unofficial-setup-help

[bronze ingot]

@distant hearth

[vague shell]

Im trying to install a mod i got from curseforge but idk how to install it, can anyone help?

everything on google that i try to find only offers instructions for adding mods from steam workshop or for servers, but im just playing singleplayer

[knotty scarab]

anyone know why the game runs so s##t??

[humble thicket]

have you checked your pc? ark needs power, alot of power to run ok

[rough brook]

Thank youuu 🫶
I hope this also helps with ASA.
This constant character loss is just so annoying, and you really lose motivation, both as a player and as a server owner😥😵‍💫

[ionic turret]

Well my server has been in a restart loop for a full 24 hours after that cursed forge problem yesterday. Anyone have any advice before I just delete the whole thing and start over lol

[wintry barn]

Why did the Evergrande stone and crystal iron only have images and not let them dig? There are images all along. Are you not fixing this or are you not?

[rough brook]

Nitrado Server?

[ionic turret]

yeah

[rough brook]

Unfortunately, we also had this problem when we were with Nitrado.
You can contact support.
But you can also try uploading an old backup to the server (that's how I did it). I always had a backup server where I uploaded the savegame, because waiting for a response from Nitrado just took forever....

Luckily, we're no longer with them ^^

[ionic turret]

Same experience here unfortunately. Who are you with now? I'm guessing you host your own?

[rough brook]

Yeah now im hosting my own.
Much better than Nitrado.

[ionic turret]

Are you using a second pc?

[rough brook]

No, I rented a dedicated Server 😅

[ionic turret]

Wait how?👀

[rough brook]

But u have to manage everything by yourself

[errant fox]

Anyone know how to fix a Refreshing Ark Inventory bug?

[slow ridge]

does anyone have an idea why my crafting is on 0? like when i craft a pick or anything it just says 0 and doesnt craft

[hidden temple]

error! App '243093' state is 0x606 after update job. how is this fixed?

[broken halo]

can confirm it works on ASA

[ionic turret]

Any recomendations on where to rent one from?

[rough brook]

Perfect thank you 😊🌻

[rough brook]

There are many providers, it's best to just Google it. But if you've never hosted a dedicated server yourself before, you should thoroughly research it first, as you'll have to handle everything on your own.

Do you have your own cluster? If not, you could simply join another cluster, which will save you time, stress, and money 😊

[ionic turret]

Thank you!! I have for other games but not ark, gportal was great lol but ill deff look into this

[olive talon]

If it is Ark Survival Ascended, Nitrado is the only officially allowed option to rent servers (not hardware) from.

If it's Evolved, Gportal is by far the best.

[ionic turret]

Yeah unfortunately its asa

[rough brook]

For ASA is Nitrado and Dedicated Servers 😊

[olive talon]

You can rent hardware from other companies to host your own servers, which is usually cheaper and better supported since you can typically handle everything yourself without relying on Nitrado.

[olive talon]

That's why I said Nitrado (and technically Apex, as they're also Nitrado) is the only official place to rent servers from. Renting your own hardware or using your own is separate from that, as there's no contract preventing it.

[ionic turret]

Thank you all, im going to look into it today 🙂

(we miss u gportal)

🥲

[jaunty vortex]

You’ll be able to run more maps on a rented Windows server

[rustic garnet]

Hi, does anyone know how to apply the green armor with the scifi soldier mod?

[indigo dagger]

The latest update broke the ability to properly manage engrams from mods on private servers. Their levels are all mixed up, disabled ones appearing in the list at odd places, etc. Confirmed other server managers are having the same issue. Anyone see if WC has seen or aknowleged that this issue exists?

[distant hearth]

not seen anything from them about it , some modders are trying to fix , not sure how effective as havent checked but i know cyber structures had an update today

[dull oasis]

am i lucky and anyone in here knows how to make all caves buildable on insaluna

[indigo dagger]

Im not sure that mod authors can fix it. But I could be wrong

[abstract flare]

Anyone know how to fix this error? it keeps crashing my game (Only happens with ragnarok)

Assertion failed: ActualIndex >= 0 [File:F:\build\LostIsland\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\WorldSerializedObject.cpp] [Line: 128]

[obtuse falcon]

What setting makes you harvest rocks in less swings but keep yield?

[distant hearth]

its
PlayerHarvestingDamageMultiplier=1
and
DinoHarvestingDamageMultiplier=3.2
by default , higher numbers= less swings

[obtuse falcon]

Thanks so much I’ll mess around with these until it fits my needs

[obtuse falcon]

Looked under that setting for Dino and it says “changing this changes the resources not the swings”

[distant hearth]

looked where?

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration has most of the settings

[obtuse falcon]

On my nitrado server

Under the setting

[distant hearth]

what exactly does it say ?

[obtuse falcon]

Adjusts the damage output of dinosaurs or creatures when harvesting resources, with higher values increasing the amount of resources gathered per attack and lower values decreasing the yield.

[distant hearth]

they just worded it very weirdly different ...

wiki has it as,
scales the damage done to a harvestable item/entity by a tame. A higher number increases (by percentage) the speed of harvesting.

anyhow its upto you if u want to do it or not ..
higher value increases the yield per swing as it does more damage to the node, the node still has the same health aka amount it gives just gets destroyed faster

[obtuse falcon]

I have a message out to a buddy who runs a server see what he says

[thorn spear]

So I have an ASE server I am hosting on my pc, is there a way I can set it up so PS4 can play on my server with me?

[distant hearth]

no, ase is not xplay

[elder plover]

omg is this the reason Ive spent the last day restarting my server trying different configs/mod orders to try and fix this

yeah what ive noticed is for some reason the setting doesnt get applied to the right engram, if i saw have the owl griffin saddle hidden and the ark smart breeding gun set to level 5, the gun might be disabled and the griffin saddle will be set to level 5 the only thing ive found changes these around (with no reason i could find) is changing the order the mods are loaded in

at least I now know thanks XD

[random pine]

thx for you info here... got completly crazy cause i couldnt fix it..... so iam not alone and have to wait for WC to fix it. also seems that mod maps have problems to load since last update.... at least for me

[indigo dagger]

Yeah, its ALL mixed up.

Engrams mixing up their levels, mixing up their disabled status.... Its a complete mess.

[elder fox]

Anyway command to disable charge/charge bug particle effects? The option in settings is Not working even after restart.

[olive talon]

fx.EnableNiagaraSpriteRendering 0

[jagged garnet]

So uhhh whats with people joining and either leaving in less than 60sec or only making a lvl 1 human and leaving?

[knotty scarab]

bruh does it need more power than an rtx 4060

the game is just poorly optimized

they can do better but their greed for money is the priority

[untold mason]

i ask this in bob probs but maybe it was the wrong thread - is there any way to stop or at least reduce the interval for quakes in ark:asa abberation? thanks for any help you can provide 🙂

[crude hawk]

Dang I just spent a lot of time trying to figure out why my engrams are messed up.

[random pine]

tested a bit more... in SinglePlayer with same game.ini and gameusersettings.ini, all works fine... its just servers that have problems with it

[elder fox]

Does it work on console?

[olive talon]

Should,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Console_commands

[last hornet]

Hello all, I’m looking at getting away from shittrado, what kind of hardware you all using ? How many servers can it run ?

[lunar cloud]

im running mine using a mini-pc i bought off amazon. good CPU and 32GB RAM, running all the official maps (island\se\center\ab) without issues.

[jaunty vortex]

RAM is really the most important thing if you’re hosting a load of maps and mods.

[last magnet]

I have a Precision 5810 with 64GB of RAM, and I run five servers with ~190 mods. All of them up at the same time, uses 90% of RAM, so I run one map + Club Ark or a second map for transferring as needed/wanted

[jaunty vortex]

190 mods??? On each server?

[last hornet]

Ok thanks I’ll look that one up

[last hornet]

How hard is it to set up ?

[last magnet]

not hard, but I'm used to setting up windows

I used ASA Dedicated Manager, and Beacon Omni for settings. I used Beacon free for my SP game, and wanted control over engrams, so I paid for Omni

I also used the Server Configuration page in the wiki for learning about what each setting did

[last hornet]

Ok than you, I have beacon Omni too well worth it tbh.

[last magnet]

very much so! I also read a lot of the help files and asked in the Beacon discord

majority of the how to set up a server videos were aimed for setting up Nitrado

or for batch files

[iron bronze]

Is there a mod or something that can enable admins to hide engrams? Trying to hide some mod engrams and it is doing some weird stuff

[iron bronze]

I know you can do it with beacon, but I don't know how to sort beacon out and I don't even know if I can seeing as our servers are on a rented machine with GSH

[distant hearth]

mod engrams are all a bit broken after the last server update , prob just gotta wait for an update from wildcard or the modders that fixes them .
you can always hit export in beacon then copy paste the lines you want from beacon to the server if you cant get it to connect

[iron bronze]

Ah okay...that explains it then...I will wait seeing as I know the game.ini lines I put in for the engrams should work...thank you for the info! ^^

One more question, what is the best way to get server logs sent to webhooks? Or is it just not possible at the moment? I know there is Helena but that only works with Nitrado servers.

[lapis quest]

Discord integrator + Tribe Logs Ascended (paid plugin tho

[iron bronze]

Okay, thank you

[elder fox]

So I know about replacing a creature, but is there a way for me to just remove a creature from spawning?

Trying to get rid of charge bugs entirely 😂

[distant hearth]

you can try this in game.ini

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

sometimes it works sometimes it dont in asa for disabling creatures

[upbeat compass]

I'm using NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="FireLion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="") to replace Pyromanes, and it's working for pyromanes, just change the bp

anyone know how to get player names to show when in a tribe/alliance? can see player names when not in the same tribe or alliance though

[river tinsel]

hey anyone knows the cave tek cooldown ?

[analog oracle]

Any server owners out there with problems related to rendering? Bases, charge nodes, wild bee hives, plant species Z, all taking minutes, even hours to load

Only in aberration as well

Is this a known issue?

[celest halo]

53.11 was posed to fix rendering issues on ab #patch-notes message

[analog oracle]

our server is at 54.7 atm, and the issues still persists

this is the reason im asking

if anybody else still has the issue

[celest halo]

53.11 fixed base rendering for me, had it before that. I haven't seen any problems with 54.7 on my server

[lapis quest]

How many players are playing/played on the last month?

This is happening on aberration only on our clusters, literally no one can load their bases properly

[wise kindle]

I usually have players kill themselves to fix this. Usually see it after big updates that cause really slow render.

[slow crane]

Is there a way to manually update my nitrado servers game version without reinstalling the whole game and losing my servers progress?

[distant hearth]

nitrado server doesnt have a game version, it has a server version an does it automatically ,
it will be on server v54.7

[slow crane]

My aberration server is
On v52 but my others are on 54

So something happened and it didn't update so I'm trying to figure out how to do what

That

[distant hearth]

you can manually restart the server, see if it takes the update...
if that does not work you will have to contact nitrado support

[slow crane]

It didnt

[distant hearth]

something there end hs gone wrong, if u want mess about, u cud ftp connect to the server, manually download the save files, reinstall the game to the server, then put the save files back,
risky if u dont know what ure doing,

also might not fix it if something is wrong there side with that server

[slow crane]

I put in a ticket

[distant hearth]

it might take em a while but that,s easiest way, with weird issues like that.
its prob worth you learning how to make manual backups of the servers though if running a cluster an care about the data

[slow crane]

Ya I just don't trust myself

Ive had this issue for a few weeks now I was hoping the next update that released would just make it fix itself

But it didnt

[distant hearth]

many years ago when i first did it , i actually rented a spare server for a month to play about an test with, i think you can get them for just 3 days now though if it something u ever did want to mess with

[uncut oak]

Anyone know for Nitrado if I can put my credits back on my card or is the money stuck In ky account now?

[distant hearth]

nitrado has there own discord and support, probably best to ask there.
id imagine for that sort issue you need to contatc there customer support directly

[uncut oak]

Ok I’m jw cause there’s money in there and I won’t be buying another server from them

[last hornet]

Just one more question, the graphics don’t really matter ?
Or should you have decent graphics card ?

[distant hearth]

server uses cpu an ram , the only reason for any sort graphics is so u can have a display to do what u need to do ,

[last hornet]

So I’m trying to figure out what system is best for what I want to run, at least 10 maps maybe more, can that be done from one system ? With lots of ram and what cpu would be needed at min

[distant hearth]

for ark ascended?

[last hornet]

Yes for Asa, Just trying to understand hosting from my own hardware

[jaunty vortex]

you're looking at 128GB or more of RAM for 10 maps with mods

[distant hearth]

its gonna depend on player count per server, mods used , etc etc
as a rough guide asa maps use a cpu core an 8-14gb ram per server for upto 20 players

[mossy lance]

Anyone know how to get SP to verify mods before starting?

[distant hearth]

prob less cpu but thats again gonna change on the amount players, amount shit built on the map etc

[humble thicket]

Did anyone else have issues with the latest update that just came out? For me, it updated Aberration, and after the update, the server just got wiped and reset to day one. Did anyone else have the same problem? Was this only happening with the Aberration map?

[distant hearth]

if i was gonna build something at home id prob to run asa servers id go with like a ryzen 5700g , ddr 4 ram cheap enough you can do 128gb , couple of 500gb or 1tb nvme drives and see how it went

u will want good internet too bare in mind

[jaunty vortex]

You looking at my server again? 😂

That’s pretty much what I have

[last hornet]

Processor - Intel Xeon E-2186G , 3.80Ghz Processor

RAM - as much as possible

Storage - 1TB SSD

Storage Type - SSD

I/o Ports - Two USB 2.0 ports and two USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5Gbps) ports, plus a set of Type-C and Type-A USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) ports.

Graphics - Nvidia Quadro P2000

Connectivity - Ethernet, DisplayPort

Operating System - Windows 11

[last hornet]

So this would work ?

[distant hearth]

? i though u had an old enterpise server tbh, sry , prob got confused haha
oh btw i figured out how to make ?port=xxxx work on asa
it has to be first in the commandline, kind like ?serveradminpassword=xxxx has to be last

[jaunty vortex]

too much hassle when I can just use -port

Yes, I have a Ryzen 5700G with 128GB of DDR4 RAM, one 500GB SSD and one 2TB SSD (both nvme)

[distant hearth]

id want another storage drive for backups and 128gb ram but yea i dont see why not

[jaunty vortex]

I backup to a NAS

[last hornet]

Ok thanks a lot, very interesting, I have a lot to think about

[jaunty vortex]

USB hard disk would do though.

[distant hearth]

now ure just getting all fancy heehe , beyond my knowledge

[jaunty vortex]

Don’t be daft. Synology makes it pretty easy to set up.

