Ark Ascended needs an Auto Torch mod! I miss it on there! It may be brighter nights, but they're still cold without me auto torches.

Thank you EVERYONE for your nice feedback!
Let's see if ARK 1.5/2 can ignite the MOD-Flame again!!
and erase the bugs :-)

Did this works for Singleplayer too? It seem like it need still fuel i put 1 woood into it and start it at night... at day it turn off but the wood was used and they not turn on again. did i miss something?

Just a btw the torches DO NOT give off heat. DO NOT USE to hatch eggs, will not work.

Add the ini options to GameUserSetting.ini

Can someone explain how I can change the brightness of this mod?
I love every thing about this mod but It's too bright for me, And I don't know how to access INI options

Thank

Do these torches give off heat?

Thanks!

Never mind, chose to just use the torches from S+, didn't realize they do the same thing, without the brightness. Still a great mod if you choice not to use S+.

Great mod, but can anybody tell me where to find the ini files? These are way to bright, need to turn it down.

this mod is still prevalent today? really? I'm not complaining because its a mod the gives you less stress and so you wont half to use up wood or thatch to light up your freaken Base or rooms. now we can have a proper runway for tropeognathus.

Would be nice if you put what .ini has to be edited in the description...

Why are they all on level 5?????

thank you!

Gotta have it mod

Great, but the torch light doesn't seem to be blocked by walls like the normal torches. I put 2 on the outside of my cabin, and everything inside was just as bright.

Really handy mod for single player!

This works great in single player.

spspps

Yup, works fine still.

will it work in singleplayer game on the center map ? ;-)

Also not sure where to update .ini to set vanilla brightness. defaultgameusersettings.ini keeps getting overwritten. If put in other setting inis it doesn't work.

Can the "default" setting be vanilla for brightness? more than one or two torches and it looks like the surface of the sun...

@Erogath GameUserSettings.ini

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when facing away from torch and a certain distance away; the light turns off (you have to be facing away from it). its a bit annoying.

Will you add the lamp post and omnidirectional lamp to this mod? And perhaps make it, so you can enable fuel cost to the torches?

@Vane

I, too, would like to know which .ini file you put/find the settings to change the brightness. They are exceptionally bright. Thanks!

v4.92 seems to have fixed it, it's been a few weeks now and no more crashes for anyone. thanks!

Still getting the same crashes with the newest version :(

Where do I make the
[AutoTorch]
ZeroDamage=false
TimeON=75600
TimeOFF=23400
UseVanillaEmitter=false
BrightnessStanding=7
BrightnessWall=7

changes at? The wall torch is too bright for me.

I dont have anything helpfull to add other than I too am getting the crashes. Though I recently discovered that S+ has a standing torch that does the same thing as auto torch (slightly nicer GUI too) so I will be using that from now on. Anyone that already has S+ doesnt really need this mod.

@ViperZeroOne
There is a discussion opened by AgroViking that would be a better place to post about this. I've spent most of the day troubleshooting and I'll put my findings there.

Another little tidbit of information (not trying to spam here, trying to help track it down)... I also have a mod called Wyvern Nests Plus. This mod has spawners, which are basically just objects that create a domed spawn area around them. I recently noticed that when these spawners are placed close to an auto torch they'll get stuck in a "loading" state. If you remove the auto torches from the area and then place the spawners they'll activate properly.

Again, just something weird I noticed occurring around the Auto Torches.

...and no, it's not out of date mods. I experience the crashes myself and I always keep the server and my client fully updated (server updates twice daily, client as soon as an update is available). Server is also fully dedicated and hosted out of a data center, so it has nothing to do with those "Host your own ark server" nonsense servers.

We've been experiencing this issue for at least a week, possibly even longer. Limited to client crashes only and fairly unpredictable. Sometimes you'll crash when you place a torch (like I just did). Sometimes you'll crash when you get in visual range of the torches. Sometimes you'll crash when they activate, or deactivate. Sometimes you'll crash for virtually no reason at all.

