Aberrant raptors in Center

[Ultimate_Honey_Badger]

Please help. I want to have aberrant raptors in Center beaches. What i need to paste in GameUserSettings.ini and game.ini?

[🦊 Hermit]

You won't need to put anything in the GameUserSettings.ini file, the config for adding spawns goes into the Game.ini file exclusively,

First of all make sure Ark isn't running, and open the Game.ini file. Check that the file has [/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] at the very top. If it isn't there, add it, but if it already appears you don't need to do anything extra. Then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the file, and on a new line, paste this:

ConfigAddNPCSpawnEntriesContainer=(NPCSpawnEntriesContainerClassString="*",NPCSpawnEntries=((AnEntryName="**",EntryWeight=1.0,NPCsToSpawnStrings=("***"))),NPCSpawnLimits=((NPCClassString="****",MaxPercentageOfDesiredNumToAllow=1.0)))

Now you'll have to fill in the bits marked with * asterisks, replacing them with the references to The Center beaches and Abs raptors. You can find that info on the game's wiki.

This page lists Spawn Entry Containers:

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Spawn_entries#ARK:_Survival_Evolved-0

According to that, The Center uses DinoSpawnEntriesBeach_C for it's beaches, so highlight the first asterisk in the command and paste that into the quotation marks instead.

The field 'AnEntryName' can be anything you like, that's just an identifier to help you know which config is which. So highlight the double asterisk in that field and type something you recognise, such as 'AbsRapBeach' or something similar.

Next you need the Entity ID for the Abs raptor, which can be found here:

https://ark.wiki.gg/wiki/Creature_IDs#Creatures_of_Aberration

Raptor_Character_BP_Aberrant_C is the one you need. That has to go in both the remaining asterisk spots, the triple *** and the quad **** so highlight those and paste that in instead.

Finally there's adjusting the numbers, EntryWeight and MaxPercentage.

Entry Weight is how frequently the raptors will be picked to spawn instead of other beach creatures like dodos and parasaurs - I'd recommend lowering that to 0.2, which is about the same weight as a dilophosaur.

Max Percentage is a cap on the maximum number of raptors that can spawn in the area. It prevents the game just spawning raptors constantly and not using any of the other creatures instead. I'd suggest dropping that to a low-ish number as well, to make sure you aren't swamped by the things. Perhaps use 0.2, or even 0.1 instead.

That should deal with the config side of it, but you will still need to clear creatures off your map to ensure that the new raptors spawn in. Start up Ark, enter your world, and press TAB. That will bring up the console where you can input admin commands. If you are on a dedicated server, activate admin mode by using the EnableCheats command with your admin password, then type this into the console box and press enter:

admincheat destroywilddinos

If you are on single player or non-dedicated though, you will not have to activate admin mode, and you will not need to type the admincheat part of that command either, just type destroywilddinos on it's own and that should work.

That will remove all wild creatures and force the game to repopulate, including the new raptors you set in the config file. Have a look around the map and see how common they are. If there are too many of them you may need to shut the game down and adjust the EntryWeight and MaxPercentage values lower, then do another dino wipe. Or if you aren't seeing enough of them, you may need to adjust the numbers higher instead. Experiment a little until you see a good balance.

Hope that helps^^

[Ultimate_Honey_Badger]

Oh, thank you. I will try.