unofficial-setup-help

[plain quarry]

Well thanks for the Help anyway

[zenith willow]

I tried 🙂

Success is not guaranteed ;p unf

seems like not too many cares about ASE these days...

or bugs...

[eager pelican]

JOIN SOTF 1 NEEDED

[near hawk]

no

[spiral crest]

do u guys now why my non-dedicated don t show up when i research it on the serveur list?

[pallid current]

Hi, I left my tribe by mistake in ARK.
Is there any way to get back to my tribe or recover my base?

[near hawk]

TakeTribe 0

[pallid current]

I accidentally left my tribe in Crossle Small Tribe. How can I rejoin?" ✅

[near hawk]

oh, u can't

[pallid current]

"I have proof and everything that this is my tribe." ✅

[high dove]

hi i need help setting up a server

[humble orbit]

anyone getting this error when trying to boot up club ark? randomly crashed on me, now it wont reboot.
LowLevelFatalError [File:C:\j\workspace\RelA\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\ShooterGameInstance.cpp] [Line: 843]
Requested mods failed to load on server.

[high dove]

i called it flipblip and it’s still not showing up

[faint obsidian]

did you just start it up?

[high dove]

like 30 mins ago

[faint obsidian]

strange it should show up by now are you running any mods?

[high dove]

no

this is so annoying

[pallid current]

PIS ADMIN

[faint obsidian]

it says your server is up on nitrado?

[high dove]

yea do u need a pic i cant send it here

[faint obsidian]

There is a chance your server is updating and still going through its initial start up process

I've seen some weird bugs with cross platform enabled servers but im trying to remember how those happened

[high dove]

how long should i wait before being concerned

[faint obsidian]

30 minutes. What map are you on?

[high dove]

island

[wise kindle]

You are ASE steam
Your server doesnt not show on the list

You connect via Steam favorites via ip:query port

Again
I repeat
ASE Steam servers DO NOT reliably show on server lists

[faint obsidian]

OH this is for ase

[high dove]

how do i do the ip port thing

[pallid current]

"How do I cancel a ticket?" ✅

[high dove]

are u talking about me

pls

im so close to finishing it

[wise kindle]

Create a favorite in Steam using your servers ip:query port number

[high dove]

is that inside ark

[wise kindle]

I said STEAM

[high dove]

OK geez louise

how do i make a favrotie

🥺

[wise kindle]

This can be googled

[high dove]

wait so i need to favorite ark in steam

and then add the ip

[high dove]

I GOT IT

so now it should be in the game, since i added it to steam favroties?

[high dove]

can someone help me please

does my friend also have to do thus process or i can just tell him the name

[wise kindle]

If you used the ip:query port then you can connect

[high dove]

what about my friend

[wise kindle]

Same

[high dove]

how do i change the world settings in a nitrado server

like the xp multiplier or whatever

[river dagger]

If you need this much help, you should probably watch some tutorials

[rancid burrow]

has there ever been a fix for the game kicking people out of their tribe? This is really frustrating

[hardy pelican]

no

[humble orbit]

Anyone have a good guide for setting up custom loot drops on beacon? The videos I’m finding aren’t helping much.

[last magnet]

Beacon has good documentation on loot drops on their site. The discord is also helpful. i've set up custom drops for all the official maps but not editing OSDs, the outposts on LC, or any drops from critters/bosses tho

[smoky zodiac]

We’re having a weird issue with one of our maps on our server. We have all of the maps set up to have two restarts every day, one at noon one at midnight. Between these two restarts we also have halfway point saves, so there are saves being made every 6 hours. We did this due to issues with major rollbacks due to servers crash looping. I have no idea if this is an Ark thing or nitrado thing, I’m just hoping someone here can help.

We’ve had an issue where the maps see a major uptick in lag around these save points. These saves do NOT do a wild dino wipe, and the restarts seem to be inconsistent in actually wiping Wild Dino’s. But the major thing is we’ve been consistently having an issue on one of the maps where around the halfway save following our midnight server restart (which has semi-consistent minor rollbacks on two of our maps) the map straight up stops progressing. It acts like it’s going to crash but doesn’t ever actually go down. It took 4 real time hours for the server to progress quite literally 3-4 minutes within the game. Players reported being either able to move freely but unable to interact with anything, or they were stuck in rubber band loops that would last about 5-10 seconds each and it was continuous for literal hours on end.

I am hoping for maybe some guidance on where to even start looking into this issue, or what to look for, as our staff member who is incredibly skilled at nitrado related things is MIA at the moment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🥲💜

[long meadow]

Much Input xD
Just a stupid question, so you use a root Server or a VPS Server?

[icy kettle]

Is there a way to reduce cooldown on Gigantorraptors feather pluck?

[near hawk]

Not with a mod

[harsh forge]

This definitely sounds like a server host hardware issue to me. Not something ARK related 🙁

[devout elbow]

Is the Easter Event available to add to add to servers?

I looked up "studiowildcardmods", "eggcellent adventure" and "877745" and nothing populated.

[near hawk]

Just wait for the event to start on the 31

[devout elbow]

Is that when itll be available to add to unofficial servers? Or are you saying that for officials?

[near hawk]

Yup

Mod likely only was auto updated via the 5.5 mass update and was broken agter

[devout elbow]

Got ya. Thanks for getting back to me.

Keep surviving!

[misty hatch]

Yo fellas, I am trying to run a dedicated server on a secundairy pc that i have, but every time i try to play some of the settings seem off, first it was taming rates and growth speed, now creatures seems to be unable to gain levels and im getting tired of searching through the game.ini and Gameusersettings.ini files for what has messed up this time. Does anyone have any tools to help with this or know of a place where i can just copy some decent files?

[tiny sky]

When adding the Easter event to our private servers with the mod ID, when we eventually remove the event mod do we still keep all of the event stuff we got? Like skins, Dino colours, etc.

[near hawk]

yeah

[mellow thistle]

is there a way to make my dedi server private?

[near hawk]

make it password protected

[mellow thistle]

How do i configure the settings like i would a singleplayer or non dedicated? Kind of writing stuff in a notepad with a backup in case

[near hawk]

yeah, u edit the game.ini and gameusersettings.ini files

[mellow thistle]

How do i change the xp multiplier and such? which do i use?

[near hawk]

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

[dusky blade]

if we are running an unofficial server, can we add the Egg event early or better to wait seeing how new Dino and items?

[golden nest]

Sounds like poor storage device throughout. I'm not familiar with nitrado, but backups only affect the storage device.

During the backup intervals, the storage devices are throttling because they aren't fast enough to keep up with demand. Effectively throttling the entire machine down.

[silent echo]

#reporting-players #server-reports is the support and #character-restoration

[near hawk]

Wait, mod seems to be unlisted

[tardy patrol]

How do you make an Item uncraftable or just not in game at all like sleeping bags

[spiral condor]

hey ddoes anyone know where to find something like an expert settings like preset guide or something for nitrado cant find anything

[grim dock]

I’ve rented a server just for personal use. I cannot get the vivarium to work…I’ve tried I feel like everything but the view generated resources I always empty…does anyone know what the problem is…I do have a stacking mod I heard maybe could be the issue?

[kindred ferry]

How to fix the shaking camera bug on Ark Ascended PS5? 🆘

[buoyant sphinx]

Hi. Is there a problem with mods right now? When I try to switch to a different map on the unofficial server, it won't let me. It starts downloading mods and then crashes. Is this happening to you too? How do I fix this on the server?

[nocturne coral]

It just means the mod versions are not the same through the clusters. You can do .bat update. Or delete the mod folder on your server (or nitrado click reset mod folder toggle button). Then restart the server

[buoyant sphinx]

Thank you

[lean ore]

Since I wrote this over the weekend and it probably didn’t reach the relevant team, here it is again:

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 please contact your team about this situation and we would appreciate a statement or comment!

[stuck leaf]

does anyone use dynamicconfig and have issues with it? i cant get it to consistantly update for ase

[grizzled escarp]

Hello i want to download some mods so i can play on a onofficial map pve but it keeps saying not enough room to install the mods but i have no mods downloaded in the map. I have deleted a lot of things and it still doesnt work. What do i need to do?

[loud breach]

Hi guys We want to create a private game and play together with our friends. One of us is using Steam, and the others are using Xbox Game Pass, but we can’t see each other’s servers in the list, and invitations don’t work either.

[narrow vortex]

You all must make sure that you have ARK ASCENDED, not Ark Evolved.

The game

[humble cosmos]

hey im not able to update valguero, extinction, the center, or the island
i could update scorched earth and astraeos

heres the issue im getting with the 4 servers i cant update;

Please use force_install_dir before logon!

Steam>

Steam>

Steam>

Steam>

Steam>login anonymous
Logging off current session...
steamcmd has been disconnected from steam with result 1 (OK)
OK

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

Steam>

Steam>app_update 2430930 validate
 Update state (0x0) unknown, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Error! App '2430930' state is 0x6 after update job.

Steam>```

ive tried deleting the win64 folder and the steamapps folder

i have steamcmd launched in admin mode

got it working; had to delete the steamapps folder that's inside the steamcmd folder, not the server folders

[spark otter]

Can someone help me install a mod? I just doens't want to donwload and install. Other mods work fine. On the mod list page, if i pres install it goes for like 2 seconds and just stops. If I try to donwoad it from joining the server than it gets stuck at 61% and never moves

[broken anvil]

Eggcellent Adventure isn't available on Nitrado. Anyone have an update on how this Easter event is supposed to play out?

[stray yew]

Can someone help me with a good server on ark survival evolved racknarok please

[waxen hazel]

Eggcellent mod isn't updated yet. They will probably update it right before starting the event on official servers.

[vale robin]

I play in 2 different clusters, and didnt had any problems, thats still going?

[buoyant sphinx]

Thank you for your comment and the information. I just can't understand this situation. New content is being added to attract more people or keep existing players in the game, but the fact is that the game is unplayable and, on the contrary, it’s driving players away, and their numbers are dropping rapidly. Even our admin enthusiasm and love for this game is rapidly declining. We’re losing servers, players, and often even friends. This is a total failure for Ark Ascended and Wildcard.

A beautiful game with potential in the wrong hands.

[fallen aspen]

any one else unable to find the Easter event on Nitrado?

[near hawk]

mod is unlisted

wait for update later today

[fallen aspen]

thanks heaps legend will keep an eye out

[long meadow]

Remove the appmanifest File in the steamapps folder

[upbeat scaffold]

Hey guys, do you know what time the Acro and Easter update is?

[near hawk]

no set time, later today, the working day hasn't started yet for WC

[rigid sapphire]

So the Easter mod isn’t out yet?

[lean ore]

Every day is like Russian roulette. Will you be affected or not? If so, to what extent?
Two days ago, I was even unable to do anything as an admin because my character was so buggy that I couldn’t do anything: I couldn’t die, consume anything, or interact with anything.
It wasn’t until I used “Destroymytarget” and respawned that I could play again.
Not to mention that things disappeared again as a result

[lean ore]

I know this all too well. We, too, are losing interest in Ark day by day, even though we’re eager for new content, but the issues are completely overshadowing it.
In the worst-case scenario, you have to start over from scratch every day because the progress you made the day before is completely lost.
We’re proud of our players, some of whom have already switched to other games but are still here, playing despite the problems, keeping us updated on the various aspects of the issue, and not letting their spirits be dampened.
But yes: the gaming experience is being severely dampened, and the patience of both players and server operators is being pushed to a whole new level.

[buoyant sphinx]

I agree. It’s the same here. Many players are switching to other games, but they still let us know how they’re doing. Many players have left for other games because they don’t have the patience for these issues. Personally, I’m feeling burned out. I had so many plans. Especially the big RP Event, where you come up with the whole scenario, test everything you want to include in the event on a closed map, work on banners and videos, pay for AI to edit photos and voices so that players are really drawn into the story, and the only thing you’re left with after two months of preparation is an empty server. Great job!

[near hawk]

not out yet

[void geyser]

Hi, I really need help with ARK Survival Ascended dedicated server.

My server starts correctly and shows:
"Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join"

BUT it is NOT visible on PS5.

• Crossplay enabled
• ServerPlatform=ALL
• Ports open (7777 / 27015)
• Using Windows Server Manager

Important: EOS is NOT initializing at all (no LogEOS in console)

EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll is present in:
Engine/Binaries/Win64

BUT missing from:
Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/EOS/

Server runs fine but never appears on PS5.

Does anyone have a working Windows server install or EOS folder I can compare?

I think EOS is broken in my install.

Thanks 🙏

[rigid sapphire]

Thank you!

[void geyser]

Update: I found that my server is missing OnlineSubsystemEOS.dll

This might explain why EOS never initializes (no LogEOS at all)

Does anyone have this file or a working Windows server install that includes it?

[zinc brook]

WC, what do you think about the problem of the unofficial servers working? I and everyone else think it's a shame.

[nimble hare]

I installed an ARK Survival Evolved Server and its starting up until this point:

Shutdown handler: initalize.
Using binned.
4.5.1-0+UE4 7038 3077 405 10
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110```

when I try to join via port 7777 I see some packets from both sides in tcpdump (only incoming traffic when trying to join via 27015)
(I use the ingame console and `open ip:port` to join)

RAM usage is stable at ~6.5GB

also I made sure that traffic between my computer and the server is allowed on all ports

[echo socket]

So i can see my server but its greyed out and i cant join. any fixs?

[stark goblet]

Hello,

I'm not sure where to ask.. but I am trying to activate the event on my nitrado servers, but it is not showing up in the mods list. Is it not uploaded yet?

[celest halo]

#announcements message Normal WC delayed 😂

[raw kiln]

on LC, the vaults are not spawning after beating the Thralls. what am doing wrong? the thralls don't seam to want to spawn at time too. is there a setting i might have hit or need?

this is an unoffical pvp server. didn't know if that was helpful either

[arctic badger]

Plant species X keep blowing up on boats. Any insight?

any time they target an enemy to shoot at, or change targets (this is why my players are saying)

[storm heron]

Can someone help me with a arkse server issue im having, it has to do with a build mismatch (I have no clue how to update my server to match the current build of the game)

Game is saying it's on patch 358.26 but my server is saying it's build 358.24

[visual eagle]

I'm sure the delay is only for official servers. The mod should still be accesable. I am able to download the mod on the console but can't add it to my server

[waxen hazel]

Only the major number (358 in your case) needs to match between server and client. The minor number is often different between servers and clients since they are patched separately.

[waxen hazel]

That's the reason for the delay. WC discovered that Eggcelent adventure didn't work anymore. So they need to recook it.

[celest halo]

Last years version, mod hasn’t been updated with the new stuff they announced for this year

[stuck leaf]

Does anyone know how to get the yellow upload timer like on official servers to stop instant transfers?

