single player resources bug

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Has the bug which stopped resources re-spawning in single player been fixed?

[thestile]

Have you tried lowering the spawn times? I'm just asking in case it's not a bug. The default respawn can feel pretty long

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Not tried at all yet, it was a bug from the start in the original game which was completely game breaking - I am hoping someone knows before i start. Basically if you mined a resource and didn't return after the resource had re-spawned within the same session it was permanently gone. Not noticeable on wood/stone, but metal, obsidian and oil it was game breaking. Basically over a few days of play a single player game (non-dedicated) resources were quickly unavailable forever. Only fix was dedicated server for single player or have resources re-spawning so quickly that gathering was zero challenge; they never fixed it in the original game. I am really really hoping they have actually fixed it this time as running a dedicated was annoying.

[rndswg1]

i played single player in the original game, and farmed the same nodes as you would on a server, i'm not saying it wasn't an issue or a bug, but as of the most recent single player game it was not something I encountered.

I've also played single player in ASA, and have yet to encounter where metal does not re-spawn

[Derivat949]

Haven't encountered it so far. Mined all the metal on the big mountain top, my game crashed right after, the metal still respawned just fine some time later

[Mellanie94]

i had that me and my friends on non dedicated farmed crystal on a mountain. we saved game next day in real live we go there again. (long time in game from last farm)
and to my (not so) suprised not all crystal nodes where back. a lot of them where just not respawned and i also was thinking about the ark ase bug from single player.

were in ark ase if you quite game before resourses spawned back that it wil never ever spawn back again.

Derivat949 your resources where back, because the game does not save on crash or when your exit the game. In single player it does not have an auto save at all. Because autosave is bugged. So technecly you never farmed the crystal when you came back after the crash, because game never saved. this is only if you are the host. if you are coop player and you crash the game never crashed because you are not the host.

[Dracolisk]

This was the main reason I ran my own server just to play single player at times.

[thestile]

I remember setting my respawn to 0.2 in the original game and it worked for me.
I might actually be facing this bug though. I don't think the metal nodes near my base have ever respawned. And it's definitely been several hours. I'm going to experiment with the respawning tonight.

[A Terrible Modder]

respawn takes a few in game days (not tied to speed of in game days) but the bug seems fixed

[Sarecho]

they said they addressed it specifically and that doing it in the other engine would have required a ton more work. i've noticed things spawning all around me, plants come back faster than rocks though, there's a new timer just for respawn times and you have the old radius setting,most set it to 0.5 in ark but 1.0 seems to be around 150m or so while you're around and maybe 50m when you aren't, stuff WILL spawn back closeish but not while you're doing something there. seems to avoid the player more than it used to and structures a bit less

[Derivat949]

Originally posted by thestile:

I remember setting my respawn to 0.2 in the original game and it worked for me.
I might actually be facing this bug though. I don't think the metal nodes near my base have ever respawned. And it's definitely been several hours. I'm going to experiment with the respawning tonight.

There's a no respawn zone around structures

[Derivat949]

Originally posted by Mellanie94:

i had that me and my friends on non dedicated farmed crystal on a mountain. we saved game next day in real live we go there again. (long time in game from last farm)
and to my (not so) suprised not all crystal nodes where back. a lot of them where just not respawned and i also was thinking about the ark ase bug from single player.

were in ark ase if you quite game before resourses spawned back that it wil never ever spawn back again.

Derivat949 your resources where back, because the game does not save on crash or when your exit the game. In single player it does not have an auto save at all. Because autosave is bugged. So technecly you never farmed the crystal when you came back after the crash, because game never saved. this is only if you are the host. if you are coop player and you crash the game never crashed because you are not the host.

I saved after I broke the rocks and before it crashed obviously, I save like every 30 seconds. I was doing a metal run and got like 1200 metal, so the rocks were definitely harvested and I definitely crashed multiple times and probably also turned the game off normally in between a couple of times and they still respawned.

[[WTP].Doomslug-Jen]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the information. I will go ahead and play single player.

[RemyRollo]

I've only seen this issue on the mountains. nothing is respawning there anymore for me on single player

[RemyRollo]

Originally posted by Lord-Bird:

respawn takes a few in game days (not tied to speed of in game days) but the bug seems fixed

Having my spawns still not showing up, i have to disagree with this statement.

[MooseLoves]

My post from another thread asking about single player resources not re-spawning:

This is what you had to do in ASE to fix the resources not re-spawning in single player mode. This may help with beaver dams but mostly just with trees and metal and such.

See the comment that says "solution":
https://www.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/smtkm8/single_player_resources_not_respawning_2022_fixes/

Another fix involving speeding up time and flying away:
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/606440-an-open-plea-to-wildcard-to-fix-single-player-resource-respawning/&page=2#comment-3136421

And adding the "preventhibernation" command can also help/fix the issue:

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/538302-cant-remove-preventhibernation/

Wildcard on the hibernation issue (I believe this is where they said "it's a feature not a bug"):
https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/topic/203535-patch-259-hibernation-single-player-settings/

Obviously this would've been nice if they had fixed this before ASA but they didn't. At least the same fixes should work so that's good. Good luck and I can't promise which of these will fix the issue but one or a combination of these probably will.

A follow up post about the same thing:

The main thing to do it to set the resource respawn factor to 0.1 and distances to player and structures to 0.05 or 0.1.

Edit: Oh and one more thing, If you logout before the resources respawn they will be bugged and you will need to use the "repairarea" command to reset (which is another potential fix even by itself).