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Is there any progress on having the capability to have additional servers in a cluster? Is this something that is being worked on at all? Please lets be honest, if it's not in development let us know.

Yes just use an FTP client, I normally use WinSCP.

Yes you have to add extra levels manually in the config. If you've done that and it didn't work, in relation to The Island ascension, then it may work now if you update to the latest patch: https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/166421-pc-patch-notes-current-v2764/

This is a known issue since the map was expanded. https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/286913-spawn-level-problem-edit-sw-islands-only-apparently/ Will likely be fixed in the next Rag content update.

I have had the exact same issue and I have submitted a ticket (#270989). This is not the first time i've experienced problems with the Modify Server Config panel. It's easier to manually edit the INIs it seems.

I've heard from 3 different server owners now that the update option doesn't work. Any news on this? It's ok looking at individual servers that have the issue, but if it's widespread then that is a bigger issue.

It only says ??? until the server(s) a fully restarted. So if you stop the server then hit start, it will have version ??? until the servers are fully running which may take a few minutes. Normally after that if you refresh the page it will show you the current version.

I've experienced this issue myself and I have an easy solution that prevents any need for rollback and simply requires the Admin to handle Wild Dino Wipe slightly differently. I use RCON for when I do stuff like this, but it doesn't make any difference if you do the commands ingame. This is what I do. I back-up my saved folder prior to doing dino wipe, I do daily manual back-ups anyway for my piece of mind. I then do Wild Dino Wipe. Immediately after I do another Save World via RCON. The dino wipe will most likely cause the server to hang after a few minutes, please note that the server may appear to lose connection when it hangs, but it doesn't fully crash (not for me anyway), and if I leave it for a short period the connection will re-establish with no requirement to restart the server. Then everything will be fine. The reason you are getting a rollback is because you are manually restarting the server and therefore it will restart using the most recent save file which is likely to be a little old anywhere upto an hour. If you leave the server for at least 10 minutes or so after doing wild dino wipe then you should be able to get on with no problems and no rollback.

I think the confusion here is pretty simple, the reason the ticket doesn't exist is because the ticket is not one made on SurvivalServers because the servers he's talking about in the OP, Asia 120 Scorched Earth and EU 210 Ragnarok are both Official Servers. The OP is confused as to what this SurvivalServers forum is. He needs to use https://survivetheark.comwhere he originally created the support ticket.

Yes it was fixed in Patch 261. It's not that it wasn't showing correctly, it's that the icon was not displaying. The "me" never appears in your exact location, but there's another icon that does. This now displays.

What setting have you used to make it x6?

I'm not having this issue, enablecheats <password> works fine for me.

I believe you would have 2 separate servers both with their own expiry date. So your current server would display as expiring in October and the new one would be a year from when you buy it. Neither would have an impact on each other.

Ok, sorry this is where i get a little lost, and trying to simplify it in my head. So currently I have the following: SavedArkXXXXX (This has the Center on and is the parent server) SavedArkXXXXXTransfer (This has the Island on it). So if I backed up the content of those folders (lets say via FTP), then shut down the server, then in the control panel I changed maps, so the parent would have Island and the other would have Center, would it be a case of me then moving the backed up files from SavedArkXXXXXTransfer into the the SavedArkXXXXX folder and vice versa with the other one? It sounds too simple to me so I fear i'm missing something?

Apologies that my technical understanding of cluster servers is not great. I started off last December with a single server with the Center map. Later on I decided to add a cluster and now have the Island on the Cluster. So my understanding is that the parent server hosts the Center and the cluster hosts the Island. If my understanding is correct, is it possible to convert the Island to become the parent server and the Center to become the cluster? If it is possible would it mean a loss of all data?

They never said this at all. They said Unofficial servers will not get affected. As for the original question, whatever your max survivor level is you need to take into account the additional 15 levels post-ascension. For example, on my server I have max Survivor level of 150. This means that Survivors can level to a cap of 135 pre-ascension. Then post-ascension can level to 150. So if you want players to be able to level to a certain number pre-ascension, then you need to increase the max level by 15.

What is your max Survivor level set at? Is it at 100? If so then 85 cap would be correct. For example, I have my max Survivor lvl at 150 and the cap pre-ascension is 135.

Strange it would do that to S+. I have no other Mods so i'd be surprised if it causes any issues.

In what way did it break it?

All the Difficulty + Mods are broken since Patch v257. I don't know if the Mod Author is going to fix them all. I decided tomorrow that I will uninstall 6+ Mod and make the changes myself on my server.

Only harvest, taming and XP, nothing else.

Hey everyone, so I need a little guidance on something. I currently have the Difficulty 6+ Mod on my server which I use to achieve the following 3 things: 1) Cap Survivor lvl at 120 2) Cap Tamed Dino lvl at 150 (i.e. you can lvl dinos 150 times after tamed) 3) Wild Dinos spawn upto lvl 180 Since Patch v257 with the change in survivor levels and the ascension it appears to have broken all the Difficulty + Mods as when my survivors reset to lvl 1 they were able to level back up well beyond lvl 120, some are upto lvl 170. This I don't really want, and the Mod author I don't think will fix all his Mods. So i've decided to see if I can manually make the changes to get the way it was before and remove the Mod. I think I know what I need to do, but I need to make sure before I do it. 1) Cap survivor lvl at 120 The image below is of my control panel. Currently this list goes upto lvl 94, not sure why it's not upto 100 or the previous 105. Anyway, am I correct in thinking that if I add the levels 95 - 120 in there and assign them a required XP and set engram points that my Survivors will then be able to level up to 120 and no further? If this is correct then does anyone know if setting it at 120 will mean 105 is the cap pre-ascension and 120 is cap post-ascension? 2) Cap tamed dino lvl at 150 This is very similar to the first one. There is a dino level option, therefore if I add all the levels and XP required upto level 150 does this mean I can level up my tames 150 times then it will cap? Assuming those 2 things are correct, then it leaves me with only one setting left, and that is the wild dino spawns. 3) Wild dinos spawn upto level 180 The above image is what my difficulty offset is set to. What do I need to do with this, or the INI files in order to get wild dinos spawning at lvl 180? I saw this in another thread: Would I need to make sure that DifficultyOffset is set to 6.0 and add the OverrideOfficialDifficulty=6.0? This is the bit i'm really not sure about. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes it's part of the Ascension update in Patch v257. It is best to keep any eye on Patch Notes on the ARK Forum to keep track of such changes.

This has got me very confused and I need some guidance. I want to enable structure decay on my PvE server so that structures can be manually destroyed at the end of the timer. I want these settings: Thatch - 8 Days Wood - 16 Days Stone - 24 Days Metal - 32 Days So, in the Settings I see this: So there the Disable Structure Decay (although it doesn't specify PvE) is unchecked. This means it should be Enabled. I also changed the Destruction Period to 2 to get my intended timer settings. In the GameUserSettings.ini It shows this: DisableStructureDecayPVE=true PvEStructureDecayPeriodMultiplier=2.000000 Now what I note there is that a) It states PvE there, it says true (which would mean Disabled), c) It has changed the Destruction Period to 2.0 which is correct. So why does DisableStructureDecayPVE show as True? I changed it directly in the INI file, restarted the server and logged on and the destruction timers were working! After another restart the INI has reverted back to True. Please explain why this is not working? Why does having the Disable Structure Decay unticked not show as False in the INI?