself part of the docker group
you'll need to be able to use sudo
sudo groupadd docker
and then sudo usermod -aG docker $USER to add yourself to docker group and you should be able to cd into those paths

if you cant use sudo then you need to read up how to add your account to sudoers group so you can use it

[ionic anvil]

it still says "-bash: cd: /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer: Permission denied"

[lunar cloud]

can you cd just up to here /var/lib/docker/volumes ?

[ionic anvil]

no, it stops letting me at /var/lib/docker

[lunar cloud]

if you have made yourself part of the docker group, you may have to log out and log back in for changes to take effect

[ionic anvil]

ok

[ionic anvil]

still dosn't work

[lunar cloud]

those are the only ways sorry, either you have sudo, or use the docker group , or you have to swtich to root with su -i which is not recommended to run as root. Docker is owned and run by root system which is why you need to be in the docker group to access those files.

I looked at mschnitzer's guide, and the docker installation method is not ideal. That guide should have pointed to docker website because the apt packages for docker in some of those operating systems are not latest and often have a lot of issues.
Even docker themselves dont encourage those packages and point to their own apt sources lists.

Personally if i were you i would uninstall docker and follow the official docker installation methods to get the proper binaries

[ionic anvil]

If i did that would i be able to import the ark server file or somthing?

or would uninstalling and reinstalling not affect the server files?

[lunar cloud]

Basically docker just makes it easier to run a program, because it has all the dependencies like proton and things that ark needs to run in linux using windows binaries because there are no linux installs for ASA at the moment.
Now docker has its own files, so when you run the container using the guide the ini config files you looking for are inside the container.
They will be on your system at /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer
because the mount point is under /var/lib/docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1 on your host
Then you can access the server files there

Your issue is you cant access it because docker is owned by root by default.
If adding yourself to docker group does not work, then your docker installation is not working correctly.
I've seen a ton of issues using default linux package managers to install docker and would recommend the official docs
Id reinstall docker and make sure it works properly, if you cared about it. because other things may give you issues down the track too.

Uninstall and reinstall you may lose the server files of asa and may need to install again

[ionic anvil]

ok, i will reinstall thanks

[lunar cloud]

before even starting the ASA container, the official docker docs has a test docker run command and also you can try cd into the /var/lib/docker etc after adding yourself to docker group and make sure it works because going down the ASA path

make sure to log out and in after adding yourself to the group

[celest halo]

or you could do a ls -la in the /var/lib folder and see what user/group that owns the docker folder and add yourself to that group

[lunar cloud]

it will be root user and docker group by default if docker was installed correctly

[celest halo]

if its a apt install on ubuntu its going to be root root

[lunar cloud]

ive had developers have this issue before. The mschnitzer guide indicates to install docker-compose in the installation.
This is not correct. Docker no longer supports the docker-compose binary and compose has been migrated into docker itself
It used to be docker-compose up to run, now its docker compose up to run.
Installing the way that guide indicates will break the docker installation

[lunar cloud]

are you using ubuntu ?

[ionic anvil]

yep

[lunar cloud]

If you google docker install ubuntu and first one from Docker Docs Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu then have a read through that, go down to Installation methods and there is a Use a convenience script. option which they provide. This would help get it installed.

But first uninstall what you have with apt remove docker docker-compose etc to make sure all is cleaned up before you install

[ionic anvil]

what is the best way to uninstall docker

[lunar cloud]

the guide you followed had apt-get install -y docker docker-compose
So to uninstall it would be apt-get remove docker docker-compose i beleive

[ionic anvil]

alright i reinstalled it, now should i just follow the guide agian

[lunar cloud]

can you actually access /var/lib/docker folders now ? and are you part of docker group ?

and also do the docker run test without sudo after adding yourself to the group and relogging

[ionic anvil]

yep i can access it now!

Thanks for your time

[lunar cloud]

Good stuff, now if the mschnitzer guide says docker-compose up that is incorrect. As you have latest docker now, its docker compose up instead

[ionic anvil]

It dosn't let me access /var/lib/docker/volumes but it lets me access /var/lib/docker

@lunar cloud

does anyone else know linux well?

