Best single-player settings for Ark Survival Ascended

Ark Survival Ascended has a variety of settings for you to optimize your experience. For the game’s single-player offerings, the world is fully yours to enjoy, so let’s make sure you’ve got the right settings.

The best settings for single-player in Ark Survival Ascended

The default settings for Ark Survival Ascended are fine-tuned for servers, where the time ticks even when you’re not playing. For single players, where the time stops when you’re offline, you may find the game more challenging or less accessible.

Many players advise changing the settings in single-player for a more user-friendly experience. A lot of these setting changes focus on increasing certain speeds. Don’t feel like you’re cheating, as the default speed didn’t have single-player games in mind.

Also, know that players have different preferences, so use this as a benchmark for you to go off and perform your own tweaks and changes to make your experience as good as you can.

Not every setting needs to be tweaked, so I won’t be changing every one.

You can also modify these settings any time you want, so don’t worry about permanent changes. Make sure to experiment with different settings.

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Player

Here are the settings you should modify under the Player tab:

Creature

Here are the settings you should modify under the Creature tab:

World

Here are the settings you should modify under the World tab:

Note that some players prefer much higher XP multipliers and harvest yields, but I think that makes the game too easy. If you find these settings too arduous, don’t forget that you can increase them at any time.

Game Rules

Here are the settings you should modify under the Game Rules tab:

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