#unofficial-setup-help

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wise kindle
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Are you hosting a dedicated server?

peak linden
wise kindle
nocturne socket
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Hello e1, has anyone figured out a smart move about retriving/reviving lost characters from members on an Ark unofficial server?

  • Server rollback seems to work. Downside, Hard punish for lost progress ingame for other players.

Any other shortcut that might work reclaming lost chars with less punish? until its fixed

spring minnow
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So I've been running my own dedicated Ark server for myself and a few friends for about a year now on my home computer. Everything has been fine for the most part, aside from the occasional update that bricks the entire server on startup, but I've always been able to fix it with a rollback. Or two. But as we have progressed through the game, we have finished the island and Scorcher Earth, and are currently on Aberation, which has become increasingly unstable. Aberation has had the most crashes of any previous map. For example, I've had to roll back Aberation several times to even get to the server to boot, but now it can't even run for more than 30 minutes before crashing and rolling back 15 minutes. I set up this server using the troubleshooting YouTube video titled "ARK: Survival Ascended Dedicated Server Setup | Host a FREE private server | Full Guide." If anyone has experience with this type of thing, I would be extremally great full.

nocturne socket
spring minnow
nocturne socket
spring minnow
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thank you

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is there a third party service i can use to manage the server better with out loosing my data?

nocturne socket
tepid berry
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Anyone else having issues with global chat just, blackholing everything you type? Everyone can see what they're sending, but nobody else recieves it in general.

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I use lacc on my primary cluster, but I have a secondary cluster without any kind of chat mods, people can connect to it and everything just fine -- but global doesn't work. :[

spring minnow
# nocturne socket i dont know. but in my eyes, it seems like the hoster ''your pc'' might have ...

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

CL: 806391
0x00007ff6ba02df4f ArkAscendedServer.exe!operator<<() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Containers\String.cpp.inl:1883]
0x00007ff6ba3d5c09 ArkAscendedServer.exe!FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\PropertyTag.cpp:589]
0x00007ff6ba2cea32 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UStruct::SerializeVersionedTaggedProperties() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Class.cpp:2030]
0x00007ff6ba2cdf43 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Class.cpp:1461]
0x00007ff6ba36db14 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UObject::SerializeScriptProperties() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Obj.cpp:1964]
0x00007ff6ba36d8e5 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UObject::Serialize() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Obj.cpp:1764]
0x00007ff6ba36d780 ArkAscendedServer.exe!UObject::Serialize() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\CoreUObject\Private\UObject\Obj.cpp:1615]
0x00007ff6bbecb7f7 ArkAscendedServer.exe!AActor::Serialize() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Actor.cpp:976]
0x00007ff6bdb313d9 ArkAscendedServer.exe!APrimalCharacter::Serialize() [C:\j\workspace\RelB\Projects\ShooterGame\Source\ShooterGame\Private\PrimalCharacter.cpp:10551]
0x00007ff6bd9d803f ArkAscendedServer.exe!FAtlasSaveFileObjectWriter_Multithreaded_Objects::SerializeObjectData()

nocturne socket
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im glad u fand the error, 2 sec

spring minnow
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i have no idea what any of this mean

tepid berry
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That looks like a dino mod causing it.

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"PrimalCharacter" is the base class of all "character-like" objects.

nocturne socket
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FPropertyTag::SerializeTaggedProperty()
UStruct::SerializeTaggedProperties()
UObject::Serialize()
AActor::Serialize()
APrimalCharacter::Serialize()

tepid berry
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And it's failing when it tries to save the data.

nocturne socket
# spring minnow i have no idea what any of this mean

one of these might be ur issue:

  • Corrupted save file
  • Broken dino / character / structure data
  • A mod mismatch or removed mod object still saved in the world
  • Map data corruption after repeated crashes/rollbacks

Since the crash is happening in APrimalCharacter::Serialize(), I’d especially suspect:
a broken creature
a player character
tamed dino data
something in the world tied to character data

Things I would try:

  • load an older save backup
  • temporarily remove or update mods
  • test with a fresh Aberration save to see if the map itself runs clean
  • move/rename the current save folder and let the server generate a new one - for testing
  • if possible, restore only the most recent backup from before the crashes started
tepid berry
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Yep, AI summary ftw. That couldn't have summarized it better.

nocturne socket
spring minnow
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so u think the mods are the issue?

tepid berry
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Mods are most commonly the issue, but corruption happens quite frequently when the server doesn't shut down cleanly.

nocturne socket
tepid berry
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When adding mods, check curseforge the website first, and check out the "last updated' section. If it's been a long time since the last update, there's a higher chance that the mod is broken somehow

spring minnow
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give it to me straight doc am i COOKED?

nocturne socket
tepid berry
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No, but it takes a lot of work to determine what you need to disable to get to a bootable state again

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Is this on a third party host? Or is this on a machine you control?

spring minnow
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no no the server still boots

spring minnow
# tepid berry No, but it takes a lot of work to determine what you need to disable to get to a...

So I've been running my own dedicated Ark server for myself and a few friends for about a year now on my home computer. Everything has been fine for the most part, aside from the occasional update that bricks the entire server on startup, but I've always been able to fix it with a rollback. Or two. But as we have progressed through the game, we have finished the island and Scorcher Earth, and are currently on Aberation, which has become increasingly unstable. Aberation has had the most crashes of any previous map. For example, I've had to roll back Aberation several times to even get to the server to boot, but now it can't even run for more than 30 minutes before crashing and rolling back 15 minutes. I set up this server using the troubleshooting YouTube video titled "ARK: Survival Ascended Dedicated Server Setup | Host a FREE private server | Full Guide." If anyone has experience with this type of thing, I would be extremally great full.

tepid berry
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Okay -- So, what mods are you running, and...how many of them?

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Also, how much ram is available on the machine you're running? And are you playing ARK at the same time on the same machine?

spring minnow
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like 9

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ok let me grab the specs

tepid berry
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16gb is what I can see servers peak at; and running the game itself can easily go up to 12gb of ram

nocturne socket
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Hm is it 30min spot on? can it be ur autosave function that is to heavy for ur pc + gameplay what u think thantik of this theory?

tepid berry
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Autosave when bogged down can result in hitching pretty hard, but...USUALLY you recover.

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I'm thinking it's an out-of-memory situation.

nocturne socket
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yea im also now in that direction

tepid berry
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If he was out of disk-space to save, he'd have all sorts of other things on his machine running slow and acting up at that point, and windows would yell at him pretty loudly about being out of space

spring minnow
spring minnow
tepid berry
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Okay, plenty of memory. It's probably 32gb; it only comes in powers of 2

spring minnow
tepid berry
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Playing on the same machine as the server is running on?

spring minnow
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no i play on my xbox while my pc runs the server\

tepid berry
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oh, that's even weirder then. 32gb is way more than enough for a map to run on.

nocturne socket
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tried to remove mods and see how that play out for a hour?

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just to get it out of the list >.>

tepid berry
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Start with any mods that add dinos, or alter your character any.

spring minnow
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ive had the sever running for this entire time and it hasnt crashed

spring minnow
nocturne socket
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ctrl+C should be it in the console

tepid berry
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you can do a cheat doexit in server console

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and wait for the console window to close on its own

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You can also do this from within-game if you're logged in like you're running any other admin/cheat command.

nocturne socket
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did he mention HDD or SSD?

tepid berry
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This properly saves the game and unloads the map; it used to be nearly instant - but since lost colony it can take a minute or two to shut down.

spring minnow
tepid berry
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I think most people are on SSD now. ARK times out if you run it on HDD

spring minnow
tepid berry
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Either within game you can do enablecheats serverpassword and then cheat doexit -- or, there's a little ^ arrow on the upper right of the server window, when you click it, itll turn into a V, and give you a little chat box you can type into on the bottom of the window

nocturne socket
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but first tick console function on in game settings 🙂

tepid berry
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Also, pay attention best you can to details when the server crashes. Is it only when a specific friend logs on? Does it happen when someone does something super specific, like paint a structure? etc

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For my server, at one point - it was any time someone pulled an item with a pull mod, within range of dedicated storage.

spring minnow
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i think ur right about the saving thing

tepid berry
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You can also manually force it to save the world using the cheat saveworld command.

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Which can help speed up testing.

spring minnow
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type cheat doexit into the windows console?

tepid berry
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To shut down the server correctly, yes

spring minnow
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yippy

tepid berry
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It'll save the world directly after, kick everyone, and it'll look like it's stalled for a minute or two sometimes, but it'll eventually write everything out and close out.

spring minnow
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ok ill go through and delete the mod folders and take them out of the command line

nocturne socket
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so it was the autosave?

spring minnow
tepid berry
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He said it had run without crashing so far

spring minnow
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i think its when some one is on the server and something with a mod bricks it

nocturne socket
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Awsome

spring minnow
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so ill play on the server for a bit and see how things go

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ok so deleted to mods and the mod command line

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god i hope this works

tepid berry
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...I hate that. :[

nocturne socket
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if it works hate?

tepid berry
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No, the bot that deletes links

spring minnow
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send on pms please

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it booted

nocturne socket
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ah yes, i found a funny gif hehe

nocturne socket
spring minnow
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thanks for yalls help

tepid berry
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No worries. Running servers for friends is what I do; I want to see others succeed with it too 🙂

spring minnow
tepid berry
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you did enablecheats serverpassword first?

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the admin pw is different than log-in password

spring minnow
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yes i am in gcm right now

tepid berry
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And you're looking at the structure, doing cheat forcejointribe and it's not joining you?

spring minnow
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yup

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still not in my tribe

tepid berry
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Leave your tribe, log out and log back in, and re-do cheat command - sometimes that solves it. I'll be honest, the tribe join/makefounder/makeadmin commands can be really flaky sometimes

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Also I don't know what state your mods may have left some of the structures in.

spring minnow
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hmmm ok

tepid berry
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You can maybe try to do a "GiveToMeAOE" and re-forming a tribe, inviting the others into the new tribe

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There's a couple of ways you can accomplish the same thing here, but you gotta think about it beforehand

spring minnow
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what dos give to me aoe mean ?

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and it didnt work

tepid berry
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AOE = area of effect.

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It basically gives you the structures in a large area.

spring minnow
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ok ill leave tribe and force join

tepid berry
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Usually used like cheat GiveToMeAOE 5000 to specify the range

spring minnow
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ok i left the tribe and rejoined and the structure are still not mine

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like there not owned by anyone there just there

tepid berry
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You may have to destroyaoe structures them

spring minnow
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i sent u a picture

tepid berry
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kk

spring minnow
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and ya your prob right

tepid berry
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Try looking at it and doing cheat GiveAllStructure

last magnet
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or TakeAllStructure

tepid berry
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PATCH NOTES! Please!!

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ARK server just dropped

high dove
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hello how do i add a friend to the nitrado server

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ik its something with the query ip

robust nymph
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Does unofficial get a transfer update like official did?

valid marten
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i press G with admin power on my base and disapper a box in front of me is normal ?

heavy remnant
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It’s another way to destroy stuff without using admin gun so yes it’s normal

hidden wedge
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i have question my server works great without mods like armor dura and damage is capped lvls work rates evrything but when i add a mod it just crashes the server instantly when i booth it up (its linux tough so prob the probleam that it is on linux since linux is ass)

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i think i broke it completely rn i backuped it i went back to it and it aint boothing anymore think i exploaded the hosting pc

lone jewel
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Any 1 seen any update on the whole astreos dashboard loop because of pc mics ? Or know anything about it or how to fix it

indigo blade
wise kindle
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I'm sure this is known but seeing various corruption issues since last nights updates:

[2026.04.16-10.23.07:736][ 15]ERROR!!! FAtlasSaveManager::LoadOperationSql: SQL database is corrupt and the save game is compromised! Exiting...

