Ark do mods continue downloading while playing?

 · ARK mods don’t work on consoles or mobile, unfortunately. Though this could change in the future, servers download mods through Steam, which is made for PC versions of the game. However, you can select the Primitive Plus mod option. It’s built into the game.  · When I try to join the ARK server I play on, it gets stuck downloading the mods. Tried setting steam to download while in game, tried deleting mod files, reinstalled the game. I can join other servers without mods fine. Client and server are both updated. All discussions on this topic are pretty old and don't have any solutions. Any ideas? So my wife and I have been playing Ark on a patreon server with mods for about 5 months now, and we love it. However I do have a bug that keeps happening with both of us, because on every load of the game, the mods have to download, we find it's like roulette whether it installs all the mods and lets us in, or just closes the game whilst.

For example, subscribing to the mod "Structures plus (open source)" which overhauls and improves the entire building system in ARK, will download 1 file, and 2 folders initially. After ARK has been started, and the mod is actually installed, those will become 5 files and 20 folders full of content. New creature colors, new creatures, new challenges, new features, and a whole lot more difficulty while you're playing. This amazing mod changes the way Ark works to make it much more pleasing for the player, as well as twice as much challenging. A must-have mod for every seasoned Ark player who wants to up the ante on their next session. When I try to join the ARK server I play on, it gets stuck downloading the mods. Tried setting steam to download while in game, tried deleting mod files, reinstalled the game. I can join other servers without mods fine. Client and server are both updated. All discussions on this topic are pretty old and don't have any solutions. Any ideas?

This is due to the mods downloading to your PC through Steam and the connection has timed out due to it taking to long. Generally a server with lots of large mods is where you notice this more. If you check your Steam client you should still see the last mod downloading. So my wife and I have been playing Ark on a patreon server with mods for about 5 months now, and we love it. However I do have a bug that keeps happening with both of us, because on every load of the game, the mods have to download, we find it's like roulette whether it installs all the mods and lets us in, or just closes the game whilst. This answer is not useful. Show activity on this post. The way I do it is: Pause all of the downloads manually. Launch the game I want to play. Alt-Tab back to Steam window, resume all downloads manually. Alt-Tab back to the game and enjoy. It seems that it only stops the download for you on launching a game.