Want to add normal dino spawns to aberration

[Wolfie]

Hi i looking into wanting to put normal island dino's onto my aberration server but i don't know how to add them to custom spawn on the map without having to spawn them by admin commands manully each time i wanted a normal island dino, so does anyone know any command lines to add them to my server world ? thanks for help in advance :D !

[KitsuneShiro]

the code goes in the game.ini

First you need to decide which dinos you want to add and where (aberration spawn containers).
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Spawn_Entries
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Creature_IDs

The code is as follows:

ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(
[NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString=<spawn_class>],
[NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName=<spawn_name>],
[EntryWeight=<factor>],
[NPCsToSpawnStrings=(<entity_id>)))],
[NPCSpawnLimits=((NPCClassString=<entity_id>],
[MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=<percentage>)))]

*don't forget to add the _C to both the spawn entries and spawn names.
source: https://ark.gamepedia.com/Server_Configuration

Getting the numbers right is trial and error, you may want to have a test server to tweak the numbers. I also would start slow, add a few dinos each week or something like that.

I use ASM to get this code instead of writing it myself. you dont need to install a server, just setup a profile and grab the code from the generated ini file.

[Wolfie]

thanks a lot hopefully i can get it to work xD

[KitsuneShiro]

I still suggest checking out ASM. Tons of people use it to run servers. It gives a gui for setting up all the settings.

[Wolfie]

@kitsuneShiro i managed to add the spawns onto my server by useing asm but now i aint seeing any normal aberration dino's spawning xD

this is what i did to add the spawns, i do it right ? or do i have to also add each aberration dino to there normal spawns as well to get them to spawn again correctly as i confused on this whole adding the spawns to the map lol

ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="AB_DinoSpawnEntries_TwitchBioLand_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="Rex_Character_BP_C",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Rex_Character_BP_C"))

[KitsuneShiro]

The spawn container is a list of creatures with weights (likelihood of spawning). You don't have a max percent set, this prevents the spawn from becoming too abundant.

So the twitchbioland spawn only contains rexes?

The setting "add" should add to the current spawn container not overwrite it.

[Wolfie]

yeah i wanted the bio land to add rex's to spawn there as well as normal aberrant dino's but when i test it only rex's spawn & nothing else does

[Wolfie]

maybe i have to turn down rex spawns to get it to work ?

[KitsuneShiro]

Add the max percent part of the code, make it small like 0.1. Sorry I am on my phone, cannot copy and paste an example.

[Wolfie]

kk i'll do that & test it again :D

[HüpfDuSau]

There is also already a mod which adds special aberrant versions of nearly all dinos to aberration, just search a bit. Most of the normal dinos are already included with the aberrant glow style

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1270181453&searchtext=aberrant

[Wolfie]

yeah i saw that mod @HüpfDuSau but i prefer to add the dino's to spawn my self instead of adding more mods to my already modded server xD as already takes me 10 mins to load into my server each time now with the 19 mods i have lmfao

[KitsuneShiro]

Hermit is the expert on the dino spawn codes. You could try searching his post history. Sorry I cannot be of more help right now, good luck.

[Wolfie]

Thanks for the help :) i'll look up some of his posts & try to get them to spawn correctly

[KitsuneShiro]

Today might be a bad time to get help, since the forums have exploded.

If you want to write the code. Hermit is the expert and his old threads would be the way to get info now.

I use the ASM program. It made changing engrams, recipes, spawns so much easier for me.

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Hermit is the expert on the dino spawn codes.

lol I'm honored bro, but you do me too much credit...I'm no expert, just a guy who likes to tinker a lot with his server configs and has learned over time XD

Originally posted by Blood_Dragon:

ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="AB_DinoSpawnEntries_TwitchBioLand_C",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="Rex_Character_BP_C",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("Rex_Character_BP_C"))

This code looks correct as far as I can see, you may just be missing one closing parenthesis ) from the end of it, that's all.

The spawn limit may indeed help, it's definitely worth a try. However I fear that the issue here might be something different, the same as when I first tried adding Abs creatures to Ragnarok - the map doesn't recognise the creature, so doesn't add it to the spawn count and keeps spawning them over and over because it never reaches it's maximum population. If that's the case then the limit might not have any effect, and sad to say I don't think there would be a way to fix it without mods.

Certainly test it out though, I'd be interested to hear the results myself too.