How to Disable Dino Spawns, Vanilla & Modded

This Guide will show you how to disable creatures This guide will work with any type of creature Vanilla or Modded creatures if you have there given spawn code.

Overview

Like the Description for this guide says I will tell you how to disable creatures for base game or modded.

Step 1: Getting to the Location

First you are Going to need to locate to your game files. First open you File Explorer (The Folder on your Task-Bar) go to the right hand side of File Explorer and go to this PC double click on Local Disk, find Program Files x86 folder and double click on that, double click on the Steam folder, Find and double click on the Steamapps folder, double click on the Common Folder, and Double Click on Ark Folder. Another (Much quicker) way to get to your Ark Folders is by Going to your Steam Library Right-click Ark, click Properties go to the Local Files tab, and then click Browse Local Files both of these methods will get you to the same place we need to be. Next we need to get to the Game.ini File, to do that you will need to double click the ShooterGame folder, double click the saved folder, double click the config folder, double click the WindowsNoEditor folder, and then double click Game.ini. You will now be at the place to disable Creatures

Step 2: How to Disable the Spawn

If you have not created any Procedurally Generated (PG) Arks then go to the bottom of Game.ini If you have Generated a PG Ark then scroll down until you see CraftingSkillBonusMultiplier go to the end of that text line and hit your Enter key this will create a space for you to put in the line of text that disables Creatures. e.g This is the Line you will Copy and Paste into the new blank space that disables Bug Swarms. Do not copy the Arrows Copy what the Arrows are pointing to!
-------> NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="InsectSwarmChar_BP_C",ToClassName="") <---------
Once You put this in your Game.ini file you can Close it out and make sure you save it. But there is more info that might interest you in this guide

How to make it so a Different creature Spawns in Place of a Disabled Spawn or Disable Other Dino's

To do this go back to your Game.ini File refer to step 1 if you forgot how to. Go back to the bottom of your Game.ini File and where you have the Disabled Bug Swarm if you wish to have a different creature spawn in place of it then go to where it says ToClassname="" and in the quotes find the spawn id for the creature you want for example lets say a Giga and put it there here is how it will look NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="InsectSwarmChar_BP_C",ToClassName="Gigant_character_bp_c")
This will work with any creature if it is part of the Base Game, DLC or Modded as long as you have the spawn ID.
an example for a Modded dino here I use the Concavenator from Ark Additions
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="InsectSwarmChar_BP_C",ToClassName="Concavenator_Character_BP_C")
You can also do the same to Disable a creature instead of just the Insect swarm for example you want to disable Giga's from spawning then you will put
NPCReplacements=(FromClassName="Gigant_character_bp_c",ToClassName="")
when the quotes are blank at the end it just replaces the spawn with nothing.
Note: You will have to do a dino Wipe with the command destroywilddinos in console for the Creatures to disappear.

The End and Useful Links

This is the end of the Guide I hope those who didn't know how to do this learned and I hope you all enjoyed this guide. I will have links that can be useful if you wish to remove or replace a dino spawn
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Creature_IDs
https://ark.gamepedia.com/Mod:ARK_Additions (click on Dino link for spawn code)
https://additional-creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Creatures (This is for Additional Creatures)
I do not own these mods or the websites I am only linking them so you can have an easier time finding the spawn codes if you are using these mods.

[WilloWisp]

yeah this guide does not fix the bug swarm issue, i tought it did back then because for a good while there were none but later on i saw some. while this guide did have some misinformation it does work for most other dino's unmodded and modded as long as you have the dino blueprint command and fill in the blanks.

[Kingsofslayer]

it seems the swarm has something to do with missions and cant be completely removed

[TFCork]

if you stand in the water with a pike or spear and stab in the direction of the bug noise you will be able to kill the swarm easily

[H3tzer]

If you stay in water, like shin deep, the bugs leave you alone, swarms and ants alike

[Bulborb87]

ugh....they need to fix that

[WilloWisp]

Nvm i Spoke too soon there still spawning and i think its an issue with Genesis cause the I can make other creatures not spawn except for the Insect Swarm

[Bulborb87]

ok thanks

[WilloWisp]

This was Indeed the problem I have not seen any Swarms Spawn thank you for notifying me of the small mistake I made. I have updated the guide text line to fix this issue.

[Bulborb87]

ok just let me know IF this work's cause it'll be a pain for me to move my base (plus idk why wild creature's keep spawning in my base when I got foundations everywhere to disrupt the spawn's)

[WilloWisp]

I think I found the issue and updated the guide because of it, the parenthesis in front of NPCReplacement should not be there I'm testing it now and seeing if the bugs go away