unofficial-setup-help

[flint oasis]

Hey guys anyone's custom cosmetics not working at the moment? I have the url thingy in there but I saw Disable Custom Cosmetic System that setting and I am wondering because it is off on my server does it need to be on and do I still need the "url" one?

they were fine the other day and we did one yesterday and it was garbage I think they nerfed the prizes

[storm jungle]

So a non dedicated server means no one can join until I’m on right. But a dedicated server either requires a third party server host or to run off a separate computer

[near hawk]

correct

u don't need a separeate computer, if u have enough ram u can play and host of the same pc

[sick copper]

How much ram do you need to host off your own pc and play?

[near hawk]

ASA, 32

[fierce timber]

They've always been trash on my server. Bullet sponge enemies with massive damage reduction for no reason other than to make it as tedious/toxic as possible for low-tier resources/bad gear/etc rewards. Outposts and their loot apparently had zero QA.

I get comparable rewards from lowest tier cave drops for 0.01% of the effort/risk/etc

[celest halo]

Outpost aren't that hard, try doing a resource drop

[late jacinth]

Hello everyone im playing on pc and im having an issue where the game freezes and crashes if I open or close my inventory too fast for example simply double tapping "I" freezes the game has anyone else seen this issue??

[alpine slate]

Hello can anyone play with me?

[quasi stratus]

sure bro

[alpine slate]

Looking for long-term PvE players to play ARK (modded, mostly vanilla) with.
The main big mod is ARK Descended.

I don’t like rushing progression — I prefer actually doing things together (taming, exploring, building, grinding, boss prep, etc.) instead of everyone playing solo.

Just being upfront:
• The server can lag and crash sometimes
• Progression is long and difficult

So I’m really looking for patient, chill people who are in it for the long run and won’t quit after a day or two.

If you want a real duo / small-group PvE experience, slow pace, and good teamwork, DM me.
Platform: PS5/PC
Timezone: EST

Read that

[quasi stratus]

im ok

im searching someone to play with

[alpine slate]

That’s what I’m doing

[quasi stratus]

so lets go play

[alpine slate]

My sever?

[quasi stratus]

add me private

[fierce timber]

15-25% total damage taken from everything in an outpost is ridiculous. I tested damage values and I was doing less than half against random mob footsoldiers as opposed to a wild Stego nearby. It'd be one thing if the loot was actually good to make the absolute slog/unfun experience/danger of losing tames worth it, but it's absolute trash on every outpost we've ever cleared on the server.

Just lots of blatant QA misses on balancing for both difficulty and rewards. Same goes for the anti-creature NPCs that have HP steroids like crazy.

Didn't realize ARK was becoming The Division with this level of bullet-sponge

[cobalt loom]

Dont they take extra dmg if they are under the effects of charge light from the gloon?

Without charge I hit a Revenant for 50, w/ charge light I hit it for 68.

[stuck leaf]

on my server how can i fix not being able to spawn in beds with textures above them? i've used world builder to make custom caves but i cant spawn inside any, making them useless

[clear lynx]

Hello everyone, is there anyway to increase the amount of level 150 wild dinosaurs in server settings

[neon musk]

Anyone tell me why Alliances wont work on my server?

[stuck leaf]

how do i fix not being able to spawn in beds in caves/under textures in my server

[storm jungle]

yo can someone tell me the best settings for breeding/hatching/imprinting all that jazz for someone playing a singleplayer non-dedicated server. I'm looking to be able to breed stuff yk in a few minutes rather than hours and days at a time

[haughty cairn]

Anyone else seeing issues with player transfers? When they load into a map it's saying spawn in a bed, but then going to the create a character screen with no option to download...

[storm jungle]

if i enable pve mode, can me and my bro still hit each other in a non-dedicated server

[haughty cairn]

in the same tribe, ye if freidnly fire is on

[wise kindle]

Yes
Just ensure friendly fire is enabled, which should be by default

[storm jungle]

how can i disable engrams from dlcs on the island, it has them all unlocked but ive neber played those maps

and can someone explain why i have access to aquatica and i dont even own the dlc

nvm

[deep bone]

is there a way to change tether distance? I can't go more than 900m away from my friend who's hosting the non-dedicated server

[tardy prairie]

I run a very small cluster and okay on my ps5. I only recently started gaming on oc as well. Can I use the same character (as im an admin) on pc or am I locked onto my ps5?

[deep bone]

hi is there a way to host without using non-dedicated server?

[untold mason]

I am having an issue where player charaters are getting their stats goofed up when they move from one map to another on my cluster. It seems like the stats double or something. Did I goof up a setting somewhere that cuases this? found issue with a ini setting consistent across servers /facepalm

fyi - self hosted ded servers

[white garnet]

am i able to run a cluster of servers if some maps were on different physical server? i assume i just use the same cluster id and it all works normally?

[tepid berry]

Cluster id is a folder that will need to be networked between the machines.

[white garnet]

i was afraid of that, i had a friend host a server with the same cluster id just to see if it would work and its showing up, would i not be able to transfer just my character? or is it everything?

[tepid berry]

No because character xfer stores your char data in that folder temporarily

[white garnet]

ok, that sucks 🙁 thanks for the info

[tepid berry]

Just look up how to set up a network file share across the internet

Then symlink the folder to the network share

[white garnet]

yeah i was thinking about how to do that

im wondering if something like onedrive would be a simple solution

[tepid berry]

Idk, doubt it.

[white garnet]

lol yeah itd be too easy if it worked

[tepid berry]

It has to act like a real folder, not just synced. If you xfer you're talking about the file needing to be picked up within half a second

[white garnet]

that makes sense

[reef thistle]

Another ninja patch

[lime matrix]

I think an application like GoodSync would work to do that over the internet.

GoodSync enables secure and efficient file synchronization over the internet using its GoodSync Connect (GSTP) proprietary protocol, which facilitates direct peer-to-peer (P2P) connections between devices without storing files on third-party servers.

The issue of course when using the cluster directory override for it naturally will be the latency between remote locations

but as long as the source and destination were setup to use the same GS account with the synced folder that should work

I can't attest to the reaction time of the application though, you would have to test it in live deployment

remote aside ark has difficulty enough writting survivor data to disk on a good day using the standard transfer system. Since you are self hosting may as well strengthen that with an sql transfer backed system using the ark api and Lethal's items plus transfer and overflow protection.

[toxic hazel]

GoodSync, Syncthing, anything like that will work

[inland mortar]

Hello, I got a server on Nitrado, set it up for wild dinos to be max level 300 but some keep spawning at level 800+, any tips on how to fix this please?

Settings are as follows
Map: Veles
GUS:
[ServerSettings]
DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10.0
MaxDifficulty=False

I tried: - Changing the override to a lower value to see if it worked (it didn't) - Adding those lines to game ini instead of GUS - Having those lines in both ini at the same time - Using Beacon - Checking for hidden duplicates - Steps taken were always turn off, amend, save, turn on, log in, destroy wild and check.

It's been 3 days I've been searching online and trying to figure out what is wrong with the settings to no avail

[white garnet]

@lime matrix @toxic hazel thanks for the info! i will look in to that and set it up

[low dew]

@inland mortar i will help you

send me your gus and game ini

[floral wadi]

Hello does u guys know the bug that the dinos dont grow. This night happen again. 10babys have stay on 1% of growing during 8h. Until i login.... is realy a pain. Cant even grow dinos in the event

[low dew]

is your server settings correctly set for baby growth speed

are you putting food in there inventory or expecting them to eat from trophs i believe they dont eat from trophs till abtou 10% growth

and im not sure if its still a issue but i beleive they dont eat or render if no one is online near by them in there first 10%

[inland mortar]

Cheers, sending you a DM now

[zealous nebula]

Hey guy were are trying to make a "Mission only" Lost colony server for our cluster. Problem is we only wanna allow item/dinos transfer between the 2 LC servers but keep them closed for all others servers. Any way we can do that ?

[near hawk]

Don't think that's possible from what I know, they would need to be clustered separately

[tepid berry]

If nobody renders the babies in before the server shuts down, it never registers that they've grown. It's been a bug since forever.

[low dew]

@zealous nebula plus interacting with the terminals on lc will crash your client indefinatly

[scarlet trail]

Anyone of a fix for the lost colony milestones skins

[pulsar musk]

Sooo, I need some help. The unofficial server I am on has a serious issue with cave overspawns... So much so that it is beginning to cause problems for players and server crashes...

Does anyone know how we can resolve this?

[celest halo]

Have server owner do a dino wipe

[stuck leaf]

on my server how can i fix not being able to spawn in beds with textures above them? i've used world builder to make custom caves but i cant spawn inside any, making them useless

[tender stirrup]

Can anybody tell me how to raise the max dino level on a server?

[near hawk]

unofficial doesn't have a set cap, unless u set it

there's always the 255 stat points cap

[tender stirrup]

oh then I might have misunderstood the purpose of this channel, sorry. I am trying to find out how to increase the max wild dino level on my server.

[near hawk]

u change OverrideOfficialDifficulty=

[pulsar musk]

Will that solve it indefinitely or will they just respawn?

We have got regular wipes that happen every 12 hours and it's still an issue

[celest halo]

They will respawn sooner or later

[pulsar musk]

So, is there no way block or restrict these spawns

[tepid berry]

There's no good way, no. -- Though, consider what might be causing it in the first place; I run unofficial servers and we don't have overspawn issues. Are you modifying the caves somehow with beacon or other game.ini changes? If you've removed dinos from the world, but certain spawn volumes aren't reaching a specific cap because that dino isn't there, it'll do this.

[waxen hazel]

There is a mod named "Configuration Toolkit" that can be used to lower the spawn limits of the cave spawns. I use it on my server successfully. I feel the caves on The Island has a lot more spawns in ASA then they had in ASE. You can find the Spawn groups on the wiki. Names are the same as in ASE.

Has anyone seen a patch note for the server update v77.66?

[celest halo]

Nope they have been slow past few weeks with patch notes

[worn belfry]

Anyone know how to exclude food/oxygen stats from bettter breeding mod? The instructions on CF doesn't seem to help

[patent drum]

Anyone else having issues with Helicoprions going from 100% success rate to 90% in the last few days? This is on an unofficial cluster where 100% worked before, but now it went down to 90%. The admins said that they have not made any changes. I also do not see any nerfs in the patch notes.

[timber bay]

How do you disable auto learn engrams?

[waxen hazel]

From the wiki on Helicoprions. But not sure how accurate it is. "The maximum success chance is hard-capped at 90%."

So if it was 100% before it must have been modded on the server.

[patent drum]

We used to have 100% on this cluster. I believe the 90% used to be hard-capped on official servers, but you could circumvent it on unofficial.

[waxen hazel]

So how did you change it? Mod or config setting? I haven't seen any config setting for it.

[urban apex]

hey guys can you help me please? me and my 2 friends (lets call them friend A and friend B) wanted to play together on non dedicated server without any mods but we have some issues. so when its just me and friend A everything works. same when im not playing and only friend A and friend B are on the server. but for some reason when both me and friend B try to connect, one of us can get in the the 2nd one get connection timeout message. every one of us tried hosting but the issue is still the same idk whats the problem

[pliant tendon]

Guys, can someone help me out with setting up my Survival Evolved server? I just purchased a dedicated server for a month, set everything up, and for some reason I get insanely high EXP. I set my EXP to 1.2, yet I harvest one tree and I get 1 1/2 level ups at level 26, this feels totally wrong? This can't be right

[pliant tendon]

I just changed my server rate to x1.0 exp and I still get a lot of EXP, just not as much as before with x1.2

Is it possible this happens beacuse I have the easter event activated?