Can also confirm crashes are happening. Didn't experience any client-side crashes on our freshly wiped server until people started placing the torches.

As a bit of additional information, I noticed strange behavior with the auto torches when it comes to their "area of influence". At first I thought it was an interaction between Auto Torches and Structures Plus (S+), since the auto torches wouldn't let you "shoot" anything near them.

That said, it goes beyond S+ as it seems the auto torches "grab" the focus of the player. Even if you aren't focused on the torch the game thinks you are. I was standing close to a torch (off to my left about 5 virtual feet) and issued an admin command to destroy an admin-placed object. Instead of destroying the object I was looking at, the torch off to my left was destroyed.

I'm also now getting crashes with this. Same kind of crashlogs.

Interestingly though, My server doesn't even HAVE a D:\ yet nearly everything in the log is referring to it.

More info. I've been using 2 of these on my boat, and 2 outside my house for about 4 days without crashes. I just got around to making myself a bunch of them, and after I place about 10ish, that is when I crash. The area is maybe 50x50 foundations, so 10 is nowhere near enough to even light the area up.

Ragnarock map.

I'll give you what I can.

Here's crash messages I got. 2nd one is rarer or it might be in background and usually closes when I click ok on the 1st one no clue.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0ly9ynmw6ptnry/Screenshot%202018-04-09%2007.36.26.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cuv5ntqavy3vxcn/Screenshot%202018-04-09%2011.04.08.png?dl=0

I got ordered server on verygames, so un-offical dedicated server.
Other mods I use with it: 806480270,854186603,756389708,731604991
(I also deleted folders from my PC + server files to force-redownload so the'yre 100% up to date)

Atm playing on abberation, so mostly using drakes so i fly in and crash. Sometimes i dismount, walk a bit and crash. Been same with other dinos however. I go out to gather something, come back and crash. Then sometimes it's just fine, i come and go for 1h with no problem. And then randomly crashing again. Also on re-joining the server sometimes I instantly crash on my spawn.

Not sure what else I can give you, that's about it.

i is very hard for me to track down the issue as it runs fine on my server, single player and ark dev kit. but let's see if we can collect some more data on how the game crashes, when and if you play on a server or single...

I can confirm client crashes related to this mod as well. Same client error logs like Nka19 posted on the WC forums. No matter, if on the island, center or volcano map. Removed it first on the center server - no crash anymore, but still on the other 2 ones. Now after removal from the 3 server cluster no client crashes at all anymore.
Just too bad since I preferred autotorches much much more than S+ ones.
Hopefully this crashing thingy will change somewhen to add autotorches again.

People have been crashing a lot generally, last I saw a Wildcard comment it was related to unreal engine needing an update.

I deleted the mod folder from my server and gaming rig, Then let them reinstall fresh and still was having random crashes and people on my server were crashing too, No one on my server has crashed since I removed the mod. I make sure my server is up to date with mods, I've used this mod for two years on my servers, something just recently happened in the last month that made it start crashing for us.

Those crashes are usually related to the update itself. or clients or servers not beeing updated. there is no issue with that mod.

Oh, finally... this crashes were driving me crazy, didn't know what was causing it, updated my server and PC's ALL mods and yet I kept crashing, but now removing this mod fixed it. Sadly now I'll have no light... really loved the mod :/ Can't you figure out why your mod is crashing some of us?

I had to pull the mod off my server too. It was causing random client side crashes. The server never crashed. People flying towards bases with the lights would crash randomly.

usually this happens to outdated mods. so please update your server and clients and it should be fine again. and yes s+ is superior to everything. and they are about to include it into the game.

Might be the load order of the mods or some rare combination of mods that cause.
I run both S+ and this and never had an issue.

it was causing mine to crash - worked at first but i was having issues and switched to structures plus and used their auto torch with no issues. I wish wildcard would just have it so torches burned forever. Such predantic trash that you have to fuel them - especially in pve.

@pixelrobot
works fine if you update your server. at least it runs fine on my server.

crashes my server