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The Intricacies of Cluster Usage (How Clusters Work)


DeezGames

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THE INTRICACIES OF CLUSTER USAGE

 

Ryan's awesome post points out a lot of the setup and detail for cluster usage, but this guide should be considered more of a "For the Player" type post for information on the specifics for your characters.

I have been both meaning to write this up, and putting it off cause I knew it would take a while hah. So here yall go!

 

1) You can either have one character that you transfer freely between the two clusters via an Obelisk or a Supply Drop.

or

2) You can have a unique character on each server.

 

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What this means to you:

 

1) When transferring a single character between clusters, you may take that character and any items they are carrying with them to the other cluster.

 

2) You can Upload Dinos and Items to the ARK from one cluster, at any Obelisk or Supply Drop, then transfer your character and any carried items to the other cluster, This spawns you at a "New Character" spawn point the first time. If you then place a bedroll / bed / etc, you may spawn at that respawn point on future transfers to this cluster.

 

3) You may then download any uploaded Dinos or Items that were added to the ARK.within 24 hours, by visiting a Supply Drop or Obelisk and using the appropriate tab.

 

4) For transferring Water Dinos, you will need to use an underwater Supply Drop to both Upload and Download to and from the ARK.

 

5) If you have transferred from say, The Island map, to The Center map, and then log out. You will no longer have a character on The Island map. This means that if you create a new character on The Island map, and would like to transfer your character back from The Center map to The Island map, it would then overwrite the newly created character on that map.

So to clarify, this ensures that one character that may transfer, or one character on each choice.

 

6) Whichever character uploads dinos or items, MUST be the character that downloads them.You can NOT upload with one character, then download with your other character on the other map. The items are not linked to your steam account, they are linked specifically to the character that uploaded them.

 

7) Dinos and items that are specific to a single map, ie: Jerboas on the Scorched Earth or Ragnarok maps, MAY be transferred to a map that does not otherwise have those dinos. (There may be specific exceptions to this, but not many if so.) This also applies to modded items, but both servers in the cluster MUST have that mod installed. Such that you can build a bunch of foundations and walls using the S+ mod on your primary server, in order to prepare for a move to the secondary server.

 

8) Dinos uploaded to the ARK, will delete ALL items in their inventory when uploaded. This includes their Food and Saddles! However, they do NOT need to eat while uploaded. All other aspects of that dino are preserved. ie: Name, levels, stat distribution, unspent levels, mutations, etc.

 

 

 

If I have forgotten anything, please add it in.

However, I have made this post about the details of cluster usage, not for tips on how to use it. Of those, there are plenty.

But feel free to add those below if you like.

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