How to properly do "cheat destroywilddinos" command

[Ozull]

So whenever I do this, it over course will time everyone out due to wiping all wild dinos and respawning them. I am curious though what is the best way to do this command. Should I do it like 5 mins before the next save so the dinos start respawning right before the save? Sometimes the wiping dino command makes the server time out therefore the need to restart the server. But it sometimes reverts back to the last save which is generally before I did the command. Any advice?

[[☥] - CJ -]

You shouldnt need to be doing it at all except for certain situations.

Doing it can sometimes make the server crash due to the strain it puts on the server, which may be why it uses the last save when it comes back.

[georgia]

Also curious, having the same problem as Ozull. We have a Center Map server and the water dinosaurs are spawning like crazy and once this command was used, we had to restart the server and it reverted to the last save before using the command. Also heard that it can make the server lock-up temporarily, should I have waited a little longer before restarting? We have a high-end server and the strain shouldn't cause it to restart.

[[☥] - CJ -]

You can wait a little while after doing it, it can take a few moments for the server to catch up to what the game is doing.

If it takes longer than a few minutes, which it shouldnt, go ahead and restart the server.

Try to keep in mind how many Dinos that command has to get rid of, its alot.

just try to do it before the next auto save cycle

[Letoric]

best practice would dictate doing:
cheat saveworld
cheat destroywilddinos
cheat saveworld
cheat quit

and then start up your server again and let it do the repopulation on boot up. The first saveworld is just in case it does crash your server, to prevent having to rollback more than a couple of minutes.

[Ozull]

Alrighty, so I did what letoric said to do. Waiting to see what happens. I will edit post afterwards to update.

[Ozull]

So, letoric's method does seem to work but I just want to clarify that it does indeed for other people. When I save the world, I see it immediately saves the world which is great. I destroy the dinos and it alerts me that it destroys them, great. I then immediately save world again before it times out, great! Now, when I save it after the dino wipe, will this actually wipe the dinos on the server without reverting to the previous save? Maybe its because of the low level issue they are having which makes it hard for me to see if it does work.

[billyblom1]

yes I believe so

[Saffa_Gaming]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

You can wait a little while after doing it, it can take a few moments for the server to catch up to what the game is doing.

If it takes longer than a few minutes, which it shouldnt, go ahead and restart the server.

Try to keep in mind how many Dinos that command has to get rid of, its alot.

just try to do it before the next auto save cycle

Its not so much the actual destroying of the dino's that lags the server, its loading all the dino's back in. The server needs to reload all those wild dino's from absolutely nothing and u can imagine how many dino's are on the ark. Wipe the dino's but tell everyone to stand completely still after so they not spawning in too many dino's at once as it needs to render all those new dino's in, hence the crash

[Jaminmonkey]

In my experience it's the restarting of the server that causes the world corruption and causes the server to roll back to the back up save, I run the center map and when we do a dino wipe it times everyone out, we leave it and wait for 10-15 mins before trying to rejoin the server and it always works for us, as someone else said the reloading of dinos on the map is what causes the server to timeout connections

[TomHud™]

dino wipe on center has always crashed the server simply because there is way to many dinos on that server.Im certain its about 56000 compared to the islands 28000 (give or take a few)

[NGCaliber]

I've never bothered to save before a dinowipe tbh... should I? maybe. Is it necessary? not really. What happens after the wipe depending on which map you are on may cause everyone to disconnect or lag out. TheIsland takes the least amount of time to wipe and repopulate, TheCenter will flat out just kick you off with a network disconnect, you just need to wait like 15-20min depending on the server hardware.
Best thing to do is to do the wipe and walk away... come back after 30min, walk outside get some fresh air... a really long bathroom break, etc.

[straykaiya]

On the two rented servers i had (just closed them due my disgust at how tek tier was implimented), When we used the dino wiep command it would DC all the players, it woudl take about 5 minutes before we were abel to log back in, but everything was always fine after that, never borked teh saves or anything.

[CipherPanda]

Originally posted by Letoric:

best practice would dictate doing:
cheat saveworld
cheat destroywilddinos
cheat saveworld
cheat quit

and then start up your server again and let it do the repopulation on boot up. The first saveworld is just in case it does crash your server, to prevent having to rollback more than a couple of minutes.

Thank you SOOOOOO much for this!! Worked like a charm!