Help with new item loot for alphas

Development Modding ARK: Survival Evolved
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You’re wanting them to drop your new modded item? Supply drops would probably be your best bet. There are 3 ways you can do it but first you’ll need to make your new supply crate with the contents you want it to drop. Once you have that ready, you have 3 options:

  1. Simply remap of one of the existing supply crates. I’d recommend remapping your new crate to a “double” as they do not spawn as often. Pros -Really easy: “From Class” SupplycrateX_Double “To Class” your new crate and your done. - Cons - “Dirty Mod” issues Mentioned in the previous post.

  2. Add your crate as a new entry to the spawning volumes on the existing “PersistentGameplaySublevel_Supplydrops”. Pros - According to dev notes, that should make it 100% stackable. - Cons - None really other than it’s time consuming and if you don’t set the “weights” right your drop will spawn every few minutes. Oh and if you don’t make a back-up of your modified sublevel, next time the devkit updates or you verify you’ll have to redo the sublevel. What I do is make a copy of the original and name it something like “PersistentGameplaySublevel_Supplydrops_Original”. I then edit the actual original and when done editing I make a copy of the edited version and add something to the end like “_starkwars” So now there are 3 supplydrop sublevels, the one named original, the one named starkwars and the actual original that has been edited. When cookingthe mod make sure to original files pathname IE: PersitentGameplaySublevel_Supplydrops or you’ll basically have 2 supplydrop sublevels loaded.

  3. Make a new sublevel, add in a “supplycrate spawning volume” and some “server side huge’s” and then link them to your crate. Pros - I would imagine this would absolutely be stackable and work better than editing the original supplydrops sublevel. Making the spawning volume should be relatively easy. You can make the crate spawn exactly where you want - Cons - Depending on how many spots you want your crate to spawn it could get tedious as you have to manually place every one of the serversidehuge’s. I haven’t tried doing 3 yet but 1 and 2 do work and I know 3 will also. Just depends on how you want to go at it.
    “Brick Whut” has a pretty good tutorial for creating spawn volumes and sever side huge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkYWD-BMvE&list=PLp46z1UxQR1vo4FTLHe3ifYOhXgUWaBz9&index=11