ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Auto Poop Collector
Shinygati  [developer] 23 Mar, 2022 @ 10:36am
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Alendi Istari 31 Jan, 2023 @ 6:08am 
This mod seems to have a serious problem. If the collector inventory is full, it won't make fertilizer. Since it won't make fertilizer, it just sits there and does nothing. The mod needs to be changed to ignore being full as the manufacture of fertilizer will automatically free up three slots. Otherwise, this mod is kinda useless.

As a work-around I'm trying to figure out a collection interval that will keep it from filling up so quickly but, frankly, it's a terrible workaround as the interval will differ for each location and number of animals pooping.
Shinygati  [developer] 31 Jan, 2023 @ 8:44am 
Seems like this issue is caused by the way ark allows inventories to craft items, even though the absolute max number of inventory items on the structure is set to 1000 (this is not how many items is allowed), on spawn this gets changed to a cap of 500 apparently so it would refuse to let any more items added even via crafting that exceeds this number, i have found a way to work around this so an update with the fix will be pushed out soon, however i would advise against calling mods useless in the future, that's not exactly how you ask for things to get fixed.
Alendi Istari 2 Feb, 2023 @ 2:27am 
I apologies if my use of words offended. But to be fair, if the mod just fills up with feces and sits there and does nothing, then it is not useful to me in that state. I reported the issue to you rather than just flatly uninstall the mod because I think it has the potential to be very useful with the fix I mentioned above and I'm glad to hear the issue is being addressed. The S+ smithy and compost bin will craft an item even when full so perhaps you can look at S+ code to help you figure out a fix.

Also, another more minor bug I have encountered is that even though I configured the container to hold only 300 items, when viewing the container inventory, it shows 300/500 when full. The displayed max container inventory amount seems to be hard-coded to 500 rather than reflecting the actual allowed amount.

I would like to request two other changes if you're up to it. The first would be to configure the amount of thatch required to create feces. 50 is too much. If making it configurable it more trouble than you are willing to go through, then reducing the needed amount would be great. I'd prefer 10 thatch per, but even 25 would be a great improvement.

Also, it would be really great to be able to configure it from the radial menu to be able to choose which sizes/types of feces to collect and even the pickup interval. Range and recipe should remain a fixed value decided by the server owner.
Last edited by Alendi Istari; 2 Feb, 2023 @ 2:30am
Shinygati  [developer] 2 Feb, 2023 @ 3:14am 
The issue with inventory slots not matching up is because i removed this ini config but seem to have forgotten to remove it from the main page, originally it was removed because having too many slots would cause too much lag when the collector transfers too much fertilizer at once and i was worried about server lag/crashes, i can put it back in but i'll have to limit it to 500.

Also overriding the crafting requirements can already be done by adding it to your game.ini i'll just need to add the path for the engram so people can do this if they want to.

I can possibly add options in the future for what sizes of feces to add but that will be a little bit of work so not sure if i can work on that anytime soon, i will add it to my list of things to do though.
MaelstromCdn 21 Oct, 2023 @ 11:18am 
I love this mod as it simplifies something I've never enjoyed doing but need to, farming (making kibble, etc.) Unfortunately I'm running into an issue. When the collector is set to automatically distribute fertilizer, it's always putting it in the same crop plot. For now I just have the option turned off so it's not a deal breaker but would definitely be handy. If it makes a difference, I'm using the S+ Seamless Crop Plots. Keep up the awesome work!
Last edited by MaelstromCdn; 21 Oct, 2023 @ 11:18am
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