unofficial-setup-help

[stoic kestrel]

back in ASE, I remember being able to tame those Achatinas and Dungs 😢

I don't know why they changed in ASA, it's like a high level Achatina produces more resources

[waxen hazel]

You tried on ASA? I just assumed you couldn't tame them since you can tame the rest of the higher level cave spawns. Never actually tried.

Gotta turn them back on and try 😛 Beat the boss with an Achatina army 😛

[stoic kestrel]

yep, the Dung won't eat s

and knocked out Achatina will not consume veggie cakes in thier inventory

which if ya didn't know, even though the wiki says Achatina is passive tame, that doesn't actually work

if ya have to knock it out to tame it

been like this since the game was released and there's even a mod that fixes it 🤣

[waxen hazel]

Yea, I tried, and couldn't even open the knocked out Achatinas inventory.

So they go bye bye again.

It's probably since the setting that makes them un-tamable is on the spawn container and not on the dino. So if there is going to be both un-tamable and tamable dinos in the same cave they need seperat spawn containers. And they just use that to seperate land and water dinos.

[stoic kestrel]

that's so dumb

did they really think a Level 450 Achatina will cause trouble?

[waxen hazel]

No. But a level 450 Araneo. And they where just to lazy to make the Achatina tamable

[stoic kestrel]

screw the Araneo, man, I can wait for the dlc

I found a 150 but I learned that unless ya have your taming speed at like 50, it's impossible to perfect tame them

their preferred food is spoiled meat by the lose taming effectiveness after each feed

noticeable amount too

and they don't take kibble either

it's like WC actively wants us to not tame them

[waxen hazel]

I get the feeling the devs actually never ever play the game. They just start it and that it doesn't crash. The rest of the testing is up to the players.

[celest halo]

Feels, don't think they ever ran a dedicated server before either, no matter the settings I try I always have to use the manage in the game client to get the server to load the saved world 😂

[stoic kestrel]

not a feeling, it's a fact

they 100% don't play this game

[waxen hazel]

I never have had problem with servers not loading saved world.

[waxen hazel]

But I can't prove it

[stoic kestrel]

because they can use their favourite words "Early Access Game"

[waxen hazel]

But I feel for them. I too would be sick and tired of the thing if I had to sit and do those bloody blueprint graphs day in and day out. Programing in Unreal is a pain.

[stoic kestrel]

I can list at least 10 different issues that could easily be prevented if they played for more than 10 seconds and on other platforms instead of thier nasa super computers

[celest halo]

I do I change startnewgame to false and loadsavedgame to true and it says no saved found, if I put start to true and load to false it tells me there is a save already 🤣

I need to start the server then use the client manage server to load the saved world 😂

[stoic kestrel]

classic ARK

[waxen hazel]

On the dedicated server???

[celest halo]

Ignore that, wrong discord 🤣

Was think other game

[waxen hazel]

Lol. Been there, done that. To many things at once.

[celest halo]

Yeah and to many discord servers in like 70 of them

[waxen hazel]

Yea, I recently clean out about 50. Took way to long to scroll the the right server.

[celest halo]

I have some in folders so can just close the folder and make the scrolling faster

Need to make more folders though, need ones for games and not just ones for game mods and streamers

[stoic kestrel]

does anyone know what lines I should add in my ini to modify the following related xp settings on dedicated?

Tamed Kill XP

Unclaimed Kill XP

Alpha Kill XP

Boss Kill XP

Cave Kill XP

Explorer Note Kill XP

I'm playing on PS5 and I can see these option in Single Player not on my dedicated server, I don't have them and the wiki mentions nothing about them

[waxen hazel]

They are on the wiki. Just hard to find.

HarvestXPMultiplier=1
CraftXPMultiplier=1
GenericXPMultiplier=0.1
SpecialXPMultiplier=1
ExplorerNoteXPMultiplier=1
KillXPMultiplier=1
BossKillXPMultiplier=2
AlphaKillXPMultiplier=1
WildKillXPMultiplier=1
CaveKillXPMultiplier=1.5
TamedKillXPMultiplier=0.1
UnclaimedKillXPMultiplier=1

Is what I use. Goes into Game.ini

Default value is 1 for all of them.

My tour into the swamp cave made me run out of Absorbant Substrate. So thought I go farm some Black Pearls. Turns out the Tusoteuthis is still as bugged as in ASE. Picked me up and dropped me outside map boundaries resulting in an insta delete of both dino and items. 🙁

[stoic kestrel]

thank ya so much! can ya please point me exactly to where did ya find them?

I scoured the server configuration page up and down

[stoic kestrel]

holy that sucks

is photo mode a thing in ASE?

can ya check if a bag has spawned there?

[near hawk]

No

There's a cinematic thingy with Nvidia cards

But not really the same

[stoic kestrel]

the old ways it is

~gfi

[fathom shale]

hello, i just started into getting into self hosting. i want to play ase with my friends, so i started hosting my server, but only i can join over lan. i made the server public through playit.gg, so i made three separate tunnels for each port needed to host. but joining still seems to fail, and im assuming that the issue is my game version, because my client is on 361.8 and the server is on 361.7. i can't update my server to the new version. does anyone else have this problem? keep in mind i have no idea what im doing, im completely new to this

[celest halo]

The part after the . In the version number don't matter and alot of times won't match between the server and client, I have never used playit so have no idea about it

[fathom shale]

ok thank you

[rancid burrow]

Anyone have an issue where giving points into a stat, in this case health, and it giving really high amount? Player on my servers has a yuty, server manager shows 220 per level is what it should give. He put 15 points into health, and went from 16,000 to 55,000!

[stoic kestrel]

vanilla or modded Yuty?

also, does it happen to that player specifically?

[rancid burrow]

I think it was a Shiny yuty....waiting on verification. He's the only one playing on the map. I haven't been able to spawn in a few for testing yet

[waxen hazel]

ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration way down under the Game.ini section. They are all in alphabetic order, not by function. I you search the page you will find them.

[waxen hazel]

The game just deletes both player character and dino when they are outside the map boundaries. Never leaves a loot bag.

[waxen hazel]

Does the server show up on the Server list? Can they connect directly to the ip:port adress?
ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup does a pretty good job in telling you how to do it. No need for stuff like playit.gg to make it work. But if you trust there code......

[celest halo]

If they cgnat they definitely need something like playit to make it work

[waxen hazel]

Oh. And the clients are really sensitive to all those setting in the server list. Like if the server uses a password you have to check that box and vice verse.

[fathom shale]

the server does not show up on the unofficial server list, only in favourites, when they add the ip:port adress there. im going to take a look at the link that you send me. thanks for the help!

[stone gust]

How can I code with beacon wyvern nest or rockdrake spawn in island 🏝️ , I’ve been able to spawn in wyverns itself on creature spawn but not yet the nest 🪹

[waxen hazel]

To my knowledge Beacon can't do that. It can add spawn of the dinos, but not the nests/eggs. Need a mod for that.

[stone gust]

Do you know a mod for this

Thx for the info

[waxen hazel]

Not search for that. So no, sorry.

[waxen hazel]

Looks like "B+ Spawners" by Boss_89 can do it. I've used other mods made by him and they where solid.

[tidal schooner]

Some of you are experiencing this problem?

I have a server hosted by me that I transferred from nitrado, I started it and everything went ok, but today going from astraeos to scorched and then logging out, when I tried to re-enter the game forces me to redo the character (although I verified that my character is currently spawned on scorched) this thing also happened to another player in my cluster... I don't know how to solve it, I only know that I have some servers that use -usestore and others don't, but also on nitrado was like that and there had never been these problems, Has this happened to anyone?

[open arrow]

Astraeos map

Hey all, so whenever a PC player open the menu they crash. This includes a storage box, dino/player inventory or terminal.
After 4-5 attempts they will stay connected but next inventory open cause a crash.

Our mod list hasn't change in 6 months and last restart was approximately 24hours ago. Only PC players.

Im trying to confirm is everyone is using the same GPU or its not just a Driver update ect.

Can anyone else from another cluster/server confirm this bug?

Thank you

[livid burrow]

hello, I rented my ark server and i am having issues I set my stuff to x10 for my server but its only picking up one stone and stuff. need help

[stoic kestrel]

ya might need to reset the nodes

try going to an area of the map that ya haven't been before, see if ya get more resources in there

[livid burrow]

yeah a friend of ours is there have instant taming and there only havinf 2.6 on it and its going slow

[misty garden]

my friend is timing out whenever he tries to join my dedi ? anyone know a fix, i’m hosting it on a 2nd pc

obviously i can join

[stoic kestrel]

ports open?

[misty garden]

should be, do you how to check

it says port 7777

[stoic kestrel]

did ya open it from your router settings page?

[unborn kite]

i need some serious help
i keep getting this "error u24 shootergame has crashed and will close"
at first i thought its coz of my internet speed but then i upgraded it and still same
it started happening ever since i tried to update my current ark to pre aquatica and canceled in middle
thinking may be smthin broke coz i cancelled it in middle, i changed it to pre aquatica completely and also told my friends to change it but yet again same problem
it happens after i host server it runs fine at start for a good 60secs and shows this error and crashes whole game

i repeat "whole game"

i mean it would make sense if it only crashed my non dedicated server which was running fine for past month

but it exits me fully outta the game
i even checked my integrity of files in steam
nothinng still same problem
we are a group of 3 friends playing on fjordur and hav invested like 100hrs each on this map

if anyone could provide me with any kind of solution i would be really greatful

it almost makes me cry i cant play on the map again and soon my exam starts i wouldnt hav much time to play for a good while

[waxen hazel]

Unfortunately after the mess they made of ASE and the ASE Mod Kit with the Aquatica map a lot of people (me included) has abandoned ASE. So finding up to date support for it is difficult.
If you are using mods you have to make sure they are for the version of ASE you are running. And it is important that all clients and the server is running the same version. Pre-Aquatica is the recommended version to run.

[unborn kite]

the server used to run fine

for days before i encountered this error

see the part wher i said we already hav 300hrs on map combined

[waxen hazel]

"used to run fine" is a wide concept. What has changes since?

[unborn kite]

crash after 60secs

whole game crashes after 60secs of me hosting

[waxen hazel]

What has been changed on the server and the client from the time it "used to run fine" until it started crashing?
Have you tried with a new save just to test if it is a corrupt save?
Do you have mods?

[unborn kite]

yes 6 mods

all 6mods were running fine in past month

like for 17days maybe

[waxen hazel]

Does it still crash without the mods?

[unborn kite]

hmm tat i hav not tried

but if i remove s+ mods all my items will disppaer

[waxen hazel]

Make a backup of the save to test it. Good to test with a clean save also. It's called trouble shooting.

[unborn kite]

do i need to reinstall whole game i mean i hav chcked integrity of my files on steam so isnt it same?

[waxen hazel]

If you have verified installation of both client and server with steam then you are good on those.

[unborn kite]

ayooooooooooooooo

[unborn kite]

wtf i just checked steam says 3 files failed to validate and will be reacquired?!!!

what does this mean??

it has downloaded smthin of size 1.4kb

sadly i cant send pics here

[waxen hazel]

It means that 3 filed failed the CRC validation and will be re-downloaded.

[unborn kite]

so my problem fixed??????!!

[waxen hazel]

Not necessarily.

