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Who or Where to Contact someone about over pillaring a space a tribe is not usin So i dont know who or where to contact about this but a Tribe on PVE Valguero 1102 NA has purposely placed a raft in my tribes Lake. The Tribe Tea Bauchery Party is messing with our space and we asked him to remove it and he is not cooperating. He says he was there first and even if that was true (which it isnt since he did not pillar off the area) this area where my tribe lives in is not being occupied by Tea Bauchery Party. Their main base is nowhere near where our main base is and their just taking up large amounts of land throughout the server for no reason. They place these stone huts all over the map and again this is unoccupied space. Their just claiming land so no one can build. Can someone guide me to a spot on these forums so i can contact a dev to get this tribe to stop messing with my tribe?

Wildcard actually doesnt know what ini you use ! **fix needed** war on ini and encrypting the game variables. hello my name is little brain in game , with over 6k hours on official and server owner on a unofficial pvp server its safe to say that im a die hard ark PVP player. and unlike most players i speak alot of good things about the game since im aware i played it ALOT ! However the current state of the PVP end of the game is a proper poopshow. Game althering INI took the overhand to the point where you dont stand a chance if youre not running it anymore. forcing players to destroy their game!? reshaders have taken over the game to the next level on both official and unofficial. battle eye offers little to no protection to this stuff however i did read that they do a DECENT job at detecting it for PUBG. after sending tons of complains to wildcard im taking to the forums , "probably to be absolutly poop on by the players that run it" since thats what happends on youtube or twitch when you confront players. the problem is arguably just as big as meshing (which took years to fix but fine its fixed) hidden bases are no longer hidden water is clear and screen effects are gone. as a server owner i can tell all of you a secret. **WILDCARD HAS NO WAY OF DETECTING WHAT INI YOURE RUNNING** bullpoop stories about "legal and illigal" ini go all around all arks. again wildcard has no way of checking what ini youre running wildcard can only ban based on your youtube or stream videos. thats if they see it........ Wether wildcard chooses to accept this over on their own clusters should be their decision ! as a community server owner i would prefer not accepting it but since detection is IMPOSSIBLE we rely on wildcard to put the tools into place to do so, or the stupidity of players that post a screenshot or stream! the most common excuse is that it increases the FPS for the gameplayers. listen to those players that have a potato PC and cant handle ARK cause they go by the minimum requirements written for the game 5 years ago. go play rollercoaster tycoon the FPS issue is an issue adressed to wildcard and by now they should be actively engaging to fix this issue or atleast put enough launch perks into place to make it possible 1. Go into your steam games library 2. Find Ark Survival and right click it 3. Select properties 4. In the General tab, click: Set Launch Options... 5. Paste this in (remove **) **-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -sm4 -d3d10 -nomansky -lowmemory -novsync -high** with game althering ini settings screen effects can be completely removed , the reshaders can make your game look like mario bros out of 1983 turning enemy players into a beacon of light or actually a dot without any light. structures can be rendered before the terain making it absolutly impossible to hide. now in the official code of conduct wildcard states however NOTING IS INTO PLACE TO CHECK OR CONTROLL THIS WILDCARD OFFCIALLY HAS NO WAY OF CHECKING WHAT YOURE RUNNING IN YOUR PRIVATE FILES ON YOUR PC all this can be easily solved by encrypting the console variables and other INI settings. in a previous tweet from wildcard they stated that INI changing is the same as switching your gamma , which is a delusional statement on its own. which essentially means these people cant fix it or dont want to fix it. they also state in the same code of conduct that if youre in one tribe with a cheater or hacker you risk getting banned aswell and that they always must be reported no matter what. UNLESS YOURE PART OF A 50+ PLAYER MEGA TRIBE LIKE HYDRA OR GANG GANG again as stated in previous emails wildcard ! wether you wanna keep this garbage over on your official network fine with me ! however give the unoffcial servers a detection or automated reset console variables on the load screen. its been over 3 years its time for your to fix this stuff.

