#unofficial-setup-help

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stone fiber
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Yeah , I'm just glad to be able to actually see what the issue is now

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this was not displaying before.

crude hawk
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Strange. The error didn’t log for me either until after a few attempted restarts/updates

stone fiber
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I did not start seeing it until today... all the last week nothing

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and it really felt like not until after this last update

crude hawk
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From what I’ve seen, some other servers had to restore from an older backup. Luckily we only needed to restore 1 server from before the daily restart. Unsure of what’s causing it though.

stiff oasis
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ehh my steamcmd is not updating the server to a compatible version with the game.. help?

smoky burrow
stiff oasis
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oh wait.. i did get a di8ffrent result when i renamed the steamapps folder... when i did my server did not wanna start at all.. so maybe thta means a mod is outdated now..

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am trying it again

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nope it still says version 83.21

stiff oasis
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yea.. it refuses to update my steamcmd past version 83.21

smoky burrow
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what error do you get?

stiff oasis
smoky burrow
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oof, without any errors/hints I don't know, mine updated no problem

stiff oasis
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well.. idk if there is a log or not.. i mean it did not fail or prompt about a error.. so maybe there is a error but idk

smoky burrow
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Sounds like a steam issue rather than ark to me, I'm out of my comfort zone, but I'm seeing logs in my SteamCmd installation that seem to relate to the ids in the installation manifests.
Perhaps that's a good place to check for errors/warnings.

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I would still have triple checked to move the manifest file outside the steamaps

stiff oasis
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i mena i do see a shootergame.log and a crashcallstack.text log but nothing more and the crashcall only says "Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION 0x0000000000000000" i have no idea of what to make of that...

stiff oasis
smoky burrow
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I just did the same on an inactive map we have lying around - I can't replicate.
deleting steamapps folder, update start runs a clean 84.5 for me

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Is the shootergame.log empty or reporting the old version in the run you got the crashstack?

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Also, are you running custom API plugins?

stiff oasis
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[2026.03.07-07.02.19:217][ 0]ARK Version: 83.21
[2026.03.07-07.02.19:219][ 0]LogSentrySdk: using database path

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so i am guessing something is telling my SteamCMD to just keep installing thta version.. as if there had not ben any newer version avaiable..

smoky burrow
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yeah, but then crashing? It's like installing from a broken repo?

stiff oasis
smoky burrow
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Running out of ideas, at this point I'd probably do a re-install.

stiff oasis
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of steamcmd?...

smoky burrow
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first the map, since it should be a separate game instance to my limited understanding, but steamcmd may be a good idea, idk

stiff oasis
smoky burrow
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I read you can clear the steamcmd cache in the steamcmd install/package and /appcache - you can give a try to move those re-remove the manifest from the map install and try again

smoky burrow
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another thing to try is a validate force_install_dir ./your_server_path/ & app_update 2430930 validate, did you try that?

stiff oasis
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i am now reinstalling the whole steamcmd with a new steamcmd install file

smoky burrow
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[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1769026246
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK

Steam>force_install_dir "D:\Ark_Servers\sandbox"

Steam>login anonymous

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK

Steam>app_update 2430930 validate
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 12.18 (1595194666 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 25.83 (3383276055 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 39.34 (5153133456 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 53.16 (6963311589 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 66.89 (8761624689 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 80.20 (10505019420 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x5) verifying install, progress: 93.92 (12301451642 / 13098149844)
 Update state (0x0) unknown, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Success! App '2430930' fully installed.

Steam>
smoky burrow
ripe flame
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Ok maybe heres where i can get help! Hey there yall😅 ive been trying to set up a server for lost colony but whenever i put the map name in and put my settings in. Once i click start i wait about 5 minutes and nothing shows up as a server... ive tried password protected and unpassword protected

smoky burrow
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Are you running native or some hosting service like nitrado?
I'm out for nitrado - regardless, I assume you validated your server downloaded and started successfully with a compatible major version (maybe there are more failed updates around...)
What prevents you seeing a server in my experience:

  1. not started, d'uh xD
  2. mismatching major version
  3. misconfigured server list filters
ripe flame
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I am running through nitrado

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However im starting to gain a sense that nitrado is horrible...

smoky burrow
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I can only judge from a position of a nerdy enthusiast, nitrado is cheap'ish and less involved but limited in functionality and hardware too, afaik...
If you wanna see some neat plugins nitrado can't do, come try on our cluster

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shameless plug aside - 99% when players say they can't find the servers, they're still looking for official instead of unofficial, pvp instead of pve, etc

stiff oasis
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heh.. oh yea.. i will have to figure out how to turn my server into a cluster server as well... as me and my friend have explored most of the map we are on..

smoky burrow
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must... not... plug... again...

ripe flame
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Is your server like well boosted or just a normal basic boosted server😒

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Im trying to find one that isnt full of straight mods and im able to level fairly quickly with really good harvest, taming, breeding, ect ect Rates.

smoky burrow
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It's a non-wipe, so we don't have crazy rates - we were ready for LC Gamma after 1.5 weeks in our group, sadly WC was not...

ripe flame
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Im tired of seeing "boosted" but then the server is like 40+ mods and barely boosted

smoky burrow
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Acro will go in the future, we got 2 or 3 behind the scenes mods for admin or integrating discord api plugins, but will always be well below 20.

wise kindle
ripe flame
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My other one took less than a minute and that was for Astraeos

gilded smelt
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could anyone help me with the modlist?

errant pine
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Anyone else have trouble starting their server today? It just crashes for me right after starting

open arrow
severe sapphire
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I have a problem with my unofficial Nitrado server. One of the players cannot join. The error message is ‘Connection Failed’. We have tried reinstalling the game, the network card driver, changing the IP and DNS, but nothing works. Does anyone know what could be happening and possible solutions? And one more thing to add, it does not allow you to join any unofficial servers.

errant pine
grim aspen
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can someone help bc my ark is bugged and i cant post my medal clip here

mellow crane
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Only half the servers show in my cluster and my character is on the ones that aren’t showing

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The server are up but aren’t available?

gilded smelt
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i need a help with my server’s setup, i added this in GameUserSettings.ini:

HarvestAmountMultiplier=15.0
ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=0.3
HarvestHealthMultiplier=10.0

yet i only get 2 thatches from a hit with a pickaxe

errant pine
# mellow crane The server are up but aren’t available?

I had the same thing, it seems the latest update broke things. For me the latest update wasn't applied correctly which made it not show up in the serverlist, so then I tried a fresh install but the latest update seems to be broken for servers since it now doesn't start at all

mellow crane
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@errant pine well good to know iits not just me but dang iit on my day off to lol

errant pine
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yeah same here haha, was looking forward to playing and then this happened. Idk if they're closed on weekends either so idk when a fix will be released

open arrow
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Amazon Web Services are down so servers arent showing

wise kindle
undone schooner
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Is anything going on with non dedicated servers for Astreos? Tried to log in and it crashes at login screen - all other maps are working fine though.

frigid vine
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Greetz. Did you found a solution?
And a question, do you have modified DinoCountMultiplier?

ripe flame
desert roost
ripe flame
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Last time i did a scratch ticket i want 300$

frigid vine
desert roost
frigid vine
desert roost
frigid vine
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It was just a one of 100 tests today.

chrome grove
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ok im here

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so to fix it u had to start a new map from 0?

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or u managed to load a savefile and it just fixed himself?

frigid vine
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thats why i tested today, wihtout any luck:

  • Multiple dino wipes via command and server start parameters
  • Forced the savegame to regenerate on server start

Also tried destroying everything:

  • Destroyed all players → reboot → no effect
  • Destroyed all tames → reboot → no effect
  • Destroyed all structures → reboot → no effect

Additional checks:

  • -nopatrol was never enabled
  • Tested DinoCountMultiplier with 2x, 3x, and 4x

This parameter currently confuses me the most — it shows no effect at all (set in GUS.ini).
However, I know it works because values like 0.5 do apply correctly.

Environment:

  • No mods
  • No plugins
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in theory you can fix it by new savegame, but this is ofc not my goal. We have a good populated cluster.

chrome grove
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so wait

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u set dino count to 0.5?

frigid vine
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I had lower values on DinoCountMultiplier yes, 0.9

chrome grove
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and it worked?

frigid vine
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The total amount of NPCs confirms, yes.

chrome grove
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the problem we have is that we have 0 of them

frigid vine
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You can lower the values, it works, but it seems this parameter is broken if you wanna go back -> its not working.

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We too

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Like i said, just testing all these things, nothing works except new savegame

chrome grove
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at this point i suspect this is a "dik" move by wc to solve the horrible amount of memory lost colony was needing

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that would explain why lost colony went from 250% usage to 140%+ -

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maybe the base number of npc is so heavy that the maps just skip their spawn

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so beside dino count multiplier

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shall i do anything else?

frigid vine
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like i tried to explain, i dont think so. My gut feeling on this topic, after spending almost whole day into testing:

  • DinoCountMultiplier is broken
  • You can lower spawns, but if you wanna go back to 1.0, spawners are corrupt
  • The City NPC issue confirms it because:
    • Go into the middle of city, perform a DinoWipe, observe Active NPCs count, it jumps between 0-5
    • Means the Server tries to spawn thralls but disppears instantly
  • Also using cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Thrall_Character_BP_WithFlamethrower_C 1|cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Thrall_Character_BP_Cultist_C 1|cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Thrall_Character_BP_WithSniperRifle_C 1|cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Thrall_Character_BP_SoldierWithPistol_C 1 confirms, the NPC count doesn't change (but have to, so no thralls hidden on the map)
  • And finally New Savegame (works) vs. Existing (does not work)
chrome grove
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ok then i just need to manage creating a new savegame

frigid vine
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thats kinda easy, if you don't have much players ^^ 😉

chrome grove
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right now the whole cluster is stopped

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so no

daring path
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I am running a two person server on asa. 32gb ram. Server ran fine for months. Ever since we started running the swamp cave things will disappear (saddles off of tames), wall/ceilings of bases and items within player and chest inventories. Dino’s getting wiped at 50/50. player characters sometimes spawning at 50/50. Only notice that there is a problem upon restarting the server (usually around updates) have to go back days to find a save that is not messed up anymore. Have done this 3 time in the last few weeks. Any ideas?? Struggling to find a solution when we don’t really know where the problem is coming from. Only thought process we have is something somehow corrupts the save file while we’re caving and it only shows up once the server is taken down and brought back up. Also he does play asa on same pc he runs server on but google searches says this should be fine with 32gb of ram. (Could be completely wrong). Only theory we have is ram spikes when running cave causing some sort of save corruption that doesn’t show its face until we shut down and restart the server.

open arrow
frigid vine
open arrow
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was going scrolling for ages, just saw the main problm and offered a solution. i run a 20map cluster without this issue. ram useage is normal for LC 🫡

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issue is overspawn of thralls.... restrict the spawns with a mod.... problem solved.
thralls and NPCs are deleted in dino wipes, dev kit needs an update and the correct command needs to be found for wiping them

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i knew this from the NPC mod. dino wipes dont remove them

frigid vine
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Nobody talks overspawn mate. Its not easy. Thats important, that you understand the real issue.

We talked about the issue that in the city is no NPC spawning on existing savegame since release of the map.

My gut feeling says its because we used DinoCountMultiplier and its broken the NPCZoneSpawners, also if you reset it to 1.0.

On new Savegame i figured out there is no issue

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And also again, because you don't wanna read today 😄 i don't use mods or plugins. Vanilla!

open arrow
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I don't share the issue mate.

You using all the correct additional ini options?
They get generated on a new server file but day 1 release server didn't get the files added when implemented

frigid vine
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Just read through my Texts, sorry but don't wanna repeat everything u asked.

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Everything is answered

open arrow
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it's been going on for 24hours and you had a fix so best of 🫡

polar dagger
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Same problem here (own dedicated server with linux/proton). Since a few weeks/month no NPC Patrol spawn in the city. I may have in December played arount with the Parameter -nopatrol, but currently not set..

I have a lot of enemy thralls on different outpost, but no patrol in the city.

