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ARK: Survival Evolved Player Stats Per Level – Server Guide
ARK Player Stats Per Level – Introduction
In ARK Server Hosting, you’ll find yourself on an island inhabited by dangerous creatures and dinosaurs. There, you’ll have to survive by collecting resources, creating items such as weapons or armor, and building a shelter. As you explore the island, you’ll notice that your character levels up regularly, allowing you to learn new recipes and improve your character. The rate at which your character stats improves per level is set by the game and can often lead to a grind to improve them. Thankfully, there is an option to adjust the ARK player stats per level.
ARK: Survival Evolved features all sorts of different player stats that can be edited, including health, stamina, oxygen, food, water, and more. Every one of these stat multipliers can be adjusted individually, per level, for your server players. This process can appear complicated, however, in this guide, we will break down the steps to adjust these level multipliers on your own ARK server!
Setting up the PerLevelStatsMultiplier Options
With the perlevelstatsmultiplier option, it’s important to know that this setting can work for more than just your server players. You can also adjust the stats of tamed and wild dinosaurs and creatures on your ARK game server. To do this, we’ll start with the three different options for player and dinosaur stat multipliers:
- PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[0]=1
- PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0]=1
- PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[0]=1
Inside these options, “[0]” will need to be changed to the stat attribute you wish to manipulate. These stats range from health as 0 to crafting speed multiplier as 11. In addition, you’ll need to change the value “=1” to the multiplier you’d like to set for that level. Below, you can find a chart of the different attributes, their IDs, and their default multiplier values.
Player Stats Multiplier Chart
| Attribute | Attribute ID | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 0 | 1.0 |
| Stamina | 1 | 1.0 |
| Torpidity | 2 | 1.0 |
| Oxygen | 3 | 1.0 |
| Food | 4 | 1.0 |
| Water | 5 | 1.0 |
| Temperature | 6 | 0.0 (Unused stat) |
| Weight | 7 | 1.0 |
| MeleeDamageMultiplier | 8 | 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased) |
| SpeedMultiplier | 9 | 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased) |
| TemperatureFortitude | 10 | 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased) |
| CraftingSpeedMultiplier | 11 | 0.0 (Base Stat cannot be increased) |
Game.ini Stats Multipliers Example
Since technically the stat attributes 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11 cannot be increased, below is an example of all of the usable player, tamed dinosaur, and wild dinosaur per level stat multipliers, set to 1. These can be copied and pasted into your ARK server’s Game.ini, where you can then edit each value to fit your server.
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[0]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[1]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[2]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[3]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[4]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[5]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[7]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[0]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[1]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[2]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[3]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[4]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[5]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoTamed[7]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[0]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[1]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[2]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[3]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[4]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[5]=1
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_DinoWild[7]=1
Adding the ARK Player Stats Per Level To Your Server
- To begin, go on your ARK server webinterface and stop your server.
- Then, ensure “Expert Mode” is activated on your server by following our guide.
- After Expert Mode is enabled, you’ll see “Expert Settings” on the left side of your server webinterface. Select this option to edit your ARK server files.
- Within your Expert Settings, use the dropdown to edit your “Game.ini” file.
- Once you’re in this file, scroll to the bottom and copy/paste the ARK player stats per level code you created like this:
- Lastly, press “Save changes” and then start your ARK server to enable those multipliers!
Change Your ARK Server Difficulty in a New Way
When you adjust the ARK player stats per level on your server, you’re not just changing how fast players can earn better stats. In addition, you’re also creating an easier or harder experience for the players on your server. This means you can design your server to be more hardcore, or easier, depending on the way you and your friends prefer to play. See how your adventure changes when you set custom per level stats for you and your friends on your ARK server!
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ARK Aberration Guide – Radiation & Mutation
ARK Genesis Guide
How to join your ARK Server
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