[unborn kite]

am checking

[waxen hazel]

I haven't even started my ASE installation in over a year. So I'm not up to date on all the latest mess they made with ASE. I jumped ship and bought ASA. Guess that was there intention.

[unborn kite]

dude same problem

[waxen hazel]

?

[rose coral]

Hello, I wanted to ask if it would be possible to look into improving the server performance.

There's so much new content coming, but it would also be great if we could fine-tune things again via the .ini file, like the network speed or tick rate, similar to what's used in ASE, so that these settings could be seen in-game or something similar. It would also be great if we could focus more on multithreading, as there are now many servers with many cores.

[toxic hazel]

You can set server tick rate as a start up command -ServerTickRate=

[empty pecan]

Does anyone know, does it still allow cross platform if you turn off battle eye on your server?

Battleeye makes my pc bluescreen

[toxic hazel]

Yes you can, ive has ps5 players join a no be server

[stoic kestrel]

yes, I play with no Battle Eye on my PS5

[stone gust]

How do you add mod simple trade : the golden coins to your drops or alpha kills I can’t figure it out in beacon

[sand flume]

Can anyone help me with mod order? It won't let me post screenshots here

[iron bronze]

Does anyone know if there is a way to make the GiveItemToPlayer command give an amount of the item to the player that is over the stack size of that item? For instance, if I set the command to give 1000 arrows but the stack size of arrows on the server is 500, it will give the person 500 arrows instead of 1000 arrows. I need it to give the 1000.

If not, is there a command that will give a certain amount of an item to a player using either player ID or character name that will be able to bypass the stack size?

[fringe tulip]

hi 🙂
i have an strange problem with an ragnarok save, when someone cames near an base on ragna the server seems not to fully crash but kicks all players, make an workdsave that takes 19secs instead of 2 and then all can reconnect it makes this ever when this base is loaded. has anyone an clue or tipp ?

[celest halo]

I never found one I just have my code that runs the command know my servers stack size and run it multiple times if needed till the amount is given

[sullen pawn]

uh im having a problem when running a command in cmd it says "ERROR! Failed to install app '2430930' (Missing configuration)
Unloading Steam API...OK"

[iron bronze]

yea, I got a workaround now. The reason I am asking is for my Discord bot that has a shop that gives things to people in game using that command. I am adding a setting to the shop items that admins can set a stack size. If a stack size is set, the bot will repeat the command as many times as it needs to to give the member the correct ammount.

[frail crescent]

Usually the most complex or overhaul mods need to go first.

[sand flume]

could I send you the screenshots?

[frail crescent]

You can

[rose coral]

I think ITS dont Work but i can control IT

[sullen pawn]

yo guys im trying to run my server.bat file but whenever i run it it just installs again

i have already installed so many times and idk how to fix this

[toxic hazel]

It was working for me, ill have to check again then incase it doesnt anymore 😂

[rose coral]

How can you tell it's working? You can't exactly verify it.

[stoic kestrel]

look up this channel on YouTube and follow the instructions on thier last video

FMA_Wrath_2069

I find dedicated managers much more simpler to deal with

[toxic hazel]

It shows tickrate in the same screen it shows the current amount of npcs on the map, there a command to shwo it but not sure what it was off the top me head

[cold brook]

Hi folks we are having an issue with a couple of players on our cluster. When attempting to connect to a map they get a black screen and timeout after a while, or they load into the bare world with no features. Server says they connected and immediately disconnected.

I have rolled back their arkprofiles to a known good, restarted the main affected server (lost colony), had them check their own game (haven't had them reinstall yet), and their own personal connectivity.

Anyone seen similar?

[hard rapids]

anyone knows what the recently updated OutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby does when set to a value

is it 1 for yes 0 for no, or does the number determine how many

[near hawk]

no, eveyone has the same info, that's 0 rn

[tepid berry]

Hell yeah, patch notes with update! Someone be doin' thur joooob and I'm lovin' it.

[tepid berry]

That's clearly not an on/off - it's a value. It's basically saying the max number of structures nearby that will stop it from spawning.

[celest halo]

Just wait till they go back to there normal, patch notes then hour or more later unofficial patch

[tepid berry]

well, they were doing patch -- then 6-10 hours later - patch notes.

[tepid berry]

It sounds like what happens to people on slower spinning disks or ssds - how many maps are you running and does it only happen to a specific map? Ask your players if they've installed ARK on an NVME drive, spinning disk (Hard Disk), or SSD (solid state drive)

[tepid berry]

There was a bug in the past where, when transferring - it would basically just fail to load your character the first time, and you'd have to disconnect before it kicked you, wait until it auto-kicked, and then re-log into the map and it would load everything fine the second time.

[cold brook]

It's on an NVME in both cases, both users actually have pretty much identical rigs. Running all canon maps + ast, rag. valg. One of them could go to scorched transferring, failed going to LC or Rag. I'm assuming it's a them issue at this point, but it just started - both were playing fine on LC yesterday. They're going to reinstall and test again

[tepid berry]

Yeah, if it's steam, you can verify files and it's basically the same thing, but a reinstall is what I'd suggest too; it sounds like an issue that's local to them.

[tepid berry]

Have them try logging off before it kicks them and re-logging. That used to be a bug too - if that fixes it, then it's just...how it is until wildcard addresses it or figures out how to recreate it. Essentially nothing you can do on your end.

[cold brook]

Server logs shows the dc 20 seconds after they connect every time, their client hangs on before timing out for a minute+.

Very weird! No-one else reporting similar at all

[tepid berry]

Yeah, that sounds like the old bug I'm referring to - and it only happened to certain people back then too

It didn't happen to everyone equally.

[cold brook]

Glad I'm not going crazy, it's a got ark'd moment for sure

[wooden otter]

FRAME GENERATION IS BROKEN

[lusty wagon]

Quick question: we're having a problem where one of our players is missing her implant. We've tried everything, including creating a new character and using character backups. The strange thing is, she don't even have an implant on official anymore. Has anyone else experienced this?

[oblique pewter]

wif she is missing her implant regardless of what server she connects too? sounds like a problem on her end not the servers

verify files, potential reinstall fully

[lusty wagon]

Yes, totally strange never happend. she tamed an aureliax and the implant vanished. even on official😂

[waxen hazel]

She doesn't have show all items in the drop down box at the bottom of the inventory screen selected. She has the implant, just cant see it.

[lusty wagon]

OMG Thank you. Thats the solution, that was the one piece we are missed😂

[waxen hazel]

Not the first one that missed it. It's a feature very few people use. Only hit it by misstake.

[sullen pawn]

i got it working but when i try to join it just says invalid server password even though i didnt set a server password and i cant try and put one in because im joing through this command int he menu "open 127.0.0.1:7777"

[stoic kestrel]

why are ya joining via command?

also, set a sever password, at least for now

[sullen pawn]

its not showing up on the server list despite being up

[sullen pawn]

i did to see if it would change anything but it didnt

[stoic kestrel]

did ya have the appropriate filters enabled?

also, a patch just got released so make sure to update your server as well

[sullen pawn]

i believe so what filters do i have to enable

[sullen pawn]

i made the server today so it should be fully updated

[stoic kestrel]

if your server has password, ya should toggle on "Show protected servers"

Player Server should be ticked on

[sullen pawn]

ok yea i found it thank you so much

[stoic kestrel]

what filter was making it not appear out of curiosity?

[half moon]

Is there a “ARKVON 15x 6MAN wiping today

[near hawk]

ask in their server

[jagged garnet]

Is there any documentation on the new server GUS.ini settings?

[frail crescent]

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

[oblique pewter]

it aint even in there yet lol

[jagged garnet]

Next time click your own link and confirm you are answering the question. Only outpost related commands were added forever ago. This is also publicly sourced. The devs dont seem to like explaining the commands they give us.

[celest halo]

be happy they even giving the commands to add 😂

[frail crescent]

Your question was very vague...if you wanted information regarding the new settings brought with this PATCH, you should have said, "Is there any documentaion on this patch's INI settings?"

Details matter

If you're talking about OutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby = 1 CityOutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby = 1 I think its pretty self explanitory...

[thin ember]

Hmmm I also want to know more about this so how far is nearby? So a setting of zero means no structures? But first would need to know what value nearby is LOL

[frail crescent]

I would assume it is the radius of the encounter itself. Each have different size areas. Ill test this later when I can get on.

Because orignally, you had a pretty large No-build area around each encounter

[sleek nacelle]

Maybe Max structures in the area for it to still be able to spawn?

[jagged garnet]

Lol, dude they are vague as he'll with these commands instead of putting a 2 sentence explanation. Only way we gonna have any idea will be to go in a multi-player server environment. Set the command to defaults and see what that does. Does it allow you to build in that zone? Does this prevent outposts from spawning near "enemy" structures? Is the radius in in-game units so it should be about 10k to cover a small outpost so your value will need to be bigger? Is it a boolean where 1 is true and it does allow and 0 is false? Is it a integer where its the number of structures it will allow? There's a hundred different ways that could have been implemented and we dont know any of them and won't know without intensive and exhaustive testing. So yeah I am going to try and start the conversation in hopes it prompts someone with an actual answer to answer what the 2 new commands in the last patch, the only commands added in the last few weeks, are used for...

[oblique pewter]

do we just add the new settings to [ServerSettings]?

im testing this setting on singleplayer and im just not seeing a difference

[frail crescent]

The new settings mean: you can place X number of structures near an outpost

[oblique pewter]

so im not too sure what the value should be set too

[oblique pewter]

I had the value at 0 and was still able to place

[frail crescent]

Maybe 0= infinite

[oblique pewter]

i think this setting has nothing to do with spawns right? this is purely for when the outpost its already down, you cant place x amount of structures

[frail crescent]

Previously, when an outpost or cache was spawned, you had an unbuildable area. By reading the patch notes, whatever number setting is in that ini, would be the X of structures you're able to build on those outposts post spawn. I haven't had a chance to test that yet, but that is my assumption based on those settings.

[oblique pewter]

yeah yeah i agree ive been testing pre spawn and it doesnt solve the problem of people blocking spawns

[frail crescent]

This setting has nothing to do with blocking spawns. It's to build after spawna

[oblique pewter]

i guess people have been having problems of people fobbing onto outposts maybe? haha

ty for your insight i needed it haha

[frail crescent]

This should alleviate the need to pre build into the outposts. As a server admin, I would decree to those who do have structures there to remove them after those settings are in place.

I don't know if resource caches are considered outposts so I gotta test soon

[worldly yacht]

Hi, I need help fixing a problem: the game structures aren't rendering. The other day I had to die to see my base; I lay down on a Tek bed and logged out. When I logged back in, I couldn't see any structures and I couldn't die. I asked an admin to kill me, but they only left me with 7 hit points while I was logged in. They could only kill me after I logged out.

Not only can I not see the structures, but also the Drakeling treasures, cave drops, and artifacts, and when that happens I can't access the obelisk terminals to travel to other maps.

The most recent problem I had is that when I place a vacuum compartment, I can't see it, but it's there because when I approach it, it won't let me move forward, And I only see it when I die near the rendering.

[terse inlet]

So when I try to use thralls from lc on Astra I can’t download or throw them out the cryptic on Astra does anyone know of a fix for this ?