ARK Version 84.5. Server FPS 30; Server Ping 50; Active NPCs switch between 22<->25 - Total NPCs around 22k.

frigid vine
frigid vine
polar dagger
frigid vine
near hawk
frigid vine
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oh it works yet. Tried that last time, was rejected. Thanks

near hawk
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U can link survive the ark, the wiki, Dododex and WC twitch, don't know what else

frigid vine
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Was not working couple of month ago, but good2know, thanks again

forest furnace
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anyone crashing trying to join a modded server

safe oasis
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Hey, has anybody a idea how to disable ground turrets on a Unofficial Server? I want that turrets have to be placed on a foundation or smth. It’s about Evolved not Ascendend

solar silo
forest furnace
solar silo
# forest furnace Yes we do

Try removing the mod completely from your shooter game files and then reinstalling it. A few of the players on my cluster have said it works for them

solar silo
# forest furnace Yes we do

i just had the crash and this fixed it for me

start game,
go to mod browser and uninstall Eerie dinos if installed,
stop game,
delete folder ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ShooterGame\Mods\83374\935916_*,
start game,
go to mod browser and install Eerie,

tall briar
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Me and my friends are looking for the safest way to change maps from Ragnarok to Astreos on our Nitrado server with our tribe, dinos and items. Should i rent a second server and create a cluster or what would be the best way to achieve this?

dapper fern
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guys I need help taming spino

smoky burrow
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Does anyone else experience a save file growing and growing on LC, looks like something is leaking, at some point the save seems to get corrupted basically using too much memory to ever load killing other maps even.

wary knot
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Does anyone know how to access the pokemon mod on xbox if u do pls let me know 🙏

neon socket
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Good evening, I hope you're all well. Does anyone know how I can unlock the Lost Colony skill tree for a tribe member on a dedicated server? I can't find a command.

wise kindle
near hawk
neon socket
near hawk
neon socket
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Tyvm for the help!!

strong mason
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does anyone know how to fix 0 ping when entering a server? it keeps kicking me out and its always when it says 0 ping

robust tinsel
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What are you guys using for Tek equipment mods for survival evolved?
Really all I wanted was not to lose element charge when swapping servers and maybe a bit more durability/charge capacity 🤔
But every mod I find just makes you OP with infinite everything basically

I found a few that almost do what I want, but then they also have a flat armor value rather than inheriting from the higher level ones we've crafted in vanilla

fierce timber
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Anybody else had constant server crashes/dcs since the last 2-3 updates? Flying creatures super stuttery, bouncing around, etc, inputs not taking and requiring multiple clicks/etc to do a singular thing?

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Even when the ping was high on LC things weren't this awful/unplayable

honest anvil
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anyone else’s mods wont download/ keep deinstalling themselves?

tacit condor
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what are people doing for the workaround on alfa stacks not allowing us to craft Element shards with Element?

wise kindle
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Removing the stack mod

zinc ledge
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is anybody with experience with Beacon free to chat? Im caught between a rock and a hard place.

gritty bolt
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Hi, can anyone help me, all creatures of lost colony (malwyn, solwyn, aureliax) cannot cycle skills unless default keybinds for crouch and melee (C and leftcontrol). Is this a known bug or there is a way to make it work without resetting keybinds?

cloud lily
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Hey guys - anyone experiencing issues with GUS.ini -> TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500 ?

got some tribes which can build beyond that in their range

grim sigil
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Couldn't load mods library from disk
UShooterEngine::LoadGameMods with 0 mods
No Primal Game Data Override, using default PrimalGameDataAsset.
Default PrimalGameDataAsset instance created. Class is PrimalGameDataARKNX_BP_C_2147482435.

and its saying status ticking loop

frigid vine
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Not the total amount of structures allowed for a tribe.

cloud lily
grim sigil
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my server wont start its stuck like it doesnt show in the server list

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i did port forwading all ports are open

vapid phoenix
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I have a silly question that I feel I know the answer to. If I want to replicate the settings for the public servers, should I simply set the difficulty offset to 5 and point to the dynamic config URL for the rates? Are there any additional server settings that I might be missing?

grim sigil
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not even telling me that i am able to join

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idk what happen

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or what i changed but its working now

gilded smelt
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i’ve set the custom dino levels mod perfectly and the difficulty settings to make dinos spawn from 540 to 600, but like 98% of the dinos are maxmized at lvl 150

atomic locust
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Has anyone setup the Island Reforged yet, and run it successfully? Modded map.

near hawk
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Yeah, if u need help, best to help in Nekatus discord

humble thicket
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Hey guys anyone know why with my offical 19800 clamps I am still getting armour and saddles from drops with durability over the cap its naturally at ?

Its in purple

vapid phoenix
grim sigil
frigid vine
snow lagoon
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Hello guys, there is a mod to make dino patrol around home in a fixed path? to make them defend my base and not getting stucked in each other after they have defended from an hostile dino?

near hawk
green pulsar
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I have a question. I’m on an unofficial server I had the mods installed and everything been on this server for a couple months now. I lagged then I can’t get back in because it says I don’t have those mods installed. Then I go to look at the mod store all are gone. Even if I want to click the mods I want to install it’s not an option to do so. Might have to uninstall the game not sure.
Yes i restarted my console and stuff still nothing. Says I don’t have space. The mods are like glitched or something.

trim lava
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i dead by mesh in sv oficial small tribels

tawdry steppe
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When i want to join a server he say i don’t have a space for the mods but i already have a space what can i do?

tardy pine
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Does anyone know if there are map specific modifiers? For metal specifically, Valguero seems to have almost twice the metal yield as other maps

humble orbit
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With speed leveling on, is it possible to mutate speed?? Or does ASA work like ASE and any speed mutation is technically a “ghost” mutation?
I have speed leveling on but there’s people on my cluster that want to mutate speed also.

green pulsar
near hawk
frigid vine
nocturne coral
frigid vine
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Ehm... 😄 Server?

nocturne coral
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Its usually what that error needs... or there is a corruption to be removed

frigid vine
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Okay again mate: its a new installed server, no adjustments, just installing.

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And like i also said: all my existing installation are working well, its just new ones. So maybe a patch breaked it?

nocturne coral
frigid vine
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Ofc own server

nocturne coral
# frigid vine Ofc own server

Ok i went back and re-read starlordes orginal issue that you replied too (sorry I am awake soooo early) he has an old version of the game when he loads it. Do you as well?

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If so.. have you done a .bat update?

nocturne coral
lean bobcat
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Im doing a pve play through of the official arks with a few friends, its pretty vanilla. Any suggestions for holding events/games between the tribe? Ideally something random so I can play too. Possible a mod?

nocturne coral
frigid vine
# nocturne coral Also, it is possible that a patch could break it. This has happened in the past

No worries, i know these days too, thanks for understanding it.
I changed nothing on my side. Everything is the same since years.

I noticed, it affects only one dedicated server it seems to. They are identical, besides vRAM. I changed this now to "let the OS decide" in windows server 2022, rebooted the server but unlucky also did not help. Would be related to the error whats displaying.

Its not happing every boot btw. 1 of 20 tries to start the server works without changes.

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Also if i validate the server files through steamCMD the server starts immediately but after shutdown, same issue.

nocturne coral
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There may be someone who can provide more clarity if they have experienced this as well

frigid vine
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Is that a Discord? Can you DM me invite link maybe?

nocturne coral
rocky meadow
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I have set up a cluster with club ark and the island. My friend can join the island but when he joins club ark were not in the same session or he struggles to connect. We have mods but have verified we have the same ones as we play on the island server together with no issues. Please help!

rocky meadow
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am i asking in the wrong channel or something? I dont understand why i cant find answers for this

bleak ivy
rocky meadow
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thank you for the response. It does only have that mod. I can join no problem, but my friend trys to join and we cant see each other and he says his food, water, etc is flashing, which is odd for club ark anyway. I can transfer from both servers in the cluster no problem, he can join the island server no problem. He cant join club ark with me tho.

bleak ivy
devout rampart
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Wildcard, could you please, PLEASE stop pushing updates in the same hour of Microsoft Patch Tuesaday release? NO OTHER company in the world push updates NOW, and it's third month in a row. Jesus

Any mod that can commit the acknolwedgement? I don't know if i cant tag @low haven or someone else from mod/admin team.

wise kindle
devout rampart
bleak ivy
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lots do lol. minecraft did today granted pre-release but still

devout rampart
celest halo
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Sounds like you need to find a better way to manage your cluster, I can start my full cluster with one command 🤣

devout rampart
next warren
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Someone know How to fix the despawn of dino on lost colony on ps5? Some dino that I tame just disapear idk why for exemple, I got 3 baby Wolf, I went search for metal and when I came back one was not here, i also tried to tame so many equus but they disapear too i only got one that doesnt despawn, it also made it to baby i made myself. It make the game very annoying and unplayable

celest halo
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It was also a minor patch no one said you had to install it right away

devout rampart
# celest halo It was also a minor patch no one said you had to install it right away

Minor patch this month, major last one. Concept is: Microsoft canonized Patch Tuesday for server admins and IT's, for minor impact on production environement with required updates on servers, exposed on the network. 2nd tuesday evening of the month is the "rule" and best pratice, and no other software house is going to push updates on this timeframe, to avoid interference or generated issues (microsoft itself apart). The steam cmd patcher doesn't know if an update is major or minor, he detect a version difference, he do the update. But still, minor or major must not be done in this 4 hour timeframe after <t:1773165600:t>.

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i can't point to links on official Microsoft management best pratice page or wiki, due to channel restrictions.

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after that, i'm only a random dude on the internet.

wise kindle
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I run updates on Wednesdays.
No issues so far.

celest halo
old venture
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yo guys i just downloaded ark and on the starting menu its going 10/20 fps and it bugs after a few seconds why?

devout rampart
wise kindle
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Tbh
Your complaint is with Steamcmd if I reading your management style correctly.

devout rampart
old venture
old wolf
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Guess we just never going to fix this save corruption on server load hu?

onyx night
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current server build?

devout rampart
shell swan
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Anyone else have issues with turrets being extremely overly powerful on lost colony? Is there a way anyone with unofficial servers is able to specifically decrease the amount of damage the offensive outpost do? Right now even a gamma outpost is not doable because of how powerful the turrets are.

It’s nice for defense outpost but right now offense outposts are not doable even gamma

valid marten
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Hey peeps. Got a big problem. We have an Xbox one S and when trying to play the Valguero map the game keeps telling us the map is not installed once we tried to play it. But it is. We’ve tried reinstalling, different accounts, changing regions, etc. Anyone got any ideas?

mortal snow
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Unable to see Unofficial/Non-dedicated servers in the server menu on my main account. They just don't show up.
Tried deleting save data but that didn't help.
Anyone have this issue or are able to help?

tardy talon
mortal snow
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Yes, has been for a few weeks.
The issue started with me just not able to join Lost Colony servers on unofficial and somehow progressed to this

pure vapor
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Anyone else’s server lose all
Items in vaults and dinos including saddles 🙁

rough brook
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Is it an official issue that dinos now gather fewer resources?
No matter how high I set the harvesting settings, I gather more resources with my character than with the dinos

cursive abyss
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anyones servers acting funky? I have 6 maps on my cluster 4 of my maps are doing fine running smooth but 2 of my maps are stuck in a boot loop I rolled back the servers and they are still boot looping

limpid garnet
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Anyone have any experience with mod conflicts? I have a server with mods that runs great. As soon as I add Ark Additions the client crashes constantly. ASE

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
blazing swallow
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i have no clue for me its Valgeuro that is doing this cause my Lost colony server has the same mods and everything and is completly fine

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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Yea 2 of the servers are home servers

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I wanna know if there’s a fix being rolled out soon

blazing swallow
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i hope so i know im on New York servers and they are undergoing maintence here soon so im hoping that fixes it

cursive abyss
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Yea same all my servers are New York

blazing swallow
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hmmmm

cursive abyss
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Where did u hear that?

blazing swallow
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very interesting

cursive abyss
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Yea

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Weird that it only affects 2 out my 6 maps

blazing swallow
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that we are having issues and both on new york servers

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yea like i said Lost colony is fine

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but Val is just rebooting forever

cursive abyss
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Yup it’s extinction and Forglar for me

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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Ahh okay

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Well I hope they fix it soon

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My character is on those servers l

blazing swallow
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oof ye

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one of my family is on Val rn so

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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I got you bro

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I’ll say something once my servers are back up

blazing swallow
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ye

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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Yep was actually just about to say something

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Servers are up

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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Yepp

blazing swallow
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nice i just checked and yep it works

blazing swallow
cursive abyss
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No luck on ur side?

blazing swallow
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just saying hopefully it doesnt happen again lol

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was quite the scare

cursive abyss
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for real though lol

long meadow
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hi,
we got a root server and got some issues with our ARK ASA Cluster.
can someone help me (PM me?)

shell laurel
onyx night
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on my server, cryopods can only be opened near a fridge. is that normal?

long meadow
tepid berry
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Hmmm, just got a server drop....

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Hope it's something fixing stasis of STRUCTURES FFS

tepid berry
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Well...we gonna get patch notes or what?

errant marlin
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Since the latest patch, several servers in my cluster no longer start reliably. A small portion of the maps comes up normally, but most of them get stuck during startup or end up in a boot loop.

