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Need help with opening ports, ARK Server Manager So I have tried everything, scoured the internet. I'm seriously at a loss as to what to do. I've opened the ports on my router, enabled DMZ, disabled DMZ, opened ports on my firewall. Everything, I'll post screenshots of my settings and if anyone can figure what is wrong I would greatly appreciate it. edit: When I launch the server everything starts but it's stuck on "Waiting for publication". double edit: I actually "fixed" it. Server was up the whole time but for some reason those port checker websites were reporting the port to be closed. Got my friend to check and it worked despite the "waiting for publication".

Need help with Console Variables aka ini. Hey, i often see YouTuber or Twitch streamers that use a custom console variables aka ini Since I'm not familiar with this area I googled around a bit, I found a website (see below) where you can set up the server and I wonder if there is something like that for the console variables. Where you can insert your desired ideas and you get the needed one, which you can copy&paste Here is the link to the website: https://ini.arkforum.de/index.php

Pixel-like/blurry graphics I've been playing ark for a while and I've constantly had these strange graphics issues, in the distance the trees, grass, basically everything always looked so off like extremely pixel like and overall just really bad looking. I am thinking it's my monitor because it's not really a monitor for gaming or anything and its also really old but i'm not 100% sure. It's a dell monitor that I've used in the past with my old PC (which had the same exact pixel graphic issue) and i recently built myself an entirely new PC which i use now for ark and i'm still having the same distant pixel graphics like my old PC i used. Is it my monitor or is it something else? I have all my graphics on epic and my resolution is also max. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB ram, samsung SSD 860 500gb. Greatly appreciate anyone who can help me out, thanks. Sorry for the bad quality pics i had to make them smaller to fit the size limit.

Genesis quest item grinding Hi guys, is there any option to enable quest rewards grinding? I find it pretty annoying to not be able grind stuff. Thank you for your time and help

Looking for help in building Hi! I'm looking for building advices. I want to close a part of my building but i just can't figure out how. Stairs bottom, rails on it but theres a huge gap to the wall and its get wider as we move up. Any idea to connect the rails and walls somehow?

My Dino says owner and then my name in game My lvl 296 Dire bear says owner and then my name above it’s name I was wondering how to get rid of that

Bases dont load in & disconnect hiho i dont know why, but since today, when i try to join a server, the base just loads in partially, then stops & like 1-2 min later i get disconnected........why?! the ping is fine (below 50) and i can so anything else, stream videos, play other games... soo i dont know what could be the reason for that atall! i tryed on 3 different servers, everywhere the same! thx to any1 who has an idea what the fudge this could be !

No Sessions found Any time I try to join a server with any filter other than non dedicated, all that pops up is No Sessions Found. I have been trying to fix for about a week. I have uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, reset my winsock multiple times, uninstalled and reinstalled battleye, and I cannot find the solution to my problem. I'm on the PC version of ark, any help would be greatly appreciated. ReplyForward

Ps4 Since Genesis, Ark Rules keep resetting Hello, ever since the Genesis map came out my Ark Rules for PS4 have been resetting every time I open up Ark. I can open up to different maps and the rules will stay set how I like them, but the moment I close the Ark application and open it back up everything is reset. I have started playing less because it is EXTREMELY annoying to type everything back in. I have a bad feeling I will need to delete Ark and reinstall it so I'm hoping that someone has another solution other than this last resort (I'm not even sure if that would work...). Please help

Creatures that can kill the dragon easy?? Tell me which creatures can kill the dragon faster than the others

PS4 and Steam ARk on PC Hello, can i play with friends on steam ARK and ps4 crossplay?

Spawn time for metal rocks? what's the spawn time for metal rocks after being broken?

