Is this still being updated for ASE?

Why does the Dracovenator from this mod conflict with the one from the Prehistoric Beasts mod? You can change your Dracovenator's ID to ''draco_character_bp_c''.

@Ragnar This is an old version of the mod and the essence was to be a crafting reg but due to backlash from having Hati and Skoll (as in the linked topic) the concept was scrapped. a rework is in order and boss's are being refused.

So i killed a Skoll after like 30 mins of fire and i didn't really get anything other than an essence of Skoll, anybody know what i do with this i cant find it out anywhere.

Sounds good :)

@Dreamshaper Ah, okay! Also I hope you figure this out! This is a great mod, keep up the awesome work my friend!

As for progress update. I'm re-working the mod from scratch. This mod having been such an early endever in modding that was held together by hopes and dreams. It is such a tangled mess I can't make heads or tails out of what past me was thinking. So having copied just the base files for all the creatures and objects I'm starting from scratch. Dinos and objects are still being divided into two mods as no one seems to care for a all in one pack these days.

Progress is only slightly hindered as monitors have started to flicker and 'freeze' the picture with a gamble if it resumes or not. I am now glaring daggers at my new video card going "Don't you dare." I would not put it past my luck.

Haha. So looks like the dracovenator became popular. I'll look into it on the next release. I guess this is what happens when I give my creatures generic file names. Their spawn commands are listed under creature information so you should be able to redirect it elsewhere.

As for Raptor, Hati and Skoll have long sense been removed due to the crazy amount of hate I got when they were first added (that whole drama seen in the linked comment 'Skoll & Hati and concerns from Fan's of the Comic 'OFF WHITE'') Something I now find stupidly funny as both the comic has been discontinued for years now and the ark devs added them in as their own boss's.

Facepalm anyone? I might re-add them in but seeing how they are now truly in the game I dunno.

Heya, just wondering if its possible to modify the spawn code for the dracovenator as it's identical to the one in the Prehistoric Beasts mod. All the dracos from that mod keep getting replaced with the ones from yours, which is a shame because both models are good.

And before I forget, I know this is a weird question, but could you also make the Follower of Skoll tameable via the command forcetame, along with Follower of Hati and Elite Follower of Hati. If you can't/don't want to bother with it, it's fine! I just wanted to see if you could/would. And amazing mod btw, great to see that it has come this far!

Hey Dreamshaper, could you fix the spawn command for the Aberrant Dracovenator?

@DryRoastedNutz The prep station is still incomplete due to the choice to cut the mod into pieces as apparently people don't like all in one mods as much. This scraps a lot of ideas that depended on other parts, like items from new dinos. So the prep station is being reworked as a middle tier between the starter campfire cooking pot and the metal tier industrial cooker. This is what everyone voted for so...

How the heck do you use the food prep station? Nothing gives it options to craft anything.

YouTube spotlight? Hype!

@UpFromTheDepths I don't see why not.

Hey there Dreamshaper, is it okay if I contact you regarding your mod privately? Thanks!

Sorry if im a bit ranty, my experience was just not to kind and felt like unless I already knew the answer to something I wouldn't get any help, but if I knew already why would I be asking for help in the first place? That's just how the modding discord felt like... maybe things have changed sense. I don't want to be given stuff, but we all learn at our own rates and styles and some hand holding and guidance to grasp bits is needed some time.

I watched so many unreal tutorials as thats as far as any 'help' I would get when asked, I was able to make a very basic (and shaby) game... but I still knew jack about arks way of doing things :P But they told me to watch these tutorials to 'learn'.. so I did... I made a walking sim with hidden colectables. :p

@Event Horizon yeah sadly graphing is not my forte and all the tutorials and understanding in the world hasn't helped me figure out 'if I want to do x and need to connect y to z and z to b and so on.' Duping what I see in tutorials (that 99% isn't even for the version the devkit uses so are useless) don't help me with ARKS graphing.

