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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.

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.

Can't get HLNA on xbox one single player I purchased genesis pass on xbox one around 10 days ago, but I wasn't aware until today that you could get HLNA before the expansion released. However, after trying many times, dying with default survivor items enabled as well as through console commands, I cannot obtain it. I tried installing the genesis pass through the store (10mb download) but it doesnt appear in the my games and apps section. Any help would be appreciated.

Important for Xbox single players. Might not want to purchase ark genesis yet. If you dont know already single player and dedicated servers on xbox 1 Not Prim + all maps are broken besides island. The issue has been acknowledged but no clear date for a fix. It's been a month of no drops , eggs, artifacts and missing dinos. I have not got any feed back on when this will be fixed. So I'm putting out a warning for xbox single players to take caution before buying the new content because it might not be working just like all the other maps. You could be spending money on a broken map waiting for a fix if there is a fix.

Over 150 So i play on ps4 ark, and i watch this youtuber who has dinos spawn up to 180. He was on pc, but is there a way to get this on ps4?

Trying to tame a Titanasaur! Plz help! Hi all. I am trying to tame a titanasaur on my single player map. I have god console but i am not sure of the best way to go about doing this. The quicker the better thou i know this is a longer tame. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

A few things to make ark just a bit better for single player. I play ark on both PS4 and PC, and I see some of the same problems mostly being fixed by mods so i want to address them here and maybe this will get enough votes. {This is my personal opinion, and it would mostly be for single player} First off, make procedural Arks better. It sucks when half of the time you make one it crashes the game. make to so we can only go above a certain number such as for the water level so we just don't have water. And make it so there would be a way to enable different animal types and world types (Extinction, scorched earth, etc...) It would be really cool to here we could tame things like managarmrs and Wyverns without having to spawn them in. Also make it so we can get the ability to spawn bosses in too, that would make an actual goal in the procedural arks. Second, I don't know what gameserver.ini is and I'm assuming that it is more advanced settings such as what things spawn where and where you can spawn etc. I think it would be nice of there was a simplified version of that to make the game more fun. It would be funny if me and my friends were playing on the island and they just saw a bunch of aberrant paracers and mammoths together. Thirdly, make more changable settings in the single player menu, such as stacks, crafting speed, AND THE ABILITY TO MAKE IT SO YOU CAN LEVEL FLYER SPEED. I know it was an exploit to make your flyers fly faster than the speed of sound. But it would be nice if we could change that in single player. This would kind of go with the second request because it would mean changing the values in the game files. Fourth, Make it so we can spawn in ALL event creatures and items, such as the zomdodo and the dodowyvern. It would make if nice and more fun if you could have multiple event creatures without having numerous months on one ark. I don't mean it so they naturally spawn in either, I mean the player/admin spawning them in. fifth, make it so you can change level caps and items inside of drops for yourself. I see this in modded servers ALL THE TIME where you would go to a white drop and get a crap-ton of ammo, rifles, kibble and such. It would be a pleasure if you could change this in single player, especially for the other players that play non-dedicated.FINALLY, make dedicated servers and non-dedicated servers better. I know this would eliminate a lot of income for things like nitrado, but It would be nice if you could at least make a private ark (non- dedicated) that can hold up to 8 people and can actually have the entire map available to people without them being dragged all over the place. I know that it would make the game a little more laggy, but we should at least be able the toggle it, like on PC. And make it so we can have public sessions without having to have another console on constantly with at least 20 people allowed on at once. And make it like usual with the whitelists and blacklists. I know this was heavily single player based, but this was my honest opinion and I wish these things would come into play to make ark even better than it already is! Sincerely, Scribblescrab

Single player dinosaur transfer issue I was playing single player and was transferring dinosaurs from my Island world to my Ragnarok world. When I reached the blue obelisk in Ragnarok, I started to download my dinosaurs, I downloaded three out of the ten when the game froze and I was sent to the Xbox dashboard. When I reloaded ark, I had to re - download my survivor and when I reached the obelisk, I discovered that all the items (mainly cryopods) and uploaded dinosaurs were missing, even the ones I downloaded before my game froze. I tried going back to the island to see if my dinosaurs were there but they wasn't. In the tribe log, it says that they were uploaded but don't appear in the obelisk. Is there a way to get the dinosaurs back or have I lost them permanently? Any help is appreciated and thank you. I have also found an error where taking your items from an obelisk before downloading your creature would crash the game completely and I have lost over 10 cryopods by this method.

