unofficial-setup-help

[open arrow]

soem players said they were flying in the air but i think that was serious lag

[rugged niche]

my friend did play Rag thou and singleplayer but should not matter when they suddenly falls throu the mesh

[wise kindle]

hmmm
on Nitrado my center has 1081 Kairuku

Its been running about 12 hours

[rugged niche]

Whats the normal Rate of them?

[open arrow]

im pretty sure thats an over spawn

[wise kindle]

its pretty high for that island and penguin palace

[open arrow]

im pretty sure they are only meant to spawn on that iceberg in the water right?

[rugged niche]

with Babies i dont think so but idk

[open arrow]

so 100 ish

[rugged niche]

try turn off Wild Baby spawns and do a Dinowipe

see if they still Overspawn even with that off

in a way i want some of these overspawns with 150 Argies etc on SE XD

or just random bugs in desert as of right now since X2 XD

1 shot boom chitin for days XD

[wise kindle]

Ok fun fact

There are no visible penguins on the island OR penguin palace.
tping to them pops me out the mesh

[rugged niche]

meaning you You are under the mesh ya?

[wise kindle]

Cant find a single penguin lol

[open arrow]

go into the water you'll hear that noise and see them swimming everywhere lol

[wise kindle]

yeah they are down there, all 1000 of them

[rugged niche]

is what i thought, the Mesh Problem

[wise kindle]

Oh I have no doubt they are there lol

[rugged niche]

Penguins do Swim

[wise kindle]

Its the same old issue we shouldnt be shocked tbf

[rugged niche]

aye

[open arrow]

if you have the ability to spawn limit them after you'll likely see the over spawn of a different dino.

So it seems like each map has a more common over spawn.

ones i know of that dev or other have seen
Ab - Reapers
EX - armadoggos
Center - Penuins
Val/Rag - Rhynios

Mod maps
Amissa - Karkinos

[wise kindle]

They are prolly swimming off and despawning, might be why I'm only at 1000 instead of 3000

[rugged niche]

dinos spawning in mesh and bc of failed Spawns it then spawns them again on repeat

[open arrow]

brb i have a child to put to bed real quick (he hopes) lol

[wise kindle]

they wont want to hear about mod maps tbh, that will get put on the modder to fix

[rugged niche]

bc technically They should not exist by the games mechanics but undermesh check somehow fails just like how they mesh on PvP

sounds reasonable thought?

sumarize Out of bound spawns makes the game respawn

until cap has been reached, imo lazy coding bc it doesnt check propertly

[wise kindle]

it seems to be a large region that extends in below the mesh. They need to get outside of it to despawn properly.
The despawn radius is bigger than the region that looks for the dino.

[rugged niche]

aye that is what i was trying to say 🙂

i just probably went to technical xD

[near hawk]

just 15 min in and can't say it looks out of the ordinary

[rugged niche]

and the reason this isint occuring on Officials that much is we keep killing off them frequently so its not that noticable

Nice Server lag 😄 for me now LOL

[rugged niche]

Try move around and keep some areas loading/unloading

[wise kindle]

New data point:
hanging out in penguin palace has increased the spawn to 1600 floppy birbs

So yeah we can call that like it is

[near hawk]

fair, i was afk at the foot of volcano

[rugged niche]

might be why

[wise kindle]

Imma just quietly do that wild dino wipe and get the heck outta there

[open arrow]

it could be any spawn which makes this hard to catch, you see 400 coel thats fine, 1600 maguena (flys) thats fine but 300 microraptors is an issue

[rugged niche]

in one place

[open arrow]

its tough when its a spawn you arent familiar with which is whats taken me so long to confirm this

[open arrow]

not in one place, but in its spawn.

so giga has like 3 spawns on island right? the 100+ would all be in those spawns

[near hawk]

i sent u my numbers, will be back in a bit and do wipe again and TP between ob in 3min intervals

[open arrow]

the80 rhynios were all in swamps, so its not changing the locations just increase the dino spawn quanity

[rugged niche]

that is roughly 33 gigas per spawnpoint

by Wildcards Standard Normal perhaps XD?

[wise kindle]

holy moses I hope not

[rugged niche]

Ya same, would be Overkill for sure ^^ 1 giga can be an issue wild, 33 in on spot mateboosted Yikes

[open arrow]

Tiago sent me there numbers and seem fine there side :/ i cant see how id have the same issue on 3 different rigs all fresh installs for testing

[wise kindle]

hang out in a spawn spot and then look for titanosaur, carchar and giga spawns, since they share that container.

[open arrow]

so its doesnt work like that in my testing.

1. dino wipe
2. game picks a dino and starts spawning it
3. once map gets closer to its 50-100% population and obvious dino would have randomly been picked for overspawning

[wise kindle]

or are they just balanced against each other these days? I forget. I just know farming those gets gigas to spawn.

[open arrow]

nah thats not it, its definitely a bug im experiencing i'll have to clip it and share my results to the group and see who else can see the same issue

[wise kindle]

yeah I'm curious if you can share a listdino txt on this. Would be interesting to say the least.

[open arrow]

where do i get this list? i'll do so now

[wise kindle]

from the admin command line:

Cheat listdinos

This should put the output into your clipboard, you can then paste it in notepad.

You can hit the ~ a second time to see the output in your admin command output.

[rugged niche]

Tilde is default on PC

If you have the game on Steam use that for verifying

[open arrow]

sorry, currently not home but using remote access, was hoping RCON was going to give me the list but i'll have to put a pin in this until im home

[wise kindle]

Its no worries. Just something that helps make things clearer for others.

[tardy pine]

Do yall reboot your servers on any kind of interval or just when there is an update available?

[wise kindle]

Daily
Selfhost can wait for a days before needing a reboot tho.

[tardy pine]

I have been doing daily since launch but was curious if we still needed to or if they had fixed memory management since then.

I self host on my own hardware.

Do officials reboot on any kind of schedule?

[wise kindle]

Officials hardly ever restart.

only for updates

[tardy pine]

Thanks!

[short sapphire]

@compact saffron u there

[last magnet]

I do daily too unless I shut the server machine off. also self host

[pale sentinel]

Anyone know of any mods that improve the CPU usage of the game on PC? Could be server side or client side.

[open arrow]

i was going through tiagos log they sent me last night and at first it all looked fine but even they have an overspawn of dimorphidons on the island. they have close to 1000 and the map wasnt fully populated yet. I'm sure there is something to this rabbit hole im climbing in

[near hawk]

just weird that if it's a dimorph overspawn, it never shifted to a nother species

[open arrow]

can you enable the spawn blocker mod and limit the spawns to 120 and then dino wipe and see what else spawns?

mine didnt always switch speices

it just seems to be a common one like 8/10 times per maps

so ive limited all my wild dinos to official rates (where they should be)
i now have an over spawn of alpha rexs lol like this .... is dumb

im going to put in a bug report with wildcard if others can bump it once ive posted id appreciate it

im also happy to look through your dinolists and pin point your over spawns if that'll help convince you im not crazy 😂

[near hawk]

I can try

[open arrow]

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/unofficial-any-dino-overspawn-r99759/

if Players are happy to bump that this is happening to them or have experienced overspawn i would be grateful

[hasty drum]

i need help, when i join a server it kick me and say: you have been kicked by BattlEye. Reason 'Bad Service Version'

[umbral jewel]

hi guys i'm searching for help, i played on a nitrado server for 2 months and now i try to transfer it to my pc, but when i launch the server everything is right except that i have to create a new character, i checked and all the structures and characters are here it just seem to not make the link, if anyone could help me, even in private, pls

[zealous robin]

cluster ID

[umbral jewel]

i have to change it ?

[umbral jewel]

or just put the same as on the nitrado server?

[harsh forge]

Try launching the game with -usestore

[umbral jewel]

Ok i'll try i will tell you ty

[edgy wave]

Hello I’m new and I have ark on epic games and I want to rent a server for me and my friends. My friends all have ark on steam. Can we all play together on that same server even though I’m on epic games and they’re on steam?

[lyric marten]

Does anyone know how to disable max turrets placed? Im on ASE

[visual tiger]

anyone know why no servers pop up on the unofficial side?

[lyric marten]

Check your filters

[ancient lake]

I used dino storage back in the ase days. The one part that I miss was being able to search for new mutations NOT via level. Let's say my mutations were 17/20 on my male. Any more mutation would be 18/20 from the alpha or 1/20 from base females (assuming no 2x or 3x mutations). I could search "paternal: 18" or "maternal: 1" and find new mutations. I love collecting every color. lol

I currently use Super Cryo Storage. I was wondering, are there were any other baby dino trap mods (I don't use item generation, egg collection, or egg incubation) that allow me to search for mutation amounts?

Thank you

[autumn hornet]

ase yes but can't have mods. asa is fully crossplay on dedi servers vanilla or modded

[humble stratus]

@autumn hornet

[languid raven]

Is there an issue with the white flag mod 💔

[primal yoke]

hey guys i have a problem to create a host to play with my friend i check a lot of vidéo about that but it doesnt work somoene can help me quickly plz ?

[deft lily]

would someone who is potentially more fluent in steamcmd than i am have a few minute to spare to assist me or provide some advice for me?

in the event there is (doubtful) i have googled my arse off trying to find solutions for data leaks and garbage collection fixes. i host a small cluster that i manage purely through steamcmd. astraeos is my main map which runs at 8-18gb and does GC frequently causing lag/rubberbanding. which i have slowed with the collection rate. mods? yes. i run a few. not many at all. i am fairly new to steamcmd, the very first time i dealt with it was palworld. now ark. i have no idea what i am doing. google has helped a little, however. personal experience is where it is all at. that is why i ask for assistance here.

[weary kelp]

Hi, I’m just about to start playing modded ark I am thinking of playing ark supreme but I’m stuck on what setting I should set for my server. I want it to be fun and enjoyable where I don’t want the game to take hours to breed and tame things but not overpowered where I finish the game incredibly fast. If anyone could help me that would be great thanks

[terse condor]

​Hey everyone,
​I'm trying to modify only the Blue Supply Drops on Scorched Earth. However, every time I change the settings in my Game.ini, it seems to override all the other drops as well (or changes them on all maps).
​Could someone please show me the correct ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems syntax specifically for the Blue Drops on Scorched Earth? I want to make sure I'm only targeting that exact crate type without breaking the rest.
​Thanks in advance for the help!

[cedar beacon]

hello everyone i would like to know why did my server lose all there loot it says theres 150 items in the box but theres none when i open it

i did a roll back however it didnt work i didnt remove any mods at that time

[next ember]

guys i need some help does anyone know how get your original save file when you over write it with one of the backup saves in ascended

[placid sable]

I've never had this happen, why would cloned tames not be able to breed when they're not neutered?

[burnt verge]

Balkan players???

Ark?

