unofficial-setup-help

[wise kindle]

The Aquatica discord has the receipts for 360

[burnt sable]

i uploaded my survior in an unofficial map and i can't download it back there now..rip

[fleet crane]

anyone here good with configs also does s+ still work on the pre-aquatica branch

[near hawk]

all mods work with preaquatica beta

[fleet crane]

ok cool anyone good with configs? we are wanting to use s+ but have a handful of items from it we dont want enabled

[floral meteor]

Guys, I'm experiencing the stangest glitch I've ever seen

On my dedicated unofficial crafting structures have started exploding when being accessed

what on earth could cause this

[queen crow]

Has someone attached some c4 to your stuff?

[floral meteor]

Noone else was in the server when It happened, plus all of us are in an alliance for the next week

its my personal server and only my friends have access anyway

I uploaded the vid on yt but I can send links here

title of the vid is "Smithy EXPLODES randomly in Ark Survival Evolved" on yt if anyone wants to see what I mean

[elder drum]

Trying to install a mod and it keeps crashing once it get close to finish downloading

Can someone help

[spring cairn]

Is there a setting to increase the maximum number of linked storage boxes in a tribe?

[rare mauve]

Not really help but I just need suggestions and ideas. I am normally a Official player myself. I am bored of the regular ARK. I want something fresh. I am looking for ideas for an unofficial cluster mod wise for PVE. Any suggestion on what mods to toss in would be appreciated.

[near hawk]

Do a tame ladder challenge

[rare mauve]

what do you mean by that?

[rare mauve]

I have a whole second Gaming pc with 128gb ram and ryzen 9 cpu that I got a few months ago just to use as a server lol! I dont mind hosting a cluster or anything like that. I

[near hawk]

U need to tame a creature of the next saddle in the engram tree, and can't level up past that till u tame it

[rare mauve]

ah. gatcha.

[coarse echo]

Has anyone figured out a fix for PS5 players where it states "No Mod Storage" but there are no installed mods?

I have a lot of my players with this issue.

[wise kindle]

Usually this is fixed with a game reinstall, PS has an issue with clearing mod space when mods are removed.

[coarse echo]

Thank you

[jade pendant]

how do you avoid hitting your tames?

is there a way to turn off friendly fire?

[jagged garnet]

Are there any other clusters having a crazy increase in server crashes over the last 2 updates?

[deep kindle]

Hey! I am trying to set up a server for my roommates and I'm running into an issue, I think its crashing my PC running or not, just having the server manager open.
It's a fresh install of windows 11 last night, all drivers up to date, and everything it needs to run. But just running ASM my windows visual starts glitching and then it locks up. Nothing in the event viewer at all. But I decided to let Prime95 run for 3 hours and nothing happened. Came home, stopped it, ran ASM and less than 30 minutes later my PC locked up

There it goes, jsut booted it up,started ASM and the server, crashed in less than 10 minutes. Just...lcoks up.

[livid crypt]

How do you make a setting for speed to multi like I level it once and it’s only one how can I do one level and it’s 5x or more

[fathom tinsel]

You might not have enough RAM. What are your PC specs. The game servers are a ram hog.

[scenic token]

in Ark survival evolved im having trouble to connect to the non designated game of my friend. my other friend can join him, but i cant. Yesterday it worked for me. I already tried to restat my game, he restarted his game and i also reinstalled the game. Still doesnt work

[lofty goblet]

Where can I disable the Titanoboa respawn?

[jagged garnet]

For which spawn points? You can remove them from spawning but will require you to do a global rule or just specific spawn points.

[lofty goblet]

I would like to remove them globally so that Titanoboas don’t respawn anywhere.

[jagged garnet]

For which map? Ill write you the ini line but just know you won't be able to get the venom essential for boss fights, dreadmare, etc.

[lofty goblet]

ragnarok

[jagged garnet]

Ascended right?

[lofty goblet]

ark survival evolved

[jagged garnet]

Ahhh, gotcha. One sec.

[jagged garnet]

Im Over 20,000 characters beyond the txt limit, Could I send you a DM?

[lofty goblet]

okey

[frozen rose]

hi how can i make a backup save on console asa

[stuck leaf]

so, im hosting a dedicated cluster on an at home server, i've got all maps working and joinable, but the club ark map, it just gets stuck on "number of cores" and then wont load past it to where it says ready to you, how do i fix this?

[jagged garnet]

Hmm not enough info for me to troubleshoot. Are you using WGSM? do you have the Map/ModID set to "BobsMissions_WP" and -mods=1005639 Respectfully?

[stuck leaf]

yes, the map is set and i have the mod enabled, it wasn't in the first slot but i just changed that if it makes a difference, and im not sure what wgsm is, but im hosting it via a docker container on unraid

[jagged garnet]

Go to your main menu and open your command console (Cant remember how to on console but google is free) then type in "ark.useserverlist 0" If still Invisible to you gg

[jagged garnet]

Ahh okay, Im unfamiliar with Unraid etc, Ive been hosting on a Personal Unit for nearly 10 years, but we will try to narrow it down. Im assuming you have multiple maps on your cluster and are familiar with the networking side so let start toubleshooting your config side starting with the start params. Could you, (if your comfortable) send me a screenshot of your start up params from your server terminal, Crop it so its just the start params or the terminal window.

Okay delete that my guy

nvm you caught it

aight you can delete that

[rotund flume]

does anyone happen to know how to, on a dedicated server, restrict players to only leveling to a certain level? I have been exploring the LevelExperienceRampOverrides and OverrideMaxExperiencePointsPlayer settings in game.ini with no success. TY in advance

[jagged garnet]

so your Mod ids look correct, Is there a reason you are running multiple mods for the bobs map? Since there are no creatures, items etc I would remove any mods that you wont need there to remove any un-neccesary points of conflict. Your server is making it to the final post bfore hanging so my best bet right now without looking over your rules etc is a mod. conflict. I would try running it just the bobs map mod and then add the other mods 1 by one.

[jagged garnet]

You absolutely can, I accidently limited mine to bout 15lvls under when they added ext ascension. just have your xp ramp just end at the "max" you want.

[jagged garnet]

To be more specific I modified EVERY level xp value and didnt know they added 15more so thats what limited mine.

[rotund flume]

so the LevelExperienceRampOverrides only up to the max level i want?

[jagged garnet]

Let me double check that, But I believe so. The game tends to take lists very seriously.

[celest halo]

check GUS for ActiveMapMod=0 and remove it if its there, that was one of the causes for it to get stuck at "number of cores"

[rotund flume]

small progress, now i cannot gain xp at all xD

[jagged garnet]

But what level are you xD

[rotund flume]

new character

[jagged garnet]

Task Failed Successfully. I Wrote all 205 levels to mak eit more linear and consistant. if you arent adjusting the amount of xp between levels you could tell me what level you want it to cap at and I can load the defaults and cut it and or just share my curve with you if you dont like the idea of 3.6billion xp being the max.

[rotund flume]

i would like to limit the players levels in stages, so right as the server starts you can only get to say level 10 but as time goes on and events occur i can increase this allowing for a slower more primitive and grindy experience and keeping players around the same levels at all times

[jagged garnet]

Hmmmm that actually sounds cool, I can send you the default Level scale and see if you can just copy 2-10 and see if it works xD

but the default scale is horrid after lvl 105

[rotund flume]

i am down to try anything, i have been battling with this for a little while now

[jagged garnet]

Aight Ill DM the Default in a sec xD

FOR SCIENCE!!

[jagged garnet]

just to make sure ASA right?

[rotund flume]

yes ASA 🙂

[stuck leaf]

this doesn't seem to fix it, and neither did looking for activemapmod is gus

[waxen robin]

how do i disable wild babies for a certain breed?
Direwolfs in caves spawn with insane levels, and have babies so people can passive tame them and skip all the breeding for it.

[near hawk]

There's a mod that does that

[stuck leaf]

i fixed it, weirdly i just readded mods that i used to have on it and had removed and now it boots

[waxen robin]

Do you know name?

[jagged garnet]

YAYYYYYY Im glad its working and Im gunna say I helped a tiny bit just to feel better xD

[near hawk]

I think is one from eclipse

Eclipse is the modders name

[flat grove]

Hello I am having issue with my server setup. I am running two ASA servers that are clustered together but when i go to transfer my character that I am transferring is not coming over. I am using an at home server using Linux with a plugin called AMP to run the servers. They are linking to each other and I have prevent downloads and uplands off. Anybody know what my issue might be?

[jagged garnet]

Do you have "Multihome" enabled and the cluster ID/ Directory set? can you join both servers individually to confirm the 2nd server is joinable and networked properly?

[flat grove]

Yes I can join them both and have set them up with a Directory

[jagged garnet]

Do you have Clusterid=xxxxx and CLusterdiroveride=xxxxxx in your start params?

[flat grove]

Think I fixed it. Thanks! But AMP the plugin I use has all the settings you need to run the servers built in as well. For future reference.

[untold granite]

does steamCMD auto update mods for servers when you launch your .bat exe?

[thorn radish]

Hey is anyone having there server not pop up in the listings right now?\

[quasi marsh]

im having issues with breeding config

im trying to make it all like 20 mins or less

does anyone have any idea

i lowered the interval to .15 im gonna see what happens and ill keep yall posted

[deft lily]

I run a cluster and would like to add some modded dinos to it. My cluster is created with steamcmd and I play on Xbox. Is it even possible to do so?

[coarse echo]

So I have bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=true

But i keep getting "Obstructed" on all my structures...

[ornate light]

Excuse me, I’m playing ark on the canteen pve EU server. I tried to be the head of the supervisor 1 times but my dinosaurs never entered because there are people who have left their dinos getting in the way of the entrance

[late olive]

wtf is this game...
game is freezing all the time at the forest titan terminal
get killed there while im in this freeze
and cant transfer cause my companion died and i cant transfer having the companion mode on
cant turn it off cause its dead need to wait 3000 sec. crazy

[slow ginkgo]

yes if -mods=[whatever] is in the launch arguments. If cluster is all launched from one instance the first server launch should push the mod update. eg im currently running summer bash on 8 maps, this is how it goes

[pallid rune]

Hi, anyone knows how to reduce dino spawn count for nitrado server?

I also have the arkology new encounters mod. Any idea how reduce the spawn count for the mod as well?

[errant oriole]

anyone know how i can enable an event such as love ascended?

[snow osprey]

QQ team. If I put a premium mod ( like this months spotlight for the saddles ) on my Nitrado server. Can my friends still play it or with they have to buy the mod also

[wise kindle]

The saddle mod from this weeks spotlight is a Custom Cosmetic, so its client side only.

[grizzled plover]

Hello I'm running a server using the manager I have the hibernation command line argument and in the gus.ini set for hibernation to be off yet when everyone logs out of the server babies stop growing and breeders stop mating what am I missing

[grizzled plover]

How can I mark the server as dedicated vs non dedicated

Ok but my server is running on a separate machine on ark ascended dedicated server manager

[polar wolf]

LF a pop unofficial pvp server

[zealous rock]

I am playing on 3x server and am only getting 30-40 of each berry per swing on bronto in green ob rag area, anyone know why this is? is it a nitrado setting?

[compact goblet]

can someone help me setup whitelisting on ark ascended server?

i have this code in the start.bat ?UseExclusiveList

but idk where to make the list file or how to link it to ppls accounts

[mortal inlet]

Kind of complicated question but... 3x is still a relatively low setting without an additional increase to dino harvesting damage
Also if you have ClampResourceHarvestDamage on that could be affecting it if you are destroying the bushes in one hit.
Otherwise an increase to harvesting health/amount could be needed. Suggest digging into the serverconfiguration wiki on wiki.gg and checking for all the relative settings.

[autumn hornet]

check the server config wiki.gg under admin whitelisting and player whitelisting. instructions are there

[wise tangle]

What is the eta of unofficial servers a week a month

[celest halo]

Eta for what

Servers be available to run for almost 2 years now 🤣

[hardy cedar]

why does chcnaging form aquatica to pre aquatica take up so much storage?

[wise kindle]

Likely because you gain access to all the content Aquatica removed.

[humble thicket]

3x what? 3x harvesting? Thats how much you get. Berries need a good gatherer, bronto is good 👍🏻 else get yourself a maeguana

[tardy cradle]

Hello, is there a configuration to influence spawning in water caves?

[dusk crater]

Has anyone found a workaround for dedicated servers when your ISP can't give you a static IP, and therefore you can't setup port forwarding?

My friends and I are running on a Nitrado server. and I'm constantly frustrated because I know my old gaming PC could be running a whole CLUSTER for us if I could just find a way to let anyone outside of my flat connect to it.
Ark can't be the only game that needs port forwarding. There has to be a solution.
I've tried VPNs but the ones I've looked into that have claimed to have port forwarding give you one randomly assinged port each time you log in to the VPN... which seems inadeqaute for Ark's needs.

I've also tried purchasing a static IP. But that doesn't seem to be a thing for most ISPs anymore, thanks to IPv4 exhaustion.

[jagged garnet]

ASA or ASE? I've got experience with both with and without a static IP.

[dusk crater]

ASA.

I'm behind a double NAT and I can't figure out how to expose the ark ports to the outside world

I've just moved so I'm not exactly certain that's the new ISPs setup. But it seems similar. Big internet provider for the whole building, only a handful of IP addresses shared between everyone.

[jagged garnet]

So you have no way to login to your router (and modem it sounds like?) Cause normally even in a NAT like that your PC has a local network address for example '''192.168.0.10''' so you need your router which is your networks hub device to enable tcp/udp protocol on port xxxx, xxxx, xxxx for your pcs local address and that will tell it if anything from outside knocks looking for that port its forwarded to your PCs port. I would see if your complex has a IT guy you can talk to.

[dusk crater]

At the last building I was able to get into the router and set up port forwarding, but when I ran the tests nothing got through. Within my LAN it was all working fine (everything with a static IP... port forwarding irrelevant cause they can see each other directly) Looked into the ISP and the problem seemed to be that the building was behind ANOTHER router that I had no control over.

I haven't interrogated this buildings systems in full yet but they seem even more out-of-my-control. I can go through all the steps last time again but I guess I'm just assuming it'll be the same problem and wondering what else I should be trying/researching.

Definitly this ISP says they don't do port forwarding or static IPs. They state that clearly on their website.