[uneven trellis]

so on Val we have a deinon nest that has an "egg" (its showing as a dropped item) and we cant seem to get rid of it. Any command we have tried crashes the server. Im thinking its corrupted and ill need to rollback to fix it but im trying to see if any one here has dealt with this and if there is an alternative solution before i resort to a rollback

[vast arrow]

Is the Vulpite XP requirement reduced for all or only Steam? On Xbox it seems like it’s still taking ages to increase the XP

[stuck leaf]

Is there some sort of startup command or gus setting I can use to fix beds not working due to the new awful anti mesh system, even with the nomeshchecking start up command they still don’t work

[lone lodge]

are you on a raft? I have had that not work before , it was due tohaving the raft to close to the shore. other than that, no idea, sorry

[lone lodge]

have you tried destroymytarget command? for nest/egg

[stuck leaf]

no, its basically any bed place in a rathole or under a cliff, the new antimesh system in asa just breaks the bed and makes them useless as it thinks they're under the map

[patent drum]

I’m not an admin on the cluster. So I can’t answer that. I just wanted to see if others have the same issue

[paper vector]

is there any fix for refreshing ark inventory spam when trying to open any inventory
we have tried reinstalling the game deleting all saved files, deleting a character, letting ark upload decay everything we can think of

[white garnet]

@lime matrix @toxic hazel @tepid berry i used Syncthing and its working perfectly! the file sync is quite fast so transferring characters between servers is working great. thanks again for the suggestions and info

[tepid berry]

Hah, I wouldn't think something like syncthing would work but holy crap, here it is... XD

[white garnet]

😄

[storm jungle]

when creating my own dedicated server how can i change all the config settings like in the ark menu

[tepid berry]

Another tip if it's an ASA server, make sure you're using the -usestore flag. It integrates character with map save; which is more stable than the 'traditional' save method

[storm jungle]

ASE btw

[tepid berry]

Honestly, easiest is just to use ARK Server Manager (ASM) when it comes to ASE. That handles all the nitty-gritty of changing settings, it's old, it's mature, it's stable. Otherwise you gotta look up the setting, edit the gus.ini/game.ini by hand.

[lunar abyss]

does anyone else have an issue with veilwyns only soawning at 120 when every other dino spawns upto 180 on their cluster?

[near hawk]

they seem to not spawn above 20 time your difficulty

[scarlet trail]

Any know of a mod or setting to disable wondering breeding I have breeding stopper but if Dino’s are set to wondering they can still breed

[storm jungle]

and just curious, how can i stop things spoiling when im offline but also still be able to spoil things for spoiled meats and such

[tepid berry]

Toilet spoils all meat inside it when you poop (edit: wait...maybe this is ASA only?)

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
GlobalSpoilingTimeMultiplier=1
GlobalItemDecompositionTimeMultiplier=1
GlobalCorpseDecompositionTimeMultiplier=1

(Again...just use Ark Server Manager by Bletch for ASE)

[fiery elk]

its an ASA only feature

[lime matrix]

spawn blocker mod, have the server operator run the cheat ListDinos command and adjust the numbers according using that mod. Much more precise then ini weighting.

[lime matrix]

Except when someone does loose their character to the transfer write bug then you need to do an entire map restore and not just a player profile restore however

So not a fan of the integrated save format to endanger progress loss for the entire map

[tepid berry]

That's easy - you have a script running to backup the arktempprofile, and then run a restoration server without the -usestore to restore characters.

Drop the renamed file into the backup/restoration server, have them log in over there, and then xfer off of it -- granted, we shouldn't have to do that as admins.

[lime matrix]

Running a separate server for that function instead of just taking frequent archival backups that include the character profile files already seems more work

[tepid berry]

Even if you don't wanna use the script, you just load an earlier map backup and have them xfer off restore server

[lime matrix]

I don't see the benefit of using the new save format

[tepid berry]

Benefit is that people don't randomly lose their characters completely with the new save format

Old format was corrupting player files and I'd have to restore 5 characters a week at one point

[lime matrix]

But they still do, you see people mention that on official often

[tepid berry]

I've only had to do it ONCE since The Center was released since switching

[lime matrix]

and they use the new save format right?

[tepid berry]

Official has orders of magnitude more players.

[lime matrix]

yeah, but the problem still exists so it's not a solve for it

[tepid berry]

It's EASILY a better system.

Sure, does it solve everything 100%? No. No system does.

[lime matrix]

Ok, so you would need active directory monitoring for each server's SavedArk folder to watch for that arktempprofile file to show up after transfer and before the next world save that integrates it to be copied to a restoration server directory then?

[tepid berry]

If you don't wanna go that route, you can just copy over a map save from earlier too; but that's how I do it

or, how I did it - I only had to do it once in the last like, year.

[lime matrix]

I see, well so far in all of this last year I've had just one player who somehow is the target of said vanishing to the void. But his player profile is probably the oldest in the cluster by a several years at least so has had multiple writes to it often.

Haven't had anyone else get voided but I'm using Lethal's Items Plus transfer system and not the standard vanilla ark transfer system

which could be the mitigating factor as to why I haven't had as many issues still on the old format

and the plugin creates an automatic backup each transfer so if something does happen I can either pull a file from one of my backup archives or use the timestamped backup the plugin makes and run ItemsPlusAscended.RecoverCharacter <id> to pull it backup

[tepid berry]

Yeah, that is probably why, tbh

[lime matrix]

But running servers off Nitrado suppose just leaves either using -usestore or not

but I self host so more flexibility

[tepid berry]

I just can't justify paying someone else, to self-host. I tried lethals stuff, and he charges way too much for what his stuff does.

[lime matrix]

true, the upfront cost of many plugins is certainly an investment if done all at once.

after that then it's the renew each year of $10 per plugin. Grand scheme of that compared to the electricity cost of paying the utility to run the rack unless you have your own power generation isn't much

[velvet kernel]

hey yall - i was curious where i actually run the "-ForceCharRespec" command. I host/play on a console. Do i have to run it while i am in game? or should i place the code somewhere? (using nitrado to host, yes, i am aware they are terrible). thank you!

[hasty trout]

Are extinction titans not allowed to transfer to lost colony?

Is there an ini code that allows it if that is so?

[lime matrix]

far as I know Nitrado doesn't allow you to use custom command lines like that on their server configs.

so you are sol until they add it to the UI

and yes.....I agree...they suck....why I self host

[velvet kernel]

i can manipulate gameusersettings.ini and game.ini settings. I was hoping it would be a line i enter into one of those. I could experiment to see, i was just curious if anyone was aware

[lime matrix]

you could try a bForceCharRespec=true as it "may" read that binary switch that way

I know of no other possible reference with them otherwise

[velvet kernel]

thank you very much for trying! i am going to try tomorrow and will let you know if i have any success. appreciate it

[sage hound]

I'm trying to inject a creature into the Titan's Cradle in Lost Colony but cant find the container name for the code (ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer) to do so. Can anyone help me out?

[near hawk]

The wiki still doesn't have them, maybe try beacon

[vast arrow]

Is the game lagging for everyone or it’s just me? On my private Nitrado server most of the times I am rubber banding since yesterday.

[vast arrow]

Cheat addexperience command not working anymore?

[near hawk]

U need a extra 0 now

Same with sdf

[clear rock]

Any further details on the ForceCharRespec code? I just finished work and im trying to work out the details on where to run it. Or if its a permanent code to go in inis
Editing to tag my co-owner before i fall asleep 😂😂 @undone phoenix

[near hawk]

It's launch parameters

[undone phoenix]

I’m confused do you enter the code into the admin code bar or the inis in Nitrado?

[near hawk]

It's the launch parameters, it seems u nitrado people can't edit your launch parameters

[trim wraith]

good afternoon all, does anyone know how to turn down the respawn timer for the veilwyns, and how to chage the timers to do with the solwyn

[low dew]

no such timer exists

[celest halo]

YoungIceFoxDeathCooldown=

[tepid berry]

Anyone figure out how to complete Lost King fight and ACTUALLY ascend? My players have run this half a dozen times, unlocked engrams, get trapped in the boss arena, tried skipping cutscenes, etc -- but the ascension never sticks...

Do I need to open xfers or something? It's wild that they would leave a map unable to be completed for this long...

But then again - they still never fixed the -AllowIceFox thing either...

[celest halo]

Hasn't been long at all map is only 2 and half weeks old, and most of the time it's been out half or more of WC was on holiday

[sour anvil]

How do I disable Tribe XP Sharing?

[urban apex]

hey guys can you help me please? me and my 2 friends (lets call them friend A and friend B) wanted to play together on non dedicated server without any mods but we have some issues. so when its just me and friend A everything works. same when im not playing and only friend A and friend B are on the server. but for some reason when both me and friend B try to connect, one of us can get in the the 2nd one get connection timeout message. every one of us tried hosting but the issue is still the same idk whats the problem

[hasty trout]

The only time we had a problem with the boss fight on the cluster was when Theris were evo-ed in the middle of the mission. The Mission didn't recognize and acknowledge them making it to the final boss. Otherwise my players are able to Ascend.

Our transfers are fully open.

we did skip all cutscenes

[tepid berry]

Well, that's one person who has said open xfers might be the issue...

We keep them closed for 45d (15d earlier than official) -- Seems kind of dumb to let people roam around on Carchas Day 1 of a map releases - But I may have to open them up it seems

[hasty trout]

We usually keep them closed for 30 days. But this time we did not.

And not everyone is running around with carchars

[tepid berry]

I had a suspicion this might be the reason things are screwed up; I think I can trust my players to "honor system" it for the time being.

[grizzled yew]

Did Helicoprion get nerfed? I had mine at 100% crafting success earlier, but now the stat is capped at 90% and I can’t add any levels to improve it anymore. Intended change or bug? Also, the admin on the cluster I play on recently removed the chairs and bench. Has something changed recently that would reasonably explain temporarily removing them?

[mossy cloud]

Is there a way to disable wild S-variant dinos from spawning in a map? like a command in server config files settings? I want to have the ones I brought over from our Svartalfheim cluster server, but not spawn in the Ragnarok map?

[wise kindle]

Use Beacon and you can block all 47 dinos individually.

[mossy cloud]

lol how do I do this?

[wise kindle]

Do you have Beacon?

[mossy cloud]

No i dont think so?

[wise kindle]

You will need the character_bp_c for each dino.
Do you have this?

[mossy cloud]

No lol I'm fairly new to this lol is this somting i need to do in the config files?

[wise kindle]

Probably best you look up a spawn blocker mod then

Search “spawn blocker” in curseforge
Configuration info will be listed in the mod

[mossy cloud]

ok ill try and figure it out will if work if all the dinos are from another mod?

[wise kindle]

Its a general spawn blocker for any dino

[mossy cloud]

cool chat gpt gave me all the character_bp_c codes lol i think

[mossy cloud]

Dang spawn blocker doesn't work due to the s-variants mod dinos most likly that they were coded in and don't rely on the vanilla dinos

[celest halo]

I wouldn't count on chat gpt when it comes to ark settings most of the time it gets them wrong and just makes things up

[delicate cove]

s there anyone who had the same problem with drakeling on the unofficial server? and solved it??? The problem is that drakeling only gives me one experience point from each dino. It doesn't matter what I kill. Whether it's Carcha Bronto or Parasaurus. It only gives one point each time.

[somber arrow]

Anyone had problems with mods not updating correctly in the last update?

[wise kindle]

Has it been over 4 days?

[uncut bough]

Free PVE TEkCave Runs! Server: 5204

[grizzled meteor]

what is the name of the lost colony map? to host it
or does anyone have a list of all map names maybe?

[celest halo]

the wiki has them all https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup

[trim wraith]

Thank you so much, im guessing usersettings ini ?

[celest halo]

gus

[lime plover]

anyone else having issues getting server up? Just got one for my bro n i to play on Lost colony and haven't been able to get it running. It shows as running on the nitrado site but cant get into the server. I've tried forcing into it wit IP log but it just times out

[calm wasp]

I’m having the same issue

[bold cairn]

Anyone having issues with trees respawning in base foundations etc and are can't be harvested again? I've tried the flying away to re-render etc... they still remain. Server restart they can be destroyed again, but return after any map switch and can't be damaged upon return. Server settings are all set fairly high to prevent resource spawn near structures as well

[sick ore]

i am hving the same problem and nitrado is just saying its working. Well its clearly not. I got the server name to show up once but thats about it. Havent been able to join anything

[lime plover]

same i reinstalled and tried again but same issue either it dont show up or it shows up and times out. No mods installed either so ik that aint the issue

[vocal herald]

does anyone happen to know the item ID's for the Lost King and Lost Queen trophies? Beacon and all of the websites I have looked at are still missing them 😅 Thanks
Managed to brute force it through trial and error, for anyone else wondering:
PrimalItemTrophy_LostQueen_C
PrimalItemTrophy_LostKing_C
and the flags (this one was easy since Beacon has the queen's, weirdly not the kings but a simple swap lol):
PrimalItemStructure_Flag_LostQueen_C
PrimalItemStructure_Flag_LostKing_C

[worn fractal]

Did they fix the issue with dino wipe on server restart preventing holdouts from spawning?

