Single Player - Tribe Removed when logging in, lost ownership to everything. Plz Help Devs?

[Vexinator]

Last night, before the most recent patch (183.31) I logged into my single player game to continue building my compound I have been working on for ages now. When I signed in I saw that my tribe had been dropped and I no longer ownership to anything I spent so much time building.

I have seen other posts about this but this seems to be a bug in both single player and multi-player where the you get kicked from your own tribe. The only real difference is, in single player, a friend can not re-invite you to the tribe leading to you having to start all over.


Devs - Is there any possible way I can recover my base in single player at this point? I would greatly appreciate a response as I have dumped countless hours into building this compound only to have some bug basically nullify all my hard work.

If anyone else has any possible fixes for this, please let me know.


Things I tried:
--I created the exact same tribe name as before but that did not work
--After doing the above, I left the tribe and then created the same tribe name again, still nothing


I would really appreciate any help anyone has to offer as I really would love to regain access to my base if possible. Otherwise, it will be 50+ hours wasted, all due to a bug that I had no control over.

And yes, I understand its EA and there are bugs, but that doesn't change the fact that I lost everything I have been building for ages and would like to know if there is any fix to this. Thank you for the help!

[Vexinator]

anyone?

[GTX2GvO]

Why did you ever bothered with Tribe functions in Single Player? O.o

[Vexinator]

Didn't really think it would matter honestly. Had I known about this potential bug, I wouldn't have bothered honestly.

Anyway I could get any other possible ways to fix this issue?

Are the Devs aware of this issue?
Is there any way to fix this?


Please assist if you know how I can recover ownership of bases and dinos, etc. Thank you!

[Vexinator]

Any suggestions, anyone?

[TheRightHand]

You can either use the command "givetome" to take your stuff back by force (one by one, I'm afraid.) or if you have backups of the single-player saves (I don't know if we save these), you can restore from a backup before you lost your tribe.

- The Right Hand

[Vexinator]

Ok, thank you TheRightHand, I do appreciate your response to this! I am sure this is just a bug that is low on the list of things to get resolved.

I appreciate your help and so you know, I have seen this happen in both multiplayer and single player. For me it was single player.

Thank you again for your help and keep up the great work on the game!

[QuestNewt]

I have a theory which I haven't been able to test as I could not lock myself out of my own structures in single player, but it might just work.

Tribes appear to be identified not by name, but by a unique randomly generated number. The information for this is store in .arktribe files in "..\Steam\SteamApps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal" where you will a file(s) with a name like "1470667206.arktribe"

My theory to recover your buildings runs thusly:

• Log in to Ark and create a tribe, call it anything.
  
• Log out, and go to "..\Steam\SteamApps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal"
  
• There should be at least 2 .arktribe files in there (If there is only one this is not going to work; if there are several it shouldn't matter). Copy them out somewhere as a backup.
  
• Look at the "Date Created" for each .arktribe you find.
  
• Identify the oldest one: this will belong to your original tribe.
  
• Identify the newest one: this will belong to your new tribe.
  
• Rename the oldest one to .bak; if forinstance it was called 12345678.arktribe, rename it to 12345678.bak
  
• Rename the newest one to match the original name of the oldest one. If for instance the newest one is called 87654321.arktribe, rename it to 12345678.arktribe.
  
• Log back into Ark, and keep your fingers crossed!

Good luck!

[Vexinator]

I just spent the better part of two hours reclaiming every single part of my base. The fence foundations were the worst part of the process, regardless, it is still telling me I can not build due to "to close to enemy foundation structure" which is very disappointing.

It is possible I missed something as I am not perfect but this is a serious disappointment considering how much time I have wasted due to this bug.

I really hope others learn from this. If you play single player, do not create a tribe.

@gypsythief - have you tried this? At this point I don't guess I have much to lose.

[QuestNewt]

No, I haven't tried it as I was unable to lock myself out of my own base.

I tried creating a tribe, building a structure and then leaving the tribe, but I retained ownership of the structure, so I couldn't test it unfortunately.

It is therefore just guess work, I'm afraid.

[Vexinator]

Well I will back up the world and test it, but with what I have done 'forcing' the ownership back to myself without a tribe may alter the results (by using the command "givetome" on every single item placed as instructed by TheRightHand earlier).

I will let you know once I have had a chance to test it.

This entire experience has really halted the fun I was having with the game at the moment though so it may not be to terribly soon, however, I do appreciate the feedback.

At this point, as pain staking as it is, the only real option may be to simply delete the local content and start all over from scratch, making sure NOT to use the tribe feature in single player. This pains me but, with time, its not like I cant rebuild I guess.

Thanks for all the help and feedback gypsythief and TheRightHand!

[Myst?c]

hey righthand if you read this, maybe make a givetome command that gives you everything that is connected to it (like walls and foundations interlocked) if im trying to claim stuff, one its easy to miss a fence foundation, and two, if im gonna bother with one piece, im probably gonna claim it all, just a thought

[Skay24]

just use an older safe before you lost everything

[Vexinator]

If I had a save before it happened, I would not be looking for a solution, Skay24, but thanks for trying.

[Papragu]

It autosaves go to this folder *\ARK Survival\ShooterGame\Saved\SavedArksLocal\ there you find the saves of your game, should be 3 different ones. rename the oldest one into TheIsland.ark and you should have your stuff back. Make a backup of the current one tho before you rename the old one, just in case the other one is too old.

[Hugh Jaynis]

Just build a small new base, then craft some c4 and raid your old base. Multiplayer FTW! Another problem solved! *Dusts off hands*