How to Raise Average Dino Level

[the funniest clown]

90% of the dinos on The Island are below level 30. I have 1.0 Difficulty and maximum on but im seeing maybe 1/100 of a dino being over level 100. Any way to raise this?

NOTE, I dont want to raise the maximum level, just the average level of dinos. For example if the average level for dinos on the map is like 55 I want to raise it to like 75

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

do "cheat destroywilddinos"
chances are you still have low levels spawned in from when the difficulty was .2, this should wipe them and let higher levels spawn

[the funniest clown]

Originally posted by Tiny Hippo:

do "cheat destroywilddinos"
chances are you still have low levels spawned in from when the difficulty was .2, this should wipe them and let higher levels spawn

Ive done htis a few times over, still seeing insanely low amounts of lvl 100+. Like I searched the entire redwood and river area and only saw 3 Pteranodons with a level 100+ and all of those were below level 120

[Chaser the Tiny Hippo]

not sure then, you might just be getting unlucky with the spawns, you could try raising the difficulty further though

[realmscat]

Best way for higher spawns is to kill the dinos yourself. Dino Wipe does not help that much. usually when you kill them yourself they start spawning higher levels. At least that is what I have learned.

[Jimbo]

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Difficulty

Reading this, it seems lvl 120 would be your max...

[Skawn]

if you go into your GameUserSettings.ini and add command line " OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5.0 "
that should push your Highest spawn upto 150 if you push up to 6.0 that will increase to 180 each number increases level by 30 hope that helps

[the funniest clown]

Originally posted by Jimbo:

https://ark.gamepedia.com/Difficulty

Reading this, it seems lvl 120 would be your max...

i have maximum difficulty enabled, but i may as well ramp it up anyway

[🦊 Hermit]

Sadly there's no way to up average levels without changing maps, or mods. Ragnarok and the Center are set up to favor higher level spawns, but all the other official maps are coded to prioritize lower levels, making higher ones much more rare.

Someone uploaded a mod on the workshop a while back experimenting with making all maps favor high levels, but they said they couldn't get it to work right, and I don't think it's been fixed yet. Alternatively I have heard of someone writing a code in C++ which you can insert into the game files, which will make the maps have a higher average, but that isn't on the workshop and I don't know if it works.