Stop nerfing SP And add more mod features for it as well Bring back original flyers so you can add speed. Also more of the s+ features can be added to singleplayer and even private servers.Other sponsered mods should be added as well just to make single player a little more enjoyable. Some things for example is taking away cryo sickness. When your in single player there is no reason to have it. (P.S. recommending all this for consoles, show some love)

Ark mobile unofficial server to single player Is there a way to transfer things from un oficial servers to single player?

Hi I've seen videos on YouTube about the castles keeps and forts mod is this a PC sponsored mod and if it is would this mod make it's way to PS4 and Xbox one because I've been building Hyrule Castle from breath of the wild out of wooden stone walls ceilings floors pillars and whatnot and it doesn't look like it much but the castles keeps and forts would what does anyone think of the Hyrule Castle idea?

Resource Respawning Wild Dino Levels So I recently gave up on official ark as it is way too toxic of a community to enjoy the game. I switched over to non dedicated host/local gameplay to have fun with my fiancée and beat the whole game without the burden of trolls coming to wipe my base out after days of grinding. *Side-Note: An hour and a half after server transfers were back up a mega came to our server and wiped it clean with a desert titan for no reason. When I first started the Host/Local server I noticed that wild Dino levels were extremely low even though I had changed the setting to max difficulty to spawn in higher level dinos. (I’m playing on the island until I ascend and beat boss battles, but it’s rather difficult when I can’t find a rex or yuty over level 45. I’ve tried everything from changing the difficulty, destroying all wild dinos using commands, even going around the entire map numerous times killing off all the low levels and still the only high level I can find is a 145 Rex and it’s only one of them. This goes for every Dino though. I mean I find level 125 pteradons but that’s it for anything over level 100. This is just the first issue I have. Any suggestions? My next problem is Alpha dinos spawning, I cannot seem to find a single alpha besides the occasional alpha raptor but even those are few and far in between. I mean on official I couldn’t walk 15 meters out of west zone 3 without 7 alpha raptors attacking me. And I haven’t seen a single alpha carno or alpha Rex. This makes ascending extremely difficult. Any suggestions? And for my final question/complaint, METAL, CRYSTAL, AND OBSIDIAN SPAWNING. I have waiting days and days in game (over 5 hours IRL) for nodes to respawn. I changed the settings in the lobby so many times I lost track. One time I changed them and the trees and rocks that once covered my base location actually reappeared and covered my entire base so I had to break them all but still no crystal, metal, or obsidian respawned anywhere. I’ve searched everywhere for answers and can’t find a single one. I’m hoping someone can help me! Please and thank you!

Can't tame dinosaurs When I knock a dinosaur out, it gives me the option to access its inventory. However, when I press triangle, it doesn't let me feed it anything! It have tried this with most early game dino's and it only works using the passive tame. I am at lvl 37 now, and have tried on all islands. PLEASE HELP ME OUT.

So I've played ark a lot and I learned I prefer single player but I get impatient and end up turning on cheats and running around with a level 1,000,000 Yutyrannus. What have other people found to be the best single player settings? Including Imprinting too because I want to delve into mutations, I work 8 hours during the week and go to school as well, I just play to relax and have fun but I still want to breed and take on bosses but I don't have days to devote to just this game. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Shortening artifact respawn time I was wondering if there is a way to shorten the amount of time it takes for an artifact to re-spawn. I play single player on Xbox. Thanks for the help.

