How do you upload/download creatures in Aberration singleplayer?

[EmberStar]

I've been playing Ark Singleplayer, and I'm wondering how to upload or download creatures. Do I have to get clear to the surface and try to use an Obelisk? I've found a couple of the cave/deep sea style loot drops, but there's no menu for uploading anything. I think I remember reading in a patch note that they'd disabled that for deep sea style crates at some point, so maybe that's what's going on.

Is there any other mehcanism for transporting my character back to other maps, or sending Aberration creatures? I've never managed to kill any of the other bosses, so I have no Tek access at all. Even if I can't bring outside creatures in on singleplayer, I'd like to send my spares out once I start getting extras. Having a murdercrab in the Center or a Rock Drake for Scorched Earth would help a lot.

[Demon2236]

unfortunatly the only way i have found off the aberration ark is the obelisks on the surface :( sorry becareful the surface is crazy, make sure you go at night and take a light with you then you will only have the reaper kings and seekers to deal with.

[Snowfire]

since you are on single player you can spawn in a transmitter.
press TAB and paste this line into the command line :

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter.PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter'" 1 0 0

now place it where you want it and you can teleport to the map of choice.

[KitsuneShiro]

I didn't think those were placeable on the Aberration map.

[KevBal]

they are with s+ anyway

[EmberStar]

The problem is that I don't use S+, and I've been moving from map to map without fighting any of the bosses. Part of the reason I want to get back to the original map is so that I can actually try to *unlock* Tek blueprints. It seems like a ton of the new features of the map are based around letting you have easy access to Element (at least compared to fighting a boss every time you need a stack of it.)

And I think I remember from the patch notes or a dev post that Tek Teleporters are disabled by default on Aberration. The stock in-game version probably won't work.

It would seem weird to me that singleplayer is lacking a better way of doing it when multiplayer has it, except for all the *other* stuff that does't work or isn't even slightly balanced for singleplayer. Like how if you upload your survivor in the first place, you have to alt-tab and force close the game. Because singleplayer doesn't give you a list of servers or maps to switch to, and for a while now you can't even open the Esc menu and close the game. It gives you the option to download your survivor again, or basically delete and start a new one. If you click cancel, it takes you back to character creation. And that's it. So... yeah, I can unfortunately totally see them forgetting to add dino uploads at all for singleplayer. It's clearly not very important to them.

Oh well.

[Wyndninja]

Unless I am mistaken, you can also Transfer using the Boss Teleporter, but that is no easy task to get to... You might be safer on the surface honestly.

[ShaneWatson33♕]

Originally posted by Snowfire:

since you are on single player you can spawn in a transmitter.
press TAB and paste this line into the command line :

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter.PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter'" 1 0 0

now place it where you want it and you can teleport to the map of choice.

Downloading creatures in Aberration is disabled by the devs anyway. Essentially, the TEK Transmitter is just a portable obelisk. So spawning that in wouldn't really help, right?

[Hal Ramersby]

Originally posted by Snow | ShaneWatson33:

Originally posted by Snowfire:

since you are on single player you can spawn in a transmitter.
press TAB and paste this line into the command line :

cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter.PrimalItemStructure_TekTransmitter'" 1 0 0

now place it where you want it and you can teleport to the map of choice.

Downloading creatures in Aberration is disabled by the devs anyway. Essentially, the TEK Transmitter is just a portable obelisk. So spawning that in wouldn't really help, right?

OP was asking about uploading Aber creatures / his character, not downloading. For upload purpose it works just fine. You can't DL crits from other maps, but CAN upload and downlaod all Aber creatures.

[Inari]

I have the same problem on SP. I use only one char for all the maps. For now I am fine exploring Aberration, but if I want to return, I will have to go to the surface, too. In that case I won't hesitate to use a cheat like "fly" or "god" to at least reach the obelisk. I would prefer to have a valid ingame option to transfer my character back and forth though early game.

[Migromul]

I've got the same problem. But I just... well, live with it. (e. g. I play aberration, until I'm able to reach an obelisk there.)

[Aschran]

Loot beacons also work for transfert, no need to go at surface for an obelisk
also it need a start command option : ?CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=true
At least it work correctly on my servers, did not tried solo,

[Migromul]

Originally posted by Aschram:

Loot beacons also work for transfert, no need to go at surface for an obelisk...

NOT in SP-mode.

[Deadly Triton]

They have an up/dl station in the red zone. its illuminated blue and it looks really high tech. Area is covered in invis rock drakes though.

[ShaneWatson33♕]

Originally posted by Hal Ramersby:

Originally posted by Snow | ShaneWatson33:

Downloading creatures in Aberration is disabled by the devs anyway. Essentially, the TEK Transmitter is just a portable obelisk. So spawning that in wouldn't really help, right?

OP was asking about uploading Aber creatures / his character, not downloading. For upload purpose it works just fine. You can't DL crits from other maps, but CAN upload and downlaod all Aber creatures.

So, I think I've figured it out. After some testing, I'm able to transfer my dinos to aberration now. (Single player, that is)

Open GameUserSettings.ini

Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini

Under [ServerSettings], paste this:

PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadDinos=False
CrossARKAllowForeignDinoDownloads=True

As for the actually downloading dinos in game, you can download the Craftable Tribute Terminal from the workshop. It acts like a portable obelisk and is actually a bit expensive. (So it kinda removes the cheating aspect XD)

This worked for me and I hope I was able to help.

[EmberStar]

I checked that file, and the "PreventDownload" settings were all already present, and already set to False.

Some other setting appears to be toggled, but I have no idea what. All I know for sure is that this is kind of a frustrating decision by Wildcard. It's a singleplayer game, it's not like anything I do matters at all. So why impose such a major limitation?

Geting some of the new critters to the surface (or down to the boss terminal, which apparently also works like an Obelisk Control) would be somewhere between difficult and impossible. Just trying to steer a basilisk on open ground is a pain. Trying to do it on narrow ledges while running for my life from Seekers, Reapers, Nameless and being scoured with radiation? No, that doesn't seem like fun.

Anyway, thank you for the setting suggestion. I wish it had worked. I don't have any idea what other command I might need to use. It would be sort of nice if all the settings like this were actually listed in the UI, but that's apparently too much to ask for. Oh well.