What I observed:

the affected servers consume extreme amounts of RAM during startup

memory usage keeps increasing until system memory is nearly full

the issue does not affect all maps equally

even a nearly freshly created server was affected

Important point:
My savegames are not corrupted. Some of the affected servers eventually start again after many restart attempts with the exact same saves and then run normally. Because of that, this does not look like classic save corruption to me. It looks more like an unstable loading/startup issue introduced by the patch, where certain servers or maps sometimes fail to load properly and spiral into extreme RAM usage.

At the moment, only a small part of my cluster is running normally again, while the rest still has startup problems.

Has anyone found a fix or a workaround for this?

hybrid spindle
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I am also seeing this issue after the latest update. For now I am rolling back the Rag and Center servers to the previous update. For those with this issue also you can download old updates by logging in to SteamCMD with your user account and then running download_depot 2430930 2430931 7329203653903514132. This will download the directly previous update before today, version 84.12 specifically. You can then copy the files over to your server.

errant marlin
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Thanks, but I do not think rolling back really solves the actual problem for me. I had the same behavior on two servers with the previous patch already. To me, this looks more like a general loading/startup issue that keeps getting triggered again by new updates.

gilded smelt
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why are the wild dinos in my nitrado server maximized at level 150? i tried using custom dino levels mod (with the file codes setup duh) and the server settings and pretty much everything

wise kindle
lucid rapids
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Yesterday and today, all my mods appear with "incompatible" or som like that anyone now's why? I'm playing on PS5, also I downloaded the Astraeos Structures mod and it doesn't appears in the menu of my mods when I go to active them in my Host local

wise kindle
cold ore
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Since today's patch, my game crashes whenever I open the crafting tab. Is anyone else experiencing this?

foggy plinth
viscid basalt
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After the next patch, the Astraeos card does not start.
Exception:

Fatal error
Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
reading address 0x0000000000000038

Stack trace:

UPrimalItem::GetCraftingResourceQuantitiesFromSortedResources()
PrimalItem.cpp:12427

UPrimalItem::MeetBlueprintCraftingRequirements()
PrimalItem.cpp:7174

UPrimalItem::CheckAutoCraftBlueprint()
PrimalItem.cpp:8739

UPrimalInventoryComponent::CheckForAutoCraftBlueprints()
PrimalInventoryComponent.cpp:6491

APrimalStructureItemContainer::SetContainerActive()
APrimalStructureItemContainer::BeginPlay()

Last remote function before crash:

MulticastUpdateNearbyWirelessCrafting

The developers broke the functions again

mortal snow
river tinsel
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same here for astraeos

astral lotus
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Hello, so I set up a private unofficial cluster via nitrado, and I am wondering. Is there a way to tell what map/server you last logged off from? I feel silly but curious how people keep track of their characters.

smoky cave
jade prism
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Hello, I wanted to ask if it is possible to adjust the max resources in grinder other than using a mod.

As far as I know, it wasn't possible on evolved, but I don't know if it's different on asa. I couldn't find any information about it.

silent echo
coarse kelp
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hey! does anyone know how can i activate fsr 3.1.4 in game?

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im trying to turn on the new redstone framegen, but my amd driver says that fsr 3,1,4 is not on. I have a 9060 xt.

gilded smelt
smoky cave
lost raven
viscid basalt
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I get different errors every time I rollback to the backups of the Astraeos card.

fiery comet
# viscid basalt Not yet

Same. Happening with 4 out of 11 servers we have... Tried rolling back but it nothing is helping atm~~

viscid basalt
fiery comet
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I'm wondering if it's map related. Which maps aren't going up for you

viscid basalt
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The mod developer and I talked about this issue, I threw all the information there. He says the game developers are to blame.

fiery comet
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Yeah I saw~

viscid basalt
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Astraeos, the other cards are working fine

fiery comet
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Ok. Mine are Island, Rag, Astra and LC

wise kindle
lost raven
# fiery comet Ok. Mine are Island, Rag, Astra and LC

Interesting, just rebooted my cluster for the first time since this weekend and 3 out of 10 maps are crashing on boot when they were absolutely fine before. I have like 80 mods but they are the same across every map so usually if there's an issue with one then it affects them all equally. In my case it's Extinction, Center, and Valguero which are not booting. My Rag, Astraeos and LC are all fine and have people playing. (Can't remember if I turned ping off, my apologies if I didn't).

errant marlin
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Still not starting:
Ragnarok, Astraeos, Lost Colony

Were affected but are now starting again:
The Island, The Center, Valguero, Svartalfheim, Aberration, Hunting Map

Not affected:
Event Map, Club ARK, Extinction, Scorched Earth

Summary:
8 of 11 servers were affected by the startup issue after the patch. Most eventually started again after many restart attempts. Only Ragnarok, Astraeos and Lost Colony are still not starting.

deft storm
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Hi, dinos, players and loot are teleporting to 50/50, its a known issue?

lost raven
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I tried a manual rollback, reinstallation of all mods, and removal of all "non-essential" mods to no success. I rented a new slot so I can copy everything over and start a more in depth tear-down to try and find the cause. Not very thrilled about it 😦

west schooner
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guys ive tried alot but i cant seem to optimize my game im trying to get atleast 60 fps on genesis 2

errant marlin
fiery comet
lost raven
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I really don't think it's a save corruption in my case, I am able to roll back to the exact save we booted with the last major patch and it still happens.

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In like 8 years of hosting clusters between the two Arks, I've never actually had something that was related to the save. It's always been either a mod misbehaving/broken by an update, or a bad server install - so usually it's a last resort anyway.

errant marlin
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Just to clarify – the rollback I mentioned was referring to the 50/50 issue, not the server startup problems. I didn’t have to reset any of my servers. Once they finally start, they run completely fine with the current saves.

I did try the rollback approach for the startup issue as well, but it didn’t help. I even went back almost two weeks and the servers still wouldn’t start. In the end I just kept the current save and kept restarting the server until it eventually decided to start. After that it runs normally.

fiery comet
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Yeah we tried rolling wayyyy back to. Did not help

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For the starter up issue

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Any of you using ASA Dedicated Manager by chance?

lost raven
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Nope, stuck with Nitrado

errant marlin
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Update from my side:

From what I can see, the main issue during startup seems to be the RAM usage.

Astraeos was consuming over 100 GB of RAM before it finally managed to start.

Lost Colony was even worse. I tried starting it completely alone so it had all available memory, and it went up to ~200 GB RAM and still didn’t start.

Because of that, the only thing that sometimes works for me is restarting the server over and over until it eventually decides to start.

Update: Astraeos finally started on my cluster as well after many restart attempts.
Right now I’m down to only two maps that still refuse to start.

lost raven
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Nitrado tries 10 times before shutting off, and I've restarted this process three times now, so 30 boot attempts. I do know that Astraeos and LC tend to spike hard before rebooting but it's usually only enough to register about 35Gb RAM on the graph. So far though I'm not having issues with either of those maps though.

fiery comet
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I left our Island one for like 8 hrs and never went online

lost raven
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Crossing my fingers that this "Fixed a boot crash affecting some servers" patch note that JUST dropped is it.

fiery comet
gilded smelt
# wise kindle Yes

I did but the server dinos were still maximized at 150. Until i used the admin command: “cheat setdifficultyvalue (number)” and they go back to 150 after a restart

lost raven
# fiery comet It worked on my Island server!

That's very hopeful, thank you! I have to wait till it's available on Nitrado but I'm here crossing my fingers. Sucks to have wasted 2 hours trying to fix this myself, but I'll be happy enough if it fixes itself lol

fiery comet
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All the problematic servers are now online for me

lost raven
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Confirming 100% up now :D

wise kindle
errant marlin
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Update from my side:

Right now the only map still refusing to start for me is Lost Colony.
The RAM usage is still increasing during startup, but much slower than before the patch. At the moment it's sitting at ~94 GB, so I'm letting it run in case it eventually pushes through.

All my other maps are running again now, including Ragnarok.
Rag took quite a while and needed several restart attempts, but it eventually started and has been running fine since.

So the situation definitely improved after the patch — Lost Colony is the last one still struggling on my cluster.

gilded smelt
wise kindle
vagrant gust
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Hi, so every time I launch Ark for the first time on PC, it freezes on startup and when I try to change my screen resolution in-game.

It's done this on 3 diff PCs so not sure what to do, this time i just can't get past the part where you setup the character. It usually just ends up working

tight wing
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me and my hb hosted non dedicated and when he invites me nun happens how do if ix this

last magnet
vagrant gust
last magnet
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ahh maybe the SSD size was the issue. I haven't played ASE in ages and it was on my Xbox, not PC

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I know ASA hates changing resolution sizes in game bc I crashed my game doing that

vagrant gust
woeful ledge
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RIP map lost 100Gb ram mildpanic

last magnet
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ooof

woeful ledge
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I'm not alone after the update.

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:))

last magnet
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I rolled in here to ask what some good resistance/damage settings for the bosses. I have non standard difficulty in my cluster. ie: Island is difficulty lvl 25, max wild level 750 with shiny boosting to 1.5x levels above that. and I have a theri that can hit for 50k with loads of HP so I want the bosses to be more of a fight

lunar prairie
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Can anyone help me getting loopback to work on opnsense? Ive run out of google answers

smoky burrow
errant marlin
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LC won't start for me, even after the update. I gave it the entire server. It used up all 192 GB and still didn't start.

smoky burrow
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Yeah, I'm running tests since the last major update - it looks like they messed up bigtime.
Rolling back to (much) older saves still boots for me, but there clearly is a serious leak and even old map saves corrupt themselves over time

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I have disabled all mods on my testing server but CS and DD, as well as all plugins aside from rconScheduler, currently trying a save from Feb 26...

errant marlin
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When this error first occurred during the initial update, I was able to load an old save file, then overwrite it with your current one, and suddenly it started up. Unfortunately, I am still searching for a save file that will allow it to start up at all.

smoky burrow
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yeah, I'm lucky to be paranoid about backups, but even if this eventually works, it'll be the biggest rollback I've ever seen

errant marlin
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I would say I'm crazy. I'm still trying to save the entire game because I don't want to harm my players.

errant marlin
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Yes, I found a save file from 4 March that works. Now start it up cleanly, shut it down again and overwrite it with the current save. I really hope it works.

smoky burrow
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I never succeeded going back to one of the latest saves... But good luck!
For our cluster, LC fubar'd itself so bad that it affected other maps by starving them from memory, but we're repairing

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Nice to meet you btw, looks like we have quite similar setup

errant marlin
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Yes, I'm also pleased to meet you. I have a root server with 12 maps and a new root with one map, which will then be filled with Genesis and upcoming maps. All in one cluster.

smoky burrow
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Nice! May I join? More for information and staying in touch, I won't play outside of Atlantis..

errant marlin
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Well, it's rather difficult for me to write. All my texts are translated because I don't know English. My servers are located in Germany.

smoky burrow
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lol, I'm german

errant marlin
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Oh, I wasn't expecting that ^^

errant marlin
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So even though I have an older save file that works, the latest version won't load. That causes a major rollback. I don't want that.

smoky burrow
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same here - I don't see how to get around that rollback - maybe waiting for the next major update?
Even when rolling back, I'm still searching to a point where it doesn't cause a memory leak and get corrupted over time again...

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For now our LC is offline to the community, I'm just running tests behind closed doors

errant marlin
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My problem with the whole thing is that players have their main base on Lost and that's where their breeding is.

smoky burrow
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Yeah, it's such a mess - we can boot up a rolled back version for an hour to transfer off stuff, but that's not a solution at all.
For now I'm just hoping to find a rollback option that doesn't explode again

woeful ledge
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🥲

smoky burrow
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WC is costing unofficial server owners years of lifetime and grey hair once again DodoPanic

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I have no solution yet, let's stay in touch! If anyone has any news, please tag or DM me, I'm running out of ideas

errant marlin
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So, just as I went back in time from backup to backup before, I’m now moving forward into the future, backup by backup. The latest save isn’t working. But backups that didn’t work before are suddenly working. I hope I end up with the most recent one in the end ^^

smoky burrow
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Viel Glück ^^

woeful ledge
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That's not the solution, because Ark hasn't fixed it, so I have to keep rolling back to a time when there was no error. I encountered the error on March 6th, it kept loading indefinitely. Then I tried several save files and rolled back to March 3rd, and it worked. But today, after updating, I encountered the same problem again and had to roll back to March 3rd for it to work.🥲

smoky burrow
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For me it's worse, even rolling back far, the save keeps corrupting itself

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It bloats up until it ends up leaking enough for loading to take infinite time and memory - my save from end of Feb looks a little better now, but I don't know yet

woeful ledge
errant marlin
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What is damaged? I noticed that the server simply won't start. A few dinosaurs have disappeared on two servers, but no buildings or anything like that. I don't think the saves are corrupted, they just can't be loaded.