[tardy cradle]

Hello, is there a configuration to influence spawning in water caves?

[inland cliff]

I playing in ps5 and, I downloaded all the Ark Asa maps and my SDD detects them but it doesn't appear on the manage the game content page, i clear the cache and i check the disc region

[mortal inlet]

ISPs arent responsible for YOU portforwarding. But in general with the right router you should be able to bind the traffic to a machine, and even though your external address changes, everyone should still be able to just search the name to find the server. Then you can set an internal ip for the router to assign your machine. im no networking wizard here, and its possible you have some circumstance I'm not familiar with. but ive set up probably 2 dozen or so game servers across about a dozen games. Might be able to help here. Do you have a personal router or the one your isp gives you?

[toxic hazel]

If its only a couple of friends playing you can use a VPN like RAdmin to create a 'local network' for you all to play on, this eliminates the need for port forwarding

[dusk crater]

The problem is the buildings router.

I can set up port forwarding on my router fine. But then there is ANOTHER router for the building that I don't have access to. So configuring my router's port forwardingdoesn't actually allow a connection to the outside world.

[dusk crater]

Yeah I wondered about that. Seems like it could be a lot of faff to connect to a game but it should work.

[toxic hazel]

Not faff at all buddy, just install, create a group and use the ip of the vpn for the server, everyone joins the group and you join ark server as normal

[mortal inlet]

That doesn't make quite make sense to me, have you tried setting one up yet?

[dusk crater]

Maybe this is just a problem with London apartments. Would explain why I couldn't google lots of articles on it.

The tech is called CGNAT. It means the whole building has one public IP address. Then internally there is a layer of dynamically assigned private IPs for the apartment routers.

Then within each apartment the resident can do whatever they like with their second layer of private IPs.

I set up the server. I set up port forwarding on my router.

I can connect to the server fine and my friends can see it in the ark server list but they can't connect to it.

When I sniff the ark ports on my public IP they are closed.

This was all at the previous building. But new building has the same issue so I was wondering if anyone has any ideas or articles or can point me towards my knowledge gaps before I try again

[mortal inlet]

Man

I've never lived even near a larger apartment building, so that would be why Im unaware. That sucks. From my short googling it doesn't really sound like theres any way around it without talking to the buildings IT or getting some help from the isp.

[dusk crater]

I * SUSPECT* other people in my building would be able to connect to my server.

Hmm. I can test that by connecting to the lobby wifi. Will give that a go.

[dusk crater]

Hmmm. Yeah I was thinking "I can't be the only one with this problem" but maybe this tech is only in new buildings (it's a response to IPV4 exhaustion) and so it's not really a thing lots of smart people are trying to fix yet.

Or maybe the answer is in IPv6 somewhere and I need to read a book on it and/or wait for it to be more widespread.

[mortal inlet]

From my understanding even if you were able to get the server working under ipv6 your traffic would still be going through the buildings setup... so unless theres like... a seperate line setup for it...

This is entirely past my understanding though so I really have nothing more than guesses now, wish you luck

[dusk crater]

I think all the layers of private IP addresses only exist because IPv4 doesn't have enough addresses and with IPv6 every device can have its own public IP, making port forwarding unnecessary.

But I would need to read more I have never touched the technology before and I hear it doesn't play well with IPv4, so it'd be a miracle if the Ark network recognised it.

Anyway thanks for responding 😵‍💫

[celest halo]

Cgnat has nothing to do with you being in an apartment building, there is a bunch of ISPs around the world that use it. Most of them let you pay extra for your own public ip

[dusk crater]

Yeah that was the solution Google steered me towards.

but that seems to be an old solution. London ISPs nolonger offer that because they're all basically out of IPv4 addresses.

[celest halo]

There has always been a few isps that don’t let you pay for one

Carrier-grade NAT has been around for about 25 years now, you normally run into it with fiber internet providers

[short skiff]

Anyone know good populated unofficial PvP servs

[celest halo]

Some type of vpn is your only option to try and get around it if they don’t offer paying for a public ip unfortunately

[terse whale]

Anyone have an idea why our characters on our ark server "forget" when they learn new recipes? it spends the points but after relogging it is gone. we switched from xbox gamepass to steam. I renamed our character files to do that...

but the base engrams worked until today. only bobs tall tales had a problem

[cloud notch]

Anyone running all current 8 maps and able to share their ram usage and player count? It seems that if I want to have all base maps 12 plus maybe 4 of the of the newer ones with 16 players the required ram is between 176-256gb which is 10-15gb per map plus 1gb per player. I currently run 5 maps and 16 players on 96gb and am trying to figure out if 128-144gb may be enough for 16 maps and 16 players.

[static sparrow]

Epic Games just dropped a new update, are we going to run into the same issue with the 358.10 servers ??

[remote zephyr]

I run 10, includes club ark. 128 ram but only 4 concurrent players typically

[shrewd solstice]

any idea why an unofficial will periodically hit 1100 ping for a map? Possible hardware is maxed out?

[lean goblet]

can someone help me code a 100x fibercraft server

[vernal plank]

if i revert stacks sizes back to 1x and change each items stack individually would it fix the transfer dupe?

[nocturne coral]

Have you tried changing cluster id?

[slow ginkgo]

yep, currently running all 8 maps, average player count of about 15-20 with about 50 total that rotate from time to time at a guess. 1GB per player isn't a thing I've ever experienced. Some maps are heavier than others, eg scorched uses about 6gb ram while astraeos uses about 15-18gb. Total usage tends to run between 70-90gb ram out of 128gb and slowly decreases the longer the server has been live. All ran via steamCMD. Hope that helps 🙂

[humble thicket]

there is no option of create mode on my server, anybody knows how to activate that?

[toxic hazel]

Just the server 😂

[fading belfry]

any1 able to help me? i jut got ark on steam coming from console need help adding servers? idk how to do it but ik the ip needs to be copied or something just need help ASE

[humble thicket]

16 maps (2x official story maps + DLC) run at around 150-160gb of ram empty, you do see higher demand on full servers, but never extreme. no idea where you get the 1gb per player. i run 16 + 2 test servers and never went above 180gb of ram leaving over 100gb of ram unused in my case.

[regal iris]

Anyone have an updated list of vanilla spawn entries,
I know some were added/updated to generics.

[charred grove]

B

[finite rampart]

Someone know how to whitelist players ont Ark SA server on pterodactyl ?

[gentle frigate]

man, i finally figured out how to get my private windows11 server visible on clients. got like 6 cluster servers up now and, as long as you're not on epic, it works like a charm.

tldr: kid registered my IP address with a URL through a DNS, and apparently that has consequences.

[rose spade]

I've been struggling a bit with this recently, I fix one thing and then something else

[gentle frigate]

make sure you put your public facing IP address in as the Multihome address

and also forward all the ports you will be using to correct interal server IP

and space our your cluster server's ports by n+2 (7777,7779,7781 etc)

[rose spade]

ohhhh, lemme try that. I've been using -ip

[gentle frigate]

are you using ASAM?

[rose spade]

I'm not sure what that is so I guess not

Oh, I think I found the github. Server manager? I just have a few batch files right now I've been using to boot them and restart them

[gentle frigate]

yes. it will make your life much easier

you can manually make various different server folders for each instance, but the manager will be much easier to setup and maintain.

it does have display issues if you are remoteing into the server with like teamviewer/chrome remote desktop if it has a native monitor attached and the monitor goes to sleep

but if you're accessing the server locally it is excellent

[rose spade]

I'll give it a shot! I tried some other server manager tool I found before but it kinda felt like crap and I opted to handle it myself. I'm doing everything locally, just need a few players to be able to connect elsewhere which has been the issue

[gentle frigate]

by locally i meant, like using a mouse,keyboard and monitor attached to the server computer to do the management.

if you setup the multihome IP as your public IP and enable crossplay, people outside your network should be able to find it as well as internal LAN users.

[rose spade]

Yea, I'm running the servers on the same machine I play on, but my brother and nephews are also playing on the server. I've had no problems but they've sometimes not been able to see it and sometimes get a connection error when trying to join. I'm setting up ASAM right now, just importing my current servers

[gentle frigate]

try searching for "dwarfcowASA" in the unofficial server category and you should see mine

all 3 are running on the same network computer at my house

i should be able to, hypothetically, also connect with the same hosting comptuer to the servers, but its always best to keep it seperated if you have a spare computer that can be truely dedicated to it

[rose spade]

Unfortunately I don't have anything more than an old laptop spare, but luckily my PC is pretty overbuilt in everything but the graphics department. So I've got my server imported. I use Beacon to manage the in game settings, is ASAM going to get upset if another software is changing the gameusersettings and game inis?

[gentle frigate]

I doubt ASAM will care, if you don't open the settings via ASAM, the server is going to launch with whatever .ini file is present in the folder.

As far as "old laptop" ASA dedicated servers work fine on any potato that is at least somewhat modern with at least 4 cores and 16+gb of RAM. the biggest thing is your network connection/latency to your clients. i would say any intel part newer than like 9th gen or zen2+ would be more than adequate for less than 8-10 players

[rose spade]

I might give it a try. I'm doubtful that old thing has enough ram though to host the whole cluster. I'm working with 96gigs on here, although that's shared with anything else I'm going of course

Welp, sending them up on their new maiden voyage. Let's see if she floats

Hmm, looks like it's immediately crashing out

[gentle frigate]

your main rig or the laptop?

realistically, we usually only focus on one main server, and only run multiple to facilitate transitioning to a new world, then take the other instances down until we need/want them again

[weary lagoon]

hello is anyone here who can help me ? i can't join a friend and he can't join me, its a non dedicated server .. anyone who knows how to solve this problem ?

[rotund sandal]

guys is there any not full builded ext server on official ,i wanna farm electronics but every server i join has ton of foundations and spikes

[arctic iris]

does any one wants to join my valgeuro world

[rose spade]

I got them up and running, I think. Unfortunately, ASAM seems to have similar issues that I've found in other server managers. It's still insisting on messing with the inis, but it lacks a lot of proper defaults. There's also no cluster wide settings which makes adjustments a massive pain. The biggest issues I've picked out so far is setting the tame limit to 0, setting a tame level cap, keeps turning off third person, forcing no flyers (simply not having the value allows the map to decide: vanilla like, but that's not an option here), and it defaulting dino stats to 1 scaling, which is hilariously stronger than vanilla for tamed dinos

[fierce mortar]

ok so i'm trying to add the Diregriffin mod to my server, its installed on the server host, but is not registerring on my mod list in game, anyone know why?

[prime sage]

What certificates should I install on my PC? All of them from the page or some specific ones?

[gentle frigate]

i have an .ini we've been using since ASE that i just copy into the other paramaters, but yea, its def less configurable than the old school server managers of yesteryear

[ivory ibex]

anyone got any ideas on why my Ark:SE will load menus fine, but instantly crash and close when i load into any world? doesnt matter if its a brand new custom world, official server or non-dedicated or un-official modded or not. i've re-installed the game, verified and repaired it several times, deleted the content and binaries folders, made sure all my PC systems are updated (GPU drivers, Windows, Xbox App) i've had the game set on numerous combinations for graphics, including the lowest Res and settings achievable despite having a well above recommended system.. i've even tried different Harddrives. nothing seems to work.
i've had ark work once, there was an update and now its not worked since. i've tired all these steps after the last update.

I get no crash logs, no error codes, the game just shuts down whenever it tries to join a world and im so frustrated about it all i genuinely dont know what else to do as i just bought this game less than a month ago... can't refund it however as its been too long

[rose spade]

Would you be able to do me a favor and see if you're able to see my cluster? It's all called Whitsel Cluster - Map

[vagrant ermine]

why doesnt it allow me to host dedicated server

[rose spade]

What's happening? What do you mean?

[vagrant ermine]

can pc and ps5 not play togeheter?

[rose spade]

Are you asking for ASE or ASA? ASA supports crossplay, but they don't have it enabled on official servers so only unofficial. I think ASE only has crossplay with the Windows version and Xbox

[raven wigeon]

any1 knows if this new update is for official only??

coz its not downloading for me

[toxic hazel]

For everyone
v71.6 - (Steam v71.5, Xbox v71.5, PS5 v71.6) - Major version for Servers and Clients - 08/29/2025

[raven wigeon]

started now

[toxic hazel]

Yeah unofficial can be delayed from official sometimes

[raven wigeon]

updating the cluster

[toxic hazel]

My manager updates my cache then it copies it to all my servers hehehe

[last magnet]

I just booted up my server to run updates

[gentle frigate]

yea, give me a second. sorry, was rebuilding server stuff last night

of course there is a new update, so any running servers will be out of date, but when it's done..

[radiant oracle]

Is it supposed to take 30+ minutes for my server to update?

[rose spade]

Of course XD

[static sage]

could anyone help me create private server for me and my friend on ark survival evolved?

[near hawk]

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

Follow this and then search how to change your game and server to preaquatica beta

[static sage]

thanks for the halp

[boreal silo]

Anyone play on TITHONIUM PVE server ? i cant find their discord and their server is down still...please help me

[golden kayak]

SPAWN CODE for the Helicoprion

?

[iron berry]

Yo you do either non dedicated which you host or on other device do dedicated then join it on main device

[crude star]

Hey, got a server that after the update was stuck in a restart loop, tried backup saves, used previous configuration files, tried force stopping and restarting, and then reinstalled the game to it and it's now stuck on restarting again, and ideas?

any ideas*

[sage flame]

hello, got the same pb only on Island is it the same map for u ?

[crude star]

rag, sadly

[sage flame]

oh ... my rag is ok it's very strange,

[wise kindle]

Is your difficulty over 10 by chance? (over level 300 max dino)

[crude star]

1 moment

no it is locked to 10, we figured over 300 would be ridiculous

[wise kindle]

Agreed lol
Ok np was just curious. Found an issue with overleveled dinos that causes crashes, but I'm at 300 as well with little issue.

[crude star]

yea, we foudn that on ASE and never risked it on ASA

[sage flame]

ok for my server ASA,
NPCReplacements=(fromClassName="Helicoprion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="") in the game ini, since 25 minutes No crash

[indigo zenith]

Anyone's Rag server been crashing since the update?

[indigo zenith]

Ugh make that the 3rd crash now.

[whole zinc]

anybody lagging a lot on unofficial servers after the update?

