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Can’t transfer Character across maps! My character is stuck on Rag and can not be transfer back to genesis. Is there a fix for this? Please help.

Bye Character. Wait New one wont work? So I was on small tribes 15. Just transferred over and The server was being dossed. Lagged out loaded back in character gone due to roll back. I made a ticket still waiting for assistance.. however I cant make a new character unless I want a default one. My slider bars arent changing anything other than hair an eye color. Ive deleted the game and reinstalled twice. Made multiple new characters to see if I can break the bug. Ive transferred to several servers an deleted all save filed on my PS4 for Ark. Nothing is working. I suspect its part of the summer event bug that needs fixing tomorrow but if not hopefully this post gets on wild cards radar because last time this happen was 2 weeks before genesis an I didnt get assistance ect till about a week into genesis an even than I was told Support cant help me due to it being server outage or something of that sorts. Btw my normal characted is still stuck on that 255 ping ab server 808. Its been like 4 months now. I truly hope something changes with the way this game is dealt with because its far to buggy to be a fully released game. An tbh allot of it is the community thay destroys it with duping,dossing,meshing. Anyway rant over.

Help pls! Crystal isles not working umh... ok so I don't know whats going on but idk where to ask this LOL, when I try to play the crystal isles map on a singleplayer world, it doesnt load me into my world, it brings me to the steam store-page for the DLC, I don't have any idea what's going on, anyone know how to fix this ? I have it installed and storage isn't an issue, I have it installed and it is checked in the steam dlc thing, and it's registerd on the store that I DO have it installed, pls help!! this happened last night too, I've also tried uninstalling the dlc and reinstalling it.

Hello, long time fan of Ark. Love the game. I would really like to see some actual VR support in Ark. like games that don't even have basic support I can get to run using VorpX and work arounds like that, but with Ark I can't get it to even fake it... I have a beast PC so this talk of how it wouldn't work because of low fps is not a good enough excuse for me. I have no doubt my machine is more than capable of playing Ark in VR. the real lquestion is will Ark get any support at all for it down the road? I have read a lot of stuff over the years regarding the topic of Ark in VR so please refrain from trolling and bashing because I probably already heard/read your opinion on the other posts I have read over the years- this is more a question for the devs behind Ark as I haven't been able to find an answer online from someone other than another gamer. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

where is the server support all moved to epic store? Since the free epic store launched the "free" servers are real crap sorry but that is the right word for it. We where used to bad servers but servers going down whole time. My main server is now down for more then 24h I know there are servers it seems down for a week now? what kind of bad support is this. the report site is a real joke it seems no update nothing you leave your email behind for nothing. What kind of anniversary is this one that reminds us that wildcard did not learn anything in all this years it seems. Communicate with you players on what is happening on your official forum it is like you are messing with all your players on official servers.

