Ark Single Player Gather Rate + Difficulty Question

[Mr Jobangeles]

When I start a single player game, I change the slider bar, as well as try typing in a value, for gather rate, and difficulty especially (possibly all of them, these could just be the easiest to notice) but it does not effect game play. When I pick up a stone, it is x1, instaed of x3 which is where the bar maxes out at. I am loading a MOD, but I tried without the MOD also and it still didn't work. Any ideas please?

[Mr Jobangeles]

Am I really the only one experiencing this issue? If someone reads this, and has had no trouble with any of the modifiers on single player, please state that at least. Tell me whats going on with your single player games, so I know if I should be looking into a client side issue, possibly as easy as a reinstall, which I will try after work today.

[[VIC] Sgt Scorpio]

The changes work for me, I set gather to 10 by typing it in and I get 10 stones instead of one, I also tried 100 and knocking down a tree over encumbered me instantly with hundreds of wood so seems fine here.

[juanxlink]

It may not save sometimes, make sure the values are as you want them on loadup, I set taming times shorter to play solo, and 2 out of 3 times values are correct, but more than once I had to go back to menu to reset taming / harvest / resource yield values.

[Ziigler]

I haven't tried this so I dunno why you're yelling at me?

[Owlf-SCP.117-]

you can always change everything in your config file
-steam-staemapps-common-ark-shootergame-config-Defaultgameusersettings
be sure to save after you make a change
ps. this works with mods aswell i use Ark Reborn
(i used GOD mode on singleplayer put difficulty upto 5 and see lvl 178 croc)

[Mr Jobangeles]

Thank you all, after I got off work I tried the above method, and changing the config file works perfect now, maybe I just kept catching that 1 out of 3 unlucky times. Thanks again!

[Santas Helper]

harvest health is how much dmg a node must take to yield result, harvest amount is the amount you get at said threshold.
if ratio isn't 1:1 you will be breaking tools faster than you get resources or getting insane resources super fast because stuff has low health.
example: the rocks you pick up are 1 pickup for 1 rock. if i were to make the health be 10, but leave the amount at 1, it would take 10 pickups to make the rock actually give me the rock. conversely, if i were to set amount to 10 and health stay at 1, 1 pickup would yield 10 rocks.
now, if you change both numbers you need to divide the amount into the health. 20 health and 10 amount would take you 20 pickups to deplete the rock, and you would get 10 in that time, about 1 every two pickups.
seems a lot of people are confused on this system and think health means the node lasts longer and thus should give more resources, but that is not what it is changing at all.
hope this clears things up a bit.

[Freddy Krugger]

How do you type the gather amount that you want? Noob here. Someone please help. :D

[Juice Lewis]

I have a problem where if I raise the gathering rate over 3 my game grashes. in the crashnote it is written: Array index out of bounds: 7 over a limit of six.
This is independent on how much over the gather rate is (6x, 10x, 40x, 50x etc.). This worked perfectly fine in the last update (212.1), but made my game crash in 213.0.
would like to find a sloution to this as I do not have tiome to sit two hours in game just to get 50 metal.

[Juice Lewis]

I have tested a bit, and it seems like the game will crash if I go beyond the slider in the numerical area on any setting.
The ARK staff states in the 213.0 patch note: "Host Session UI no longer clamps the numeric values by sliders (i.e. you can input beyond-range values into the text boxes and they'll hold)"

I assume this means that I should be able to input a higher value than the slider indicates, but as mentioned before. This does not work, and it crashes my game.

[Shemini]

I didn't actually read all the comments, but for me it happened that raising it didn't make it give me 3 stones but give me 1 stone three times, I mean, the same source can be gathered 3 times, but tools get to break as fast so it's not really profitable...

[Shadowkrieger]

Originally posted by NOR Childish Gambino:

I have tested a bit, and it seems like the game will crash if I go beyond the slider in the numerical area on any setting.
The ARK staff states in the 213.0 patch note: "Host Session UI no longer clamps the numeric values by sliders (i.e. you can input beyond-range values into the text boxes and they'll hold)"

I assume this means that I should be able to input a higher value than the slider indicates, but as mentioned before. This does not work, and it crashes my game.

This is due to the resources counting up 1 at a time and your computer trying to do all that at once. I am trying to find a solution, due to some servers having it collect all at once. Cannot figure out how to change to collect all resources at once rather than counting up 1 at a time.