[near hawk]

thralls only work on LC

[frail crescent]

Sounds like a Mod corruption. Delete your mod folder, do a file verification and try again

[worldly yacht]

I uninstalled the game and re-downloaded everything, and it's still happening. I created another character on a different map, and it doesn't happen.

[frail crescent]

Uninstalling doesnt remove the Mod folder. Have to manually delete that

At least PC wise. Are you runnin on a server or Single Player?

[worldly yacht]

On a server , I don't have access to the folders because I'm on PS5.

[frail crescent]

Do other ppl on the server have the same issue? Or is it just you

[worldly yacht]

As far as I know, one other person is having the same rendering problem.

[frail crescent]

Are they also on PS?

[worldly yacht]

Yes

[frail crescent]

This might be a mod compatability with PS issue. What structure mod is the server using?

[worldly yacht]

There is no structure mod

[limpid basalt]

is there any way i can play a solo world with my friend?

[worldly yacht]

This problem started, but it wasn't as serious as it is now that the ossidon has come out, so we need it before Lost Colony comes out.

[frail crescent]

And are other people on the server able to play fine? Just trying to compare notes etc

[worldly yacht]

If nothing happens to them

[frail crescent]

Yeah this sounds like a compatability issue between PS and the server and if any mods they have.

Gotta talk to your server admin

[worldly yacht]

If you want, I can send you the mods available on the server privately.

[frail crescent]

You can i can look it over

[naive goblet]

Multiple people on the server I play on are having issues where if they are on lost they are unable to load up the game ever time they do it kicks them to home screen.

[frail crescent]

Ok well I tried OutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby=4 and nothing working...so I am gonna try OutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby=1 and see what happens.

[zenith condor]

I am also having trouble getting this command to work I tried 1 just now and it didn't work

[jagged garnet]

lol yeah, there was no documentation or explination with the new settings. The Devs are apperently as allergic to elaborating as people are to checking thier sources. Only way we will learn is with hours of testing it at 0, 1,5,10,100 etc to see what the number is even used for.

[jagged garnet]

I went with default 1 values and nothing appears to be different compared to before the update. still cant place structures, not sure if its preventing outpost spawns as Ive kept my server clean. If you are still testing I would recommend 0, and 10. 0 to see if its a boolean value and used as true or false. and 10 (heck try 100 or 1000) to see if its a measurement of distance, structure entities, or some other modifier. Thats assuming both of them are the same metric just ones inside city outposts and the other is outside city outposts. We may not be able to see any changes at all unless puched to extreme factors for all we know. Please make sure you document and share your findings, the wiki doesnt update itself and our findings may be the only info we get... and that may not even be the full answer.

[jagged garnet]

hello good person, were you able to place structures around/in outposts while the outpost is spawned already? if so do the structures get removed on completion like OSDs and veins? Im doing testing but results mean nothing if others cant replicate it.

[shadow tulip]

how can you report someone on unofficial for making threats aginst people kids and players? I have banned them by their asa-id but they keep making new accounts. I have their ip address, is there a way to contact Wildcard to get them banned from Ark altogehter. I have screenshots of them saying they will kill certain people and burn their kids alive

[stoic kestrel]

on unofficial, ya need to contact one of the admins there

[stoic kestrel]

maybe it only works on newly spawned ones or before one spawns?

I think the meant it as a way to allow them to spawn in areas where people that don't know about them build near it

[heavy bough]

You should set a password for your servers. I don't think you can have these people globally banned.

[deep agate]

Hello, since yesterday evening, my friends and I have been unable to play on our server. It crashes every 30 seconds when it's not crashing on connection... Is this a widespread issue?

Thank you.

[eager blade]

how do i fix timeouts while trying to join my friends server? i am on epic

[thin ember]

If you have their ip then report them to the authorities along with any proof you have. Online death threats should be taken seriously. If you all are renting a server or hardware then work with that vendor to have the ip blocked. If they are proxying in then all you can do is continue to block as they change their method of getting in... The authorities are your only real solution if you think they are even a bit serious.

[shadow tulip]

I have nitrado i contacted them. I have blocked them by the asa-id but they gave me the IP Address that he/she was using. They tried blocking with the ip but it wouldn't work. Im definitely trying to report it to someone. They have threatened sexual violence against my female players, physical harm against players and their children. While we know about where he/she is located but you never know. Believe it or not there's no where to report unofficial violations to WC, and bc its not through discord they won't do anything. Its just getting worse and password protecting will cause me to lose alot of my player base. So im just trying to figure out what to do

He has made and used about 10 different accounts now, I block them and he/she makes more

[coarse ocean]

Hey y'all. I am having a technical problem with my unofficial cluster. Whenever a character transfers maps on my cluster, they are labeled "Player" in their inventory and with tames on follow. Relogging fixes this. Imprints and "imprinted to" while "player" are still fine. Admin renaming the character does not work past re-transfer. I am interested in some advice with this and would be happy to take it to a technical know-how forum - need a recommendation. Thank you!

[stoic kestrel]

transferring characters has been buggy for a while now

every patch seems to make it worse

[coarse ocean]

Is this specific issue replicated on other unofficials?

[stoic kestrel]

happens on official too

someone in #bobs-with-probs literally just lost thier character

[reef thistle]

Any arkshop users available to help please? I'm trying to setup the sell section.

[tepid berry]

Its a pretty common bug. Nothing to do except relog

[coarse ocean]

Thank you.

[tepid berry]

Are you sure your bans are working? You gotta host a text file that is retrieved by the server. Making a new account in ASA would become incredibly expensive...

[stoic kestrel]

not on PC, ya can just make a new steam account, no?

[tepid berry]

ASA isn't free to play. You gotta buy it.

Its tied to the steam account that purchased it.

[bleak ivy]

its consoles/PC xbox that would be able to do that.

afaik, the AllowSharedConnections setting doesn't effect it.

[tepid berry]

Well that's interesting to learn.

[bleak ivy]

definitely didn't for ASE anyway. its default to off and I can play on my alts.

[tepid berry]

sigh. still no patch notes? - I guess it is the weekend.

[hybrid prawn]

Hi, I have a problem on my servers. Turrets don't do any damage (only mecanic, tek and plant X are okay). Any idea please?

[eager blade]

i cant join servers on epic how to fix

[shy warren]

im trying to host a server on a mini pc. when i try joining from my main pc, it did the full primal bp loading thing in the bottom left, but now i get invalid authentication token.

[waxen hazel]

Sounds like you are on ASE and have a version mismatch between client and server. Need to be on pre-aquatic beta branch on both of them.

[cursive abyss]

Quick question anyone know how to specifically increase the damage tek turrets do on Nitrado? I’ve tried the turret damage line and it didn’t affect tek turrets only heavy and autos.

[acoustic lark]

Someone tell me how to change one of my members implants. It only says Dragon not Alpha dragon after boss. Is there a way to remove that? And have it say Alpha dragon?

[lavish gulch]

is anyone else having trouble either joining or restarting Astraeos servers?

[shy warren]

i did something with ports and it fixed. my loading time is like 15 minutes though 😭

also it stays on the PID: number until i press a button after like 3 minutes. its weird. if i press a button beforehand it does nothing, but i can wait indefinitely before pressing a button and it moving onto the next step.

[queen crow]

So, I'm trying to start my ascended server in a command prompt and can't for the life of me remember how to do it. Can anyone help?

[grizzled sleet]

This... Plz

[ornate plover]

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

exit' -Force```

Some of this you don't need, but it's an example. I use PowerShell to create 9 Ark server each reboot. Runs all in RAM (besides the save folder). 😂 😅

[queen crow]

Thanks, this is a big help. I'll tweak it to what I need.

[ornate plover]

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

Try Cheat DefeatBoss ID Dragon 2

Change ID to their implant ID. They will need to remove their implant for it to update after you run the command.

I would test this on a test profile before messing with an actual player though.

[celest isle]

Does anyone wanna help me on my single-player?

[stoic kestrel]

not the appropriate channel but what's up?

[lapis pasture]

Anybody else having issues with LC? The server Im on just randomly keeps shutting itself down and entering a restart loop, seems to be when somebody joins it. Then it rollbacks back it decides to back online, rollback size can vary. Any possible suggestions?

[stoic kestrel]

start disabling mods one by one

[spice axle]

Hey does anyone know the code you need to edit your servers Dino/Structure decay timers?

Base game has it set to about a week but I want to increase it to a month

[stoic kestrel]

look up "decay" in your GameUserSettings.ini

[near hawk]

in GameUserSettings.ini

[ServerSettings]
DisableDinoDecayPvE=false
PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=4
PvEDinoDecayPeriodMultiplier=4

something like that

[spice axle]

Cool thanks

[frail crescent]

Has anyone been able to determine these ini?

CityOutpostAllowMaxStructuresNearby=1``` 
Is it supposed to allow you to build 1 structure near the outpost, or is it just a spawn check to see if ppl have more than X structures, it wont spawn??? wish WC would clear this up :/

[stoic kestrel]

the later

but it seems to be not working

[zealous relic]

Those anyone here experienced a problem related to premium mods that one bought and after a clean on you console and installed mods in-game they just want you to purchase them again?

[stoic kestrel]

did ya login with the same account that ya bought the mod on?

the purchase is tied to your account

[zealous relic]

Yes I am logged in with that account

[stoic kestrel]

then contact Sony customer support

[zealous relic]

Ok thnx

[stoic kestrel]

let me know if it works out or not

actually, have ya tried restoring licenses?

[zealous relic]

I have all the buying info

PlayStation store service is terrible

Just makes me so confused

Well is solved

Thank you

[plush ferry]

Can anyone tell me if they’ve added the creature mod Sashtasaurus to Astraeos and if its worked? I’ve added one. And it seems I can’t summon one and it doesn’t show up in the Dino finder. I’ve done a Dino wipe and left it a day but still nothing. Please help.

[waxen hazel]

Where on that mods page does it say that the mod work on Astraeos?

[stoic kestrel]

on Single Player?

they're rare spawns

Sashtaros as in the big whale?

[plush ferry]

i didnt see anything about it not working on ast.

[plush ferry]

it nots single player. and yes the big whale

[stoic kestrel]

they're rare spawns, maybe kill some large creatures like the Mosa and Tuso

[plush ferry]

i get that, but i cant cheat summon it in either

[waxen hazel]

Not saying the mod does not work on Astraeous. But the mod creature does not claim it does. Says it spawns on The Island.

[plush ferry]

i read that. just wasnt sure if it did or not since Ast. wasnt mentioned

[waxen hazel]

Have you figured out the class name? Was not listed in description.

[waxen hazel]

Ok. Now I got it. Sorry for being so slow. The Shasta is a vanilla dino, but exclusive to The Center. So you shouldn't even need to have a mod loaded to be able to spawn it. And just a line in the Game.ini should be enough to add to to any spawn container on any map. So if you can't cheat spawn it in something is wrong.

[stoic kestrel]

I can with Gaia Commands

[waxen hazel]

I don't have Astraeous, but on The Island cheat Summon Shastasaurus_character_bp_c worked just fine even without any mod.

Don't see why there is even a mod for it when all it needs is one line in the ini file to add it.

Or is that for consoles?

[stoic kestrel]

it was works fine on console, they probably weren't in deep enough water

[waxen hazel]

Was more thinking on why there is a mod that does what one line in the ini file can do? But console don't have access to there ini files do they?

