Adding workshop mods to a dedicated server....

[Scalapher The Artificer]

I have been trying to find an answer to this for so long, digging through google. Everything is useless and doesn't work. All I can find is everyone giving instructions for their own stupid paid interface for some server rental service of theirs, or people saying to download some ARK server manager thing. I just want to know how to toss some workshop mods onto a dedicated server set up on a windows machine without any of that... I have copied all of the corresponding mods from my ark client's directory to the server's, and I added

ActiveMods=937164220,1292661988,833311271,821530042,902616446,931160954,658112994,1286452614,731604991,893904615,869153615,1128416634,918590226,827913491,701819573,830395129,903859975,749172455,1190258994,658045293,911415947,1194546101,727103191,848706943

to GameUserSettings.ini as well as into the batch file I made to start my server (the command line), but it does nothing. No changes are made to the game or server and everything remains in it's boring vanilla state. To complicate matters even further, it seems that there are multiple tags for unknown and unspecificed reasons such as GameModIds= and ModId= , yet most people say to just toss ActiveMods into GameUserSettings.ini and call it a day? Talk about confusing redundancy... I can't get a single mod to work on my server, any suggestions? I have been at this for days and still have no luck.

C:\Server_Files\ARK_SE\ShooterGame\Content\Mods

This is where the workshop files should go, correct?

[woodsguide]

whateverfilepath\ShooterGame\Content\Mods

looks like you have the right filepath..

you need to copy the mods folders and file from your steam library mods folder to your server folder.. i believe if you have them in your startup batch and in the GameUserSettings.ini there will be issues... use one or the other ;o)


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there is a couple different config folders in the server file hiarchy.. make sure you are putting it in the right one

whateverfilepath\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

in the GameUserSettings.ini
under the heading serversettings
should look similar to this

[ServerSettings]
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=4.0
DifficultyOffset=1.0
activemods=731604991,874109084,1092557691,881899921,1134646361,743217220,503911420,902548451,741203089,702828089,926567353,880887081,1091147617,749466101,1307264070,1251632107,1184763409,618916953
alwaysNotifyPlayerJoined=true
alwaysNotifyPlayerLeft=true
allowThirdPersonPlayer=true
globalVoiceChat=true
ShowMapPlayerLocation=true


subscribe to your mods, start your ark game, wait for it to DL all the mods...

close your ark game

copy the mods from the client mods folder to your server mods folder

start the server


should work just fine ;o)

[Vesuvius]

make sure you have copied both the mod folder AN D the .mod file over for each mod... the .mod files are listed below the Mod folders

[Scalapher The Artificer]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

make sure you have copied both the mod folder AN D the .mod file over for each mod... the .mod files are listed below the Mod folders

o my bad

[Nalitv]

you have no big dedicated ?

[skyguard]

Originally posted by Nalitv:

you have no big dedicated ?

Look at the year ?