Tried rollbacks and get:

[2026.04.16-15.49.04:862][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:862][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:862][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:862][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!
[2026.04.16-15.49.04:863][ 16]Missing transform Guid on load!

About 1000 times.

Gonna move saves to a fresh install to see if it can be saved.

nocturne socket
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Hello E1, is TP on unofficial fixed or still risky?
and for what platform?

  • Pc is my interest.
hidden wedge
lone jewel
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Any 1 seen any update on the whole astreos dashboard loop because of pc mics ? Or know anything about it or how to fix it

valid marten
heavy remnant
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Look in settings

near hawk
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are they spawing in intervals of 5 levels?

restive crystal
near hawk
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oh, nice

restive crystal
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Yeah I had maximum difficulty on which screws with the difficulty override system

near hawk
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yup

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many make that mistake

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is always a good guide on it

restive crystal
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Thx appreciate it, hope you have a good day

celest vine
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Anyone know why i can only see like 24 servers at a time in the server list? just yesterday i could see over 3000 now it only shows like 24 at a time so i have to refresh 1million times to find a server

verbal cove
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Is it good for transfer?

uncut seal
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Hey i'm using Ark server manager (ASE) to run a private cluster for my friend group and im having some issues.

I have everything working i can join the cluster and outside connections can (achieved by windows loopback adaptor) but my family member cant even see it on the transfer list, He sees it in the server browser and can connect normally that way but cant using an obelisk.

What would i have to do so he could?

grand lagoon
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What websites to you guys use to make PC ASE servers

left latch
lost raven
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I'm sure they mean hosts.

vivid patio
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Hello, I have an issue when I put the setting that I want in Game.ini in my local dedicated server for some reason the setting do not apply. Can someone help me with that plz! ty

gray tundra
vivid patio
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I am trying to change like the mating speed, eggspeed things like that

candid needle
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Ehhhh getting this on server now during start up ???

[2026.04.17-09.55.44:361][ 20]BattlEye successfully started.
[2026.04.17-09.56.39:186][ 20]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 14045632 but is not read.
[2026.04.17-09.56.39:186][ 20]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 16 but is not read.
[2026.04.17-09.56.53:010][ 20]Actor PrimalPersistentWorldData_2147475684 location transform was NOT serialized during save. Will load at origin (0,0,0).

gray tundra
vivid patio
gray tundra
# vivid patio No

try that .. I found it very reliable for configuring servers. If you use Nitrado you can upload directly. you can also use FTP or like I do just generate the config files and manually put them on your server

vivid patio
gray tundra
vivid patio
crystal pier
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Hello I have a problem where me and my friend cant join the server I just rented from Nitrado. Its always the "Lost/timedout connection to host" error message. Is anybody able to help me?

trail tinsel
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just rented a nitrado server on ASA and cannot join or seemingly change settings, any ideas?

gusty rose
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Anyone having their unofficial servers keep crashing and no I am not using Nitrado

uncut seal
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I'm using Ark server manager (ASE) to run a private cluster for my friend group and im having some issues.

I have everything working i can join the cluster and outside connections can (achieved by windows loopback adaptor) but my family member cant even see it on the transfer list, He sees it in the server browser and can connect normally that way but cant using an obelisk.

What would i have to do so he could?

carmine raft
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How do I change the amount of engram points per level on an Asa server bc the override command isn’t working

gray tundra
uncut seal
bleak ivy
uncut seal
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Okay i thought that was what loopback helped with though? (Because after enabling it i was able to see it outside connections could even without) Im guessing VPN is the only way if so, Now a new problem i need to figure out i guess because he cant see the server from vpn's lmao probably just the 2 i tired

twilit heart
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hi, I have issue with a personal server i have where im playin asteros and oil pump and stuff from other expansions arent avaialable

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just looks black on the engram tree

modern dagger
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whats the problem with xbox app ark No sessions found

ancient lake
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Back in ASE, there was a mod that allowed your dinos to get exp without needing to be part of the kill. This was great in SP when added with the dino storage mod. Does any such mod exist in ASA? So I don't need to manually level all my dinos by going out and killing random wild dinos.

tame haven
wise kindle
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Pelayoris also has this

bleak ivy
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it was fixed in ASA with the removal of the lan tab

placid sable
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Good evening.

I'm at a complete loss. If I set my server difficulty to 5.0 it makes all cave drops drop near-cap tiems (using official stat clamps). But any lower, and I get those ugly dino levels, like 4, 76, etc. How do I remedy this? I want official item stat clamps, but its just not working out with drop quality. The overrides made skydrops worthless and deep sea crates the only viable loot option. I have no idea why

lost raven
# placid sable Good evening. I'm at a complete loss. If I set my server difficulty to 5.0 it m...

There are always 30 tiers of dinos, difficulty 5 puts them at 5 levels between each step (5, 10, 15, etc.) which is why that works. To keep these levels but modify loot on a simple/lazy scale you can put this in your game.ini SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier=1.0 with any amount less than 1 like 0.5 being half the quality multiplier. I have never messed with stat clamps so I can't speak to that, but you could cut the global quality in half using that config and see if it works well enough for you.

ancient lake
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ASA Nitrado server - harvesting a plant will yield one or two items. Gathering narcoberries by hand is taking forever (maybe one per plant). Harvesting a rock is yielding 10 stones, 2 flint. I have the "Server optimization of Harvest Amount Multiplier" set to false. Is there another setting I need to change? "Clampharvest" is not an option in Nitrado.

left latch
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cuz that sounds like 1x with stone tools

hidden wedge
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dose anyone have an idea why i cant put mods in the server if so pls let me know why and how to fix it

vague trench
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yo does anyone know about official pvp TheIsland 2130 i played a couple of years ago and dont find the serv where my character is on

hidden wedge
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official is down no ? or you mean asa

hidden wedge
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can anyone help me with setting up a server on hosting evrything works exept for the mods its saying that the mods version mismatches (error when joining=make sure server is running latest version of all mods) but it is running the latest since i just put them in anyone have any idea of what might fix it

gusty rose
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Is anyone running unofficial maps and they keep crashing?

near hawk
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no, not really

gray tundra
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Not for me either

hidden wedge
near hawk
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Kill yourself and go back to get your stuff

hexed viper
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anyone can giff us a wyvern? we lost us cause lag ;:_

gusty rose
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Would be nice if WC can look into this
At this point we are just waiting for an update

quartz wraith
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when i turn my screen a glichy thing that im holding flashes for everything and the side of what i see also gliches out

sick haven
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does anyone know a place or way to rent a server with 2 player slots and under $15 a month preferably

gray tundra
abstract hedge
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hello

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i have a little problem

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with cheats on my unofficial server

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i have setup the password which is 123

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but i can't unlock cheats with the command enablecheats

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with 123

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it just doesn't work

wise kindle
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How do you know it doesnt work?

woven field
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youre typing "enablecheats 123"

abstract hedge
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when i write a command it just does nothing i guess

abstract hedge
wise kindle
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what commands have you tried?

abstract hedge
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enablecheats 123

woven field
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you need cheat behind every command

wise kindle
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no
in front

abstract hedge
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so cheat enablecheat 123 ?

wise kindle
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cheat fly
cheat gcm

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no
just regular commands

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again

What commands have you tried?

abstract hedge
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when i write the command with destroywilddinos with cheat behind it doesn't work

wise kindle
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its because it doesnt go behind it

abstract hedge
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like cheat destroywilddinos

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to me it's behind

woven field
abstract hedge
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on the little black bar

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in game

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thank for helping me

woven field
abstract hedge
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no just thank for trying to help^me lmao

wise kindle
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in the chat window, which you type a message in global chat, do you have a star next to your name?

abstract hedge
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i will try

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no

wise kindle
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ok

stop your server
change your password to something simple but longer like

catdog
morning
birdman

Something all lowercase but more than 3 letters.

abstract hedge
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ok

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i send my script

wise kindle
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ok start your server back up

abstract hedge
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start Server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=HeyJudde?ServerPassword=Jef?ServerAdminPassword=catdog?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32 -NoBattlEye -mods=947033,953154,929800,929506,1032529,939874,930684,930494

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that's in the .bat

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and do i have to modify the password in the gameuser settings.ini ?

woven field
abstract hedge
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ok that's done

woven field
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under session settings

abstract hedge
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but i guess the problem is in the .ini

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beacuse when i restart it

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it says the passwords is all this :

woven field
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just as reference, this is what mine looks like and works just fine

abstract hedge
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catdog?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32

woven field
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[SessionSettings]
SessionName=DESCENDEDGLOONER
ServerPassword=qwerty
ServerAdminPassword=JACK727

woven field
abstract hedge
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[ServerSettings]
DifficultyOffset=1.0
HarvestAmountMultiplier=6.0
ShowMapPlayerLocation=True
AllowThirdPersonPlayer=True
ServerCrosshair=True
ServerPassword=Jejuif
ServerAdminPassword=catdog?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32

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see it put all in the password

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don't knopw why

woven field
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scrolling all the way down on gus.ini, do you see session settings, pretty sure password goes under there

abstract hedge
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[SessionSettings]
SessionName=HeyJudde

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just this

woven field
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under it, just put "ServerAdminPassword=" and then your password

abstract hedge
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oh bro

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it works

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i enter this password

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catdog?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32

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and it works don't know why but that's cool

abstract hedge
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thank man

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love u

woven field
abstract hedge
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have a great day bay

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thank you a lot

gray tundra
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I had the same. Dont put admin password in your startup command but do it through the .ini file 🙂 keep the startup line as short as possible 🙂

placid stump
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can i ask a question about dedicated servers

near hawk
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sure

bleak ivy
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don't ask to ask, just ask the question

fringe plover
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(PS5) I just ordered a 20 slot server from Nitrado for Ark ASA. I basically only increased the rates in the settings and switched the map to Astraeos and restarted it but for the life of me it does not show up in the server list. I've tried stopping and starting the server again, the log says it's advertising it's open and I've removed the server password.