[stoic kestrel]

no, for editing spawns, they have to use B+ Spawner or other mod

[austere needle]

good day all ... can someone tell me the default settings for
MaxActiveOutposts
MaxActiveResourceCaches
MaxActiveCityOutposts are ?
i noticed my server is bouncing between 16 and 21 GB ram and everytime the ram drops back to 16 i can see garbage collection is starting so i think maybe i put wrong numbers in there

[frail crescent]

My guess is the number of Outposts/Cache/City Outposts that are spawned in at a time. Ours defaulted to 6

LC Mem usage is huge....you arent the only one bouncing between those

[stoic kestrel]

there's no default value set in but if it's anything like Extinction, it's probably 6

[proud cobalt]

Anyone used gravelhost, they any good?

[languid cipher]

Is there anyone that could help with setting up an ark server?

[urban jackal]

We have not change the settings on our server and we have 10 defense outpost, 10 Ressource Chache and 10 attack missions (city and outside) so total of 30

[stoic kestrel]

what's your PC specs if I may ask?

[stoic kestrel]

^ same question

[languid cipher]

if you know to setup a nitriado server that would so cool if you could lil ole me:(

[lapis phoenix]

Is there any way to get lost colony Dinos to spawn on other maps, besides cheat (Summon).

Making my onw server rn.

[languid cipher]

sooooo how'd you make a server? because we have been trying but it just keeps saying that we can't connect to it:(

[lapis phoenix]

Bought one from nitrado for 30Days.
Thats the only way i know🤷‍♂️

[stoic kestrel]

depending on your PC specs, ya can just your own dedicated server for free

with more control that Nitrado ever gives ya even

[stoic kestrel]

if ya already rented one, contact thier costumer support

we can't do much to help ya because they made the server, not ya

[languid cipher]

We tried to contact them and we’ve been struggling ugh

[languid cipher]

How would we do this?

[stoic kestrel]

what's your PC specs? GPU doesn't matter, only RAM amount and your cpu

[languid cipher]

CPU is i7 and my ram is 32gig ram

[stoic kestrel]

good enough

look up this channel on YouTube and watch the instructions on thier last video

FMA_Wrath_2069

if ya don't have access to your router settings, ya cannot let other access your server

as for Nitrado, if ya already paid for one, refund it

paying for a service that has useless costumer support, that should've been enough to tell ya all what ya need to know

[languid cipher]

Thank you for the help😭 you were the only one who helped me out at all😭

[stuck leaf]

If you're trying to host an asa server or steam ase and can't figure it out,and only want a few maps for a few people let me know and I'll either try and help you set it up,or I can host it myself for you on my machines

[languid cipher]

We’re trying to do an ark survival evolved server and I think it’ll only be like 4 people maxed on the server 😭 we just can’t figure it out. None of us have accessed the server and we can’t even find it. Even using the IP address

[stuck leaf]

On steam/epic games?

[stoic kestrel]

ummm, ya didn't specify it was for ASE 😥

that video I sent ya is for ASA

[languid cipher]

I’m sorry😭😭😭

I literally just downloaded the game today and never seen or looked into it until like 5 hours ago😭

[languid cipher]

Steam

[stoic kestrel]

all good and I apologise because I don't know how dedicated on ASE works

I think your best option is to look it up in YouTube, filter by most recent

[languid cipher]

It’s okay I still appreciate your help:)

[stoic kestrel]

if ya ever made the switch to ASA, let me know

[languid cipher]

Thank you😭

[waxen hazel]

Setting up your own dedicated server is explained on the wiki. Both for ASA and ASE.
ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup

[stoic kestrel]

the ASA method is outdated and user unfriendly in my opinion

I know people have issues with dedicated manager apps but there are some that are really good

the whole .bat thing and editing it is annoying

ya mess up one line and the whole thing doesn't work

[hexed vessel]

Does anyone know if there are plans to offer Linux native support of ASA like there is for ASE?

[stoic kestrel]

they can't even optimise the game for windows and ya want them to offer Linux support 🙃

[glad girder]

yo guys i trying to do the tek cave on sigleplayer but i can use cryopod on the cave before the pedestal there is any config that allow that? on ase

[stoic kestrel]

ya can use or can't use?

[glad girder]

i cant use

[stoic kestrel]

crypods don't work in the Tek Cave and boss arenas, they want ya to walk your tames all way from the entrance to the boss room

there is no ini option that allows this

ya have to use mods

or get them to the Teleporter the intended way

luckily, ya are on ASE so the creature Ai is not as advanced as ASA so try leading everything into the lava

[echo stone]

Hey folks, any other servers having issues with random crashes that create rollbacks, i have some maps doing this a few times a days, started like 2 updates ago.

[stoic kestrel]

try disabling mods one by one

it's not uncommon for an update or even a patch to break mods

[marble wraith]

anyone knows how to enable new year event on ase on singleplayer?

[stoic kestrel]

I think it's a command in ASE

[patent plover]

Has anyone figured out a way to place the large cellar doors on a raft? I assume its an ini change like maxgatesonsaddle but I can't find it anywhere!

[marble wraith]

i see, so dont have to put -activeevent=NewYearEvent? and by any chance you know what the command is?

[stoic kestrel]

that's what reddit posts say actually

not sure about the ? at the end

[marble wraith]

Hm, lemme try i guess, does it have to be on specific time to be used the command or anytime?

[stoic kestrel]

I think so, yeah

[marble wraith]

Oh bruh, it says actually without the -activateevent= thing before

[stoic kestrel]

I know that some events are date sensitive

[marble wraith]

in the launch options, but heard theres that commandline?

[stoic kestrel]

try adding this line to your GameUserSettings.ini anywhere under [ServerSettings]

MaxGateFrameOnSaddles=

[stoic kestrel]

yeah but ASE doesn't have auto complete commands like ASA 😞

[marble wraith]

idk whats that really never played asa nor I can

I gonna try out the -NewYearEvent in the launch options and see if that works

it specifically happens at midnight or? i never been on new year event

[echo stone]

This is def something we are starting to work on atm

[stoic kestrel]

look up ARK Single Player Events on YouTube, the channel name is Blowout Gaming

[marble wraith]

that video is on console, im on pc

[stoic kestrel]

same thing, no? ya can pull that command menu

[marble wraith]

Not sure if those are different but i can try though

[marble wraith]

well it managed to spawn the title on top of screen happy new year, but nothing spawned? (launch options it happened right after i loaded in)

Nvm, actually found the gifts on 50.50 cords lol

[acoustic lark]

Someone on our cluster lost their character, so we had to set their new one back to where it was. I'm wondering for our cluster as one of our members had skill points but lost their character in transfer to LC, is there a way to give them those back in admin mode?

[near hawk]

cheat GiveSkillPoints

i think the player may need to be the one to sue it

[stoic kestrel]

freaking 50 50, man, the permuda triangle of ARK

[stoic kestrel]

there's a command that can complete milestone pages

but I'm not sure if an Admin can apply it to a person

[warped panther]

Hello can anyone tell me how to make your nitrado cluster server cross chat between maps?

[stoic kestrel]

ya need a mod for that

it's not free if ya don't know how to code though

[stoic kestrel]

same mod author as Dino Depot

[random monolith]

I have an unofficial sever and would like some help to navigate the settings. With that being said i am trying to balance out to about 10x. cuddle with a few imprints to reach 100% mating roughly to about 6-8 hrs. and baby growth to not take days for the bigger dinos 9 to 12hrs to grow would be ideal and anything else in between that may help thank you.

[stoic kestrel]

try the beacon app

ya can input your settings and it'll show ya the data that ya are asking for

[lapis pasture]

Anybody else having issues with LC? The server Im on just randomly keeps shutting itself down and entering a restart loop, seems to be when somebody joins it. Then it rollbacks back it decides to back online, rollback size can vary. Any possible suggestions? Had one regarding mods but investigated that and no luck. All settings and mod selections are the same as every other map on the cluster and never had this issue with those. This a potential Nitrado ticket?

[austere pilot]

Anybody know what I’d have to set decay as for thatch to decay in 1 month?

[near hawk]

like
[ServerSettings]
DisableDinoDecayPvE=false
PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=8

[slate crypt]

Please and I mean PLEASE someone dm me, I need help, I just downloaded Ark on steam and i'm so lost 😭

[stoic kestrel]

which ARK? ASE or ASA?

[stoic kestrel]

start by disabling mods one by one, it's not uncommon for an update to break mods

[hexed vessel]

Just wondering if they will ever get to a similar state as ASE re Linux. But even if they do, it could be a long time coming. ASA is still in early access after all.

It's just that my partner uses Linux for everything and has a Linux server set up on which he has been able to put Valheim and others - according to the ARK wiki, he could put ASE on it as that has native Linux support built in. But ASA does not have Linux support at all which is a shame.

[stoic kestrel]

what about virtual machine?

[hexed vessel]

That's a good question and one I don't have an answer to yet - we're going to look into using a virtual windows machine in the Linux environment - it is doable, but he's not done one before so might take some working out.

If we get something working I might post about it in case anyone else is interested. So many people are moving on to using Linux even for gaming just to get away from Windows and the recent problems.

[stoic kestrel]

what's those recent windows problems are?

[slate crypt]

Ase

[stoic kestrel]

first of all, look up "how to switch to Pre-Aquatica ARK Evolved" on YouTube

[near hawk]

Switch to preaquatica beta immediately
Right click ark on steam library and go to properties go to betas and switch to preaquatica

[slate crypt]

Oke I will try right now

[slate crypt]

What will this change?

[near hawk]

will remove the aquatica trash from your game

[slate crypt]

Ah okay

Well I did what u said, and it says "downloading" but the % isn't going up and it's been about 2 mins

[near hawk]

just wait

[slate crypt]

Oki doki

Bc ye I just bought Ark on steam (I've been on ps5 before) and the whole game have just been feeling so weird. Been trying to find people to ask whats going on but haven't found anyone.

[stoic kestrel]

yeah, Aquatica destroyed ASE on PC

[slate crypt]

I guess I will keep it on while I go to sleep 😴 Goodnight ❤️

[slate crypt]

Thanks for the help!

[acoustic lark]

Someone on our server was was kicked from their tribe and the person that kicked them left the tribe. So noone is the owner of their tribe now. I'm trying to forcejointribe to give them ownership back, and it won't let me...

[stoic kestrel]

try admincheat takealltribe

[lime matrix]

That would be -> leave your tribe first, have them create a new tribe, have them invite you to their tribe, have them update tribe governance to tribe owned even if it shows it already, look at the structure in question and do cheat takealldino followed by cheat takeallstructure. That will pull all assets into the new tribe file.

The old one is likely borked so forcejointribe likely won't work

[potent wharf]

Hey im having trouble launching the game when i turn it on the menu shows for like 10-15secs then it freezes and i cant do anything could someone help me?

[near hawk]

ASE or ASA?

[potent wharf]

ASE

[near hawk]

Switch to preaquatica beta immediately
Right click ark on steam library and go to properties go to betas and switch to preaquatica

[potent wharf]

Thank you i will try it!

