Defense Unit (v3.2+)

Note: v3 has not been released yet, but a beta version can be invited here

Basic usage for users

Defense Unit is a Discord bot that provides information for ARK: Survival Evolved, from simple item recipes to a knockout calculator or viewing a server.

Commands

<> = required [] = optional

• ,help [command] - Main entry point that shows a list of all commands, or information about a command.
• ,info - Shows information about the bot.
• ,tame [level], [multiplier] - Calculates and shows the taming stats for a creature.
• ,ko [level] - Calculates the knockout stats & weapon info to knock a creature out.
• ,map - Shows an image of the given map.
• ,kibble - Shows information for this kibble, you may use a creature to find the kibble type.
• ,craft - Shows information needed to craft the given item.
• ,saddle - Shows the information needed to make the given saddle.
• ,ticket - Open or close a ticket.
• ,config - View or edit the server configuration.
• ,server - View a server's information.

Tickets

For users

If a server has tickets enabled, you can create a ticket by typing ,ticket open in the #ticket-information channel. A channel will will be created with you and the server staff where you can chat. You can close a ticket by typing ,ticket close in the ticket channel. If you close a ticket the bot will send a message with the transcript of the ticket and then delete the channel after 30 seconds.

For server admins

By default tickets are disabled in your server. You can enable them via ,config ticket enable and disable them via config ticket disable. If you enable tickets the bot will create a category with the name tickets, and nest a channel called #ticket-information. It will send a message in this channel with basic usage of the ticket command. The bot needs Administrator permissions for tickets to work A role called Ticket Manager will be created too, anyone with this role will be granted access to all ticket channels. If any of these does not get created i recommend disabling the tickets, delte the created channel, category or role and re-enable the tickets.

Config

The config command is based on the Manage Server permissions, so anyone with this permission can edit the server configuration. To view the server configuration type ,config show. This will return a list with available options and usage

Options

• show
  • Lists all the options and usage of them.
• set
  • Edit the taming level, multiplier or command channel.
    • level
      • This will set the default taming level, example: ,config set level 10.
    • multiplier
      • This will set the default taming multiplier, example: ,config set multiplier 5.
    • command
      • This will set the command channel, if set, commands can only be used in channels that start with the given value, example: ,config set command bot-commands.
• register
  • This will add the server to the database if it wasn't done automatically already, example: ,config register.
• ticket
  • Enable or disable the ticket system in your server, default this will be disabled, example: ,config ticket enable
    • enable
      • Enable the ticket system.
    • disable
      • Disable the ticket system.
• server
  • Moved to servers

Servers

The server command has been updated so it is able to support PC Xbox, Switch & Mobile. As server admin (Manage Server) you can add or delete servers.

Adding your server

I will explain this for both console and PC, let's start with PC first. If you want to make this 10x easier, you can use the premium server tool on our dashboard.

For PC:

First of all you need the server ID found on battlemetrics, head over to their site and find your server. Open the server's page and check the URL, the URL should end with a few digits, for example https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark/123456. In this case 123456 is the server ID, now go back to discord and type ,config server add pc <The ID> [An optional server name]. Without the <> and [] of course. If you did everything right it should say Successfully linked this server and you're all done! You can now check your server via ,server <name or id>.

For other platforms:

Find the name of your server (Case-sensitive), type ,config server add <paltform you are on> <name>, without the <>. Available platforms are: xbox, mobile and switch (Yes, There indeed is no PS4 support as the endpoint has not been found yet). Congratulations! You have now linked the server! You can view it via ,server <name>

Deleting your server:

simply type ,config server delete <name or id>

Common problems

1. The command does not work
   • Make sure your server is registered, the bot should do this automatically but if it didn't you can add your server manually by typing ,config register.

For developers

Defense Unit uses a public API which can be found here