Posts by ZenRowe

kazumablackwing

No mod is gonna be perfect in its first iteration though. But you mentioning WC co-opting it...that scares me. I wouldn't put it past them to pull a Bethesda, stealing a modder's concept and making their own bastardization of it... If you think false positives from rocks are bad...wait til you get nailed with a false positive on login because your character has half lagged into the floor

Wall`O`Text incoming. I got going and couldn't stop.

Most of this is based on my personal experience from when I was modding and shouldn't be taken as an official company stance.

We didn't say it couldn't be done, and we didn't say the plugin would have those problems. Cedric was giving fair warning that it could have problems like that. Trying to communicate these things in a tweet though is difficult because a larger conversation has to come in tiny pieces over a long thread which can be missed or we have to try and be reductive with what we are saying while also trying to get the core point across, we don't always succeed in the latter.

A few notes here though on some of these discussion points so far, and some things that haven't been as well:

  1. You can't copyright a concept (thankfully, or else anytime somebody tried to make a new version of something they would get slapped with legal threats, mods would basically never exist), you copyright the specific expression of a concep...
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ARK Parados is an overhaul mod that offers a wide range of custom creature variants. Bright colors and unique mechanics are sure to be a treat for the eyes and the adventurous.

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Prehistoric Structures offers another unique visual design for those that are interested in more primal structure designs.
Paintable Structures offers a more modern touch with an insane amount of customizability.
Between these two sets of structures, most players should be able to find something they love!

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Primal NPCs takes some unique turns for an NPC mod, such as the ability to order them around via chat. The NPC game is evolving!

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Faith is a complete reenvisioning of The Island with new twists and creative ideas. If you would like to see an old favorite in a new face you should check out this labor of love.

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Greetings Survivors!
It's that time again, I am Zen Rowe and today we’re going to be talking to Eco, the creator behind a plethora of decor mods!

Eco, You likely need little introduction, but for the sake of anyone who has yet to experience your mods tell us a bit about yourself.

Your mods are some of the most popular in the Workshop, Eco. Seeing you branch out into more functional additions like this has been a joy.

Do you have a background or hobbies that have influenced and guided the design of your mods?
I imagine your empire mods involve a lot of historical research.

I'll take ten... uh... for my god-daughter.
Yes... for my god-daughter.

I know a lot of players love your creations in ARK, but it sounds like you lived a fascinatingly creative life as well!

Now if anyone wanted to follow your modding endeavors or wants to see what other artistic creations you've made, where can they do that?

What prompted you to cross...

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Greetings Survivors!
It's that time again, I am Zen Rowe and today we’re going to be talking to Eco, the creator behind a plethora of decor mods!

Eco, You likely need little introduction, but for the sake of anyone who has yet to experience your mods tell us a bit about yourself.

Your mods are some of the most popular in the Workshop, Eco. Seeing you branch out into more functional additions like this has been a joy.

Do you have a background or hobbies that have influenced and guided the design of your mods?
I imagine your empire mods involve a lot of historical research.

I'll take ten... uh... for my god-daughter.
Yes... for my god-daughter.

I know a lot of players love your creations in ARK, but it sounds like you lived a fascinatingly creative life as well!

Now if anyone wanted to follow your modding endeavors or wants to see what other artistic creations you've made, where can they do that?

What prompted you to cross...

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Yes you should be able to set it in any instance where INI settings would be accessible. Unfortunately I do not know yet if there will be a menu option to set it for console SP though.

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There is actually a setting for this that will be going out. It's already in code, it just not in the live version of the game yet. I'll try to make sure Ced includes mention of the settiing in the Crunch when it actually does go out.

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Greetings Survivors!
Zen Rowe here again, and I have brought you another peek into the lives of the modders!

Today we’re going to be talking to LeutianKane!

Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your sponsored project.

I know a lot of people love these types of mods, they can make gameplay feel refreshing and new again. You've been working on this project for quite a while right? How did you get started on it?

That's actually a really interesting thing to see. Mods don't often change hands, for various reasons. Was this your first mod, or have you worked on other projects before this one?