I've tried to direct connect and the ArkUseList 0 in console as suggested by Nitrado but they say everything is good on their end. I'm not sure if there is a larger issue RN or just some dumb setting I messed up. Not sure if anyone has any ideas.

wise kindle
fringe plover
wise kindle
fringe plover
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DeiArk

wise kindle
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yeah looks like its not actually online
Support definately needs to look at it

fringe plover
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Appreciate the look, thanks.

velvet nymph
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Can someone help me I’m trying to mod my survival evolved using steam CMD trying to install specifically two mods castles and keeps and structures S plus however well I’ve been able to get them to be visible in the game. I’ve been unable to access them in grams will not unlock even in creative mode. I cannot craft these items. Does anyone have any link to a Guide or I could just tell me exactly what I might be doing or what I might need to be doing I would really appreciate this help been struggling all day with this.

lost raven
solar fern
solar fern
#

So i have a cluster of 5 servers how ever i can transfer to the one. They are all set up the same I have even tried different devices with no luck any suggestions??

fleet oyster
#

I'm looking to host a server on my pc, and I see there's a lot of options, does anyone know of a good tool that has a video guide that's pretty decent? I'm sort of a baboon when it comes to these things. I appreciate it in advance 🙂

fringe plover
uncut seal
fleet oyster
dense vine
#

How do I change xp multiplier and maturation speed in the dedicated server im hosting. Do they go in a certain place in the Gameusersertings file. If you need more info about how I'm hosting to help me then lmk

fleet island
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Hi, I need some help. I’m using Primal and Descended on my server, but I can’t seem to reduce the number of wild dinosaurs – it’s stuck at 25,000. I’ve tried everything but can’t get it sorted. Can anyone help me, please?

vernal nest
#

Hey there, has anyone been experiencing multiple save corruptions lately ? I run my own Cluster and it's been happening almost every day for a week now
Also I've got these in every log file of every single map

[2026.04.19-08.28.46:429][ 20]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 8678392 but is not read.
[2026.04.19-08.28.46:429][ 20]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 16 but is not read.
[2026.04.19-08.28.53:746][ 20]Actor PrimalPersistentWorldData_2147480358 location transform was NOT serialized during save. Will load at origin (0,0,0).

fringe plover
#

Ah. So unfortunately I've learned Nitrado is ass. Lol

drowsy current
#

hi is it possible to create a cluster without portforwarding? im the only one thats going to play in it

woven field
drowsy current
woven field
#

unaware with this method of making a server, but im guessing the launch bat file is giving you problems, what does it look like

#

rip

drowsy current
#

gg

#

I thought it was the codeblock that done it

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start ASA\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe ScorchedEarth_WP?listen?SessionName=ARK?Port=7779?ServerAdminPassword=wasd -mods=1136679,987274,970540,1105106,1182199,1382641,972484,1220093,1288255,1188679,942024,935528,1459642,930494,935408,949521,930032,946536 -WinLiveMaxPlayers=1 -NoBattlEye -clusterID=Test -ClusterDirOverride="E:\Servers\Clusters"

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I have 2 bat files, they both contain the same thing but its for different maps, idk if thats how you do it via steamcmd

woven field
#

really dont see what would be wrong here so cant help much, but at least ill give you a reference of my server which works fine with transfers enabled

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"TheIsland_WP" "-port=7777" -WinLiveMaxPlayers=3 "-mods=1188679,935408,927090,929420,927084,928501" "-clusterid=748338" "-ClusterDirOverride=C:\Users\omarx\OneDrive\Desktop\ASACluster" -ServerPlatform=ALL -NoBattlEye -log -servergamelog

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if you cant figure it out and willing to try again, try making a server using the nooblets video on yt with 115k views, thats what I use and can actively help you since Ive been using that tool actively for the past year

drowsy current
drowsy current
woven field
#

change island to port 7779, you can run them off the same port

drowsy current
#

nvm I didnt set it to 7779, they were using 7777.

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alr im confused now

drowsy current
woven field
#

the one that does show up, you were able to join?

drowsy current
#

havent tried yet, will try now.

woven field
#

because if you can, it will not be a port issue but a settings issue

drowsy current
#

I thought it was a port issue so I put both servers on 7779, but Island still didnt show up. Aside from that, I can join the server. The island server shows up inside the obelisk, but not on the server list, why is that though. I will try to join the Island to see if it works.

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Ok joining the Island through obelisk works, but I really want to know why it doesn't show up on the list

woven field
#

can be two things here, its gonna be either your launch arguments at the bottom of server configuration causing the problem, or something is wrong in the GUS.ini tab at the very bottom when it comes to session settings

drowsy current
#

Ok I think I found the problem, I changed the install directory of the island server to a custom one and didnt change the one for SE

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since I want a cleaner directory for my game servers

#

wait that doesnt make sense though, Nooblets video has a different directory than mine, yet both of his shows up

woven field
#

yes, dont think directory is involved here

#

just really quickly can try unchecking and rechecking the "manually define launch arguments" assuming they are correct

#

which requires a restart of course

#

at the bottom of gus.ini, you want your session settings which prompt connectivity to look like this
[SessionSettings]
SessionName=KINGGLOONER
ServerPassword=qwerty
ServerAdminPassword=JACK727

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those are the only two things that affect connectivity, your session settings or the launch arguments

drowsy current
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yes I remember now, I havent changed my session name inside the gus of the island server lmao

drowsy current
drowsy current
woven field
drowsy current
#

my brain is fried today, I've just rewind nooblets video to see if he has different ones (yes he does)

woven field
#

generally ive had my cluster share the same server names and never had this issue, but changing it is all I can recommend

drowsy current
woven field
fleet island
round blaze
#

Hi all, in my SE dedi server Pyromane doesn't spawn. Can someone help me?

tall ferry
#

I get these errors when I start my TheCenter Server and it won't start. Any suggestions?

[2026.04.19-14.16.37:509][ 9]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 14893720 but is not read.
[2026.04.19-14.16.37:509][ 9]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 16 but is not read.
[2026.04.19-14.17.45:323][ 9]Actor PrimalPersistentWorldData_2147477888 location transform was NOT serialized during save. Will load at origin (0,0,0).
[2026.04.19-14.18.38:989][ 9]2026.04.19_14.18.38: Persistant Buff Singleton Init

tall ferry
#

I already tried verifying the files

gray tundra
#

Generally reusing ports on the same server is not good practice

#

So basically you would do f.e. 7777 (which means automatically 7778 as well) for map one, then for the second instance 7779 (which means also 7780) so the third would then be 7781

inner hollow
#

Could someone help me? How can I reduce the crio sickness in PvP? (In the nitrado menu)

ornate pagoda
#

Hi, I have 2 ARK servers running on the same PC.
The first one works perfectly, but when I try to start the second one (with different ports),

It used to work fine before, but now it doesn’t.

I’m using:

Server 1 → 7777 / 7778 / 27015
Server 2 → 7779 / 7780 / 27016

Could this be related to patch 361.8? 🤔
Or is it more likely a configuration/network issue (ports, IP, cluster, etc)?

drowsy current
vernal nest
tall ferry
#

Well i am going to have to figure that out then

vernal nest
mystic apex
#

Can we transfer our dinos from official to a private server. Outside experience on official has not been positive.

wise kindle
mystic apex
#

😢

fringe plover
#

For a server running the Astraeos DLC map do you still need the Astraeos mod from the mod menu as a player?

wise kindle
fringe plover
#

I had accidentally set the game map to the mod map version instead of the DLC. Glad I didn't get too far ahead on that lol

wise kindle
terse cradle
#

😶‍🌫️ ark but not ark? trying to set up my ark smart breeding app anyone familiar that can help me out or is there a better channel to ask?

faint pebble
#

Hello, I got a problem where the game leaves/stops working when trying to loading into my single player world, also my mods aren't showing up as installed. I'd like to know how I am suppsed to fix it ?

gray tundra
#

Do we already know what the following lines from the log mean:

  • Invalid readGuid for transform data
  • Actor Primal PersistentWorldData location transform was NOT serialized during save.
#

From what I get this means some data from the save file might not be understood. In my case it could be because i just removed a mod (cryo sickness protection mod) which I do not need anymore after i moved the server from PvP to PvE settings.
Now I am not sure, and I will check in the server tonight when I'm free, but in my case it might not mean anything really bad. Could just be a setting that is still in the savefile referencing the mod that now long longer exists so the info for it is "skipped"
Am i correct in my idea? Anybody else got some theories or answers ?

echo stone
#

Yall, Anyone have any advice....I have steam player who is struggling to get onto our pve ASA server

She has tried these things

I have a separate drive just for games and it is SSD.

  • I uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times.
  • Tried every "fix" I could find via Google and other folks kind suggestions.
  • After more than a few tries I uninstalled everything.
  • Scanned the empty drive for any bad sectors (found none).
  • Reformatted the drive and rescanned for bad sectors (found none).
  • Did a fresh install of Steam and Ark, no mods could log in fine.
  • First time jumped back in installing all the mods and wham, back to clicking join, long wait and poof back to the screen to pick a server or look at mods lists etc.
  • Uninstalled the mods and then cleared out all files the uninstall leaves behind and could again log in to a server with NO mods.
  • Found a server using just one mod (holiday one) and wham, same issue I had as when I put them all back in.
    There is no "crash" per say, it doesn't give me any info, just aborts the log in and sends me back to start over

If I try to do single player with mods it hangs at the loading screen and does nothing (longest wait time was overnight on a test run that was over 9 hours) and I have to Force stop it.

wise kindle
echo stone
full epoch
#

can some one help me i have a nitrado server but cannot join its says server online but i cannot join

#

i wanna show a screen but i cant here

tender flower
#

Hey friends, im interested in hosting a local server cluster for asa just for my family and friends, I found this on marketplace, can anyone let me know if it looks like it can do the job? Fwiw I realize this may be a stupid question but ive never hosted a dedicated local server before.

It comes with:

2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 @ 2.20GHz
1 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition
128GB of DDR4 ram (64gb x 2) - up to 3TB of ram is supported~
1 x 1TB SSD

wooden fossil
#

Is a 5600X enough to host a dedicated server for 4 people on ASA?

I will also play on the computer the server will be hosted on

acoustic lark
#

So we have a bunch of players that are unable to access their radial menus to invite players to tribes and/or alliances...any idea how to fix this?

wise kindle
acoustic lark
acoustic lark
wise kindle
tender flower
#

How is this for hosting a 5 or 6 map cluster for 5 to 10 people?

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X - 16 cores / 32 threads (excellent for heavy multitasking & VMs)
128GB DDR4 (4x32GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 C16
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 - solid 1080p gaming / productivity GPU
Storage: 250GB WD SSD (OS drive) + 2TB WD HDD (data/storage)
PowerSpec PSX 850 GFM NRGB - 850W, 80+ Gold, modular PSU
Gigabyte B450M DS3H WiFi motherboard (Wi-Fi onboard)

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Assuming ill upgrade the ssd to 1 or 2 tb

hardy pelican
#

you can do 7 maps with that amount of ram

#

8 is pushing it

chrome spear
#

We have the Astraeos map thru a cluster and the only players that are having issues joining the map are the ps5 players. We have players on PC and Xbox x and no issues but our players on the ps5 are having issues trying to join. It just immediately dashboards them out. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing just the ps5 players issues and no one else?

lone jewel
#

Silly question but do any of you on xbox have issue with audio constantly crackling and hearing every 1 speak even when not near them?

molten swallow
#

What is the easiest way to get a server for me and a friend to play on?

slate kernel
#

so I had a save that worked perfectly fine yesterday, when i joined today it made me agree to terms of service i did that and saw that all my mods where gone, so i reinstalled them but now whenever i try to join it pauses for a few seconds then instantly closes with no crash logs or anything, any help would be extremely welcome. (ark ascended) or if you know where i could get help that would be apreciated.

little ermine
#

I’m looking to create an unofficial Small Tribes Hardcore Server. My question is - how would I go about doing so, what company (nitrado?) to use? Is there a specific setting I need need for the INI? Is there a way to prevent client overrides of graphics - like grass, fog, clouds, shadows etc.?

gray tundra
gray tundra
toxic hazel
hardy pelican
#

can anyone recommend a decent server manager, i currently use uaca but it hasn't been updated in a year

near hawk
#

For ASA, I use ASCT

vague dune
#

So from what I'm understanding after reading many messages
These server file/save corruptions that my server is having are pretty widespread.
This sucks, makes us not even want to try to progress due to fear of having to rollback the progress we make.
Any end in sight or a fix to alleviate it?

drowsy current
near hawk
#

Haven't tried

drowsy current
#

dang it

knotty portal
#

Guys, quick question a friend got a self hosted server using this app to manage the server Grahamvs/ASA-Server-Manager, after everything running fine we wanted to do a dino wipe cuz of a setting issue but we just couldn't get the Admin console/comands to work, we tried to set an admin password we tried the AllowedCheaters.txt but the server takes the auth and just ignores it, we tried to see if the cheats worked anyways but they just didn't any idea of solutions?

harsh sage
#

Hey how do you get genesis creatures to spawn on Extinction with Nitrado? I’ve been trying to finish setting up my friend’s server and we’re not sure how to make it work. I’ve tried every code I could find

wise kindle
harsh sage
near hawk
#

U can use the simple spawners mod or try editing the spawn entries via ini

knotty portal
wise kindle
knotty portal
#

admin locked ones like dino wipe or fly

near hawk
#

Enablecheat and password and still nothing?

knotty portal
#

yea

wise kindle
#

Enablecheat or Enablecheats?

near hawk
#

Did the commands u try after enablecheat have cheat and space ?

knotty portal
knotty portal
wise kindle
knotty portal
#

so idk

wise kindle
harsh sage
knotty portal
#

what does it mean if it does have the star or not?

wise kindle
#

If it has a star, you are in admin mode. If it does not, you arent actually in admin mode.

near hawk
knotty portal
knotty portal
wise kindle
knotty portal
#

were using like numbers atm

#

is that a problem?

wise kindle
knotty portal
#

lets try

#

didnt work

knotty portal
wise kindle
knotty portal
#

yea

wise kindle
#

Where are you typing your commands?

knotty portal
#

on the console ofc

wise kindle
#

What exactly are you typing?

