Alpha surface reaper king spawn location?

[jj]

hi all

i play on unofficial and cnat find any alpha reaper king... anyone know how to spawn them? farm them?

[Der Zonk]

S+ Transmitter have a Dino Scan.

[jj]

Originally posted by Der Zonk:

S+ Transmitter have a Dino Scan.

what....

[Darkayen]

They are only on the surface. I've heard that few appeared on south surface but Im pretty sure that they can appear on every surface

[Der Zonk]

Originally posted by Rick:

Originally posted by Der Zonk:

S+ Transmitter have a Dino Scan.

what....

You Play on unoffi server. So if you have the S+ Mod you can search Dinos with the Transmitter. >Dino< >LVL< >Coords<

[🦊 Hermit]

If they're the same as standard alphas, then any reaper spawn node has the chance to spawn an alpha version instead of a regular one. So they could appear anywhere on the surface.

[jj]

Originally posted by Hermit:

If they're the same as standard alphas, then any reaper spawn node has the chance to spawn an alpha version instead of a regular one. So they could appear anywhere on the surface.

reaper spawn node?? explain... im new to this game sorry :)

[Stanneke]

I've seen 'em spawning in Northeast surface. They are very rare according to the ark wiki.

[Darkayen]

I believe Hermit is right. Spawning alpha can be random and it can just replace a normal reaper. BUT for example karkinoses were found for me only in two places many times. It could be just luck.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by Rick:

Originally posted by Hermit:

If they're the same as standard alphas, then any reaper spawn node has the chance to spawn an alpha version instead of a regular one. So they could appear anywhere on the surface.

reaper spawn node?? explain... im new to this game sorry :)

The game has spawn nodes, referred to in the code as 'entries' or 'containers', which handle all the spawning of creatures.

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Spawn_Entries

Each node is set up with a list of creatures that could possibly spawn in that area, a spawn weight for each type of creature, and a maximum amount of creatures to spawn.

So for example, a beach spawn entry is programmed to spawn dodos, trikes, parasaurs, dilos, compies, etc. The game picks creatures from this list based upon their spawn weights and spawns them into the area, until it's maximum creature limit is reached. At this point the spawning will stop, and only resume when the number drops below max again, either through despawn, dinos being killed, or dinos wandering/being taken out of the area. There are other config options that server admins can use to add/remove certain creatures from spawn entries, or adjust their weights to make certain creatures more/less common.

In the case of alphas, though, they spawn a little differently. They don't have a separate instance within a spawn entry container: 'dodo, trike, alpha raptor'. Rather they share spawns with their normal variant. So a raptor listing in the spawn entry will mainly spawn normal raptors, but it has a very low chance to spawn an alpha raptor in the place of a normal raptor. Same with a carno entry - normally it will spawn average carnos, but just once in a while the carno spawned will be an alpha variant.

That's how the spawning works on other maps, so I assume it would be the same here. The Aberrition surface would probably have spawn entries for nameless, seekers, and reaper kings, and the game would fill up the play area with those creatures up to it's maximum limit. But there would be a small chance that one of those reaper kings would spawn as an alpha variant instead of a standard one, meaning that the alpha king could basically spawn anywhere that a normal king would be able to appear.

[jj]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Originally posted by Rick:

reaper spawn node?? explain... im new to this game sorry :)

The game has spawn nodes, referred to in the code as 'entries' or 'containers', which handle all the spawning of creatures.

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Spawn_Entries

Each node is set up with a list of creatures that could possibly spawn in that area, a spawn weight for each type of creature, and a maximum amount of creatures to spawn.

So for example, a beach spawn entry is programmed to spawn dodos, trikes, parasaurs, dilos, compies, etc. The game picks creatures from this list based upon their spawn weights and spawns them into the area, until it's maximum creature limit is reached. At this point the spawning will stop, and only resume when the number drops below max again, either through despawn, dinos being killed, or dinos wandering/being taken out of the area. There are other config options that server admins can use to add/remove certain creatures from spawn entries, or adjust their weights to make certain creatures more/less common.

In the case of alphas, though, they spawn a little differently. They don't have a separate instance within a spawn entry container: 'dodo, trike, alpha raptor'. Rather they share spawns with their normal variant. So a raptor listing in the spawn entry will mainly spawn normal raptors, but it has a very low chance to spawn an alpha raptor in the place of a normal raptor. Same with a carno entry - normally it will spawn average carnos, but just once in a while the carno spawned will be an alpha variant.

That's how the spawning works on other maps, so I assume it would be the same here. The Aberrition surface would probably have spawn entries for nameless, seekers, and reaper kings, and the game would fill up the play area with those creatures up to it's maximum limit. But there would be a small chance that one of those reaper kings would spawn as an alpha variant instead of a standard one, meaning that the alpha king could basically spawn anywhere that a normal king would be able to appear.

thx dude