ARK Config Editor

Welcome to my ARK Config Editor! Simply follow the steps to create your own custom config and fine tune your gameplay experience. Why use this tool? Because ARK: Survival Evolved's built in gameplay settings sliders for starting a server/world does not tell you all the possible options and is quite minimalist. There are several settings here that are not listed in ARK's in-game UI. Please note that when the setting says "Dinos", that also applies to creatures that aren't technically dinosaurs like Dragons or dodos. Think of "dinos" as "creatures".

Step 1: Edit your config

Already have a config you wish to edit? Upload your Game.ini file here. (Will not work if not previously generated from this tool)

Leave default values alone and just skip straight to the download if you wish to use the config I personally prefer.

Setting	Description	Value
Baby Imprinting Stat Scale Multiplier	This will change the effectiveness of the bonus you get in stats if you properly imprint a dino. For example, a value of 2 would make the stats twice as good as they would be at 1.
Baby Cuddle Interval Multiplier	This will change the amount of time before a baby will request you to take care of it. Smaller numbers would mean less time needed. For example, 0.5 would mean the babies ask for attention twice as often, where as a value of 2 will have the babies take twice as long to request attention.
Baby Cuddle Grace Period Multiplier	A multiplier on how long after delaying cuddling with the Baby before Imprinting Quality starts to decrease. Higher values mean more time and therefore more forgiving.
Baby Cuddle Lose Imprint Quality Speed Multiplier	A multiplier on how fast Imprinting Qualitiy decreases after the grace period if you haven't yet cuddled with the Baby. Lower values mean more forgiving.
Per Level Stats Multiplier for Tamed Dinos	Adjust how much each level is worth for each stat. Higher is better.	Health: Stamina: Torpidity: Oxygen: Food: Weight: Damage: Movement Speed:
Per Level Point Stats Multiplier for Tamed Dinos	Adjust how much each level point is worth for each stat. Higher is better.	Health: Stamina: Torpidity: Oxygen: Food: Weight: Damage: Movement Speed:
Per Level Point Stats Multiplier Bonus for Taming a Dino	Adjust the bonus stat gain your dino gets based on tame efficiency. Higher is better.	Health: Stamina: Torpidity: Oxygen: Food: Weight: Damage: Movement Speed:
Per Level Point Stats Multiplier for Wild Dinos	How ripped wild dinos will be. Higher is better for the dinosaur.	Health: Stamina: Torpidity: Oxygen: Food: Weight: Damage: Movement Speed:
Per Level Point Stats Multiplier for Players	Multipliers for how strong each stat is per level. Higher is better.	Health: Stamina: Torpidity: Oxygen: Food: Water: Temperature: Weight: Damage: Movement Speed: Fortitude: Crafting Speed:
Global Spoiling Time Multiplier	Scales how all items that spoil take to do so. Higher means they spoil slower.
Global Item Decomposition Time Multiplier	Scales how long dropped items take to despawn. Higher values prolong the time.
Global Corpse Decomposition Time Multiplier	Scales how long corpses take to despawn. Higher values prolong the time.
Structure Damage Repair Cooldown	Defines the cooldown in seconds that you must wait before repairing a structure after it has been damaged.
Resource Node Deadzone Radius from Players	Scales the radius from players resource nodes can respawn. Higher values increase the distance.
Resource Node Deadzone Radius from Structures	Scales the radius from player made structures resource nodes can respawn. Higher values increase the distance.
Crop Growth Speed Multiplier	Scales how long corpses take to despawn. Higher values prolong the time.
Lay Egg Interval Multiplier	Scales how long corpses take to despawn. Higher values prolong the time.
Poop Interval Multiplier	Higher values decreases (by percentage) how frequently you can poop. This can lead to some intresting moments.
Crop Decay Speed Multiplier	Scales how fast crops will decompose after being ready for picking. I suggest setting this value to something low since you aren't always going to be at your crop feild.
Mating Interval Multiplier	Scales the interval length dinos have after having sex. Higher values means they will take longer before they are able to bang again.
Mating Speed Multiplier	Scales the speed that dinos will take to create a baby. Romantic!
Egg Hatch Speed Multiplier	Scales how fast eggs hatch. Higher values means shorter hatch times.
Baby Mature Speed Multiplier	Scales how fast babies grow up. Higher values mean they take less time to grow up.
Baby Food Consumption Speed Multiplier	Scales how fast babies will eat when growing. Higher values means they will eat more often.
Dino Turret Damage Multiplier	Higher values increase the damage done by turrets to dinos.
Dino Harvesting Damage Multiplier	Higher values means dinos deal more "damage" to resource nodes, meaning they harvest the node faster.
Player Harvesting Damage Multiplier	Higher values means the player deals more "damage" to resource nodes, meaning they harvest the node faster.