Enablecheats password

correct?

knotty portal
#

yes

#
  • it has autocompletion so
wise kindle
#

autocompletion of your password?

#

what do you mean?

knotty portal
#

no, enable cheats

wise kindle
#

one word

#

enablecheats

knotty portal
#

yes iknw

#

EnableCheats, enablecheats i alr tried both

#

none work

wise kindle
#

What settings changes did you make for access? You mentioned whitelists? Any others?

#

Are you using an admin mod?

knotty portal
#

admin mod?

knotty portal
wise kindle
#

like awesome ark tools or any admin mods

knotty portal
#

no

wise kindle
#

the password is just letters, all lowercase?

knotty portal
#

yes

wise kindle
#

you got me then
no idea

gray tundra
# knotty portal yes

Have you checked the gameuserdata.ini file to see what the password is that is set there ?

knotty portal
#

as like every guide says

gray tundra
#

Okay and after reboot it stays the same right ? (I know if you use the startup command ?adminpassword that it might get changed on boot

knotty portal
#

yea it shows the same

#

and the server is running without battleye

gray tundra
#

Okay i dont know of any other reason why it wouldnt work tbh

knotty portal
#

yea most ppl dont

tepid berry
#

OH COME ON, give us patch notes!!

#

What the hell did you update this time wildcard?!

trim sage
#

Not sure this is the right discord or channel for it but does ark asa support RichColor in motd as I have tried a view times but don't get it to work?

lost raven
severe apex
#

Do yall know how to make my asa sever not require a password im using Nitrado

vivid patio
#

Does anyone know how to set up a cluster ? I need some help with that.

smoky burrow
#

Not sure you selected a good time to start, but what's your plan?
Nitrado/own server(s), mods, plugins, settings, etc.?

#

Probably what's messing with official destroying characters is related to what leads to unoffical losing inventories, but the patchnotes focus on groundbreaking innovations like phoenix not being damaged by campfires..

narrow kindle
#

Anyone here deal with Astraeos corrupting the whole time ? if I leave it running for a bit and it makes a few saves and it gets restarted the map corrupts, I managed to get some logs for where it breaks and it really seems like its only astraeos

Mods -
947733 = Auto Dino Wipes
942024 = Dino Depot
1188679 = Vanilla with Sprinkles
934401 = Electric Power Amplifier
947033 = Super Spyglass!
930436 = Lili's Reusables

[2026.04.21-14.22.40:257][ 23]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 7727128 but is not read.
[2026.04.21-14.22.40:257][ 23]Invalid readGuid for transform data. Additional data exists, total of 16 but is not read.
[2026.04.21-14.22.47:115][ 23]Actor PrimalPersistentWorldData_2147477338 location transform was NOT serialized during save. Will load at origin (0,0,0).
[2026.04.21-14.23.09:434][ 23]ADW_Version_v0.15
[2026.04.21-14.23.09:434][ 23]ADW_Begin (UTC Time Now = 14:23)
[2026.04.21-14.23.49:198][ 23]Attempted GC & Defrag: Start: 14.61 GB End: 14.59 GB 0.02 GB Free'd, Duration: 0.149111 seconds
[2026.04.21-14.23.49:198][ 23]Server: "```
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I cut out my server name which is the last print there but the 2nd, 3rd and 4th logs are the "errors"

gray tundra
#

But this is during startup right ?

narrow kindle
#

Yea

gray tundra
#

Okay.. I have the same line types since i removed the cryosickness protection mod ... But no issues

narrow kindle
#

So yours still launches normally even with those logs ?

gray tundra
#

Yup.. And i made a logical assumption what it means and put it here some days ago.. Just a sec

gray tundra
gray tundra
narrow kindle
#

MMMMM

#

Well now I am even more lost 🤣

#

For me it booted without those and I was flying around a bit and logged out then a few hours later I restarted it and it gave those but then never boots up

gray tundra
#

So far my theory holds. Since I have no issues or missing stuff at all.. And it also would make sense that when I added that cryopod mod it would add some information to my save... (because it now has to know that when I toss a cryopod that I would not get cryosickness) but now that the mod is gone that reference is no longer pointing to something that is there (c.q. the mod itself )

narrow kindle
#

So the weird thing is for this map I added mods but left all the configs default

gray tundra
#

but did you ever "remove" mods ?

narrow kindle
#

I am running 3 other maps (files in a different place) with the same mods and configs

narrow kindle
gray tundra
#

so for me this didn't start til i removed a mod, and the mods I use are really not very game changing.. since i like vanilla play ..

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so I can imagine if you use more "complex mods" that they can cause savegame issues. Now I know to little about how the savegame data is compiled to really give you info on what this would mean or how this can break your game. But I agree with Dolly when they say that trouble shooting for a game with mods is more difficult. Now you have to also consider what the mod does

narrow kindle
#

I mean I can remove most of them but the 2 that I really dont want to budge on would be Dino Depot and Vanilla with Sprikles

#

let me quickly remove all but those 2 and fiddle with it, I just cannot fathom how these mods work fine on so many other of my servers 🤣

gray tundra
narrow kindle
#

I saw I had the easter event on all my servers as well so it MIGHT be that

#

I am completely wiping the instance now quick and only booting with Dino Depot and VwS 🤦‍♂️ but yea you are right the mods have actually been the main reason we have had to restart twice

distant whale
#

Has anyone used Kavan's shop and can tell me how we access the admin panel? Were running a server and legit none of the admins can get into it

tight urchin
#

i died in the void bc a bug and lost all my cosmetics from the bob tall tales dlc, is there any way to recover? i alr tryied to reinstall the game and not works... someone knows what happens?

radiant thunder
#

hi, how to make a ark survival ascended server for free..? (with show player-servers)

broken anvil
#

I'm not sure how but I can no longer craft a Tek Replicator inside the Tek Replicator. Where might these settings be changed?

sullen barn
#

After rest lot of players lost their vault inventory

wooden fossil
tidal nacelle
#

anyone know the ini setting to remove cryo cooldown and sickness?

broken anvil
hardy pelican
wise dagger
#

do xp settings go in game.ini or gameusersettings.ini?

tight urchin
#

i have bob tall tales dlc but i lost all my costmetics from the dlc, someone know how to fix that?

plain stream
#

So they’ve gave up looking into items being deleted?

river smelt
#

heya anyone here had issues with nitrado not updating server mods?

#

like a mod will update, i'll download the update in game, i'll restart the server, and then the mod will downgrade on my game to join the server

untold ginkgo
#

Is there anything I can do or a code to bypass the level 1500 cap when spawning wild dinos? Or if anyone knows of a mod that allows it please let me know

midnight obsidian
#

Hey folks, my unofficial/private server has been extremely laggy ever since it was updated to Version 85.44. It’s hogging an insane amount of network traffic—up to tens or even hundreds of Mbps per second. Has anyone else had this issue? Any fixes or solutions?

gray tundra
gray tundra
gray tundra
gray tundra
gray tundra
gray tundra
#

I have tried to google for you .. was curious about that myself too, but I cannot find an answer

gray tundra
toxic hazel
gray tundra
toxic hazel
gray tundra
toxic hazel
#

Try clean your folder first though, might help

gray tundra
#

but thanks for helping @toxic hazel i notice alot of people ask questions here, and little get answers.. so I thought to change that a bit

toxic hazel
#

I pop in from time to time lol i help in another ark manager discord alot xD

gray tundra
#

I don't use a manager layer on top.. just hardcore everything myself xD

toxic hazel
#

I like to be lazy, got everything automated, updates, restarting whatnot xD manager does it all

gray tundra
toxic hazel
#

One time manager install with easy selection no coding xD

gray tundra
#

I'm a nerd 🤓 I like coding

toxic hazel
#

Im a lazy nerd 🤣

gray tundra
#

okay im hopping back to general while working

toxic hazel
#

Nice ima bout to start xD more coffee time

midnight obsidian
gray tundra
midnight obsidian
thin mesa
#

Anyone know why the holiday cosmetics didn't permanently unlock for me and my friends on a private nitrado server?

They unlocked permanently every other server I played on 😭

gray tundra
plain stream
smoky burrow
#

Hi again,

are there any news on corrupting saving process / item loss / 50/50 issues?
Obviously there are still problems, instead of receding, it seems to be spreading.
I understand you, WC may be willing to let the affected people just quit in frustration, as this still persists for multiple clusters.
Please reconsider and account for the bigger part of players/"customers" plays on unofficial.

Of course a solution would be appreciated, but at least, please explain why this hasn't been addressed since early march.
Bug reports aren't acknowledged, DMs we have been asked to send go unanswered, this is no fair way to treat people who fund your work by buying the game and DLCs!

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/items-and-dinosaurs-have-disappeared-or-duplicated-after-the-server-restart-r98853/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/corrupted-safefiles-r98702/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/asa-save-file-corruption-during-save-process-random-size-drops-partial-saves-r99093/
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/restarts-lead-to-partial-progress-loss-r99224/

gray tundra
#

also it helps mainly to keep things streamlined between like "the account owner" and Dolly.. doesn't help for anybody if x number of admins from the same cluster all blend in ...

plain stream
#

Crazy that I’m the only one from my cluster

steady kettle
#

I am the owner

#

Still haven't heard anything from anyone. Lost another 500,000+ objects on my Astraeos map alone today. The roll back required to recovery everything lost is a save from 5 days ago. Nitrado doesn't even keep saves that old.

gray tundra
steady kettle
#

Nitrado.

gray tundra
#

is it all maps or just LC ?

steady kettle
#

This is affecting all kinds of servers though. Unofficial, official, Nitrado, self-hosted, single player, as well as all maps. Not just LC.

gray tundra
steady kettle
#

Yeah well that's ironic isn't it.

gray tundra
#

I agree.. but what is different then for me ?

#

started on nitrado .. but moved later on over to my own hardware

steady kettle
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I have hosted to over 30,000 individual players. I own one of the most popular PVE clusters in the game. I have 2 mods on my cluster, and neither of them break ever. So the fact that it's happening to some and not others is suspicious tbh.

gray tundra
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quite the hardware to host for 30k players though

steady kettle
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Nitrado's hardware

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and not 30k players at the same time

gray tundra
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okay so lets just be clear on facts.. boasting is not needed bud.. just trying to think with you here

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I don't care if you are the biggest hoster .. the most valuable player or what not ... I am just here to help you think ..

