ARK: Survival Ascended: set experience, taming, gathering and breeding

Most game rules of ARK: Survival Ascended live in two files. You find both in the Files tab under
ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/

• GameUserSettings.ini – experience, taming, gathering, day and night, difficulty
• Game.ini – breeding, hatching, maturing

The files are created on the server's first start, so start it once before editing them.

How to do it

ARK only reads the files on start – and overwrites them when shutting down. So always edit them with the server stopped:

1. Stop the server and wait until it is "offline".
2. Open the file in the Files tab, change it, save.
3. Start the server.

Experience, taming, gathering

Add these to GameUserSettings.ini directly below the line [ServerSettings]. 1.0 is default, 2.0 twice as fast:

[ServerSettings]
XPMultiplier=2.0
TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.0
HarvestAmountMultiplier=2.0

More popular values in the same section:

Breeding and maturing

These values go into Game.ini. If the file is empty, add the section line first:

[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=5.0
EggHatchSpeedMultiplier=5.0
MatingIntervalMultiplier=0.5
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier=0.5

MatingIntervalMultiplier and BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier work the other way round: a smaller value means a shorter wait.

Good to know

• Upper and lower case and the section line must match exactly, otherwise ARK ignores the value without an error.
• Enter each value only once – if it appears twice, yours may not be the one that applies.
• Server name, password, map and PvE are set in the Startup variables tab, not in the file: ASA: set up your server.
• For ARK: Survival Evolved the files are under …/Config/LinuxServer/ – see ARK (ASE): experience, taming, gathering.