LinuxGSM - Can't Connect to Server, Out of Ideas I've already done a lot of Googling and I don't know what the issue is. I'm using https://linuxgsm.com on a spare computer running Ubuntu Server. I've already used LinuxGSM to get a Factorio server and Minecraft Bedrock server installed and running. Both are running, my friends can connect to both of those just fine. However, my friends and I cannot connect to the LinuxGSM ARK server. Here's some screenshots: ./arkserver details https://i.imgur.com/is6djYy.png Router port forwarding https://i.imgur.com/t8VBD4H.png netstat https://i.imgur.com/4PKUUP4.png arkserver.cfg https://i.imgur.com/G3pDXMJ.png Trying to connect: https://i.imgur.com/GDy2rt9.png No, I'm not trying to use steam://connect/192.168.1.28:7777 to connect to my server. I'm using the public internet IP. The server is allegedly running, I have all of the required ports opened. But I can't connect to it. I know the ports are forwarded correctly, because I did the same process for my Factorio and Minecraft Bedrock servers and those are still working. Factorio is using ports 34197 and 34198 while Minecraft Bedrock is using ports 19132 and 19133. There is no overlap as far as I'm aware. arkserver-console.log shows this: [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed. Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 346110 Redirecting stderr to '/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/logs/stderr.txt' [ 0%] Checking for available updates... [----] Verifying installation... Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation -- type 'quit' to exit -- Loading Steam API...OK. Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...Logged in OK Waiting for user info...OK Downloading item 731604991 ... Success. Downloaded item 731604991 to "/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/346110/731604991" (64830023 bytes) Downloading item 1404697612 ... Success. Downloaded item 1404697612 to "/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/346110/1404697612" (3248373 bytes) Downloading item 2112724006 ... Success. Downloaded item 2112724006 to "/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/346110/2112724006" (168852703 bytes) Downloading item 766032350 ... Success. Downloaded item 766032350 to "/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/346110/766032350" (89930704 bytes) Downloading item 2030676041 ... Success. Downloaded item 2030676041 to "/home/arkserver/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/346110/2030676041" (35337289 bytes) I also followed this guide (to no avail): https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/615086038683861456/ And that's where I'm at now. Normally something glaring would pop out at me, but this is day two and I still have no idea why I can't connect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Raised dinos keep disappearing... I’ve been shrugging this off but it continues to keep happening now over the last two weeks... I’ve had 3 rexs, 2 gigas, and a magmasaur just disappear on me. The gigas I teleported to arctic East once there they were gone. Never seen again. Flew the skiff all over and had the server looking for them and they are no where to be found. Nothing in the tribe log about them neither. My magmasaur, my best one I did a metal and obsidian run in the volcano. Which I do all the time. I was carrying the magmasaur with my skiff headed out. Half way out my magmasaur went poof and disappeared literally mid flight while carrying it. Nothing again in the tribe log. Looked inside the volcano all over can’t be found. Lastly, had my Breeder tek rexs outside my base. Had 7 females and 1 male that have been there over a month now. Woke up and logged in and noticed the male and 2 females have vanished. Nothing yet again in tribe log. I shrugged stuff off for to long now I’m here to post about it. I have no idea what has been happened but but this was all within a week but the magma and gigas were only a day apart. So now I’m out my best two gigas, my best magmasaur, and my male and two female breeding rexs. Fix the game this cant keep happening. It’s not easy work to raise gigas or even magmas sometimes and it takes a lot of time. Now that time is wasted yet again. I’ve been so demotivated to play that I’ve been just resetting stuff because I don’t want to raise the stuff again. I came here to put a ticket in and can’t even do that. It’s nuts. I’ve heard from several people in my server that they also have had dinos disappear. What is with genesis making them go poof?? DILO

PvP Smalltribes ddos Hi, we are playing on smalltribes servers official PS4 and facing ping 255 all the time (today 10 hours with breaks). Is this really what we are paying for? Servers are in constant lag (we tried more then one like six) and we are facing this issue on all servers we tried. Can anyone do here something? We also did some tickets to support. Which sent us an URL to the server admins. Where we sent ticket too. But so far no help or improvement. How we can achieve this? Should we move to some no-lag server? This is really not what I can imagine for paying money to PS plus paying money to the arc itself. I will be happy if someone from officials can give me an answer here

What does the (L) (S) (E) stand for in the PVE servers? What does the L S and E stand for at the end of the PVE servers?

X-Dinos not getting extra stat points I have had a server going for a few weeks but have run into an issue with Genesis and the X variant dinos. As most know, on Genesis you get 88 stat point to apply opposed to the normal 73 or so from non x variant types. My dedicated server runs LevelExperienceRampOverrides which gives all the tames an immediate 73 points. I am sure this is causing the x dinos not to have those extra 15 points. Is there a way to still give X dinos instant points but have only them get the extra 15 points when tamed? Any help would be much appreciated as I am stumped on this one.

Add KB&M Support So, as some know or for those who don't, xbox has keyboard and mouse support that can be used on a lot of games, including ARK. The problem is that you can only use default bindings though. I would like to suggest that they add support for KB&M on xbox so we can change our bindings, etc.. I understand, there's Windows 10 version.. Why not just get rid of crossplay and open up Windows 10 to all Xbox servers, if possible? Otherwise, please just add a bindings section

How long does it take for my ticket to be responded too? I lost my character for the second time and I heard that if you type in here you might get more attention on your ticket and that's exactly what I need. I don't want to waste my time getting a new character when I know my old one is out there. My ticket number is #1527329 please help me out, I need that character back.

