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Just went through the Northwest cave on the Island. I play single player, splitscreen with the wife on xbox one. We spent hours trying to figure out if we'd missed something in that cave. No loot drops, no Artifact of the Skylord. We had to go onto bloody youtube to figure out where it was supposed to spawn so we know where it's supposed to be and it's just not there. Look, I've bloody supported you guys, defended you guys, been supportive of the development process, but this is just too much. This is supposed to be a finished damned game and I can't even play it the way it's meant to be played because one of the primary elements to ascend is freaking MISSING! I'd be a whole let less angry if this game was in Beta, but as a full release!? This is just damned ridiculous! I am very glad I bought Ark in beta, because if I'd spent $60.00 on this game, I'd be absolutely livid. Sorry for the rant, but this is just so disappointing. It's like you don't even care about the folks who play single player.

ARK Single Player not Saving World Back when I started ARK made daily backup saves in ShooterGame/Saved/SavedArksLocal in the TheIsland[timestamp] format. Now I had no more on the last 2 weeks. It is obvious how to "activate" them with renaming it, but my problem is, that there are no more such saves being created! Using the SaveWorld command saves something like normally every 15 minutes, but those saves aren't the same as those in the SavedArksLocal folder. So my question is how to activate the automatic timestamp-backups or how to even manually create them. I have copies of all of my (old) backups. I would really appreciate any kind of help! 2 weeks progress aren't to joke with.

Single Player, The Center, Artifact of the Immune Single-player, the Center map, Artifact of the Immune - game shuts down completely upon entering the under water cave. I've tried multiple times with different water dinos and continue to have the game shut down/restart.

Scorched Earth Crashing Hi, I play single player split screen on my Xbox s. While on scorched earth, the game crashes within 2 minutes of player. It is impossible to play at the moment. The game works fine on other maps (at least Valguero and ragnarok). I am running the game on version 800.19 for the base game, but only 800.15 for scorched earth. It has been like this for over a month. Can I fix this? I bought abberation and I will try it tomorrow. Please fix this!

Why is my Single Player Save question not being answered? Below is the transcript of my trouble. If you start at the bottom of the chain...that's where my question begins. Could someone explain why I'm not getting an answer to my question? GM Chival (ARK) Jul 24, 2020, 4:23 PM PDT Greetings Survivor, Thank you for contacting Studio Wildcard Customer Support. After careful review of the circumstances of your ticket, we are currently unable to grant your request. This ruling is made in accordance with our code of conduct and internal fair play policies as well as our limited support capabilities. We know it may be frustrating, but we appreciate your understanding in this matter. We will be closing this ticket, and may your future endeavors be most Rex-cellent. Sincerely, GM Chival Studio Wildcard http://www.studiowildcard.com Security Tip: Please do not give your password to anyone for any reason. Studio Wildcard will NEVER ask you for your password. Note: If your ticket status is pending (you have not responded to us) for over 5 days, it will automatically be set to solved. If this is not the case, feel free to respond to the ticket and it will open it back up. This process is automated and not done by the GM. Snotblow Jul 23, 2020, 5:30 PM PDT Hi. Please stop providing canned responses to my request. I would like to line out a little more clearly what is occurring. I have downloaded Epic within my Admin. I have created two individual log-ins into the Epic interface for two different users in my house. When each user logs in using their own username and password, they are seeing the same save game within Ark Survival Evolved. I need to know how the game is associating a single Ark Survival save to two individual Epic users. Epic states it is not their issue and they require you to resolve it. If you could assist in the troubleshooting of this, I would appreciate it. Thank you. GM Chival (ARK) Jul 23, 2020, 3:51 PM PDT Hi Snotblow, We are sorry to hear that you have experienced an issue with the game and are still unable to play the game as intended. As a fellow survivor, we know what it feels like and how frustrating it is. Please know that if we could, we would assist you in a more timely manner. Sadly, due to our inability to dictate dev priority as Customer support, we are unable provide support at this time but we have notified the engineers, so you will hopefully not have to encounter this issue in the future. Again, we would suggest that you keep your eyes on our future community crunch here for an update. Should you have further questions or concerns regarding a different matter, please do not hesitate to contact us again. Thank you for your continued support of ARK: Survival Evolved. Have a Rex-cellent day! Sincerely, GM Chival Studio Wildcard http://www.studiowildcard.com Security Tip: Please do not give your password to anyone for any reason. Studio Wildcard will NEVER ask you for your password. Note: If your ticket status is pending (you have not responded to us) for over 5 days, it will automatically be set to solved. If this is not the case, feel free to respond to the ticket and it will open it back up. This process is automated and not done by the GM. Snotblow Jul 22, 2020, 5:24 PM PDT This is not a game feedback or change/feature request. I have two separate accounts on one computer and your game save is the same for both. They each should have their own independent save games. How do I resolve this? GM Chival (ARK) Jul 22, 2020, 2:35 PM PDT Hello Survivor, Thank you for contacting Studio Wildcard Customer Support. We received your feedback. Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated and important in helping us continue making ARK: Survival Evolved the best game it can be for everyone. We value all help and opinions as we work on improving the ARK-gaming experience for all. Unfortunately as Customer Support, we are unable to make any changes to the game. I would advise posting on the "Game Suggestions" forum located at http://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/forum/64-game-suggestions/ as that is seen by the game team who actively monitor it. Hope that was able to address your concern though. Please feel free to contact us again should you have any other questions or concerns. Take care and have a great day! Sincerely, GM Chival Studio Wildcard http://www.studiowildcard.com Security Tip: Please do not give your password to anyone for any reason. Studio Wildcard will NEVER ask you for your password. Note: If your ticket status is pending (you have not responded to us) for over 5 days, it will automatically be set to solved. If this is not the case, feel free to respond to the ticket and it will open it back up. This process is automated and not done by the GM. Snotblow Jul 21, 2020, 8:31 PM PDT I have worked with Epic the last 4 days on this before they sent me to you guys. I have two child accounts with separate sign ins. They both have ARK Game. I choose the game to be installed on a separate (larger) drive that they both have access to. When they start ARK under their separate account on the same PC it is one save (same character). They should each have independent saves but that's not happening.

