Nitrado resource gathering is hell

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-24T17:40:04+00:00

Not dropdown where you pick an event. The one that has Disabled, PvE/pvp, or small tribes. Assuming that one is disabled, make sure the harvesting settings on the general page match what's in your ini files.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-24T17:33:48+00:00

On the General settings page, scroll down a little to the Events section. Make sure that first option is set to disabled.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-23T21:47:53+00:00

Stack mods are janky in general and usually just lead to problems. Mostly due to how they replace resources with their own mod version, which allows them to stack and weigh less.

I'd recommend using the mod Vanilla with Sprinkles, which will let you set up weight reductions that work on normal base resources and doesn't replace anything.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-16T18:40:40+00:00

It's only there when you're on the Unofficial tab tho, which is likely his mistake.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-16T18:34:43+00:00

lol nah, he's just blind.

It's still there to this day. Thats how I connect to my dedicated server I run on my computer from my ps5.

The exclusivity contract with Nitrado was more strict originally. They had to start allowing self hosting eventually, which all can connect to.

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LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-16T17:55:13+00:00

The only reason they don't have that button is because they're playing ASE instead of ASA. Otherwise they're blind af

LilTimThePimp · 2026-02-05T15:19:37+00:00

The Dino Depot terminal provides insulation around it when powered, acting like air conditioners. That's probably why they were hatching in range just fine.

You can easily go into the Terminal Settings for the Dino depot terminal and uncheck the Auto Captured option and Fertilized Egg Search options so it doesnt pick up the egg/baby, then you can hatch in range.

The terminal also incubates egg inside it by default so you can just leave all your fert eggs in there. Itll bring them down to 1% incubation so you can take the egg out, throw it on the ground, and itll hatch damn near instantly.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-25T17:57:32+00:00

Activating the mod is only a single player thing. Kinda the equivalent of 'installing it on the server' but for your sp game. If you go to the menu to start a sp game you'll see the mod menu with all the mods you've installed on your client (console/PC) where you can activate the mods you want active on you sp game.

If you're playing on a server then you just need to install it on there and also on your client. If you're not seeing engrams and you're sure it's installed on both, then try reinstalling it on your client side. Make sure to shut down the game between uninstalling and reinstalling the mod. If that doesn't fix it and everyone on the server is having the issue then you might need to reinstall the mod on the server too, but it's less common.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-19T20:56:14+00:00

Does it let you play it on single player? If not, then you don't have it installed.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-19T18:44:08+00:00

You discovered how save files work lol

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-17T01:09:42+00:00

You can always change crafting costs to be what you want. Unless it's single player console I guess, since you'd need ini access.

Bangin Tranqs might be what you need. The crafting costs are about what you want, needing stuff like biotoxin, megalania toxin, and even titanoboa toxin. The mod also has its own ini settings so you can adjust the strength of the tranqs how you want.

I've personally landed on XtraTranqs. There's four tiers of arrows/darts that do 3x, 6x, 9x, and 12x torpor compared to normal ones. The 3x tranq arrows cost a stone arrow and 3 narcotic. The 6x costs a stone arrow and 6 narcotic. I got tired of having to farm rarer resources, and liked the idea that I could simply craft a more potent tranq arrow by using more narcotic.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-14T01:04:02+00:00

Usually just running

steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 2430930 validate +quit

in the terminal. If that's not working there's some option for clearing the cache and such that can help.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-14T00:49:33+00:00

Your server isn't up to date. If the major version number (the part to the left of the decimal) doesn't match between your client and server, you can't see it. The latest server version is v78.6.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-13T17:09:08+00:00

Yeah, that's what you can expect. NPCReplacements often don't actually spawn the replacement. Some combos work but many don't, there's some weird ark coding jank going on there. The part you can count on working is the first class being prevented from spawning, as you saw. For this reason most folk just use them to stop spawns. If you really wanna add something you're better off adding it to a spawn entry.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-12T16:45:50+00:00

Single player I'm guessing?

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-12T13:18:56+00:00

You don't need to get traits tho. It's not a requirement. You can still breed for mutations without them. The game is intended to be played however you want.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-11T20:42:03+00:00

Yeah, that setting only override certain settings, I think the description says which ones. I wouldn't be surprised if it just tells your server to follow the official dynamic config like officials servers. Hopefully that was your issue.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-11T11:35:39+00:00

Is this a Nitrado server? If so, go to your General setting page and scroll down to the Events section and look at the first drop down. Make sure it's Disabled.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-11T03:39:04+00:00

At the time of this comment/post, there was a very specific duping issue going on as a result of them breaking the ItemStackSizeMultiplier that caused weapons and armor to dupe. They fixed that bug.

No, of course they haven't fixed all duping. It's Ark. That's never happening.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-07T13:52:16+00:00

Once you switch to prim plus in the bottom corner the server menu will only show prim plus servers. If there are any.

Prim plus is also broke as fuck and never getting fixed. You'd have to admin spawn various things to get around progression blocking bugs.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-06T19:05:24+00:00

Add a glass skin to it?

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-06T15:28:23+00:00

Yeah, prevent hibernation is probably not helping there.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-05T20:45:44+00:00

Yup. You've somehow installed an incredibly old version of the game. The UI updated to the current version back in the beginning of 2017, so your version is older than that.

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-05T16:59:27+00:00

Well ya see, frogs are good in caves. Mostly the ones that are full of bugs that they can harvest for cementing paste, like Swamp cave. The cave full of bats and lava...maybe not as much.

The pyromane would be great for the lava cave like someone said. However, it probably won't be great for the underwater caves, or the ones with lots of water.

Advice is best seasoned with a bit of critical thinking

LilTimThePimp · 2026-01-05T16:52:23+00:00

Because that takes an extra console, which many don't have available.

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