Resources not respawning in SP

[Shardaron]

I stopped playing ARK nearly a year ago because this started happening in my SP game. A week or two ago I saw a mod that looked to make taming more interesting so I thought I might try ARK again. It had been nearly a year and I figured the game had improved.

After a few days in and ready to start building my permanent base, I'm still having the problem of resources not respawning (no matter how much I change the sliders for distance and time). SP is still unplayable after almost a year. Have the devs acknowledged this problem and made any mention of a fix?

[Astaroth]

i play SP and they respawn perfectly over time,don't blame the game,blame your mods or your impatience

[IDrinkBongWater]

Just coz you havent noticed this bug doesnt mean it doesnt exist (and your comment adds nothing in the way to help OP) - great effort.....

@OP - Nope they have done nothing about this bug (and so many others), its been determined it occurs when you log out before the resource has respawned
Fixs include
- start game as non-dedicated (this seems to reset of the the counter and the resource will
spawn again *you can go back to SP after is has respawned)
-set spawn distance area and spawn delay to 0 and fly around the map over areas that have failed to spawn.

Good luck

[Sophi]

Q: do you use the redwood feeding trough or the s+ trough?
the reason i asked is cause i had this exact same problem and only just fixed it today, i was using redwood feeding troughs all over the map. On the 12th the creator of that mod increased the range to 400%! This is an ENORMOUS range! Anything in its range will not respawn. The s+ trough has a similar issue although its range is not as large. If you look at the description of the s+ trough it even tells you that resources and dinos will not spawn in it's feeding range. This morning i took out all the redwood troughs at my base and POOF! all my trees and stuff popped right back!

[Shardaron]

Originally posted by IDrinkBongWater:

Fixs include
- start game as non-dedicated (this seems to reset of the the counter and the resource will
spawn again *you can go back to SP after is has respawned)
-set spawn distance area and spawn delay to 0 and fly around the map over areas that have failed to spawn.

Good luck

Just tried them. Trees I'm knocking now are respawning back nearly instantly, but the one's already gone still aren't coming back. While not desired, I can make this work. Good thing I didn't already harvest all the resources nearby!

Originally posted by Sophi:

Q: do you use the redwood feeding trough or the s+ trough?

I saw that post of yours. While I have S+ installed, I currently do not have any troughs down in-game. I'm not using the Redwood troughs at all.

[IDrinkBongWater]

Fixs include
- start game as non-dedicated (this seems to reset of the the counter and the resource will
spawn again *you can go back to SP after is has respawned)
-set spawn distance area and spawn delay to 0 and fly around the map over areas that have failed to spawn.

You sure you started in non dedicated (you will be asked to set a password) mode
AND then set the spawn time/area to 0 (while still in this mode)?
It didnt work for me immediately but I kind of flew in out of render (and sometimes further away), until I noticed the missing resources were back.

Only then did I log out and go back to SP again.

[Shardaron]

Originally posted by IDrinkBongWater:

Fixs include
- start game as non-dedicated (this seems to reset of the the counter and the resource will
spawn again *you can go back to SP after is has respawned)
-set spawn distance area and spawn delay to 0 and fly around the map over areas that have failed to spawn.

You sure you started in non dedicated (you will be asked to set a password) mode
AND then set the spawn time/area to 0 (while still in this mode)?
It didnt work for me immediately but I kind of flew in out of render (and sometimes further away), until I noticed the missing resources were back.

Only then did I log out and go back to SP again.

I was keeping things not quite at 0 (like 0.25 or 0.1), but it wasn't working (I didn't want my dinos getting killed by rocks). I set everything to 0, went from the hidden lake to the volcano, did a few laps around the rim, and flew back. Everything has respawned (and no lost dinos, yes!)

Thanks.

Now going back to SP, what values for those sliders should I keep? They've reset to 1.0. Would it be safe to set structure distance to 0.5, player distance to 0.5 and respawn timer to .1?

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by Valerio91:

i play SP and they respawn perfectly over time,don't blame the game,blame your mods or your impatience

Aye this game has no issues ... of course until YOU encounter them then like every other numtpy out there they'll be far more severe than anyone elses.

*rolls eyes*

@OP glad you found a fix (of sorts).

[Kryphnock]

Originally posted by IDrinkBongWater:

Just coz you havent noticed this bug doesnt mean it doesnt exist (and your comment adds nothing in the way to help OP) - great effort.....

@OP - Nope they have done nothing about this bug (and so many others), its been determined it occurs when you log out before the resource has respawned
Fixs include
- start game as non-dedicated (this seems to reset of the the counter and the resource will
spawn again *you can go back to SP after is has respawned)
-set spawn distance area and spawn delay to 0 and fly around the map over areas that have failed to spawn.

Good luck

hi i have the same problem but im playing with a friend on non-dedicated server and this method wont work for me

[KitsuneShiro]

Non-dedicated is the same as SP, both run through the client and experience the respawn bug.

[KitsuneShiro]

You have to uncheck the SP settings box to get the above fix to work.