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Project status last updated Aug 4th 2020
We are working towards a stable 2.0 release. Development of the previous 1.91 version is halted and the 2.0 codebase has been merged into the master branch.
Support
Support Wiki
DO NOT use GitHub as a support forum. The issues section is reserved for just that, issues and feature requests. Please read through existing issues before making a new one. If you need support with setup, have general questions, would like to be up-to-date on development, or something else not covered in the wiki, join our Discord using this link. Be sure to assign your user role #start-here in the Discord to access the discussion channels.
Before requesting support from our Discord, please understand that ArkBot is designed in its current form to be run on the machine hosting your gameservers. While methods exist to mirror/link files from a remote gameserver, arkbot is not designed with these workarounds in mind currently and as such are unsupported. We will offer no support if you choose to go this route.
Development
Users can follow development progress here or get updates on Discord (link found above)
IMPORTANT NOTES
Important Dependency Note: ArkBot relies upon certain VS C++ runtimes installed. It requires .NET 3.5 with service pack 1, .NET 4.7, and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2013. Please note: If you are running a windows server install, you must install the .NET 3.5 and 4.7(or 4.8) from the server admin panel.
This has been installed on WS 2012R2, WS 2016, WS 2019, and Windows 10. Other platforms may not work. Try it at your own risk.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
First time? Check out Installation
Suggestions/improvments/bugs
Have a look at our Roadmap
If you think something is wrong with the project - help improve it. If you find a bug - help fix it. Don't know how to program? Start learning. This is the way of open source!
Live demo
Introduction
An in-game companion app for players and Discord bot for server administrators.
The application monitors and extracts data from any number of configured local ARK servers and exposes this data through a Web App, Web API and Discord Bot.
It aims to provide important functions to players: dino listings, food-status, breeding info, statistics; and server admins: rcon-commands, server managing etc. It does not enable cheating or making available data that have a considerable impact on how the game is played.
Latest releases
https://github.com/ark-mod/ArkBot/releases
Installation (version 1.91)
- Download the latest pre-built binaries (see above).
- Perform configuration within the ArkBot program after opening by clicking on the configuration tab, completing all required fields.
To enable map clean-up from the companion app (web app) for administrators, install ARK-Server-API and ARK-Server-API: ArkBotHelper Plugin by WETBATMAN.
Documentation from Wiki
What does it do?
How to setup?
How to use?
Acknowledgements
Powered by ARK Savegame Toolkit .NET based on Qowyns work on ark-tools.
Creature stat data is sourced from Cadons ARK Smart Breeding.
Links
ARK Savegame Toolkit .NET
Library for reading ARK Survival Evolved savegame files in .NET
https://github.com/ark-mod/ArkSavegameToolkitNet
ARK-Server-API
Allows server-side ARK plugins.
https://arkserverapi.com/resources/ark-server-api.4/
ARK Server API: ArkBotHelper (Plugin by WETBATMAN)
Used to facilitate map clean-up from the companion app (web app) for administrators.
