[WIP] Ark Revise - Improve your PvE gameplay

[Nguyen_Ken]

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Here is the mod that i make to improve my own server gameplay.
Here is the current server that i added the mod to play with my friend (so only set it at 10 slot )

http://arkservers.net/banner/205.234.203.74:27017/banner.png

If any of you have some time to test this out, i would be really appreciated
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=491022577

Feel free to comment below for idea to improve this mod further or any bug that you encounter

Current DevKit Version: 193
Current Game Version: 196

Current Features (Partially Tested):

General
• Dinos Difficulty up to 5.0
• Supply drop from 35+ will now contains their tier and 1 tier lower (original was all lower tiers)
• Remove emitter from 35+ “Landed” Supply Drop - now you need to track them as they’re falling
• Added Glowing Light on dead body (still required you to remember the general location of your body)

Environment
• Trees replenish radius reduction
• Bushes replenish radius reduction
• Adjust all harvest components:

1. Now big Vs medium Vs small resources should yield more different
2. Pearl shell now will not give 100% pearl anymore (mixture of stone and pearl output) - but will act the same as bushes like how you can gather 1 node multiple time
3. Stone is extremely tough now (using stone tool will take forever to break 1 node)
4. Bushes will now yield more number of harvest (compare to 3/node before) - Lower harvest rate for narcoberry and stimberry (encourage trading later and making crop plot)

Resources
• Thatch, Fiber now stack to 300
• Raw Meat changed name to Fresh Meat - now stack to 100
• Raw Prime changed name to Fresh Prime Meat - now stack to 20
• Cooked Meat now stack to 100 - last 30min
• Cooked Prime now stack to 100 - last 1 hour
• Double Jerky Spoil Time - Jerky now stack to 100
• Spoil Meat changed to Rotten Meat - now last much longer

Structure
• Added new structure : Drying Rack - Make Meat spoil faster
• Replace default Grill with Electric Grill - Now run on electric grid (save your oil)
• Electric Grill will turn on preserving mode when activated - save your meat from spoiling while waiting for it to cook
• Preserving Bin changed to Preseving Storage - now have 24 slots and can process 5 jerky / time
• Mortar and Pebble now have 50 slots (compare to 12 before) - should required only 1 instead of 5
• Modified Standing Torch and Campfire :

1. Bigger Light Radius - make your standing torch more useful
2. Modify insulation stats for campfire - now 1 should be enough to save you from the cold (no one make 4 campfire just to stay warm in the mountain)
3. Use fuel more efficient (burn time / resource) and accept charcoal as fuel now (charcoal will be produced from burning wood then will be consume to extend the burn time)

• Added pick up attribute for some structure that should be able to pick up:

1. Mortar and Pebble
2. Preseving Bin
3. Standing Torch

• Added Electric Feeding Trough - same function as Feeding Trough but will turn on preserving mode when activated

Farm
• Compost Bin changed to Fertilizer Bin, now have 21 slots (compare to 8)
• Crop Plot will now place-able on floor/foundation
• Modify crop output for some crop:

1. All berries - now output 600(compare to 300) and can stack up to 300/stack
2. All food crops - now output 300 (compare to 150)

• Fertilizer will now add 150k fertilize value instead of 54k
• Crop plot will use more water for crop to growth
• Reduce Dying Rate of Crop when there is no water or fertilizer by 80%
• Increase spoiling time for some crops :

1. All Berries
2. All Food Crop

Consumable
• Added Hunger Stimulant - help to make dinos hungry faster
This stimulant require rare flower and mushroom (dont want to make it too easy to make)

Weapon
• Compound Bow changed to Reinforced Bow - lower level requirement and crafting resources to fit the lower level
• Compound Arrow changed to Reinforced Arrow - lower level requirement to follow the Reinforced Bow
• Added Narc Arrow - Deal no physical damage but topor
Crafting cost are 10 narcotic, 1 stone arrow, 20 fiber and 5 Keratin
• Readjust some proj stats to make it more usable (spear, arrow) - now you should be able to pick them up afterward if they’re not broken on impact (longer object lifespan)

Tool
• Modify Metal Pick (Pickaxe), Hatchet (Axe), and Sickle to have more durability (they’re metal after all)
But will require more resources to make

Dinos
• Most carnivores will be able to out run you or match your speed (no more hit and run - easy mode)
• Carnivores will now aggro on you even if you’re on dinos
• Modify the all dinos character BP (except the one that not in the dev kit yet):