[wheat patio]

anyone here made a dedicated server and can answer a question for me lol my multiplier configs dont wanna work

i have it in the gameusersettings but it dosent seem to work

[woven field]

theres multiple sections in the gus settings, do you have it under {ServerSettings}

[wheat patio]

yeah

idk if maybe a mod somehow breaks it

[woven field]

is it HarvestAmountMultiplier=10 or whatever your rates wanna be

[wheat patio]

[ServerSettings]
ShowMapPlayerLocation=True
AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True
ServerCrosshair=True
ServerPassword=
ServerAdminPassword=
RCONEnabled=True
RCONPort=
TheMaxStructuresInRange=10500.000000
OxygenSwimSpeedStatMultiplier=1.000000
StructurePreventResourceRadiusMultiplier=1.000000
TribeNameChangeCooldown=15.000000
PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier=1.000000
StructurePickupTimeAfterPlacement=30.000000
StructurePickupHoldDuration=0.500000
AllowIntegratedSPlusStructures=True
AllowHideDamageSourceFromLogs=True
RaidDinoCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=1.000000
PvEDinoDecayPeriodMultiplier=1.000000
KickIdlePlayersPeriod=3600.000000
PerPlatformMaxStructuresMultiplier=1.000000
AutoSavePeriodMinutes=15.000000
ListenServerTetherDistanceMultiplier=1.000000
MaxTamedDinos=5000.000000
ItemStackSizeMultiplier=1.000000
RCONServerGameLogBuffer=600.000000
AllowHitMarkers=True
GreaterRiftActivationMultiplier=1.000000
ShowAnniversaryContent=True
RandomSupplyCratePoints=True
DifficultyOffset=1.0
ActiveMods=663804193,1292904141,3441854708,761535755,1609138312,1404697612,731604991
HarvestAmountMultiplier=3.0
HarvestHealthMultiplier=3.0
TamingSpeedMultiplier=5.0

[wheat patio]

thats what my file is

mods and stuff work

[wise kindle]

Why all the zeroes?
You can remove those btw.
1.00000000
To
1

[woven field]

from what I read on ark server setings website, take away the .0 at every number, works better with single numbers

[wheat patio]

yee thats just default

i can remove see if helps

[celest halo]

If you cheat and make the changes in SP then copy them out of the ini file you get all the extra 0, WC for some reason decided to pad everything

[wise kindle]

Ewwww

Wc math for ya

[wheat patio]

lol when i started server thats th ini it generated sadly minus the mods and the harvest info

[wise kindle]

Oh
Its cuz its originating from a slider.
Good grief.

[wheat patio]

lol and my harvest multiplier just wont work and i dont get why lol

[wise kindle]

Dumb question: How do you know its not working?

[wheat patio]

i load in server pick rock up its 1 insted of 3 lol

make me worried the tame speed not working either

[wise kindle]

What ya get with harvesthealth 1 and harvesting clamped?

[wheat patio]

ah u know what maybe it is the health

i did just pick up the same rock 3 times

XD

ill be happy and sad if that was issue

very sad i missed that if so

[wheat patio]

yeah the health was making me pick 3 from 1 rock what does clamped do

[tepid berry]

Is EOS having issues for unofficials?

[viscid estuary]

I think so

[tepid berry]

Okay, not my problem then.

Always makes me happy when I can blame it on Wildcard and Epic Game Services.

[chrome falcon]

Unofficial dedicated servers aren't listed, does anyone know anything about this?

[verbal cove]

Same thing for everybody

[chrome falcon]

So we have to wait. thx

[echo socket]

idk if this is the right place to ask very sorry if not. im struggling with the rename player command. how exactly do i use it? i forgot to name myself on a server my friend owns

[open arrow]

Its AWS not EOS this time.... might be offline for a while whilst they fight for oil

[tiny sky]

Yeah no unofficial servers showing for me either

[tiny stream]

same over here

[waxen junco]

Guess im not alone on this matter lol

[chrome falcon]

It seems to be resolved, just press the refresh button a few times

[celest halo]

It's WC to buy more time for getting eggcellent event ready for release 😂

[open arrow]

all back up again

[verbal cove]

You can see serv but you can't travel between serv

[tepid berry]

This is an admin only command, your server owner will have to run it on you.

[tiny stream]

anyone know why I can't travel to val without it saying "failed steam authentication"?

[chrome falcon]

I just tried it and it worked for me

[woven field]

server owner should have an admin password he set, for example ARK123, so you would type in enablecheats ARK123, then type in cheat and then the command you want to type

[verbal cove]

Ok

[echo socket]

ye i have admin he gave me the password. we just cant find out how it works

[tepid berry]

cheat RenamePlayer <Player Name> <New Name> -- It's...self explanatory.

[echo socket]

do i need to put the <>

[tepid berry]

no

[echo socket]

weird thats what i did. any idea how the renameplayerid one works

[tepid berry]

cheat RenamePlayer ThantiK NotThantiK

You need to enablecheats yourpasswordhere first

[echo socket]

i did. ill try again when server is back up ty

[wise kindle]

The player must be online when you run the command btw

[wise kindle]

Likely part of the EOS or AWS, which ever it is, outage.
It can affect server lists and joins/connections.

[spare brook]

one thing to note with the renamplayer command... the old name goes in quote marks, but never put the new name in quote marks..... they'll be unchangeable

so cheat renameplayer "Phokxx" Not Phokxx

never cheat renameplayer "Phokxx" "not phokxx"........ #experience #whoopsies

[wise kindle]

Today I learned

[golden nest]

Bleh. Haven't needed to use this myself, but that's really useful to know! Thanks for the tip!

[wise kindle]

Glad to know this cuz I temp change tribemates names as a joke. Def gonna be careful its not permanent lol.

[dusky nebula]

im trying to find a server to play on like a solo duo trio

anyone got anything?

[open arrow]

anyone done the major update yet? heard alreasdy from some devs its problematic

[simple pollen]

i have 2 maps not booting, rest worked fine idk

[open arrow]

mind if i ask which maps? and do those have independent plug ins on?

ive have trouble booting eden today, going to try a fresh server install

[mental jewel]

Anyone else have their server show up as unknown in the server list? I can RCON to it just fine, but can’t get to it from the game

[wise kindle]

remove the favorite and search by name

[simple pollen]

Astraeos and Lost colony

Even backups dont work, doesnt help. Yeah prob have to reinstall them idk

[open arrow]

im applying the update now, if i have problems i'll bounce back here and try help out, i'll let you know if all worked too and compare apis ect

[worldly cosmos]

Any luck yet? Mine are stuck in "Updating" on Nitrado. Love it 😛

[gritty swan]

Saaaame here lol. Both of them are doing that.

[worldly cosmos]

I just dug a little deeper. Files are still updating on my Lost Colony server. Recommend NOT hitting it with the Force Start/Stop

[wise kindle]

Test server is up.

[worldly cosmos]

If you dig into the file browser and go to the actual map file, you should see files with a recent "Last edit". If you see that, it's still working

[gray tundra]

I think that is the best advice for any form of update

[wise kindle]

Valguero, but I'm not updated to test it yet

[lime lily]

im still stuck at that point too

[worldly cosmos]

I'm still new to server ownership, but my telecom background helps temper my panic xD

[gray tundra]

Updates can take upto an hour they said sooo "breathe in.... Breathe out"

[worldly cosmos]

Been almost 1.5 for me. I imagine Nitrado's getting slammed and the processes are probably throttled

[gray tundra]

Well nitrado update started for me at 23:10ish so its almost an hour now

[worldly cosmos]

Wooo. TWO of my 5 maps are online. Good news. ❤️

[shell goblet]

Does anyone know why I can't install the Easter mod? It says there isn't enough space, but I don't have any other mods installed.

[worldly cosmos]

Using Nitrado?

Or is this on your Console?

[open arrow]

im having an all new one myself, started two servers booted fine.... but wont show on the server seach screen 😂

Side note
Also this might be a weird one but ive if you have players complaining about a red 0 on tek engrams its a vanilla thing, no fix... my players went single players and its there too

[white garnet]

hey anyone got the mod id for the easter event? i may be dumb and cant find it...

[rigid sapphire]

Looks like 877745 for me 🙂

[white garnet]

awesome ty

[rigid sapphire]

Happy to help

Anyone’s nitrado server stuck on restarting/updating?

[cursive abyss]

yep all 6 of my maps are stuck restarting

[worldly cosmos]

Patience 🙂

[formal goblet]

Hey guys, can someone help me with this? I bought the game and I'm sharing it on my Steam family. My friend downloaded it, and when he tried to join my world, it said that shared accounts can't play on that server, it gives an error and disconnects him. However, when I try to join my friend's server, I can connect normally.

[worldly cosmos]

4 of my 5 are back up. For some reason Extinction and Valguero were LIGHTNING fast. LC and Astraeos had me biting my Nails, and the Island is dragging as well.

[worldly cosmos]

If I recall, you aren't supposed to be able to play shared games simultaneously

[formal goblet]

So, using Steam Tools, two people can join the game at the same time, and when it created a world, I was able to join normally.

[lime lily]

I have one map on the updated verison however the others are stopping themselves and going offline

[onyx night]

does the easter event happen on crossplay servers?

[cursive abyss]

For some reason some PC Players cant join the server it says they dont have the dlc even they clearly have it

[feral perch]

IS it possible to join a unnofficial server that is still on the last version ? With some open commands or whatever ?

[vast pebble]

Any recommendations for an admin tool that can teach players specific engrams?

[gusty fractal]

Where do yall put the command in the files?

[onyx night]

can I add the easter event to my crossplay server? I added the -ActiveEvent=Easter true but it didnt seem to work

[remote zephyr]

tek cave on island just killed my character after ascending

see the file in cluster server

should have never tried after a major update. Trying to figure out ways to restore, if you have any suggestions, let me know

I see my file in cluster folder, to be more specific, but character is gone. can't get to it

[echo niche]

I run a nitrado hosted server and we have a big issue with automatic server restarts, we’ve tried every guide possible. It sends the warning message about 6-8 times before actually shutting down and has about a 15-20 minute rollback everytime anyone know any fixes?

[wise kindle]

Dont be online when you know its time for the restart.
Dont log back in till its complete.

[cedar beacon]

hello does anyone have a ini for potato users i need a good one to reduce the crashes for the ps5 players on my overhaul server im going to add the ini in my mod please dm if you have some good inis

[haughty ether]

You have to add the eggscellent adventure mod

[haughty ether]

The auto restarts are awful, my advice don’t use them. Manually restart - if anyone is on kick them off before you restart…players being online when a nitrado server is shutting down seems to cause rollbacks.

[robust nymph]

So whats the verdict on the latest update?
How much did it mess up unofficials for different platforms?

[robust nymph]

best advice is keep the complete mod size to less then half of what the ps mod storage capacity is. PS hates mods, the less, the better.

[cedar beacon]

yea i did that yet same issue

[spice smelt]

does one having a site that I can copy and paste engrams overrides

[robust nymph]

beacon is a great app for overrides and really anything to do with customising a server

[raw venture]

for lost collony it screwed it all up i can't even connect and if finely get in it give the hole time time outs , i had that not before patach

when this happens on evolve in 2015 i quit the game till few months ago now concider do the same with assended ...

payed for all maps, then i should expect it also run smooth, if bring up a patch the should first play it self to test if it work if it not work for wildcard then it also not work for other people, so my thing is bring it out after test it on a test server don't do like trump make a mess and let people then clean up the mess

[raw venture]

now do a check if then stil can't play i just uninstal both arks and i start play a other game

[muted light]

i see a lot of people including myself getting this you do not own the required DLC to join this server error do we know when this is getting fixed?

[kind solstice]

I’ve had the same problem for 2J I fart my head 1st degree my girlfriend on Xbox can play and me on Microsoft when I want to join the server while she’s already on it it tells me Dlc required while I have it etc etc

[muted light]

my servers been down 24 hrs and i can not join any others either

[kind solstice]

the same

[near hawk]

#status-updates message

[void cedar]

Guys every time when i wont to play with my frends together we cant. We get every time info "connection timeout". Do you know how to fix it?

[willow abyss]

Does anyone know where I can find the default MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow= of each dino? The wiki gg Spawn Map Instruction Manual page said the Ankylo has a 15% spawn limit in DinoSpawnEntriesMountain_C, meaning Ankylos can only be at most 15% of the mountain spawns.

The wiki seemingly doesn't have anymore spawn limit information for any other dino or how they even found the Ankylo's 15% spawn limit, which is driving me insane 🙁

[tiny stream]

"Network Failure Message

Failed Steam Authentication."

anyone know how to fix this? I've deleted mods, deleted ark, restarted pc, updated, verified files, nothing has worked, I can play 2 of the 4 maps on my cluster just to add to the weirdness

[fathom merlin]

Hi everyone! On ARK: Survival Ascended PvE servers, my structure decay timer keeps resetting after every restart, even though I see 'Saving world…' before shutdown. Has anyone managed to find a reliable fix or workaround for this in 2026? I’d really appreciate any help!

[carmine goblet]

@fathom merlin I have been trying to find an answer to that same question since they put the decay timers into the game and nothing I have found works to fix it :/

[austere needle]

I seem to recall that you need to have both activated (PvP and PvE decay).

[waxen hazel]

You need the DevKit to look it up.

[inner hollow]

Hi, excuse me, how can I prevent my players from transferring dinos, items, and resources from their local games to my cluster? (without affecting item transfers between my maps)

[near hawk]

doesn't simply being in a cluster stop transfer from non clustered saves

[mellow thistle]

My server harvest health is high but the harvest amount isn't I've configured them in the same ini file so why isn't harvest amount working

[spice smelt]

having a issue everytime I try to tranq a dino its kills it i have done any changes to wild dino stats my dino resistance is set to 0.5 what can I do to fix this

[willow abyss]

Funny you said that, I blindly decided to download it and it's almost finished downloading. Thanks for confirming it for me.

[solar fern]

Looking for some help i have a couple of old pcs that j have been running servers on but i cant figure out clustering them together

Any ideas i read that i need it in the start command as well as 3 ports for each server then it goes to advertise the “server management tool “ they have created

[plain raft]

Does anyone have any like good PVE dino server stats? I don't want it to be really easy but I don't want to have to breed for the next two weeks just to do a boss fight

[quaint fiber]

I'll send u a dm

[plain raft]

W

[quaint fiber]

Sent you dm

[gusty isle]

Having trouble setting weapon damage, armor, saddle armor and durability’s to official cap. Im newer to modifying the ini code but am trying to learn as much as i can. Please help

[edgy phoenix]

Servers corrupted after the most recent update. Only fixable with huge rollbacks. Another update that has broken the servers. Minimal mods, sensible settings.

Anyone else?

[strong prism]

-NoTransferFromFiltering

[honest drum]

Hy after the new mod i can1t join any server bc when the mod start to dowload the game just kick me out to the mein menu

[waxen basalt]

could someone enlighten me on how i can disable the saddle durability on my private server?

[latent coral]

Hey Server Owners and Admins, i was wondering if you are experiencing something that all my cluster are at the moment.
This has nothing to do with server Managers just wanted a place to ask as many owners as possible.

Are your players having trouble crafting tek items once they unlock them?
Like a red 0 appears on the engram on the engram screen and is like a block.

In the past it wold happen to like 1 player a month and then resolve itself but its everyone player as of the last week.
Was curious if anyone ever found a fix? or is having issues with this.

Things I've tried

• Happens in single player
• Unlock engram cheat commands
• running boss fights again
• create new character
• killing the player
• transferring maps
• reinstalling the map server side
• removed all mods and plug ins
• Its not engram point related
• Tried auto unlock all engrams in ini
• Its not account based or platform base

Out of ideas myself, and im sure ive tried other things too.
Any help or just knowing other have this too will help ease the stress 🤣

[full oak]

What exactly does a mod do in passive mode?