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what mods are you using ?

steady kettle
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I'm not boasting hahaha. If that's what you got from that, that's on you. I'm saying it's suspicious that it's happening to some and not others, and the fact it hasn't been publicly addressed just adds to it.

gray tundra
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I personally use

  • Klinger additional structures
  • Klinger additional Boats
  • Friendly Leeds
  • Fix for Sir robot
  • Easter Event

yeah that is basically it

steady kettle
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I don't need help thinking. I need Wildcard to address and fix this problem. They changed the way data is saved. Objects are failing to save at random. You would understand that it's happening to more than just us too, except anytime someone brings it up, they're chastized for it. The reason it is appropriate for regular server members to comment on this issue is because it is their time that is being wasted. They spend hundreds, and often times, thousands of hours playing this game, just to lose it all to a bug the developers refuse to address.

gray tundra
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okay well . not everybody is having the issue .. don't state that.. cause I'm not having the issue.. so basically that is wrong.
If you don't want to seriously think but just complain .. go to bug reports and report... maybe someone will come to you maybe not ..
If it is such a terrible game you can always choose to play something else.. I would say after ASE for many years one would know this game is gonna have its problems.. I personally accept that ..

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might not host "The most popular PVE cluster" or "over 30 000 players" (yes that is boasting when you say that) ... but I'm having a great time with my own server hosted on my own hardware 🙂

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... moving on ...

steady kettle
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And I have a feeling the developers get the crappy end of the stick because it seems like they are forced to meet these unrealistic deadlines, which prevent them from fixing all the bugs from previous updates. It feels like a money-grab by Snail Games tbh. And that's an opinion shared by many many people. Such a great game. Great developers. Terrible administration. That's just what it looks like from where I'm sitting.

When did I say "everyone" was experiencing this issue? Huh?

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This bug has been reported literally hundreds of times. This channel has been blown up over it multiple times. Are you okay? I think you were right about keeping the convo between actual server owners and dolly. Smh.

plain stream
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You’re obviously on here just looking for an argument

gray tundra
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and no if you look through the chats... you will see i am actually trying to help people ..not just here to complain about how bad I think the game is

plain stream
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Who’s complaining? We’re trying to address an on going issue

steady kettle
gray tundra
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and ... you had a line with them ... and .... now because nobody answers you when you want.. you come back here to complain that... and I quote :
" Items being deleted every update is getting pretty annoying. We were told by a dev that it was getting looked into and never got an update from them. Been on going for almost 3 months now"

plain stream
gray tundra
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that is not "I have an issue i want help" ... that is "I am sour and i will complain"

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How many clusters you think there are out there ?

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how many of them % wise have this issue ?

steady kettle
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I don't expect you to understand what it's like to lose hundreds of thousands of hours worth of items, dinos, structures, player data, and overall progress in a single game update.

gray tundra
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these are interesting facts ... also how many use mods, how many don't .. how many are on nitrado .. how many aren't ... what are their logs showing ... can WC reproduce your problems ... what makes it so that the issue get reproduced .... I know from just a "I click on a website and my game runs" perspective it's all pretty simple... but from a dev enviroment with so many different clusters and setups .. it is not just so simple

steady kettle
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It's literally happening on official.

gray tundra
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but okay moving on ... 🙂 have a nice day

steady kettle
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The censorship is so cringe.

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I'm not allowed to leave emojis on your comments. I'd imagine if people were allowed to do that, you would quickly realize that what you're saying is not very popular amongst many others in this discord.

near hawk
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U can leave emoji in messages unless .....

drowsy current
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anyone that uses asct know how to play custom maps? would like to play nekatus's island reforged

near hawk
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Have u asked in the ASCT discord?

smoky burrow
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There's two or three more clusters expressing losses just in the last hours, come on!

river smelt
steady kettle
drowsy current
drowsy current
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finally got it to work, just forgot to remove the map name since I ticked the manual launch args

edit: nvm i still crashed when I tried to join

wise dagger
gray tundra
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if you are unsure where to post things. You could install beacon app on the PC , then load your ini files in that. And use the Beacon app to adjust your configuration. It is very easy to just change settings and produce ini files. Beacon will put stuff alphabetically in the correct files as well 🙂

drowsy current
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does island reforged need lost colony? or what? Its mentioning something about lost colony snow shit on the crash

gray tundra
wise dagger
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I’m not sure though I’ve messed around with it a little bit but I don’t think it works super well with my old game.ini and gameusersettings.ini. I’m using a game ini I made from scratch from ASE and used it for ASA but it’s got a lot of issues

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But I use bOnlyAllowSpecifiedEngrams=true and I have custom engram points per level I just don’t know how that all translates once I move it to beacon

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It does suck though I do make a lot of mistakes I know beacon could help with. Like the other day I realized I totally forgot to add the dunk saddle

drowsy current
drowsy current
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Looks like the map works(?) if I added the -MapModID in the launch args but I can't even join it because of the Lost Colony Snow crash report I'm getting :L

gray tundra
last magnet
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have you tried using ethernet? I found wifi was getting saturated, and that if my husband tried to be in my base at the same time as I was, horrid lag. We moved to wired in and at the time this was spectrum's cable at like 400MB

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my house is small enough that the wifi doesn't need repeaters

gray tundra
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Wifi is suboptimal for gaming, add repeaters and from a technical perspective it gets even more terrible. You might have great coverage but the way repeating works does not help. Yes as above stated, choose ethernet cable that will help your problems go away

gray tundra
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If it runs on cable then i dont think its anything else then a local network issue

untold ginkgo
wise kindle
untold ginkgo
wise kindle
long epoch
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Is anyone able to help me with my nitrado server. It’s messed up and there’s a 1-2 hour wait to talk to someone on nitrado

wise dagger
agile cloak
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Hello, is there anyone who understands server commands? I'm a bit confused and I'm having trouble with some things I can't seem to get working. Could someone please help me privately? It's quick.

coral sundial
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I was wondering if I could get some help running a server for ASE! I'm relatively new to the game and I think It would be a good passion project for me to have!

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I'd be paying for server hosting, all I really need help with is on the Ark side of things

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(I'd handle to discord & such)

near hawk
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u want to rent a server?
is selfhosting not a option?
is small community of friends or trying to make a big one?

coral sundial
near hawk
coral sundial
near hawk
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here is mostly for helping with the hosting process and server configs for ingame (also dealing with the server provider interface for server configs)
https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration
has basically everything when it comes to server configs
not sure many could help with the discord and promotion side, but there are server owner around here (i just host one for myself, can't help much)
when u make it and want to promote it here use #1110925695900713072

coral sundial
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Thank you so much!

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I'll look into it!!

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The main thing I'd need are Admins and someone to help me set up the configs

steady kettle
rough hare
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hopefully this is the right channel to ask -- I got a nitrado server and want to move my files from the nondedicated server I've been hosting to the nitrado server... is there any good youtube video tutorials on how to do this?

gray tundra
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you have access to all the files in the saved folder ?

gray tundra
rough hare
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So I followed a guide online and on the nitrado website and I think I did it right lol, however when I start my server it doesnt show up on the list on ark

gray tundra
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you are playing on PC ?

rough hare
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yeah, steam

gray tundra
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if you check the logs (information -> Log files) do you see a line like this ?
[246]Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join. (11.18GB Mem)

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and should it be cross play or not ?

rough hare
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I mean cross play is enabled just cause but everyone that I'm playing with is on steam

gray tundra
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Okay what is it called. I can check if i can find it.
You do see the line right ?

rough hare
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Is there something I need to toggle on the dashboard/settings for that?

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Oop, just kidding! I found it, it is on there.

gray tundra
broken anvil
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My PC players can't see my servers today. Seems their clients are updated to 85.45 while the server is still on 85.44

Playstation & Xbox can find the servers, just not PC.

Dedicated servers... Anyone have any idea how this might be fixed?

wise kindle
full harbor
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Hellloooo i have a couple questions. My friend started up a server and I was wondering if there is anything specific we need to set up in order or allow us to tp from one map to another map easily. Idk if its a modded thing or if its base game. All I know is that in other servers that was an option and I really enjoyed that.

near hawk
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u have to have your servers clustered together

broken stream
# smoky burrow Hi again, are there any news on **corrupting saving process** / item loss / 50/...

Same for us since 83.24. Lots of items lost after servers restarts for our players: stuff, cryos in the cryofridge... Players spawn at coordinates 50-50 under the map (we didn't have this bug before this update, which was supposed to fix exactly this issue…). This problem affects all our maps, 12 in total.
We constantly have to give their stuff back to unhappy players. Please take these bugs into account. More and more server owners are running into this issue and we're not being heard. It's becoming a real problem — all this work over the past few years is going down the drain. Please take this issue seriously.
This update, which was supposed to fix problems we didn't even have, ended up causing them on every single map!

Fix for possible save corruption when restarting servers.```

@zealous aurora @low haven @stark warren
near hawk
gray tundra
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Well of everyone did this, they can just ask what the status is.

warm token
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every time im trying to start my server, it keeps crashing and the console closes

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it should be updated, so im not sure whats going on

vernal girder
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Do you guys have problem with Astra?

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My one crashing and cannot start

wise kindle
lost raven
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Mine's been absolutely fine ever since those headaches at the last continent update were resolved by a few WC patches.

smoky burrow
gray tundra
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Did you send the files / info to dooly in a DM ?

smoky burrow
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Go ahead and read again, mate. Please don't post just a stream o consciousness

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This is what I consider spam, drowning meaningful conversations

gray tundra
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@zealous aurora can i ask you to provide some information?

  1. Can you confirm who provided you with the information you requested for further investigation of the issues they mentioned on:
    lost items, Players spawning at 50/50, Etc..
  2. Has there been enough data / account made available to you and the dev team to find the root cause ?
  3. Do the ones that report to you have to wait for an answer through normal fix update reports or will there be a direct line of contact with the reporters either via DM or via this channel ?

I highly appreciate your answer, as it will give new and current reporters a clear path forward.

Kind regards,

gray tundra
smoky burrow
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Why thank you so much, highest quality reply I have seen yet!
Anyway, this is not the beginning of the story - as you can read from the history going back to early march, regardless of not knowing or reading about it, I'm happy to welcome you in trying to get an answer.
Even if dolly said that discord is not the way, but bug reports, we might have higher chances of this being read in my experience.

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Let's not drown your quality message now, I'm off with the family anyway

gray tundra
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Tags work, thats why i am not affraid of it drowning no worries. Have a good time with the fam

mental python
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Title: Question for Ark Cluster Server experts: Is cross-server transfer actually possible using Radmin VPN or Playit.gg?
Current Situation:
I'm hosting an Ark Cluster from home. My ISP uses CGNAT, so I have to rely on tunneling/VPN workarounds. The main issue right now is: My friends can join the server perfectly fine, but they cannot transfer between maps.

What I've tested so far:

  1. Host PC (My machine): I have NAT Loopback set up on my router. Because of this, I can personally see all the servers in the cluster and transfer between them with zero issues (working 100% for the host).
  2. Radmin VPN (26.x.x.x IP range): My friends can connect and play on the server normally via Radmin VPN. However, when they access an Obelisk or Tek Transmitter to transfer maps, they cannot see any other servers in the cluster.
  3. Playit.gg: I tried switching to Playit.gg tunnels. The result is exactly the same as Radmin—friends can join and play, but the cluster list is completely empty when they try to transfer.

