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Human NPCs

Description
Human NPC's

ID - 1443404076

Human NPCs came 3rd in the 2019 ARK Mod Contest


Human NPCs add Humans to the world of Ark.
You can tame them, they like to eat most things.

Human NPC villages can be protected by X Plants, (Off by Default) - This can be turned on by adding TurretsAllowed=1 in the GUS settings under [Human_NPCs]
Some Human NPC villages can grow into towns now.

Human NPC's now send out raiding parties to attack player bases. (You can put a No NPC attack sign at your base to prevent your base from being attacked)

--GameUserSettings--
--GameUserSettings.ini Setup-- link

Tame NPCs can guard your land and as they patrol it or while set in turret mode
they can collect resources that are in the area as well as look after your crops.

They will look after your Forge, Campfires, Cook Meat, Put the correct stuff into Preserving Bin and Crop Plots and even catch fish.

NPCs can be set Friendly, Savage or somewhere in between
They are here to stay so you will just have to get used to them

Please respect their culture -

Wild NPCs believe
All Thieves should be killed on sight. They now can grow X Plants for protection against Players (Off by Default).
Killing children is BAD so they do not breed.

Just add the MOD and your ready to go and if you need to tune it then adjust the GameUserSettings.ini


--Latest Updates--2.41
--Change Notes-- link

--NPC Default Amounts--
The Island is set to 1000
Genesis is set to 1000
Genesis2 is set to 1000
Ragnarok is set to 1500
Valguero is set to 1500
Crystal Isles is set to 1000
ScorchedEarth is set to 1200
Extinction is set to 1000
The Center Set to 500
Aberration Set to 500
LostIsland is set to 1000

Adjust in the GameUserSettings.ini
[Human_NPCs]
Total_NPCs=1200 -- Set to 0 to use Defaults

Maps not listed will default to 500

--Donate--
If you feel like donating and showing your support click on this link
Click here To Donate[www.paypal.me]

--GameUserSettings--
--GameUserSettings.ini Setup-- link

--Spawn Commands--
--Spawn Commands-- link

--Modes of Play & Waving--
--Modes of Play & Waving-- link

--Walking Tame--
--How to do Walking Tame-- link
--How to use an Emote-- link[ark.gamepedia.com]

--TamingMode--
This is set in the GameUserSettings.ini

No Taming
Both walking and knockout
Walking tame only
Knockout tame only

--Taming & Play Mode Information--
--Taming & Play Mode-- link

I added a short video showing how to calm the NPCs down using the wave emote
--How To Calm The NPCs Video-- link

--Resource Management--
NOTE -- Harvest Resources must be enabled

To get them to harvest go to the menu select Harvesting and enable harvest resources
Then select Send Harvesting then select the range you want them to stay around.

They will not harvest if they are set to follow.
They will start as soon as you get them to not follow.
Even if they leave the area chasing enemies they will return back to where they were told to harvest.
To get them to harvest in a new area just take them to the area and tell them to harvest again

While the NPCs are harvesting they will go to their respective storage items and deposit items and resources that they have harvested.
The NPCs will also remove made items and transfer items to where they go, Cooked Meat to Preserving Bin, Iron Ingots to Storage Box and so on.

Bow and Spear -- Guard - Turret mode or patrol - Just set them on harvest and the will protect the workers
Noweapon (Punch), Bola and Club are used to knockout dino's and will not harvest corpses

Below is what each type Harvest (Just look at what weapon they hold)
Hatchet -- will gather stone, metal, flint and more.
Sword -- will gather wood and thatch and more.
Noweapon -- will gather berries, poop and seeds,Knockout Dino's.
Bola -- will randomly instigate an attack with Moschops, Parasaurs, Phiomias and Sheep to get meat.
Club -- will gather poop, fiber and thatch,Knockout Dino's.
Bow -- will randomly instigate an attack on small dino's to get meat.
Spear -- will catch fish.