[pure robin]

Hi, I have a problem and I'd like to know if anyone can help me. I can't access my local hosts file; it simply won't let me. It either kicks me out of the game or says the DLC isn't installed when it is.I play on Xbox Series S

[last magnet]

SupplyCrate_Level30_ScorchedEarth_C is what you need for Blue drops on SE. will also change I think Ast, Rag & Val drops as they reused SE drops for those maps. so if you want only SE, you need a specific game ini for SE

correction it's only for SE, Rag & Val, not Astreos

[terse condor]

Oh thanks for your help but I mean when I change it all colors will change not on all maps. I changed the blue drop and the green, yellow and purple also changed 🤔🙄

[marble topaz]

I need help i lost my char and i dont know the implant number

[undone fjord]

An admin on ur server should be able to get ur implant number for u

Is anyone having issues with certain maps such as loading in and crashing every 20 seconds ?

[undone fjord]

@high oak

So what u doing talking on unofficial

[marble topaz]

Is Small

[tawdry umbra]

Since March 3rd, we’ve been experiencing issues with items, inventories, dinos, and structures disappearing on our cluster. Every day, you can read here that more and more clusters are encountering this problem. Why is nothing being done about it?

By “we,” I mean several different clusters. We’ve submitted support tickets, but they’ve gone unanswered for two (!!) months. Here on Discord, @dooly at least tried to listen to us, but even there many people didn’t get any response, or were simply told, “It’s just a bug” or that we should wipe (which has demonstrably not helped).

Why are we being left like this? So many clusters have already lost players, and people are losing interest in Ark itself!

even tried totally fresh everything, still happens. even with the saving suggestion of waiting 20 minutes before rebooting

its absolutely insane that there have been at least 20+ different clusters try to bring attention to this and how there tickets are not being acknowledged and there has been absolutely nothing from developers on it

[celest halo]

🤣, I guess dollie asking for save files and other info is devs doing absolutely nothing #unofficial-setup-help message

[tawdry umbra]

its all been sent

[tawdry umbra]

people losing thousands of hours of progress totally funny laugh it up.

[celest halo]

The funny part is you people lying saying devs have done nothing, them asking for saves and other info is them doing something

[tawdry umbra]

brother everything has been submitted to them by multiple different server owners and not a single person has even gotten a message back saying they acknowledge and are looking into it

how many months after submitting is it appropriate to ask if its being looked at? every time we ask, were met with asking to send it in again, what about what we have already sent?

[wise kindle]

btw this does seem to help. Not sure if you have tried it.

#unofficial-setup-help message

[viscid heath]

Official is always going to take priority at the end of the day.

[tawdry umbra]

rolled back 6 whole months with the suggested and bug reappears

[lime matrix]

I suppose though the additional questions to ask would be those cluster configurations? Are you using the "new" save format or the old save format. Do you use the vanilla decay system or a third party api decay. I'm self hosted with my cluster so i don't use the vanilla decay, new save or vanilla transfer setups. Nitrado you are at the behest of their architecture and limited configuration of course but there's not another option short of self host or VPS like services. My main problem tends to be character disappearances when transferring when it fails to write the character profile to the save directory. Doesn't happen often enough to be problematic of having a sea of tickets. All of the issues you describe I would think are a construct of the sqllite functions being used for save data. It's not nearly as robust as using a full sql engine to handle it all but for things like world saves in a constrained container like a game to not need external support it's what we're working with.

Now, as for addressing missing characters If self hosted you can sync the .arkprofile file type to all directories on a change but sometimes it's the profile itself that corrupts and can't be read by the game. In that case you have no choice but to pull from a backup. I make archival backups once an hour for a retention period of a week along with inventory snapshots using the Inventory Backup System mod I commissioned Joe Help to port over from ASE on launch.

While I realize this is likely not what you want to hear I feel most of these problems stem from a configuration issue inherent the the save file design and available backend architecture most of the community and official presently uses.

[tawdry umbra]

nitrado hosted

@lean ore still dealing with the inventory bug as well?

[wise kindle]

Whats your start time set at?
If the server isnt fully stopping, it reoccurs.

Per my linked suggestion, this does help. Skipping that step guarantees it reoccurs.

[lean ore]

As sad as it is, but yes

[tawdry umbra]

this bug occurs before the server restarts, while it is running. it doesnt show up until after the server restarts. Servers will be online and running fine, we have a monitor on the file to detect large changes in size, it will detect a large data loss, then the next time it resets, all the data is missing. The data loss can occur multiple days before a restart shows its effect

[last magnet]

that's so weird. are you doing them by hand?

[tawdry umbra]

had it set up so that when data loss was detected we would know how far to roll back and trigger the rollback sooner so there was less wasted time and loss for players. but the bug happens quickly every time, essentially progress is impossible.

[wise kindle]

Correct.
You are describing the corruption resulting from incomplete shutdown.

Anyway, if you do not wish to even TRY my suggestion, then I wish you luck.

[terse condor]

​Haha no we changed the loot drops via the .ini file.. It actually works perfectly fine on every other map but for some reason Scorched Earth decides to change every single drop color instead of just the blue ones 😂

[tawdry umbra]

im not the server owner, im a player. the information has been passed on when first suggested a while back, it has been applied as to my knowledge. It is still occuring. but i feel the official solution to a problem of this magnitude should not be to impose a 30 minute wait after every server crash when crashes happen multiple times a day per map. not exactly a great user experience. are they working on a true fix?

[wise kindle]

Crashes are not daily restarts.
I think we are talking apples and oranges.

[rugged niche]

@obsidian jewel you sure its 19800 Quality for officials? somehow my drops are out of league

[obsidian jewel]

What

Think u got the wrong guy

[rugged niche]

the cap

[obsidian jewel]

What cap

[rugged niche]

124% max cap

[obsidian jewel]

I’m confusion

[rugged niche]

oh my bad that was Pumpkin sorry

@bleak ivy something is wrong with me Quality in my drops On my unofficial server, what got messed up?

[rugged niche]

my appologizes i got you two mixed up

[obsidian jewel]

😂🤣

[rugged niche]

i remember talking to you and him on different days my mind somehow chose you XD

somehow my Drops either way got Insanely messed up, Ascendant Drops in White drop, example Hyenadon Meatpack Asc in a reg white

[tawdry umbra]

@smoky burrow did adding extra time before restart fix your data corruption issues?

[wise kindle]

Thats not the full fix. Its only a part of it.

[tawdry umbra]

please share with the class, bc you keep tagging that in every mention of the problem like its the fix

[wise kindle]

Its linked above

Heres the jist

Reinstall the game server
Apply a save from before the issue occurred
Use a scheduled stop with a measured startup INSTEAD of a daily restart. Ensure the server is FULLY STOPPED before sending the startup.

I wish I had the ability to pin

[wise kindle]

If you have further questions let me know.
It is preventable.
I recovered and prevented this from reoccurring on 3 of my servers so far using these steps.

[bleak ivy]

probably SupplyCrateLootQualityMultiplier or difficultyoffset

[rugged niche]

Difficulty offset is 5.0 on official thou?

Might be supplycratequality then

[rugged niche]

First one, whats official setting for that if you know?

[bleak ivy]

offset is 1.0 on officials. the override is 5

[bleak ivy]

I imagine 1 but no idea tbh

[rugged niche]

Aye is what i meant i will compare to my settings tomorrow

[brisk fog]

Was told to ask for assistance on this issue here, but the unofficial server cluster I've been playing on seems to be having the same issue with transferring that the official clusters had yesterday. Some info:

• It seems to be the same issue of users on the unofficial server transferring and then having their character data/information decoupled/missing after the transfer. This leads to their body being present in the world on the server, but their client says they need to make a new character.
• Unofficial server admins have been able to manually restore the data, but this is the second time in 2 days its happened (and fourth in a month)
• The first issue happened sometime in April, with a player's information that wasn't me on the cluster. (Unsure exactly when this occurred)
• The second issue happened with my character on the server, around the same time the transfer issues started on 4/24/2026, the ones that required transfers being shut off. (Unsure exactly when it occurred other than it being the same day)
• The third issue happened with my character again, last night (before the first official post was made on the transfer issues) (Occurred at 5:30 PM EST on May 17th)
• the fourth issue happened with someone else's character today, after the transfer issue is supposed to be resolved. (occurred at 6:36 PM EST on May 18th)

All four issues were the same problem. Character was still in the world after a transfer but upon logging in, said there was no character available. 2 of the issues were for me, 1 was for another player, and the most recent was for a different player.

This seems to be on going issue and the exact same issue that is mentioned in #status-updates . Is there anything we can do for unofficial servers to mitigate this, or is a WC related fix needed to fix this for unofficial servers?

All issues occurred the same way. Character was not recognized and each player was told to make a new character. Same Cluster, different maps.

[wise kindle]

I get about 3 of these a month since 2020.

[fathom basalt]

Does anyone know a good server host that is not nintrado for the U.S

[bleak ivy]

nitrado is the only official server host for ASA. none of the others have permission to do so.
self-host is also an option if you have a spare PC

[fathom basalt]

Well I am just worried about exposing my personal info. I honestly dont know too much.

[fathom basalt]

I see alot more than just nintrado

[bleak ivy]

yeah, but I would not use them

[fathom basalt]

So the only true option is self hosting?

[bleak ivy]

renting a bare machine to self-host on is also an option. not sure on the price of that tho.

[fathom basalt]

So like a vps?

Do you personally self host?

[bleak ivy]

yeah, but its just a private server hosted on my PC at most 3 people on it.

[fathom basalt]

Is it safe to do so?

[bleak ivy]

what do you mean safe? like port-forwarding?
as long as you do it right yeah lol.

[dusky smelt]

My friend bought a pc and we wanted to play a server with the ps5 friends. is this impossible without nitrado? i remember there used to be an option to use a platform as a server and everyone could join?

[lime matrix]

You can run a dedicated server and port forward like D3solate does, single instance, rent a bare metal machine using a VPS service and set that up. GTX Gaming is kind of a hybrid VPS gaming service. Or use a spare machine for running servers. IF you really want to get into it then build a dedicated high spec rig for doing so. Just depends on your pocket book and time you want to spend on it.

[cunning urchin]

If i want to host a cluster myself using a new pc i purchase, do you only need a ton of RAM if you intend to play on the pc at the same time? Or could i like run 5-6 maps on that pc, then just sign onto my xbox or something and join and be fine?

[bleak ivy]

5-6 maps would be a lot of ram each server should have at least 16GB but some will require more. and the amount of players will make it require more too

[smoky burrow]

No, we still have some losses, feel like helping a little, but that's probably just wishful thinking.
Nothing helps if the cause is the saving itself...
As to why this seems to be creeping or selectively happening, we don't have enough information/insight to know, but provided a couple clusters' saves to WC (again) for them to take a serious look.
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/faulty-inventory-saving-r99644/&_fromLogin=1

I hear your workaround worked for you, DoolySaurus, but I want to drive for a solution instead of a workaround if WC can spend some valuable time on this at some point. Rootcausing and preventing what's messed up here would also give us more trust in that being long term stable and not exploding again.

First corruption occurred around March 08.
A rollback to then is as helpful as a full-wipe, but less reliable. And I don't trust it to be a robustness guarantee.