Alpha Raptor Hello, I am fairly new to the game, I’m on mobile, I’ve played once before but only got to about level 21. I’m not a total noob. My main issue though, is that there is an Alpha Raptor extremely close to my base. I’m on the south side of the island, so I’m surrounded by water. This raptor is so close that it has blocked off the land behind me. I don’t know what to do since obviously this thing has a ton of health and is extremely fast. In addition, it’s also killing most of the animals on the island. It will never die because there are no carnivores besides sarcos and it is stronger than any herbivores it manages to aggro. I’m only level 23 with level 26 and 39 parasaurs, level 5 and 20 dilos- as I was writing this a sarco attacked my base- my level 12 trike managed to kill it thankfully, I was deathly afraid it was the alpha raptor, the now level 13 trike, and 7 various dodos (for eggs). I need help on this and am considering moving my base because of the deadly sarcos and the alpha raptor. Advice? Edit: I am planning on moving to another island in the south, but the raptor is right in front of a cave with crystals , and even if I did move, it wouldn’t be easy. I could use my trike and parasaurs to carry materials.

The best way to farm metal solo or in duo? Discuss the best way to farm metal that you know

Major FPS drop when moving inventory After some research I have not been able to solve my issue. When im trying to move items from my inventory to another such as a vault or fridge with "T" the fps goes from 120 to 14 and my GPU drops from 99% utilization to 40%. Also when I try and drop items from my inventory it does the same thing BUT when I use "O" to drop things inside a objects or creatures inventory no issue. below is a list of mods my server runs. Server is 10max with only me on at most times. Running 30fps solid Ragnarok server Nitration rented official I noticed started close to the Genesis release Structures Plus (Open Source)Version : Latest Mod Structures Rebalancing Force Update Automated Resource PumpsVersion : Latest Force Update DinoTrackerVersion : Latest Mod Force Update Additional Creatures: AquariaVersion : Latest Mod Creatures Force Update ARK Additions: The Collection!Version : Latest Force Update ARK Additions: Deinonychus!Version : Latest Force Update BackpackVersion : Latest Mod Force Update Balanced NarcoticsVersion : Latest Force Update Versatile Raft ModVersion : Latest Force Update AppetizerVersion : Latest Mod Force Update Dino Patrol SystemVersion : Latest Mod Structures Rebalancing Force Update Upgrade Station v1.8iVersion : Latest Mod Structures Rebalancing Force Update Meat SpoilerVersion : Latest Force Update Dynamic Fence SystemVersion : Latest Structures Force Update Krakens Better DinosVersion : Latest Rebalancing Mod Creatures Force Update Ragnarok DLC

looking for a person t ocmone in my singleplayer server for one thing i'm trying to change my character but i need a 2th person for that. is there anybody that is willing to come on quickly and justInsert other media change those bodyvalu's to the default ones?

Season Pass Skins I have the season pass on steam and I used to spawn with the skins but I no longer do. anyone know why this could be I have the DLC downloaded. Any suggestions would be amazing.

Crafting items lowers my frames to 1FPS Literally crafting items in anything, lags my game. The faster the item is crafted, the worse it is. I've had to start crafting bullets in fabricators instead of repis cos it's to fast, and it still lags my game. Anyone know a fix?

