What you need
- ARK: Survival Ascended on Windows, with its default keyboard bindings.
- Stream Deck software 7.1 or newer. There is a profile each for the Stream Deck (15 keys), the XL, the Stream Deck +, the Neo, two for Stream Deck Mobile, and one for the Corsair Galleon 100 SD.
- For the command keys: Settings → Advanced → Console Access turned on in the game.
- Nothing else. Every key is one of Stream Deck's own built-in actions, so there is no plugin to install, nothing running in the background, and nothing reading the game.
1. Install the profiles
On the Elgato Marketplace. Get the profiles from their Marketplace listing; the Stream Deck software installs them for you.
There is one profile for each device. Double-click the file for your Stream Deck and the Stream Deck software adds it to that device as a profile of its own, so nothing you already have is touched. The Neo profile is the Stream Deck + one without its dials; the two Mobile profiles mirror the 15-key and 32-key grids.
The Corsair Galleon 100 SD profile fits that keyboard's own twelve keys and its four dials, stacked two by two rather than in a row. It is the one profile nobody here has been able to try on the hardware, so it ships untested: it is built to the layout the Stream Deck software itself uses for that device, and it should import cleanly, but that is reasoning rather than evidence. If it misses, tell us and we will fix it.
2. The hub and folders
| Folder | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Whistles | Follow me, Stay put, All follow, All stay, All move to, Attack this target, Attack my target, Neutral, Passive, Aggressive, the whistle wheel, Add/remove tame, Follow distance |
| Emotes & Chat | Emote 1 and 2, Global, Tribe and Local chat, the chat box, push to talk, and quick lines that type and send themselves: gg, thanks, brb, omw, need help, back, watch out, taming |
| Commands | Thirty console commands, one key each (below) |
| Survival | Use, open another inventory, drag, drop, crouch, prone, fists, reload, the weapon attachment, the orbit camera, fertilise, the extended HUD, and the inventory, map, tribe and crafting screens |
The hub keeps the whistles you use most, both emotes, global and tribe chat, and the everyday keys: inventory, map, tribe manager, crafting, HUD, console, prone, crouch, orbit camera and drop.
3. Console commands
Each command key is a Stream Deck Multi Action: it presses ~ to open the console, waits a quarter of a second, pastes the command and presses Enter. Nothing is stored anywhere but the key itself, and you can open any key in Stream Deck to see or change the text.
| Key | Types |
|---|---|
| Enable Cheats | enablecheats without Enter, so you add your admin password |
| Fly, Walk, God, Ghost, Infinite Stats, Leave Me Alone | cheat fly, cheat walk, cheat god, cheat ghost, cheat infinitestats, cheat leavemealone |
| Enemies Ignore / Enemies See Me, Creative Mode | cheat enemyinvisible true / false, cheat gcm |
| Force Tame, Tame Target, Destroy Target, Dino Wipe | cheat forcetame, cheat dotame, cheat destroymytarget, cheat destroywilddinos |
| Morning, Noon, Night | cheat settimeofday 07:00, 12:00, 22:00 |
| Normal Speed, 5x Speed | cheat slomo 1, cheat slomo 5 |
| Save World, Admin Manager, All Engrams | cheat saveworld, showmyadminmanager, cheat giveengrams |
| Debug HUD / Debug Off, Teleport Ahead, Respawn | cheat setcheatplayer true / false, cheat teleport, cheat suicide |
| Gamma 2, Gamma 3, Clear Chat | gamma 2, gamma 3, cheat clearchat |
On a server you need admin rights for the cheat commands, the same as typing them by hand.
4. The Survival folder
These are the bindings that are easy to press by accident and hard to remember on purpose: Use and Open theirs next to each other, Drag and Drop, Crouch and Prone, Fists, Reload, the weapon attachment, the orbit camera, and Fertilise on the numpad plus where nobody finds it. The screens you live in sit alongside them, so you never have to leave the page to open a map.
5. Stream Deck + dials
One Stay/Follow orders the creature you are looking at; All Stay/Follow orders everyone; Passive / Aggro turns the whole herd down or up; and the first dial is system volume. Turn left for the first of each pair, right for the second.
Each way you turn a dial is a single key press, which is why only orders that come in pairs are on them. Follow distance is one key that steps round the settings, so it would send the same thing whichever way you turned it — it is a key, in Whistles, where it belongs.
6. How the keys work
Whistle and everyday keys press the game's default keyboard binding, checked row by row against the game's own Options → Keyboard screen, so nothing on your keyboard changes. If you have rebound a key in the game, either put it back or edit that key in Stream Deck. Two to know about: All Aggressive is the game's numpad minus and Follow Distance is numpad 0, so a keyboard without a number pad needs those two rebound in the game.
Emotes 1 and 2 are the bracket keys. Which emote each plays is chosen in the game's emote wheel, so the keys play whatever you have assigned there.
Nothing that has to be held is on a key — sprint, iron sights, the modifier keys — because a key press cannot hold a key down. Movement, aiming and firing stay where they are, too.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | What to check |
|---|---|
| A command key types into the game instead of the console | Console Access is off (Settings → Advanced), or the console needs longer to open on your machine: open the key in Stream Deck and raise the Delay step from 250 ms |
| A whistle key does nothing | The whistle is rebound in Options → Keyboard; the keys send the defaults listed above |
| A chat line goes to the wrong channel | gg and thanks open the chat box with Enter; the rest go through tribe chat. Open the key and change the first step to the channel you want |
| A dial turns the wrong way round | Open the dial in Stream Deck and swap the two keys in its Hotkey field |
| The numpad whistles do nothing | A tenkeyless keyboard has no numpad minus or numpad 0; rebind All Aggressive and Follow Distance in the game, then set the same keys on the two Stream Deck keys |
Frequently asked
Will the commands get me banned on a server?
The keys only type what you could type yourself; the server decides what you may run. On an official or
unofficial server without admin rights, cheat commands simply do nothing.
Does it work on a Mac?
The profiles send Windows key codes; ARK: Survival Ascended is a Windows game.
Is this made by Studio Wildcard?
No. This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Studio Wildcard. ARK: Survival Ascended is a trademark of Studio Wildcard. No game artwork is used: the icons are Material Design Icons on frames drawn for this pack.
Something is still wrong.
Email support@teatimeservers.ca with which key, which device, and what happened instead, and we will take a look.