[cunning urchin]

Man ive got no idea how to just play this game then I just want my own forever arks without the annoying single player spawn issues

[bleak ivy]

just host 1-2 maps. have one be the "main" where its always on and the other goes between any other map you want to play.

[smoky burrow]

64 GB can get you to play on your own 1-2 maps, potentially 3-4 if you play externally, but mods, players, structure and dino populations will add up to eating more and more RAM

[cunning urchin]

If i want to swap between maps does it wipe all the structures and everything?

[bleak ivy]

no, each map has its own folder for everything.

except mod maps which use the island folder but for those just have different server downloads to run, or move the files manually for backing up tribe and survivor data.

[cunning urchin]

Cause like i could have astraeus as my main. Then say i build a base on scorched, then swap to aberation after a while but maybe i want to go back to scorched

[bleak ivy]

then you just switch the map back. everything there will still be there, paused when it shutdown.

[cunning urchin]

Oh the server is only there to have it live? Oh wow cause like i dont technically even need my maps running when im not playing. I just wanted to solves the single player jank

[bleak ivy]

self-host will only remove saves when you do it manually, it corrupts (would suggest backing up whenever you transfer), or a update causes an issue which are rare.

[cunning urchin]

I see

[bleak ivy]

think of it just like singleplayer. if nothing is running the map, everything is paused.

exception being the cloud data which does decay when off you can change how long it takes. not sure if there is a max or if it can just be disabled, never tried

[cunning urchin]

Oh well see thats just fine then. I just want to have a main map and a secondary one at moat and not loose all my work ive done. Id still have to upload a milltion creatures i guess but at least i could still have my base and evwrything i leave there inccluding tames i dont need to bring over

[bleak ivy]

and you'll have access to transferring which brings over your inventory

instead of singleplayer's upload/download which drops it

[cunning urchin]

Ill have to figure out how swapping maps and atuff works with severs once i actually get acess to experiment with it. Dont have a pc yet

Maybe i could rent in the meantime and swap to my own pc to host laterp

[bleak ivy]

its very simple. you just replace the map name with a different one in the bat file.
I just have a bunch sitting on my desktop ready to be opened

[cunning urchin]

Oh ok great! Thanks much appreciated i hope o can get that all working i really love this game its just always felt so temporary

[golden nest]

It is very far from temporary, I wish you luck on this extremely long and enjoyable journey! 😄

Only real issue to note is transferring can sometimes break, but it's uncommon. Always backup your world directory before transferring in case you must rollback, but otherwise smooth sailing

[open arrow]

Hey all, i'd really appreciate if we could all leave a comment to draw this issue to WildCards attention.
I was able to confirm with 3 other clusters that they have Overspawns that aren't immediately obvious but are serious problems for our performance and balance.

I spent a week solid working on this with Developers too so the research has been done and confirmed
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/bugs/unofficial-any-dino-overspawn-r99759/

[fathom gyro]

Anyone know what the requirements are to run one map if I hosted it myself?

[arctic mica]

Wiki has exact specs, but typically 16gb ram and a semi decent processor

[fathom gyro]

Ddr5 ram? Or ddr4

[arctic mica]

Either, obvs ddr5 would be better

[fathom gyro]

I see. Ty ty

[jovial marsh]

hello, i might need some help with my modded ark, its on ASE but im using dinostorage and ark additions and im playing on aberration for some reason i cant uncryo my aberrant deinos

my friend runs the server but they tried setting , CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True but it always turns false once the servers up, were using nitrado

[celest halo]

They turning the server off, waiting till it's fully shutdown before making the change

[jovial marsh]

ohh alright

[bitter patrol]

has there been a REAL fix found for foliage flickering?

i come back after another fews months and its STILL broken.

[wise kindle]

Not saying its 100% related, but do you run the cloud or fog commands?
I only see it when i remove weather effects.

[bitter patrol]

no im on a 5090 so i have everything maxed

so no commands either

[wise kindle]

Oh thats news.
We see it on console after running weather commands lol.

I dont see it if I leave it alone.

[bitter patrol]

its been like this since launch sometimes it just does it and wont fix unless you reinstall or run 7000 commands and make the game looks ass

even with the standards of ue5 this game is something else. Its getting on my nerves because it hasn't been fixed. UE5.5 killed high end systems so i stopped playing when that came out for a lil. The last 2 weeks I've been back i keep seeing it. If it just a small issue it would be fine but its such an abrasive issue that cant be walked passed without noticing.

[jovial marsh]

i tried, its stil broken

[jovial marsh]

it says class disallowed with the cryopod and foreign class for the dinostorage

[waxen junco]

Anyone had the issue where u log in and ur dead and ur base has been wiped?

[bitter patrol]

has ase mod support been fixed?

i cant deal with this foliage flickering i stg

i know aquatica broke it so im just wondering

[mellow zenith]

Guys after the last update my dedicated server stopped working any help?

[vagrant bough]

Hi guys, I have not been able to get my holiday skins folder on my character - in fact its now been gone for a few weeks. I've tried all the usual fixes - diabling skins / enabling etc. Nothing. I try opening tickets but they get deleted as completed instantly. I'm at a loss - this is hundreds of hours of game play reward...gone? can anyone help?

[last magnet]

try turning the event mod back on, getting back your skins via commands, then turning the event mod to passive. They didn't finsih moving the event mod stuff to base game. this advice works best if you're admin on the server and have access to mods, or can ask the admins to this

like you can add mods to the game type access

[vagrant bough]

Thanks for this - im not sure how to do this tho, my character is on small tribes

[last magnet]

(I turned off the easter event, and lost the garden skins, but not last year's skins)

[vagrant bough]

I tried unstalling the event add ons and then redownloading them but still no success

[last magnet]

if it's officials, it won;t work

they should have the rest of the easter stuff in the major version they're doing soonish?

unofficials have a bit more leeway in running events

[vagrant bough]

Ok thankyou my friend, I will hold out hope

[little bridge]

.

[elfin viper]

Guys I wanted to thank everyone for the help yesterday with the server, if you need a good host or help with worldbuilder custom caves I'm happy to help

[woven crane]

Is anyone else having an issue where vaults are empty post-update? On every map. All structure storages (repis, fabis) empty for all players. Dedi's not included

[bleak ivy]

make sure its not the filter at the bottom

[woven crane]

Multiple players report no dice.

[bleak ivy]

mods?

[woven crane]

None

[winter ridge]

does anyone know why after every other major update, the map i'm playing gets nuked and refuses to start unless i just wipe the folder (which should be obious as to why it's not a solution for me)

[neat mantle]

are you single player or using a server?

[winter ridge]

home server

[neat mantle]

I'm not sure, I use nitrado and had to wipe my servers today too. D:

[nova violet]

Anyone on here know a lot about running and setting up a dedicated server or ark survival evolved I just purchased one and having a hard time setting things up

[neat mantle]

Which server host are you using? I can help you. I set up my own servers.

[nova violet]

Ms low

[neat mantle]

What exactly are you needing help with? The server settings, mods?

[nova violet]

Raising multiplier for mature rate imprinting n hatching

[neat mantle]

So, your best bet is to download a program called Beacon and use the breeding multiplier section to set that up. It's very easy to use.

[nova violet]

Ok

[neat mantle]

Let me know if you need any help with Beacon. It's pretty straight forward and has different sections for different settings.

[nova violet]

Now does that plug the multiplier straight into the server when I set it in beacon

[wise kindle]

Best to join the Beacon discord and they have good tutorials

[neat mantle]

So, what I recommend, is going through each setting on beacon and setting it up exactly how you want - then, when you're done, press the export button. It will have all the settings ready to copy for you to paste into your server config file. There will be two - one for Game.INI and one for GameUserSettings.ini

[nova violet]

Thanks will do

[neat mantle]

Yeah, you can watch some videos too.

[nova violet]

Ok thank you for the help me my buddy flew blind into this lol

[neat mantle]

No problem, if you need anymore help just DM me.

[nova violet]

Will do

[steady kettle]

I am having to wipe my 2+ year old cluster because of the bug that's yet to be fixed. Pretty ridiculous.

Thanks Wildcard.

[dry badge]

has anyone figured out an issue to constant corruption in a map? our astraeos map has had like 5 corruptions and we’ve needed to do a roll back each time 😵‍💫

[woven crane]

So nobody else is seeing structure storage issues (where everything is hidden, but still there. Adding an item wipes the inventory and starts it working correctly; at least for turrets)? This does not apply to player inventories, tame inventories, or dedicated storages (since they're technically not "storage" boxes).

I'm seeing my save size get cut to 1/3r'd the pre-update size.

[steady kettle]

yhes it is the same issue we're all facing

[woven crane]

Storages? I thought everyone was complaining their map saves were corrupted and unusable, not just storages being emptied due to the patch

[celest falcon]

Is anyone else having trouble loading into the Astraeos map on PC (Xbox App / Windows Store version)? Everything was working perfectly yesterday, but today the game constantly crashes during the loading screen with a LowLevelFatalError in AsyncLoading2.cpp (Bad name index for creature blueprints like ScorpionKing).

[plain stream]

You’ll find that every time your servers gets restarted all of your storages will be deleted. That’s the corruption bug

[cunning urchin]

whats causing the corruptions? is it only in servers or something?

[celest falcon]

Also creating new save is not working (single player)

[plain stream]

An update in March that was “supposed to fix corruption problems” that wasn’t even happening

[woven crane]

This is the first time I've experienced the storage issue. I had the bases issue, and I randomly have the corruption issue, but those are resolved usually with waiting for wildcard and restoring backups, not having to wipe.

[plain stream]

It’s gonna happen every restart now. Gets to a point you’re rolling back 3-5x a week. To the point you’re forced to fully wipe and restart in hopes you don’t catch the bug. There’s a whole discord of server owners who have had this problem for 3 months now. There is no waiting for wildcard it’s been begged and plead in this chat for months now and a lot of people have gave up

[woven crane]

What you're saying makes sense; but I'd like to add that I tried a save from a few weeks ago on today's server build and saw the same issue.

If wildcard reufses to acknowledge the issue, then I'll have to try to manually transfer the items from one save to the new "corrupted" ones

[plain stream]

We’ve tried all of that

Loaded old save, still happened when server went down. Opened a copy of old save and allowed them to take missing items to the one that lost them. Lost it all next restart

[steady kettle]

same bug broskie.

I'm wondering who is profiting from this? Hmmmm follow the money.

[west crag]

ok so im trying to transfer some dinosaurs over from my none dedicated server to a friends. but only rapors argys and taps seem to work for scorched. i tried yuty rex mana even drakeling and none worked. bug or is it something in the maps codes?

[gloomy cloak]

Would yall know what mods are causing restart loops

[shell cedar]

Anyone an issue having with ark freezing in menu

[cunning urchin]

I might try renting a server for a month for the mean time and moved my save files over to a PC to self host. Seems possible even for a noob Id have to redo all the settings and mods from scratch though since i play on xbox, oof means id have to double buy the few premiums ones too

[steady kettle]

is it mods or ur file is corrupted?

