After playing through a vanilla ARK: Survival Evolved server, you may eventually decide to experience new gameplay through the use of mods. While there are many mods that add new features, adding a custom map allows you to completely redefine the world....
Like most popular sandbox survival games, ARK: Survival Evolved has an active and growing modding community. There are thousands of mods available for you to choose from that can improve vanilla gameplay, or change it so drastically that it might as well...
As an ARK: Survival Evolved is explored, server owners and players alike may find that the default options become bland and desire something new. Luckily, ARK offers a wide range of gameplay features and values to change, which is accessible through a...
As players explore and make progress in their ARK: Survival Evolved world, leveling up happens frequently. This allows you to obtain engrams that unlock new crafting recipes and advantages to advance further in the game. However, if you’re hosting an A...
After countless hours of playing on your Ark: Survival Evolved server, many grow frustrated with inadequate spawn rates for dinosaurs, causing there to be either too many or too few exploring the world. Many Ark:SE server owners who run into this issue...
Hosting and setting up an ARK: Survival Evolved server tends to involve uploading and editing files. For example, some owners may want to upload mods or custom worlds to customize the gameplay. This process requires using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)...
One of the best things about Ark from a server management perspective is the customization options. Just about everything you can think of is customizable on an Ark server. This includes dino spawns, player level progression, and player/dino stats. Thankfully,...
When playing on your ARK: Survival Evolved server, the nighttime can be too spooky or disrupt visibility for you and your players. Alternatively, it may not be scary enough on your server. Luckily, ARK allows you to control the in-game brightness levels,...
Taming creatures on your ARK: Survival Evolved server is an essential feature, as this allows for companions in your adventure. However, the process to do this can take too much time, leading some players to search for solutions. Luckily, there are server...
ARK: Survival Evolved is a massive game, with a large portion of gameplay dedicated towards playing with others in online servers. Many servers are available to browse in-game, but when running your own server or joining a friend’s, you will need to j...
ARK: Survival Evolved is an amazing game to play with other players, as conquering dinosaurs and the world leads to fantastic adventures. However, it may be difficult to sustain a community without dedicated server hosting. This is due to the owner having...
Hosting an ARK: Survival Evolved server can be a wonderful way to have fun with your friends, but some issues can arise during gameplay sessions. An extremely common problem is corruption, which makes your save files unusable. This may frustrate owners...
When playing ARK: Survival Evolved, you may find yourself in need of using server commands. Luckily, you can add players as an admin using a password that you select for your server. Using this, you will gain the ability to access all in-game commands...
When playing on a server, there may come the time where you decide to add a password, requiring players to enter it correctly in order to join. This can occur for many reasons, such as wanting to make sure only approved players can join, temporarily limiting...
Upon hosting your ARK: Survival Evolved server, anyone can join with or without your permission by default. That can be troublesome if you only wanted to keep it only for your friends, when testing new mods or settings. Fortunately, ARK allows you to...
In some cases, ARK server owners may want to completely reset the world, character progression, or all files. This can be caused by a wide range of reasons, from corruption to simply wanting to start fresh. However, the exact processes for doing these...
Hosting an ARK: Survival Evolved server allows you to completely control the gameplay experience for all the players, leading to some interesting playthrough sessions. Whether you’re wanting to make the game harder or easier, you have the ability to d...