[distant hearth]

an ye -port= easier , explains the mystery of why some cud get ?port= to work though, that was kinda bugging me haha

[jaunty vortex]

Which is fine when you’re doing everything yourself and have full control. Until a server manager comes into the equation.

Then the order can be all over the shop

[distant hearth]

for my use case it prob doesnt make sense tbh, maybe one day when i get internet that works better than snail pace i can actually download an share more files hahaa

[jaunty vortex]

I’ve got cd and DVD rips on mine.

My partner’s email server is on it too.

[humble thicket]

Is there any option to have the server automatically create a backup every hour? I just had the problem where, for some reason, my server got wiped after the latest update that just came out, lol. And somehow, my old world save data is acting strangely, and I have no idea why. I have one save from 10/7/2024 at 12:58 AM, and then the next one isn’t until four hours later.

[distant hearth]

you wud have to run manual backups

[jaunty vortex]

Pinned posts. There’s a power shell script to back up servers.

Some idiot hacked it together

[distant hearth]

by defualt server saves every 15 mins, then every 4hr it creates a auto backup, you can change the save time to less, i have no idea if that effects backups though tbh

[jaunty vortex]

The pin doesn't include aberration but it's easy enough to add when you look at how it works

[humble thicket]

Alright, I'll take a look at it later. I really don't want this to happen again, where the server gets reset to day one just because of an update. I simply downloaded the update from Wildcard and restarted Aberration, but after the update, Aberration was suddenly reset to day one. Players lost all their structures and progress. I had to roll back the server, which caused a lot of wasted time for everyone, and they’re understandably upset about it.

That's why I want to make sure I always have backups with a maximum of one-hour data loss. I still don’t understand why Aberration got reset to day one—it was only Aberration that was affected. All the other maps had no issues after the update, just Aberration.

[distant hearth]

self host or nitrado ?

[humble thicket]

self host

[jaunty vortex]

I call it every 15 minutes from windows task scheduler. it zips the map folder up into a different location

[distant hearth]

you shud 100% be looking at manual/automated backups away from the server itself doin git , u might also want to look into this .
#unofficial-setup-help message

[humble thicket]

I already did that at the beginning of last week because of the characters that occasionally kept getting lost.

[distant hearth]

id bet u had no issues since with char loss

[jaunty vortex]

the characters are fine, just the game progress that's missing 😦

[humble thicket]

Yeah, there hasn't been any character loss since then. In general, I never had any issues with updates, except for today. After the update, when I started Aberration, it just wiped Aberration for some reason today.

[jaunty vortex]

I DM'ed you the script I wrote, updated to backup Aberration as well. It's the one pinned in this discord. if you have questions, just ask

[distant hearth]

i didnt even take the latest update yet tbh, just incase u dont know, u do not have to take minors, people can still join aslong as the major versions match , client an server

[humble thicket]

thanks

[jaunty vortex]

You're better keeping minors off your servers, they just wreck the place and don't play nice 😉

[distant hearth]

aint that too true, i took 54.7 coz was gonna try an play a bit of ab see if it improved....
mistake

[humble thicket]

Yeah, I think I'll disable automatic updates for now and only do manual updates when I'm around. The update happened while I was on my way home from work, and when I got home, I had a bunch of tickets asking why Aberration got wiped, lol.

later, I'll set up the PowerShell script that John T. Angle sent me. Thanks again for that.

[jaunty vortex]

no probs. Ask anything if you need to. It's just about setting folders in the right places

what it does do is exclude the player profile and tribe profile backups and also the umpteen server save files you get because if you're backing it up every 15 minutes or so, you don't need them taking up space

That's what this bit does

$exclude = 'Aberration_WP_*_*.ark','*.profilebak','*.tribebak'

[humble thicket]

okay

I'll probably also set it to 15 minutes

[jaunty vortex]

I use windows task scheduler for that

[humble thicket]

Okay, yeah, I’ll do the same and set it up to run the script every 15 minutes.

[jaunty vortex]

managed to update the pinned post to be the same as what I sent you

[upper flame]

hey i need help setting up a server trying to figure out how to get level 300 wild dinos to spawn

[humble thicket]

This on gameusersettings.ini
DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10

Game.ini
MaxDifficulty=False

That would have to be the tames max lvl of 300

[upper flame]

okay let me try it

[lunar cloud]

?Port always worked for me. I have it in the middle somewhere in my start command. Always worked for me 😄
From the wiki , -port is for command line mostly

Port is for ini file ,and there is a tickbox that says "CMD supported" which means ?Port is also supported. As the wiki states Port, and not port, i would keep the case the same as I wont trust them to be case insensitive, so i'd keep Uppercase P for the ini or ?Port flavor

[upper flame]

didn't work

dinos level is 34

[native wave]

I've been using -Port=XXXX for both ASE and ASA (just dropping what works for me)

[native wave]

make sure your ini is not getting overwritten. set it to read only so the game cannot modify it.

I also, always express floats as floats...so OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6.0 is what I use on my servers (10.0 would be for level 300), and I do not include commands which do not modify default values (DifficultyOffset and MaxDifficulty above).

[last hornet]

Yes you can upgrade your ram or anything with nitrado, they’ll charge a fee of course lol

[untold mason]

Does anyone know of a way to change the quakes in Abbreation asa? I would like them to be far less often or not happen at all. I know they drop stuff which was nice on day one but now i just find them annoying lol.

[fleet ermine]

Any one help regarding zeppelin.

Unable to use them on ab due to "no flyers in cave" setting.

Now given the zeppelin is "The Zeppelin is a player vehicle that allows for flying transportation on flight-restricted Aberration, as well as other flying-enabled ARKs"

Doesn't make much sense for it not to work where it's designed to work lmfao

[last magnet]

i'd turn off flyers in caves, and block flyers from transferring to Ab

[fleet ermine]

Downside to that is, you can still bring them in pods & use them😩

So defeats the purpose.

I have a feeling the zep has been added to the wrong class by the devs 😩

[last magnet]

probably, but I meant CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=false

^ that blocks non-aberration natives from downloading, most mods that want to have their creatures spawn on the map have either made specific creatures (like Ave made a gliding, not flying Ab exclusive dragon) and others fixed the foreign dino flag on like the human NPCs and aberration variants

[fleet ermine]

I think we are going to use this as a temp fix.

Alot like to bring their tames over, such as rexes etc😩.

Appreciate the help though 💜 shame WC doesn't have people like us working for em lol

[last magnet]

not a problem! It was from https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Cross-ARK_Data_Transfer

you could also set no dino downloads in general too

[lone lodge]

Good day all, Question can someone tell me how to turn off the Bed respawn timer or lower it? I now have it set at .25 and it is still a 5 minute timer.

[indigo dagger]

Still no hotfix for the broken engram management on servers? This is really frustrating.

[celest halo]

WC don't care about unofficials, if it affected officials it would be fixed faster 🤣

[winged chasm]

This ^^^^^^^^^ please ... please please please fix this asap

[vale fiber]

Confirmed, I am having this issue. I have been pulling my hair out

[graceful stirrup]

is there a way for me to join my friend on xbox in her non-dedicated? im on steam and ive input everything right into the server finder but its not showing up. any help id mad appreciate

[distant hearth]

you cant , non dedicated IS NOT crossplay

[graceful stirrup]

oh

thats ass

[graceful stirrup]

is dedicated crossplay? 🥺

[distant hearth]

for ark ascended yes

[graceful stirrup]

ah oke thank you for your help amigo

i think we're back with this one

[dull leaf]

Wat servers are really popular just coming back from a long break haven’t played since ASA Scorched earth

[short ocean]

Is anyone else noticed there metal Ingot has a spoil time?

[distant hearth]

happens if you use the newer dlc forge

[short ocean]

Ooh ok thank you

[low dew]

anyone ever figure out how to fix the bug on cluster server transfers that some times deletes your character or dosnt generate the arkprofile on the new server

[distant hearth]

pinned messsges , second one down if your self hosting

[untold mason]

Does anyone know of a way to change the quakes in Abbreation asa? I would like them to be far less often or not happen at all. I know they drop stuff which was nice on day one but now i just find them annoying

[jaunty vortex]

you keep asking and nobody replies. I'd say that means people don't know

Probably the same as the storms on Scorched Earth

[lunar cloud]

hey folks , any of you know a console command to turn off or turn down the fertilized egg fumes ?
it makes my UPS scream every time i drop 100s of eggs to incubation 😂

[last magnet]

I use an incubator mod personally

[forest wing]

I made a non dedicated server for me and my friend and it was running fine then when we left and tried play again later my friend keeps getting the host disconnection code?? Can someone help.

[lapis quest]

So, that patch should fix render issues, right?

[raven wigeon]

_any1 worried about decays being broken again? Structures are pilling up on my server

[drifting dune]

Anybody still play ASE that uses s+? Seems structure pickup just longer works.

[jaunty vortex]

if we get it. Only on official so far

[lapis quest]

Fingers crossed

[ionic anvil]

Hey, im running an ark acended server on linux( I use mschnitzer's guide) and I can't figure out how to change the map, can anyone help?

[ionic anvil]

Im using ubuntu server for linux btw

[untold mason]

well, i asked during a different time of the day in the event it was not seen due to it being posted at night - so thanks for the reply but please keep the tone of condescension to yourself - one thing to be helpful, another to be rude

[frail heron]

I found a nasty problem with transferring items, when the stack size is too high. We have set very high stacks, for example 200000 for a stack of hide. When I upload it to ark data, it shows still as 200000 but when I download it, it will go down to 100000 but I don't have any in my inventory. When I do it again, the remaining 100000 will transfer to my inventory. Is it possible to fix that?

[ionic anvil]

Never mind, I fixed it

[jaunty vortex]

I took the time to search the posts for an answer to your question. Which is why I could see nobody was replying. Nor has anybody else posted about it.

If you want to see that as condescending then that’s on you.

[untold mason]

try re-reading your original post... "you keep asking and nobody replies. I'd say that means people don't know" - i asked a grand total of three times including earlier today and this was over the course of 3 or four days. The only day it was posted twice was on the original post when it was posted in bobs-with-probs and then i realized it probably should have been put here and I even said as much, so when you start your post with 'you keep asking and nobody replies. I'd say that means people don't know' that can easily be seen as if your annoyed by someone you think is spamming a post which is hardly the case there buddy. Check your tone in a messages not just for what you intend your tone to be but how others may view it. Your initial response was clearly meant to imply i had asked to many times - so i stand by my reponse - keep your condescension to yourself

[vale fiber]

new patch today but they didnt fix the engram issue

[jaunty vortex]

came out 26 minutes ago for Public

[celest halo]

its not an issue for officials so they dont care

[real ingot]

Has anyone had an issue where engrams that have been disabled show up in-game still (but still can't be learned). Likewise, others that haven't been disabled aren't showing up?
I'm using beacon

[jaunty vortex]

yeah, they won't test anything outside of the base game. No mods, custom config, etc

It's why they don't care about Series S struggling with mods

[indigo dagger]

Engram management is entirely borked right now

And im pretty sure only wc can fix it

[lapis quest]

Just booted our ab maps, FINALLY

Every structure loaded almost instantly

[olive talon]

@final blade #bobs-with-probs please. This is for setup help.

[tepid berry]

Anyone else noticing MUCH higher memory usage on the servers in these newest versions?

Scorched, The Center - both usually sit at 6-8gb when unoccupied, and I've found them both sitting (and staying) at 12gb, constantly these past few updates.

[humble thicket]

im Play on my Xbox the island im Play normal with 3 mods after i Reach lvl 95 my exp bar just block Any help pls im Play ascended

[last night]

hi! i have the same problem as you about the memory leak. my server gradually increases until it crashes. have you found a solution by chance? have you managed to solve this problem?

[spice tendon]

not really but since mine is like within a 15min window every day, i just added an auto start (not restart) task about 15-30min after the usual memory leak shut down.

[last night]

Ok, I'll try to reinstall the server to see if I can fix this problem... my server goes up to a consumption of 40 GB of ram before crashing... this only happens when no one is connected to the server. If only one person connects the server does not crash... If anyone has a solution here..

[last hornet]

Self host or nitrado…..

[robust nexus]

The game randomly says “baka” looped for a couple minutes and its driving me crazy. I dont know which mod pack did it.

[last hornet]

Plenty options out there

[last night]

Self Host

[robust nexus]

The voices are back

[last night]

The strange thing is that the problem appeared, before there were no problems

[last hornet]

I got no fix for ya sorry, I’m just interested to find out. Looking at going down the same road and self hosting lol

Could it be maybe hardware issue ?

[stable scarab]

Hey, I've noticed that when I have to stop combat to rest my argie that sometimes the mob I'm fighting resets its HP. Never noticed that on single player, is there a way to adjust that to work that way?
Also, where do I put WildDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=2 in my config files?

[last night]

No, it can't be a hardware problem. On the same machine I host 6 ark servers and only one has this problem.

[last hornet]

Ahh I see

[last hornet]

What hardware you using if you don’t mind me asking

[last night]

i9 12900k with 128gb ram

[robust nexus]

Now theres 2 voices, they are multiplying

[last hornet]

What mods you add 🤣🤣🤣

[last hornet]

Or you smoking way too much

[last hornet]

What’s power consumption like with the desktop? @last night

[robust nexus]

Just garugas, dragons, and paranoia mods. Ill just play the game on mute now

[last hornet]

lol

[jagged sable]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I have been having the same issue.

[elder plover]

no am watching the patch notes for a fix to be announced think that's all we can do atm afaik

[jagged sable]

Same here thanks for confirming, it's been going on a while. So think I am going to put in a bug report.
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/

[elder plover]

I did a search and saw 2 had already been made but another one can't hurt

[jagged sable]

Might bump those to

Looks like another was added

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/gameini-engram-overrides-not-working-r79469/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/engram-overriding-not-working-in-gameini-r79286/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/unable-to-hide-engrams-r79271/

[stable scarab]

Bump.

[polar star]

Anyone has a solution for the center map keeps resetting timers we use the same settings on all our maps. But only both our centet maps keep resetting the decay timers
Daily on reset

[jaunty vortex]

They’ve probably eaten something

[tight spade]

Hey Guys, ive been tyring to get back into ASE. When I load the server list, it shows like, a collective 100 people playing which I know isnt right. Where should I be looking for servers? how dumb am i?

[bleak ivy]

This channel is for discussion about unofficial (or single player) server setup including mods and other relevant topics.

battlemetrics is the usual place to find servers. ASE is very very spread out tho, especially steam. about 11k players across 40k servers. fairly sure most people still on ASE are playing singleplayer or private servers as well.

[ripe veldt]

Unable to see my private unofficial server in the server listing when searching by name since the last update. Currently running 54.11 - is this something other people are experiencing? Haven't changed anything since yesterday aside from running an update from Steam as per usual.

[jaunty vortex]

What’s in Battle Metrics for it?