Custom Recipe Effectiveness Multiplier	Higher number increases (by percentage) the effectiveness of a custom recipe.
Custom Recipe Skill Multiplier	Higher number increases (by percentage) the effect of the players crafting speed level that is used as a base for the formula in creating a custom recipe.
Auto PvE Timer	Set up a time system for when PvP is toggled on and off. Can allow for grace periods.	Enable the timer? Use system time? If false, the timer will rely on game ticks (game time) Start time (seconds): End time (seconds):
PvP Respawn Intervals	Set up a time system for when PvP is toggled on and off. Can allow for grace periods.	Enable this feature? Multiplier for the amount of time that deaths further compound respawn time. Respawn interval multiplier (A value of 2 will double the base respawn time for each death within the amount of time set above): Base PvP respawn time (minutes):
PvP Zone Structure Damage Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for damage structures take within caves. The lower the value, the less damage the structure takes (i.e. setting to 1.0 will make structure built in or near a cave receive the same amount of damage as those built on the surface).
Fuel Consumption Interval Multiplier	Scales the interval fuel is consumed. For example, an value of 2 would mean fuel is consumed twice as slowly.
Disable Friendly Fire	Turns off friendly fire. Pretty self explanatory.
Flyer Platform Allow Unaligned DinoBasing	Quetz platforms will not allow any non-allied dino to base on them when they are flying. If you want your server to allow non-allied dinos to be able to stand on the Quetz platforms set this to true.
XP Gains Multipliers	Multipliers for how much XP certain events are worth relative to their default.	Kill XP: Harvest XP: Crafting XP: Generic (overtime) XP: Special XP:
Disable Loot Crates	Disables the loot crates that randomly drop onto the map like the hunger games.
Allow Custom Recipes	Allows custom crafting recipes. I know, shocking.
Passive Defenses Damage Riderless Dinos.	True allow spike walls to damage wild/riderless Dinos
Allow Tribe Wars	Allows tribe wars. Obviously.
Allow Tribe War Cancel	Allows you to cancel an agreed upon tribe war before it has already started. Coward.
Max Difficulty	Forces all creatures to spawn at the maximum possible level.
Use Singleplayer Settings	Don't feel like wasting your life? Don't want a sweaty competitive experience? This settings adds additional multipliers to other settings to make the gameplay experience more fun.
Use Corpse Locator	Enables the server to show you a green beacon where your latest corpse is located.
Creative Mode	Gives you creative mode.
Disable Structure Placement Collision	You can place structures more or less inside each other with this setting on. Helps with giving you more creative placement options.
Allow Unlimited Respecs	Permits an unlimited amount of times you can consume the mindwipe tonic, an item used to refund your level points. Without this setting enabled, you need to wait 24 hours to use the next tonic.
Disable Dino Riding	Are you out of your fucking mind? This game is a dinosaur taming game, and you want to disable dinosaur riding?? WHY?!
bDisableDinoTaming	(-ᆺ-) go play another game if you don't want to tame dinosaurs.
Max Number of Players in Tribe	Changes the maximum amount of players in a tribe. Setting this to zero disables the limit.
Supply Crate Loot Quality Multiplier	Scales the quality of the loot you can find in those hunger games style supply drops that drop onto the map randomly.
Fishing Loot Quality Multiplier	Scales the quality of the loot you receive from fishing.
Crafting Skill Bonus Multiplier	Sometimes crafting can give you a bonus. The higher this number is, the more often this is to happen.
Allow Flyer Speed Leveling	Allows you to level up the movement speed of flying dinos.
Allow Flying Stamina Recovery	Turning this on will allow your flying creatures to regain stamina when you aren't riding them, regardless of if they are still in the air.
Item Stack Size Multiplier	Scales the size of item tacks. For example, in vanilla, raw meat stacks to 40. Multiplying this by 5 will give you a stack size of 200. This setting is very useful for end game when all the resources needed to craft something might not fit in the crafting station.
Non-Dedicated Server Host Tether Distance Multiplier	When hosting a world to play on with your friends using the "Non-dedicated session" button, your friends cannot go further than the tether value. They will get dragged to you if they go farther. To essentially disable this, set the value to a very large number.
Allow Raid Dino Feeding	Allows you to feed your "raid dinos". These include the Titanosaur. Even with this feature enabled, they still won't eat by themselves and you need to feed them manually. This was probably a feature because the titanosaur is really OP in PvP, but on smaller servers there isn't a problem with having a big boi pet.
Raid Dino Character Food Drain Multiplier	Scales the rate at which the Titanosaur drains his food (aka gets hungry). If "Allow Raid Dino Feeding" is disabled, this setting can essentially act as a life timer for the Titanosaur.
