singleplayer metal "respawning"

[¤-sakura-¤]

sooooooo ive hit a wall in my game ... need to craft my sweet saddles for my rexs and i need metal ... problem is, IT WONT RESPAWN ON SINGLEPLAYER!!! i need 1100 per saddle and need 10 to start with (using 9 megatheriums 10 rex's and a yuty for brood) ... so without changing the respawn settings is there a work around? would going into a cave with an anky in toe help OR will that metal not come back to?

if you've been following my stupid questions ive been playing the game in a storymode fashion, and i was going so freaking well too!!! got every artifact bar hard snow cave (undecided how to approch it) naver cheesed anything, never cryo'd though dinos where they shouldnt be, have loved every moment of this storymode playthrough .... until need needing metal.

can someone kindly explain why wildcard wont show singleplayer mode any love?? we can upload/transfer 'correctly', our loot creates spawns are a joke and now getting jerbated on metal LOL just why? now i remeber why i didnt play singleplayer lololol

100% buying a server for scorched when i ascend, i figure it will be the easiest option.

[¤-sakura-¤]

WOW!! just did a deep dive and found out its been like that since day dot and there is a high chance that it will NEVER come back, like ever ever, all because i play for a few hours at a time and as its more then likely not re-spawned and i cant be everywhere at once its just a deleted node, like i play a LOT but just in short 2-3 hour bursts ...i have over 4000 hours in ark on my xbox over the years, first time playing SP though im just so baffled by this! i feel like i just waisted the last 140 hours on this playthough ... FML

[A Damp Squid]

I always have issues with my resources respawning too much on single player, I have the respawn period set to 10

The time to respawn should start when you get a certain distance away (the deafult is actually close enough you can see the respawn) Not 100% sure what you are describing with the settings and the DOT but unless you adjusted the respawn to take a while it sounds like a bug

[A Damp Squid]

as for why the dont show single player any love? well they focus on bug squashing anti cheat and pvp balancing (all futile attempts)

[¤-sakura-¤]

yeah it blows! i just killed my last mountain last night all becuase i just grabbed rare flowers metal and got right off... now i just lost all passion after waiting around for 2 IRL hours at the zone, re rendered a fair few times ... im done, just killed the last mountain :-( just crushed the last 140 hour on a storymode play down the drain, thx :-D

[Dancing Man]

Guys, if you just go to your singplayer settings > Advance > World settings. Look for 'Harvest Health' and i'd recommend switching that to 2x possibly 3x or 2.5... It makes it so resources take more hits so you can get more resources from nodes and trees. After that go to 'Resources Respawn Period' and turn that down to 0.1. it makes it so the resources spawn as fast as possible. (Lower numbers means they spawn faster) .

[Zac's Dad]

Once a node stops respawning it seems it never will again - in single player.

I firstly recommend what Dancing Man posted above. That will help with future issues on resources. In conjunction with that - read this slowly - 'hang around the area until the resource respawns' -- It is said that if you leave an area before they respawn that they never will.

You should have your setting such that you could sit a little ways away (10 foot?) and see the resource respawn before you leave. The important ones anyway. Try very small numbers for your resource respawn period - like he said .1 or lower .025 - whatever works for you.

Even with this in place I would not expect the nodes that are already 'deleted' to respawn.

There are some people that purposely play with a respawn timer so high that virtually nothing respawns.

[you can't run from the funk]

Yeah, you're out. I ended up spinning up a dedi to deal with it.

[Sandpuppy]

If your resources are not respawning at all in single player, the thing I find that works best to fix it is to enable spectator mode from the console. Use this mode to fly all around the map for a few minutes, then exit (Warning - exiting spectator mode respawns you, so all your gear will get dropped at the point you entered spectator mode, and so you'll likely want a bed and storage nearby beforehand). It also helps to lower your resource respawn rates dramatically before doing so. The broken resource spawn should start working again shortly.

This seems to help me about 90% of the time, and when it doesn't, it usually comes back after I transfer back in from another map.

This apparently happens whenever you exit the map or teleport away before the resources have respawned. To prevent this from happening again, it's helpful to mine what you're going to mine, then hang around until everything respawns before leaving. You can use the slomo command from console to speed up the gametime if needed.

[Fenris]

I've had all the resources I've had that problem with eventually come back, but it takes a very LONG time. I've tried the Re-Fertilizer mods, which don't seem to do anything, at least on single player.

Like others said though, I just reduce the respawn period to the point were it respawns almost as soon as I mine it now to avoid the problem. I only allow myself to mine the same node once every 2 or 3 Ark days just to keep it from being an OP "solution".

