ItWasntMe Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 will i be able to transfer to other peoples maps (unofficial) dont fancy been stuck to the same map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 No. You will be confined to your cluster. Can you imagine people bringing stupidly OP characters and dinos into your server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItWasntMe Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 so i take it i would have to rent a different server for each map then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekani Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Yep if you rent a server, in the server settings you can set a cluster ID (the same) for each server which will allow you to transfer between different maps with the same cluster ID. Check out this link: Cross-ARK Configuration for ARK Survival Evolved - Nitradopedia EN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipinghot Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 5 hours ago, ItWasntMe said: so i take it i would have to rent a different server for each map then ? Not necessarily, even if you only run one server at a time you can configure each server to be in a cluster and then stop/start the servers so that you're only running one at a time. This would allow you to upload items and dinos to the obelisk on one map, upload your character like you're doing a character transfer, and then when you switch to a different map you can download your character to the new map and then pull things out of the obelisk. I know it sounds funny to have a "cluster" of servers when you're only running one server at a time, but it works just fine. The configs for your servers would look something like this (my server is Linux, obviously the path will look different on a Windows server): 1) The Island ExecStart=/PathToYourSteamDirectory/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux/ShooterGameServer TheIsland?listen?SessionName=YourIslandName?ServerPassword=YourServerPassword?AltSaveDirectoryName=IslandDirectory -clusterid=YourClusterName 2) The Center ExecStart=/PathToYourSteamDirectory/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux/ShooterGameServer TheCenter?listen?SessionName=YourCenterName?ServerPassword=YourServerPassword?AltSaveDirectoryName=CenterDirectory -clusterid=YourClusterName 3) Scorched Earch ExecStart=/PathToYourSteamDirectory/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux/ShooterGameServer Ragnarok?listen?SessionName=YourRagnarokName?ServerPassword=YourServerPassword?AltSaveDirectoryName=RagnarokDirectory -clusterid=YourClusterName Obviously you will have more elements in your config files, I'm just showing the most important elements in order to make things more obvious. Notice the two arguments at the end of each config, "?AltSaveDirectoryName=" and "-clusterid=" When you move your server(s) into a cluster you no longer have a single save directory, instead you want to create a different save directory for each server and you need to create a save directory for the cluster (this is where the Obelisks have their files so the game knows what's been uploaded into the Obelisk storage). Your save directories will all go under the same path where your current save directory is located, with the addition that the save directory for the cluster will be a little bit longer than the save directory for each server. 4) Directories for saves /PathToYourSteamDirectory/steam/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Saved /PathToYourSteamDirectory/steam/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Saved/clusters/YourClusterName /PathToYourSteamDirectory/steam/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Saved/IslandDirectory /PathToYourSteamDirectory/steam/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Saved/CenterDirectory /PathToYourSteamDirectory/steam/Steam/arkdedicated/ShooterGame/Saved/RagnarokDirectory Now, since you're a single player on your own dedicated server, technically you don't need to create a separate directory for each map, you could just add the new directory for the cluster and then all of your maps will share the ../Saved directory. But I think that's asking for trouble since all of your save files like "TheIsland.ark", "TheCenter.ark", "Ragnarok.ark", and your character file 99999999999999999.arkprofile, and your tribe file 9999999999.arktribe, and all of the backup copies of all of these files would be sharing the same directory which, I can tell you from personal experience, makes troubleshooting a bit confusing and difficult to have all of that junk in the same directory. I like having a separate directory for each map so I know exactly which files go to that map without any risk of making a mistake. Also, since we all know that sometimes the game gets weird when people upload & download characters, make sure you keep a backup copy of your character file somewhere just in case ARK decides to eat your character. Or, if you want to get a little more fancy, you can copy your character file into all of the server directories so that you never have to transfer your character from server to server. What we did on my "cluster" was we started out by playing The Island, leveled up, built up, did the taming, did the caves, did the bosses and then when we were done with The Island we uploaded everything that we wanted to take with us into the Obelisk storage. Then I shut down The Island and started The Center. We repeated the same process on The Center, uploaded when we were done, then stopped The Center, started Scorched Earth and we repeated the process again. Having said that, if you want to be able to move back and forth from server-to-server this still works, just upload, shut down the server you're leaving, start up the server you're going to, then download to the new server. Obviously there's some time you will spend every time you shut down and start up servers, but this would allow you to play on multiple maps while still only renting one server for your game. You could have 9 config files, 9 save directories plus your cluster directory, and by stopping & starting servers whenever you want to you could move back & forth between every map in the game, all while renting only a single server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yekrucifixion187 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 On 11/22/2020 at 10:58 AM, ItWasntMe said: so i take it i would have to rent a different server for each map then ? You can cluster with someone elses map/server using the above as well. All parties would have to agree and you'd want to find someone with similar settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero064 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Are you running your own server or are you renting one? If you have your own it's not that hard to set up a cluster with multiple maps. If you use Ark Server Manager it makes it even simpler. Just make sure your hardware can handle running more than one server at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d1nk Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 6 hours ago, ArkRage said: I could have sworn if said unofficial server has downloads/transfers open, you can transfer, but I honestly have no idea how it works. Maybe I dreamt it. 🤔 Side note, wouldn't that be amazing though? If you could transfer things from your server to another person's server? Just like how official works, but unofficial. I'd leave official forever if I could do that I'd run my own server, and just join other people's for trades 😊 Ahhh, the ark dream. (Imo ofc) But the problem with that is, everyone's servers are configured differently. Maybe the guy spawned a bunch of stuff in to get the best stats, colouration etc. How do you know ? How do you trade? I know it was hypothetical but just trying to shed some light on your dream (not trying to crush it!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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