My Questions:
Is it actually possible to get Cross-ARK cluster transfers working for remote players when using Radmin VPN or Playit.gg?
Since they can join but can't see the cluster list, what exactly am I missing in the configuration? Do I need to set up MultiHome to a specific IP, or configure the ports differently in ASM (Ark Server Manager)?

If anyone has successfully pulled this off, please point me in the right direction. I've tried everything and I'm completely stuck! Thanks in advance.

gray tundra
# mental python **Title: Question for Ark Cluster Server experts: Is cross-server transfer actua...

okay there are a couple of cavats here.
First off all let me say that ARK via VPN van be a problem, because ARK cluster transfer expects direct UDP connectivity to my knowledge.
It also requires stable , publiclly reachable endpoints. and consistent IP's.

That being said your problem is not Radmin or Playit.gg.
if it works for you and not your friends then probably when transferring you server is advertising the other servers by their local IP address (192.168.x.x/24 or 172.16.x.x/16 or 10.x.x.x/8) and those are not reachable for your friends but they are for you.

You need to explicity set what IP address ARK advertises (the WAN IP address)
this you do with -MultiHome=x.x.x.x

Also make sure all ports are unique for each map. So don't reuse any ports for one server that you already use for another.

Basically best solution is:
Real Public IP or port forwarding
No CGNAT
Proper UDP exposure

Second best:
VPS with public IP
Host ARK there or reverse tunnel properly

Option C:
VPN + MultiHome
Works sometimes
Breaks Randomly
Requires some knowledge when it does break to fix it.

midnight obsidian
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Hello everyone,

I’ve recently been facing a severe issue with massive upload traffic spikes on my server. My server is running on version 84.55. Whenever a player joins any map, the server upload bandwidth surges drastically, ranging from 20 Mbps up to 200 Mbps. This issue still occurs even when players create brand-new characters on a fresh save file.

Normally, I only have 10 to 20 online players spread across different maps. However, this abnormal traffic problem affects all maps in my cluster. I’ve already tried rolling back the server version to 84.41, yet the issue persists.

Has anyone else encountered this same problem? Could this be caused by incorrect server configuration? If so, what settings need to be adjusted to resolve it?

gray tundra
# midnight obsidian Hello everyone, I’ve recently been facing a severe issue with massive upload tr...

Never mind ... I checked ... this was you as well.
Okay maybe a few steps that you can check:

  • Can you find out if this is related to each player (so the per player upload is equal, but the sum is crazy ? )
    -- Per player should not be more than 1mbps maybe 1.5 if it is really in a boss fight and all I would say. Not 100% sure but that feels logical. If anybody knows exact numbers feel free to pitch in.
    -- This also makes you know if it isn't some bot army doing a ddos on your server

  • Does it increase when a certain player joins ? or does it not matter who is on at all (bad connection == retries == added traffic)

  • You say it also is the issue with a fresh save file, so i will not assume that it is related to high number of builds, farms, turrets, and other automated systems that are making a lot of communication with the server.

  • Can you disable transfer to one map and see if it suddenly becomes more quite with traffic for people on that map ? In that case it might be cluster related

  • You state that rollback didn't help, but this can also be mod related. So if possible for testing can you setup a new server for testing and switch mods off. If there is a mod that is polling the server too much than this would suddenly cause a drop when that mod is disabled

The is an Unreal setting you could do (maybe) in game.ini ... but i have never tried this

midnight obsidian
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I have someone else see report this issue before as well. I can scroll back to check but was this you as well ? or someone else ?

midnight obsidian
gray tundra
midnight obsidian
# gray tundra Never mind ... I checked ... this was you as well. Okay maybe a few steps that ...

Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it.
I’ve checked, and it’s not only one single player causing the issue. Some players spike extremely high, up to 240 Mbps, and others hit around 100 Mbps. Overall, every player is causing abnormally high upload traffic.

I even tested without cluster travel entirely, and created brand-new fresh characters. Even new players still cause around 20 Mbps upload on join.

gray tundra
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did you try to disable one mod , then another , then another ?

midnight obsidian
midnight obsidian
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Good night

gray tundra
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okay if you are willing to go there... i have a experiment you might try.
Now this is not ark code but related to the Unreal engine.
I don't even know for sure if this would work ...

In the bottom of engine.ini put the following:

[/Script/OnlineSubsystemUtils.IpNetDriver]
MaxInternetClientRate=100000
MaxClientRate=150000

This would limit the per client rate... but again .. not sure if this will work

gray tundra
# midnight obsidian Good night

If you are awake again and are willing to share your setup network wise. Could be in theory just an issue there as well. But I can't tell without knowing how that part is set up

winter vault
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Is anyone having an issue with the modded map Forglar? Woke up today after playing all day yesterday and everything is gone, including builds, items, and all of our tames/dinos are floating in mid air, ect. Rolled it back 3x, and also did a previous save (backup) and it won’t roll back to get everything back. Any advice?

serene osprey
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Curious if anyone knows how to combat a memory leak. This is the second time in two weeks where only one map within my cluster has an abnormally high memory usage and the ping/lag for all players is extremely high and others can't connect to the map entirely. Applied the 85.45 patch last night, and now Astraeos is unplayable due to the lag

serene osprey
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Nitrado moved our service to a new hardware host, and it didn't fix it. Still unable to transfer into Astraeos and is unplayable for those on Astraeos

midnight obsidian
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Thank U,my bro.

gray tundra
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where did you set the upstream bandwidth ?

midnight obsidian
gray tundra
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I can imagine (but only a dev would be able to confirm I guess) that if connection is bad, or there is big latency that there will be a "retry" for certain data. That could cause one user to increase their bandwidth requirement far over the normal amount. If that then spreads to all users then suddenly you are getting flooded on the server just because there is bad connection to the server.

midnight obsidian
gray tundra
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I have never tried a wireshark capture of the server with users connected. So i am not sure if you would be able to see if traffic is being "retried" either. If it is pure UDP than probably it is hidden in the application layer and you will not see it. If some of the data is TCP then you might see it in wireshark.

midnight obsidian
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Yes, but I think the root cause of the problem still hasn't been solved. I've noticed that the traffic still spikes up to my set limit instantly. Limiting the overall bandwidth right now is only a temporary fix, just a band-aid solution.

gray tundra
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Personally I give them time to reply on messages. I want to assume that proper in depth questions that have been diagnosed far from the "have you tried to restart it" before they are being tagged, might lead to more support. I work as a CTO in the tech industry myself, so thats why I don't mind helping to think along with issues. I might not know the details of the WildCard code. But i can relate to hardware / software / network issues on a well enough level to do some diagnostic thinking

midnight obsidian
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You're absolutely right. We've done extensive troubleshooting, but we still haven't found the root cause of the issue. It seems that ASA traffic runs entirely over UDP, since I haven't opened any TCP ports except for port 3389, which is used for remote desktop access.

gray tundra
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that will make it more difficult to see if data is "retries" or original requests for sure

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have you tried running a "pingplotter" type software from a remote WAN IP to your server to see what latency / jitter and packetloss it ?

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I'm asking because f.e. if you contact you ISP about bad internet, and they ask you if you are on WiFi they will blame WiFi because in the majority of the cases it is the cause. So I would understand for WildCard to have a similar approach to blame it on "Not a partner hardware" , "your own internet connection" without any wrong intend, because in alot of cases it might actually be the root cause. So if you have viable tests done to proof that this is not the case it helps 🙂

midnight obsidian
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I checked the traffic changes through Task Manager and Resource Monitor on my Windows server. I haven't used any network monitoring tools like PingPlotter as you mentioned, and I can't send you screenshots right now.
I recently switched to a new WiFi (ISP) provider, and I've already contacted them to run diagnostics — they confirmed there are no issues on their end at all.

gray tundra
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feel free to give me some info in DM's and we can take this convo there as well a bit. Then if we do find a cause or some data that is usefull we can summerize it here so it is available for others too 🙂

midnight obsidian
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ok

humble wren
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Any one know a good place to find staff for my cluster ?

undone plover
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Yo can someone help me, ASE doesn't get past the main menu it just freezes after selecting a server or multiplayer. I searched a bit and i read abt rolling back to pre acquatica beta and that worked but i have friends on epic games that can't do that so is there any solution that doesn't involve rolling back the game

near hawk
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don't know of one

mystic aspen
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can my xbox friends join me? if so how

near hawk
smoky burrow
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I'm sorry, I'm not a sour troll, but if the company we pay to deliver a playable experience is not replying, none should be advocating this, "early access" or not..
I think most still have love for the game, but some of us might not be upholding in hosting it if it's made utterly impossible - we're not looking for a fantastic tame or 500 releases a year, we want a playable game!
If it's snail coming to spread WC resources too thin at least comment on that, we can channel the requests to the original point of failure - we just don't get any information...

lost crescent
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Anyone ever have an issue with their self hosted server where players sometimes just disconnect with no feedback? As in, they get booted to main menu with NO errors of any kind. And in the server logs it just says they left the ARK, like it would if they had manually logged out.

The server is on a syncronous gig internet connection, enterprise grade networking gear, on a proper dell racked server, etc. Very short mod list:

Better Breeding
Easy Mutations
Marniimods Hairstyles
Nanoh's Ascended Equipment
Small Structures
Upgrade Station
Vanilla with Sprinkles
smoky burrow
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You can dm me or other seniors for trying to get help, but please support us on getting the messages above seen

lost crescent
smoky burrow
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Check client-side in the advanced settings page. while I hope this is fixed, I disabled this a while back, because the game couldn't handle loading all (native) cosmetics and booted me transferring/joining

lost crescent
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OK, so that setting would be more relevant to players who have a lot of items on their and have issues on login. The issues we're having are more while play and at random times. And it's not consistent who/when gets DC'd.

smoky burrow
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I'll not be in the way of a new bug report, though this is something I'm not familiar with yet, please go ahead and don't consider my tries to reply as answer to the issue at hand

lost crescent
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Aye aye. I totally appreciate the attempt to help tho.

wise kindle
zealous aurora
wise kindle
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Btw to prevent reoccurrence, I found that rather than restart scripts, setting daily stops with 15-30 minute pauses before startups, to allow proper shutdown, helps greatly in recovering servers. Seems a leak keeps it alive too long.
This is after a full game reinstall and using backups that are over a week old.

Hopefully that helps some ppl.
Save your backups folks.

gray tundra
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@smoky burrow it is tuesday and i sent a message on sunday. I dont feel ignored. If you expect insta replies then often that is only on paid SLA. Which is not what any of us have. We bought a usage license not with an added SLA

wise kindle
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I just want ppl to give Dooly saves so this gets solved.
Instead ppl complain then go silent when asked for examples.
Cant isolate bugs without examples.

smoky burrow
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Yeah, I lost belief in getting a reply prematurely, tbh. calling save corruption random and calling it a day is as good as no reply.
There still is no reply to the bug reports or some of the DMs for weeks

wise kindle
smoky burrow
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of course, a cluster of saves

wise kindle
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Then give them to dooly

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Simple as that

smoky burrow
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no reply to that offer yet

wise kindle
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Im not seeing that here - you need to let her know you are sending info.
She cant answer every dm

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Put the saves on a google drive and tell her you are sending a link

gray tundra
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@smoky burrow they asked for it earlier

oblique cobalt
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We regularly experience crashes on astraeos; the crash stack logs point to Horde events. Does anyone have any idea how to stop this?

gray tundra
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And if devs have little data to compare then im not suprised that the conclusion is "random" often patterns don't arrise until you look at big numbers. That being said even calling it random is an answer. Just not the answer anybody is hoping for. Personally i would be okay with a form of paid SLA. It gives expectations for sure, but also makes it so that its clear those expectations can not be present without the SLA. In the world i work in this is a very normal concept.

