For ARK: SE there only existed a closed source with relic like code🧓. When they made the announcement that they won't make a new version/update their software for ARK: Ascended we stepped in to fill the void, our goal is to make this software easy to use and cross platform (when we get linux binaries for the servers).
For now the only way is to use the nightly release, this is because we are not yet ready to release an alpha version. You can download the installer and install! (nightly is unstable and does not have auto updating at this time!)
Steamcmd is not yet packaged with the app, if you want to create a server with AASM you can install steamcmd to your path on your computer (e.g.: with scoop) or you can follow the guide below.
- Install the app using the installer
- Run the app for the first time
- Click [windows key] + R and enter
%localappdata%\ArkAscendedServerManager - Open config.json
- Edit the "steamCMDPath" to contain something like this:
"steamCMDPath": "C:\\steamcmd\\steamcmd.exe"(WATCH OUT A backslash only works like\\this is because\on its own is a ecape char) - Start the app again and create a server.
- 🎉 You can run your server!
Ask one of the core contributors in the discord server to give you contributor role, then you can ask what to do. Or you can just make a pull request with some code you've written.
This project is still only in very early alpha, so there are still many features to come!