[past parrot]

Yes, ours in a constant crash loop

[indigo zenith]

Our Island has crashed twice too. I found out our Rag server had 3.5K sharks on it. I've gone into the ini file and reduced them. Rebooted the server to see how that goes.

[past parrot]

Holy moly

Let us know if it helps.

[indigo zenith]

Well so far on our Rag its 15K dinos and only 238 megs have spawned in.

And.....I think my server has crashed..... 🤦‍♀️That was me who crashed out and not the server

[past parrot]

😅

[indigo zenith]

Right the server has nearly 22K dinos and of that 500 Megs have spawned in.

[past parrot]

The problem is our modded server has 0 issues, but our vanilla one is like crashing xD

So idk if it's a overspawn of dinos or

[indigo zenith]

Well on ours we deffo didn't have 3.5K sharks swimming around before the update but who knows, WC could call this a epic feature. 😆

[past parrot]

Haha, we didn't had 3.5k sharks on it, only 500 ice wyverns each nest 🤣

[indigo zenith]

Lol

[past parrot]

Before the update, after we reduced their spawns to 25%, but feel like we should probably downsize that even further

[past parrot]

Did this help ?

[indigo zenith]

Well, we changed the dino spawn rate from 1.3 to 0.3 got 12.5 k dinos on the map with 880 sharks and then it crashed.

[vale compass]

all island is now like overspawned Brute cave omg

[past parrot]

This helped for me

[austere current]

“Can the developers not take this fish out of the game so we can continue our business while they fix this corrupted fish ?

[haughty badger]

Since the update all of my servers fired up just fine except for the island. It starts to load up, gets to "Added Explorer Note Entry: Dear_Jane_EXP_Note_7", sits there for a min climbing from less then a gig up to 10 gigs and then closes out.
When i check the crash stack it shows
"Fetal error!
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION ACCESS VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000000b0"
Anyone have any ideas?
I tried the npc replacement someone posted above but that didnt help 😞

I have 10 other servers that loaded just fine smh

[austere current]

I think this is Rockwell doing. The developers gave in to him. Thanks @admin

[wooden spruce]

the fact that we have to take out the new creature from our servers is truly saying that they can't even add in a remake of a griffin into the game without screwing up everyone's servers! So sad!

[jaunty mango]

i cant for the life of me anywhere find the info i need to change the tickrate for asa dedicated, wether it be command line or ini file all i see is ase does any one know the asa info to change tickrate for dedicated? (just the info not a long story about how it can or cant be done with modern machines please)

[mystic summit]

So, last night my server was running just fine, now today it wont show up in the list. Its up and running on the server just fine but I cannot get it to pop up in the server list in-game. port-forwarding was set up and hasn't been changed, so I'm incredibly confused why this just doesnt work all of a sudden. Anyone potentially have any ideas?

[raw flint]

I am staring at the same on my game screen. Game servers are online (running 6 maps) and advertising for join. They show up initially because they are favorited, but when I select one and hit refresh I get "No Sessions Found". Was working fine on Tuesday. Port Forwarding and Firewall rules are correct. I even rolled back the Nvidia driver to Version 577.00. I am clueless at this point.

[mortal ferry]

What is the different between non dedicate and dedicated server?

[swift perch]

non-dedicated is singleplayer, hosted on game system. a dedicated server is hosted on a system designed to run game servers essentially

[mortal ferry]

Alright so i just want to play with my 1 friend which not really need to run the server daily, does that mean i use non dedicated? And also is the guide on the pin still work bcs it looks like the guide is really long

[swift perch]

non dedi is not crossplay, so if your friend is same system as you, could play non-dedi together, but if you are both on different systems (exceptions: xbox, windows pc can play non-dedi together) then you would need to rent a dedicated server

[mortal ferry]

Oh alright then, but could you maybe guide me on how to setup the non dedicate? Bcs
The videos is very complicated on the pins

[swift perch]

im sorry not too good with singleplayer, i havent used it much. could always try in #bobs-with-probs to see if anyone could help. could always try another video if the one youre watching isnt helping

[open plinth]

Could someone please help us with our setup? A friend and i are beginner and we rented a nitrado server. Our Problem now is that the server is overrun by creatures like crazy. We cant set sailwith our boat cause every 50 m are swarms of megalodons like 5-7 of them every time. We fly around the map and everywhere we come there are packs of creatures. As soon as we mange to knock one out and its tamed they swam on it and kill it.

[eternal pond]

Have you done a wild Dino wipe

[open plinth]

Multiple time and it feels like its getting more megalodons after the first time

And another thing is cold and heat . sometimes it doesnt matter what we do.... we put on stuff against cold and go to a fire in the middle of the base and still die by to cold. Also that happens with heat. We put un stuff with heat protection we go to the water even build something in the water with protection from above and also we put like 25 points in fortitude and still die by that stuff

[toxic hazel]

To stop heat and cold damage probably looking around 40 F points

Or get an Otter xD

[fleet ridge]

Is resource pulling broken for anyone else playing on the ASE preaquatica branch for dedicated servers? Only seems to work for ambergris and couple of other items

[dreamy aurora]

Does anyone else have a similar problem on server? Only one person has the problem.
gets kicked from the server when he kills someone or when pick a Stone or somthing same problem.
I'm constantly trying to figure out what it could be, but I just can't figure it out.

[deft dirge]

We are having a similar issue with the Island and the Center maps. have you managed to resolve this by any chance ?

[haughty badger]

Sadly no. Messed with it for a few hours until I had a massive headache and gave up. Ill be back at it after work tonight tho. If you find anything please share, and if I have any success I will do the same

[austere current]

Any word on when this will get fixed? Holiday weekend and alit of us can’t even play for what we paid for.

[open arrow]

Is anyone getting Wyvern food stat randomly dropping to 0 even after feeding milk?
it'll drop at normal rate then randomly hit 0

this is after the update

[indigo zenith]

Well our Island map crashes after 30 minz, same for Rag. We turned ours off for the time being but SE,Ext and Ab are running okay so far and no crashes.

[slim venture]

Hey all! New to the server because I dont know where else to look. I've been hosting a dedicated server thru my main rig for a few weeks now and have had no issues connecting with friends and having a great time. Recently I got the parts in to build my old pc back up and copied all the files over to it for the server and started hosting it from there. After an hr of battleing what ended up being a direct x issue the server booted and all was well with my friend he was able to join, had low ping, everything seemed good. After swaping to my main pc and trying to join i was unable to find the server. My main pc is run thru ethernet and the other is using wifi. My ports are on the right pc and I have tried everything I know how to do. I really hope someone here has had this issue and has a fix for it.

This is on evolved btw

[austere current]

Any word on this server issue? Mine is on a loop and hasn’t worked for over 24h

[wise kindle]

What is your override official difficulty setting? (What is your max wild dino)
There is a bug that effects high level heliocoprion spawns.

[austere current]

What should it be set to?

I think it’s 10 but I’ll double check right now

[wise kindle]

They setting isnt wrong, its just what can trigger helicoprions with a crafting stat over the cap - which can cause an exception.

[austere current]

I have it set to 8

Is there a way to take the corrupted helicopter shark out of the server?

[wise kindle]

Add the following into your Game.ini
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Helicoprion_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

Be sure after you add this to roll your server back to a previous save, might help regardless if it was the original cause.

[austere current]

Ok please be patient with me but where to I go to the game.ini?

Actually I found it. Does it matter what number I put it in?

[wise kindle]

Anywhere under:
[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]

[austere current]

Ok thank you I have done all of the above it is restarting now. Fingers crossed

Nope it’s still on the restart loop

[wise kindle]

Not sure then, you could also try other backups as not all are good.

[austere current]

I do appreciate your time and help. Thank you friend

[left knot]

Is anyone else having trouble with servers not showing up on the session list? My clusters island server shows online in nitrado, but is missing on the session list

[acoustic pilot]

Can anyone help me fix my ark everythnig i start it up after around 10-20 seconds it stops responding and when i open task manager it says not responding and i've already re-installed ark 4 times and re-installed battle-eye

[queen crow]

Try disabling the new fish. That fixed the problem for me.

[errant jungle]

how do i change my settings past the max 3x cuz I wanna play primal fear with a recommended settings and its like x10 xp

[near hawk]

u edit your game.ini and gameusersettings.ini files

[keen mural]

Lf someone chill to play ark survival evolved with, we are starting new session, so everything from beginning, mic on and 15+, DM me

[gray rapids]

Hey anyone know helepricon spawn command?

[indigo zenith]

cheat summon Helicoprion_Character_BP_C

cheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/ASA/Dinos/Helicoprion/Helicoprion_Character_BP.Helicoprion_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

Try any of them.

[austere current]

None of this is getting my server back and running. Beyond frustrated with this all on a long weekend too.

[indigo zenith]

I wouldn't have minded waiting until the USA holiday was over and for WC to launch it on Tuesday instead, then they could have the rest of the week to fix stuff.

[tepid berry]

New patch but no patch notes yet?

71.12

[near hawk]

yeah, weird

[queen crow]

I saw them in the patch-notes channel. Are they gone now?

[tepid berry]

Posted this before they were there in the first place...

[queen crow]

Hahaha, just kidding around.

[austere current]

yeaa my server is still not working this is just a disaster. i wont be suprised if they come out with a DLC for fixing their own issues and mistakes

[mighty walrus]

so everyone unofficial is not restarting?

[warm violet]

mines been trying to restart for nearly 2 hours zzz

[indigo zenith]

All of mine are up and running and so far no crashes. 🤞

[tepid berry]

Same, all of mine are up and running -- but I'd like to ask you guys for some help; Could you guys test your Makeshift Mega Labs? -- Even with all of my mods turned off, the De-level and Babyify UI is not loading any data, and seems to be fully broken. Could one of you verify independently that it's happening to you too? I don't want to file a bug report unnecessarily.

[serene stone]

Looks to be stuck in scanning for creature

[serene stone]

Further testing even picking it up and setting it down has the same effect

[austere current]

as much complaining as i have done my server is running, i ended up uninstalling all the mods i had, saved it and started my server, then i re-install the mods, unfortunately i lost alot of the materials and dinos we had on the server because of this, but the server is back and running, i want to thank those who took the time to give me tips and recommendations, yall were far more help than nitrado or ark support. if you have the same restart loop problem like i did well know that what i did worked , thank yall community

[gentle frigate]

sometimes just being able to vent helps get the cortisol levels down to a point where you can step back and re-work solutions

[wise kindle]

I didnt know you were Nitrado.
You can roll back to a save prior to the update and get your modded stuff back.

Stop the server
General settings > Start with backup
Choose a game save (with a recent date)
Hit the SAVE button
Wait for the save to complete
Restart the server

Give it 15-20 minutes to show up.
Note that due to the nature of the game not all backups are good and you may have to try more than one or 2 backup files.

The Start with Backup is very useful feature.

[austere current]

That did not work for me. I was simply sharing what I did to get the server back up and running. I am not Nitrado. They never emailed me back.

[wise kindle]

So you arent using Nitrado?

You are self hosted?

[austere current]

You said I was Nitrado. I just stated I wasn’t is all. I’m using a Nitrado server because as far as I know is the only way to use a private server on Xbox for ASA

[wise kindle]

Yes

99% of this channel doesnt use Nitrado.

So you are Nitrado lol

Hence my shock.

Anyway, the instructions above are NOT to fix your server.

The instructions I just sent are to get your modded items BACK.

[austere current]

Ah ok I see what you were trying to say. Are there other services other than Nitrado that can be used?

[wise kindle]

Selfhost or rent a bare rack.

But I run Nitrado and have no issues.

[bleak ivy]

self-host being the best. if you have a PC that is even slightly current can probably run a single server.
does mean you will have to port-forward if you want people on consoles outside your network to join tho. (PC has work arounds through things like hamachi or zero tier, or just do the port-fowarding)

[dusky zephyr]

Anyone know how to re-enable quick join on unofficial? Until recently we were able to join instantly after a crash, now we gotta wait the 2 minutes or whatever like official...

[dawn shore]

Question anyone else having issues loading on a friends server that has a couple mods? Because I have been fighting this game for the past six hours, Reinstalled the mods, Reinstalled the game, load into the server see naked character instant boot to main Menu.

[hexed charm]

im trying to figure out how dinospawnweightmultiplyer works to make certain dinos on my server a bit more rare. would "DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag=Therizino,SpawnWeightMultiplier=0.01,OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=true,SpawnLimitPercentage=0.05)" be equivalent of the game chance of picking theri 1/10th of it's original spawn chance + max theri pop of 5%? meaning they'd both spawn less often, and only so many could be alive at a time

[sick kraken]

Anyone know how to disable the Aberation light bug cloud?

[slow ginkgo]

r.fog 0?

that's a wild guess, i run a 2080s and run r.fog 0 | r.volumetricfog 0 | r.volumetriccloud.0

[slow ginkgo]

just trying to help, but if .05 is 5% I'd read that as .01 being 1%, where a 10th would be .10

[jagged garnet]

It takes the weights of all creatures available to spawn and devides them based on the highest so for instance the alpha raptor spawn replacement has a default weight of 0.03 while the raptor has a 1. Without the alpha spawn raptor has 100% add 0.03 for alpha and now raptor=97% and alpha =3%. Add in for instances 0.15 for tek raptor and they shift again where raptor drops to 82% alpha stays at 3% and tek gets 15% they each take a piece of the pie.

[acoustic pilot]

Can anyone help me fix my ark everytime i start it up after around 10-20 seconds it stops responding and when i open task manager it says not responding and i've already re-installed ark 4 times and re-installed battle-eye

[foggy plinth]

Plugin 'NIS' failed to load because module 'NISShaders' could not be found. Please ensure the plugin is properly installed, otherwise consider disabling the plugin for this project.

This message pops up randomly when i tried to start my ext server?

Do i need to redownload my server?

[final aurora]

Is anybody having issues with players can’t interact with other players or dead bodies on servers?

[wild zodiac]

If your unofficial server is offline for 1 days what can you do to fix it

[fossil onyx]

ask the admin to reboot it and run the update so it shows up in the browser again

[wild zodiac]

It went down after 7 minutes

[fossil onyx]

Is there a a console command or inf setting that can be used on Club Ark to reset the mission bonus progress for players since there are bugs like in Whack-A-Mole not giving the gun any ammo which halts them being able to complete all to reset themselves

[fossil onyx]

Self hosting or nitrado hosting?

