Single Player Metal Nodes

[TEM187]

Been playing on SP for a while now and the metal nodes on mountains seem to not be respawning. Do I have to be within render for them to return?

[Hammer Of Evil]

i found that same thing as well. the stock resource respawn rates are there to force you to venture to new areas, and mainly balanced for PVP servers.

if you're having issues, add the line "ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=1.0" to your game.ini with "[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode]" at the top. this is a percentage of a set radius around a player where the resources start spawning again. reduce this to 0.6 or so, and that will reduce the 'no respawn bubble' that surrounds your player, so you don't need to get out of render distance for things to return..

in your gameusersettings.ini look at arguments for
ResourcesRespawnPeriodMultiplier=1.0
StructurePreventResourceRadiusMultiplier=1.0

the first is the resource respawn rate multiplier. reducing this increases spawn rate, increasing it reduces the spawn rate of resources. crank that down to .5 or .3 for fast resources.

structure prevent is for how close resources can respawn next to your base or foundation blocks. if you want resources a bit closer to your base, reduce this multiplier to decrease the no respawn bubble around your base. if you decrease it too much though, boulders will respawn inside your base lol.

[Hevak]

dont even go through all that nonsense above since this is all in the new options menu before you launch your singleplayer game.

Find the sliders for resource respawn, it might be under the advanced tab and lower that down. there is also a player spawn prevention setting that would help if you lower that too. I really wouldnt mess with the structure one too much unless you are building next to important resources. (and for reasons mentioned above as well)

The player prevent resource spawn setting will make it so they can respawn while you are around the spawn area. Otherwise just lower the respawn period and then just fly out of render range and back in depending on the period of time you set. Be careful though as resources could spawn on top of you and your dinos and potentially cause you problems if you lower the player prevents setting.

These setting are all in the options menu before you launch a single player game. They may be in advanced section, but they are all next to eachother. I would just lower the spawn period and then just flying out of range for a minute or two will cause everything to respawn once you go back.

No messing around with files needed anymore for changing this on sp and many more settings.

[Veeshan]

As already advised, modifying your ini options seems to be the fix.

There are other issues as well; rocks respawn exponentially slower than trees, which in my default rate SP game take a few hours out of sight (although you can watch from a great distance).

The metal I mined 20 hours ago has not respawned despite multiple trips accross the entire map.

Good news, the rates are quite high now so plenty of metal per node.

[Marksthecylon]

If you leave an area after having harvested the metal the respawn timer will not progress no matter how long you are away. Simply go a short distance away and wait for awhile the metal will eventually spawn back in. In my single player game it usually takes about one in game day and night but i have changed the rate that resources respawn.

This has been a well known issue with singleplayer for a long time.

[Johnny]

Bah. Just set the the "resoures respawn period" in advanced setting to 0.0. And they will pop up asap, no need to run far away either. You can actually just run around and harvest til you drop :)

[Veeshan]

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

If you leave an area after having harvested the metal the respawn timer will not progress no matter how long you are away. Simply go a short distance away and wait for awhile the metal will eventually spawn back in. In my single player game it usually takes about one in game day and night but i have changed the rate that resources respawn.

This has been a well known issue with singleplayer for a long time.

It's a wonderful idea but A) it's demonstrably failing, and B) it's rather inconvenient.

Built a base near (a dozen foundations away at least) a huge cluster of metal on The Center, after mining it. At least ten hours spent in the area building, farming etc. No respawn yet.

My first base, also near a cluster i mined 80ish hours ago, is 60 to 120 foundations away from its node. No respawn.

Perhaps more specific distances would help?

[Marksthecylon]

Originally posted by Veeshan:

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

If you leave an area after having harvested the metal the respawn timer will not progress no matter how long you are away. Simply go a short distance away and wait for awhile the metal will eventually spawn back in. In my single player game it usually takes about one in game day and night but i have changed the rate that resources respawn.