Nitrado Xbox Auto engram question I want to add this command (bAutoUnlockAllEngrams=true) to my game.ini on my xbox/win10 nitrado server... As much as I have read about this I am not 100% what it does. From my understanding it will auto unlock engrams for you as you reach each new xp level. I hope that is the case. However my question is whether or not it unlocks dlc engrams? Which I do not want it to do. So does anyone know what the command does exactly? And does it or does it not unlock dlc engrams? Thanks

Official PAID Servers? Just a thought, but with all of the support issues that I see on here dealing with PVE Griefing of players (I.e.. pillaring, spawn blocking, new player spawn location building, etc etc). Would anyone here PAY for a set of official servers that WildCard would offer in game support for? To have a support team that actually read your tickets instead of “auto closing” them (we all have seen that action is rarely taken), or just telling you to talk it out in game would be awesome. Yeah I can do a private server (and I do) but the official ones I dont have to be home for to reset so that people can play on them... So, pay a fee... get server support to ensure updates and operation, and an actual small team of people who log in and actually investigate your tickets?? Id pay for that... I know a lot of people cant or wont but just a thought.

As Xbox players and hosts we've never had access to the .ini files to control our servers. Everything for us was pretty straightforward in terms of configuring settings, but we were also fairly limited in the amount of custom configuration we could implement. All of that of course changed when hosted servers arrived on scene, which opened us up to a whole-new-world of possibilities and headaches. I wanted to create this guide to help alleviate some of the pain associated with altering the .ini files, and to dispel some of the apprehension associated with implementing custom configuration code. I spent days researching, hours writing code, and hours fixing some of the mistakes I made. I figured some of you folks might find some value in the mistakes I've made, and what I've learned through my trial-by-fire. What follows is a sectional guide on the use of Expert Mode, and how to configure some of the more common custom configuration elements. NFD vs. Expert Mode When you first access the Nitrado Admin Console, you will find that they have created their own version of the configuration menu we had when running PDS through our consoles. It's all very straightforward and simplified, and it will look pretty familiar. For most of the settings you will want to alter, this is by far the easiest way to go about it. I have dubbed their console, Nitrado for Dummies. This is not to say you are a Dummy if you use this, but it is a simplified means of configuring the server; thus, the moniker. If you run a single server, and are apprehensive about altering the .ini files, this might be your best option for server configuration. A few things to consider before deciding which configuration mode you want to proceed with: How you want to customize your server: If you want to implement changes to level progression or custom stats, the NFD interface can be very time consuming (I'll get further into detail about these aspects later on) How many servers you run: if you run more than one server, and intend to implement customization, the NFD interface is a massive time-suck. Is your apprehension justified?: The simple reality here is that, there isn't a major difference between engaging the NFD interface, and directly manipulating the .ini files. Just like the NFD interface, every line item in the .ini file is easily identified. As an example: NightTimeSpeedScale=.7 DayTimeSpeedScale=.7 TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.0 HarvestAmountMultiplier=3.0 HarvestHealthMultiplier=3.0 Note: When switching to Expert Mode, most of the configuration options disappear from the General Settings interface. You will also notice that Engine Settings is replaced by Expert Settings. When switching from one configuration mode to the other, settings do not usually transfer. If you have been using the NFD interface for any period of time, it is probable that most configuration settings will show up in the .ini files; however, custom level progression and other custom configurations may not. Be sure to scan the .ini files to ensure that your server is configured according to your desires, check it again, and then proceed. Expert Mode Sounds fancy, right: Expert Mode, dun dun dun. It's neither as glamorous or as ominous as it might at first appear. If you've made it through this wall of text, and are now ready to start tinkering with the .ini files, here is where we begin. First things first, let's identify exactly what we're working with, and what goes where. To activate Expert Mode, you will navigate to the General Settings interface, click the little box at the top, and then click save. Once this is done, the pane on the left will look like: Let's go ahead and click on Expert Settings, and take a gander. You will notice that you're now nose-to-nose with an .ini file. Pretty unimpressive right? Feel free to scroll around, and familiarize yourself with what you're looking at. You'll notice that not all of your settings are here, and that's because there is more than one file in this interface. Click the area highlighted in red, and a drop down will appear. Once there, go ahead and click on Game.ini, the click Load File. You will notice that there is an Engine.ini in the drop down, but it is blank, and has nothing to do with what we're doing here. You will make use of both files in this interface when