pls make singleplayer easier In single player there is no tribe to help with resource collection, so building is very hard. As said in the game, when playing single player there is no way to unlock all the engram. When you wander too far on a flying dinosaur and land, what you think is safe isn't and then it dies and a lot of work is lost. There is also a lot of things in the game and when playing single player, it is overwhelming. So I think that there should be a dial to make it easier to collect resources (or cost less to build), saves so if you do an oopsie you can recover, and it should be harder to level, but more engram points are given. It is also annoying when a dino leaves randomly, never to be found again (whether while gathering resources, or it disappears from its pen). --also I know that it is possible to just play with a tribe (not in single player), but in that you can't just sign off, your dinos could starve, your stuff could be stolen and you would have to regularly sign back on Have day nice

Infinite pickup structures command I've looked all over the internet for some way to set up an Xbox single player game to be able to pickup structures at any time. I also play on an unofficial server and they have this setting enabled which makes it very convenient. The only thing I find is "admincheat AlwaysAllowStructurePickup=True" however that does not seem to work on the Xbox. Any help would be appreciated.

Server Saves I have been playing Ark Survival since its inception. Always played on one server in the early days until it was shut down. I obtained the server save from the server saves and loaded it onto my single player. Bliss! I had my base and dinos from the early days, all my favourites and significant dinos i had raised. A few weeks ago I had some computer issues and had to reload steam and redownload Ark. To my horror my save was gone and my single player was a new game. No matter, I thought I will just reload the server save. No No No! computer says no, no way, nohow. I have done everything thing I can think of to no avail. ..obtained a new download from the site ..emptied my server saved file and restarted ..over and over I have deleted the saved file and reload the server file. Nothing works. A friend who knows computer game stuff thinks that the updates to Ark over the years have made my current game incompatible with the save from two years ago when our server went down. Crying now and remembering my base and that bear I had for four years, my lovely giga. A slew of dodos. All those wyverns I treated like princesses. Anyone have any suggestions?

Single Player Back-Up Saves My suggestion isn't a new dino or some fancy weapon... It's something the game really needs for crashes and updates that destroy our games... A Back-Up Save... You can roll back servers Everytime something goes crazy on them right? What about our single player games? Consoles especially... We need the option to back-up save our progress in case something you do to the game destroys everything... I've had all my bases and Dinos just wiped out multiple times, more than I can count since toward the end of early access to now... I have no idea why I never suggested it sooner because it would solve a lot of problems... Even if we lose a little progress, at least we wouldn't lose everything... Even if it was ONE back-up save per single player we could replace over and over by saving over it when we choose would be enough... The game could still run auto-save as normal but if need be we have the option to load the back-up save for whatever reason. Plus If you guys mess something up again, which is probably inevitable... We can just reload our back-up saves and all is well for the most part... Just protect them and make sure no updates corrupt them or wipes them out (but still allows them to be up-to-date when loaded) and it should calm a lot of the back lash you see from updates. I highly suggest you guys get on a face-time, Skype or whatever and figure this one out because it could be a huge win for the community.

single player resources Can we get a fix for single player resource spawn bugs?

Broodmother fight So I was wondering if my army could take on beta broodmother. I have 18 therizinos, 1 yuty and 1 daeodon. The therizinos have 20k hp and 470 melee. The yuty has 2k stam and 10k hp and the daeodon has 15k hp with 48k food. Single player settings are turned off btw.

The Island Single Player Difficulty I have played PVE and PVP, and a decent amount of single player over the years with mods mostly and adjusted rates. I want to attempt to ascend The Island but on single player and with no mods, and with default settings. I am just curious if the default difficulty of 0.2 is the way to go or should it be bumped up? Anyone else completed The Island on default single player with no mods? What is your take on the difficulty settings?