[near hawk]

nothing, just let's the files exist

for example a creature mod being on passive stops it from spawning and it's related engrams

but u can trasnfer one from outside

[celest halo]

Let's you have all the assets of the mod instead of losing them all by fully removing the mod

[inner hollow]

I will try (because I thinkg thats For dedícate servers im un nitrado)

[hasty wolf]

Can you play the Easter event on lost city on an unofficial server?

[livid token]

Can anyone help I’m trying to set up a single player world on asa that’s slightly boosted so it’s not as grindy but still challenging

[dreamy aurora]

hey
Has anyone else encountered the problem of the vanilla auto turrets being bugged?

They normally have 14 slots, but for some reason, people can only put 5 stacks put in the inventory from the turret

Has anyone else experienced this issue and knows how to fix it? I've already tried restarting the server and such, but unfortunately, nothing has worked.

[wise kindle]

Stacking mod Im guessing.

[wheat patio]

im not sure if anyone has the mod but i have wild dinos 1200 and when i level up my dinos their speed only goes up by .2 or .3 is there a way to overide that

[devout citrus]

Excuse me, I have a big problem. I can't tame dinosaurs when they're asleep; it doesn't give me access to the inventory. I've enabled everything in the settings, but I don't understand. I need help, please!

[wise kindle]

What dinos specifically?

[devout citrus]

All bro i don’t understand 😔

[wise kindle]

You tried all 200+ dinos??

[devout citrus]

No ?

[wise kindle]

So like
Parasaur?
Chalicotherium?
Dire Bear?

Or did you disable taming?

Acro?
Megaraptor?
Dodo?

[devout citrus]

I don't understand, I tried the dilophosaurus, the dodo, the raptor and two others, but it doesn't work?

Yeee

[wise kindle]

Did you disable taming?

[devout citrus]

No, I activated everything, though

[wise kindle]

It shouldnt need enabling.
bDisableDinoTaming=false
Be sure thats correct

[devout citrus]

I can't send a photo to show you in Discord ?

Yes is desactived

[wise kindle]

What mods do you have?

[devout citrus]

None, I had one but I'm uninstalling it.

[wise kindle]

Are you able to access boxes?

[devout citrus]

I had the Human Asa mod but I don't have it anymore. Should I uninstall it?

Yes, I have access to the trunk and all that, just not the dinosaurs.

[wise kindle]

Dm me a video of this please

[rancid burrow]

Did you try logging out and back in?

[devout citrus]

Yes, I've already tried that, but it still doesn't work. I even tried deleting the save file and creating a new one, but nothing works.

[wise kindle]

The name of that creature isnt vanilla.
Theres some kinda mod there.

[Savage] Female Pteradon isnt vanilla

You have a mod installed

[devout citrus]

Serious ?

[wise kindle]

Remove that and you might see a difference.

[devout citrus]

Ahhh Côme to privet Please

[wise kindle]

Be sure the server is stopped when you are adding and removing mods or changing settings.

[cedar niche]

Hey guys, I am self hosting and none of my players can join the maps anymore (despite htis working fine two days ago). Any ideas?

[stuck leaf]

Does anyone know how to get the yellow upload timer like on official servers to stop instant transfers?

[left pelican]

How do I move my player data from non dedicated to a fresh dedicated server? I moved the world easy enough, but the players weren't there, google says to move the .arkprofile files but I don't have any of those anywhere. I found the localplayer one, but renaming it to my steamid64 and putting in with the world didn't work either

[worldly cosmos]

Make sure your server is up to date. Another patch dropped today.

Can they see them at all in the browser?

[thin sail]

why does my game crash when loading in after adding a new mod?

[cold jewel]

i dont know if any of you guys can help me but is there a way to enable building in boss caves eg lava golem, ice queen in the server ini on nitrdodo website i tried doing AllowCaveBuildingPvE=True. and it didnt work if help could be provided i would be very happy

[stray jasper]

anyone looking for a tribe?

[autumn rain]

Hey guys, I’m thinking about setting up an ASA server at home. Planning to run a small cluster with like 3 maps, nothing huge, maybe 5–10 players and some light mods. What kind of hardware would you recommend for that? And do you think around ~700€ budget is enough or am I being too optimistic?

[bleak ivy]

I don't think current RAM prices will agree with that 3 maps would require at least 32GB of ram and you'd probably want more with 5-10 people.
just looked up some stuff
I think you could probably get one that has 32GB of ram but you'd want more then that

you don't need to worry about GPU as thats not used for a server. just need an output. RAM, SSD, and CPU is all you really need to worry about.

[autumn rain]

thx for the answer, yeah, we are living crazy times

[bleak ivy]

you could probably do 32GB and just run 2 maps and have the second map rotate so one stays as the main one

[slate shard]

I have had a problem with Mods for a while, om using custom made mods like structure skins and so forth. I done it since start and never really had a problem with it. Last half a year or something more and more just keeps disapearing from my inventory mod location. They are still installed if i look at the mod list. Iv tried to re install and re sub and what not. Sometimes they re-apear when i kill myself in the game but next time they gone again. Im playing on private server unoffical. Other people do not have the same problem on our cluster.

Does anyone have a solution to this? Its really annoying since huge part of why i play the game is to build shit.

[final blade]

This is exactly what we are doing!

[humble orbit]

Looking for a mod that offers quests or something of the sort for PvE. TiA!

[floral cove]

Who can help

With Nintendo serv dm me pls

[tight ivy]

I'm running a server on a second pc in my room with a ethernet cord connecting the two pcs. But for some reason I'm still getting like 50 ping. There's no server lag, just high ping for some reason. Do I need to do anything besides just plugging a ethernet cable into pcs?

[tight ivy]

Sorry if that's a dumb questions lol never done Lan before

[waxen junco]

If u have acrocanthosaurus mod and tamed acrocanthosaurus from mod when u get rid of mod does acrocanthosaurus stay or do they disappear?

[waxen junco]

Iv little experience but lan is always better than wireless

[tight ivy]

Is it really as simple as plugging a ethernet to both pcs? No further action required?

[edgy phoenix]

Why would you want to disable something that doesn't even exist? What are you doing to make you fixate on something like that? There's probably much more important server changes you could be making.

[edgy phoenix]

Not possible without essentially making a modded map. Not easy to do if you don't know what you're doing too.

We have servers corrupting still every day. If you also have a server that keeps corrupting (tames, bases, players, inventories disappearing) please make it known instead of passively scrolling.

[shrewd basin]

Hi all, does anyone here know about coding or changing INI files, and be willing to help me with some issues on my cluster? Having issues for a long time and I don't have the knowledge or skills to work it out

[waxen basalt]

i see on my server that saddles lose durability and my players noticed and told me about it they didnt know its a bug i didnt so i did everything i could to get information
See Problem Fix Problem

[edgy phoenix]

Saddles don't break. They have a fake durability label.

[sonic cosmos]

Good Afternoon, I have a question. I'm hoping someone can help. I'm hosting my own server. Is it possible to have dino's from other maps spawn on my Valguero server? Is this is not the correct channel to ask in. I do apologize. This is for ASA.

[near hawk]

u can, via ini or mods

[sonic cosmos]

How do I do it through ini? If you're able to help, Looking to have the Aureliax spawn on my server.

[near hawk]

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration#Creature_Spawn_related has most of the info u need

but it's not very user friendly

i would recomend using the b+ spawn editor mod

it changes the ini with a ingame interface

[woven field]

depending on how you feel about ai, asking ai has not given me terrible results on helping me spawn something like megaraptor on island

[devout rampart]

Assuming v32 on the announcement Is for the mod, do i Need to reboot server to update the mod or it's a "live" update?

[devout rampart]

...yes.

[low mantle]

Does someone have Ark Ascended server running on Proton GE?

[solar fern]

what kind of issues are you having ... I used Beacon for 90% of my ini

Has anyone taken a nitrado server and dumped the saved files in to a self hosted scenerio?

[lusty charm]

So... Have a cluster.. and randomly will not show structures for any members... it happens across cluster we have 12 maps.. happened on 4 of them but ASTR more than any... have to rollback several hours to fix everytime.. I'm sure its a mod issue.. or something just curious of tips to figure this out as easy as I can without causing to much of disturbance to the community.. (100+ online) Not the usually mod issue where you uninstall and reinstall this is server wide... the structures are there but don't show..

[lost raven]

Just have them eat implant/respawn. It's happened to me for months now and that's always the fix for the rest of the session. There's absolutely no need to rollback or anything else similarly destructive.

[lusty charm]

So someone else did tell me this.. i relayed that to my cluster and some acted like this was false.. idk

I will try anything man this is killing me mentally.

now could that be a diffrent issue.. they said another server... so who knows.

obv can't trust everyones word theres alot of variabels

[lost raven]

No idea. I run a 10 map cluster myself and experience this first-hand, so that's all I know :P

[lusty charm]

yeah.. i got 12

so im trusting u

[tepid berry]

You're not the only one dealing with Astraeos and strange things happening. Lots of us have been dealing with it ever since the release of Lost Colony. The current issue that we're having is certain areas of the map get put into stasis, and when players cross that boundary to a place where a building is, the entire communication thread on the server will stop talking to clients, causing them all to get kicked.

[tepid berry]

Completely normal for ark. Right next to my machine too and get 90+. Ark doesn't seem to prioritize network communication over Dino ai or something...it'll be really low after a Dino wipe and then gradually climb the more Dino's are on the map

[lusty charm]

Issues. Center did it. Island done it.

Multiple maps

[ruby lodge]

My name is Rajib Saha, and I am reaching out to discuss a new ARK server project that I am planning to launch. Previously, I successfully ran two ARK servers that maintained a decent and active player base. At one point, I was hosting two maps and consistently seeing around 20–30 players daily during streams, with steady community engagement.

Unfortunately, I had to shut the servers down due to a financial setback after being scammed for approximately $150–$160. At that time, I did not have the resources to continue running the servers, so I had no choice but to close them.

Now, I am planning to relaunch the community with a stronger and more professional approach. My vision is to create a high-quality ARK server focused on player experience rather than profit. The project will include new maps, custom mods, unique events, balanced gameplay, and a non pay-to-win structure. My goal is to bring back the old-style ARK community where players genuinely enjoy the game without excessive monetization or unfair advantages.

I am seeking sponsorship support to help launch this project properly. If the server generates any profit, I am willing to share 70% with you and retain 30%, which will be fully reinvested into improving the server’s quality, stability, and content.

My main objective is not profit but to build a stable, lag-free, well-managed ARK server where players can truly enjoy the game. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to discuss a potential collaboration with you.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your response.

Best regards,
Rajib Saha

[round blaze]

Hi all, how can i remove the cap for max Dino Level? Not the wild Level but the General. Because if i mutate dinos don't go over 1206

[gleaming ibex]

Can anyone help me with a weird problem? I have the steam edition of ark and i downloaded it on my pc, (i got a potato pc that's why i run it on Gforce.) but i can't seem to join my friends non-dedicated server. Any possible way we can play in a server with only us two?

[cedar beacon]

hello what does this mean 81, 16:05:22: Krozrd downloaded a dino: Spirit Giganotosaurus - Lvl 1531) in logs btw i dont have a cluster so does this mean he got the dino from single player

[near hawk]

Yeah, I think so

[silver basin]

I have a question about an issue I'm having? I've ran an ASE server cluster now going on the last 5 years and on Friday I had something happen that I've never seen and I don't know how to fix? Has anyone ever had an issue where if a specific player joins a specific server the ping sky rockets to 255 in game but if they leave or transfer to a different server it won't do it anywhere else only that one server?

Example Player A joins The Island ping for Island is <50

Player A joins The Center the ping for Center jumps to 255

Player A leaves The Center back to The Island

Center ping drops back down and Island ping stays <50

It is only happening when 1 or 2 specific players join The Center and no others in the cluster?

[white garnet]

have you gone to where these players are on the map? id assume theyve got a mass breeding operation or theres a huge overspawn. only thing i can think of.

[white garnet]

this happens to me when there is a mod version mismatch and people transfer maps, make sure all maps are running the same version of the mod.

[white garnet]

singleplayer or cheats, it shouldnt be possible without a cluster, up to you on how to deal with them. either way make sure in your gameusersettings.ini on your server you have these
[ServerSettings]
PreventDownloadDinos=True
PreventDownloadItems=True
PreventDownloadSurvivors=True

[carmine raft]

How do I set up an unofficial server?

And are they cross platform

[cedar beacon]

yea i got the logs he didnt upload the dino he just downloaded it i tried to upload and download and that shows on the logs and tried to do that on single player and yea i forgor i didnt enable cross ark and didnt generate a cluster link

thank you

[native hound]

Guys how can I host sp a server on ark mobile

Ultimate edition

[white garnet]

instructions here https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup and yes they are cross platform if youre on ASA, ASE is not.

[obsidian falcon]

I'm trying to run an unoffical server on survival evolved and I want my babies to grow up in about 30 minutes. I've set my stats to these but the egg take forever to hatch still and the babies take forever to grow up? What should I do

Egghatchspeed:45

babycuddleintervalmultiplier:.01

babymaturespeedmultipler:60

[white garnet]

that should work, did you put the settings in game.ini or gameusersettings.ini?

a lot of people put them in GUS but they actually go in game.ini under [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]

[obsidian falcon]

ohhhhh I see, thank you

[broken knoll]

Yo what do you guys think is a good way to host a server for like 5 people not to expensive

[alpine niche]

Hi, has anyone had an issue where either a new player or someone who hasn't join for a few weeks can't join a server with mods?

[silver basin]

That's the weird thing is that the saved data for Center was deleted as the world save was suspected to be corrupted and now it only happens if the 2 players that were on there originally transfer from any of the other 11 servers in the cluster to Center. It is a complete clean slate save file. We took their characters and tames from there and transfered it all to Island before the server saved data was removed. The second they transfer on the ping goes from 19 to 255 and the second they transfer to a different server it drops back from 255 to 19 instantly. It only happens on Center server and only with 2 players.

I'm starting to question if the world save wasn't the only data that got corrupted somehow?

There is no issues anywhere else except when they transfer back to Center. So I'm completely confused.

[lost raven]

There are lots of us that do exactly like this, for free... you don't want to focus on profit but want someone to buy into it to earn profit? Yuck.

[void ledge]

Anyone having their LC server wipe storage, had saddles vanish off of dinos? Gasoline gone from generators, stuff gone from bookshelves and boxes. Dedis are fine... Structures have vanished too.
This is a PvE server, so there's no raiding or anything happening. I am so confused

[wise kindle]

Are they at 50/50?

[void ledge]

No just completely zeroed out. I try to "transfer all" to see if it's a visual thing but nothing pulled. Turrets are reading empty and still shooting though so I'm confused. I think I will most likely just do a 48 hour rollback

[wise kindle]

I mean, are the missing assets at 50/50?

Roughly 50 up as well.

So 50/50/50

[carmine raft]

Hey so I’ve set up a server and everything is working on the host computer end but isn’t showing up correctly on my other computer what is wrong?

[gusty fractal]

Does anyone know where to put the information to setup the Easter event on a Nitrado server?

[lost raven]

You just install the eggcellent adventure mod, that's it.

