Could you consider the possibility of putting a filter by Dino, like in S+? This allows you to define which Dinos will feed from that trough.

After thinking about it would it not be easier to make the trough allow all items to be placed inside by default but have a way to enable a list of acceptable items. Perhaps that way a user can place the items they want the trough to hold then activate the filter which will look at the currently held items and set itself so only items matching the ones inside will be allowed in the future. Might be easier that way if you are having trouble. If in the future that person wants other things added to the trough they simply disable the filter, add the new item along with the other older items, and enable it again.

After a bit of searching to no avail I did a scan of my local disk drives to find the ini under the name you gave us "[Better_trough].ini" and found NOTHING. I also tried searching for Better_trough.ini, Better trough.ini, and trough.ini with the same results. This means either you were wrong about the name of the ini file or there is no ini file at all. Furthermore, I am unable to put stone in here (meaning my Gacha can not use it either). To anyone looking at this it is still useful for most creatures but you will need at least 1 normal trough to feed the dinos this one will not support by default. I suggest the op put the correct name and default location of the ini file in the op so people can actually use it

I like the mod but it seems to not allow me to place eggs in the bin and thus will starve my Oviraptor (a dino that is in game by default) and although you claim to have included a way to add items there is no option in the UI to do this. Furthermore there is/was no mention of where the ini file to edit for this function is located and that is the only other place I can think of that this might be found. Thus making an edit that should only take a minute take 15 or more as I attempt to search for how to edit/fix it (ignoring the fact that the Oviraptor is a vanilla dino and should not need to have special rules added to work as default the way it does with the others).

Where is the .ini file located?

The spoil time needs to be adjustable too. Otherwise, this is an excellent trough.

The UI is very good and functional and the way the range is displayed is great.

The current features make this trough near perfect for making feeding more manageable when you have lots of dinos.

But the fact that consumable items you put in it never decay is a problem. It removes the need to manage feeding almost completely. I would personally prefer the vanilla decay rate over infinite storage, but adjustable would be ideal as I'm sure others' preference would be different.

hallo,
thanks for this great mod, ...it works perfect for me.
but one thing...
is it possible to make the spoil time adjustable (ui or ini)?
or can you make a non adjustable version with 1/3 of the actual spoil time (or normal refrigator spoil time)?

best regards

what is the min-max range ? i search for an feeding through mod for a very large zone, this one is what i search ?

Locking system works, thank you!

Also, i did notice that the reason you can't unlock it, is because its not able to be locked or unlocked at all. I had put in a permanent lock system, that has no way of being toggled, but I'll be sure to fix that, when I update it.

I'll look into updating to fix this issue, for later people, or if you don't want to use tribe levels.

After immense testing, I know what's going on. I just can't fix it. Stuff on my server is locking by default when it's placed down, and tribe settings were set to personal locks. Since there's no way to unlock the feeding trough, there was no way to give other people access. We fixed it for ourselves now by setting tribe locks to tribe level.

Tested it a bit. Seems its not lockable/ unlockable, but others in your tribe can access if fine. If your issue is non tribe members being unable to access it, I can look into fixing it in some way, or just adding the pin code system, and pray I don't break the rest of my trough mod. lol

I believe it SHOULD, but the way the trough is set up, that side of stuff was super confusing, with like pin/ locked related, so that could be broken beyond belief...

While Ark has an option to force everything to be locked when placed down, the opposite doens't seem to be true. Before I start digging further one quick question: Should I get an option to be able to lock and unlock this?

I guess I was on the right track at least :)
Haven't messed around with those tribe options in years though so that's about all I had.

So far, as soon as I set locking to tribe locks instead of personal locks, I do get an E option to bring up the menu. There's no options to lock or unlock them though.

I have tried adding ForceAllStructureLocking=False to see if that makes stuff not lock by default when placed down and see if that makes a difference.

I will dive into it a bit! It's good to know that it should work, then I know it's something, somewhere, on my server or in the settings for the tribe. :)

Tribe group/levels related maybe?

That should just work. I ran some simple tests, and it seemed to work fine for me. If you do keep experiencing this issue, I'll have to take a look at the mod, and run more tests. Also, no one else has experienced said issue. I haven't touched ARK modding for a decent bit, but if you can test it a bit more, with like making sure its not locked, and like re-placing it down, I'll gladly take a look when I have time.

Hi! I love this mod, it's so good! Quick question. Is there any way to set the trough so my tribe members can also access the inventory?

But, also don't count on the not blocking resources too come soon. With my current thoughts on it, it will most likely start with me re-making my entire mod from the ground up, too avoid the normal trough system. It may also be impossible, since it might cause a huge performance hit.

Yeah, my future plans are too hopefully remove any need for INI, and let every was individually choose the looks, range, slot count. I also hope too re-work the trough, too remove the blocking of rescources, but I'm not quite sure how possible that is.

The mod already has insane refrigitation, like the original red wood trough mod. Its range is already adjustable, and the range is manually set by the player, per trough, so no annoying INI's, or restart too do it.

Hey @Joehelp,
there are a lot of outdated trough mods and it´s nice to see someone will start a new project. What I looking for is a trough with refrigration option to increase spoil time and adjustable range. Is it possible for you to add this functions to this mod?

Thanks for your work!

It is possible too not block everything. But, as far as I know, it requires basically re-making the trough from the ground up. Making it from the ground up, and the way that I'm thinking is most likely not good for performance

Is it possiable to just have it not block resource spawns? it the one thing that i dont like abotu the S+ ones I'm fine with dino spawns blocked but you either need to cut the range by a ton or go a ways to get resources. I like to build some what close to where there is a lot of stone and wood to use for building or metal and dont want to kill it all. or do as i do now and have a lot of Troughs

Also, with thoughts about not blocking spawn, I believe it may be decently taxing on servers, especially if there are multiple.

It does sadly. Not many troughs don't block spawns, just because of there nature of them working.

Does this trough block spawns at all? looking for one with expanded range that doesnt

I'll work on the event selection at a later date, but not right now.

Looks great - love the new range view
I'd love a selection for event skins in the UI

Great work!

Now too wait for like 20 bug reports. lol

This math is LEGIT like 100x harder then expected. :(

Yeah, especilly with me lining up this trough range correctly.

Lot easier to make suggestions than making them real hehe :P

Mans be asking for too much, this math for the trough range is being a pain in the ass.

Sounds like a good idea to me.
Could add it to the UI :)

Question for anyone watching the comments. You guys think the ability too choose if the trough is on the halloween, christmas, or any other event? Someone did suggest/ agree with, just wondering what you guys think. lol

Progress update: Should be 1 day or so until I release a new update that re-works a lot of stuff. Just working on the math, for the trough range too work properly, since I had too re-work it.

Happy too see the ARK Halloween update didn't cause a bug in my mod. lol

Yeah ini should be fine, at least works for me.

Also, what would you think about individual Item slot count, instead of INI, or you think INI is ok for that kind of thing?

Wouldn't be ARK if it didn't hehe

Thanks! It took a decent bit of time, and nearly broke the whole trough. lol

Looking good :)

Hope you guys like the new UI system, instead of the stupid radial wheel!

Cool.

No rush, just figured you would know so you could sneak it in later :)
Nothing vanishes, only noticed since I couldn't fill it anymore, but ini works at least :)

Sorry, I just woke up. I guess, when the INI isn't set, its tehcnilly below 0, so the code for the at least 1 slot actives. Will fix it.