1. All dinos have more HP
2. All dinos have more speed (WIP)
3. Lower fast dino attack dmg (Raptor, etc) - They’re faster now so need to lower their dmg to not make them too strong (still deadly for lowbie)
4. Dont mess with Alpha version now - currently only Rex

• Added some dinos signature trait: (WIP)

1. Raptor smell range is much bigger now

• Mate Boosted Dinos are now more deadly (x2 dmg, reduce 50% intake dmg)

Future Plan

Dinos
• Better AI :

1. Herbivores should run away when they see a carnivores that is equal or bigger then them and turn back to fight if they got hit
2. Reduce Canivores movement speed and smell range at night time
3. Corpse should attract Nearby Carnivores
4. Dinos should only seek out for food when they’re hungry (food stats is not available in dev kit yet)
5. Ability to implement Attack Wave to player base from nearby Carnivores if the number of carnivores exceed some amount

Environment
• Weather should impact your armor (erosion)
• Weather should impact your base (if build by wood / thatch)
• Different base material should give different insulation value (right now it’s the same)

Equipment
• More complex crafting system (hopefully i will have time to plan this out)

Resources
• Finish modify the entire berry/seed list

Changelog:

1.4.0

Dino
• Reduce Dilo and Raptor speed a little bit to balance them out

Gameplay
• Added glowing light on dead body (only you can see it i think)

Structure
• Added new structure - Drying Rack - make meat spoil faster

1.3.1

Dinos
• All dinos now should have their exact scientific name (T-Rex -> Tyrannosaurus, etc)

Resources
• All berries now should output 600 on crop and stack up to 300
• Increase spoil time for all food crops and berries to 30min

1.3.0

Update All Class File to V193

Dinos
• Added modified Alpha Rex (now much bigger, stronger)

Tool
• Modify Metal Sickle stats and requirement to make it kinda equals to Pick and Axe

Weapon
• Readjust Compound Bow → Reinforced Bow : Lower level requirement and make Materials require different thing as well
(Will modify metal arrow later)

Resources
• Readjust All HarvestComponent - to create much better PvE experience

Structure
• Modify Crop Plot to make it place-able on floor/foundation
• Preserving Bin and Refri are lockable now

1.2.1

Structure
• Added pickup attribute to Preserve Bin, Mortar&Pebble, Standing Torch (partially tested)

Tool
• Modify Metal Pick and Hatchet to last much longer (required more resources to craft as well)

Resources
• Readjust Stone harvest (was giving too much Metal)

Supply Drop
• Remove Emitter on “Landed” Supply Drop 35+ - Make it more challenge to find the drop (you can still spot it when it’s falling)

1.2.0

Structure
• Modify Standing Torch and Campfire to use resources more efficient and also accept Charcoal as fuel (make more sense)
Now Wood will burn and produce Charcoal, then charcoal will extend the burn time more
Standing Torch also much brighter (will testing to fix the problem where light drop when you go outside the range)

Dinos
• Most carnivores will be able to out run you (even dilo) so no more out run them then turn back and shoot, required you to be more careful to survive - dino pen is the way to go
• Carnivores will now smell you even if you are riding your tamed dinos (before they will see you as the tamed dinos)
• Improve the size of resources pool from dino death body, now big dino will give more meat compare to small dino (giant dino like sauro or rex will give a lot of meat)
• Improve all dinos HP to make them more challenge, improve end game dinos DPS so they will deal much more damage to you if you attempt to fight them without your tamed dino
• Mate Boosted Dinos will be much more dangerous
• First attempt to adjust some of the dinos to reflect their real life trait - Raptor will now smell you from much further distance

Resources
• Stone resource adjustment to make small Vs. big stone make more sense in the amount they give you and how many hit is required to break them

Supply Drop
• Readjust all supply drop and cave drop to eliminate lower tier rewards (now it will contains the reward equals to the level of the drop and 1 tier below instead of all tiers like core)

1.1.2

Consumable
• Added hunger stimulant - will make you or dinos hungry faster
The recipe will use rare flower and mushroom (make some use to this ingredient), crystal and pearl as well (add more use to these resources)

Structure
• Added modified Mortar and Pebble to have hunger stimulant in default engram - modify the number of slot this pebble has too (from 12 - 50 | will make more sense to have 1 of these instead of 5)

1.1.1

Structure
• Added Electric Feeding Trough - Run on electric grid, have 100 slot and act as food preservation bin (food last much much longer in there)

