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JesusFreak May 1, 2017 @ 3:48am
Transfer from official to unofficial?
I haven't been able to find any recent info on this (newest I found was late 2015), so I apologize if my Google-Fu is weak today.

I was in a small to medium tribe (about 15 of us total) on an official, and after the 3rd transfer raid in a week, the entire tribe left the server. I would like to transfer my lvl 65ish survivor to another server, but really want to use this character to play on a custom map like Thieves Island or Skies of Nazca.

The documentation says you can't transfer from unofficial to official, but doesn't say anything about the other way around...

Also, if this is possible, I'll be looking for a server & tribe to join... so I'd be happy for suggestions/invitations!
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JoeA3133 May 1, 2017 @ 11:00am 
Originally posted by rtuite81:
I haven't been able to find any recent info on this (newest I found was late 2015), so I apologize if my Google-Fu is weak today.

I was in a small to medium tribe (about 15 of us total) on an official, and after the 3rd transfer raid in a week, the entire tribe left the server. I would like to transfer my lvl 65ish survivor to another server, but really want to use this character to play on a custom map like Thieves Island or Skies of Nazca.

The documentation says you can't transfer from unofficial to official, but doesn't say anything about the other way around...

Also, if this is possible, I'll be looking for a server & tribe to join... so I'd be happy for suggestions/invitations!
im not sure there is a way wrll at least i was not able to do it. You can join me i ended up opening a new server and currently i have it set to get xp pretty fast. I have no tribe yet unfortunately. I am still trying to get people to join the server.

The server is to remain up 24/7. It has already been paid for for the next 2 years so you know that server is not going anywhere im too addicted to this game.

Well check it out. You can join me and form a tribe or just join tje server and start your new tribe. Perfect right now since there no alphas.

steam://connect/198.100.158.134:93
Championark.com May 1, 2017 @ 12:19pm 
For what I know there isn't an option to transfer your character from official to unofficial. That would mean that the unofficial server need to be connected to the official ones.

But sometimes admins help players by giving them some xp and dinos which you already had on the official server. Maybe you can try to solve it like that :)

Good luck!
g0rml3ss May 1, 2017 @ 12:22pm 
The unofficial would have to be on the same cluster as the official, which as far as I know is not the case. Same with going unofficial to unofficial or official to official, if they don't both have the same cluster ID then you can't travel between them.
Smpl May 1, 2017 @ 12:52pm 
You can transfer your Offical Server Survivor to an Unoffical Server -- ONLY if the Unoffical Server has DOWNLOAD ARK SURVIVOR (downloads) turn ON. If you join a new server, and on the Survivor creation screen it says "Download Ark Survivor" then you should be good... Now all your dinos from the old server; That you have to upload at the Obelisk before uploading your survivor data, those must be downloaded at the obelisk on the new server.. HOWEVER just because the server has Download Ark Survivor enabled, doesn't mean it will let you download dinos from the obelisk.

They don't let you download unoffical serviors to offical servers, because people would then create an unoffical one, cheat thier way to level 80+ and then transfer it offical ones..

Clustering has nothing to do with Survivor transfer; Clustering is so that you can travel between maps (aka clustered servers) (The Island & Scorched Earth) freely, which allows you to take the same Survivor between maps.. It's more like teleporting you from one server to the other - as you don't have to connect to that server, and download ark survivor.. instead you just go to the obelisk (or Tek Transmitter) and click TRANEL TO ANOTHER ARK... and it takes you to the server you picked in that cluster, with your previous survivor all ready to go, just pick a spawn point...


