I'm lookiong for a mod that adds a good tranq dart.

[TheMystic6]

[Should I have posted this in community content?? srry]

Well, I've searched the workshop for a while for a simple mod that adds a good balanced strong tranq dart with the following qualities:
-Does about 1000 torpor
-Balanced crafting recipe (does not have to be perfect, I can adjust it thru game.ini)
-Can be fired out of the vanilla longneck rifle
-ONLY adds 1 or 2 items, i dont feel like having to disable everything else in the mod just to get the tranq dart.

And maybe some of these nice-to-haves
-Can be fired underwater
-Looks like the shocking tranq dart (i think they look cool)

I'm just looking for a bit of search help. Does anybody have any ideas? what do you all use for knocking out dinos? im playing singleplayer on max difficulty, and sitting there for hours chasing down a quetzal for the first time hanging off the side of my argent with a grappling hook shooting at it non-stop with a crossbow and tranq arrows just to finally knock it out and have it land in the water sucks.. (LOL) A good balanced high-end tranq dart mod would be nice..

I could make my own mod but I have never modded for ark and probably never will based on the storage requirement for the dev kit in combination with my slow internet..
thanks.

[🦊 Hermit]

I have a mod you may want to look at, one of the first mods me and my friend installed on our server and it served us very well.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=587288100

It fulfils all the important criteria you set out except one - can't be fired from the vanilla longneck. But the rifle that the mod adds is a very nice one too. Also fulfils one of the optional criteria in that it can fire underwater. Dunno if it's quite what you're looking for but I'll put it here just in case.

[Evolvei]

Only one I know of personally is the max torpor, problem is I don't think there is an ini adjustment available to reduce the torpor.

I realize you said darts, these are guns that you can use an ini adjustment to whatever you want and one of them that I like works underwater also. If you do not like these someone else may.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=509791002

[TheMystic6]

Hmm, thankyou both for responding.. the mod that @Hermit posted looks promising, but may I ask what does each dart from that mod require to craft? thanks

EDIT: theres an extension mod for the tranq sniper mod that allows us to use those darts in the vanilla longneck, sweet! I'll have to try it then.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by TheMystic6:

may I ask what does each dart from that mod require to craft? thanks

I'm afraid I can't recall specifically, it's been a while since me and my friends used it (we've been trying some games on different maps and so have been low level for a while). But I do recall seeing it and thinking it was very balanced compared to what I was expecting, not overly cheap. And I think the recipes could be modded in the ini file if you wanted to change them ;)

[TheMystic6]

Originally posted by Hermit:

I'm afraid I can't recall specifically, it's been a while since me and my friends used it (we've been trying some games on different maps and so have been low level for a while). But I do recall seeing it and thinking it was very balanced compared to what I was expecting, not overly cheap. And I think the recipes could be modded in the ini file if you wanted to change them ;)

yep, thanks.. i was just wondering, im downloading the mod right now about to test it. thanks

[TheMystic6]

oh, and one more thing.. this isnt really related to this topic, but is there any mods out there that allow the poison grenade to be used on dinos? i think that would be really cool but havent seen one mod on it other than weapons+, but that adds a bunch of other things that I dont really want. sorry for being off topic, but i didnt think that that sentence required a whole new thread.

EDIT: also, anybody know how i could make bio toxin craftable? want to remove jellies but then i would have no way of getting bio toxin.. i know theres a mod for it but the mod doesnt work.

[Eminence]

Originally posted by TheMystic6:

oh, and one more thing.. this isnt really related to this topic, but is there any mods out there that allow the poison grenade to be used on dinos? i think that would be really cool but havent seen one mod on it other than weapons+, but that adds a bunch of other things that I dont really want. sorry for being off topic, but i didnt think that that sentence required a whole new thread.

EDIT: also, anybody know how i could make bio toxin craftable? want to remove jellies but then i would have no way of getting bio toxin.. i know theres a mod for it but the mod doesnt work.

I'm not positive, but couldn't you add the bio Toxin to the loot table of another creature? I'm not sure how it would work, but putting it as a huge drop from killing a Tuso sounds like a cool idea to me.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by TheMystic6:

oh, and one more thing.. this isnt really related to this topic, but is there any mods out there that allow the poison grenade to be used on dinos? i think that would be really cool but havent seen one mod on it other than weapons+, but that adds a bunch of other things that I dont really want.

I know this mod has a tranq grenade that works on dinos too, but it does add a lot of other stuff as well, so might not be what you're looking for:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=512183374

Don't know any others offhand I'm afraid, but there may be one out there.