[gloomy cloak]

I’m with nitrado now. And they can’t figure it out

It’s running but won’t show up in my server list in game. He’s switched IPs and ports. Removed mods. Nothing is working

[humble elbow]

Does anyone know of a good server with pve crossplatform no wipe and it has good settings i want to play with my friend but he plays on ps5 and i play on pc PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!

[bleak ivy]

look through #1110925695900713072
this is for setup help and other dedicated server issues and singleplayer

[bright flax]

Does anyone Know how to port forward so my friends can join my unofficial server to play with me??? I need help so badd

It keeps saying connection failed or failed to join, and ive tried everything

[cunning urchin]

if i rent a nitrado server, i can see they have its own mod list but how does this work for premium mods. I have a couple structure skins and a creature. Does it just work?

If i have a friend join id like for him to be able to see my structure skins

[toxic hazel]

Not showing on server list tends to be certs or wrong filters

[toxic hazel]

You dont have to pay for prem mods on servers, only the clients pay for the mods if thats what your on about paying double for

[vast mesa]

I set up a pve xbox/windows CI server. In need of experienced players that would love to help build it up more (CC and what not) and check out if the setting are nice and playerfriendly. I very much s*ck at building lol
Whats the best place to go advertice for that. Sorry for my crappy English. I am from Holland and just freestyling the tekst here 😝

[median schooner]

I can help you tomorrow, I'm from Brazil and it's already late here.

[vast mesa]

That would be awesome. Its 09.30 in the morning here lol
Just send me a pm wenn iyou can. I hope i will be awake by then lol

[feral locust]

Im down to help you out do u have a discord server or anything im in america

[median schooner]

Can you send me a DM so I don't forget?

[vast mesa]

Nice yeah let me set you a pm aswell

[clear moat]

Yesterday I bought the new DLC with the animal rabbit, but due to the terrible and glitchy localization into other languages, half the game doesn't work correctly. This is simply disgusting treatment of people. I personally have dyslexia, and I will never be able to learn English properly. Now, to write this, I use a translator! You are a huge company that apparently simply ran the game's text through the cheapest—or maybe even free—terrible machine translator. This is absolutely disgraceful

[fathom gyro]

Anyone have the wiki for server requirements? Or know what it’s under I can’t seem to find it

[brazen abyss]

Hey guys since the latest update my server has jumped form 10x to 50x but after check ini and obvious places I still cant find a fix. Picking up a rock on the beach normally yields 10 but atm its 50😩

[fallen void]

Does anyone know where I can currently report a bug as our unofficial server we installed a few Paleo creatures mod for example the Apex Predators one and I go to convert a old Rex or Giga into the paleo one and I go convert a old vanilla saddle in inventory and it doesn’t convert to the paleo saddle I’m on PS5 just a curious question do u have to have the primitive saddles unlock for u to convert them into the paleo versions or do u have to tame one in the wild first to able to convert the saddles just a bit confused that’s all

[gray tundra]

I would maybe recommend looking for the paleo discord and ask there. Unless someone here knows. I think if this is an issue it is more mod related than base game related

[fallen void]

Do u know what’s that discord is called please but I figured it out I needed to tame a wild one first before converting the saddle I’ll delete both of these messages now if it’s not relevant to keep here

[gray tundra]

You might find it on the curseforge of the mod

[fallen void]

Ohh ok thanks

[wise kindle]

This is because you have dupe protection enabled.
Disable this, per the mod requirements and the ability to convert saddles will return.

[clear moat]

\

[zealous nebula]

We are hosting an 11 Map private server with roughly 150 players, 15k structure limit and 150 tame limit +~15 mods. we are paying about 500€ monthly and servers are still laggy.
What are you guys paying and are they running smooth ?

[near hawk]

just using my pc for myself

[fervent locust]

I can't get into servers with mods, can someone help me

[neat mantle]

I use Nitrado and I got 60 mods on my server with no lag. Only downside is you can't use API plugins.

[rose ferry]

Hello! I'm trying to build a platform on the lava pool in front of the Tek cave entrance. I think I have the correct setting to allow this but I still can't build on the pool. I use Nitrado for my server.

[neat mantle]

Are you trying to have floating structure over the top of it?

[rose ferry]

I think so. It’s so I can put Dino’s on it. Every tek cave video I’ve watched has shown this strategy.

[neat mantle]

Do you have AllowCaveBuildingPvE=True in your gameusersettings.ini?

Might consider the volcano as a cave.

And there's one more setting lemme check

[wise kindle]

usually its the same for allow building in caves:
AllowCaveBuildingPvE=True
AllowCaveBuildingPvP=True
EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False
bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=True
bIgnoreStructuresPreventionVolumes=True

both pve and pvp need to be set regardless of the mode you are running

[neat mantle]

Yeah, that's working.

Hmm, do you use a structure mod?

[rose ferry]

I will log in real quick.

[neat mantle]

oh shit i thought that was him that replied xD

that should fix it, what dooly said

[rose ferry]

I'm not seeing those specific settings in the config area.

[wise kindle]

Config area?

These are ini settings

[neat mantle]

They are under GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini

If you dont see them add them

lemme double check

[wise kindle]

These are in the game.ini

bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=True
bIgnoreStructuresPreventionVolumes=True

[neat mantle]

yeah what he said

[wise kindle]

The others are under the gameusersettings

If you get stuck, all settings are listed here and you can double check them yourself: https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Server_configuration

[rose ferry]

I'm trying to send a screen shot of where i'm looking but I don't think I can

[neat mantle]

Which server host are you using?

[rose ferry]

Nitrado

[wise kindle]

Settings > config files is where you find the ini files

[neat mantle]

^^

[rose ferry]

🙂 That's where i am

[wise kindle]

be sure the server is fully stopped before you mess with them

[neat mantle]

Yeah, and there's a drop down menu for Game.ini and GameUserSettings.ini - if you don't see the settings in Game.ini or GameUserSettings.ini you can add them

[rose ferry]

Ah finally finding the area. You guys are being so patient with me. I appreciate you both so much.

[neat mantle]

These settings go under [server settings] in GameUserSettings.ini

AllowCaveBuildingPvE=True
AllowCaveBuildingPvP=True
EnableExtraStructurePreventionVolumes=False

These go at the bottom of Game.ini

bDisableStructurePlacementCollision=True
bIgnoreStructuresPreventionVolumes=True

then save, restart ur server, and test it out

[wise kindle]

Be sure you arent placing anything under
[ShooterGameMode_TEMPOverrides]

It should go above that. Never put anything under it.

[neat mantle]

yeah true

[rose ferry]

Okay, I just put them in and am restarting the server.

[neat mantle]

nice i hope it works!

[rose ferry]

Thank you. I will let you guys know... have to update.

[neat mantle]

kk ^_^

[finite linden]

any previous cluster owners wanting a spot on an upcoming server? must be known & experience.

[wise kindle]

@zealous aurora dm'ing you another example of the server corruption ppl are experiencing.

[rose ferry]

Since you are mentioning server corruption... I can no longer get into my server after making those setting recommendations.

[wise kindle]

Was the server stopped when you made the changes?

Also, looks like you are win10? Theres an update out concerning an inability to connect via Win10.

[rose ferry]

Yes I did. I hope you are right... i"ve gone through so many nitrado suggestions. I'm sick to my stomch. I was just trying to help my server and I think I screwed everything up.

[wise kindle]

Is it just you having the issue connecting or do other players have the issue?

[rose ferry]

Good question. Let me log on to my hubby's pc. It' will take a minute

[green pulsar]

Some on our server are still having issues with a couple of the maps too.. guess it’s issues with Rag and lost colony

Not my server btw just one I play on

[rose ferry]

Thanks Rain. I

I'm on the Island

[green pulsar]

Yea think people are on some of the other maps are doing fine but not those two maps lol. Guess it says their character is playing but they can’t even get into the map

[rose ferry]

Other players on the server as well. I get a Lost/timedout connection to host. I had a different error before, I restored a backup and this is the error I get now.

So maybe it is a windows issue... that would be better than the file being corrupt

I didn't see any crashtack.log files in the saved logs

[fresh juniper]

also getting a lost/timedout error for my 2/3 day old server

was working fine last night and hasnt worked at any point today for any of the players

[rose ferry]

You are making me feel so much better. I looked at so many different things. I am new to PC gaming and learning the hard way.

[green pulsar]

Yea I think it’s an issue with Ark

[proper stirrup]

Please excuse the machine translation.
I'm currently playing on an unofficial server with friends on ASE, and I want to remove the level cap of 88 for tamed dinosaurs. Is there a good way to do this?

[near hawk]

search for dubba.pl in google, there's a toll for that

[proper stirrup]

Thanks for recommending such a great tool!
I couldn't find much useful information when I searched in Japanese, so this really helped me out.

[green pulsar]

Yea I think the unofficial servers not working is from the update last night is what I heard.

[jagged garnet]

antone else having issues with servers not showing since update? all versions and networking are correct no changes. a few players are on but multiple people including myself (the owner) are not seeing any.

[green pulsar]

Most not be able to join them

[jagged garnet]

My client and a few others are showing servers v86.xx but none v87.xx so I think its a steam not updating the game. I am validating to check if it catches it.

[green pulsar]

Yea think it was from the update that caused the issue

And who knows when it will be fixed I doubt tonight at this rate since it hasn’t even been acknowledged by Nitardo

[shrewd kelp]

Is this a asa only server or ase to?

[simple juniper]

Anyone having timeout trouble loading into a private server?

[last magnet]

not in my experience and I ran the update from this morning

the 87.12 version

[simple juniper]

Because it was working last night but it’s just timing me out today

[last magnet]

self host or nitrado?

bc I'm self host and mine's behaving

[simple juniper]

Self

[last magnet]

try a reboot of the machine

[simple juniper]

I’ve updated it and even ran a backup save but still just timing me out

[last magnet]

doublecheck ports are correct, and firewall isn't being stupid

sometimes the firewall on windows thinks a new version number is a new program

or windows decides to change things

also restarting the client machine

[simple juniper]

I don’t know how to check my firewall

[last magnet]

ahhh

and you've rebooted the machine the server runs on? the actual hardware? not just stopped the ark server software and restarted?

bc sometimes literally turning it off and on again makes things behave

[simple juniper]

Like turn off my computer

[last magnet]

yep

[simple juniper]

Yes several times

[last magnet]

okay

[simple juniper]

Also stopped and restarted my server but just keeps timing me out

Any ideas of how to fix it?

[last magnet]

what I said above was all I know, it might be a console issue? bc I play steam

[simple juniper]

Even my friend on steam can’t join it

[rose ferry]

yes, A LOT of people are

[wise kindle]

Same, I'm all out of tacos. This is a genuine disaster.

[rose ferry]

Truth!!!

I wonder how many of us followed Nitrado's AI instructions on how to fix the issue and set our servers back several hours to try and fix it.