Structure Prevent Resource Radius Multiplier	Scales the radius at which resources can spawn around structures. (I don't know why there are two settings that do basically the same thing, I would just leave it on the default value).
PvE Dino Decay Period Multiplier	??? No fucking clue what this does. I just leave it on it's default value of 1.
Per Platform Max Structures Multiplier	Scales the amount of structures that a platform saddle can support. Set this value to something very high if you enjoy making massive bases on quetzals or rafts.
Use Global Voice Chat	Turning this on will change the in-game voice chat system from being distance based to just being server wide. This is useful if you only play with friends and want to communicate with them from anywhere, but not very useful if you want a realistic amongus like experience where you want to only talk to nearby players.
No Tribute Downloads	Turning this on will prevent you for downloading boss summoning items called tributes from the obelisks. This means you can't transfer tribute from map to map.
Enable Proximity Chat	Enabling this will only allow players physically close to each other in-game to communicate using text chat.
Allow Third Person Player Camera	Allows players to go into third person using the scroll wheel.
Always Notify Player Left	This will send a global message when a player leaves the game.
Always Notify Player Joined	This will send a global message when a player joins the game.
Prevent Offline PvP	Prevents players from damaging other players if they are offline. Only matters if PvP is enabled obviously.
Prevent Offline PvP Interval	Changes the amount of time players are immune when they just logged off. Only relevant if "Prevent offline PvP" is set to false.
Ban list URL	Changes the url of the text file the game uses to recognize banned players. Default value is a website kept by the ark developers to store hackers.
Server Hardcore	This will enable hardcore mode. When you die your character is deleted.
Server PVE	Turning this on will prevent PvP. Turning this off will enable PvP.
Allow Server Crosshair	Allows players to use crosshairs.
Server Force No Hud	This will prevent the HUD from showing up for players.
Show Map Player Location	This will show your position on the map when you press M as a blue arrow.
Enable PVP Gamma	This will let you change your gamma settings even if your server has PvP enabled.
Disable Structure Decay PvE	This will prevent the game from pruning your structure if not in PvP.
Allow Flyer Carry PvE	This will allow you to pick up other players with your dinosaurs even if PvP is disabled. Is useful for trolling or saving your friends.
Prevent Download Survivors	This will prevent you from downloading characters from obelisks, essentially preventing players from traveling to different servers.
Prevent Download Items	This will prevent you from downloading items from obelisks, essentially preventing items from traveling to different servers.
Prevent Download Dinos	This will prevent you from downloading dinos from obelisks, essentially preventing dinos from traveling to different servers.
Disable PvE Gamma	This will prevent the player from changing gamma settings even if the server is set to PvE.
Disable Dino Decay PvE	Turning this on will prevent your tamed dinos from despawning overtime if you aren't logged in for long enough.
Admin Logging	Turning this on will cause all admin commands (cheats) to also print in the in-game chat.
Allow Cave Building	Allows structures to be placed inside caves.
Force Allow Cave Flyers	Enabling this means that flying creatures may enter caves.
Prevent Offline PvP	Enabling this prevent people's stuff from being damaged from other players while they are offline.
PvP Dino Decay	If this is enabled, tamed dinos will despawn if their owner has been offline for a long time if PvP is active.
OverrideStructurePlatformPrevention	Enabling this will allow you to place spikes and turrets on platform saddles.
Allow Anyone Baby Imprint Cuddle	This will allow any allied players to cuddle your baby dinos, allowing them to progress the imprinting process to aid you.
Disable Imprint Dino Buff	This will prevent the buff on imprinted dinos that increases resistance and damage up to 100% based on the imprinting quality of the dino.
Show Floating Damage Text	This will allow damage numbers to render kind of like in TF2. The individual player still needs to enable it on their client-side settings.
Prevent Diseases	Removes diseases. Diseases are permanent debuffs that can only be removed if using a specific and expensive in-game item. It can spread to dinos and players and is a headache.
Non Permanent Diseases	If you decide to use allow diseases, this will at least make it so the debuff is removed if you kill yourself.
Enable Extra Structure Prevention Volumes	Turning this on will prevent players from building near areas significant for progression of gameplay, such as obelisks.
Prevent Tribe Alliances	Prevent the ability for tribes to make alliances with other tribes.
