Last Updated on August 13, 2023.
I seem to be running a few dedicated ARK servers. Here’s the 411:
Are they open?
Whitelisted, but available for anyone I know that plays Ark, like people I stream with, talk to on Discord, etc. I have to know you or get to know you.
Discord:
https://discord.gg/wEvhcVe Until added as a member, you’ll be limited to some channels. Ping @MrKrystof to discuss.
Server Settings:
Progression
The overall goal – to allow the casual player to still enjoy the numerous aspects of ARK with a more realistic approach to play-time or dependency on having tribes. These are progression servers. To move to a server you must ‘beat’ the previous server. The progression as the servers currently stand:
| Map | Necessary Achievement to Open Next Map | Opens Up |
|---|---|---|
| Island | Alpha Broodmother, Alpha Megapithecus, Alpha Dragon, at least Gamma Ascension Bosses are .5 damage and resistance | Scorched Earth |
| Scorched Earth | Alpha Manticore Default damage and resistance | Ragnarok |
| Ragnarok | Alpha Manticore and Dragon (Simultaneously) Manticore is default damage and resistance – Dragon is .5 damage/resistance | Aberration |
| Aberration | Alpha Rockwell | Extinction |
| Extinction | Alpha King Titan | Genesis |
Configuration Settings
- 4X Harvest Multiplier
- Some Bosses will be adjusted to allow a single player with decent dinos to take them down (hopefully)
- S+ Enabled for many things (Nanny works but won’t imprint, S+ Harvester/Propagator both have a huge recipe requirement, good luck with that one.)
- Tamed Raptors in particular have a damage boost
- Breeding, mating interval, maturing times reduced. Maturation interval is 100x, which may prove difficult on some tames to get to 100% imprint, but you’ll get close. A Rex takes about an hour to raise from baby to adult.
- Max Dino Level 150 (Tek 180) – DifficultyOverrideMultipler=5.0
- Engram Points boosted – single player at max level should be able to learn all engrams
- Tamed dinosaur food consumption slowed
- Taming is 1.0 but wild dinosaur food consumption is 3x faster – Tames will be faster, but food type is still important.
- Artifact Crafting mod installed – you can use element to craft artifacts instead of running caves a thousand times, you may only need to do them a few times.
- Supply Crate/Fishing Loot Multiplier: 3X
- Crop Growth = 3X
Day is twice as long as night- Tamed Dino base adjustments – Weight = 2X
- Player base stat adjustments – Weight = 2X
- Cryopod Sickness lasts one minute when you release, and no dinos will fall unconscious (you can’t throw a cryopod out to save your butt, but they also won’t sleep forever on you either)
- Wild Dino Pickup Disabled (You want the tame, you go to the tame) on most servers
- PVE – Friendly Fire Disabled
The Mods
We are a modded server, here are the following mods and any special notes.
- Structures Plus (S+) (731604991)
Nanny Imprint Disabled
TekGeneratorFuelUseIntervalInSeconds=1 Week’s worth of seconds
Propagator/Harvester = Extremely high cost recipe
Transmutator = 1000 Element to convert to X, 1 Element to convert to Normal/Tek/Aberrant
Mutator Stacks Allowed = 4
S+ Transmitter Dino Scan ‘Stats’ page disabled
S+ Shield Generator Disabled (Vanilla is available) - S.R.S – Rebalanced Stacks (772235118)
- Death Recovery Mod (v1.12.1) (751991809)
Only one ‘A Personal Grave’ can be put down per user per map.
These may not work for boss arenas!
