Its broken - you cant respawn and it brings you back to last save

i mean the smoke for backpacks

omg i want this, any other mod alternative ?

Broken - do not use. It crashed my game every time I tried to respawn. And then I'd lose like 20mins of work each time. If a dino killed me, I'd get killed in a death loop and spawn getting killed every time, my progress still being reset but just being stuck in the death loop. I removed all mods one by one and added them back etc to verify it was this mod.

Broken, do not use.

Causes me to crash to desktop upon death. Removed mod, no more crashes.

Just had issues with this Mod. When Cas Pack was in the load order, could not see the character or change settings in character creator (to enter game). Once this mod was removed, the system ran normally again. It seems there is something that needs changed/updated. Will be waiting to see because I love this mod!

@calgorn, There has been no new build of the ARK DevKit. So there's not anything I can update yet. When an updated release of the ADK is available I'll try to find time to update the mod then.

Take everything off your body to be safe @calgorn

yep same problem as calgorn here.

Any plans to update this? Its currently crashing our server and if we remove the mod all our bodies disappear along with all our gear.

V-259.0

- New Feature: Corpse Locator! Upon death, a beam of light shoots into the sky to help the player locate where they died. Enabled on Official Servers by default. Add bUseCorpseLocator=true to your Game.ini for server use.

Is there any way to get this running without it being first? Joan's Egg and Poop also has to be first or at least loaded before this mod. (Tested it many times). As much as I love this mod, that one takes priority. When I played previously this wasn't an issue.

Loaded the mods in first, now I got the smoke signals... what I didn't get was the 8 hour decay timer, and once I finally reaced my place of death high up in the Northwest Mountains of Scorched Earth (got there before with my only flying mount), my Argentavis lives, but no sign of my body or backpack, so over an hour of collecting Crystal, Obsidian and Sulfur (none of which I had before) was lost.... Why doesn't that timer work for me?

I'm playing Single Player Scorched Earth, having only Mass Stack and CasPack activated, but the latter doesn't work at all... What am I doing wrong?

>Caspack
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/85/852df6703603ebe0016646fa129c645eda2f877d2f793c2e32f09a80cbd7fd40.jpg

I removed the mod from the mod folder, resubsribed and now it is working again. thank you for the advice :D

@s3q9g6, We've been playing the 258 build with CasPack and it's been working. Sorry to hear you are having troubles. Perhaps try deleting the local mod files and firing up Ark so they re-download.

If the mod is installed as the top mod the "escape" menu page will include the CasPack mod description. That's one way to check if it is loaded.

EDIT TO MY PREVIOUS COMMENT: I tried disabling my other modes leaving caspack as the only active mod and it still doesnt work.

POSSIBLE BUG REPORT: it doesnt activate in game. I didnt try it after you fixed it after the 257 update but now after the update 258 it doesnt activate. Bodies emit no smoke signals and item decay period is defaulted. I play singleplayer on The Island and yes, I have the mod enabled on the map.

I've tried your suggestions without any luck unfortunately. Only difference that we have, that I can tell, is that our servers are running linux.

@deg, @chanou.h, I've just tested again. (all running on Win7)
Versions indicated below are the current versions I have from Steam updates.

Single player (ARK game, v257.52)
- Deleted all content in SavedArksLocal
- Started a new single-player game with only CasPack added
- Created survivor
- Game played normally, mod also worked

Dedicated server (ARK game distribution, v257.499)
- Deleted all content in SavedArks
- Started dedicated server with command line, only included CasPack mod
- Created survivor
- Game played normally, mod also worked

Dedicated server (ARK dedicated server distribution, v257.54)
- same steps and successful results as above

Perhaps one of the binaries was not updated correctly? Have you tried Verify Integerity of local files? That has worked for me in the past. Also, make sure you do have the latest copy of all mod files installed.

I did find that the "o" key for mod options isn't working on the female player pawn. I'll fix that.

Gave it another test:

- Freshly installed server
- No profiles/save games added
- Create new survivor
- Only one mod added, this one

Server crashes as soon as you try to login with the brand new survivor.

I can't think of a better test to show that this mod is currently not working. I understand that 257 was a terrible update, loads of mods got affected by it. Steampunk for example. However this one has not yet been fixed.

I've tested it, not working again

thx

@chanou.h - Yes, it's working now.

Is it working now ?