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 "Export Dino" option to private server? I host a Nitrado server and am wondering if there is a way to enable or add in the "export dino" data option in my server, we would all really like it for ARK Smart Breeding. I cant find any threads for how to put it in your .ini or anything. I just feel there has to be a way! Really hoping I'm just missing a simple option, but I am afraid it's not that easy

Adding dino spawns through ini not working correctly We have added bosses from other maps to genesis through the ini using the spawn entries. In doing so, we are being overrun with bosses on multiple locations. Our spawn weight is currently at .0000000005 and out spawn max limit is at .0000000001 You would think this was low and would rarely spawn, however, we have upwards of 9 and 10 bosses spawning in each zone they were set to spawn... reducing further and wiping all wild dinos has no additional effect... We are on linux server

So, for those who don't know, it looks like the new update resets your config upon booting ARK. After some messing around, I found a fix! If you have a backup of your previous INI files, from before you initially booted ARK- you can make ARK load them, without having to re-enter everything, like this- 1. Go to the GameUserSettings file you want ARK to load [ARK>Shootergame>Saved>Config>WindowsNoEditor] 2. Find [Player.Info] 3. Change LastMapPlayed=[Map] to LastMapPlayed=Genesis 4. Boot and enjoy. Looks like after you load in with Genesis as the 'last played' once, you're free to load in and out of maps as you please with no config erasure. Hope this can help

Adding Velonasaur to Ragnarok ini broken? So my roommate and I recently rented a private server on nitrado. We have delved into the coding to bring spawns from other maps to ragnarok using the game.ini (ps4) file and have been successful with abberant creatures, the managamr, and several others. However, we have attempted several times to bring the velonasaur, and failed each time. We've tried our own code, numerous copy pasted codes from around these forums and the internet. I've tried taking the obviously functional code and only altered it to change for the spawn location and velonasaur, tried changing the location several times, and even tried moving the line of code to an earlier place in the ini file on the off chance there is a spawn limit. Nothing works, we still do not have velonasaurs. The only thing that happens is the local spawns in the vicinity become fewer and far between, and we have to adjust the weights to accommodate so more spawn. So now I'm wondering if the game has been changed to prevent velonasaurs from spawning on ragnarok? I have read of several other servers that had them, my roommate has personally played on servers where they were present on ragnarok, and yet we cannot make it work now. Has something changed or is there some unique to velonasaurs trick or bug I haven't learned yet? Thank you for your time!

I am scouring the Internet for the right .ini file or whatever it is I need. I keep finding outdated documents from two years ago, or videos in German. I pre-ordered a server for Xbox. I want to do more custom stuff, which involved changing up engrams and per-species dinosaur stats, as well as supply drops and bosses. I cannot find any of that information. The best I can get is like two lines of cost someone needed help with, and that is it. Would anyone know of a dropbox, website, or video to help me out here? Thank you.

Aberration Mats on Ragnarok? Hello! I play on a dedicated server with a friend and we've added Aberration and Extinction dinos and engrams to our Ragnarok map. They unlock (the engrams) when we reach the respected level at which they'd normally unlock. However, some of the items needed to craft items aren't on Ragnarok. I've tried to look this up and seen comments saying you can change the materials needed (so fungal wood for normal wood) and so on, but I can't actually find out how to do it? Or a code for the game ini. I don't know much about the coding. I've copied and pasted from other threads I've seen. Can someone point me in the right direction to do this? I don't mind if I have to try and type a code myself as long as I find something on how to actually understand how to do it. Any help is appreciated! Edit: Found it out.