[lunar cloud]

just looking at it, and it seems the volumes folder is only accessible by root to protect docker volume data, so you can access other place but not this.
In a terminal you can use sudo -i switch to root to access those files
Or if you work inside the container, you can use docker exec to go inside the server container as described in that guide
docker exec asa-server-1 bash
Then you can access the ini cat server-files/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/GameUserSettings.ini

[ionic anvil]

it says that nothing past volumes exists

[lunar cloud]

yeah there are no volumes on a fersh install, youll need to create containers with volumes

[ionic anvil]

ok

[ionic anvil]

how would i go about that

like how would I make those containers with volumes

@lunar cloud

[lunar cloud]

when you're following the guide you are using it should create volumes when the server starts

[ionic anvil]

ok

[ionic anvil]

I just started and stopped it and none of the files showed up, maybe they are somewhere else?

[solid tide]

Anybody know of any INI settings to make club ark better?

[lunar cloud]

you're going to need to take some time to learn docker. use docker volume ls and docker volume inspect commands to troubleshoot volume locations etc

[ionic anvil]

ok

looks like they are in here "/var/snap/docker/common/var-lib-docker/volumes/asa-server_server-files-1/_data

Thanks

[dapper spear]

Hey ever since abb my harvestratemultiplier hasn't been working. Its in game userser settings did something change?

Harvest amount multiplier **

[short eagle]

This should be a functional ini line for replacing therizino spawns outright with gigaraptors, right?

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Therizinosaurus/Therizino_Character_BP.Therizino_Character_BP",ToClassName="/Game/ASA/Dinos/Gigantoraptor/Gigantoraptor_Character_BP.Gigantoraptor_Character_BP")

because it's not working and I know the short path only stops things from spawning without actually replacing 😭

[sinful island]

do someone know the correct mushroom stacksize code? everythings works fine but the shrooms on asc aberration

ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemConsumable_Mushroom_Auric_C",Quantity=(MaxItemQuantity=500,bIgnoreMultiplier=true))
This doesn't work for me

[last magnet]

add _C to each of the paths, and it'll work

[short eagle]

Still getting therizino spawns. 😕

[last magnet]

and it's in game.ini?

[short eagle]

yep.

I'm guessing this means that line doesn't work for ASA

[dim lark]

Hi

[last magnet]

it's odd bc I have a similar line for NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Megalosaurus_Character_BP_Aberrant_C") to replace the Pyros on Ab with the Ab Megalos

oohhh you need to do it as Therizino_Character_BP_C and Gigantoraptor_Character_BP_C

not the full bp path

[short eagle]

that was the first way I tried. It stopped therizino spawns, but didn't actually replace them.

I've also got a line that should be swapping kapros for otters but it doesn't work either

...oh wait

well I feel really stupid rn

I was editing my backup ini copy instead of the live one 💀

aaand it's still not working either way

[edgy pasture]

anyone elses dedi server for ABB crashing alot?

[lunar cloud]

nope, had 1 crash since launch which happened recently in recent patch

[short eagle]

after some reading, probably the only reason that line looks like it's working is because pyros and megalos share a spawn container in the first place on Ab. It stops spawns, but the line itself is partially broken in ASA for whatever reason and is extremely inconsistent in actually replacing.
A mod is needed for full replacing. 🥲

[last magnet]

oh bummer I have no clue what could be wrong, then I'm sorry. I use Beacon to do my ini's

[short eagle]

yeah I just got the configuration toolkit mod

[last magnet]

ahh yeah I was trying to avoid using more mods, since I wasn't happy with having to log into each map to block spawns with Spawn Blocker and then a second mod to swap the pyros

I had to do a wipe bc of a corrupted mod taking out my saves, so I've been looking at reducing my mods where possible

[short eagle]

that's exactly why I'm being paranoid about what mods I install. CT makes four total for me

[hard rapids]

On top of npcreplacements you also need to add the incoming Dino to the spawn container

And if you're playing on a dedicated server you can use plugins to adjust spawns server-side instead

[olive talon]

NPCreplacements has rarely worked correctly when trying to swap spawns, but it does work for simply stopping spawns most of the time

[last magnet]

I'm trying the NPC replacement code and a blocking mod.