[radiant jetty]

I was able to fix my private server by turning off crossplay (everyone on my server plays through steam) so it seems like it's an issue with one of the other platforms :/

[wise kindle]

Im reading that ppl just spammed join and eventually got in. Dunno if that actaully works tho.

I dont seem to have the issue on my servers atm. But I also only updated one of my maps - but players are still able to join it.
So I dunno whats happening with the game atm.

[hasty saffron]

i need help me and my friend made a non dedicatred server and now idk why but it dosent let me get further then him hes the host

and when he respawns it telpeports me to him

[wise kindle]

That is tether. All non dedi has tether, no way around it.

[hasty saffron]

even the respawn teleport thing?

[wise kindle]

Yes

[hasty saffron]

IS it possible to make range bigger

[wise kindle]

A little
Its a setting
Not sure how well it works

[hasty saffron]

whats it called

[wise kindle]

Tether

[hasty saffron]

is it on ase

[wise kindle]

No idea

[hasty saffron]

i put the setting on 10000 it should be infinite range now lowk

[simple juniper]

Anyone know how to fix my friend from timing out

[green pulsar]

When they fix the game so we can play 😂 a lot of us can’t play on unofficials been like this most the day

[green pulsar]

They’re so late to the party

😬😂

[near hawk]

good thing i never touch nitrado

[pearl eagle]

Does anyone know how to prevent hibernation and allow offline breeding on privately hosted servers like Nitrado servers?? I used to play on a cluster that had that, and I can't figure out how to set my server up to do the same.

[last magnet]

probably was a mod, bc what I'm seing the propagator and hitching posts override the dinos in stasis part that stops the offline breeding

specifically mentioned Dino Depot + Cybers Structures as being things you can use

I personally don't d that bc I have settings to get babies quicker and a mod to help reset breeding timers

the offline breeding I mean. I self host so I don't want to overload my machine

[rocky viper]

Did you find a fix for this? I also have the INI for WorldBossKingKaijuSpawnTime=19:00:00 for Extinction and 03:00:00 for Astraeos, and neither seem to be working. Both are in GUS.INI in server settings.

[vernal girder]

Not really. We found the time when the Titan spawn irl and the we adjusted the time in the config.

[rocky viper]

Can you give me more details? I am hoping to get this going for my cluster. At first I thought I put it in local time of the server, but then was told it happens in UTC timezone, so I adjusted for that and its still not spawning as far as I can tell.

What was the irl time? I am hoping that by knowing this info I can figure it out - I know its probably been a while since you adjusted your settings, so any info will be appreciated

Can you elaborate on this? I have WorldBossKingKaijuSpawnTime=19:00:00 - What 0 disables the spawn? I am trying to get it to spawn on my cluster but I am not being successful here

[rocky viper]

Hey there! How do you have yours set in the INI for reference? I am also in EST and I swear its not spawning for us on Astraeos or Extinction with the times I have set. I have this in INI: WorldBossKingKaijuSpawnTime=19:00:00

And how did you set your servers to EST and not UTC?

Appreciate any help you can provide

[celest halo]

I selfhost and changed the operating systems time to be est

[rocky viper]

Self hosting myself but according to the server logs, my times are still appearing in UTC:[2026.05.22-10.58.32:502][131]2026.05.22_10.58.32: Saving world...

Think I may know part of the reason why that's happening, but the server machine itself is on EST. Thanks for the info you provided

[celest halo]

You using docker

[rocky viper]

Not at all
The machine itself is set to 7:14AM, but the server logs is showing a time of 11:14:40, which is 4 hours ahead

[celest halo]

That's odd, normally only see that when using some form of docker as they have there own os that is normally set to utc

[austere yarrow]

Hello all! Question for the group, Im playing Ark on Xbox- it looks like xbox is currently on v87.11, but my nitrado server is on v87.12. It hasn't let me play in ~24hrs and Im not seeing any Xbox updates. Is this a common occurrence or is there something I can do to play again?

[toxic hazel]

Your version is correct, and as long as both are on 87.xx you shouldnt have any issue joining

[austere yarrow]

Dang, I cannot figure out why it won't let any of us join then. Maybe the timeout issue someone mentioned earlier is still occurring. We keep getting a notification after trying to log in saying "Lost/timeout connection to host. Would you like to wait to automatically join this session?"

[toxic hazel]

If getting timeout contact Shitrado support likely XD

For us self hosters this is usually a port issue

[austere yarrow]

Lol, will do - thank you!

[supple kiln]

pls work

[toxic hazel]

o.O

[supple kiln]

they said "THIS SEVER IS A COMMUINTY" bruhhhh I want my sever to work

[toxic hazel]

Cant help ya 🤣

[supple kiln]

they gotta stop this ownership of the market

[toxic hazel]

Run your own then XD

[supple kiln]

AKA monopoly

[supple kiln]

i did

[toxic hazel]

Aint gotta pay no one

[supple kiln]

my own sever

but they have a monopoly over the hosting said severs

[toxic hazel]

I dont care about hosting services i host my own servers 🤣

[supple kiln]

HOWWWWWW

[toxic hazel]

By following the wiki

There is probably many YT videos out there too

[wise kindle]

Literally info in the pins

[supple kiln]

I aint making a new one

[wise kindle]

Then put your save on it.

[gray tundra]

Yup thats what i did 😊 thats how you move from a to b.. Just ftp the stuff over from a to b

[empty thistle]

Anyone know if there are any .ini file settings to increase Burrowbuck tunnel decay timer?

[small ridge]

Anyone know if this issue has been resolved? Figuring out if it’ll be a Ark-less Friday evening lol

[weary agate]

it's funny how this message went away in the dashboard but the issue is still clearly happening

[fathom gyro]

with 128 gb of ram and an ultra 9 285k how many servers do you guys think i could run while playing

with 3-5 people

[celest halo]

Should do 6 easy, 8-9 if not playing game on same box, even more if people are not on all of them at same time, server use around 10-16gb of ram idle and can use more if a lot of people on it

[minor bluff]

hey, can someone help me, me and my three friends wanna play together, we are all on pc iam on the steam version theyre on the xbox version, so i wanna host a dedicated server so we can play, can someone help me set it up? id really appreciate it

pls help

if someone wants to help please dm me! id love if someone can walk me through it on call

[alpine arch]

Anyone got an update on the nitrado server thing

[harsh forge]

Are you stuck on something specific?

[minor bluff]

yes

ive followed this youtube guide but i genuinely suck at fast paced guides

[harsh forge]

Look for a text based turorial or pause at each step

[minor bluff]

i did but i learn visually

i find the text based guides hard

[harsh forge]

Well, you'll definately need to do a lot of reading. There's 100's of options and settings and videos are not going to walk you though all of that!

[bleak ivy]

most settings you can just look up when you want to mess with them. thats how I got mine.

[bleak ivy]

I would suggest watching each step multiple times and can slow the speed on youtube.

[minor bluff]

yeah iam trying but iam stuck i just wanna host server for me and my friends

[minor bluff]

i made like the text thing he asked me to do start.bat, edited it on notebook and launched it

but it did something different to his

[bleak ivy]

steamCMD bat or server start bat?

[minor bluff]

server start bt

[bleak ivy]

what does it do when you start it?

[minor bluff]

bat, when i click it it says updating but on the video it starts the server for him and mine just closed afterwards

[bleak ivy]

post the bat remove anything like passwords and names

copy and paste not the file

[minor bluff]

u want me to post the commnds i put you mean?

i used this from this guys yt video

ok it doesnt let me send it

[bleak ivy]

probably will just be the start. calling the file and then the map name

[minor bluff]

but its from Troublechutes yt video

[minor bluff]

wdym, sorry?

[bleak ivy]

echo off
echo ------------------
echo Updating server
echo ------------------
start SteamCMD\steamcmd.exe +force_install_dir ..\server\ +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit

echo ------------------
echo Starting server
echo ------------------
start server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=<SERVER_NAME>?ServerAdminPassword=<ADMIN_PASS>?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=32 -NoBattlEye

what folder is it in?

[minor bluff]

its in the start.bat

i right click and press edit on notepad

[bleak ivy]

since you don't start the file path at the drive. it has to be in the same folder as "server"

[minor bluff]

but the video had start.bat outside the server file?

iam so confused im sorry

[bleak ivy]

mine is C:\ArkServer\Ark\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe
so I can have it in any folder.

[minor bluff]

i still have no idea what to do

[bleak ivy]

no idea on the video but it has to start at a path that windows can follow. either being in the same folder or start at the drive.

[bleak ivy]

replace start server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe with a file path that includes the drive.

[minor bluff]

so like this one ?

[bleak ivy]

yeah, whatever the path is to the exe

[minor bluff]

ok iam sorry im terrible with tech

ok i clicked on the start.bat after changing that and it updated and didnt launch it

its just not launching anything after i do it

can i dm u screenshots?

[bleak ivy]

sure. I have my update and start as different bats but I don't see anything wrong with the way its formated

[minor bluff]

okie i dmd u

[bleak ivy]

you still need the start

[minor bluff]

wdymm

i made the start.bat

[bleak ivy]

also you need the path to yours.

[minor bluff]

idk wht that means

[bleak ivy]

go to server\ShooterGame\Binaries\Win64\ArkAscendedServer.exe that folder and get the full address.
if you click on the bar at the top it'll let you copy it.
then put start address\ArkAscendedServer.exe

[minor bluff]

ArkAscendedServer.exe is an application for me

now a folder

[bleak ivy]

yeah, click on the top bar where it says win64 as the last folder and get the full address. then when you copy it into the start.bat add \ArkAscendedServer.exe to the end so it calls the application

[minor bluff]

ok done ill see how it goes

it still just updates then closes the application

look at dms

[bleak ivy]

put start before the path

[minor bluff]

yeh it still doesnt work

yeah it just doesnt work

idk what iam doing wrong

[bleak ivy]

I'm not sure, when I launch that (replacing the paths for mine) it runs. it doesn't run in order tho so maybe thats the issue?

try making a new bat file that only has the end part for starting the ark server. (the last line)

[minor bluff]

idek what to do

[minor bluff]

ok ill try, should i delete my other or no?

[bleak ivy]

nah, just leave it. the name doesn't matter.

[minor bluff]

it worked

well, its like booting up and bringing up the ark thing

i just used the last line

[bleak ivy]

so yeah, your PC is probably getting mad at the order of them. not sure how you'd fix that

I would just use different ones.

[minor bluff]

wdymm

different orders?

[bleak ivy]

have 1 bat to start steamCMD to update and 1 to start the server.

[minor bluff]

oh

[bleak ivy]

the bat isn't waiting for steamCMD to be done before starting the server. I imagine thats the issue

[minor bluff]

but how do i do that then

[bleak ivy]

no idea. I use different bats

doesn't really matter much. can just run the update bat whenever a major update releases.

[minor bluff]

iam never fixing this

holy

[bleak ivy]

didn't the ark server run?

[minor bluff]

yeah with just the final line that means no server name or anything

well it didnt run run it was booting up

can u help me on screen share?

