

If you're not 100% sure if it actually worked, you can test to make sure you're an admin by hitting tab again, and type in the console bar: cheat fly

NOTE: You normally don't get any kind of confirmation message when admin is turned on. If done right, you are now an admin and you can use the "cheat" commands! The admin access only last for your current session, if you leave the server and come back, you have to re-enable cheats again. Replace "(admin password)" with the actual password. Once you have the console open, enter the following command to activate "cheats" in game for your character. Hitting escape closes the console, or hit tab repeatedly to cycle through the two views and back to the normal game.

cheats with the s on the end is wrong, and the entire command is ignored. The expanded window is very handy for realizing you made a typo entering an admin command earlier, and that is why it didn't work.įor example, I repeatedly type "cheats" instead of "cheat" when entering commands. When you hit tab a second time, the entire top portion of the screen will be the console window, with a black bar near the middle for entering commands, and it will also show the previous commands you've entered on the top half of the screen. Sometimes, depending on your monitor settings, it may be hard to see it. When you load into the game, hit the tab key to open the console window in game, which appears as a black bar at the very very bottom edge of the screen. ARK Console BarĬonnect to your ARK server. Just find the line for server password, and type your password after the equals sign. You can also set the admin password by directly editing the config file GameUserSettings.ini too. It will not properly set the admin password unless the server is restarted afterwards. The admin password for your server can be set on the Nodecraft control panel on the "Game Settings" tab, under the "Advanced" tab.Įnter a password into the box, and then make sure to hit the save button at the bottom of the page afterwards, and then restart the server. Only multi-player servers require this, in single player games you are automatically an admin, and you don't have to "turn on" admin access. Players who want to use admin commands on a multi-player ARK server have to enter an admin password first to authorize them, which is set in the server configs.
