# ARK: Survival Ascended

Steam Description :
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

## Troubleshooting

1) Try starting the server with no mods on a fresh install.

2) If there are crash logs, they will be available in the Files at `ShooterGame/Saved/Crashes/UECC-Windows-*/CrashContext.runtime-xml`

### Crash Identifiers

Crashes will either stop the server or display 0-5% CPU usage.
The number is in reference to RAM/Memory usage.

1) Server crashing around 500MB is probably either a config issue or a corrupted install.

2) Server crashing around 750MB is probably commandline issue.

3) Server crashing around 1GB is probably either a MOD conflict or corrupted SavedArks files.


## Known Issues

1) ARK: Survival Ascended, currently, does not support more than one server per IP. 
These are Windows Server files running on a Linux container; so, we believe this is the issue.

2) ARK's wiki heavily reference A:SE and not all features are available in A:SA.


## Recommended server settings

### Minimum RAM

This server requires about 11GB of RAM to run with no players on a default map.

See the following - <https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_server_setup#RAM>

## Server Ports

Note: RCON doesn't need to be public but is required for console commands (in ptero)

| Port            | Default |
| --------------- | ------- |
| Game            | 7777    |
| Raw UDP         | 7778    |
| Query           | 27015   |
| RCON            | 37015   |