why not just use the game's Pearls and Black Pearls over add Otter Pearls and Otter Black Pearls?

Would collecting pearls work in the soul terminal from Dino Strorage V2?

@vocal tune i put saddle on but give me no opinion to ride or come otter and their been a lot update on ark

@Neko loveheart {Ant GF} once you made the saddles you should have been able to equip it on the otter. And you do ride them your entire visibility of your character is probably inside the otter and hit box is also made small too I think so trying to snipe a small entity from the back of its neck was not possible. So technically you become the otter but still have to worry about Human survival too with eating and drinking. Its like your hitching a ride on the otter.

This hasn't been updated for some time so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bug.

@Judgment8 - i made saddles and can't ride them, is their something missing or dose script need updating? thanks for your time reading thou

Just downloaded this mod, how do I use it exactly?

Could you add a trilobit hunting mode?

bump, anything new on the update for aberration?

Also is it possible to beable to have a player pick you up on their shoulders when your riding it? that could be a cool ability haha

Can we get an option to enable/disable some of the features such as gliding, rideable

could you make the otter glide like a rock drake

whelp, i think my otter is borked, the running animation plays when it should be swimming, it no longer attacks anything and cannot collect anything, is this a mod conflict or are other people getting this too?

oh and as a side note, would it be possible to make the otter climb up and down surfaces? its super chewy for ravagers who are really too fast.

glowing otters PLEASE!
also, i have a story to tell about this mod in abberation...
so my fiance and i were scrounging around, looking for something to replace our mount that just got eaten along with all our loot by ravagers, its super early in the game and we are just scraping by, she crashes near a waterfall in the fertile lake, so when she is ragdolled i make sure she is safe from the nearby spino, but when i look up the waterfall...i see the spino, then a brownish mass creeps like a blanket of death and murders him in an instant...he rests forever in an ottery grave.
it was a hoard of around 25 otters, i tamed one to commemorate the sight, not sure what to name him.

great news, thanks alot! :)
hm rad immune otter.... any option to make em able to harvest black pearls from the ground in drake/rad zone? Then itld be very cool to have them with the immunity.
Ild honestly prefer either way one aberrant dg8 otter and one normal dg8 for other maps that can be spawned via ur new item(s) but im curious what u come up with :P

@eTch: I plan to remove the spawn override myself in the next patch and make an item which spawns the my Otter. Also do you want the Aberration version as in with the rad immunity or just for the skin? I could make it so that for example female Otters have the neat glow.

Will we get an aberrant version? atm thinking bout kicking the mod as it sadly seems to prevent any aberrant otter to spawn and it overspawns alot

"Passive #4 = Otter gives 80 hyperthermal insulation and 160 hypothermal insulation to nearby players."

Does this mean it only gives 80/160 to the player it is on or is it like a normal otter and gives a % of melee as insulation to the player it is on? It seems to only give 80/160 to the player.

@dedaF same with the otters near rivers, gangs slaughtering spinofamilies without any sign of regrets, the noises make me think they enjoy genocide alot - the lake with little metalnodes in the mid on a small island, directly when u leave the portal and drop down into the open zone: 100s.. without lying, 100s of otters, needed to prevent spawn now cause it gave even my not so bad system hell of a stutterparty crossing it :D we have spawns on 1.2 so could be overoverspawn ;)

@dedaF: I personally saw around 10-15 Otters in the lake near the Portal (easiest spawn). So yeah I'd suspect there is some kind of overspawning going on. Then again vanilla creatures like Aberrant Coels and Trilobites have had massive spawns in one of the rivers.

@eTch hey was curious about aberration after reading the comments - how crazy did it get with otter spawns? just outside of the lake areas on the river with crabs and spinos i regularly see around 3-5 otters in a small stretch that i cross to get to and from my base all the time. are we talking a number around there or something outrageous like 10 otters in one little piece of river or lake? thanks!

thanks for that info

@eTch: Well, I'm saying that you don't need the NPCReplacement line in the config as my mod already remaps all Otters to my Otters.

I mean that line in my game.ini to make sure i only have the ridables spawning on every map, dont want normal + them mixed up. Alright, ill see if i find more of those clusterlakes and prob take a screenshot for you. Nw, worst case there is still the option to disable the spawn for the map and load the mod only for clustercompatibility.
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Otter_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="dg8_otter_character_bp_c")

@eTch: Well, in my Aberration the Otter spawns seemed not too big (although a bit high compared to Ragnarok). What do you mean you replaced normal Otter spawns with mine (the mod already does so)? If there is a spawn issue in Aberration then it's quite hard for me to do anything about (since it takes a while before we get the updated devkit).

Also I'm quite sure I fixed the crash and I'm cooking it as we speak.

I'll keep on testing when I see the update. Saw different modded creatures that cause atm problems like that, wc makes ur life not easy :P
Oh and any chance for aberration spawnfixes soonish? first lake i found ingame had like 100 at one small place clustered up. I have replaced normal otter spawns for urs if that info helps anyhow, not sure as aberration should spawn a whole different class if im right, the aberrant otter.