[smoky burrow]

#unofficial-setup-help message

enjoy the read and all the "fantastic" silence following from WC

[formal tapir]

Hey Guys! Could someone help me update my private unofficial server? Cause the server version is still 84.43 but the game version 85.18? I tried that steamcmd stuff like force_install_dir and the update 2430930 but its still not working, I also tried deleting the manifest

We're also playing vanilla with no mods

[timber crane]

Getting a lot of corrupted saves on the server I play on. Has anyone else had issues in the past month or so from it? Having to restart from a backup. Could this be caused by custom cosmetics by a server member or something?

or is there a way to only allow whitelisted cosmetics on Nitrado in case that is the problem?

[candid needle]

yeah we got 3-4 corrupted maps after mega updaate and all there fix updates

[raven oak]

Would anyone know how to recover a lost character on unofficial nitrado server? It happened during a server restart.

[manic cliff]

The only way I've been able to recover a character is restarting the server from a previous save/backup file.

Can someone explain where I can type the passivemod command on a Nitrado hosted server? Everything I have read says the "server startup setting" but I don't know where that is or what that means. I only know the .ini settings and what I've tried so far has not worked.

[lost raven]

Nitrado doesn't allow custom launch arguments, they add it to the top of the settings window if there's anything common that needs to be supported. As far as I remember, the only use case for this was for one of the holiday events approximately a year ago or so. I'm not sure what you'd use it for now?

[haughty badger]

If you set a self hosted server to be a lower max player count, does that effect the ram usage at all?
Obviously if more players are connected it has an impact, but does it reserve ram or anything if its set for more even if you dont have the max players connected?

[humble cosmos]

hey how do i make someone a perma admin in ark?
like so they dont have to put the password in every time
google isnt giving me any help, i think its giving me ase stuff but i need asa; i use steamcmd

play as dino is working on my singleplayer but not my self-hosted server

[stoic aspen]

Hello! I'm looking to purchase an ascended server for friends and want it to be able to host a decent amount of mods and not really have them hinder performance much. whats the average amount of ram a good mod server needs? (thinking like under 10 players), Attorics lowest offer is 4GB of ram, so I just wanna know what kind of average I should be thinking about?

[manic cliff]

Was hoping to keep some breeds we have that came from mods but don't want the mods active in our cluster server when moving to the next map. Want to try the new map as is

[manic cliff]

My server doesn't have many mods (about 10) and we have used about 2GB of installed mods... Most are creature mods and a few event or structure mods. If you're not planning on using a lot of mods, 4GB might be fine but I'm unfamiliar with servers outside of Nitrado unfortunately

[devout rampart]

the FIRST answer if you google for "ark server admin config" (can't paste links or images here). Even the IA sh*t has some good advice in the top replies.

[lost raven]

This is...basically the same thing. I sort of do this to in that I have the same mods on every map in the cluster but want to keep some dinos exclusive to some maps. I just do this by NPCReplacements in the game.ini (such as NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Rhynio_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")). You could load the mod and then block every creature in the mod and you'd have exactly the same thing you're after.

[lost raven]

If this is RAM, even something like Scorched is going to run 10-11Gb of it just to launch. You aren't running Ark:SA on 4GB in any universe :P

[stoic kraken]

Hey guys, i was able to setup and launch my own server, works amazingly well. However, I got one slight issue. The server isn't letting me use the admin commands although I tried using the admin password. If anyone can help walk me through this bug, would appreciate it.

[humble cosmos]

The steam id thing doesnt work for me

[humble cosmos]

To test if you have admin, you can type a message in chat and you should have a star
Commands might need a cheat or admincheat in the front

[inland bear]

Whats everyone’s thought on gravel hosting. I’m debating on making a swap but unsure of how they are

[weak ruin]

Hey, does anyone here still have old ARK mod files for Utilities Plus (mod ID 899250777)? Looking for the old Ultimate Spyglass version (2017–2018 UI).

[lost raven]

No experience with them, but be aware that they only provide the machine. Like any other VM host, you'll have to set it up yourself - it won't work "out of the box" like Nitrado/Apex/Other Marbis affiliates...

[inland bear]

Thank you !

[broken anvil]

Any videos or guides on setting up multiple servers/instances of ARK on a VPS or Dedicated server?

[devout rampart]

for ASA is EOS id ("whoami" in console or login id in server terminal)

[humble cosmos]

Okay so its the shorter number i see next to my name in the admin panel?

[carmine raft]

I’ve set up a server which I can join on my pc but my friend can’t on his ps5 I’ve set up the port forwarding for both tsp and what ever the one starting with u was for the ports 7777 7778 and 27015 what am I missing

[static sentinel]

I’m convinced they will never fix this, it’s been months and I doubt they even know it’s an issue. Everytime I look for something to help the owners of the cluster im on, it’s always some bs about mods. It’s not the mods, we have the event mod and speedy rhynio. Super vanilla cluster.

Shits a joke

[gray tundra]

let's see if any of you smart people can help me.. How do I "Broadcast" a message through RCON ? it seems to accept my saveworld and doexit but not broadcast ... at least I don't see anything in the game

[manic cliff]

I've done this for the mods prior then learned about the potential "passivemod" option. My only remaining issue is some mods also have item drops associated with them and was hoping that command might be an easy fix. Oh well. Appreciate the feedback, thank you!

[normal rose]

Anyone know if a server (unofficial) has to do a restart to bring in tames from single player? I was able to bring in one tame. But it won't allow me to grab my ice wyvern from terminal on lost colony.

[regal orbit]

Is there a setting I can change to make my pets lay unfertilised eggs faster on Xbox and if so what do I need to put it on to lay every 3-5mins

[torn cosmos]

how do i make an unofficial server?

[near hawk]

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

[carmine raft]

Is it game user int settings for a password or game int settings

[near hawk]

gameusersettings.ini

[carmine raft]

See that’s what I thought but it’s not working any idea why?

Like does it matter where the setting is bc it’s under session settings

[near hawk]

[ServerSettings]
ServerPassword=

[carmine raft]

That’s what I’ve got

Does it need to be the top thing bc above that I’ve got my session name?

[near hawk]

no

[carmine raft]

Well idk why it’s not working

I’ve given up with the password

Tbf none of my server settings are working

Anyone know why?

Would I be able to send anyone my session settings privately so they could take a quick look

Nvm

[golden nest]

More specifically

ServerPassword="<password here>"

If you don't put your password in quotes, the next line automatically appends to the password parameter. (found that out the hard way)

[near hawk]

Might be that

I just looked at my non password protected server ini, should have not been lazy and looked at the other one

[carmine raft]

I found out why but now I’ve got a new problem in that none of my game int settings are working

So my baby mature rate and egg hatch speeds and stuff like that

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=false
bAllowSpeedLeveling=True
bAllowFlyerSpeedLeveling=true
TamingSpeedMultiplier=1
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=99
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=6
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.07
bAllowUnlimitedRespecs=true
MaxPersonalTamedDinos=500
bDisableFriendlyFire=true

[carmine raft]

Here is what it looks like is there anything wrong bare in mine all this is in game int files

[last magnet]

okay do you use Beacon, handwrite your ini or use nitrado's panel? I'm very familiar with Beacon & writing inis, but no idea how nitrado does their thing bc I self host on my own machine

[carmine raft]

I’m self hosting

I’m gonna be honest I copy pasted the settings over from a yt video

[last magnet]

ahhhh

[golden nest]

Well, your mating interval is set to 0, pretty sure that disables mating altogether

[last magnet]

yeah that's what I was about to say

[carmine raft]

oh

[golden nest]

Use this: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration instead

[carmine raft]

Well that’s not the one we noticed tbf were after the mature rate that just didn’t work

[carmine raft]

They’re all the same for what I’ve already got typed in

So now I’ve got no clue

[last magnet]

you'd need to have fresh babies from after the change is made for it to show up

[carmine raft]

What u mean?

[last magnet]

and that the server is OFF before you edit any of the inis

[carmine raft]

The server is off and I haven’t changed anything yet from when the mature rate was bad

[last magnet]

if you have a baby out from before changing the maturation speed, it will use the old speed setting, not the new one

[carmine raft]

I’ve had these setting on from the start they just aren’t working

[golden nest]

My suggestion: wipe the server files (keep your save), redownload using SteamCMD, and reconfigure using the documentation I linked.

There's no possible way I can guess all the changes you made, especially because you copied and pasted from YouTube without verifying each line first. Start from scratch and do it correctly.

Sounds rude, but it's the truth. Can't think of a reason why the Game.ini isn't getting registered, otherwise.

[carmine raft]

I have no idea how to make a server using steam cmd I used some weird server installer that somehow worked

[golden nest]

Yea, I can't help you, then. This requires more expertise on your side. Start by installing SteamCMD and then read documentation for how to install a game server.

[carmine raft]

Hey so I’ve set up the server with steamCMD and I’ve got a few questions first
How do I add mods
Second
How do I move the world over
Third
Where are the config settings

[golden nest]

1. In your startup command line, use -mods=<insert project ID from curseforge mod page> followed by a comma between multiple IDs.

2. go to: ShooterGame > Saved > SavedArks, and copy the respective map you're playing on.

3. Saved > Config > Windows Server

[carmine raft]

Also yes I do have all the mod ids

When you say startup command line do u mean in the start server .bat section?

[golden nest]

Yep

[carmine raft]

Is there anything in between that and all the other stuff in there

Like do I need to start a new line for mods or do I just carry on typing

[golden nest]

You can do both. New lines are for neatness

[carmine raft]

Kk

[carmine raft]

Is the game int settings in a different place or smt bc they aren’t with the game user int settings

Also I’ve just tried to load the server and it’s saying my mods aren’t working

[broken anvil]

Anyone have suggestions on a server manager? I’m tinkering with Arkasm rn but keep getting bsod on windows… any others worth bragging about?

[nocturne verge]

I have a question so i just bought ASE on steam but it seems like others are telling me i shouldve bought it on microsoft could someone explain the difference and why i can't join certain servers?

[tepid berry]

Another server update?!

Hope we get patch notes!

Especially since they're waking me up after I've gone to bed. D:

[final blade]

We went from Nitrado to a self owned server at home. I'm not sure of any other ones out there since Nitrado still has it under contract

[last magnet]

I'm using ASA Dedicated Server manager, and have been since 2024ish. I wanted an easy way to manage mods. I'm very happy with it bc I can update all my servers at once, and do backups of player profiles and servers which is quite handy when WC gets a wild hair.

[buoyant sphinx]

Hi, I'm here for some advice again. Some of our players are stuck in the Lost Colony and their characters can't get out of there. On other maps, they keep getting prompted to create a new character, and the interface is glitchy (the icons are gray and nothing can be selected). The number of people stuck on Lost Colony is growing. Clearing the cluster and cache doesn’t help, nor does restoring an older character backup. Does anyone have any advice on what to do?

[patent trench]

Hello, Ragnarok won't boot up after the update. My server seems to be stuck or crashing during startup

[regal plume]

I used ASCT. It runs in windows and is fairly easy to set up. They have a discord channel. I can send you an invite. Maybe it will work for you. Let me know

[gray tundra]

I just use scripts for the automation part, little mcrcon to do commands in the server. And I have my own backup script to seperate drives. I think all in all home hosting is not that much work.

[austere needle]

Hello everyone
I wanted to ask if there's anything I can do to stop the entire map (Lost Colony) from freezing every time I start an outpost?
(I know my hardware is bad.)
I was thinking there might be some settings I can adjust to at least reduce the freezing.

*Selhosted (not nitrado)

[broken anvil]

Yes, that’s essentially what I’m doing. What program are you using to run all of your maps ?

[broken anvil]

Yea can you please?

[final blade]

Oh nice! We use Ark Server Creation Tool. There are yt videos & they have a very helpful guide & nice helpful ppl in their discord as well if you run into issues

[broken anvil]

Ty 🙂

[carmine raft]

Hey I used the ark server creation tool to make my server but none of the game int settings are working

[obtuse falcon]

Any server owners having this issue: only our rag map on our cluster will periodically empty vaults , cryo fridges , tek gens ect. We have to roll it back to get the loot back. Only happens on rag on a full cluster .

[carmine raft]

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=false
bAllowSpeedLeveling=True
bAllowFlyerSpeedLeveling=true
TamingSpeedMultiplier=1
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=99
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=6
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.07
bAllowUnlimitedRespecs=true
MaxPersonalTamedDinos=500
bDisableFriendlyFire=true

Here are the settings I’m using any ideas why it’s not working

[icy sluice]

why can't I build in the ragnarok desert crack cave? (I'm hosting my own server)

[carmine raft]

Have u enabled cave building

[icy sluice]

yes, i've configured both the game.ini and gameusersettings.ini

[carmine raft]

Which one did you enable bc there’s a pvp and pve cave build setting

And which is ur server pvp or pve

[icy sluice]

i enabled the PvP one and I'm ona PvP server

[narrow kindle]

Anyone here using the new Mavrag repository on unraid ?

[wise kindle]

Have you looked into the 50 50 bug or the mod that helps prevent it? (50 50 Cleanup)

[cedar onyx]

We are having these issues as well 🙁 keep posting until they fix it! We lost so many players yet.

[polar dagger]

why ark started to save/backup gamefiles with "arkrbf" ending? started a few hours ago! Using rcon (saveworld).

before:
TheIsland_WP_08.04.2026_17.30.07.ark

now:
TheIsland_WP_08.04.2026_19.01.09.arkrbf

(update: only the four latest backups with *.arkrbf are preserved at any time. This appears to be a new rolling backup method integrated into the saving process, right?)

[smoky burrow]

@stark warren I don't know who else to tag, sorry, but it would be great to hear something of a response

@low haven @zealous aurora

[regal plume]

@broken anvil I sent you the invite link to the ASCT discord

[broken stream]

Please consider this 🚨@low haven @zealous aurora @stark warren

[carmine raft]

Hey do my server game int settings aren’t working

[/script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]
bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=false
bAllowSpeedLeveling=True
bAllowFlyerSpeedLeveling=true
TamingSpeedMultiplier=1
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=99
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=6
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.07
bAllowUnlimitedRespecs=true
MaxPersonalTamedDinos=500
bDisableFriendlyFire=true

Here are the settings I’m using any ideas why it’s not working

Any questions that may help are also very muchly appreciated

[glacial widget]

any admin available? have an important question that community can't help with and cant get ahold of anyone 🙁

[final blade]

Unsure if you got help with this, but just watch bc there are 2 ini folders I believe!

[carmine raft]

What do you mean?

[carmine raft]

I know there are two folders one is game user int folder and one is game int folder and each settings have different needed to go in either and the settings in the game int settings are in the correct place but aren’t working

[final blade]

You made the server side INI in this folder right? Just checking
[/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]

[carmine raft]

That’s what it’s under in the game int settings yes

[/script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]
bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=false
bAllowSpeedLeveling=True
bAllowFlyerSpeedLeveling=true
TamingSpeedMultiplier=1
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=99
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=6
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.07
bAllowUnlimitedRespecs=true
MaxPersonalTamedDinos=500
bDisableFriendlyFire=true

(The S in script is capitalised on the actual files so that won’t be it)

Could it need to be in the other file?

[edgy phoenix]

This is a problem for many unofficial servers, thank you for raising attention.

