The Best Server Settings for Ark: Survival Evolved

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Setting up a server is difficult, beyond the mundane troubleshooting that it inevitably requires, and Ark: Survival Evolved is no different in this aspect. While the power that Studio Wildcard offers server administrators is granular, discovering how best to ensure that the players involved in your server are enjoying themselves ultimately requires a bit of thought.

With a wide numbers of options, and without even approaching the concept of server-side mods, admins need to offer a bit of thought to the server experience. Whether it’s for a commercial server, or just for a few friends, the server settings sets the table for the Ark: Survival Evolved experience.

A server admin can simply opt to push an Ark server out to the wild with entirely default settings, but this doesn’t necessarily invite players to explore that specific server beyond any others. Being an admin is about ensuring that the players involved can handle the content, it keeps them invested, and offers just the right amount of challenge to keep players coming back.

New admins can examine the best single player settings for Ark and get a good idea of where to start, but mirroring single player settings entirely can make for a stale experience. Admins need to decide what they want to occur on the server: whether there is PvP (which means base-raiding management), how PvE is managed (do you allow players to build and fly inside of dungeons?), and how great of an impact dinosaurs should have for a tribe (dinosaur levels, damage, and other related sundries).

The following server configuration makes a few assumptions: