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Check if your ARK: Survival Evolved server is online

In Survival Evolved the port players join through and the port that answers queries are different, and overlooking the second is the textbook reason a working server is missing from the browser.

Check ARK: Survival Evolved Server

Type the server's address to query it.

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The ports ARK: Survival Evolved uses

They are two different UDP ports, and this tool needs the query port rather than the game port. Older ARK guides also bring up a third raw-socket port; you may or may not need it depending on your setup, but visibility to the outside world hangs on the query port.

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Still offline? Try this

Query port open and the check still times out? Give it longer. ARK reads its whole save before it will answer, and a big map full of structures can take several minutes, so a check run immediately after a restart will call a server offline that is simply still starting up.

Rather not run the server yourself?

These tools are free and funded by the two hosting services we run. If you want a server that is already set up, here they are.

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