We're consistently having random servers corrupt for no obvious reason. It's exhausting.

[carmine raft]

Anyone got any ideas bc I’m like 90% sure these are in the right area

[deft lily]

I have googled my arse off looking for an answer and haven’t found one. If someone here could lend me a hand it would be appreciated. I run a dedicated cluster and have always wondered in the server console what commands can be ran in that window with the “RunCommand” button. All I have been able to find out is exit and cheat saveworld.

[carmine raft]

What are good mature rates and cuddle rates?

We cba to wait normal rates around 10-15 for a Rex sized creature

[obtuse falcon]

Any server owners having this issue: only our rag map on our cluster will periodically empty vaults , cryo fridges , tek gens ect. We have to roll it back to get the loot back. Only happens on rag on a full cluster .

[lunar pine]

hey, my non-dedicated server literally will not save. i’ll force save with cheats and all, but everytime i relog back in - new world, new character. its ASA.

[high dove]

how to raise the min level of wild dino’s in a nitrado server

[tidal frost]

Easiest way to do so would be with the custom dino levels mod to specify a specific range of dino levels to spawn. Otherwise youll need to do some trial and error with the Override Difficulty setting. The higher the value, the "stronger" the dinos are. A value of 5 is "normal" spawns of 5-150, while lower than 5 starts to remove the 150s. If youre just wanting the 150s you can set it to difficulty override 30. So would recommend the mod, otherwise its math or editing the .ini manually.

You will need to do a force shutdown and dinowipe to start seeing any of the adjustments afterwards

[high dove]

wait i thought 1 was 150s

like 1 - 150

also whats the best settings to have the entire mate -> incubate -> mature process take like 15 mins overall for the whole thing? in the nitrado website

[tidal frost]

It could be, Im not exactly at home to fully look at it myself so Im going by memory and mobile nitrado here

[tidal frost]

Based on a very quick google search:

Mating Interval Multiplier: 0.025 - 0.03 (Lowers time between breeding)
Egg Hatch Speed Multiplier: 20.0 - 100.0 (Fast hatching)
Baby Mature Speed Multiplier: 10.0 - 50.0 (Fast growth)
Baby Cuddle Interval Multiplier: 0.01 - 0.1 (Enables 100% imprint with fast growth)

[high dove]

tysm

[warm jackal]

Hey guys had a question related to valguero/deino egg levels, I'm currently running a server with 240 max level, but deinos are only spawning upto level 150, no other dinos having the issue, any tips?

[weary bear]

Yoooo

[tidal oasis]

Desperately in need of help, I bought a unofficial server for me and small group of friends to play, I transferred our original server over but my character/their character and tribe did not transfer over and I’ve been unable to find a way to do it even after doing tons of research, I’m using UltaHost. I was just gonna use cheats to get our tames and items ect but I also couldn’t figure that out 🥲 I’m at my wits end here.

[sharp siren]

are you using any dino mods or anything that alters levels?

[warm jackal]

Only dino mod that I'm running is Shiny! Dinos ascended, only way I'm changing the level is with the difficulty offset

Shouldve probably said my mod list before, but I'm running:
Solo Farm Mod, Cybers Structures, Super spyglass, utilities plus, AP death recovery, Shiny! Dinos asc, TG stackmod 1k/50, Dino depot, Der dino finder, vanilla with sprinkles and auto engrams

Ah wait now that I'm reading through vanilla sprinkles, maybe thats messing with it some how? Havent touched the config on it tho

[tepid berry]

We ever gonna get patch notes for......whatever this patch was?

[tepid berry]

Your best bet is cheat ForceJoinTribe cheat MakeTribeAdmin for getting people their stuff

[tidal oasis]

cant get my cheats to work even with a the password

[tepid berry]

you did enablecheats yourpasswordhere

[tidal oasis]

yep

[tepid berry]

Then your config probably isn't moved over correctly, doing that should give you admin rights.

Is this like a VPS you're renting that they put windows on, and you've gotta set up the ARK server yourself?

[tidal oasis]

ah okay, i think im just gonna try Nitrado cause the control panel looks more user friendly for someone who knows nothing lmao

[tidal oasis]

gonna be honest i have no idea

[tepid berry]

Ah okay, so it doesn't look like they give you full control or anything

Yeah, if you don't know about remotely logging into servers and all of that nonsense, nitrado is going to be easiest - I don't know about importing your configurations and stuff but if they have a better panel than ulta you're probably better off.

[tidal oasis]

thought so, was just tryin to save a few bucks 😩

after 3 days of reading and researching ive finally got the server running and the world transferred just be unable to do anything other than watch the own character sleep on the ground with all my tames, i just wanted my friends not to be tethered to me lmao

[gray tundra]

So there can be a different way of storage. Older profiles are stored separetly but on newer servers it is part of the total save.

If you can, add or remove the -usestore to command when starting the server

[tidal oasis]

okay ive started on a Nitrado server, anyone know of a good tutorial on transfering an undedicated server to this new server?

[warm jackal]

I'm also now having issues with wyverns as well as deinonychus, all wild dinos are adhering to the cap of 240 but wyverns are capped at 180 and deinos are stuck at 150 on valguero (mod list I'm running : Solo Farm Mod, Cybers Structures, Super spyglass, utilities plus, AP death recovery, Shiny! Dinos asc, TG stackmod 1k/50, Dino depot, Der dino finder, vanilla with sprinkles and auto engrams)

[gray tundra]

depends what you used to play you non-dedicated server on .. was that a pc ?

[tidal oasis]

yep

[gray tundra]

can you find the folder where your save data was stored ?

[tidal oasis]

yes

[gray tundra]

then you could use your ftp information from nitrado to "overwrite" the current savegame.

My steps would be:

1. Backup nitrado saved_ark data to your pc (just to be sure to have a backup)

2. Remove everything in the nitrado saved_ark directory

3. upload your own save data there.

4. game.ini and gameuserdata.ini are stored on a different spot, so you might just need to copy paste those contents. Or use beacon

[tidal oasis]

um okay so Im not a single bit familiar with Nitrado, how do i back up Nitrado Saved_ark data? would that be in the general settings..the backup tap?

[gray tundra]

I would do it with FTP just download it to your pc to a directory

filezilla has a nice simple ftp client

[tidal oasis]

ah yes i do have filezilla

[gray tundra]

spam much ?

[lean ore]

This isn't spam... it simply highlights the fact that this isn't an isolated incident, but a serious, long-standing problem that affects quite a few cluster owners

[gray tundra]

Part of it could be the difference in hosters. I mean Nitrado is far from perfect, and hosting on my own hardware in the basement gives (for my small group of friends) a much better result than using Nitrado even though it is meant for 25 players and my private setup will not be able to go there. These things are hard to asses, as you say you have a bunch of mods which means a higher RAM usage and space needed on the server and Xbox Series S. And the lesser of all the other platforms you play on

[gray tundra]

no the amount of times it is being put here is called spam and thusly reported

[wild shard]

Well maybe they will listen if they see the damn text enough

[gray tundra]

I host myself, without any issues. Sure there are bugs here and there, but nothing like you describe at all. So apparently its not everyone that has this issue.

[sharp vessel]

To be fair, my player who has the problem indicated me that on servers with less mods, he's crashing too.
The only server where he's not crashing, it's a modded server on Nitrado and it has more mods than us, so that's really weird.

That's why I'm searching the clue of that, for me, something in paramaters or in the host thing can be used properly for this kind of problems but I don't know what, that's why I need the generic settings of a GUS.ini or something else from a Nitrado owner to see what can bring the difference

[gray tundra]

I can check my GameUserSettings if you want. Anything specific you are looking for ?

[sharp vessel]

Everything except the port, the mods settings,etc..
I really need the basic parameters when you are launching a server

[wild shard]

Well the world doesn’t evolve around you, just because your cluster isn’t having issues doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t either. You must have a lot of time on your hands if you’re searching every ark chat just to start problems for no reason. If we as a community are coming here to complain about an ongoing issue and have tried every situation to fix it even with communicated to a few others then let us have free will to complain about it

[gray tundra]

Okay well the launch parameters in nitrado are hidden unfortunately

[gray tundra]

complain once.. sure ... spam while others are trying to give and get help... no that is just rude and uncessarry

[wild shard]

You’re not helping I guarantee all your advice we already tried. But you’re making unnecessary comments about our complaints.

[civic dune]

Have anyone been having issues with items disappearing from vaults and inventories,
bases half decaying
Dinos disappearing out of thin air

On the cluster iv been on for years now we havnt had these kind of issues until about a month ago and its happened twice on multiple maps now

[gray tundra]

No It all stated with me just commenting that you are spamming, and reporting it thusly. Now you are starting an argument.. not me 🙂

[gray tundra]

there is a couple here that mention it .. many causes of that possible. Most plausible would be corruption in save data. But then you would notice the "age" of the server changing.

[gray tundra]

I still think this might be hardware related. So I feel its really odd that a nitrado server would work. Is it also the same map on nitrado as on the one where it crashes ?

[plain stream]

Here I am again!
And yes, I’m repeating myself because it seems that’s what it takes to get heard here!

For the past 5 weeks, a large number of servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, and in some cases even official servers) have been struggling with the following issues:

• Items are disappearing from players’ inventories and structures
• Equipment you’re carrying or items in the action bar are affected
• Tamed dinosaurs are in the base one day, and gone the next
• Bases are half-destroyed
• A whole day’s progress is lost!

We, the unofficial server operators, have been working for 5 weeks (!!!!!) to keep players on our servers. At the same time, we’re investigating the causes of the situation, restoring backups, rebooting servers multiple times, analyzing the logs, and talking to the modders… only to ultimately discover that there appears to be an issue with data storage, which leads to the above problems when the server restarts.

But what can we server operators do about it? We have no control over how the data is stored. This is solely within Wildcard’s purview.

And Wildcard isn’t doing anything! No, instead, they’re even releasing a new major patch with new problems! Now they’re putting the cart before the horse and fixing the new problems, but the old ones continue to be ignored.

For the past 5 weeks, we’ve been bringing this up again and again, whether in the #bobs-with-probs channel or in #unofficial-setup-help … but we’ve run out of options, even though all our discussions here are falling on deaf ears!
No… the channels where people point out potential bugs in the game are being completely ignored by Wildcard itself and by the Discord moderators!

What a show!

How else are we supposed to report problems, please?
Submit a bug report? With over 1,400 reported bugs, it looks like a pretty pathetic attempt.
But no, I—or rather, we—didn’t let ourselves get discouraged and took this step as well.

[sharp vessel]

From what I'm seeing, Nitrado are top perfs for that, not OVH for console lmao

[shy musk]

Here I am again!
And yes, I’m repeating myself because it seems that’s what it takes to get heard here!

For the past 5 weeks, a large number of servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, and in some cases even official servers) have been struggling with the following issues:

• Items are disappearing from players’ inventories and structures
• Equipment you’re carrying or items in the action bar are affected
• Tamed dinosaurs are in the base one day, and gone the next
• Bases are half-destroyed
• A whole day’s progress is lost!

We, the unofficial server operators, have been working for 5 weeks (!!!!!) to keep players on our servers. At the same time, we’re investigating the causes of the situation, restoring backups, rebooting servers multiple times, analyzing the logs, and talking to the modders… only to ultimately discover that there appears to be an issue with data storage, which leads to the above problems when the server restarts.

But what can we server operators do about it? We have no control over how the data is stored. This is solely within Wildcard’s purview.

And Wildcard isn’t doing anything! No, instead, they’re even releasing a new major patch with new problems! Now they’re putting the cart before the horse and fixing the new problems, but the old ones continue to be ignored.

For the past 5 weeks, we’ve been bringing this up again and again, whether in the #bobs-with-probs channel or in #unofficial-setup-help … but we’ve run out of options, even though all our discussions here are falling on deaf ears!
No… the channels where people point out potential bugs in the game are being completely ignored by Wildcard itself and by the Discord moderators!

What a show!

How else are we supposed to report problems, please?
Submit a bug report? With over 1,400 reported bugs, it looks like a pretty pathetic attempt.
But no, I—or rather, we—didn’t let ourselves get discouraged and took this step as well.

[gray tundra]

Is still have my account i will try and dive a bit in there. Cant give any guarantees i will come up with something

[sharp vessel]

No problem, thanks to check already tho

[high oar]

Here I am again!
And yes, I’m repeating myself because it seems that’s what it takes to get heard here!

For the past 5 weeks, a large number of servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, and in some cases even official servers) have been struggling with the following issues:

• Items are disappearing from players’ inventories and structures
• Equipment you’re carrying or items in the action bar are affected
• Tamed dinosaurs are in the base one day, and gone the next
• Bases are half-destroyed
• A whole day’s progress is lost!

We, the unofficial server operators, have been working for 5 weeks (!!!!!) to keep players on our servers. At the same time, we’re investigating the causes of the situation, restoring backups, rebooting servers multiple times, analyzing the logs, and talking to the modders… only to ultimately discover that there appears to be an issue with data storage, which leads to the above problems when the server restarts.

But what can we server operators do about it? We have no control over how the data is stored. This is solely within Wildcard’s purview.

And Wildcard isn’t doing anything! No, instead, they’re even releasing a new major patch with new problems! Now they’re putting the cart before the horse and fixing the new problems, but the old ones continue to be ignored.

For the past 5 weeks, we’ve been bringing this up again and again, whether in the #bobs-with-probs channel or in #unofficial-setup-help … but we’ve run out of options, even though all our discussions here are falling on deaf ears!
No… the channels where people point out potential bugs in the game are being completely ignored by Wildcard itself and by the Discord moderators!

What a show!

How else are we supposed to report problems, please?
Submit a bug report? With over 1,400 reported bugs, it looks like a pretty pathetic attempt.
But no, I—or rather, we—didn’t let ourselves get discouraged and took this step as well.

[kind jacinth]

Here I am again!
And yes, I’m repeating myself because it seems that’s what it takes to get heard here!

For the past 5 weeks, a large number of servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, and in some cases even official servers) have been struggling with the following issues:

• Items are disappearing from players’ inventories and structures
• Equipment you’re carrying or items in the action bar are affected
• Tamed dinosaurs are in the base one day, and gone the next
• Bases are half-destroyed
• A whole day’s progress is lost!

We, the unofficial server operators, have been working for 5 weeks (!!!!!) to keep players on our servers. At the same time, we’re investigating the causes of the situation, restoring backups, rebooting servers multiple times, analyzing the logs, and talking to the modders… only to ultimately discover that there appears to be an issue with data storage, which leads to the above problems when the server restarts.

But what can we server operators do about it? We have no control over how the data is stored. This is solely within Wildcard’s purview.

And Wildcard isn’t doing anything! No, instead, they’re even releasing a new major patch with new problems! Now they’re putting the cart before the horse and fixing the new problems, but the old ones continue to be ignored.

For the past 5 weeks, we’ve been bringing this up again and again, whether in the #bobs-with-probs channel or in #unofficial-setup-help … but we’ve run out of options, even though all our discussions here are falling on deaf ears!
No… the channels where people point out potential bugs in the game are being completely ignored by Wildcard itself and by the Discord moderators!

What a show!