Also, what platform are you running the game from? Windows Xbox app may have trouble seeing PvP servers for example.

[sweet rapids]

Hey I am trying to enable the Fear Evolved event on my ASE cluster, but it doesn't seem to work? I get the recipes in the cooking pot but no tombstones, dodorex, wyvern etc?

[ripe veldt]

Battlemetrics show it as online - it appears to have failed to respond to query for the last little bit, but recently was able to respond? I don't know if that's relevant information - but its still not showing up.

Server is running on Windows

I'm playing from STEAM

[jaunty vortex]

What’s the name of the server?

[ripe veldt]

DINOCENTER

[jaunty vortex]

2 secs and I’ll have a look.

[ripe veldt]

Thanks John

oh and additionally, its an ASA server

[jaunty vortex]

I can see it it. make sure you have "show password protected servers" ticked

and also "show player servers"

[ripe veldt]

🤦‍♂️ thanks John, no idea how password got renabled in my config

[jaunty vortex]

seems sensible to me! Or you'll have anyone and everyone logging in

[ripe veldt]

we were hoping for it!

[jaunty vortex]

Fair enough 🙂

[ripe veldt]

Commandline: TheCenter_WP?listen?SessionName=DINOCENTER?ServerAdminPassword=REDACTED?Port=7778?QueryPort=27017?MaxPlayers=10?AltSaveDirectoryName=TheCenter -Nobattleye

Is there another command line in another file that's adding a psw? It doesnt appear there is one set

Hmm yeah its picking up an old password from somewhere, I'll need to dig into this

[jaunty vortex]

I'd change quite a bit about your startup

[ripe veldt]

Oh? 😅 - i kind of slapped it together so me and my wife can play. any suggestions are more than welcome

[jaunty vortex]

"TheCenter_WP?SessionName=DinoCenter" -Port=7778 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=10 -NoBattlEye

Set your server password in gameusersettings.ini

Personally I wouldn't use the alt save directory, I'd run a separate folder for each server

It means you have duplicate files for running the server but it's easier to maintain (in my opinion)

you don't need ?listen and ?queryport is an ASE thing

[ripe veldt]

Yeah I think I just went with the lazy approach in terms of savefolder management.

But I'll omit those ASE specific lines.

[distant hearth]

asa doesnt even need an altsave directory tbh as it stores map data in seperate folders , but now u have it there you wud need to move the data if you took that off the commandline

[ripe veldt]

Thanks guys these are super helpful tips. We love this game but it is getting a little lonely with just the two of us. We're looking to join a public server soonish - will be sad to abandon our cozy server though 🥲

[cosmic ingot]

If you want to do cluster you do need an alternative cluster save directory that way all servers have access to the same folder path for the cluster info

[jaunty vortex]

as W1llz found out with testing, if you don't put ?port first it will ignore it so you'll be using 7777

or use -port=7778

[jaunty vortex]

yes, but you do it differently

[distant hearth]

only if the servers are run from seperate install locations, the old way to save space was to run the cluster from the same server.exe with seperate batch files an use the ?altsavedirectory command

[ripe veldt]

I did try doing clusters briefly to bring over some of our gear from the island. But based on what I read - I'd need much more than 32GB of memory to sustain multiple maps at the same time

[jaunty vortex]

Commandline: "TheCenter_WP?SessionName=DinoCenter" -Port=7778 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=10 -clusterid=DinoCenter -ClusterDirOverride=C:\ArkSurvivalAscended\Clusters\DinoCenter -NoBattlEye -NoTransferFromFiltering -UseStore -BackupTransferPlayerDatas

[distant hearth]

if its a machine u play the game on too, 32gb struggles with two maps an the game running

[jaunty vortex]

beaten to it again 😄

[cosmic ingot]

I have a 32GB pc and it can comfortably run 3 servers but I only run 2 for the most part

[ripe veldt]

Ah nah - we have separate rigs and the server pulls double duty as an ASA server and Jellyfin / streaming server

[distant hearth]

two maps be fine then imo

[cosmic ingot]

Just to be clear it is a server only, I do not use it to play

[jaunty vortex]

Have you been playing on it or can you start fresh?

[distant hearth]

two maps an a club ark easy, maybe 3 maps

[jaunty vortex]

should be comfortable

[ripe veldt]

I had scorch and island running at the same time without any issue but we only ever had 4 people on at a time. Not that this number would ever grow - but I didn't want to overburden the machine just in case 😅

also scorch wasnt that fun

[jaunty vortex]

If you're planning for a busy server, I'd use the alternate save method

#unofficial-setup-help message

it will make your life easier

[ripe veldt]

thanks guys you've been so helpful

[cosmic ingot]

Do you guys know if there is a setting I can tweak to reduce the time resources debris remain visible before they despawn?

It is really annoying having lots of trees down blocking visibility after I chopped them down.

[jaunty vortex]

just ask if you have any questions. We'll try to answer them, no guarantees 😄

[lapis quest]

Commandlines for ASE events wont work unless Wc provides the files for them

[bleak ivy]

pretty sure steam has mods to allow them to work. it was also supposed to be on steam but got bugged

[lapis quest]

Yeah, mods do work, sadly epic games doesnt have acess to workshop

Most of our ase clusters are crossplay

[bleak ivy]

yeah, then you can't use most events. summer and birthday should work but the rest have things removed.

[lapis quest]

Most event codes only activates dino colours

We end up making dynamic lists for them

[bleak ivy]

yeah, because the assets were removed. if you just want colors you can use the color event instead which allows you to customize everything.

[worthy mulch]

Hi , I just made a trade with some ones, and both lose everything after rollback, what could we do? Nothing?

[bleak ivy]

This channel is for discussion about unofficial (or single player) server setup including mods and other relevant topics.

[vale fiber]

WIldcard please fix engram issue

[bleak ivy]

wrong person. I hope thats soon

[vale fiber]

Wrong person?

[bleak ivy]

I was replying to somebody else, so I edited the message sorry for the ping.

[vale fiber]

ah ok 👍🏼

[last magnet]

so engrams are still borked? weee

oh well, I'll just watch build videos

it's one thing with a fully leveled character with weapons and armor to log into a new map, it's something else entirely when you're starting from spawn

[trim veldt]

There is a way to auto-pause the server when no players are online?

[indigo dagger]

Im starting to wonder if they have just left this to modders to sort out. It wouldnt be the first time WC broke something and just left the mess for the modding community to clean it up.

[cosmic ingot]

Do you guys know if there is a setting I can tweak to reduce the time resources debris remain visible before they despawn?

It is really annoying having lots of trees down blocking visibility after I chopped them down.

With default settings it feels like an eternity before trees despawn after chopping them.

[indigo dagger]

I dont believe there is a setting for that, but I could be wrong. I do understand the frustration though.

[last magnet]

I reported it on the bug reports forum, I should have taken screenshots but I was more concerned that it was crashing bc the creatures were just walking into the air

[last hornet]

So you want your trees to respawn faster correct

[cosmic ingot]

No, I want the debris resources leave behind to dissappear faster.

[last hornet]

Ah yeh I see what you mean

[elder plover]

if there is something for that i'd expect it to be more of a client side setting rather than something set by the server so might be worth having a scroll through the console command suggestions and see if you find something there

[bleak ivy]

should be tooltips. should be a button somewhere (pretty sure there is a hotkey but no idea what it is)

thats not really a setup question

[proven quail]

whoops

[icy orchid]

Ok so I was playing ark fonjior for a while andi got lev 90 and I downloaded my survivor, I want to give lost island a try but I don't see my survivor, pls help

[cunning urchin]

im not sure how hosting a server works, could one simply buy a cheap pc to run a server and be just as good as paying for a hosting servive?

[latent coral]

thats what i did

i mean it wasnt cheap, but it was less than a 12 map nitrado cluster for a year

[cunning urchin]

My server host has been having trouble keeping the server up by paying a 3rd party service i guess, but if it doesnt take a strong pc to just host it i feel like that would be more cost effective. right

like does a better PC make it run better? ud think you would need an insane PC to run the game, or maybe running it is way different than hosting

[latent coral]

i wouldnt say that it doesnt take a strong pc to host....

[cunning urchin]

thats what i figured yea

[latent coral]

if youre interested in learning more about it im just bs'ing with some people in my server in discord rn if you want to hop in

[cunning urchin]

oh thanks but im ok for now

[latent coral]

ok

[bleak ivy]

you don't really need an expensive PC either. its just CPU and RAM. isn't like half of a PC's price in a GPU
I use my old PC that definitely couldn't run ASA to run my server(s) been using it for years same one I used for ASE.

obviously the more people that play on a server the more thats needed. but overall a single server doesn't need a strong PC. just one that has decent CPU and RAM.

[supple sundial]

I was told to come here for help

[olive talon]

I said check the pinned messages

[raw glade]

How to find pinned messages in Discord:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/627305131569840132/1254058261825458287/where_are_pins.mp4?ex=66781c44&is=6676cac4&hm=81cf41e175c7f2463a5616b8aaf89f935ff4f0b631f54bcc5c6f817205112279&

[supple sundial]

Ok thx again

[cunning urchin]

thank you yea well, our server seems like its going to go away so i was trying to get ideas. I could go to single player but it feels really lame somehow, it incentivises keeping the game running so resource respawn and breeding works better.

[cinder jolt]

Anywhere I can get help for my server crashing consistently? ASE. (NOT MY GAME CRASHING, My actual server I run on a dedicated server.)

[stiff onyx]

just making sure for a server all i need to do is install the mod id and have the name set to astros

[muted pebble]

Windows? Linux? Or hosted on a third party?

[cinder jolt]

Windows, hosting on a dedicated server I rent.

[muted pebble]

Are you able to get a crash log off of it?

[cinder jolt]

Yes, I have several

[cinder jolt]

I PM'd you them since I cannot post here

[frail crescent]

Is someone running GCM command?

[cinder jolt]

No

But I think I solved it with some help 🙂

[tepid berry]

Biggest thing to do is look at server logs to see what the crash message is.

[velvet void]

Is setting up a g portal server to play with friends on ps5 recommended?

thinking of buying one

[olive talon]

For Evolved on Playstation, yes. It's better than nitrado and more stable than non-dedicated

[frail crescent]

Does the first time loading Astraeos take a long while? Sitting at the console screen for 10 minutes now.

[cosmic ingot]

What's the map name I need to use for an Astreos server?

[olive talon]

Astraeos_WP

[distant hearth]

Map Name: Astraeos_WP
Mod ID: 988598

pulled from curseforge website

[cosmic ingot]

Need to add the mod I'd to the list of mods?

[olive talon]

Yes

[cosmic ingot]

Ok ok thanks 😊

[jaunty vortex]

Check you have the spelling right. I did this with Center/Centre

[frail crescent]

It wasnt that, I figured out my issue.

[harsh sleet]

I just started using Beacon to set up my servers. The custom recipe option doesn't work for anything, is there something I'm missing? Like an option or setting to make them work.

[distant hearth]

by custom recipe u mean crafting costs ? if so do you use a stack mod?

[harsh sleet]

Yes crafting cost, I do use a stacking mod.

[distant hearth]

stack mod is your problem there shit an change the original items into something else , you wont ever be able to override crafting costs with a stack mod

[harsh sleet]

Okay cool, so if I ditch the stacking mod, and just use Nitrado option to multiply stack size I will be good?

[distant hearth]

if you ditch the stack mod, you will lose all resources that are on the server ..., np if a new server, not good if its estabilished

also u wud use beacon to do the stacking too

most of us increase stack sizes then increase the weight gained per level for players and dinos to compensate

[harsh sleet]

Thanks appreciate it!

[wintry sail]

Is anyone else having issues getting server settings to stay what you set them to on ASA? Nitrado is absolutely no help at all

[humble thicket]

Has anyone found an alternative to Simple Spawners yet in ASA? NPC replacement is alright but doesn't work for modded dinos. I've been caught up on this for so long now and with maps like Astraeos having base vanilla dinos I feel the urge more and more to add in a few custom spawns.

[short eagle]

This looks okay for adding a Yi spawn to Scorched, right? ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="SE_DinoSpawnEntriesBadlands_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="Yi Ling",EntryWeight=0.02,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/ASA/Dinos/YiLing/YiLing_Character_BP.YiLing_Character_BP_C"),ManualSpawnPointSpreadRadius=3000)),NPCSpawnLimits=((NPCClass="/Game/ASA/Dinos/YiLing/YiLing_Character_BP.YiLing_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.02)))

[untold pollen]

Does anyone have that config line to change cosmos total web count? I cannot find it for the life of me

[lunar cloud]

i dont use nitrado, but make sure you stop the server, leave it off for couple min, then change the settings, save it, then boot the server.
The server program generally writes to the config files, so when you change them, the server may overwrite what you saved if the server is running.
And Nitrado is terrible so you got to give it more time to shut down, leave it couple min to make sure its really down, then do the changes

[arctic solstice]

has anyone found the fix to “lost connection to host” and not being able to join your friends non dedicated server

[stiff pike]

Do they ever plan on fixing the non dedicated thing we’re you can’t play with your friends. And is it a problem with steam or ark?

[spare raft]

Hi, I have a new problem :p
I have a new machine for my server in order to divide it into 2 and when I launch the server on the new one it tells me this:

[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]Log file open, 10/10/24 22:17:31
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]LogMemory: Platform Memory Stats for WindowsServer
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]LogMemory: Process Physical Memory: 206.80 MB used, 252.13 MB peak
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]LogMemory: Process Virtual Memory: 228.04 MB used, 228.04 MB peak
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]LogMemory: Physical Memory: 2920.70 MB used, 46158.88 MB free, 49079.58 MB total
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:275][ 0]LogMemory: Virtual Memory: 2601.05 MB used, 53646.52 MB free, 56247.58 MB total
[2024.10.10-20.17.31:817][ 0]11

[2024.10.10-20.17.31:831][ 0]ARK Version: 54.11
[2024.10.10-20.17.32:136][ 0]LogCFCore: SetSettings called:
{
"defaultLanguage": "en",
"gameId": 83374,
"apiKey": "1aZe",
"maxConcurrentInstallations": 3,
"modsDirectory": "ShooterGame/Mods",
"modsDirectoryMode": "CFCore",
"userDataDirectory": "ShooterGame/ModsUserData",
"isServer": true,
"isServerPcOnly": false,
"throttling":
{
"diskWriteBytesPerSec": 0
},
"premiumMods":
{
"publicKeyPem": ""
},
"logger":
{
"enabled": true,
"history": 8,
"maxSizeInMB": 2
},
"dynamicContentCategoryIds": [ 6844 ]
}
[2024.10.10-20.17.32:136][ 0]LogCFCore: InternalSettings called:
{
"apiBaseUrl": "https:// api.curseforge.com",
"chunkedUploadServerUrl": "https:// chunk-uploads.curseforge.com",
"analyticsUrl": "https:// analyticsnew.overwolf.com/analytics/Counter",
"userAgent": "cfcore.ue 1.0.99",
"platform": "windows",
"pluginVersion": "1.0.99",
"httpFileDownloadTimeoutSecs": 1200
}
[2024.10.10-20.17.32:137][ 0]LogCFCore: Warning: Couldn't load mods library from disk
[2024.10.10-20.17.32:138][ 0]LogCFCore: User context not loaded from disk
[2024.10.10-20.17.42:152][296]LogCFCore: Error: Error querying server mods: ApiError: Failed (serverUnreachable)
[2024.10.10-20.17.44:446][297]LogMemory: Platform Memory Stats for WindowsServer
[2024.10.10-20.17.44:446][297]LogMemory: Process Physical Memory: 818.82 MB used, 819.14 MB peak
[2024.10.10-20.17.44:446][297]LogMemory: Process Virtual Memory: 835.43 MB used, 835.89 MB peak
[2024.10.10-20.17.44:446][297]LogMemory: Physical Memory: 3532.18 MB used, 45547.40 MB free, 49079.58 MB total
[2024.10.10-20.17.44:446][297]LogMemory: Virtual Memory: 3204.37 MB used, 53043.21 MB free, 56247.58 MB total

Firewall is disable an port Open ... It is configured exactly the same as the server that is running.