[bleak ivy]

add the rest of the line. theisland to no battleye

[minor bluff]

what about all the other stuff

[bleak ivy]

the stuff above it is just for updating the server which is causing the issue just take whats after

[minor bluff]

soo updating the server doesnt matter ?

[bleak ivy]

just open the old bat when you want to update

[minor bluff]

its not working anymore

with only start address\ArkAscendedServer.exe, the server starts booting

i added the island and blah blah and it didnt work

it didnt even do the updating

[bleak ivy]

try moving serveradminpassword to the end. maybe its eating everything after

end of the group so before nobattleye

thats the only part thats different to mine anyway you also have <> around the passwords but I doubt that'd make the server not run.

[minor bluff]

didnt workk

iam actually gunna die

can u watch my screenshare? i really dk what to do

[bleak ivy]

did you remove the <> around the password and name?

[minor bluff]

noo

oh its booting now

[bleak ivy]

yeah, its those. I just checked.

[minor bluff]

i think its working, thank you 😭

[bleak ivy]

thats kinda weird

[minor bluff]

now i gotta figure out the random other stuff mods and yeah'

i think it works like it says the server is ready

but the guys video it looks alot different

ok i confirmed it works not i just gotta get mods and also allow ppl to join

[red lynx]

is it pvp type shit

[minor bluff]

no its pve

[red lynx]

its alr ill delete discord

[minor bluff]

why

[red lynx]

i was trying to make joke now you ruined it

i really have to delete system32 now fck it

[minor bluff]

ohhh

no my server is just for my friends not random ppl aswell

[red lynx]

im frend😔

please say you know that meme otherwise itl be weird asf

[minor bluff]

i dont...

[red lynx]

fuco

fuck

[simple juniper]

Anyone else still getting timed out on there servers?

[burnt cape]

Ok so my friend is bisect hosting a server and no matter what method we can't join it

It is up and running but it is just not able to be joined, whether its being timed out or the query thing, please help

[agile steeple]

We are having the same issue on my server mainly with ps5 players on val

[minor bluff]

can someone be my test subject to see if you can join my server

[minor bluff]

hey sorry to bug u, dyk the ingame settings, yk when u go to server, shootergame, saved, config and windowsserver

can you copy your document and send it to me cus i cant seem to get my settings working

i cant boost my health or anything like that or harvesting or exp

or can someone past theirs

[agile steeple]

Do you edit it in nitrado by hand or use beacon?

[minor bluff]

wdym

i dont use nitrado

iam hosting it using my pc

[agile steeple]

Ah then I dont think my file info would help lol

[minor bluff]

thank u anyway

[agile steeple]

Absolutely sorry I couldnt be of any help

[fair heron]

can someone send me their dedicated server files on game.ini and gameuser please please please 🙏 iam struggling to get mine to work

[burnt cape]

Any help?

[fair heron]

there is no one😭

[burnt cape]

I just wanna play ark man

[last magnet]

i would but mine is customized to my mod load on my server (loot drops and additional creature spawns plus engrams and breeding/taming)

and the server creates the ini files on first run/install, so if you're fine with official settings, no tweaking needed

well default settings i mean

[bleak ivy]

better to just change the settings as you play. thats what I did over the last 9 years

[haughty ether]

Your file info would help, the coding is the same no matter what host you use.

[haughty ether]

My advice get beacon Omni- it helps set up massively, you can export or deploy the ini directly to your server/pc

[fair heron]

someone said ur file would help

Please send me it

[toxic hazel]

I'll dm you some default files

If anything is missing in them you can just add it in

[fair heron]

thank you

[minor bluff]

can someone help me with my dedicated server

i read the wiki, pasted the configs i wanted and they just dont work on my server

nor do my mods, ive literally been trying for like 5-7 hours

[maiden vigil]

i cant join my friends unofficial server but i can join any other unofficial server, it just gives me connection timed out

can someone help me we are on the same version and there are no mods or both of us

[reef thistle]

hey ya'll. Something is immediately booting clients off my server upon login. It just randomly started happening overnight so there wasn't a change. Anyone have any ideas on what I can look at?

The client boot is immediate, before even entering the server.

[obtuse falcon]

Question: our cluster has been plagued with an odd bug. We will periodically have all inventory’s go completely empty. Vaults , generators ect. We have a full cluster and it was isolated to just our rag map but now has struck our astreos map. Each time we need to do a roll back. Anyone else experience this?

[fair heron]

can someone help me i have a dedicated server and all the dinos are really low level

[bleak ivy]

post a few of the settings

[minor bluff]

the settings work now its just two things mods and low level dinos

like iam finding level 2 and level 10 dinos and stuff, i have DifficultyOffset=1.0
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0

[bleak ivy]

you have to wipe dinos after changing the difficulty.
admincheat destroywilddinos as a command or put -ForceRespawnDinos in the bat file when launching it

[minor bluff]

my admin cheat isnt working

[bleak ivy]

did you enablecheats adminpassword?

as a command

[minor bluff]

yeah iam loading up rn to retest it

yep

doesnt work, i enabled admin logging in gameuser, and added a password

[bleak ivy]

what are you doing to test if it allows commands?

[minor bluff]

destroywilddinos

[bleak ivy]

do admincheat destroywilddinos

[minor bluff]

doesnt work

[bleak ivy]

you are typing it in the console not the chat right

[minor bluff]

yes

in the console

[bleak ivy]

maybe the password is wrong?

[minor bluff]

nope

iam 10000 percent sure

idk what to do

wait what the hell

it just worked ??

[minor bluff]

the dinos are still like level 10

should i increase my override to 10

[bleak ivy]

do you only see dinos that are multiples of 5?

[minor bluff]

yeah

30, 10, those are the two so far i see

[bleak ivy]

then it should be working. I would suggest using custom dino levels or vanilla with sprinkles to fix the distribution.

they are mods

[fair heron]

but how do i fix my mods tho my mods arent working

i have this under server settings in gameuser- ActiveMods=949521,937184,946694,953154,928793

doesnt work though

[bleak ivy]

they go in the bat file

[fair heron]

but when i put them in the bat file, and try to join the server, it says ‘invalid server password’

wait check dms

[bleak ivy]

its supposed to be like this -mods=942024,929420,935408,1188679,1181172
at the end of the bat file.

[minor bluff]

so at the end of No battleye?

do i need to put a space or no

[bleak ivy]

yes

[minor bluff]

tyyy

[bleak ivy]

settings with - are all seperated at the end.

[minor bluff]

the server wont start now

[fair heron]

i added the mods at the end of the thing

okok i removdd two mods not the server is up

OK the mods work

[fair heron]

which one is better

[bleak ivy]

custom dino levels just does that. vanilla with spinkles has more features.

[fair heron]

okay and like how does vanilla with sprinkles work?

like how is it gunna change the dino lvls

[bleak ivy]

they change the distribution. so more dinos at the higher levels. depending on the settings you use

[fair heron]

oh okay

btw when iam in my world and after i leave it goes back in time😭

do i have to stay a certain time to save or

also i destroyed wild dinos now none are spawning

[plush abyss]

do deinons get extra levels like drakes do?
my current max level is 300 and a drakes is 380 due to the extra points drakes get, would a deinons be 300 or 380? i cant remember

[wise kindle]

Max would be 300 wild for deins at those settings. Picking up eggs doesnt give “taming” points.

[plush abyss]

ahh alright

[plush abyss]

also if i update a mod in my “installed mods” section, does it automatically update it in the mod list section for ark creation? or do i need to go through and manually press “update” again

[wise kindle]

Are you using a hosting service? Not sure what interface this is.

[plush abyss]

im just using singleplayer ark ascended
when you press create theres an option that says “mod settings” and under it is “active mods” and “available mods”

in the mod store theres a section for “installed mods”

i updated my mods in the “installed mods” area, do i need to press in the active mods section too?

[wise kindle]

Tbh Ive never touched this. Mods update when you log in.

[fair heron]

there are level 300’s in my thing😭😭😭

how do i change that

can someone help?

[bleak ivy]

if you set the difficulty to 10 then 300 will be the max.

[bleak ivy]

shouldn't.

[bleak ivy]

servers do a check, singleplayer does not

[minor bluff]

yeah i accidentally put it to 10 LMAO

[torpid moss]

How do I sneak past these laser shooters that killed ke

[wise kindle]

Shows how much I know about sp.
Also, this being in the server setup channel lol.

[bleak ivy]

its also for singleplayer

it says it in the topic

[wise kindle]

Whelp. Im officially useless here.

Now I gotta go read what the bobs channel is for

[bleak ivy]

any kind of help including settings while this is just for server/SP settings/setup

[wise kindle]

Yeah
Does anyone check that one? I dont use it but I notice ppl tend to just ask elsewhere. Makes me think, other than mods, no one answers questions there?

[bleak ivy]

people do use it. questions can be asked anywhere as long as its ontopic for the channel here and bobs are just only for help

[wise kindle]

Ok
Ill just prefix answers with “sp or server” and disappear for sp questions. Cuz I literally never use it anymore lol.

[bleak ivy]

most settings related questions are gonna be the same. unless they are on console where they can only do the ingame menu

[maiden vigil]

anyone pleaseeeee???

[wise kindle]

Can you join the same map on single player with the same mods enabled?

[plush abyss]

im having issues with my dino levels in singleplayer, can anyone assist me?
im using custom dino levels and want to play on difficulty 10 but my levels are almost in the thousands and i removed the difficulty override ini, changed the regular difficulty ini to 0.5, and have the max dino level set to 300 like i want it to be for the custom dino levels ini setting and im still getting level 900 dinos

[alpine ibex]

Can anyone help, I can get the tribe tame limit to go up on my Nitrado server

[minor bluff]

i have a question does xp multiplier and harvest amount go in game user or game ini, also how do i make my character need to eat less

[bleak ivy]

gameusersettings.
lower PlayerCharacterFoodDrainMultiplier=1 (also gameusersetting)

[maiden vigil]

yes

we dont have any mods\

it just says connection lost/timeout whgenever i try to join his server

i really need help

[wise kindle]

Someone else can jump in if this does not work, but its helping others per reports from other discords.

Try this:
Get on the same map on single player, walk around for 15 for full minutes and play, punch trees etc (time it if you have to, 5 mins wont do)
EXIT TO MAIN MENU
Then try your server.

[plush abyss]

boost

[old turtle]

I’m trying to simply play in an unofficial server. On on Xbox and I’m until to download the last mods needed to get into this server. I’ve tried joining a different server, downloading the mods individually, clearing cache, reinstalling the game, hard resetting, and switching from wired connection to wifi. No progress. Help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[maiden vigil]

I'll try

it's just that I'm able to join other servers just not his

is there anythijg he can do?

[alpine ibex]

Anyone know the setting to increase tribe tame limit on a Nitrado server?

[near hawk]

MaxPersonalTamedDinos

[alpine ibex]

I can't find that setting

[near hawk]

add to the ini files

[blissful mountain]

Anyone with bigger brains than mine know the engram path for the burrowbuck saddle so I can put the override in my ini and change the level requirement? I have tried many variations today including jackalope but the struggle is real. I

[alpine ibex]

Uhh . I couldn't get it to work

[placid sable]

Since the lost colony update "changing the caves", my server and I have been having insane memory leak issues. At first it was the server, but now its everyone's issue. Client-side memory leaks. Anyone else have this and or a solution to it?