How else are we supposed to report problems, please?
Submit a bug report? With over 1,400 reported bugs, it looks like a pretty pathetic attempt.
But no, I—or rather, we—didn’t let ourselves get discouraged and took this step as well.
With a notification as soon as a response comes in.
The daily check of the email inbox: a yawning void!

I understand that sometimes messages get lost here, but the channels mentioned above aren’t really “overflowing.” The #general channel, on the other hand, is—but strangely enough, people are actively reading and posting there:
You couldn’t give us server operators a bigger slap in the face than that!

We help you find existing bugs, narrow them down, and let you know about them!
You just have to read them!

But I don’t think even this is being read… Welcome to the world of ignorance!
So sad!

(original poster and big thanks to: @lean ore )
@low haven @zealous aurora

[gray tundra]

when you say OVH you mean you have a VPS that you rent right ?

[keen sphinx]

Here I am again!
And yes, I’m repeating myself because it seems that’s what it takes to get heard here!

For the past 5 weeks, a large number of servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, and in some cases even official servers) have been struggling with the following issues:

• Items are disappearing from players’ inventories and structures
• Equipment you’re carrying or items in the action bar are affected
• Tamed dinosaurs are in the base one day, and gone the next
• Bases are half-destroyed
• A whole day’s progress is lost!

We, the unofficial server operators, have been working for 5 weeks (!!!!!) to keep players on our servers. At the same time, we’re investigating the causes of the situation, restoring backups, rebooting servers multiple times, analyzing the logs, and talking to the modders… only to ultimately discover that there appears to be an issue with data storage, which leads to the above problems when the server restarts.

But what can we server operators do about it? We have no control over how the data is stored. This is solely within Wildcard’s purview.

And Wildcard isn’t doing anything! No, instead, they’re even releasing a new major patch with new problems! Now they’re putting the cart before the horse and fixing the new problems, but the old ones continue to be ignored.

For the past 5 weeks, we’ve been bringing this up again and again, whether in the #bobs-with-probs channel or in #unofficial-setup-help … but we’ve run out of options, even though all our discussions here are falling on deaf ears!
No… the channels where people point out potential bugs in the game are being completely ignored by Wildcard itself and by the Discord moderators!

What a show!

How else are we supposed to report problems, please?
Submit a bug report? With over 1,400 reported bugs, it looks like a pretty pathetic attempt.
But no, I—or rather, we—didn’t let ourselves get discouraged and took this step as well.

With a notification as soon as a response comes in.
The daily check of the email inbox: a yawning void!

I understand that sometimes messages get lost here, but the channels mentioned above aren’t really “overflowing.” The ⁠general channel, on the other hand, is—but strangely enough, people are actively reading and posting there:
You couldn’t give us server operators a bigger slap in the face than that!

We help you find existing bugs, narrow them down, and let you know about them!
You just have to read them!

But I don’t think even this is being read… Welcome to the world of ignorance!
So sad!

(original poster and big thanks to: @Taiko Lionheart )
@Svala @zealous aurora

[sharp vessel]

Nope, a full machine at OVH, I hesitated with a VPS but nope, it's a full machine

[devout siren]

Here I am again!
Yes, repeating myself—seems that’s what it takes to be heard.

For the past 5 weeks, many servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, Official) have had:

• Items disappearing
• Gear/action bar wiped
• Tames gone overnight
• Bases half-destroyed
• Full days of progress lost

We’ve spent 5 weeks restoring backups, rebooting, checking logs, contacting modders—only to find a data storage issue on restart.

What can we do? Nothing—this is on Wildcard.

Instead of fixing it, new patches add more problems while old ones are ignored.

We’ve reported this nonstop with no response.

Bug reports? 1,400+ and counting. Still silence.

Meanwhile, #general is active—huge slap in the face.

We help find and isolate bugs. You just have to read them.

But clearly… you don’t.

[rain bluff]

Here I am again!
Yes, repeating myself—seems that’s what it takes to be heard.

For the past 5 weeks, many servers (self-hosted, Nitrado, Official) have had:

• Items disappearing
• Gear/action bar wiped
• Tames gone overnight
• Bases half-destroyed
• Full days of progress lost

We’ve spent 5 weeks restoring backups, rebooting, checking logs, contacting modders—only to find a data storage issue on restart.

What can we do? Nothing—this is on Wildcard.

Instead of fixing it, new patches add more problems while old ones are ignored.

We’ve reported this nonstop with no response.

Bug reports? 1,400+ and counting. Still silence.

Meanwhile, #general is active—huge slap in the face.

We help find and isolate bugs. You just have to read them.

But clearly… you don’t.

[gray tundra]

@sharp vessel there are a couple of things at play here. Xbox series S is a bit more sensitive about connections than a Series X. Both have to go through the Xbox Network. Nitrado has a good routing from their core network to all the places it needs. On your own hosting partner that cannot be controlled. Man even I cannot control my routing from my basement to the world (unfortunately). So based on how this network is setup, the latency, etc. It can be that your OVH server is not optimized for the xbox network. It wouldn't have much to do with the mods, or the server or anything. That is offcourse if your server has good high speed CPU cores. Ark Server is very single core heavy, so a good single core speed is needed. The more players are on, the more tames, the more large structures... the heavier it gets for that single core. So all of this goes into play when it comes to "smooth playing" and yes Xbox Network is definitely an important part.

[sharp vessel]

That's what I saw and my theory was almost good for Nitrado too.
So basically, nothing we can do on our end I imagine, I will keep searching but I haven't hope about that actually xD

[gray tundra]

What is the geographical location of the OVH ?

[sharp vessel]

In France for french players xD

[gray tundra]

I mean I had my nitrado server in London and a EST player had about 110ms ping. Now when he plays on my RX1330M3 server in my basement he has a ping of little over 90ms

[gray tundra]

Major Azure / Xbox hubs are in Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Dublin so one would think you are good there

but then again Nitrado has better peering to Microsoft backbone

[steady kettle]

a person sending a SINGLE post is not spamming. why are you crying?

And it is clearly necessary. Did you read the post?

I don't think all these people would be doing this if it wasn't necessary.

[gray tundra]

No need to explain what spamming is i assume, and using multiple people doesn't make it less. Yes I read it ...

[steady kettle]

I wouldn't want you to explain it. You clearly don't know what it is.

A person sending a single post is not spamming.

"sharing" or "reposting" is more accurate for what's going on here.

and "crying" is what you're doing.

[gray tundra]

when doing in a continues line to flood a channel it can be considered spamming. And it's not up to me to decide it.. the one that handles reports can do that 🙂 maybe if you are right it will not be an issue.

[steady kettle]

I think what you've done here is spamming.

[gray tundra]

and no I'm not crying.. no worries.. I'm not the one acting childish here

[steady kettle]

Stop spamming

[sullen barn]

I have the same issue same platfom

[zealous aurora]

has a proper bug report been made?

are these reports coming from different server owners/admins? or is it a group from a cluster?

and please stop spamming, discord chat isn't a very effective way of getting a report in the right hands

...

[smoky cave]

do yall really require ChatGPT to formulate a complaint about a bug

we are cooked

[long meadow]

Hi
Its different Cluster and over all Maps
we opend Tickets for weeks
Its started with the Patch in the 3rd march

[zealous aurora]

okay, thank you for some information. And what's the issue exactly?

send me a ticket ID

or do you mean you opened a ticket with nitrado

[long meadow]

Its a Mix between starting issue (alle Files get Copy to BAK or _AntiCoruption File) and later with the save behavior (Looks Like IT need to Long to save in the hard Drive and some Data will mixing).
So a bunch of Player, Dinos and structure get Port to 50/50 and get lost.
Moslty the Player lose the Implantat and they have to die

[lean ore]

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/items-and-dinosaurs-have-disappeared-or-duplicated-after-the-server-restart-r98853/

[long meadow]

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/anticorruptionbackupbak-after-reboot-today-v8324-r98619/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/corrupted-safefiles-r98702/

[zealous aurora]

uh, these are different issues?

[long meadow]

well its basicly the same behavior at the end

[zealous aurora]

thanks, it can be a bit muddy when mods etc are involved, but we'll see if we can spot anything on our end. That's enough spam in the discord though!

[long meadow]

I'm grateful for your reply. If we can help in any way, please let me know.

[lean ore]

We want to find a solution to this problem, but we’ve reached the limits of our testing and capabilities. That’s why we’re more than willing to help find a solution and would be happy to be involved in the process.

[lean ore]

There's no longer any need to keep prioritizing this issue. Thank you for your support. Dooly has responded and taken the issue on board.

[swift hatch]

We have encountered the same issue on our cluster. We would greatly appreciate efforts can be made to fix those issues. It has been persistent for quite a while and makes the game unplayable for many of us.

[tight ivy]

If I'm playing solo on my own server should I have pve or pvp enabled? I usually use pve but I can't make a poly or tek farm with pve enabled since I can't kill babies

[hallow heart]

The main downside to pvp is others can attack your stuff. But if you're alone, there's no downside

It'll make stuff like OSD's harder on extinction as then your own tames can damage the structures. But that's only relevant on specific maps

[tight ivy]

I'm starting a base world on astraeos then doing the story maps in order. I know astraeos has osd but I've never done one. What do you mean damage the structures?

[hallow heart]

The osd drop itself and element veins.

You may as well have pvp on 95% of the time. The moments you want to do either of those things, just change to pve and then change back afterwards

[tight ivy]

Ok sweet, thanks for the heads up! Is friendly fire active on pvp? Or is that what enables me to kill babies?

[hallow heart]

Your tames can never damage your own tames with biting and stuff like that. Babies are considered a different team, that's what pvp allows you to attack them

[sullen barn]

Big problems on ark 50/50 is full with structures and bodies

[celest halo]

Welcome to ark, that's been an ongoing issues since ASE that randomly effects different people/servers

[merry forum]

Unless is a wyvern special attack. You kill everything it touches including yoi and your tames

[wise kindle]

You were responded to.

Are you not reading responses?

[wispy hazel]

he is not

[wise kindle]

Might be a bot

[near hawk]

from their behaviour in general, might

[broken stream]

These reports come from different server owners, and more and more of us are having this issue. We have tried together to find solutions to these problems and carried out many tests to find the cause, but without success. Please take this issue seriously.

[wise kindle]

I mod for Nitrados discord and see this alot.
There is a long running thread on the issue, tho I think many have given up on getting a fix for it.
We see it weekly - this is just whats reported as many just give up blame Nitrado and cancel their servers. Makes it hard to gather data. But its evident on all hosts it seems.
It seems to be perf related as it appears to mainly occur on servers like rag, LC and Astraeos - or servers that push perf limits with builds, higher settings or automation mods (maybe they run background processes?) That said the mods dont appear to be a direct cause.
These servers didnt seem to have these issues before this started happening a couple months ago.
Its hard to distinguish this between the 50 50 bug as they have similar symptoms. Missing assets across the server after reset seems to be the main result.
Hope this helps abit. Really hoping to see a fix as this has hit my cluster as well.

[sullen barn]

i send the message beacuse we still have this issue

an nothing has been fixed or replayed

[echo pecan]

#unofficial-setup-help message

[last magnet]

it's possibly save file related too, I self-host, run (a lot) of mods, and the only times I logged in to missing items was using the usestore save method. I'm in the habit of putting away all my tames into cryos (which has admin backup). Oh I did have issues with logging in and my base was gone but it was related to skins which were a few versions ago, in like Dec/Jan

and by a lot of mods, I'm talking about 260 on my Island server. runs great, only issues are when WC breaks anims

[wise kindle]

Yeah Im looking at sometime around January as well.

[warm jackal]

Hey guys I’m having an issue with my Valguero Nitrado server Dino levels I have difficulty offset set to max Dino lvl 240, but wyverns as well as deinonychus levels are still capped at 180 and 150 respectively, all other Dino’s hit the 240 cap just not those two, any ideas of how to fix?

[wheat patio]

anyone maybe know y my server is not reading my game.ini settings for ascended server

[last magnet]

yeah, I was mildly alarmed and did a rollback to before I started skinning my small base, then tested it by going out of render and back in

I had a little house on the Footpaw to start out while I decided what I was going to build for my main base

it was a glass cosmetic if that helps

[wise kindle]

I had an Astraeos that had all containers emptied.
Every inventory on the server.

[last magnet]

oh dear

I haven't run my astraeos servers much. my old server hardware was a 2014 era Dell Precision. new server is a Ryzen 9 from 2024, and I need more RAM to comfortably run Ast with other servers. it took like 24GB of RAM out of 64GB

and that was a fresh map, no tames or bases

[wise kindle]

Yeah its a big one.
I noticed when it happens it tends to be permanently effected and the issue reoccurs, even after a rollback to fix.

[hallow heart]

I did say with biting

[last magnet]

I think it's a small corruption that spreads through the save file. I had a small issue, and after that,even with a rollback to fix, it just got worse until I had to do a map wipe. I had that inventory refreshing issue causing me to black screen at login(and fewer mods at the time) and then for the next two weeks I tried to fix. most stable one was removing character profile, making a fresh character, then taking everything and force adding myself to the tribe before killing my old body and redoing my levels and engrams. map wipe was the only fix, but luckily, my character transferred to SE and no black screen bug. So I grabbed my fave tames and my stash of blueprints and collected items and moved to my SE map, and wiped my Island map.

I had the rest of my tames in my admin backup so they were safe

[wise kindle]

The account refreshing inventory bug is THE WORST

I actually cant fix that on my servers. Removing profiles doesnt work.
Ppl have had to create new accounts and family share in order to play on my maps.

[last magnet]

it is! I was so mad too, I had a nice base and was about to start caves and boss breeding

I could do the wipe only bc I'm the only player on my cluster so I wasn't affecting other players

[edgy phoenix]

This was a good summary.

[edgy phoenix]

If I could add anything:
I use Nitrado. I can see on the rollback options (Start with backup) that the save file size will go from around 100Mb to suddenly 40Mb or lower. If that happens it's a fact that bases, tames, inventories (especially always generators and turrets) will be empty after the server restarts.

Currently I do my best to monitor those backups when they're created every few hours to catch the corruption early. But the next best thing I do is have the server restart soon after the big daily server backup/save so that if it's corrupt I can catch it sooner rather than later.

As with others, I have spent way over 100 hours in the past month using trial and error to see what might be causing it and the answer is nothing obvious.

Astraeos, Lost Colony and Ragnarok were the maps involved, but recently it's only been Astraeos and occasionally, not every day anymore. But I've also instructed everyone to avoid that map at the moment.

We also had a lovely "bug" this morning where anti-dupe checked turned itself on and wiped out everyones things slowly throughout the day. I definitely didn't accidentally turn it on and there is nothing in the logs to indicate it was turned on. But it does show up as being turned off after I fixed it so that was very strange.

It was nice to see the Nitrado mod being helpful in here. Previously we were told it was not realistic for Nitrado to have direct communications with Wildcard, so that frustrates the process more. Dozens of us reporting the same issue and being told that it won't be passed onto the people who could fix it because of the "logitistics of messaging all of our server partners whenever there's an issue".

[wise kindle]

Keep in mind this issue is very difficult to pin point and without real data points, its hard to convey issues.
This issue is definitely not something easy to point at and say its definitely a game issue when there are dozens of variables involved. Were mods are involved and so many different settings/usage variables, everything starts getting blurry. We only know there is an issue, thats the extent of it.