[distant hearth]

you cant have them exactly the same, each server needs its own port .
this line is pointing at a internet connection issue ,
[2024.10.10-20.17.42:152][296]LogCFCore: Error: Error querying server mods: ApiError: Failed (serverUnreachable)

[spare raft]

My problem is When I tell Island to go to port 7700 it goes to 7777... And even if I open a new port it does not go to it when launching the .bat

Island is 7700 . launch 7777
Center 7701 launch 7778 ... etc

[distant hearth]

use command -port=7700
if that the port you want it to go to ,
7777 is default, next server to launch will use 7778 etc if the command to change port isnt recognized

[spare raft]

My command line for Island : tart "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" TheIsland_WP"?SessionName=Avery's Serv?Port=7700?QueryPort=25000?RCONPort=26000?AltSaveDirectoryName=Avery?Listen

[distant hearth]

old ase commands

a simple working asa batch file
Start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName="my server name" -port=7778 -winlivemaxplayers=10
start's the server , call's it my server name, run's on port 7778 with a 10 player limit

i can explain why yours is wrong if you cant figure it out from what i put above

[spare raft]

Yes i understand ^^

What is port for Bob Club ?

[distant hearth]

u wud need to add the rcon port if u want to use that

[distant hearth]

there isnt one, its a standalone server , use what port u want it to run on aslong as it doesnt conflict with any others

[spare raft]

i launch in 7699 port ...

[spare raft]

So... I have one last question...

[jaunty vortex]

that's fine to use. I used a random number generator to pick mine 😄

[distant hearth]

lol watch someone try use 0001 or summit daft 😛
i find with using 7778 through to 8010 is simples

[jaunty vortex]

I think I said between 10,000 and 65,000

[spare raft]

Despite this it doesn't work 😢

[distant hearth]

what doesnt work ?

[jaunty vortex]

TheIsland_WP?SessionName="Avery's Serv" -Port=7700 -AltSaveDirectoryName=Avery

set rcon in the gameusersettings.ini
I personally would not use altsavedirectoryname

[spare raft]

I entered the right command in the .bat and it still does not work despite the correct designated and open ports

[distant hearth]

past ethe command here so we can see plz

[spare raft]

Altsavedirectory is for my cluster ^^

[jaunty vortex]

that's not how you do it

[spare raft]

ethe command ?

Oh

[distant hearth]

?altsavedirectory doesnt really have a use in asa, since it saves to its own map files anyway

it was an old ase command for people running a cluster off the same server.exe

[spare raft]

how i share a document ?1

[distant hearth]

i guess if you ran two island maps off the same .exe then you wud need it

[short ocean]

Anyone else dinos spawning like lvl 1000+ on the new map or is our sever just messed up lol

[jaunty vortex]

"TheIsland_WP?SessionName=Avery's Serv" -Port=7700 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=20 -clusterid=Avery -ClusterDirOverride=C:\ArkSurvivalAscended\Clusters\Avery

[spare raft]

start "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" ScorchedEarth_WP"?SessionName=Devolution Scorched Earth?AltSaveDirectoryName=DevolutionCluster?Listen?ServerAdminPassword=****" -Port=7702 -QueryPort=25002 -RCONPort=26002 -NoTransferFromFiltering -culture=fr -ServerGameLog -Mods=935528,941145,929169,934749,934578,930128,929347,946694,931874,953154,929800,928708,949521,931877,935297,926259,926956,914844,916922,927131,961601,948965,931047,929868,941450,928501,951148,955333,930381 -ServerGameLogIncludeTribeLogs -allcores -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -NoHangDetection -log -clusterid=DevolutionCluster -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/ -activeevent=none -PrideColors -forcerespawndinos

[distant hearth]

everything depends on how you install the servers an run them as to how you set it up tbh, personally i think it just easier to run each server/map off seperate installs

[jaunty vortex]

I agree

[distant hearth]

you have an issue there right off with the space in the server name, need to wrap in quotes

[spare raft]

In my 1st server .. he run it ... And on this new .. Not

"ScorchedEarth_WP" ?

[jaunty vortex]

start "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" "ScorchedEarth_WP?SessionName=Devolution Scorched Earth" -Port=7702 -NoTransferFromFiltering -culture=fr -Mods=935528,941145,929169,934749,934578,930128,929347,946694,931874,953154,929800,928708,949521,931877,935297,926259,926956,914844,916922,927131,961601,948965,931047,929868,941450,928501,951148,955333,930381 -ServerGameLogIncludeTribeLogs -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -clusterid=DevolutionCluster -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/ -PrideColors -forcerespawndinos

[distant hearth]

start "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" ScorchedEarth_WP"?SessionName="Devolution Scorched Earth"?AltSaveDirectoryName=DevolutionCluster?ServerAdminPassword=**" -Port=7702 -RCONPort=26002 -NoTransferFromFiltering -culture=fr -ServerGameLog -Mods=935528,941145,929169,934749,934578,930128,929347,946694,931874,953154,929800,928708,949521,931877,935297,926259,926956,914844,916922,927131,961601,948965,931047,929868,941450,928501,951148,955333,930381 -ServerGameLogIncludeTribeLogs -allcores -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -NoHangDetection -log -clusterid=DevolutionCluster -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/ -PrideColors -forcerespawndinos

[jaunty vortex]

I do not know if this will work -ServerGameLogIncludeTribeLogs

[distant hearth]

more like that id think but im kinda drunk tbh

[distant hearth]

good catch, prob not

[lunar cloud]

SessionName needs to wrap in quotes . I.E SessionName="Devolution Scorched Earth"?
You might also need escape characters but i am not .bat expert so it might need to be SessionName=\"Devolution Scorched Earth\"?
But in anycase, having spaces and not wrapping them breaks inputs to the server exe and it will ignore your Port and it becomes default

[jaunty vortex]

other than game port, I set as much as possible in gameusersettings.ini like server password and rcon port

[spare raft]

no "ScorchedEarth_WP" ? O_o

[distant hearth]

theres also a quote at the end of the serveradminpassword command, make sure that aint there

[lunar cloud]

Some people use powershell .ps1 file instaed of .bat or .sh etc and all those intepret " differently and may need to be escaped

[jaunty vortex]

powershell is a whole different world of fun 😄

[lunar cloud]

To verify it, you can look at the server log when it starts it prints the full commands it sees, and if you dont see your quotes in it, it means the .bat file chewed it up and you need escape characters like \" to make quote work

[spare raft]

start "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" "ScorchedEarth_WP"?SessionName="Devolution Scorched Earth"?AltSaveDirectoryName=DevolutionCluster?ServerAdminPassword=**** -Port=7702 -RCONPort=26002 -NoTransferFromFiltering -culture=fr -ServerGameLog -Mods=935528,941145,929169,934749,934578,930128,929347,946694,931874,953154,929800,928708,949521,931877,935297,926259,926956,914844,916922,927131,961601,948965,931047,929868,941450,928501,951148,955333,930381 -ServerGameLogIncludeTribeLogs -allcores -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -NoHangDetection -log -clusterid=DevolutionCluster -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/ -PrideColors -forcerespawndinos

Thats good ?

[distant hearth]

huh? im confused a bit tbh lol, i just copied ures an made change to show the quotes on the name, ure batch file is not how i run mine, i shows u the simple one i use to get a server running, once that part is all good , then i add in all my shit, which isnt much tbh , just the mods, cluster id an dir , an the alternate save method

[jaunty vortex]

start "" /w /high "%Server_Executable%" "ScorchedEarth_WP"?SessionName="Devolution Scorched Earth" -Port=7702 -NoTransferFromFiltering -culture=fr -Mods=935528,941145,929169,934749,934578,930128,929347,946694,931874,953154,929800,928708,949521,931877,935297,926259,926956,914844,916922,927131,961601,948965,931047,929868,941450,928501,951148,955333,930381 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=70 -clusterid=DevolutionCluster -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/ -PrideColors -forcerespawndinos

A lot of what you are using can go in the ini file

[distant hearth]

pretty sure the other commands in there are ase ones that u removed

[jaunty vortex]

I think they are, W1llz

[distant hearth]

i believe in kiss 🙂

[jaunty vortex]

absolutely

[spare raft]

i try it

Crash 😢

[jaunty vortex]

what did you use?

[spare raft]

.bat

In Win serv

[jaunty vortex]

what is in the .bat?

[spare raft]

i don't send my .bat here

i send in PM

[jaunty vortex]

replied

Error: Error querying server mods: ApiError: Failed (serverUnreachable)

Can't talk to curseforge

not sure why. I just restarted one of my servers and it was OK

[distant hearth]

every time ive seen that its a connection issue, something blocking it ...

or curseforge was down, (which it isnt atm lolz)

[spare raft]

OK !!!!!

Its AmazonRoot Certificat ...

[outer pike]

Okay I play on a asa unofficial server hosted through nitrado. The owner is having a issue with breeding. No matter what she does breeding won't work right. We wanting fast breeding, only 5-10min wait between breeding cycles, fast hatch, fast growth and 1 imprint

[bold narwhal]

I’m trying to make a dedicated server on ps5 but it keeps popping up with an invite friends screen and admins screen and idk how to just play

[untold mason]

hello all. I thought I had my servers working good for Ark:ASA. i have been playing on my servers just fine while i was at home 🙂 - now - while on vacation, i cannot connetcto them even though i can see them - i get a host timeout... so - any ideas? A friend said i maybe needed a static ip. not sure what that would do or where to get one

[stable scarab]

What internet do you use at home?

[untold mason]

I have xfinity which is broadband

[stable scarab]

Did you open the port?

On your router.

@untold mason

[ashen nebula]

When trying to run a new server on Astraeos I keep getting "Mods failed to load" whenever I try to run my .bat file. Anyone have any insight? This is my .bat file : "start C:\Users\Augie\Desktop\SteamCMD\Astraeos\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe Astraeos_WP?listen?Port=7785?QueryPort=27023?SessionName=***** ServerAdminPassword=****** ServerPassword=****** ?AltSaveDirectoryName=AstraeosSave? -NoBattlEye -mods=928793,929785,975282,912902,900062,908148,941145,1022976,1015955,1042321,1065709,988598 -servergamelog -servergamelogincludetribelogs -ServerRCONOutputTribeLogs -NotifyAdminCommandsInChat -nosteamclient -game -server -log -crossplay -clusterid=****** -ClusterDirOverride=C:\Users\Augie\Desktop\SteamCMD\Cluster

It's identical to my other .bat files except it has the new astraeos mods id's

[distant hearth]

where is everyone getting these janky ass batch files from for asa?

start C:\Users\Augie\Desktop\SteamCMD\Astraeos\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe Astraeos_WP?SessionName="xxxxxx"?ServerPassword=xxxxx?ServerAdminPassword=xxxxxx -NoBattlEye -port=7785 -mods=928793,929785,975282,912902,900062,908148,941145,1022976,1015955,1065709,988598 -clusterid=xxxxxxx -ClusterDirOverride=C:\Users\Augie\Desktop\SteamCMD\Cluster

[ashen nebula]

a youtuber helped me put it together. It runs btw. Ive narrowed down the issue to one mod (id 1042321) the astraeos wardrobe mod. When I add that Id do any of my .bat files the server gives me an error on boot saying "mods failed to load" and then crashes. Anyone else having this particular issue with this mod?

[ashen nebula]

also whats janky about it lol? I'm new to server hosting and I know that it works so I have a "dont fix what aint broke" approach to it but I'd love to know what's considered "janky"about it.

[latent coral]

Everyone would have that same issue with the mod, because you can't put cosmetic mods on server side 😝

[ashen nebula]

yup, my dum dum brain put it together after nekatus yelled at me for being dum dum lol

[latent coral]

It's ok, that issue got me just a few days ago

[ashen nebula]

I just had the blinders on and was like "there's a mod ID therefore I must stick it in my .bat file" 🙃

[humble thicket]

I'm having trouble making my server public facing. I'm forwarding the ports on my router, but they aren't the default ports as I have another game using them. I know I need to change the Ark config files to reflect the ports that I want to use, but that's where I get lost as I'm not sure which config I need to change or even write new lines if needed. This is for a Debian 12 server install. I tried to change the RCONPort under [ServerSettings] in the /saved/config/linuxserver/gameusersettings.ini as well as add Port=XXXX and QueryPort=XXXX under [SessionSettings] in the same file. Can't find much documentation online, but that is what it seemed like I needed to do. Any insight on what needs changed?

[humble thicket]

So it seems like adding Port and QueryPort to the config file makes it so I'm able to see it in game under the LAN section because without those settings, it doesn't show in the LAN section. So it's definitely doing things, just don't get why I can't see it in the public session list

[outer pike]

Okay I play on a asa unofficial server hosted through nitrado. The owner is having a issue with breeding. No matter what she does breeding won't work right. We wanting fast breeding, only 5-10min wait between breeding cycles, fast hatch, fast growth and 1 imprint

[jaunty vortex]

It’s got a load of obsolete ASE options in there.