[azure oak]

is there ANY way to either play on ps5 without tether with 2 poeple on a free server

[chrome garnet]

anyone know anything about ASA server stuck on the ticking loop / booting ? I force shut it down while it was loading and now it just seems to hang while loading whenever I start it

[ornate plover]

For ASE I ran them with a server manager to keep my sanity. The server manager I was using was mostly point and click, besides the settings needing to be changed on the routers firewall. I would share a link to it, but it's not on the whitelist and the message gets removed. Just search "ark server manager" and it's probably the first one with the developer "Bletch".

[ornate plover]

Use any computer, even a laptop and host a server. Pretty sure it's cross platform by default.

[ornate plover]

Stop the server, make a backup of the current save by moving it out of the folder. You will see an Map_Name_AntiCorruptionBackup.bak in your save folder. I would make a copy of this and rename that copy as the main save. Try loading that one and see if it solves the issue. Keep in mind servers can take +5 minutes to fully boot, depending on mods and such.

If it doesn't work or causes issues you still have your old files saved.

[chrome garnet]

do you know how to enable mods on a server

or just add mods in general

[ornate plover]

#unofficial-setup-help message

Above is an example of a bat file I use. It shows how the mods are added to the startup command.

[chrome garnet]

ok so for some reason when I do -mods=<number>,<number>, etc. it causes the server to skip right to the ticking loop event and halt there

[ornate plover]

For ASA or ASE?

[chrome garnet]

ASA

[ornate plover]

ASA is kind of a pain to be honest. If you didn't install the curse forge certificates it wouldn't download the mods, normally it would close the console out. 🤔

[chrome garnet]

it seemingly did install them

the first time I ran it it said it installed them all

but it still just hung

[stoic kestrel]

@chrome garnet look up this channel on YouTube and follow the instructions on thier last video

FMA_Wrath_2069

[chrome garnet]

what is that going to help with

[stoic kestrel]

a dedicated server manager

[chrome garnet]

im not using a manager

[ornate plover]

Sometimes mod load order can cause issues. Not to mention some mods don't play well with others.

Maybe try starting over, make sure the server boots up and slowly adding one at a time. It does matter which is listed first in the command line argument.

[chrome garnet]

does adding them as an arg actually load the mod or just download them

[ornate plover]

Both.

[chrome garnet]

it was one of the mods in my list hanging it up

Awesome ARK Tools

[ornate plover]

Well glad to hear that you found it so quickly.

[chrome garnet]

I just removed the last mod in the list first to check them all

[ornate plover]

You can try moving it around on the load order to see if it solves the issue, or remove it all together.

If you choose to remove the mod, the actual mod files stay downloaded I'm pretty sure, so if space is an issue you might want to remove that folder manually. Depending on mod size.

[chrome garnet]

what directory do they go to

[ornate plover]

\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ShooterGame\Mods\83374

Looking in the comment section for that mod you mentioned, it seems to have broken around the Lost Colony drop.

[glossy vigil]

So what's everyone's opinion on the best QOL mod that has an intake for deds that also isn't very lag-heavy

[stoic kestrel]

don't use dedicated storage and instead, use a pull mod

use vaults for each type of martial

with a stacking mod or Vanilla with Sprinkles, ya will almost never end up filling a vault especially if ya go with the 10k stack ones

[golden nest]

What mods specifically? If they're cosmetics, they won't work.

[chrome garnet]

_ _

[golden nest]

Odd. I use that without any errors on my end, I would say do a fresh install of the Ark server and try again. You'd just be required to import the Game.ini, GameUserSettings.ini then whatever saves you possess.

I can't think of reason why the mod would cease function of the server otherwise

[chrome garnet]

I mean the servers like a week or 2 old so I severely doubt that will help

[golden nest]

I'd agree, but I've had SteamCMD bork a server before it was ever even started. (on an NVMe without any drive faults) Reinstalling fixed it up right. I hope someone else can give a better suggestion because that's my only solution.

[chrome garnet]

I mean no offense to you but I cant help but feel that would be a waste of mine and my players' time

[golden nest]

It could very well be! No offense taken, downtimes are horrible

[chrome garnet]

Im content with the conclusion that this is a garbage game of garbage code built on a garbage engine

[ornate plover]

Generally when "Major" patches come out, the dev tools lag behind. Mod creators can't update their mods without the new dev tools.

[golden nest]

This can definitely happen ^ but I don't believe it relates to the problem. I'm on server version 78.31 and able to fully utilize Awesome Ark Tools without any issues on Ragnarok and Aberration.

[ornate plover]

It could be a lot of things, mods broken (you're having luck with it so probably not the case), mod doesn't like the load order, another mod conflicting with it.

[golden nest]

Actually lets go back to this. The argument you're looking for to install Awesome ARK Tools is: -mods=941450 could also be a wrong ID too now that I think about it since it's their first time installing mods

[chrome garnet]

everythings almost definitey correct

it installed the mod and reported its full name in logs

[golden nest]

Hmm, I'm at a loss for this one then. What map are y'all on?

[chrome garnet]

ragnarok

[slate crypt]

It's actaully something wrong with my shit, still only says their is like 180 servers to join.

[golden nest]

What's the problem exactly? I haven't played ASE, but I'd assume if you switched to pre-quatica then you'll only see servers that have done the same

[iron bronze]

Which is better...using the Spawn Blocker mod to stop creatures from spawning or using Beacon??

(ASA)

[celest halo]

Beacon is a tool for editing the games ini files and a mod is well a mod, if mod breaks spawns are back.

[golden nest]

Beacon is best used to fine tune values in the game, and to get insights on item/creature/engram classes when altering anything from a mod that isn't well documented.

With that said, you SHOULD block creatures spawns in the game.ini. Let's say you want to block a Zombie Poison Wyvern from spawning in the "Fear Ascended" mod. You'd type: NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Wyvern_Character_BP_ZombiePoison_C", ToClassName="") on it's own line (ALL ONE LINE), at the bottom of your game.ini for organization purposes.

Because ToClassName="" is blank, it won't spawn whatever creature is specified in FromClassName="". Subscribing to Omni Beacon just removes the amount of manual effort required. It doesn't do anything you can't already do for free.

[iron bronze]

Okay, that seems like a better option then...I can just add this line to the game ini myself through beacon then. Okay, thank you ^^

[manic wraith]

do y'all use hamachi when hosting your servers ? so your friends can join ?

or playit?gg

[golden nest]

No. I use SteamCMD, open the required ports on the router and allow those ports in the firewall

[manic wraith]

the pb is I don't have acces to my logins to acces my router

[golden nest]

What ISP do you go through?

[manic wraith]

So I tried to use payit.gg and created 2 udp tunels

[manic wraith]

SFR

french isp

[manic wraith]

but it didn't work when my friend type open ip:port it doesn't load anything then after like 30 sec it crashes and says Connection Timed Out

I even tried desactivating firewall for a sec and it wwas still the same

I'm on it for 3 hours now I'm going bananas lmao

https:/ /postimg.cc/MvDdyCQm

[golden nest]

It's been a very long time since I've had to solve a problem like this. I believe in the past I found a program that used Universal Plug n Play (UPnP) to automatically port forward needed ports through a router.

[manic wraith]

using asm also

[stoic kestrel]

neither, I just have my ports open through my router

[stoic kestrel]

ah

[manic wraith]

ok I'll try this

[manic wraith]

🤣🤣

[stoic kestrel]

I'm sure there is a method to do it but I was so annoyed trying to setup my dedicated server that I ended up resetting my router because I forgot login info

[manic wraith]

it's so frustrating

[stoic kestrel]

yeah, they really want ya to rent from Nitrado

[golden nest]

It's quite the conundrum. But I'm finding ways to go about it too (at least for free). Personally I'd just throw a reverse-proxy server up with Caddy using a custom l4 module and call it a day, but that still requires at least SOMETHING to be port forwarded.

Self-hosting is extremely easy, but only when you have access to the all the basic fundamentals. (Firewall rules, router login, own the device).

[manic wraith]

I see what you mean. Since I don't have the fundamental access to the router, (setting up a reverse-proxy with Caddy or even simple port forwarding is basically impossible). It’s a real conundrum as you said 🤣. I’m currently trying to bypass it using tunnels or a virtual LAN like Hamachi or Playit.
I'll see if I can make it work without the basic fundamentals for now. Cheers for the help!

I meant a Virtual LAN / VPN not a physical VLAN

should work no ?

just worked

finally

🙏 🙏 🙏

[golden nest]

Nice job! I see how it works now, it simulates a LAN network over the internet. If that's the case I would heavily recommend using Tailscale instead of Himachi since it offers more features and has better granular control, but if it's working, keep at it.

I don't remember going through this exact process myself, but I'm super happy it worked! Don't even remember the solution we used in the past

[stoic kestrel]

wait how did ya get it to work?

[golden nest]

They used LogMeIn Hamachi I believe. Host installs the program and creates a network, then all the clients install the program and connect to the created network.

Basically meshing everything together as if they're on a LAN.

[stoic kestrel]

I see, ty

[golden nest]

I would definitely not recommend it as common practice, don't do it unless you find yourself in that exact situation. It's more commonplace to create a LAN-like mesh over the internet for accessing home devices while you're away, the more people on it creates a security risk

[manic wraith]

yes that's right

[solar raptor]

Hey, so I have a Nitrado server running Lost Colony, with CrossARK enabled with a clusterID. I have two servers on a dedicated server, with the same clusterID. From my nitrado server I cant see the other servers on the transfer terminal, on the two dedicated servers, they see eachother but not nitrado server. Any ideas?

[stoic kestrel]

contact Nitrado Costumer Support

why are ya asking here first?

[golden nest]

The Nitrado server isn't storing the cluster information in the same directory as your 2 dedicated servers.

You would need to use a cloud-based directory that Nitrado and your 2 dedicated servers can all sync with. I would contact Nitrado as @stoic kestrel said, and ask what programs they support for this

[stoic kestrel]

or just request a refund

[iron bronze]

You sure it needs to go in game.ini? I tried adding them all to game.ini in Beacon and deployed it but the changes are not in the actual game.ini file on the servers...

[golden nest]

You can't add them inside Beacon if you didn't pay for Omni beacon. You'll need to add them DIRECTLY to the file yourself by navigating to the directory containing the game.ini and opening the file

[iron bronze]

So Beacon wont override them if I deploy and replace the files?

Or it will?

I was told it's best to replace the inis when deploying

Wait, I do have Omni...

[golden nest]

Beacon simply generates the configs for you in a GUI.

1. Backup your current game.ini file,
2. Replace the existing game.ini with Beacons
3. Open your backed up game.ini and copy what Beacon wouldn't let you create prior

[iron bronze]

It should still include what I have added so...I will contact beacon peeps about it...otherwise I will likely have to do that everytime I deploy

But regardless, thank you for the help! ^^

[golden nest]

No problem! Lots and lots of tools available with little explanation for the majority

[humble elbow]

I want to play with my friend on ase and non dedi servers arent working for us what should i make? dedicated official unoffision... i dont really know anything about them can someone help??

[rigid sapphire]

I was wondering if there’s a way to get my tames on a nitrado server to breed even if no one is in render range/on the server? I swear they used to automatically do it but they don’t anymore. Thanks!

[wise kindle]

Note that to host from Nitrado and cluster, all servers must be hosted by Nitrado to cluster. You cannot cluster with outside servers.

