Force Respawn of wild dinos question.

[Morgan]

Hello folks, I've come back to ark after quite a while and noticed the server has a new option that will fore the re-spawn of wild dinos. I was wondering if it also destroys existing wild dinos? I want to see if it will repopulate caves properly, but don;t want to use it if it's going to kill queen bees.

Thanks

[Housatonic]

If I understand the setting you're referring to correctly, it simply runs the DestroyWildDinos command on server startup.

[william_es]

Destroywilddinos kills all current dinos that are not your own tames. So yes, it will kill wild queen bees too.

As a side note, it does NOT remove the hive structures they build. If you run destroywilddinos a lot, you will end up tons of bee hives everywhere. It will spawn multiples in each location, all stacked directly over each other. I think I counted 10 separate beehives in one spot once. It just looked like 1 hive. There's a separate command required to delete bee hives.

[Morgan]

Originally posted by william_es:

Destroywilddinos kills all current dinos that are not your own tames. So yes, it will kill wild queen bees too.

As a side note, it does NOT remove the hive structures they build. If you run destroywilddinos a lot, you will end up tons of bee hives everywhere. It will spawn multiples in each location, all stacked directly over each other. I think I counted 10 separate beehives in one spot once. It just looked like 1 hive. There's a separate command required to delete bee hives.

Yes, the destroy wild dinos is the effect I want to avoid, specifically for the hive issue. however this command appears to be "ForceRespawnDinos" And i'm wondering if it also kills the lives ones first,

[Mathius]

Originally posted by william_es:

Destroywilddinos kills all current dinos that are not your own tames. So yes, it will kill wild queen bees too.

As a side note, it does NOT remove the hive structures they build. If you run destroywilddinos a lot, you will end up tons of bee hives everywhere. It will spawn multiples in each location, all stacked directly over each other. I think I counted 10 separate beehives in one spot once. It just looked like 1 hive. There's a separate command required to delete bee hives.

cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C 1
should get rid of them.

[Morgan]

Originally posted by Mathius:

Originally posted by william_es:

Destroywilddinos kills all current dinos that are not your own tames. So yes, it will kill wild queen bees too.

As a side note, it does NOT remove the hive structures they build. If you run destroywilddinos a lot, you will end up tons of bee hives everywhere. It will spawn multiples in each location, all stacked directly over each other. I think I counted 10 separate beehives in one spot once. It just looked like 1 hive. There's a separate command required to delete bee hives.

cheat DestroyAll BeeHive_C 1
should get rid of them.

Cheers. I was more bothered about keeping the two hives that had spawned near my base.

[Morgan]

For anyone else looking into this. it appears the Force Respawn option is a server command only. It does repopulate caves, but sadly also wipes all live wild dinos and removes existing hives.

[Mathius]

Originally posted by Morgan:

For anyone else looking into this. it appears the Force Respawn option is a server command only. It does repopulate caves, but sadly also wipes all live wild dinos and removes existing hives.

There's a setting to change the duration of time between resets. I'm not 100% how it works, but from what I can tell it appears that when the server reboots, it checks to see how long it's been since the last reboot and then decides to respawn according to that timer, but that's just from observation.

I can tell you for sure though you can set the number of days to wait for respawn because there's a setting in ASM for it. We have ours set for 3 days. Also, if I want to not do that I just unclick it when I start the server and then it boots without the dino wipe.