ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Ark Reborn v236
momomo 25 Sep, 2015 @ 6:48pm
Couple questions about existing dinos and compatibility
Hi all. First of all thanks for this great mod, appreciate the work youre putting in.

I havent been playing ark for long but im already using a few mods myself. I was wondering about the compatibility of this mod in terms of ini edits (well more like all mods in general) and load order. Im gonna number the paragraphs that contain a question of its own.

Im currently using: ArkReborn, Aku Shima, bArk (large and king dinos), Stairs Mod.

Ive added ArkReborn today, to make the new dinos spawn i killed off all the old ones with an admin command and the newly spawned dinos all say AR in their name, so I know its working. I've also seen king dinos from bArk.

1. Would it be better to load bArk first or not? Im not sure if Im unlucky with drops from king dinos or if they are affected by ArkReborn. And if that is loaded first, would it affect the king dinos (i.e. make them stronger) or would it ignore custom dinos?

And one thing that has been buggin me for a while whenever i look for new mods:

2. In what way would ini edits affect mods and the game in general? I am currently using a custom max level for player and tamed dinos with a custom exp curve as well as custom engram points on each level up and custom engram costs (gotta say the engram costs are what the Server Manager deems as default, so I guess I could just remove them?).

3. And if the game releases new items, I think I read that mods that add new engrams and items "may" already use the item id the devs wanted to use for the new items and thus i dont get that new item, is that correct?

4. Lastely: Since Ive just added the mod, will the tamed dinos I have be superior to newly tamed dinos? Or does the mod jsut alter the TamedDinoDamageMultiplier internally? It would suck to have to retame and relevel my Pteranodon :/
Last edited by momomo; 25 Sep, 2015 @ 6:50pm
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Azrael  [developer] 25 Sep, 2015 @ 9:18pm 
1. I'm not sure what dinos bArk effects, but if you put it first, it could potentially override all AR dinos. I am not actually sure how he has setup his mod to work, but in most cases, dino mods do not usually work well with eachother, or at least don't maintain full stackability.

2. Your .ini values should always override any values set by the mod, so you should be fine.

3. AR does not override any new items or engrams or dinos, so you should be getting all of those (including the upcoming biomes and snow armor)

4. Tamed dinos in AR have only been nerfed in regards to the stat percentage gains... but wild dinos have been buffed to be as strong as normally tamed dinos. So a max level Wild Rex should actually put your current tamed dinos to the test. If you tame a max level Rex, you will get stronger than it... by quite a bit, but you shouldn't be beast-moding all dino's without a care in the world.
momomo 26 Sep, 2015 @ 12:18am 
Thanks for the answer. Well its just a matter of time before i lose my Pteranodon again :D
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