1.1.0

Environment
• Tree replenish radius limit is now reduce by 80% (original was 5000 unit away from structure, 9000 unit away from player) - now both are 1000 unit, you should see more tree near your base
• Adjust stats for each type of tree (small, normal and big) - now should make more different when you chop down a small vs a normal vs a big tree
• Adjust replenish radius limit for Bushes as well (now range is 1500 for both player and structure compare to player : 10000, structure : 3000 before)

1.0.2

Farming
• Update all food crop (citronal, rock carrot, etc), now have 300 output in crop plot
• Update narcoberry and all food crops to have 30 minutes spoil time

Weapon
• Added new arrow type : Narc Arrow that deal no physical dmg but topor (Added as extra engram so it will show up at the end of engram list)
Cost 10 Narcotic, 1 stone arrow, 20 fiber and 5 Keratin to craft - normal bow = 300 topor, crossbow = 525 topor, compound = 750 topor (Will adjust the topor later based on feedback)

Consumable
• Fixed bug where prime last 5mins instead of 2mins
• Spoil Meat → Rotten Meat, remove spoil time (it’s spoiled after all)

**
1.0.1**

Other
• Fixed : new fertilizer was missing from item remap
• Fixed : Phiomia Harvest Table (was mislinked with Megalodon Harvest Table)

Structure
• Grill now will act as a Preserving bin when running (keep your meat fresh while waiting for it to cook)

Initial Release

Consumable
• Raw Meat -> Fresh Meat stack to 100
• Raw Prime Meat -> Fresh Prime Meat stack to 20
• Cooked Meat stack to 100
• Cooked Prime stack to 100
• Double Jerky Spoil Time (last longer)

Structure
• Replace Grill with Electronic Cooker (Same function as Grill but run on electric grid)
Will cost more resources to build as you can leave it to run now
• Preserving Bin -> Preserving Storage now have 24 slot and can process 5 jerky at 1 time

Farming
• Upgrade Compost Bin to Fertilizer Bin (8 slot to 21 slot)
• Upgrade Fertilizer to Fertilzier Bag (54k value to 150k value)

Seed
• Upgrade Narcoberry Crop Plot max output to 900 (From 300)
• Upgrade Narcoberry Max Quantity to 300/stack, reduce the weight by 50% to accommodate with the change
• Reduce dying rate of crop when where is no fertilizer or water by 80% - give you more time to prepare new fertilizer
• To balance the crop, I increase the rate of water consumption (which is much easier to maintain compare to fertilizer) by 50% (was really low, so 50% don’t really do much to it)

[Nguyen_Ken]

Updated Note

[KamenAlien]

NICE WORK!!! You have definitely made some significant changes, good job!

[Nguyen_Ken]

Thanks Will be adding more advance stuff as i learn more about dev kit
Right now experiencing with some event graph (trying to make dino death body trigger carnivores to come for it - further range)
Trying to find where to get the “taming” status so carnivores will attract to your taming dino (if you plan to tame it in the wild without having a proper pen for it )

[Vertebrat]

This is a verya nice idea! By the way: I guess, spoiled meat can spoil. After a time, spoiled meat will become something like earth and some kind of liquid, produced from fly maggots. And when I lay some meat on a grill, for some days ore more, it will be spoiled.

[Nguyen_Ken]

@Vertebrat;349709

This is a verya nice idea! By the way: I guess, spoiled meat can spoil. After a time, spoiled meat will become something like earth and some kind of liquid, produced from fly maggots. And when I lay some meat on a grill, for some days ore more, it will be spoiled.

more like dried up to me (all the liquid is out)
If you leave raw meat out for a long time, it will spoil but will become something disgusting and last really really long time (some sort of mess)
definitely not 1-2 days more like 10+ (which convert to game is kinda forever already - but i will prob modify the spoil time to become at least 5-10 days in game)

[Vertebrat]

Cool This will have a good realism, nice!

[Nguyen_Ken]

Update current features list and current future plan (on request)
Wish they have spoiler tag

[Elias79]

Sounds very good, i hope more mods copy your great ideas.

[Nguyen_Ken]

Update 1.3.1

Dinos
• All dinos now should have their exact scientific name (T-Rex -> Tyrannosaurus, etc)

Resources
• All berries now should output 600 on crop and stack up to 300
• Increase spoil time for all food crops and berries to 30min

[Nguyen_Ken]

Update 1.4.0

Dino
• Reduce Dilo and Raptor speed a little bit to balance them out

Gameplay
• Added glowing light on dead body (only you can see it i think)

Structure
• Added new structure - Drying Rack - make meat spoil faster