So I had to abandon tuns of concepts. If the thing I wanted didn't already exist, I was out of luck. Or other things are there but I never found the parts that did what I wanted (like carnos staying with a yuti so my boss minions stayed with the boss and didn't just bugger off to cause a mess) and all I got told to do was 'look at the blueprint'... a bp im already looking at and asking about..

Thus why I left the arks modding discord years back. that and the harassment due to apparently 'stealing'; hati and skoll from a 'comic' (thats funny given the new map) sort of make me lose desire to work on this.

this is the shiny! discord, which is a good place to join them to start. theres lots of people and we all try to be helpful there. <3 best of luck no matter what! https://discord.gg/UQFAkFNgz4

you can also hit up kraken(better dinos), Myrm(No Untameables), Nev(Shiny!, N+), Lethal(Dino Storage) and Haze(Hazestacks, chibee), they are all nice and friendly. Most are in each other's discords too, if they don't know something between them they can likely point to someone who does.

BTW this mod runs wonderfully well on fjordur!

@Dreamshaper
Unfortunate that your past experience was like that, but I doubt that would be the case with the people I have mentioned. These guys seem pretty chill and friendly so long as people don't hackle them with demands for their mods content. More over, they all have quite a bit of experience given how long they are doing their various mods now, so trying to open up a dialogue in DM's could be worth a shot.

@Event Horizon I was part of the modding community a bit back but no one wanted to help. Only answer I ever got for anything I asked was 'look up unreal tutorials'. That's about as helpful as telling me to get a book on french to learn Japanese.

Like asking for assist on a twist to snail 'generate on wander' set up for another dino (do an animation when it generated an item) and all I got was 'well look at the snail bp'... like no duh but that don't aid me with what I wanted to do. Then get told to look up tutorials again if I 'didn't know how to do it'. That was 99% of the experience I had with that discord...

I just wanted to say if help is needed with coding or texture/animation work, some of the people in the modding community are really helpful, even if at times they need some time to respond. Garuga from Ark Additions, Bluescapes from the Anomaly mod and Jester from Monsters and More are all really open and friendly to other modders. If you happen to use Discord, I'm sure getting in touch with them could work out.

Thanks for the heard work so far and get well soon!

can confirm the devkit eats everything. I gotta recommend a 1TB NVME drive and at min 16gb of ram, 32gb+ being better

@Vespidazed Thanks for the kind words. I still have hope of diving back into this mod and resuming what I was working on. Outside RL issues one hurdle has been the shear amount of ram and memory the devkit takes up these days with all the maps and such. Been talking to other modders and some can report the kit stalling due to eating up everything their system can offer and then some. My systems not the beefiest in the world and right now until I upgrade some things the devkit just goes NOPE.

I hope you get better, I'm less concerned about the state of this mod and more of the state of the creature. Also again to gush that you make amazing models for creatures you've added. They fit in so well with the rest of ARK's roster it's almost like they already were there. There are few mods out there that add decently balanced creatures that also look like they are already a part of the world.

here is hoping this will continue to work and we can use it on fjord

nice mod

@Sköll Drachen YEP. Good old LETS JUST ASSUME AND MAKE UP NONSENSE healthcare.. Least there are some good doctors out there, and I at last found one. Just a pain weeding through all the bad ones. Sadly we don't know yet if I'll be left with any lasting eye damage. But I have vision, so that's good.

that sounds like.. *looks at profile* yup american healthcare.

@kainoa25 thanks! Glad to know it does still work. I am hoping to get back into it though a new issue has popped up. I've been diagnosed (after 7 MONTHS of doctors just throwing out BS or assuming nonsense) with recurrent corneal erosion in my right eye. Making seeing a literal pain (happy new year for me yay! x.x) I am getting treatment for it but so far I can hardly see and it is rather painful. If they had found this when it first started maybe I wouldn't have an eye leasion the size of a pencil eraser on the lower part of the iris...

Love the mod. Despite its age it still works and is pretty damn cool.

