[Other] Setting up an Ark Survival Evolved Cluster on Pterodactyl Control Panel

[Zhandroid]

Note: This guide is for ARK Survival Evolved. If your looking for directions on setting up ARK Survival Ascended cluster in Pterodactyl, please click here

Pterodactyl ASE Cluster Creation​

The Pterodactyl control panel runs all of it's game servers inside of a docker container. These containers are isolated from each other by default. Our goal for this guide is to share some hard drive space between isolated Ark Survival Evolved game servers.

For this guide, we have chosen the wings host folder /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster. For most users, this directory should work just fine but this folder can reside anywhere on the wings host machine.

To begin, you will need to open an SSH session to your server hosting the wings instance as root, or have sudo capabilities.

Create Path and Set Permissions for Cluster Storage​

sudo mkdir /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

sudo chown pterodactyl:pterodactyl /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

Edit Wings Configuration File​

Allow Pterodactyl to mount the host cluster directory​

sudo nano /etc/pterodactyl/config.yml

Towards the bottom of this file, find:

allowed_mounts: []

Change this to

allowed_mounts:
- /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

Restart wings​

Restarting your wings service will not interfere with any game servers still running on the host. This is only the communication daemon between wings and your panel.

sudo systemctl restart wings

Creating the Pterodactyl Mount in Administration​

Mounts > Create New​

Give the mount your preferred name and description as shown below, and choose Create.

Add the ARK Survival Evolved Egg and your Node to the Mount​

Attach the Mount to Each Server in the Cluster​

Stop your Ark Survival Ascended servers. For each of your ARK servers, go to Servers > ASE Servers > Mounts and click the + button to add the newly created Pterodactyl mount

Modify Startup Parameters for Each Server in the Cluster​

In the Additional Arguments field on each of the servers you want to cluster, you will need to add 3 parameters to this field. Be sure to choose a unique clusterid, but use the same one for the servers you want to connect.

-NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=myuniqeclustername -ClusterDirOverride="/cluster"

Ensure GameUserSettings.ini on all servers are configured correctly​

Below are 2 examples on how to setup your GameUserSettings.ini. Servers do not need to match exactly. The 2nd example shows how you would add a new server and only allow characters to transfer on and off of it. This is similar to what official servers do on new map release.

Full transfers to and from the cluster​

NoTributeDownloads=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadDinos=False

Character only to and from the cluster​

NoTributeDownloads=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=True
PreventUploadDinos=True
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=True
PreventDownloadDinos=True

Start ARK Survival Ascended Servers and Enjoy!​

Thanks for following my guide. If you have questions or comments, feel free to leave them here and I will do my best to answer them!

 

[WkzDylan]

Note: This guide is for ARK Survival Evolved. If your looking for directions on setting up ARK Survival Ascended cluster in Pterodactyl, please click here

Pterodactyl ASE Cluster Creation​

The Pterodactyl control panel runs all of it's game servers inside of a docker container. These containers are isolated from each other by default. Our goal for this guide is to share some hard drive space between isolated Ark Survival Evolved game servers.

For this guide, we have chosen the wings host folder /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster. For most users, this directory should work just fine but this folder can reside anywhere on the wings host machine.

To begin, you will need to open an SSH session to your server hosting the wings instance as root, or have sudo capabilities.

Create Path and Set Permissions for Cluster Storage​

sudo mkdir /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

sudo chown pterodactyl:pterodactyl /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

Edit Wings Configuration File​

Allow Pterodactyl to mount the host cluster directory​

sudo nano /etc/pterodactyl/config.yml

Towards the bottom of this file, find:

allowed_mounts: []

Change this to

allowed_mounts:
- /etc/pterodactyl/ase_cluster

Restart wings​

Restarting your wings service will not interfere with any game servers still running on the host. This is only the communication daemon between wings and your panel.

sudo systemctl restart wings

Creating the Pterodactyl Mount in Administration​

Mounts > Create New​

Give the mount your preferred name and description as shown below, and choose Create.
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Add the ARK Survival Evolved Egg and your Node to the Mount​

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Attach the Mount to Each Server in the Cluster​

Stop your Ark Survival Ascended servers. For each of your ARK servers, go to Servers > ASE Servers > Mounts and click the + button to add the newly created Pterodactyl mount

View attachment 2216

Modify Startup Parameters for Each Server in the Cluster​

In the Additional Arguments field on each of the servers you want to cluster, you will need to add 3 parameters to this field. Be sure to choose a unique clusterid, but use the same one for the servers you want to connect.

-NoTransferFromFiltering -clusterid=myuniqeclustername -ClusterDirOverride="/cluster"

View attachment 2217

Ensure GameUserSettings.ini on all servers are configured correctly​

Below are 2 examples on how to setup your GameUserSettings.ini. Servers do not need to match exactly. The 2nd example shows how you would add a new server and only allow characters to transfer on and off of it. This is similar to what official servers do on new map release.

Full transfers to and from the cluster​

NoTributeDownloads=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=False
PreventUploadDinos=False
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=False
PreventDownloadDinos=False

Character only to and from the cluster​

NoTributeDownloads=False
PreventUploadSurvivors=False
PreventUploadItems=True
PreventUploadDinos=True
PreventDownloadSurvivors=False
PreventDownloadItems=True
PreventDownloadDinos=True

Start ARK Survival Ascended Servers and Enjoy!​

Thanks for following my guide. If you have questions or comments, feel free to leave them here and I will do my best to answer them!

Yo brother beans!
the link for survival ascended doesnt work any more should i just do pretty much the same thing for it yeh?

 

[Jaspartan]

The problem nobody is telling you is that Pterodactyl needs Linux to run. Linux is not compatible with Ark: SE API for all the different plugins that you'd want on your server. Therefore this is a terrible option. Wasted a few hundred dollars learning this.