[stoic kestrel]

I think Cybers Structures mod has hitching post

[rigid sapphire]

Thank you!

[vernal girder]

Anyone know why is this command line in gameuser ini not working?

WorldBossKingKaijuSpawnTime=19:00:00

Ofc on Ext map

[waxen hazel]

Breeding when outside rendering range works with dinos hitched to CS Hitching Post. But there is currently some issues with the eggs not getting picked up by the CS Hatchery.

[stoic kestrel]

it's not the exact same time

keep changing it and restarting until it appears then check what time does it spawn in-game

it also only happens once per day, as in IRL

[stoic kestrel]

Oviraptor should work, no?

[waxen hazel]

Yes.

[humble elbow]

I just made a server off of nitrado but the server isnt popping up in game and it wont let me connect from nitrado

can someone help?

[stoic kestrel]

are all your filters correct?

[humble elbow]

man idk

yewah they are

[stoic kestrel]

in the server menu, there are filters down

[humble elbow]

ik there all right

[stoic kestrel]

if your server has password, ya need to check the box

[humble elbow]

i did

[stoic kestrel]

are ya sure on the unofficial tab?

[humble elbow]

yup

[stoic kestrel]

is the server even running or is it still booting up?

[humble elbow]

its running

[stoic kestrel]

what's your server game? I'm gonna see if it appears for me

[austere needle]

*i think he is talking about ArkSE btw ...

[humble elbow]

well its ase

damp taco

[stoic kestrel]

of course, silly me thinking that people know about ASA is a different game

[humble elbow]

is the name

[stoic kestrel]

and not assuming that everyone on ASE

contact Nitrado and get a refund

[austere needle]

i just saw the message on bobs-with-probs
#bobs-with-probs message

[humble elbow]

k

[stoic kestrel]

ASE by the way

[austere needle]

I always assumed one was called Ark: Survival Evolved (Ark:SE) and the other was called Ark: Survival Ascended (Ark:SA)?

[stoic kestrel]

yes but this server is mostly ASA since ASE is no longer WC responsibility

but people don't know and just barge in thinking it's the same game

they don't even specify until an hour into the conversation

[austere needle]

I completely understand you... I just wanted to point out that I saw a comment from him / okay, then I'll only use ASA and ASE in the future 🙂

[humble orbit]

Is there a way to disable structure locking?! All vanilla vaults and storages on my cluster won’t lock. No option in radial wheel. Or is this one of those infamous WC eff-ups??

[stoic kestrel]

official?

ya did say "my cluster" but some people have different definition about it

[humble orbit]

Nope, on my 13 map cluster. Modded structures still lock and have the options in radial wheel, vanilla structures not locking and no option to do so.

[stoic kestrel]

could be an issue caused by the most recent update because ARK but yes, there is an ini setting that disable the default lock

ForceAllStructureLocking=False

GameUserSettings.ini

[humble orbit]

Would you happen to know …. That’s what I was gonna ask! lol. Ty!

[autumn hornet]

what are you trying to do? change the time it spawns or smth? 19:00:00 is the default, i think

[vernal girder]

I set it to 19:00 but the Titan didnt spawn anyway

[stoic kestrel]

Aye, RNG strikes

[vernal girder]

So wondering why 🙂 😄

[stoic kestrel]

on Single Player?

[vernal girder]

Server

[stoic kestrel]

then test it on Single Player

it only happens once per IRL day but if ya create new world, the timer would start from 0

so ya will able to tell what time does it spawn at by changing the value

[vernal girder]

So it is not using my local time? 😄

[autumn hornet]

and its the proper UTC for you're region? iirc, 19:00 is EU. if you're using the proper time for your region, i honestly can't say why you'd be having issues. if you do test it on sp/non-dedi, turn off hibernation

[vernal girder]

i have -preventhibernation set

[stoic kestrel]

it is but it's not 100% accurate

ya have to wait it in-game too

and on Single Player, ya can use the command Slomo 2 to double the speed of the world up to 5 times

on my dedicated server, it's like 6 hours difference for some reason

[vernal girder]

So the value of time should spawn titan the same time on SP and server?

[vernal girder]

ok

I will try to find out what time will spawn 🙂 😄

Is it in any server log?

[stoic kestrel]

not sure, I don't use that feature often

[stoic kestrel]

your local time and in-game as well

just test it on Single Player then import the value to your server

it'll be the same afterwards

the reason why ya should test it on Single Player is that ya can fast forward time there where on Dedicated, ya cannot and have to wait for time to passes

it also happens once per IRL day so if your server misses it, ya would have to try again on the following IRL day

where on Single Player, ya just just delete your Extinction save file to reset the timer

[alpine ice]

anyone know how to fix where when i got to unoffical no servers pop up

everything else shows servers but unoffical where my friend server is in

hes wife was able to join so ik its just me

[stoic kestrel]

maybe he blocked ya 💀

[alpine ice]

🤨

[worthy roost]

Are spawn inis kinda messed up still or is it just me?

I'm trying to decrease the spawns of a modded creature using DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers but it doesnt seem to work. Do you think its because of the mod?

[frail crescent]

Its possible that the mod is just overriding your code. I would check with the Mod's discord and see if you missed something in the coding of it.

[queen crow]

Check your filters in the game browser.

You need show player servers checked. If he's got a password you need that one checked as well.

[quick silo]

anyone else not having NPC spawn in the city, like there is nothing?

[tired summit]

Transfered from an unofficial server to a different unofficial that we rent ourselves and were having critter/object ownership issues. Some things can only be accessed (building structures and dinos) by one person or another. Everyone had free access to everything on old server. All permissions in tribe tab are set to "tribe acesss". Can't figure out what's going wrong

[alpine ice]

still havent got it to work

hes server not popping up and every other server is popping up and when i type in the name and del it it stops popping up

[viscid shell]

I need help. There was a rollback on my server and I can't log in with my character, but it's asleep at the base. What can I do?

[delicate plinth]

Is there anything in the setup of a server that allows you to place a water tank or build closer to water veins on scorched??

[river dagger]

Here's a random one, can I increase the amount of generators in 1 area

[river dagger]

Usually for me, when that happens I just have to restart the game, something to do with a desync of the 2

[high hawk]

Can anyone help me I'm running a server on rag and I have a few people asking if I can add the Oasis I'm on ark ascended

[river dagger]

You could spawn one

@high hawk

[high hawk]

They want them to spawn natural so they don't need me on to tame

[river dagger]

You'd basically have to mod the game for that. You can spawn in a wild one and leave it for them to tame

There might be a mod that allows you to adjust critter spawns but you gotta look into it

[high hawk]

Ok ty

[stoic kestrel]

ya don't need to place a tank anywhere near a water source, they'll passively generate water on thier own

[stoic kestrel]

not without using a modded generator, no

[river dagger]

Rip

[stoic kestrel]

there's a mod for that

[river dagger]

I'll look into modded gens then. Can't power my megabase because too many gens

[stoic kestrel]

Tek Generator?

[river dagger]

Nope. Regular

I just want my hotel to light up man. This is BS

[stoic kestrel]

no, I meant just use a Tek Generator

it has much larger range

[river dagger]

#fanart-and-screenshots messagebig enough for all this?

[stoic kestrel]

hop into creative mode and give it a test

spawn one in and enable range visualisation

[river dagger]

Fair enough. I'll have to start a single player and check then

[opal basin]

hi guys! any chance anyone knows how/why ocasionally whenever i try to play on a unofficial/friend hosted server on steam i cannot join? sometimes i can but around 80% of the times its just leaving me in the main menu (I have full control over the interface, its like i didnt even try to join the server/game, I try to join via Steam invite or request to play since its not appearing in the list of the unofficial/friend servers) i'd like to know if possible how to minimize at least the failed times

[stoic kestrel]

is it hosted via Nitrado?

[opal basin]

not sure what that is , its simply hosted locally as a non dedicated server on a personal pc

[stoic kestrel]

why as non-dedicated?

[opal basin]

we're new to ark, google said that we have to use non dedicated for such gaming sessions

[golden nest]

Google is majorly incorrect. Search for: "Ark Server Dedicated Setup" and click on the wiki gg link. Use SteamCMD to download the proper files. Afterward, port forward 7777 through the router, and allow 7777 as an "inbound" rule within the firewall. No reason to use a non-dedicated server

[opal basin]

oh, i see, thanks a lot guys! so after doing everything we should be able to play with no issues anymore

[golden nest]

Yep! Wish you the best of luck

[opal basin]

I appreciate it! haven't play ark for that much but jesus, so far the community seems very nice and friendly love it!

[golden nest]

Sometimes it can get very hostile for little reason, but overall people try to help out! No one wants to see others struggle

[vernal iris]

buenas he instalado el ARK Ascended despues de 1 año y poco. y ahora al iniciar el juego no me deja entrar al menu inicial. se me reinicia el juego.
alguien sabe como solucionarlo. he probado en steam a poner que arranque sin battleye anticheat. y si me carga el juego. pero si lo vuelvo a cambiar. se vuelve a reiniciar.

alguien me puede ayudar?

Hi, I installed ARK Ascended after a little over a year. Now, when I launch the game, it won't let me get to the main menu. The game just restarts.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I tried disabling BattleEye anti-cheat in Steam, and the game loads fine. But if I change it back, it restarts again.

Can anyone help me?

[stoic kestrel]

Is your game updated to the latest version?

[vernal iris]

si. recien instalado

Yes. Just installed

[stoic kestrel]

why do you need BattleEye enabled?

[opal basin]

hi again, apologies for the bother, i've done the steps mentioned in the wiki with the server thing setup, but the issue still happens , any clues what could be the cause? do i have to do any setups myself as the person joining too ?

[vernal iris]

si quiero entrar en algun server oficial de PVP por ejemplo no me dejaria. por que se me reinicia el juego. no?
If I want to join an official PvP server, for example, it won't let me. Because the game restarts, right?

[stoic kestrel]

try looking for a PVP unofficial server that doesn't use BattleEye

filter by number of days running

[spice sky]

guys ASE keeps crashing with a fattal error anyone knows how to fix it?

[stoic kestrel]

are ya on the Pre-Aquatica build?

[river dagger]

Well thats a new one. Im having issues with nitrado. Won't let me shutdown my server

Cannot run gameserverjob-stop in parallel. Another event of this type is currently running.

[river dagger]

This could be from a infinite amount of reasons. Only the logs will tell you why

[sharp silo]

My nitrado Server Version is 78.35. PlayStation ark Version says 78.31. no Update available. I‘m not able to join the server. Created it yesterday and then it still said server version 78.31(same as ps5) and also wasn‘t able to join. What am I doing wrong? Is it a current issue with ps5 versions?

[river dagger]

Servers only update after they restart. Try restarting the server

Oh read that backwards

[sharp silo]

I mean, the Server has a newer version than ps5, yeah

Also, no mods activated on Server and neither on ps5

[river dagger]

Those are indeed the current versions right now. Try force closing your game and restart it

[sharp silo]

Did that and restarted the ps5 as well. Still getting "Connection Failed"

Is it even possible to join a server with a version missmatch between console / server?