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Yeah, that’s exactly what happened to me too. The game itself is fine, but there’s something wrong with the loader – it just won’t load. The save files aren’t corrupted. I restarted Island 100 times and suddenly it worked without any issues. It just wouldn’t start.

smoky burrow
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For our community, some player inventories were corrupted on other maps, missing items or seeing another version of themselves sleeping. Nothing major...

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Yes, I don't know how to phrase it correctly, it's a combination of the updated software, but obviously depending on the save file as well.
What I mean by corrupted is that it had a memory leak causing it to not load correctly eventually

errant marlin
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Across 13 maps in total, I have 5 dinosaurs and a duplicate character. I don’t see that as a corrupted save file. I performed a minor rollback on one server because some items were missing. That’s happened before. That’s how the duplicate character came about. But I’d put that down to my plugin, as it restored the character.

smoky burrow
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I think something may be lost in translation about the corrupt save discussion... We share 100% the same experience

smoky burrow
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My save from Feb 26 seems long-term stable up to now

smoky burrow
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nvm, it consumed over 25GB on restart now before I killed it - LC seems to just be cooked

errant marlin
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You’re right. I’m stuck too. The one instance I found was running for about a couple of hours, but that’s it. Nothing else. Even Astraeos started playing up for me earlier and the RAM usage just kept going up and up. I restarted Astraeos and everything went back to normal. I don’t really recognise Ark anymore. It’s all become so confusing.

smoky burrow
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I started from an empty save now, will update after I see conclusive results...

olive pine
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I have been trying to have lvl 300 dinos spawn in my Astraeos map for sometime now. I have Override official difficulty set to 10 and everywhere I read states I need to have ini config MaxDifficulty=True. But reading on the Ark wiki, it seems I need to have it set to false, otherwise it defaults to difficulty of 5.0 and max 150 dinos. If the "Maximum Difficulty" checkbox is enabled (MaxDifficulty=True in ShooterGameMode_Options within Game.ini), Difficulty is set to 5.0 and all other related settings are ignored. So I assume I need to have that set to false with override set to 10. Yes, I wipe dinos everytime I make changes and have yet to see lvl 300 dinos aside from in caves.

errant marlin
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Try this:
Difficulty Offset = 1.0
Override Official Difficulty = 10.0

olive pine
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I have tried that, there was no change in dinos after wipe. Waited a week before making changes again.

wise kindle
sonic sun
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did anyone found a solution for the lost items and stuff? are minor rollbacks possible?

wise kindle
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Sounds like the 50 50 big is back

silent echo
sonic sun
silent echo
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thats if it works the save

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not sure how it is on playstation tho

sonic sun
wise kindle
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Rollbacks are not affected by the version. Sounds like they dont want to do the rollback, which is understandable.

spare raft
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Hi, is it possible to increase the movement speed of my dinos on my server?

sonic sun
spare raft
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How ?

sonic sun
spare raft
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Online with server machine

sonic sun
sonic sun
spare raft
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It's on my Windows server. Where can i find it ?

grand zodiac
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Hi, on the old ark I could use a cheat to add experience to my dinos to get all the lvls up, I've tried the same cheat on ASA but it doesn't work. Is it another cheat or how do it works?

wise kindle
sonic sun
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but it‘s a one person support, small cozy pve server

wise kindle
sonic sun
wise kindle
sonic sun
smoky burrow
light merlin
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Does the moro rex mod have problems?

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When i tried to build something my game crashed

deft apex
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Is this general help

pine python
#

i need a little help im not sure what i cant do, when my servers start up everythign is 100% fine normal ram usage, but after a few minutes the servers ram usage will slowley drop. to 0.8GB if it dont hang then it will sit there saying in game its joinable but all everyone gets is timeout errors....i have tried with other managers and custom commands but they all end up the same.

server starts normal, then a few minutes go by the ram slowley drops, can be anywhere from minuters to hours later the server will hang or state joinable but its not (connection timed out)

manager=asam
windows=windows server 2022
P.S (UPDATED)
this started after the 84.12 server patch if that helps
can anyone help?

robust igloo
#

hallo

tight ivy
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If I'm playing a self hosted server by myself should I be using pve or pvp? The only problem I have with pve is I can't kill and harvest babies for say a penguin poly farm. Unless I'm doing it wrong?

void berry
#

Does anyone happen to know how to either cause the drakeling dragon hord chest to insta-despawn when it spawns in or to change the loot in it?

timid dragon
#

Does anyone know a command or help to clear old LC outpost structures that keep being left and are indestructable?

pastel ferry
#

I have players that lost all the engrams after an update. How do I go about fixing that?

round niche
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what the next map and when ?

near hawk
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gen1 june

urban pelican
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why do structures not show decay timers while ingame for my xbox ASE servers

silent echo
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maybe server have it turned off

smoky burrow
#

Is LC running stable for anyone off nitrado?

shadow estuary
#

Can I get a confirmation for this the Acro is coming to official march 31st does that mean that we no longer need to have it as a mod for our servers when it becomes "official"

silent echo
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yep ^^

raw wadi
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Hi Guys how i can make that the meat/food/berries and organic stuff spoils slowly in tame inventory, example if prime meat spoils in 3 min in my inv , dropping in pateradon it survives atleast 15 minutes. Thank you in advance!!

red juniper
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For example if =1 a raw prime meat last 1 minute, =2 would last 2 minutes and so on

urban pelican
prime fractal
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I need help

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I'm on Xbox and I bought a server on nitrado for 90 days but I don't know how to join it on my console because it won't pop up

neat wigeon
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Is it a public server

prime fractal
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It says official save game

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And it’s a pc server

red juniper
prime fractal
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How to do that

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I can’t see the setting

#

Option I mean

wise kindle
red juniper
wise kindle
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Nitrado has a separate toggle for each platform.
The default is all toggles enabled - full crossplay.

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So unless these were changed, the default is all platforms.

red juniper
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also while in the server browsing in game make sure you are on the unofficial tab and check your server filter such, password protected or not, map, pvp or pve, un check pc only server etc

prime fractal
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It doesn’t pop up

red juniper
#

does the nitrado interface actually shows server is up and running? if yellow state, means server is still booting or its in a boot loop aka crashing

arctic badger
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Trying to move my players from one map to another, allowing them to transfer. But it’s a grounded experience and they are asking for transmitters for help.

Question: is there a way to have them learn the engram and then unlearn it later?

If not, is there a way to have them create a new player and a way for me to destroy/delete the character that learned it with an admin command?

red juniper
arctic badger
red juniper
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Ultra Tek Transmitter for example

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Is easy to obtain. The Ultra Tek Transmitter is up from Level 10 and costs no Element. Need to be crafted in the smithy.

urban pelican
#

did wild card remove the decay timers you would see on ASE structures while in game

silent echo
urban pelican
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i know that

near hawk
#

no one has touched windows/xbox ASE in 2y

urban pelican
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im talk about years ago did they do something to it

silent echo
urban pelican
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i have all the decay settings turn on, we see dino timers in game, but not structure timers in game.. been that way for years now and just wanted to see what could be wrong

silent echo
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hold h and look at them then

urban pelican
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tried that, still nothing. Extended HUD is turned on as well

silent echo
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is on your end tho wildcard didt do it

urban pelican
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double checked all settings and all are set to the right thing.

fierce timber
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My server keeps "fake-crashing" where it isn't offline or rebooting in server control panel, but nobody can do anything similar to how it is prior to it kicking you off a server for connection/dc/etc issues.

I just now got a message saying, "You are not in sync with the server."

  • Version info - Client: 171 / Server: Unknown

I've never seen this before in my entire life of playing ARK, lol. Has anybody else had similar issues? Is this yet another botched update from WC or could it be something else? Never happened until the major update for Astraeos 2-3 versions or so ago and now it's constantly happening. Server is currently on Scorched.

red juniper
smoky burrow
#

still a lot of issues since the last major update of people finding their own character duplicated at 50/50, especially on Rag even keeping LC offline... anyone else?

gray minnow
#

morning everyone is there a way to remove vanilla engrams after installing super structures mod?

smoky cave
#

hello, since Friday, people on my Unofficial server have been crashing upon opening their Crafting Tab of the inventory. it seems to only affect non-Xbox players. we suspected that it was a specific mod that was causing the issue, as it had a reported bug and a fix coming, but that mod got updated and still people are struggling with the issue. does anyone have any ideas on a fix or how to diagnose ? i am not very well versed in Nitrado. thank you very much

fierce timber
red juniper
fierce timber
# red juniper Mayor updates tend to break mods, also everytime a mod updates it has a chance o...

Yeah, I've tried this 2-3 times already with the Nitrado "reset mod folder" function they have on the server control panel. It's never done anything as the issue has always persisted.

I thought the two most recent WC updates had seemingly fixed it as we had maybe 2-2.5 days without the issue after having it 2-3+ times daily which required a server restart to fix the issue, albeit temporarily until the next time. But then it just happened again last night so back to square one again.

stuck hemlock
#

I know it’s not the same issues, but it’s on the line of connectivity issues and could well and truly be a corrupted server if you happened to of done the same thing as me

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Also regarding mods as ours is highly modded too, have you made sure your mods/modded creatures are compatible with spawning on scorched earth?

fierce timber
# stuck hemlock Can I ask, when you switched your server over to scorched earth from Astraeos di...

I never switched from Astraeos. The huge Astraeos update was the one that borked things for us on a completely different map after everything was fine on every other map up until now. It was Ab -> Val -> LC -> Scorched (currently).

I always delete the entire map folder prior to switching so it can generate an entirely fresh/brand new map/world instance and it's never been an issue through my numerous map switches until now. WC clearly broke something imo, but it's still not fixed after that "mega" update for Astraeos.

stuck hemlock
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Of course don’t wipe the server unless you’ve uploaded all the the stuff you want to the obelisk, but I found switching directly to another map without wiping first had caused a bunch of issues for us even when I thought it was just something so simple.

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Oh okay, I misread your message then. Maybe hold out and see if anybody else has the same issues running scorched

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Since the update with astraeos

fierce timber
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Last time I was on Scorched with some of the same mods ages ago and didn't have this connectivity/desync issue.

stuck hemlock
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A lot of updates have been since a long time ago, and they have been breaking major things

fierce timber
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It's very strange as it first appears as though the server is about to kick you due to randomly going offline/rebooting randomly, but server stays online but you can't use any items (outside of rare instances of modded ones/food/etc)/move/creatures frozen

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And only way to fix is to restart server, or sometimes that doesn't work and only thing that works is to do creature wipe at launch argument and then it'll be fine temporarily until the next time it occurs.

stuck hemlock
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Do you use a stacking mod?

fierce timber
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No, I make stuff stack via .ini so I don't get the weight reduction they all have + issues with certain mods that require base game version of the item and not the childed version that's different for crafting things.

stuck hemlock
fierce timber
arctic badger
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If I have a mod on one map, but not another. And a member crafts the item and transfers. Will it show up or be functional on the map the doesn’t support the mod?

near hawk
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U can simple put the same mod list in all server and put the one su don't want active as passive mods

stoic perch
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Hey guys I do need some help getting some wyvern eggs on ark survival evolved if anybody has gotten on there in a while can help me on an unofficial server to get some because that it would be very helpful for my playthrough with my crew and mine isn't spawning any eggs for some reason but I would really like some help

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Or has any that they don't want or are willing to spare would help

lunar prairie
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Hey yall, im running a cluster and ive encountered a strange issue. When I transfer between servers I get disconnected immediately. The character transfers correctly when I re-log into the other server but its annoying to have to wait for the disconnection then reconnect. Does anyone have a fix for that?

last magnet
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I've had that issue for a while. but I self-host and my server machine's an older PC. there is a plugin that can help but it's paid, and I'm not nearly annoyed enough to buy a plugin quite yet

lunar prairie
last magnet
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I think it's bc of the server names having spaces, but I haven't tried transferring since I moved back to the island from SE. But I recall I had no issues when I moved back, as long as I didn't have a bunch of stuff in my pockets

lean hemlock
#

Is there somewhere I can look up ids for Bob's Tall Tales Items. The wiki section I'm seeing doesn't include any of the actual content?

rotund temple
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Hey if anyone free could anyone help me set up one I been trying to set a server up for a while but evertime I keep failing cause the state are always messing up if anyone can let me know and we can chat about what I need help with please and thank you

last magnet
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they have links to each of the three packs with links to the items. a bit of digging

errant marlin
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Hi, I managed to get Lost Colony working again after the patch. I restarted it about 5 times and it seemed fine. I had to do a 1 week rollback to get it running again.
Now, after just one day, I restarted Lost Colony again and it no longer starts properly. I cannot get it back online.
What was changed so heavily in this patch that it is causing issues like this?
In general, all servers now take much longer to continue loading after the console shows “BattlEye successfully initialized” before they actually move on and start.
On top of that, items are randomly disappearing, structures are being deleted, and player inventories are missing after restart. This is happening across different maps, not just Lost Colony.
Before this patch and before all of this started, everything was fine. The servers were running stable and had no issues at all. That is why I really do not believe this is a problem with my server.

regal plume
errant marlin
# regal plume Hello, I run 10 maps of ASA and 2 premium maps as well on unofficial. I host on...