[olive talon]

Spawn Blocker does remove the pyromanes from Ab, I use it on mine. I don't use NPC

If you do want them replaced with megalos, it is better to use one of the pyromane mods, imo

[errant fox]

Anyone have a list of what chibis are active in ASA?

[barren flume]

Is there a command to remove all trees temporarily?

[olive talon]

@dim lark #bobs-with-probs

[dim lark]

Ok thx

[humble thicket]

if i have a server with no mods, and i make a club ark server which has per default summer bash and club ark mods. will that work? or do i need summer bash and club ark mods on my main server too?

[distant hearth]

club ark servers are standalone, do NOT add that mod to your main server it will likely crash it or change the map to club ark

[humble thicket]

and for the rewards, summer bash skins and stuff. will i need the summer bash mod on my main server?

[distant hearth]

no, the items from that are in base game now

[humble thicket]

you are the best mate. thanks alot, you been answering my questions for days now. much love!

[lapis quest]

its fine adding the mod, everything there works

[wise kindle]

It will wipe an established map. Thats what he means, dont add it to an established map.

[broken halo]

Yep make a brand new server instance you can link it to the other maps with cluster ID settings but by no means add that to another map config line

And for people that use nitrado it means you have to rent another map service

[distant hearth]

luckily with the way asa stores save data for each map seperate, its not the end of the world adding it, but best to save the hassle an not add to a running map hehe 🙂

[broken halo]

Truth

[fickle crystal]

ANyone here know wht any new heavy turrest placed can't be fuirther than 9 foundations?

[full hazel]

If my friend sets up a private server for us to play just through his PC, can we access all maps, or does each map in a cluster require it’s own server?

[distant hearth]

each maps requires its own server , or server instance depending how its setup , each map/server will use approx 8-16gb ram depending on player count/mods used etc

[full hazel]

Ok thanks - is it true that we could pause the server, change the map, then start it back up, and if we wanted to come back to the other map(s) the save data would still exist?

[distant hearth]

if its for ark ascended yea thats true , but you wud want to backup the data as a precaution
ase you have to backup the data or use server start commands to store the data in a differnt location

[full hazel]

Yes; for ascended. So what does that look like in a practical way? We just spawn our character on the new map and still have levels/stats but no gear, Dino’s, etc., as they would all be stored on the other map?

[distant hearth]

no , if you only had one server , who ever runs it wud need to know how to copy/move the player data over or you wud have to start with fresh chars on the new map

its less complicated than it sounds but you do need a basic knowledge of pc file paths and how the data is saved in ark

[full hazel]

Got it so does that mean if we knew how we could also copy everything else with us besides just our characters?

[distant hearth]

that wud be more difficult but is sort of possible

[full hazel]

Thank you

Very helpful

[distant hearth]

np , get the server up an working first before trying more complex stuff. most people struggle just getting the server working when they first try

[full hazel]

Yes just wanted to know what is or isn’t possible before we even decide to try

Does any of this become easier if we rent a nitrado server?

Keep in mind, we have 0 experience doing any of this as you can tell

[distant hearth]

yes an no , nitrado its easy to get a working server that u can join ]

[full hazel]

But still, we would have to rent multiple servers to make a cluster, yes?

[distant hearth]

yes

[bleak ivy]

ark data (items, dinos, and uploaded survivors) will work normally as long as the cluster is setup even if you only host 1 at a time.
its just the transfer button that doesn't work.

you can just host the 2 servers when you want to transfer as well. it shouldn't cause too many issues if the PC can run ark in general.

just start the second server, transfer, close the first server

[dim lark]

How do I make it when I level up? I unlock all the Ingram in that level.