So you had some experience before starting on the project.
I want to switch focus for a moment here and talk a bit more about yourself. Outside of modding do you have other development experience? Does your background benefit your modding endeavors at all?

You have quite a bit of history with modding! Let's get your social media info. For ...

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Greetings Survivors!
Zen Rowe here again, and I have brought you another peek into the lives of the modders!

Today we’re going to be talking to LeutianKane!

Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your sponsored project.

I know a lot of people love these types of mods, they can make gameplay feel refreshing and new again. You've been working on this project for quite a while right? How did you get started on it?

That's actually a really interesting thing to see. Mods don't often change hands, for various reasons. Was this your first mod, or have you worked on other projects before this one?

So you had some experience before starting on the project.
I want to switch focus for a moment here and talk a bit more about yourself. Outside of modding do you have other development experience? Does your background benefit your modding endeavors at all?

You have quite a bit of history with modding! Let's get your social media info. For ...

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Darkchyylde

Major updates always break mods until the modder can update it. Shit happens. It's the mod that needs to be updated and fixed, not Ark

Unfortunately it also sometimes requires an update to the devkit in order for mod authors to be able to adjust to the new changes, which is something I am investigating to see if we need to do now.

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Greetings Survivors! Zen Rowe here again, back for another spotlight on our glorious modding community.

Today we’re going to be talking to Kiwiboys!

Who are you and what do you do?

That's a pretty intense modification. ARK itself doesn't really have much in the way of existing mechanics for you to tie into for that kind of system, right?


Making mods can definitely be an exercise in creative solutions. May I ask about your background? Does your education or personal experience tie in well with helping you design the overall system or influence the direction of your solutions to problems?


Shhhhh. Don't let Epic hear you!
We'll talk a bit more about ARK settlements in a moment, but I do want to focus on you a bit. When we make our mods we tend to focus ourselves entirely on that and most of the people who enjoy our creations don't know a thing about us. So tell me, aside from making mods, what other things do you like to spend time on? Do you have...

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Greetings Survivors! Zen Rowe here again, back for another spotlight on our glorious modding community.

Today we’re going to be talking to Kiwiboys!

Who are you and what do you do?

That's a pretty intense modification. ARK itself doesn't really have much in the way of existing mechanics for you to tie into for that kind of system, right?


Making mods can definitely be an exercise in creative solutions. May I ask about your background? Does your education or personal experience tie in well with helping you design the overall system or influence the direction of your solutions to problems?


Shhhhh. Don't let Epic hear you!
We'll talk a bit more about ARK settlements in a moment, but I do want to focus on you a bit. When we make our mods we tend to focus ourselves entirely on that and most of the people who enjoy our creations don't know a thing about us. So tell me, aside from making mods, what other things do you like to spend time on? Do you have...

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KevinLG1990

I know that’s it’s suppose to be on other maps I’m just saying there’s nothing on ab. Also nothing anywhere on prim plus for Xbox no colors at all

We are fixing some issues with the colors and the scarcity of bone costumes. but also if you are playing on an unofficial server, make sure that it's using -ActiveEvent=FearEvolved

Revanche123

Thank you very much for the reply. Just to make sure before I spend to much time on it. I can add Spawners for both of them just as I would to bring Reaper Queens to Valguero for instance or can they only be manually spawned? Again thank you very much for helping me bring a fun event to my players.

I believe that would work, but it still won't follow the event handling where they spawn for a limited time and then vanish at dawn, they would just act like normal spawns

KevinLG1990

No event on ab?

All other aspects of the event should be available on the other maps. The dodorex and dodowyvern were designed around those specific maps, attempting to spawn them on others can have unintended consequences.

The dodoRex only spawns on the island, the DodoWyvern only spawns on scorched earth.

You can spawn them in manually on any map, but they won't be automatically despawned at dawn like when the event spawns them.

The Dodowyvern does not spawn on Ragnarok.
It only spawns on Scorched Earth, and the DodoRex only spawns on The Island

Zonedark

I play on isolated Ragnarok and yes, it does spawn there. I saw a flock of about 200 wyverns around 50/50 (the famous buggy coordinates) at the edge of murder murder snow (an ice wyvern spawns there sometimes as well)

That was an overspawn issue that is being dealt with.