Primal Pass did not appear in multiplayer Hi I just bought a primal pass yesterday but it only work on single player. But when I play in multiplayer it made me look like I dont own the pass. And by the way I bought the primal pass when I was playing multiplayer.

Otters mobile solo? Are otters ku single player mode like Griffins?

Okay everyone. Quick question for anyone who can answer it. I play the game on single player, primarily on The Island. I had spawned in an alpha manticore trophy because I couldn't transfer the one I earned on Scorched Earth to The Island and I really wanted it in my trophy room. Anyway, I discovered recently that it despawned/disappeared from the wall mount I placed it on. I spawned another one and placed it on another wall mount. I'm curious whether you guys have had this happen with this or other trophies in the game. If so, is it a bug isolated to the manticore trophy or a single player world, or was my trophy wall mount I originally had it on bugged out? Let me know.

An idea for PVE and SINGLE PLAYER to whom it may concern a note from a returning player, from pc to console. idk how this would work but imagine single player that ran like a normal server.. so like pokemon runs off the systems inbuilt clock some how? like I play pvp official majority of my ark time, will be returning in the next day or so , but at the same time I always like to have a single player server going. a lot of people do, so maybe if it was possible to add the option to single player preferences, and before people say nitrado servers, un official I know. in the end all I use single player for is testing out builds and building cool structures and that's it unfortunately. I would really like to play it without the pains of online sometimes. a lot of people do. it only continues when you start it up, now reason why I said pokemon before is because it runs off the systems(DS) actual inbuilt clock whether there is internet or not the cycle changes depending on IRL time. just because there are people that only paly offline due to internet or just over online. imagine if the single player could be just like a normal server for yourself so when you go to work or school your tames can die, wild dinos could attack crops grow breeding, ect! instead to pve properly you have to go online and that well we all know how that story goes. , like its sad how devs have said don't do this ect but you log into any pve server and cant build anywhere because people have either created that much lag via sinking pillars or just built unnecessarily so you cant build in like a 10km radius.. so stupid like theres no point joining ya friends on console in dedicated or non dedicated whatever it is because there is a radius like what ??? split screen there is not a radius?? because of issues like this people are forced to pay 3rd party sources like nitrado for a private server or what not... so idk just an idea of an inbuilt clock system I guess and also making it possible to do what 7 days to die does in a dedicated friends only servers but where anyone can play on it even if who ever creates it is not on and no radius.. I feel like also by doing that people will get more content out of the game in the scent there is now more options for like a safe creativity space or even private wars for fun just to name a few . like anyone see where im coming from here? if anyone has hosted a server before its not cheap really. I mean poop I used to have a server and go halves in one with a friend but its not the point, I believe these are some small things that could really improve the players experience within the core of the game itself. I feel these are some topics that never actually get spoken about. people keep screaming for MORE dinos, dlc, tlc but never anything to do with this. people are asking for more, add more dinos every month, preferably add more s+ and simple tlc mods. people say that console ark has been forgotten by the devs, it really hasn't if anything they have only really released content for PVP players on console so idk why everyone is crying. I feel like they are finally realising they haven't hit the pve market enough.. it just needs a aesthetic mods and maybe some of the cooler ones for single player to change it up, jurrasic park flyers pick you ect. some cool things here THE IDEA OF NPCS HAS BEEN THERE FOREVER. could definitely be a dramatic change within the online game itself and single player. npc shops tribes , friendlies that trade enemies that raid. but again im sure yous have a lot to deal with as it is . if this was to even be read by a dev the only thing id really cry for is the single player re vamp.. a note to the players some of these problems on ark pvp/pve us as the players are to blame. people complain about server lag but don't remove old buildings or destroy them.. forget where they have stacked pillars. you cant rely on the devs to clean your server on official, you as a player if your an alpha should be on top of that already so people should really think about topics like this before they really complain about the devs and the game . great game none the less honestly my favourite as much as I try to quit playing I cant , yous have created video game meth xD, I have put more hours in this then I have playing anything else ever.. @wildcard

Single player backups Hello, I just lost a 80h play save after a crash and i'm really pissed of... After trying to recover my save, I saw that the world has it's backup files very regularly, but not the player ! And of course, I lost the player... I think it would really be useful to also backup localPlayer files in addition of world files. It think player files are even more important because the level and the dinos are really the important stuff to keep. Structures can be rebuilt. I'm looking forward a new version including this simple "almost-not-a-feature"

Just trying to get an idea of how much of the community play on single player. Please comment here if you do. Maybe add why you like or dislike single player.