@eTch: Gah, I need to re-check it and update again in few hours. I guess the whole "Event BP Set Rider" is causing the crash after all.

crashes now on try to mount the otter (atm aberration, not tried ragnarok which was the map where i had the first issues with player next to model)

thanks alot n take ur time, not that the otter would be my main mount...................... ;D great mod!

@eTch: Well, crap. I need to take a look as soon as I can.

Looks like the new update broke the riding animation, character is floating sideways next to the ridden otter, looks like megalodonrideanimation or similar

Could you create a mod for an otter that is maybe 1.5x its vanilla size, collect pearls more frequently (maybe 100% for silica and 25% for black), nothing else changed. please. This one is too OP in my opinion

What is the code for the mod otter thats like this? >admincheat SpawnDino "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/Dinos/Otter/Otter_Character_BP.Otter_Character_BP'" 500 0 0 35

After a period of testing I wanted to check back to confirm that the changes to the collision issue after riding the otter seem to be working fine now. No more floating or getting stuck so far. Thanks so much for solving the problem! =)

Would it be possible to make the otter armor colorable? This is to color hats. I like using vampire eyes but I can't color them.

@Judqment8 anychance we will see other small creatures become playable? (Dodos, Jerboa, ect)

v1.2 released!
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- Added multi-use option for automatic Pearl collecting
- Boosted Silica Pearl gain depending on size of the fish
- Chance to get double Black Pearls instead of one
- Doubled Black Pearl poop chance
- Changed the RMB damage type
- Tweaked the rider size to prevent issues
- Otter Pearls now last 30 minutes when dropped on ground
- Egg/Pearl collect radius increased to ~24 foundations and ticks once per 20 seconds

P.S.: A nice additional feature would be that while one is not handling the otter, but is doing stuff around, that the silicia poop would be picked up automatically. Maybe it could be a choice like picking up eggs or hunting for fish. So people could decide, what action to choose, including picking up silicia pearls. Just a suggestion. ;)

Hi there! First of all: cute and awesome mod! Thanks for sharing your work! ;)

I wanted to let you know, that I've experienced the following: After riding the otter and/or swimming in the water (or after jumping from greater height) it happens quite regularly now, that I lose collision with the worls after I dismount. Either I'm hovering in the ground right after I dismount or I get stuck, when I step on certain objects or touch certain objetct, like stairs or a gate.
I do not know, whether pure riding, swimming or jumping caused this issue, but i didn't habe it in the first hour I tested, though I mounted, dismounted and swam a lot. But I think, after I tried the gliding feature it happened for the first time.
Unfortunately now it happens almost after every dismount. The only solution then is to kill myself and respawn.
Maybe there is a solution to this problem. Hope my info helps. =)

@Judgment8 awesome mods thanks for your hard work. add me if you dont mind talking about modding a little. Have some questions about making something similar to a mod of yours.

@Nudgement8 I took some screenshots of a player putting on skins from bandana skin mod for the first time. It was so adorable and the fact that it shrank to fit made me laugh. But at least players can wear masks via skins if they wish. I now do trades with a player Otter because those silica pearls are damn valuable and I Don't have scuba gear to Or A Navy Fleet to cover me to take risks on deep sea dives yet. The player managed to reach lvl 700s and can fearlessly slay Sharks especially with the upgraded armor I traded it and other things for scouting and finding friends/takes.

I upload em sometime tomorrow to show.

@Jdqment8, @Vocal Tune Thanks alot! I'm going to try this out right now! :D

@tigerbird1: Thanks a lot! I think VocalTune pretty much covered all your questions ;)

It may not be the strongest or the fastest mount in the game, but it is fairly safe with unique abilities. Not to mention it's the most adorable thing in the game :D

If you managed to tame a vanilla one it won't have the same abilites as the new one. If you admin cheat destroys wilddinos all the new spawned otters will be the modded ones. And yes these little guys can be used to stealthfully move across the map unless a dino or human hunts them down. but since your riding it your human body still has to eat and drink too but you practically inside it. And sadly no the vanilla ones don't see to want to mate with modded ones. it's like a new species.

You've made me day. I haven't even played this mod yet but its litterally the greatest mod ever. The most Adorable Ark creature is now OP. Gliding, riding, Adorable Nuclear Blast, like omg this has to be my favorite mod yet. You say it remaps the spawns and stuff but what about tamed vanilla Otters? Do they get these awesome buffs/get converted, or do I need to go tame one? Also, would i be correct in assuming that your otters and not breeding-compatable with vanilla otters? Thank you for this awesome mod; the world needs more otters right now lol. :D

Lovely, thanks to both for replying back!

Yes it works great now! Thanks!

Thank you very much! It works fine now without crash when I check it's inventory!

Just woke up and restarted my server. I'll definitely let you know once I'm in the server to see for myself.

@Vocal Tune and Liebstraum: Update is out now. Please try it and report back if the problem has been solved :3