Z-Info — /info in game: the real server rates and the available commands
Demo
Players keep asking "what are the rates here?". Z-Info answers in game, and nothing it shows is typed by hand:
/info general and /info breeding read the rates from the running game mode when the engine exposes them, otherwise from the server's GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini. The answer goes only to the player who asked. No client mod: console included.Works with the ZMenu mod (optional)
Coming soon: ZMenu in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish, German), chosen by each player with flags in the menu. This version is ready, but CurseForge has paused publishing for all ARK mods until the game's Unreal Engine 5.8 update: it will be released on November 5, 2026 at the earliest.
ZMenu is a free client mod by the same author: https://www.curseforge.com/ark-survival-ascended/mods/zmenu With ZMenu on your server, a Z-Info tab: the server's rates and breeding settings, one press away. Handy for console players.
- ZMenu talks to the server through Z-Bridge, a free plugin made for it: it carries the menu clicks to the plugins and brings their answers back into the menu. Install Z-Bridge too, or the menu stays empty.
- Each of these plugins adds its own tab to ZMenu: Z-Points the Z-Points tab, Z-Colour the Z-Colour tab, Z-Info the Z-Info tab, Z-Chat the Z-Link tab. A tab only shows when its plugin is installed.
- Without ZMenu, everything still works through the chat commands below.
Install
Drop the
Z-Info folder into ShooterGame/Binaries/Win64/ArkApi/Plugins/. Requires AsaApi 2.03+. Loads at server start.Player commands
/info(or/infos,/info help) — only the server name, the players online and a short menu of sub-commands. The rates are in/info general./info server(also/info rates) — harvest, XP and taming rates; baby maturation, egg hatching and breeding interval, read from the server's .ini files./info general— server name, players online / max, harvest, XP, taming, crop growth, max wild level (whenOverrideOfficialDifficultyis set), and the daily restart time if you set one./info breeding(also/info repro) — maturation, hatching, wait between matings, mating speed, time between cuddles, imprint per cuddle, imprint bonus, baby appetite./info cmd(also/info commands) — only our plugins' commands installed on THIS server, detected automatically (other plugins' commands are not listed):/zponly if Z-Points is installed,/zdconly to players allowed by Z-Colour,/zlinkonly if Z-Chat is installed.
Configure (config.json)
General.Enabled—falseputs the plugin to sleep. The file is read again at every/info, so this applies immediately.General.Language— EN, FR, DE and ES are shipped; or add your own block underTexts(copy EN, rename it PT..., translate, set it inLanguage). A missing line falls back to English.Texts— the player messages, including the labels of/info generaland/info breeding:GenServer,GenPlayers,GenHarvest,GenXP,GenTaming,GenCrops,GenWildLevel,GenRestart,GenRestartFormat,RepMature,RepHatch,RepMatingWait,RepMatingSpeed,RepCuddle,RepImprintGain,RepImprintBonus,RepBabyFood,CmdZlink.Restart.Daily— your daily restart time as"HH:MM"(server clock), shown by/info general. Empty = no line.
RCON commands
ZInfo.Reload— re-reads config.json.ZInfo.Status— version and state.
Notes
- Read-only: Z-Info changes no server setting.
- If Z-Messages is installed, messages follow its style sheet; otherwise the game's plain messages are used.
- Server messages (welcome, announcements) are a separate plugin: Z-Messages.
Compatibility
Built and tested against AsaApi 2.03 (ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server, Windows).
External connections and data
- No network connection. The plugin opens no connection of its own and sends nothing anywhere: no web request, no telemetry, no licence check, no update check.
- Read-only on the server: it reads the rates from the running game mode, or from
GameUserSettings.iniandGame.ini, and changes no setting. - Files written: its own
config.jsononly, rewritten only to rename setting names of older versions (values kept). - Other files read: Z-Colour's
config.json(is/zdcopen to all, or is this player listed), whether our other plugins' DLLs are present in the plugins folder (to list only the commands installed here), and AsaApi's own offset cache (to check that a game field exists before reading it). - When Z-Colour, Z-Messages or Z-Bridge is loaded, Z-Info calls functions they export, inside the server process.
- No game hook, no registry access, no external program started, no other data collected.
Dependencies and limitations
- No required dependency. Optional: Z-Messages (styled messages), Z-Colour (
/zdclisted to allowed players), the ZMenu client mod with Z-Bridge (the Z-Info tab). /info cmdlists our plugins' commands only, not those of other plugins.- The max wild level is shown only when
OverrideOfficialDifficultyis set; the restart time only if you fillRestart.Daily.
Updates
Z-ARK (server manager, https://z-ark.fr/en/) checks for new versions of this plugin and installs them from its dashboard.
Without Z-ARK: click Watch at the top of this page to be notified of every new version; what changed is listed in the Updates tab. To update, stop the server, replace the plugin's .dll and PluginInfo.json, keep your config.json, then start the server again.
Built with AI, knowingly
This plugin was written with an artificial intelligence, and we would rather say it plainly. It is not code thrown together at random: behind it is someone from the trade (software development, server operations, community management) who decides every feature, reviews it and puts it to the test on a real cluster, with real players, before it reaches you. The same goes for the ZMenu client mod. Bugs reported in the Discussion tab get fixed.
