Question, Want to put dinos on wander. but keep them contained.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Dont want them going too far that they go threw the walls of base. So when i leave and come back i wont find them all over the place lol

So any new tricks to keeping them inside of pens but able to wander?

[𝔇ave]

tek leash is about the only way.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Dont have that yet. Can i set distance on it? And starting to look like should just message my questions directly to you :-)

[𝔇ave]

tek leash has several range settings.

https://ark.fandom.com/wiki/Dino_Leash_(Extinction)

unless you have an auto engram mod you may have to unlock it on extinction. or do what others in your situation do and just spawn one in.

[dragonsphotoworks]

hmm i need be on extinction to learn tek engrams? No wonder i havent found way yet. im on island lol

Hmm id move to extinction for bit with avatar

[𝔇ave]

you can learn some tek engrams on the island but the dino leash is unlocked on extinction. unless you use an auto engram mod that unlocks all engrams available at your level regardless of what map you are on

[RequiemsRose]

If you want vanilla options, pens within render distance or the dino leash are your best options really. If you don't mind employing mods, my personal favorite was dino tracker. It doesn't do anything to actually contain said dino, nor to protect them from the dangers of nearby wilds, but it does lead you to any tamed dino that still exists. So if you have something like a nice tanky doed that you want to leave to wander near some rocks and just track them down later when they have gotten tons of stone that's completely viable (mostly in SP or co-op though. In pvp thats asking for the lone dino to get murdered and in pve it can be rude if not against the courtesy rules of the server). If the dino you want passively collecting resources is a bit squishy you can have that dino on wander but set other guard dinos to follow them around and protect them...but obviously the more dinos left on the loose the greater chance that at least one of them will get stuck, lost, or killed somewhere...which is where the dino tracker helps a lot.

As for tek engrams, most of those are unlocked by beating bosses on each respective map, but certain tek tools are specific to a designated map. The dino leash doesn't actually require tek tier though, nor do you need element to make it if/when you have the ability to do so. If playing on a map that enables the dino leash you only need to be level 22 to unlock the engram for it, and crafting it would cost 5 polymer, 20 metal ingots, and 1 electronics...so you do at least need fabricator to actually make it yourself (though it doesn't have to be crafted in specifically the fabricator, you do tend to need fabricator to get the electronics). Also worth noting that like many other features in ark, leashes come with bugs. A known annoyance being that sometimes wandering dinos will get stuck on the borders of the leash range and stop moving, defeating the purpose of the wander in the first place unless the wander was for breeding, but nowadays you don't need them to wander for that option and the hitching post works for that purpose as well.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Dont want them going too far that they go threw the walls of base. So when i leave and come back i wont find them all over the place lol

So any new tricks to keeping them inside of pens but able to wander?

I build walls around my base (behemoth gate sized) more to keep my dinos in, rather than keep wild dinos out. But I never put my dinos on wander, unless leashed or penned (mostly achatina and beetles, so small enough to pen within my house, so are penned in three ways - the pen within my house, the pen formed by my house, the pen formed to keep my yard dinos from chasing after a wild dino). I also use the S+ mod, so leashing is available to me whether or not I've gone to Extinction with a new toon. But I don't use it pretty much, since obviously I'm really anal about the walls.

Are you saying that dinos on wander go through walls if not leashed? Just curious.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by Liralen:

I build walls around my base (behemoth gate sized) more to keep my dinos in, rather than keep wild dinos out. But I never put my dinos on wander, unless leashed or penned (mostly achatina and beetles, so small enough to pen within my house, so are penned in three ways - the pen within my house, the pen formed by my house, the pen formed to keep my yard dinos from chasing after a wild dino). I also use the S+ mod, so leashing is available to me whether or not I've gone to Extinction with a new toon. But I don't use it pretty much, since obviously I'm really anal about the walls.

Are you saying that dinos on wander go through walls if not leashed? Just curious.

It's an old issue that apparently never got fixed. Dinos render before buildings so a dino on wander can walk right out of the buildings before they actually load in if someone happens to be at the right distance from the base. The server I used to play on had an explosion of escaped yuty's because of exactly this issue back when dinos had to be on wander to breed.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Originally posted by Liralen:

Originally posted by dragonsphotoworks:

Dont want them going too far that they go threw the walls of base. So when i leave and come back i wont find them all over the place lol

So any new tricks to keeping them inside of pens but able to wander?

I build walls around my base (behemoth gate sized) more to keep my dinos in, rather than keep wild dinos out. But I never put my dinos on wander, unless leashed or penned (mostly achatina and beetles, so small enough to pen within my house, so are penned in three ways - the pen within my house, the pen formed by my house, the pen formed to keep my yard dinos from chasing after a wild dino). I also use the S+ mod, so leashing is available to me whether or not I've gone to Extinction with a new toon. But I don't use it pretty much, since obviously I'm really anal about the walls.

Are you saying that dinos on wander go through walls if not leashed? Just curious.

As rose says, ya there is a glitch where dinos will escape. The dinos tend to move around.. and since base loads long after dinos, it allows them to move out of walls. And when they spawn in dino stuck outside base/pen.

[Liralen]

Thanks much for the data point, both of you.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Edited OP but had an idea... im curious if there is a mod that makes it so you can set a group of dinos to wander. And have a mod that turns it on and off on all the preset dinos? My pens turned out little smaller then should of been. So tether leash would allow them past some of my walls. So im curious as to a mod being a possibility?

[𝔇ave]

i'm curious what your reasoning behind wanting dinos wandering around a pen is?

i'ts not something i've ever done and ever seen done on all the servers i've played on.

[RequiemsRose]

Originally posted by 𝔇ave:

i'm curious what your reasoning behind wanting dinos wandering around a pen is?

i'ts not something i've ever done and ever seen done on all the servers i've played on.

Can't speak for the OP's reasons, but I know it was pretty rare on the servers I played as well and I was one of few who would do it. Some critters will passively collect resources if left to wander in an area with appropriate nodes. Doed will gather stone, theriz tends to gather fiber and berries, stuff like that. Other dinos require being on wander to produce something, like the dung beetle for example (but tossing those into a wooden cage is generally pretty effective). I think oviraptor is another that wants to be on wander to work properly but wander also still counts if they are set to do so but too fat to actually move so I normally just had my oviraptors hold on to the doed's rocks. So if you need wander to make the dino work, but don't need it actually wandering away, weighing them down is also a valid option.

[dragonsphotoworks]

lol not for any reasons you would expect. I want them on wander for visual reasons. I like the looks of herd of dinos wandering around in their pens. I building my base like a research and display setup. Water dino pens for example have greenhouse glass on top of pen so can walk around and see living dinos.

[RequiemsRose]

If you are going for a research lab look and you don't mind mods, the s+ mod comes with a few that could be useful like the vivarium (essentially a holographic mini-ark where you can store cryopods of dinos in a holographic ecosystem of your choose between island, scorched earth, or abberation themes. Said stored dinos can produce items still, if you have the aggregator to collect those resources as well). Worth noting that if you do have s+, you can also use the s+ version of the dino leash without needing to be on extinction to unlock it. There's also a bunch of Eco Decor mods, but the one that may be the most helpful for a lab theme is the Eco tek decor mod. That even includes decor like dino test tubes.