[celest halo]

maybe EngramEntry_Saddle_Jackalope_C

[blissful mountain]

Thank you, why they all can't have the same format I do not know but this was the correct order

[celest halo]

it wouildnt be WC if they used a naming convention 🤣

[glossy gust]

Anyone know how to edit the supply crate loot. I wanted to edit them to drop with modded stuff instead of just same usless loot

[vast mesa]

I need players with some experience who want to test out my new Crystal Isles server PVE and give me tips on what to improve.

and yes posted on recruiting but no luck yet lol its xbox/windows unoffical btw

[last magnet]

i use Beacon. the free version will let you do loot crates

you do need to add the mods to beacon's database but it's easy to do

[glossy gust]

Ok thanks

[azure ether]

hey i was looking for a bit of help with my issue going on i currently have a cluster server and i added the center to it but for some reason every time i go to it from a different map i cant download my character and it doesnt appear but when i go back to the other cluster maps it loads fine

if anyone could help that would be so wonderful

[open arrow]

if you are private hardware you need to add a cluster folder

both/ all maps need to share the same cluster path and folder and have transfers enabled on the servers in the settings of the manager

[candid needle]

Anyone found a fix for the blackscreen when joining server?

[high yarrow]

Hey guys has anyone found a way (server-rule or .ini entry) to adjust the max. number of same structure type in area? Incubators are capped at 10 and Spotlights are capped to 3. I would like to know I way (if there's and it's not hardcoded) to increse that. Thanks!

[austere needle]

im not 100% sure but i think this is an client issue ...
tell the player he should join in singleplayer and spawn there (wait some mins.) and than join the map
(this is the workaround for one of my players)

• it was the map astraeos

• • this player is useing an HDD btw.

[candid needle]

I tryed it and it happened after first restart after the new Major patch the server is running but as soon you connect you disconnect with blackscreen even a roll back didnt work - reinstall mods - so atm im moving a old backup to a test server to launch it there 😅

[austere needle]

i had the same issue with one of my players ^^
and i can tell you i did nothing on administrative side 😄
maybe clean your donwload cache ?

[last magnet]

I found I blackscreen if I try to load into my big base. works fine if I log in on a smaller outpost

[austere needle]

It would also be interesting to know whether the player is currently located on the map, or if they are in the process of joining from another map.

[last magnet]

if I transfer maps, if I try to load into a large base, it has issues, but a smaller base, not really. like I can transfer to SE and into my base there but it's small. Meanwhile if I come back and pick a bed in my big base, I'm going to have a blackscreen

best I can see is that it saturates the client trying to render all that really quick even on low graphics settings

it was horrid when I had 16GB of RAM, and it's better with 32GB

and my server keeps trucking along, all nice and stable (I self host so I just have to turn my head to look at the console log/CPU/RAM readout)

[austere needle]

I completely agree.

[last magnet]

and it didn't matter my internet, as I was using my 16GB RAM laptop at my current place with 1gig fiber

and the gaming desktop is the 32GB one

same internet setup

[sage oyster]

i have an issue where i want to play with my bestie but he plays on ps5 and i on pc when he creates or i create the undedicated server we cant join each other what could an issue?

[near hawk]

if u mean a non dedicated session, those don't have crossplatform

if u on pc and have the ram u can host a dedicated server for u guys

[sage oyster]

oki

[ripe zinc]

ark crashing on startup over and over with no consistent error msg, tried all the google responses of deleting mods / install drivers, verify game integrity /etc but still crashing as soon as the game boots up - anyone have any ideas?

[marsh finch]

I tried setting up a server with ASAM [Ark server ascended manager] but then I tried playing it with my friends, and it works fine with me, but for my friend he can't join and it displays for him "connection timed out" but when he joins other servers it works fine, can someone please help me fix this?

[maiden vigil]

please help him

we really really need help 💔

[reef thistle]

Recently, quite frankly out of the blue, my server would start autobooting players immediately upon joining. Anyone willing to toss around some ideas and try to help?
[2026.05.25-00.45.16:208][107]2026.05.25_00.45.16: Rokitur [UniqueNetId:0002ba41dc504af6a7139a6e50cf5c89 Platform:None] left this ARK!
[2026.05.25-00.45.15:812][106]2026.05.25_00.45.15: Rokitur [UniqueNetId:0002ba41dc504af6a7139a6e50cf5c89 Platform:None] joined this ARK!

[azure ether]

may your pillow be cold on both sides tonight and for all eternity

[red juniper]

You need to open your server ports on your router aka port forwarding

[stone venture]

is there a way to get 510 level in a dino after taming it? i keep messing with the setting and cant seem to get over 305

[humble thicket]

This channel is for discussion about unofficial (or single player) server setup including mods and other relevant topics. Please make sure you're following all the discord #rules. Off topic discussions/posts may be removed.

Please use the appropriate server ad channel to advertise your servers/clusters:
(#role-assignment required)
🔹 Steam/Epic/Stadia: #800537627752398899 or #800537518843756544
🔹 Xbox/Win10: #800538816691699722 or #800538767252389888
🔹 Playstation: #800538567122092053 or #800537680784916501

Please use the appropriate recruitment channel to find people to play with:
(#role-assignment required)
🔹 Steam/Epic/Stadia: #735196255483068497
🔹 Xbox/Win10: #735196267373920286
🔹 Playstation: #735196277221883964

[willow mortar]

👀 can't wait to see how people use this channel! ARK has such an amazing unofficials community.

[lapis pewter]

[solemn grove]

O.o

[shell pollen]

new channel pog

[rose estuary]

https://tenor.com/view/otter-dance-dancing-dinner-time-gif-12861138

[slow mason]

[thorn marlin]

[azure pecan]

Scandalous

[humble thicket]

Someone talk about server configs lol

[rain crane]

uhh, .ini settings should be x3, or something like that

I think I did it right

[native oak]

anyone got a good link to the changes made in nitrado expert mode? like i cant even find the admin password option 😄

[vital token]

I am here to discuss unofficial servers and unofficial server accessories

[proven prawn]

👋

[inner niche]

What's the main difference of official and unoffical

[rose estuary]

Unofficial is managed by players like you, official is managed by Wildcard. Unofficial will vary a lot on how it's managed, settings or if there are mods in use

[halcyon shadow]

This channel will become the new bob and perry dms

[crisp pilot]

can I be included?

[halcyon shadow]

No

[crisp pilot]

sadge

[halcyon shadow]

[formal kernel]

Lmao

[blazing stump]

Hi cedric

[civic hound]

Here's the settings I use, idk if anyone wants this but I just wanna throw it out there

GENERAL

Difficulty level: 1.0

Taming speed: 3.0

Togles

Enable crosshair.

Show map player location.

Maximum difficulty.

Use singleplayer settings.

ADVANCED

Allow flyer carry.

Non permanent diseases.

Mating interval 0.01

Egg hatch speed: 6.00

Baby mature speed: 6.00

Baby food consumption speed: 0.01

Crop growth speed: 5.7

[humble thicket]

Not even gonna try posting mine because like if I posted my unofficial server stuff the egg hatch speed and baby mature speed is set to 200

[warm heron]

What exactly does single player settings affect?

[humble thicket]

I do believe stuff like tame speed and xp and maybe some other things

[warm heron]

Okay. I figured it tweaked an array of settings, but I wasn’t sure if there was anything that gave a literal breakdown of the changes it does

I rented a nitrado server yesterday so I can play with a few other people I know, and it’s been kind of a scavenger hunt to find a way to balance the settings accordingly.

[primal mango]

ooh new channel

[primal mango]

makes tamed dinos stronger, changes breeding rates, xp, not much else

[warm heron]

@primal mango thanks!

[primal mango]

oh actually,

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Single_Player

[frank bramble]

this is new

[primal mango]

I think I Missed a few settings

fuck wrong wiki link

it changes taming rates, breeding rates, makes dinos stronger, and changes levels so it's easier to level up in later levels

because it changes dino stats, most people advice against having them turned on

[warm heron]

Yeah I can see it has some drastic changes to Dino stats

[primal mango]

yeah most think that it's not a very balanced change

[halcyon shadow]

Also engram points

[halcyon shadow]

It definitely isn’t lol
30k health boosted to 50k

[primal mango]

health is untouched

the increase per level is what's boosted

[halcyon shadow]

Ye, I’m meaning lvld

[chilly smelt]

So KenKai, For Single player, Lan, or co-opt, or a Unofficial Dedicated. The Two different Ini. GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini. These will set all the parameters of your game play.
Here is the Ark Wikipedia page for the descriptions of each line of the two INI. https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Server_configuration?so=search

One tip the lines that have a - in front like (-UseVivox) or a ? are command line arguments and go into the Command Line.bat

[median kestrel]

Hey guys, currently setting up a server but ive got a problem. everytime my guy hits a tree or picks berrys it only gives me 1 type of resource respectively, so i can sit in a bush and harvest but ill only get fiber, or narco or tinto berrys with one sweep, how do i get balanced amounts of everything?
already upped gathering to x2, put
HarvestHealthMultiplier and
HarvestingDamageMultiplier to 0,25 but it still wont work

[halcyon shadow]

Turn off optimized harvesting, that may or may not be whats causing it

[frigid plume]

This seems nice

Ok guys does anybody know how to enable flyers in the aberration cave on valguero?

[median kestrel]

thank you very much ill give it a try

[median kestrel]

you sir, are a gentleman i thank you very much, ive been pulling out my air all night about this

[halcyon shadow]

It worked?

[median kestrel]

yes

exactly how i wanted it to

[halcyon shadow]

Les go

👍

[young minnow]

Needs to be in your gameusersettings.ini (check to make sure it not already there)

ForceAllowCaveFlyers=true

It will mean though flyers can go into any cave but this the only way to my knowledge so they can enter the Val Aberration zone

[frigid plume]

I already did that, I not only have that on but I also have the checkbox in the settings turned on too

[young minnow]

odd that settings fixes it for me, might be something else we are missing

[frigid plume]

Gotta check

[primal mango]

perry the big brain

[halcyon shadow]

⏫🧠

[humble thicket]

You need to actually go into your launch options if you are on singleplayer and add -ForceAllowCaveFlyers

[frigid plume]

Already did

[atomic coral]

Oh that changes a lot for me

[honest edge]

When will v340.8 with survive the ark mission fix be pushed to unoffical servers ?

[dry willow]

https://ark.gamepedia.com/275.0

?CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=true -- this allows you to download Non-Aberration Dinos on Aberration.

needs to be in your startup command line i believe

[frigid plume]

I meant to activate flyers on the aberration cave on valguero, thx for the help anyways

[dry willow]

then the allow cave flyers option should work for that

[frigid plume]

The point is, how do I add in on SP? .ini settings right?