One thing you said sounds cool. Not sure if this is what you ment, but this is my extension of one of your thoughts. For this mod to work you need to craft a special "flare" made of 15 wood and 10 gunpowder that you put in your inventory. Then, when you die the flare gets consumed and then the smoke will appear coming out of the bag. Also, if there would be a way to control the thickness of the smoke (which I am not sure he would be able to do or not) it would most likely be a value that you would set in your config file. Not a slider.

How configurable is this mod? I love the idea, but only if I could set it how I like. For example I would have misc. dropped items at normal decay, and player bags only for smoke. I would also like a slider to set thickness of smoke if no such already exists since I dont want it to be too overwhelmingly obvious and irritating. Maybe even smoke which fades over ~10 min like it was a flare set in the bag? Sorry for the list, like I said I love the idea and would like to try it out if you implement full configurability in-game.

@deg, Hmmm, our private dedicated is working with the new build and I just re-tried on single-player. Perhaps the mod failed to download/update correctly? Or, hope not, the profile or savegame files are corrupted. (You occasionally back those up, right? I do ever since, before I did a mod, ARK crashed and we lost our game of 40+ hours invested each. Now I back up frequently by copying the saved_arks folder.)

This 257 update was a painful one on the modding side. WC didn't update the dev kit until well after the game update. So, several mods were broken until their creators could/can find the time to re-work/fix them.

Hi, the bug reported by s3q9g6 is still occurring for me. Fresh installed server with this mod first on the load list.

@Stoned, The primary purpose is to add smoke to your body (or backpack) when you die. Though, it does add some smaller smoke to NPC backpack drops too. It makes them both easier to locate.

I am wondering, how does this mod work ? when I kill something is the bag suppost to have smoke out of it ?

Is there any configs for this ?

Updates are now uploaded. Mod should work fine now with 257 patch.

New Dev Kit is released for 257. It has some fundamental changes in support for player pawn changes that this mod uses.

So:
1. I'll try to get a new build of the mod that works with current code released as soon as possible.
2. I'm going to investigate the new functionality for better implementation approaches.

I will try to get item 1 finished this week* and the work on item #2 will follow.


*standard "IRL available time" caveat on stated dates.

257 has broken this and several other mods that change player pawns. I've tried to fix/workaround it with no success. It appears that it will remain broken until WC updates the Dev Kit with 257 related pawn changes.

BUG REPORT: after the 257 update my game crashes everytime I try to respawn. When I restart ARK the game has reset about 5 mins backwards to the most recent autosave (I play single-player on the Island). I am certain the mod is the problem because I tried respawning without the mod which worked fine but when I tried to respawn with this mod enabled (no other mods) the game crashes.

Fatal error on server since new update, and we've lost a server last month when updating "slow stuff decay" to "caspack"
The "o" key is in conflict with another mod

lot of bug with new update

not working eveytimes -1

I Have a question. i know this mod has to be first in mod order to have the smoke effects off bags but because i have pugnacia in first slot will this mod still extend decompose times without having to be first in mod order. Thanks

Hi, if i want to decrease the item decomposition to 2 min and the corpse decomposion to 20 min, how can I do that in the game.ini please ?

so this seems to not work well together with the 2x engram mod... as both fo them wand to be loaded on first slot? guessing they both edit the player pawn? e.g. only one of them can be active?

Thanks @Bantandulous, your solution worked fine on my serv and now I can use CasPack mod :)

@RodagadoR, @Elsid2010, Since this mod replaces the player pawns, removing it will (I believe) force you to re-spawn/re-create because the custom pawn class from the mod not longer exists. This is the same with any mod that adds content, like Structures+. If you load your game without the mod, all of the mod content is gone.

So, unfortunately due to requiring custom player pawns, there's not a "clean" way to take an in-progress game and remove the mod. The only approach I could recommend is a manual one -- all players empty all inventory into a storage chest while the mod is loaded. Shut down game and remove the mod. Reload game, don't add any new mods yet. Respawn your player (if needed). Close down server again. Add CasPack (or other mod), then re-start game with new mods and, potentially, re-spawn player again. Then go pick up your stuff.

I haven't tried this full process myself. If anyone does, I'd be curious to know the outcome.

Hello, like @Elsid2010 i changed from SlowStuffDecay on my server and fail to load to. I'm sure that is this mod because i test many times. Have you any solution about this ?

@bantandulous - have not tested yet, but thanks for your time with this mod. It's probably my favourite/the one i find the most useful by far.

If interested, see new discusssion item on this mod relating to pack smoke.

Just updated again. Hopefully smoke appearance is more reliable when respawning at great distances. Still trying to get pack to reliably pick up player smoke color on death.