How to actually find Level 150 Dinos?

[FearCatalyst]

How to find Level 150 Dinos? I'm playing ARK on The Island, with Difficulty Slider set to 1 aswell as Max Difficulty Checked on, playing on Singleplayer rn.

But I haven't seen a single level 150 yet, despite being to the hardest mountains already, max I can find is like, level 80 or 90

And besides, if somehow i find idk, a level 150 Ptera Argy Rex or smth, how are you supposed to find, i don't know, a level 150 Dodo? or a level 150 fish or Lystro or Moschops?

[Tachyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74j4d_uRhd0

[EK]

Override Official Difficulty: 5

[🦊 Hermit]

The game's canon story maps are set up to favour lower level spawns by default, to make high levels very rare and special finds. This is hardcoded into the maps themselves, and cannot be changed without using a mod such as this one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182894352

[Serious]

Max difficulty option isn't working for singleplayer or non-dedicated multi, never was.
You need to add:
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
To your GameUserSettings.ini
in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Or you need mods like the one Hermit linked.

After the change i recommend a destroywilddinos command otherwise it could take many hours more till you see your first lv 125+

[BelieveinWaheed@TTV]

Originally posted by Serious:

Max difficulty option isn't working for singleplayer or non-dedicated multi, never was.
You need to add:
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
To your GameUserSettings.ini
in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Or you need mods like the one Hermit linked.

After the change i recommend a destroywilddinos command otherwise it could take many hours more till you see your first lv 125+

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[FearCatalyst]

Originally posted by Serious:

Max difficulty option isn't working for singleplayer or non-dedicated multi, never was.
You need to add:
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
To your GameUserSettings.ini
in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Or you need mods like the one Hermit linked.

After the change i recommend a destroywilddinos command otherwise it could take many hours more till you see your first lv 125+

that won't kill my tamed dinos right?

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by outspace:

Originally posted by Serious:

Max difficulty option isn't working for singleplayer or non-dedicated multi, never was.
You need to add:
OverrideOfficialDifficulty=5
To your GameUserSettings.ini
in ...\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK\ShooterGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Or you need mods like the one Hermit linked.

After the change i recommend a destroywilddinos command otherwise it could take many hours more till you see your first lv 125+

that won't kill my tamed dinos right?

As per the name, just wild dinos.

[TwerkyMerky]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

The game's canon story maps are set up to favour lower level spawns by default, to make high levels very rare and special finds. This is hardcoded into the maps themselves, and cannot be changed without using a mod such as this one:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2182894352

Just to add, you can also use plugins to achieve this, doesn’t have to be a mod.

[MrBill]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591643730

[Zac's Dad]

I use 'larkator' its a standalone app that you can point at a save file and it will list and show all the dinos on a given map. You can tell if there are high level wild dinos or not.

It can also show the location on the map of all your tames. Useful for those that wander away.

[Sicksadpanda]

If mods aren't an option, I suggest doing a daily wild dino wipe. Ark is more or less meant to be constantly refreshing spawns... normally a populated server does that automatically with players constantly killing dinos. But in single player, you can't reliably kill large dinos in a short amount of time and expect results.

It's entirely up to you to decide how to decide when to do a dino wipe, or not. If you choose to manually wipe wild dinos, you press Tab and type the following

destroywilddinos

That should delete all wild dinos and new fresh spawns will come in.

[william_es]

By the way, if level 150 is your max, don't automatically ignore things below 150. What's really important are the levels of the individual stats on each dino, and its completely possible for a lower level dino to still have a good stat roll in one particular stat. About 135 is the cutoff, where below that it's highly unlikely you'll get better rolls then the 140-150 dinos, just due to the number of points being divided randomly across the number of stats.

The highest naturally occurring melee stat on my rexes actually came from a wild level 135, that had freakishly high melee, and then after taming an even more freakish amount of post-tame levels went into melee as well. I have since, never found another 150 or below rex that had a higher melee stat.

[₵ⱤɄ₵ł₣łł]

Originally posted by william_es:

By the way, if level 150 is your max, don't automatically ignore things below 150. What's really important are the levels of the individual stats on each dino, and its completely possible for a lower level dino to still have a good stat roll in one particular stat. About 135 is the cutoff, where below that it's highly unlikely you'll get better rolls then the 140-150 dinos, just due to the number of points being divided randomly across the number of stats.

The highest naturally occurring melee stat on my rexes actually came from a wild level 135, that had freakishly high melee, and then after taming an even more freakish amount of post-tame levels went into melee as well. I have since, never found another 150 or below rex that had a higher melee stat.

[Serious]

Before a destroywilddinos command you can also type
setcheatplayer true
Then you see how many creatures are "alive" close to your location and mapwide. It should start from 0+ your tames after the destroy command and 5-15 minutes later it should be close to the number before the whipe.
You can deactivate this info with
setcheatplayer false

[FearCatalyst]

Originally posted by william_es:

By the way, if level 150 is your max, don't automatically ignore things below 150. What's really important are the levels of the individual stats on each dino, and its completely possible for a lower level dino to still have a good stat roll in one particular stat. About 135 is the cutoff, where below that it's highly unlikely you'll get better rolls then the 140-150 dinos, just due to the number of points being divided randomly across the number of stats.

The highest naturally occurring melee stat on my rexes actually came from a wild level 135, that had freakishly high melee, and then after taming an even more freakish amount of post-tame levels went into melee as well. I have since, never found another 150 or below rex that had a higher melee stat.

Sorry for the (extremely late) response, but I wanted Level 150 Dinos to get them to the absolute Highest Level Possible without Mods that increase the Cap over the vanilla limit(With Perfect Kibble, Level 150, the extra 71 Levels etc, idk the exact number) to build some sort of a "Museum" or should I say "Zoo" with every Dinosaur in ARK at Max Level

It wasn't really for using them for Combat, for that yes i can do with Dinos with less than Base Lvl 150 i think