[wild zodiac]

Lets say both

It’s pose to get updated but when it went down it never got up

[fossil onyx]

if self hosted you have to see if the game actually updated properly and even try a steamcmd force update C:\SteamCMD\steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir X:\TheIsland +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit (change paths to your setup). Once completed run the game and see if there are any errors thrown up either via the mods or the game itself

As for Nitrado i have no expirience there as I only do self hosting for my cluster.

[wild zodiac]

Let’s see what happens

@fossil onyx thanks buddy for responding

[foggy plinth]

Did that now everything is fine.

[queen grail]

Dumb question how do I set up a server on my pc?

[gentle frigate]

on the same one you're playing on, or on a seperate computer you want to connect to?

I would recommend using a server manager. I can shoot you a link in DM (discord server doesn't like them in the threads)

[queen grail]

I want to use my pc for a server so me and my friends can play on it from Xbox

[gentle frigate]

yea, then the dedicated server manager is gonna be your friend

there's a couple important fields you need to make sure to setup and ports to forward, but its not hard

i dm'ed you a link to ASAM

[queen grail]

Perfect, thank you.

[random ibex]

i can set up an asa server without nitrado?

[fossil onyx]

you can indeed via steamcmd, but you need to tick the box show player servers under unofficial

[gentle frigate]

yes

[random ibex]

sorry this is new to me since i thought only nitrado was possible, but it could be able to have my friends that are in other cities play on it aswell?

or do they have to be near me like a dedicated server?

[gentle frigate]

nope.

if its dedicated, they can be anywhere...

[fossil onyx]

there are no restrictions like player hosted

[gentle frigate]

its just like a nitrado server, if you have the same resources it would be just as performant

[fossil onyx]

they can roam freely any where and create their own tribes

you can even run them as a cluster to host different maps and transfer between them

[gentle frigate]

they started off only letting you use nitrado, or at least acting that way - there was a very rapid player revolt and we were hosting within about 24 hours of launch

[random ibex]

wow, well thats good to know. tysm

[gentle frigate]

poor dollie was getting much ... love.

[fossil onyx]

I thought they allowed it from the get but, but then added the show player option quietly which hid all the non nitrado ones

[gentle frigate]

they said they were going to, but on launch they locked your steam account to only one active instance, and they disallowed anonymous steamCMD

and also, supressed non-official dedicated servers

people were, very unhappy

[fossil onyx]

ah makes sense, i must of got the copy on the second or 3rd day then as I was hosting dedis from the get go

[gentle frigate]

it worked out pretty quick, they deserve credit for making it right

other than the whole free remaster =/= $45 re-release, i dont mind giving them some spare cash

[fossil onyx]

ive been a sucker for buying the useful dlc and hosting all the maps available atm since it is a nice upgrade when working bug free

but i remember the grass on release, the no cluster options on SE release and the hide Nitrado saga

[gentle frigate]

I'm up in alaska, and the closest nitrado servers are automatically 100ms+ so, self host is a basic requirement

[fossil onyx]

I got a spare dual core xeon setup with 128gb ram, so may as well host instead of burning money away with Nit 😄

[gentle frigate]

you could pick up an old minisforum 10series intel nuc with 8cores and 32gb for a couple hundred bucks and be broke even in 6 months

thats what i started with before i went crazy serverrack in my garage

ark definitely needs SFP28 direct connects 😄

[fossil onyx]

32 gb is good for a couple maps but when all maps loaded and not in suspended usage i over arounbd the 60-70gb at the moment

[gentle frigate]

yea, i'll have to check on it with my current setup to see how it plays as people join multiple maps, i'm using a 5950x with 128gb now

[fossil onyx]

nice

[crude shell]

hello im not sure where to put this but i contacted nitrado regarding dinos not being able to spawn over level 1532 no matter how high the difficulty override is set with max difficulty off and offset 1 they said it sounds like a cap ark has implemented and there might be a way to get around it with ini command etc but they werent sure how to do it. does anyone know how to fix this? or work around it?

[fossil onyx]

why so high

thats the max level as you can only have 254 levels in each stat which when leveled on top 88 times will be the max

[crude shell]

i dont know i just enjoy it. i mean like having it so that wild dinos spawn in that level not like tamed/breeding for levels. I used to be able to have the wild dino levels 2k+ so i was just curious what could be done about the cap

[jagged garnet]

You CAN have creatures over that but thier stats will reroll lower on server start. Ark is limited to 254 points in each stat x the number of stats that creature has. So aquatics its x 5 and most other its x6. However you can breed higher cause the game also has a slot for another 254 points in each stat via mutations.

[crude shell]

huh mmm ye i guess i dont need it higher than 1.5 then

thank you

[jagged garnet]

Ark has a bunch of quirky "bugs" that are in reality just limitation of the coding language/architecture. For instance if you bread things together so thier mutations double each time eventually (not as long as you think) the number will "flip" and go negative. Just like if you have 254 in a mutation stat and mutate again then it will be 256 till the server restarts then it will be 2.

[crude shell]

Damn

Thank you for letting me know

[stiff ridge]

for some reason when i try to join my friend through steam (we are in diffrent regions) it just always says "lost connection/timedout to host" which is odd because it was working just fine yesterday i dont know what it is

[modern scarab]

can anyone tell me why my single player world still has like lvl 16 dinos and when I pick a bush, I get fiber and a bunch of berries from one pick. I thought that is caused by the "singleplayer settings" toggle, but I have it off, what gives!

then what the heck lol why am I collecting berries like crazy?

1 pick of a bush gives fiber and a couple types of berries. that aint normal

[real apex]

hey iwant to use mods on nitrado for me and my friends and we pre aquatica the server but the game is on 358.26 and the server is on 358.24 what am I supposed to do please

[opal hatch]

Anyone else having trouble updating their home server to the latest version? Mine is stuck on 71.12

[celest halo]

that is the latest server version

[opal hatch]

Ah. Seems to be something else then. Thanks!

[hollow surge]

does anyone know how to change dino level cap?

[fossil onyx]

change officialdifficulty setting to 5 for 150 dinos higher if you want higher

[obtuse scarab]

im playing a modded single player save but i cant enable pvp for some reason, Ive got the setting for disable PVP unchecked. anyone know a fix? (ASE)

[lapis thistle]

Anyone else have that issue with audio sometimes only appearing in right ear for a moment? Stereo audio issues or something. There's a reddit post about it but no solutions.

[vernal nest]

Hi everyone, I don't really know where to put this
Has anyone figured out how to (gently) nerf the helicoprion on their own servers? (so it doesn't make the game too easy and break the servers economy)

I tried a few settings but they're a bit too restrictive (like you can only craft 1 item from the heli BP, no matter what number you put in '' HeliBPMaxCraftAmount='' in the gus) and some players are mad 😅

Tell me I'm not the only server admin who's struggling with that creature?

[marsh void]

Hey I have a problem with my game as the main menu on ark always freezes even after reinstalling, validating, and restarting my pc

[near hawk]

ase or asa?

[marsh void]

Ase

[near hawk]

steam or epic?

[marsh void]

Steam on pc

[near hawk]

what game version 360 or 358?

[marsh void]

The latest one

[near hawk]

switch to preaquatica beta then

[tropic sentinel]

hello fellow dino fans 🙂 i am pretty new to running my own server but its running good so far, i have run into a "problem" tho, it seems like the items and blueprints are not caped on my server, i have already read a bit into it and it seems like i need to do the "clamp" settings to get the same caps as official servers but i coulndt figure out which of them i need to tune, is it only the ones for dmg, armour and durability? are things like, because there are 7 different attributes in total and im a bit unsure

Edit: this is on ASA

[near hawk]

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

[tropic sentinel]

I am aware of this site but thx, i am here because i want a bit more explanation then whats there 😅

[near hawk]

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/459012-itemstatclamps/

[tropic sentinel]

Is this still all correct for ASA? Because the last post there is from 3 years ago, and it says official only clamps dmg and armour, not durability?

[near hawk]

yep, i have it on my server

durability is the 2, don't know if official has caps on it

[tropic sentinel]

Alright thx very much!

[tropic sentinel]

@near hawk oh and if i may ask another question, if i just put the ClampItemStats=true in the server settings and only change the clamp value for armor and dmg i assume all the other attributes will be ignored right?

[near hawk]

The other remain uncapped

[flat grove]

Anybody know how to cap leveling on your server for the player? I have done the rampoveride and it isn't working.

[daring gale]

I'm looking for a cat note. Where can I find it?

[compact goblet]

Anyway to stop cryopods from decaying without mods?

[wise kindle]

Pod mods have no decay features. Thats about it.

[fair turret]

Any fixes to help reduce wild overspawn? Are caves have thousands of wild tames spawning and it’s lagging the servers

[flat grove]

When was the last dino wipe? @fair turret

[dusky zephyr]

Anyone know how to re enable quick join on your server? Instead of having to wait to join after crashing.. It was a thing less than a week ago..

[terse pecan]

Is there a way to link global chat across a cluster and also with discord?

[near hawk]

there was on ASE, don't know it it still exists, there's many mods that send chat messages to discord

[terse pecan]

Do you know the name of one of those mods by any chance?

[near hawk]

Discord chat by unknown01110101

[terse pecan]

Much thanks I am going to check it out.

[fair turret]

We have them twice daily overspawn is consistent

[azure elk]

When I played on an Unofficial Server on ASE, this server was able to implement players being able to teleport to different worlds. For example, if you were originally in The Center, you could have a device at your base to allow you to teleport to Ragnarok with all your gear or anything in your inventory. Is that something that is possible in ASA?

[near hawk]

U mean uploading your character and dowloading to another map in the cluster using the Tek transmitter, yes it's still a thing

That's a vanilla feature

[azure elk]

Hmm okay, because when I try to do that for my unofficial server, the only map I see is the one that I have currently set for my server.

[near hawk]

Did u make your server into a cluster?

[azure elk]

Probably not, let me see if I can find a guide.

So from my understanding is that if I am using Nitrado and I want to be able to move to different Maps, then I need to pay for a server for each map to be able to cluster them all?

[twilit current]

How can I change resources from beaver dams?

[desert bluff]

When do they plan to release the full map of astraoes?

[desert bluff]

Use beacon

[copper berry]

Is the game playable without the preaquatica update now? My friend and i tried, it works for me, but his game freezes on the homepage. I have my own unofficial server

[copper berry]

When he joins my server through steam, his game just freezes. The server doesnt pop up ingame for him like it does for me.

[copper berry]

Oh, i thought it was all arks. Thanks :)

Is it just the "Ark Survival" server?

But it isnt about the map

We're on scorched earth

We were on Ragnarok before, and that workjed just fine

oh, okay

I found it, thanks :)

[fair comet]

hello. I have problem with helicoporion he does not eat throwed loot. Loot from gacha crystals. Mine friend trying form drops, alphas etc and nothing works heli swiming and do not aggro on items.

[proper marsh]

Hello is there anyone with an Xbox? Me and my friend are trying to play since 3 days and everytime we make a server and invite there is: entry failed

[wet river]

Just bought a server with some friends - is this the right channel to ask Q’s on how to get settings to our liking / walk throughs ??

[wet river]

@polar echo THANK YOU !!🙏

[flat cloud]

Is Structure Decay still broken on ASA? Or is it back? I'm hosting an unofficial Server.

[near hawk]

It was only disable on official severs, it returning today

[flat cloud]

I could never get it working properly. Everytime the server would reset the demo timer on the base would restart.

[wise kindle]

Its been fine as of late.

[near hawk]

Isn't that how it's supposed to work, I never leave my severs running when I'm offline, so not sure how it should

[wise kindle]

Its not. The timer should never reset.

Well, unless the tribe logs in and resets it lol.

[flat cloud]

Yeah, I ran so many test on a test server with Default settings and always demo timer would hit 0 and I'm able to demo the structure but when I reset the server it resets the demo timer.

I'm running a server with about 50 people on a cluster so getting Decay working would help so much with admin clean up.

[wise kindle]

It helps if you dont mess with the timer settings at all as they tend to break if you mess with them too much, at least in my experience.

[neon pollen]

I have the same issue with mine. All is set to default, but when I reboot, the timers reset. This is with a clean DoExit, not like a crash.

[untold mason]

Is there a way to set up my dedicated servers to run only on my local network and then by pass the whole signin auth crap with Epic? I remeber, or at least I think I did this, that I had servers lsited somehow in the steam client for ASE but that doesn't seem to work for ASA.

[bleak ivy]

servers are always listed in the browser for ASA. port-forwarded or not.

not sure if LAN goes through epic I know it needs curseforge.

I would assume it does since its still crossplay

[untold mason]

that whole cross play thing sure did change things

[bleak ivy]

it helped in a lot of ways too. clusters actually work for LAN now since unofficial is one category.

[untold mason]

tyvm btw

[flat cloud]

Bro! I know I'm not crazy! I feel like people think Structure Decay is working but it's not. It always resets the timers on normal reset

[wise kindle]

Do ya’ll have decay timers set for BOTH PVE and PVP?
If both arent set you will have issues, regardless of which mode you are running. Both need to be set.

[flat cloud]

Wait both need to be set? What! @wise kindle I'll check on my test server and will let you know

[neon pollen]

They were working until a few months back around when they turned them off for Official for the DDos issue, but they never started working right again. I’ll try that, though

[wise kindle]

Not sure but I have 25 maps with no issues. Both modes enabled.
Half the cluster have no timers (per settings) the rest have normal decay. Everything works normally.

[flat cloud]

Are we talking ASE or ASA? Just want to double check

[wise kindle]

ASA
Tho it works the same for both.

[neon pollen]

That actually worked. Thanks!
I added the following lines to the GUS.ini on one of my PvE servers (ASA) and timers did not reset after reboot, though they did for other instances where I did not make the same change. Odd. I've never had to have that in there before that I can recall.
PvPDinoDecay=true
PvPStructureDecay=true

[wise kindle]

Np

[wise lily]

is there a mod where i can collect dinos with a gun i've checked for Super Cryo Storage but its not in modlist i just want to do stuff faster in testing area

[flat cloud]

@wise kindle @neon pollen OMG that really worked LOL this whole time I only had PVE Decay turned on and not both. I can't believe that worked.

[wise kindle]

Pelayoris has this and pretty much everything else offered in ASA cryopod mods.