[bleak ivy]

are you on console SP or a server?

[dim lark]

I plan console

Play

[dim lark]

?

[bleak ivy]

you'd need to find a mod that does it then. console singleplayer can't use the ini setting.
I haven't looked for one but I'm sure its out there since it was there for steam ASE

[distant hearth]

ez engram unlocker i think is pop one

[tepid berry]

So - I had something weird happen to my Center server. I applied the update, and normally ... 30 mins or so and you'll see a server dump all the memory as it puts things into stasis. The Center didn't. So I tried logging into it, and it started destroying things - lagged me out and crashed the game - but it sounded as if every tame on the server had been spawned right on top of me. So I start looking deeper - The .ark save files, over the course of 2 days, had ballooned from 119mb, up to like 450mb! I'm glad I do daily backups, because the last good save file was from 3 days ago :[

Got a bunch of this:

[2024.10.05-02.54.29:394][307]Structure is at Zero, destroying: StorageBox_TekGenerator_C_2135395487
[2024.10.05-02.54.29:394][307]Structure is at Zero, destroying: FeedingTrough_C_2131639791
[2024.10.05-02.54.29:394][307]Structure is at Zero, destroying: Wall_Stone_C_2122591796

[hearty oxide]

CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads is this also works on other maps or its only work on AB?

[frail heron]

have you tried a full dino wipe? Will they respawn as many dinos as before?

[elder fox]

6 of us can join server perfectly fine, one of us doesn’t see it. They can join on through invites just fine but the server listing isn’t there.

Xbox series x, all of us.

[last magnet]

anyone with crashing after the minor version update that dropped earlier today?

[humble thicket]

Can someone tell me what I need to configure so that snapped structures also decay after a certain amount of time, and that the decay timer is shown? It works with unsnapped items, but I've tried everything and can't get it to work with snapped items. I have several inactive bases on the server, and it would be good if they would decay automatically after some time, so the server stays clean from unused structures.

[tepid berry]

I don't see how that has anything to do with it? It wasn't wild dinos that were on me, it was every tame on the server.

[last magnet]

the update broke a mod, ATJ's Creature Additions, the fix is hopefully to turn off spawns of a couple of creatures, which is in the mod discord. I right now have it inactive on my servers

[trail raptor]

Yo, need some help, my friend is running a server on the windows version of ark with nitrado and we are trying to increase the wild dino level cap to 300, looked it up and people are saying to put OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10 into the GameUserSettings, we have restarted the server and dino wiped multiple times but no luck? Does anyone know what we can do?

[stable scarab]

Having a similar issue with the following:

ServerPVE=True
ShowFloatingDamageText=True
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0```
All 3 lines added to GameUserSettings.ini

I have changed the message of the day to confirm other things are working.

[distant hearth]

stop the server , wait 5 minutes , go into the gameusersetting.ini, look under the header [serversettings] the lines may already be there, if so alter the values, if the line isnt there only then do you add it . save the file , wait a minute, restart server , in game do a wild dino wipe whilst looking at a wild to confirm the wipe works

You will both need to check under that header incase you have put duplicate lines in there by adding lines

[stable scarab]

Did that.

Also did over an hour of googling before coming here.

[trail raptor]

exact same

[stable scarab]

I didn't come to live people to get basic troubleshooting, no offense.

[distant hearth]

no problem , i shall let you carry on trying figure it out

[stable scarab]

Thanks. =D

[trail raptor]

bump, still need help

[distant hearth]

in the game.ini look for this line,
MaxDifficulty=False
if its set true it will force dinos to only be able to spawn upto max level of 150

[trail raptor]

ill try that now thank

[thorn spear]

is there a way to host a server without steamcmd?

[distant hearth]

there is if you own the game through steam on the same machine you want the server on, using steams dedicated server tool , its better to do through stmcmd imho. Any particular reason you dont want to use stmcmd?

[elder fox]

6 of us can join server perfectly fine, one of us doesn’t see it. They can join on through invites just fine but the server listing isn’t there.

