Reverting ready made characters back to Level 1

[❂Jamie❂]

As the title suggests - I want to remove levels from characters; Here's why

I and a few friends have finished the Island, ascended to Alpha, and want to move onto Scorched Earth. The problem is that we're all level 115+ and starting the new map would remove the entire difficulty IMO, and we want to experience the map, and future maps, as intended. Instead of running around super high levels, escaping from anything and everything, and being immune to weather, we want to go back to level 1, so we can level up once again while also KEEPING our ascensions from the Island. My question is how do I go about this?

I've been looking through a lot of forums, old Steam posts, the ARK wiki and even some mods and none of them help with what I need. All I want is to revert our ready-made characters to level one while keeping our ascension progress to retain the difficulty within the future maps.

(Just as a heads up, NO I don't want mindwipe tonic, NO I don't want to delete characters and spend an hour putting in console commands that barely even work, I'm simply asking for help with this)

There was a mod called LiquidXP, which worked for only one player, who's back to level one and is uploaded, but that mod doesn't work in multiplayer and the mod maker hasn't updated it in a year so RIP

Any helpful advice would be MASSIVELY appreciated :D

[Zerotalent]

Not too sure. You could activate hardcore mode and kill everyone. That would revert everyone to lv 1 when they die I believe. Ive never activated it so dont know if you loose your stuff too. Maybe someone can confirm that for ya.

[❂Jamie❂]

Originally posted by Zerotalent:

Not too sure. You could activate hardcore mode and kill everyone. That would revert everyone to lv 1 when they die I believe. Ive never activated it so dont know if you loose your stuff too. Maybe someone can confirm that for ya.

I've tested this in singleplayer - Dying in hardcore not only wipes your level, but also your ascension and your character entirely, forcing you to respawn as a new character. Thankfully I didn't try this on the server else I would of undone weeks of work

[Zerotalent]

Ah probably wanna look for a mod then something with a tag like "Newgame+" maybe

[Vesuvius]

Answer is.... it cant be done.
Because exp can only be added, not removed.

[123]

There isn't a way to revert to lvl 1. The cluster i play on restricts dino and item transfers for a few months when they add a new map. This keeps the difficulty as close as possible to the intended difficulty and allows people to experience the map at the same starting point as everyone else reguardless of how long they have been playing on the other server.

Keep in mind that each map is progressively harder to begin with. They were designed with the understanding that people would be transferring leveled up characters. You will still die alot as you adjust to SE's weather and new dinos out to murder you when first starting to explore the new map.

[Vesuvius]

I played each DLC with a brand new character up until Genesis1 .... you dont *need* the extra levels... they're just handy.

[❂Jamie❂]

Originally posted by Adrianna:

There isn't a way to revert to lvl 1. The cluster i play on restricts dino and item transfers for a few months when they add a new map. This keeps the difficulty as close as possible to the intended difficulty and allows people to experience the map at the same starting point as everyone else reguardless of how long they have been playing on the other server.

Keep in mind that each map is progressively harder to begin with. They were designed with the understanding that people would be transferring leveled up characters. You will still die alot as you adjust to SE's weather and new dinos out to murder you when first starting to explore the new map.

I'm super well acquainted with ARK, it's dinos and mechanics (humble brag of 1500+ hours of ARK). I got close to what I wanted using a mod but the mod was poorly made and only worked for one of us then stopped working (which was infuriating.

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

I played each DLC with a brand new character up until Genesis1 .... you dont *need* the extra levels... they're just handy.

I know but I'd rather keep the ascension implant to have a meaningful progression from start to end of ARK in it's entirety.

[Charcharodonto]

What you want is not possible.

The only thing possible is what you already said but don't want to. make new characters then bring in the old ones later.


On an unrelated note. starting from lvl 1 on every map is not intended for the later DLC's anyway.

It is also a bit nitpicky. Progress in ARK is mostly tied to what you have, not your level. Even on Official rates starting to build a stone base on the first day of an expansion is the rule, not the exception for a lvl 1 character when an experienced player.

A lvl 1 character with tames will advance quicker then a lvl 100 character needing to craft it's first stone pick axe.

[❂Jamie❂]

Originally posted by Charcharodonto:

What you want is not possible.

The only thing possible is what you already said but don't want to. make new characters then bring in the old ones later.


On an unrelated note. starting from lvl 1 on every map is not intended for the later DLC's anyway.

It is also a bit nitpicky. Progress in ARK is mostly tied to what you have, not your level. Even on Official rates starting to build a stone base on the first day of an expansion is the rule, not the exception for a lvl 1 character when an experienced player.

