ARK Supply Drops Beacon How To

To modify the supply drop rate for ARK, you will need to use an application called Beacon found here. Using this program will allow you to overwrite each individual supply drop, such as a regular white drop, boosted red drop, etc. This is also useful for adding in resources to maps where they do not belong natively, such as adding gems and fungal wood to Ragnarok so you can craft saddles for Aberrant dinos that may have been added in.

Note: We strongly suggest using Notepad++ when viewing or editing configuration files for ARK, both for the PC and PS4.

Here's a brief example on how to get started with Beacon. First off, choose the map you want to make changes to. If you are using the default map, choose "The Island" like what I have listed here.

We need to add a loot source. Each beacon and the bonus variant are individually assigned values, so we need to modify each one we'd like to add.

In this example, the normal drop for the White Beacon will be modified.

On this menu, multiple loot sources can be added into beacons. A beacon is not limited to one loot table but can be configured to use loot drops from multiple ones.

This is a list of all of the possible results from the Advanced Firearms section. If you want to remove certain ones, select individual or multiple entries and press the Delete key to remove them from the list. You can also change the number of items chosen from each section via the Min Items and Max Items values.

Now, once we are done, we need to extract the code. Go to the File menu and choose Deploy...

To add in the Beacon code for your server, do the following:

1. Choose the option to save a new Game.ini to your computer and click Next.
2. Go to your game server's control panel and stop the server using the Stop button located at the top.
3. Find the Game.ini that you have just saved and open the file with Notepad++.

   The file contains a long list of codes for overriding your supply drops.

4. At the very top of the file, you will see this line:

   [/Script/ShooterGame.ShooterGameMode]

   Delete this line and this line ONLY.

5. Copy the entire contents of the file. An easy way to do this on a PC is to press Ctrl A (this selects all the text) and then Ctrl C (this copies the selected text)
6. Open up your Game.ini file and paste the copied text at the bottom of the file using Ctrl V.

   PC Users

   1. Access your Game.ini file via FTP with a guide found here. The file is found at the following path: /ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer/Game.ini
   2. Save the file and then close it.
   3. Return to your control panel and then click on the green button to save settings and restart the game server.

   PS4 Users

   1. Click on the Game.ini button found on the control panel.
   2. On the pop-up window, scroll to the bottom of the textbox and paste the contents.
   3. Click on the Save Game.ini button at the bottom to save settings and restart the game server.

Warning: Using the Modify Server Config tool will overwrite any "manual" changes (changes made by editing your Game.ini or GameUserSettings.ini files directly) with the contents found in the MSC tool. I strongly suggest to save a copy of both configuration files on your computer for safe keeping.