Xbox series x, all of us.

[willow latch]

how can I play ark with ym friend on a locally hosted server if we're using family shared copies?

[sinful island]

Does anyone know why the player names change to "Player" after a server transfer in the cluster?

[gilded copper]

Do trains cause alot of lag? I had a player suggest using trains instead of teleporters

[broken halo]

Make sure that one person has player server box checked in bottom right of join screen if it's a self hosted it won't show unless checked and maybe have them screenshare with you so you can see if they doing something different

[worn wagon]

why cant my friends join my non dedicated server?. its just stuck when trying to load in

[broken halo]

Seems like curse forge is having issues loading content but yet you can still update mods ?!? I confuzzled lol

[olive talon]

Curseforge has been having issues since about 2:30pm Eastern Timezone

[dull oasis]

anyone know the code for enabling building in resource rich locations?

[humble thicket]

PvEAllowStructuresAtSupplyDrops

woudl allow you to build at drops

[dull oasis]

would that work for allowing building in the infested cave on insaluna?

[distant hearth]

gameusersetting.ini under the header [serversettings]
EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False
if the line is in there an set true change it to false

mod maps use there own settings alot the time, u will have to ask in there discord for specifics

[dense island]

does anyone know what i can do when i trie to join a unoffical server and this message pops up "unabeld to load content"

[distant hearth]

curseforge is having issues atm, it effects most servers with mods, just got wait till it fixed

[dense island]

do i have to update my game when its fixed?

[dull oasis]

no its set false, i was able to adjust that from the in game settings menu

[distant hearth]

no if it was already uptodate then it will work again when that provider has fixed what ever there issue is

[dense island]

ok thank you

[distant hearth]

like i said for a mod map you will likely need to ask them, they often use there own rules ,
all standard server settings can be found here ,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration
you can try searching for building an make sure nothing you have set is restricting it

[marble condor]

why do these curseforge issues only appear on weekends lol

[dull oasis]

i just went thru every line of code on there 🥲

[distant hearth]

likely due to the higher server load on a weekend

[dense island]

ok i will take a look

thx

[distant hearth]

this was in response to the other persons issue just as a fyi

[dense island]

oh sorry

[jaunty vortex]

Curseforge discord saying it should be resolved.

[stable scarab]

So, I went through these steps to remove and readd those again, I'd done so before, but I figured I'd humor you. Took half an hour, and hasn't changed anything.

[stiff pike]

how do i fix timed out connect thing in ark me and my friend are trying to play ark but it keeps saying timed out lost connect

[pure sable]

Are you trying to host a session directly from your playing pc or you have a private dedicated server running ?

[stiff pike]

non dedicated

from my pc

[pure sable]

Pretty sure your antivirus or firewall is denting your friend connection

Denying *

[stiff pike]

how do i prevent that

[pure sable]

Most of antivirus allow the option to disable temporarly the firewall did you try it ?

[stiff pike]

how do i do that

[pure sable]

Normally right click on the bottom right icon of your antivirus ( in my case its norton) and in the option i can desactivate the firewall for 15 min

[stiff pike]

it says i can turn off real time protection for a bit

do my friends have to do it aswell

[pure sable]

Non only the one hosting

No*

Pretty sure there is also some port forwarding to do in your ISP router ? Can any1 else confirm that

[stiff pike]

did i just turn it off for a little bit in till they join

[pure sable]

Try it to see if he can connect

Check this in the pinned message

#unofficial-setup-help message

[stiff pike]

i sent a pic in dms @pure sable

[distant hearth]

I always suggest doing that as nitrado u/i is notoriously lagging and changes dont always take effect if rushed(the wait times matter). Your issue is somewhat unusual as its more than one setting which is why i also suggested looking in the ini file to check there under the correct header and to look for duplicate lines. (i dont know what lines are already in a nitrado ini's by default now a days but many people come here after "adding lines that are already there" causing issues)

for double confirmation you can copy paste the ini from the server itself, send it me and i will take a look at it for you too, extra set of eyes an that, its easy to miss things , we've all done it at some point , typo or duped a line etc .

