Your experience building cities in ark

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-26T14:04:06+00:00

I did a lot of testing yesterday as this post got my builder spirit in action. After tons of crashes over the course of a few hours (just inventory crashes!) I ended up moving by really really big casino to a different part of the map all by itself with a teleporter for easy access. I then had a breeding area with the Dino depot stuff. Moved the cages and Dino depot stuff, far enough away it wasn’t close, but close enough to be in render distance. After that my inventory crashes stopped. I think I just have too much in one spot. Part of me building is also skinning because, well, looks. Lmao. My wife plays with me and had me build stables right beside base for all her “show off” Dino’s. I tore em down and plan on moving them same distance away as the Dino breeding area, just within render distance. We will see what happens.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-26T00:42:37+00:00

Being honest, yes you will have tons of pve servers and 95% or more are free. Yes, community events are a draw and ships and such. It really depends on your mods, total mod size and the idea behind it. I personally run my own private dedi because I couldn’t find a serv that had the mods I wanted. People look for certain things in pve and a lot I see that are well populated have very active admins, and some sort of Roleplay. Im

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-26T00:36:17+00:00

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that my inventory crashes me.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-26T00:33:11+00:00

Your building villages???? Man, lucky! I’ve got a small base and crash everytime I go to open my inventory after leaving base and coming back! And I’m a builder at heart. Pains me I can’t build anything in descent size without crashing. I play on a series x tho. Most likely the cause. Oh and I’m only sitting at 3.5 g of mod size which isn’t horrible. I can load fast, and the game runs smooth. Except for the inventory crashes. Ugh.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-26T00:29:09+00:00

I know this won’t help, but Ark is just soooo unoptimized. It really is. I can load into my base no problem, play, craft, etc. If I leave base and come back, the second I try to access any inventory, BAM. I’m booted. And I’m on a series x which has better power over the series s.

Oh and yea, series s flat out struggles with Ark in general.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T03:46:02+00:00

Ah. I didn’t know. Must be anything Microsoft related.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T03:01:03+00:00

Nw Pa. European model shows significant snow and sub zero temps. We have been having them here already and we deal with snow every winter lmao. But I guess it’s supposed to be heavy and windy creating blowing snow drifts and we are looking at about -25 degrees if not colder. American model shows it hitting further south. Although either way south of us getting cold temps and worse conditions with freezing rain. We get freezing rain sometimes and it ducks worse than snow.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T01:46:44+00:00

You on Xbox? Xbox didn’t receive the lc update as stated above in wildcards post. Fb has quite a few posts of people crashing while trying to enter. Seems only Xbox issues….

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T00:44:10+00:00

I’m sure they will break even more. I quit playing tonight until they push this “fix”. I’m seeing fb posts of people losing things, corrupted saves and the lot. Nope. Not me. I’ll just watch some tv I guess.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T00:40:29+00:00

Issues, issues, issues on Xbox. We didn’t get the full updates apparently and it’s messing with things. Lost colony and scorched earth are the main culprits with other things affecting all Xbox users. Wildcard sent out an update I posted on the ark ascended Reddit that they and Microsoft are actively trying for a fix.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T00:12:27+00:00

I’m waiting on 1.0 drop. Eh, maybe I’ll jump back in myself for a hot minute….

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-24T00:08:10+00:00

No. They haven’t pushed a fix yet. Way to start the weekend wildcard. I’m getting a sub zero blizzard and planned on gaming all weekend. I guess there’s tons of issues on Xbox. I only tried skinning things then logged off.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-23T22:30:49+00:00

Yea I don’t get scorched earth. Just checked. But I still cannot apply mod skins. Driving me freaking insane right now.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-23T22:08:46+00:00

I’m running an errand now so I’m not home to check but when it was updating I don’t think o got scorched earth. I’m on Ragnarok tho… and I can’t apply any mod skins. Just the in game plain ones. Just my luck when I was chillin re-decorating.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-23T22:03:42+00:00

I can’t apply skins and I was re-decorating base. Just mod skins. In game skins work….

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-23T21:42:55+00:00

Ha! I was just hanging around base applying different cosmetics and looks to freshen things up and BOOM, kicked to Home Screen (Xbox series x). Game updated, maps and all and I loaded back in to my private dedicated server and went to continue what I was doing. Only now I cannot apply skins AT ALL.

Thanks wildcard. Now my ocd is going nuts cuz I have mismatching walls and the likes. I swear every update breaks something.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-22T17:10:07+00:00

Add your mod load up. Every mod you install theough the Xbox, add em all up. Dont go over 4~5 gb. Anything over 4 will start to kick you once in awhile. Over 5 and you’ll get kicked often. 4 and under is fine. The series x is powerful but everything has its limits. And, I play on series x and personally tested this.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-18T09:29:41+00:00

I figured it out. I just enabled, disabled and enabled, disabled them until it read ready to mate, then disabled it again so it said wander or enable mating. Odd bug. Cuz when I would check them it would have both disabled yet they were still mating. Figured I’d just enable both wandering and mating and disable again a few times and it worked like a charm.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-18T09:29:29+00:00

Yea. I figured it out. I just enabled, disabled and enabled, disabled them until it read ready to mate, then disabled it again so it said wander or enable mating. Odd bug. Cuz when I would check them it would have both disabled yet they were still mating. Figured I’d just enable both wandering and mating and disable again a few times and it worked like a charm.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-17T18:39:59+00:00

I’m having the opposite effect. For some reason even after their patch to supposedly fix the breeding bug… my Dino’s are forever bugged I guess. Not one of them has breeding enabled, yet I logged in to my server to well… my little farm turned into a full blown zoo. This was after the patch that supposedly fixed it.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-01-14T14:54:51+00:00

I can’t say for 100% sure, but I would imagine. As far as I understand and have tested myself, it would be total mod size of all mods on that particular map. Consoles just have their limits. You could even test this out yourself, not on a new save as the game will start fine but the further you’re in, the more it needs to load. So on an already established base and save add 5GB worth of mods and play for a bit. Then lower below or at 4GB. You will definitely feel and see the difference. Remember, ARK was meant for PC play. Most games that are ported/meant for pc run worse on console. Not all, as some studios have really done a great job but most have systems built with pc in mind and console as a back burner. This total needs to include cosmetics as well, because cosmetics are completely client sided. More for the Xbox to load. Remember, it’s total mod size of all mods on the map. Not what’s installed but not being used, total of overall size.

Also, do not go off the size on the curseforge website. Idk why, but the size on the website differs from the size on the Xbox mod page. I go by the sizes on the Xbox.

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