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PaT Oct 9, 2016 @ 9:35am
Dino Lvls on Center Map only in steps of 5
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All dinos spawning on our server on the Center are Levels 5, 10, 15... until 150. We would like to figure out how to get dinos to spawn at every Level from 1 to 150.

Hi everyone,

me and my friends run a private server that runs the Center map.
Like it says in the title, all dinos that spawn on the map are in steps of 5, meaning the lowest wild dino will be lv 5 and the highest one will be lv 150 and in between there are only levels ending in 5 and 0, like 5, 10, 15...
We ran the Island map before switching over and there would be dinosaurs from lv 1 to 120, with all the numbers in between.
We did not change anything on the server in terms of difficulty and destroyed all wild dinosaurs multiple times with no results in terms of changes to the levels of spawns. I also was unable to find an option in the server settings that influences the levels.
Now i did watch sl1pg8r's videos on the center map (unmodded) and there would be dinos from lv 1-150 but with every level in between.
Can anyone tell me why we are having this issue? It's not game-breaking in any way, it's just less... interesting to look for high level dinosaurs.

Thanks in advance.
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Arthuring Jan 20, 2017 @ 7:36pm 
Having the exactly same problem, did you fixed it? If not, Can some1 help with this one?

How to (the center) make wild dino lvls go from 1 to 150? You know as the OP said, with every single number between
kotawolf Jan 20, 2017 @ 7:53pm 
Okay.... The base difficulty value is set at 4 on the island. (No Mods). This means dinos spawn at 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24.....
Center Map has that base difficulty set at 5. Meaning dinos spawn at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25....

The only way to get them to spawn at every level between is to use a mod. For instance, my mod, ArkDinos they will spawn at every level from 1 - 120.
The base, unmodified creatures all only have a total of 30 levels they can spawn. That difficulty value is the multiplier applied to the dino level. Hence determining what level the wild dinos will spawn at.
Arthuring Jan 20, 2017 @ 8:06pm 
Really? WTF? Back in my time when the newest dino were the Terror Bird, the normal (no mods) used to be every single number between 1-120.... Man.... When did they done this? Such a shame.

Thank you very much for the fast reply.
PaT Jan 22, 2017 @ 10:18am 
I haven't played on TheIsland for a while, so I am not up to date with how the LVs are there, but when I played TheIsland there certainly was every lv from 1 to 120 with no steps in between, which is why I did not understand the 5-Lv-Jumps on the Center.
I'll be sure to check out your Mod though, maybe it's what i've been looking for :) does it support the higher lv-cap on TheCenter?
Danté Jan 22, 2017 @ 10:25am 
Originally posted by Arthuring:
Really? WTF? Back in my time when the newest dino were the Terror Bird, the normal (no mods) used to be every single number between 1-120.... Man.... When did they done this? Such a shame.

Thank you very much for the fast reply.


Originally posted by PaT:
I haven't played on TheIsland for a while, so I am not up to date with how the LVs are there, but when I played TheIsland there certainly was every lv from 1 to 120 with no steps in between, which is why I did not understand the 5-Lv-Jumps on the Center.
I'll be sure to check out your Mod though, maybe it's what i've been looking for :) does it support the higher lv-cap on TheCenter?
I've been playing ark from before the doedic came out, and you'd never find lvl 1-120, it was always in jumps of 4.
Mi Jan 22, 2017 @ 10:39am 
Originally posted by Arthuring:
Really? WTF? Back in my time when the newest dino were the Terror Bird, the normal (no mods) used to be every single number between 1-120.... Man.... When did they done this? Such a shame.

No, this was never a thing. Even when ark first came out and difficulty was 3 (I think), dinos only spawned in increments of 3. Later 4, now 5. That has always been how levels worked.
Danté Jan 22, 2017 @ 10:55am 
Originally posted by Mi:
Originally posted by Arthuring:
Really? WTF? Back in my time when the newest dino were the Terror Bird, the normal (no mods) used to be every single number between 1-120.... Man.... When did they done this? Such a shame.

No, this was never a thing. Even when ark first came out and difficulty was 3 (I think), dinos only spawned in increments of 3. Later 4, now 5. That has always been how levels worked.
this^^
Arthuring Jan 22, 2017 @ 5:21pm 
Originally posted by Mi:
Originally posted by Arthuring:
Really? WTF? Back in my time when the newest dino were the Terror Bird, the normal (no mods) used to be every single number between 1-120.... Man.... When did they done this? Such a shame.

No, this was never a thing. Even when ark first came out and difficulty was 3 (I think), dinos only spawned in increments of 3. Later 4, now 5. That has always been how levels worked.

My first tame was an Itchy lvl 2.... But probably the difficultoffset weren't set to 1 on that server.... WOW, that's soo mind F***ing. That's really hard to believe OMG xD
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Date Posted: Oct 9, 2016 @ 9:35am
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