[queen crow]

I'm using SCS and am able to collect dinos with the gun np. Just have to make the cryo balls.

Of course in admin mode, you can collect any dino. Alphas included.

[smoky burrow]

Does anyone know where these lines in the log come from?
It may be linked to me moving the clusters folder... This is new and it repeats per player eos several times without obvious reason.

Player:  (0002...1ad) [0]  
Joined the server
[2025.09.04-10.49.17:592][269]first id found: 0002...1ad
[2025.09.04-10.49.17:592][269]first id found: 0002...1ad
[2025.09.04-10.49.17:600][269]first id found: 0002...1ad

[marsh void]

why does the command prompt softlocks itself when i am about to set up a dedicated server (oh btw i have declined the game to change my nat type to open)

[fair turret]

Anyone else having mega lab issues?
No longer allowing us to respec tames

[near hawk]

it's not been working for a week

[warm coyote]

Anyone figured out the loot container ini command of Astral Rex and Astral Megalodon? The once at Astraeos link doesn't work at me...

[wise lily]

i dont see it in the modlist on ASA but i do find it as a zip file online am i supposed to use it that way?

[celest halo]

All ASA mods need to be installed through the game or by joining a server that has that mod, you can't download the zip file directly from CF

[queen crow]

I was able to find it through the mods browser in-game. Are you on console or PC?

[light citrus]

Are the Deinonychus from s-dino mod broken for anyone else? I can't find a support place for them. They are spawing and moving but not animated or doing damage.

[polar dagger]

same here, move annimated complete broken and even cant shot dam (only with sword worked)

[light citrus]

rest of the dinos seem to be working fine, I can't seem to find a discord or something for the mod or author to ask

[rotund current]

Hey, I'm making a dedicated server for me and my friends, I want to add mods, I already pasted the mods in the content/Mods folder, and also in the run bat file ( -mods=1404697612,1609138312.....)
The server works okay but the mods aren't appearing and aren't working

[polar dagger]

mod is from nekatus, cant post invite link here but the code is: JGnCCrWUmG

[light citrus]

ty ty

[rotund current]

does anyone have an idea?

[celest halo]

saying what version of the game would help a lot, seeing how with ASA you dont download the mods yourself, and with ASE i think snail games broke mods with aquatica

[rotund current]

ark survival evolved, I installed the dedicated server from steam (tools), I run ragnarok map

[celest halo]

you set ActiveMods= in GUS under [ServerSettings] , -mods= in run bat is a ASA thing

[rotund current]

Oh, ill try

[rotund current]

still not working

[ServerSettings]
ActiveMods=1404697612,1609138312,761535755,1591643730,889745138,1445395055,2984407853,1267677473,845855498,1634834823,751991809,731604991,506506101,821530042,2772103182,202411979,2050423614,569786012

I've added this in the GameUserSettings.ini

and changed the run.bat to

@echo off
start ShooterGameServer.exe "Ragnarok?listen?SessionName=******?ServerPassword=*****?ServerAdminPassword=******?Port=7777?QueryPort=?MaxPlayers=10" -log

[queen crow]

FYI, most of the mods are back to working on ASE. The mods weren't actually broken, the game version was evidently what was broken.

[rotund current]

I've solved the problem
but some mods dont load
S+ does not load

[queen crow]

s+ loads just fine on my ase server.

[rotund current]

what do you think is the problem?

[near hawk]

u on the aquatica version?

[rotund current]

no

[queen crow]

There's a setting that you need to put in your gus.ini

[rotund current]

what is it?

[near hawk]

gameusersetting.ini

[rotund current]

I mean which setting, ill search

[queen crow]

I'm looking for it. I've got it saved somewhere.

[StructuresPlus]
DisableUnlockingMapSpecificEngrams=True

[RandomConfigs]
AllowScorchedEngrams=True
AllowAberrationEngrams=True
AllowExtinctionEngrams=True
AllowGenesis1Engrams=True
AllowGenesis2Engrams=True
AllowAquaticaEngrams=True

[rotund current]

thank you very much

[queen crow]

I put that right under the [MessageOfTheDay] and it made it work for me.

[warm coyote]

ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems=(SupplyCrateClassString="DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_AstralMegalodon_C",MinItemSets=1,MaxItemSets=1,NumItemSetsPower=1.0,bSetsRandomWithoutReplacement=true,ItemSets=((SetName="MegaSharki",MinNumItems=5,MaxNumItems=5,NumItemsPower=1,SetWeight=5000,bItemsRandomWithoutReplacement=true,ItemEntries=((EntryWeight=250,ItemClassStrings=("PrimalItemResource_Element_C"),ItemsWeights=(50),MinQuantity=50,MaxQuantity=50,MinQuality=0,MaxQuality=0,bForceBlueprint=false,ChanceToBeBlueprintOverride=0),(EntryWeight=250,ItemClassStrings=("PrimalItemResource_ApexDrop_AlphaMegalodon_C"),ItemsWeights=(50),MinQuantity=1,MaxQuantity=2,MinQuality=0,MaxQuality=0,bForceBlueprint=false,ChanceToBeBlueprintOverride=0)))))

Any idea what's wrong with this entry?

[wise lily]

i'm pc lol idk how i have not seen it ill keep looking thank you !!

[queen crow]

Were you able to find it?

[wise lily]

yes i did! im so happy, thanks again

[queen crow]

np

[covert forum]

Looking for someone willing to start a server with me Asa 50 50 and have experience

[swift perch]

#1110949794907684965

[somber thistle]

does anyone run ark on there gaming pc? if so is it viable to play on it while having multiple maps?

[smoky burrow]

ideas?

[smoky burrow]

no firewall and nat setup are too spooky for compromising my home, using an external hosting service

well with a couple peeps through vpn maybe

[queen crow]

I'm running 5 or 6 maps and playing on the same PC. I'm still running a firewall so I'm not as spooked as the other guy.

[gleaming wagon]

Is it possible to spawn noglins in ascended?

[bleak ivy]

only with mods

[gleaming wagon]

You can’t just spawn it in with admin commands?

[near hawk]

No

Not out in ASA yet

[bleak ivy]

there was a bit of time after release you could, but they removed it since half of the future dinos were broken.

some even caused crashes like shadowmane

[gleaming wagon]

Copy thank you

[tacit bone]

Xbox player here - are there mods that prevent the dlc dinos from spawning on maps? Like the pyromane in ragnarok?

[wet river]

Friend and I own a server - how does he save a server incase there’s an extreme bug ? He’s currently copying n pasting to word pad.

[warm coyote]

Every Dino Mod could change every regular Dinospawn, because could be a chain reaction

[warm coyote]

Where did u get the server, nitrado or otherwise?

[wet river]

Apex hosting

[warm coyote]

So idk

[wet river]

Copy. Thanks for trying tho

[floral goblet]

Since this config setup is awkward and I can't find detailed info on it, I wanted to reach out here: For the config "TamedDinoClassResistanceMultipliers", since it's the higher values that decrease damage taken, do we know how that works exactly? Does setting it to 1.5 mean they take 50% less damage, or is there some other formula it uses? The example on the wiki uses "10" for the resistance which sound silly unless it's another formula

[hollow temple]

My screen is really really fuzzy I don’t know how to fix it😬 could it be a server issue

[rotund current]

Hey, ive installed splus and other mods on my dedicated server (ase), but now when I try to learn enagrams it does not work

like it highlights the enagram but it does not learn it

[long epoch]

Hey yall, need help. I have an unofficial pvp server, one of my tribe mates keeps getting kicked from the game. She’s on an Xbox series S. I used to have the same problem but I now am on a series X and it’s only happened once. This isn’t an every once in awhile thing, she gets kicked like 10x or more when we are playing. Any ideas how to fix the problem?

[warped python]

my 1st guess (happens a lot with console players) is she's using WI-FI instead of a LAN cable.
other than that i'm clueless as i don't play online on console, but yeah.. Wired can solve a lot of connection issues

[wise kindle]

Series S and PS have alot of connection issues. Happens more often on larger maps.

[rotund current]

I tried reinstalling the mods from the client and from the server
It still didn’t work
Does any one have an idea?
I cant learn engrams but they appear in the page of the engrams

[pallid dock]

Is there a way to find out the blueprint path of a dino that's in-game next to you? I've got a mod spawning these hilariously overpowered compies but they're all my usual mods and I've never seen it before.

[whole zinc]

what is the mod id for the club ark to be added to my clusters?

[whole zinc]

do i nee to add the MOD ID for club ark to all my server command lines?

[warm coyote]

No u need a separat server for Club Ark and cluster it

[whole zinc]

Got it

[tepid berry]

Gcm gun on inspect mode

[long epoch]

Originally she was wireless and then she got an Ethernet cord and it made it worse. Now it won’t even let her login

[vale sierra]

i search a gameusersetting for the battlerig for more dmg and HP can anyone help me ?

[warped python]

only thing an ethernet cable does is create a stable signal as there's no interference from radiosignals/phones/whatever's connected wireless in your household, that of your neighbours, taxis and other vehicles with wireless connections outside etc etc.
so unless she placed it in a wrong port on the router, used a faulty cable or used a crosscable (looks the same, but has wires crossed internally, is usually short and a different colour) she shouldn't have any issues.

it does however depend on the quality of your cable what speeds it can handle. (it's printed on the cable)
You need at least CAT5, which equals to the max output of a 2.4Ghz wi-fi connection (12.5 MegaByte/s)
but it's better to use a CAT5e or CAT5 class D cable as that is equal to the 5Ghz wi-fi connection, which can handle upto 1Gigabit/s (125MegaByte/s)

[queen crow]

[StructuresPlus]
DisableUnlockingMapSpecificEngrams=True

[RandomConfigs]
AllowScorchedEngrams=True
AllowAberrationEngrams=True
AllowExtinctionEngrams=True
AllowGenesis1Engrams=True
AllowGenesis2Engrams=True
AllowAquaticaEngrams=True
Put this in your Gus.ini file right under the [MessageOfTheDay] entry This is what I had to do to fix mine.

[ocean tiger]

Hi, SteamCMD crashed can't start it for several months. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank.

[desert bluff]

So I changed the maps on my cluster and I have now put ragnarok on my one server but the server doesn’t like ragnarok and goes into restart loop is there away to fix this

[wise kindle]

Try this:

Stop the server
General settings > Start with backup
Choose a NEW savegame
Hit the SAVE button
Wait for the save to complete
Restart the server

Give it 15-20 minutes to show up.

[desert bluff]

Thanks I will try this

[ocean tiger]

When the console displays the following line: Added Explorer Note Entry: DEARJANE_EXP_NOTE_7, the server crashes.

[keen nova]

Hi, just wondering if anyone had an issue with transferring to another server. My character got stuck and when I try to switch server it’s just either stuck downloading and when I go directly to that my character wont show up.. I did try to reinstall all mods, restore license reinstall the whole game itself and clear cache. But it still didn’t work..

[visual pollen]

anyone know how i can bring down the cryo timer on original cryo pods? its a 300 seconds i want to being it down to 60

[rotund current]

still didn't work

Ill try adding the mods to the start bat file (GameModIds)

[rotund current]

also didn't work

[feral marsh]

Does anyone have a recommendation for the best crosschat plugin/mod for ASA?

[lean briar]

Hi

I’m a YouTuber and streamer of Ark: Survival Evolved, and I’ve encountered a frustrating issue that prevents me from streaming the game.

Specifically, the PrimalDataFiles_BP never fully load. They seem to load to the end, but then the loading resets back to that same file. This can happen for 15–20 minutes, while normally it should take only 2–5 minutes to enter the game.

I’ve heard that Ark sometimes has similar issues due to large .pak files, but I’m not sure how to fix it. I would really appreciate any guidance or solutions so I can get back to streaming Ark smoothly.

Thank you for your time and help!

Best regards, Leby

[queen crow]

Welcome to the new normal of Ark SE

[warped python]

not sure what that has to do with server setup, but i'll bite.

I expect you already used the Search and checked Google/Reddit on the subject..
so it can't be the aqua client, as you obviously already reverted that to pre-aqua.

so for our sanity: are you using the same system to run OBS AND Ark? could be as simple as not enough memory

[lean briar]

Even if I don’t have OBS running in the background, the issue still happens. It gets stuck on PrimalGameData_BP and just keeps reloading it over and over again. I already verified the game files and did all the basics, but nothing changed. After waiting 20 minutes I usually just close the game and try again, for example when I attempt to load my Genesis save, because I don’t think it will ever get in if it hasn’t loaded by then.

[warped python]

1st thing 1st. Did you already set ark to pre-aqua? joked about it a bit, but that's the most obvious solution.
in steam go to Library and rightmouse on Ark Survival Evolved.
Go to Properties..
Now select Betas and in the pulldown that says None, select preaquatica - ASE : pre-aquatica.

now try again.

stuff messed up with the release of the aquatica dlc.

[lean briar]

Thanks a lot for the advice, I really appreciate it and I’ll follow your suggestion. If any other issues come up, I’ll let you know, but hopefully there won’t be any.

[robust fog]

hey guyss how do i set up an unofficial server

[main ravine]

can anyone tell me if they can log into my server im hosting from home, its called Atlantic Ark - The Island - Fear Evolved

i just got new telus gigafiber internet and i dont know if its joinable outside my network

[tawdry stream]

do i need a separate computer to run a ASA server or am i able to just use one computer and play on that server at the same time on one computer

[near hawk]

U can use just one pc

[near hawk]

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

[steady copper]

Hey all does anyone know or found a fix where transferring to a different map on an unofficial cluster takes forever to spawn in sometimes timing out and losing your character?

[olive pawn]

Lots of peeps having same issue. I'm on au servers and having same problem

[fossil crag]

Hi I'm looking for a answer to a problem I'm having. Players are transferring to another server on our cluster but are loosing some of there inventory. Specifically ammo or tranqs. They are just base game items. Other times its dinos. Ive tried to do some tests and it even happens when using a transmitter and uploading the tranqs, ammo, bullets they all dissappear when you go to the other server and open the transmitters or obelisks

[silver thistle]

are the tranqs from a mod thats on both servers? thats the only thing i can think of that causes this issue if u have say better tranqs on one server - andf they transfer to a server that does not have better tranqs mod they get deleted

[fossil crag]

Im just trying to transfer with base game ammo and tranqs I dont have any mods that give better ammo.