Originally posted by Eminence:

I'm not positive, but couldn't you add the bio Toxin to the loot table of another creature? I'm not sure how it would work, but putting it as a huge drop from killing a Tuso sounds like a cool idea to me.

Good thought, theoretically it might be possible. It's definitely possible to alter the drop loot of bosses in such a way, but I don't know if the configs would work the same for other creatures as I've never tested it myself.

ConfigOverrideSupplyCrateItems=(SupplyCrateClassString="DinoDropInventoryComponent_BossDragon_Easy_C",<ITEMSETS>)

That's the code for adjusting boss drops, substituting the other boss IDs of course. If you substituted the ID for a normal creature such as a tuso, it might work, I'm not sure. Then you could just add in whatever items you want it to drop.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by TheMystic6:

[Should I have posted this in community content?? srry]

Well, I've searched the workshop for a while for a simple mod that adds a good balanced strong tranq dart with the following qualities:
-Does about 1000 torpor
-Balanced crafting recipe (does not have to be perfect, I can adjust it thru game.ini)
-Can be fired out of the vanilla longneck rifle
-ONLY adds 1 or 2 items, i dont feel like having to disable everything else in the mod just to get the tranq dart.

And maybe some of these nice-to-haves
-Can be fired underwater
-Looks like the shocking tranq dart (i think they look cool)

I'm just looking for a bit of search help. Does anybody have any ideas? what do you all use for knocking out dinos? im playing singleplayer on max difficulty, and sitting there for hours chasing down a quetzal for the first time hanging off the side of my argent with a grappling hook shooting at it non-stop with a crossbow and tranq arrows just to finally knock it out and have it land in the water sucks.. (LOL) A good balanced high-end tranq dart mod would be nice..

I could make my own mod but I have never modded for ark and probably never will based on the storage requirement for the dev kit in combination with my slow internet..
thanks.

Your wants do not exactly match up with the reality of what is available atm, but there are ones to consider.

1. You can go for one of the super tranq rifle and dart mods. They can fire underwater but they are instant knockout. One also drops food stat(so instant tames), the other doesnt but always forget which is which in that.

2. You can go with many different variety of tranq mods that add different torpor levels of arrows 1k-50k or the like. There are a couple of those mods. Of course they also fire underwater since you can use a crossbow with them.

3. Upgrade station mod. Since torpor increases with the main weapon's %, you can use the upgrade station to upgrade either tranq rifles to 755%/ascendant and or the crossbows etc. This should get you in the torpor range you want.

4. Make your own mod for your own needs in this regard.

5. Go into the ini files and adjust the base torpor values for the vanilla darts/arrows to be at the values you want.

[TheMystic6]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Your wants do not exactly match up with the reality of what is available atm,

Yea I know, thats why I needed help.. I'm fine with using the mod that @Hermit first suggested, but I have tweaked the heck out of it. Eventually if i just decide to buckle down and wait the three years it will take me to download the devkit, then ill make my own mod lol

and @Hermit yea the Shin Gaming mod isnt really what i was looking for, but thanks anyway

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by Hermit:

I have a mod you may want to look at, one of the first mods me and my friend installed on our server and it served us very well.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=587288100

It fulfils all the important criteria you set out except one - can't be fired from the vanilla longneck. But the rifle that the mod adds is a very nice one too. Also fulfils one of the optional criteria in that it can fire underwater. Dunno if it's quite what you're looking for but I'll put it here just in case.

I use it too and love it. Just to add, there are 3 different tranqs. The crafting requirements are hide, iron and narcotics. I can't remember the exact amounts, but each dart being higher is a good bit more expensive, especially on narcotic. For example, you wouldn't get a lot of the top dart for say 1,000 narcotics. I did some calculations a long time ago, and the cheapest dart is the most efficent in terms of cost even though it deals the least torpor. So it's a case of balancing it out to your needs, speed over cost efficency. Again I can't recall off the top of my head the exact crafting requirement amounts or exact torpor each dart hits, but the cheapest one does around 700 per hit (+ a certain extra percentage over 5 seconds, I think it's 30%).

[TheMystic6]

Originally posted by Gun-Runner89X:

I use it too and love it.

Yea, thanks, thats the route ive gone, but ive adjusted the recipes to be more like regular tranq darts but with way more narcotics, and made them so the largest dart only does 1500 torpor

[von]

hey man!

The super tranq rifle used to give 1.000.000 (1 million) torpor but then it got nerfed.
otherwise its still really great, but sometimes its bugging a little bit, it is a old mod tho.

anyways heres the link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=686599588