Your ARK servers run. Z-ARK keeps watch.

Start, update, back up, restart at night, follow your players and give back what they lost: everything is driven from a single dashboard, in your browser. And when a server goes down, Z-ARK brings it back and tells you.

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**The overview**Every server at a glance, the health of the cluster and the machine that runs it.

Interface

What you will see

Screenshots of the real dashboard, taken on a live cluster. Only server and player names have been hidden.

**A server’s page**Start, restart, save, update — and understand every stutter felt in game.

**Plugins**Each plugin, its version and whether it is up to date; configure it, put it to sleep or remove it in one click.

The dashboard is available in English, French, Spanish and German.

Features

Start. Watch. Give back.

Everything it takes to run a cluster with real players on it: every action is careful, every failure is stated plainly, nothing happens behind your back.

Start, monitor

Clean stops, world saved. A crash is detected and the server restarted. Nightly restarts are announced to players.

Update without breaking

ARK updates are tried on a test server first. Our plugins update without restarting the server.

Back up, restore

Regular backups, a world restored in a few clicks, and an unreadable world repaired from the last good copy.

Players and moderation

Search and history for every player, temporary bans, in-game messages and a guided RCON console.

Give back what was lost

A record of every death — cause, place, inventory — and returns with no duplicates, ever. A Discord bot posts each death.

A team, with rights

Accounts and roles, rights per cluster, HTTPS access, four languages. Portable: one folder, no stray windows.

Plugins

Our plugins, shipped with Z-ARK

ARK server plugins (AsaApi), written by us, installed and updated from the dashboard. Seven are free; two are offered under licence.

Z-Death

Paid

A record of every death: cause, place, inventory. What was lost is given back from Z-ARK, with no duplicates, ever, and a Discord bot announces each death.

Z-Clean

Paid

An inventory of every map’s buildings: it spots the clutter that slows the server down and cleans up on your order. Protected tribes are never touched.

Z-Chat

Free

Chat shared between the maps of one cluster, with no database. Two clusters never see each other.

Z-Messages

Free

Talks to your players: a welcome message and scheduled announcements, with formatting.

Z-Info

Free

The /info command: the server’s real rates, read from its configuration, and the useful commands.

Z-Points

Free

Spend level-up points with a click, nothing to install on the player’s side — consoles included.

Z-Colour

Free

Players you choose, your donors for example, recolour their dinos in game. The list is managed from Z-ARK.

Z-Rcon

Free

Extra RCON commands, made safe: warn a player full screen, read a tribe’s log… from Z-ARK’s guided console.

Z-Pulse

Free

The server’s pulse — frames per second and stutters — so Z-ARK can explain every slowdown felt in game.

Paid plugins come with your licence: write to us.

Requirements

What the machine needs

Z-ARK installs with nothing else. The ARK servers, though, need a few Windows libraries.

System: Windows 10 or 11, or Windows Server, 64-bit.
Game server libraries: Visual C++ 2015-2022, 64-bit and 32-bit, and DirectX (June 2010 release).
Disk space: About 12 GB per ARK server, plus its backups.

Z-ARK can install them for you. On a new machine, one button downloads these libraries from Microsoft, checks their signature and installs them. Without them, an ARK server starts but does nothing, with no message at all: Z-ARK warns you first.

Get a licence

Z-ARK is offered under licence. To get one, for the paid plugins, or for any question before you start, write to us.

Write to contact@z-ark.fr