Devonian Underwater Game expansion.

[Raptor Jesus]

Yeah or No. Trolls will be reported and swearing will be reported.

[Creative Cryptid]

It'd be pretty cool. Would just have to either make underwater caves with air pockets be rather plentiful, or just take away the oxygen stat

[Raptor Jesus]

Originally posted by wyattmilkman:

It'd be pretty cool. Would just have to either make underwater caves with air pockets be rather plentiful, or just take away the oxygen stat

I think they could introduce a form of breathing line reaching the surface as a first engram. Bases could be made of fish skin supported by fish bones/cartilage and have breathing tubes at the surface if the water and or fish blubber to float regular bases. It could also introduce tooth tipped spears with shark teeth on it that has a bleeding buff on enemies.

[Anon]

I remember seeing something about there being an upcoming underwater expansion (May have been on the forums, I dunno?) but the next one isn't this would definitely make an interesting map/conversion. I personally like the idea (Kinda like Subnautica, but without all the fancy submarines and armour-suits) and it could be a lot of fun if done well

[MyOwnInsanity]

it may be a good idea, but then it would really limit the type of dinos you can have within the map/game IMO

[Anon]

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

it may be a good idea, but then it would really limit the type of dinos you can have within the map/game IMO

But at the same time it would open up a lot more possibility for the larger water-bound dinos that tend to fall to the sideline due to the rather limited uses the oceans have in the normal maps. Sure, you have to go there for oil and pearls, but after you have what you need most times people just leave and forget about it until they need more oil or pearls.

*Edit: Some spelling errors cleaned up

[MyOwnInsanity]

ok ill agree with that, but what about the items like wood and stone? or do you find them in the underwater caves...as for the bases, dont forget you can already make an underwater base with the tek. As for the breather you have the scuba gear already ingame :)

[Anon]

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

ok ill agree with that, but what about the items like wood and stone? or do you find them in the underwater caves...as for the bases, dont forget you can already make an underwater base with the tek. As for the breather you have the scuba gear already ingame :)

You're kinda limiting this to existing items... When you introduce such a dramatically different world type like this, usually you have to rebuild the basic systems as well. Instead of "wood" per say you could harvest solid/rigid corals to build tools with, stone would... Well, you can already find stone underwater in the form of boulders, and a Dunkle would make short work of any store requirements in the late game.
As the Wyatt suggested, caves could be found to alleviate oxygen requirements early on, and scuba gear is always a possibiliy, but there would have to be intermediet ways to replenish breath like a rebreather that uses some kind of seaweed as a "fuel source" to extend run times between air pockets early on
And for bases, Tek bases are viable for late end game, but for earlier bases you could always use some new building system based on "anchoring" your buildings to the seafloor or a cave's ceiling via chains or ropes (Which again, could be made with seaweed as a replacement for fiber)

It may take some work, and it may have to be a fan-made mod(Which, let's be honest, if it's good the Ark devs will snap that ♥♥♥♥ up post-haste to make it one of those "offical mods") but if it's well executed this could be something to breath a little bit of new life into the Ark that's gotten stagnant for a lot of players

[MyOwnInsanity]

i cant do the whole model of bases n stuff(im not a modder). BUT i could give the map a go itself....as for the tek items, its not hard to make sure things like that are the only things spawned in a few loot crates...

[Raptor Jesus]

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

i cant do the whole model of bases n stuff(im not a modder). BUT i could give the map a go itself....as for the tek items, its not hard to make sure things like that are the only things spawned in a few loot crates...

How do you make ARK mods? My PC is 14 gigs (I play Ark on Xbox but go to steam for more responses.) so it won't work that great and I have no knowledge of programming but you have to start somewhere ammiright?

[MyOwnInsanity]

for starters you need the dev kit(roughly 140gb in total) then you need a 3d program IE maya, and have a play with it. Im a beginner mapper....but have been around the ADK for a few years now. Not sure if they have fixed the adk's memroy leak(ill find out when it finishes installing again)

[Raptor Jesus]

Where can I find th dev kit?

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

for starters you need the dev kit(roughly 140gb in total) then you need a 3d program IE maya, and have a play with it. Im a beginner mapper....but have been around the ADK for a few years now. Not sure if they have fixed the adk's memroy leak(ill find out when it finishes installing again)

[MyOwnInsanity]

accept my friend request and i can give you a link...help out...what ever lol

[Raptor Jesus]

Done

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

accept my friend request and i can give you a link...help out...what ever lol

[MyOwnInsanity]

your appearing offline and havent been online for 237 days lol

[Raptor Jesus]

XD

Originally posted by MyOwnInsanity:

your appearing offline and havent been online for 237 days lol