ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

The Volcano (Discontinued)
great map with issues
as a short intro i would like to say that i really like this map and it's pretty unique compared to the standard maps. however there are a few things that could really need some tweaking and fixing in order for this map to be truly great.

cave spawning issues. if no one culls the wildlife in the caves from time to time with either clearing it out manually or doing a dino wipe, they often have a tendency to overspawn.

e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2JCGXr0yY

not only do they spawn a ton of animals, they are also absurdly high levels. as also shown in the video, the creatures can get up to arround level 444. in comparison, on the server we are playing on, the max level wild dino we've found, outside of the caves, has been arround 80.



the ingame map is kinda useless. it's has almost no details and the "cartoony" stile of the map doesn't help. using it in practise has shown to be inefficient. it will tell you the area you are in, but it's extremely vague in terrain detail. you don't know what you are truly getting into before you are in the area itself. there are also entire landmarks missing and distorted compared to the actual landscape.


as mentioned to the auther in another post, the rock drake spawns are also seamingly glitched. it will spawn some initial rock drakes, but if you kill them, there's a good chance it wil never spawn them again.


in the cave under a waterfall on the hill south of the swamp area, there are multiple stone pillers you can phase straight through. there are also a few metal ore spawns that blocks harvesting by dino's and some you can phase through. the ones you can't phase through and can't mine with dino's are mineable by pickaxe.

note 1: all this information is gathered on a non-dedicated. you may have variyng results compared to this if you play it in singleplayer or on a Dedicated server.

note 2: i'm pointing all this out with the best intentions and i hope the auther can use the feedback to improve the map.
Viimeisin muokkaaja on Exactly 150 Snails; 29.3.2018 klo 14.28