I have an argentavis saddle that is acting as a mobile smithy. It is an apprentice saddle. It only does this on one bird. I traded the apprentice saddle for a mastercraft saddle on 2 different birds and so far only one argy seems to act as a mobile smithy when wearing the apprentice saddle. The mastercraft saddle does not act as a smithy when either bird wears it. I'm confused, do we have mobile smithy saddles for argentavis or not?

Lots of people like to playthrough the storyline maps in order, but fresh start each map. It would be nice to start from level 1 before retain the memory of ascension and tek engrams. Currently there is an add experience command. So either add a remove experience command to set experience to a specific values command.

Comment with your game modes/game style ideas here. I have been playing ARK for a few years but, after a few days of playing, it gets very boring and I end up not playing for months at a time. I'd like to start a discussion with ideas for new game play styles and game modes. Creating a DLC or even a completely separate game following the core of ARK (Dino taming and base building) but adding an adventure/story mode to make a more in-depth and story-rich immersive experience would be INCREDIBLE, think Pokémon/Dragon Age/The Witcher/etc.. The game would have objectives/missions and force/encourage on-ground exploration incorporating strategy rather than flying everywhere or using an overpowered mount (not fully eliminating fliers/strong mounts though), incorporate characters and villages, maybe some dynamic player choices similar to Dragon Age/The Witcher. Missions could be events such as taming certain types of dinosaurs, protecting villages from wandering, aggressive dinos/characters, selling tamed dinos to farms, fighting AI characters, following clues to hidden elements/events such as a hidden cave entrance containing an objective item/artifact, missions that require using in-game items/skills or even certain types of dinos (for example: climbing mountains using ice picks rather than mounts to retrieve dino eggs from a nest, gliders rather than mounts to get to specific goals, small/medium ground mounts rather than pteras or overpowered mounts while traveling through the forest, etc.), giving the options to recruit AI with specific skill sets and allow them to work in farm fields, rock fields, breeding pens, caves, help build structures/houses, hunt with or without you, tame with or without you, build a village ecosystem. These options would be best-suited for PVE and Single Player, while still preserving the PVP experience. As far as enhancing PVP game-play, a new game mode that would create a Tribe v Tribe war experience such as creating a natural war arena with mountains/trees/bushes/water that encourage a PVP hunting play style that focuses more on fighting instead of gathering materials and crafting items. This would be similar to a Call of Duty or Battlefield experience and can even have different modes that allow the crafting of items vs just having a loadout, incorporating mounts with options for designating mount types/specific creatures or disallowing mounts. Even having a game mode that would apply creative mode for building for, say 10 minutes, but would include a height/depth/perimeter restriction for base building and be a capture the flag type of game style. This mode would have the option to select the building materials of the base and would give a certain amount of time to build the base and then disable building when the war starts. Different options such as allowing the game host, whether it's public server ran or privately ran, to dictate the length of build mode and the length/life count of war mode would be a great enhancement. Adding this to the game would breathe new life into it and create a very large and effective new stream of revenue if executed correctly, as well as attracting a much larger player base therefore increasing the exposure/popularity of the developers for future game releases. ARK has so much potential to be at the forefront of the gaming industry if only executed properly.

I like to put all my settings as close as I can get to the online settings when they use to be: x2 exp, harvesting, and breeding weekends, but I have heard that the imprinting settings are a little messed up on offline/single player maps. So, how would I set up the imprint to be on x2?! It’s confusing the crap out of me.