Below is what each type uses
Hatchet -- CampFire,Torches,Forge,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
Sword -- CampFire,Torches,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
NoWeapon -- Crop-plots,Feedtrough,Compost Bin,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
Bola -- CampFire,Torches,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
Club -- Compost Bin,Crop_Plots,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
Bow -- CampFire,Torches,Feedtrough,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage
Spear -- CampFire,Torches,Feedtrough,Preserving Bin,Fridge,Storage

You can stop the NPCs using a storage box by naming it notauto
Poop no longer goes in storage boxes unless you name a storage box poopbox
then only poop will go into that storage box
Resource Harvesting is ON by default, turn it off if you want the NPCs to only patrol

--Resource Management Information--
--Resource Management-- link

I added a short video showing how to use Resource Management
--Resource Management Video-- link

--NPC's Hut Loot--
You can find loot in some of the NPC,s Huts, Keep in mind that NPC's do not like thieves and think they should be killed on sight.
There is an option to add your own items VIA the GUS.INI
--NPC's Hut Loot Setup-- link

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--Join Human NPCs Discord Channel--
Click Here to join ZoneKillers Discord[discord.gg]

--Donate--
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Click here To Donate[www.paypal.me]

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vmachine Feb 16 @ 11:20am 
Just FYI I figured out why the mod wasn't installing - turns out there's a soft limit on the number of mods you can install through Ark Server Manager (not exactly sure how many). Ended up deleting a bunch of old server profiles and clearing out the server folders in my Ark Server Manager data folder, then restarting ASM itself.
Koravael Feb 10 @ 11:16pm 
@Bioscared make sure to set StartFriendly=1 (-1 = Disable Wave, 0 = Friendly set by Biome , 1 = Friendly) and EveryThingUpsetsNPCs=0 (0 or 1) - 1 They get startled when anything attacks them,0 They get startled only when a player attacks them or steals the loot.
㈨Secunda㈧ Feb 3 @ 3:46pm 
they can be raided??
vmachine Jan 28 @ 4:30pm 
I'm trying to download the Human NPC mod for ASE with a Ragnarok server (v361.7) but it just keeps failing with this error:
Update canceled: Failed updating depot 346110 while reading chunk "2c943b841fae304f3e498e24a5e34b9cab474062" (File Not Found) (Missing game files) "D:\asmdata\steamcmd\steamapps\workshop\content\346110\839162288\LinuxNoEditor\Dinos\BaseResized\Parrot\Animations

It's looking for a file in the Primal Earth mod? Does anyone have any ieas how I can dowlnload this mod, or have a link to the mod files that I can manually download and just copy into the Mods folder in my ASE server installation?

FWIW I've set up ASE with a Steam API WebKey, but that's not helping...

I also found a reference saying that the mod doesn't exist in the SteamCMD\steamapps\workshop\content\346110 directory, which it doesn't, so I'm hoping if I can manualy download the mod files from somewhere and copy it in her, then ASE will work with it.

TIA!
Bioscared Jan 25 @ 6:08pm 
i have them set to friendly, but they keep randomly attacking me, they will be fine with me one second and all hell breaks loose. i could be standing in a village doing nothing, with none of them near me and they still want to kill me, tried taming a few, and they killed them, but left me alone for a second, i was like "that was weird", then i think one walked into me then they all started to target me.
Legiondorf Jan 22 @ 5:32pm 
For ASA can you give them better mounts during raids? I have seen them on Rex and Spinos around map would be cool AF if they bought one to a raid instead of some narcoed up clowns punching my base Rex. I'd be happy they had guns etc too if they drop appropriate loot.
Noble Matrix Jan 5 @ 3:15am 
Tamed 3 and then tried taming about 20 with no inventory ooption available to put anything in. I cant see torpor level or anything. Only option I have is to drag body and it only says they are unconscious. Please any tips, TIA.
IceT Dec 9, 2025 @ 11:49am 
i cant use cryopods when mod is instalt any idea why ?
UltraCyberGod Nov 18, 2025 @ 6:35am 
One of the things I would like to see in this mod although it's brilliant and near perfect...
is the ability for them to drop human hair, it's one of the resources in ARK that you hardly ever remember or stockpile, when you do need it there isn't any... But of course humans would have human hair, could also have an ini option to remove it for admins...
Hade Nov 6, 2025 @ 10:09am 
I feel that 1000 is too much, they overrun The Island at this rate, they're everywhere. I set them 150, seems to be just enough.