how to remove spawns

[Laffyistired]

we have a server i like to remove eels and whales so they never spawn

[🦊 Hermit]

In the game.ini file:

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="",ToClassName="")

Put the creature you want to remove in the first quotation marks. Leave the second blank if you wish to just remove them, or you can add a second in the next quotes to swap that spawn for something different.

Use the 'Entity ID' field here:

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Creature_IDs

So for example, the electrophorus would be "Eel_Character_BP_C" in the quotes.

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Hermit:

In the game.ini file:

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="",ToClassName="")

Put the creature you want to remove in the first quotation marks. Leave the second blank if you wish to just remove them, or you can add a second in the next quotes to swap that spawn for something different.

Use the 'Entity ID' field here:

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Creature_IDs

So for example, the electrophorus would be "Eel_Character_BP_C" in the quotes.

like this with the brackets ( )

NPCReplacements=(Eel_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")

[Khirareq]

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eel_Character_BP_C=",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C=",ToClassName="")

You had a " in a wrong spot

You will also need to do DestroyWildDinos as any eels and whales currently spawned won't be removed, so you need to nuke the lot and let fresh wild dinos spawn in (The above commands stop dinos of that type from spawning)*

*Well, that's how it worked when I ran a server a year ago. If it has changed I'm sure there'll be 30 people commenting I'm wrong


EDIT: Crud, I didn't notice the missing bit until Hermit below pointed it out -_-

[🦊 Hermit]

Originally posted by Master Obelawe:

like this with the brackets ( )

NPCReplacements=(Eel_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")

You do need the 'FromClassName=' and 'ToClassName=' in there, careful not to remove them. So for the eel it'd be:

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eel_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

Also what Khira said about a dino wipe is correct, a code like this will only affect new spawns, not creatures already in the world.

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Originally posted by Master Obelawe:

like this with the brackets ( )

NPCReplacements=(Eel_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C="",ToClassName="")

You do need the 'FromClassName=' and 'ToClassName=' in there, careful not to remove them. So for the eel it'd be:

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eel_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

Also what Khira said about a dino wipe is correct, a code like this will only affect new spawns, not creatures already in the world.

so it should be then

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Eel_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

just added these 2 lines to both our servers

hope this is now right

[🦊 Hermit]

Yup, that's correct^^ You may need to remove the alpha leedy seperately though, as I don't think that's covered by the standard leedy creature ID.

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Yup, that's correct^^ You may need to remove the alpha leedy seperately though, as I don't think that's covered by the standard leedy creature ID.

how do i do that

[Vesuvius]

Probably by using
Alpha_Leedsichthys_Character_BP

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Probably by using
Alpha_Leedsichthys_Character_BP

you forgot the c

Alpha_Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C

hope thi is right i added this now

NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Alpha_Leedsichthys_Character_BP_C",ToClassName="")

[Vesuvius]

The C is a given :) i just copy n pasted from the spawn command wich has no C.

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

The C is a given :) i just copy n pasted from the spawn command wich has no C.

Hermit

told me use this link for the id's

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Creature_IDs

[Vesuvius]

Sure... but in almost every case you can grab it from thier spawn command and tack _C on the end :)

[Laffyistired]

Originally posted by Vesuvious:

Sure... but in almost every case you can grab it from thier spawn command and tack _C on the end :)

ok cool :) thank you

[Laffyistired]

and big thank you for you all for helping on this

@Hermit
@Khirareq
@Vesuvious

[🦊 Hermit]

Glad to be of assistance^^