ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Human NPCs
Answered common questions
1 Can they equip weapons? - No they cannot they have their own weapon tied to class that makes them useful in different areas of the game

2 Can they ride mounts? - Not yet that is a planned feature on zonekillers to do list!

3 Are there any that use guns? - No there is not but that is a feature zonekiller is looking into and could add. Where it is right now the archers are your main fire power they use normal arrows and fire arrows.

4 Can they wear modded armors? - Yes they can! and even wear skins.

5 Can you paint their armors? - No as of right now only the helmet slot can be painted any other will revert back to normal color upon being equiped on them

6 None are showing on map! MOD IS BROKE!!! - NO IT ISNT! they spawn slowly over time. You may need to tweak the amount on server. As by default only like around 500 to 1000 or so spawn you will need to tweak the ini file to allow for more. Check the discussions section for the ini tweak 500 is plenty for most. And you may need to do a kill all wild dinos console command to notice them spawn.

7 Can you make them stop attacking my mount? - No they wont their culture states in description. "That any dino that allows itself to be ridden is evil and must be destroyed at all costs!" That being said there is a possibility he will add a ini tweak to make them not fight em but that is a big IF.

8 Can they breed or be bred? - No but i personally would love if we could have and start families. Like if your male you can use the pie menu and breed with a female and vice versa if your female with a male NPC. And baby could be a random weapon variant. BUT the overall if it will be bred could end up being a unique mechanic just like some of the other advanced features of this mod. As well as he has to decide if he had the time to add it and if its worth adding. After all they are supposed to be advanced humanoids not dogs or dinos. So just setting them to breed is like telling a guy you just met and woman you just met. "Hey go make a baby!" Like hell 1 in maybe a 1,000,000 times would that actually work in real life. Like i just dont see that being right. So overall he would need to see if its worth adding to the mod. And if he wants to add those mechanics or if he wants to make them breed like any normal dino. It all comes down to time and if its worth it to zonekiller

9 Do they upgrade gradually to better tier weapons armor structures etc? - No they do not the weapon they have currently is all they get. And armor once you tame them you may equip them in what you want. If you check discussions section there is a discussion with the ini tweaks for you to tweak them to wear up to certain types. Or make each one wear a certain tier of armor! As well as their structures currently are. Thatch tier. Wood tier. And Stone tier. He may add more as time progresses. And could change this entire system at any time if he sees that as something he wants to do. But right now i personally am content with it and im sure he is as well. :) Plus if they ever got assault rifles may as well say GG if you run into a large village of em. :/ may be too much for that lol.

10 Can they patrol? - Yes and no (yes they can patrol but its just a advanced form of wander mode) in their patrol mode so to speak they wander around a area between very small and large. And they will gather resources or if you have resource harvesting off they just wander around that area and protect the workers or others. They have INSANE protection range if a pet gets attacked they will come running from FAR AWAY! to defend that pet so they make great guards for settlements.. :) And no they cannot patrol with patrol markers however there is a patrol system mod you can use that is very well done. That does allow you to set up large patrol routes across the entire map or around your camp. That allows for not only them but also any dinos or flyer in the game to patrol. You could set up your own buses with a diplo to patrol from one place to another and ignore stasis. So it patrols whether your in area or not. Great for setting up a system of transport between your bases settlements for tribe members etc. A simple patrol search in arks mod workshop should find it! :)

11 Can they walk instead of jog or run? - No sadly i believe this to be due to ark devs dumb decision to not add a walk animation to humans. These humans use our same animation even though they were made from the ground up. If there is no human walk animation for us i do not believe there will be one for them. Unless he can make a custom walk animation for them. And if he did people would want him to make that animation for us the players to walk just like em. Their jog is same as our jog their sprint is same as ours. :/

12 Will you update this later GamerXDevision? - If i see a question pop up that becomes very common i will add it to this list! :D
Last edited by GXD Adventures; 5 Apr, 2019 @ 12:34pm