[desert bluff]

Can anyone help please we are trying to template a building but we want the skin also to be templated how do we do this

[visual sapphire]

Does anyone know where non-dedicated player and tribe data is saved now? My friend and I are trying to transfer a non-dedicated save to a self-hosted dedicated server, but we can't find our player or tribe save files. They're not in the ShooterGame>Saved>SavedArksLocal>TheIsland_WP folder.

[sharp vessel]

Hello everyone !
It's been a long time since we have this bug.
Sometimes, when the mod update is not "sync' between servers, we have the error message "Attempting server travel" : "This will cancel your transfer connection and send you to Main Menu. Are you sure ?" and we don't have the choice, we need to go back on the main menu and reconnect to the base server to transfer again.

It's a common bug and there is a fix for that ?

[visual sapphire]

Ah, okay, we'll just use commands to claim the old tribe then

[vocal herald]

I'm attempting to automate the "CE superheat" command to run every few hours on our scorched server but I'm running into some issues, any assistance or ideas would be appreciated.
(Dedicated server, using UASM to manage)

Command works when used ingame, also works when it's typed directly into the server window.
The same command DOESN'T work when I try to use the UASM rcon, or the LethalDecay rcon scheduler. (I tried a different command through both of those that worked, so they are working in general).

I have also tried the old CE start_superheat command just in case, which didn't work of course lol

Any ideas what's causing this or how I could fix/test?

[gleaming wagon]

is there a noglin mod out there i miss them

[sharp vessel]

Hello everyone !
It's been a long time since we have this bug.
Sometimes, when the mod update is not "sync' between servers, we have the error message "Attempting server travel" : "This will cancel your transfer connection and send you to Main Menu. Are you sure ?" and we don't have the choice, we need to go back on the main menu and reconnect to the base server to transfer again.

It's a common bug and there is a fix for that ?

Little up for that

[sharp vessel]

So, I guess, it's a normal 'bugged' thing now ?
Because, some months ago, you were able to transfer on another server even if the mod version was not the same. The game automatically downloaded the same version as the server you tried to join

[wet river]

Friend and I bought a server , he’s admin, is it possible to set up automatic Dino wipes ? We are experiencing wyvren issues

[wet river]

Thank you ! One more Q- we are not sure how to save the server incase there’s a server rollback that’s needed. We are using Apex hosting and Nvidia cards - not sure what I said lol 🙂 do you know what commands. Or what’s generally done to save servers ? One of the last things he can’t figure out.

[mortal inlet]

most hosting sites provide a backup option, you need to manually do it unless they provide a way to automate it, that would be a question for them.

Otherwise if they provide FTP access to the files, you can pull the save files yourself and store them somewhere else

Survival Evolved.

[wet river]

One of the draw backs is non Nitrado companies have Ark off limits due to the contract. They hear Ark and they clam up.

Thanks for the info ! Hope we didn’t screw our selves going the cheaper route 😐

[mortal inlet]

Any site that provides servers, provides customer support, server backups aren't a specific thing to ark. Any questions related to their service is within their ability to help

[wet river]

Copy that - I’ll call him later on tonight and discuss what yall mentioned. And @mortal inlet best name I’ve seen in awhile 🙂

[rich vault]

did more people noticed, or is there some known cause, i could not find proper info yet, why Battlemetrics, and ARK Status, are listing all unofficial servers as dead/offline ?!?! battlemetrics is even listing official servers the same way, noticed since this morning, even in my Battlemetrics RCON dashboard, can't do anything cause all servers showing up as dead/offline. but people are finding the servers anyway and joining without problems in game.

anyone knows what's going on with this by chance ?!

[queen crow]

It's only for ASA. ASE is showing up just fine.

[topaz scaffold]

im loading into ark, and i have my fps set to 144fps, and it just drops to 33fps after like 5 seconds and stays there, how do i fix this?

[gentle niche]

To install club ark on my cluster, do i just need to make a bat file with the club map name and do i need to install the club ark mod on all my servers?

[wise kindle]

Club ark is technically a mod map, you only install it on one map and that map is the BobsMissions map. Players will install the necessary mods when they join.

[gentle niche]

Thank you 🙏

[rich vault]

im sorry i didn't mention i was referring to ASA, so strange... thanks though !

[queen crow]

It's all right, none of my ASA servers are showing as online either. It's weird.

[wise kindle]

All mine show on Battlemetrics.
Strange if they do not.

[queen crow]

Mine show, too. Just dead.

[wise kindle]

Ok thats really weird.

[mortal inlet]

Asa?

[austere needle]

i asume its only nitrado servers shown , i found just one other "unoffical" server hosted by hetzner

[muted ginkgo]

Hey boys, looking for a modded map halfish the size of the island with every resource and most tames, looking to do PVP wipe with a few mates. we have our own ruleset, just looking for a map if anyone has any suggestions,

[rotund current]

still didn't help, if you have another idea ill be thankful

[mild valve]

Is there any free server managers for when I have my server up and running?

[ornate carbon]

Anyone know how to fix a 006 error loop every time when i open a inventory dino or chest i get stuck in to a 006 error that keep flashing on ps5

[queen crow]

You can do a search for asa dedicated manager. I like that one.

[tepid berry]

I can't believe it OMG they FIXED IT!!!

They fixed it they fixed it they fixed it!!!

Fixed a stall that can occur when loading in after you transfer to another server which could lead to needing a relog.

[celest halo]

🤣 just because a patch note says it's fixed don't mean it really is

[tepid berry]

shhhhh let me have this!

NOBODY was talking about it! I felt like I was going crazy!

[digital obsidian]

Crossing fingers, toes and everything else hoping that the fix works 🤞

[tepid berry]

I guess maybe it didn't happen as much for people only hosting 1 server; but I'm hosting 8 on the same machine and it happened all the time

[digital obsidian]

7 maps here, have to relog like 80% of the time after transferring

[errant timber]

They fixed it now I can’t get into unofficial 😂😂😂

[digital obsidian]

Can't have transfering issues if you can't log in

[tepid berry]

I'm still patching client so haven't been able to test

There are already players on my server though

[errant timber]

I can’t get on mine 😭

[tepid berry]

What's happening? are you getting disconnected on attempt to join?

[errant timber]

It won’t even show unofficial servers

Sooooo no? Lmao

[digital obsidian]

My servers are up and joinable

[tepid berry]

Mine too.

[tepid berry]

Did you update your client? This is a major patch. Not a minor. You won't be able to connect to newer versions on an old client

[dusty vigil]

how do you do that

[tepid berry]

you close out of the game and let steam/xbox/ps5 or whatever handles your client, do an update.

[dusty vigil]

i did update but it still wont load up my most recent

[tepid berry]

Did you also run steamcmd and update your server?

[dusty vigil]

im not on steam, im on xbox pc

[tepid berry]

Is your server window saying it's v72.3?

[dusty vigil]

yes

[tepid berry]

Is your client saying the same?

72.1 is the version I'm on for steam; you'll see it at the title screen, and should be same for you

[dusty vigil]

im also on 72.1

im not on steam im on xbox

[tepid berry]

Doesn't matter.

[dusty vigil]

oh okay

[tepid berry]

Your server uses Steam

You should be able to connect if you were able to before, I just updated all of my stuff and I'm connected and transferring just fine

You should check your filters.

[dusty vigil]

im quite new to this, how do i check my filters and i also just updated my game

[tepid berry]

Your filters for unofficial. Make sure they're set right, it's just the settings in the client.

[celest halo]

there was no patch notes for consoles, so they might not have a 72.* version yet

[dusty vigil]

everything is fine, im able to see the server i was in but im not able to join it

its faded 😔

[tepid berry]

That means it's offline

[dusty vigil]

ah that makes sense

well thank you for your help!

[terse pecan]

Questions for experienced discord users and server owners: What is the best mod for in game shops? (and how does it pair with traditional BBS currency)

What is the best discord plug in, bot or service for RP character creation?

[woeful socket]

Is there a LFG Channel here I can't find it

[near hawk]

#1110949794907684965

[woeful socket]

Thank you

[queen crow]

did you hit refresh? that usually does it for me.

[minor kettle]

hey everyone, is it normal for unoffficial servers to be down right now? Ive tried updating the server via steamcmd and its still showing 71.15 but when I log on I see newer versions under the build category when I am looking for my server. Just very new to running a server and did hear that it can take time for unofficial servers to catch up

[fleet zenith]

hey im wondering if im missing something when i try to up the tame limit. In Nitrado its set to 5000 and i also added the personal limit to the ini file but it still doesnt change it in game

[fleet zenith]

both mine were down, after the agme updated i have one showing. The other is there but its greyed out

[halcyon shell]

anyone else using adminlisturl have it no longer working suddenly?

[minor kettle]

yeah i dont know if im doing something wrong but i keep trying to update the server exe through the cmd app and its still showing version 71

[heavy apex]

Does anyone know the commands to spawn non grindable blue prints in ASE?

[fresh oyster]

I have the game on Epic Games while my friends have it on Steam. I hosted a non-dedicated server, but how can I join their server instead?

[fossil onyx]

Has anyone found a discord bot or other method that will auto reboot servers on discord announce of a server update from the official bot?

[broken hemlock]

Hello, yes, same problem for me. Did you find a solution ?

AdminListURL doesn't seem to work anymore since last server update (approx 12 hours ago).
I tried using a local file : AdminListURL="file://D:\\cluster\\AdminList.txt" as it was working yesterday.
I tried using a distant file : AdminListURL="https..."
I tried placing multiple files in my Config directory :
AllowedCheaterAccountIDs
AllowedCheaterIDs.txt
AllowedCheaterSteamIDs.txt
Don't know which is the good name...

Anyway nothing worked.

Does anyone have a solution ?

[knotty cedar]

Okay what is the issue nowadays with the mods with ark?
Everytime theres even a smallest update, with the mod itself or ark, the mods won't load at all. It will never start the downloading of the mods and if you try to join the server with mods it will just say "pending" on the bottom without actually doing anything.

[warm coyote]

The Issue is Wildcard incompetent

[rugged shuttle]

i need help. i want to create mods but cant because of the exstensive space required. i only have 60gb i can create mods one one map and only creatures nothing complex.

[somber arrow]

Anyone found a way to increase the tick rate of their servers, i've got a lot of capacity on my server rig and want to increase performance

[ornate carbon]

Anyone know how to fix a 006 error loop every time when i open a inventory dino or chest i get stuck in to a 006 error that keep flashing on ps5

[hallow pumice]

hey does anyone have any tips about this "ActiveMapMod=0" stuff. I haven't started my Astraeos since April. But decided to mess around this weekend. I can get various results with having it in the ini file or having it slightly modified like ActiveMapMod=. or not having it at all.
In one way I get stuck in Booting with a Status of Loading Map. Then I may get it stuck with "Ticking Loop". But I just can't seem to get it to just come up all the way.

[rich vault]

same problem for me since last night, and i was so clueless when it was working flawless. this and the servers showing as dead/offline in battlemetrics.... what is going on....
the path i have that been working flawless, and no longer working:

AdminListURL="file://D:\ASA%20Servers\Whitelist.txt"

[rich vault]

hey, your servers still showing as dead ?! and also, yours are self hosted or Nitrado ?! i have the impression now it's happening to self hosted, more unofficial servers started to show up online again, but they seem to be Nitrado ones ( coincidence?!...) i can't confirm this for sure though

[queen crow]

Yep, they're still showing as dead. They are self-hosted. I kind of figured that battlemetrics caved to nitrado.

[broken hemlock]

For the AdminListURL I think we have to keep waiting as they look forward for a new patch that will re enable this config line.
I prefer when admins on my server don't know the password...

[heavy apex]

Does anyone know the commands to spawn non grindable blue prints in ASE?

[gentle niche]

So i removed 2 mod IDs from my bat server start file and for some reason it keeps loading the 2 mods :S how do i get rid of them lol

[onyx gale]

I have a question about the template hammer as an admin for a server cluster.

If I'm in creative mode, is there a way to place a saved template and basically have the building "instantly" built and placed? Or do I have to sit there in "auto build" mode and just wait for it to build?

My intent is to build a beginner level turret Tower for new PvP bobs to topple, then use the template hammer to plop like 5 or 6 of them down throughout the pvp half of my cluster.

What's the quickest/most efficient way to go about that?

[topaz fractal]

Hi anyone have clues about custom cosmetic not working on private server after yesterday night patch? cause i have custom cosmetic in local, on official but noone of the custom cosmetic is available in our cluster...

[cerulean relic]

I am having the same problem. All Custome Cosmetics work on single player but not on my Private Server after the update.

[topaz fractal]

On official custom cosmetics works, on some other private cluster works... i can't really understand , we restarted the cluster, checked the config but we are not solving

[rich vault]

i will try contact their support, not going to keep paying them if this turns out true.. gosh, this whole Nitrado thing since beginning is astonishing. and i guess of course, no info whatsoever from official sources so everyone self hosting stays in the dark and shutdown...

[rich vault]

i certainly hope so, makes absolutely no sense, except annoying even more, and trying to shutdown even more, self hosted servers outside Nitrado. it's like they just really want to keep killing their own game and the communities with servers that can actually make the game thrive.

[fallen pike]

Hi, is your server modded ?

[fervent owl]

anyone help pls..only 16 server i can see...and official server was no sessions found..

[autumn depot]

All my friends wanna give me money to feed the demons. I’ve messed with Nitrado before on ASE, anyone have good advice for ASA changes?? I don’t know what’s different on the cluster host end

[deft lily]

Does club ark day and time just not advance on its own?

[unique rampart]

throw me and my partner into the private server cosmetic mods arnt working since the last patch list also (but they work for single player for some reason)

[flat grove]

Are other people's unofficial self-hosted servers borked atm? Seems that ever since the last patch my cluster is coming up as dead in Battlemetrics and not poping up on ASA.

[unique rampart]

just the cosmetics here

[queen crow]

All of mine are showing as dead as well. I'm able to find them from my end but, I don't know if they're showing up from outside my local network.

[flat grove]

For me they are dead running on my end no errors. And I can see two of them on the ASA list but they are not connectable and show Unknown on the map and 0/0 on players while being greyed out.

[past lion]

Ticking loop? anyone able to help setup?

