Becoming an Admin on Your ARK: Survival Evolved Server

INTRODUCTION

When taking on the radiant areas throughout ARK: Survival Evolved, you’ll be encompassed by unique forests and caves, a variety of dinosaurs and technology, and an endless assortment of items and structures you and your friends can design with. Surrounded by such an amazing environment with endless creativity, you can expand the game further by accessing and using admin features supported in ARK to bring more fun to your fellow ARK players!

In the endless opportunities that ARK admin-access presents you and your friends with, gain access to spawning in difficult to gather items and materials, fly through maps at full speed to explore without limits, or try commands that give you the power of god mode! Bring your friends along and take on a new exciting path to learn how you can become a server admin on your ARK: Survival Evolved server!

HOW TO BECOME AN ARK ADMIN ON YOUR SERVER

To add an admin to your ARK server, there are two methods of adding users as a server administrator. You can implement a server password that players would use upon joining to gain admin privileges or you are able to add those server players directly to a list through their Steam ID and only those players will have admin access while playing in-game. Below, we will show both methods of adding ARK: Survival Evolved admins to your server!

IMPLEMENTING AN ADMIN SERVER PASSWORD

• Enter your ARK: SE server panel and stop your server prior to making setting adjustments.
• Next, to the left of the control panel locate and select the “General” option under “SETTINGS”.

• In your ARK server settings, scroll under the “Base settings” section and locate the option “Admin password”. By default, a random password will already be generated and set for this option.

• Click on the field next to this setting to change the password. Type in a strong password that will be impossible to guess.
• After changing the ARK Admin password, press the “Save changes” button at the bottom.

• Lastly, start your ARK:SE server to ensure that password is correctly set!

USING THE ARK SERVER PASSWORD TO GET ADMIN

1. Begin by pressing the “Connect to server” button on your control panel to connect to your ARK: Survival Evolved server.
   

• This will open ARK and connect to your game server. Alternatively, you can join using the server IP address with our guide on joining your favorite servers!
• Upon joining the ARK server, press the “Tab” key on PC to open the in-game console.
• In this command console, you will need to type this command to gain admin access:
  enablecheats youradminpassword
  

• Once you have entered that command, you will now have admin access on the ARK server and can begin using cheat commands!

ADDING ARK ADMINS ON YOUR SERVER VIA STEAM ID

• To start, gather the Steam64 player IDs of each player you’d like to make an admin on your ARK server.
• Go on the SteamID IO website, where you can easily search for and find the Steam64 IDs of a Steam player: https://steamid.io/
• Enter their username and then press “lookup”.

• Upon looking up that username, find the “steamID64” ID. You can then press the “copy to clipboard” icon next to that ID to copy that. Save the Steam 64 IDs of each player to a safe location on your computer.

• With those Steam 64 IDs ready, go on your ARK: Survival Evolved server’s control panel.
• On your server panel, look to the left and press the “General” option under “SETTINGS”.

• Within your server settings, scroll down until you see the “Player” section. This section will include an “Admins” area where you can add the Steam 64 IDs.
  

• In the “Admins” setting, add each player Steam 64 ID one ID per line.
  

• After adding each player’s Steam 64 ID, press “Save changes” at the bottom to ensure those adjustments are saved.
• Finally, exit back to your server panel and “Restart” your server to load those players as admins!

Those ARK server players will now be able to join and will instantly gain access to server administrator privileges. A player added to the “Admins” section does not need to use the “enablecheats” command or use an admin password.

OPENING THE ARK GAME CONSOLE TO USE COMMANDS

To use the in-game console, begin by pressing the following while on your server depending on the system you’re on:

• PC – Tab key
• PS4 – L1, R1, Square, and Triangle (inside the pause menu)
• Xbox One – LB, RB, X, and Y (inside the pause menu)

IMPORTANT ARK:SE ADMIN COMMANDS

• enablecheats <adminpassword> – This allows players of your ARK server to use the admin password set on the server to gain access as an ARK server administrator.
• cheat god – Making the player invincible to a majority of types of damage in ARK, this command enables god mode for the player.
• cheat banplayer <steam64ID> – Bans the specified player from your ARK: SE server.
• cheat settimeofday <hour:minute[:second]> – Set the time of the server to any specific time. As an example, “cheat settimeofday 15:30” would set the server time to 3:30 PM.

CONCLUSION

Managing your server is important for you and your players and with ARK’s powerful variety of admin commands, there are endless options to use! From being able to ban rogue players, utilizing god mode to relax without the fear of death, or simply changing the time to brighten up your ARK travels, you can accomplish your goals to keep your server running perfectly. Begin taking control of your ARK world and create the experience when you add server admins to your own ARK: Survival Evolved game server!

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