This guide will help you how to manually troubleshoot your ARK Survival Ascended Server.
1. Log in to your Game Control Panel and navigate to your service.
2. Before making any modifications, stop the server from running by clicking the Stop button.
3. If your server is now unavailable after a Game Update, open the Web Console to check what's causing the issue.
If the console displays something similar to this, it is a mod Issue. This is fairly common after a Game Update since it causes incompatibility with mods.
4. To resolve this, delete the mod files in the File Manager. The files can be found in "ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/ShooterGame/Mods/83374"
Once deleted, the Game Server will automatically redownload the files if the MOD IDs are still present in the Starting Commandline.
5. You can tell the server is now joinable once it displays: "Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join."
If the server still does not start after deleting the mod files, then we would need to check things further.
6. Open the Commandline Manager. Make a copy of your Mods list, save it and then Start the server.
If the server booted up properly without mods this time, then it's a complete incompatibility issue with the mods. We would need to find and isolate the mods causing this. To do so, instead of adding the entire mod list back. Add 2-3 at a time and then start the server.
7. You can tell the server is booted properly if it displays: "Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join." Keep doing this until the server does not initialize properly. This would mean the "Bad" mod(s) were in the last batch.
If you can't find your server in the browser list but it displays:
"Server has completed startup and is now advertising for join."
1. Please double-check your filters and make sure "Player Servers" is checked. Check the password option if you have one or else the server won't show.
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