configuring your server, as they both contain different game variables. You will want to acclimate yourself with both of these files, so you know where everything is when you need to alter a variable. Note: Under GameUserSettings.ini you are going to see all manner of things you might be tempted to tinker with. Avoid altering settings directly under the following sections: [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameUserSettings] [ScalabilityGroups] [/Script/Engine.GameSession] Alterable variables fall below the following sections: [SessionSettings] SessionName=[US] Ark FTW-Ragnarok (this is the name of your server, and can be changed at your leisure) [ServerSettings] (many of the settings you found under General Settings are now found here, and they can all be altered) AutoSavePeriodMinutes=15.000000 (this can be altered, but I have read there may be some performance related issues in so doing, so probably don't) In order to make any changes to these files, you're going to need to completely stop your server. Once the server is completely stopped, you can make any necessary alterations to the .ini files. Once those alterations have been made, click Save, and then go have yourself a cup of coffee. Nitrado recommends that you wait around 4 minutes before bringing your server back up, as the backend has to make conversions. I also always run a server check any time I make any changes, which is probably a good habit to acquire. If you don't wait, you may end up with corrupted data, so wait the 4 minutes. Now, let's talk about some of the custom configurations you can make, and some of the resources I've found helpful. Level Ramp Overrides This is just a fancy way of identifying the option to add a custom level scheme to your server, and it works for both Players and Dinos. I'm going to break this down into three sections: Players and Dinos, Engrams, and Resources...oh my? Players and Dinos How you proceed here will be largely dependent on the type of server you run. Using the Overrides you can add more levels, reduce the total number of levels, and completely reshape the way you progress through those levels. Altering the Dino progression scheme is straightforward; not so much for players. The game reserves 30 levels for ascension, so you need to keep this in mind when you're deciding on a max level. The easiest way to explain it is: If you want a max server level of 150, after ascension, you will simply add 150 levels If you want a max server level of 150, before ascension, you will need 180 levels in total Ramps Another factor to consider is how you want your ramp to work. What is a ramp you ask? Simply put, it is the increase in experience required per level. You can effectively create any ramping scheme you want with the override. The vanilla progression system uses a progressive ramp with a steep curve towards the end. I use the vanilla ramp up through 115, and then a wave scheme thereafter. Maybe you want a linear ramp where each level requires the same amount of experience. The world is your oyster here, so do whatever feels good to you. Code Now let's talk a bit about code, shall we? The method for coding is linear, but it is time consuming. There is an override variable for both Players and Dinos, and you will need to create a block of code for each if you intend to create custom level schemes for both. If you elect to override the vanilla level cap and progression, your code block MUST start at level 0, and MUST include every-single level you want to have on your server. I made the mistake of starting my code block at a specific level, instead of coding every level, and I magically transported every logged in player to level 82. So what does the code look like? Glad you asked: LevelExperienceRampOverrides=(ExperiencePointsForLevel[0]=5,ExperiencePointsForLevel[1]=20,ExperiencePointsForLevel[2]=40,ExperiencePointsForLevel[3]=70 As you can see, there isn't anything overly complicated about the actual syntax of the code. If you've noticed something odd, however, you're right to be suspicious. Level 0. Well, there is no Level 0 in the game, so what on earth is that for? When you first spawn on the beach, you are already at level 1, so it seems odd that this wouldn't start at level 2, right? Level 0 in this code block represents level 2 in-game. So if you are coding these blocks, always subtract 2 from the max level: If you want 180 total levels, your code block will start at Level 0 and end at Level 178. Engrams Points Now that you've coded out your level progression system, what about engram points? Just like with levels, you can employ any engram point scheme your wee heart desires, and it is all linear: OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=8 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 OverridePlayerLevelEngramPoints=12 Each line ties directly to a level, and in order. So, the first line is the number of engram points you gain at Level 0 in your level code block, and so on. Your engram points code block should match your level code block in terms of numbers: If you have 198 levels written into your code block, you will need 198 lines in your engram points block if you want each level to come with engram points. Resources The following are some of the things I found useful when setting up my server's progression scheme: Ark's vanilla level scheme from the Wiki Code Generator Tool Note that the level scheme is out of date, so you will need to adjust if you intend to use the vanilla progression scheme up through any particular level Also note that, the site has other tools for custom settings aside from levels and engram points Server Configuration Specifics from the Wiki More to follow...