[last hornet]

Can give you my breeding info if needed, most Dino’s 100% imp first imp, cuddle is every 5 min, 50xmature @outer pike

[outer pike]

Sure

Thank u

[last hornet]

Give me a few mins I’ll get it for ya

Gameini
BabyCuddleGracePeriodMultiplier=1
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.010416667
BabyCuddleLoseImprintQualitySpeedMultiplier=1
BabyFoodConsumptionSpeedMultiplier=5
BabyImprintAmountMultiplier=12
BabyImprintingStatScaleMultiplier=1
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=50
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=10
LayEggIntervalMultiplier=0.4
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0.01
MatingSpeedMultiplier=2

@outer pike

Just tell her to remove her breeding settings and copy paste that

[outer pike]

Thank u again

[last hornet]

Anytime

Also tell her beacon Omni, use that best investment ever lol

[last hornet]

If she wants imprints to give more stats adjust (imprintsstatscalemultiplier)

[outer pike]

Will do

[spare raft]

Hello again ! It's me :p I have a problem with loot in the cave puzzle on The Center. She doesn't appear (she only came once at the start of the map) Any idea how to spawn her again?

Cave loot crate : lat 56.39 & lon 51.7 yellow

[last hornet]

Sometimes it takes a few hours

[spare raft]

2 week ? xD

[stable scarab]

For a self hosted PvE server, is there any way to make hatched babies harvestable?

[last hornet]

You need to turn off Friendly fire or turn on, one of those I forget 🫣

[last hornet]

No lol, you have a problem there, maybe try a restart, other then that I’m unsure

[humble thicket]

turn on, pve is off by default i believe

[merry thorn]

Is there anything we can do on unofficial to stop the insane xbox chat filters? Playstation and steam don't have this issue.

[latent coral]

I haven't found a solution. ****** **** ****** **** ******

[merry thorn]

H/av/e to T/yp/e li/ke t/his to c/h/a/t on x/b0x

[latent coral]

I'd say lol to that, but ***

[merry thorn]

Yeah, we've all moved to lul

[latent coral]

If I knew what I was doing in the devkit, I'd try to make something that circumvented it. But I've been trying to find a solution for a year and the only conclusion I've come to is that means I shouldn't communicate with console players hahahaha

[merry thorn]

Easily half my players are xbox and they just don't want to chat anymore

Oh well, can't type like xbox here easily

Can someone from wildcard please take notice of this issue? It's gotta be fixable.

[latent coral]

I don't think it's on wildcards end man. They're kind of at the mercy of MS and Sony on this one. It's like when all the crossplay shop mods got their Xplay status removed at the start of this year for the RMT bs. From what I understand, Sony drove that, and had WC/CF not respected it the games crossplay status could have been at risk

You could see if anyone is interested in taking a commission to make a mod for it, but realistically if MS or Sony ever notice it they're going to have CF pull it

[merry thorn]

Ps has like no filter. My xbox players say no other games they play filter it like this.

It's just super annoying

[latent coral]

Yeah the Xbox one is bad, but I don't think there's anything you can do. Anything you try to make mod-wise will just get crossplay status revoked

[merry thorn]

Can't say anything in chat but trolls can get on and name themselves, their dinos, and their tribes very inappropriate racial slurs and stuff.

[jaunty vortex]

It’s Microsoft. Not Wildcard. Same in Minecraft chat.

[humble thicket]

is there any way to add mods to unofficial without curseforge?

[jaunty vortex]

Not as far as I have seen.

[humble thicket]

sadly i cannot find anything 😦

[lapis quest]

You cant

Every mod goes through curse

[stiff pike]

is there anyway for someone on epic games to play with someone on steam

[olive talon]

Either Google "how to play nondedicated ark with steam and epic" or check the pinned messages here for a how to.

[stiff pike]

ok thank you

[upbeat compass]

I know this is probably an out of date question seeing Summer Bash is long gone, but anyone know the BP path for skins like sarcos and puka bracelet? the full bp path. can't get them to spawn even using using gfi

[rocky depot]

help me how to connect to the server

[humble thicket]

anybody knows a decent pull it mod with active modders and updates that does not break the game after each batch?

[last hornet]

To be fair can’t really control it, patches can break anything, especially mods. It up to the modders to re-cook there mods and fix accordingly

[humble thicket]

the Pull it! mod is kinda dead, so i was wondering if there is any other mods out there with active modders updating it. the pull it author was last seen 6months ago :/

[last hornet]

Oh that sucks, they may just have R/L things going on…..

[distant hearth]

cyber strucutures has a pull function but adds alot other stuff too, its effecitively s plus for ark ascended

[humble thicket]

and the author was last seen march 24 hahahahhaha

[humble thicket]

sorry, wrong mod

[distant hearth]

nah its gets updated regulary, maybe i got the name wrong

[humble thicket]

no i though you talking about the super structures, cyber was last updated 3 days ago

[distant hearth]

its highly configurable, i like it as i loved s plus in ase

[humble thicket]

i am having a look at it. seems fine

[shell laurel]

I configured my cluster to add the Astraeos. It launches, eats 32G RAM then dies without error that I can see. Any ideas ?

[jaunty vortex]

Sounds like you have a memory leak. Any other mods?

[distant hearth]

something deffo wrong, its just sitting at 6.5gb for me idle, i do have a few other mods on there aswell

[merry thorn]

What's wrong with it? It still works fine for me.

[shell laurel]

worked it out typos

[robust nymph]

Does anyone else have issues where when they restart a server it'll get part way through the countdown and then start again? for the 300 seconds one, not sure on others.
For some it went all the way to 0 and kicked them, for others the countdown restarted at 120 seoncds, then done it again

[tepid berry]

Puller is dead, Pull It! is not. Pull It! still works perfectly for me and others. Puller will absolutely crash your servers if you try to pull while a dedicated storage is within range.

[opal needle]

Do Xbox players have epic ids that can be added to an admin while list?

[distant hearth]

in asa yes , all players have an eos id

[untold mason]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry I was pulled away from discord yesterday - my 1st chance to respond since. I did open the port on my router and also made the proper firewall adjustments

[smoky aspen]

has anyone has issues with wild dinos instantly healing when eating a corpose going frm like nearly dead to instantly healed? the new map has come out and noticed the new boss seems to be doing the same thing trying to figure out the settings to change it so she doesnt heal

i havent seen any other servers have this issue with the boss

[vale fiber]

Still having engram issues

[broken halo]

Take a look at visual storage it auto pulls and looks pretty good has storage for almost everything

[ember egret]

I play on steam and run my server on the steam client, but i have a friend trying to play with me. He is on xbox game pass. He cant get past the password imput screen. Any suggestions?

[arctic solstice]

can people from other states or countries still play in my nittrado server

[ember egret]

they should be able too

[tepid berry]

If I recall, I remember someone saying the client-server isn't crossplay.

[ember egret]

he can see the server, and it promts him for the server password but after he types the password he say there is no button to submit the password

[tepid berry]

#unofficial-setup-help message

I don't know if launching the server from the steam client is considered a non-dedicated server or not. But I suspect that's the case.

[ember egret]

its a dedicated server i can play on my pc and i was just able to join from my ps5 as well

[tepid berry]

If other xbox players can join the session, but he can't - because there is no button - that's a client side issue.

He may have to reinstall.

[ember egret]

well i dont have a way to test that i dont know anyone else with the game on xbox or game pass

[tepid berry]

Well, if you could join from your PS5, I think that's probably a good enough litmus test.

I'm guessing he's on a Series S?

[ember egret]

hes playing the game on game pass but on his pc

[arctic solstice]

why does it say "Failure, unable to connect to server, app id specified by server is invalid." when i try to join my nitrado server

[tepid berry]

It still sounds like a reinstall/verify files situation to me. There's no reason there shouldn't be a button to submit the password.

[arctic solstice]

it says failed on the latency category when i try to join

[tepid berry]

Joining via a webpage link I take it?

[arctic solstice]

Yes

[stable scarab]

Other than PreventDownloadItems=False PreventDownloadDinos=False what can prevent me from transferring the items and downloading the dinos? I lost a mammoth and my friend an otter trying to download them.

[jaunty vortex]

that's not a combination that will work with non-dedicated

[jaunty vortex]

that's considered the same as Xbox.

You'll need a dedicated server for different platforms to play together.

[harsh sleet]

Need some help with beacon. There are a couple mods where I dont want all the engrams it comes with, just specific ones. When I go to the "engram control" page on beacon and try to disable the modded engram, it doesnt dissapear in game. What am I missing?

[distant hearth]

engram control is kinda broken at the moment, nothing much can do but wait

[harsh sleet]

I have no problem disabling vanilla engrams, just modded ones that seem to not wanna go away. I can't even lock them behind level 200 lol

[lone stream]

Yea, our players can see hidden mod engrams but not learn it, but can't see engrams from the mod that are not hidden. So they keep asking why they can't learn stuff.
But the official servers don't use hidden engrams, so I suppose that a fix has no prio at all.

[distant hearth]

yea everyones having same issues

[regal kernel]

is it possible to enable the halloween event in ark survival evolved?

[olive talon]

Yeah but you'll have to use a mod for most of the event stuff. Event assets v2 I think it was called.

[compact goblet]

anyone else have trees that shouldnt be there loading into your base and taking like 5 mins to realize they shouldnt be there and unload?

[jaunty vortex]

Yes. Extremely annoying and not new.

[last magnet]

rocks and trees, I just hang out and wait for the visuals to clear

[plain atlas]

whats the current dedicated server version atm?

[bleak ivy]

54.11 is what #patch-notes says

[plain atlas]

ok just my friend cant join out of nowhere

[bleak ivy]

minor versions rarely matter with connections

[hybrid pewter]

Hello, Im seeking tech support, when i launch ark thru steam on my windows pc, the red saturation is unbearable, i cant seem to correct the issue can anyone here help?

[upbeat compass]

anyone know why we can't fly the Zeplin on our server? do we need to enable the force can ride flyer setting for this?

[eager rain]

Hey i need help i got a nitradoserver for testing hosting. Now we want to play on hard but with strong tames and fast farming. i speak german and englisch. Hope you can help

[warped zodiac]

How would I reduce the time in between eating for passive tames?

[stable scarab]

By hard I assume you mean high level dinos yes?

[stable scarab]

I don't think you can for only passive tames, but upping wild dino food drain will make KO tames tame faster as well as passive.

[warped zodiac]

Well that’s the thing. We have it so KO tames are tamed in about 10-15 minutes max but it’s like 30 min in between feedings for passives

[stable scarab]

I assume that's a setting I don't know about then, sorry.

[distant hearth]

game.ini look for this setting ,
PassiveTameIntervalMultiplier=1

lower will make it faster i.e 0.5, or 0.25

[stable scarab]

Ah, good to know!

[distant hearth]

just dont try use 0 at it defaults back to 1

[warped zodiac]

Okay thank you. I’m trying to help my buddy, but he generally tries to just use the nitrado settings to change things. I’ll pass the info along to him

[lament dagger]

Are Hardware Performance Upgrade worth it for ASA im running quite a decent amount of mods and was wondering if I should perhaps upgrade to advanced because my ping is running at 120+ average (Unoffical Private Server) with only 1-3 players usually.

the cpu and ram usage is showing as high as well.

[latent coral]

What are you running for hardware now, and how many mods/maps/people are you trying to have on ASA?

[lament dagger]

the default one, didn't upgrade it at all and I have 35 mods but most of them are popular creature mods and some QOL as well.

[latent coral]

But are you planning to continue with a lot of mods on ASA?

[lament dagger]

yes

[latent coral]

And you're saying you only run the island?

And intend to only continue running one map?

[lament dagger]

ill probably rotate the map and save my world to a seperate USB so i can kinda use it as a cluster if u know what i mean

currently on the center

[latent coral]

I feel you

If you're only running one map and don't intend to host for a lot of people, you probably only need like 15gb ram free for whatever you're hosting on. 2 cores per map is recommended for ASA

[lament dagger]

nah 5 players at most lol but usually its just me

[latent coral]

What cpu is in your server?

[lament dagger]

uhh how do i check the exact cpu spec im just on the upgrade page rn which just says Standard, Advanced, Professional, Ultimate

[latent coral]

Ooooh are you having it hosted? My b

I thought you were self hosting

[lament dagger]

yea Nitardo

[latent coral]

Oof

Can't help you there, sorry. I thought you were on your own hardware

[lament dagger]

damn atp ill prob just upgrade I cant seem to find someone that knows

[latent coral]

Yeah sorry. I bought my own rig that can run a full cluster for the price of 6 months of a 20 slot/map nitrado full cluster

[lament dagger]

how much did that cost ya

[latent coral]

2k

[lament dagger]

[latent coral]

it beats nitrado by miles though. it runs like a champ, and like i said it broke even in 6 months

[lament dagger]

how does it run multiple maps at once

[latent coral]

having a shit ton of cores on the cpu

[lament dagger]

maybe in the VERY far future id be able to buy a whole rig dedicated to hosting servers for games i play but im just a casual gamer atm

[edgy cobalt]

If a server owner is to purchase a map to use for the server does every player need to buy it or can it be played off the server owners map

[distant hearth]

if its a premium mod, everyone needs to buy before they can join server

[tiny light]

my clothing/armor is randomly disapearing. This a bug?

[last hornet]

What’s your specs if you don’t mind me asking, also how many maps exactly are you running and do you think it can run more. I’m looking at doing the same nitrado is too costly for me lol

[latent coral]

a 3960x threadripper with 128gb ram. im going to have to up the ram at some point. i run 50-60 mods on each map, and i currently have 7 maps and clubark

[last hornet]

Nice was looking at the thread rippers, expensive piece of hardware but will pay off fast

[latent coral]

each of the vanilla maps is using about 15 gb ram. ive heard that a rule of thumb is to allocate another gb per player, and i read on a wiki somewhere that each map can only utilize 2 cores, so the cores still have to have good single core performance, which kind of rules out most xeons and epycs. that basically leaves you using:

xeon/epyc: high core count, high max ram amounts, good prices for some of them, but single core performance suffers greatly from reduced clock speeds because theyre server cpus instead of consumer. there is no remedy for this since a map can ONLY use 2 cores.

-i9: dont take the advertised core count at face value, they claim 24 but its actually only 8 power cores and 16 efficiency cores. i dont think e cores would run a server very well at all.

-7950x/9950x: top tier single core performance and 16 cores arent bad, but if youre committed to running a full cluster it probably wont get you there. that would be probably 8-10 maps, but the real limit is that the ram cap is 128gb which is most likely not enough for a full cluster, even without mods.

