How to Get Your ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID

How to Get Your ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID

In ARK: Survival Ascended, you can experience many adventures with friends. From roaming dangerous islands to drudging through deadly deserts. During your adventure, you may encounter times where you’ll want to take a break, save a backup, and upload it later. With uploading a backup from PC, this requires your ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID to properly transfer over your data. In this guide, we will cover how you can get this ID!

How to Find Your ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID

To obtain this ID, you will need to activate the console in your game. To activate it you will need:

1. Open your game settings and select the “Advanced” tab. From there, on the left side, find the “Console Access” option. Make sure it’s set to “ON,” and then click “Save”
   
2. Now you have access to the console directly from the pause menu
   
3. If you want to enter the console with a specific key, You need to go to the “Keyboard” tab. In the central options, scroll until you find “Toggle Console.”
   
4. Click on it and set it to your preferred key bind, such as “Tab” or “~”, then save your changes.

You can now exit your settings and use that key bind on your server to open the console. You will need to press the key bind twice, and you should see your interface change to the one shown below.

In this window type: whoami and press enter. You will get your OSS ID, which you should write down and keep handy.

That’s it! You’ll now have your ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID number.

Using Your ARK OSS ID

Now with your ARK OSS ID in hand, you can transfer your ARK save data between servers without a worry. To delve deeper into the topic you can review our guide on transferring saves between Nitrado servers and how to upload them to a new server.

Experience New Wonders on Your ARK Server

ARK brings players on thrilling adventures with friends to meet new creatures and discover unique lands. Part of this fun includes the ARK: Survival Ascended OSS ID, enabling players to effectively upload save games and continue their adventures. Get ready to experience your own exciting adventures by getting an ARK: Survival Ascended server today!

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