osxster
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3 months ago Hopefully this will help someone but apparently this is a common problem with people's ARK servers not showing up. What seems to work is:
From the join screen
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Ark.UseServerList 0 open ipaddressofserver:7777
Now my server shows up. Not sure why, but this seems to fix it.
The only bug I want to report with this install is that the script doesn't install steamcmd properly. It never finds the repo, so I had to manually install the package to get this to install. Hopefully that can be fixed in the install script for other users. Thanks a lot for creating this as I'd much rather run this on Wine under linux than on a Windows machine.
Describe the bug I've installed ARK on Debian 12.5. I followed the guide. The only issues I ran into was with steamcmd not being found. I remedied this by manually installing steamcmd.sh into /usr/games and that seemed to get around the install problem.
My router is opened on port 7777 UDP to this server, but when I launch the game I never see my ARK instance. The only things I changed was:
ExecStart=/home/steam/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-21/proton run ArkAscendedServer.exe TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=RandomInstanceName
But when I search for that instance name, it never shows up when launching the game. I really have no idea where to look to troubleshoot this as I have tried so many different versions (a docker version), even tried getting this to run on Windows, I have no luck getting this to work. I have no idea where to troubleshoot this, that is my problem. I had the best luck with Docker as I could see my instance name but wouldn't connect.
I really don't want to have to deal with Docker or Windows, so I'd prefer this install. It a fresh Debian 12.5 VM on VMWare ESXi.
Shooter Log shows:
[2024.03.30-15.09.51:863][ 0]Log file open, 03/30/24 11:09:51 [2024.03.30-15.09.51:864][ 0]LogMemory: Platform Memory Stats for WindowsServer [2024.03.30-15.09.51:864][ 0]LogMemory: Process Physical Memory: 357.88 MB used, 360.93 MB peak [2024.03.30-15.09.51:864][ 0]LogMemory: Process Virtual Memory: 323.88 MB used, 323.88 MB peak [2024.03.30-15.09.51:864][ 0]LogMemory: Physical Memory: 1387.09 MB used, 14605.61 MB free, 15992.70 MB total [2024.03.30-15.09.51:864][ 0]LogMemory: Virtual Memory: 1546.82 MB used, 15420.88 MB free, 16967.70 MB total [2024.03.30-15.09.53:187][ 0]ARK Version: 36.27 [2024.03.30-15.09.53:532][ 0]LogCFCore: SetSettings called: { "defaultLanguage": "en", "gameId": 83374, "apiKey": "1aZe", "maxConcurrentInstallations": 3, "modsDirectory": "ShooterGame/Mods", "modsDirectoryMode": "CFCore", "userDataDirectory": "ShooterGame/ModsUserData", "isServer": true, "isServerPcOnly": false, "throttling": { "diskWriteBytesPerSec": 0 }, "premiumMods": { "publicKeyPem": "" }, "logger": { "enabled": true, "history": 8, "maxSizeInMB": 2 } } [2024.03.30-15.09.53:533][ 0]LogCFCore: Warning: Couldn't load mods library from disk [2024.03.30-15.09.53:567][ 0]LogCFCore: User context not loaded from disk [2024.03.30-15.09.54:358][ 1]Primal Game Data Took 0.79 seconds [2024.03.30-15.09.54:932][ 1]Server Initializing with BattlEye Anti-Cheat Protection. If you do not wish to use BattlEye, please launch with -NoBattlEye [2024.03.30-15.09.54:950][ 1]BattlEye successfully started. [2024.03.30-15.11.19:655][ 1]Server: "RandomInstanceName" has successfully started! [2024.03.30-15.11.22:648][ 1]Commandline: TheIsland_WP?listen?SessionName=RandomInstanceName [2024.03.30-15.11.22:648][ 1]Full Startup: 92.19 seconds [2024.03.30-15.11.22:648][ 1]Number of cores 4 [2024.03.30-15.11.34:055][ 1]No spawn additional explorer notes to spawn
Anything else I can look at? I just want to play this game in a private world with more than one player. Unfortunately this version of the game requires a server as you can't go too far from the first player and it won't let you tune it like the old version of ARK. Any help would be great.