-threadripper 3000 series and up: if its in the budget, these are the best bet. 3000 series threadrippers can handle up to 256 gb ram, pro series 3000 can handle 2tb. newer generations of non-pros can handle even more ram. the single core performance on these is inline with the equivalent flagship intel core cpus of the same gen, while having downright stupid amounts of cores for something with consumer clock speeds. a 3970x, in theory, would handle ~16 maps.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, im not an expert and i dont do this for a living. im just sharing my perceptions and takeaways from my time messing with this as a hobby. some quick numbers though show that running a full cluster on nitrado with 20 slot servers would cost 20/month for 12 maps. per year, that becomes 12 maps x 20 dollars/(month x map) x 12 months/year = 2880 dollars/year

[latent coral]

i picked up my rig for 1.5k used and made some upgrades that probably put me around 2k currently. realistically, at that price point i broke even somewhere around the 6-8 month mark. everything afterwards is essentially free minus the price of electricity

[last hornet]

Yeh exactly why I want my own set up, very interesting thanks for sharing I’m now going to start looking at just that 😀

[tranquil pewter]

dont forget looking in used data center hardware, there are low prices for exemple for older intel broadwell servers and used ECC ram. Also the first and second Epyc hardware becomes used lower and lower prices. At the end it depends much on players will play there, mod amount and server config. with auto decay the RAM usage should be not so a big problem.Using old official savegames for ASE without decay needs a lot of RAM of course (we do this for example). Also think about backup strategy for savegames, stable internet connection with mostly static IP, uninterruptible power supply and such things.

[lunar cloud]

If you are planning to run ASA just for you and few mates, dont fork out a ton of cash to run your own data center as you dont need it

I run 5 maps with ease on a tiny mini-pc i got offf Amazon. 4 physical cores are more than enough. spent $400 or so for this. 32GB rams with allocated VRAM and you're good to go. At the end of the day it all depends how many people are planning to play. CPU is mostly for when server boot and you only need a lot if you have consistent 20+ players on line rendering stuff in and out etc.

[tranquil pewter]

very right, if you start complete new server, you dont need much ram. normally a good and relative cheap system is for example an AMD 5700G, cheap B450 Board or something else and 64-128GB RAM , 1-2TB SSD and you have much reserves and can use 12+ Maps without problems

and dont forget, there are mostly much more servers as players on ASE and ASA, so if you dont have still a big community, servers dont become very full with players

[native wave]

I'm just under $900 all in with an old enterprise sever I bought off ebay (local, so no shipping costs). But that's about $400 in extra stuff I bought for the server. Details on my wiki page https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/User:ThunderGod97/cluster/
All I need to support me and my small group of friends.

[eager rain]

@stable scarabyeah i guess. on nitrado i aktivate the level override to 5. But the tames should be stronger than the wilds because one wild kills all tames

[tranquil pewter]

Ah, does someone know which server config have an effect on the player inventory size or what officials (ASE) used? In my case i can use on a player char 447 inventory slots + 1 implant + 10 hotbar + 6 armor = 464 slots at all, but when transfering stuff with this amount from a server to another, a network error overflow message with disconnect comes mostly after joining the target server. After rejoining the server, all is still in inventory and nothing lost, but the disconnect and error message is annyoing. also in this case not all slots are visible or can be filtered. On old official, if i remember correct, the player inventory slot size was also higher then 300 but lower then 350. So there must be a config to have an effect to this size?

[thorny sage]

hey! i have the issue on my server that only one drop at a time spawns on abberation surface and caves have most of the time no lootdrops. any suggestions how to solve this issue?

[tranquil pewter]

sadly not, but i have the feel that same on our ASA Aberration maps happend, too

i never saw a loot crate in a cave there 😉

[thorny sage]

could it be that the lifetime of the drop is too short? on surface they despawn in like 5 mins

[spark gorge]

Has anyone fix an issue on a dedi where your map isnt showing in the server lists. I already played around with the filters like show player servers and its still not showing. Server is public and currently in DMZ for testing purposes so port forwarding isnt the issue.

[jaunty vortex]

server name? Checked Battle Metrics?

[iron bronze]

If you do not have a Nitrado hosted server, Wildcard hide your server from the server list automatically. We have the same issue and it's not exactly fair. To find your servers, you need have the Show Player Servers filter checked in the bottom right of the server list

[jaunty vortex]

He said he tried Show Player Servers already

[iron bronze]

Also, does anyone else have issues with engram changes doing wacky things?

[iron bronze]

Oh...missed that...I just woke up lol

[jaunty vortex]

known issue with engrams. When I say known, I mean a lot of complaints. No idea if Wildcard are aware

If there is a new dino coming this week, it probably means a big update and they will be focussed on that

[iron bronze]

Yea, I thought so...okay, thanks

[jaunty vortex]

Wildcard would do well to have a pinned post or something in announcements where they keep track of the known issues so people can stop reporting things once they are acknowledged

[tidal bloom]

Hey nice people!
I am new to the unoffical Server-people and have a couple of questions:

1.I have a private ARK Server on gportal and downloaded and installed the "dinos everywhere"-mods and theyre working but i want to balance somethings like disable tek stryders to spawn and so forth...
How do i do this?

2. I changed the spawn rate for dinos from 0.9 (default) to 1.1. Know enough dinos spawn per se but the ratios are fkd up,like there are 2000pteranodons, 200 bloodstalker, 10000 carbonemys and like 1 quetzal....where and how can i change how many dinos of each can spawn in total on the map? Like can i customize the population?

3. When i install the "dinos everywhere" mods can i decide where they spawn? I dont like the spawns set in the mod but like to have the dinos

4.ASA is shit imo and i want the oasisaur on SE, is there ANY possibility?

Thank you so much for anyone that spends time and work answering my questions! Greets Noè

[spark gorge]

Already have that selected. I can upload items and dino's perfectly fine, just my char cant travel as I dont see my servers listed in the cluster session list. I can also create a new char on the other servers and download the uploaded items. All names are unique as well.

[iron bronze]

Ah okay...do you have -NoTransferFromFiltering in your startup? Or do you have the following set in your GameUserSettings.ini:

PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadDinos=False```

(I don't know if that is the correct way to set it up, but thats what we have and it works fine lol)

[graceful stirrup]

hi everyone just asking if anyone here is good with xbox crashes? ive got a friend and shes currentley on abberation on a non dedicated on her series s and shes telling me shes experiencing frequent crashing. from what weve talked about i dont think its performance based as shes getting a solid 60-120 frames with relative ease and everything is updated. shes tried reinstalling abb and it still isnt working properly. any help id much appreciate since im making this post on her behalf

[spark gorge]

Yeah have that set up as well, even added it as parameters in the startup to overwrite the ini settings and still nothing. I can transfer dinos and items fine. Server just isn't showing to allow char transfer. I'm sure if it shows that I would be able to transfer due to the fact that I can transfer items and dinos. Not even listed in the join list with the option selected. Also no password as its a public server.

And its also listed on battlemetrics as online as a bit of info

[iron bronze]

I'm guessing you have all the servers setup with the correct cluster ID and such, right?

[iron bronze]

Any mods installed?

[spark gorge]

Yeah got it setup with a unique ID thats the same on each of them. Like I said, uploading and downloading works, so the configuration for the cluster is fine. I do run mods as well, but also tried booting 2 separate servers not in the cluster and with their own setups, and it also does not list in the server list ingame, even when running the Ark.UseServerList 0 command, but can join it via the open command

Its a weird one

[iron bronze]

1. Best way I find to stop spawning is to install the spawnblocker mod...allows you to block or decrease different spawns.

2. again, spawnblocker mod ^^

3. I am not familiar with the "dinos everywhere" mods

4. The Oasisaur should already spawn on SE

[iron bronze]

the only thing that I can think of is that the servers are not updated, but i'm sure that is not the issue...But I am willing to bet that the problem has nothing to do with the clustering and more to do with why the servers are just not showing in the server list

Umm...I take it you have tried restarting the servers

[spark gorge]

Yeah as well as the host. Servers are updated and running latest versions as well. I also have a feeling that its related to not showing up. Still troubleshooting that avenue as well. Does anyone know what port the ark system uses for populating the lists?

Let me try completely renaming the servers and see what happens

[jaunty vortex]

It doesn’t have a specific port for updating lists. Only has game port and optional rcon port.

[spark gorge]

Damn, even with a name change it doesn't show in the list

[jaunty vortex]

What are you calling it?

[spark gorge]

The Pantheon Center

Let me set it to 1 platform only and check then. Think it defaults to all with no parameters

[jaunty vortex]

And how are you starting it? What parameters?

40 player server running on port 7777

[spark gorge]

Yeah, will post the starup in a bit

[jaunty vortex]

According to battle metrics

34 mods which is asking for trouble.

[spark gorge]

Not to worried about the mods, tested without them already, and even with a vanilla server doesn't show in the list.
Here is the startup I use that my pterodactyl creates. (I know the query can be left out as well),

The "Z:\ark" is due to the system using proton, which needs it listed like that to function.

TheCenter_WP?listen?MaxPlayers=40?SessionName="The Pantheon Center"?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?RCONPort=31500?RCONEnabled=True?ServerPVE=True?ServerPassword=?TribeLogDestroyedEnemyStructures=true?AltSaveDirectoryName=AbASACenter?ServerAdminPassword=XXXXXXXX -WinLiveMaxPlayers=40 -oldconsole -servergamelog -mods=932714,952367,938805,947835,929110,940975,928597,933099,930494,947033,950914,935408,936660,947733,930442,953154,959521,929902,929543,941697,931119,939604,941556,932975,929334,931527,931762,941450,950584,943455,1007609,931047,933447,961601 -NoBattlEye -Port=7777 -ServerPlatform=PC -servergamelog -servergamelogincludetribelogs -NoTransferFromFiltering -ClusterDirOverride="Z:\ark" -clusterid=0826984577

[jaunty vortex]

you have a lot of obsolete settings in there. Or you're using ASE and not ASA

[spark gorge]

Running ASA. What do I need to remove that is obsolete? I do know about the query, but what else?

[jaunty vortex]

TheCenter_WP?SessionName="The Pantheon Center" -Port=7777 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=40 -mods=932714,952367,938805,947835,929110,940975,928597,933099,930494,947033,950914,935408,936660,947733,930442,953154,959521,929902,929543,941697,931119,939604,941556,932975,929334,931527,931762,941450,950584,943455,1007609,931047,933447,961601 -NoBattlEye -NoTransferFromFiltering -ServerPlatform=PC -ClusterDirOverride="Z:\ark" -clusterid=0826984577

[spark gorge]

Is there a site I can go to control and check what is or not?

[jaunty vortex]

put rcon port and admin password in gameusersettings.ini

same for pve

Personally I would not use the altsavedir, it's an ASE thing mainly

[spark gorge]

The manager I use adds them as these parameters.
Thanks for pointing that out, let me make a few changes and check out if it works.

[jaunty vortex]

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

[haughty cairn]

Can anyone confirm Xbox mod storage capacity, we thought it was 20Gb but one of our players can't join as it's only saying 10Gb

[jaunty vortex]

Which xbox? Series S in particular will struggle with a lot of mods, it doesn't have the RAM that the Series X and PS5 have

[haughty cairn]

Series X, they only have Ark installed

It's the mod limit is stating 10Gb, but PS is saying 20GB

The install size, not the amount

[jaunty vortex]

should be 20GB but that's a lot of mods still

As a general observation, I would pick and chose the mods carefully. Wildcard probably won't test them unless featured in the Community Crunch and nobody will test them for inter-working with other mods.

Also pay attention to when they were last updated in case they have been abandoned

[haughty cairn]

We are at 11GB mostly due to maps tho

[jaunty vortex]

that wasn't aimed at you specifically, Captain.

But across all the ark related discords I am on, there is a tendency for people to go crazy and pile on the mods

[haughty cairn]

Ye, we've been extremely careful to not exceed 20Gb, including our 2 modded maps. Specifically for this reason. We are just confused by this 10Gb limit issue they seem to be having.

[jaunty vortex]

Yeah, doesn't make sense. They've not run out of storage totally, have they?

[graceful stirrup]

yeah we hgave a few installed but nothing crazy

[jaunty vortex]

you said she's on a Series S. Most likely it is the mods because the S only has 10GB of RAM compared to the X/PS5 that have 16GB

#1110949794907684965 Also, only English is used here, sorry

[shadow tulip]

Does anyone else have a decent solution besides the tower at 50/50 for that glitch. I'm losing Patron like crazy because they are losing days of progress everytime they get on. It's not just island either, it's like 4 different maps that have it now

[rustic garnet]

I have the Pelarys cryopods mod, but the cryopods themselves don't appear, instead I get a gun, a terminal, an empty cryopod chamber and a cryofridge, how can I get the cryopods?

[wise kindle]

Cryo chambers ARE cryopods.

[rustic garnet]

Ok ok , thank you

[untold granite]

quick question about mod maps..can my character from my other maps if i own a server through nitrada transfer or is it a new character entirely

[iron bronze]

You will need to cluster the two servers together first ^^

[untold granite]

ah cool ..yea i figured that..most of my server wants to try out the new Asteros map when it goes premium so i figured id ask ahead of time.. thanks!

[iron bronze]

My question is, does leaving creatures on mating/wondering still cause server lag?

[untold granite]

i dont have an answer but i would assume if you have an oviraptor picking the eggs up there shouldnt be any lag..if the eggs are staying on the ground however i would think there might be lag

just an educated guess

[wraith fulcrum]

Anyone knows how to fix crashes with garbage collections? Hardware looks fine and its not on the limits.

[still thunder]

hey folks i got the following problem, maybe anyone of you can help: i added a ClubArk Server to our cluster recently, which is working perfectly fine, but if i get me a dino reward i'm not able to download it(saddles, armor, weapons work perfectly fine, but cryopods always time out when trying to download them) anyone got a solution therefor?

[lean ferry]

Anyone using CS mod? it stopped letting us place them

[arctic sierra]

-serverpassword doesnt work on dedicated server? anyone had this issue

[celest halo]

because thats not a - flaged option

its a ? flaged option ?ServerPassword=

[arctic sierra]

will try.

someone told me it wasnt a startup command

would it be the same for admin password?

[lunar cloud]

best to use the wiki which is the source of truth https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#GameUserSettings.ini

Although not suggested, settings marked with ✅ in the CMD column can be used in the command line too, appending them with the ? syntax. In contrast, settings marked with ❌ cannot be moved in the command line.

?ServerAdminPassword= is there too

[arctic sierra]

idk i just tried and server has no password

[lunar cloud]

then it's likely that your startup command is malformed and the password is not taking effect. I.E something else is not right in your startup command and breaks the rest of it. You can post it here for folks to help (just set sensitive details as xxxx

[arctic sierra]

"thecenter_wp" "-port=7777" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=16 ?ServerPassword=xxxx?ServerAdminPassword=xxxx -mods=1012898,928708,931874,928621,946694,931047,924900,941145,948687,931877,941697,929110,940022,949521,930128,934578,961601,935528,942008,947835,1007609,965961,1105211,981339,935946,966352,974472,981989" -ServerPlatform=ALL -log -servergamelog

[celest halo]

? settings need to be before - settings

and why is there quotes around these "thecenter_wp" "-port=7777"

[arctic sierra]

it was an old manager that i used

just copied it over

[arctic sierra]

wym

im kinda new to all this sorry

[celest halo]

TheCenter_WP?ServerPassword=xxxx?ServerAdminPassword=xxxx -port=7777 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=16 -mods=1012898,928708,931874,928621,946694,931047,924900,941145,948687,931877,941697,929110,940022,949521,930128,934578,961601,935528,942008,947835,1007609,965961,1105211,981339,935946,966352,974472,981989 -log -servergamelog

[arctic sierra]

thank youuu

that fixed so many yellow lines on startup and stuff

lol

[delicate rose]

Hi there, I was told there is a general set up guide on Ark Official Discord to tweak the settings of the game to play more smoothly. My computer is not the problem, I have had that checked and the tech said I needed to find the right settings to play the game better. All other games run smoothly. My problem is just the FPS as it should run around 60 but it sits between 5 and 20 and the best I have seen is 45 briefly. Can anyone help point me in the right direction for assistance with this? Thanks in advance.