Mod will not recover artifacts, Wyvern/Drake Eggs, element ore, or black pearls. - Classic Flyers (895711211)
This will be enabled on Island, Scorched Earth, and Ragnarok. Aberration, Extinction, and Genesis Part 1 and 2 will most likely not have it as those maps were designed after Wildcard’s flyer nerf, and I’m leaning towards experiencing those maps as intended, along with the fact that those maps have flyers that Classic Flyers doesn’t support. This means any Classic Flyers from Island, SE and Rag can’t transfer to those servers (the servers won’t know about the mod) - Classic Rocket Launcher (884380337)
- Upgradeable Tek Rifle v1.1a (945065004)
- Upgrade Station v1.8i (821530042)
Blueprint and Augment stations disabled - Omnicular v1.51 (538827119)
- Rare Sightings (1300713111)
- Werkrat’s Spoiling Bin (916788716)
- Auto Run – Func+ (801082391)
- Explorer Note Tracker – Universal (1631378184)
- eco’s Garden Decor (880871931)
- eco Trees LITE (795044845)
- eco’s Chibi Displays (2391265200)
- Scribbles – Better Signs (2178658724)
- StructureSaver2 (1757259514)
- Crafting Skill Potion (2307661303)
- Artifacts Craft (937322940)
Artifacts cost element to craft - Scorched Earth Weather Radio (848498678)
- Tek Upgrade Station (2171907727)
Allows saddles, sword, rifle, railgun upgrades (other things can still be upgraded in the normal ‘Upgrade Station’ mod – they’re not related) - Rae’s Midwife (2631732779) (Think S+ hatchery but for gestating dinos.) – 25 Foundation Range
- Better Horde Mode (2112042937) – Puts beacons on OSD/Vein mobs that get ‘lost’ – kills within 3 minutes if they don’t attack. This is only installed on Extinction
- Orbital Sattelite Uplink (1864747516) – Allows you to summon veins/OSDs via Corrupted Hearts, and view active ones on map. This is only installed on Extinction.
- EZ Mind Wipes (1327835335) – Allows you to mindwipe dinos and reset your stats only (engrams are dropped and auto-relearned). Potion engrams are level 1 – Dino Mindwipe and Stat Reset
Server Transfer Settings
Characters (Naked) and Dinos (Naked) can transfer back and forth to any server once opened for a player. Items can only be transferred back to the Island – items can NOT be transferred to other maps.
Note: There is a 5 minute delay to transfer dinos back after downloading, this includes fresh cryopod releases -the tame must be released from the cryo for five minutes before uploading to the Ark cloud.
Differences between maps
The Island was built to be generally ‘easier’, with each map in progression potentially becoming more difficult or at least harder than the island. If you transfer an imprinted baby from one map to another with different imprint bonuses, your tames will change accordingly (either get stronger or weaker)
| Map | Notes |
|---|---|
| Island | Imprint Bonus 5X, Bosses scaled down |
| Scorched Earth | Imprint Bonus only 2X |
| Ragnarok | Imprint Bonus only 2X |
| Aberration | Imprint Bonus only 2x Also remember by WC’s design – only these tames are allowed to transfer TO aberration (normal or aberrant variants) https://www.dododex.com/dinosaurs/aberration |
| Extinction | Imprint Bonus only 2X Desert, Forest, Ice Titans : 0.6x Wild Damage, 0.6 Wild Resistance King Titan (All levels): 0.33 Wild Damage, 0.5 Wild Resistance Titan Corruption Node HP reduced |
| Genesis | Imprint Bonus only 2X PVE Carry enabled ‘Upgrade Station’ Mod Disabled |
Boss Fight Tribute Modifications
Some boss fight ‘recipes’ have been modified to reduce so much item gathering (1 Argentavis talon instead of 20).