The maps are not crashing during normal runtime. Each server has enough memory while it is running.

The issue only happens after restarts. Lost Colony often does not come back up properly after a restart, while the other maps also take much longer to start than they did before the patch.

The random data loss is also only noticeable after a restart. That is when I see missing structures, disappearing items, or players loading in with empty inventories.

So this does not look like a general low-memory issue during normal operation on my side. It is specifically tied to the restart/startup process.

vernal spoke
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Yoyo, please correct me if im in the wrong channel, I just wanna setup a LAN setup for me and my friend, but one of us are on steam and the other on epic games. I'm trying to do a setup on my pc where I can host and play at the same time.

I made a run.bat
and it looks like this

cd /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64"
start "" ShooterGameServer.exe TheIsland?SessionName=Radio?MaxPlayers=30?XPMultiplier=2.0?HarvestAmountMultiplier=2.0?DifficultyOffset=1.0?ServerPVE=True?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True?EnablePvPGamma=True?TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.0?MapPlayerLocation=True?NightTimeSpeedScale=2.0?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?ServerPassword=hello123?ServerAdminPassword=hello123 -crossplay -server -log```
But it keeps getting hung after "PID: 11588" (can't send images it seems like)

Any tips? I've tried deleting my save folder. Validating my files, making a new run.bat, nothings working
I've also tried much simpler run.bat, but the same thing happens.
errant marlin
vernal spoke
celest halo
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Some of those settings in the start script aren't doing anything for a ASA server

vernal spoke
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You mean mine? I moved most stuff into the GameUserSettings.ini instead, is that better? :D

wise kindle
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They mentioned running Epic games, so Im assuming this is for ASE?

celest halo
wise kindle
celest halo
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Yup looking at the epic store page for it 😂

wise kindle
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Unless you are confusing Epic Online Services, which every ark uses.
As far as I know, Epic does not have a version of the game for ASA.
If it did, then it would be mentioned in the crossplay sections of the wiki and be an option in crossplay menus of hosts.

celest halo
wise kindle
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Interesting
So you cant remove it from crossplay
Wonder why

celest halo
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its prob part of PC and they treating it same as version from steam

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with game using EOS backend there should not be much diff between the one downloaded from steam and one downloaded from epic

wise kindle
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It probably installs Steam in the background lol

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So
You cant stop this version from joining an ASA server, so if there is an Epic specific exploit, you are screwed.
Thats nice to know. Wtf

celest halo
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the crossplay sections of the wiki also says the -ServerPlatform= is "Undocumented by Wildcard". so for all we know there could be an option for the epic one and no bothered to look to see what it is 🤣

wise kindle
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Basically if you want to get away with stuff in pvp, run Epic.

celest halo
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google says ARK: Survival Ascended was released on the Epic Games Store on October 22, 2025 so it hasn't been on epic for that long

celest halo
wise kindle
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This is beyond unsettling

little zephyr
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don't know if I'm in the right place. I'm trying to run pugnacia and primal fear on the same ark but am having some problems with the lvl cap. if yall know anything that could help id greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

golden nest
gray minnow
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whats the best site to run a server?

last magnet
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nitrado is the only official one. none of the other server hosting can officially offer ASA and you would need to know how to configure a server. I bought an older PC and learned the joys of port forwarding and server admin on Windows.

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now ASE I have zero clue.

bleak ivy
bleak ivy
brisk plover
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Anyone else after the update not able to have their friends join a server?

soft raft
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With mods that are added to official, can we safely remove those mods?

little zephyr
bleak ivy
near hawk
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The mod and vanilla version use different id, u need to convert them

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Garuga has added that to some, but I don't think all

bleak ivy
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yeah, forgot that lol. graptor doesn't but the others do

devout jasper
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yo how do i enable damage numbers

smoky burrow
# errant marlin The maps are not crashing during normal runtime. Each server has enough memory w...

I am following up on this testing on my servers changing the command line, my understanding is that my save grew because some validation of playerdata in the store (inside the map save.ark) didn't work, then with converttostore, pre-existing data has been re-integrated every restart cycle. Not 100% sure, but rolling back a couple days and using the commandline without converttostore ran a couple successful restarts now.

past cloak
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Pls update mod AA🥲

rough kelp
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Hey guys, my arks been crashing on pc consistently after roughly 20 seconds loaded in. I have updated all of my hardware and it's all be checked many times, my game files have also been checked and I've reinstalled ark and even reset my computer but the problem insists. Does anyone know what I could do to solve this? Thanks!!

smoky burrow
vernal spoke
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Yoyo, if someone could spend a bit of time helping me set up a Lan server, I would appreciate it.
Wanting to play with a friend on the same Network, I got a server running, but it keeps getting