[ashen flicker]

Yoo how do u make is so u can build in puzzle cave on ASE??

[pliant light]

Anyone know how to recover my character? Because I was playing on the Island but the game crashed and then I lost my character and now I do not know what I need to do

[sinful island]

Hello, does anyone know why the player names change to "Player" after a server transfer in the cluster? And after a transfer the doors no longer work automatically. My servers are without mods. Thanks

[lunar cloud]

Yeah the auto-open\close door thing for me too stops working from time to time and relogging fixes it.
Ive noticed there is some race condition bug. When you open the game and look at the top as you will notice "player" username which changes to yours if you allow time. If you "join game" too fast, it says you're not logged in and you have to join game again or wait for the login process to occur.
Similarly ive noticed when joining sometimes Ark does not know you are logged in, so it shows your character as "player" as its not sync'ed with its login session or something weird. Restarting the game fixes it for me

In relation to this, it will forget that you own the Bobs tall tales pack as "Player" and you cant access it, have to restart the game to fix it

[sinful island]

ok so it's probably not due to any .ini setting?

[lunar cloud]

i doubt it. I've been keeping an eye on my username when i open the game and made sure i dont "Join Game" too quickly and wait for my username to populate, and i have not had this issue again since

[lethal plover]

Hey anyone knows how to modify the fasolasuchus farming for some reason it only farms at 1x rates

[arctic sierra]

is there any way i can add a discord bot to my server where it shows when server is up etc?

[tight pecan]

Can someone help me I just rented a asa server but can fix certain stats I have beacon but can’t seem to find help anywhere

[spare raft]

Hi, I'm trying to connect 2 maps that are on a server to 2 other maps that are on another machine. Currently my line is "r -ClusterDirOverride=D:/DevolutionCluster/" ... I tried "-ClusterDirOverride=\\DREAMCLOUDSERV\DevolutionCluster" on a shared folder on the 1st machine

[celest halo]

It's not a good idea to share your cluster id

The cluster dir needs to be read/write by all servers

Not sure if server can use mdns networking paths

[spare raft]

They use them well. They create the Cluster folder as expected but the transfers do not work, we lose our characters with each transfer...

[celest halo]

If you're losing your character with transfer then I would say it's not using them well at all, the server your on puts the player profile in the cluster dir when you transfer off it then the server you went to takes the file from that folder when it's working right

[west elk]

Where are ARK's files located? It was downloaded from xbox

[vale fiber]

A new patch and still no engram fix....

[fresh bloom]

No idea where to put this so here it is:

From everything I've read, it looks like ASE Fear Evolved only has dino colors and making things in the vanilla cooking pot(for free) now.
No mounds with pumpkins/headstones/pumpkinskeletons where you get things and no dodorex(dodowyverns).

We've paid money for ASE and people are still buying ASE, why aren't we getting the full holiday events experience with the game?
(For private servers and single player ASE games)

Please let us turn on everything.

[celest halo]

dont effect officials so they dont care about it

[vale fiber]

it does affect officials though

at least APOC from what I hear

[trim yew]

How do I run the astraeos mod map? Can't remember where I put the mod in my dedi. Or do I just input the mod I'd and make sure the map is set to the custom for that map?

[elder plover]

yeah add the mod id and set the map to I think it's Astraeos_WP then you should be gtg

[trim yew]

That makes sense. Thanks

[indigo dagger]

@countrymama its really starting to wear.

[tight pecan]

Can someone help me I just rented a asa server but can fix certain stats I have beacon but can’t seem to find help anywhere

[elder plover]

so there's a big rabbit hole you can go down with regards to editing things using beacon, here's the link to the actual config's themselves https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration. Depending on what you're wanting to do it might be worth finding it here first and reading what it does and then you will have a better idea of what the ui beacon provides is actually lettting you edit if that makes sense, in terms of apllying it to the server I dont rent a server or use beacon directly on the server if I do use it I export the config options and manually add them to the game.ini file so provided your renter lets you do that you can do it that way otherwise I have no idea XD

[tight pecan]

Nitrado also I’ve tried it in the configs I need someone to look at my bs and see if I’m doing it right or wrong bc something isn’t right

I’ve never rented a server before

All I need is insta tame and more things when I harvest things bc rn it’s too low no matter how high I raise it in the configs or the settings it doesn’t go up

[elder plover]

you'll be looking for taming speed multiplier and harvest amount multiplier then, never used Nitrado so no clue what their ui is like but you'd need to restart the server after changing them and maybe make sure theres no like a save button to make sure the changed values are applied?

[mossy wyvern]

Hello, good evening. Could someone help me add administrators to ASA servers without using EnableCheats? I know that in ASE an AllowedCheater...txt file was used, but in ASA it doesn't work even if I enter the unique id.

[tight pecan]

I’ve done all that and It’s always the same it doesn’t wanna go up I need someone who’s done this before bc I can’t even play

[elder plover]

you need their epic online id I think theres a console command they can use to get it something like "whoami" apart from that I believe it's the same

[jaunty vortex]

go into a single player game and then open a console and type that

Public has updated

I'm getting a server crash with Super Cryo Storage and 54.22 installed.

[jagged garnet]

Ima just drop this here
||ConfigOverrideNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="AB_DinoSpawnEntries_FireLions_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="FireLion (1)",EntryWeight=0.00001,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/Aberration/Dinos/Lightbug/Lightbug_Character_BaseBP.Lightbug_Character_BaseBP_C"),ManualSpawnPointSpreadRadius=650,WaterOnlySpawnMinimumWaterHeight=140,GroupSpawnOffset=(X=0,Y=0,Z=35))),NPCSpawnLimits=((NPCClass="/Game/Aberration/Dinos/Lightbug/Lightbug_Character_BaseBP.Lightbug_Character_BaseBP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.01)))||
Put that in your Game.ini and it will replace the pyromane with a glow bug on Abberation. Ill do for other maps if anyone wants. I also have one to lower Xenos on the surface but i havent tested it yet.

[grim sinew]

yay engrams are fixed

[fierce skiff]

Engrams on servers

@grim sinew

[grim sinew]

the engram overrides, yes

[fierce skiff]

Ideal about time console or pc only

[grim sinew]

on a crossplay, so assuming for all

[fierce skiff]

Nice thank you very much

[lusty wagon]

Hey, is there a way to automatically run the command cheat ce skiesofblue every few minutes on my Scorched Earth server?

[cinder jolt]

Ark: Survival Evolved - Item Stat Clamps

Hello, I'm having trouble setting up ItemStatClamps I currently have them set to;

ItemStatClamps[2]=1200
ItemStatClamps[3]=350```

Hoping that it would set max armor to 496, max durability to 1200, and max weapon damage to 350%... I'm spawning in armor and it keeps breaking WAY over these caps.. How can I solve this?

[jagged garnet]

what item/s in particular?

[cinder jolt]

I just want to set all weapon max damage to 350% and then Flak armor 496 armor & 1200 dura Tek Suit can be 1500 dura though if possible to differentiate.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm spawning in items that's causing the issue or if the clamps aren't working as I'm understanding them.

[feral ocean]

What was your issue? My friend is having the same problem

[frail crescent]

The Wardrobe mod isnt supposed to go onto the server, its client side, which is what held me up. I had it set on the server.

[jagged garnet]

looking into the arguments and inputs it should clamp all existing items and permanently set the values of any over the stated limits, Im not sure if it will affect items spawned it but from the sounds of it, it should. My ini lines are same as yours (game.ini) I also just checked if there is a GUS or launch param that is needed but dont see anything.

[cinder jolt]

Yeah, I'm starting to think it may be a plugin but I haven't found anything so far. I know I've seen it on servers where it's hard capped on those items and from shop you could buy max dura/armor bps that'll always be exactly the same. 😛

I don't see how to actually cap it though. Because as of right now I have those values set, yet I'm still getting 1900 dura and 1100 armor items.

[jagged garnet]

Yeah it looks like those values are supposed to hard limit them and raise the base values to achieve that max. But I am not sure how to get it to actually clamp it. Ive messed with just about everything from loot tables and creature adjustments spawns etc but thats the one thing i havent really touched so thought id try my hand at it. sadly no luck. Granted i didnt restart my servers to check it for risk of affecting my existing gear but i may run a test server just to check that in the future.

[cinder jolt]

I had mine off when I made the edits and started it, have restarted it since as well, it's not caring about the limit I set.

But when I did restart the server. Some of the values changed on the blueprints already in my inventory when I restarted.

[elder plover]

if you're wanting to remove pyromanes just use npc replacements and set the replacement to ''

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

[elder plover]

you may need to increase those limits my max crossbox weapon damage is 310% with these settings I think the default values are on the wiki somewhere I just rounded them up for these

ItemStatClamps[3]=21000```

[severe sierra]

I added the following settings to game.ini to increase the appearance rate of alpha surface reaper king, but it doesn't work, what's wrong with the settings?
DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag="Elite Xenomorph", SpawnWeightMultiplier=10.0, OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=true, SpawnLimitPercentage=1.0)

[distant hearth]

the clamps dont work in the way your thinking there,
see here-https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#ItemStatClamps
you will also need the line clampitemstats=true in the gus.ini
spawning things in they will be able force over the clamps set , then iirc on a server restart they get clamped back to the value set

[distant hearth]

some of theese spawn codes just dont seem work in asa , it cud also just be that they have there own spawn pool and all you have done is increased the weight of them in that spawn(which if there in there own group wont effect anything),
you cud try increasing the spawn limit percentage a little, be careful small changes can result in hundreds spawning

[cinder jolt]

I read everything I can on the wiki about it. Trying to figure this out.

[elder plover]

yeah I think @distant hearth is right, you've increased the spawn weight but that just makes them more likely to spawn so at best id say they could out compete the fasilos and seekers on the surface (assuming they use the same spawn entry which they might not) if you wanna increase the sheer number you might be able to do it with the spawn limit assuming that the spawn limit allows you to enter values over 100% and doesnt just have 100% as a hard limit

actually if you're trying to spawn more alphas I think they spawn as a % of normal spawns (like tek dinos) so I don't know if this approach will work but i might be wrong, you could I suppose add the alphas as a dedicated entry to the spawn zone but that would make it very easy to overspawn them so would take some fiddling to get right

[severe sierra]

@distant hearth @elder plover Thanks for the idea. I'll give it a try.

[untold ginkgo]

Anyone else by chance knows a code for increasing the upload timers on ASA that works? We’ve tried the one from ASE and it didn’t work, tried in both settings and nothing, not sure if we have to put it in a certain order or something, any help would be appreciated please!

[cinder jolt]

Yes! I got it to work now for Armor, Durability, and Weapon Damage. Really weird math they have for it but ChatGPT is a beast.

But now for ItemStatClamps I'm trying to figure out what Weight does?

I've tried lowering it down to 10, 25, 1000, and 10000, it doesn't seem to affect anything. & Yes I'm restarting each time for the game.ini to update.

[distant hearth]

i have no idea , cant think of items that have a weight stat, possibily it just does nothing as they never implemented it,who knows, they dont document this stuff so its just trial an error

[cinder jolt]

Damn, I'm trying to adjust weight stats for items so I don't have to use a mod.

IDC if it's global weight or specific item weight.

[distant hearth]

most of use the player an dino stat mutipliers to give more weight per point added

[sleek nacelle]

Is there something wrong with this for an ASA Ab Server? I have it at the end of my game.ini ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntries_Aberration_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="AberrantAnkylo",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Ankylo/Ankylo_Character_BP_Aberrant.Ankylo_Character_BP_Aberrant_C"),MinLevel=180,MaxLevel=180),(AnEntryName="AberrantDireBear",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Direbear/Direbear_Character_BP_Aberrant.Direbear_Character_BP_Aberrant_C"),MinLevel=180,MaxLevel=180),(AnEntryName="RockDrake",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawn=("/Game/Aberration/Dinos/RockDrake/RockDrake_Character_BP.RockDrake_Character_BP_C"),MinLevel=228,MaxLevel=228)))
we run at difficulty 6

it just doesnt seem to be working I still get lower level spawns for all the dinos listed

[distant hearth]

make sure its under this header
[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
and not the temp one thats also in asa

[cinder jolt]

Yeah, I wanted to save that for last resort. I played on a server that didn't have crazy weight values or a stack size mod, yet stack sizes were like 2500 for resources with the weight being similiar to a default stack (ex: 100 stone = 50 weight changed to 2500 stone = 50 weight.)

Not sure how they did it.

[distant hearth]

your also just targeting one spawn point not every spawn on the map

[distant hearth]

stack mods are bad, dont go that route, i have no idea how they wud do it without a mod, dint think it was even possible

always just increased stack sizes , then adjusted the weight per point added to copmpensate

[sleek nacelle]

thats probably the issue then

[cinder jolt]

thanks for answering everything man, very helpful

[distant hearth]

not sure if it helps for the specifcs of you case but one of the 5 mods i use is, custom dino levels, i have it set to give higher level dinos (more like ragnarock settings)
it can change the levels of rockdrakes seperate i think, unsure about specfic dinos though, you wud have to look into it more

[last magnet]

I should try that setting, I have it on defaults to see how it behaved

[last moon]

There was a level 1 ravager that wouldn't take damage on my Aberration ASA server. The red gun wouldn't even work to kill it. I had to do a wild dino wipe to get rid of it. Someone else just told me that they have seen other ravagers and spinos like this on the Aberration server today too. Has anyone else been having this problem?

[distant hearth]

its a rare issue thats happened virtually since asa came out, unsure what causes it

[last moon]

Do you know if there are any fixes to it?

[distant hearth]

other than dino wipe none that i know of

[last magnet]

there is a mod that looks for them and destroys them: InvalidDinoDetector

crossplay

[last moon]

Thanks. I will keep doing dino wipes, and maybe they will quit spawning. Hasn't done it on any of my other map servers (at least that I know of). Just Aberration.

[distant hearth]

see comment above , i forgot about that mod

[last moon]

Thanks, I might check that out.