[edgy phoenix]

I agree, but we were told that NO issue will be reported to Wildcard because that's not how things work and would be too much extra work.

Not just this issue.

[wise kindle]

Can you dm me? I'm curious where that came from.

[edgy phoenix]

Currently, what this situation demonstrates is that spamming the official discord is the only way to get noticed. I think an official channel between at least Nitrado and Wildcard should be established if one doesn't already exist or it just encourages us to spam out of desperation.

Nitrado customer -
So i guess if there's a possibility, then surely there is a line of communication or process of escalation between Nitrado and WildCard to sort of say "hey guys, there's a few reports of this bug fix from 78.23 still being an issue, can you look into it. Here's a bit of data from the servers."
I think the people on this thread have sort of done everything we can, and now we really rely on you guys as leverage to try and report the problem for us.

Midway Discord Moderator
That's really not how the industry is set up unfortunately. Nitrado is a service provider. They just install the software that the game developers make and offer it for purchase.

The game developers will need to troubleshoot and fix their own server software.
Nitrado would be coordinating with about 50 different game development studios, which would take up additional resources and they would probably not be compensated for such

[wise kindle]

Oh that thread has multiple issues in it unfortuantely, so I dont like to directly point at it - tho there are a couple instances that might be the same issue its a huge mess.

So unless we can nail down a set of data, cause or other information its very difficult to report.

Not sure if you are familiar with bug reporting but, unless you have a certain set of criteria to reproduce the issue consistantly, it creates more work than it addresses for those involved.
My goal with it was to try to figure out what was causing it but I could not. This makes reporting anything difficult.

[edgy phoenix]

I completely understand that. I'm just expressing how hopeless we've all felt for the past 5 weeks. Even if being able to just communicate loud and clear that something is corrupting dozens of servers with all sorts of different settings, mods and hosts, it would have maybe been looked into and fixed sooner.

The new Astraeos creatures, King Scorpion, skeleton Thralls and possibly a few others, act very differently to normal creatures, can't be force tamed and follow different rules. I would consider suggesting that they might have something to do with it, but I don't have any solid theories there.

[wise kindle]

tbh most reports were inconsistant and some that I was working with just stopped responding. Making any data I was trying to collect, well, useless cuz I could not follow up.

The Astraeos creatures are likely correct per coding. Nekatus usually prevents special creatures from being tamable, even with admin commands. Example: You couldnt tame an Astral and use it cuz it cant take a saddle. Things like that.

As far as Astraeos, I have seen the 50 50 issue the most on that map with my cluster. Also, not sure if that contributes to things. The 50 50 Cleanup mod helps in most cases.

[edgy phoenix]

It seems very similar/connected to the 50/50 bug like you say but slightly different.

[wise kindle]

yeah I believe 50 50 is perf based, so that makes sense

[edgy phoenix]

Personally, I've found it tiring to be essentially told "it's your mods" whenever reporting an issue on the Nitrado discord and I know a few others have felt that way. It has often taken a while to be listened to on there because a lot of the time it is the mods for other people and other reasons, but when someone has commented a real new issue non-mod related you're still forced to run through the "it's the mods" script.

[wise kindle]

I understand.
Unfortunately alot of those being perf based, kinda does point indirectly back to mods - as without them it is pretty unlikely to occur.

Dollie btw not trying to kick a beehive. Genuinely just trying to give helpful info. Apologies if this comes off the wrong way, not my intention.

[zealous aurora]

that's not accurate info, Nitrado have direct lines of communication with us and utilise them frequently, and no, spamming this Discord isn't the way lol

we're still investigating the save corruption, folks, hang tight

[edgy phoenix]

That's good to hear. Because it leaves a lot of us feeling hopeless.

[zealous aurora]

@wise kindle @edgy phoenix @broken stream @long meadow @steady kettle @rain bluff @kind jacinth and anyone else having the save etc issue discussed above

pls DM me with your Nitrado acc names/server names so we can get some before and after saves sent across from Nitrado

https://tenor.com/view/where-you-at-gif-10162885804351053153

[wise kindle]

I dm'd (mysnowdragon)

[zealous aurora]

ty (ya let me know here if you dm'ed me and we aren't friends on discord, or it may get lost)

anyone else DM'ed?

@lean ore @keen sphinx @high oar @shy musk

and the spammers fell silent

[wise kindle]

I think some were selfhost if I remember correctly.
Or they went to bed lol.

[zealous aurora]

selfhost before and after saves work too

[wise kindle]

Before - tho they would need to speak up.
This is the issue I had trying to get info. People go silent.

[high oar]

Reposting something once is spamming? Sorry if we want our game fixed cause we’re tired of losing hundreds of hours of work

[zealous aurora]

do you have some save files pls?

[warm jackal]

I haven’t had any of my saves corrupted I just wanna figure out why wyvern and deinoychus on valguero aren’t getting increased max level past 150/180 😢

[zealous aurora]

just your nitrado acc name/server name works too

alright, I'll check back in later to see if anyone has sent info

[onyx cloud]

I have a player complaining about handshake failure, getting booted to main screen and character getting called player1

Anyone recognize a fix for this?

[merry holly]

Hello, everyone.
Is there a way to speed up the crafting of resources like metal ingots without using mods?

[high oar]

I’ve contacted our admin, he’s probably getting some well deserved rest, dude has been nonstop helping people in the cluster recover from losses, he’ll reach out soon as he can

[lean ore]

You also have a DM from me.

[near hawk]

No

[long meadow]

send you a DM 🙂

[wild iris]

Where in this server can I ask for help to do with my dedicated server using ASCT not able to load with mods but it loads without them? In this channel?

If so I have a screenshot of my server window so I can show it loads the mod but not the map EVEN THOUGH it SAYS it loads the map -_-

[sullen barn]

again 4 servers with these issues and needed to role back mutiple servers and different clsuter owners have these problem sins last update if ark want to keep there player it need to do something real fast

tested servers withoud mods same problem

Items disappearing
Tames gone overnight stuck on 50/50
Bases half-destroyed
progress lost and player levels

[wild iris]

@rain swallow Do you have a server? If you have modding experience do you know why when adding a mod to my server it prevents the server from loading?

Or do you know someone who does? I don't know anyone who has experience with ark as much as my 2-3 friends who have a total of like 80-100 hours do

[rain swallow]

If you add a mod and it prevents it from loading vs loading without the mod then something might be wrong with the mod. Idk what you have added

[wild iris]

Nothing crazy just Resource Tracker which literally only adds UI related stuff

I haven't tried with other mods since in the log it says "Valid Mod"

I can try other mods and see if the same happens and if not what can be done about some mods not working?

[rain swallow]

You would just have to find an alternative mod that is similar

[wild iris]

Are there any similar ones for finding ore? I don't like looking up everything it takes the fun out of the game besides what dinos farm because that's a lot of time wasting if I can just look up which dino farms what I need but QoL things like tracking resources with maybe a scanner or something wouldn't be TOO broken I think unlike using an interactive map

[rain swallow]

Can you dm me the screenshot?

[wild iris]

Ye

[smoky burrow]

I think I have a copy of a LC save that leaked into oblivion and basically crashed the backend from around the beginning of March.
I can dig it up if that helps

[wild iris]

UPDATE it was JUST the mod, what a shame it was only 3 months ago it was updated but I guess this update changed A LOT because the Obisidan Equipment from 1 month ago works...

[thorn saddle]

Does anyone know how or know a guide to create a new dedicated server instance? I already have a cluster but want a new map with completely different settings and mods

[green tangle]

Hello guys, after years, has a solution been found for players who lose their character?

[celest halo]

Beside keeping good backup so you can restore them, nope

[fleet oyster]

Has anyone found a way to disable cryo sickness on a server with PvP enabled? We use dino storage to get around it for the most part but dreadmare still has it.

[gray tundra]

I only found a mod that allows you to disable it

[limber bison]

Do I need to own asa on steam tools set up a server?

[celest halo]

No, server can be downloaded anonymously with steamcmd

[wise dagger]

My sever uses bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true. Does anyone know if there is a way to make it so that tech engrams still only unlock through boss fights and still have bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true? Any help would be much appreciated, thank you

[fiery tartan]

Is there anyway you can do a two player server for free?

[gray tundra]

I use beacon to write my files. Makes it nice and easy to see what is what

[bleak ivy]

Self host is free if you own the hardware.
Otherwise non-dedi works if you are on the same platform. Has way more issues tho

[fiery tartan]

Dam I do not have any hardware :’(

[gray tundra]

Yeah dedicated hardware is better for sure

For two maps im using an RX1330M3 that i upgraded

[bleak ivy]

You just need a PC that has enough ram. You don't require an actual server

[fiery tartan]

Ohh

Well I mean I play on switch 2

[gray tundra]

Unless you are a nerd like me

[bleak ivy]

Think you have to rent for switch. Definitely can't self-host a dedi. Maybe a non-dedi but no idea.

[fiery tartan]

Oh

I tried non ded and it let me in

So I guess it’s free

[untold canopy]

Hey my Friend Play on PC an he can not download eggcellent why? Can someone help?

[gray tundra]

Did he try via the mod lists first before joining the game ?

[untold canopy]

Yes the download Start but it Stop after a little

[blazing lichen]

anyone else crashing on pc when they try to join a server?

[wise dagger]

Oh idk what that is I’ll look it up later, thanks. I just write all my stuff manually I’ve had it saved since ark survival evolved. Idk if beacon would help with what I asked though. I just want to make tech engrams unlocked via boss fight

[wise kindle]

The game is set this way by default, unless you want to designate specific tek engrams? In which you would use Beacon.

[wise dagger]

Even if I have bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true in my game.ini? Because from by understating having that in there disables all engrams unless you enable them in the game.ini

[wise kindle]

I guess Im confused on what your goal is.

[wise kindle]

What is your goal exactly? Because you described it earlier as "Make tek engrams unlocked via boss fights" which is what the game does by default.

[wise dagger]

Right, ill try an explain. My server uses bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true. Which makes it so that all engrams are disabled and no one can craft anything unless I go into the game.ini and enable it like this using OverrideNamedEngramEntries=(EngramClassName="EngramEntry_NotePaper_C",EngramHidden=False,EngramPointsCost=0,EngramLevelRequirement=1,RemoveEngramPreReq=True). Now using that while having bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams set to true will enable the paper note to be learned. I have to enter that for every single item I want enabled in my server. I mostly do this just to ban cryopods and customize at which level people unlock things at. My issue is, because it bans all engrams (including tek) I have to enable tek engrams but I can only do so by also setting them to unlock at a certain level. So my question is if there is any other way to enable tek engrams in my server while using bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true that does not make them unlockable at a certain level and instead makes them unlockable using the vanilla method which is boss fights.

Hope that makes sense my grammar is not great

[robust nymph]

Can we please get a way to easily restore characters?
They're currently no way to click a button and give it back. We need to manually do it, or through bots and it takes a decent amount of time.

[arctic mica]

Seems like a backwards way of managing it just to disable cryopods, why not just set:

bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=false

And set:
OverrideNamedEngramEntries = (EngramClassName="EngramEntry_EmptyCryopod_C",EngramHidden=True)
OverrideNamedEngramEntries = (EngramClassName="EngramEntry_CryoFridge_C",EngramHidden=true)

Way less management and solves your problem

[plush abyss]

can i get some help on how to install mods on asa? the install button isnt doing anything 🥹

[wise dagger]

Well its not just for cryopods its also to change the level at which engrams unlock. I believe thats why i used bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true

I could be wrong though maybe theres still something im missing

[arctic mica]

Yeah you could still change levels to unlock items, I still think you're creating way more work for yourself, how you currently have it you have to have a line for every item in the game that you want to enable 😅

[wise kindle]

When looking to enable piecemeal, not that I know of.
Tho you may be better off disabling each one verses disabling all then individually enabling them again.

[tardy pine]

I've got a couple of questions if you guys don't mind.

1. To anyone that's self hosting all current ASA maps, how much ram do you use in your server rig?

2. To anyone that's paying Nitrado for an ASA server with all maps, what does that cost roughly per month?

[arctic mica]

how busy is your server? i dynamically host every map because there's not that many of us, but to host every map at once would cost a fortune with nitrado, would strongly advise self hosting as it's not that difficult

[plush abyss]

boost

[tardy pine]

Not super busy, I am currently self hosting 7 servers with 5-10 players a day and have 64 gigs of ram maxed out. I may have an angel investor that wants more maps, so I'm trying to figure out how much ram I'd need to run all maps, current and future.

Looking at the Nitrado site I see servers are about 25 bucks a month, so with the current maps that comes out to around $2100 a year... Craziness. But that might even justify buying ram with these over inflated prices.

[arctic mica]

I'd just buy the ram 😆

[tardy pine]

Yeah I am thinking that. I run 30 slot servers so Nitrados actual cost would be $3317.16 before any taxes. My god. And their servers are laggy I hear.

[wise kindle]

How many servers are you getting?
2100 is like 40 servers or something

[tardy pine]

currently doing the math on 7 servers for a year

[wise kindle]

Def want to start with 20 slot and only up slots if needed.

[wise dagger]

I have 64gbs ddr4 but i bought them like 4 years ago 32 is probably fine

I use asct

pretty good stuff

[tardy pine]

I currently have 64 gigs maxed out while running my current 7 servers. 32 is more then enough for a few though yeah.

[patent dove]

Can I play with my friends when I’m on pc and they are on ps5

[arctic mica]

on ascended yes, on evolved no

[tardy pine]

What install button? On your server manager?

[obsidian falcon]

Is there any way to get more rexes to spawn on an unoffical server, or just how to find a high level one

[blazing lichen]

having issues with my nitrado server on the center. everyone on there is getting 500+ ping is anyone else having this issue and how do i fix

[latent pagoda]

-MaxNumOfSaveBackups=<integer>

This argument no longer works after the backup file extension was changed to .arkrbf instead of .ark. I have this set to 0 since I have my own method of backing up the server. Anyone know of a workaround to limiting the number of backup saves?

[cedar beacon]

hello i have been having this issue on nitrado

server just shuts down without any warnings and on the nitrado page it says its online i have to restart the server to get it back up but it just keeps happening im having this issue with 2 servers both PVP talked to support they just changed the machine the server was on and the issue is still there i have been having this issue for the past 15 days and it really started to hurt my servers and it killed my motivation for this good game
man i just wished nitrado dont have Hosting Exclusivity

[gray tundra]

Well what is hosting exclusivity really.. Since you can do crossplay on your own hardware. But this does sound like a nitrado issue

[thick gazelle]

hello, please help me restore the character

[cedar beacon]

will after talking a bit with nitrado support this issue appears to be on wild card end they update the game they fix some useless stuff and mods just break the server so either i do a roll back or just remove the mods each time they break

i just want to quit but i cant im addicted

is there any alternative for server hosting i cant host on my pc

[gray tundra]

So then no.. You will be in the same ship.

[indigo blade]

there are 2 commandline flags now since there are 2 different backup types/requencies. try using -MaxNumOfRecentBackups=0 and that should set the *.arkrbf to not keep backups

[latent pagoda]

Thank you! that worked

[frigid vine]

Interessting. I only know MaxNumOfSaveBackups=<integer>. Where do have this Parameter information?