| Map | Boss | Difficulty | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island | Broodmother | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Hunter 1x Clever 1x Massive |
| Island | Broodmother | Medium (Beta) | 1x Hunter 1x Clever 1x Massive 1x Argentavis Talon 1x Sarcosuchus Skin 1x Sauropod Vertebra 1x Titanaboa Venom |
| Island | Broodmother | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Hunter 1x Clever 1x Massive 2x Argentavis Talon 2x Sarcosuchus Skin 2x Sauropod Vertebra 2x Titanaboa Venom |
| Island | Megapithecus | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Brute 1x Devourer 1x Pack |
| Island | Megapithecus | Medium (Beta) | 1x Brute 1x Devourer 1x Pack 1x Megalodon Tooth 1x Spinosaurus Sail 1x Therizino Claw |
| Island | Megapithecus | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Brute 1x Devourer 1x Pack 1x Megalodon Tooth 1x Spinosaurus Sail 1x Therizino Claw 1x Thylacoleo Hook-Claw |
| Island | Dragon | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Cunning 1x Immune 1x Skylord 1x Strong |
| Island | Dragon | Medium (Beta) | 1x Cunning 1x Immune 1x Skylord 1x Strong 1x Allosaurus Brain 1x Basilosaurus Blubber 1x Tyrannosaurus Arm 1x Yutyrannus Lungs |
| Island | Dragon | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Cunning 1x Immune 1x Skylord 1x Strong 1x Allosaurus Brain 1x Basilosaurus Blubber 1x Tyrannosaurus Arm 1x Yutyrannus Lungs 1x Giganotosaurus Heart 1x Tusoteuthis Tentacle |
| Scorched Earth | Manticore | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Destroyer 1x Gatekeeper 1x Crag 1x Fire Wyvern Talon 1x Lightning Wyvern Talon 1x Poison Wyvern Talon |
| Scorched Earth | Manticore | Medium (Beta) | 1x Destroyer 1x Gatekeeper 1x Crag 1x Fire Wyvern Talon 1x Lightning Wyvern Talon 1x Poison Wyvern Talon |
| Scorched Earth | Manticore | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Destroyer 1x Gatekeeper 1x Crag 1x Fire Wyvern Talon 1x Lightning Wyvern Talon 1x Poison Wyvern Talon |
| Ragnarok | Manticore/Dragon | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Hunter 1x Pack |
| Ragnarok | Manticore/Dragon | Medium (Beta) | 1x Hunter 1x Pack 1x Basilosaurus Blubber |
| Ragnarok | Manticore/Dragon | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Hunter 1x Pack 2x Giganotosaurus Heart |
| Aberration | Rockwell | Easy (Gamma) | 1x Depths 1x Shadows 1x Stalker |
| Aberration | Rockwell | Medium (Beta) | 1x Depths 1x Shadows 1x Stalker 4x Nameless Venom 4x Reaper Pheromone Gland |
| Aberration | Rockwell | Hard (Alpha) | 1x Depths 1x Shadows 1x Stalker 8x Nameless Venom 8x Reaper Pheromone Gland |
| Extinction | Desert Titan Ice Titan Forest Titan | N/A | 1x Relevant Artifact 1x Fire Talon |
| Extinction | King Titan | Gamma | 1x Desert Titan Trophy 1x Ice Titan Trophy 1x Forest Titan Trophy |
| Extinction | King Titan | Beta | 1x Desert Titan Trophy 1x Ice Titan Trophy 1x Forest Titan Trophy 1x Giga Heart 1x Gamma King Titan Trophy |
| Extinction | King Titan | Alpha | 1x Desert Titan Trophy 1x Ice Titan Trophy 1x Forest Titan Trophy 2x Giga Heart 1x Beta King Titan Trophy |
Access Rights
These private servers are whitelisted. Use discord and chat me up a bit to see if these servers are a good fit and we’ll get your account on the list.
Current maps
Direct join on these from your browser seems to work best – Steam ‘favorites’ is dodgy for me – However ARK itself likes to load mods when this happens and in their current build can look ‘frozen’. When direct launching from the browser your game should launch and Steam should join – it will look ‘frozen’ while it loads mods.
The Island – Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27016 (Click to join directly)
Scorched Earth – Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27018 (Click to join directly)
Ragnarok – Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27020 (Click to join directly)
Aberration– Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27022 (Click to join directly)
Extinction– Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27024 (Click to join directly)
Genesis: Part One– Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27026 (Click to join directly)
Valguero– Steam Favorites Address: steam://connect/ark.krystof.io:27028(Click to join directly)