Run your ARK ASE and ASA servers from Discord: chat relay, live status, item shop and anti-cheat.
Arkon
Arkon is a Discord bot that connects to your ARK: Survival Evolved (ASE) and ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA) game servers. From Discord you can run server commands, show live player counts, relay chat, run an in-game shop and keep cheaters out. It is used in 1,100+ Discord servers.
Free to start. Premium is $10 a month after a 3-day free trial.
Arkon works with any ASE or ASA server that has RCON turned on. The one exception: ASE servers hosted on Nitrado are not supported.
Get running in 3 steps
- Invite Arkon and set your Admin and Mod roles.
- Turn on RCON on your game server. RCON is the remote-control connection Arkon uses to talk to it. Type
+rconhelp for help with your host.
- Run
/setup to connect your server. It tests the connection on the spot and tells you what to fix if it fails.
Then type +checklist to see what else you can turn on.
What Arkon does
- Chat relay. Game chat shows up in Discord, and Discord replies go back into the game. Optionally, chat from one map is sent to every other map in your cluster.
- Live status channel. A message that updates itself with every server's player count, plus population graphs.
- In-game commands. Players type in game chat for kits, payday rewards, an "I'm stuck" care package, and votes for day, night, dino wipes and cleanups.
- Item shop and lootboxes. Players spend your server's currency on items that are sent straight into the game. No admin has to hand anything out.
- Player stats and leaderboards. Players link their Discord account to their character with
+register and get stat cards and rankings.
- Logs. Kill feed, join and leave logs, tribe logs, and "who was online" lookups.
- Moderation. Bans and temp bans, ban sync across all your servers, a watchlist, and tribe warnings and notes.
- Server control. Run any RCON command from Discord, put commands on a schedule, and restart with a countdown.
- Security. Catches players logged into two maps at once to copy items, bans anyone who runs admin commands with a leaked admin password, and blocks banned character names.
- Map tools and anti-cheat (with the free ArkView plugin). Find wild dinos, lost tames and structures, draw heatmaps, and catch tame dupes, mass breeding and foreign tames.
- Xbox and Microsoft Store tools (ASE). Host gamertag friend management, auto-friend, alt account detection and Xbox messages.
- Community extras. Your own server currency, minigames (casino, fishing, trivia and more), XP levels with role rewards, support tickets, an idea board and a crafting cost lookup.
Free vs Premium
Everything above is free, with these limits:
|
Free |
Premium |
| ARK servers per Discord server |
1 |
Up to 100 |
| Scheduled commands |
3 |
20 |
| Player count history |
7 days |
Up to 5 years |
| Status graph length |
1 hour |
Up to 12 hours |
| "Powered by Arkon" footer |
Shown |
Removed |
| Auto-friend and alt detection (Xbox / Microsoft Store ASE) |
Locked |
Included |
| Cheated tame scanning (needs ArkView) |
Locked |
Included |
Type +upgrade in your server to get Premium. Full details: https://arkonbot.com/guides/premium
Built on a real community
Arkon runs on the same code that powers Vertyco Ark, our own 28-server ARK community with 9,000+ members. Features get tested on live servers before they reach you.
Links
- Setup guides: https://arkonbot.com
- Getting started: https://arkonbot.com/guides/getting-started
- Support Discord: https://discord.gg/RaR3wR4MgY
- Terms: https://arkonbot.com/legal/tos
- Privacy: https://arkonbot.com/legal/privacypolicy