[forest hound]

should be a allow cave flyers setting in the server setup.

[frigid plume]

Already did, both in .ini and in advanced settings

[forest hound]

then... throw ur pc/ps/xbox out the window, rage a bit on reddit, and start knitting instead....

[pastel cobalt]

some1 knows of a pve unnoficial to chill a bit?

[frigid plume]

Ew reddit

I mean, tbf, flyer or no flyer doesn't make that big of a difference to me rn

[young minnow]

someone tagged me?

[forest hound]

theres probably a channel in here PvE servers (your preferred game machine)

[jagged mason]

Is this a new chat?

[hallow heart]

Yip

[keen aurora]

Can someone help me with backup non dedicated server? When i am loading in to the game it crashes. Can i copy the files of my non dedicated world and back it up?

[empty comet]

Using Steam on Windows, your data is stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal (by default); so if a specific map crashes I would rename, say TheIsland.ark to like TheIslandBackup.ark and then try to rename one of the TheIsland_AntiCorruptionBackup.bak or TheIsland_NewLaunchBackup.bak back to TheIsland.ark.

Failing all that I guess you can just delete/rename the map and the game should create you a new empty one.

[lime matrix]

This one is for the unofficials until we get the patch distribution for gen2 to fix the sta mission.

For those still having issues with the turkey trial event and server crashing due to players running the STA mission. Use these in your game.ini and it will make it impossible for wave 10

DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Compy_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="CrystalWyvern_Character_BP_Blood_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="CrystalWyvern_Character_BP_Ember_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="CrystalWyvern_Character_BP_WS_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Dilo_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Dodo_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Hesperornis_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Ichthyornis_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Lystro_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Oviraptor_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Para_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Pegomastax_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Pela_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Phiomia_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Ptero_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Raptor_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Raptor_Character_BP_TameSTA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Rex_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Trike_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Trike_Character_BP_STA_Corrupted_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Trike_Character_BP_TameSTA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Trilobite_Character_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)
DinoClassResistanceMultipliers=(ClassName="Turtle_Character_BP_STA_C",Multiplier=10000.000000)

[keen aurora]

@empty comet i will try this, currently what i did is copying RagnarokSavedArksLocal and put it in desktop for backup. I tried single player ragnarok after that it worked, non dedicated after that it worked. so i deleted all the saved files for the map ragnarok and put my backup in it. it still crashes, a new non dedicated works but mine doesnt. Currently i am unninstalling ragnarok and reinstalling ragnarok.

[empty comet]

For sure if a fresh map still crashes there's an issue with the game, not the saves...

[keen aurora]

Fresh map works, new singleplayer and non dedicated @empty comet, there is something wrong with mine backup one i think.

[empty comet]

kk well, doubt restoring anything from ragna specifically will work, I'd try the other .bak files...

Otherwise IMHO you're stuck with trying stuff like ark-tools and the like to extract what's left of the save file (if it works at all) and hope to be able to restore a valid new savefile. Frankly that's a TON of work and might still have a lot of issues.

[keen aurora]

You know when the map is loading you see at the bottom left what is loading?, it gets crashed on Ragnarok_Proxy. I deleted it from ragnarok files and verified my game after that. It says failed to verify that 2 files from Ragnarok_Proxy, i think reinstalling ragnarok gets the job done.

I wanna show you what i backed up, maybe i did it wrong? dm

[floral warren]

Did you change any launch options?

[keen aurora]

No @floral warren, it started happening after i shutdown my pc wrong i guess, on the power button of my case.

[jaunty burrow]

⛵
For anyone who wants to make giant boats, there's 2 settings you need to modify. One is "PerPlatformMaxStructuresMultiplier=X", which is also available in the Advanced Setting Menu. Multiply whatever is there by 2-3 times.
But the other setting is not in that menu.
You'll need to modify it in the GameUserSettings.ini file, under the [Server Settings] section.
Look for: "PlatformSaddleBuildAreaBoundsMultiplier=2.000000" and set that to around "5.00000".
You can go higher than 5, but the games stability kinda starts breaks down above 4. Players standing on the outer structures might experience some choppy structure position updates when the boat is moving or turning.
So if you're playing online with others, try to keep it as small as you can.
Have fun!

[floral warren]

Then try one of the automatic backups as was suggested yeah

[keen aurora]

Ark-Tools?

[floral warren]

No the automatic backups

If you can restore them

[keen aurora]

which automatic backups are you talking about?

[floral warren]

Ragnarok_[Numbers].ark

Those are all backups

[keen aurora]

why cant i send screenshots here

can i sendd you?

[floral warren]

Sure

[neat girder]

Anyone know how to solve this problem or and the ark. There is a base on my server that when almost a player, when it comes close to crash, it serves it, I don't know how to solve it. I even gave more crash the server.

[tribal jacinth]

@neat girder I would say either wipe the map with a command or roll the server back before the crashes occurred or if there's a way to get to their base without crashes and wipe their base

[floral warren]

Rollback is the best option, DestroyTribeStructures might be too if a rollback isn't feasbile

[jaunty burrow]

do they have a lot of tames out and sitting around? if they can get on and cryo some of them up, it would probably help.
or admin-wipe them somehow.

[floral warren]

or DestroyTribeStructuresLessThan and increase the amount gradually. might be able to stop the crash without having to wipe the whole base

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Console_commands#DestroyTribeStructures

[neat girder]

I used destroytribestructures command, but server crashes too. The 6 hour rollback solution.

[floral warren]

It might be too much load for all the structures. try the LessThan?

[neat girder]

I haven't tested this other one.

[floral warren]

Try it, and start with small amounts

Otherwise, do you have any mods?

[humble thicket]

Does anyonehave a server

[neat girder]

I only use plugins

[floral warren]

Could try removing all the plugins (on a copy save) and see if that stops the crashing too

If it does, halve the plugin list repeatedly until you find the one that cuases the crash

[neat girder]

so this has been happening frequently, already and 4x in 4 months of Server. from what i understand of this bug is when a player travels from one map to another sometimes when he is born in bed he falls infinity down and dying in the game mesh, this generates an error and every player which brings the crash server closer to the base.

[neat girder]

I've also done it on a test server, I think it's the ark's own bug

[floral warren]

Do you have a copy of the crash message?

DM it if you do

[neat girder]

I'll catch the error

[warm warren]

Dope

[pure forge]

Anyone know a good serever wiping soon

[olive talon]

@pure forge you can look in #800537680784916501 or #800538567122092053

[keen current]

bro

how do i search in nitrado

for mods

because i can only use the mod ids

and some mod ids dont work

[olive talon]

The steam page has the mod ids. Depending on the mods, some may be discontinued or interfere with another mod.

[keen current]

okay i figured it out now thanks for the help

[lime matrix]

If you don't know who's tribe the structure belongs to you can use the ARK map save viewer to identify the offending tribe based on approx location.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/491802-admin-trusted-player-tool-game-save-visualiser/

And if I remember from your posts on Kal's discord you have ASM so easy to issue the destroy tribe structures command over the rcon console or rcon commander if using Kal's crosschat plugin.

[neat girder]

I'll take a look around.

I've already used the destroy command by rcon and base not destroy.
The server crashes.

[neat girder]

I'm not able to download this program, if it has a direct download link.

[lime matrix]

At the bottom of the first post is the viewer application.

[keen aurora]

hello guys, in my non dedicated server with my friends, with some dinos they fly in water

what is the fix for this

[lime matrix]

Mod Dinos?

Otherwise I'd check your launcher args and see if -ForceAllowCaveFlyers is in there.

Might cause that

[keen aurora]

No no mods used

[lime matrix]

Alrighty, then certainly check to see if cave flying is enabled.

[shrewd radish]

@mention me if you are trying to run a cluster for xbox/w10 and need a hand setting up server settings and configuring .ini files. I would appreciate the opportunity to assist and be apart of a team for a startup community. I don't do well in the spotlight but enjoy the technical side of things. If you need a resume you can checkout my test server i stood up.

Search: [US][10X] DINOCO 4 MAN PVP [ISL]

Not going to TLDR all the server settings as i've not had the best of luck with that here lately and have been burnt too many times. Just @mention me or shoot me a DM (Warmup#5291) and we can discuss. I've always wanted to make a cluster but it's too $$ for me to standup a full map cluster and I don't like the idea of accepting donations. I feel I would be a better fit as an engineer/technician for a team that has a dream and would be willing to help them pull something together. Looking forward to hopefully getting some hits on this post.

[keen current]

on nitrado

how do i add a modded map to a server

ive never done this before

[shrewd radish]

what map

[keen current]

im on valg but im trying to switch to talamh

i got the mod id

but i dont know how to change it

[shrewd radish]

DM you the link since I can't post links here 😉 hope you get it resolved.

If anyone is trying to startup a Steam cluster one of the best bang for your $ that i've found is hosthavoc... 50 slots = $20/map and 70 slots = $24/map

They have a lot of nice tools (including FTP) and you can setup automated tasks with server restarts and broadcasts

[humble thicket]

My brother used host havoc for a while, he was happy with it

[nova cove]

how did i miss an entirely new channel lmao

[sage scaffold]

There is an answer to that

@humble thicket probably knows it

[nova cove]

ah

as long as the answer doesn't involve monkey gifs

[humble thicket]

FM has a weird way of saying I tagged incorrectly on purpose so it didnt ping 140k people

[nova cove]

ah lol

damn, wish i had nitro, there are still reaction slots on the announcement

[sage scaffold]

What you want on there

I'll do it on your behalf

Also sorry, I know this isn't strictly on topic, but supporting hype seems at least semi-relevant

[nova cove]

uhhh idk now that i think about it, if you have zettapanic then there's never any harm in a good ol' zettapanic

thx lol

[lean flax]

Is there a way to get rid of the tether on non dedicated worlds.

[muted orbit]

ok

[pine wagon]

No, but if you're on pc you can set it to 99-100 to go across the maps, just not in caves

[lean flax]

Ok, thanks.

[frail wedge]

anyone else still having a problem with crashing out of the survive the ark mission on Gen2? We have verified files, checked mods, all the normal things nothing seems to help. I am running a nondedicated server on a computer that is more than capable of handling the load.

[peak oxide]

wasnt it about dodorex causing crash, it used the same entity that fear evolved used in that mission

[bold patio]

Hello, has been searching for quite long on how to let cross-platform activated (steam & epic here) ty

[primal mango]

having no mods should be enough for a server
For non deidcated, it's not possible

[halcyon shadow]

#735196277221883964

[autumn solar]

does it allow plugins?

[olive talon]

@wraith hollow use #735196255483068497 for lfg.

[wraith hollow]

Thanks

[shrewd radish]

Should… mods 100%

[rose estuary]

Plugins aren't always supported by server hosts due to how their installed. Also depends if they're a Linux or windows host

[empty comet]

For dedicated, you might need -crossplay option (see wiki https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Server_configuration) I don't have any Epic users...

[dim jolt]

enyone know why my culster isnt connecting i am useing gportal

it wont let me transfer

[thorny spear]

What