How do I increase the radius around me that Dino's spawn?

[protech02]

So for some reason, dinos are only spawning around me within like 250m of the game and no it's not any of my mods without all of them it still does it. so in short terms, I want to know how to have the dinos spawn all over the map instead of near me like when I first got the game it spawned all over the map but just in the last few months it's been doing it so I dont know if I changed some sorta setting to do it but I just really need help. It has gotten so bad that there are thousands of griffins and stuff near my base and it is really laggy.

[steventirey]

If you are playing single player, only the world around the player exists. And since there is a limit to the number of dinos that can exist on the entire map at once, if they have all spawned in one area there won't be a whole lot elsewhere. There is a command you can use that disables hibernation, allowing dinos to move and spawn everywhere on the map while in single player, but it does massively increase the work your computer needs to do. If you want to do this, right click the game name in your library, go to Properties, and add the following to the launch options:

-preventhibernation

On an actual server, the whole map is loaded in at once and dinos spawn all over.

[VulcanTourist]

These two properties control the proximity beyond which resources will respawn over time:

ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=0.010000
ResourceNoReplenishRadiusStructures=1.000000

There may be a similar setting that controls proximity for dino respawns.

[steventirey]

Originally posted by VulcanTourist:

These two properties control the proximity beyond which resources will respawn over time:

ResourceNoReplenishRadiusPlayers=0.010000
ResourceNoReplenishRadiusStructures=1.000000

There may be a similar setting that controls proximity for dino respawns.

I believe dinos count as resouces for those. However, those control the minimum distance resources have to be away from the player or structures in order to respawn. In other words, the exact opposite of what is needed. It is the maximum distance he wants to change, not the minimum.

[VulcanTourist]

Originally posted by steventirey:

In other words, the exact opposite of what is needed. It is the maximum distance he wants to change, not the minimum.

I'm not so sure of that. He seems to want to DEcrease the number of (re)spawns in his area, so if you're right that those properties also affect dinos then INcreasing those values would possibly help achieve that by further limiting how closely they can spawn. It only seems counter-intuitive.

He doesn't acknowledge the possibility, but I suspect a mod or misbehaving mod at work, unless he's fully exaggerating.

[steventirey]

Originally posted by VulcanTourist:

Originally posted by steventirey:

In other words, the exact opposite of what is needed. It is the maximum distance he wants to change, not the minimum.

I'm not so sure of that. He seems to want to DEcrease the number of (re)spawns in his area, so if you're right that those properties also affect dinos then INcreasing those values would possibly help achieve that by further limiting how closely they can spawn. It only seems counter-intuitive.

He doesn't acknowledge the possibility, but I suspect a mod or misbehaving mod at work, unless he's fully exaggerating.

He very clearly states he wants dinos to spawn all over the map. He wants to DEcrease the number of dinos spawning near him to INcrease the number of dinos spawning elsewhere. What he is describing is how it works in single player. Dinos can only spawn in the areas around the player because that is the only area of the world that is actually active.

Enlarging the area where they can not spawn will not cause the dinos to appear on the rest of the map. It just means that the dinos that do spawn will be even more concentrated than they already are.

On a single player or co-op map, the rest of the world pauses when the host isn't around, and no dinos spawn there. You have to be playing on a server, or have a really good computer, to get dinos spawning everywhere.

[VulcanTourist]

I have only ever played the game solo, and I have never observed what he describes. When I'm "on the move", I encounter fully populated areas, not ones mostly devoid of new critters, and when I stay put in an area for a long time it doesn't seem like overpopulation occurs. To my eyes it SEEMS like there's ample population everywhere at all times; if that is not the truth of it then the game is doing a VERY good job of fooling my eyes. Even in flight with a fast modded dino or glider this perception still holds true: dinos everywhere, not concentrated around me.

Why is it different for this fellow? I suspect that he's unintentionally crippled the game himself by adjusting settings in a way he shouldn't or using poorly designed or misbehaving mods. I have tweaked most of both the basic and Advanced settings and I use many dozens of mods that both change gameplay and add content, and yet still I don't observe what he describes. What superpower do I lack, in spite of pushing so hard against the envelope, that I'm unable to break the game in the way that he has?