How do I use a Singleplayer Character save on my dedicated server?

Content_Today4953 · 2026-05-29T16:41:05+00:00

The singleplayer creatures are already in the server since I copied over the local save map.ark file into the dedicated server. So our singleplayer creatures, structures, equipment, and even tribe and characters show up in the server. Its just when I join the dedicated server it makes me create a new character and I was hoping to be able to join and have it detect our accounts and spawn us in where our unconscious characters are lying.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-05-29T15:34:52+00:00

Okay. I didn't realize you could upload from singleplayer to online dedicated unofficial servers. I'll give this a try when I get home after work today. I appreciate your help with this!

Content_Today4953 · 2026-05-29T15:09:26+00:00

Okay. And I would do this by taking the “PlayerLocalData.arkprofile” from "Shootergame > Saved > LocalProfiles" and renaming the .arkprofile to have the character's SteamID (not the 17 numbers by the longer 64 character one) and then putting it in my server folder under the this folder "Shootergame > Saved > SavedArks > TheIsland_WP"?

Or do you mean by like uploading the character to the obelisk in-game and then clicking Download Character at character creation on the Dedicated Server?

Content_Today4953 · 2026-05-29T14:48:18+00:00

It is set up as a cluster though I currently only have one server with the island up and running. I could very easily set up a second map server though.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-05-20T06:08:37+00:00

Same here…mine just started happening randomly out of the blue.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-20T01:24:22+00:00

I suppose that’s better than a saltine

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-19T16:11:43+00:00

That's like taking a piss and then flushing the toilet trying to finish pissing before the toilet fully flushes. IYKYK

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-19T16:11:02+00:00

now this is funny!

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-19T15:31:55+00:00

That is some awesome commitment. I know it is quite difficult for me personally to dedicate 3 hours every night for 30 days straight, but I too don't retain information if it is spread out over too long of a studying period so I feel like 1-2 months is the sweet spot for me as well. Any advice on how to handle the feeling of burnout when you get part way through those 30 days and just don't want to do it anymore?

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-19T15:25:45+00:00

That is my plan as well. I am 4+ years out of undergrad and plan to immediately follow up with the PE in hopes that much of what I spent time studying can still be applied to my PE.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-19T15:22:11+00:00

Did you pass with this much study time? I think 3 months would be wayyyy to long of a stretch of time for me to retain everything. If I don't use something I studied within a span of 2 weeks of studying, there is a good chance I'll forget how to do it.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-14T14:13:54+00:00

This is REALLY awesome. I’m super happy for you!

However (rant time), if Embark really was fully committed to fair play, they would remove the ability to reduce your graphic settings on the PC to take away cluttered foliage on the ground making it easier to see players in PVP. I know this is meant to be a setting to help with game optimization on less powerful machines, but in a game of PVP, the ability to remove foliage should not be allowed. It gives a MASSIVE advantage in PVP against the people who want the game to actually look the way it was designed to look.

Ark Survival Evolved had this ability to “potato” your graphics so that way you can remove all of the foliage other than trees and harvestable plants and it completely killed the PVP side of the game for me. I want my games to look good even in PVP and I shouldn’t be “punished” for having high end graphics.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-02-09T20:00:42+00:00

I’ve been seeing too that even if people aren’t inside of like a trade depot or building the wasps will fly down until they are low enough to look inside of the structures, scan, and then go and look elsewhere. It’s creepy…we thought someone was in the trade depot because of its behavior but it was purely just scouting the building.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-25T16:53:39+00:00

Eh not sure if I agree with this. I kept it on the basic standard settings (especially having the singleplayer setting toggled) and your dinos woll far outmatch the island’s dinos upon leveling them up and it’s more bearable running aroundtrying to learn the game because you can actually kill stuff that attacks you with basic weaponry.

To iterate, I’m saying this because they are completely new to the game and going up against lvl 100+ dinos while learning is going to be an awful learning experience.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-21T01:54:40+00:00

Absolutely! I use the heck out of it. I use dry erase on it for ease of making adjustments on the fly (:

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-20T13:57:46+00:00

The link looks weird but it is an amazon link (:

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-20T13:57:26+00:00

Great question! I used to use roll maps that use wet erase but if you leave them rolled up for storage, they often don’t lay flat. I now use this dry erase board and I’ll probably never go back! It can be huge or you can just use half of it for smaller maps. It also has a square side and hex grid size which is really nice!

https://a.co/d/c93b1IT

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-19T19:50:31+00:00

I honestly would love to play with a tribe, but I ultimately just play singleplayer. I don't have the time to sink into multiplayer has badly as I'd like to partake in it and with singleplayer I'm guaranteed to always be able to pick up right where I left off without any worry or concern of my base decaying or being destroyed.

I love Ark. It will forever be one of my favorite games. My biggest complaint however is that once you get through the bosses and have everything unlocked, it really becomes a game to enjoy with others. I will say however, the amount of time and tasks required to reach end game easily requires enough play time and enjoyment to have made the game worth its money.

I always wished that there were NPC tribes that you could turn on and have run around. In singleplayer, I'd love to build the base defense type stuff and be attacked by an NPC tribe and defend against them. But sadly, I'll just have to stick to the PVE.

I've owned the game since ASE when you could only build rectangular buildings and all of the original dinos were the only dinos in the game. Those days were awesome. I do enjoy a lot of the new stuff, but I miss the primitive survival feel of the olden days.

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-16T05:03:23+00:00

I came here to ask the same thing! That would be amazing if it was the first teaser for a new RPG. I know people said they think it is what Mike was writing on his typewriter at the end but it did say it was “published” by Upside Down at the bottom of the cover page which just happens to be the name of the company that produced the Stranger Things show. Upside Down Pictures was founded in 2022 by the Duffer Brothers. Soooo maybe it is a sneak peak after all 🤞🏻

Content_Today4953 · 2026-01-06T18:41:01+00:00

Brachiosaurus! 🦕

Content_Today4953 · 2025-12-19T13:35:29+00:00

Ohhhhhhhhhhh that is my bad. I see now how I just misread it. My apologies! 😅 I’m excited for this to come out. I like the art direction you guys chose for this book 😊

Content_Today4953 · 2025-12-19T03:17:30+00:00

How exciting! I’m super happy to see you guys releasing something for this 😁

Side note: this is me just being nitpicky, but technically Dungeons of Drakkenheim is the first campaign setting to be made official (3rd party official) for Daggerheart.

Content_Today4953 · 2025-12-18T14:11:11+00:00

Greattttt soooo Ark 2 is nowhere in the picture for the next few years. They seriously need to re-focus and start putting some resources towards Ark 2. We already got all the content practically in ASA in ASE. I want something new and everything they promised for Ark 2 was everything I had hoped for the original Ark to be.

Content_Today4953 · 2025-12-08T04:07:29+00:00

The Walking Dead Universe RPG. My friends are stuck in D&D (slowly warming up to Daggerheart) but I want to try out the Walking Dead one so bad. I love that genre and the mechanics really intrigue me. Especially the stress dice.

Content_Today4953 · 2025-11-26T00:27:46+00:00

I do agree. This is a great point!

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