[celest halo]

Only part of the version number that matters is the major (part before the .) they have to match, the minor (part after the .) don't matter and most of the time will be different across the platforms

[sharp silo]

Okay I‘ll see if nitrado support can help. Thank you ❤️

[river dagger]

I cant even restart my nitrado server

[edgy phoenix]

We're having constant crashing for the last few days with this crash error: Last Replicated Actor YoungIceFox_DinoCompanion_Character_BP_C_2103607244
Last Remote Function CL_UpdateMapMarkers

I see other people on here are complaining about servers crashing and veilwyns disappearing too.

[honest arrow]

anyone know why my fiber stack to 1000 isnt working: ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemResource_Fiber_C",Quantity=(MaxItemQuantity=1000,bIgnoreMultiplier=true))

[stoic kestrel]

do ya have any other stack ini lines, if so, are they working?

[honest arrow]

yeah every other resource, they are all the exact same

[stoic kestrel]

try putting all your fiber in a dedicated storage then pull them out

if ya don't have, cheat it

[honest arrow]

for some reason its stacking to 300 not 1k

[wise kindle]

fibers

its plural

ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemResource_Fibers_C",Quantity=(MaxItemQuantity=1000,bIgnoreMultiplier=true))

[honest arrow]

... i feel stupid

[wise kindle]

You shouldnt

Cuz its a really dumb resource to set as a plural number lol.

[honest arrow]

thank you, im in the process of setting up my player hub and shops and this was severly hindering it

[wise kindle]

no worries

[tardy garden]

hey. for those with experience hosting your own servers on a seperate machine. Any idea how this would run one map for two players ? i5 6600k , 16Gb ram , SSD , Gigabit Wired broadband connection.

[honest arrow]

i host through nitrado, sorry

but my rag server is open to everyone lol

[stoic kestrel]

this should be enough to run 2 maps as long as one of them isn't Astraeos, Lost Colony and maybe Ragnarok

[tardy garden]

Thank you 🙂

[stoic kestrel]

that cpu is enough for 2 players, ya just need more RAM if ya want to run more maps

[tardy garden]

We only run one map at a time anyway - if we need to do something on another we go in, do what we need to go and go back to whatever playthrough we are busy with and shut down the other.

[stoic kestrel]

ya want to be able to run at least 2 maps at once so that ya can cluster them and transfer your character with everything in it seemingly

no need to upload your character, items and tames separately

[tardy garden]

we haven't played much ASA though so will see how it goes. We come from SP and for some reason our game (fps wise) runs much better in SP. Seem to recall it was the opposite in ASE.

[stoic kestrel]

it's because non-dedicated puts a strain on the host

the host needs better then average specs to able to sustain a second player

if it's console, whelp

[tardy garden]

If i play SP (not a non-dedicated situation) i can max out at 60fps at 1080p on High. When i log into my server i can MAYBE get 38 fps. same settings etc

[stoic kestrel]

what's your PC specs?

[tardy garden]

i7 10700 @ 3.8Ghz, 7900xtx Nitro +, 32GB ram. SSD

[stoic kestrel]

hmmm, I think your cpu might need upgrading

[tardy garden]

Yeah. Its dated. My GPU is chilling at 1080p. Just didn't think it would make 20fps difference and it has no issues running SP that has historically been more demanding to run..

[stoic kestrel]

ya might need to mess with your settings a bit, ya definitely shouldn't be getting less FPS on dedicated

if that's actually the case, then hosting a dedicated server would be just a waste of time for ya

ya have a nice GPU and enough RAM

[tardy garden]

I am convinced there is something wrong somewhere - I haven't been able to figure it out. I've reinstalled everything. Everything is updated. SP runs great. MP is dog. For example, when i run SP - all my fans spin up like its pushing the hardware (and it shows). This does not happen in MP. Most of the time in MP my FPS stays the same whether on Low/high/Ultra. I do hate this game sometimes. Not sure if the mods are to blame.

[river dagger]

@stoic kestrel I found out how to be able to use more generators

Add this to the Game.ini

LimitGeneratorsNum=0

[near hawk]

LimitGeneratorsNum Default value: 3
Limits the number of generators in the area defined by LimitGeneratorsRange. Official servers have it set to 3. Missing.png
LimitGeneratorsRange Default value: 15000
Sets the area range (in Unreal Units) in which the option LimitGeneratorsNum applies. Official servers have it set to 15000.

wiki has almost all ini stuff listed https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[river dagger]

Where were you 3 hours ago when I was researching all this 😭

[near hawk]

in general

all other chanells are becoming classick talk show, they doing a good job

[river dagger]

I went thru so many reddit posts and mods trying to expand my gen limit

[stoic kestrel]

this works on ASA???

I thought it was ASE only setting

[near hawk]

generator limit is a ASA only thing

[river dagger]

Im using it currently on my nitrado ASA LC server. Its working

Supposedly you can change the limit range too, but I ain't got no time for that

[stoic kestrel]

I feel dumb, it's the opposite, this is ASA only setting 🙃

[river dagger]

My hotels can finally be LIT

[stoic kestrel]

LimitGeneratorsRange

default is 15000

[river dagger]

Oh I know, I just didn't bother to confirm if that works lmao

[stoic kestrel]

weird thing is that the wiki says the range on Tek Generator is 10000

that doesn't make sense because the Tek Generator covers way more space that a regular one

[wild elm]

anyone able to get their server up to .36 or at least let anyone login to it?

i was able to get into other unoffical .35 servers but mine doesnt even show in server list

[celest halo]

going by patch notes there is no .36 server

[unique laurel]

Does ossidon monsterous affection have a server setting that could be turned on and off because I'm not receiving any boost from stacks of affection.

[wild elm]

well that blows my steam version shows .36 and cant get on my server which is .35 but can get on others

[waxen robin]

how should i go about increasing the alpha ossidon spawns? they seem unachievable

[stoic kestrel]

no and try Cryo it then deploy it

[unique laurel]

@stoic kestrel nope would having imprint affinity have effect on it like they are linked maybe?

[stoic kestrel]

no, it's a seperate thing

do ya have your imprint affinity set to 0?

[unique laurel]

Yes

[stoic kestrel]

that's strange, I also have it set to 0 because I don't like how it messes with stats but even then, the Monstrous Affection is still active

I can see the Ossidon I'm riding on change stats in real time even

[glad pumice]

I am crashing dang near every 10 minutes I do have a few mods, how can I troubleshoot

Asa Extinction

[stoic kestrel]

what are those mods?

[glad pumice]

By a few honestly
A lot

[glad pumice]

Main ones are ASR, shinys, S-variants Dino depot and stacking

Spawn blocker

Me and my partner play the same server and run exact same mods, she crashed significantly less than me, we also both have ascended off every map except this current

[stoic kestrel]

what stacking mod?

also, is that stacking mod the first one on the list?

[glad pumice]

How do I decide stack order on Nitrado

Tg stacking 1000-90

[smoky glen]

That stacking mod and s-variants are fine on my cluster. Maybe also check the mod discords if they have it to see if other's are reporting issues?

[stoic kestrel]

always on top, the mod page even says so

start disabling mods on by one

the non-essential ones that that don't add structures first

[frigid vine]

We noticed similar: Server kicks everybody, saves, but hangs. Reconnect was not possible within next 5min i waited before restarting the server.

It only happens on Ragnarok, all other Maps works perfectly.
Do you have any solution found out yet?

We have no mods, just some plugins (but these plugins also installed on the other maps without an issue). There is also no log because the server does not crash, it hangs.

[urban pelican]

Anyone else have ASE servers and all go down at once?

[hidden talon]

Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but we run an unofficial crossplay cluster (on Nitrado servers) and the last couple of weeks we have been hit by very sudden and unexpected server restarts with subsequent server rollbacks, which has caused our players to lose their characters and progress.
When its one or two that is ok, but we are talking ten, twenty each week, taking up alot of time manually restoring their levels/boss engrams in game. (not able to restore inventory)
Does anyone have any other way to make the character restoration easier?
Would love some advice if any of you have it.

[stoic kestrel]

there's a mod that makes a backup of each player inventory

it hasn't been updated in a while so fair warning

as for Player recovery, I personally use a third party dedicated server manager which gives me the option to restore a player character with a single press of a button

I just chose the player game from a list, select if I want to restore thier character backup that was made when they entered the server or logged out the last time and done

this is why I don't like the .bat method

ya have do to everything manually

[hidden talon]

Im not super tech savvy, apologies, but what kind of third party server manager are you using, and what is the mod that has not been updated in awhile?

[stoic kestrel]

The mod is called "Inventory Backup Saver"

the app I'm using can be found by looking up this channel on YouTube on thier last video

FMA_Wrath_2069

I didn't want to name drop just in case

[fathom echo]

warum spawnen so wenige tiere auf jeder mapp

[stoic kestrel]

English, please

[fathom echo]

Why are there fewer and fewer animals on the maps?

Attitudes have not been changed

[stoic kestrel]

Single Player? If so, there's currently a bug

[fathom echo]

server

[stoic kestrel]

do you have mods installed?

[flat cloud]

Can anyone in WC help me understand why I have like 10k bee hives in my servers?

[near hawk]

just do a dinowipe

[stoic kestrel]

doesn't affect them, no?

on Lost Colony, I have to manually break those

[ember solar]

Do the changes I make to the normal single player game rules ban me from getting achievements? Like dmg, stamina, regeneration and stuff (player) or other setting like creatures?

[near hawk]

it kills the bee themselves for hive it's a different one

[stoic kestrel]

no, only commands do and only for that session

[near hawk]

cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C 1

[ember solar]

What‘s the difference between mods and commands

So I can just push my xp multiplier up as an example and I still get achievements like riding my first T. rex and stuff, right?

[near hawk]

mods are player made things, command are things baked into the game that u put in the console command

[near hawk]

yeah

[ember solar]

Alright ty

[ocean juniper]

So I was running outpost then are server crashed 😑 when I came back my tames where gone and bullets was there des,thi,reaper, 3 thrall,3 empty cryos are now bullets?? Plz help

[marble wraith]

anyone could help out with NPCreplacement config pls? having issues disabling Alpha paleo variants of carno/rex/raptor

[stoic kestrel]

where ya possessing a thrall at the time by any chance?

[stoic kestrel]

sup

[marble wraith]

yo again

[ocean juniper]

Nope just got to outpost server crashed we rollback and now cryos are bullets

I have a pic it crazy

[marble wraith]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="PaleoArk_Deinosuchus_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")

this is what i have in game.ini (i have rechecked manually for all blueprints in files of the mods) yet in game after dinowipe they keep spawning in game only those 4

[near hawk]

kinda looks like a space is missing

[marble wraith]

#fanart-and-screenshots message

[near hawk]

in your Game.ini
under [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]
put
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_Paleo_C", ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_Paleo_C", ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="PaleoArk_Deinosuchus_Character_BP_C", ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_Paleo_C", ToClassName="")

[marble wraith]

sending some screenshots in there

[near hawk]

try mine that have the extra space before ToClassName=""

[marble wraith]

hm weird, because i have other paleo dinos disabled in exactly same way, other modded dinos too, but theres no space in and yet it works perfectly fine but i will try this as i know how ark can be lol

[near hawk]

if it works for others, only thing that could be different is the way paleo mod spawns them

[marble wraith]

you mean right below [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]? i usually have the added in config lines below everything

[near hawk]

anywhere it's fine

[marble wraith]

yeah i tried asking there for help yet got banned so coming here for some help

i was thinking of too if i would replace them with normal variants and not the nothing in ""

[flat cloud]

If I could post a picture here I would! This is wild! So many bee hives. I've wipe and wipe using "cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C true true" and they all clear but after about 1hr 20 have spawn and they don't stop. Even to the point where the server crashes

[near hawk]

where's that jojo?