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And before anybody complains about "money".. Nobody works for free, and alot of the clusters i have seen ask contribution from their players that sometimes even add up to more than their costs.. So basically they are running a business ... (Just saying)

smoky burrow
# gray tundra <@698228876740001822> they asked for it earlier

You are correct, they did, and did not reply, do I have to ask a third time to read but slowly?
You're getting closer to understanding the history, I appreciate the effort!
But we clearly have different standards as to what we consider an answer - for me the question needs to be addressed at least in parts.

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I'm happy to hear an explanation of timelines making corrupt saving "outside the pipeline" not a priority due to snail's pushing, but so far it's just been silence or "random" unsalvageable.

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Also I disagree on SLA, when financed by people, their issues should get addressed, but that's just my idealistic opinion..

hardy pelican
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how can i use my crash files to find out why a server is crashing 1-4 times before starting

gray tundra
# smoky burrow You are correct, they did, and did not reply, do I have to ask a third time to r...

And I think there we agree.. Idealistically yes, but not realistically. I would try to see what @wise kindle wrote as well. I think I am going to implement the same thing in my script. Make the "down time" between shutdown command and starting command bigger to ensure that the process is really closed. But instead of a timer I think the better way to do it is to watch for the PID to be no longer present. This way you have proof that the service has actually stopped.

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from a business perspective, when i "bought" ASA for a $40 ( i don't even remember how much) + DLC's okay lets say I spend max $150 .. minus development cost there is little room for an engineer with a hourly wage of $100+ to look into my problems for it to be viable business

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you cannot add Nitrado's service fees, because that is nitrado not WC 🙂

wise kindle
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Ngl Id pay a fee for dev support. Not alot but Id consider it.

smoky burrow
#

I agree, but if the business model doesn't allow for customer support, it should be clearly communicated.
Tbh, this is a very cynical perspective...

gray tundra
#

I understand where you are coming from no worries. And we can respectfully discuss that, and that is much appreciated. I do try to understand both sides of a coin. But im old 🤣 and work in tech industry so i have a different perspective

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In my business if I want prioritization of bugfixes or customizations Dev just come with a pricetag. Pay that and we will look into it

smoky burrow
gray tundra
#

the services I run from a business perspective need to be up 24/7 with an SLA of 99.99999% so a reboot a day would kill my business

wise kindle
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Id pay for read access to their internal bug db tbh.
Searching the external one is an exercise in futility.

I just want to search for an error or scenario with repro steps to see if its documented. Half the time I cant tell if the issues I see are known or related to other bugs.
I just want organizational lol.

gray tundra
# gray tundra And I think there we agree.. Idealistically yes, but not realistically. I would ...

to come back to this .. when I start the ASA server , I write the PID of the process in a file. On reboot I then 'know' which PID to monitor for closure.
So I don't startup before this part:

function Wait-ForProcessExitByPid {
    param(
        [int]$ServerPid,
        [int]$TimeoutSeconds = 1800
    )

    $proc = Get-Process -Id $ServerPid -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    if (-not $proc) {
        Write-Log "PID $ServerPid was already gone before waiting started."
        return $true
    }

    try {
        Wait-Process -Id $ServerPid -Timeout $TimeoutSeconds -ErrorAction Stop
        Write-Log "Wait-Process finished for PID $ServerPid."
        return $true
    }
    catch {
        $stillThere = Get-Process -Id $ServerPid -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        if (-not $stillThere) {
            Write-Log "PID $ServerPid exited during timeout handling."
            return $true
        }

        Write-Log "PID $ServerPid still exists after $TimeoutSeconds seconds."
        return $false
    }
}

I might add a force kill of the process after still, but haven't needed it so far
(yes i updated the timeout after reading what @wise kindle wrote)

wise kindle
gray tundra
# wise kindle Stealing this ty!

bud i'm willing to share my whole scripts as well if you want.. if you have improvements to it I'm open to it as well. I'm not a software dev by trade..

smoky burrow
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Discussing the business perspective, I could just explain the presented release schedule while many clusters are suffering only by snail pushing unreasonably hard, but this is again only speculation.

wise kindle
gray tundra
#

anybody can DM me unless it is to harass or annoy xD

smoky burrow
gray tundra
#

I would advocate also for us self-hosters to stick together and help out and share knowledge.

gray tundra
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I start to love powershell more and more .. ngl

wise kindle
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You are awesome ty

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Ps is my jam - I just havent coded in like 10 years lol

gray tundra
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just don't forget to do something like this when starting:

$PidFile      = "C:\ark_server_state\the_island.pid"

$pidDir = Split-Path $PidFile -Parent
if (-not (Test-Path $pidDir)) {
    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $pidDir -Force | Out-Null
}

Set-Content -Path $PidFile -Value $proc.Id -Encoding ascii
gray tundra
wise kindle
gray tundra
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thats why I ain't changing companies 🙂

smoky burrow
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I'm more of a c-shell nerdy penguin, but I don't want to migrate to Linux to have another layer of potential errors with much less usage and support

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Btw, excuse me getting frustrated, I appreciate you guys understanding and not getting frustrated about my language ❤️

gray tundra
#

I run windows server 2019 actually on my platforms

drowsy eagle
#

Anyone else having issue with mods? While downloading it keeps crashing…

gray tundra
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Any specific mods ?

drowsy eagle
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Extinction core by Brutalmeta183

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The creator himself has no idea why it keeps crashing for some people… he thinks its curseforge related

gray tundra
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Its hard to say why mods crash. I think thats only a mod dev that can truly figure that out.

drowsy eagle
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Apperantly its an issue that started since about a month. Multiple modders have been having this issue. (When you want to download/update that mod, the game crashes and doesn’t download the mod). Is there any way the ark devs can look into this?

magic pivot
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Hi, i want to host a dedicated ASE cluster with 3-4 maps to play with 3-4 friends. I would like to add some mods such as s+, spyglass, dino storage and maybe 1 or 2 furniture mods. I got a i5 6th gen, 16go ddr4 and 250gb ssd. Is this enough ? And if it's not, what should i upgrade ? thanks

gray tundra
# magic pivot Hi, i want to host a dedicated ASE cluster with 3-4 maps to play with 3-4 friend...

I think also for ASE with mods calculate about 12GB for most maps. Bigger maps go double. When it comes to a processor its about cores and speed. Every instance will lean heavily on one core so 4 maps you need more cores than 4 (don't want your OS to be without a brain either) save files can get big, and when you do regular backups (what i highly recommend) then 4 maps on 250GB sounds tight. I would say go for 500GB or maybe 1TB just to be sure

gray tundra
magic pivot
drowsy current
#

hello, just going to ask this again, anyone using ASCT been able to play Nekatus's Island Reforged map?

gray tundra
drowsy current
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tried that already, nobody in the server apart from 2 people tried it, but didn't get a reply from the one that said it "worked" for them.

drowsy current
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I can't launch my server because apparently I "ran out of memory." It happened when my pc bsod due to this game overheating my cpu happy

drowsy current
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all my backup files doesn't work... great

mighty oak
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js do ngrfying effect using 69 emote

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it is that easy

smoky burrow
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I dm'd, sorry I missed to give an extra headsup after you prompted..

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a couple weeks ago, when asked for - but I freshened recently...

#

a reply would be appreciated!
Are you addressing saving issues in ue5.7? don't you care anymore? is snail getting you to release something without reasonable QA?
Whatever the current situation is, deleting "spam" posts won't help it. I'm here to sink another 100h of my life into this, but not if there is zero acknowledgement and so much disregard for 3/4 of WC's players base

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this is a sad joke

near hawk
smoky burrow
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yay, release more "fantastic" DLC while making the game unplayable

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I'm putting up with a lot of this bs, but if it's worse than beta testing, it should get banned from being called "early access"

haughty escarp
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I’ve (PC) made a server using ark dedicated server tool on steam and my friend (xbox) can join the server but i cannot see the server in the unofficial menu, any help on how to get it to appear?

primal falcon
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Hello

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can you help me

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I have a question.

wise kindle
wise kindle
primal falcon
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When I log into ARK, I select an item from the world menu and wait, but it just won't load. Is there a solution?

haughty escarp
wise kindle
haughty escarp
plain stream
#

Why fix your broken game when you can push out broken new content for a money grab

tawdry umbra
#

Our unofficial cluster has been suffering .ark file data loss effecting inventories and characters for more than a month now. Has anyone heard of any effort to remedy this? Sometimes people’s entire inventories with more than a years work stored in them completely wiped out by data loss. The error occurs and then once the servers are restarted sometimes days later the data loss becomes evident and multiple day rollbacks are needed.

wild shard
gray tundra
#

@plain stream @tawdry umbra
Did you send the Nitrado info or pre - post issue saves for investigation ?

arctic linden
#

Hi!
I'm planning to host a "cluster" that would have servers for every map, but only 2 would run at the same time for a limited time (while we transfer from one to another). Only me and my GF would play on it on LAN, it would run an older PC running Linux. My question is, is it viable to manually start and stop the servers based on our demand (because RAM is limited), and is 16GB RAM enough for 2 maps at the same time? That older PC has an i5 7th gen (maybe i5 7500, I can't check it right now). Storage is limited, it has an 1TB HDD and a 120GB SSD, it might be not enough. But are these specs enough for 2 players and 1-2 maps?

neat mantle
# arctic linden Hi! I'm planning to host a "cluster" that would have servers for every map, but ...

I doubt your pc will be able to handle 2 maps at once. It takes 12-16GB just to run the maps. So, you might run into lag. You could just try a cheap server host. It's easy to setup and like 20 or 25 bucks a month per map and you can cluster your maps so you can transfer to them whenever you want without having to stop and start anything. Just a suggestion, though. You might still be able to run it.. but like I said, lag or server crashes might happen.

near hawk
arctic linden
near hawk
#

Honestly, I play by myself and when I want to transfer I just host 2 server at the same time in my PC (I also got 64gb)

arctic linden
placid sable
#

Hey all. I set ForceStructureLockinf=True on my server but I decided against it a few weeks in. Setting it to False and even deleting the ini line does nothing, even to newly placed structures. How can I change this?

serene musk
#

with pve enabled, i’m able to avoid cryo sickness, but i couldn’t destroy baby corpse or kill an untamed creature. any suggestions?

near hawk
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if u don't want to wait the timer use the command clearmybuffs

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or seacrh for a mod alternative of cryos

unkempt trail
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how do i fix x3daudio1-7 missing error or something like that when starting my server

heavy bough
ashen stratus
#

Anyone ever seen this before Actor PrimalPersistentWorldData_2147477450 location transform was NOT serialized during save. Will load at origin (0,0,0)

celest halo
toxic hazel
gray tundra
ashen stratus
celest halo
#

They have reset server days count back to one a few times with updates on Astraeos, normally they say something about it in the patch notes though when it happens. I haven't seen it happen on any other maps

#

I also stopped playing and shut down my cluster in Feb, so haven't had to deal with any of the save corruption issues they have introduced with all the updates lately

neat mantle
tawdry umbra
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If a new player joins an unofficial server and plays 3 days then loses everything, they are not going to play more and spend more money on this game. They really need to make an announcement or something that can be showed to players indicating it’s being worked on or at least acknowledged.

glacial widget
#

Just checking to see if you responded to @smoky burrow
Go ahead and @me if that's easier. I won't be falling silent. How would you like to get in touch?

glacial widget
celest halo
vague prism
sturdy zodiac
#

What’s the best non dedicated settings for breeding with 100% in like 1 imprint with singleplayer settings turned off?

flat star
#

Is there a way to ban items from spawning in suplly drops?

