Today, in the fifth issue of the “ARK Digest”-Series, representatives from Studio Wildcard confirmed the release date for the Linux and Mac Clients to their game. Previously asked about the matter by fans, developer /u/jatonreddit now confirmed: Yes! We’re excited to announce that we can finally confirm the release date of the Mac and Linux… Continue reading Linux and Mac Client to arrive on June 25th
Careful: Items can get lost in your Inventory
Once you start to craft large amounts of items, your inventory will invitably fill up. That is in and of itself not a tragedy, though certainly annoying. As it turns out, some players have had to face a much more drastic problem: Their items simply vanished. Having counted the items before, they were sure that… Continue reading Careful: Items can get lost in your Inventory
How many people are playing Ark
I dont know why so many people want to know this, but because ARK is a Steam Game, it’s pretty easy to get the information how many people are currently playing the game. You can just visit the page “SteamCharts”: Link Currently (June, 9th) there are ~65.000 Players playing the game. But this number alone… Continue reading How many people are playing Ark
“Cheat” items
A short tutorial for giving yourself items, as long as you’re an admin 😉 Log in with your password: enablecheats passwort Use the following command admincheat giveitemnum 1 1 1 false The first number is the itemid. You can use this list to lookup the items The second number is the stack amount The third… Continue reading “Cheat” items
Console Commands / Cheat Commands
Information: this is a legacy list for the cheat commands from the early alpha. For an update list, click on the link below ⇛GOTO NEW LIST⇚ // There are a few situations, in which an adminstrator is forced to cheat on his own server. Some examples: repairing something destroyed by a bug, recover… Continue reading Console Commands / Cheat Commands
Never import Player Data on your server
With the current implementation the character files for Up- and Download from the ARK are accessible to the player. In practice that means that players can arbitrarily manipulate them, cheating as they see fit. Obviously you will want to avoid that on your self-hosted servers. As it turns out, that is actually quite easy, since… Continue reading Never import Player Data on your server
A Short and Easy ARK: Survival Evolved Server Setup Guide
Prerequisites You’ll need a Windows server for this. If you want to install on Linux, use THIS tutorial. Step 1 – Setup SteamCMD Download SteamCMD (direct download link here). Since the program will later download additional components, I would recommend putting it somewhere separate (like C:/SteamCMD/ for example). After extracting the content of the zip… Continue reading A Short and Easy ARK: Survival Evolved Server Setup Guide
How to Fix: Torches don’t illuminate the surroundings
This article explains how you can fix some problems related to improper illumination, especially those happening around camps and torchfire, that the “performance-saving” configurations which have been floating around for a couple of days cause. Chances are high that you’ve tuned some settings in the configuration (or alternatively have downloaded a configuration file like this… Continue reading How to Fix: Torches don’t illuminate the surroundings
Taming Tutorial
You will be able to virtually any animal in “ARK: Survival Evolved” once you know how to do it. Considering the vast benefits of having tamed animals at ones disposal, they can after all be used as guard dogs, means of transportation or entertainment, it’s without a doubt essential to the advanced player to learn… Continue reading Taming Tutorial
New Server Settings Format in Patch 171.0
(Link to the original announcement) As it turns out, there has been a change in the way the game expects settings. The Command Line Options now have to also specify a value, ie where there was only ?ServerPvE there now must be ?ServerPvE=true. In better news, there now is a way to actually have a… Continue reading New Server Settings Format in Patch 171.0