ARK autosave is switched off
Applies to ARK: Survival Ascended.
What it looks like in your config
AutoSavePeriodMinutes=0
What causes it
AutoSavePeriodMinutes=0 disables periodic saves entirely, so the world is only written on a clean shutdown and a crash loses everything since the last one.
How to fix it
AutoSavePeriodMinutes=0 means no periodic saves, so a crash loses every bit of progress since the last clean shutdown. Set it to 15 so the world is written regularly.
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