![]() ![]() 2 of the methods caused it to crash before it even finished loading, 1 of them caused it to appear to load but nobody could join it & the standard method of stopping the server wasn't working (so I was forced to kill it using Task Manager), and 2 of them appeared to have no effect at all on the server. ![]() Note: I never got mods working on my server (I figured it out, read on), and I actually broke my server in the process of trying some of the methods I read about how to do so. While these methods would probably work (except for that last method XD ), do you want to create a 2nd Steam account & buy a 2nd copy of ARK to be able to host a dedicated server AND play the game at the same time? Do you want to waste 30-60GB of your HDD space (or worse, your even more valuable SSD space!) to be able to host & play? Do you want to open up 10 ports on your router, or only 3 or 4? All of these methods are unnecessary, so let me explain how I set mine up. Others claim you must jump through hoops while standing on your head & rubbing your stomach (okay, maybe that's not quite what they claim) to allow other people to join your server from over the internet (as opposed to your local LAN). Some claim you must download the ARK dedicated server tool (possibly a good idea depending on what you want to do, but not absolutely necessary so read on). Some claim you must use SteamCMD to download & install a complete 2nd copy of ARK and go through extra unnecessary configurations to get it to work & be able to play at the same time. For example, some people claim you need a 2nd Steam account with a 2nd copy of ARK to run a dedicated server AND be able to play ARK. However, I recently decided to add a mod to my server so I read many of the existing guides, only to find out none of the guides I read explained how to set up a server using the method I did and many of them specified requirements which are simply idiotic. At the time, I only read 2 guides about setting up an ARK server but saw there were many more, so I thought it would be pointless to write my own guide on how to set up a dedicated server. I wrote a guide a while back on how to change a single-player or non-dedicated server to a dedicated server (). ![]()
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