ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

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Marcus Slade Oct 15, 2018 @ 7:12pm
Spawn exact copy of a dino
My server recently crashed, and unfortunately the last backup was 4 days ago. Before the crash, I got "lucky" and had a wyvern egg hatch triplets.
However, upon hatching the egg again, it only gave birth to one. I want to know if anyone knows the admin commands to recreate the triplets. I basically want to copy the one dino two more times so that I have my 3 wyverns back (same stats, etc). I don't want to use a cloning chamber.
I have the creature ID number (when looking at ancestors) but can't seem to do anything with it.
Help much appreciated.
Originally posted by Yaka:
In theory you can create 100% copies of a dino.
You can use managed cluster-servers to do that:
- upload a dino
- download it on another server
- shut down the other server and create a backup
- restart the other server, upload the creature again
- roll back the other server
- download dino on 1st server with the second still on the just rolled-back server
It should work like this
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heroicidiot Oct 15, 2018 @ 7:28pm 
You can never truly respawn the same exact dino. You can roll back to a previous save, but that's it
Vesuvius Oct 15, 2018 @ 8:31pm 
Ah yeah.... rollback.... the only way to clone stats is to clone chamber/ breed.
Vesuvius Oct 15, 2018 @ 8:32pm 
And y 4hrs between world saves? They are 2.5hrs by default.
Marcus Slade Oct 15, 2018 @ 9:32pm 
I thought it was backing up. Clearly it wasn't, unless I'm missing something
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Yaka Oct 15, 2018 @ 10:44pm 
In theory you can create 100% copies of a dino.
You can use managed cluster-servers to do that:
- upload a dino
- download it on another server
- shut down the other server and create a backup
- restart the other server, upload the creature again
- roll back the other server
- download dino on 1st server with the second still on the just rolled-back server
It should work like this
Last edited by Yaka; Oct 15, 2018 @ 10:44pm
Mr. Sigma Apr 19, 2023 @ 4:16am 
I know I'm necroing this, but there is a feature, if you use DS2, that allow you to summon copies of your dinos w/o server swapping etcetera: just use the admin search of the Souls Terminal (need to be set in normal inventory mode). You can do whatever you want with that copy, even breed with the original or with another copy of the same dino.
Last edited by Mr. Sigma; Apr 19, 2023 @ 4:16am
Michael Apr 24, 2023 @ 12:32am 
This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.
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Date Posted: Oct 15, 2018 @ 7:12pm
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