Good luck on the irl situation @Outcast not much else I can say or do but know the mod you did make here is amazing.

i see. thank you for taking the time to answer me. i really hope things get better for you. i know how that feels. im in the same boat. whats been going on has fucked up my living arrangement completely i do really hope things get better for you

@Sköll Drachen as this was my first ever mod a lot of the coding and design choices are.............a mess. So much so that I don't think it's even recoverable, any attempts to fix it just makes things worse. So the mod has been in a total rewrite, splitting dinos, boss's and decor into their own mods. I had some silly all in one concept idea that after all this time and thinking on it, didn't seem practical. The down side is my living arrangements in real life isn't stable atm so trying to find time or motivation to work has been meh at best.

dont suppose we can get a seperate mod of skoll and hati but them as tamables?....asking for..clear name..reasons...

Also the texturing, a lot of mods tend to make their critters too "smooth" or to shiny. E.i not enough detail or too much detail witch makes the models contrast against ARK's preexisting wildlife.

I love the smaller critters you've added. So many mods that add more critters focus on larger ones, but I like it when smaller things are added. Gives more life to the ARKs.

@Lyus Sadly they are not. They are boss's that I had big plans for but sadly I needed help with some elements that I wanted to do, knew could be done, but didn't have the coding know how to do it, and sadly what I learned the modding community is very much a 'unless you already know how to do it we wont help you do it'. sort of deal. I hope to get back to this mod soon, and finish some of the rework done to it, though real life atm hasn't been stable making it hard to focus on projects.

so are hati and skol tameable? I loved this mod, I want to use it on pve solo, and I would love to be able to tame them

@GrandOrder It's not dead but some things IRL happened that has taken some time for me to get though. One being a Living situation, and another being a PC that got damaged in moving, along with other items ended up missing. I've been working slowly to build this mod back up and remake it, but the new PC I have isn't as powerful as the last one so it is a bit slower in the devkit. Made worse when they keep putting out devkit updates that means a good half day to prossess files and shaders that it keeps insisting it needs to go for every little thing.

So yes sorry, it has been taking a bit of time for me to get back on my feet, and to work on things when it takes longer for stuff to function. The mod as is does still work, however spawn points for the dinos are not updated to include the new biomes for the newer maps. They'll appear on those maps in areas that they re-use the older biomes.

Is this mod still being updated? I kinda want to check it out for singleplayer, but if its dead I dont wanna waste my time.

if you'll humor me for a second, I'm just curious if there are any plans to give the Dracovenator a jump animation. said Draco is thus far the best Dilo based creature I've seen in a mod since "The Jurassic Park Expansion" mod (admittedly I had a hand in that happening) but it's lack of jump ability kinda limits it a bit.

again just curious.

This looks great! I dig the farming idea as I like less than conventional base places. Also, the creature models look fantastic! Some mods I have issues with tend to make models fairly less detailed which is pretty noticeable when you play with the textures set to high or better.

update: It's not this mod thats the issue . . . huge relief right there

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this mod MIGHT conflict with s+, specifically the mortar and pestle as I can't seem to place the mortar . . . which is odd but I'll test this further. I hope I'm wrong because I love the creatures that come with this mod, specifically the dracovenator as its the closest to an accurate Dilo I can seem to find that still works and I don't need to shell out a huge sum of money for . . .

@kutone311 read the link I have posted called "Skoll & Hati and concerns from Fan's of the Comic 'OFF WHITE'" Trust me I am well aware of it and have gotten a lot of slander for their designs.

you ever read the comic off-white? Skoll and Haiti look like they came right off the pages of that comic and I love it! <3

the spawn codes arent working for me- it shows me when they spawn naturally in the wild but i cant find them even when usning cheat to fly over and try and spot them- nothing- im trying to spawn them in as part of my viking server for boss fights- and to try taming them- but nothing works- even using admin commands-

Enjoy the award! One of my favorite mods ever <3

It could be that the ini settings no longer work with some of the updates the base game has been undergoing. I'll have a look at it.