This has been a well known issue with singleplayer for a long time.

It's a wonderful idea but A) it's demonstrably failing, and B) it's rather inconvenient.

Built a base near (a dozen foundations away at least) a huge cluster of metal on The Center, after mining it. At least ten hours spent in the area building, farming etc. No respawn yet.

My first base, also near a cluster i mined 80ish hours ago, is 60 to 120 foundations away from its node. No respawn.

Perhaps more specific distances would help?

Generally when i want the materials on the volcano to respawn i fly up on to the small plateau at the top of the volcano to wait and they always respawn after a while. I noticed they do not respawn however if i hang around too close.

[TEM187]

I have done all the before-mentioned things to try and get these resources to respwan. Like the last comment said, it takes FOREVER for metal to respawn (even with reduced timers and multipliers). At this point in the game I have a INSANE need for metal, so it's difficult to keep on waiting and waiting all the while eating up all the metal nodes on the map. Would putting my game into non-dedicated help the matter?

[Veeshan]

Cool, I'll adapt that to my map and give it a try. Don't want to spoil myself though ;)

[TEM187]

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Originally posted by Veeshan:

It's a wonderful idea but A) it's demonstrably failing, and B) it's rather inconvenient.

Built a base near (a dozen foundations away at least) a huge cluster of metal on The Center, after mining it. At least ten hours spent in the area building, farming etc. No respawn yet.

My first base, also near a cluster i mined 80ish hours ago, is 60 to 120 foundations away from its node. No respawn.

Perhaps more specific distances would help?

Generally when i want the materials on the volcano to respawn i fly up on to the small plateau at the top of the volcano to wait and they always respawn after a while. I noticed they do not respawn however if i hang around too close.

On SP? what's yuor multipliers?

[Marksthecylon]

Originally posted by TEM187:

I have done all the before-mentioned things to try and get these resources to respwan. Like the last comment said, it takes FOREVER for metal to respawn (even with reduced timers and multipliers). At this point in the game I have a INSANE need for metal, so it's difficult to keep on waiting and waiting all the while eating up all the metal nodes on the map. Would putting my game into non-dedicated help the matter?

I take you've gotten to the point where you need to make thing's like Behemoth gates and Industrial forges. Only other thing i can suggest is what @johnny said and set the resource respawn rate way down.

[TEM187]

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Originally posted by TEM187:

I have done all the before-mentioned things to try and get these resources to respwan. Like the last comment said, it takes FOREVER for metal to respawn (even with reduced timers and multipliers). At this point in the game I have a INSANE need for metal, so it's difficult to keep on waiting and waiting all the while eating up all the metal nodes on the map. Would putting my game into non-dedicated help the matter?

I take you've gotten to the point where you need to make thing's like Behemoth gates and Industrial forges. Only other thing i can suggest is what @johnny said and set the resource respawn rate way down.

Try to the point of crafting Ascendant gear and soon Tek tele's. That stuff sounds relaxing at this point. XP

[Marksthecylon]

Originally posted by TEM187:

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

I take you've gotten to the point where you need to make thing's like Behemoth gates and Industrial forges. Only other thing i can suggest is what @johnny said and set the resource respawn rate way down.

Try to the point of crafting Ascendant gear and soon Tek tele's. That stuff sounds relaxing at this point. XP

I haven't gotten to that point yet, you're making me nervous. As to my rates i'll check ARK needs to update before i can however.

[Marksthecylon]

Originally posted by TEM187:

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Generally when i want the materials on the volcano to respawn i fly up on to the small plateau at the top of the volcano to wait and they always respawn after a while. I noticed they do not respawn however if i hang around too close.

On SP? what's yuor multipliers?

Ok my resources respawn period is set to 0.5

[TEM187]

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Originally posted by TEM187:

On SP? what's yuor multipliers?

Ok my resources respawn period is set to 0.5

K cool. Mine are 0.6. How long do you usually wait?