[marble wraith]

you can send screenshot in #fanart-and-screenshots and send messagelink of the message here

[flat cloud]

OK I posted a pic in #fanart-and-screenshots

#fanart-and-screenshots message

[near hawk]

yeah, where's that?

[stoic kestrel]

@quartz finch it's the Spyglass mod ya are using

[flat cloud]

The hives are out of control lol

[stoic kestrel]

or were ya referring to the spawns?

[flat cloud]

The bee hive spawns

[near hawk]

again, what map is that from?

[stoic kestrel]

ah ok, ya kinda just posted a picture with no context

[flat cloud]

It's on all my maps but mostly Asteros

[stoic kestrel]

ya will probably have to wait until Astraeos is updated

[flat cloud]

But it's also in Val

[stoic kestrel]

something similar is happening on Lost Colony so that might be related

[flat cloud]

and Rag

They just keep stacking and stacking

[near hawk]

try installing spawn blocker mod and cap it to around 15

[flat cloud]

I have spawn blocker and put it to 5 bees lol

[marble wraith]

okay so it didn't work even with putting the spaces in there at all they keep spawning (only those four dinos)

yet while other paleo variants/acro paleo variant are working and not spawning at all

[stoic kestrel]

maybe that's what causing it or was it like this before?

[near hawk]

maybe

[fringe tulip]

@frigid vine Yes in my case it seems to was custom cosmetics on that base. Ive disabled it with CosmeticWhitelistOverride, but 2 days after in Change logs an Fix for CC was mentiond and i re-enabled it, no problems after that

[near hawk]

even LC messed up bee spawns don't grow to crazy levels

[stoic kestrel]

I think it could be that because Alpha share spawn of non-Alpha

ya might need to disable the non-Alpha creatures from spawning

[marble wraith]

i have the mod on my singleplayer only for EVO giga, so i disabled all the other paleo variants except EVO rex as well

[near hawk]

the ini can stop without any concern of that, they share spawn entires but spawn entires conain multiple dinos, it souldn't need to disable normal ones

[marble wraith]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Deinotherium_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Rex_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Allo_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Trike_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Therizino_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Baryonyx_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Dilo_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Kentro_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Stego_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Spino_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Saber_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Raptor_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Yutyrannus_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eden_Yutyrannus_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Megalosaurus_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Para_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Carno_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Thylacoleo_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Andrewsarchus_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Carcha_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Tropeognathus_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Tarbo_character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Dilo_Character_BP_Paleo_BD_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="PaleoArk_Acrocanthosaurus_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="PaleoArk_Deinosuchus_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

this is how i have it, everything else works fine except the last 4 lines

[flat cloud]

There was an update not sure which one but after a recent update bee hives started stacking.

I just checked Val and removed 4 hives on top of each other

[stoic kestrel]

have ya tried destroying them and see if that fixes it?

I mean destroy every single one

[flat cloud]

Yeah I used cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C true true

And that removes them but they come back over time

[marble wraith]

oh yeah and also i should mention that, before doing dinowipe, they weren't spawning at all, they started spawning after i did dinowipe

[marble wraith]

i will try to see if this one will work by replacing them into the vanilla ones

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="MegaRex_Character_BP_C")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="MegaRaptor_Character_BP_C")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_Paleo_C",ToClassName="MegaCarno_Character_BP_C")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="PaleoArk_Deinosuchus_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="Deinosuchus_Character_BP_C")

[stoic kestrel]

I don't know why but I have a feeling that this might make the regular variants overspawn 🤣

[granite terrace]

i got a weird new "bug" on my Ragnarok Server.. The Player Level Cap is 60 and when i give a player all ascensions, the max level is 150 ?! i haven't changed anything. All my Servers have the same settings, but its only a thing on one of them. any Ideas what the problem could be ?

[marble wraith]

same not gonna lie 😂

[stoic kestrel]

do ya happen to use an FPS boost mod by chance?

on that server that is

[granite terrace]

no, like i said. nothing has changed at all.. the server is running for almost a year without any changes. same mods on every server

it started a few weeks ago.. a player asked me why the max level is only 60, i thought they were trolling me 😄 when they transfer to another server, they can level further but on the ragnarok server 60 is max.. thats so weird

[stoic kestrel]

which ini file controls the level cap again?

[granite terrace]

that should be the game.ini

i haven't set a max level.. maybe i should try to set one on the ragnarok server and see what happens

[marble wraith]

that still didn't work bruh they keep spawning

[stoic kestrel]

can ya try turning off any vanilla Alpha and see if that works?

[marble wraith]

like by instead putting paleo alphas i put in vanilla ones?

[stoic kestrel]

yeah

this could be vanilla ark bug

[marble wraith]

yeah give me few mins for dinos to respawn and i will ping ya

[marble wraith]

seems like it did the job? the paleo variants arent spawning of the alpha carno/raptor/rex and ark deinosuchus

[stoic kestrel]

🙃🙃🙃

it was tied to vanilla Alpha spawns?

[marble wraith]

uh i guess so? like i disabled the vanilla spawns of carno/rex/raptor and the deinosuchus from ark additions and the paleo variants of those 4 stopped spawning with the vanilla ones as well

[near hawk]

those 4 must have a different logic than other, something weird the paleo team did

[stoic kestrel]

ARK Addition? The Deinosuchus is vanilla

[marble wraith]

this is ASE not ASA i think the deinosuchus there is already in game

[near hawk]

it's paleo deinosuchus i think

oh u on ASE

[marble wraith]

yeah

cant go over to paleo discord to ask for the help cuz i got banned off there for asking same question idk

it's just weird, because everything was working perfectly fine, i was killing deinosuches/alpha vanilla dinos and the paleo ones weren't respawning before i did first dinowipe on my singleplayer world and then they started spawning but only those 4

[stoic kestrel]

brother, please add ASE next your username

[marble wraith]

yeah sure no problem xD

[stoic kestrel]

ignoring me and my forgetful a$$, a lot of people here default to ASA

[marble wraith]

what do you mean? i haven't ignored you?

[stoic kestrel]

no, I meant it as excluding me

[marble wraith]

my bad I'm confused even more xD

my bad tho i thoight i have mentioned when i started asking for help on first that im doing it on ASE

[frigid vine]

Honestly, I think it was just luck that the server didn't crash. It doesn't happen to us every day either. Sometimes it's once or twice a day, sometimes once every three days. But great to year, if this solves it really for you 🙂

[stoic kestrel]

ya did yeah but like I said, I'm very forgetful 🥲

ASE ONLY 🤣

[marble wraith]

no it's fine really my it's my bad i actually didn't mention it at first message im on ASE XD and yup i cant run ASA at all, my pc is low end

[stoic kestrel]

if I had remembered ya were on ASE, I would have immediately said "mod bugged, abandoned and game is no longer maintained" and left it at that

[marble wraith]

oh LMFAO

[stoic kestrel]

did ya mention that ya were on ASE in the Paleo server?

[marble wraith]

yeah, but when i sent message about it, asking the same probem i got banned off, i didnt even get message from bot or mod or something not sure what happened there

and I'm thinking of if I'm allowed to ping Upfromthedepths for this issue here (the spawning)

[stoic kestrel]

that could be why they banned ya

[marble wraith]

I didn't know i can get banned off for asking help for the config issues in their mod damn

[stoic kestrel]

some modders still have a bad taste from how Aquatica ruined ASE

it's asking again that cemented it, large mod discords don't like spamming

[marble wraith]

but that's weird i been asking about ASE related stuff and configs there all the time

and this is first time i got this issue and asked it there first (only once) before coming here to get some help

[stoic kestrel]

the bot banned ya?

[marble wraith]

im still flabbergasted everything was working perfectly fine, but asfter i did dinowipe it broke i dont know lol the paleo variants of those 4 creatures

[marble wraith]

hm, related to my ban i rather take it to the dms as i wanna keep here to the issue im having with the npc replacements

sent ya friend request if ya wanna talk about it in dms (cant send dm xD)

[stoic kestrel]

I'm more surprised than ya are that a game that doesn't get updated anymore (Pre-Aquatica that is) can still break

that's ARK for ya I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

[marble wraith]

yeah im ofc on pre aquatica branch, i dont wanna see those ugly creatures and all that

[fathom echo]

no

[sleek bough]

Do you know any good Xbox unofficial server for ASE?

[stoic kestrel]

unofficial server??

[smoky burrow]

only ASA, but a great community (link in my bio)

[stoic kestrel]

nice timing lol

[sleek bough]

Mates,do you know any good Xbox pvp unofficial server for ASE?

[river wraith]

Check out Underground

[glad pumice]

If I disable mods like shinys won't I lose those creatures

[stoic kestrel]

yeah so disable mods that aren't essential first

any creature mod that ya haven't tamed yet

go at it one by one and make sure to make a backup beforehand

just in case

[glad pumice]

All creatures mods we have creatures from unfortunately, how do I make a back up? Copy the server folders and save them onto my pc?

[stoic kestrel]

Nitrado?

[glad pumice]

Yep

[stoic kestrel]

go to their official YouTube channel, they have a guide how to

[glad pumice]

Ah didn't know that

How'd you get so knowledgeable? I always see you helping everybody

[stoic kestrel]

by being insomniac

I have trouble sleeping and this game is one of few things that can knock me out

the grind is endless 💔

[glad pumice]

Haha I gues that would do it

It sure is

[glad pumice]

The part of the crashing I really don't get is that me and my fiance play on the server, same equipment mods etc... I crash twice as much as she does

[stoic kestrel]

same console and everything?

[fathom echo]

Yes

[pine veldt]

anybody having problems with their nitrado server since the last like 2 updates? ours keeps crashing on startup and then after going to the last backup we could get in but it timed us out and wont let us join again it says its up. it keeps saying its updating when there is no more updates

[vernal girder]

Nitrado is crap

[near hawk]

self hosting is best
as always

[stoic kestrel]

try doing a dino wipe, use this command

admincheat destroywilddinos

[fathom echo]

I have make

[stoic kestrel]

then something wrong here, dedicated server don't have spawn issues

try jumping to another map

[fathom echo]

All maps

I have astraeos premium. Lost Colony. The island. Svartalfheim and valguero

All same problem

[wispy spindle]

You need to check your logs for errors and possibly remove Mods.

Also change saves from 15 minutes to 30 minutes as there is currently a bug with the 15 minutes.

[glad pumice]

same everything, ive just had mine longer

[glad pumice]

if i remove my mods and re order them and then save, nothing will be removed right?

[flat cloud]

Anyone have a way to reduce the amount of Bee Hives? Hive's have been stacking on all my servers. #fanart-and-screenshots message

[glad pumice]

man id love to know that too

[flat cloud]

I know how to remove them all at once but they just come back over time

[hardy totem]

Are there any known server settings that can cause the crashing in the city on lost colony?

[scenic ferry]

Someone pls make a mod or plugin to make Helicoprion have 100% cap instead of 90

[stoic kestrel]

ya can install the original mod

it's ini should be working