[Luux]

Unless you've exhausted all of your possible metal resources, which is very unlikely before you've even gotten to the point of Rex Saddles (Unless i guess on the Island, where things in general just don't go that smoothly and respawning is actually an issue for everything, not just nodes, creatures too) there is actually a very little chance you'll be hardlocked out of being able to find metal in some form or another.

I'm guessing you're on the Island, if i assume correctly from you mentioning "after you ascend to Scorched Earth" and you were doing the story arks.

But anyway, in case you are not able to somehow reset or fix this by making the respawn timer for resources faster, make sure you've absolutely exhausted all means of metal.

1. The most out of the way and uncommon/unreliable way unless you're on Lost Island and are literally finding a Tek Stego every 3 or 5 Stegos, is Tek Dinos, their Scrap Metal drop rate is treated like Hide, apparently, and so Hatchet, Theri C-bite, or just a GIga if you have none is the best option if you happen to find any to maximize your metal gain.

2. River Rocks, they are everywhere, especially on the Island, and incase you forgot, they cover most parts of the map pretty thickly. Namely a few areas - The entire main river that cuts through the island from northeast to southwest, most of the swamp areas, the Green Ob is aboslutely covered in them, and Carnivore island also has some, especially along the southeast shore. I remember i actually had to do this once i ran out of respawning Metal nodes on my Island save i've had since the Mosasaur came out, and i had to resort to diving in the rivers with my Anky for metal cause the mountains weren't respawning, this did fix however once they reset all the map spawns the first time all the Explorer Note ruins where added and it caused basically every resource node to re-appear, and for me to have to excavate trees from my base.

3. Normal Rocks, it's not effective but i hardly think you've actually harvested every rock on the Island, and that they at least wouldn't respawn. If you get desperate and every other option is unavailable but you seem to refuse just spawning the metal in, i guess you'll be hacking on rocks with an Anky for a bit, have fun, bring a quetz.

4. Caves in General, have a lot of resources in them, lots, and in a decent variety. Make sure to check every single one before you knock it, and bring an Anky with a Cryo if you want, or your best pickaxe, and make sure to bring boxes to store it so you can harvest as much as you want without needing to drop any to move it out.

[Chris P. Bacon]

What I do for single player is set the resource respawn rate down to 0.01, and the player resource respawn radius down to 0.05

This makes resources respawn very quickly, but not directly after the harvest, and also prevents it from spawning directly on top of you. The reason your stuff stopped respawning is because there is a glitch where if you quit out while a resource has been harvested, and not yet respawned, it just simply never will when you load back up.

Unfortunately, this alone will not fix the resources that have already been glitched out, but I have managed to fix this in my single player. First, by changing the above settings. Then, by loading my game near where the glitched resources are supposed to be, using console commands to fly as far away as possible, quitting out, loading back up, then flying back to the area and waiting a few minutes.

Apparently this has been going on in the game since the beginning, and they don't seem interested in fixing any single player or non-dedicated server issues.

[I'm Trash]

I won't be reading through all the other replies. So apologies if this has been said.

BEST way I've found to keep the realism of the story instead of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the settings too hard... Is to find metal and live close by next to it, so that it's spawn remains in render while at base and to turn crops and breeding rates up by a lot since there's no way you're going to be able to wait three literal days per megatherium breed, so bumping those breeding rates up is a must. But living next to the resource you're going to need is essential to allowing the passage of time dictate your next resource gather run over just collecting 100k worth of it while destroying the respawn rates on everything and destroying the realism.

Hope this helps :)

P.S. There's quite a few metal deposits that are not on "cold" or "Hot" zones for you to choose from. One of the better ones will be close to the beginning zone, on top of a little mountain because this one contains diamonds.

Do not live too too close, or your foundations will cancel out the spawns.

[Bullwinkle]

Single player PC. Resources disappeared permanently.
Fix: Set respawn to 0.06. Go to the area with no more resources. Harvest something. Anything. Leave the area. Do not log off for 1/2 of an in-game day or more. Log off. Reset the respawn timer to something realistic, like 0.33. Done. Resources should reappear where they had "permanently" disappeared. At least it worked for me.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by ¤-sakura-¤:

100% buying a server for scorched when i ascend, i figure it will be the easiest option.

Odds are your PC can handle a dedicated server and even perform better playing on the same PC as server and client (making good use of multi-core CPUs, ya know?), and if so, you can transfer your single player progress over to it. With metal restored.

I don't know anything about using the Ark client to make a dedicated server (that option didn't exist when I first started playing Ark in 2017), but I can attest that Ark Server Manager is easy enough that a 62 year old little old lady could handle it, which I was back in 2017. You just have to be able to follow directions.

P.S. Love your name :) If you haven't seen this, you might like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pF56-ZYkY

[Harry Nurpplez]

This is why players are always told to run a dedicated server. The built-in singleplayer is broken in many ways.