How to Change ARK Day Night Cycle

How to Change ARK Day Night Cycle – Introduction

Within the prehistoric world in ARK, knowing the real-time game speed at which day passes in the match is important. This ensures you can keep track of a variety of functions such as egg incubation time or food duration. Changing this setting can be significant for those who want time to pass faster on their server or, on the contrary, to pass slower, resembling real time.

It’s worth mentioning that ARK: Survival Evolved features editable configurations in the general settings section. It will suffice to enter this section from the web interface to make changes. However, servers for ARK: Survival Ascended currently lack these features, and we will need to add them manually to the game’s configuration files. Below, we will guide you step by step on how to change the day and night cycle on your ARK: Survival Ascended server hosted on Nitrado.

Config Files

First, you should know that the configuration settings for the ARK Day and Night cycles are not pre-set, so you’ll need to add lines of code to edit these functions. Don’t worry though, as we will guide you step by step so you can make the changes in your configuration without fear of making mistakes when adding these functions.

1. To the left of the web interface in the **Settings** section, you will find the **Config Files**.

   

2. By clicking you’ll encounter the following window where all the editable functions within your server will be.

   

3. At the top, change the tab from “Game.ini” to the option “GameUserSetting.ini“.

   

4. The lines of code change automatically when you click. Now, we will look for the section that says “[/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]”.

   

5. Now, scroll down to the bottom of this section, where we will add the following lines:

   DayCycleSpeedScale=1
   DayTimeSpeedScale=1
   NightTimeSpeedScale=1

   

6. Finally, all that’s left is to change the duration of the day or night or the complete cycle to customize your experience to the fullest and save changes.

   

7. Lastly, restart the server for the settings to be correctly reflected.

Now that we have added the functions to our server, it’s time to change them and put them in the parameter that suits us best. For that, we will explain one by one how they work.

DayCycleSpeedScale

This is the scale factor for the passage of time in ARK, controlling the ratio of real-time to in-game time. The default value of 1 provides the same cycle speed as the solo experience (and official public servers). Values ​​less than 1 slow down the cycle; higher values accelerate it. The base time when the value is “1” is approximately 28 minutes in-game.

DayTimeSpeedScale

Specifies the scale factor for the passage of time in ARK during the day. This value determines the duration of each day in relation to the duration of each night. Reducing this value increases the duration of each day.

NightTimeSpeedScale

Specifies the scale factor for the passage of time in ARK during the night. This value determines the duration of each night in relation to the duration of each day. Reducing this value increases the duration of each night.

How to Change Day and Night Cycle in ARK – Conclusion

Having control over the day and night times within your server opens up a new window of possibilities to customize the experience within the world of ARK, from making nights very short to maximize daytime or even making nights longer to generate an extra challenge to the experience. Dive into your own ARK server and explore all the possibilities that these functions have for you!

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DayCycleSpeedScale=0.8
DayTimeSpeedScale=0.5
NightTimeSpeedScale=2.0