DINO LOOT EDIT2: This guide assumes a basic level of knowledge for overriding Ark loot beacon drops. The following lists can be used with the code for custom beacon modifications in the game.ini file. For example: This will overwrite your basic white beacon - ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems=(SupplyCrateClassString="SupplyCrate_Level15_C".... This will overwrite the Rex inventory loot drop - ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems=(SupplyCrateClassString="DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Rex_C".... For more info on this: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/65930-tutorial-modify-loot-crate-contents-v242/ OK this started off with a chat I had with Normanbatez on the Beaconapp.cc discord a while back regarding dino loot. I did a bit of testing back then but also had very limited success. Then I stumbled across a link to a german loot config editor http://www.nipiro.de/ark_crates_beta.php - which allowed me to narrow my search and hit paydirt: https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://arkforum.de/index.php%3Fthread/11952-anleitung-loot-bestimmter-dinos-anpassen/&prev=search They didn't however have everything, so I had to work a fair few out for myself. EDIT- Thankyou to redditor /u/paulkravis/ for digging these out of the devkit! - Leeds DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Leed_C - Alpha Leeds DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Leed_Alpha_C - Basilo DinoDropInventoryComponent_Basilo_C - Thyla DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Medium_Thylaco_C - Theriz DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_TickleChicken_C Only one is now the Ice Wyvern for Ragnarok. CAVEATS Ok the key as TreeZenDE at arkforum.de worked out was the minimum number of item sets in the loot source is 2 - less than 2 item sets and the loot won't work. This is because these aren't normal loot containers and we are sorta hacking into them. So we don't have total control over the loot, but we can make stuff we want drop (with varying degrees of success). GENERIC DINO CONTAINERS Most dinos use the generic loot tables. It's a 30% chance for the container to drop for all of them except Tiny, which is a 1% drop (I don't actually know if Tiny actually works as it's difficult to test). TINY: dilo, micro, ovi, trodon DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Small_Dilo_C SMALL: Araneo, Onyc, Electro, Kapro, Raptor, Terrorbird. DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Small_C MEDIUM: Angler, Bary, Dire, Saber, Scorpion, Thyla, Thorny DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Medium_C LARGE: Allo, Arthro, Carno, Dimetrodon, Boa, Megalo, Sarco DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Large_C HUGE: Giga, Spino, Wyvern, Dodorex DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_C FIREWORKS: mosa,plesi,spino DinoDropInventoryComponent_Fireworks_C HERBIVORES Sauropods: Bronto, Diplo, Titan DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Sauro_C (Note: This is the tribute container, so you must include Sauropod Vertebrae or it won't drop) DinoDropInventoryComponent_Rhino_C CARNIVORES The bulk of these seem to have their loot containers because they drop tribute items. With some they may replace tribute items or limited items will drop. DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Small_Leech_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Mantis_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Tusoteuthis_C (Note: partial 1/2 loot. also dropped pearls and substrate) DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Rex_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Large_Argentavis_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Mega_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Large_Allo_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Gigant_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Megalania_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Large_Sarco_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Spino_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Large_Boa_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_Yuty_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_FireWyvern_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_LightningWyvern_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_PoisonWyvern_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Deathworm_C DONT WORK YET - (These exist but aren't connected up yet. I'm guessing placeholder for event loot) DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Vulture_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_RockGolem_C ALPHAS Some of these will deposit the loot straight into your inventory, others need to be looted. DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Mega_Mosa_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_MegaCarno_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_AlphaTusoteuthis_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Mega_Rex_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_DeathwormAlpha_C (Also the ICEWORM QUEEN on Rag) DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Mega_Raptor_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Mega_Megalodon_C DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_Huge_MegaFireWyvern_C (Note: worked but onlt gave 2/3 item sets.also dropped trib and milk) RAGNAROK DUNGEON MINI-BOSSES DinoDropInventoryComponent_Carnivore_DeathwormAlpha_C (You are somewhat limited in how much loot you can make drop) DinoDropInventoryComponent_LavaGolem_jackson_C (from normanbatez on the Beacon Discord) ENJOY AND SHARE At this stage not too much testing has been done. But I can say I have made these dinos spawn test drops (I made them drop element and element shards to test). I used https://beaconapp.cc/ to test this and I'll be publishing a blank preset for Ragnarok though the app that others can download and use. In the meantime for the lazy, I've uploaded a savefile with the dinos containers added on the Beaconapp.cc dev Discord. I hope this helps out my fellow PC admins, but this is really meant as a gift to our console brethren who can't use mods yet. Hope it helps guys. (This is also posted on the playark subreddit, but thought I'd chuck it up here as well) Edit: typo and missed a .

Remove Force Engram Page on Level Up Is there some way either thru the game ini or thru a mod that I cant seem to find that would stop the game from taking you to the engram page after allocating points after leveling up? So when you have a level up you spend the point and then you can get out of the menu without it taking you to the engram page. I run a server with some hidden engrams and want to remove more due to overlapping mod items but once you get so many things hidden the game lags when opening up the engram page and so when leveling up you get the lag and so ive let the idea go but want to know if there was a way to avoid the freeze after level up. All engrams are auto learned on my server so other than to see the level of something there is no need to open the page otherwise. Any help would be appreciated!

Filepath for game ini files/Item stack size So I’m not very knowledgeable as far as coding and computers go, I basically know how to install mods and use console commands. Im new to ark, I’m trying to increase the stack size for items like raw meat, berries, wood, etc for easier sorting. So I host a non dedicated server on my laptop and using my Xbox gamer tag to play with my girlfriend while she’s on my Xbox on her account. I understand mods can’t be used for Xbox, and the Xbox probably couldn’t connect to the server if I had mods enabled. I understand that game and player ini files can be adjusted to tweak values and such of basically everything in the game and im assuming that an Xbox can connect to a server that has been adjusted from a pc? Anyways I have no idea how to find ark on my pc. Yes I know it sounds dumb but I don’t have it on steam, (that would be too easy) it’s a windows app through the store, can’t find the file path. No it’s not in c users windows, no I can’t search for ark or wildcard or shootergame etc. I already know what to copy&paste, not sure where though once I get into the game ini settings. I just want to adjust the item stack size (without adjusting things that don’t already stack) AND GET RID OF THE FKING TETHER! thanks I’m losing my mind trying to figure this out.