[last magnet]

hope it helps, I tested it for a bit on my server

I didn't have issues, but I hadn't loaded into Ab yet, just on the Center

if you run Appalachian Denizens, the Alligator Snapping turtle (non tameable but the raptors love to aggro on it but can't kill it) triggers the mod, and I kinda 429'd the telemetry. oops

[tight pecan]

I need help with my Asa server I need someone to go in and fix my settings and configs bc apparently I’m doing something wrong or it’s bugged bc none of my adjustments work

[distant hearth]

someone fixing it for you isnt going to help in the future when problems happen,
why not explain what type of server, what issues you have and what doesnt work? then we can see if anyone can help you sort it

[tight pecan]

Certain stats won’t work when I make adjustments to them

Like taming and harvesting

[distant hearth]

nitrado server?

[tight pecan]

And egg hatching and breeding takes way too long ,yes

[distant hearth]

stop the server , wait 5 mins, make the changes , save it , wait a minute then restart server,
egg hatching an breeding is personal prefernce, i reccomend a program called beacon ark omni , the free version will allow you to adjust all the settings an see what effect they have on each dino

[tight pecan]

I have beacon I’ve don’t this already I’ve been in contact with Nitrado support twice I’ve adjusted it all several times shut down the server restarted it nothing sticks

[distant hearth]

this info wud of been useful before hand? we cant read minds 🙂
what did nitrado support say then ? is it an issue with the server itself?

[tight pecan]

They told me todo it things I’ve been doing all Ik is nothing works those 4 stats won’t change no matter what I do

[distant hearth]

ok, so lets start with simple, how are you making the changes? step by step process

harvesting an taming are prob the easiset , iirc those can just be changed in nitrado u/i ,
better to do it in the ini files imo but there ui shudnt have an issue changing those

[tight pecan]

I’ll either do it in nitro general settings or the configs in there or in beacon but it don’t change I want insta taming and harvest more than 2 berries at a time

[distant hearth]

do you own the paid version of beacon ?

[tight pecan]

Yes

[distant hearth]

beacon has its own discord u can get help from too,
there super helpful .
beacon makes it easy 99% time, you shud be able just import the server to it . make all the changes in a beacon project then save it an deploy the settings to the server

[tight pecan]

Ive done that doesn’t wanna work

I get back in game it’s all the same

[distant hearth]

are the changes getting made in the two ini files? gameusersetting.ini and game.ini ?

[tight pecan]

Yes

[distant hearth]

can u send me a copy of the two files from the server? direct from nitrado ui, copy an paste them from there and dm me .
ive never had one where it doesnt change if the ini files are correct

[tight pecan]

If u want we can do screen share on here and u can see it live and help me figure out what todo

[distant hearth]

i cant do that atm sry , but can quickly check the files if i have them

[feral ocean]

@frail crescentwhen you say console....do you play ark on xbox? cuz my friend can't load in on xbox.]

[frail crescent]

Pc

Thus my Steam icon

I say Console window because it's the window that displays the server logs as it's loading

[tight pecan]

my server wont stop restarting on its own it will wait a few min then restart again

[deep sequoia]

anyone know why I cant see the same servers as my friend? there are a few servers we can see but I cannot join the same ones he plays on, they do not appear in the list. Help would be greatly appreciated.

[frail crescent]

Usually means a mod conflict or corrupted save file

[frail crescent]

Are you using the search feature?

[deep sequoia]

yes lol it just says no sessions found

[heavy jay]

anyone have the draconic mod on they're server?

[vagrant quarry]

I lost all of my stuff due to auto decay in less than a week??

[deep sequoia]

or it says searching for sessions but just forever

so same thing haha

[frail crescent]

Check the box bottom right . "Show player Servers"

[frail crescent]

Depends on server settings. Each server is different. Usually thatch is gone in a week.

[deep sequoia]

bottom right?

bottom right is just the cancel refresh buttons etc.

[frail crescent]

There's a box you can check somewhere lower right area that has it

In the server browser

[deep sequoia]

can we do this in dms? so i can send ss

[feral ocean]

my friend is having issues getting astraeos to work on his xbox...first it took forever to download and now when he tries to load into it he only gets a black screen.

[frail crescent]

Is the server modded ?

[frail heron]

When I try to restart my dedicated server (ASE) with an rcon command "doRestartLevel", it seems that the server is restarting, but it won't show up on the Ark client as a server. I always have to shut it down on the physical server and start it again. Same problem when I call doRestartLevel when I am logged in to the map as admin player. What can I do?

[pseudo cloak]

Does anyone know how to make it so it's constantly daytime?

(For example, the day counter constantly stays at 1 )

[main depot]

I want to test something from an ARK manager - but unfortunately that is only possible with updates.

Does anyone know how the steamcmd checks whether an update is necessary? Not all files are checked. I think a file is primarily read out and checked with the current online version? So I would like to force the update - then I can test a function cleaner. So does anyone know what the steammd checks?

Alternatively, I am constantly copying an old server version to the test environment ... it only takes forever;)

[celest halo]

There is a manifest file with info about installed version

If your one of the many people that likes to put validate in there update command it will check every file it installs against ones on steam

[last magnet]

I do, what would you like to know?

[severe sierra]

I have a question about the issue of the demolition timer being reset at the same time as the server reboot.
I know there is probably no way to completely solve this problem, but do you guys have any interim solutions?
For example, if you are using a mod to work around this problem, I would like to know how you are doing it.

[last magnet]

I set both timers to 3.5 decay multiplier, and turn off auto destroy. And tribe is set to allow admin to demolish any structure

[dreamy aurora]

What could be the reason why the ping on my server has been over 900 since the last wildcard patch and the server is extremely laggy?

[heavy jay]

High thanks for replying just wanted to ask how well the mod runs with other Dino mods. I currently have the rest of the ark additions. the Tristan’s Dino mod and a few others, does the mod take over other Dino spawns, will I have to adjust anything in the ini to balance it out thanks in advance

[jagged garnet]

Hey if you or anyone you know cant see a server like it's invisible it most likely is (granted you have ruled out mismatched game versions) but it is the client side with the problem. ASA for some reason uses a finite server listing with a criteria or bias. If you go to main menu, open the console, and enter "ark.useserverlist 0" that will make you client use no bias and let you actually search for your desired server.
Edit: I've had to do walk people through this 2/3 times when they come looking for my cluster despite it being no mods, vanilla maps, and on a dedicated unit. But NONE of the people using nitrado for hosting have this issue....

[last night]

Hi!

Others also have the problem since the last update, some servers disappear from the server search. They are no longer visible while the server is launched and no Crashstack ... nothing ...

Out of 8 of my servers, 2 are affected by this problem

The 2 sick servers, when restarting, are visible. After almost 1 hour they are no longer visible in the server list. This problem has been there since the last Ark update

[olive talon]

Are you having them select the "show player servers" box? That's for non-nitrado servers

[jagged garnet]

Yeah, it's both pc and console although consoles sometimes have an issue seeing them, but it's a 1/5 chance and a restart of client typically shows them then. I've seen a tonnnn of people reporting "invisible" servers and this has been the only method that through tedious testing with each new addition to my cluster aswell as recommending this to several other clusters it has resulted in everyone who has input that argument (only needs to be ran once) can always see the servers granted they are up to date etc. I'd love to know the actual usage and reasons behind it but haven't found much for documentation.
Edit: to clarify, I have been running various game servers for over a decade now and I have ruled out the possibility of it being a host (me) network issue or hardware issue leaving a software issue within ASA as this didn't happen on ASE either, I can throw up my ASE cluster into he same ports to no issues with visibility.

[main basin]

I played on the 2084 server .The server was shut down.How to get the character back .And creapods

Where can I ask for help?

[jagged garnet]

If it was sunset and shutdown then you cant.... but you can try submitting a ticket and going through thier support. But if it was one of the ones they have been saying were shutting down for awhile now you likely won't be able to recover anything. Id still try though.

[celest halo]

I'm going to say lost forever like the announcement yesterday said would happen

[main basin]

I didn't know

[olive talon]

This channel is for unofficial server (and singleplayer) setup help. Official servers in #announcements were being notified that they were being deleted for 3 weeks. You're unable to file support tickets because it's closed. You'll have to rebuild.

[last magnet]

in my experience, nope, it doesn't. the mod's slowly rolling out custom spawn system but I've never had any issues with it overspawning. you can use the guide (it's a book on a pedestal) in admin mode (enablecheats serveradminPW) and adjust all settings

and there is a channel in the mod discord with code to increase spawns if you wish

I have my own server on hardware I can control and physically access

[distant hearth]

i have old ase server saves going back from like 6-7 years ago, can boot them up anytime i want 🙂

[celest halo]

I deleted all but one save for each of my ASE maps 🤣

[last magnet]

I'm pondering rolling up an ASE server just to try it out. my setup was not beefy enough for ASE then but it's capable now (well once I get enough space on my SSD, ASE is CHONKY)

[distant hearth]

yea i shud prob delete some but there on old hdd im not likely to want to use anymore , maybe in another 6-7 years lmao

[last magnet]

I've never really enjoyed any official servers, well maybe WoW, but the budget was not there for the subscription. And my husband and his buddy played official on ASE, and hated it, losing crap from meshing or not sucking up to other tribes

if I lose stuff now, it was bc it was my fault, and I can just replace things since I keep backups of gear and have admin to replace dinos

[primal orchid]

Do any of you know if there is a way to setup the difficulty so my wild dinos are say 300, but once tamed it would drop to a max of 150? Essentially I’m trying to increase the difficulty of the wild animals without making them become extra strong once tamed.

[celest halo]

Lol I have like 12tb free where they where stored, just got rid of them so didn't have to look at them all 😂

[last magnet]

make the tamed bonus levels a lower number. Beacon has the setup, but I think that is an Omni feature

[distant hearth]

you cant do that , but you cud increase wild dino resistance to damage, or make tamed do less, or take more etc

[last magnet]

or that yeah

[distant hearth]

or above, theres many ways to make it more difficult

[primal orchid]

Oh, interesting I’ll look at beacon. Didn’t think about adjusting wild resistance, that’s an idea too. Thanks!

[last magnet]

welcome!

[untold ginkgo]

Anyone else by chance knows a code for increasing the upload timers on ASA that works? We’ve tried the one from ASE and it didn’t work, tried in both settings and nothing, not sure if we have to put it in a certain order or something, any help would be appreciated please!

[distant hearth]

what settings did you try , where did u put them and under which header?

[cosmic hare]

Anyone know how I can transfer from an unofficial to another unofficially nitrado server ?

I put the items and dinos in but they don't show

[heavy jay]

Thanks so much this helps a lot with making my decision to add it

[last magnet]

You're welcome!

[untold ginkgo]

@trail elm

[trail elm]

Put that at the bottom of both game user and game ini, but not at the same time

TributeItemExpirationSeconds=604800
TributeDinoExpirationSeconds=604800
TributeCharacterExpirationSeconds=604800

[distant hearth]

server config settings cant just put anywhere , they need to be either be altered if they are already there or added if not and be under the correct headers , they shud go in

gameusersetting.ini
under the header [serversettings]
you need to look in the ini file first an make sure they are not already there , duplicate lines will cause headaches

here has confirmation of what all the settings do an where they belong,
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[trail elm]

Thank you for the info, I did make sure there weren't any duplicate or previously existing lines with that code. But I will try adding it at the bottom of that header and not just the bottom of the page as we have made other modifications as well.

[distant hearth]

if youre confused at all, dm me the ini files direct from the server an i will take a look

[trail elm]

I may take you up on that thank you!!

[fallow marsh]

Anyone having issues with server selection screen. Wont show any unofficial servers. Itll populate official and non dedicated.
Just constantly doing a searching for sessions. Also mod page isn't working very well either.

[feral ocean]

it was...we removed all the mods except Astraeos map and restarted the server....still having the same issue

...I have also been looking on Nitrado discord and Nekatus discord for answers

We also ONLY have the map mod on currently....have not added the Astraeos structures or vehicles.

[potent dirge]

My nitrado server hasn't updated to the 54.23 patch yet, and i just restarted it.. is there something else i need to do to update it?

[frail crescent]

Is the command line for the server set to where its allowing all Crossplay? like no PC only line in it?

[hoary blaze]

Does anyone have a Scorched earth server to help me gauge how many wyverns should be active? I just swapped my island over to a SE and barely any wyverns seem to spawn?

I used to play on survival evolved and for some reason I felt like there were way more than just 3 of each type? I'm on ASA now.

[ebon matrix]

How to make taming a yi ling faster?

What stat do I need to increase?

[lunar cloud]

yeah ASA wyverns have always been messed up. Not sure how it even went live like that

[short eagle]

yeah, they delete themselves frequently. I filed a bug report on it a while back, but considering Ab and Ext are the focus rn who knows how long it'll be before it's looked at.

[frail heron]

I asked this before and nobody responded, so maybe I'll give it another try: Is there a way to restart a map to re-load the ini files without killing the process completely? We cannot use ServerManager which has this feature to schedule a daily restart. We have to do it via RCON or with a batch file.

[jaunty vortex]

Be patient 🙂

Official tends to get it first. Then it can be hours, days or never when unofficial gets the update.

They rarely all get released at the same time.

Check the pinned posts for a link to the Steam db.

ASALice is official. NitradoPC is nitrate rented servers.

Public is for the rest of us who run our own servers.

[river tinsel]

anyone having the Archelon spawn code yet ?

[pliant acorn]

Anyone having trouble updating their root? Our server has not updated itself since 53.11, we always get the message fail to connect.

[hidden talon]

Hello. Longshot here, but does anyone know if its possible to move a server from one account to another? We are an unoffical server cluster that runs on 2 seperate Nitrado accounts. 1 account is 12 ASE servers and on the other account we have 3 ASE servers and 7 ASA servers. If its possible we'd very much like to seperate the ASE server from the ASA servers (move the 3 from one account to the other). Is this something that is possible?

[robust nymph]

@river tinsel
Cheat gmsummon "archelon_character_bp_asa" 150

[tribal mica]

Hello, I've been trying to disable some engrams on my ASA server using
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_WoodBench_C",EngramHidden=True)
But it doesnt work. If anyone can help me that would be awesome thanks.

[honest granite]

We’re having the same issue with astraeos everytime we try to transfer to the map it just goes to a black screen

[jaunty vortex]

I think you’d need to ask nitrado that. I don’t think anyone here will know.

[broken halo]

Not sure I follow what you mean by reloading the ini files? What server manager are you using? I'm assuming self hosted? That's alot of open ended questions with very little info

[hidden talon]

Alright, thank you. Just thought I'd give it a shot if anyone else has tried it before 🙂

[jaunty vortex]

Always worth asking 🙂 Nitrado hade a discord. Maybe ask there?