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    ARK: Survival Evolved Daily Community Thread - Mentor Wednesday!

    ARK: Survival Evolved Daily Community Thread - Mentor Wednesday!


    Daily Community Thread - Mentor Wednesday!

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 05:12 AM PST

    Welcome to Mentor Wednesday! Do you have an ARK-related question that needs answering? Can't find it anywhere else on the web? Well You're in luck! Simply ask your question down below, and the knowledgeable community of /r/playARK will answer it to the best of their abilities!

    Be sure to sort by new to see the latest questions!


    Rules


    • Absolutely no down talking. You were all new to ARK once, so there's no need to belittle anyone just because you might know more.

    • All hateful comments that derail conversation will be removed. This thread is a place of learning, so keep it civil.


    You can find the full Daily Community Thread schedule here.

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    Tek rock

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:29 AM PST

    I went a little overboard..

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 04:49 PM PST

    Just fought the GAMMA Dragon for the first time ever on my SP...

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 02:47 AM PST

    Holy Fireballs, Batman! This guy packs a punch! I went in with 18 Rexes with 50k-60k HP, 1k Melee and Ascendant saddles ranging from 99.7-138.5 armor.

    Half of my Rexes were at 6k-10k HP by the time I won. I'm not looking forward to the Beta or Alpha. (I know I could skip but Im killing each boss at each difficulty twice -- once for decorative trophy and once for trophy for ascension -- which I'm doing once each for achievements.)

    Any tips for Beta/Alpha? Is leveling each Rex to 80k HP worth the time sink?

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    S+Nanny Works Now!!! She feeds baby like trough

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 07:23 AM PST

    had kibble in her a few weeks back and it all disappeared tested it out today cause of familiar posts and she is feeding babies from her inventory. Its been broken for a while now and just lived with it but this is great news!

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    Always a good moment.

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 02:22 PM PST

    Make the birds fly higher

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 12:13 PM PST

    Get them off of our head. My brother takes about 6 birds with him. Then upon landing, they are literally flying on his head, that it's hard to move or see what you're doing.

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    Base Defense / Turret Settings Questions

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:39 AM PST

    Recently got on an Extinction server and have been able to farm the element needed to build a lot of tek turrets and fill them with ammo. I plan on defending the base with around 70-80 tek turrets, 10-20 heavy turrets (mostly for rockets and fliers), and a handful of plant x for the slow/vision debuff. We are in a spot that is difficult if not impossible to mesh from beneath.

    The base is 14 walls tall with giant hatchframes on the edges. I plan on placing some of my turrets at this height as I understand it should shoot over the top of a trike and maybe stego. I also will place some on the ground and a handful of heavies at low/medium range to attempt to stop beer runners.

    I feel like most players will attempt to either soak with platform saddle paracers with a box. Or they will come up from the side with the Quetzal hatchframe strategy.

    My understanding is that the projectiles from tek turrets will destroy metal. However, I am curious as to how the targeting works...

    A) If a player is enclosed in a boxed paracer:

    1. If the turret is set to "players only" will it attempt to fire and damage the metal structures? Or will it not fire at all as it does not have a clear LOS to the enemy player?
    2. If its set to "players and creatures" I am assuming it will fire on Paracer itself. Will the splash damage start to damage the metal structures?

    B) If they use a Quetzal with the hatchframe "trick" or strategy (Basically covers the quetzal entirely from above)

    1. If the turret is set to "Players Only" will it attempt to shoot the player and slowly degrade the metal box? Or will it not shoot as it does not have a clear LOS to the enemy player?
    2. If turret is set to "Players and Creatures", will it attempt to shoot the quetzal even though it is entirely covered with structures from above?
    3. If I have tek turrets below the Quetzal that can actually shoot the body of the bird, will it have a knockback affect?

    Any comments/suggestions/strategies are appreciated.

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    [Suggestion] Championship Servers?

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 11:44 PM PST

    Got the idea for Championship servers when thinking of how quick a tribe could complete all ascensions (including alpha Manticore as Ascension for SE since it doesnt have one).

    Basically you have 2 Island servers, 2 SE servers, 2 Aberration servers, 1 Extinction server per region. PVP 6 man tribes, 3x XP/tame 2x Breed.

    The goal is to be the first tribe in your region to defeat the Alpha King Titan. Start on Island, once you defeat the Alpha Overseer your character is taken to Scorched Earth, you don't get to take items or creatures, but keep character level and engrams. Then rinse and repeat for each map. The reason that there is only 1 Extinction map per region is so that there is extra PVP to be the first tribe to make it.