[indigo blade]

-MaxNumOfRecentBackups=<int> is not documented currently. its a new addition with the additional backup interval

[frigid vine]

Ah, okay so you're working for Wildcard? Thanks for the Info.

Will be come more information about this file Extension?

[indigo blade]

they work in tandem is the idea. keeping 4 recent backups by default every 15m and then keeping x backups every 2h using -MaxNumOfSaveBackups=<int>

this allows for shorter rollbacks to a recent backup while still being able to maintain a longer backup duration by using the 2hr backups

[frigid vine]

Okay i understand. In my case not necessary because we have overall Backups every 10-15mins.

So these new files can also be used to Rollback? Just rename .arkrbf to .ark?

[indigo blade]

yes any backup save can just have the file extension renamed to .ark and it will be loaded as a regular world save.

[frigid vine]

Gottcha. Thanks.
For moment i was thinking its for the upcoming UE5.7 Upgrade. But this explains it. Thanks.

[indigo blade]

nah sorry about the lack of info. it was actually a requested changed for official servers but its been made available to unofficial as well inherently. just named them differently to make it easier to manage internally tbh.

[frigid vine]

No worries. I think it would be really helpful to have this new parameter documented in your wiki.

Also, since it's great to see someone from Wildcard / your side actively replying here:
Can I ask whether WC has already addressed the issue with duplicated implants during transfers, as well as skins / cosmetics causing disconnects while players are transferring?

[indigo blade]

not sure i have an answer to that unfortunately. as for the wiki thing, its community run so anyone is welcome to update that themselves but currently it is not documented in our patch notes

[frigid vine]

Any chance to get closer in contact? I tried already last year by posting into official forum and bug reports but yeah, still an issue. Its easy to reproduce and for a bunch of players a really anoyning topic.

About the Wiki:
Ah, didnt know that. Will have a look how to contribute.

[half meteor]

Hello!
I'm running an ark server on the same box as my client, however I am getting a 50ms ping somehow.

It looks like the connection goes through a server instead of going direct. I did open the ports.
Anyone knows why and how to fix that?

[gray tundra]

You will always connect through a service, either steam, playstation or Xbox. So yes you never play local directly to your box. It might sound strange, but it is pretty normal

[final stump]

Hello i need some help. My nephew plays on steam he hasnt played for a while but wamts to get back into it. Hes updated ark but when he launches the game it says hes not logged in his name says player1 but hes logged in on steam and hes not offline. Weve uninstalled amd reinstalled ark, verfied the files, restarted his steam, if you google the problem weve gone down that lost amd tried everything and it still wont let him play online.

When we launch servers it says hes not logged in. It seems to be a communication issue between steam and ark

[mild linden]

Are alot of lost colony unofficial servers down?

[lost raven]

no?

[inland bear]

Currently using Dino depot. Last night before the patch we had balled up our Dino’s we had out. Logged on today after the fact and the Dino’s were missing. Had to use the terminal to retrieve them. Does this sound like a mod issue, map issue or just Ark. playing on Astraeos.

[last magnet]

I host on a separate machine that's no more than 4 feet away from my gaming desktop. I still have ping. I'd imagine that it does go through another server (likely EOS's servers + Steam's)

[paper smelt]

How do we give players admin capabilities for our Nitrado server?

[dense bluff]

Simply give the admin password to the person.

[paper smelt]

Will this give them access to everything or just certain powers?

[dense bluff]

I don't know if it's possible to access only some commands. As far as I know, if you give the command, he will have full access as an admin.

[paper smelt]

Ohh alrighty! Thank you

[edgy phoenix]

Is it the penguins?

[worldly cosmos]

One more detail - The admin password for the server (in-game) will allow them to do anything an in-game command can accomplish. It will NOT allow them any back-end access to the Nitrado panel, so you need not worry abou them changing mods, server rates, performing restarts, or messing with the INI files.

[paper smelt]

That’s exactly what I needed to know, perfect

[worldly cosmos]

If you WANT to grant a player access to that, they will need to create a Nitrado account, provide you their username, and then you can go into the Nitrado settings and assign them permissions as a "guest user". The permissions are pretty granular if I recall, so you can give someone access to restart the servers, but not change any server details.

You would need to do that for each server in your cluster.

[harsh ember]

can some1 help me set up a nitrado server in a call rq were struggling with max player levels

[austere ore]

Hi guys, I have encountered a problem with a player on our server that maybe I could ask you for some help

So we have a larger weight carrying capacity in our INI and it works for everybody but a player now is stuck with 100 weight

I have mind wiped him and had him pull his implant and that did not do anything

[broken orbit]

Hi, ive made a nitrado server and already paid and started it up, ive also put it on my favorite game servers on steam, but everytime i connect to it it says "host timed out". Can anyone help?

[solid trail]

maybe try restarting your pc?

[sullen barn]

I can always help

What mods are you using and is it crossplay

[pallid mortar]

I have a server with my friends on asa and all my friends play on xbox series s and whenever they try to load in they crash and even crash mid game sometimes trying to respawn what do we do? They have tried waiting a bit before attempting to join, all our mods are updated and they have all tried restarting their Xbox multiple times

Someone please help

Atlasreborn, Dino depot, No Untamables, Der Dino Finder, Vanilla with sprinkles, Awsome Spyglass!, PROGRESSION & UTILITY STRUCTURES (P.U.S) , Net Pro, Paleo ark ascension, Paleo ark - evolution | apex predators, Paleo ark evo+ | rulers of the wasteland, Paleo ark - evolution | hard hitting herbivores

This is the mods we use on the server

[inland bear]

We built near a boss cave entrance on our server. Right up to where you're restricted, but we then built right on top of it. Had a roll back after the latest patch. You guys think this is what caused the roll back by building where we did ? Never had this problem before since we never built near one

[dull crag]

Hey just started my own Nitrado server and trying to get proximity voice chat to work. Any help with that would be appreciated.

[silent echo]

tell him to get a series x. s has to low memory to run all that mods to begin with

[pallid mortar]

😭

We took off 4 mods to see if it'd do anything and its still crashing

[wise kindle]

Series X is the way

[haughty badger]

is there an easy way to allow all custom cosmetics without maintaining a whitelist.
I have been using official but I would like to use some that arent on the official whitelist

[pallid mortar]

Is there anyway I can get this working

[stable veldt]

I worked for two years on my character Peter and it was erased in a second.

😥

[wise kindle]

Remove the whitelist line of code.
It opens it up to all approved cosmetics.

The only way to allow every single one, as far as I know, is to list each one individually.

[deft lily]

I have just notice that I am unable to make tek replicators at the tek replicator. Is that something new that has been broken? I just made one there like 3 days ago.

[left latch]

I am running into an issue:
I cannot download non-native dinos on my scorched earth server (was able to easily download a raptor and a wyvern but the desmodus just wont download - no error or anthing)
Any idea on how to fix this? All the dinos are from the same server and I can download everything else.

Transfers are from Astraeos into scorched if that matters

[wise kindle]

Desmodus is from Lost Colony.
Is Lost Colony installed on your client?

[near hawk]

don't think desmo is tied to any dlc

[wise kindle]

Shot in the dark then, you never know these days.

[left latch]

it is

both client and server have all maps and it is a literal upload on astraeos, transfer survivor to scorched and then download the dino

which works for all dinos available on scorched but nothing non-native. I tried the crossarkforeigndino setting but that one did not fix it (also afaik it is only for abberation)

[verbal cove]

Hi everyone, if I can help for people they lost their character on unofficial servers

A lot of my players try to tp to an other serv (I SAY DON'T DO IT)
Every character was recovery on Aberration on my cluster
Anyway the map they was try to tp or they from, every character was able to recovery on Abe
If this post can help someone

[wise dagger]

Does anyone know why Dino’s still spawn with Easter colors even though I have active event set to none (I use asct)

[near hawk]

Ase?

[loud nymph]

or can I do it via conig files

[pastel flax]

ASE Games.ini player stat per level multipliers

Question:
Does anyone know the max value for each? I know the default is 1.0

[loud nymph]

bought a server, started it, found it via steam server overlay (added favorite) -> cant find it in ark favorites

when I try to join via steam server overlay i get: "unable to query server info for invite"

[pastel flax]

Try searching in game with Unofficial/Dedicated/NonDedicated options selected and see if it switches

Favorites have been bugged for me since like 2019

[loud nymph]

still cant find it

[cedar beacon]

hello for some reason i cant invite anyone on my tribe after i did a restart

the max tribe members is set on 6

i can invite tho i dont receive the notification and i cant find the join tribe

[loud nymph]

anyone?

[somber lagoon]

Do you still have the mod active?

[torpid patrol]

Hi, i run an ASE server and one of my players is having an issue being unable to transfer of Fjordur. They're the only one reporting they have an issue? They select to transfer off the server and then it does nothing - doesnt even say downloading survivor etc

[wise dagger]

Hmm I don’t believe so. Would it have its own mod Id?

[wise kindle]

ASE or ASA?

[uneven sphinx]

Anyone have starter packs on an unofficial server?

[graceful sequoia]

Yes, Obsidian Order Servers has a nice starter kit.

[kind mantle]

Is there the ability to blacklist specific custom cosmetics from my asa cluster? Ive seen the ability to whitelist id rather just blacklist the handful we dont want rather than whitelist every single other one

[somber lagoon]

On ASA it is a mod and if the mod is active still and you haven't done a dino wipe the Easter ones will still show I believe

[somber lagoon]

The mod is called Eggcellent Adventure

[last magnet]

also check if -EasterColors is in the line arguments

[uneven sphinx]

I'll join one now and have a look, thank you

[regal creek]

Sorry to pester 😄 just making sure, basically the only difference between the two formats is the frequency of saves?

[indigo blade]

yes thats correct. one does 15m intervals (keeps 4 by default). and the other does 2h intervals. both can be used together to offer a more recent save if you just need a quick rollback instead of having to go 2+ hr

hope that makes sense 😄

[regal creek]

Totes. I set the recentbackups to 1 and launched, everyone is gathering thatch as normal, thank ya 👍

[indigo blade]

no prob! glad you were able to get that sorted out

[arctic badger]

Looking for help, not sure if here is the right place. My players are making a note that plant species X keeps exploding on their rafts. Any idea as to how to fix this?

[cedar beacon]

hello for some reason i cant invite anyone on my tribe after i did a restart

the max tribe members is set on 6

i can invite tho i dont receive the notification and i cant find the join tribe

[kindred gulch]

Hello everyone, does anybody know a command to spawn a wild dino parent with it's babies / juveniles (linked to it) ?

[cedar beacon]

the tribe invite issue seems to be on all off my servers i have 6 servers

2 different accounts and contacted nitrado support and they didnt help or fix the issue

[sour laurel]

Hi guys, i ve tried to run a nondedicated server with my friend. Im playing on pc via gamepass and he has steam version. We cant see eachother servers, and discord invites doesnt work as well. Do u have any ideas or solutions to make it work?

[silent echo]

make a dedicated server cant do that on nondedi

that is not crossplay

[sour laurel]

So i have to pay for official one, right?

[loud nymph]

ase but i think i fixed it now with selecting pre aquatica on steam

[near hawk]

No

U can host a dedicated server for free if u have the hardware

[loud nymph]

anyone know why i cant find my ark server hostet via g portal? its pre aquatica and my game is also pre aquatica (selected in steam properties)

i added the server to my steam server favorites but its not showing up in ark favorites

[lone jewel]

Any 1 else have issues on asteos unnoffical its keeping me.in a dc loop

[wise kindle]

Ask an admin to kill your character

[lone jewel]

Did that:/

[wise kindle]

Black screen?

[lone jewel]

Nah i get on then either move 2 secs or not at all then homescreenz

[wise kindle]

Disable custom cosmetics downloads and spawn on the beach away from structures

[lone jewel]

Il try but its a rp server so i need go into the big castle /city

[wise kindle]

Series S?

[lone jewel]

X

[wise kindle]

Sounds like the owner has some research to do.

[deft lily]

Is there a way to change the .ini to be able to turn ele dust to unstable element in the replicator? I have searched online and tried all the combinations I have found and none have worked.

[storm jungle]

can i unpod in tek cave on the isalnd in Ark SE?

[broken anvil]

Why is it so many Mods are available free and so many Plugins are $$$ 😐

[green narwhal]

how much more intensive is ASA server compared to ASE?

[bleak ivy]

what?

[bleak ivy]

its mostly ram requiring more but thats more based on the map. gen2 could get crazy in ASE.

[broken anvil]

I’m venting 😂

Moving to a Dedicated Server away from Nitrado and so many Plugins options are available and they’re all $30-45

[bleak ivy]

what do you need them to do? just replace it with a mod.

[broken anvil]

API functions… interact with Discord… Shop features… among a few

Cross server chat

[lone jewel]

Any 1 else experincing the astreos dashboard loop?

[bleak ivy]

yeah, never messed with public server stuff.

[broken anvil]

It’s a whole other world

[somber lagoon]

Me and another Xbox player are having the issue. It crashes when we try to load in on his unofficial server on Astreos with Easter event active.

[lone jewel]

Yeh just seemed happen after the update

[somber lagoon]

That's what we were saying also. Since they released a statement that they extended the event by a week

[lone jewel]

Yeah -_- csnt get onto my rp server at all so they need fix it asap

[somber lagoon]

I can't be a server amount of people issue as there's only 4 currently. And it isn't happening with the 2 PC players only me and the other Xbox player

[lone jewel]

Yeh theres a fair few xbox user on the rp server that cabt get into it

[somber lagoon]

Seems like its only a Xbox issue?

[fickle granite]

Since two weeks, when easter event was added, many xbox players on unoffi instant crash with astreos

[lethal thunder]

I have the exact same issue did you find any helpful stuff?

[low mantle]

Hello, I’m facing the ticking loop problem on Windows Server 2025 and is the third day that i’m trying to figure it out what is going on.
The OS is virtualised via Proxmox 9.1.7, and i’ve disabled memory ballooning. Cpu is in host mode with 6 vcpu and i’ve dedicated 16gb ram (is for just 2/3 players)

someone have an idea a out what I can do to understand the problem?

[lone jewel]

Any 1 still have issue with astreos unofficial dashboard loop on xbox,

[nimble palm]

Hellooooooo I've just setup a valguero server through nitrado and everythings working perfectly except for one of my friends, his game was working fine for about an hour but now every time he joins no structures load and his inventory is empty. He can't interact with anything/anyone and then after about 30 seconds it kicks him from the server.

[low mantle]

For everyone, it was the epic games client missing…

[lost raven]

It's just a failed join, happens to me on occasion. The only answer is that they've just gotta keep trying to log in.

[peak linden]

Hello, im trying to setup a dedicated server for Ark Evolved using SteamCMD, but when i setup everything, the cmd says that is on version 361.7, but ark is on 361.8, what can i do?

[wise kindle]

Nothing
Those are the latest releases for client and server for ASE.

[peak linden]

theres no other free option? when i host a non-dedicated server on steam the fps drops to 40fps no matter what

[wise kindle]

Not sure what you mean.
These are the last compatible versions released for the game.

What are you looking for?

[peak linden]

i wanna play in a server just with one friend, we are both from steam, but we tried playing via steam, but our fps drops a lot

my friend as a way better pc than me and both of us get the same fps when we host a server via steam