Why are they different? Because when you transfer between servers that are CLUSTERED.. you don't lose claim/permission over the dinos/structures you have on each server.. When you UPLOAD SURVIOR DATA you are basically deleting that survivor from the server, and all his/her dinos/structures will be lost.. and it will ask you to create a new survivor for the server you intend to leave.... That why clustering was brought about, so that you use the same survivor profile/data on all clustered servers...
Last edited by Smpl; May 1, 2017 @ 1:05pm
Anubis May 1, 2017 @ 12:58pm 
What Slum said.
But unoficial servers you can find with more rates, like 5-10 and with that kind of rates you will be in lvl 65 or more in not so much time, and if you are in a tribe of 2-3 you will lvl up even faster.
Letoric May 1, 2017 @ 1:07pm 
Originally posted by Slum-n-It:
Clustering has nothing to do with Survivor transfer; Clustering is so that you can travel between maps (aka clustered servers) (The Island & Scorched Earth) freely, which allows you to take the same Survivor between maps.. It's more like teleporting you from one server to the other - as you don't have to connect to that server, and download ark survivor.. instead you just go to the obelisk (or Tek Transmitter) and click TRANEL TO ANOTHER ARK... and it takes you to the server you picked in that cluster, with your previous survivor all ready to go, just pick a spawn point...

You can download a survivor to a server that has downloads enabled.. only you have to be able to make your way to the Obelisk without dieing in order to download that Survivor.. THIS IS WHERE YOU CLICK "TRANSMIT ARK DATA"


Why are they different? Because when you transfer between servers that are CLUSTERED.. you don't lose claim/permission over the dinos/structures you have on each server.. When you UPLOAD SURVIOR DATA you are basically deleting that survivor from the server, and all his/her dinos/structures will be lost.. and it will ask you to create a new survivor for the server you intend to leave.... That why clustering was brought about, so that you use the same survivor profile/data on all clustered servers...
I think you're mistaken on your information here.
Clustering and downloading data is absolutely linked. When you have the clusters properly configured, you use a flag which tells the cluster to ONLY allow downloads from other nodes in the cluster. This is a standard cluster configuration.
-NoTransferFromFiltering locks the download options to your cluster id, in my experience.

Last edited by Letoric; May 1, 2017 @ 1:07pm
Smpl May 1, 2017 @ 1:22pm 
Originally posted by Letoric:
Originally posted by Slum-n-It:
Clustering has nothing to do with Survivor transfer; Clustering is so that you can travel between maps (aka clustered servers) (The Island & Scorched Earth) freely, which allows you to take the same Survivor between maps.. It's more like teleporting you from one server to the other - as you don't have to connect to that server, and download ark survivor.. instead you just go to the obelisk (or Tek Transmitter) and click TRANEL TO ANOTHER ARK... and it takes you to the server you picked in that cluster, with your previous survivor all ready to go, just pick a spawn point...

You can download a survivor to a server that has downloads enabled.. only you have to be able to make your way to the Obelisk without dieing in order to download that Survivor.. THIS IS WHERE YOU CLICK "TRANSMIT ARK DATA"


Why are they different? Because when you transfer between servers that are CLUSTERED.. you don't lose claim/permission over the dinos/structures you have on each server.. When you UPLOAD SURVIOR DATA you are basically deleting that survivor from the server, and all his/her dinos/structures will be lost.. and it will ask you to create a new survivor for the server you intend to leave.... That why clustering was brought about, so that you use the same survivor profile/data on all clustered servers...
I think you're mistaken on your information here.
Clustering and downloading data is absolutely linked. When you have the clusters properly configured, you use a flag which tells the cluster to ONLY allow downloads from other nodes in the cluster. This is a standard cluster configuration.
-NoTransferFromFiltering locks the download options to your cluster id, in my experience.


Sorry but I'm not mistaking.. Clustering has NOTHING to do with transfering/downloading survivors between servers... in the way this person is asking...

2 of servers are clustered; Yes I can transfer between them freely.. but I'm also able to UPLOAD my survivor data at the obelisk and transfer it to my 3rd sever (test/building) which is not part of the cluster just fine...

Again a server does not have to be "clustered" for the ability to download a survivor to be available.

If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, then you can only transfer dinos between servers in the same cluster.. This was to allow dino transfering, without letting outside players bring their own dinos to the server from another one.. This flag is not required, nor is it set by default.

