How to make dinos spawn?

[Jon.Topps]

Just wondering how the spawning mechanics work.
If I want a giga to show up, what do I do?

Is it based on % when spawning new dinos, so I should run around killing everything I see in that spawn area, so that eventually it will spawn a giga?]

Do I just sit around and wait, and keep checking the area? Like it's purely based on time?

Or is there some other trick to try and get the more rare dinos to show up?

[S1mplicity]

KIll everything in the spawn area eventually one will show up, same with if you want high levels keep killing everytrhing till the level you want turns up.
May take time as gigas don't sppawn too quickly and are in limited numbers.

[margalus]

Killing dinos in an area is a good way to make other dinos in that same area spawn. Some dinos share spawn locations. And it seems that there might be a limit on the quantity of dinos that spawn in an area even if they don't share the same spawn.

You can kill a bunch of animals in an area and then come back later and have a bunch of different animals in that same locations. Just keep repeatedly killing until the ones you want spawn.

[Splićo]

Giga use his own spawn so killing other dinos wont do a thing...

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Spawn_Entries

[Jon.Topps]

Originally posted by Splićo:

Giga use his own spawn so killing other dinos wont do a thing...

http://ark.gamepedia.com/Spawn_Entries

So I'm not really sure what I'm looking at. If the giga has it's own spawn mechanics, then what do you have to do for it to spawn? Is waiting the only option? If so, how long on average (days, weeks, months? lol)

[🦊 Hermit]

With most creatures, killing other shings that share their spawn will make them spawn faster. For example killing fish will make for more baryonix and spino spawns.

But as Splico says, the giga and a few other dinos have unique spawns and so won't be affected by killing other creatures. The only way to make them spawn more frequently is to kill ones which are already on the map off, or move them away from their spawn location so they are not counted towards that spawn entry's dino count and another will be allowed to spawn. There is also a degree of RNG involved, so it's possible a node will not spawn a dino right away even if it technically could.

[PapaArkz™]

Hey Jon Snow, you add this script to your Game.ini:
DinoSpawnWeightMultipliers=(DinoNameTag="Gigant",OverrideSpawnLimitPercentage=True,SpawnLimitPercentage=5.0,SpawnWeightMultiplier=5.0)

By default percentage =1.0, you can change them accordingly, but if you want Giga to spawn in pacific location use below script:
ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="DinoSpawnEntriesMonsterIsland_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="Giganotosaurus",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Gigant_Character_BP_C"))),NPCsToSpawnLimits=((NPCClassString="Gigant_Character_BP_C",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=1.0)))

Play with EntryWeight=? if you want to control how many giga you wish to spawn. Sorry for my crappy english.

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

they may their own space, but that doesn't mean the "cap" hasnt been reached. Sometimes i see 0 gigas on mountains sometimes i see 3, it's just RNG. I use the destroywilddinos command if i can't find something i need like a quetz or spino, but it can cause your computer to spazz when respawning the dinos, however, it isnt as bad as it used to be. I personally don't like editing the ini because they can cause really awkward side effects like over spawning.