Active Event	Choose if you would like there to be an event forcefully enabled on your server. If you wish for the developer to choose based on the actual time of year, select "None".	None Easter Arkaeology Extinction Chronicles Winter Wonderland ARK: Love Evolved Summer Bash ARK: Fear Evolved 4 ARK: Turkey Trial 4 ARK: 5th Anniversary
Difficulty Offset	Changes the difficulty of the map, basically just increases the maximum level you can find wild dinos at. Official servers use "1" and so do I.
Taming Speed Multiplier	Higher values decrease the amount of time it takes to tame creatures.
Harvest Amount Multiplier	Higher values increase the amount of stuff you collect from harvesting actions (harvesting corpses, trees, rocks, etc)
Maximum Structures Nearby	Higher values allows more structures to be placed close to each other. Lower this if you have a lot of server lag if someone put millions of toilets in their house.
Oxygen Swim Speed Stat Multiplier	Increasing this value cases you to swim faster for each level point spent in the "Oxygen" spec.
Tribe Name Change Cooldown	Sets the time in minutes in between tribe name changes.
Platform Saddle Build Area Bounds Multiplier	Changes the distance from a platform saddle a structure can be placed. This can allow you to make some massive structures on big flying birb.
AlwaysAllowStructurePickup	Enabling this removed the cooldown that gives you the chance to pick a structure back up. This makes it so you can always pick up your structures regardless of how long they've been there.
Structure Pickup Hold Duration	Sets the time in seconds that you must hold the option to pick up a structure. This prevents accidentally instantly picking up and breaking your entire house when you mean to repair it, for example.
Allow Integrated SPlus Structures	Are you using the Structures Plus mod? This setting will allow those structures to replace vanilla structures in the menu since they are essentially the same, only improved.
Allow Hide Damage Source From Tribe Logs	Allows tribe members to hide the source of damage in the tribe event log.
Kick Idle Players Period	Sets the amount of time in seconds a player can be AFK before being kicked from the server.
Auto Save Period	Changes the interval in minutes that the server will auto save the world.
Max Tamed Dinos	Sets the maximum amount of tamed dinos that can exist on the server.
AllowHitMarkers	Displays hit markers for ranged attacks (The red that shows up on your crosshair to show you've hit something).
Player Character Stamina Drain Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for player characters' stamina consumption. Higher values increase stamina consumption (player characters get tired faster).
Player Character Health Recovery Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for player characters' health recovery. Higher values increase the recovery rate (player characters heal faster).
Player Character Food Drain Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for player characters' food consumption. Higher values increase food consumption (player characters get hungry faster).
Player Character Water Drain Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for player characters' water consumption. Higher values increase water consumption (player characters get thirsty faster).
Dino Character Stamina Drain Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for dinosaurs' stamina consumption. Higher values increase stamina consumption (dinosaurs get tired faster). This does not apply to dino abilities, those still have a fixed stamina cost.
Dino Character Health Recovery Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for dinosaurs' health recovery. Higher values increase the recovery rate (dinosaurs heal faster).
Dino Character Food Drain Multiplier	Specifies the scaling factor for dinosaurs' food consumption. Higher values increase food consumption (dinosaurs get hungry faster). It also affects the taming-times.
Structure Pickup Time After Placement	Sets the grace period in seconds that lets you pick up structures you've just placed. Use the "Always Allow Structure Pickup" setting to remove this timer.
Resources Respawn Period Multiplier	Chages the respawn period of resource nodes in the world. Values less than 1 mean they will respawn more often.

Step 2: Generate your config

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Step 3: Download and install your config

Instructions:

1. download your new game.ini file.
2. Drag your new game.ini file into your ~\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor and replace the old file with it.
3. copy this and paste it under the [ServerSettings] section of the "GameUserSettings.ini" file, located in the same folder as the game.ini file. Replace everything under the [ServerSettings] tag with the copied text all the way up until you spot a gap and see [Player.Info]. Do not paste over the [Player.Info] part.
4. You're done! Enjoy your custom gameplay experience!

If you would like to increase the maximum level of players and dinosaurs, please generate a levelmap using my ARK Max Level Generator, and paste it under all your other settings in the game.ini file you've just made.

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