A lvl 1 character with tames will advance quicker then a lvl 100 character needing to craft it's first stone pick axe.

Luckily it's a private server then. We wanna experience the maps at the difficulty intended instead of sprinting around being faster than everything, weather never being an issue etc. What challenge would SE be if you had high fortitude right away? To me and my group, we don't find the idea of that fun. We'd rather build our tiny thatch hut and stone pickaxe than get to industrial stuff within an hour.

Then again, people play games differently :)

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by ❂Jamie❂:

Originally posted by Charcharodonto:

What you want is not possible.

The only thing possible is what you already said but don't want to. make new characters then bring in the old ones later.


On an unrelated note. starting from lvl 1 on every map is not intended for the later DLC's anyway.

It is also a bit nitpicky. Progress in ARK is mostly tied to what you have, not your level. Even on Official rates starting to build a stone base on the first day of an expansion is the rule, not the exception for a lvl 1 character when an experienced player.

A lvl 1 character with tames will advance quicker then a lvl 100 character needing to craft it's first stone pick axe.

Luckily it's a private server then. We wanna experience the maps at the difficulty intended instead of sprinting around being faster than everything, weather never being an issue etc. What challenge would SE be if you had high fortitude right away? To me and my group, we don't find the idea of that fun. We'd rather build our tiny thatch hut and stone pickaxe than get to industrial stuff within an hour.

Then again, people play games differently :)

You do realise at this point, Ark is prolly the easiest "survival" game going around, right?

The difficulty is laughable at this stage of development, i say just roll with it.

We usually level up to 80+ in less than 3 hours, even on a normal map, so you guys must be playing 1 hour a day or artificially holding yourselves back to have an abnormal start.

[❂Jamie❂]

Originally posted by Samadhi:

Originally posted by ❂Jamie❂:

Luckily it's a private server then. We wanna experience the maps at the difficulty intended instead of sprinting around being faster than everything, weather never being an issue etc. What challenge would SE be if you had high fortitude right away? To me and my group, we don't find the idea of that fun. We'd rather build our tiny thatch hut and stone pickaxe than get to industrial stuff within an hour.

Then again, people play games differently :)

You do realise at this point, Ark is prolly the easiest "survival" game going around, right?

The difficulty is laughable at this stage of development, i say just roll with it.

We usually level up to 80+ in less than 3 hours, even on a normal map, so you guys must be playing 1 hour a day or artificially holding yourselves back to have an abnormal start.

Considering we play casually and not work up a reservoir of sweat just to power level, your humble "brag" means nothing to anyone, especially as ARK lets you customise every aspect of difficulty.

But hey, you do you bro with your 10x xp gain

[retsam1]

Originally posted by ❂Jamie❂:

Originally posted by Samadhi:

You do realise at this point, Ark is prolly the easiest "survival" game going around, right?

The difficulty is laughable at this stage of development, i say just roll with it.

We usually level up to 80+ in less than 3 hours, even on a normal map, so you guys must be playing 1 hour a day or artificially holding yourselves back to have an abnormal start.

Considering we play casually and not work up a reservoir of sweat just to power level, your humble "brag" means nothing to anyone, especially as ARK lets you customise every aspect of difficulty.

But hey, you do you bro with your 10x xp gain

Correct Wildcard allows players to make choices to apply the difficulty and time sink to many different features of the game. However, the wipe type you mention wanting is just currently one of them, as others have iterated.

[Samadhi]

Originally posted by ❂Jamie❂:

Originally posted by Samadhi:

You do realise at this point, Ark is prolly the easiest "survival" game going around, right?

The difficulty is laughable at this stage of development, i say just roll with it.

We usually level up to 80+ in less than 3 hours, even on a normal map, so you guys must be playing 1 hour a day or artificially holding yourselves back to have an abnormal start.

Considering we play casually and not work up a reservoir of sweat just to power level, your humble "brag" means nothing to anyone, especially as ARK lets you customise every aspect of difficulty.

But hey, you do you bro with your 10x xp gain

No humble brag, just a fact that most players with knowledge of the game do. No one wants to sit around for 3 weeks in thatch/wood/stone age gear/buildings etc.

The level cap is now what, 155? So yeah, 1-100 is basically entry level stuff.

The rest just sounds like salt, im not sure why.

[❂Jamie❂]

I've never seen someone brag so pointlessly like you before. You must have very little going on in life if you brag about how much you don't enjoy a game and how you rush it.

You do you broski <3

[Liralen]

My friends and I routinely start new maps with new characters. When we get tired of the grind, we cluster the new server with the one where our max level toon resides. We then log in with our max level toon, then transfer to the server where our babe toons resides.

It then overwrites them.