ark survival ascended

[marceldempers]

Hey folks, I don't see any open issue or note in the readme about Ark Survival Ascended.
Just a question here, that may help others

Have any of you tried this tool on ASA ?

I'm about to give it a shot but thought I'd ask :)

Edit:
Findings so far:

• Ark ASA Dedicated server app ID only has Windows Support
• steamCMD unable to download ASA server tools as login anonymous. This means you need a dedicated account with the game purchased to run a server at this stage.

[marceldempers]

Update:
Couple of things I noticed.
There is an App ID out for it
Ark dedicated server for ASA is not supporting Linux yet (only windows):

There is an open issue about it here GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM#4350

There are also reported issues of steamCMD not being able to download the binaries without using an account to login. (Strange, but its early days)

I am keeping an eye on all of that.
This ark-server-tool seems to provide enough wrapper capability and RCON which should work on ASA for everything I have seen so fingers crossed :)
Great work on this project, love it!

[marceldempers]

Updates:

It seems like at the moment there is a known issue where you can only download the server with steamcmd if you login, and not anonymously anymore:

"When you purchase ARK: Survival Ascended on Steam at launch, you can create one PC private server (“Steam server”) for free use, allowing you to invite friends or other community players to share experiences across the revamped ARK maps. With the “Steam server” , there will be limitations that you can expect, including that you’ll be limited to creating a single Steam server for your Steam account, requiring authentication before starting. Also, self-hosted servers often take many steps to prepare and manage smoothly due to requiring your resources, time, and hardware. To save you time and ensure the best server hosting experience, we recommend your ARK: Survival Ascended servers with us at Nitrado, the exclusive commercial provider of ASA server hosting!"

So it seems like we have to 1) wait for Linux support, 2) see how the steamcmd stuff goes with app install as anonymous.

People have been getting servers up on Windows by logging in with their steam accounts using steamcmd and then launching in offline mode to fool steam. :-/

[klightspeed]

I think it was the same back in 2014 / 2015 before Linux support was added and the ARK dedicated server was released as a separate "tool" application.

[Flux001337]

I think it was the same back in 2014 / 2015 before Linux support was added and the ARK dedicated server was released as a separate "tool" application.

Or a bad move by snailgames to drive more users to Nitrado in the beginning.
I hope not !!!

[marceldempers]

small update:

Looks like they have added anonymous login, so app_update now starts instead of giving a No Subscriptions error.

Steam>login anonymous

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK

Steam>app_update 2430930
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
 etc

still no Linux client available, but this at least means we'll be able to pull the binaries at some point :-/

[marcel-dempers]

update:

For those who are running out of patience and want a server on Linux.
There have been many successes with proton (similar to wine ) to get an ASA server up and running in Linux

Here is a script I have found which can be used as a guide:
https://github.com/cdp1337/ARKSurvivalAscended-Linux/blob/main/server-install-debian12.sh