Ark:SA GameUserSettings.ini Generator

Ark:SA GameUserSettings.ini Generator

⚙️ Core Server Gameplay Options (under [ServerSettings])

ARK: Survival Ascended server config Control who can join your ARK SA server by setting a password. No password = public server. Great for private games, friends-only worlds, or avoiding randos named “420DankRex.” 🛡️ Tip: Leave this blank to allow open access, or set a strong password to keep things locked down.
Server Admin Password – ARK: Survival Ascended INI setting This password gives players access to admin commands like spawning dinos, enabling god mode, or wiping the map. It’s your master key—don’t hand it out unless you like chaos. 🔐 Tip: Choose a unique, hard-to-guess password. If this gets leaked, your server is toast.
Enable RCON for Remote Admin Access – ARK: Survival Ascended server setting Toggle Remote Console (RCON) support to allow external tools to connect and manage your server. Essential for serious admins who want to monitor or control things without logging in-game. 🖧 Tip: RCON only works if you also set a port and password. Useful for automation and server tracking tools.
Set a spectator-only password in your ARK ASA server settings to allow players to join and observe without participating. Great for tournaments, builders, or stream moderators who want to fly around without affecting the game world. 🎥 Tip: Use a different password than your admin or server password to keep roles separate.
Controls how many characters of game log data are buffered and made available to RCON-connected tools. A higher value helps remote log readers catch more event detail (like player deaths, chat, and commands), but may use slightly more memory. 📜 Tip: Default is 600. Only increase if you’re missing log events via RCON—don’t go overboard unless you’re running log-intensive mods or servers.
Define the list of active ARK ASA mods by entering their Steam Workshop IDs, separated by commas. This setting tells the server which mods to load on startup. Load order matters—especially for mods that override core systems or stack with others. 🧩 Tip: You can find mod IDs in the URL on the Steam Workshop (e.g., ?id=1234567890). Place total conversion mods last in the list if used.
Enables or disables logging of admin commands in your ARK server logs. When set to True, any use of cheats or admin-level commands is recorded—useful for accountability on public or multi-admin servers. 📋 Tip: Turn it on if you want a paper trail of admin actions. Leave off for private servers where you trust yourself (or don’t want to know what you did after midnight).
Allows players on PvE servers to use the gamma command to adjust brightness. Super helpful for dark caves, nighttime taming, or players without night vision monitors. 🌒 Tip: Great for PvE or casual ARK servers. In PvP, it’s often disabled to keep nighttime gameplay challenging and fair.
Makes diseases like Swamp Fever non-permanent—players will lose the infection upon death. Useful for ARK: Survival Ascended PvE servers or casual setups where players don’t want to stay infected forever. 🦠 Tip: Great for servers with new players or noob-friendly rulesets. Keeps disease mechanics in play without punishing folks for life.
Completely disables diseases like Swamp Fever on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. No infections, no transmission—just clean survivors and sneeze-free gameplay. 🧼 Tip: Perfect for PvE, casual, or family-friendly servers where players don’t want to deal with parasite mechanics at all.
Allows raidable tames (like turrets dinos during base defense) to continue eating during offline raid protection cooldowns or stasis. Helps keep base-defense dinos from starving while they’re technically still on raid status. 🍖 Tip: Especially useful on PvP ARK: Survival Ascended servers with ORP (Offline Raid Protection) or long raid timers enabled.
Applies ARK’s single-player balance modifiers even when hosting a multiplayer server. These settings boost XP gain, taming speed, resource harvest, and dino stamina—meant to make solo play more manageable. 🎮 Tip: Use this on private or lightly populated ARK: Survival Ascended servers where players want a faster-paced, less grindy experience without tweaking every setting manually.
Lets players place structures on platform saddles and rafts, even if the game or mods normally block certain placements. Useful for customizing mobile bases or bypassing structure restrictions in ARK: Survival Ascended. 🚫 Tip: Be careful—overriding these limits can cause unintended issues with dino movement or unbalanced PvP builds. Test before going wild.
Removes placement restrictions so players can build structures closer together or clip them into terrain, trees, and other objects. Great for creative freedom on ARK: Survival Ascended servers—especially PvE or custom map setups. 🧱 Tip: Perfect for clean base layouts, tight building spaces, and modded servers. Just don’t blame this setting when someone builds a turret inside a rock.
Re-enables movement speed leveling on flyers like Argentavis, Pteranodons, and Wyverns. Disabled by default in official ARK, but perfect for private or modded ARK: Survival Ascended servers where mobility matters. 🦅 Tip: Great for PvE, big maps, or classic ARK fans who miss their supersonic birds. Just expect chaos if used in competitive PvP.
Enables floating damage numbers when players or dinos deal damage—great for tracking hits, testing builds, or just feeling awesome when you smack something. 🔢 Tip: Popular on PvE and PvP ARK: Survival Ascended servers alike. Helps with balancing dino stats or checking if that upgraded sword actually does anything.
Allows players to use the gamma command in PvP mode to adjust screen brightness. Useful for night vision during raids, travel, or sneaky night taming on competitive ARK: Survival Ascended servers. 🌌 Tip: Adds convenience, but can reduce the challenge of nighttime PvP. Use wisely if you want darkness to matter.
Disables player-vs-player combat while a tribe is offline. Helps protect bases and tames from being raided when no one’s around to defend. Essential for fair-play PvP ARK: Survival Ascended servers with small tribes or casual players. 🛡️ Tip: This setting doesn’t stop wild dino attacks—just other players. Pair it with ORP mods or structure decay rules for balanced raid protection. 🌌 Tip: Adds convenience, but can reduce the challenge of nighttime PvP. Use wisely if you want darkness to matter.