10 Newbie Q's - Hosting Ark On PC and playing with Xbox friend Ok .. I've played ark on steam but now I've got it on windows 10 and it seems that there is some really horrible desync with the only "The Island" Official Dedicated PvE server.. It's just an unplayable mess for some reason. I doubt my friend would want to play with me if it's acting that way for her .. So here are my questions.. If I'm on the Windows 10 Store Ark Version of the game and trying to host a server to play with my friend.. I'm pretty sure shes only going to want to play when I'm playing .. So I think a non-dedicated server is going to be fine? 1) If I host a non-dedicated server , does this save when I log off an we can pick up where we left off when I'm back online any playing with her? (assuming a yes but need an answer to be sure) 2) Is it even possible to host a non-dedicated server on Windows 10 version and play with her on Xbox? (crossplay) (She has the correct subscription for online play) Or do I need to use a dedicated server for crossplay here? 3) Is it better or even worth trying to host a dedicated server on my Windows 10 machine AND play with her assuming she likes the game and want to play it while I'm not there? It doesnt look possible to host a dedicated server AND play it on the same machine through the windows 10 store.. Unless I can find the game files and launch the server independently like you can via steam .. Clarification here? 4) Assuming she wants to play while I'm offline , but we've been playing a non-dedicated server for a while.. Is there a way to convert my non-dedicated server saves to a dedicated one if I choose to make it so she can play while I'm offline? 5) How are the desyncs / lag here assuming I have a stellar computer and connection to host the server (either dedicated or non) when talking Windows 10 players + Xbox (Crossplay) 6) Will My FPS take a hit while trying to host a dedicated server from my windows 10 machine AND play it with her? (Assuming this is possible with 1 microsoft account and subscription to the game store that allows me to at least play the game? (Like can I play AND host a dedicated server on my windows machine through only 1 microsoft account if playing from the microsoft game store version of the Ark game?) - Again she has Xbox live and online play subscription enabled for her normal games. This one shows up free for her with game pass , like mine does. Something tells me I'll need either a 2nd machine to run a dedicated server like this as I dont know where the ark 7) What are some things I may be unprepared for here? 8 ) If I want to change the spawn rate , difficulty , taming time etc... of stuff on the server (whether dedicated Or Non) is that possible AFTER the server is created? I'm pretty sure it is for dedicated servers .. but are these Non-Dedicated server files saved anywhere? If so , I can figure out how to do that myself but I thought I'd ask here for as it's a simple yes/no for most of you guys right? 9) When hosting a non-dedicated server ... To keep it so that only she can join .. First of all .. DO I hit the Private Match Checkbox and give her the password? 10) How does she join my non-dedicated server? (as thats what I think I'll be hosting) My ultimate goal is to either host a dedicated server or non-dedicated server to cross play with her (Me on windows 10 , Her on Xbox) and I dont care to play with others or deal with extreme lag that is out of my control. Thanks for your time guys .. answering these questions will really save me a lot of time and searching. I hope they were easy enough to understand.

Need help with wind turbine... Hello all! This is a really stupid question but idk where else to ask.. I'm playing on Genesis and want to build a turbine.. my neighbor has one so I messaged him and he told me I had to unlock it on an official scorched earth server. So here I am for the past 15 hours trying to get to level 50. Finally I unlock it, yet I still can't build one on genesis.. how does this work?

Admin on Xbox Dedicated Server Ok so I've been searching for quite some time on how to use xbox admin commands on a dedicated server and I can't seem to find any answers anyway so I made an account and came here. I run my server through an xbox account on my pc, then I join the server through another account and then try to give said account admin through the pc account. It says the xbox account is an admin but then when I go to enter in some console commands it still says "Request Admin" in the bar and thus my commands arent working, is there a way around this at all, or a way to have my pc account use commands while on the server screen?

Split screen ps4 Hi, my girlfriend and i, and our friend-couple would love if it was possible to play split screen with the screen split vertically instead of only horizontal. This would make a lot of people happy i am sure. thank you

Windows 10 Player dedicated server excessive resources usage I have a windows 10 player dedicated server "cluster" with three maps hosted on an old work station 2x xeon X5680 12 core 24 thread @ 3.33ghz-3.7ghz 72GB of ddr3 RAM. I'm using hyper-v to run three instances of windows 10. I have one copy of Ark running on each VM. The problem I'm encountering is ARK using up to 3x the cpu utilization to run on a VM. For example if i run a dedicated server on the native OS i will see between 5-10% total system usage, when running on the VM it will require 20-30% total system usage (this includes the VM which uses ~ 5%). Does anyone have a clue why the server running in the VM is requiring more processing power to do the same task ?

Giant Bee Turret mode We are attempting to integrate defense bees into our cave entrance to work in conjunction with our tek turrets, Heavy turrets, plant x, velonasaurs, spiders and yuty on turret mode. The bees should spawn from mother bee and then attack the rider and dismount the rider upon contact. However, the bees that come out of queen bee are on “attack your target” only and have to be changed to aggressive on command, even if the queen bee is on aggressive. Because of that, the bees won’t be plausible if we are being offlined. Does anyone know how to change the status so they are on aggressive once they leave the bee?

Karkinos took my Ravager into the grave with him On Official PVE: I was fighting a level 20 karkinos on my level 150 ravager, easy fight, and the karkinos picked me up. I was fine, but when the karkinos died my ravager dissapeared and he was nowhere in the area around it. Tribe Log says that nothing happened to the ravager. What the heck happened and can I get a replacement ravager on Official? (Its definitely not a big loss but he was my first rav tame and like a son to me)