But the ability to download survivors has its own ini flag; seperate from clustering.. and you don't have to be in a cluster (or have a cluster ID set) in order to enable survivor downloads..

So like I said... one does not depend on the other.. Upload/Downloading Survivors was available long before Clustering was.
Last edited by Smpl; May 1, 2017 @ 1:25pm
Letoric May 1, 2017 @ 1:27pm 
If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, you can't transfer anything from outside the cluster, the download options are limited to that cluster.
Smpl May 1, 2017 @ 1:32pm 
Originally posted by Letoric:
If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, you can't transfer anything from outside the cluster, the download options are limited to that cluster.
Is that not what I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ said ?

If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, then you can only transfer dinos between servers in the same cluster..
Letoric May 1, 2017 @ 1:37pm 
Originally posted by Slum-n-It:
Originally posted by Letoric:
If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, you can't transfer anything from outside the cluster, the download options are limited to that cluster.
Is that not what I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ said ?

If -NoTransferFromFiltering is set to true, then you can only transfer dinos between servers in the same cluster..
You seem upset, I suggest yoga.
It's not what you said. You even quoted yourself, and still have reading comprehension issues, apparently.
you can only transfer dinos between servers in the same cluster
Note how I specifically said characters, since that was relevant to the discussion? A character is different than a dino. Since you want to get hostile, I'm going to call out the fact that you're being an idiot.
Smpl May 1, 2017 @ 1:55pm 
Originally posted by Letoric:
Originally posted by Slum-n-It:
Is that not what I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ said ?
You seem upset, I suggest yoga.
It's not what you said. You even quoted yourself, and still have reading comprehension issues, apparently.
you can only transfer dinos between servers in the same cluster
Note how I specifically said characters, since that was relevant to the discussion? A character is different than a dino. Since you want to get hostile, I'm going to call out the fact that you're being an idiot.

One I'm not hostile, but you apparently are one judgy ♥♥♥♥♥

Two A fking dino is a "character."
Letoric May 1, 2017 @ 2:32pm 
In regards to transferring, the 2 are separate. Shall we continue on semantics? I'll be back in a few hours to check, because you seem really upset about me pointing out that you were mistaken.
Smpl May 1, 2017 @ 3:59pm 
Originally posted by Letoric:
In regards to transferring, the 2 are separate. Shall we continue on semantics? I'll be back in a few hours to check, because you seem really upset about me pointing out that you were mistaken.

In your tiny brain they may be seperate; but in reguards to the game and 99.9% the definition of "character" is unversial.

Sorry to burst your cooter bubble, but I'm not upset all. Frankly your opinion / idea of what you believe to be a mistake means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Cheers wanker
Digital Sniff May 1, 2017 @ 4:26pm 
[UK] ArkEmp Island is a very good server with amazing Admins.
Plus Weekly Arena, giving rewards and a points system
Last edited by Digital Sniff; May 1, 2017 @ 4:27pm
Letoric May 1, 2017 @ 6:43pm 
Originally posted by Slum-n-It:
Originally posted by Letoric:
In regards to transferring, the 2 are separate. Shall we continue on semantics? I'll be back in a few hours to check, because you seem really upset about me pointing out that you were mistaken.

In your tiny brain they may be seperate; but in reguards to the game and 99.9% the definition of "character" is unversial.

Sorry to burst your cooter bubble, but I'm not upset all. Frankly your opinion / idea of what you believe to be a mistake means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Cheers wanker
Yes, you don't seem upset, you just keep resorting to outbursts :) Whatever makes the world shine in your eyes peaches :)
Character and Dino, in regards to the game, are separate in numerous ways. Different upload/download configuration(most pertinent to this thread), different leveling configuration, different base stats, different mechanisms for controlling them (Dino's have AI, the player pawn doesn't). Different harvesting mechanics, Gosh, sure seems like there's a difference or two. I guess you're just afraid of actually owning being wrong. It's ok peaches, daddy will let you have this one so you don't throw another tantrum.
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