Pegos shouldn't be able to take Cryopods

[Fishkeeper]

I just ran into 3 Pegomastyx at the same time. One grabbed away the maet in the last slot on my inventory bar, and, while I was busy fighting another, the third stole a Cryopod from me. Not an empty one, either, it had a dino in it. Just a Dilo that I was hanging onto because it was my first dino in this playthrough, but still! What if it had been something more valuable? What if I'd had a newly tamed Ovis in there?
It's not reasonable for little things that were clearly designed to be a nusiance to be able to take something that valuable from you. Food, okay, I can lose that. Narcotics, annoying, but replaceable. But a full Crypod is just too much!
Assuming they won't fix this, anyone know of a mod I can use to keep Pegos from stealing my pods? I think I saw a mod somewehre that makes them and Icthys not swipe things any more. I've gotten a bunch of pods out of Raptor Claus drops, and I love these things! No more walking annoyingly slowly while a slow new tame follows you, just pack it up and carry it.

[Diggs]

Yeah, Pegos are crap in the game just like Ichythyornis, which you cannot recover anything from. They're trash and not needed. They serve absolutely no purpose in the game. NONE. There is a mod out there that does what you're asking about. I can't remember the name of it but, it's some sort of backpack that prevents this. Sounds like a great answer to another problem WC has caused.

[Fishkeeper]

See, I wouldn't mind them if they were just able to eat berries and meat and the like. It makes sense that they'd exist. This is just way too much.
Also- if the Icthys eat narcotics, they should at least pass out unconscious. But only if stimulants make them fly faster.

[Full Clog Destroyer]

If you use Ark Server Manager you can replace those two animals with a different type or disable altogether.

[Sicksadpanda]

Why did I just get a mental image of a pego stealing your giga cryopod and then throwing it out...having the giga be on that pego's team? lol

[A Terrible Modder]

just use npc replace on the buggers (dodo or giga)

[Diggs]

Good suggestions but, they won't work as the admins who run the servers would have to make the changes and, most won't make changes unless the majority on a server get p-i-s-s-e-d enough and request it. Most people just remain silent to issues cause' they're too feeble to speak up for fear of retribution.

[Leslie]

There is a mod, UACreatures, that keeps the creature but gets rid of the nuisance features of these and other creatures.
Pegos and Ichthys don't steal. Raptors, Microraptors, Purlovias, and Thylas don't pounce-stun.
Cnidaria, Eels, and Baryonyx don't stun, etc.
The wild creatures are still in the game, they have just been replaced with versions that don't have these mechanics.
When tamed, they are replaced again by the original creature with those mechanics, so if the mod is deleted in the future, all the tames will remian.,

Disclaimer: I do not use the mod... yet.
I am watching it to see how the author handles updates before I download it.

[Hades]

Easiest thing to do is just replace them with dodos... or with nothing.. as part of your set-up.

For those interested, I have taken this thread as inspiration to remove Pegomastix stealing in my Realism Plus mod.. and also re-size it and make them like Compsognathus (because they were only about 2 feet high in reality)

[123]

A pego just stole my max level mana on official smalls, a 430 with 17KHP 4.8K STAM AND 750 ATTK I had raw meat and berries but it opted for the mana on my hotbar then it went into the water by red ob and was eaten by a megladon and the peggos inv never dropped

[Elgar]

Originally posted by ChiefOnDeck:

I had raw meat and berries but it opted for the mana on my hotbar

Was your Mana on the slot 0 ?

[Grubgrub]

Krakens Better dino's i believe makes it so they only steal food or force you to drop items on the ground. It's worth looking at for sure.

[Fishkeeper]

I mean, I know there are workarounds and mods, but there shouldn't need to BE workarounds and mods! It doesn't even make sense- why would a pego want a cryopod? It's not food. Having them able to steal cryopods (and, heck, stacks of narcotics and eggs) turns them from kind of a pest into a serious menace, and a really difficult one to defend against.
Well, except for backpack pets. They can't seem to steal from a pet you're wearing on your shoulder. I can put up with having to put eggs, spare narcotics, and Prime meat into a backpack pet, that's fine, but cryopods? C'mon. I shouldn't have to deal with worrying that I'm going to lose something important. RIP to that person's mana.

I'll have to look at Better Dinos, thanks.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Fishkeeper:

I'll have to look at Better Dinos, thanks.

There's also a mod to JUST make the Pego's not so menacing that does nothing else at all, if you don't want to use a mod that changes a whole lot of other dinos, that would be the one to look at.

The mod author also has another mod that adjusts ichthy's.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2134213188

[DarkFire]

Originally posted by Diggs:

Yeah, Pegos are crap in the game just like Ichythyornis, which you cannot recover anything from. They're trash and not needed. They serve absolutely no purpose in the game. NONE. There is a mod out there that does what you're asking about. I can't remember the name of it but, it's some sort of backpack that prevents this. Sounds like a great answer to another problem WC has caused.

That's not entirely true. The point of the item theft is to discourage seal clubbing in PvP servers. It's no coincidence that the easiest spawn areas are also the areas that contain ichthyornis and pegos in the largest numbers. Yes it's annoying for low level players but it's intended to be even more annoying to have your 500% damage assault rifle stolen while hanging around trying to kill new spawning players.

PvE and Co-op I agree entirely, they're nothing more than a pointless nuisance.

[Fishkeeper]

Is that what they're for? Because... they kinda cause problems for low-level players, too. Like stealing my whole stack of meat I was going to use to tame a dilo for some protection. Or all my narcotics.
Maybe they should grab an item, run away, and then, if it's not edible, drop it. Then at least you would have some hope of getting your weapon back, and it would make more sense as a behavior thing anyway.