    No transfers at all, even between the regions servers, ie NA island 1 cant transfer to island 2.

    First tribe to kill Alpha King per region gets a prize. To make teaming less beneficial there is no 2nd/3rd place prizes, it won't eliminate it completely, but shouldn't be hard to monitor so few servers.

    Just an idea i thought would be cool to tie the game over while people are waiting for more content. If there is an Ascension to added to SE then would fit better once that is implemented.

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    Enable Mating still bugged?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 07:26 AM PST

    Many of us I'm sure are loving the new "Enable Mating" option. Pens are coming down in favor of less resource intensive areas.

    Previously when using the wondering option on, even without the chunk loaded (Private server admin so I can assure this), female would continue producing and laying eggs.

    Now when using the mating option, female breed timers seem to go into stasis along with everything else.

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    Bulbdog and Shinehorn on Ragnarok?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 12:51 AM PST

    Hey, I hope i can ask a question here :) Im renting a server for me and 3 friends, they really want bulbdog and shinehorn. I'm not good at codes, even if they're logical. I couldnt find codes for only these two dinos, so i had to exctract them from a code including all abberration dinos...

    I put these codes in Games.ini, are they correct (including the lines)?

    ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesBeavers_C",NPCSpawnEntries= ((AnEntryName="BulbdogSpawn",EntryWeight=1,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("LanternPug_Character_BP_C"))),NPCSpawnLimits= ((NPCClassString="LanternPug_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.4))) ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesGrassland_C",NPCSpawnEntries= ((AnEntryName="ShineHornSpawn",EntryWeight=1,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("LanternGoat_Character_BP_C"))),NPCSpawnLimits= ((NPCClassString="LanternGoat_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=0.2))) 

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    Do servers become more difficult as it gets older?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 05:19 AM PST

    TL;DR at the bottom

    Hey all. I am currently on an official pvp server on console. Now I haven't played the server since its birth, but let me tell you something, shits retarded. O just got back into this game and back when I played Alphas were very rare. My buddy and I have a little base in S1 on the island. I shit you not, it is an alpha gangbang everywhere we go. Just a little insight on our adventure...

    We were attempting to cure our swamp fever by getting the ingredients for the cure. Now the swamp is the farthest from a lakeside resort. But when we turned the corner, it looked like a tub of live eels with the number of alphas in the area. There had to be at least 6 Alphas in sight at one time. 2 Carnos and the rest Raptors. We would have had a better chance of survival fist fighting a rex. Now that's the kicker. On the way back to base after our failed attempt, we cannot believe what we see. Deep in the water there is an Alpha Rex SQUARING UP with a squadron of Megalodons. Of course, we get our shit pushed in yet again and we decided to get off.

    My question is this, does the official server difficulty rise as the server ages, or is this just us being noobs?

    TL;DR

    Two noobs get their shit rocked by an alpha cluster fuck and an aquatic alpha rex. Want to know of the server difficulty is out of control.

    P.S. Any tips on curing the swamp fever is appreciated.

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    How many Vacuum compartments to fit a Teleporter, 10 Vaults and transmitter?

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 04:10 AM PST

    Also what range would the Tek gen have to be on?

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    So I'm wanting to get Ark for PC

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 03:53 AM PST

    But I don't have a PC lol anyone have a PC build that can handle Ark on the highest graphical setting?

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    PSA: wild megalosaur do not drown

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 09:15 PM PST

    PSA: wild megalosaur do not drown

    you can tame them in waters

    https://i.redd.it/r5a4c8tstve21.jpg

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    Thanks Ark

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 03:03 AM PST

    Treasure Stashes: How to make Ark official PVP enjoyable for everyone, and win back old players

    Posted: 06 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST

    While the thrill of PVP is unique and exciting, the one thing everyone hates in this game is losing everything and starting all over from being raided. It's not fun, in fact it's the opposite of fun. It's one of the only games where you retain absolutely nothing when you get raided.

    Winning/losing is a part of every game, but there are ways to reduce the negative impact of being raided without removing the thrill of PVP and the success of winning. I am suggesting a mechanic which allows the victim of a raid to retain a percentage of their progress.