[fast wigeon]

If they are greyed out it means that you have them favorited correct? If so the solution is to click on the one you wish to connect to then click refresh on the bottom right (not middle) then click on it again and Join should appear in the bottom right instead of refresh

[oak lodge]

does someone have problems with the look of the game? it actually looks like the colours are negative. I already changed every single config, and even deleted the inis files. it is all restored to cero

[warped python]

open console and type r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 1 to fix.

[jolly lotus]

Sadly does nothing for me, is there any other option?

[past lion]

Any devs available

[warped python]

well, r.lumen should fix the greyscale stuff where ppl don't get indirect light in their bases etc. (same with light particles outside, but less impact)
As long as wildcard doesn't share a list of r.whatever they turned off by default it's all a matter of trial and error until someone finds a new one

[past lion]

Inbox me if you can help please 🙏🏼 trying to get this running but having some issues so far.

[severe pawn]

Hi, we're having issues on our ARK EVOLVED server. No players are gaining experience. I've been told it's been happening since they added Aquatic Ascension. Do you know how to fix this?

[warped python]

not the right discord to ask, but i'll help with reverting to pre-aquatic clientside:
Steam - library - rightmouse on Ark Survival Evolved - Properties - Betas.
in that pulldown select pre-aquatic
for actual serverside ASE stuff i think you're better off on the ASE discord

[severe pawn]

gracias pero el problema es que tuvimos que volver a como estabamos, porque en preacuatico los jugadores de epic no podian jugar. Y ahora.. nos ocurre, que los jugadores no obtienen experiencia, incluso si toman pocion de amnesia, luego pierden niveles, como el chibi por ejemplo.

[severe pawn]

What is the discord of ase?

[warped python]

can't link here, so i think you need to use google for that.

[severe pawn]

before it was this same discord. ok.

[warped python]

if you type ark survival evolved discord in google it should be the 1st on the list.
(there was an official message in #announcements, but that discord link depleted)

16/07/2025 posted by Dollie
*Hey Survivors, *

This is the official Discord for ARK: Survival Ascended, which is the game that Studio Wildcard is working on. If you would like to discuss ARK: Survival Evolved and Snail Games' new product, please join their Discord here:

[naive hatch]

hello is here anyone who plays on lucys server?

[past lion]

Anyone can help me set this port stuff up it doesn’t seem to find my ip address 😭

[flat grove]

Incorrect

[ancient thunder]

I just started playing a while ago with my bro who is hosting unofficial server. He is able to logon but since the aquatic update fix I’ve been unable to join the server

[feral marsh]

What crosschat plugin/mod are you guys using to chat across multiple maps?

[ancient thunder]

Yeah it started a few days ago sept 10 at 7pm pst. Couldn’t transfer any items to a Dino’s inventory so I logged out thinking it was a lag issue and got connection timeout whenever I try to join since then. My bro runs our unofficial server and has tried updating and a few other things with no luck

[waxen robin]

this is also happening to me. did you find the solution?

[broken hemlock]

No nothing for the moment except typing the enablecheats command in the console.
Lets keep in touch in case someone finds the solution

[waxen robin]

woolys discord integrator has been perfect for me, 2 years now.

[robust nymph]

Is there a way to make tame limit work on pve?
Have it set to standard 150 but can easily go over and it causes issues.

[warm coyote]

At unofficial it is the DifficultyOffset

But I heard they cap it on wild lvl 450 but not sure if this is true

If this helped u up, my World difficult is on 10, so max wild dinos are 300,wyv 380, tek 360 automatically

[queen crow]

And with mine set to 50, I'm always seeing 1500 to 1531. Crazy big, mean dinos.

[robust nymph]

Tame limit is how much dinos you can have out at one time.
Not what level the wild dinos are.
@queen crow @warm coyote

[warm coyote]

But Tame limit it is clearly to show at server settings 🤡

[robust nymph]

Its set to 159, doesnt work.
Have asked other server owners who also dont have a working tame limit on pve. Pvp servers seem to work fine.
I was hoping I'd be able to find someone that has managed to get the tame limit cap to actually stick haha

[unique rampart]

yeah my partner couldnt get the tame limit to change either >_> (also pve)

[sudden bramble]

Is there no way for us to bring creatures from our last maps to new maps that aren't on the map? I have allow foreign dinos on my server but I still can't pull creatures out of the obelisk. ASE this wasn't a problem but I can't figure out why it's not allowing me on asa.

[unique rampart]

bring them over in cryopods in your inventory (dont bother using the obelisk at all never had any lucky with it transfering tames in ase either tbh)

[rich vault]

returned home hoping for better news... gosh.... and the battemetrics situation as well, i was relying on their RCON interface last couple months, with all servers showing as dead have no control whatsoever

[sudden bramble]

You drop inventory when uploading your character. I thought cryopods reverted tames to level 1 when put in obelisks

[queen crow]

That's been my experience.

[unique rampart]

iv never dropped my inventory when transferring between my private servers?

like im currently breeding veilwynn on me and my partners private island server which i brought over from rag in cryopods

[vivid zephyr]

[sudden bramble]

I wanted my snow owls on ragnarok but it won't pull out of obelisk. To late now to transfer my toon.

[queen crow]

I was able to set my Tame Limit in the gus.ini using MaxTamedDinos setting. It works on my server.

[robust nymph]

So?
MaxTamedDinos=150

[queen crow]

Yep, that's the one.

[fallen pike]

Good morning, news about the custom cosmetics ?

[vivid zephyr]

[wise kindle]

Are you pvp or pve?

The lists are different.

[teal pollen]

I removed this from our GUS Ini and it fixed them. CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"

All are showing now

[wise kindle]

there is also a list you can point to but I guess I cant post the links.

Alrighty then.

[teal pollen]

SERVER

Update your server to the latest version (min. v34.49)
If you want to only allow the official StudioWildcardMods do NOT add the
CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"
in your GUS.ini
Your server is now prepared
CLIENT/GAME

Also updated to the latest version
Open your ARK Survival Ascended Game
Go to the Mod-UI menu and filter for "custom cosmetics"
Now download the official mods on your client
Join your server
IMPORTANT STEP: if you have already a character on your server, you need to respawn (go in your inventory and check your implant, wait 5sec and press "E")
After respawn go into your characters inventory again and change to the tab "cosmetics"
here should be displayed your mods
right click on one of them and chose your structure/skin/what ever
Now you can use it

Yeah links don’t work but here is the post. It’s old but worked for me. Funny enough we added that line to get them to work back in the day.

[wise kindle]

yeah URL doesnt work anymore, but the actual new links are pretty nice to use.

[teal pollen]

Yeah for whitelisting cosmetics it looks like a good system. But that fix I did unblocked them all which if that line is in there should help if removed.

[upbeat compass]

got some issues on my private servers. anyone know what the issues might be?

There's a "Hello" map marker that always spawns on every map at 50-50, deleting it temporarily removes it but it always comes back after relog.
Can't spawn on any beds on other maps except ragnarok? you can click on the bed and then click spawn but it takes you to the closest beach spawn and not the bed.

this is not just for me but happens with other players on my server

[restive sphinx]

I am new to this. I just started playing ark last month. I play with my grandchildren. I run a dedicated server. So we can all play together without being tethered my industrial cooker and the cooking pot will not cook the ingredients for kibble. Neither of them show the usual recipes list either.

Just started using discord as well. Well, I started years ago but haven’t used it. Are there any bugs reported about the cooker or cooking pot?

[teal pollen]

Hey ! Is the industrial cooker irrigated ?

And is the quick tips button clicked ? Should be the far right button at the top of your inventory

[restive sphinx]

Yes, it shows 1000

I can cook, paint or die by adding the correct ingredients.

You mean the three dots it’s shaded and I can’t get the cursor to go to it

No, I checked on my crafting bench the show Engram‘s box I can use it. It’s just the cooker in the cooking pot.

The beer barrel is the same way

[gentle frigate]

does anyone know how to disable nanite and lumen in ASA? like what the tagline is for the .ini file etc

it absolutely destroys my APU machines, regardless of how low i set the resolution and other settings.

is it just r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0

[fallen pike]

We are in PvE

[unique rampart]

removing this worked! thanks!

[gentle frigate]

any other good potato computer settings?

r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0
r.volumetriccloud 0
r.shadowquality 0
r.water.singlayerreflection 0
grass.enable 0
r.materialqualitylevel 0
r.fog 0
r.volumetricfog 0
r.screenpercentage 75

[tame viper]

Does anyone know how I could setup a 2 player wrld on asa for a pc player and a ps5 player?

Preferably on dedicated or non-dedicated private servers

[gentle frigate]

download ASAM on a desktop you want to host with

enable cross play

then on both client devices enable show dedicated user

[tame viper]

How much is a asam

[teal pollen]

Awesomeness! Welcome 🙂

[gentle frigate]

its... free

yeaaa you can't post links

it's pretty easy to find, and setup isnt crazy hard, but you might need to do some port forwarding on your own router

[tame viper]

I tried a gif😭

[tame viper]

What is port forwarding

[gentle frigate]

ports are like... phone lines computers use to communicate on a network... which are all contained within your one internet connection...

your internet service provider (ISP) assigns you an IP address, and within that address are tens of thousands of individual phone lines (ports) available to use

[tame viper]

[gentle frigate]

ark needs 3 of these ports to work, and you basically tell the server manager (or the ddicated server file) what ports it will use for sending/listening for connections, and server listing

but if you have multiple computers in the house (or consoles) they are all going to be fighting over those same ports, so you have to tell your router which computer (local IP address) is the default recipient of those phone calls.

or else, you wont be able to see your severs

[tame viper]

oh

alr

[gentle frigate]

you typically do this by going to your router's web address (locally usually somthing like 192.168.0.1)

and then tell it that the dedicated server (say for example it's local IP is 192.168.0.113) gets ports 7777-7778 and 27015-27016 in both TCP and UDP (yes i know it doesnt need both, but it's idiot proof with you dont have a bunch of servers running)

those are the default ports for ASE, ASA uses the same ones, but i ususally open up 7777-7786 and 27015-27020+ for clusters)

[tame viper]

alr

I will attempt😅

[gentle frigate]

it will be a bit of a learning curve, but you'll figure it out - trial and error, and don't give up, it's possible, i'm playing on mine from my office on a steamdeck on my lunch

[queen crow]

Their response to another guy on a different server was, "You must be in a regional area." Which makes no sense.

[queen crow]

That was a really nice analogy you gave for the ports.👍

[rich vault]

Unbelievable...

[jade ice]

I'm encountering a problem. The custom cosmetics override code, which I used to enable my builders to access my unpublished custom cosmetic mods via a URL, has stopped functioning on servers. It appears that a recent update has deprecated both this feature and the standard whitelist command. Could anyone advise on how to fix it?

[knotty cedar]

Does anyone know what is the issue with the mods not installing again? I have tried everything. Someday it might randomly start installing them, and now after the latest update, no mods update or install anymore.

[violet matrix]

Is this an alternative to Nitrado?

[vast gulch]

Its visual ..it looks like it isnt but it is ..let it sit and it'll still do it u just dont always see a progress bar

[bleak ivy]

its just self-host with a manager to do certain things for you.
I haven't used any for ASA, but they seem to have issues sometimes. you can also just do it manually (guide in the pins)

[fallen pike]

I have tha some problem on my cluster...Nitrado did not answer to my ticket

[gentle frigate]

yes, its server manager to control your own self-hosted dedicated server.

[gentle niche]

Custom cosmetics arent working on unofficial atm from what ive seen >.<

[minor nacelle]

Good morning awesome people. I am hoping another set of eyes on this will help me out. Currently, I am trying to setup a Ark:SA dedicated server and I've been struggling with it for about six'ish hours. (including troubleshooting from last night)

Would this be the channel to ask for help in or should I post my findings / troubleshooting steps elsewhere?

[minor nacelle]

I guess if it's not, apologies and I'll copy paste / delete this to where it belongs.

I also hope i can provide artifacts / screenshots as a new user: So, as it stands, I have a Ark:SA dedicated server. I have went through two methods of setup attempting to get this to work. One (verified no CGNAT) I have setup my router to allow for 7777, 7778 and 25017 query to be open for my private IP (.0.46) and even went as far as to make the device act as a DMZ. I have doublechecked the Firewall (even disabled all three, powershell, for testing) to ensure it's not local blocking. I have done a netstat -an and see that 7777, 7778 and 25017 is in-fact listening, so it's not the dedi but I DID have to recreate the gameusersettings.ini because it was malforming the ini file with my command-line entries for server port, password, admin password etc. I created the most baseline gameusersettings ini I could and I do get the 'server has completed startup and is now advertising' but it is not broadcasting, I cannot join via my Public IP nor can I add it via steam on my query port on my private IP (favorites)

Secondly, with the same setup, I also used Playit.gg to tunnel a public IP onto the system and use my local interface as the route to generate connectivity that way. It also did not work, but that does rule out my router (mostly) and I have also tried direct modem connection with this method. Still, I am unable to connect.

Not tooting my own horn but I have setup many servers (this is what I do for a living) in the all four big clouds, so I am fairly well versed in the different techs and ways to set them up. This though, this has thrown me for a complete loop and I'm stuck. Any help would be ultimately appreciated.

OOh! Let me finish this call real fast and I wnat to pick your brain about that!

[celest halo]

You shouldn't have to allow 443 or unless your running some weird setup and blocking out bound ports

ASA only uses one inbound UDP port if not using rcon

[minor nacelle]

Apologies, Firewalls are the bane of my existence this past 24 hours.

So, 443 is generally open as long as the software you have allows it and the cert is valid. Otherwise, 443, while open, should flag in whatever browser you're using. As for 443 being opened, I did have it set to the DMZ and I am also tunnelling (easily swapped around, router reboot) Do we have access toe the certs for epic or can I just reup a basic cert I can build for the software?

Nah, so the certs seem fine (or actually, non existent) so I guess i'm missing something.

I keep looking through it, so even as DMZ (443 open, though not sure what that would matter for query port) do you know where the cert(s) live that I need to look at? local, personal / computer etc?

Windows 10, 23h. I can share whichever information you'd like apologies. I am using 7777, 7778 and 27015 on interface 1: 0.0.0.0:7777 UDP 0.0.0.0:27015 UDP. I have tried port checking myself from another ISP (phone) and the port is in fact not open, but I have no firewalls on the OS online, nor within the router. Ping succeeds, but (obv) TCP does not.