Once the basics are confirmed those issues can be ruled out , prob shud of asked if it was ase or asa ? i know nitrado can be a bit funny about overwriting the actual ini lines with whats set in the general settings on ase if you switch back an forwards between expert an normal mode .

next step wud be to look if any mods cud be an issue ... not that i can think of any that wud do that tbh

with such an unusual issue its just a a matter of taking logical steps or relying on noitrados wonderful support lolz

[stable scarab]

This is an auxilex server, not a Nitrado one. I was having too many issues with Nitrado connections, so I migrated.

I did use the search function to confirm I didn't double line.

Let me grab that and the game.ini.

Gonna have to wait unless I can figure out how to get it on my phone. I just started a film for the fam on that PC.

It is ASA.

[distant hearth]

eeek , thats ermm risky tbh, nitrado have sole rights to asa server providing for like 3 years or summit . unless self hosting and installing the server files your self!
none the less , there all pretty much the same thing, never heard of that site, so id check through the general settings page first if they have one an make it match what ure doing in the ini , incase there somehow overwriting it

generally you can tell if there overwriting the ini files though as after starting and then stopping the server the ini files will have reverted back to before you made changes

[stable scarab]

Yeah. I am essentially self hosting through the auxilex server.

I wanted to do it at home, but my internet is designed to not allow people to connect to my ports.

[distant hearth]

yea my internet is awful so i cant self host, just run a couple servers at home for myself at the moment for messing about and testing stuff

you will want to check the command line for starting the server as anything in that will override ini file settings

[stable scarab]

DMing you the config file text.

[grim sinew]

anyone else having issue with modded Engram Overrides not working in Game.INI after the last patch?

[distant hearth]

is it a specific mod ? theres someone in beacons discord having similar issues with erm automated ark engrams i think it is

[grim sinew]

its just the modded ones JVH, CS, ....base game ones are working

turns out a lot of people using the CS one are reporting the same thing

[celest halo]

one of my engram overrides for dino depot stopped working right after yesterdays ark update

[marsh forge]

are there any mods that would change abb recipies using fungal wood to use normal and fungal wood

[olive talon]

You can just change the crafting costs?

[marsh forge]

wait i can?

[olive talon]

Yes lol

[marsh forge]

how? what file?

[distant hearth]

yea u wud change it in the game ini , if you want something specific i might be able show an example

[olive talon]

Game.ini
Something like this, making a fridge cost only stone to craft.

ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemStructure_Icebox",BaseCraftingResourceRequirements=((ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Stone_C",BaseResourceRequirement=100,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False)))

That might be missing something but it's just an example

[marsh forge]

would i just paste something like that in, or change something

[olive talon]

You'd need whatever item, and then whatever you want it to use to craft, so yes you'd make changes and copy and paste it in

[marsh forge]

ok, where would i find the itemcode thingies

[olive talon]

The wiki, likely w1ll is probably about to post more info on it XD

[distant hearth]

i was but im kinda confused as to what the og post is trying to achieve

[olive talon]

Sounds like making an item with regular wood or fungal wood instead of just fungal

[distant hearth]

nvm i just needed to read haha sry

[olive talon]

Haha np

[distant hearth]

this part of the code here
bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False
if something speciffically needed fungal wood it wud be set true, change it to false for each item an then u can just use normal wood

[marsh forge]

so do i just put that in along with the
ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=

[distant hearth]

you will need the full code for what ever item you try to change ,

[marsh forge]

oh and the items i wanna change, just realized i forgot to say that

[marsh forge]

ok, thx

[distant hearth]

i cant think of anything that specifically needs fungal wood tbh ? maybe cliff platforms?

