Suddenly way more overpowered enemies in caves (single player) - Event?

[Emrys]

I returned to some caves I had visited before and now there are more enemies spawning in there than before and they are all like level 170 and I have no idea why this is happening. Is it related to the ongoing summer event?

Also, the ice cave that was basically empty the last few times I entered is now filled with Yetis and Polar Bears which I didn't even know existed, and now I can barely get through the entrance.

[Dj DNA]

Originally posted by Emrys:

I returned to some caves I had visited before and now there are more enemies spawning in there than before and they are all like level 170 and I have no idea why this is happening. Is it related to the ongoing summer event?

Also, the ice cave that was basically empty the last few times I entered is now filled with Yetis and Polar Bears which I didn't even know existed, and now I can barely get through the entrance.

It seems the caves just have their normal spawns now. Ice cave being almost empty is the anomaly.

[Emrys]

Originally posted by Dj DNA:

It seems the caves just have their normal spawns now. Ice cave being almost empty is the anomaly.

Is it normal to be attacked by over a dozen lvl 170 creatures at once as soon as you walk into a cave?

There were enemies in the ice cave before, but now there's like 5 for each spawn spot where there used to be one, and they were never near that level.

[william_es]

yeah. It's normal, in some caves. Caves creatures are ALWAYS higher then the servers max dino level. Much much much higher. I have mine set to max level 150, and I frequently see stuff over level 600+. Best thing to do is (if you can) bring in a tame to ride.

I use a super high bred thylacoleo in some caves, and in most others now I ride a desmodus (giant bat) from Fjordur. A desmodus is lethal. I use mine to kill alpha rexes, when I'm not flying it into caves.

In some caves, I tried riding an arthropluera (giant centipede), so see if I could ride it into super small tunnels. My characters head hit the ceiling of the tunnels, so it was a no go. They're fun to ride though. Makes you feel like you're riding on one of those miniature trains they have in kids parks. "Choo Chooooooo".

[🦊 Hermit]

Are you playing single player? If so that would explain why caves were empty when you went before - single player cave spawns have always had issues and the devs never bothered to fix them. Occasionally they work, but most of the time they break and creatures fall through the floor before the cave geometry loads. If you can I'd recommend playing your solo games on a locally hosted dedicated server instead.

And there's no event currently going on for Ark Evolved. I don't know if you're thinking of Ark Ascended in that? No clue if they have one going at the moment, but events have all been wrapped up for the old game now and we won't be getting any more unless we set them up ourselves.

[Dj DNA]

Originally posted by Emrys:

Originally posted by Dj DNA:

It seems the caves just have their normal spawns now. Ice cave being almost empty is the anomaly.

Is it normal to be attacked by over a dozen lvl 170 creatures at once as soon as you walk into a cave?

There were enemies in the ice cave before, but now there's like 5 for each spawn spot where there used to be one, and they were never near that level.

Yep normal. On server it's always like that

[retsam1]

For many years now, artifact caves have been coded to intentionally have high level spawns in them and meant to as well not be tamable(if you managed to tame them, they're also intended to despawn after a server reset, update, etc).

Also as mentioned before, caves cleared in the past have also been bugged to not have respawns in single player up to and including the artifact itself. Sometimes they're reset and other times not.

Again, this is nothing new or recent. If your issue lies with spawns being too hard, ramp up your player/tame dino strengths in settings or mods up to and including weapons as weell.

If your issue is with no spawns including artifacts, simply use admin commands to spawn in the missing artifact to overcome that issue.

[Rio]

Due note that some caves in single player can break (Mainly on the map The Center), and over spawn to the point you might crash or get terrible fps, they can ever over spawn onto the overworld.

But Most other maps, are fine. If you are on The island, maybe consider cryopodding a strong yutty or something. On the island, its not the ice cave that I find so hard, its the Hard water cave combined with terrible rates on max level basils on The Island.