I want to turn the setting back on.

[hardy mulch]

@torpid plaza

[torpid plaza]

ん？

[hardy mulch]

ぶち殺すぞハゲ

[torpid plaza]

えぇ…

[mossy cloud]

yup lol I asked AI it said I could use EnableSDinoSpawns=False but it did not work 🙁

[safe hare]

is there a way to disable the randomn breeding timer via config ?

[astral ledge]

Requesting WildCard add an ini option for unofficial server owners to enable rider weaponry on deinonychus while latched to a creature.

[vale compass]

lol. *.ini is not a book where you can write anything and ai is largely a random answer generator.
Google it for: s-dino-variants blueprint (complete list is on google docs linked in curseforge ) cant insert direct link here
Next you can block individual spawn in game.ini witk command like a:
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Titanosaur_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
("Titanosaur_Character_BP_C" replace with the blueprint of the desired dinosaur)

[neat stag]

Is anyone else having an issue with barys not spawning at all since the patch that tinkered with the spawns over the holidays?

[safe hare]

so is there a way to disable all dino spawns ?

just for testing purposes?

[neat stag]

you can start the server with -nodinos if thats what you're looking for

[safe hare]

well im useing the linux server manager for ark let me see if i can add that basically just want to self host a server to test a plugin i wrote from my notebook lol

found it ty

does nodinos still allow me to spawn some ?

kinda need a dino to test the plugin lol

[neat stag]

-NoDinosExceptManualSpawn might be your option then

[safe hare]

thanks mate

is there a list somewhere?

[neat stag]

yeah its all on the wiki https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[safe hare]

thanks lets see if i can get a map running without it crashing lol

[void mesa]

hey yall i am thinking on renting a cloud server for ark, i plan to play with just one friend with no mods. there are different plans with different amount of ram in each of them, is 8gb of ram enough for ragnarok? (ASE)

[half ginkgo]

just figured out cheat playercommand lostcolonyascend3 if anyone is wondering 🙂

[vale compass]

yes it is possible anf FYI you can also disable global spawning of baby dinos

[pseudo musk]

yo need a admin like lost my loot in the wall carnt get it back

[celest halo]

No loot in a wall on my servers

[dense grove]

Is it safe to flip a server between pvp and pve? Does it affect the dinos/players/structures at all? Also can you have a mix of pvp and pve in a cluster and still be able to transfer characters items and dinos?

[grand ice]

Does anyone know is virtual server the same as port forwarding?

[low dew]

@dense grove no it literaly just turns pve or pvp off or on

@grand icehuh?

@pseudo musktalk to your serves admin then

[serene plover]

So i logged in today and my worlds are reset, survivor and tames and everything is all wiped. Is there anything i can do to get them back?

[celest halo]

Load a backup, if you don't have any then not much you can do

[mighty walrus]

Hello all! Is anyone having problems with the thralls not working with logistics for unofficial servers?

[serene plover]

How do i find my backup?

[celest halo]

If your asking that question you probably don't have any

[serene plover]

Dang, okay

[celest halo]

I don't use nitardo so don't know if they auto make any

[serene plover]

Its a solo world, I hadn't bought a server

[jagged arch]

Hello in my Inventory when I have many items in it and when I transfer something from bottom of the Inventory or craft it scrolls automatically up and then I have to scroll down again and transfer it or equip

[stuck leaf]

Does anyone know if the disable structure collision allows beds to work in ratholes? Or if they're still broken

[silent smelt]

whats a good lightweight mod for healing dinos in SE?

out of combat*

[near hawk]

It's not structure collision that stops beds in ratholes

[stuck leaf]

I know it's the new antimesh trash,but using -nomeshchecking doesn't work,so wasn't sure if collision would allow it

[vast arrow]

Is the XP requirement for Veilwyn evolution decreased on Xbox too or only steam? Seems like it’s taking me ages to even do 1% progress on it

[near hawk]

As far as I know there's nothing to remove it

Either check in the wiki or the beacon app

[trim wraith]

i believe its fixed on xbox only but none of the other platforms windows is still bugged as is ps5

[vast arrow]

I am on windows

[jagged arch]

Hello in my Inventory when I have many items in it and when I transfer something from bottom of the Inventory or craft it scrolls automatically up and then I have to scroll down again and transfer it or equip

[craggy steeple]

Hello, I changed a xp setting in my singleplayer world and now my game keeps on crashing. I tried changing it back but nothing helps and it keeps crashing (In the player max experience points tab)

does anyone have any idea how to fix it?

[rich snow]

Looking for help to setup a 24/7 ark server

[near hawk]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup/sandbox and youtube are good places to start

i followed Nooblets most recent guide hand have been running servers since ab no issues

if u don't have a pc and can't get a virtual one, nitrado is your option

if u ASE u have more server host u can chose

[rich snow]

My setup would be a permanent a wired ps5 pro dedicated 24/7 1000/1000 fibre and rs700nighthawk for my router

[near hawk]

ASE?

[craggy steeple]

do you maybe have any idea how to solve my problem :(

[near hawk]

Steam? try verifying files

[craggy steeple]

I did try but it keeps crashing for some reason

[rich snow]

ASE

[near hawk]

never ran a dedicated server of a console for ASE

[teal garden]

Yo y'all I have a question, I want to edit caves on for ark evolved. What devkit do I download cause I can only find the one for ark ascended??

[outer plover]

hmm, gotten any help on this?

[near hawk]

the ASE one

[teal garden]

yeah but i can't find it

I can only find the ASA one

[near hawk]

search ark modkit

[timid estuary]

anyone know how to save resonants shop packages in the nitrado folders so that they will actually work? Trying to just get all the shop packages and settings the same on each map.

[safe hare]

does anyone have a reliable documentation about setting up a server on linux ?

[warm herald]

Anyone has tips for me how to get my server (Asended) to run with the Valguero map? All other servers start fine except the one with that map. I deleted the server, reinstalled, new setup and no mods, still doesn't want to start up complete. Just hangs on a ticking loop.
Also, the Ark DevKit is it really 1.05TB big download? Seems like that is half the game libary from epic 🤣

[safe hare]

well its ue + uncompressed ark shit

[marble condor]

Got a Lost Colony server for me and a friend and we have apparently built our base on an potential outpost location out in the world. Every time the server restarts the outpost respawns atop our base. I saw that on official people had problems that player built structures was blocking the outposts from spawning so yesterday we pillared the whole area just like they do on official. Today when I restarted the server and went to go check on our base spot, another lost outpost has spawned atop our base..

Is there any way to stop the outpost from spawning on our base? Why does pillar spam work on official but not on a rented server? Is there any server setting, that will help?
Please help, we rather not move as we love the area.

[final blade]

I would check the setting on how fast resources/spawning can come back around surrounding claimed structures. Also, pillars don't seem to work on our unoff. but foundations (not the fence variant) work well. Also from what I've seen (I don't play off.) that it's not just pillars anymore, it's a foundation w/pillar or pillar with ladders.

[marble condor]

Only thing I have altered is this:
ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=0.7
ResourceNoReplenishRadiusStructures=0.7

Might need t set it back to 1 and try. Yeah we have put down 2 pillars with a ladder on on maybe 30 spots around our base but that does'nt help. Also our base is built upon stone foundations but that does not seem to stop it either. I know there are these settings:
MaxActiveOutposts=6
MaxActiveCityOutposts=6

But If I put those to =0 I take it that no outpost will spawn whatsoever so not really ideal. We really need more settings for these outposts if these are all there is imo.

[final blade]

The only thing I can think of is about the resources. I'm sorry I can't help more. Everyone kinda seems in the dark about this map with everything being new. I hope that you find a fix! If I can't find an answer here, I try reddit.

[vast arrow]

when is the update to decrease XP requirement for evolving Veilwyn coming to windows PC version?

[tepid berry]

Another ninja update with no patch notes?

[tepid berry]

It already hit. Like 8 patches ago.

[vast arrow]

Thank god

[vast arrow]

No it did not my Veilwyn would hardly go up in XP

Only it did for Xbox, Steam and Ps not windows

[tepid berry]

It's server-side.

Client-side has nothing to do with it.

[vast arrow]

Well it doesn’t work for me so not sure what can I say

[tepid berry]

Are you running your own server?

[vast arrow]

People in my server who are on Xbox are evolving them quick but doesn’t work for me

[tepid berry]

Cryo and uncryo your veilwyn

[vast arrow]

Ok will try after this update

[tepid berry]

This channel is for server operators

[vast arrow]

I have my Nitrado server

That’s what I am talking about

[celest halo]

It has I maxed 3 playing one day

[hybrid spindle]

Has anyone checked yet to see if the latest update regarding spawn logic for outposts corrects the destroywilddino issue for LC? I'm in the process of checking now, but would like to see if anyone else has checked

[trim wraith]

does anyone know if there are any codes to let people build in caverns.not caves .. we have building allowed on caves but still not allowed?

[stuck leaf]

no, its the new antimesh system released with asa/ you cant use bed anywhere that don't have open sky above them, other than caves, it ruins all caverns/ratholes/cliff spots

[trim wraith]

awww shucks thats awful, some nice cavern building spots too. thanks for the info

[stuck leaf]

yeah, for some reason even disabling antimesh checks don't even fix it, and it ruins it for everyone pvp and pve, there's not good reason for it really

[hybrid spindle]

For anyone also wondering, this appears to be resolved now after doing some testing. After multiple restarts with wild dino wipes the defense outposts and resource caches are spawning. (For those that are not aware, wild dino wipes stopped them from spawning at all before.)

[gloomy yew]

No on this particular patch is client side we run our own nitrado server and our windows pc players have to hand thier veilwyns to either a console player or a steam player to use the crystal on them because the xp doesn't show right to them.

Which we also thought was odd it was not controlled by the server

[gloomy yew]

Hand it to another player if you can the xp will show right for them

Another system of course not windows pc version

[iron tapir]

just installed the game last night on pc through the xbox app and i keep getting not enough space in the mods storage anyone know how to fix this

[fluid bolt]

Anyone else getting kicked from game when enabling cheats? (On PS5)

[clever escarp]

Anyone with Arkasm pro experience?

[low dew]

@iron tapir go to Bob's with probs

[wheat venture]

When I tab out of asa and go back, sometimes it'll cause my screen to go dark and my whole pc doesn't answer anymore. I have to turn off my pc and turn it back on with the button to finally get my pc back to function normally. Is this the game that crashes or is it my pc?

[urban apex]

guys please im trying for 3 days how to fix connection timeout with my friend on non dedicated server

[still flax]

Last Remote Function DestroyChargeBuff_Multicast
Has anyone had this issue and figured out a fix. Rollbacks aren't working? We can't find the cause or fix

[granite steppe]

do nitrado servers count as unofficial? need help

[near hawk]

of course

[arctic wharf]

I’m playing unofficial and I have a problem where my character gets kicked from the game every 10-15 secs. Specially if I open my inventory or try to transfer out of the map. I get a “Refreshing Ark Inventory” message and then it kicks me. I had a friend kill me but the problem persists. If I create another character in another map in the same cluster that character gets the error too. I reinstalled all mods but no luck. However if I change to another account everything works fine. Any help with this issue will be greatly appreciated.

[jade gate]

Trying to install mods from the mods list but I just get a generic "Something went wrong" error.
Is there someway of knowing what's wrong?
An error log or something?

Nevermind, highlighted mods claiming they're freemium but actually not

[dusty jay]

Is anyone else having issues loading up ragnarok map after this last update? All other maps on my cluster start and function but rag. I've reinstalled the mods, built a mirror of the server and used the backup from prior to booting up and still same problem. Gets hung up just after CS structures says loaded

[unique folio]

hey guys i wanted to start playing ark for myself , can someone help me set this server up for myself or how do I do it?

[dusty jay]

Play single player

[unique folio]

I don't see the option

I downloaded survival of the fittest, but do I need to download survival evolved?

[dusty jay]

evolved or ascended is the real ark

[viral abyss]

How do I allow custom cosmetics on my server? I can equip on official servers but they aren't showing up on my server

[tough reef]

Hey All,
When I laucnh ARK then hit Join, Im met with No sessions found.