[distant hearth]

@marsh forge just so you know i think i may be wrong about how that code works , it sbeen a while since i meesed with crafting costs,
i think u might have to switch out the fungal wood for normal wood .
ie, this is the default code for fish basket ,
ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemStructure_FishBasket_C",BaseCraftingResourceRequirements=((ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_FungalWood_C",BaseResourceRequirement=60,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Fibers_C",BaseResourceRequirement=120,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Thatch_C",BaseResourceRequirement=40,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False)))

to make cost normal wood instead , wud be
ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemStructure_FishBasket_C",BaseCraftingResourceRequirements=((ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Fibers_C",BaseResourceRequirement=120,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Thatch_C",BaseResourceRequirement=40,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Wood_C",BaseResourceRequirement=60,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False)))

sry if i confused you , i might have confused my self lolz

ConfigOverrideItemCraftingCosts=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemStructure_FishBasket_C",BaseCraftingResourceRequirements=((ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Fibers_C",BaseResourceRequirement=120,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_Thatch_C",BaseResourceRequirement=40,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False),(ResourceItemTypeString="PrimalItemResource_WoodOrFungalWood_C",BaseResourceRequirement=60,bCraftingRequireExactResourceType=False)))
might work to let it use either wood or fungal wood but i havent tested that

[gilded copper]

is there a dino/structure that i can use to protect admin town from ONLY wild creatures? Not attack players or their tames?

[distant hearth]

you cud setup aload of auto turrets , fill them an have them set to wild creatures only

[gilded copper]

i knew there was something, i just couldnt remember what. thank you. Are auto turrets the only thing that can target wild creatures only?

[distant hearth]

theres aplant that can do it too but auto turrets best way tbh, just fill them up as admin set a pin lock on em an u wont have worry for ages iirc

[worn kraken]

Can anyone make sense of this:

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000020100000003
CL: 584286
0x00007ffcca871656 VCRUNTIME140.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff6312ad7ba ArkAscendedServer.exe!TArray<FString,TSizedDefaultAllocator<32> >::CopyToEmpty<FString,int>() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\Array.h:3007]
0x00007ff632d94aa0 ArkAscendedServer.exe!TArray<FSupplyCrateItemEntry,TSizedDefaultAllocator<32> >::CopyToEmpty<FSupplyCrateItemEntry,int>() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\Array.h:3007]
0x00007ff632d985fb ArkAscendedServer.exe!TArray<FSupplyCrateItemSet,TSizedDefaultAllocator<32> >::operator=() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Containers\Array.h:507]
0x00007ff63309e180 ArkAscendedServer.exe!APrimalStructureItemContainer_SupplyCrate::GenerateCrateItems() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\PrimalStructureItemContainer_SupplyCrate.cpp:398]
0x00007ff63309d645 ArkAscendedServer.exe!APrimalStructureItemContainer_SupplyCrate::BeginPlay() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\PrimalStructureItemContainer_SupplyCrate.cpp:87]
0x00007ff6351780ba ArkAscendedServer.exe!AActor::DispatchBeginPlay() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Actor.cpp:4396]
0x00007ff63517c28d ArkAscendedServer.exe!AActor::FinishSpawning() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Actor.cpp:4076]
0x00007ff6351862f2 ArkAscendedServer.exe!AActor::PostSpawnInitialize() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Actor.cpp:4006]
0x00007ff6356964d2 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UWorld::SpawnActor() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\LevelActor.cpp:721]
0x00007ff63569668e ArkAscendedServer.exe!UWorld::SpawnActor() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\LevelActor.cpp:425]
0x00007ff633385d23 ArkAscendedServer.exe!ASupplyCrateSpawningVolume::CheckCrateSpawn() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\SupplyCrateSpawningVolume.cpp:273]
0x00007ff631286eb3 ArkAscendedServer.exe!TBaseUObjectMethodDelegateInstance<0,UNiagaraComponent,void cdecl(void),FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy>::Execute() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Delegates\DelegateInstancesImpl.h:535]
0x00007ff635a8c3cd ArkAscendedServer.exe!FTimerManager::Tick() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\TimerManager.cpp:1022]
0x00007ff635697dfb ArkAscendedServer.exe!UWorld::Tick() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\LevelTick.cpp:1683]
0x00007ff635500a05 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UGameEngine::Tick() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\GameEngine.cpp:1919]
0x00007ff6331e502a ArkAscendedServer.exe!UShooterEngine::Tick() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterEngine.cpp:190]
0x00007ff6310f0d17 ArkAscendedServer.exe!FEngineLoop::Tick() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:5906]
0x00007ff6310f893c ArkAscendedServer.exe!GuardedMain() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Launch.cpp:195]
0x00007ff6310f89ba ArkAscendedServer.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:118]
0x00007ff6310f959c ArkAscendedServer.exe!LaunchWindowsStartup() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:258]
0x00007ff6311010e7 ArkAscendedServer.exe!WinMain() [C:\j\workspace\RelA\Engine\Source\Runtime\Launch\Private\Windows\LaunchWindows.cpp:299]
0x00007ff6366d1322 ArkAscendedServer.exe!scrt_common_main_seh() [D:\a_work\1\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
0x00007ffcd19a257d KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffcd240af28 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
Last Remote Function RPC_ExplicitServerUpdateEvent