I can't remove it. That is what opens when the exe opens.

I have tried removing that from the gameusersettings.ini and it adds it back.

ascended

So, what's weird is how it malforms the gameusersettings.ini as well. And i have tried reinstalling. I have also reformated (it was a new machine anyway)

Hold, I am manually removing the query port once more, saving and restarting. I'm not going to set it to read only though, I want to see if it repopulates.

start ArkAsdcendedserver.exe TheIsland_wp?listen -server -log -nobattleye

it's on another device. Hold.

start ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen -server -log -NoBattlEye

Should I add anything into the gameusersettings.ini? Also, I don't have a game.ini at all. Also, thank you for your help on this. I really really appreciate it. I'll buy you a pizza if you're in the US and have a dominos nearby

I will put whatever you need / want in it for testing

and yeah, there's no jack snit in the logs at all. They're effectively useless.

Ahh, ti was that was for old ark, I just presumed.

Roger that. I am all ears / eyes and fingers /thumbs. I have done everything I know to do.

If you want and if you have time, I can install discord on the dedicated server and we can screenshare

Seeing / looking is way easier for troubleshootingh

Or if you'd like, I can copy paste the gameusersettings.ini in here.

I have put a session name in, it's DukesServer. I added it manually.

I can paste what i have if you want.

I am not sure what that is

Do you have the link?

[celest halo]

I don't think battlemetrics has updated there end since epic changed there API for ASA, half the servers don't show on it

[minor nacelle]

not on battlemetrics as is

[rich vault]

battlemetrics is not showing servers properly though, as more users pointed out above, my entire cluster is showing as dead/offline since September 12 patch, lost my RCON dashboard access as well, waiting for support reply, my servers show online just fine in game and my discord community can connect to them fine. , same day the admin URL stopped working

[minor nacelle]

Okay, so stretching here and didn't want to presume. Would mimicking a Nitrado file structure be viable possibly?

[rich vault]

do you have more info on that please ?

[cold otter]

ASE dedicated server windows while server booting i get this

[2025.09.15-19.04.06:589][ 0]SteamSocketsOpenSource: gethostname failed ()

Also players are reporting random disconnects from server I’m not sure why I tried a few things to fix it I connect on different computer but never get disconnected

Is anyone has any input to help please

[minor nacelle]

Thank you all for the help. I will tyr to help you shortly Nero, going to try this out real fast.

[celest halo]

There so called epic related maintenance 8 days ago, was for changes to the match making API (part responsible for listing servers)

[rich vault]

thanks ! 👍

[cold otter]

@minor nacelle Thank you np

[minor nacelle]

I'm in someone of a stopping point. / hurryu up and wait before my next call in 20

sanitize your ini files (remove password stuff) and upload them to a DM to me and I can read over.

[cold otter]

Ok the game user settings anf game.ini right

[minor nacelle]

and your engine.ini, to make sure you got the shit listening / on the right IP

[minor nacelle]

You're getting a steam error with that setup right?

without the client, it's not going to get the steamsockets to get the hostname, remove the 'nosteamclient' switch and that error will dissipate, dollars to doughnuts

@cold otter

[cold otter]

hey when server is booting the cmd window shows that error

i will give that a try have to wait thu people are logged in i hate to keep restarting on them atm

any idea why people keep getting disconected randomly

[minor nacelle]

I do not. Though, that brings me to another question. Where in the eff are the logs?

Is there some sort of -verbose option I am not seeing? Guessing at what's wrong is simply stupid.

hell nevermind. Everyone knows I can't read.

[cold otter]

i dont have -verbose on i just learned about it was going to add to next boot
-debug -verbose

[teal pollen]

Hey I posted this fix a couple days ago.
SERVER

Update your server to the latest version
If you want to only allow the official StudioWildcardMods do NOT add the
CosmeticWhitelistOverride="URL"
in your GUS.ini
Your server is now prepared
CLIENT/GAME

Also updated to the latest version
Open your ARK Survival Ascended Game
Go to the Mod-UI menu and filter for "custom cosmetics"
Now download the official mods on your client
Join your server
IMPORTANT STEP: if you have already a character on your server, you need to respawn (go in your inventory and check your implant, wait 5sec and press "E")
After respawn go into your characters inventory again and change to the tab "cosmetics"
here should be displayed your mods
right click on one of them and chose your structure/skin/what ever
Now you can use it

@gentle niche

Ah see that you posted in another channel sorry for the tag lol

[gentle niche]

Is ok lol i still have one cosmetic that refuses to show up for some reason >.< i did message on their discord but said it's a wildcard issue so just gotta wait i guess

[teal pollen]

Which one ?

[gentle niche]

Crystal structures

[teal pollen]

That’s odd, mine is.

[cold otter]

@minor nacelle well tried without that nosteamclient and debug verbose still same problem hehe if you happen to got any other ideas

[minor nacelle]

I had to give up on mine man. I've never seen a software that doesn't come with logging.

I'll just accept that Nitrado is unusable and wait for G-Portal to get the rights to host servers.

[broken hemlock]

For those with AdminListURL problems since last update, hosting the file on another server works :
AdminListURL="http://192.168.1.2/static/admins.txt"
Hosting on Pastebin didn't work for me.
I think hosting on Github should work, I'll try

[fathom tinsel]

If you are already running a web server you should be able to reference 127.0.0.1 unless your don't have it listening on local-host. (Yeah, this probably only makes sense to some people).

[celest halo]

that only works if the webserver is running on same computer as the ark server

[primal sequoia]

seems like my AdminListURL using a local file AdminListURL="file:///c:/myfile.txt" just stopped working - anyone expereince this

hah nm just read the chat looks like people having issues

[balmy fern]

Is there anyone on here that can help explain to me why my game won’t stop crashing on me every 5 mins I’ve done like everything u can think of to make it run better and it’s still doing it I have my own unofficial server with nitrado and I only have 3 mods downloaded I removed the other bc it was still crashing I’ve done reseats and back ups and stuff nothing is working it won’t stop crashing my game out when I go to open inventory or click on a Dino or if I’m in the air with a Dino it will crash , anyone know what to do with that situation?

[bronze plume]

does anyone know how to install the ArenaModMap so I can join a arena server on evolved? Im semi-new

[fathom tinsel]

If you have the ability to, just install a ultra light web server like Fenix Web Server on the same computer then put the file in the "web root". Then reference it as http://127.0.0.1/myfile.txt in your config. (Obviously the web server will need to be started/running for this to work, it will need to be running on port 80).

See my above post. 👆

I would imagine it may be the "https" then. If you can host it on port 80 (http) it might work.

I don't use a list but someone posted above said it was working with http. They are also using IP not domain name so that is something to consider trying too. There could be something messed up in name resolution or something.

Look at the post from Ben Burgonde (from yesterday)

[celest halo]

mine works just fine with a host name

[granite perch]

are people having trouble with hosting their servers, At least in New York?

[steady kettle]

Send it to me

Ill format it for you

[hallow oasis]

when i load into my nitrado ark evolved server im just floating and the ground isnt loading in what od i do

[fathom tinsel]

Also check for a local firewall/antivirus blocking the endpoint. Just a thought.

[autumn depot]

Multiple servers where arkomatic and cyberstructure packs didn’t get along but found one that did. I want to pull that off, do I have to adjust the .ini or did the other servers adjust it and that’s why it wasn’t stable together

[celest halo]

AdminListURL="http://some domain/AllowedCheaters.txt"

[granite perch]

So I have 3 servers up, I shut them down because of an issue with New York Maintenance, but all my servers are up still. Is something bugged?

[rich vault]

AdminListURL="file://D:\ASA%20Servers\Whitelist.txt"

had this run for over a year without any problems, just a local file, with that path in GUS.ini , took this from a YT vid back then the only info i found how add admins to a list since AllowedCheaters.txt like in ASE stopped working.
Since that last patch im clueless

[fathom tinsel]

Without being able to directly debug, see logs, maybe a packet cap I don't think I have other suggestions for now. Seems like a lot of people are having this issue so I have to assume they are working on a patch?

Its not a real solution but I guess you would just have to set a server admin PW and only give it to some people you trust on the server until the admin-list function works again (probably in a week or so, that seems to be the usual timeline for something that is not game breaking for the majority).

[fading zenith]

Having issues with a ds on windows server 2025, anyone get one properly setup?

[glossy frost]

me and my friend are trying to play together on non dedicated server, im using ark from steam and hes using it on game pass, both of us are playing on pc can we play it or not? cause his servers not showing up

[native wave]

non-dedi is not crossplay. xbox<>windows store, steam<>steam, ps<>ps

[celest halo]

I wouldn’t assume they are if its working on officials I don’t see it being big on there list

When you tried hosting it locally did you check the webservers log to see if the server even tried to get it

[celest halo]

On server in Saved/Cache/httpfiles check the cacheentries.cache file and see if the url is list in there, if it is it has a number/letter.cache file listed after it, open the file it says and see if it has the eos IDs in it

[celest halo]

Not sure then, and i dont run mine directly on windows, so not sure why yours is not connecting to website to get the file

[modest vector]

I'm having the same issue. My AdminListURL was working great until recently. Nothing changed on my end, it just stopped working.
It looks like this is the GUSini
AdminListURL="file://C:\Adminlist\Adminlist.txt"

[feral marsh]

I just recently opened up another map in my cluster. We previously only had one map. Now we have two. But sporadically, and not always consistently. When transferring maps, it will attempt to re-download all the mods, kick you from the server, and the mods seem to end up corrupted. So they have to be uninstalled and reinstalled.
Does anyone know what might be causing this? Or how I can prevent it from happening?

ASA. Scorched and Island. PC. Windows.

[primal sequoia]

You have different folders per map?

[feral marsh]

Yes

[outer crag]

Same here

[barren bronze]

Did you manage to fix the issue?

[toxic hazel]

Local is not currently working and you need to host it

[jaunty rivet]

is there a tutorial on how to set up a server a dedicated server?

[mellow nymph]

has anyone had issues with the weight stats changing? We have boosted weight stats but for the past couple weeks some maps it works, other maps it doesn't. same exact settings so I'm not sure what thats about. Curious if anyone else has had issues

[somber arrow]

Anyone found a way to increase the tick rate of their servers in ASA? I've got a lot of headroom on my hardware

[waxen robin]

anyway you can talk to someone about the AdminListURL="file:///C:= being broken in the INI?

[celest halo]

you try the new update maybe there Fixed issue causing Unofficial Servers to ignore config and ini changes. fixes it

[waxen robin]

it fixes it?

[celest halo]

idk, i said maybe

i dont have that issue my AdminListURL has been working fine for almost 2 years

[waxen robin]

yeah same until the last update that broke it

do you host it somewhere online though? i kept mine in the folder

[celest halo]

I have an lan only webserver that host it and my dynamic config, and DD passive product json settings

[wet river]

Is it possible to remove “wants to walk with you “ care ? If so how do I figure out the code ? Is there an Ark site that has stuff like that ?

[steel tusk]

I'm curious if there are any PVE clusters out there looking for people that aren't on a nitrado server I'm looking for a server that hasn't had problems in over a year does that exist

Nitrado just asked me to wipe my server after renting it for 3 months kind of defeats the purpose

[gentle frigate]

i have a few maps running at any given time, but i've been running into issues where they are all trying to access the same file and only one seems to ever want to stay up at any given time. It's definitely a skill issue, but i havent had a chance to figure out what why it's doing that

[steel tusk]

I kind of misspoke I'm looking for a PVE server that is not nitrado and has been trouble-free for a while like a year

[random ravine]

Guys how the hell do I make a server password on ASE ps4 non dedicated I’m tired of random people joining me and my friends world

[celest halo]

its Ark, that dont exists

[cunning citrus]

I'd offer but I switch between my ASA and ASE servers from time to time, currently running a couple of maps for Primal Fear on Evolved

[celest halo]

only ark server thats 100% trouble free for a year+ is one thats not running 😂

[soft cradle]

Ase or Asa?

[steel tusk]

@celest halo lol

@celest halo @soft cradle I figured it was a nitrado problem and that maybe PC runs better servers I am playing asa and would like to play Ragnarok but a cluster would even be cooler I have a couple of friends

[celest halo]

some are just nitrado problems, others are WC not knowing how to test an update before releasing it, other is WC just breaking things

[steel tusk]

@celest halo did everyone have to wipe their nitrado server I was pretty pissed after collecting for 3 months

[soft cradle]

we have a modded ragnarok clustered to a couple other maps (Abberation, and a modded map called Amissa) , its not up yet but i can dm you when it is. it's called Jeff and its a pve server

[celest halo]

dont know i host my own and dont use them

[soft cradle]

It is quite modded, btw, if thats ok

[steel tusk]

@celest halo @soft cradle was looking for maybe five times no wipe

[soft cradle]

we don't wipe, and have slightly boosted rates

like 6x i think

[steel tusk]

@soft cradle that sounds all right you said your server's not set up yet I did search Jeff nothing came up send me a DM when you're looking

[celest halo]

mines 5x weekdays 10x weekends, and has enough bigger mods that like to give consoles problems 🤣

[steel tusk]

@celest halo would you be interested in having me check it out feeling a little discouraged after 3 months and a complete wipe. I am on a console I don't know if that will create issues

[celest halo]

i only have Astro up reset are offline, and Astro prob only going to be up till Sunday, friend group stopped playing and i been playing borderlands 4 instead lol

[steel tusk]

@celest halo lol my friends switched to borderlands also, j

Did everybody have to reset and wipe

[soft cradle]

im sorry its taking so long, were encountering some issues with our Server manager

😅

this shouldn't be a reocurring issue, though

[dim kestrel]

i got a friend who join my server and she want to use admin commands but when she try to enter EnableCheats then the Password it works but when she does cheat gcm nothing any ideas what i can do?

[iron bronze]

Is there any news on PS5 people having trouble playing on modded unofficial??

[dim kestrel]

i got a friend who trying to use admin commands she enable them but it wont let her use any

[iron bronze]

She needs to use admincheat and not just cheat I think

[dim kestrel]

yes

oh so only server owner of a modded one can use cheat but other need to use admincheat

[iron bronze]

If somone enables cheats using the admin password, they need to use admincheat

[dim kestrel]

ty

[iron bronze]

That's fir modded and unmodded

[dim kestrel]

ty so much Magzan