[lofty pewter]

Any1 here thats runs a cluster of there own and understand code by chance ?

[full oak]

Is there a plugin or mod that shows my teammates when I want to place something? Like the hologram that appears when you want to place a structure?

[unique folio]

can someone answer me please?

[mystic sable]

Start the server with -DoCustomCosmeticValidation
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/736592-enable-custom-cosmetics-validation-on-unofficial/

[iron tapir]

i fixed it had to free up space on my hard drive

[oak bear]

I have an ASA server, if on vanilla setting everything running just fine but just after a single mod (even so small like awesome spyglass), it just stop working and showing (loading) for the whole day, what the hell?

It cannot load a single mod I dont know what to do anymore and since I can't refund a subcription because Nitrado state that, I felt like a complete scam lol

[trim wraith]

have you updated?

[worthy roost]

my nitrado server is starting and restarting over an over again

had that before, no idea why its doing that

[unique folio]

stupid ah community

[silent echo]

who are you going to fight with it is no longer supported

[lofty pewter]

Is any1 in here a coder for setting up Ark servers ill pay someone to help me set up my platform please and thanks

Any1 interested hmu

[low dew]

@lofty pewter you could also set it up yourself it's really not that complicated

[lofty pewter]

Thxx for the reply rex iam just struggling setting up the shop and understanding becon and if someone could help out and wlao me through it id pay to get things set right

[jagged garnet]

Load the default xp level curve, and make sure your current curve is the same across all servers and that it goes to atleast 250. ark base game has default level scale for players topped at 250 with the addition of LC. remove any mods that may touch xp or levels aswell. MAKE A BACK UP!!! before removing stuff and doing any science.

curently the only options in that department without mods is either only abberation approved creatures or ALL creatures. No way to blacklist or whitelist creatures for it.

[jagged garnet]

Im not sure what you mean by shop, but Ive been using beacon for over 7 years so if you have any questions I should be able to help. I spent hundreds of hours refining my settings over the years so I wont build your whole thing for you but If you ask questions I should be able to help you learn.

[jagged garnet]

I recommend finding a unnofficial server/cluster with settings you like. much better than SP or official.

[cedar beacon]

hello my friend is on ps5 and when he tries to download nemesis it says there not enough storage delete older mod to continue even tho he didnt download any mod

[wise kindle]

You will have better luck in #bobs-with-probs as this is unofficial server side help.

[lofty pewter]

Sub ill be in touch youre gonna get a friend request from space

[near hawk]

ok, so tested in my server in both PVE and PVP
in both cases u can't build near a outpost if it's spawned in
in both cases u can build near a outpost if it isn't spawned in
in pvp it gave me a buff telling me no build zone whenever i pressed on a structure to place, in pve no buff but it would just not let me
unless the improvements WC made require a additional config, i can't figure out how to prevent building in the areas if they not there

[jagged garnet]

Do structures despawn/wipe when the outpost spawns? Thinking maybe it's like osds?

[near hawk]

from what i've heard, no
i might let my server run for a while to see it

i just need a fast way to clear the missions

[knotty coral]

anyone can tell me how to remove the cryopod nerfs in the .ini file for a server?

[near hawk]

wich part of them?

[knotty coral]

all of the nerfs

[near hawk]

i don't think the recent damage one can be removed

[knotty coral]

i think that's fine

[near hawk]

DisableCryopodEnemyCheck=True
DisableCryopodFridgeRequirement=True

[knotty coral]

thanks

all of those under [server settings] on gameusersettings right?

[near hawk]

yup

[knotty coral]

also, i opened the server and i has yet to generate a game.ini file

since i also want to tweak some things there

[near hawk]

just make it

[knotty coral]

fair

any thing that is needed do be placed there?

[near hawk]

no

[knotty coral]

gotcha

[stone gust]

Hi I want to connect lacc :lilly and azure cluster chat .
I made a webhook on discord and put it to the right channel the global chat .
I Instal the mod on my server . know I need to know
If I put my link in it what it all needs to contain

[knotty coral]

i need some further help with the server

tried booting it up, seems to be working

but it doesn't show up in the unofficial tab in servers

[vale compass]

port forvarding

[last magnet]

they have a discord for the mod and you can ask them there. I would help but I don;t use the mod but they do have a Discord. should be in the CF page

[knotty coral]

my portforwarding works fine tho

[vale compass]

checkboxes set is OK? Show player servers / Pass protected servers / etc...

[knotty coral]

i did check all of those

but now after removing the password it showed up???

ty for the help tho, i'll just throw holy water at the game

[vale compass]

set what you need in GUS.ini
set correct port forwarding in your router
set correct firewall rules for given ports
check necessary options in game like: PC-Only, Pass protected, Show player servers, etc

[SessionSettings]
SessionName=
Port=

[ServerSettings]
RCONEnabled=True
RCONPort=
ServerPassword=

[knotty coral]

it all checks out now, just either me being mentally challanged or the game being cursed

[tepid berry]

Ask in the discord for that mod - this is outside of the scope of this channel.

[tepid berry]

Sounds like you had "Show password protected" unchecked. This will only show passworded/unpassworded servers respectively.

[vale compass]

Google it for: "Ark Ascended Dedicated Server Setup on Windows PC" There's a pretty cool detailed article on steamcommunity

[tepid berry]

Too bad it doesn't cover installing the AWS certificates you need to show up on the server listings.

[vale compass]

and for server hosting/management I recomended free: asadedicatedmanager
It can Install/Update Amazon Certif automatickly by One click for you

[tepid berry]

I cannot wait for an actually free one.

Instead of this "limited capabilities designed to rope you into paying monthly" garbage that keeps getting recommended :[

[knotty coral]

i had it checked and uncheck

i think it was due to something in the .bat file

i just rechecked everything

and it works now

so it was just me being dumb

most likely

[vale compass]

in ASADediman is free all functions what you need (except steam server update and WEB API ) but you can live happily without those features

[celest halo]

most people never have to worry about that, i have never had to install certs to get a ark dedicated server to show in the list

[tepid berry]

Lots of people have had to worry about that. And if it's not covered, then it's a situation where "you don't know what you don't know" - because of it not being covered as a potential issue.

[celest halo]

its covered in the ark wiki in dedicated server setup

[tardy talon]

amp powered servers have the certificate to show up in the proper list, and amp is free!

makes the process a heck of a lot easier imo

[tepid berry]

then it's a good thing I mentioned it in response to someone suggesting a different setup page then, isn't it?

[celest halo]

thats there problem for using bad guides

[uneven trellis]

is there a command to destroy deinonychus nests all at once?

[vale compass]

cheat DestroyAll DeinonychusNest_C

[west cove]

Quick question yall on my cluster whenever someone tames a oasisaur and transfer it to another server in our cluster the revive timer jumps to like 3 years 💀 is that a bug or a config issue on my part?

[red roost]

Is there still a transfer issue cause my game crashes every time I even click on creatures at the obelisk

[low dew]

@red roost let me guess lost colony ?

[red roost]

Im on valguero wanting to upload my dinos to the obelisk but the moment I click creatures the game crashes instantly

[tepid berry]

It's a bug, happens on my servers too.

[loud python]

Hey so first time trying this so I’m a bit confused. How do I go about setting up a non-dedicated server on my pc so me and my friends can play on our consoles without bothering with tethering?

And trying to figure something art. If it’s just the maps is it better to play on evolved?

[chrome garnet]

in that case wouldnt you want a dedicated server?

[loud python]

Idk the difference

[chrome garnet]

can consoles even play on player dedicated servers

[tardy talon]

Dedicated servers are available 24/7 and dont require you to be online for your friends to play

Yes they sure can 🙂

[chrome garnet]

non dedicated is when you host a game and people join you
dedicated is hosting a a server instance that everyone, including you, can join

[near hawk]

Non dedicated doesn't have crossplarfom play
Dedicated server has

[polar ember]

Hi, i'm facing trouble in enabling the Green Corpse Locator in my server. I have entered the text in GameUserSettings.ini file, other settings i've put there seem to work but not this one. Need some help in identifying how to enable this setting.

[stuck leaf]

does anyone know why the code for removing the vahnilla smithy, grill, chembench and rep don't work
my code looks like this
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Fabricator_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Grill_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_Grinder_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_IndustrialForge_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_ChemBench_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_AnvilBench_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_TekReplicator_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_IceBox_C",EngramHidden=true)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_DedicatedStorage_C",EngramHidden=true)

[celest halo]

is each OverrideNamedEngramEntries= a newline or did you do a single string with them all

[stuck leaf]

A new line

[celest halo]

okay, way you pasted it here they not a newline 😂 , they in game.ini under [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]

[stuck leaf]

I know where they go, and how to paste them, out of those 9 lines of code it’s only 4 that aren’t working

[lime matrix]

It seems this last server version has brought it back but for all maps, I self host so see it in every terminal window. But I think it's being triggered by a mod update recently that has the logging flag turned on internally.

[slow ginkgo]

Wasnt the case for me, it was the steam change to how it executed .bat files that caused it to fail silently and not update properly. Haven't had the issue since and that was months ago, and i don't use mods

[slow ginkgo]

i self host 10 maps via steamcmd, double check server versions

[lime matrix]

That might be the determinant factor, mods vs without....my valg map has many of these entries in it now

[2026.01.11-15.26.35:672][377]=== Valguero = Loot Crate :: Access =25
[2026.01.11-15.26.49:671][730]=== Valguero = Supply Crate :: Access =25
[2026.01.11-15.26.53:672][831]=== Valguero = Supply Crate :: Access =45
[2026.01.11-15.26.55:674][882]=== Valguero = Supply Crate :: Access =3
[2026.01.11-15.26.59:672][983]=== Valguero = Supply Crate :: Access =25
[2026.01.11-15.27.15:661][385]=== Valguero = Supply Crate :: Access =35

the rest just have a descriptor that says everything else.....just a generic catch all

I'll just adjust my cleanup scripting of the logs folder to do a daily purge rather than a weekly one until then

will see what the patches do

[chrome garnet]

Anyone having issues with client timed out while trying to join?

Or know what the solution could be?

[heavy cave]

hello I've set up a server for my friends and I did everything that needed to be done, checked and backtrack everything but somehow server is not showing up in unofficial server even when I check the logs where the server generating saved backups which I knew it was working

[ebon swallow]

Has anyone had an issue where your Nitrado ASA server just stops gaining XP for players and tames? It was fun last night and for some reason none of my players are getting XP on their tames and nothing setting wise has changed.

[chrome garnet]

you have to tick show player servers

[digital wolf]

Hi, does anyone else have this problem? Currently, we can start Tek Cave on The Island and walk in normally to the overseer, but the overseer doesn't turn you into a dragon or monkey, etc. What can be done to fix this problem?

[stark totem]

hello

[tardy talon]

Hi there

[stark totem]

hi

[tardy talon]

We dont have this game on our lineups yet, but ive had my fair share of servers. How can I help?

[near hawk]

hi

[nocturne coral]

Hi

[stark totem]

i have problem with changing the map on my steam ASE dedicated server

[tardy talon]

Self hosted or rented?

[stark totem]

self

on steam i installed dedicated server tool

[tardy talon]

Do you have the map ID listed?

[stark totem]

where can i do that 😭

[near hawk]

isn't is just changing the launch parameters
"LostColony_WP" "-port=7594" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=10 -ServerPlatform=ALL -log -servergamelog "-mods=935408" to
"Island_WP" "-port=7594" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=10 -ServerPlatform=ALL -log -servergamelog "-mods=935408"

not 100% sure, i always use a app for easier hosting

[tardy talon]

Should be in your startup file, someone chime in and correct me if im wrong

[near hawk]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup
here in the wiki

most stuffs there

[stark totem]

okay okay and i can join from server list on non official correct?

from same pc where the server is

or on host/local?

[near hawk]

yup, should apper in unofficial

[tardy talon]

Youll need the license to be listed on non official, I believe youd be listed under player sessions? Or did they change that?

[near hawk]

no, player session is non dedicated session
all dedicated server are in unofficial

dedicated servers own by WC appear in official

[tardy talon]

Thank you for the clarification!

@stark totem Good luck mate!

[stark totem]

ty mate!!

no info about this

on wiki

no info about ark dedicated server not by steamCMD

[somber arrow]

Anyway to increase the tick rate of an ASA server yet?

[stark totem]

idk but how u ran dedicated server?

