Transfering Your character to different servers on singleplayer.

[Ninjablazer]

Ok so I'm playing ark on the OG island and I have different maps like Extinction or scorched earth.I like to travel to different servers so I can get new resources and creatures to tame. And i usually transfer all of my items to a obelisk as I go to another server. Today I did that my game crashed, I reloaded the game and I went to obelisk and ALL of my transfer items go deleted. I had so much stuff and the game deleted it. From tools to imprinted cryopod dinos.

I was soo upset >:(
Can someone please tell me how I can get all of my stuff back cuz I lost so much :(

[Get Out]

Unless you have back up save files i'm afraid you can't get them back.

[Ellisdee]

I have had the same problem before, Its a known single player bug. You can't transfer creatures on single player it causes crashes. You have to cryopod any tames you have and upload them that way. If you can't recover and old save game the only thing I suggest is to use console commands to try and get your stuff back.

[Get Out]

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This is actually a good tip.

If you don't know how to use console commands here is some help :

https://app.dododex.com/admin-commands/

1. Choose your item or dino
2. Choose the quantity/quality of the item/dino
3. Copy the console command
4. Open your console and paste it there
5. Hit enter

[Ninjablazer]

Originally posted by ☣ N\A ☣:

Unless you have back up save files i'm afraid you can't get them back.

How do I find my save files?

[Get Out]

Originally posted by Ninjablazer:

Originally posted by ☣ N\A ☣:

Unless you have back up save files i'm afraid you can't get them back.

How do I find my save files?

Originally in :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal

[Ninjablazer]

So how do you load up a perivous save file cuz Im stuck on that

[Ninjablazer]

like load a perivous save file on the ark itself

[guig]

you'll see many files named "NameofthemapXXXXXX.ark" where XXXXXX are digits. they are actually the date and time of that save.

rename the most recent one to "Nameofthemap.ark", replacing the existing one to rollback.

but you should know 2 things:

-first it's always better to make manual copies of the "Saved" files between game session so you can restore previous saves easily just by replacing the file.

-transferred item are usually link to the character save during map transfer, not the map itself anymore until they are redownloaded. so you might not get your stuff back with a map rollback. that will depend on how (and if) the game autosaved at the moment of the crash.

finally when playing several maps on SP, personnaly I recommand avoiding transferring too much stuff, espcially at once. You'd rather use spawn command to give yourself what you need and get on other maps (like a blueprint or a dino) rather than trade them over maps again and again. it's best way to corrupt saves with times and to loose it all.

usually when I start a new map with my character I never tranqfer more than 1 or 2 dinos (like a pair of yuty for kibble) and 2 or 3 weapons (like a good longshot to tame).