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******THIS MOD IS NO LONGER BEING WORKED ON AND WILL NOT BE CONTINUED. ADVICE AGAINST INSTALLING AS IT IS SEVERELY OUT OF DATE AND WILL NOT BE UPDATED****






The goal of this mod is to improve the building experience while not completely deviating away from vanilla rates/settings. Making items that normally can’t be picked up, able to be picked up. Reducing some of the item sizes so they don’t take up so much room, and any other quality of life changes that don’t take to much away from the vanilla experience.

I am putting this out in phases, ensuring the first set works properly before the next set comes out. I am doing this based on the skill sets:

Primitive (Done)
Metallurgy (InProgress)
Industrial
Magic
Architecture

Eventually I want to add in landscaping blocks that can be crafted, such as grass, water, etc. I also want to improve the building blocks such as the ceilings to have better snap points and the ability to snap to walls/roofs from the sides.

All the new engrams this mod features start with IB for easy searching. They also cost 0 engram points to learn, however they do require knowing the vanilla counterpart in order to learn them.

For items such as the decoration hut that creates decorated items that need to be placed, if there is an Improved Building version that exists it will replace the vanilla one. Until an Improved Building version is created vanilla versions can still be crafted in the appropriate workspace.

I have an official discord for this mod and the server that will be running it: https://discord.gg/Va4jG5K

If you have questions or need help I will have a faster response time through my discord server then here on the workshop forum. I will still try to address responses here I just cannot guarantee it will be in a timely fashion. I will also update the community in regards to the current progress the mod is having in the discord much more than here on Steam.

Server Name: Eluria https://discord.gg/Va4jG5K

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To ensure you do not have issues, please make sure you activate mods in the launch sequence instead of in the gameusersettings.ini, The command you will need is as follows:

?GameModIds=1515983866

If you don't, and instead put it in the gameusersettings.ini under 'ActiveMods=modID' each time pixark updates, it resets your gameusersettings.ini and if you start up your server without readding that command to your gameusersettings.ini you will lose all the mod items as well as all the items stored in the mod items.

Special thanks to Electro for informing me of the launch command.
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Shy  [author] 11 Nov, 2021 @ 1:54pm 
Actually finding out my son has Autism was a blessing, it helped us see what we were doing wrong. I also learned that I myself also have Autism. As for this Mod I will not be continuing it. It had very little going for it as it was. I no longer play the game, and I have been focusing on learning 3D modeling.
Kibbles71 11 Nov, 2021 @ 11:15am 
So sorry Shy. My child has autism. No parent thinks their child will have disability, even if "what do we do if......" is played out during/planning pregnancy. Still no one thinks disability REALLY will happen. Autism has some lovely attributes that are better to focus on than the negative but each parent gets there in their own time. I wish you the best of patience, luck of finding good providers and some alone time to gather yourself back together. No one can understand your trials. Trials of finding the "right" treatment for your child or the guilt of "what if's" that you look back on or the admiration when you look at that little being you love so much. Sending you wifi hugs.
SomeCrackhead 12 Mar, 2020 @ 11:38am 
for the sake of not having a misunderstanding i will reply:
in no means am i saying "cures". what i mean is, damage is present and it may be caused by something. take that away then improvement may occur if you found the problem. by healing i mean just that; "improvement". ofc its gonna remain hard to identify the cause of the problem. so all we're betting on is trying.
Shy  [author] 9 Mar, 2020 @ 10:37am 
It was the implication that Autism can be 'cured' with your statement that I found upsetting. Not denying that some things can help with managing the condition, and that I appreciate with your post, I just didn't appreciate the misconception that it is something that can just be cured in people who have it because that kind of thinking is deterimental to those of us who are on the spectrum.
SomeCrackhead 8 Mar, 2020 @ 5:22pm 
Its ok, nobody is forcing you trust that other methods of treating the condition works, i know just random people experiencing improvements is not enough for others to try it. But people don't apologize for trying to help so i'll just leave it at that.
Shy  [author] 1 Mar, 2020 @ 9:43am 
For the comments offering 'advice' on autism. I am choosing not to comment like I wanted because aspects of it such as implying autism can be 'healed' I found very.....upsetting. And that's all I plan to state on that subject.

In regards to the mod, it's very lack luster in what it has in it to begin with you're really not missing out, I have a lot of rl stuff going on. So this mod is very low on my priorities unfortunatly. I haven't played this game in over a year either I think.

So I am sorry for those and those who are disappointed by it, but I wont be keeping up with this mod. If you like to play 7 days or ark survival evolved. I do have a discord where we run two servers, you can also follow the first baby stages of the game development I'm doing for the game I'm working on as well over there. I plan on making a game rich in lore and story and that's what I'm working on first before getting into the nit and grit of programming.
https://discord.gg/hFgnQEw
Gaming On Insulin 1 Mar, 2020 @ 5:44am 
so you say adhd, autism, and spd... and its not all that harsh as you tought so will you be able to update the mod? don't get it worng because if u cant i cant install it because i have v1.89 and realy want this ;) i have sef pdd-nos keep up the good care <3
Jovan Agent2000 10 Jun, 2019 @ 7:23am 
cool game
xXC0DXXB0SSXx 19 Mar, 2019 @ 1:07am 
thank you
Shy  [author] 18 Mar, 2019 @ 10:44am 
You use Unreal Engine 4. It's completely free. You want to download the launcher and then within there search for the PixArk Dev Kit. (This is going to be large so be sure you have the space for it) Should be some youtube tutorials out there as well on how to set things up for submitting your mod and getting it on the workshop as well (If not for pixark, check out the ones for Ark, process is the same).

Also there is a PixArk Modding Discord out there. I would search for that, they're great people. I don't have it anymore because I stepped away from it, but I think you can find a link to it in the discussions, or inquire there to find someone who can invite you in. They helped me when I was trying to get this going.