[2026.03.17-15.52.38:447][  0]gethostbyname failed ()```

They are on Epic Games im on Steam
```@echo off
cd /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64"
start "" ShooterGameServer.exe TheIsland_WP?SessionName=Radio?MaxPlayers=4?XPMultiplier=10.0?HarvestAmountMultiplier=2.0?DifficultyOffset=1.0?ServerPVE=True?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True?EnablePvPGamma=True?MapPlayerLocation=True?NightTimeSpeedScale=2.0?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?ServerPassword=Flods246?ServerAdminPassword=Flods246 -crossplay -server -log```

Any help would be much appreciated, if you need more info please reply me or dm me :D
smoky cave
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@sharp siren is your best bet

rough kelp
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I could play for 5 hours with no problems then log in the next day and crash constantly

quartz ermine
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Can someone tell me how to make an unofficial server

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Iam on xbox

violet dust
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It's honestly easiest to create one on a PC @quartz ermine . That way you can also have the server running for the people you play with even when you are not around, unless you turn off the PC hosting the server of course 🙂

smoky burrow
rough kelp
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it just goes to a black screen then the login page

smoky burrow
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granted, the save file had issues, but still...

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Did you undervolt or overclock cpu/gpu/memory?

quartz ermine
rough kelp
rough kelp
violet dust
smoky burrow
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I recommend keeping a monitor open like hwinfo and keeping an eye on the temperatures, this could get harmful to your setup's lifespan if it indeed would be temperatures

rough kelp
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ty for helping!

quartz ermine
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I think play time with xbox cloud gaming is unlimited so it won't shut down the game

quartz ermine
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(I'm talking about ASE cause ASA is chopped)

viscid sequoia
#

is there a way to enable taming in caves on extinction map ?

near hawk
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don't think so

vernal spoke
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can someone just post a run.bat of a dedicated server that's working right now? obv blurr ips password as such

lunar prairie
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Hey uh im having three servers show up when I attempt to run one... I use ark server manager but only one of the profiles is online and there are no other servers running in the background or residually (fresh restart, all three servers did not appear before the one server that was actually started finished booting)

lunar prairie
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Nvm pretty sure I know what it is

sharp siren
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server password and admin password being the same is also asking for trouble

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no idea what -server is trying to do, should be harmlessly meaningless

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for EGS clients to connect, you need to add -PublicIPForEpic=x.x.x.x with your WAN IP address, and if someone is connecting from inside the same LAN, i have no idea what happens. at minumum, the network needs to support NAT hairpinning

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you may be able to fudge it with setting Multihome to the LAN IPv4

autumn hornet
vernal spoke
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"Network Failure Message"
"Unable to query server info for invite."

sharp siren
vernal spoke
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We'll it's not even working for me on my PC that's hosting, using steam

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is that still the same solution?

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Alr, i did a last panic attempt at connecting Via the browser, it loaded for like 10minutes, then i get "Connection Failure Invalid Authentication token"

worthy roost
#

Is there a way to disable the roaming king titan?

sand hull
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6317 lost colony is dead bro Like it’s been down for hours now

wise kindle
wet merlin
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So I just recently got my own server and updated it by restarting, how long does it take for the client to recognise that it was updated?

green pulsar
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Unofficial servers down? I don’t see any it was acting weird so I closed my game and now none are showing. Officials are though

austere needle
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for all "Unoffical players" if you know the IPadress of your server where you was playing on.

open your game than open your console and type "open ipadresse:port" this connects you to your map (even when EOS is offline)

*This works only if your character is on the map

timid horizon
austere needle
# timid horizon How would you find this out in the future?

if you open your game and you can not see any of your servers this seems to be related to EOS ... you can always try to connect to your server via console and check if you can connect.
to find out what IP your server have you can use Battlemetrics and use the copyfunction for the IP.

timid horizon
austere needle
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  • its show you how you connect when you hover over the ipdress
timid horizon
timid horizon
austere needle
timid horizon
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Ohhh neat!

opaque pivot
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Question, when installing a mod that has ini settings are the setting supposed to go into the game or the game server settings ini

blazing moon
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How can i find the unofficial Server i play on xbox?

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Not a Single Server is showing

tiny sky
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Having the same issue, unofficial servers aren’t showing for us

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We can’t find our cluster

austere needle
tiny sky
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That will work for some, but we have 30 new people to the game so they won't do that hahaha

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We're more so wondering what's wrong and if there's a fix

celest halo
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No server listing is normally an issue with EOS and nothing you can do but wait till they fix

sick warren
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Is anyone else having server problems where they can’t get in? Because the server I keep trying to get into NA-PVE-Theisland5423 because it keeps saying error unknown every time

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And I tried everything uninstalling mods. My game is up-to-date and yet it won’t let me in. It keeps saying error unknown all the time.

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In the server listing it shows there are five players in the server.

sly fern
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im tryinh to play but my frreeind cant join my server it says connection tiumed out

raw flint
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I run a private dedicated server. Is there a line I can add to the server GameUserSettings.ini or Game.ini to perform a Dino wipe on either shutdown or start up?

near hawk
raw flint
near hawk
#

-ForceRespawnDinos

raw flint
dusk frost
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Hello everyone,

​Over the years, I have managed multiple servers and accrued a lot of experience (and hopefully a solid reputation as well). I want to keep utilizing those skills.

​I am now available to assist others with the technical side of their Windows servers on a freelance/paid basis.
​I speak fluent English and French, as well as good German. My experience ranges from building fully-fledged server management web tools to custom server-side automations. I am happy to send a CV showcasing these projects upon request.

​If you need a technical partner to handle the backend while you focus on the community, please DM me!

(If this is the wrong place to post this or if its not allowed please let me know)

rancid burrow
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Anyone have good structure decay settings?

midnight obsidian
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Dear Wildcard Official Team,
To be frank, we have no interest in your so-called editor, nor in the Battle Royale mode. We urge you to focus your core resources on rolling out new maps, refining the existing gameplay, and fixing the long-standing unresolved bugs.
Two critical issues we want to highlight:

The extremely high memory footprint of ARK private servers at launch. Even a single server instance on Astraeos (the server solution co-developed with Nitrado) consumes as much as 20GB of RAM.
The persistent bug where Rock Drakes still enter a berserk state even when there are no Reapers in the vicinity.

Above all, we sincerely hope that you can release Genesis: Part 1 and Genesis: Part 2 as soon as possible. These are the core DLCs that the player community has been eagerly anticipating for a long time.

austere needle
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Hello everyone,
Has anyone else noticed that for about the last day and a half, EOS or the map listing has been faulty?
Some of my maps keep disappearing from the list, and after refreshing several times, they reappear.

warm fern
#

yep

olive pine
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Except when I had a Nitrado server running. Since moving to a self-hosted, I always have to refresh for my cluster to show.

austere needle
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yes its anyoing af :x

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Most sites that track maps also indicate that they are offline for hours at a time, even though they are running constantly.

earnest hawk
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can some1 help me i am trying to run asa on my pc like a server and everytime i open it does open but no mods nor the map i wanted get added and the commend thing tells me that it couldnt load mods from my folder even tho i did load them

grand light
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hi im new to ASA, what would be the best mods, map, and settings for a singleplayer server, can anyone tell me or point me to a good video on yt for it?

soft pine
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Quick question.... Anyone have any clue why the cave creatures on The Center on my cluster are not spawning completely. I'll get some spiders but hardly any bats or arthos. I have already decreased spawns TREMENDOUSLY and still can't get them to spawn. I'm at a lost lol

vale robin
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Hi, have some questions about to buy/use to start my ARK cluster, wanna have all maps plus another one for events, so

1 - About CPU, what should I look on it, more cores or threads, higher cache, generation??

2 - About internet connection 1gb download, 400mb upload its enouph, or needs to be higher

3 - The speed of read and write of the hard disk matters something to run an ARK server, and is 1TB enoupgh or better 2TB?

4 - Should be better 64Gb RAM (3200ghz) or 32Gb (6000ghz)

5 - Between 300 and 600 what best CPU you can advise to buy in terms of running a cluster?

6 - About Ddos attacks, there is some way to prevent, or if ir happens, to fix it?

7 - What kind of software will be needed and how much it will cost me?

Probably more questions will pop up, but for now its this, if also you know something more I should know, any help is appreciated, thanks

celest halo
strange ledge
#

Can someone help me join a server on playstation

gritty flax
#

I have a question regarding ini crafting cost, would anyone know where to direct me? Or have an answer? We are wanting to change the crafting cost of boss fights to essentially lock them out until a set time, when the admins would start them, since we cant disable them temporarily (from what we can find). Anyone know the ini crafting cost line(s) i would have to fill? Its just for the three island bosses at all difficulties, we want no other crafting costs changed. Ideally we set them to like 100x base crafting cost

grand zodiac
#

Hey!👋🏻 Is there an eggcellent adventure mod ? 🐰🐣🐤 for ASA

vale robin
wise kindle
#

Huh

celest halo
#

that only be about 3gb of ram per server no way they all have people on them at the same time and people not having issues

wise kindle
#

I have one ASA server thats 10 gigs with no players even on it yet.

woeful silo
#

Anyone else have a server that is offline randomly?

regal plume
# vale robin There are people running 9 maps with 32gb DDR5, how can be that?

I self host, I’m running 12 maps total on three machines in a cluster. Each machine has 16 core 32 thread with 128 Gb of memory and 1 Tb NVME. Two machines run 5 maps each and the third machine run 2 maps. Machine 1 and 2 run around 50% of the total memory, can’t remember what the third machine memory runs at. 28-32 % of the total 128 Gb. If you have any other questions I’ll be happy to answer.

marsh canopy
#

Hi everyone, just wondering if you could help me troubleshoot an issue with a friend’s server.

Currently we have the server (unofficial) through Nitrado and it is set up to allow both item and Dino transfers both in and out.

The second anyone goes into transfer either a creature or item the server will totally crash.

We also are unable to set up alliances even with the appropriate setup in Nitrado.

The server is hosted in Germany and we are playing from the US.

Current things we have tried:

  • restarting server
  • disabling transfers (both creatures and items) then turning them on again
  • removed all mods and reinstalled
  • backup and restart server again

Does anyone know what else we can do or experienced this issue before?

#

Some additional info:

  • unofficial server
  • map: The Center
  • cluster: no clusters
  • has this ever worked: no
  • mod list can be provided upon request
  • pvp or pve: pvp
tepid berry
#

We want patch notes, we want patch notes!

nocturne coral
tepid berry
nocturne coral
tepid berry
#

That's probably what I would try too. Try setting up the map as if it were clustered. Maybe not having a cluster ID means nitrado doesn't make a folder.

nocturne coral
#

Wait.. you aren't the person

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Yes, but also single player hackers can still come into your server without it

tepid berry
#

Not if you have "NoTransferFromFiltering" turned on

nocturne coral
#

Sometimes changing or creating cluster id fixes weird stuff

nocturne coral
tepid berry
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I think Nitrado does that by default now, if I recall correctly; they don't like people mucking about in server start flags

wise kindle
#

Patch noootttesss??

Say it louder far the old folks in the back.

tepid berry
#

WTB PATCH NOTES... Pretty plx

smoky burrow
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patch notes about 50/50 and lost inventories por favor 🤦‍♂️

dry creek
#

anyone help me setup a primal fear

ashen sable
#

Hey, can someone help me with my Nitrado descended Server...

I want a max lvll by 600 but nothing happens when i write it in the Inis.

And how can i do so i can use the item cosmetics and skins, all folders are empty

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I also have pictures from my ini files

near hawk
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u need to have
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=10
and
MaxDifficulty=false

ashen sable
#

Is 10 not 300?

near hawk
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oh yeah, it's 20

ashen sable
#

You got a massage 😅 🙈

marsh canopy
#

So basically my friends and I all play together on an unofficial server and we change maps every few months. To save our tames we upload them to single player a few days before and our characters the day before changing maps.

urban pelican
#

anyone know the command to use to switch the conole text size

#

for pc console

quartz ermine
#

So just to make it clear if I can't host a dedicated server for not having two devices, then what is the best way to play multiplayer with friends and with less lag?

arctic mica
tardy talon
tepid berry
smoky burrow
#

lol, yes, it resurfaced again in messed up player saves after the most recent major update though

wise kindle
#

It has actually resurfaced multiple times in ASA so far.
The 50 50 Cleanup mod helps keep it in check in most cases.

north reef
#

Hi, i have two Problems:

  • First: my Brother crys that on his pc when he plays on my Nitrado Server, that he have 1k Ping or it feel like this but i dont have this problem (i play on geforce now) is this common? Mod relatet or somthing else? He also told me that on Oficial servers he dosent have this problem.
  • Second: we only get male breeds. After 20 this cant rng. are there mods out ther who can fix this or even cause this?
quartz lodge
#

Can someone tell me if an ally can place tek trough out my base that my babies are gonna eat out of them bcuz i cant get on?!

autumn hornet
humble orbit
#

Looking for the argument line to increase Giga/Carch spawns inside their default spawn container. TIA! 🙏

dim halo
#

Hi guys, not sure if this is the right section for this but I play Xbox single player for ASA and I get a bit frustrated with my oil pumps not producing when I’m out of render due to hibernation. Is there any way to fix this on Xbox? I’ve thought of hosting my own server but I’m not sure how viable that is

last magnet
#

there is a mod called prevent hibernation that is supposed to help with hibernation. I self-host so I run my own cluster off a older PC I own. if you're not too confident with computers & networking but have a laptop with internet access, I'd suggest Nitrado.

wise kindle
#

Anyone know why the Eggcellent Adventure is not currently set for crossplay in Curseforge. Anyone know why?

dim halo
torn chasm
#

I need this for my single player world how do I make my settings crafting speed faster like 10,000 % per one level ?

near hawk
onyx night
#

anyone else have dinos missing after todays update

last magnet
glass forge
#

Why has AA mods disappeared completely recked my game on unofficial

wise kindle
#

They are still available on Curseforge.

gray tundra
#

Is it a me issues that I cannot seem to add the Eggcelent Adventure Mod now to my server ? Kinda got bored off valentines day, and wanted something with chibis and since it's almost easter anyways... but even when i put 877745 as a mod in the file it just doesn't get put in the server ...

queen palm
#

Does any1 run 1x server survival type shit with no high X and dogshit mods?

waxen hazel
gray tundra
acoustic lark
#

Anyone who's gotten into Self Hosting? Interested in getting out of Nitrado and into self hosting for our cluster. Anyone have recommendations on how to start, do you use your own machine or a VPS? Would love some advice? What people have found works and doesn't?

gray tundra
acoustic lark
# gray tundra I'm kinda looking into doing the same thing tbh. Got good tech know how .. and w...

Lemme know if you find any info. I know the old serice on ASE we went through was PingPerfect and they offer a VPS service, which we're considering. I'm just curious on which is better to go with, fully self hosted or VPS, we use Nitrado, but the amount of issues we come across with them. It's just like what are we paying for at this point but to have servers that have to be switched to different machines every few weeks, because they're always having issues from their end. I'd rather just run our own, and not be gate kept, just truly don't know where to start.

sharp shell
#

can someone help me pls i cant download mods its stuck at 0%

gray tundra
worldly sinew
#

Did the unofficial arks come?

uncut bough
#

Tek Cave free RUNS!!! 5204 PVE! by Hogramm

north reef
last magnet
#

i self host on my own hardware. Dell Precision 5810 with a Xeon 4 core + 64GB of RAM with a WD Black SSD just for Ark. i have all 10 official maps installed but as the PC is from 2014, i can really only run two maps at a time. Upgrading hardware this week to a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU and a Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU. husband upgraded his gaming rig and so i'm getting the older setup