Ab is the only map acting this way following the most recent update. It is crashing every 1-2 hours.

[distant hearth]

do you have any sort custom supply drop coding? it seems to be spitting out alot complaints about a drop

[worn kraken]

Yes.

The drops have been since map drop without this issue. It is recent. Guess I need to review all of them to see if there is an issue

[distant hearth]

yea , if u have anything set to crazy it tends to break things over time , especially if you satrt adding mutiple tghousands of things to drops

any modded items added to drops might also cause issues after updates , that sort thing

[worn kraken]

Nothing crazy. Whites are a metal starter kit and white ringed are kibble set. Artifacts all contain all boss fight items (to prevent cave blockers stopping boss fights)

[distant hearth]

not sure then tbh , but that error is complaining about a drop on mutiple lines i think , im not great at reading them though i must admit .
i wud try without any drop changes , if no more crashes you have narrowed down a bit further

[worn kraken]

I can do that, it just makes things a bit challenging. I wish it was easier to read

[distant hearth]

i always presume its a skill issue on my part that i can only get a general understanding ,
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000020100000003
this part is basically a generic memory read error afaik , then u look further an see ,

0x00007ff632d94aa0 ArkAscendedServer.exe!TArray<FSupplyCrateItemEntry,TSizedDefaultAllocator<32> >::CopyToEmpty<FSupplyCrateItemEntry,int>() ```
which seems to point at a container issue , then narrows further to a supply drop , wud be nice if i cud understand further an tell which supply drop to you but i dont haha

i cud even be completely wrong an its something else, fair warning

[quasi hollow]

Im hosting a cluster with 7 maps 4 work but rag, crystal, and val load as shooterentry and wont work

[thorn spear]

anyone want to help me set up a deciated server?

[distant hearth]

asa or ase , what sort of hardware an o/s?

[thorn spear]

i dont know what asa or ase is, but i am running windows and my pc is good enough to run and play

@distant hearth

[distant hearth]

asa = ark ascended ase= ark evolved , they have very different requirements ,
not only do you need a half decent pc , you also need good internet , be able to port forward router, windows firewall and any anti virus/malware software u may or may not use.
then u will need to learn how to setup the server ini files to how u want if u dont already know

[thorn spear]

ASE and I have ran other servers for other games on here, I did the port forwarding already, I just dont know how to use SteamCMD and the setting files and what to put in them

[distant hearth]

how can you port forward something that you dont know how to setup or what ports it uses 🙂 anyway these two links shud help out ,
for server setup ,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup
for server config (ini files)
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

if those dont help there are a ton of guides for ase on youtube an google

[thorn spear]

Do you know how I add a password? I actually was very close to getting the server up and running

@distant hearth

[distant hearth]

you can do it via server start command or via the gameusersetting ini , both the links i gave shud explain it

[bronze ingot]

so on windows 10 nitrado none of the cluster codes are working can someone please message me personally and tell me what the problem is