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Server AdminARK: Survival Ascended Server Setup: SteamCMD, WinLiveMaxPlayers, Ports & RCON
How to stand up an ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server: installing the free app 2430930 with SteamCMD (anonymous login works), running the Windows-only server under Wine/Proton on Linux, the launch command and the new dash-flags (-WinLiveMaxPlayers, -port, -mods) that replace ASE's ?MaxPlayers=/?Port=, why the query port is vestigial (EOS discovery) and you don't forward it, enabling genuine Source RCON from GameUserSettings.ini, and installing CurseForge mods.
Server AdminARK: Survival Ascended RCON Commands: Server Admin Reference
ASA server admin over RCON: enable it with RCONEnabled and ServerAdminPassword in GameUserSettings.ini, why you drop the admincheat prefix over RCON, the EOS ID trap (kick/ban/chat commands take the 32-character Account ID, not a Steam64 ID), permanent-only native bans, the AllowedCheaterAccountIDs.txt admin whitelist, and the commands that actually work - ListPlayers, Broadcast, ServerChat, SaveWorld, DoExit, DestroyWildDinos.