[near hawk]

it's a ASA only tool but ASCT is the program i use

[stark totem]

can u help me on voice chat and i can stream u my screen?

pleaseeeeeeeeee

@near hawk pls 😭

[near hawk]

search on youtube needythenoodles vid :
The Ultimate Guide to Creating ARK: Survival Evolved Servers! (PC)
it's a good guide for ASE hosting

[stark totem]

okay thanks 😭

[slender slate]

i just got the game but after a couple meters foiliage, objects, and dinos get this pixelly blur effect and little boxes that let me see through them any idea what setting this is?

[near lotus]

so does the war bench when combining stuff down grade for anyone else?
combine 3 pikes = 440% (changed crafting skill this did not change)
combined 3 440 pikes= 653
combined 3 653 = 250% pike?!?!?!?!? so wouldnt that mean the war bench failed?

[lime matrix]

Well, Having that issue on my self hosted servers at least when killing stuff. Crafting and grinding things still appears to be working

No custom level ramps

[rigid maple]

anyone getting kicked when creating a character?

[safe crag]

If you go pass the max threshold, it will start at primitive and go up. Try rerolling.

[near lotus]

it wouldnt let me reroll the pikes i made. it seem like its only the ones i find from missions

[tepid berry]

you talking about the slomo command?

[flint oasis]

Soooo anyone else have a Nitrado issue at the moment and they don't answer? My whole server went down thankfully I saved our file before it happened. I tried reinstalling etc and now I tried to install 7 days to reset it but to no avail... Nitrado is useless and I miss GPortal... I will always repeat that lol I tried doing a server here at the house but it causes internet issues with my provider. Can someone help with that? maybe I can put that back up instead 😭

[ebon swallow]

I sent out a ticket for my issue I'm having with my 2 Nitrado servers this morning around 10am. Haven't heard a thing from them...I also miss G-Portal I never had as many issues with ASE servers as I do with ASA hosting.

[ebon swallow]

Yea for mine it's basically killing stuff that they are not getting XP. In their pods they are gain or very slowly passively they are. But killing alphas and anything gives nothing. We have zero idea why. We had all that on default levels and everything nothing special was done ever long as we have had it.

[stark totem]

hello

how can i drop my old world to dedicated server self made

[lime matrix]

I misunderstood what my players were telling me, it was the Desmodus milestone in the Lost Colony tasks that wasn't counting XP towards the task. But they were gaining XP all other ways. So different from what you describe. Now that they properly annunciated what it actually was. But do you have any custom level ramps? That has been known to screw up xp gain/levels lately

[ebon swallow]

I actually don't have any custom level ramps everything basically default for XP

[flint oasis]

Right? I’m looking back into setting up an old pc for my servers right now to hell with Nitrado… that was a huge bad decision for WC good luck to you guys…

[ebon swallow]

Good luck with yours! Hope your issue gets resolved!

[stark totem]

hello guys how can i upload my old world to my dedicated server ark?????

[lime matrix]

Well, you have to download the saved folder from your server then use that under the dedicated server you create

Specifically the savedarks and savegames folders

the game.ini and gameusersettings.ini you can use with some tweaking for your local network

[lime matrix]

Not sure why it would cause internet issues. Servers just need port forwarding usually from your home's router firewall to the local lan adapter IP and port for the server. Then, the router needs to have NAT loopback capability to plan on the local lan otherwise you need a vpn to connect to the server using the external IP address.

[flint oasis]

Thanks! 🙂

[flint oasis]

Yeah I do open the ports ... I have a new router now so I am hoping it doesnt cause problems. I was using our lovely interwebs providers router before lol

[lime matrix]

Oof, yeah the isp provided stuff always is crap. Tried that route before when I went to pay for a static IP that's how they did it. But caused nothing but issues for me as it wasn't a "real" static exactly but some weird alias thing. Had all sorts of connection issues so had them take their equipment back and now I just use the ONT with a connection straight to my SonicWall firewall in the rack. Considdering maybe even bypassing the ONT altogether and take the fiber cable into a gpon sfp adapter on the firewall and just emulating the mac from the ONT to get a little more latency reduction. Just haven't got around to experimenting with that yet.

[coarse ocean]

Hey, y'all. My unofficial cluster has been having two major issues, and I want to know if they are my fault or widespread. POK-Manager, 1-2 mods including Custom Dino Levels. Crossplay. Some players (myself included, on Steam) are just called "Player" in their inventory and with dino's on follow. Also, weight is doubled based on points added, especially after server transfer. I have been researching these issues for a few days with no luck. Thanks!

[flint oasis]

Right right

[lime matrix]

I'm not sure if custom dino levels has been updated in awhile and I think I had tested that one when Lost colony came out and wasn't working right. Settled on using an api plugin to adjust the level weighting instead. As for just player, sounds like a de-sync between client and server not reading the player profile. Weight doubling will be tied to your per player stat multipliers.

Pok-manager, is that a server manager for self hosting?

[coarse ocean]

Yeah, POK is a docker container for multiple maps on one Linux server. (It has some small issues)

[coarse ocean]

For the desync, is that like EGS or Steam authentication, or something else? There are warnings in the POK log about Steam authentication but I was told that it wasn't important :/

[lime matrix]

EGS/Epic is what controls user authentication in ASA. I've not had any epic issues so far but I also don't use the EOS dlls that come with the game but the latest releases when available from epic on both client and server. Not sure if that would be the workaround for your issue or it's a comms issue between the docker and linux OS.

I run everything through windows 11 so I don't know much about linux or it's interactions

[heavy cave]

we are using ark survival evolved

[coarse ocean]

Thank you.

[young dove]

Anyone know if there's a dedicated server setting to allow cursed items to be moved between maps?

I run a cluster and for some brainless reason, Ark devs deciced cursed items can't be moved off LC

[cursive abyss]

is it possible to boost the amount of health and damage bosses do individually? please I've been trying to figure this out for days on my unofficial server

[haughty cairn]

Should be possible by just adjusting the wild stats of the bosses.

Not the health directly, but you can increase resistance I believe, and damage.

So it won't give them more HP, but will have the same effect.

[cursive abyss]

The wild Dinos on my server are boosted they do more damage and have more health

[haughty cairn]

Individually I mean

Separate from the difficulty

[cursive abyss]

For bosses?

[haughty cairn]

For any Dino

I haven't tried myself with the main bosses, but don't see why it shouldn't be possible, since It can be done with any other dino

[cursive abyss]

Yea I just don’t know the code for it

[haughty cairn]

I use beacon, so it makes it easier

[cursive abyss]

What’s that?

[haughty cairn]

Helps with stuff like this, all server settings

Some stuff on it is free, others you need to pay like $10 for, but you can link it directly to Nitrado, or FTP

[cursive abyss]

Imma look into that

[haughty cairn]

that should work to 2x broods resistance and damage

can probably figure the rest from that tbh

[frail crescent]

Anyone know the spawn container for Valguero Cave Loot Crates?

[cursive abyss]

Thank you so much🙏🏾🙏🏾

[lapis pasture]

Is it possible to get your boost code for a map via nitrado on mobile? As far as I've seen, cant do it

[tender ravine]

on a non dedicated server is there a tether range between players like in survival evolved?

[drowsy current]

anybody else can't join private servers? me and my friend are just getting black screen when joining. Is there a problem ongoin that im not aware of?

[grizzled meteor]

i have an issue with my dedicated server... when someone graps me with a flyer.. my camera stays at the same place.. even if the guy with the flyer flys agross the map with me below him.. my camera dosnt move... anyone else had this issue?

its like it does not send position updates, or is this a client issue?

[pine agate]

Hi, why aren't there any Eastern European and Chinese servers in the server list (web json), even though they are in the game itself?

[celest halo]

That happens now and then even if a wild flyer picks you up

[white garnet]

Is anyone else seeing "=== Everything Else" spammed on their server console? I assume its a mod, but not sure which one or what it means... anyone know?

and on my scorched server im seeing "=== Scorched" instead, spammed the same way... lol

[lime matrix]

Yes, on all my servers these logs show in some form

doesn't matter if I have -servergamelog in the command line or not

BaseTemperatureMultiplier= not work in ASA?

[hollow plaza]

Anyone here using Ark ASA manager 0.4.13.2783 that has mods defined? I have a basic setup with a couple of mods defined and the server keep crashing when I start the server. Without mods defined the server starts fine. Clicking sort on the mods ID the mods correctly.

LowLevelFatalError [File:C:\j\workspace\RelB\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterGameInstance.cpp] [Line: 843]
Requested mods failed to load on server.

[lime matrix]

There was someone else having that issue on Curseforge with that same manager and the mods not loading. I'm beginning to think it's some sort of bug with the way it's launching the server. have you tried creating a new profile?

Or tried using a different management strategy?

I'm using Uaca's manager personally for basic start/stop operations for mod updates but otherwise I have start and daily shutdowns goverened by windows task scheduler and rcon routines.

[hollow plaza]

Yes to new profile. ASA manager is the first one I tried. I will look for something else. Thanks for your advice.

[velvet kernel]

is the zeppelin weight limit able to be adjusted yet? thanks!

[near hawk]

no

[velvet kernel]

bummer, thank you for answering!

[jagged garnet]

I recommend WGSM free and a easy setup so you could set one up pretty quickly to test.

[vernal girder]

Try Haruhost. It is amazing Ark server manager

[upbeat ruin]

Anyone have a underwater tower (turret tower) I could template for free if so could you thumbs up this message or pm me

[misty coral]

Hello my friends,can anyone PLEASE help me.How on EARTH do i fix "you have been kicked by battleye or bad service version" I have attempted everything,except or reinstalling windows cause that is outrageous

[celest halo]

Stop using cheats, or play on an unofficial server that has battleye turned off

[misty coral]

🤣 Actual 10iq

[sharp sonnet]

Someone tell me why my unofficial server list not showing

[candid silo]

pls helpppp hi guys, me and my friend (same network using the epic games ark version) have been trying to make our own private server and we cannot connect to eachother although we can see the server pop up, any idea why?

[wise kindle]

Do you have mods?

[candid silo]

No mods

And we did port forwarding

[wise kindle]

Not sure, ASE is in the hands of Snail now. You might ask in the Aquatica discord.

[gloomy cloak]

Is there a config to change to allow a rhynio to pick up a reaper QUEEN due to drag weight?

[near hawk]

No, u would need a mod for that

[livid latch]

I run my dedicated server off the same pc I play on. I crash ALOT on lost colony way more than any other map. So bad that it has corrupted my saves a bunch of times, luckily I was able to recover. Its starting to push me to play something else. Anyone have any fixes or suggestions? 32gb ram/cpu 9950x/rtx4090/2tb nvme x 3/2 ssds.

[proud otter]

[CrashReportClient]
bHideLogFilesOption=false
bIsAllowedToCloseWithoutSending=true
CrashConfigPurgeDays=2
Stall.RecordDump=false
Ensure.RecordDump=true

anyone found a patch for this? ASA

[cunning citrus]

yep, get a mortgage for more RAM.

My server cluster runs on a second PC with 80GB in there, each map uses 12GB+ on startup, the client on my PC will hog over 32GB on its own (I have 64GB in here)

[celest halo]

my client only uses 9gb, my LC server uses around 15gb

[livid latch]

I had a feeling might be that LC uses too much RAM ...odd thing is When LC came out it ran fine.

[teal hemlock]

Anyone else's servers not working after update?

[random remnant]

I can't find any servers official or unofficial

[celest halo]

mines running fine

[devout pelican]

Servers need restarting for update to kick in

[teal hemlock]

Yeah. I just stopped it and it's showing now. Thx!

[devout pelican]

Yw

[lime matrix]

I'll echo what Elysarian stated that ram is a premium when running servers. I run an ASA cluster primarily off a 64 core threadripper machine with 256gb of ram. 11 maps on that machine using around 66% of available ram. Just rebooted my servers for the update here, Lost Colony alone is 16.6 gb with the rest ranging from 7gb up to 21.7...per map. Rag and Center are using alot more ram after this update, going to have to go check dino spawns here in a bit....21gb for each of those. They normally are not that high

[keen quarry]

running a dedicated server and in the servers console window im now getting entries that say none :=== Everything else. server seems to be fine otherwise any way to fix this?

[lime matrix]

Yeah, that's been a thing for a little bit now

Some logging flag they set

[keen quarry]

so nothing to worry about?