last magnet
#

biggest thing I have to worry about is temperature management. 130°F/54.4 °C and i start getting host disconnects and other issues. new hardware is getting a liquid cooled AIO plus it already has like six fans. current setup i have a box fan set up to blow air through the front grill. keeps it at a reasonable 100° F.

tiny bone
#

how do i make a world ot play with my ps5 friend

fading tapir
#

Dude how TF can you join a local password protected server via the command line.

tried "open IPAddress:Port?password=YourPassword"

no luck

raven wigeon
#

question, is lost colony unplayable? coz i just put all my servers back on and whe i travel to lost colony i get a black screen

near hawk
#

no

stone gust
#

What can cause ps5 players to crash multiple times on logging in on astraeos take them 3 to 5 times before able to join

humble thicket
#

For dedicated server ASA, I would like to have Flyer Carry on/true what code, do I need to use in order to make sure its going to work?

bleak ivy
humble orbit
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Having an issue where structures are showing items (15/90 etc) but no one can see the items inside .. also people are getting the Astraeos skins to disappear from their cosmetic tab after completing the boss.
Are these known issues atm?? Any troubleshooting options for a fix ??
Tried making characters do a re-log. Have shutdown and restarted the servers. Nothing is fixing the issues.

bleak ivy
humble orbit
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Yup, It’s not affecting all players, only some. Which is the really weird part.

forest furnace
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Anyone smarter then me able to help me?

I admin for a server and when i make dinos or shinies they auto imprint to me and even when we baby them with commands to transfer imprint its like hardwired to me.
Doesnt happen to other admin only me. Im on pc hes on xbox if that matters

last magnet
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even cryoing and releasing doesn't help?

errant marlin
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I’m honestly at a point where I’m thinking about shutting my servers down.

What is currently happening after every restart is becoming impossible for me to manage.
The save files are sometimes dropping to less than half of their original size. I am finding many duplicated characters at the 0,0 point — sometimes doubled, tripled, or even up to six copies of the same character. On top of that, structures are being deleted there as well, and a large number of tames are being lost. On some maps, even all wild creatures across the entire map end up there.

This is not a state in which a server can be run properly long term. I have been spending days trying to save what I can, testing, restarting, restoring, and narrowing down the problem — but after every restart, the same chaos begins again.

At this point, I honestly do not know how I am supposed to keep dealing with this reliably. The way things are now, this simply cannot continue.

hearty oriole
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hey, so me and some friends got a server and one of the guys is getting the connection lost bug when joining and we already tryd every thingif i could get more suggestens i will apreshiate it

long meadow
forest furnace
long meadow
forest furnace
# long meadow do you use a cryo mod? which command did you used for the imprint?

Dino depot.
Dinos summoned with the awesome admin tool
Cheat setbabyage 0
Unclaim
Reclaim
Cheat setbabyage 1
Cheat setimprintquality 1

Owner on xbox does it same way and works fine, this is how it worked for me too for ages.
I tried the other ways commands too and says imprint to right person but they dont have green fist bump in top corner

long meadow
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can you try this:
cheat SetImprintedPlayer <Name> <UE4 ID>

Name= playername (dosent realy matter^^)
UE4 ID= Implantat ID (check you inv or showmyadminmanager)

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for dinodepo:
is ImprintAssignMode=1 set in the GUS.ini?

forest furnace
forest furnace
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I think owner tried the auto imprint settings at one point but only on our event map but its like this on any map.

#

We do special shinies for people and i cant imprint them to people

long meadow
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we used th SCS mod..so its similar to dinodepo
i guess the ImprintAssignMode will be the easiest way, cause the people just have to release it once and the imprint get rewritten to the player

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from the googlesheet:

ImprintAssignMode:

"Control how imprinting is handled by Dinoballs
Valid modes:
0 = Only give imprint if the creature is bred and has no imprinter
1 = Always give imprint to releaser"

errant marlin
# long meadow hi, we got currently a similar issue just a few question befor: - wich save form...

I am using -usestore specifically so I can restore characters when needed.

Yes, I had this issue a while ago as well, and then at some point it suddenly stopped. But since this one patch, nothing works properly anymore.

I have already tested everything. It has nothing to do with how the servers are being shut down. I have done manual world saves, backups, and all of that already. The problem only happens when starting the server, and the results are different every time.

The exact same save can produce different results on multiple starts. Sometimes players wake up at the 0,0 point, sometimes in their bed but as the wrong character. Depending on which character the server loads, different dinos are missing.

long meadow
lean ore
forest furnace
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Yes thats right

errant marlin
# long meadow do you convert all player/tribe to .ark with -converttostore (run only 1st time,...

Yes, I already did that.

I have been using -usestore for a long time already, and I also already tested -converttostore correctly as a one-time run, then removed it again afterward.

So this is not a case of me missing the store conversion step. The issue still happens even after that.

What I am seeing is that the problem happens on startup and the result is inconsistent even with the exact same save. One start can load different characters, different missing dinos, or spawn people at 0,0 compared to another start of the same save.

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I'll just give it another go. But I don't think it'll make any difference.

long meadow
errant marlin
long meadow
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sure^^
all player and tribe info get lost
its more like double char´s around the 0,0 issue

smoky burrow
#

new save format on our cluster is still having massive issues

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I'm afraid WC is just busy with their "Magic Bullet" update on UE5.7 while their "Mega Update" for Astra destroyed how saving works on unofficial
I wish I could hop on their network as admin and check 50/50

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Are they even reading this channel?
I'd really appreciate some official feedback here.

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Please excuse my tone - I'm just exhausted after all tests I did to try make their game playable for our community...

flat cipher
#

I have a question regarding a potential rollback issue on Astraeos unofficial servers.

​On my server, I've noticed that baby maturation progress sometimes rolls back specifically after restarting Astraeos.
So far, this appears to only affect maturation, as I haven't confirmed similar rollbacks for other progress yet.

​I also noticed that the Astraeos map save data is over 1.2 GB, and the file size shrinks slightly after each reboot. I'm wondering if this is related to a save cleanup process, a partial rollback, or some kind of save inconsistency specific to Astraeos.

​My questions are:
​1. Has anyone else experienced baby maturation rolling back upon restart on Astraeos?

2.​ Are there any known issues regarding Astraeos save data on unofficial servers?

​3. Could the shrinking save file size be a sign of corruption cleanup or a partial rollback?

​Any information or similar reports would be greatly appreciated.

smoky burrow
#

Welcome to the club, I hope WC will read this eventually...
Please check all the frustration above. Since the last major update Astra seems not to be the only broken setup at this point in time

austere needle
errant marlin
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To astraeos.
No, I haven’t noticed this issue with Baby Maturation yet.
It’s normal for the save file to shrink slightly after a restart. But if it shrinks by 35% or more, it won’t fit anymore and you can assume that items, structures and dinosaurs have been deleted.

sweet spoke
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Does anybody know how to set it up where when you tame something or when it fully matures, it’ll get its full 88 levels right away?

onyx night
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my game is not giving me any open inventory options, can't use F either. Any ideas on a fix

elder fox
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So I’ve run servers forever. On this newest one taming speed is NOT scaling right with the setting I put in. I set taming to like 50 and it acted like it was only on 20. Anyone had that?

arctic mica
pulsar flame
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I have a server through Nitrado and when I search it up, it won’t show up. I have the right filters on + it doesn’t show up when there’s no filters. My friend joined on it earlier and then I could join through him using the join game button on steam. I just can’t join the server myself because I can’t see it. I’ve tried the Ark.UseServer whatever console command already it ain’t do anything. I time out when I use the console direct connect. I have both uninstalled my game and verified integrity of game files.

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Help 😢

glacial widget
flat cipher
flat cipher
chilly breach
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Let's join forces to bring Ark Fjordur to Ark Ascended, who's with me?

humble orbit
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Is it possible to add build templates for the hammer to a server to give console players access to more templates??

humble orbit
near hawk
near hawk
woven crane
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Do we know if the structure deletion issue from the 19th (#general message) is resolved on the dedicated pipeline, or do I need to try to downgrade to a previous unofficial server build?

austere needle
#

Hello everyone
I wanted to ask which websites you currently use to check your player count and map uptime?

I'm asking because all the other sites I use show me "last checked 3 hours ago" or sometimes even 6 hours, etc., or even offline even though the maps are running.
checked websites: Battlemetrics , Ark-servers. net , arkstatus. com <- all service show me differend stuff :x

edgy phoenix
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We've got multiple servers corrupted after Nitrado forced a restart this morning. Anyone else? Missing items from vaults/turrets etc. Not happening for all tribes.

finite wing
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Hello! does anyone knows how to run ark se server via cmd with logs without opening another window?

candid needle
candid needle
edgy phoenix
austere needle
# candid needle asa-bot makes everything so much easy

Normally, I sit on the sofa in the evenings and quickly check if all my maps are working and if everything is okay. However, in the last few days, no new information is being displayed correctly. Therefore, I thought that WC or Epic might have changed something regarding how the information is retrieved.

long meadow
candid needle
candid needle
edgy phoenix
smoky burrow
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we had this since the "Astra mega update" on LC - since I refactored LC and trickled some changes down to other maps:
"-usestore" without "-converttostore" (please check carefully before you blame issues on implementing this)
RConScheduler GC every couple minutes
a lot more small details I have forgotten by now, commandline cleanup of duplicate arguments, sorting of mods, etc...

smoky burrow
#

WC, please, would anyone comment on this!

edgy phoenix
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I want to repeat myself too for WC. We're having multiple corruptions over multiple servers, some without mods.

Some backups are even getting corrupted after they worked a few days ago.

For example my lost Colony I had to rollback yesterday to let's say day 15. It worked fine. The day 15 backup was fine.

Today. I had to rollback to day 13. Because day 15 and day 14 were no longer working.

That doesn't make sense. How do working backups now not work? What's changing the backups?

smoky burrow
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I appreciate you letting WC know, it's not ok what's going on at this point in time - please slow down and release higher quality updates rather than high rate of updates breaking, PLEASE
just not sure if anyone is reading this...

smoky burrow
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and missing inventories too

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It's like saving &/ loading is just enormously unreliable at the moment

edgy phoenix
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I've tried more regular saves and regular restarts and much longer saves and longer time between restarts. It doesn't seem to help. It seems like something is deeply broken.

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It would be nice to know that Wildcard is listening and open to ideas. But there's no communication channels.

I think it could be Veilwyn related, or Lost Colony structures related. It could be something to do with tracking tames especially like the Veilwyn, where the tracker starts to freak out sometimes. It sounded like their previous corruption issue was related to something like that.

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But I've heard multiple people talking about Nitrado putting them on the "new save system" recently, so what is that?

smoky burrow
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Same I have sunken multiple complete workdays into debugging - refactoring Engine.ini, reordering mods, changing backup numbers and times, adding mods, removing mods, as far as I can tell, I have given up for now, let's try to be heard by the devs... Maps blowing up to non-playability seams to be solvable by GC, but save corruption seams a different story.

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"New save system" is something I may have brought to be a topic in the first place, I saw our saves grow and concluded it may have been due to having -usestore together with -converttostore...
Idk about this one anymore

ornate torrent
# humble orbit Is it possible to add build templates for the hammer to a server to give console...

You can 100% create or download the templates yourself.
Place the template down to create the blue preview, it does not matter where because you won't be building it.
Put your template hammer away, walk up to the placed template and hold E or Y, whichever you're using and "save as blueprint"

You can share that BP with anyone. I don't believe it's used when consumed and when consumed it's added to that persons local library in the hammer.

smoky burrow
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Idk how to treat this anymore, apparently WC doesn't care enough to have players on unofficial... But please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm happy to have a fair argument...

last magnet
#

I used to use the -usestore method, until my player profile bugged out so hard, I had to make a new character, kill my body, and use a ton of admin commands to get my tribe/base/EXP back

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so I did a wipe, removed usestore and I have not had any corrupted saves since. I self-host on my own hardware, use Beacon to write ini and Ark Dedicated Server Manager to do my cluster. I do only run 1-2 maps at a time, my current hardware has only 4 cores, and each server uses 1 core.

smoky burrow
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It seems there are issues with clusters both using store and not using it - it's simply messed up for the group of owners I know
A new save will look clean for a while, this doesn't guarantee to be the case long term - we are long term wipe unofficials

last magnet
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we're going on six months post wipe now

smoky burrow
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Yeah, we're going since 2021

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might get killed by this update policy though

last magnet
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I have my servers set for daily restarts in the morning starting at like 7am, with a 15 minute staggered time per server since I only have a few players who play at night.

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I found scheduled restarts + updates and not whenever server updates come through help a lot

smoky burrow
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I suggest we wait for WC answering...

acoustic lark
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So today my members on our cluster are unable to Join Tribes or Ally. I tried admin commands, and it doesn't work either....

versed sparrow
#

anyone else having issues with server booting being stuck with ticking loop after displaying full startup time number of cores in the server log?

carmine barn
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Hey guys I was hoping anyone could have the time to go out of their way to help me set up a server. Watching a video but a ran into an obstacle regarding depotdownloader I was wondering if anyone could help me via screenshare. I’d pay for the help!

frail ermine
#

I dont know if this is the right channel for this but ive been having a problem with ark ascended mods. Its ny first time playing today snd im trying to get a spawn blocker (mainly because im scared of some of the bugs in the game, but I still wanna have some fun) but its not letting me install anything. I dont even have any mods to delete and my storage isnt full at all so im all confused. Ive tried searching it up and everything. I went on steam to check to see if the games files are installed correctly, I verified twice but nothing happened.

serene cypress
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Hey quick question, I have nitrado and wanna add the eggcellent adventure to my server but its not listed in the mods for me to add? I have found every other event but that one. Any idea why?

(I currently have the valentines day event on but I've had multiple events going at once)

gray tundra
serene cypress
gray tundra
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I tried it this weekend and it just doesnt get added. So unfortunately i'll just have to wait i guess

fading stag
#

Any Xbox server owners having trouble with inventory crashes lately? Or just our servers?

last magnet
celest halo
zealous nebula
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Are there any known bug to why Astraeos might crash every couple minutes ?

candid needle
lethal crow
#

Anyone have a asa pve cluster that doesn’t wipe and has good mods? With slightly boosted rates

zealous nebula
#

Do Tek Crop plots have a significant impact on server performance ?
Like if i build 300 with just veggies and berries does it impact the performance ?

zealous nebula
olive pine
#

Anyone else seeing their server RAM drop off right now? Last time there were EOS issues, I had this happen and it is happening again.

woven field
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dont think ram and eos functionality correlate

olive pine
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Everytime in the past I have seen my RAM drop off, Astraeos running on 500 MB of RAM on my server, there have been EOS issues. I have not been able to correlate it with anything else. I also don't disagree with you, but I have seen it happen multiple times and trying to make sense of it.

candid needle
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noting to do with that happen for me for long time now some times map needs 2000mb other times it needs 25000mb

sweet river
