All about the ancient tribes
To accept a Tribe invitation, bring up the interaction menu on the person that invited you and hold your cursor over the invitation until the timer is up to accept. Tribe owners can also designate members in their tribe as admins, allowing those members to send invites to anyone as well.
Its really limited. Very few people can join and other players cannot travel more than x amount of meters from the host. If you host a dedicated server then the limitations go away but you cannot play unless you have a second Xbox with a second gold account and a second copy of the game.
You will need to launch ARK via the Xbox app on Windows 10, you can then create a server, tick crossplay to allow Xbox to connect, which you can invite your friends to join.
Pretty sure you can take your save game from singleplayer and just move it onto a dedicated server and have all your stuff there. You can whitelist certain people so that only they are allowed.
To become a tribe member you need to prove your connection to it. That means going back through history to find evidence of your heritage. Family tribal records are often the best way to do this. From birth certificates, marriage and death certificates, old school records…
If you leave the tribe, the Dino will leave with you. When you join or make a tribe, any Dino you have will be in the tribe. Other people in your tribe will be able give commands to your Dino that they did not tame.
No. There is currently no cross-platform play on the Switch. Ark: Survival Evolved doesn’t offer a lot in terms of cross-platform play. The only cross-platform play available is Android/iOS and Xbox One/Windows 10 Store.
There are two commonly known ways of getting a dedicated ark server. Buy another console, host the server there, then both of you can load into it anytime. Rent a server and do monthly payments based on how many players your server holds.
Ark: Survival Evolved allows cross – play between some platforms, but with conditions. This is how it works on PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox.
Xbox players CAN ONLY play with the Xbox /Microsoft versions of ARK (available on the Microsoft Store), Steam players CAN ONLY play with other Steam version players/servers.
PC players have to buy Ark again through Microsoft’s store in order to play with Xbox 1 players. Even if you already own it through steam. Xbox players can only play on Xbox dedicated servers, or pc servers running the Microsoft cross play version.
This is the specific data for your character. If the settings allow it of course. You can then go to a different game and upload said character and dinosaurs to that ark. In the description on steam it says that you can take your single player character and transfer it onto multiplayer servers.
It works well in less formal situations, whether you know someone well or not, you can use these questions to make an invitation: Are you free to…? → Are you free to catch up for coffee after class? Are you doing anything…? Would you like to…? Do you want to…? Why don’t we…? Do you wanna…? Do you feel like…? How about…?
Yes, the game was already available for Xbox One and Xbox One X, but now it’s officially an Xbox Play Anywhere title! You can even host your own 70- player dedicated server using the Windows 10 version of the game. See survivetheark.com for technical details on how to set up your own servers.