Dedicated Server Settings

[Sahtee]

Does anyone have a link to a guide or post that details the allowable range for dedicated server settings? I have been trying to tweak the mating and maturation settings for my private server and have been running into problems, mainly that i am setting values outside of the allowable range values for those settings. I've tried googling a number of different strings to find them but have had no luck. Any help is appreciated TIA!!!

Sahhtee

[KitsuneShiro]

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration

[Sahtee]

That is just the settings and default values, I have that information but thank you! What I am looking for is the **allowable values range** for the settings (minimum/maximum).

[margalus]

The allowable range is huge, I doubt that that is your problem. Post your settings that you are trying here copied and pasted from the ini for people to look at and see if they can see an issue.

[margalus]

Also, you won't see the changes in game until already started timers expire. example: If you mate some animals with a 1 month timer and then change it to 1 day after, you won't see the 1 day take affect until the already started 1 month timer finishes it's full month.

[Sahtee]

Originally posted by margalus:

Also, you won't see the changes in game until already started timers expire. example: If you mate some animals with a 1 month timer and then change it to 1 day after, you won't see the 1 day take affect until the already started 1 month timer finishes it's full month.

Yeah I had assumed that was happening with the critters that had already mated. To test out the intervals I have been taking the server down, adjusting and saving the interval values and then bringing it back up, then enabling mating on critters that I have not been breeding.

I had the values set to where my argentavis were breeding about once every two hours. A different private server I play on my argentavis were breeding once an hour and I wanted the same on my server so I started messing with the numbers to match that and things went wonky.

The setting that was giving me approximately 4-6 hours was:
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0.1

Thinking hey if .1 gives me 4-6 hours then logically .05 should give me 2-3 hours I changed it to:
MatingIntervalMultiplier=.05

That seemed to work amd gave me the frequency I wanted so I changed it to:
MatingIntervalMultiplier=.025

Instead the breeding interval for the set of arge's I have been pushing mutations on went up to 18 hours....

Thinking ok maybe the third decimal place messed things up I changed it to
MatingIntervalMultiplier=.02

Then the mating interval was to over 1 week....

After a few google searches and several hundred links read I came across a post from someone having a similar issue with a reply that suggested the cause was the value being set to outside of the allowable range value. At this point I started trying different values and things have been all over the map. Setting the value to 1 causes the mating interval to be 1 day, but then setting it to .5 causes it to be over one year, .4 causes it to be 8 hours, and .05 causes it to be 16 hours. I may be entirely wrong that the cause of the problem is allowable range values, but I figured it would be nice to know what they are for future reference.

I do appreciate any and all help. If it can get it back to 2 hours and then the maturation/imprinting done in 2-3 hours I will be extremely happy!

*edit fixed some incomplete data/typos*

[Vesuvius]

Sry cant help with the min/max .... i can only say that you cannot put 0 for any, as it will default to 1.0

As for the matinginterval multiplier ... its a bit of a misnomer that it sets a specific interval..... it more acurately sets a smaller or larger *window*

So two dino's of the same type can mate... and end up with quite different timers within that *window*

[KitsuneShiro]

Yeah. Some settings are RNG. You can try cryopods or dino storage mod to reset the timers.

[Sahtee]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

Sry cant help with the min/max .... i can only say that you cannot put 0 for any, as it will default to 1.0

As for the matinginterval multiplier ... its a bit of a misnomer that it sets a specific interval..... it more acurately sets a smaller or larger *window*

So two dino's of the same type can mate... and end up with quite different timers within that *window*

Yeah I noticed that it is not exactly the same every time and assumed there was some RNG involved for a potential time frame, but 1 year would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of range for the values set.

At this point I am saying screw it and rolling back the save and config files to the backups I did before screwing everything up. /sigh

[KitsuneShiro]

You can look up a lot of these values. Then figure out what you want the multiplier to be.

Argy interval is 18-48 hours.
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding

[🦊 Hermit]

In my experience there isn't really a 'min' or 'max' setting for any of Ark's configs. I've tried quite a few of them in my time running servers, and seen variety whatever I picked. For example, I have noticed a difference when switching the LootQualityMultiplier between 10 and 50 - Some would say that beyond 10 makes no difference, but I have seen consistently higher stats on items the higher you go. Granted the curve does level off considerably past 10, so those improvements are smaller and hard to spot, but given time and extensive testing you will see them there as a pretty consistent average.

Same with the mating multipliers - as far as I'm aware there are no upper or lower limits, and putting too great a number or too small will not cause crashes or any break in game behaviour. The only thing I believe might have a bearing is that the game might only be able to calculate to a set number of decimals, because occasionally when experimenting with extreme multiplier values I have had config settings reset to around 20 DPs or so (example: I input 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001, the number is reset to around 0.00000000000000000001).

That's just as far as I'm aware from my own experience though, I'm no modder and haven't looked into the code.