Sets the delay (in seconds) after a player or tribe logs out before Offline PvP protection activates. Useful for balancing fair play with tactical raids on ARK: Survival Ascended PvP servers. ⏱️ Tip: Gives tribes a brief window to still be raided if they log off mid-fight—so it’s not a get-out-of-raid-free card.
Sets the maximum number of structures allowed within a certain radius on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. This prevents overly dense building, which can help reduce lag and keep base sprawl in check—especially on busy PvE maps or cluster servers. 🏗️ Tip: Useful for avoiding lag-box megabases or troll structures clogging up key zones. Keep it balanced so players can still build cool stuff without frying your server.
Sets the total number of tamed dinos allowed on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. This is a global cap — once it’s hit, no more taming until some creatures are cryo’d or deleted. 🧬 Tip: Keep it high enough for big tribes, but low enough to avoid lag zoos and abandoned pet hoarding. Combine with MaxPersonalTamedDinos to prevent one player from taming everything that moves.
Limits how many tamed dinos a single player can own on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. This helps prevent one player from eating up the entire server’s tame budget. 🧢 Tip: Crucial for balanced PvE clusters and PvP servers alike—especially when Steve thinks he needs 72 rexes “just in case.”
Sets how many entries the tribe log will keep for each tribe on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. Useful for tracking dino deaths, structure destruction, and player activity. 📝 Tip: Bump it up if players constantly ask, “What happened to my stuff?” — or leave it low if nobody reads logs anyway.
Changes how many items can be stacked together in a single inventory slot. This ARK ASA server setting applies globally — including player, dino, and structure inventories. Great for QoL boosts or running a high-rate cluster where vanilla stacks are laughable. 📦 Tip: Higher values reduce clutter and lag from thousands of stacks. Just don’t go so high that players carry an entire vault in their pants.
Specifies a remote text file that contains a list of banned Steam64 IDs for your ARK: Survival Ascended server. This is useful for auto-enforcing bans across multiple servers or clusters. ☠️ Tip: Use one Steam64 ID per line. This setting is mostly used by larger communities or hosts—if you’re solo running your server, you can ignore it.
When enabled, this ARK ASA setting prevents spoil timers from stacking or extending in unintended ways across inventories. It ensures items spoil consistently, no matter where they’re stored — stopping exploits like infinite fridges in dino butts. 🧊 Tip: Leave this off if you like juggling spoil timers like a circus act. Turn it on for a fairer (and slightly more frustrating) survival experience.
Toggles whether resource harvest damage is capped for consistency across tools and dinos. If True, it prevents overpowered harvesters from getting exponentially more resources just because they deal massive damage. This ARK ASA setting helps balance gathering on high-rate or PvP servers. ⛏️ Tip: Want to nerf that chainsaw-happy tribe from draining the entire redwoods in 10 seconds? This is your throttle switch.
When enabled, this setting optimizes how resource nodes calculate their health based on server rates. It helps prevent harvesting glitches and improves performance on boosted servers. A behind-the-scenes ARK ASA setting — but a smart one for custom servers. 🧠 Tip: Turning this on won’t magically make your rates better, but it will stop some weird bugs when you’re using high HarvestAmount values.
Toggles visual hit markers when damaging enemies or objects. This ARK: Survival Ascended setting helps players confirm their attacks are landing — especially useful in PvP or when aiming through lag. 🎯 Tip: Leave this on if you like feedback when you shoot. Turn it off if you enjoy guessing whether your arrow hit the tree… or their face.
Toggles the on-screen crosshair for your ARK: Survival Ascended server. When disabled, players have to rely on iron sights or luck to aim projectiles and ranged weapons. 🎯 Tip: Leave it on for PvE or casual servers. Turn it off for a hardcore or immersive experience—just prepare for a lot more arrows in trees.
Lets PvE players build structures inside caves, which are normally off-limits. Use this ARK: Survival Ascended server setting if you want to allow underground bases or explorer note checkpoint builds in PvE mode. 🏔️ Tip: Great for immersive or story-driven servers. Just beware of blocking artifacts or spawns in major caves.
Forces the entire HUD (hotbar, health/stamina, notifications, etc.) off for all players on your ARK: Survival Ascended server. Players cannot re-enable it client-side. Ideal for hardcore survivalists or cinematic recording. 🧠 Tip: Don’t enable this unless you really want players to feel lost, blind, and afraid. Great for immersion, but expect complaints — or pure silence, because no one knows they’re starving.
Enables Tek suit abilities (like flight, super speed, and punch) on Genesis maps where they’re normally disabled. This ARK ASA setting gives players full Tek freedom — even in maps designed to limit them. ⚡ Tip: Turn this on if you want players zooming around like Iron Man. Leave it off if you enjoy watching them struggle like plebs in a space station.
Toggles the availability of the Hexagon Store on Genesis maps. When set to True, players can’t access the store to buy loot crates, resources, or gear. 🎁 Tip: Disable this if you’re running a balanced or progression-focused ARK: Survival Ascended server and don’t want players farming missions for OP gear by day 2.
Adjusts how many Hexagons players earn from missions and daily rewards on Genesis maps. Higher values = more currency per activity. 💰 Tip: Increase this if you want missions to be a viable source of gear or resources. Lower it if players are turning your store into a loot casino.
Sets the maximum number of Hexagons a player can hold at one time. Helps control hoarding and limits how much players can spam the store. 🧮 Tip: Good for clusters where balance matters. Set it low to encourage spending or high to let players go wild.

🧬 Player & Dino Multipliers

🕒 Time & Difficulty Settings

🏗 Building & Structure

👥 Tribe / PvP / Notifications

🛰️ Network / Performance

🦕 Dino Upload/Download Control


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