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ARK: Survival Evolved RCON Tool by BattleMetrics

Overview

Battlemetrics currently provides the most advanced RCON tool available for Ark: Survival Evolved. We have many features designed to help you automate your server and manage your admins. Track the tribes on your server. Acquire, monitor, and store three months of chat, including survivor names. Log and look up Steam64IDs so that you can monitor and remove problem players. Automate removing players with VAC bans or published bans from other Steam games. Manage your admin staff with our customized permissions system so that you don't have to give anyone your RCON password. Log admin commands to prevent abuse. Improve the accuracy of your server statistics. Get notifications when your server crashes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is RCON?

RCON is used to implement admin tools for your game. Basically it lets you see what's going on in the server without you having to spend ages starting up a game client and connecting to your server manually. You can run commands remotely and automatically. Kick, ban, restart, you name it. Whatever the game server will let you do over RCON is possible.

Can I detect VPNs or ban evaders using BattleMetrics?

Unfortunately not for ARK: Survival Evolved. The game's RCON protocol does not allow us to get player IPs, so we have no way to provide that feature to you, despite the fact that we can provide it for our other supported games where IPs are available.

How do I automate running my server?

You can automate a lot of rules and common tasks using triggers and schedules. You can automatically kick, ban, message, etc in response to any number of conditions. Don't want players with fewer than 250 game hours? Done. Don't want players saying racist things in chat? Easy. Want to get notified when a player asks for an admin? Not a problem. For more information on triggers and the scheduler, see these resources:

Trigger System Overview
The Scheduler
Example Triggers

Can I automatically message players?

Yes. Using triggers and schedules you can send Global Chat messages automatically. Unfortunately private messages are only supported by triggers and not schedules.

How do I ban players?

You can ban a player by clicking the drop down menu next to their name and clicking “Add Ban”. This will add the ban to our internal database. We'll kick the player from the server and continue to kick them if they try to rejoin while the ban is active. This does not take up any additional resources on your server.

Can I ban players without using the BattleMetrics database?

Sure, you just need to issue the “Add ARK Ban” command for the player you want to ban. You can run any supported RCON command through our system.

Can I give items to players using BattleMetrics?

Unfortunately not as far as we're aware. The RCON protocol doesn't seem to allow sending those commands over RCON.

Can I see the survivor's in-game name on the player list?

Yes and no. There is currently no RCON command that provides a list of survivor names over RCON. Survivor names are only available if the player speaks in chat, which isn't a guarantee. When the player does speak in chat, we add the survivor name as an identifier to their player profile for your later use.

Feature Compatibility

Not sure what all of these feature are? See our overview of RCON features.

FeatureSupported
Proxy IP Detection
VAC Ban Detection
Organizations
Dashboard
Player Database
BattleMetrics Bans
Import Bans
Export Bans
Scheduler
Detailed Server Page
Activity Log
In-game Chat
BE GUID Conversion
24/7 Connection

Available Commands

The commands available for ARK: Survival Evolved are listed below. Each command has it's own permission to allow fine-tuned control of command access. In many cases these commands can also be automated using our trigger and scheduler systems.

CommandCategoriesSchedulerTriggers
Global Chat
Allows the user to send global messages.
ChatPlayer Join, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Player Command, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Broadcast
Allows the user to send broadcasts to ARK servers.
Chat, Server Commands
Message Player
Allows the user to send private messages to individual players.
Player CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update
Kick Player
Allows the user to kick players.
Player CommandsPlayer Join, Player Update, Custom Player Command
Add ARK Ban
Allows the user to use the ARK ban system.
Player Commands, Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update
Remove ARK Ban
Allows the user to unban players in the ARK ban system.
Server Commands
Set MOTD
Allows the user to the MOTD for ARK servers.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Add player to whitelist
Allows the user to whitelist players.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave
Remove player from whitelist
Allows the user to remove players from the whitelist.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave
Set time of day
Allows the user to set the time of day for ARK servers.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Save World
Allows the user to save the world.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Shutdown Server
Allows the user to shutdown the server.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Rename Player
Allows the user to rename survivors.
Server Commands, Player CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update
Rename Tribe
Allows the user to rename tribes.
Server Commands
Destroy Wild Dinos
Allows the user to kill all wild dinos on the island.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command
Raw Command
Danger! Allows the user to run ANY command by manually typing it in.
Server CommandsPlayer Join, Custom Player Command, Player Update, Player Leave, Server Update, Custom Server Command, Broadcastable Command

Message Types

We have the following message types for ARK: Survival Evolved. The permission system allows you to restrict access to sensitive message types. You can also tag messages using triggers to allow for custom filtering and permissions based on the contents of the message.

Tame
Trigger Conditions: Survivor Name, Tribe Name, Dinosaur Type, Dinosaur Level
Dinosaur Killed by Dinosaur
Trigger Conditions: Victim Level, Victim Name, Victim Tribe, Victim Type, Killer Level, Killer Name, Killer Tribe, Killer Type, Killer Is Wild
Player Killed by Dinosaur
Trigger Conditions: Killer Level, Killer Name, Killer Tribe, Killer Type, Killer is Wild, Victim Level, Victim Survivor name, Victim Tribe
Dinosaur Killed by Player
Trigger Conditions: Dinosaur Name, Dinosaur Level, Dinosaur Type, Dinosaur Tribe, Killer Name, Killer Level, Killer Tribe
Player Death
Trigger Conditions: Survivor Name, Player Level, Player Tribe
Dinosaur Death
Trigger Conditions: Dinosaur Name, Dinosaur Type, Dinosaur Level, Dinosaur Tribe
Player killed by Player
Trigger Conditions: Survivor name, Player Level, Player Tribe, Killer Name, Killer Level, Killer Tribe
ORP
Trigger Conditions: ORP Message
Unknown
Trigger Conditions: Raw Body
Message Player
Player Message
Has access to player information
Trigger Conditions: Message, Survivor Name
Unidentified & Generic Messages
Trigger Conditions: Raw Message Body

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