Trying to find a pve cluster server without Battleye I've been spending a lot of time trying to find a good cluster server without Battleye. For whatever reason Battleye doesn't work on my laptop so I need a server without it. It doesn't need to be PVE but I would rather do PVE. All of the servers that I've been able to join have insane harvest or XP rates or like lvl 500 dodos or whatever so preferably the server should have reasonable rates like 2x H, 5x T or whatever. Would appreciate any help!

Official Ragnarok PVE 195 server always down! Official Ragnarok PVE 195 server always down! The ark support. The support is useless. They just want our money but they never solve the problem, no matter how hard we try to contact them. Now I am playing the pirated game, in pirated servers, is the unique sollution. I dont like to do this, but Ark devs dont take care about players... It should be a great game, but with these developers, it just sucks. Deceivers.

Trouble installing Genesis Genesis toke 4 hours to reallocate, I downloaded it and that toke 9 hours and now it's been installing for 6 hours. It's the second time I'm doing it, since it couldn't stop at 100% and it was crashing steam. Is someone else having this problem and is there someone who knows how to fix this?

Fence foundation support Stone fence support no longer provides "foundation support" I just noticed it today because i wanted to extend my ramp over stone walls and the ramp refused to snap to the stone wall. There previously had been wooden ramps where now you see a gap. I have 305.12. It used to work, I am not sure when it changed because I was not building for months. Fix please and don't break structures (or anything else that's working) with future patches. Thank you.

Lost Character I am a PVE Official player, breeder, trader...I LOVE ARK!!! But last night I was leaving my Ragnarok server 173 going to server 1161 for a trade. I had 3 event wyverns and 2 top stat gigas on my player. I also uploaded 5k ing to the data slot on my trans. When I clicked the button to transfer servers a large black box showing some kind of error message appeared in a quick flash and I got kicked to the home screen. I figured it was the normal DC issue so I signed back in and got setup for 1161.....when I clicked join it took me to the character create page, so I clicked the button to download survivor and my character was not in the cloud. I took a deep breath and backed out, setup to join 173 my home server, and again, my character was NO WHERE to be found!!!! I play this game with my 22 year old daughter , it has been a great way for us to stay connected living so far apart. I filled out a “ticket” with hopes for help!!! My question is....are these “tickets” taken seriously? Is there “truly” hope??? Or should I create a new character and move on??? This is my first post as I most read the forums for knowledge but I am desperately seeking assistance here!!! Thank you all in advance

Why do I need to re buy Ark even when I have bought it in Early access I bought ark about 6 months into early access and played for about a year, I deleted the game so it was still in my PS4 library but I have just gone to re download it and it says I need to buy it again, why is this?

Wyverns not spawning on Ragnarok - Xbox One As the title says wyverns aren’t spawning at all on Ragnarok. Short Summary on my problem: I’m playing on a nondedi session with my friend. Wyverns, nests and eggs aren’t spawning AT ALL. Command destroywilddinos doesn’t work, I’ve tried multiple times. If anyone is familiar with this issue or know how to fix it, please let me know. I don’t know how big this problem is or it could just be me, but any feedback is appreciated!

How Can I View All Tribes in my Unofficial PC Ark server? Is there an admin command that displays a list of all current tribes (and their tribe IDs) on my server? I dont see it in the "showmyadminmanager" UI. Btw I'm running Ark 1.1.793.40. I'm playing on xbox one, but I rented my server from Nitrado, so it's classified as an unofficial PC session.

How can i give me admin https://linuxgsm.com/lgsm/arkserver/ How can i give me admin with linux and what must i do please help

The Ability to rotate all objects. Have you ever played ARK and you have the moment when you place a window or a door or a railing, and it places it the wrong way round? On Xbox, I can use RB (right bumper) to rotate certain objects like walls. But I can't for windows etc. It's a pain when you place a window and the handle appears to be on the outside of your house/base then it looks stupid, especially for people who have just right OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). So please, add a proper rotating tool to all objects/structures.