[lime matrix]

other than log spam that's about it

set a routine to clear the log files once a week

[keen quarry]

ok thank you. Will do

[lime matrix]

the logs arn't all that large even after 24hrs

[balmy vortex]

Im unable to join my friends dedicated server anymore, instead of join it says refresh and is redded out. Just updated my console

[lime matrix]

If they haven't updated, that's why

major server version

[celest halo]

i dont get any of that junk in my logs

[balmy vortex]

Gotchaa okay, thank you

[lime matrix]

interesting

[lime matrix]

you run cyber structures by chance?

[celest halo]

nope

[keen quarry]

yes 6 mods total

[lime matrix]

Ah, then that's a common thing we share then

[white garnet]

getting a lot of that too, i think its CS as well but not sure, i havent seen any adverse effect but it is kind of annoying

[lime matrix]

I suspect it has something to do with the last few updates form CS

Yeah, it's a debugging thing I say. Annoying but not detrimental to the point of filling the drive

yet

[keen quarry]

as long as the servers arent crashing we're good

[lime matrix]

every 2 min it fires off a log it looks like

well, hmm

varies

valg it's tracking supply crates, the other maps it's that everything else thing

I'll pull it from my test server to confirm before making a bug report to cyber

confirmed, removing the mod stops the spam

report left with Cyber

[livid latch]

Got RL stuff going on now,gonna check in abit and see how much ram is being used by everything while LC is running..but sounds like everything is pointing to LC itself being the problem,either using too much RAM or something else...since other maps are basically ok.

[celest halo]

LC def uses more ram then others

[lime matrix]

Well, not after this patch LC doesn't lol

Rag, Center and SE are all using 20+ gigs

Something broke

LC surpirsingly is behaving decent at 16.6

Really going to have to check for overspawns here

[marsh cosmos]

So the "Everything Else" thing is a CS issue?

[lime matrix]

Yeah

the log spam is cs

I left a bug report on Cyber's discord about it just now

[patent timber]

Can someone help me get mods working in SP?

[livid latch]

yea HOLY @#$%. Running ASA and LC server is using 94% of my 32GB RAM. Checked VAL and thats 74% ...playable.

LC not playable.

[keen quarry]

after the patch rag is using 4.5 gb island 10.0 gb and LC at 11.6 gb

[fickle basin]

Is it possible to adapt the quality progression of Pristine Vulpites for servers with different difficulty levels than the official one, therefore with wild dinos above level 150? Currently, Solwyns of level 150 and above only give Pristine Vulpites of Primitive quality.

[polar ember]

Hi, i'm facing trouble in enabling the Green Corpse Locator 🟩 in my server. I have entered the text in GameUserSettings.ini file, other settings i've put there seem to work but not this one. Need some help in identifying how to enable this setting.

[drowsy current]

Anyone know a way to make a cluster setup work with playit.gg? Reason is because I can't port forward here because its behind CGNat

[broken stream]

Hello can we safely delete winter wonderland mod on unofficial without loosing items ? We never receive any communication about this from WC after an event end...

[frigid vine]

They did 🙂 #status-updates message

Und yes, can be safetly removed

[lime matrix]

I can ask my players but pretty sure they are getting higher quality vulpite on my server. Have it set to difficulty 10 so wilds are up to 300

[lime matrix]

Yeah no idea what changed but even after rebooting rag is up to 18Gb again and Center is at 24.....has to be an overspawn or something eating up ram

[robust nymph]

If its asa, green locator doesnt work

[slate shard]

Has anyone found a way to reliably backup characters on unofficial servers? Looking to ensure a way to restore lost characters in the event it occurs.

[woven bay]

if anyone is willing to help me fix my game ill send u 50$ ive been at it for the past 5 hours

[robust nymph]

Im not sure if ya can.
When characters get lost on mine we give them back their levels and add back to tribe.

[slate shard]

I've considered making a simple bot to backup player files themselves but it seems they're mostly encrypted so I'd have to restore their inventory as well (at the point the backup was made) which would obviously create further potential problems.

[robust nymph]

Player files used to be separate but now theyre not, which probably makes that really hard to do.

May be different if not nitrado though

[slate shard]

Self hosted, so there are individual player files tagged by EOS ID. Just looking for a better way to do it lol.

[fickle basin]

Let me know if they have any quality other than common on Solwyns over level 150

[polar dagger]

On self hosted servers, don't use the parameter -usestore and player files are separated from the map file. Lot easier to restore a profile. For the inventory u could use a mod like "Inventory Backup Saver"

[lime matrix]

I self host so I use 7zip calls from a bat file ran via task scheduler to make archival backups once an hour to one of my network shares.

i do NOT use the -usestore function either

[slate shard]

I've never had -usestore, might have to do something similar tho from the sounds of it

[lime matrix]

AS long as you arn't using the newer save format so that profiles and maps arn't integrated you can save all that together

Like Louis mentioned I also use Inventory Backup Saver to keep snapshots of gear

[slate shard]

Yeah I wasn't too concerned about inventory backups themselves, just that restoring a profile backup would revert inventory as well and potentially dupe an item or two

[lime matrix]

Thankfully I don't have that many character issues but I also use lethal's Items plus for server transfers instead of the vanilla system

That in and of itself seems to address alot

[slate shard]

Forsure, thanks for the input

[lime matrix]

:: To use this script you need to create three folders. Backup Temp Holding, Backup Zip Holding and the folders for the zip archives to go to. If you have no plugins that can be removed. 

:: ISLAND BACKUP SECTION
robocopy "E:\island\Saved" "C:\Backup Temp Holding" /zb /s gameusersettings.ini game.ini *.sav *.arkprofile *.arktribe TheIsland_WP.ark /xd "Crashes" "Logs" "CrashReportClient"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -x!TheIsland_WP_*.ark -x!TheIsland_WP_*.bak "C:\Backup Zip Holding\ASAIsland%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~-4% %TIME:~0,2%-%TIME:~3,2%-%TIME:~-5%.zip" "C:\Backup Temp Holding\*\"
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
MOVE "C:\Backup Zip Holding\*.*" "E:\Intermediate Backups (Z)\ASAIsland\WorldSaves"
timeout /t 10 /nobreak
DEL /f /s /q "C:\Backup Temp Holding" > nul
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
rmdir /s/q "C:\Backup Temp Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
mkdir "C:\Backup Temp Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
DEL /f /s /q "C:\Backup Zip Holding" > nul
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
rmdir /s/q "C:\Backup Zip Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
mkdir "C:\Backup Zip Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
robocopy "D:\servers\island\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkApi\Plugins" "C:\Backup Temp Holding" /zb /s config.json
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r "C:\Backup Zip Holding\ASAIslandplugins%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~-4% %TIME:~0,2%-%TIME:~3,2%-%TIME:~-5%.zip" "C:\Backup Temp Holding\*\"
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
MOVE "C:\Backup Zip Holding\*.*" "E:\Intermediate Backups (Z)\ASAIsland\Plugins"
timeout /t 10 /nobreak
DEL /f /s /q "C:\Backup Temp Holding" > nul
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
rmdir /s/q "C:\Backup Temp Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
mkdir "C:\Backup Temp Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
DEL /f /s /q "C:\Backup Zip Holding" > nul
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
rmdir /s/q "C:\Backup Zip Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
mkdir "C:\Backup Zip Holding"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
ForFiles /p "E:\Intermediate Backups (Z)\ASAIsland" /s /m *.zip /d -7 /c "cmd /c del /q @file"
ForFiles /p "E:\island\Saved\Logs" /m *.crashstack /D -7 /c "cmd /c del /q @file"
ForFiles /p "E:\island\Saved\Logs" /m *.log /D -7 /c "cmd /c del /q @file"
ForFiles /p "E:\island\Saved\Logs" /m *.txt /D -7 /c "cmd /c del /q @file"
ForFiles /p "E:\island\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP" /s /m *.arkprofile /D -180 /C "cmd /c del @path"
ForFiles /p "E:\island\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP" /s /m *.profilebak /D -180 /C "cmd /c del @path"
forfiles /p "E:\island\Saved\SaveGames\Inventory_saver" /d -14 /c "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"
del "E:\island\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP\TheIsland_WP_*.bak"
del "E:\island\Saved\SavedArks\TheIsland_WP\TheIsland_WP_*.ark" 
timeout /t 2 /nobreak```

That's the bat call I use to make zip archives hourly

configure it as you see fit

[celest halo]

I make tar.gz backups of the saved folder every hour and keep 30 of them so it's easy to just load a players profile from that or any other thing I need to reload

[celest halo]

Should use a code block for that 3 ` in front and at end (it same key as the ~ on a us qwerty keyboard one above tab)

[lime matrix]

better?

[celest halo]

Yup and makes easier to copy/past it

That's a lot of code 😂, mine on Linux is so much shorter

[lime matrix]

Yeah, I have it doing other things aside from just backups at the end too for directory cleanup

Being a windows machine that's how I got it working

I know nothing about linux and don't feel like dealing with dockers for plugins

[celest halo]

mine, ArkCluster is a NFS share from my NAS then a crontask runs it every hour

#!/bin/sh
tar -zcf ~/ArkCluster/BackUp/Ragnarok/Saved.$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S).tgz ~/arkasa/ShooterGame/Saved
zsh -c 'rm -f ~/ArkCluster/BackUp/Ragnarok/Saved.*.tgz(om[36,-1])'

[lime matrix]

cron is about the only thing I vaguely know about as I use it with the server instances internal rcon scheduler

[celest halo]

makes tar.gz of Saved dir and keeps 36 backups lol

[lime matrix]

but that's just a timestamp format

Once an hour for 7 days is my retention period

If someone doesn't notify me in a week about character things....too bad

[celest halo]

yeah i only do once an hour and keep 36 hours lol

[lime matrix]

I do have longer retention than that on my cloud storage backups

[celest halo]

but at most only 5 people play on mine and most of the time its just 2 of us on it

[lime matrix]

But still, I rather not have to go retrieve that

I have maybe around 15 regulars

lately seen an uptick with LC

[celest halo]

i also back up the full vm my servers are on once a day and that keeps 7 days, 2 weekly and 2 monthly so i can go back farther if needed

[lime matrix]

Yeah, think I do an OS disk image once a week. But running baremetal and not virtualized

didn't see a need to layer things up if not needed

[celest halo]

yeah baremetal for me is proxmox, so my servers in a vm

[lime matrix]

gotcha

Know of proxmox just haven't used it myself

last one was an esxi machine at work

[celest halo]

i also have a Proxmox Backup Server on an other machine that all the vms get backed up too

my esxi machine is mostly home automation and home lab stuff lol

the proxmox one is mostly game servers

[lime matrix]

ah, i just tend to build a machine for the purpose of running game server instances. Haven't really got into home automation or setup a media server in the rack yet. But, I can't do alot of anything if it isn't exclusively wired.

So the appeal just isn't there

[celest halo]

yeah i need to update my switch to do more, out of ports on it

[lime matrix]

same, i've got 12 on the microtik and 8 on the firewall appliance. Not enough to run to all the rooms without adding small branch switches everywhere.

[celest halo]

i got my 16 port switch full and using 4 out of the 8 on my udm se then using one of the 2 sfp ports on each for udm/switch link

the 4 on the udm se are redundant so my servers dont go down if i reboot the switch

[lime matrix]

Yeah, that's handy to have setup. Though If I'm doing that it's during my maintenance window for drivers, windows updates, etc.

[celest halo]

most my updates are done on the fly, linux normally only needs a reboot when its a kernal update

[lime matrix]

Windows update is a once a month thing every second Tuesday

I have it disabled to not autoupdate via group policy otherwise it would randomly reboot the host around 2am

hosts, plural

have three machine, ase, asa, and palworld

[celest halo]

i check updates every 1 to 2 days, then if one is a kernal update i wait to 8-9am on the weekend when people sleeping to do the reboot, most of my friends that play on my server are in a different timezone so they still sleeping

i do minecraft, valheim, asa, palworld, enshrouded all off the same box, just different vms for them

[winged epoch]

Hi all, I need help reporting a problem with my account. After buying the Lost colony DLC and being able to go in the map and use everything I have found out that I can’t interact with the Drakelings and also the game still saying I need to have the DLC to interact with them. Can anyone help please ?

