Is there any way to force fliers to be ridden on Svartalfheim?

[KonaManta]

I'm a super casual ark player. I just play single player and one of my favorite pastimes is just flying over maps and enjoying the scenery. Svartalfheim looks great and its sister map Fjordur is my favorite official map, but the inability to fly really bugs me. Is there a trick, or a mod, or anything to allow flyers on the map for casual use on my SP? Thanks.

[william_es]

Sounds like it's like aberration. No fliers, on purpose.

Just go after gliders, leapers, or climbers, like they have on aberration. I don't know of any mods that will override that feature of the map (doesn't mean they don't exist tho).

Rock drakes are great for getting around, and front line fighters. They can go toe to toe with the big boys. There are other gliders too.

Bloodstalkers are all terrain vehicles - superjump, wall crawling, webslinging. They can even swim underwater too. Not the greatest fighters tho. If they get super low on health, they start draining health from the rider. When you "ride" them, they sink two claws into your back... they just start sucking your blood through them.

Shadowmanes have an amazining teleport super-jump. Incredibly tanky too. Can go predator stealth mode too.

Dinopithecus can climb, jump, etc.

I'd be curious to find out of desmodus work on the map. They're the giant bats from Fjordur, and have the unique ability to be ridden in all kinds of places you normally CANNOT ride fliers, including caves. The author of the map may have simply made the entire map a "cave" like the three sub-realms on Fjordur.

And then you can just ignore normal tames entirely, and just get a sinomacrops. It's a shoulder pet... but when it's clamped on your back you can fly, glide, and parachute. It also scares away pest dinos like the seagulls, pegos, etc.

[sonobionda]

There is a setting called (I think) "allow fliers in caves". and there you have to make a check... then flying in fjordurs should also be possible next to worlds .... and in caves in general

I checked, here is the way:
local game
advanced settings
allow fliers in caves

[william_es]

Originally posted by sonobionda:

There is a setting called (I think) "allow fliers in caves". and there you have to make a check... then flying in fjordurs should also be possible next to worlds .... and in caves in general

I checked, here is the way:
local game
advanced settings
allow fliers in caves

Does not work.

It has to be added as a startup parameter. Checking the box in the in-game settings menu will not work. Why is it in there then? who knows. There are bunch of settings in there that don't work. Click the little box, won't work.

You can add startup parameters very easily in single player on ark, by going to the game properties and adding the following text to the "launch options" box:

-ForceAllowCaveFlyers

But we don't even know if that's how the maker of that map set it up. I was only guessing. They might be using other methods to prevent fliers from working.

[skyguard]

There is no trick, the map maker made it that way. No flyers allowed whatsoever, flyers don't even spawn on the map.
That is how he wanted to make the map, its right on the mod page.

[sonobionda]

As @william_es wrote, the entry in the start parameters works (at least with the official fjordur map in SP; I don't know how it works with the mod map)
I have the entry (I just forgot because it was so long ago) :D

see screenshot in asgard:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/sonobionda/screenshot/1764868293049629696/

[Clevos]

if it's a matter of them not spawning would it be possible to replace a different dino with a flyer in the .ini and set cave flying on?

[skyguard]

The mod maker made the map with no flyers spawning and a no fly map at first, than after a bit of pressure from players, he decided to allow it with an ini setting.
Later on he announced and pushed an update that reverted that decision back to how he designed and wanted the map to be in the first place. Flyers are blocked, it is a no fly map, he wants players to see the map from the ground.

There is no ini options to turn it on, not even in ASM, there is no command that seems to work.
You can try and see if you can force spawn some flyers by replacing some spawns with flyers in SP but unsure if that will work.
You can join his Discord and ask, Fjordur does allow flyers, never had a problem there.

[Pisaro]

Or play ark like you should play ark...

[KonaManta]

Originally posted by Bügelbernd27:

Or play ark like you should play ark...

I'll play it however I damn want to.
Besides, Svartalfheim is modded content. By definition, It's not how you 'should' play ark at all.

[KonaManta]

Originally posted by william_es:

Originally posted by sonobionda:

There is a setting called (I think) "allow fliers in caves". and there you have to make a check... then flying in fjordurs should also be possible next to worlds .... and in caves in general

I checked, here is the way:
local game
advanced settings
allow fliers in caves

Does not work.

It has to be added as a startup parameter. Checking the box in the in-game settings menu will not work. Why is it in there then? who knows. There are bunch of settings in there that don't work. Click the little box, won't work.

You can add startup parameters very easily in single player on ark, by going to the game properties and adding the following text to the "launch options" box:

-ForceAllowCaveFlyers

But we don't even know if that's how the maker of that map set it up. I was only guessing. They might be using other methods to prevent fliers from working.

Yeah unfortunately I have that setting and it doesn't seem to work either.

[KonaManta]

Originally posted by skyguard:

There is no trick, the map maker made it that way. No flyers allowed whatsoever, flyers don't even spawn on the map.
That is how he wanted to make the map, its right on the mod page.

Yes, but I'm trying to circumvent the mod creator's desires because I'm a degenerate

[ShaZZa]

cheat fly. enjoy.
As for using dinos, as others have said you can't.

[LivFastLoveHard]

Actually you can enable flyers on this map it really easy
Just go into your GameUserSettings.InI
Under your [Server Settings]
bForceCanRideFliers=True

Your Welcome :)

[Saizo]

You are looking for a Desmodus, it can fly in caves even if you don´t have cave flyers enabled.

[Lord Onyx]

Anyone ever get this to work.. I used Simple Spawners to spawn Desmodus and put a saddle on them. When I first tried to rife it said Flyers were Diabled.. I fixed that .ini and now it says Ride, but it is greyed out. So annoying.. stop telling me how to have fun. Such a ^&*k move.