    Ultimately I think a mechanic that lets a tribe retain SOMETHING from being raided could be the best thing for the game. Ideas I've had are:

    1) Obelisk Stash: Each tribe (or each tribe member, whatever is best for balance) being able to store 1-4 tames and 10 items permanently in a "Stash" in the obelisks

    2) Bubble Shield-Hut: A structure/forcefield given only to the tribe leader that gives a small area invulnerability. Nothing can be built inside this area except for a treasure chest with like a 10 item capacity. Each tribe can store whatever small tames they can fit into this area and store their 10 most valuable items in the chest. All tames in this area must have an empty inventory, and no other items can be stored here on bodies or otherwise.

    3) Tribe God-Dodos: Each tribe or tribe member given an invulnerable dodo, immune to diseases as well. Store whatever you can on it. Your dodo is your god.

    4) Implant-Key Stash: Same as obelisk stash except allow someone who collects 10 implants of an individual to take 1 item/tame from their stash.

    5) Shoulder-pet-Gods: Same as god Dodos except 0 melee damage. You have your companion pet forever.

    With these options, raiders still get the majority of the victims valuables so raiding is still fun. But it will lessen the raiding of tribes weaker than the raider. Stronger tribes will accumulate too many good items/tames to keep in the Stashes, so they will be worth raiding. Weaker tribes don't have as much so will be able to store a greater percentage of their progress in the Stashes. And the rest of what they own will only be valuable to tribes closer to their strength.

    Tribes with inadequate defense for their size will lose more. Solo players/small tribes have an option to play as nomads with 1-4 choice tame-companions that you can bring out when you need them.

    Cool downs on accessing the Stashes could also be implemented.

    There are likely some other tweaks that will be necessary for these mechanics to be successful and prevent abuse, but ultimately I think a server with something like this would have incredible longevity.

    If anyone has other ideas I'd love to hear them!

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    yellow cloud emitting from raptor???

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 11:37 PM PST

    my brother has a raptor and its emitting a small yellow cloud. what is it?

    Edit: xbox one

    we cannot tame an alpha.

    This dino IS tamed

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    Help with mods not working

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 10:45 PM PST

    I have 8 mods on my server they are all being detected by Ark. When I press escape the menu says mod "ultra stacks" (this and auto engram and tomestone are not working) and when I load in it says mods /8. But, when I load in, the engrams are not unlocked and the stacks only go up to 100 instead of 10k. I have tried to switch the order of the mods in the code but no use. The harvest rates work just fine along with the other mods (better reusables, S+, classic flyers, and classic gliders) And I need help, Thanks.

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    Imprinting Question

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 10:19 PM PST

    Maybe a dumb question here but I can't seem to find it anywhere...

    I've mostly played solo, but have a couple friends that just got Ark and joined my tribe. I plan on raising some wyverns, theris, spinos, and a bunch of rexes soon but my friends don't play that much so probably won't really be doing much, if any, of raising the babies. However, I'd like to let them imprint some things.

    If they do the original imprint on the baby when it hatches, will I then be able to do all the actions requested for them or will it require that specific player? This is on official if that's relevant.

    Thanks!

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    Since when does TEK protect you from radiation?!

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 02:17 PM PST

    I'm watching Phlinger's Soloing the ARK and he is wearing TEK in the red zone and its protecting him from radiation. I thought this didn't work?

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    procedural ark

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 09:45 PM PST

    Is procedural ark ran as a dedicated server, or non dedicated. Like are other players tethered to me or can they free roam on their own?

    submitted by /u/HeroOfTheGods1
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    (Looking for community Feedback for PVP Modding) YEAH, yet another post about BALANCE, Im already regretting this!

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 03:22 PM PST

    SO, I am working on modding ARK, my main goal is to make PVP in the game better, more balanced, etc. And I would like to hear everyones ideas on what they would like! Note I am not looking for suggestions of nerf manas or buff X. Instead something more along the lines of "PVP needs to take place more off bases" or "there is no reason to fight over resources". I know its not super clear but I am looking for solution requirements as opposed to solution designs (for you engineers who play). What are your high level ideas? For example almost like I am asking you to give me a thesis, oh scary word I know, not an example. We can get into items and stats etc but I feel starting there is what got ARK into its current state anyway.

    I know its next to impossible to balance a game like ARK, but I can at least make it more diverse and engaging. Think like how in RUST killing a geared person could result in a faster start thanks to getting the ability to research an item for the blueprint.

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    Teleporter locations in extinction.

    Posted: 05 Feb 2019 09:19 PM PST

    What are some good locations to drop teleporters on extinction. We are dropping a main base on an extinction server just interested to see some of the locations people have chosen and why.

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