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Anybody know the zone/container for Astraeos desert? Trying to add Meraxe spawns there as they aren't spawning with just the mod installed and need to manually add them to the container/zone but not sure what it is under.

sullen hawk
#

anyone know why my ark crashes when i join ragnarok?

sullen mango
#

Anyone else having issues with the Rockwell boss fight spawning endless orbs, and reapers for some reason aggro the boss? Even tho I’m just on foot with a light pet. something I set up wrong or an issue with the game ?

arctic mica
#

For now you can either:

  • do it with friends to make it more manageable
  • keep moving round the arena with something fast like a tek suit, yi ling or rock drake

But if your server has the 30 minutes timer it's incredibly hard to solo

sullen mango
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Thank you for the response, Awesome … 🤣pretty much impossible for solo player, guess I’ll just head to extinction lol

arctic mica
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Yeah don't blame you 😂

sullen mango
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I was like it wasn’t that hard last time I tried it a few months ago

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Anyways ty Cheers mate!

arctic mica
#

Yeah it was so much easier to solo prior the bug

cursive abyss
#

Anyone else dealing with trees and rocks spawning in you're Base on EXT?

wanton wigeon
#

does anyone know how to fix the ark frozen title screen after loading like 10-20 seg

silent echo
wanton wigeon
rigid holly
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ascended

silent echo
wanton wigeon
#

i have ark installed on epic games, not in steam

silent echo
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Aquatica killed ase so good luck

wanton wigeon
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shittttt

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well thxxx alot 🙂

stable jewel
#

Anyone know anything about cosmetics not showing up in my inventory? Ever since just after bobs came out I can’t hold any kind of cosmetic skin (on the left side) like pets colors or anything I take off my gear. The folders on the right had side show up but nothing on left. I can not apply a pet since bobs came out

vale robin
# regal plume I self host, I’m running 12 maps total on three machines in a cluster. Each mach...

Hi, sorry, only see uour message now, for sure I wanna know so much more about it, about the specs of the PC I can buy the max I can go is 128GB DDR4 at the moment, and it will be a big hit in finances, so hope to can have all or almost all maps with it

Some quick questions for now, the machine that will host the cluster also needs to hace a copy of the game in a separated acvount, or can I use the same steam account in computer to play and on another to host, just to know, cause if I need another, its on sale right now

About software to start and run a cluster, what I will need, how much it can cost?

regal plume
#

No, you don’t have to have a separate steam account to run a dedicated Ark server. There’s a couple of ways to do this. You can install the software on the same machine that you will play on. But that will affect your performance big time, due to your computer running the maps and your game at the same time. My suggestion is if you have a second computer, run the server ( maps on the second computer. There’s a couple of programs that will run your Ark server, one is steam itself. Another is a program called ASCT both are free if I remember right. ASCT has a discord I can send you an invite if you like. I used this program when I first started running my own dedicated server.

vale robin
onyx night
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none of the storage containers on my Nitrado Server can be pin coded. Any way to change this?

regal plume
vale robin
#

And about those comand line codes there is some place I can look how to proceed, what need to be changed, etc?

regal plume
vale robin
winter igloo
#

why giga and carcha not respawning

waxen hazel
# winter igloo why giga and carcha not respawning

They have a very long re-spawn time. Like 12 hours real world time. There are mods that can change the re-spawn time on the spawn container if you want it to be faster. "Configuration Toolkit" is a mod I use to lower the re-spawn time.

azure herald
#

We have updated our Astra servers to the latest but we got hit with a crash last night and, on reboot, everyone’s vault and cryo are empty, dedis okay.

carmine barn
celest halo
solar fern
#

hey does anyone run a server with mods on ubuntu? I can't get my start file to run with the mods listed like i do for my windows based server

carmine barn
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Have you done it before? Can you take a look at this video I can DM and see if I’m using a bad one? I’d really appreciate it but if not I get it lol I’ll figure it out eventually

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Right now it’s working so we’ll see what happens!

polar dagger
copper zealot
#

Hi Guy can somebody tell me how to change Crafting Speed in Nitrado please

solar fern
lavish gulch
#

Hey, does anyone’s server keeps erasing everything even after the patch? We been having to roll back days to get it back. Any help would be appreciated!!

waxen hazel
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I have problems on my server that some areas of the map are almost empty of wild dinos, but other areas are totaly overcrowded. Anyone else seeing that?

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Noticed it on both The Island and Aberration. On Aberration it's the lake area in the blue zone and the river in the green zone that is overcrowded. And all upper levels in both green and blue zone is almost totally empty.

azure herald
azure herald
waxen hazel
azure herald
# waxen hazel Sounds terrible. Have you found if those it happens to have anything in common? ...

We are Nitrado. Vanilla, no mods. Not sure of save format. Looks like it’s specifically Astra- the console access issue seems to be a known Nitrado outage (hopefully unrelated).

Looking for advice but suspecting the advice is going to be to Day 1 the Ark.

Users who main Astra are understandably pissed 😭

This will be our second rollback for Astra corruption. Ticking Timebomb Glitch ;_; boo

waxen hazel
wise kindle
regal plume
vernal girder
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Hi guys, anyone know how to set max tamed dino lvl 450 like on officials for a private server?

Cannot find any working config. Thank you

bleak ivy
vernal girder
winter igloo
carmine barn
carmine barn
#

illpay for help yall im getting desperate. This game should let me run without a tether anyways

solar silo
#

Anyone else having issues putting element dust in the cyber structure dedis?

smoky burrow
past mist
#

Hackers are too powerful. How to report them?

smoky burrow
#

You need an admin. Unofficial you'd go the respective discord and a good admin team will ban them in a ticket...
Prepare some proof

azure herald
vapid hearth
#

I'm I the only one who experience trouble getting my mods to update on startup? Been trying to start my servers since 2 hours and they keep crashing at the download mod stage. Often get "query server unreacheable" . Seem like Curseforge is messing around...

green tangle
#

Guys, I urgently need help

The server did its usual scheduled reboot as usual, and everyone in all the maps found all dino at level 61.

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I mean they own dino tamed

forest snow
worthy oriole
worthy oriole
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Anyone have a fix for this?

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Has anyone seen it on official?

green tangle
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Any animal that is domesticated or domesticated afterwards is always at level 61

forest snow
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It's definitely mod related. Working through the list now trying to figure out whats causing it

#

DM'ing you both

sage cliff
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This is Random Config mod, ID: 930391

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Disable it and load server backup to restore creatures levels

near hawk
#

Also report the issue on the modders discord, Haz is usually fast in the bug fixing

sage cliff
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Sorry, i use Discord only to read Ark patchnotes and rarely to look for problems resolving. Just find mod with problems and tell about it here. If someone has contact with mod authors - tell them

sudden crane
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There is a thread going in Haz discord now as well. Thanks y'all!

restive mango
#

Is anyone else having problems with the 50/50 bug? I play on a non-dedicated server, which constantly has this problem. If anyone knows a solution, please let me know.

smoky burrow
zenith willow
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Any hope for a 64 bit ark, ase client for steam ? Like a Arm64 version and/or x86-64 ?

fierce cradle
rancid burrow
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Any reason my imprint would be set in game to 4ish hours, even though INI settings are not? If we toss it out of the dino ball, it counts down from 4ish. If we leave it out for an hour, reball it, and toss out, it still comes out as 4ish hours

smoky burrow
#

Anybody here using an unofficial cluster off nitrado experiencing a couple issues?
As far as unofficial prep goes, I guess our cluster is prime-tier, but I'm looking for other people or maybe even WC to help with he final pieces they broke for unofficial.

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At least we run stable with some recovery only here and there, but why wouldn't the Devs care more for unofficial?

#

I'm so ready to be convinced otherwise, I just don't believe it anymore

errant marlin
#

Well, the latest patch has had exactly the opposite effect for me. I’ve got copies of the live server on the test server, and I can’t launch a single one anymore apart from Clubark and my event map. I’m not updating the live server for now, for fear that nothing will work anymore.

last magnet
zenith willow
rancid burrow
crisp jasper
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Made a tool that helps find and setup custom engrams on your self hosted unofficial servers 🙂 Free on patreon TOMDXIII. I know it's kinda specific and only helps certain people but is handy if it helps anyone setup:)🫡 🧑‍🔧 🤷‍♂️

last magnet
rancid burrow
last magnet
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is it self host or nitrado? I know self host better, and what I would do is make a backup, wipe the config file to default, then deploy same configs through Beacon, then restart server to check

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probably similar for nitrado if you use beacon and have the servers linked

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except it would be check the erase configs option on deploy

crisp jasper
smoky burrow
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I see the business side, but really, a fix all the fantastic bugs DLC would probably be well received, atm ASA is quite mixed and LC.. idk

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wait, I do know, ASA is mixed, LC is mostly negative... see a trend in dev quality?
Don't get me wrong, we all love(&hate) this game for our reasons, but for the love of people loving it, please don't make it a completely broken cash-grab!
I'd rather see it die with dignity, but that's just my definition of integrity.

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lol, I'd love to tag the devs to propose a fix all opens before next "mega-update" release - paid DLC, idc anymore

clear night
#

how do i play ark survival evolved with a friend were both new we tried to host a non dedicated server but when i join it it says server timeout

next moss
midnight lark
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Hi all, I am an admin for an unofficial cluster and everytime we reboot the servers the decay timer resets on bases, is there anything we can do to or missing in INI lines we can do to get it working?

rancid marsh
stray jasper
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I'm redownloading the game is there a group i can join?

dry cedar
#

hey guys , im playing ASE, and my screen resolution is 2560 x 1600, its the same in game , yet the screen has black borders and is stretched. Wtf man like wat is this shit

wise kindle
marble perch
#

Who is recommended to use when hosting an Unofficial? Is it just Nitrado overall or are there other similar priced ones that are good like
Gravel Host/Logic Servers.
Ive never heard of either of them but im curious

wise kindle
midnight lark
zealous nebula
#

Is there any fix for Astraeos Server crashing constantly ?
Crash logs dont help und even an emtpy Map keeps crashing for us

hardy pelican
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anyone have good server manager programs to use?

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i use UASM atm but it's kinda buggy

lean ore
#

My patience (and it really is enormous) is slowly running out.
Since March 3, 2026, unofficial servers have been experiencing massive issues with gameplay. According to the patch notes, the March 3, 2026, patch apparently fixed the 50/50 bug. This bug didn’t even exist on unofficial servers until then! But after the fix, it was there.
So does that mean it was an intentional bug that was “accidentally fixed” and brought back into the game with the patch?

It just can’t be right that this problem has been going on for almost 4 weeks now!
It’s not just that you spawn at 50/50. No! A whole series of side effects comes with it:
Players spawn without implants, dinos spawn at 50/50 and die, structures spawn at 50/50 and get destroyed. Inventories from characters and structures disappear completely or partially.
It’s not always the same players, not always the same occurrences! Absolutely random. Not reproducible, not manageable, no chance of creating a workaround so that players on the server don’t have a ruined gaming experience!
And almost every day, new cluster owners join the discussion, constantly struggling to find any causes or reasons for what’s going on. To pull some levers so it can be fixed.
People have always pointed to the mods being used, but after nearly 4 weeks, one thing is clear to all of us: it’s not the mods, it’s the way the save games are stored!
And for the past four weeks, there has been no statement from Wildcard acknowledging that they are aware of the problem and working on it.
For four weeks now, with every server patch, we’ve been hoping that the problem has finally been fixed. And every time, it’s a bitter disappointment to find that it hasn’t been addressed yet again!

Whether it’s on Discord or in the bug report… you get the feeling that you’re not being heard, and, what’s even worse, you feel like you’re being left in the lurch!

This can’t be right, and it shouldn’t be the goal of a development team! I’m finally asking that you come clean about this issue and any potential solution!

@zealous aurora @low haven

onyx night
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How would I apply the Easter event on my Nitrado server?

near hawk
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installing the easter mod

dusk falcon
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Does anyone know how to combat inventory exploitation by players during server transfers on Nitrado?

karmic rain
heavy bough
smoky burrow
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Ok, I get that it's still unofficial, but if it's a carbon copy, why bother even

heavy bough
# smoky burrow Ok, I get that it's still unofficial, but if it's a carbon copy, why bother even

By vanilla I meant no mods and no plugins, sorry if I didn't word it correctly. Of course some of our settings are modified to improve gameplay and QoL. Advantages compared to officials are invaluable :

  • no toxic players like in official
  • no spam of structures everywhere
  • no ugly high ping, lag, rollback
  • you can adjust spawns and loot if you want
    etc, etc

Admins and players often underestimate a lot the bazillion of settings that can be adjusted via ini files (Beacon helps for that). And no headaches because of obsolete mods, or being unusable after a major update.

smoky burrow
heavy bough
smoky burrow
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@low haven @zealous aurora

remote zephyr
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has anyone encountered an aggressive wild dino that was not a parent? we are on unofficial server, 2 pteranadons so far, same spot, ragnarok. they even try and pick us up as they are attacking. very bizarre

karmic rain
zenith willow
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Any suggestions on getting ark ase running on macos, arm64 ?

plain quarry
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Hello guys,
I am trying to get together on a server with my friends But it doesn´t Work.
We all Play on Pc but I use the Steam version and they use the Xbox version.
We noticed that our Server version are different.
My Game version is 84.48 and I use Steam, they use the 84.19 Xbox version.
Is there something we can do?

zenith willow
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dedicated server or ?

plain quarry
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non dedicated

zenith willow
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ok, so on steam, the server ?

plain quarry
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We tried both, that my friend runs the server and that I do it using that Ingame option

zenith willow
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i take it, you have done the port forwardings ?

plain quarry
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No whats that?

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We are kind of noobs

zenith willow
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You would have to set up port forwarding to allow people to connect over the internet

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unless you are all on the same LAN

plain quarry
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But my xbox friends could join each other

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we are on the same Lan

zenith willow
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Ok, so they should be able to, if the network is configured right

plain quarry
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Well yea but it doesn´t Work

zenith willow
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dhcp for ip adresses ?

plain quarry
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Sorry what?

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We are having a LAN party

zenith willow
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ok, just making sure that you don't rely on random ip adresses

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does all the computers in the LAN party also have internet access ?

plain quarry
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The Reason we think might be the Problem is that theyre game says Version 84.19 and mine says 84.48.
But we all have the newest update

plain quarry
zenith willow
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ok, good sign, it could be the version issue...i would try to install steam on the xbox's

plain quarry
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But hen they would have to buy the Game again right?

zenith willow
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or see if you can use an older version on the steam clients

plain quarry
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How would I do that

zenith willow
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under properties for ark, like pre-aquatica

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in steam

plain quarry
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I only see public_test_realm as another option

zenith willow
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Under; Game Versions & Betas, right ?

plain quarry
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yes

zenith willow
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You probably see a different list there than I do, simply because I'm on a Mac right now

plain quarry
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possible

zenith willow
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It's really a beach to get this going for me... Looks like no-go

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The version numbers does not look like what i would expect