I have pictures and my recipe of my DLC purchase

[celest halo]

Did you install it?

[near hawk]

drakeligns weren't released for ragnarok as FT aren't map tied
drakeling is a bonus of the LC expansion pass
in future the pass will be gone, and Drakelign and Elderclaw become separate purchases like Pyro and Dread

[frozen atlas]

Hello, I would like to remove all the dinosaurs from my event map. I had the command but I accidentally deleted it.

[near hawk]

destroywilddinos

[frozen atlas]

Game.ini @near hawk

[near hawk]

What

No, a ingame command

If u want a ini for that maybe change dinocount to 0

[frozen atlas]

The dinos respawn with your command

If I want to prevent any dinosaurs from spawning on my map, how do I do that?

[boreal glen]

Is there a switch command that allows Thralls on other maps?

[near hawk]

No

[near hawk]

Like I said try dinocount at 0

That or just put -NoDinos in your launch parameters

[frozen atlas]

Oh yes ty.
Gameuser
Dinocountmultiplier=0

[clear lynx]

is there any rendering mod i can add to server to keep my base loaded when i am offline ? i want to use the cart auto fill method but wont work because there is only 3 of us that play

[tepid berry]

so, update, but no patch notes again :[

[tepid berry]

There have been many attempts at this (the old S+ hitching post) but Wildcard has broken them all so far.

[clear lynx]

thanks for info , so pretty much i can't use the carth auto fill method for breeding

[tepid berry]

You can do the rockwell fight and get a tek pod and AFK

[clear lynx]

we start fresh on LC , and have island and Val on server saddly

[halcyon rampart]

I am not sure if this is the right channel but i can’t figure out the damn bug reports me and my friend need help cause we cant get mods the list thing in asa is empty when we view our downloaded mods i bought multiple mods too so im extra pissed let alone the dlc and i had mods cause we got bored of base game but i cant fix it we tried everything i even deleted my whole game data off my ps5 so i have no idea how to fix it

[tepid berry]

You're running your own dedicated unofficial server?

[halcyon rampart]

Yes

But the list is fully empty so even under mods

[tepid berry]

The mods should go into your startup command in the format -mods=947033,928708,etc

The mod IDs can be found on the curseforge website

[halcyon rampart]

We are on ps5

It has a mods tab in the menu

[tepid berry]

dedicated server runs on Windows

[halcyon rampart]

Its not dedicated

Its just a multiplayer world

The mods tab in the menu is empty no matter what

So we cant play with mods at all not even basic qol and it broke multiple worlds of ours

[bleak ivy]

you just go into the mod menu and download them. then enable them in the singleplayer menu. non-dedi uses the same system as singleplayer.

[halcyon rampart]

I can’t access any special console menu or anything so if anyone could report the bug for me thank you but if there is any solution i could do on ps5 that works too

[bleak ivy]

what do you mean by "special console menu"?

you just need to download the mods and enable them in the mod section of singleplayer.
make sure the mods you are downloading are content mods and not custom cosmetics as those don't need to be enabled.

[waxen rune]

my server keeps crashing during startup, how do i fix this?

[halcyon rampart]

Thats my problem there are none downloaded but it says i have no space to download mods I HAVE 200 FUCKING GIGS ON MY PS5 LEFT

I cant get any at all not even the one i bought “sulfur titan”

I never even got to use the sulfur titan mod cause thats when it fucking started and its just a pain in the ass

[shrewd ravine]

So it seems you guys are now permitting death bags being stolen in pve even if proof is provided.

[halcyon rampart]

Also i never used a cosmetic mod i am more a fan of the game but ark decided to fuck me over cause me and my friend were hyped for the sulfur titan

[bleak ivy]

yeah, thats the playstation storage bug. there is something you can reset in playstation settings to try to fix it. can't remember what its called. don't reset anything to do with save data as that'd wipe your saves obviously.

[halcyon rampart]

Well my data of worlds couldn’t transfer from my family ps5 to my personal one so i have none of the data but with that info i can probably figure out the settings thank you so much

[still nacelle]

Who knows how to code for Asa sever needing a coder

Please message me privately… will compromise for hard work !!!!!!!

[tardy cradle]

Does anyone know the ID of Lost Colony?

[near hawk]

LostColony_WP

[tardy cradle]

cheat defed boss player id LostColony_WP 0 not working 🙁 We have a problem on the server with PS players.

[near hawk]

it's cheat DefeatBoss <PlayerId> <BossName> <Difficulty>
boss name isn't juts the map id

try lostqueen

[tardy cradle]

Yes thank you

[glacial anchor]

i updated my server to the newest version and now my creatures wont stop breeding (yes mating and wandering is disabled)

[near hawk]

known issues since monday's patch

[lime matrix]

Just need to turn mating off on the females

it's the male that has mating stuck on

[robust nymph]

But people can bring females to ya base and breed with all ya males.

[celest halo]

they cant if you put them all in cryo pods lol

[jagged garnet]

Yeah, that's why I cryoed my males and disabled on my females. A female and a good oviraptor or a live birth and a gene tool means you can steal lines.

[robust nymph]

Yeah its to easy to do at the moment. Me a quite a few other server owners have stopped our servers to help people out. Ive got players that cant get on and id hate their lines to be stolen just cos life commitments are keeping them busy.
Players are chill about it, which is nice. Or cussing us out of discord. Haha

[lime matrix]

running lethal decay and Anti-Pve-griefing plugins put a stop to it on mine but I self host

[vocal herald]

Does anyone know the boss loot container ID for the Lost King/Queen fight? (the 'DinoDropInventoryComponent' one, NOT 'SupplyCrate_BossLott_BossBat_Gamma_C')
Thanks 🙂

[vast remnant]

I am looking for the game INI code to change the crafting requirements for the Lost colony boss fights to Fiber.
Is there a place I can go to get this code ?

[gloomy yew]

yes there is nothing against this

[shrewd ravine]

@gloomy yew good to know ill go around griefing everyone since its ok

[gloomy yew]

picking up a death bag is not griefing lol

we wouldnt allow such a thing on our unoffcial server but on official its for sure not griefing

[severe copper]

Hello everyone! Does anyone have some ini lines that work to limit the about of zombies on the LC map? I can’t seem to get them to not overspawn

[vast remnant]

I have tried a few of them none that has worked. If you figure it out could you tag me.

[vocal herald]

Yeah I've been trying a bunch and they haven't worked either, ill let you know if I find it 🥲

[halcyon rampart]

Oh pumpkin i thank you for helping me figure this whilst i had to delete my data (that was basically nothing cause ps transfer from ps5 to ps5 is weird like that) it finally is fixed i had this problem for a year or so now i thank you so much

[nimble gazelle]

Really hoping WC drops a patch for this today, as my server is also shut off and I'm an addict with a void to fill.

[tidal schooner]

Hi everyone, I host a cluster on my personal server using GSM, I have 9 maps that have practically the same settings (except for the ports obviously) I don't understand why only 3 of these maps appear in the ark server list, the others despite not appearing are reachable by typing open IP:gameport in the game console, and they are also detected on battlemetrics.. can anyone tell me how to solve it?

[toxic hazel]

Sometimes server list can be funny, i found mine once but ticking and unticking the password protected box a few times and it showed

[tidal schooner]

unfortunately not work for me

[toxic hazel]

If you want I can check too?

[bleak ivy]

ASE or ASA?

[tidal schooner]

ASA

[bleak ivy]

do they show up in the transfer menu?

[tidal schooner]

nope, in the transfer menù i see only the 3 maps that i can see in the server list

[bleak ivy]

battlemetrics can see them tho?
what happens if you shutdown the ones you can see in the menu. do others show up.

[toxic hazel]

Havent got tthe pvp/pve set and maybe set them 3 maps to the opposite?

[bleak ivy]

pretty sure you'd still see them in the transfer menu

[toxic hazel]

You dont if the filter is set to one

I dont anyway

[bleak ivy]

that'd be for the server list but the transfer shows all in the cluster.

[toxic hazel]

Not for me XD

[bleak ivy]

it was different in ASE. never had one not show in ASA

[tidal schooner]

nope, if i shutdown i not see nothing, battlemetric see al the maps

[toxic hazel]

If i set filters to all they all show but if set to one only ones in that filter show for me

[bleak ivy]

I'd double check the ports and port-forwarding (if you are doing that)
you may need to change the ports that are used to something else 🤷 I know in ASE you had to skip some

[tidal schooner]

I checked with resource monitoring and the ports are listening correctly without restrictions, and I don't see them being used by other processes, also because I think that if that were the case I wouldn't be able to access via IP

[toxic hazel]

Port dont affect it showing either btw, tested this by opening nothing and they still showed XD

[bleak ivy]

port-forwarding isn't required but the port itself is. otherwise it can't listen. if not set it just picks one itself. ASA also seems to be smarter then ASE in regards to that.

[toxic hazel]

I didnt open in firewall or port forward, still showed

[bleak ivy]

yes, port-forwarding isn't required. it goes through EOS

but the port is required in the bat file or the default one used.

[toxic hazel]

Correct on that part you are

[bleak ivy]

its one of the differences to ASE.
it combined with lan being a second menu made transfers with same house clusters way harder either had to use commands or have them unclustered which comes with other issues.

[toxic hazel]

Make sure session names have variations too

[tidal schooner]

yep..already checked

my next plan is to sit and cry in a corner

[toxic hazel]

Could try this one, worked for a few others i sent

Open console prompt and type in Ark.UseServerList 0
Refresh, wait a few seconds and then refresh again. The server may now show up.

[tidal schooner]

I wanted to try it, but on PC pressing Tab (which is the console button) doesn't open anything

[toxic hazel]

Press tild not tab 🙂

Next to 1 for me

[tidal schooner]

not work

[toxic hazel]

How you do you open:ip command?

[tidal schooner]

tab

[toxic hazel]

weird that

[tidal schooner]

I have to see if any of my friends see them, maybe it's me... but it seems strange to me

[toxic hazel]

Yaa ark be ark sometimes to certain people

[tidal schooner]

It just seems absurd to me that I see 3 of them and not the others which are practically the same

[toxic hazel]

Seen it many times

[tidal schooner]

I would have been happier not to see any, at least it was a more "defined" problem

[agile chasm]

I'm trying to host a Valguero server for me and my friends but after the bug patch the server stopped showing in the server list. There are 0 errors in the logs and every port still works just fine and nothing has changed. Is anyone else experiencing a problem like that or knows how to fix it?

[austere needle]

as u said you changed the ports
just to make sure you also edited the session name right ?

[tidal schooner]

yep

now I try to change it again just in case

[vapid lintel]

I had asked this in #bobs-with-probs with no success no maybe it's a server setup issue? I just started up a new cluster and I'm not able to transfer. I can see the other servers at the obelisk, and I'm able to transfer to another server, but when I load into the server and press spawn it puts me into a new character creation screen. The option to download survivor works but after I press it I'm unable to press spawn. If I try to just create a new survivor it still won't let me spawn. Anyone have any ideas?

[plush pelican]

Is the Reaper impregnation on thralls patched ?

[sullen widget]

Can anyone help me I set up my ark sever using the art creator tool I already opened up all of my ports for the server I’ve done everything that I’ve seen on YouTube, but my server still is not showing up on the server list

I’ve tried restarting my router, restarting my computer restarting the creator tool starting the server often on again

[regal edge]

Is your server hosted on steamCMD ? On Windows ? Because i have a cluster hosted on steamCMD, and since the update for the version 78.0, my servers don't show on the list. I keep updating them, but they seem to remain on v77.6. It seems to be a problem about Wildcard not releasing the patch on Steam.

I've done some research, and it seems I have to wait for wildcard to release the patch to update my servers so that they can show on the list...

Don't know if that helps...

[sullen widget]

I just ark creator tool

[sullen widget]

.

[regal edge]

Ok, i've check it, and I think it might be the same issue. I have no solutions... I'd try to create a new server to see if it's up to date to v78.0, and if so, download the datas of the old server on the new...

[silent smelt]

is there a tek version of grill in S+?

[vast remnant]

Is anyone know why we would be getting a message that says Destination does not allow survivor downloads when transferring servers.

