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How to change server settings on your Ark server

Changing your Ark Server Settings can be helpful if you want to speed up egg hatching time, breeding times & many more settings within Ark Survival Evolved.

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Changing your Ark Server Settings can be helpful if you want to speed up egg hatching time, breeding times & many more settings within Ark Survival Evolved.

GameUserSettings.ini

The GameUserSettings.ini will allow you to have options to change specific multipliers and other features within Ark Survival Evolved.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel & Stop your server.

2 Go to the File Manager.

File Manager

3 Navigate through the following Files ShooterGame > Saved > Config > LinuxServer.

File Manager

4 You will now see the GameUserSettings.ini file, this is the file you will edit and make changes to.

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5 For an example, If you wanted to change the ItemStackSizeMultiplier, you can make the 1 a different number of your choice.

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If you want something more customized, you can use a UI config generator, then paste it in your GameUserSettings.ini. Just make sure to keep the [ServerSettings] Box and everything in the other groups as well.

UI Editor Site

Here you can make any changes to your servers values that you would like, If you are looking to change the Egg Hatching time for an example, you will need to change this in the Game.ini file.

Game.ini

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel & Stop your server.

2 Go to the File Manager.

File Manager

3 Navigate through the following Files ShooterGame > Saved > Config > LinuxServer.

File Manager

4 You will see the Game.ini file, you can open that.

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5 This file will be empty, you will need to paste in the following script: [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] in order for your custom settings to work.

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6 If you wanted to change the EggHatchSpeedMultiplier, you will put in the box EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=1.00000. and replace the 1 with a 2.

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ARK Wiki Link

Server Configuration Types

Argument

Value

Float

Floats are a value with a decimal, an example float would be: 1.00000 If you are setting a float to nothing, you can just make it 0 and leave out of the decimal.

Boolean

Booleans allow you to set a setting True or False

Integer

Integers are a solid number or value without a decimal point in it, a default integer could be 15

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