Does anyone know how to reset the New Years Event after it has been run already?

[Mute1]

When running Ark Server Manager I see the following even though I do not have the event configured and when I try to configure it, it does not run. Is there a trigger I need to delete?

 

Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110

[2023.04.13-19.32.47:931][ 0]LogMemory: Platform Memory Stats for WindowsServer

[2023.04.13-19.32.47:931][ 0]LogMemory: Process Physical Memory: 68.34 MB used, 68.34 MB peak

[2023.04.13-19.32.47:931][ 0]LogMemory: Process Virtual Memory: 54.38 MB used, 54.50 MB peak

[2023.04.13-19.32.47:931][ 0]LogMemory: Physical Memory: 12752.63 MB used, 32693.73 MB total

[2023.04.13-19.32.47:931][ 0]LogMemory: Virtual Memory: 4501.73 MB used, 134217728.00 MB total

[2023.04.13-19.32.48:398][ 0]New Save Format enabled

[2023.04.13-19.32.48:398][ 0]ARK Version: 357.12

[2023.04.13-19.32.48:399][ 0]PID: 13904

[2023.04.13-19.35.31:210][ 0]Primal Game Data Took 161.11 seconds

[2023.04.13-19.35.36:116][ 0]SteamSocketsOpenSource: gethostname failed ()

[2023.04.13-19.35.36:116][ 0]gethostbyname failed ()

[2023.04.13-19.36.08:613][ 0]Server: "Winter Wonderland" has successfully started!

[2023.04.13-19.36.08:632][ 0]ADayCycleManager DayCycleManager3,

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:298][ 0]Commandline: TheIsland?listen?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=70?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True -NoBattlEye -forcerespawndinos -nosteamclient -game -server -log

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:298][ 0]Full Startup: 204.74 seconds (BP compile: 0.00 seconds)

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:298][ 0]Number of cores 6

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:366][ 1]Server attempting to run new years event

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:366][ 1]Server already ran newyears event 1

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:366][ 1]Server already ran newyears event 2

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:366][ 1]Sever Is not set to official or running NewYearEvent argument

[2023.04.13-19.36.12:322][ 52]Set New Years event location: -86711.156 - -171866.203 - 430.878

[2023.04.13-19.50.36:117][870]Saving world...

[2023.04.13-19.50.36:578][870]World Save Complete. Took 0.460397

[invincibleqc]

The following log:

2 hours ago, Mute1 said:

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:366][ 1]Sever Is not set to official or running NewYearEvent argument

Tells you that you do not have -NewYearEvent in your launch options:

2 hours ago, Mute1 said:

[2023.04.13-19.36.10:298][ 0]Commandline: TheIsland?listen?Port=7777?QueryPort=27015?MaxPlayers=70?AllowCrateSpawnsOnTopOfStructures=True -NoBattlEye -forcerespawndinos -nosteamclient -game -server -log

Now, although the game does not allow to replay them for the same save, you can do so with the following steps:

• Shutdown your server.
• Open your save (e.g. TheIsland.ark) with a text editor that won't mess with the encoding (e.g. Notepad++).
• Find and replace bDidNewYears1 with xDidNewYears1.
• Find and replace bDidNewYears2 with xDidNewYears2.
• Find and replace bDidNewYears3 with xDidNewYears3.
• Save the file and restart your server.

Make sure to set NewYear1UTC and NewYear2UTC to new timestamps.

[Mute1]

2 hours ago, invincibleqc said:

The following log:

Tells you that you do not have -NewYearEvent in your launch options:

Now, although the game does not allow to replay them for the same save, you can do so with the following steps:

• Shutdown your server.
• Open your save (e.g. TheIsland.ark) with a text editor that won't mess with the encoding (e.g. Notepad++).
• Find and replace bDidNewYears1 with xDidNewYears1.
• Find and replace bDidNewYears2 with xDidNewYears2.
• Find and replace bDidNewYears3 with xDidNewYears3.
• Save the file and restart your server.

Make sure to set NewYear1UTC and NewYear2UTC to new timestamps.

@ invincibleqc - Thank you for the info on where I need to make those changes! While I was aware of the 1st part of your response regarding my not having the command entered into the system I had no clue if it was even possible to reset the event counter for NYE. What got me wondering about it was the announcement regarding the shutdown of the Official Servers. I am hoping (though not without a healthy dose of doubt) that they will fix the other events to fully function before they abandon it. I'm referring to being able to run the Turkey event and have the Super Turkeys etc... 

 

Anyway, thanks again!

 

[Mute1]

@invincibleqc

I tried opening the file TheIsland.ark with Notepad++ and have attached an image of what I'm seeing. Not sure how to make this readable.

 

[invincibleqc]

1 minute ago, Mute1 said:

I tried opening the file TheIsland.ark with Notepad++ and have attached an image of what I'm seeing. Not sure how to make this readable.

 

You don't have to make it readable. Just do CTRL+F, switch to the [Replace] tab, and replace all occurrences:

You may have 2, or 3 occurrences depending if your saved already played the 2022 event and the two 2023 ones. Then save the file with CTRL+S and you are done.

[Mute1]

Thank you again, that did the trick!