[low dew]

Make sure you have all the necessary ports forwarded or they won't show up

[cursive abyss]

Hey guys I recently just made a cluster and my original map is constantly restarting And doing a rollback ever since I Added astraeos to my cluster

[tidal schooner]

The port forwards were all correct, I had to redo all the servers from gsm, now it seems to be going... Ark Strikes again

[low dew]

Likely gsm to its a pretty awful tool for ark

Risk it nuking your saves and back ups with just a restart using that tool lol

[tidal schooner]

I haven't found a better tool for asa, for backups I'm calm because I do them with external scripts

If you have a tip I'm more than happy to hear it, I don't have too much experience with self hosted servers

[vernal girder]

Use HaruhostGSM to run Ark server. It is great ark manager.

[tidal schooner]

But isn't it paid?

[vernal girder]

Free for one server to try it.

Iff you happy then paid but not expensive ( like for more maps )

[tidal schooner]

Unfortunately I have at least 12 servers, and paying even that per month would become excessive, since I don't earn anything from maps for now. But I'll remember it for the future, thank you!

[vernal girder]

12 maps need propper manager 😉.

[vast remnant]

I have 21 maps. I run ot through GSA
I would love a manager lol know anyone ?

[celest halo]

Don't need any manager to run a full cluster if you don't want one 🤣

[vernal girder]

🤣

[wise kindle]

I have 28 maps atm and its a part time job.
How much you payin'? lol

[tidal schooner]

Wooo What pc do you have??

[wise kindle]

Nitrado lol

I cant spring for that much RAM

[tidal schooner]

Ahhh I took a physical server just to save money, Nitrado would have cost me too much

[wise kindle]

Understandable.

[tidal schooner]

Because now we are still few, so few donations

[wise kindle]

We get enough to reup each month and add new maps when they release, but its tight.

[tidal schooner]

Good for you, I hope to reach a balance too haha

[stuck leaf]

try going to your server folder and in steamapps delete the "appmanifest_2430930.acf" file and then start the server, it should force steam to redownload the game and fix any possible corruptions

[vernal girder]

I have 256 gb machine and pay just around 10£ a month tu run it ( 11 maps RN )

[stuck leaf]

the patch is out and my servers are on 78.6 so it means your servers aren't updating properly, try going to your server folder and in steamapps delete the "appmanifest_2430930.acf" file and then start the server, it should force steam to redownload the game and fix any possible corruptions

[stuck leaf]

that sounds like maybe character transfers are turned off?

[vast remnant]

I had not changed anything

[stuck leaf]

and your other servers allow transfers?

[stuck leaf]

how is it perfoming for you? i also have 256gb with 11 maps and it only using about 140gb with 20% cpu power, mine are running smooth for now, but i want some faster cpus

[tidal schooner]

Great price, what is the service called?

[stuck leaf]

he's talking about self hosting, so theres no service, its his own machine

[tidal schooner]

Ahhh I thought he meant the cost of the vps, it seemed a bit little to me haha

[stuck leaf]

did you get this fixed? and have they worked before the update or always broken?

[tidal schooner]

It wasn't the update that broke them, in my opinion when they passed through the vps (which I use to hide my public ip) some ghost ports were stored, I redid the servers from 0 and now they seem to be going

[vernal girder]

Yea just electricity + server manager fee 🤣. ( I have solars )

[tidal schooner]

Now everything is explained, I envy you a lot haha

Unfortunately I don't have solar panels, but the few donations should pay the monthly expenses of the server and vps, certainly better than nitrado for now

[vernal girder]

Nitrado is not good at all

Their server performance is honestly rly bad. My players have ping around 100 on high populated maps.

[tidal schooner]

Let's say that ping is important especially on pvp, if you have a good computer even a high ping is fine if supported by efficient hardware

Nitrado just gives you a piece of a computer that he rents to lots of people

[marsh elm]

Anyone else’s lost colony server crashing on and off

[vernal girder]

Nope

[marsh elm]

Nitrado 🤷🤣

[wise kindle]

Nope. Also am Nitrado.

2 LC servers with 28 mods running fine.

[lofty pewter]

Is any1s unofficial clusters dealing with a no survivors can download

[tardy cradle]

Lost Colony BOSS. Gamma problem with videos. Alpha Queen insta kill. Is this normal?

[little warren]

Whens the new exploits getting patched?

[lime matrix]

from outside the cluster or within it? Not seeing that on my end but I don't use the vanilla transfer system

[vast remnant]

my whole cluster of 21 maps is doing it

PreventDownloadDinos=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventMateBoost=False
PreventSpawnAnimations=True
PreventTribeAlliances=True
PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False

and according to what i was told these INI are correct

[lofty pewter]

Within it

[lime matrix]

Assuming you have your clusterID set in the launch parameters? Are you also using the cluster override directory for a local folder or is this on Nitrado?

If it's there.....likely a Nitrado issue

[modest eagle]

I have a question about difficulty setting as a self host. I tried setting Max Difficulty to true and tried difficulty override to 5 but still getting creatures with a lvl 1 increment

[lime matrix]

the default ark difficulty is 5

so if you want higher do above 5

[modest eagle]

Thank you, my previous servers i had it set to 5 and got level increments of 5 but Lost Colony it wasnt working

so that makes sense

[lime matrix]

I run at difficulty 10 so lvl 300 is max wild

Also have the wild damgage and resistance elevated as well so it's a bit tougher environment cluster wide

just wish the base temp value would work in asa

would make LC slightly colder too

[modest eagle]

we have played two sessions as a 3 person co-op and the cold has been wrecking us

[ornate burrow]

Server 6272 just went to day 1. 😪😪

[lime matrix]

Annnnd that why we host our own

[celest halo]

also turn off max difficulty if you doing an difficulty override

[lofty pewter]

This is not nitrado servers its GSA and what do you mean by Cluster ID

[lime matrix]

clusterID is what servers use to identify themselves as part of a group of servers

[brisk topaz]

Anyone got the ID of the Lost Queen beacon pls ?

[lofty pewter]

Do you think a file may have corrupted?

[lime matrix]

If you are missing the clusted ID in your config transfers between them might have some difficulty

similarly not having a common ark data folder with clusterdirectoryoverride

[bleak ivy]

isn't GSA just a connection/admin tool?
whats actually hosting it?

[vast remnant]

I am looking in gameusersettingini and there is no clusterID

[bleak ivy]

its in the bat file. if you are using a manager or nitrado its in their UI.

[vast remnant]

Im using GSA

[bleak ivy]

never used that.
isn't that just a connection/admin tool? what is hosting it?

just checked the website. seems it should be doing it by itself.
did you group them in GSA?

[vast remnant]

Yes they are grouped through a config template

[bleak ivy]

when you open an obelisk does it show upload in the middle or transfer?

like the actual word choice.

[vast remnant]

It shows travel to another server

[bleak ivy]

then cluster is at least enabled.

[vast remnant]

Yes then when trying to transfer servers And then says no survior download. Destination does not allow survior download.

And then trying to enter the obelisk survior upload it says item download disabled
Ark item download disabled this server

[bleak ivy]

templates aren't clusters on GSA. go to the servers category and press the + button. then group them there.

+ add cluster button I mean

[vast remnant]

Yes I have one there

I wish I could send photos in this chat

[bleak ivy]

wouldn't help me as I've never used GSA.

I host manually

I'm just reading their website lol

[vast remnant]

Lol

Well I do appreciate your help

I have under clusters K2 Fobercraft and every server is connected to K2 Fiberaft server

[sullen widget]

My server won’t show up on server list help I’m useing ark creation tool to set it up

[robust nymph]

They really need to. Can only imagine the mess official is in.

[lime rapids]

Hey using the ark creation tool, server says it’s active and am receiving updates on it but it won’t show up on the server list and the port says it’s closed, how do I fix this or open the port?

[thick harbor]

Did you set up an admin lock on the server with a password? If so it will be under passcoded servers, you have to tick the box.

[humble hamlet]

Is there any way for spawning more dinosaurs in the island? Im in single player mode and finding a specific dino in general is kinda tough

[rotund bronze]

I’m wondering why it is so hard to keep gen 2 up and running. It goes down every 20 minutes and have to restart it. Even with no players on it. Is there a trick or am I doing something wrong. Everyone tells me it’s just how gen 2 is Help please 🙏 ASE

[blissful coyote]

Anyone else having issues with the memory leak on Lost Colony coming back? our server stopped itself roughly 30 min after it was started.

[vale compass]

yes, but you can fight with it by Force garbage collection mod or CyberStructures mod or some plugin by Lethal I think

[tepid berry]

Mine has been up for almost 3 days now on 78.5 - 10.8gb currently, hasn't really been a problem; but I only have 20-30 players

[zealous sierra]

Alguien podria decirme el comando para darte puntos en el arbol de habilidades?

Justo ayer perdi mi pj i no encuentro los comandos, me gustaria poder restablecer mi pj, gracias

[ionic void]

anyone tryna play ase?

[tidal schooner]

Hi guys, a question, I'm moving from Nitrado to a private server, but I wanted to migrate player data. From what I understand, in clusters, individual player files are saved in the Nitrado cluster folder and not in individual folders. However, I don't seem to have access to that folder via FTP... has this ever happened to anyone?

[stoic umbra]

Is there an ini setting to get the ability to impregnate thralls back? Thanks

[toxic hazel]

I believe nitrado use the -usestore save method which stores the player data inside the map file, use this and you should get into your toons

[tidal schooner]

nope for all maps,on ragnarok i not have .arkprofile files for example

[toxic hazel]

Yeah they are stored inside the map file not folder

Easy way to check is add the -usestore start command and log into the server, if you get in your toon they be using that

[tidal schooner]

but if that were the case, by passing the file to a new server I should be able to log in with a character that has the same ID, right?

[toxic hazel]

Not if you dont have usestore enabled

[tidal schooner]

so without the -usestore flag the players data goes in the cluster folder if i understand well

[toxic hazel]

You need to inconvert it to not use usestore

The files that go across arnt stored forever

usestore creates one and when you get over it put it back into the file map file

[tidal schooner]

ok I'll see if I can ask nitrado, otherwise I'll have everyone log in to the island before transferring hahaha

[toxic hazel]

Can also convert from the store to get the profiles out of it too

[tidal schooner]

forgive me but I don't understand you

[toxic hazel]

To use the store methosd you need to convert it to it and it stores the profile inside the map file, you can also convert it back to get them out

Nitrado use the usestore method so they would be inside the map file

Revert from -usestore map save

To revert from using the -usestore option and convert data back to individual .arkprofile files, you need to use the -convertfromstore option to transfer profile data out of the .ark map files. Here’s the complete procedure:

Stop the Server: Shut down your server to prevent data corruption.

Add -convertfromstore Argument: In your server’s command-line arguments, add -convertfromstore to extract character data back into .arkprofile files. This option specifically moves character profiles from the .ark map files into individual .arkprofile files.

Remove -usestore Argument: After adding -convertfromstore, remove -usestore from the command-line arguments so the server will use separate .arkprofile files going forward.

Restart the Server: Start the server to run the conversion. Once this process completes, the character profiles should be stored as .arkprofile files again.

Remove -convertfromstore: After confirming that profiles have been extracted correctly, remove -convertfromstore from the command line, as this is a one-time conversion command.

This process should restore your profile handling to the original .arkprofile file format.

That might be wortha pin

[tidal schooner]

but for add parameters i need to ask to nitrado?

[toxic hazel]

No, you need nothing from them

Well just the map save XD

[tidal schooner]

so wait.. can I put this parameter directly on my personal server?

[toxic hazel]

Yes

If you follow that you should then have your profile(s) back outside the map file

Id suggest reading through it first to know what your doing

[tidal schooner]

Woohoo, sorry, I didn't mean to waste your time but I wasn't understanding, thank you very much for your patience and help, I'll try right away!

[toxic hazel]

Hope all goes smoothly XD

[tidal schooner]

I have backups just in case

[toxic hazel]

Nice nicee

[pure haven]

how good is threadripper for ark servers hosting? i heard that ark servers do better with faster cores and threadripper is not that fast even

[celest halo]

Any game server does better with faster cores

Most game servers use a single thread for game logic, some use a 2nd or maybe a 3rd thread for doing saving/backups garbage collection and other things, but most gameplay handling is done single thread

[hallow pumice]

not that I do it, but keep in mind CPU affinity it can help contraign what the OS wants to do and stop it from dynamically changing threads on a cpu

[tidal schooner]

It doesn't seem to have worked..I don't see any arkprofile files