#

I disabeled the engrams for the items but they still spawn in supply drops

bleak ivy
#

you'd probably have to customize all supply drops Ferox_Think

flat star
#

Damn

lime matrix
lime matrix
#

With Nitrado hosted servers you would need to automate this over FTP since I have no idea how their backups function. And you would need the server to be saving in the older format.

toxic hazel
#

Nitrado use -usestore as default but you should be able to add -BackupTransferPlayerDatas

This should make backup player profiles outside the map save incase you'd ever need them

dusky knoll
#

Hi, can someone help me please ? I'm trying to remove or augment the max distance between me (host of a non dedicated server) and my friend. Can it be done or do i have to create and host a server ?

toxic hazel
#

Cannot be done and need to host 🙂

dusky knoll
#

Oh shit... Thank you for the quick response. Will try to create a server then 😂

toxic hazel
#

No problemo, if you want a easy route find a server manager and it'll do it all for you 😛

dusky knoll
#

Like Nitrado or other similar website ?

toxic hazel
#

No like a application to create your server, i'll dm you

vale fiber
#

Wildcard: Please postpone major patch to Monday. Friday patches are never good...

gray tundra
vale fiber
#

by that same method you can do it on monday and collect data then

#

if there are issues over the weekend, its prime time + fewer workers to fix it

gray tundra
#

I was being sarcastic offcourse.. patch tuesday of microsoft shows you another technique

#

but in all honesty.. it's not up to use to decide company policies 🙂

plucky wharf
#

Anyone here been able to get ASA servers to run on Ubuntu server? Got a retired server from work and am trying to migrate everything running on my old systems onto it. When launching it, I get "System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported". The server in question is an old Dell R630.

next charm
#

For singleplayer, is there a setting to increase stack sizes of everything?

near hawk
#

yes

#

ItemStackSizeMultiplier

next charm
#

Where do I enter this? I put ItemStackSizeMultiplier=10 in game.ini under [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode] but it didn't change anything.

plucky wharf
#

On WIndows, it's under ShooterGame\Saved\Config\Windows

#

The file is GameUserSettings.ini

#

I'd try to update it there

next charm
#

Are there any stacks, like mutton, I have to add separately? What are the settings for those?

near hawk
#

yes u do need separate for those

#

ConfigOverrideItemMaxQuantity=(ItemClassString="PrimalItemAmmo_ArrowTranq_C",Quantity=(MaxItemQuantity=543,bIgnoreMultiplier=True))

vale fiber
#

L wildcard for Friday afternoon patch

near hawk
#

they always do this

vale fiber
#

well they simply just do not care thats why. Wish they would

#

fixing caves on LC ( their least popular DLC of all time) is so bottom of the totem pole of fixes

near hawk
#

that just 1 of the thing in the patch

#

and was only revealed in CC to give a heads up to pvpers

vale fiber
#

that requires major version, bug fixes requires mainly minor

#

id be just fine with minor version

#

thats besides the point, it's just horrible to do patches on fridays or over the weekend.

celest halo
vale fiber
#

there is never a good day correct, but there are BETTER days to choose than others

celest halo
#

If they didn't move it twice it would of been Wednesday

plucky wharf
vale fiber
#

or tuesday ideally

plucky wharf
#

Plus, it's a major version. If you update but the server you're playing on doesn't you can't join it.

celest halo
#

Then better to do it now when half the world is off work so they can update there servers 🤣

vale fiber
#

then they go backwards, release player files without server files lol

celest halo
#

That's normal, and server files got released 7min after client files, lest it's not like how they used to do it and not release unofficial server files for 1 to 2 hours + after client files

next charm
#

Is it possible to make dino's that are being tamed eat faster but tamed dino's eat less?

vapid falcon
#

Since the update my dedicated server is not findable on ps5 anymore....

stuck kettle
#

Has anyone seen the seever side update come down through nitrado? Can I force the update.

vapid falcon
#

Are they really that thick, rolling out the client version before rolling out a server (steam version) ?

stuck kettle
#

Its finally updating on nitrado. Someone let us know how long if theirs gets completed. I am tracking mine.

vale fiber
stuck kettle
celest halo
stuck kettle
#

Nitrado is completed less than 10 mins

vapid falcon
oak barn
#

Is anyone working on the only server to not come back up RAG PVE 6118 ??

frigid vine
#

@low haven @wise widget there is a small bug FYI: The canteens placed into the water tank are duplicating when you put them inside.

celest halo
celest halo
empty cloak
#

So if a server is grayed out and stuff is it gonna come back up or does the server owner have to update it?

neat mantle
#

the server owner has to update the server

lost raven
#

Most likely it needs to be updated still, but I've seen people wait forever unnecessarily :)

empty cloak
#

Well then cuz I don’t the the server owner even cares cuz he don’t pay attention to the server

neat mantle
#

normally unofficial servers have automated restarts

#

so maybe it will update on its own but idk

empty cloak
#

How long does that usually take?

neat mantle
#

depends on the server and what time they have the restart at

#

i would join their discord and ping the owner tbh

#

if they have one

proven gale
#

anyone willing to help me add dinos to maps? or direct me to a more explained guide, tried a few things my self but hasnt seemed to work. more specifically im trying to add things to valguero, griffons in chalk peaks, snow owls in snow dessert and managrama in ice wall platue areas

empty cloak
#

tbh ive tried joing but i think they removed it

#

becuase it says invailed

neat mantle
#

do you play pve or pvp?

empty cloak
#

pvp

neat mantle
#

i play on a decent pvp server thats solo/duo and u could try it?

#

you get 30 days of protection when u join its nowipe as well

empty cloak
#

i play with the descended mod and primal chaos added wit it

neat mantle
#

ahhh

empty cloak
#

yeahh

neat mantle
#

You could try Chelly's server

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It's a primal chaos pvp server

empty cloak
#

ive seen that one

neat mantle
#

yeah i think its rather old tho

#

there's also one named LIGHT-PVP

#

or something like that

celest halo
neat mantle
empty cloak
#

yeah but he does wipe kinda fast

neat mantle
#

yeah he does

#

its hard to find those servers unfortunately 🙁

celest halo
#

most that self host are smart enough not to setup auto update

empty cloak
#

well i mean they did have a rag server but it went down and has not came up ever sinced

neat mantle
#

sad 🙁 i hope they get it sorted for ya

empty cloak
#

hopefully

near hawk
hardy patio
#

my radial menu doesnt work at all

#

i cant select anything with my mouse

#

the buttons dont fill up

#

can someone please help

proven gale
long meadow
#

can someone playing?
our server always freezing if e.g. inventory open

next charm
#

Is there a way to see modpages outside of the game? And is there a way to uninstall a single mod instead of having to uninstall all?

twilit void
#

Does anyone have any good INI settings for a story proper story play through?

near hawk
plucky wharf
#

I mean to have the server act the same as a single player game in terms of advancement

steel gorge
#

Anyone have any issues with their unofficial server not advertising anymore? No one can see it after the update.

plucky wharf
#

That may be a Major Version issue. If you're not on the same major version with both server and client, it doesn't show up.

upper anchor
#

@zealous aurora @low haven Can we push a fix for unofficials with custom stack sizes duping on transfers?

real ingot
#

Just had to reboot and turn off item transfers on all 14 servers I have to stop duplication.

real ingot
wise kindle
real ingot
shut lily
#

I'm having severe issues with my cluster atm after this update, it has been crashing all day. Have spent over 10hrs troubleshooting. Ive narrowed it down to being a cluster/transfer issue with the -usestore save method for self hosted servers. My guess is player or tribute data is corrupted and baked into the map save because of the usestore method. Servers just crash over and over even with no mods or plugins and only works if you disable clustering. Have tried deleting everything in the cluster directory and nothing. I have over 100 active players waiting, would really love some insight.

last magnet
#

you may have to do a rollback to a known good date. I had that issue when I used the usestore method, and the only thing I could do was wipe and start the map fresh. luckily I'm just soloing and I had backups of my tames, so I just had to start leveling my character again and rebuilding my base.

#

I don't use the usestore method anymore after that

#

my server manager does map and character profile backups

serene osprey
#

Uhh so ever since the update, any transfer performed by a server in my cluster, items are duplicating

tardy cradle
#

Are the maps online in the console but offline in the game?

#

update error ?

last magnet
#

I had to reboot my server machine after the major update

#

for my servers to show up in the browser

tardy cradle
#

And when you ran the update, it didn't work, but after restarting the server, it did?

last magnet
#

yup

tardy cradle
#

So the maps aren't crashing anymore 😮

last magnet
#

ran the update, wouldn't show my servers, so I remoted into my server machine and did a proper restart

#

in my experience, no

#

they ran through the update, and started up without issue

#

club ark was up in 20 seconds, like usual, Island was 3 minutes but that's also usual

#

haven't started astreos or LC yet, but will once I finish the minor update

#

don't have enough ram to run all the officials yet so i just run 1-2 + club ark

#

it's just me and like one other person who plays so it's no biggie

dry badge
#

is anyone having duplication issues after transfers on unofficial????

shut lily
#

and when you have 100 people playing it becomes unmanagable

#

I think i found a workaround, for some reason renaming my cluster folder seems to be working

#

which makes zero sense

#

wont know its 100% working for all maps until tomorrow morning when i wake up and reboot the servers

last magnet
#

that's fair, I only have 1-2 people playing on mine, so it might be a traffic issue. I've only lost my character once on transfer, but a rollback and retry on both maps fixed it, but I have stop the servers to do map rollbacks which isn't very feasible for a cluster with 100 players

#

I have all my servers on a 30 minute save period and moved to stouter hardware. previous machine was a 2014 era Xeon, current is a Ryzen 9 7900

polar dagger
last magnet
#

I haven't noticed, but I can test on mine

shut lily
#

but i think its all nitrado servers

#

best thing you can do is disable transfers on your cluster and restart it so people can play without transfers at least, then enable transfers when WC releases a patch.

dry badge
shut lily
#

you dont. the server owner does it.

dry badge
shut lily
#

you just un-cluster your servers until the update

#

I dont use nitrado so i would look up a guide or ask chat gpt about it

#

to make sure you dont make your players lose their uploads

#

but ive seen other nitrado servers doing this atm

polar dagger
last magnet
#

that's been a nitrado issue for a while

#

I played on a cluster hosted on nitrado and I'd get dupes of resources, ammo and structures if they were in my personal inventory. uploading to the ob's inventory little to no dupes

fleet oyster
#

does anyone know the code I would need to change the tek binoculars to be able to be crafting in player inventory? if that's possible of course. I know it's a silly request because mods exist, but I'm trying to save as much space as possible. Thanks in advance!

fleet oyster
valid marten
#

I have a problem after the last update,in my cluster servers when transferring from one map to another the items inventory are duplicated, is there a way to solve it?

polar dagger
dry badge
valid marten
modest linden
heady aurora
#

Hi, I'm trying to set up a server on Ark Evolved but I can't. Is there anyone who can help me?

languid matrix
#

Yo

#

How do I play cross platform on ps

tardy cradle
#

Servers after the update. I connect to the map. Everything works for about 20 seconds, and then it crashes. In the console, I can see that I've connected, but nothing else happens. Then it times out.

tardy cradle
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Only one map is working for us

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Whenever someone logs in, the map crashes