Make singleplayer ark less of a grind with these awesome mods, that work well together, also you may need to edit some configs when setting up the save.
still editing this as i have time too,
Using S+mod, make sure save Allot & when you exit the game backup the savegame file or else when they update the mod you could loss all your stuff made.
(clear vision scuba mask mod seems to be down at the moment).
configs
GENERAL
difficulty level 0.2 -dino damage 1.2 - playerdamage 1.4 -stucture damage 1.0 -player resistance 1.0 -dino resistance 1.0 -stucture resistance 1.0 -xp multiplier 35.0 -taming speed 3.0 -stucture DMG repair cooldown 180.0 -dino turret damage 3.0 -dino harvesting damage 8.0 -harvest amount 9.2 -player water drain 0.0 -player food drain 0.0 - dino food drain 3.0 - player stamina drain 0.0 -dino stanima drain 1.0 -player health recovery 1.509 - dino health recovery 1.0 -player harvesting damage 4.037 -dino count 1.0 -non dedicated host tether distance 3.0 - checkmark (maxium difficulty, use s.p. settings, corspe locator, disable structure placement collision, allow multiple platform floors, allow unlimted respecs,
ADVANCED
allow cave building pve, allow flyer carry pve) - pve structure decay 1.0 -pve dino decay 1.0 -auto pve start 0.0 -auto pve stop time 0.0 -checkmark (force allow cave flyier, override stucture platform prevention, increase pvp respawn interval) -offline raid protection 100.0 - inc pvp respawn check period 300.0 - inc respawn mulitplyer 2.0 - inc respawn base 59.999 - pvp zone structures damage 6.0 -structure prevent resouces radius 0.24 -poop interval 1.0 - lay egg interval 0.028 -mating interval 0.01 - egg hatch speed 30.0 - baby mature speed 8.0 -baby food speed 0.8 - harvest health 0.4 - resource respawn period 0.124 - baby cuddle interval 0.09 - baby cuddle grace 0.113 - baby cuddle lose imprint speed 0.254 -baby imprint scale 5.0 -day cycle speed 3.0 - day time speed 0.0 - night time speed 3.0 - spoil time 0.0 - item decompostion time 0.0 -corspse time 0.0 - no resource radius players 1.0 -no resource radius 0.273 -crop growth speed 25.0 - crop decay 9.0 -
wild dino stats everything 1.0 except damage 1.297 & speed 1.498
tamed dino stats health 0.2 -damage 0.17
tamed dinos add per level health 0.14 - damage 0.14 - speed 1.89
tamed dinos affinity health 0.44 -damage 0.44 -speed 0.603
player stats per lvl weight 1.924 - temp fort 1.711
experience multipliers - generic 1.421 - kill 3.917 -harvest 1.186 -craft 1.578 -special 1.41
checkmark allow custom recipes
raid dino food drain 1.0
custom recipe effectiveness 1.669 -recipe skill factor 1.0 - crafting skill bonus 4.0 -supply crate loot 1.9 - fishing loot 4.0 -fuel rate 2.527 -platform stucture limt 5.0

& to get rid of annoying dinos go into steam/steamapps/common/ark/shootergame/saved/config/windowsnoeditor & edit with notpad
or something else the file just called game & under the line [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] add
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eel_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Ichthyornis_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Pegomastax_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
To Get Rid Of Them!.