Boss Console For Ark Mobile? I’ve been wanting something like this for a while so I made up a little presentation I guess you could say. I want other peoples opinions. And if wildcard sees this maybe they’ll consider it.

No Wyvern eggs and no beaver dams Hi everyone, I've been playing ark for a while now and once I went to the beaver dams in the ragnarok map. I collected the cement paste and pearls and left, next time I wanted to get back ther was no beaver nor beaver dams (first time there weren’t beavers either) . I was accepting it but when I wanted to get some Wyvern eggs there were none not even a nest. Also there was no Wyvern nearby I really need help or explanation to fix this. things you might need to know: I play on Xbox, Singleplayer, Ragnarok. Thanks, Traxced.

Damage making taming on Lunar biom impossible I am currently playing on Single player. I was starting to tame a Tek rex,when I notice that suddenly I started getting damage from an unknown source,So did my mount and so did the rex and each time the rex got hit by this invisible force,its torpor drooped to 0? Lunar Biom bug

Strategy for Megapithecus Hi, I have recently gotten all of my rexes (and a yuty) raised and leveled. I am confident that they are strong enough stat wise, but I want to know what the best strategy is. There will only be 2 of us.

Save and Load Mechanic for Single Player Can you please add the ability to save the game when the player wants to in Single Player? The auto save feature always saves at the worst time (ex. when your flying super high on a mount and you spawn in falling to your death, or in the middle of a battle with a Rex) and will often get you killed if you try to load back in after crashing. With the ability to save when you want and load previous saves, people will feel like they have more control of their game, because I for one hate feeling like i have to play supper safe or risk losing important gear or dinos all the time, and I am sure I'm not the only one who feels this way....

Does anybody know if single player and dedicated servers will be able to extend the event? We used to be able to but the Christmas event was only partially available after (with the most important part - Raptor Claus - missing). I believe the V-Day event could be extended but they removed the candies. Has anybody heard anything about if that's going to happen again? Or, if you know why they removed that option? It really takes the fun out of the event that I can't choose to make it longer if I want to when playing on my own. I just feel forced to play during the event, which of course makes me feel like playing less. Instead of fun, the event is stressful - all because I'm no longer allowed to make it longer for myself!

Npc mod on console??? Any chance for single player support!!! Would really like to see an addition somehow if more content for the single player experience genesis is cool but what about something for the old maps!!!!??

Best way to kill wild gigas Hi, I am in the endgame of ark (single player) and I am preparing to do the Alpha dragon fight, but I don’t have the giga hearts needed to spawn him. What is the best way to kill a wild giga for the heart?

Single player boss stats Hi, I am preparing to do the single player bosses with 1 Yutyrannus and 19 rexes. What stats would you recommend having for the bosses and tek cave on alpha difficulty. Right now I am thinking of getting up to 10k health and 1k damage. Will this be enough? Thanks in advance.

Teleport Issue on Single Player I play on Xbox on Single Player. I have been having issues when teleporting from one biom to the next. I will teleport but other than a shoulder pet, my Dino’s within the bubble donor teleport with me. I’m not sure if it’s part of the issue, but there tends to be a long load and the game tends to crash shortly afterwards. I’ve made it a point to turn the game off and back on after each teleport. Is there something I should be doing differently to be able to use this feature better and to also prevent my game from crashing and rolling back 15+ minutes of gameplay?

Dodo-Ball Bug I played Dodo Ball for the first time today and no matter where and how I threw, whenever I hit it just didn't count the points.

Single Player Ark Data Loss Character Lost Me and my brother play on the island single player, xbox one. We decided to try ragnorok and enjoyed it a lot with our characters, not having to level, excterra. We were low on supplies and my thlacoleo died so we decided to head back to the island, we fast traveled to our obelisk base and uploaded our ark data. When we got to island we spent about an hour packing up all our things and bringing them to the obelisk. We then transferred into ark data and uploaded our survivors. We exit to main menu and we got kicked out of the game. This happens about once a week when we save and the progress usually saves. We loaded back into ark and the resoution was terrible with random blue and pinks stripping across the screen. When we loaded in to Ragnarok we tried uploading our survivors but we couldn't see them we tried the island, again no luck. Is there any way to get back me and my freinds characters? Isthere any way to get the gear and animals in ark data? I dont want people saying I was stupid to risk this. I realize this. Please help.

Getting a larger present per imprint action Hi, I play single player on the island and I am breeding rexes for boss fights. I find it time consuming and annoying that when I am raising rexes, each imprint action only gets me 3%. While watching some YouTube, I noticed that in one of Syntac’s videos, his rock drake imprinted 33% with a single pet. Is there any way so that each imprint action would give me 33% or 50%: some sort of multiplier for this. Thanks for the help!