Ark Loot Crates Respawn Time?

[Maver (Nick)]

Hi guys, i was wondering how long is the respawn time of loot crates in caves? I play on my server with the center map and its already 7-8 real hours and no loot respawned. It seems that the loot only respawn when i restart server. Why there are NO structures in caves and nobody is living/building around caves.

[FrozeeFrank]

I've notice a long respawn time on The Center map for loot crate in caves. There seems to be a maximum amount that spawns at the same time on the whole server. Once you open one, it starts the timer for another random crate at another "random" spawn location. Server restart will reset the timer for anything that spawns, deep sea loot crate for example. I have not tested yet if it also includes the caves loot crate, logically it would.

[Maver (Nick)]

Originally posted by FrozeeFrank:

I've notice a long respawn time on The Center map for loot crate in caves. There seems to be a maximum amount that spawns at the same time on the whole server. Once you open one, it starts the timer for another random crate at another "random" spawn location. Server restart will reset the timer for anything that spawns, deep sea loot crate for example. I have not tested yet if it also includes the caves loot crate, logically it would.

Ah okay, seems weird :D It will be nice to know how long respawn times are. If more than 24 hours its useless then. Because my server restarts every 24hours. And maybe it would be nice if we had a chance to somehow edit these times. Maybe the loot in it. What do you think? Are cave loots good? In like 40 crates i found like. 4 good items? 1 ascendant longneck rifle(item) and one mastercraft longneck rifle(blueprint) and some mastercraft bp for ptero/trike/para saddles and one mammoth mastercraft saddle. But in others i found like. apprentice hide gloves or journeyman cloth leggins and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like this. I wonder if i should add a mod that modifies the loot or if i should take a look underwater. I would like to find some BPs for better flak armor. But no luck :/

[FrozeeFrank]

I don't think that respawn time would be 24 hours, that would be way to high. If we compare with deep sea loot crate for example, the wiki says that they will spawn when the server starts at a maximum number of 2 deep sea loot crate per server. Once a player opens one of the two, a 45 min timer starts and then will spawn to another random spawn location. I'm not sure if the number are the same on the center but the mechanic seems to be similar to the vanilla map. As for the drops that you get with the different type of crates, only the deep sea loot crate have a different loot table.(ie. you can get gillie or fur armor in them and not in normal crates). What I have noticed for loot crate in caves is they will have the same loot table as beacons, but with a higher chances to get a higher quality item. Hence your journeyman or legendary drops(playing on anunaki ?). So for example, a yellow beacon has a loot table of a certain number of items with a certain percentage to get a certain quality. The same yellow loot crate would have the same number of items in its loot table but the chance to get a mastercraf would go from 5% to 10%(random numbers here). There is a spawn command for loot crates and beacons but I didn't explore much further when it comes to spawn rate, limit or wheight. All I know is when you modify the spawn, bad things happens. As far as your better equipment, you should have a look at the "Entity IDs" section of the wiki. You have the list of every item in the game and their spawn commands. If you are an admin, you could spawn blueprints. Be warned tho, it ruines the fun !

[Maver (Nick)]

Originally posted by FrozeeFrank:

I don't think that respawn time would be 24 hours, that would be way to high. If we compare with deep sea loot crate for example, the wiki says that they will spawn when the server starts at a maximum number of 2 deep sea loot crate per server. Once a player opens one of the two, a 45 min timer starts and then will spawn to another random spawn location. I'm not sure if the number are the same on the center but the mechanic seems to be similar to the vanilla map. As for the drops that you get with the different type of crates, only the deep sea loot crate have a different loot table.(ie. you can get gillie or fur armor in them and not in normal crates). What I have noticed for loot crate in caves is they will have the same loot table as beacons, but with a higher chances to get a higher quality item. Hence your journeyman or legendary drops(playing on anunaki ?). So for example, a yellow beacon has a loot table of a certain number of items with a certain percentage to get a certain quality. The same yellow loot crate would have the same number of items in its loot table but the chance to get a mastercraf would go from 5% to 10%(random numbers here). There is a spawn command for loot crates and beacons but I didn't explore much further when it comes to spawn rate, limit or wheight. All I know is when you modify the spawn, bad things happens. As far as your better equipment, you should have a look at the "Entity IDs" section of the wiki. You have the list of every item in the game and their spawn commands. If you are an admin, you could spawn blueprints. Be warned tho, it ruines the fun !

I own the server but i dont want to cheat. Never. and we play on classic the center. No annunaki.
We use only mods that improve gameplay and more fun.
Like:
Metal With Glass Set
Egg&Poop Collector
Meat Spoiler
and etc. No big mods.
And yea thank you for answer :) Iam trying to get some good flak armor and things but only things i found in caves are blue/purple cloth armor and nothing else.... and now this. Its like 8-9 hours and still no crates :( I was thinking about adding a mod that modifies the loot crates but only one i saw was modifing them like in every crate there is Mastercraft or ascendant and thats way too OP for me. :/ Dunno what to do :D

[FrozeeFrank]

a good way to test would be to open all the crates in every cave within a certain time frame. The wiki could give you the exact amount of crate in every cave. lets say an hour time frame is reasonable. After you open them, leave the area and come back every hour or so. You may need to be more than one for this exercise. Rince and repeat. It is a long a boring process but it is a good way to learn about the spawn of these items. Other way would be to browse through the server files, if your down with that kind of stuff... I am nowhere near advanced enough in programming to understand the files and command line that they contain.

[Maver (Nick)]

Okay so, i was in 5 caves now. and in 2 caves i found out there was 2 loot crates. So totally i found 4 crates. other 3 caves were empty. So i think there is a limit for the crates and not everytime there must be a crate in every cave. Maybe. I will see.